2001 Army Comic book explains DADT to Soldiers.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/dont-ask-dont-tell-policy_n_644863.html

Published in 2001 by the Department of the Army's Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, the comic book -- titled "Dignity And Respect" -- is a "training guide on the homosexual conduct policy." It's like the X-Men, in that it's primarily concerned with a group of people born into a world that fears them, except it's told from the point of view of the people doing the fearing.

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So, Rivers decides to tell a "story about homosexual conduct." In the story, an Army sergeant comes to a superior because he heard second-hand about another soldier making the gay with a "soldier from another unit." Hooray for rumormongering! So, the commanding officer decides, "Let me pick up the phone and start cold-calling people, about these rumors!" Is there anyone left on the base that hasn't heard this story? Soon, that's taken care of: everyone is calling everyone else about the incident, like a scene from Bye-Bye Birdie.

The next day, the subject of the original rumor is called into the commander's office and informed that an inquiry has been opened about the rumors that are now circulating over two military bases. The soldier in question doesn't understand what's going on, and asks for a defense counsel (who probably has already heard about this from everyone calling everyone else). The soldier leaves, and everyone starts telephoning everyone else about it all over again.




For those unitiated. The Army uses your tax dollars to publish comic books for us idiot privates on just about anything to do with the job of a soldier... including how to wax a floor.

[daleanime]

1. If it wasn't so stupid and sad...

it would almost be funny. :puke:

[kevinbgoode]

2. As a gay American, it continues to amaze me just how low

and degrading the people running this country can be to taxpaying, American citizens. As a taxpayer, I should be able to demand my money back from this government for this outrage.

I just finished a debate the other day on another web site where con-artist con-servatives continued their whining refrains about the purity of their bodies being defiled at the sight of a gay person serving this country next to them. Of course, they had no response when I pointed out how conservatives didn't mind forcing gay taxpayers to finance their little military welfare system, including a lifetime full of benefits - all awarded to them simply because they were heterosexuals. One woman had the astounding ignorance of proclaiming that she joined the military partially to fund her education - but would have been horrified if she had ever showered next to a lesbian. So, according to her reasoning, she deserved a lifetime of taxpayer-provided benefits that she demanded no gay American have an opportunity to access - essentially she was admitting that conservative heterosupremacists are welfare queens of the first order, especially in their arrogant demands that one must meet certain irrelevant qualifications in order to join the heterosexual private club.

Of course, another poster played the conservative hero-worship card - you know, the "I served in the military to protect your freedoms"- (so worship me). . .and I just don't buy into that crap any longer. When I'm treated like a second and third class citizen in my own country, denied my birthright to legally recognized happiness through property protection and dignity through marriage, and denied the opportunity to serve my own nation in order to accommodate the willfully ignorant fed by the evangelical bullies infiltrating the armed forces to desecrate the Constitution, I'm not gonna worship anyone's service. No one worships the gays who were discharged for years (dishonorably) and were denied any benefits, any education credits, any medical assistance, and found difficulty seeking meaningful employment because they committed the ultimate "crime" of loving another man or another woman. What about their sacrifices?

I'd sure as hell love to see a comic book issued in the Army that outlines the disgusting, degrading manner in which evangelicals have encouraged the treatment of fellow American citizens over the decades.

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3. Hang in there, Brother!

Excellent rant. :applause:

If it is any use to you. I was in the Army, and anybody who had a real combat job, like a scout, tanker, medic or infantry, usually wouldn't hold their service against you as a trump card to win a flame war. Most that do that are either blatant liars, and have never been in, or they worked in the mail room or drove the colonel's jeep their whole tour (Compensating combat credentials). Nothing wrong with being paper pushers, or officer drivers, but there is a mentality that comes with those jobs that is easy to recognize.

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4. Kick. I guess you want more pages.

This is disturbing for it's bad artwork, not just it's insulting nature, and laughable idiocy.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

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6. Forget it! This is indefensible. Nobody can scream "You want a pony!!!!" with this.

This thread is dying.

[Solly Mack]

7. It's on the greatest page...more and more people will see it.

[FreeState]

8. Notice the use of race in this?

Every single example has a gay white man - apparently there are no women or gays of color in the military. Not to mention the use of hyper masculinity in every male in the cartoon.