Deserting Servicemen - T. Stokes

      A Welsh M.P has exposed that 12,000 former British soldiers are serving prison sentences for crimes committed after returning from action, and that in many cases this is down to the trauma of serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.The Home Office say their figures say only 8,500 plus.Army desertions are up 80% since the Iraq war, 42% since last year, many who joined up did not realize they would be bombing women and children In “population thinning” exercises for Israeli expansion.

      It was recognized only recently, that servicemen in the armed forces, can be suffering from PTSD, ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and this can drastically affect their psychology. Many men joined up to defend Queen and country, only to find they are following the “dodgy dossiers” of crooked governments, and forced to racially attack foreign people, current M.O.D figures show 50% of servicemen felt let down, by their involvement in aggressive wars such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and bitterly resented the racist propaganda as seen on the news, psychological studies after both World wars, say men were angry that the jobs and houses promised after the war, never materialized, “The Milk and Honey for all” was only for a selected few.

          Studies after W.W.1 show many men dismissed as malingerers, were actually suffering from Shell Shock, now known as P.T.S.D. the figures showing wounded men being hurriedly patched up and sent to the dangers of the front, was said by experts to save pension money on injured servicemen, and the servicemen’s joke, of men who had their eardrums blown out, to be issued by the medical orderly with a pair of glasses and sent to the front, was actually very accurate. The cruelty and ignorance of British officers in W.W.1 meant almost as many were shot in the back, as by the enemy, and after W.W.II the bully-boy sergeant major types, were recognized as counter productive, and the aftermath of the deaths at Deepcut Barracks, along with the human rights act, have improved conditions to eliminate bullying. The Welsh leader, Mr. Llwd in a Westminster debate, linked servicemen’s crime directly to serving in Iraq, and said “it is a massive problem “ and agreed with prison psychologists and asked for more non-custodial sentences with counseling and support.

             Some of the worst crimes in the past decade have been committed by ex soldiers, Harry Roberts, and Donald Neilson among several other killers were traumatized ex soldiers and were themselves victims The prisons minister David Hanson admitted he knew nothing about the problems, of depression alcoholism and crimes by servicemen. Hospital casualty depts. near Service barracks, are aware of the magnitude of drunken servicemen going out picking fights at pub closing times. Several M. Ps are talking now about prosecutions for those who lied us into these wars, and people wonder why the I.R.A were allowed to bomb their way across Britain year after year, and we did nothing, yet on a whim and a dodgy dossier we bomb Iraq , who were no threat at all to us.

T Stokes

With thanks to;

Ministry of Defense, R.A..M.C, Prisoners wives assoc

 Wariscrime.com, Freedom of information act

Royal college of psychiatrists, Probation officers survey, Stop the war coalition