Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

Many people say we have fought for freedom and democracy. Given this consensus one might think veterans are as entitled as anybody to contribute to the political discourse, as serving senior officers regularly do. Not so.

Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries ShutFuck3

Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries ShutFuck3

The American and British militaries clamped down on social media in the mid-2000s—on the grounds of security, they claim. The Canadian military currently is trying to stop wounded veterans from criticizing the military in public. There is only one hymn sheet in the military, and it is decided upon on high.
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Ben Griffin was the quintessential British paratrooper, an SAS soldier and a founder of Veterans for Peace UK. He left the army after refusing to return to Iraq and later blew the whistle on war crimes being carried out in Baghdad. He was gagged in the high court and promised jail time if he ever spoke about UK involvement in rendition again. "I knew I would get in trouble for speaking about our activities in Iraq,” he told me, “but I felt then and now that the public needs to be told about the true nature of war.” Kidnapping and handing over non-combatants to the Americans while knowing they’d be tortured is fine; telling the public about it is criminal.

More: http://www.vice.com/read/soldiers-in-the-military-are-being-gagged-for-speaking-out
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Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

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