Do some Trump supporters think the world will stay flat?

Correction: Only some supporters do. My bad, just added that word.

If anyone thinks that President Donald Trump would ever take sexual harassment seriously, they must also think the earth will stay flat.

Considering there was no "due process" for the women it happened to, seems Trump recovered to the highest office in the land, and then hired more accused abusers, with serious enough records the FBI could not give them security clearance. 

“Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused — life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”

Trump decries lack of ‘due process’ for men accused of sexual harassment, abuse

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), a leader in the effort to combat sexual harassment in Congress, said her stomach turned when she saw Trump’s tweet Saturday morning.

It just turned my stomach too. Just a reminder of who was elected and why he would have this disgusting attitude, The Washington Post added it.

As a candidate, Trump acknowledged that he had made lewd comments about grabbing women’s crotches after The Washington Post reported on a recording of Trump making these claims. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump said on a hot mic before recording a segment of “Access Hollywood” in 2005. Trump denied making any such assaults and dismissed the recording as “locker room” talk.

POTUS said it didn't happen, before he admitted it did, then defended why he said it.

I was a victim of domestic violence. The second it stopped, I was a survivor of it. Back then the attitude toward domestic violence was not what we needed it to be. Men denied it, said we deserved it, or simply got away with it.

So much for family values voters defending any part of what we've seen from this man, who was accused of marital rape by his first wife, left her for his second wife and then is now on his third marriage.

You may consider this off topic, but if you do then you must have not been paying attention to what continues to happen to women in the military. If you think this Commander-in-Chief, or any of his department heads will do anything about sexual assaults, you have been under the spell of the delusion wand he keeps waving as the master of deflection.

Don't count on this Congress either. Remember they thought it was OK to pay off survivors of their abuse with our tax money?

Disabled Vietnam Veteran Alan Meisel Beaten By Sex Offenders?

update

Senators demand investigation into disabled veteran's death Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst sent a letter Friday to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, asking him to look into the circumstances of Alan Meisel’s death. The senators referred to a Des Moines Sunday Register article about Meisel, who lived for decades in Iowa before moving to Texas in 2013 to be near a brother-in-law.

How did Iowa veteran end up dead in Texas
Des Moines Register
Tony Leys
October 1, 2016

SPRINGTOWN, Texas — Alan Meisel’s Iowa friends can’t imagine how he came to spend his final months here, stuck in a rundown rental house with two paroled sex offenders instead of in a nursing home.

Meisel, who lived in Des Moines much of his life, wasn’t a criminal. He was a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, who qualified for a significant disability pension and free health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was exposed to the chemical Agent Orange during the war, sparking a severe form of Parkinson’s disease that left him barely able to walk, talk or eat, his friends say. It also left him unable to defend himself last March, when two roommates in the Texas rental house allegedly shoved him out of his wheelchair and beat him black and blue, according to sheriff's investigators.

The 68-year-old veteran died three weeks after the alleged attack. A medical examiner listed “natural causes” for his death, but the autopsy report notes numerous scabs and yellowing bruises on his arms, legs and face. Just 102 pounds remained on his 5-foot-7-inch frame.

His friends back in Iowa aren’t satisfied with the fact that the two roommates are charged with assaulting Meisel. They see the tragedy as an example of how a vulnerable person can be neglected if no one speaks up on his behalf.

They want to know how he ended up in the rental home, which they believe was grossly inadequate for his medical needs. Why was he no longer in a nursing home with professional care? Why wasn't his veteran status enough to guarantee him that care? What happened to his money?
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Vet with cancer headline #2, sex offender arrested, again

Vet With Prostate Cancer Arrested

PANAMA CITY-- A local homeless veteran is behind bars tonight after police dig a little deeper into his past. Panama City Police arrested David Smith this weekend for failure to register as a sex offender. Officials say Smith failed to report an address change, and also failed to have an updated Florida ID. If his name sounds familiar, it's because last week, several local media outlets ran stories about Smith being denied cancer treatment at the local V.A.

California paying millions to uphold Jessica's Law

State pays millions for contract psychologists to keep up with Jessica's Law
As caseloads surge, the state increases use of contractors, some of whom make $1 million or more in a year. The voter-approved initiative requires thousands of sex offenders to undergo mental health screening.
By Charles Piller and Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
August 10, 2008
A 2006 law intended to crack down on sex offenders has proved a bonanza for a small group of private psychologists and psychiatrists, 14 of whom billed California taxpayers last year for a half a million dollars or more each, a Times investigation found.

Among the 79 contractors hired by the state to evaluate sex offenders, the top earner was Robert Owen, a Central Coast psychologist who pulled in more than $1.5 million in 2007, according to state records reviewed by The Times.


That's equivalent to working 100 hours per week for 52 weeks at nearly $300 per hour -- top-scale in the private sector.

The No. 2 earner, psychologist Dawn Starr, billed the state $1.1 million in 2007, including $17,500 for a single day in April.

"It's been a boatload of money, to put it colloquially," psychologist Shoba Sreenivasan said during court testimony in November. Working only part time, she billed the state nearly $900,000 last year and at least $290,000 this year.


A civil servant doing the same work earns $101,000 to $110,000 annually.

Passed overwhelmingly by voter initiative in 2006, Jessica's Law mandated evaluations for thousands more sex offenders than in the past, to determine whether their conditions warrant hospitalization after criminal sentences have been served. All told, evaluators hired by the state earned more than $24 million in 2007.

It's unclear, however, what benefit the investment has yielded. There's been a nearly ninefold increase in evaluations and a threefold increase in recommendations for hospital commitment. But the actual number of commitments has remained essentially the same -- 41 in the 18 months before the law was passed, 42 in the 18 months afterward.
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Sen. Patty Murray Seeks Help For Survivors Of Military Sexual Trauma

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., says women in the military return home traumatized because, in addition to the pressures of living in a war zone, they have been living in close quarters with men and, in many cases, report that they had been sexually harassed, assaulted or raped.

Senator Seeks Help For Survivors Of Military Sexual Trauma


Published on 2/10/2008



Washington — Scurrying back to her Army barracks in the dark after her shift at the hospital, Sally, a 21-year-old medic, was grabbed by a man who dragged her to the woods and raped her at knifepoint.

When she reported the attack, Sally, of Kirkland, Wash., who asks that her full name not be used, was brushed off by her superior officer at Fort Belvoir, Va., who dismissed the rape as a spat with a boyfriend.

Her story is alarmingly like that of hundreds of other veterans who have suffered sexual harassment, assault and rape in the military, according to Susan Avila-Smith, a Seattle-based advocate who has helped hundreds of women veterans get VA benefits and treatment for military sexual trauma (MST).

Avila-Smith says she also was a victim when she served in the Army, having been sexually assaulted in a hospital recovery room after sinus surgery at Fort Hood, Texas.

The pressures on women service members, who now comprise about 7 percent of all veterans, are escalating:

• According to the Veterans Administration, 19 percent of women who have sought health care in the VA were diagnosed as victims of military sexual trauma.

• Cases of military sexual trauma increased from 1,700 in 2004 to 2,374 in 2005, according to the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention Response Program.
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http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=d38a90ee-2012-495c-9368-453825fac195

What kind of a nation are we now? Are we a nation of laws or have we become a fraud? Women in the military raped, yet it is passed off and ignored, or worse, the women who report it face harassment instead of justice. Hallibuton/KBR employees are raped and yet when they report it they face retribution. Instead of turning it over to law enforcement, they only allow the victim to be heard in arbitration. What are we now?

Rape is a crime. When did it become something to ignore? Who wrote the rule that the victim is supposed to be ashamed someone with more power, usually possessing a weapon, decided to get their rocks off by forcing themselves on a woman? Does the nation really think that this only happens in the military and "boys will be boys" only when they are in the military? How deluded are they? Don't they understand that this type of crime will continue when they become civilians again?

Whenever we read reports like this we need to ask ourselves what kind of justice would be appropriate if it happened to someone in our own family. What if it was your daughter deployed into a foreign nation, risking her life for the sake of the nation and then finding that life taken with such disregard no one cared she was raped? What if it was your wife who was just doing her job as a nurse only to be raped by someone who apparently thinks they are worth so much more than she is?

People who rape are criminals. People who are raped are victims of a crime. This nation has laws against crimes. There are penalties when you commit a crime. Or at least that is the way it's supposed to work. Lately this nation has proven laws don't matter when the people committing the crime are employed under the banner of the nation.

Bill O'Reilly calls Florida's Homeless veterans "sex offenders"

First O'Reilly claims there are no homeless veterans and they are not sleeping under any bridges. That wasn't bad enough for his bosses to slap him upside the head with the report from the government.

Then he says, "they are all drug addicts and alcoholics" never wondering why homeless veterans would drink or do drugs after the nation abandoned them, leaving them without medical care, incomes from wounds connected to their service, or even managing to come up with some kind of plan to get them back on their feet. This does not even approach the fact that veterans with PTSD turn to self medication to kill off flashbacks, nightmares and twitches because their nerves are jumping out of their skin.

This was not enough for his bosses to make him admit he was wrong. Lord knows he doesn't have a conscience telling him to do it. It wasn't enough for his bosses to get him to either drop the subject altogether or report the truth. It wasn't even enough to get him fired.

Well then comes the homeless veterans to his studio. He couldn't be bothered to go out and meet these veterans. He sent someone to try to trap them up by asking them if they had heard what O'Reilly said or saw him on cable. Considering the dope couldn't figure out homeless people don't have radios or TV sets to get to watch, they proved once again, the homeless veterans are fair game and they would stoop to new levels that would make Scrooge proud. This wasn't enough either. The tape they shot that day was used on his program to attack them once again.

Who would have thought this maniac would sink even lower? Who would have thought his sponsors, viewers and bosses would have tolerated any of this? He did because he just went even lower by linking the homeless veterans to sex offenders in Florida.

BillOReilly.com link to story of "sex offenders living under a bridge": "Those weren't veterans John Edwards, they were sex offenders"
Summary: A link on BillOReilly.com, the website of Fox News and conservative radio talk-show host Bill O'Reilly, was titled "Those weren't veterans John Edwards, they were sex offenders," and linked to an Associated Press article about Florida's efforts "to dissolve a community of sex offenders living under a bridge." Media Matters for America has documented the back-and-forth between O'Reilly and former Sen. John Edwards over homelessness and homeless veterans.

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, "Current population estimates suggest that about 195,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year." The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported on October 15, 2007, that according to information reported by applicants to the department's Continuums of Care (CoCs) Homeless Assistance Programs, the local CoCs reported a "point-in-time count" of 29,785 "unsheltered" homeless veterans. The "point-in-time count" occurred in January 2006. HUD currently defines "an unsheltered homeless person" as a person who "resides in: A place not meant for human habitation, such as cars, parks, sidewalks, abandoned buildings, or on the street."

The Miami/Dade County CoC reported 117 unsheltered homeless veterans in its January 24, 2006, point-in-time count.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802070009?lid=44841&rid=3168460


It's not bad enough he is waging war against war veterans. The creep is actually trying to make them look like drug addicts and criminals hell bent on committing rape. Naturally O'Reilly cannot understand common human decency. He has proven this time and time again when he has had more than ample time to reconsider his stance and tell the truth. He had all this time to admit he was wrong. He had more than enough time to actually prove his rants about caring about anyone but himself. He allowed his huge ego to kill off every sense of human kindness he had left in his soul. How twisted his mind must work for him to turn around and try to link homeless veterans to everything he can come up with instead of being a human. Shame on him. Shame on his viewers. Shame on his sponsors and a bigger shame on his bosses. All of them will forever be linked to the suffering of homeless veterans when they all had the opportunity to help them.

I think the sponsors of his radio show and cable show should value their advertising dollars more wisely considering whenever their products are purchased they will not leave a very bad taste and people will regret supporting them when they support someone who slanders veterans who were abandoned by the government. Nice work for a piece of shit that cannot understand we have two occupations already producing homeless veterans to add to the veterans who came before them.

20,000 War Vets Living On Florida Streets; 1,400 In Central Florida

POSTED: 5:42 pm EST January 23, 2008
UPDATED: 10:58 pm EST January 23, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- More than 20,000 military veterans in Florida are homeless, living in a kind of war zone they had never imaged -- on the streets and in the woods.

A former U.S. Marine named Pete who once lived in Cocoa Beach with a great view of the ocean is now one of Central Florida's 1,400 homeless.

Pete lives in the woods.

"I got a tent in the woods. I'm not going to a shelter," Pete said. "I'm a carpenter by trade and I just need to get back to work."

Pete said the housing market crisis put him out of work.

Another homeless veteran, Curtis, worked heavy machinery repairing dams and sinkholes after leaving the U.S. Air Force.

His company stopped operations in the United States, leaving him homeless.

"Right now, I would like to find out some information about getting a home," Curtis said. "I need a permanent shelter."

Curtis has been staying at the Rescue Mission in downtown Orlando.

"I have no support system as far as family is concerned," Curtis said. "I am the only one here."

Statewide there are fewer than 470 beds in the Veterans Administration for shelter and treatment, Cooper reported.

According to Brent Trotter, Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for the Homeless, beds are in short supply.

"We try to take everyone in who comes into our doors, we're at capacity," Trotter said.

"These people got there because of a series of life circumstances and the fact they did not have kind of safety net that you and I might have," Executive Director of Homeless Services Network Cathy Jackson said. "They didn't have caring family or sufficient income or perhaps education."

Local 6 is planning a phone bank on Friday, Jan 23, at WKMG studios.

No I know how they become homeless. I've met a few and researched this for 25 years. Most of these veterans are the most wonderful people on the planet. This quote will give you a hint of how vial and contemptible O'Reilly has become.

"These people got there because of a series of life circumstances and the fact they did not have kind of safety net that you and I might have," Executive Director of Homeless Services Network Cathy Jackson said. "They didn't have caring family or sufficient income or perhaps education."

Right here in Florida we have 20,000 homeless veterans. O'Reilly is saying they are sex offenders. 20,000 veterans who served the nation. Did he call them that when they were risking their lives for the sake of people like him to be able to shoot off their mouths? 20,000 this nation had no problem paying for them to risk their lives with all that entailed from providing them with bullets, weapons, shelter, clothing and food while they were risking their lives, but found it too difficult to do the same because they were wounded, couldn't support themselves, became so wounded emotionally they found no comfort or human kindness and were then too expensive to support in the same way they were when they were risking those lives. O'Reilly is the worst kind of citizen. One who cares nothing about the men and women so noble and brave they are willing to lay down their lives even for the likes of him. Pathetic!

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" replied Scrooge.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ... It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

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AKA Bill O'Reilly He is anti-warrior, anti-veteran and anti-Christian!