The Horror Story of U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson

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by: gottlieb @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 08:56:41 AM CST

Not doubting the story BUT (4.00 / 2)

Why the picture of the bloodied child and the beaten and bruised mother? These are emotion images intended to override rational response. I don't see in the story where the Army has beaten her and the child.

I do believe that they are stupid enough to create a poster mother-child display of arrogance and ignorance that will piss off the world.

I'm just a little leery of the whole message in a ribbon-and-a-bow with the non-sequitur beaten faces for the poster.

Beware agents provocateur. Caveat emptor.

How do we double check this story?

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon and the Truth." Buddha

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by: RUKind @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 19:28:52 PM CST

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Also reported by... (4.00 / 2)

The Oakland Tribune
KGO-TV San Francisco

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by: CatfishBlues @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 20:48:32 PM CST

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Good. Wouldn't want us getting played as part of a psy-op (4.00 / 1)

which would later blow up in our faces and make us all look like idiots.

But they'd never get that clever, would they?

Thx for checking it out. Like the woodworker says, "Measure twice, cut once."

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon and the Truth." Buddha

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by: RUKind @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 23:18:48 PM CST

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And... (4.00 / 1)

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by: CatfishBlues @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 23:20:23 PM CST

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Well (4.00 / 1)

Careful with the carriage returns!

And The Oakland Trib and KGO could be a cog in the psyop machine being MSM nodes. It gets harder and harder to sift the wheat from the chaff, anymore.

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by: CatfishBlues @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 23:24:24 PM CST

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Agree -- ditch that second picture. Inappropriate. (0.00 / 0)

And please do answer, what is the point of it, why did you put it in?

Are you trying to convince people that this woman at one time let her child be beaten like this?

"This health care system is a moral atrocity." Dr. RalphDog (on blog)

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by: Allison In Seattle @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 02:39:56 AM CST

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To me, it shows (0.00 / 0)

tearing a good happy Mom (top) away from her son, so she is forced to go create havoc for other Mom's and their babies.(bottom)

I think its anti-war on 2 levels, the cruelty of our own system to our own, and the heinousness of what we do to others in our wars.

Thats just me.

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by: Diane G @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 04:13:29 AM CST

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Well, I was asking the person who created the diary (0.00 / 0)

why they put that picture in there.

Do I understand correctly, where you said:

so she is forced to go create havoc for other Mom's and their babies.

that you're saying that this mom is going to go beat other moms and babies so they look like the bottom photo?

I'm not trying to convey that I do understand what you said, rather that my best understanding, which I'm hoping is wrong, is what I said above.

"This health care system is a moral atrocity." Dr. RalphDog (on blog)

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by: Allison In Seattle @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 18:24:24 PM CST

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Not at all (0.00 / 0)

in fact, I am not speaking for the diarist at all. But he is a friend of mine, and he shares my view that war itself is hell, is abusive to people everywhere.

He isn't much of a commenter, but I hope he finds time to respond himself.

Mothers and children, as he says, are often victims, different sides of the same coin.

However, I was just offering the comment that it didn't offend me at all, as a Mother, and why it didn't.

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by: Diane G @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 19:39:39 PM CST

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whatsup with the spammers? (4.00 / 7)

Hey admins!!!

Check out the spammers!

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by: Diane G @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 12:52:31 PM CST

I'm trying to keep up with them (4.00 / 7)

Everyday we get about a dozen new account signups.  They put links in their profile pages  to improve Search Engine rankings for the sites they link to.   Most of them don't comment so it isn't really visible to anybody here.  Only a few actually post comments or essays. I delete comments as soon as I see them or when people like you or Edger point it out.  It is a scam called Backlinking.  

I have started banning IP address ranges from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.  That's where most of these spammers are coming from.  They are hitting Soapblox sites hard.   Docudharma isn't the only blog deluged by backlinkers.
 

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.  ~ Pink Floyd

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by: On The Bus @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 13:23:45 PM CST

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They are hitting (4.00 / 6)

Show Me Progress pretty regularly too...

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by: Edger @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 13:29:56 PM CST

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If you see em, flag em. (4.00 / 5)

No better use for the Hide button.

All that campaign cash buys a lot of stupid.

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by: Night Owl @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 15:11:14 PM CST

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I couldn't agree more. I am sick of this soldier-sniffing, cop-loving (4.00 / 5)

society and all of it's patriotic claims of glory and greatness.
Spot on gottlieb.
Peace ;-)>

"We're in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! And they're giving booze to these goddamn things!" - Hunter S. Thompson

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by: rogerdaddy @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 15:02:45 PM CST

Huh, that's odd (4.00 / 4)

This story never appeared in our local paper, here in Ventura (Ventura County Star). Damn liberal media.

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by: CatfishBlues @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 17:12:30 PM CST

Thank you, gottlieb, for calling this horrific (4.00 / 4)

accounting to our attention.  It is unfathomable that we have come to this most inhumane level -- a child and it's mother.  Of course, if we're able to commit the atrocities abroad, as we do, I think it's probably reasonable to assume that we could perpetrate similar cruelties upon our own people.  

This is totally sick and wanton -- makes me cringe and sick to my stomach!

I'm going to call this episode to the attention of my Senator.  It needs to come to the attention of SOMEONE, in fact, many in the WH!  

11-months' old? -- EVERYONE knows how difficult it is to get someone trustworthy enough to care for an infant, without great expense (sometimes, even that's not enough)!  We keep descending to lower and lower legal and moral plateaus in this country -- WHEN WILL ENOUGH BE ENOUGH?


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by: tahoebasha3 @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 18:43:38 PM CST

ya know, where is Michelle? (4.00 / 6)

the First Lady who's pet project is military families...?

No justice, no peace.

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by: Lady Libertine @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 18:49:55 PM CST

Everyone! (4.00 / 3)

I have just bumped into this site (h/t Chip), calling for ACTION to call Barbara Lee, and to donate to Hutchinson's plight:

Army sends infant to protective services, mom to Afghanistan        

Army has mom, Alexis Hutchinson, arrested and 11-month old son put into county foster care system. Alexis has now been ordered to deploy to Afghanistan on Sunday, November 15, where she will be court martialed.

Action Alert: Contact Congresswoman Barbara Lee to urge her to "Request that the Army not deploy Alexis Hutchinson to Afghanistan so that she can care for her son." From the 9th District (Oakland/Berkeley, CA) phone: 510-763-0370 (fax: 510-763-6538). Nationwide: 202- 225-2661 (fax: 202-225-9817).

Donate to Alexis' legal and family support fund (couragetoresist.org/alexis)

Alexis' attorney now available for media inquires. Contact via Courage to Resist.

By Rai Sue Sussman. November 12, 2009

Specialist Alexis Hutchinson of Oakland, CA is the single mother of an 11-month old boy, Kamani. Currently she is confined to Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, where she has been posted since February 2008, and threatened with a court martial if she does not agree to be deployed to Afghanistan, even though she has not found anyone to take care of her child while she is away. (photo: Alexis Hutchinson and son Kamani / Facebook). . . .

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by: tahoebasha3 @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 19:30:47 PM CST

We are witnessing American Tribalism (4.00 / 3)

Certain powerful, economic and political sectors of our nation are now carving out their own spheres of control.
The defense department is just one of many (and of course we're watching healthcare insurers laugh all the way to the bank). The army is just making sure Alexis is fulfilling her indentured servitude, that's all.
"Hey little girl, don't tell daddy what to do."

S  I  C  K  E  N  I  N  G  &  D  I  S  G  U  S  T  I  N  G

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by: bigsurtree @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 19:41:40 PM CST

Afghanistan (4.00 / 1)

I really see no use for this war in Afghanistan. 9 years later, we have the Taliban stronger than ever, OBL on the loose, it seems to be getting worse and worse and the solution isn't to pour more troops there. Russia already tried that and it didnt work - they ended up withdrawing 10 years later.

History repeating itself?

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by: StaceyV30 @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 21:06:00 PM CST

Time to disband the bleeping foster care system, while (0.00 / 0)

we're at it.

W.T.F?

And I don't swear online.

I'm a foster parent, so I'd sign up to watch her child for her for NOTHING, and give him back, ever so gladly. But I'm in the wrong state, and IF they knew I wanted to let her have him back

and get this, really get this

that would disqualify me, instantly.

Think about it.

I've seen too much, being a foster parent, way too much. Too many horrible horrible things.

"This health care system is a moral atrocity." Dr. RalphDog (on blog)

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by: Allison In Seattle @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 02:36:17 AM CST