I learned yesterday that a family member has decided to join the marines. I immediately called his mother (my cousin by marriage) and asked to speak with her husband. He's a firefighter and was at work, so she called him and had him call me.
I told him that half of Gulf War One vets are disabled and over 8000 have already died, the Pentagon's own depleted uranium expert (Maj. Doug Rokke) is sick and half of his team (who went to Iraq to clean up) are dead, I told him that 67% of the babies born to one ALA National Guard unit after returning home have been stillborn and/or grotesquely deformed, that the boy may still change his mind and back out of his enlistment, an after pleading my case I felt that I got exactly nowhere.
So, this morning I called my father-in-law and went through it again, and I asked him to GOOGLE a few things up.
If anyone can get the boy to re-think his decision, my Dad-in-law can.
Because the boy's dad is a firefighter (a govt employee) and is a "good, law abiding, tax paying citizen", he'll no doubt have some difficulty getting his mind around all the things I told him.
And, as I explained to my father-in-law, if I don't succeed in snatching this young man away from The Crotch (marines) and he comes back sick or worse, then his parents will die of broken hearts because I tried to warn them.
If I don't succeed then it would have been better if I'd kept my mouth shut!
When I first explained the criminal federal reserve system and the income tax swindle many years ago, this large, Polish Catholic family thought that I was a communista subversio, but, fortunately many of them are now up to speed on that issue. (It took years and I don't have enough time to leisurely educate them about depleted uranium)
I've never told the family the whole truth-that our govt is a criminal syndicate in open rebellion against the people and the constitution, and that our govt is killing and crippling more of our people than the enemy ever could.
I saw no reason to tell them that there is no Easter bunny until one of ours expressed the intent to join up.
Most of the family are life long conservative Dems and Dixiecrats, union members, state or municipal govt employees and contractors, and this means that the only way I could make my case was to piss on the altar. And piss I did! Like a racehorse on LASIX!
My Dad in-law said that the recruiter promised the boy that he'd stay stateside, and the recruiter even put it in writing! I told Dad that it was only recently that a federal court (maybe the SCOTUS, I don't recall) ruled that recruiters may lie with impunity to recruits. Dad didn't know that! Okay, I scored a point!
I said that all the boy has to do is tell the recruiter (who will threaten the boy when he tries to back out-I've been through this and beaten the recruiters before) that he isn't going, and to call the lying bastards' bluff!!
The marines cannot forcibly induct a reluctant recruit on the strength of a civil contract! If they want to sue the kid for breach of contract, then they must first demonstrate that the contract was effected by consideration and it wasn't! And, even if it was, my answer is, "SUE US! Let's break that story on the national news and see how that impacts your recruitment goals!"
(And, we haven't yet told the recruiter about how every time the kid handled a gun something strange happened! It was almost like he was possessed! And, because he did the most dangerous and unpredictable things with a .22 rifle, we resolved years ago to never let him handle any more firearms, especially powerful, rapid fire weapons! ;)
In other words, the boy can still change his mind and save his own life.
I can't save the world, but, I want to stop this kid from making the biggest mistake he'll ever make.
Finally, I told both Dads that even if the boy gets lucky and serves his enlistment and never gets irradiated or shot or injured by equipment failure (imagine high school dropouts trying to maintain tilt-rotor V-22 Ospreys! Would you want your kid to fly in one that was serviced by a failed rapper?) and he returns home safe, he won't have any health benefits because BushCo has closed 7 VA Hospitals and is sending the loot for vets' health care to Halliburton!
Please God, help me get through to this kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration