Latest Veteran Stand-Off Almost Ignored By Media

Our leaders are routinely betraying veterans, civilians, and the entire world!

By now everyone must be aware that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq; and those that pay attention to alternative media are also aware of the fact that they knew or should have known ahead of time and the war was based on lies! Weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and Mohamed ElBaradei, both warned the public that there were no weapons of mass destruction before the war and the media stopped providing them coverage and MSNBC also fired Phil Donahue for speaking out against the war; and even though those that paid attention to alternative media outlets or watched traditional news close enough knew that this war was based on lies before they invaded.

However, as the famous fundamental of propaganda says, often ironically attributed to Vladimir Lenin, "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth," or at least it seems to, especially if it is accompanied with appeals to emotions and patriotism. The traditional media routinely repeat their claims that our military is always "fighting for freedom and democracy," they rarely ever mention historical facts about the truth which is that the United States has an incredibly long history of suppressing democracy, a few of the most widely reported examples, outside of the corporate propaganda machine are coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile which were all supported by the United States.

The mainstream media and the United States government have, on rare and brief occasions admitted to their involvement in all of these coups, they also acknowledge the fact that Vietnam signed their own Declaration of Independence however they rarely ever remind the majority of the public that wants to believe that their activities abroad are to "defend freedom and democracy," not advance the economic interests of wealthy elites.

Many veterans are often more interested in finding out what they're fighting and dying for and they often eventually figure this out, although the vast majority of them don't go off the deep end, but many do have emotional problems that they often refer to in the media as PTSD without explaining the full details.

At the grassroots level there is a much greater effort to warn people that their government is betraying them, and this is virtually guaranteed to have escalated after the Abu Ghraib trials where the people that were following orders were prosecuted, but the people that gave the orders weren't held accountable; and at the same time some veterans who learned that the Iraq war was based on lies, therefore it was illegal and orders to participate in it were also illegal refused to obey illegal orders and some of them were prosecuted!

When people with political power gave illegal orders those without political power risked being prosecuted for, whether they obeyed or not, but commanders and politicians were above the law; and some figured it out so it became harder to recruit. They often had to either recruit people that were isolated, often from rural areas and had little or no contact with alternative media outlets exposing these lies, or in some cases they had to recruit people with emotional problems, or even white supremacists.

Now I don't know whether or not Albert Wong, was upset about this or something else, but this isn't the first time that veterans with PTSD or other emotional problems have gone on shooting sprees but instead of reporting on the details of it the media has historically been very selective about which potential contributing causes might have led up to it. Not to long ago when Devin Patrick Kelley went on his shooting spree in a Texas Church the media gave it an enormous amount of coverage coverage as they often do with mass shootings, but when they found out that he was a veteran they were initially slow to report it, but when it had already received an enormous amount of attention they clearly had to follow up on it which led to disclosure about not reporting on past domestic violence problems.

Last Friday they knew ahead of time that the suspect in a stand off was a veteran with emotional problems, and like many other incidents, some of which I have listed below, they gave it far less coverage, at least in the mass media without even mentioning it, that I saw, in the three news networks, even though it had been reported briefly in the evening news, and must have been big news in California, while they continued to pretend that the latest trivial details about the Mueller investigation or Stormy Daniels were Breaking News as many pundits, especially Erin Burnett refer to everything even when it's hours or even days or weeks old. But they reported in a much lower profile on the internet including the following article:

Decorated soldier killed three hostages at veterans home — including psychologist who kicked him out of treatment program for PTSD 03/10/2018

The gunman who killed three hostages before committing suicide at the country’s largest veterans home was a decorated soldier who had been booted from a PTSD treatment program on the premises, according to a victim’s relative.

Former Army infantryman Albert Wong, 36, was equipped with a rifle on Friday when he slipped into the Pathway Home at the Veterans Home of California shortly before 10:30 a.m. local time.

The former patient took program executive director Christine Loeber, clinical director Jennifer Golick and psychologist Jennifer Gonzalez hostage as the facility went into lockdown.

Authorities were unable to contact Wong throughout the day, and when a tactical team finally entered the building nearly eight hours later, the gunman and his three victims were dead inside.

Gonzalez was a 29-year-old clinical psychologist, while Loeber, 48, was an executive director who received her graduate degree in social work from Boston College in 2008, according to her LinkedIn page.

Jennifer Golick, a top psychologist at the Pathway Home, last spoke to her husband, Mark, at around 10:30 a.m., when she called him to say she had been taken hostage by the former soldier.

She had recently ordered Wong removed from the program, which treats PTSD-afflicted veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, said her father-in-law Bob Golick.

It remains unclear how long Wong was enrolled in the program or why he was kicked out.

Wong served in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012. He was previously stationed at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, according to Mercury News.

Wong had received a number of service awards, including one for expert marksmanship with a rifle.

According to public records, Wong held licenses as a private investigator, firearms trainer and security guard. Complete article

When I first heard about how many veterans have been going on shootings sprees or killing each other their families, I found it hard to believe since there were references to a large volume of them including many that took place during the Vietnam War, especially since they weren't reporting on the actual incidents, except perhaps one or two at a time, which hardly seemed like an epidemic. However, apparently there have been far more of these shooting incidents than the vast majority of the public is aware of, and part of the reason is that the media only reports on them one at a time.

Between 2008 and 2010, there were several more comprehensive articles from the New York Times and Colorado Gazette, which were more widely reported; however Cable News and the Evening News, where a large percentage of the public gets their news, only mentioned these briefly, initially, then when they received more attention on traditional newspapers or the internet and a modest percentage of the public started learning about them Cable News started covering them more.

But they didn't cover it well, instead have a large number of emotional and patriotic people act with outrage at the reporting, often ignoring the best statistics and providing biased statistics, like some of the ones provided by David Grossman who I cited in a previous article about this subject.

A few years ago Dakota Meyer Linking (Second High Profile) Fort Hood shooting to PTSD hurts vets trying to heal, 04/06/2014 and he was partially right, but he was alos partially in denial about many things including the fact that the Iraq war was based on lies. However he doesn't cover many of the contributing causes leading up to violence, especially when it comes to how early child abuse leads to escalating violence, and this is made even worse with boot camp indoctrination where they use hazing practices to teach everyone to go along with the program and believe what they're told to believe by their commanders, even when they're lying.

It's certainly true that all veterans shouldn't be stigmatized with the stereotype that they're more inclined to shoot people up, and I never meant to imply that, nor to the best of my knowledge have other people reporting on high profile cases where veterans went on shooting sprees. Many of the most common victims when veterans do go on shooting sprees are other veterans or the family members of the veterans, and in many cases they're the ones that do the most to recognize this problem. Instead of teaching cadets about the causes of violence and recognizing that their leaders have been making it worse by fighting wars absed on lies they teach veterans to resolve their differences with intimidation often escalating to more violence.

More recently Dakota Meyer may have demonstrated this when he challenged Dan Bilzerian to a FIGHT to settle row over Las Vegas shooting ‘like men’ in an argument that turned into petty bickering about whether or not Bilzerina reacted the way Meyer's thought he should and accused him of grandstanding instead of rushing in and engaging the shooter. This petty bickering does nothing to prevent these shootings from happening and makes both of them look like they're grandstanding.

Chris Kyle had a similar attitude about how to settle differences and on one event which he described in his book he clearly seemed to imply that when someone, who eventually was disclosed as Jesse Ventura, challenged the justification about why they fought the Iraq War the appropriate way to handle it was to blacken his eye. He gave the name of the celebrity on a radio or TV show bragging about it, and Jesse Ventura sued him for libel, claiming the story was false and eventually won. Any one reading the book that wasn't devoted to the claim that he was a hero, might easily recognize that he was prone to exaggeration, but the truth was clearly that when it came to admitting that the war was based on lies Ventura was right and there's no justification for escalating that to a fight, and the jury who heard more details than me clearly agreed.

Chris Kyle was also one of the high profile people killed by other veterans with PTSD, after apparently he tried to help him by taking him to a shooting range, and the shooting along with the testimony of Eddie Ray Routh his alleged attempts to help him with his emotional problems weren't very rational and might have made things worse contributing to his own death although many people are outraged when anyone suggests such a thing, including Ron Paul, who stated the obvious. This is part of a major denial based on a pseudo sense of Patriotism that involves never admitting they're wrong and finding the real cause of violence and how it escalates.

Both Chris Kyle and Dakota Meyers and many other veterans also had many of their own domestic problems, some of which may involve their inclination to solve their problems through intimidation often leading up to violence, perhaps, instead of admitting that the things they've been indoctrinated to believe, like that the Iraq War was "fighting for freedom," was based on lies. Both Dakota Meyers and David Grossman have expressed outrage at the people that have reported on the high number of veteran shootings instead of acknowledging that it is a real problem that must be addressed, and this isn't going to happen when they refuse to consider major contributing factors like that the Iraq War and many others are based on lies or that boot camp indoctrination escalates authoritarian upbringing that often starts with early child abuse and corporal punishment teaching people to solve their problems with violence.

By quickly reporting these stories before forgetting them they make it far less likely that the majority of the public will recognize how often they happen, especially if they keep reporting a lot of hyped up stories to keep them distracted and an enormous amount of seemingly patriotic reporting on how we're "fighting for freedom" without reminding how often this proves to be false and how often the people they allegedly train to "fight for freedom are going on shootings sprees, or how much of a problem they're often having in their own families with domestic violence.

A list of all the shootings by veterans with emotional problems quickly grows into the thousands but the vast majority of them never get reported and the ones that do get reported are often reported as isolated incidents, often reducing the coverage when they realize it is a veteran or cop going on a shootings spree. A modest sample of the high profile shootings reported nationally over the years includes Micah Xavier Johnson, Gavin Long, Everett Miller, Matthew Riehl, Stephen Kazmierczak, Itzcoatl Ocampo, Aaron Alexis, Lloyd Dean Buie, Esteban Santiago, John Neumann Jr., Richard Rojas, and many more and additional ones that were hardly mentioned at the national level but reported widely at local levels include Marcell Travon Willis, Roy Murry, Dionisio Garza III, Brandon Olsen, Bryan Cage, and much more than the ones that were reported at the national level, since presumably due to the lower coverage even I haven't heard of the majority of them. And even plenty of police officers, often also military veterans, have gone on shootings sprees, in some cases exposing massive corruption within the police department or while rejoining the military including Eulalio “Leo” Tordil, Steven D. Bellino , Christopher Dorner, and Joseph Gliniewicz who didn't actually go on a shootings spree but threatened to kill people and was exposed in massive amounts of corruption before allegedly committing suicide, although I doubt if that's the true story.

Many of these shooters were decorated war veterans and are considered heroes, not necessarily because they fought to protect our country but often because they learned that in the military if you blindly obey orders and do what your told to you'll be rewarded, at least temporarily with medals and glory or honor, however once the military no longer need them they're often abandoned, after being indoctrinated to believe lies. The veterans that do the most to save lives are the ones that recognize they've been betrayed by their own government and speak out against them, but of course the government doesn't reward them with medals, instead tries to portray them as fringe for telling the truth!

Some people like Dakota Meyers and David Grossman been outraged by people that try to report on this, and although I haven't been high enough profile for them to pay attention to they would probably be outraged by this article; however there are others that, although they may not agree with everything I say, recognize there's a real problem that needs to be addressed and they've done far more to expose the lies than those that remain in denial. We're not going to stop these shootings or even slow them down as long as we continue ignoring the causes including early abuse leading to escalating violence and wars based on lies that teach people to kill!

Gunman at California veterans' home 'wanted to get back at them' but 'not kill' 03/12/2018

The Latest: Veteran worries about length of hostage standoff 03/09/2018

Gunman and victims identified in deadly standoff at California veterans home 03/10/2017



The following are some of my past articles about veterans that go on shooting sprees after being abandoned by the government that trained them to kill for wars based on lies; instead of accepting this as the new normal we should recognize and prevent the causes:

States with high murder rates have larger veteran populations

Teach a soldier to kill and he just might

List of Veteran murders often of other veterans and other crimes

Is Itzcoatl Ocampo an example of divide and rule tactics?

Warnings signs for Aaron Alexis are abundant and came out quickly

Memorial Day Veteran Shootings Part of Much Larger Problem

Scripted media coverage of Joe Gliniewicz's "suicide" is incomplete at best

Media Downplaying Two Police Killing Sprees Ignoring Solutions

Media Suppresses Causes Of Orlando And Texas Shootings Again

Media Ignores Solutions For Both Police And Black Lives Matter

Meet The Real Jigsaw Horror Psychologists

Veteran Murders Brings Wars Based on Lies Home!

Military Indoctrination Endangers Veterans and Public for Wars Based on Lies

Texas Church Shooting Exposes Cover-up of Military Domestic Violence Problems

Government trains people to kill that turn against us again!