Part-One: The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Salvation Army’s Faith-based ‘One Treatment Fits All’<\/p>\n
\nSo, we have a coalescing of white male repressions projecting outward by way of a latent Puritanical reflex, one that must keep someone in the stocks, with an insidious white nationalism out to create hierarchies within hierarchies regarding passports and citizenship \u2014\u00a0 in the interest of controlling surplus populations, and a neo left anti-communism made up of a structural Ayn Randian Capitalism, with equal parts Lyndon LaRouche, and Hannah Arendt by way of Noam Chomsky.<\/p>\n
\u2014 John Steppling, \u201cCommunism, Fascism and Green Shaming<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Gunning Down a Vet \u2013 Turkey Shoot 101<\/strong><\/p>\n
Watching a dozen SWAT members donned in full Robo cop gear from Clackamas County Sheriffs and Beaverton Police departments play with a drone, laughing the evening away while the Army veteran writhed in pain with their seven bullets inside him was one trauma moment (PTSD-inducing event) for me working as a social worker.<\/p>\n
The day before, the veteran was in front of the homeless shelter where I had worked for almost a year \u2013 a transitional center run by the Salvation Army, which has come to be known by me and others around the world as the Starvation<\/em> Army<\/a> \u2014 walking the sidewalk with sign in hand: \u201cThe Salvation Army and Veterans Administration kill veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had been exited (forcefully evicted) from the homeless shelter two weeks before, based on arbitrary and punitive…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n