Because cops are apparatchiks, which is great for the God-State.
Here is the complaint - http://www.scribd.com/doc/80941044/Matthew-Corrigan-v-District-of-Columbia
After reading through the complaint it sounds like they trashed his place like they would on a typical drug raid. Being locked up for 16 days, 3 of his own volition at the VA, and coming home to an unlocked home, dead pets, your dog and guns stolen while your entire house has been turned inside out I’d be incredibly fucking pissed.
Just read the document linked. WOW.
I hope this guy wins, and i hope he wins BIG. People need to be fired over this (and prosecuted to the fullest)
Incredibly fucking pissed. Yeah. That’d be one way to go.
And in case you’ve forgotten you probably fit the profile.
Inline with what Irish posted above, lets not forget what happens to citizens accused of being terrorists now thanks to the NDAA.
Scary stuff.
I spoke to my buddy at the VA he informed his supervisor, they are looking into it, pulling the record on their end to see what was said. I’m sure they cant tell me anything but they are concerned at what happned none the less.
Just remember if you own guns dont tell any one no one ever said you had to.
I’d have someone’s balls thumbtacked to my desk, so I could smack them with a hammer whenever I got pissed.
And I’d stay pissed for a long damn time.
I cannot begin to imagine the countles hours that so many veterans have spent, helping their fellow service members. I am sure that many of you have done that, offering a listening ear and a helpful word to our brothers and sisters.
So to imagine some idiotic toad, under the color of office, to do something like this, makes me so very, very angry.
Somebody better produce a damn search warrant, and it had better be air tight.
Informal support networks are always the best. But what about fellows like this, that just have no one they can turn to locally?
I truly hate betrayal. 
I hope he wins his lawsuit. I also hope he named Shinsenki as a defendant as well - he’s as culpable as anyone else as far as I’m concerned.
What is realy disturbing about this case is it will make otehr Veterans think twice before they consider seeking help. And the number of PTSD-related suicides will only grow.
Over the past few years I have heard all sorts of pleas made by the Commanding Generals for those who are contemplating suicide to seek help. With this they pretty much signed the death warrant of more than a few Veterans.
The only way the VA gets funded is if they have patients…many patients. PTSD is the golden egg, the first time that you visit them they give you a battery of questions design to draw out PTSD.
I had hearing aids while on active duty, they shit the bag about 3-4 years after retirement. Tomas was DX with leukemia around that time so I didn’t bother getting the aids replaced; I had other priorities.
I scheduled an appointment last summer to get replacement aids. The first thing that they try to draw out of you are symptoms of PTSD…doesn’t matter why you are there. The next thing they do is try to convince you that the VA should be your primary care provider. They even tried to pull the childhood cancer crap into the mix (I figured that it would not be a good idea to tell them that shooting was my theraphy). I answered all of the questions and I didn’t get dx with PTSD. I do have to go there once a year to get a physical. I eventually received my hearing aids.
My buddy, another retired 03 Gunny has a friend that spent 8 years in the Corps…after Desert Storm and before 9/11. He was dx’d with PTSD by the VA and is now receiving 70% disability.
rather than be subjected to this?
I wouldn’t give a shit if I were seeing little Taliban climbing out of my toothpaste tube, I wouldn’t call the VA or anyone else after shit like this happens.
http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/02/09/feds-pursue-suicidal-vet/
This is as fucked up as I’ve ever heard of. Vets would be better off counseling each other, rather than the VA under the current Administration. Way to go VA for treating Vets who’ve put their asses on the line voluntarily for this great nation. This pisses me off to no end. :mad:
And for the folks who think this is just a Veterans issue and it does not apply to them - Don’t forget that Obama wants to make sure all medical records are recorded in digital format held in a central place.
Do you have or have ever had depression? Been given any kind of drugs by your doctor ever in your life that would be considered mood altering? Guess what is coming for you too.
Read some of the immediate replies on B5 - I really have no idea why this isn’t being reported a lot more.
Isnt this already done? After you make NCO or have a certian amount of years in? Your records are transfered to microfish.
Yes the military does send your med records to HRC when you ETS. I am referring to the civilian population record keeping. Folks that might not think this same method is not going to apply to them… you know that don’t think that big brother isn’t looking to infer medical treatment records to possibly take their firearms away too.
Ok sorry it went over my head
Jesus H. Christ.
The stories in the links so far and that of the OP point out the disconcerting fact that we are now living in a post-Constitutional country. It seems as though we are free and have rights and freedom, but that is only until government turns its Eye of Sauron on you, burning away your illusions of freedom and justice, doing whatever it takes to nail you. Innocent until proven gulity? Hah! Our “freedom” is only a factor of being one among many; when you are noticed, it’s over.
