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J_J_

(1,213 posts)
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:18 PM Oct 2014

Alaska National Guard A Hotbed Of Rapey Recruiters Led By End-Times Porn Baron

Three of the noncommissioned officers in Lawnedowski’s recruiting brigade, Sgt. Jarrett Carson, Master Sgt. John Nieves, and Sgt. 1st Class Shannon Tallant, were known as the “Three-Headed Monster” because they pretty much terrorized everyone they worked with, as well as new recruits and even civilians. None have been charged for any crimes by either military or civilian law enforcement, although at the very least, they’re no longer in the National Guard and the Alaska Guard has revamped its leadership in the recruiting offices.

Among other findings, the leaked document says all three men, who were married at the time, repeatedly violated regulations by doing consensual sexxytime with women they met while working as recruiters. Nieves reportedly raped the 19-year-old sister of a soldier he’d recruited into the guard, threatening to ruin the soldier’s career if she didn’t have sex with him. Tallant seems to be the worst of the bunch, with multiple skeevy incidents, like bragging that he’d had sex with a high school student, attempting to talk other high school girls into having sex with him, possibly raping three adult women (one of them 19), and attempting to lift another woman’s shirt to look at her tattoo. She ran.

Not only did Lawendowski overlook all that misconduct — and more; we haven’t even touched on the allegations of credit-card fraud/embezzlement by Lawendowski, or the recruiters’ involvement in black-market steroids, weapons smuggling, and use of military vehicles for sorties to strip clubs — there’s also the political dimension to the story. Gov. Parnell was informed in 2010 by three chaplains of “widespread misconduct with the Alaska National Guard,” who kept extensive notes. According to the Anchorage Press:

Parnell has refused to release public records showing what he knew about sexual assaults and other serious misconduct within the Alaska National Guard, when exactly he knew it, and what, if anything, he did about it.

Last week the Alaska Dispatch News and Alaska Public Media sued Parnell, asking a judge to force the governor to release the records “that could help voters verify whether Parnell acted swiftly in dealing with numerous allegations about mishandled sexual assaults, harassment, fraud, favoritism and other misconduct, including abuse of power, within the Guard over the past several years.”


Read more at http://wonkette.com/563561/alaska-national-guard-a-hotbed-of-rapey-recruiters-led-by-an-end-times-porn-baron#Q4iqjTmbbvRWsJFy.99



And Remember Republican Senate Candidate Dan Sullivan was involved

"Gov. Parnell has not mentioned his attorney general at the time, current Senate candidate Dan Sullivan. (Mr. Sullivan was reassigned, from attorney general to Dept. of Natural Resources commissioner, a few weeks after the chaplains' report. His last day as attorney general was December 5, 2010.) The Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources commissioner's website states, &quot Dan Sullivan's) primary focus as Attorney General was to end Alaska's epidemic levels of sexual assault and domestic violence.""
http://www.adn.com/article/20140625/compass-governors-inadequate-response-alaska-national-guard-sexual-assault

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Alaska National Guard A Hotbed Of Rapey Recruiters Led By End-Times Porn Baron (Original Post) J_J_ Oct 2014 OP
K&R just for the Title. n/t PeoViejo Oct 2014 #1
"End Times Porn Baron" hifiguy Oct 2014 #2
more on Sullivan's involvement J_J_ Oct 2014 #3
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. "End Times Porn Baron"
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:32 PM
Oct 2014

is, taken as nothing more than electrons on a screen, one of the funniest and most strangely-parsing phrases I have ever seen. It strikes the brain at a very oblique angle.

I am not downplaying the importance of the story but that is a phrase one never expects to see, rather like "hippos seen flying around top floors of skyscraper" or "Sarah Palin gives profound intellectually stimulating speech."

 

J_J_

(1,213 posts)
3. more on Sullivan's involvement
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 02:11 PM
Oct 2014

Alaska National Guard Scandal: What was Republican Senate Candidate Dan Sullivan’s Role?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025680344

Senator Mark Begich on challenger "Dan Sullivan Did Nothing to Address National Guard Scandal"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025680396

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