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hello, and thank you for joining my podcast. I'm Gary. I'll be your host and this is military illumination Where we educate you on what you need to know about joining the military lifestyles to stories share experiences Relevant insight and real life examples, you'll learn about things. You need to know before joining the military Recommending the military or a unique and eye opening 2020 Reflection, so let's do a quick review Previously, we talked about the four things the military recruiters do not want you to know about. And one of them is the Ferris Doctrine. The other was the Congressional Leaders, Civilian Courts, and also the Judge Advocate Generals, also known as JAG. These are the four areas that in view, that are in view, the information is out there. But at the same time, it's not put out there. It's like the dark side of the military. This thing that they do not want you to know about. And today what I'm, first of all I'm going to do is going to recap what we talked about. And we're going to recap about the Ferris Doctrine. The Ferris Doctrine is basically, is in its raw form, prevents a military person from bringing suit against the federal government or military agency. Whether there's negligence, wrongdoing, or a house, they're injured, somehow. And the best way to look at it as if you were a civilian. And you were injured mistreated, your rights was not, were violated, you would have a recourse. You can take him to court, you can take your employer to court, right? Not the case in the military, right? The Ferris Doctrine prevents that. It prevents you, a person in the military, their families from seeking justice, basically. And that's basically what you need to know about the Ferris Doctrine. It's something that doesn't come up at all. Unless you're in trouble, unless your rights have been violated, unless there's a problem. That's when it pops up, when it comes up to a point in time where you might want to sue the government. Let's say you went to the doctors and they took off the wrong foot. Do an operation or in one case they left some towels in the body of the person with, as they did the operation, those kinds of things you would sue somebody for negligence. But in the case of the military, you would not be successful. You're not able to do that. So today when we talk about the Ferris doctrine and how it takes away the rights, we're going to focus on the congressional leaders. This is Congress, right? And in essence, Congress was. The government agency that passed a law which prevents a military person from suing the government. I'm not going to go into any detail on it that but I will at a later time. But just remember that it was the law that was passed by Congress that bars a military person and subsequently their family from bringing suit against the federal government or agency and of course the military. There's a myth that surrounding I will say if you're in the military or there's a myth out there that if there's a problem In your military, you can write your congressperson and they're going to help you out. They're going to bail you out They're going to get help support you. That's a myth because that's not the case. That's just Not simply not the case. The thing that you want to understand about the congress is that Since the Congress was the one who enacted the law they're not going to turn around and undo what they just did. So they're not your friend. They don't support you person. Now, one thing you also want to understand about the Congress is that when you go to the Congress, your Congress person, let's say you, a person writes his, their Congress person, the representative seeking help or maybe it's a family member who's trying to get help for this service member. What you're actually doing is basically you're writing to an entry level person who's going to read the mail and take a court action. They may pass it on to the liaison. They will probably give you some information about what to do next. I know for sure they will give you a form to fill out, which basically you sign, give them the rights to get the information and the rights to share it. But in essence, you're never going to write, you're never, how can I put this, the congressperson will never see your letter or your complaint for two basic reasons. If it's a U. S. senator, their office is in Washington, D. C. Second of all if they are And if they're not in session, they're gonna be locally, but they won't be in their office. They're just, are not accessible. When you look at the, when you, and when you look at the job description of your congressperson, your senators and your representatives, it has nothing, it says nothing about helping out military people in crisis. They make laws. They represent people. That's what they do. There's nothing that's said that they're going to help you out, because they're not going to. And the person has to understand that before getting into the military, or even if they are in the military, they have to understand that help is not coming through your congressperson. So that being said, one more time, I'm going to talk about the entry level, what happens to the letter or the complaint that someone's called in. It's a entry level person who's going to read their information and send it on along this way. They don't have the power to act. They don't have the power to make suggestions and they cannot tell another person what to do. They cannot tell another agency what to do. So therefore it's, I don't know, I don't know how to say it. It's a myth. Okay. Basically it. When you think about the accomplished person, you just can't trust them. If you send them some information, what's going to happen is that they are going to get you. To sign an agreement, which allows them to represent you, to grab the information and share it with the military, who eventually is going to share it with your command is the same agency that is, is doing the harm to you, to the person. I keep saying you, cause I'm actually just talking. I want to seem like I'm just talking to the person who's thinking about the military or who knows someone who is thinking about the military. So I want to say you a lot but it's universal. So what's going to happen is the letter gets sent out, they gather all the information and everything that's shared with them is shared with the command. The caveat is that they don't, they're not going to tell you what the end result is going to be. You'll never know what happened. But what you can almost count on is retaliation. Worse off than before and I'm not gonna get into that. It's retaliation. And when you know that kind of the Ferris Doctrine you also know that it's going to impact you because The rights you have whether it's with JAG the rights you have you don't have So by going to your congressperson, you are actually putting yourself in a worse situation And that's why a person does not want to send information to the Congress or give it to a lawyer to help him out in civilian courts. It's going to be the same exact situation. It's not going to end favorably for the military person. And all the person only really has to do is look at all the cases that are in Supreme court. Look at all the cases that's in the district courts and that, and they'll be able to see the truth of that. And you will be able to. See the truth in that, that it doesn't go well. So the fourth thing I want you to remember about when you're dealing with your congressperson, a person, it's a congressman or whatever, you're sitting in a representative. There's four things that you want to keep a person wants to keep in mind. First of all, one government agency cannot tell another agency what to do. They cannot interfere in their work. Okay. So therefore they're, that covers going, not going to your congressperson. But a problem in your command because they cannot intervene. The other one is that it prevents the military. The country made the law, which prevents the military personnel from suing the federal government. So why does it make sense to take a problem to the same people who created the problem for you? Okay The only person that's going to see the complaint is the gatekeeper. It's the entry level person, also the liaison The congressperson, the representative, the senator will never see their complaint When you write your congressperson, you're actually just contacting their staff. I just want you to think about the, when you think about the government, when you think about your any high powered person Even the president of the United States, you're never going to, you write him And you can get you going a hurry and you're going to get a form letter back. Alright? And that's what you get back actually when you do contact your congressional leaders, you'll get a form letter back from the military stating that you know their BS and that they're gonna want autonomy, which means you self govern, which means, like I said before, you cannot have one government agency telling the government agency what to do. But think about this as an elevator and then in the penthouse suite is where your congressperson resides and at every floor There's a gatekeeper. There's some low level person some government I should say low level person, but it's a government employee right with a certain amount of clout, right? But if it's a 50 if it's 50 floor Building and it's on and the suites on the 50th 51st floor, right? You're gonna, your chances are you're getting past the first three or fourth floors. It's very, you're lucky. You may get past the first floor. Other than that, you will not get past it, and will not go anywhere. And also, finally, is that everything you share with your congressperson, including documents and letters, these will be sent to the military, and the commander, and the unit that you're complaining about. And there's, nothing will happen, okay, nothing can happen, because honestly, if a person can go, in all fairness. We're in the military. We're in the military is in the business of killing people, of forcing other countries to bend to our will. That's basically what, that you're there for. The thing about democracy and freedom, eh, it's just it's a antiquated idea. Don't drink the Kool Aid. That's, that's what we do. We just go around and just muscle people around in different countries. That being said, it doesn't make sense that a lowly private, Can't bring a suit against a general or colonel or his com or his company commander. It's just, it's not feasible and I hope it never happens. But, you understand this, when you go into that world of the congressperson and you want to do a congressional investigation, nothing's gonna happen. But there is a 99. 99 percent probability that you, the person, will be retaliated against. And also, when we talk about the, when I'm talking about the military, the congressperson leadership, it's also true for every agency. You can take this model, and you can put it into every agency in the government, whether it's the Congress, whether it's the courts, whether it's, civil rights agencies, whatever it is even the IG, you know what, if you write to the, write to your your IG in the military, it's gonna be the same thing. It's a, that's the pattern. There's no way to turn. And that's it. As you're looking at the whole thing, is that you're isolated. A person goes in the military, they're isolated. The rights and the the rights that they have had as a civilian no longer exist but yet You're isolated. I don't know if that appeals to you a person, right? But if you know, you can go to your congressperson for things like filing, filling out forms Directions and basically who to talk to you about getting something to happen about maybe Getting to apply to all the paper in the military Recommendations from military academy or outside these areas Please take my advice. Do not trust the government. Do not trust the government agencies, especially Congress. After all, they'll be the ones who send you off to war. Don't trust them with your life. Don't trust them with your future, and don't believe everything they say. The congressional myth is, you can write your congressman, and you can get an investigation going on to help you out. That's the myth. The truth is, no one's coming to help you. Okay, all the patriotism that you hear, all the things about camaraderie, All that stuff in the recruiting ads, right and thank you for your service, right? I call that bs because if you really want to think with my service, you wouldn't have the ferris doctrine You would hold the military more accountable Now i'm gonna i'm not gonna go on my i'm not gonna keep going on here But I would say it's better. It's better. It's better to have a conscription or a draft Then they have an all volunteer military. Because when you have an all volunteer military, you have to hide the dirt. That dirt is what's gonna hurt you. Okay, it's better just to have, conscription, the draft, and have all this in the open. Then try to hide it, in all volunteer. And you make it, make people, make unsuspecting 18, 19 year olds graduating from high school thinking that they're a they're going to a career and that they're going to get their college paid for and they're going to be protected and they're going to have the best medical care. They're going to have justice for them. JAGS are for them. That's all we'll talk about later on, but it's just doesn't exist. So I'm always, I want to refer back to a reflection, a true story. Everything I have in these 30 years is not just based on me reading the reports second hand. I lived it. I walked through it. I've been through the fire. Things I share with you is I have it directly firsthand. So let's talk about my situation with your congressperson and not to everything I mentioned. There was a soldier who was unjustly, I could say, unjustly treated, maliciously prosecuted. This occurred through a government in Washington State, through the Washington National Guard. I'm going to put that out there. And this soldier went to their congressperson, every one of them, from state level to federal level. And each time, a form letter came back from the National Guard Bureau. Thank you for your inquiry. We want autonomy and we're going to do the best we can and stay out of it. That's paraphrasing the letter that came from, to the soldier. It just so happened that they, it just so happened that the letter was sent to Senator Patty Murray about this mistreatment, about the fact that they were going to be court martialed without the benefit of a military attorney. Yep, you heard from me. They were going to send this soldier before the judge without military, without representation. And what was Murray's response? That was the response. The soldier did have to stand before the military judge without military representation. The company person knew it. The company person did not, in Patty Murray's office, did not do anything about it. When questioned, came up to the representative that this person talked with, that I talked with, and this young lady says, You can't, we cannot make another agency do something. We cannot tell them what to do. And when I asked her if she read, if the report was read, that was sent, outlining the situation, the person said no. The person said they didn't have time. They did not read it. They didn't know what was going on. This goes to let you know, that when you're dealing with an entry level person, you're dealing with the low levels. They don't have a whole lot. Maybe they're doing, they're just getting started. And to their, come to their rescue is that a lot of times things that come out there at that level are really high level stuff. And it takes a certain amount of understanding and legal expertise to navigate the what's happening. They won't have that type of, that knowledge base. They won't have it. It's not a negative. It's just that when you're sending it to your congressperson, you're not sending it to them at all. You're just sending it to the gatekeeper. It was passed on through liaison to the governor's office of Washington. And the same thing happened. So I'm saying it's the same thing happened. They were talking back and forth. They can't make one other one agency to tell another agency what to do. And this goes into what I was saying earlier that this pattern is everywhere. It's not just with your Congress person. They work hard. Okay. It's not just with them. It's in every agency. Okay. So whenever you're talking about being in the military, understand what's happening, understand this, you are isolated and you're separated and there's no one coming to the rescue. And I asked you this question is this, is the promise of something where there is no requirement for the promise to be delivered on. Is it worth your future? Everything that the military, everything that talks about that they suggest, they give you, they're saying is a benefit. Can be had as a civilian had based on what you're doing right now. You don't need to go to military It's right in front of you. The free education is right there So i'm going to close with this when you're dealing with the congress remember the myth They're not going to come help you. They can care less about you. You're isolated and separated and no one's willing to help They don't tell you that but that's the reality. So come back next time where we're going to talk about the court system And how it's impacted by the Ferris Doctrine. Have a great day.