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Update: MySpace Suicide Note, Dead soldier’s mother speaks

April 27th, 2006

Southpinellas: Dead soldier posts farewell note on MySpace

MySpace is a great way to find people you went to school with etc.

It is also a very efficient way to leave a suicide note.

***Update***

Dylan’s Last words were:

Jesus, I don’t know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that’s what lifes about. When it is all said and done, and all the bull shit is cleared away, it is the ones you love who you will remember. There is nothing that poisons life more than arguing about religion, politics, gay straight, white black. Oh, and if you fall in love, hold on to it no matter what it takesnot everyone is so lucky, ya know? This song on my myspace says it all, dry your eyes. My dads number is . If some one could get that to christina, that would be awesome. Dad, or mom, contact Elliot Hunt at . I left him a safe. The combo is dads address followed by *. Love everyone. Peace out, and film for life.

His Mom posted a note on Dylan’s MySpace page, here it is:

THIS IS DYLAN’S MOM I cannot let my sons death go without question. The military wants it to be forgotten…… Dylan was making plans for the future something a person considering suicide does not do. There is more to this………….We as a people cannot let this happen, there has to be other soldiers who feel the same as Dylan. Dylan made his choice, he also wanted his treatment to be known. if we can save one other soldier then Dylan’s death will not be in vain. If anyone knows anything about Dylan’s treatment or other ill treated soldiers within his command. Please let me know through Mexicant85@hotmail.com I Love you Dylan for your courage, Mom………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………How am I in Dylans My Space? My son gave me his password a year ago when he went to basic training because he would be out of pocket for so long. He trusted me, I want to assure all of you that any correspondence I receive will be totally confidential. This I swear in my sons honor.

You can view Dylan’s MySpace profile here.

View a video he made about a boring weekend at Fort Gordon with a message telling young people go to go college and “not make the same mistake I did.”
His mother is no doubt grieving and distraught. The fact is every nine hours a soldier dies of non-combat causes. Some are vehicle accident’s etc. Many, however, are suicides. I suppose the reason why I am so interested in this is because Fort Gordon is the place where Mike, the other contributor to this website met. So I have a connection and I identify with Dylan. I remember days when I was in the Army where I felt as though my life was totally out of my hands and that I had made an incredible mistake by joining. My despair never came to the point where I seriously thought about taking my life, 4 years is a long time but not that long.

Based on what his mother said it appeared as though she believes there was some mistreatment by his command.
If you combine the angst that many people who are Dylan’s age with the stress and pressures of the Army life there are certain to be those who are unable to deal with it. That is what happened here.

While tragic, this suicide is the rule not the exception.

You can scroll the comments on his page and it is as if his friends are speaking to him at his headstone in the cemetary. Words that are usually spoken in private while friends and family grieve are available, in black and white for all the world to see.

MySpace is built on the premise of social networking, and suicide is the result of an inablity to adapt socially (among other things), to leave your last words on MySpace and then kill yourself is sadly ironic. Hopefully it won’t move from being simply ironic to cliche`.

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US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign

February 19th, 2006

If the United States is not doing anything wrong by performing “rendition” or what I like to call “torture,” why do they have to hide their activities? It is not as if they have to identify their passengers via radio communications, they are simply identifying the aircraft by a call sign. A call sign that belongs to an out of business Canadian airline.

There illustrates the difference between the need for secrecy on matters of intelligence and simply covering one’s ass. And I believe that this case is the latter.

US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign - Sunday Times - Times Online

New Abu Ghraib Photo’s

February 15th, 2006

These disturbing new photographs really show the U.S. in a good light don’t they. Is there anyone else who still believes that these were acts committed by a “few bad apples?”

View the photo’s here
Not safe for work.

Senator Mel Martinez changes mind on Schiavo

February 12th, 2006

Tampabay: Senator changes mind on Schiavo

No kidding Mel. Even though it isn’t your election year, many other facists are up for election/re-election and now you have to back peddle. I get it.

My question is, was it a change in heart, maybe a realization that thousands of Americans each day decide that they don’t want to see their loved ones kept artificially alive? Or was it those incredible poll numbers that showed more agreement by Americans than on any other issue that the government has no authority to intervene in personal medical decisions.

I have a hunch that in this election year, you and many other members of the flying monkey right will attempt to appear more centrist. And you even blame a staff member…just like Clear Channel fired Bubba the Love Sponge for being “dirty” even though that is what made them so much money over the years.

Here is an idea Mel, maybe the government should stay out of all personal medical decisions, i.e. abortion, right to die, etc. This way you don’t have to run around with egg on your face.

As a former Betty Castor campaign staff member, I can say with certainty that Floridians would have recieved a better deal with Betty, too bad you’re not up for re-election.

If only he never left the Arabian horse circuit

February 9th, 2006

Michael Brown, the now well known former horse judge who masqueraded around as the head of F.E.M.A. during one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country, has decided that he may tell everything there is to tell about what happened with himself at the helm during Katrina. He’s now a private citizen and said he wants all the facts to be public. He wrote a letter to Harriet Myers (Remember her? The very qualified supreme court candidate) stating that he ‘continues to respect Bush and his “presidential prerogative” to get candid and confidential advice from top aides.’

“Unless there is specific direction otherwise from the president, including an assurance the president will provide a legal defense to Mr. Brown if he refuses to testify as to these matters, Mr. Brown will testify if asked about particular communications,” the lawyer wrote.

He’s now been removed from the inner ring of protection. Will we finally learn about the official correspondence between the horse judge and the prez? I’m willing to bet that it won’t be very pretty if the truth comes out. That is, unless the prez backs him to keep quiet. We’ll see.

My letter to editor published

February 8th, 2006

My letter to the editor reguarding Bright House Networks v. Verizon competition was published today.

The post with no title part 1

February 3rd, 2006

I don’t have a lot of friends that I could call up and say, “Let’s go to a movie.” In fact I was given three $150.00 lightning tickets at work and it took me three hours to find someone who could fit in the Stanley Cup champs, and even then he brought someone else because I could think of no one else and I had gone through my cell phone, everyone was either busy or unreachable.

I said all that to say this, I go out alone. Tonight I went to see Capote at Channelside.

It wasn’t a bad movie, but certainly not something that I would file under artistically important. It had that art cinema feel to it that I like, but Hoffman’s character had an annoying nasal voice and it made me cringe at some points.

The movie ended and I remembered that I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime (this was about 10:00 pm at this point). I went down the stairs and then up the escalator (have you noticed that Channelside doesn’t have down escalators) to Bennigan’s. I hopped up to the bar and ordered the baked potato soup. It wasn’t bad but I made a soup 10 times better just last week at home. I don’t know why I even bother eating out, since I started applying myself in the kitchen I have been disappointed in restaurant food. Anyway, I was trying to stomach the soup and up to the microphone walks this guy who looks like he stepped out of an Abercrombie ad. He must have needed some liquid courage because he walked to the bar and asked for a Jaeger Bomb and the annoyed bartender gave it to him.

From there you had a group of people (and elsewhere in Bennigan’s) who were happy just talking to each other over the dull roar of other people who were happy to talk to each other who now had to compete with comically bad one man cover of Matchbox 20’s 3 Am. I paid for the soup and left.

I had my parking stub validated at the movies and it only cost $0.50 for parking for the whole time. When I got to the little booth where you pay, I realized that I don’t have change because I NEVER carry cash. So I had to deal with the look of death from the parking attendant when I handed her my checkcard. I don’t give a fuck, if she knew anything she wouldn’t be a parking attendant now would she?

It is now 10:58 and I am right back where I should have just stayed the whole night. My apartment. It is where I have my new dish chair from Urban Outfitters, my fridge, my food and most importantly what I don’t have, some trendy dude singing a song that was bad when the original artist performed it. I have him to thank though, because of him, I wasn’t the most pathetic person out and about tonight.

Seminole Heights: Cable TV Franchise

January 31st, 2006

Seminole Heights: Cable TV Franchise

I can’t say that I agree with your assessment of the issue. I am a Bright House Networks employee. The way that the issue was described to me is that BHN is not trying to kill any existing PEG channel. In fact they are offering to keep these existing channels and add an on demand channel.

This is more than local government even deserves considering that polls I have seen show that 80 percent of cable subscribers don’t even know what channel their PEG channels are on and wouldn’t care if they were gone tommorow.

What someone who is outside of the industry would not know is how limited bandwidth is for cable providers. The current three channels is worth millions more than it currently produces yet BHN is not trying to remove them.

Additionally, with the assumption that an On Demand format would marginalize content, I disagree. On demand would allow viewers to choose what particular program, meeting, etc that they would like to watch and they can watch it at their leasure with no need to tune into live meetings.

The main issue is not only would this cost cable customers more whether they use the PEG channels or not, but it would require getting rid of channels that actually do have viewers.

Hillsborough County, and City of Tampa cable customers are simply not willing to allow their bills to go higher. The same basic cable service in Pinellas County is roughly $10 less per month simply because of a better franchise agreement.

Don’t get me wrong, I recognize the value of having access to local government, but not at the expense of people who are not even going to utilize these services. BHN has made a very generous offer with the On Demand channel and the county would be wise to accept this innovative format and recognize it for what it is, the future.

I don’t support the troops either (now pick up your jaw and read what I have to say)

January 26th, 2006

Thanks to Mike Pusatera for the heads up on this topic.

A column was written by Joel Stein in which he states that he doesn’t support the troops. To many this will be the end of the dialoge, those of you who choose to read the actual context of his remarks may not agree with what he says, but I sure do.

Stein’s comments on why he doesn’t support the troops illustrate a point that I have been convey for some time:

“Blindly lending support to our soldiers, I fear, will keep them overseas longer by giving soft acquiescence to the hawks who sent them there — and who might one day want to send them somewhere else. Trust me, a guy who thought 50.7% was a mandate isn’t going to pick up on the subtleties of a parade for just service in an unjust war. He’s going to be looking for funnel cake.”

I posted this comment on Mike Pusatera’s blog:

As an OIF vet, I have tried to make that point to many people but it has blown them away that anyone would ever admit to not supporting the troops. If you indeed think that this fake support for the real people that are fighting in a fake war is contributing to their untimely deaths, why would you support them? In that context I don’t support the troops either. I actually used to get a bad feeling in my stomach when I would read of people destroying Dixie Chicks CD’s or attending Pro-war rallies in the Stars and Stripes.

I believe that the mistreatments and lack of respect for the military during the Vietnam era ultimatly led to the end of the war.

Hail Hail free speech!