"They should all pull off their poppies and stab themselves in the head."

[james_davis_nicoll]

"RMR: Rick's Rant - Veterans' Pensions" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Totally appalling. Can you give us some facts and websites to quote when I write a letter to my MP?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Ruthless+cuts+putting+veterans+families+risk+Dallaire+says/9152235/story.html

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's been decided that Sir Robert Borden be damned.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

My goodness. It's like these folks woke up one day and thought: "how can we prove we're even _harder_ bastards than those Tea Party folks south of the border?"

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I bet we can find advance warning of goals like this somewhere in their previously recorded speechifying if we look.

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

A significant proportion of US vets are homeless.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I like that man, he says interesting things.

Here in the US, they were trying to pull something similar by discharging injured soldiers as they didnt have PTSD, but it was a pre-existing condition that was activated by their new injury in a combat zone. That raised a shitstorm.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I would hope and pray that such stunts never stop resulting in such storms.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

the older Nam Vets helped put a stop to that...

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Rick Mercer is one of the most sensible people (at least politically -- some of the things he does on his show strike me as rather dangerous [g]) on TV today. Does he get enough attention for this to do any good?