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More on the Army’s Fired Gay Linguist

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Posted on Aug 7, 2006
discharged gay army linguist
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He had one of the most sought-after skills in the entire U.S. arsenal: a working knowledge of Arabic. And the Army discharged him for being gay—after subjecting him to witch-hunt-style questioning. ABC News interviews him.

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By harald hardrada, August 7, 2006 at 7:13 pm #
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what frightens me is that our leaders want to drive all talented workers out of key intelligence posts: it’s why they fired sibel edmonds, outed plame & harassed this fellow—it’s far from being just a gay thing

it leads me to think 9/11 had little to do with osama & that our middle east strategy goes against intelligence—instead it’s based in the filth & savagery of religiosity

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By R. A. Earl, August 7, 2006 at 3:41 pm #
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I know it’s almost beyond belief that in this day and age we’re even discussing this topic in this manner but you have to keep in mind that MILLIONS of Americans have been deliberately BRAIN DAMAGED by their religions and socialization into believing what IS NOT TRUE for reasons that are completely beyond my comprehension.

You have be mentally disabled in some respects to still believe that another person’s sexuality is somehow TOXIC, or DANGEROUS, or CONTAGIOUS or in any other way a THREAT to anyone else, let alone anyone else’s business.

But that doesn’t stop American authorities from looking backward and stupid in the eyes of most of the enlightened world by discharging, ON FULL PENSION FOR LIFE, competent, EXPENSIVELY TRAINED employees… and for what? WHO THEY SLEEP WITH! If you can get any more simple-minded than that, please let me know what that might be.

Advice to American gay people. Join up. Get found out. Take a full pension for life at the American people’s expense and go live in REAL freedom in any one of the dozens of more advanced societies on the planet. Who the hell cares what ignorant Americans think?

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