Comments on: Let there be light, finally

By: Jimi

Jimi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:08:11 +0000

I just heard that there are almost 250,000 soldiers returning from our latest war with traumatic brain injury, a combination of the increased use of improvised explosive devises and better field medicine which saves more lives.

There is also a record number of spousal abuse cases, divorce and suicide.

This film couldn’t be more relevent.

By: JACQUELINE STONE

JACQUELINE STONE — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:28:02 +0000

This film shows how dreadfully inept the military psychiatrists were at interviewing these traumatized soldiers! I hope they are better in today’s army. Perhaps they need to use properly trained clinical psychologists and clinical social workers….

By: ftcannonball

ftcannonball — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:57:03 +0000

Thank you to everyone who responded. It was a genuine question I asked and I appreciate the answers. I do have a propensity towards far out views, and part of why I ask a question at the end is for genuine feedback.

That said, my intention is in no way to “disregard their need for help” I am well aware of the effects of war on soldiers. I have talked to many veterans in mt time. You yourself said “America sent these people into a horrible war, for nothing but muscle flexing” If a government would send it’s people to war for no good reason, why wouldn’t they continue some form of manipulation of those same people after they return. My statements are out of concern FOR the veterans.

Finally, this may have been the wrong place to bring this up. If I wanted entertainment I would go and enjoy nature or spend time with my family. I brought it up here, because I wanted to see how that theory would play with people who are not into conspiracy theories.

By: Ash Morris

Ash Morris — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:01:32 +0000

o_O dude. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to help people with post-war trauma?! There is never enough help given to people coming out of war.

You’re reading conspiracy into something that is a dire matter, and in doing so, beig very insulting to the plight of these people. This is a very real problem, that needs as much help as possible, not fuel for your paranoid delusions and desire for conspiracy theories.

Here’s a conspiracy for you, if you so need such entertainment: America sent these people into a horrible war, for nothing but muscle flexing and who knows what else, and now they are coming back into a country that puts such a miserable effort into helping them survive life post-war, that even their fellow citizens disregard their need for help.

By: Todd S

Todd S — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:46:52 +0000

@ftcannonball Unless Obama issued his executive order in 1981, I have to assume you either didn’t read the post or didn’t understand a word you read.

By: amelie

amelie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:04:16 +0000

Well there’s another topic, brain science across eras in contrast to post-80s (did they even call it brain science in the 1940s?)

I have to wonder if patients like this ever get better on their own with no treatment, even marginally.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:55:30 +0000

also, if i may (to the poster above)…that is crazy logic.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:51:52 +0000

wow. many thanks for this!

By: ftcannonball

ftcannonball — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:37:42 +0000

Reblogged this on Facing the Cannonball.

By: ftcannonball

ftcannonball — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:30:45 +0000

So your telling me that the release of this “baned video” online after 30 years coincided with the executive order from President Obama which states: (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/31/executive-order-improving-access-mental-health-services-veterans-service)

” this order directs the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security to expand suicide prevention strategies and take steps to meet the current and future demand for mental health and substance abuse treatment services for veterans, service members, and their families.
”

So, why all the interest suddenly in the mental health of veterans. From one perspective this could help alot of people. From another, it could be a means to detain and indefinatly medicate or incarcerate these supposedly dangerous people.

If you believed that the USA was heading into an economic downturn of serius consequence which perspective seems accurate?

Seems to me there might be a propaghanda effort in play to shape Americans perceptions of our post 9/11 veterans, to raise doubt or discredit what they have to say.

What do you think mind hacks? Is this crazy or sound logic?