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One-legged soldier denied disabled badge because he might ‘get better’

Although it wasn’t their intent, I got to feeling a bit guilty recently when I was reminded that a LOT of what I contribute here to BMEWS has very negative content where the UK is concerned.  While that’s true, please know I don’t plan it that way.

I’d love to report on a story of a Brit doctor who discovered a pill to cure all cancers.  Or even one of the many.  The problem is, until proven otherwise,
I can’t help but feel this place is fallen apart and wonder how far down this path my own country might go. 
What am I supposed to say when a former police chief openly said he was proud to be politically correct?  That’s insane.  I can’t imagine an American chief cop saying anything like that.  That’s a very old story of course but it seems to be so damn typical.  No way could I ignore that.  And lets not even bring up Health and Safety.  Good grief, what a nightmare that is.  The descendants of the generation that Churchill promised would fight on the beaches and in the cities etc and never surrender, are now so risk adverse some folks wear those dweeb helmets when all they’re doing is walking.  I can’t ignore that.

Here’s one for the books and more recent. 

SOLDIERS NEED ANGER, SAYS JUDGE

A JUDGE refused to force a 21-year-old who glassed a man in the face to attend an anger management course – because he said soldiers need anger to do their jobs.

Probation officers had recommended the anger replacement programme for Richard Evers, of the King’s Royal Hussars, after he attacked a man, causing multiple cuts.

But at Gloucester Crown Court Judge William Hart dismissed the idea.

He said: “I do not see the need for that. Indeed, soldiers who don’t have any anger are probably of limited use.”

Evers, of Bodman Road, Springbank, admitted a charge of affray, but the judge gave him a lenient sentence designed to save him from being discharged from the Army.

Judge Hart had been told that even a suspended jail term or an order to do more than 100 hours of unpaid work would result in the Army throwing Evers out.

He accepted a defence submission that it would be better for the country for Evers to continue his military service – including a posting to Afghanistan in 2012 – rather than consign him to the dole queue.

Instead, he passed a 12-month community sentence.

The above comes from a Gloucestershire paper, on line. SOURCE, GLOUCESTER

I can appreciate the judge not wanting to wreck the guys army career, and we don’t know if he was defending himself or who did or said what. But come on, he glassed the other guy and it looks like he got off.  And this isn’t just one example.  You have no idea how many I just pass on.

But the real outrage this week and one that just can’t be ignored and should have huge screaming headlines in the hard copy of my three papers and doesn’t,
is this one.

You just have to wonder, what exactly is going through what passes for a mind among the bureaucrats who make these decisions.


A soldier who lost a leg fighting the Taliban was told he didn’t qualify for a disabled parking badge because he might “get better”.

Daily Telegraph Reporter

On three separate occasions Lance Corporal Johno Lee has been turned down by his local council.
The 27-year old, whose heart stopped twice when he injured in Afghanistan, has now had more than £800 in parking fines for leaving his car in disabled bays.
And last month he was forced to hand over the money when a council bailiff arrived at his home threatening to take away his belongings if he didn’t pay up.

To add insult to injury Nottinghamshire County Council told him he was “young and may get better” when he first applied for a “blue badge”.
“What do they expect – my leg to grow back,?” He said, “ I told them they’d didn’t quite understand the situation and it was unlikely my leg would grow back.”

His right leg was amputated below the knee after he was caught up in an explosion in Helmand Province in 2008.
He has served two tours in Iraq with 2nd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment prior to deploying to Afghanistan.

He was in a snatch Land Rover on a patrol around Gereshk when an explosion flipped it onto its side, catapulting him into a minefield.
He ordered his comrades not to rescue him until it was safe, so had to spend two hours in the minefield bleeding profusely while bomb disposal experts cut a path to reach him.

He then “died” twice when his heart stopped on the helicopter taking him to Camp Bastion and on the operating table, but he was revived each time.
When he returned to his home in Coddington near Newark, Notts, he applied to the county council for a blue disabled parking badge,
But to his astonishment his claim was turned down – as were two further applications.

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