Living Armstrongism: Iran's Press TV Mentions Misogynistic Violence within US Military

Monday, January 18, 2016

Iran's Press TV Mentions Misogynistic Violence within US Military

[Update: January 20, 2015: Since this post was first published it I have since learned that the problem of sexual harassment within the US military was mentioned in a little article in the August 2013 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine. But that leads to the question of why this serious issue was not mentioned in PCG's December 17, 2015 article cited below. This post has been rewritten to reflect that fact.]

Recently Iran's Press TV mentioned the shameful fact that there is widespread sexual abuse and harassment of personnel within the US armed forces by their "follow" male personnel. This criminal behavior is mainly directed at female personnel. It would be so good to say that this are just baseless allegations but we must face the harsh and terrible facts that these allegations are true and are well known.

From Press TV:

Reports of sexual assault at the three US military academies increased by more than 50 percent last year, Pentagon officials have confirmed.
The Pentagon’s review of sexual harassment and assault at the US Military Academy, West Point, New York; the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; and the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, showed that during the academic year 2014-2015, a total of 91 cases were filed, the MilitaryTimes said Friday. ...
The Air Force Academy, which consistently has had the most number of reported cases since 2011, saw the largest increase from the previous year, with 49 reports, 27 of them unrestricted. (Sexual assault up 55% in US military academies: Pentagon, January 9, 2016.)

The extent of sexual assault in the US military is “staggering” and indicates a “major cultural problem," an American serviceman says.
Pentagon officials have confirmed reports that sexual assault at the three US military academies increased by more than 50 percent last year. ...
“The numbers of sexual assaults that take place are pretty staggering on their own,” Seth Manzel, a US Army Infantryman, told Press TV on Saturday. “But what is happening is the army has started to reform itself.”
Manzel, an Iraq War veteran, said sexually assaulted servicemen would refuse to report their attackers for fear of being discharged.
“With women as well, women were often kicked out for reporting sexual assault,” he added. (Number of sexual assaults in US military ‘staggering’: Army man, January 10, 2016.)

It is ironic that Press TV, a media outlet based in Iran which happens to promote absurd 9/11 conspiracy theories, should speak out on this important issue and yet PCG so often demonizes Iran.

Back in January of last year I wrote the following regarding a 2013 article by Joel Hilliker condemning female soldiers being allowed to serve in the front lines of combat.

January 26 [2013]. "America Thrusts Wives and Moms Into Combat" by Joel Hilliker. Here Hilliker condemns women serving as soldiers in the US military. If Hilliker is truly disturbed by this maybe he should become an pacifist in spirit and uses his words to discourage military endeavors.

Strangely he makes no mention of the well documented and most shameful phenomena of female soldiers being sexually harassed and/or raped by "follow" US soldiers. (Notes from PCG's Trumpet Weekly (2013), January 30, 2015.)

PCG did mention this terrible issue in in a little article in the August 2013 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine.

Another post is also relevant: PCG Condemns Women Serving in All Forms of US Military Service, December 17, 2015. The PCG article discussed in that post, which is dated December 17, 2015, makes no mention of this terrible problem.

It is bizarrely ironic that while this sect based in Edmond should be so boastful of how "patriotic" they claim to be towards the United States meanwhile a media outlet based in one country PCG particularly despises should happen to speak out about those victimized by this ghastly and criminal behavior within the US armed forces.

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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