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Published On: December 19, 2010|Categories: News|0 Comments|

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From the perspective of another former Air Force officer, one who has been working for years with Mikey to undo the bigoted work of Air Force leadership who did not like that I wrote about my non-religious perspective outside work, I, of course agree with Mr. Baker. When I joined the military hoping to serve my country I would never have dreamed that the cowardly and un-American views of Mr. “withheld”, were so common within the Air Force.

With 21 in a row Qual-1 or better evaluations and no disciplinary or other issues of any kind I was grounded, fired from my civil service job and forced to retire from the military as the direct result of my legal expression, outside work that was approved by military legal counsel. My expression in the local paper that airmen should not be forced to pray “in Jesus name” was met with an immediate campaign to remove me from the Air Force by my supervisors. My complaints and evidence that the charges were lies fell on deaf ears as it was easier for all members of the chain to rubber stamp the decisions of those below them. Attending the extremely religious change of command ceremonies of some of these leaders suggested a second reason for their failure to do their duty.

In addition to forcing all of its members to pray, in many cases to someone else’s god, my unit showed religious videos and even PRODUCED videos that called non-religious people like me “idiots” and “fools”. So after having earned a civilian Gold Seal Flight Instructor license and all civil licenses including the Airline Transport Pilot license; after having flown more than 30 different types of aircraft including fighters such as the F-16, after graduating from Euro-NATO joint Jet Pilot Training and passing every evaluation after becoming mission ready and multiple lauded combat tours, I, a combat tested asset with an outstanding record and the support of my peers and many superiors, was forced out, during wartime, after exposing myself as a non-Christian away from work.

I was raised with traditional Christian values. My father was my Sunday School teacher and I sang in my mother’s choir. I don’t see these values reflected in Mr. “withheld’s” letter. I didn’t see them in the misguided religious leadership in my Wing either. From what I’ve read of Mikey’s struggle, this perverse pseudo-Christianity is being taught at the Academy which explains very well how it polluted my chain with principles not worthy of our United States.

I have nothing but thanks and unending respect for Mikey in his tireless struggle to correct a very real problem within our military that threatens the core values of the United States of America. Mikey is a hero. The words of Mr. “withheld” reflect the thoughts of many who wrap themselves in the American flag while acting like Nazi fools. They are everywhere, even in positions of authority in our military. Their words only inspire men like Mikey and more than 20,000 of us who he is directly helping with his foundation to continue our duty to defend the United States of America from all aggressors, both foreign and domestic.


The danger that United States Air Force and its Academy face is best illustrated in the attached Coat of arms of Prussia 1933 with its slogan of “Gott mit Uns!” and it’s direct descendant of the German Nazi military machine’s belt buckle. Happily the German belt buckle is now as rusty as it appears above, but the thrust of religionizing the United States military by the Christian supremacists within it and outside of it is an extreme growing danger to the American constitutional democracy, I believe.
I’m fully convinced that were General Eisenhower and our ex-president still alive, he would very forcefully add a phrase like “Beware of the Religious Military Complex!” to his previous warning to our nation about the danger from the military-industrial complex.
Walter Plywaski
Ex “native” of Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Dachau


Dear E-Mail Address Witheld,

Thank you for your insights, such as they are. You employ word strings of obvious emotive connotations, such as “selfish, paranoid obsession” and “psychotic, self-centered delusions and . . . evil compulsions”.

In order to take ownership of such interpretations the implication is that the one proffering them understands their substance and connotations. Unless you are credentialed ( Masters degree or higher) in the realm of making OC diagnoses you are simply engaged in rhetorical hyperbole in defense of “something” (since you appear to be an anti-Semite, you likely are either a version of what is labeled Christian Fundamentalist, or you are a radical Islamic Fundamentalist – notice how the hatred they hold in common facilitates their sharing the same Fundamentalist label). BTW, appending the modifier “selfish” to “paranoid obsession” betrays a lack of understanding of OC, the conjoining of “paranoid” and “obsession” notwithstanding.

You also seem to have an issue regarding a person’s height. Just as we don’t have any choice over our height, neither do we have to accept stereotypes associated with tallness or shortness in height. Talk to anyone over 6 ft tall who has a parent or grandparent (etc.) who’s about 5-1 (and there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of such cases), and see if they share your stereotypes about relatively short people (I’ll give you a clue: most such 6 footers are thankful for all of their parents, grandparents, etc., since without the full complement they simply wouldn’t exist). Most men lose their hair as they age (an inheritance through their mother’s genetics) . . . obviously, there is much variation . . . but making an issue of a man being bald is like pointing at some guy in his 50s and saying, “You there, yes you, the guy with five toes on each foot”.

And now we come to “psychotic, self-centered delusions and . . . evil compulsions” . . . I’m guessing that the concept “evil compulsions” comes from some spiritual guidance manual you have at hand. The use of such a compound connotes the existence of its obverse, namely “good compulsions” . . . but neither in that dyad are covered by OC, since “good” and “evil” reflect value judgments rather than empiricism (and thus, the existence of those two words in your spiritual guidance manual).

Finally, we get to the concept of “delusions”. The following is from the on-line Wikipedia, Subj: Delusion: “Religious delusion: Any delusion with a religious or spiritual content”. Another on-line source under the Google search subject “Religious delusion” yielded the following:

“In an ongoing study by Mohr and Huguelet, their delusional patients … believed they had a close relationship with God, believed that God told them to inflict serious bodily injury to themselves or to others. . . . (5).

(5) Mohr S and Huguelet P. The relationship between schizophrenia and religion and its implications for care. Swiss Med Wkly 2004;134:369-376.”

Unlike your implicit claim to religious Fundamentalism, there is no evidence that Mikey Weinstein is a practicing Jew . . . in fact he could be an agnostic (See, for example, the Wikipedia subject: Humanistic Judaism. That movement encompasses Jews who either (1) reject theism; or, (2) are agnostic.).

PS: Your research on Mikey must have missed that he is a boxer . . . he boxed while in the Air Force . . . don’t quite see how that fits in with your description of him.


Also to Mr. Name and Address Withheld,

Mr. Baker pointed out, that you label yourself Christian. Apparently, he read your previous emails. Reading your one email, below, and connecting your perspective to writing style and statistical probability, you are likely also caucasian and male. Congratulations. That puts you in a position of relative power starting at birth, encouraging you to look down on others, unless a worthyThe education has opened your mind. Your writing suggests otherwise, and therefore, I assume you went to public school. Sad.

You see, I get your point about whether to include Mikey Weinstein’s family in your rants. There is actual logic to it. That doesn’t mean you are in the right to continue, but it does mean that if our taxpayer dollars had paid for a proper education, you wouldn’t have felt the need. You’d have been able to use the potential locked in your brain to argue on a fair and decent basis with Mikey over the principles in question. Again, sad.

Your demand for Mikey’s shoe size emphasizes the manipulating, bullying nature you’ve developed, where you could have developed a civilized, practical mind, had the proper education been encouraged.

I feel sorry for you. What would Jesus do? I imagine he’d feel sorry for you, too. He’d have wanted better for you.

In future, if you choose to argue fairly, you might find enlightening discussion will result. Leave out the name calling, belittling, manipulating, and deliberate attempts to cause hurt by such techniques as arguing over Mikey’s family, and focus on arguing whether the military has a legal, constitutional right to coerce its members to follow anyone’s version of Jesus and Christianity. You’ll get much farther, if you do.

Equally anonymous,
former USAF Maj, earned the hardest way

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