The story: Should Veterans with
PTSD Be Exempt from the Death Penalty?
I don't think the death penalty
should ever be applied. I know there is an honest disagreement on this subject
so I respect those who believe in the practice.
However, exempting veterans with
PTSD from the death penalty opens Pandora's Box. Many people committing murder
can argue some sort of dysfunction in their lives contributing to their
behavior. A good attorney can apply an argument of amnesty in almost all cases
for the general population.
I am a Veteran of the "Nam.
After all these years I have noticed many of my fellow Vets increasing the flow
of their self-pity tears as society makes more and more excuses for the way
people behave just because they were in the service. I have seen the PTSD
industry grow and the emergence of profit seekers exploiting the public’s
desire to excuse these phony crybabies.
Yes, there are real cases of PTSD
but the malady is far rarer than perceived by the public. My fellow Viet Nam
Vets and their families using PTSD as an excuse for an individual’s failures in
life have embarrassed me.
I also think it is disgraceful how
profit seekers teach veterans how to file false claims of PTSD in order to take
a cut of the pay if a Veteran is successful in bleeding the American tax payer
dry for contrived injuries. A child growing up in Chicago may have a more
pronounced case of PTSD than these Iraq and Afghan cry babies who fought pansy
wars in recent years.
It was more dangerous living in
America over the last ten years than it was to serve the military in Iraq. Over
the ten-year history of the last two wars, the military lost around 5,000 dead.
In that same period, about 1.5 million Americans lost their lives from lack of
health care, gunshots and auto accidents. Americans suffered a lot more trauma
on the home front than by Americans serving in the Pansy wars.
Don't let people make excuses for
murder under any circumstance. Banish the death penalty for moral reasons, not
for pretend reasons.
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