This exchange between a wounded veteran and Trudeau occurred in Edmonton in January 2018. I remember it like it was yesterday. "Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now." I remember it like it was yesterday because I remember thinking....that's it's the sonofabitch is going down. Man was I wrong. Nothing sticks to Trudeau. Weeks later, when there was no fall-out from this, I realized that my fellow Canadians were asleep. A year later COVID hit, and I realized my fellow Canadians weren't asleep, they were in a psychosis. I can forgive most Canadians for electing Trudeau in 2015. He said all the right things. I can't forgive anyone who voted for him again in 2019 and 2021.
@Martyupnorth_2 I'm part of a class action lawsuit that was won in March of 2020. Half of us will be paid by June of this year and the remainder by June of 2025. 4 to 5 years to receive money that's owed is ridiculous.
From the book, Trauma keeps the score p 222 "In the first few hours of July 1, 1916 alone, in the Battle of Somme, the British Army suffered 57,470 casualties including 19,240 dead, the bloodiest day in its history...The historian John Keegan says of their commander, Field Marshal Douglas Haig whose statue dominates Whitehall in London, once the center of the British Empire: 'In his public manner and private diaries no concern for human suffering was or is discernible'...In June 1917...'In no circumstance whatever will the expression 'shell shock' be used verbally or be recorded in any regimental or other casualty report...psychiatric problems were to be given a single diagnosis of NYDN ( Not Yet Diagnosed, Nervous )...In 1922 the British government issued the Southborough Report whose goal was to prevent the diagnosis of shell shock in any future wars and to undermine any more claims for compensation...The official view was that well-trained troops, properly led, would not suffer from shell shock and that the servicemen who had succumbed to the disorder were undisciplined and unwilling soldiers...reports on how to best treat these cases disappeared from the scientific literature.. ...In the United States the fate of veterans was also fraught with problems...In 1924 Congress voted to award them a bonus of $1.25 for each day they had served overseas, but disbursement was postponed until 1945.. ...By 1932 the nation was in the middle of the Great Depression...15,000 unemployed and penniless veterans camped on the Mall in Washington D.C. to petition immediate payment of their bonuses. The Senate defeated the bill... A month later President Hoover ordered the army to clear out the veterans' encampment...supported by six tanks...Soldiers with fixed bayonets charged, hurling tear gas into the crowd of veterans. The next morning the Mall was deserted and the camp was in flames. The veterans never received their pensions... Denial of the consequences of trauma can wreak havoc with the social fabric of society. The refusal to face the damage caused by the war and the intolerance of 'weakness' played an important role in the rise of fascism and militarianism around the world in the 1930's....This cascade of humiliations of the powerless set the stage for the ultimate debasement of human rights under the Nazi regime: the moral justification for the strong to vanquish the inferior - the rationale for the ensuing war. The New Face of Trauma p 224 The feminist theorist Germaine Greer wrote about the treatment of her father's PTSD after WW2: 'When ( the medical officers) examined men exhibiting severe disturbances they almost invariably found the root cause in pre-war experience: the sick men were not first grade fighting material...The military proposition is [that it is] not war which makes men sick, but that sick men can not fight wars. It seems unlikely the doctors did her father any good, but Greer's efforts to come to grip with his suffering undoubtedly helped fuel her exploration of sexual domination in all its ugly manifestations of rape, incest, and domestic violence. ...Doctors shape how their patients communicate their distress: When a patient complains about terrifying nightmares and his doctor orders a chest x-ray, the patient realizes that he'll get better care if he focuses on his physical problems...most of these men were extremely reluctant to share their experiences. My sense was that neither the doctors nor their patients wanted to revisit the war
@Martyupnorth_2 Trudeau is a liar, pure and simple that’s it. He’s corrupt perverted and needs to be removed. Not to mention he’s a treasonous SOB
@Martyupnorth_2 It makes me angry--and yet, I remember 2021 vividly. Canadians were indoctrinated by every media outlet and by their gov't to be terrified of Covid and mistrustful of their neighbors. Remember Justin's wedge issue? Remember vax passports, curfews, 'bubbles' & shutdowns? SAFETYISM
This just speaks to his character or lack there of. How people tolerate this person baffles me, even within his own party I wonder. I remember seeing this and was outraged then and even more so now that he has been grandstanding his war effort and sending money 💰 to war. I don’t believe in war as it reflects poorly on society as we can’t be intelligent if we won’t sit down and solve issues. The fact it is the young that pays the price in battle makes it seem all the more disgusting.
@Martyupnorth_2 That’s the moment I considered my oath as nullified! For the record, his name is Private Brock Blaszczyk, PPCLI, he lost a leg to a Russian mine during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2010.
@Martyupnorth_2 Yet Trudeau sprinkles billions around the globe. He is disgusting.
@Martyupnorth_2 - "Canadians are asking for more than we can give. Here's a billion for Ukraine, though!"