Beyond the pale: anti-gay, racist emails from Army recruiter

[TomInTib]

This is disgusting and hilarious all at the same time.


“GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE.”
– U.S. Army recruiter Sgt. Marcia Ramode, using her military email address to respond to Jersey City resident Corey Andrew, after Ramode learned Andrew was gay.

Is this the General Peter Pace policy at work?

Corey Andrew had his profile and resume posted at Careerbuilder.com, and it caught the eye of Army recruiter Marcia Ramode, who contacted him. He wasn’t interested in a position in the military, particularly because of the ban on gays and lesbians in the military.

When Andrew informed Ramode that he is gay, and believed that the DADT policy was wrong, the two engaged in a three-day email exchange that included statements by Ramode, in her official capacity as a recruiter, that boggle the mind. (Jersey Journal):

<here is another one>



more of this idiot's rants here: http://pandagon.net/2007/03/26/beyond-the-pale-anti-gay-racist-emails-from-army-recruiter/

[EFerrari]

1. Holy freeper cR@p, Batman.

:wow:

[Burma Jones]

2. Sgt Ramode needs to be deployed

A little time in the shit should help her out

[progdonkey]

17. I know it's already been said many times...

but the additional vileness of this whole thing is that she's sitting in an air-conditioned office spewing this crap while there are countless gay soldiers getting their asses shot at in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Deep13]

3. Geez, not exactly the opening song from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood,...

...is it? Wow.

[sniffa]

4. K&R

that recruitment shortfaLL shouLd pick up soon.

[bryant69]

5. Gay Voodoo Limbo Tango and Wango Dance?

That sounds like the most complicated dance ever.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[EFerrari]

7. LOL! No kidding. I've taken lots of dance but never made it

all the way to GAY VOODOO TANGO WANGO.

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

16. I've always been partial

to the Masochism Tango myself..

http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/masochis.htm

[JackBeck]

6. Surprisingly, this actually made our nightly news.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I would have kicked any Sailor of mine's Ass to limbo tango land

if they posted an email to anybody even halfly remote and ugly as that one. She should have an article 32 on her ignorant ass now. That is not becoming a Soldier in the Army.

[Beaverhausen]

9. Randi is talking about this right now

[JackBeck]

10. Beat me too it.

[tuvor]

11. "YOU NEED TO CHECK YOUR SPELLING...

...SO ARE THE ONE WHO SO ILLITERATE."

(Grammar...not so important.)

ADOIS! :hi:

[IWantAChange]

12. Have to wonder how pervasive the 'phobia' is in the Armed Services?

......recruiters tend to be somewhat literate and personable so as to coerce the unwitting into joining the service - hopefully Ms Ramode is at the bottom of the evolutionary chart for recruiters nationwide...

[KansDem]

13. Yeah, it's kinda like you own a large auto dealership...

...and you put the worse racist homophobe in charge of your sales staff.

Then you wonder a few months later why sales are waaaaaay down...

[solara]

15. Hopefully, the illiterate Ms. Ramode will be gone very soon...

Her ignorant spew is very telling and represents the intolerance and hatred encouraged by the Bush administration.



INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT INCARCERATE :patriot:

[crim son]

14. Wow, that makes me so proud of our men and women in uniform.

"I am reporting you as spam..." Oh, boo fucking hoo.

[JohnLocke]

18. He should be court-martialed. K&R (nt).

[Firespirit]

19. What makes this even worse

is that according to the story in the original source, he wasn't interested in the military. This "person" approached HIM and sent e-mails to HIM.

Since he would have been discharged from the military if he HAD joined and been outed, saying up front that he was gay was the best thing to do... and this scum, who in their professional capacity, should've just said "only if you follow don't ask don't tell," instead attacked him.

The one who initiated the "conversation" attacked him.

These people not only have no brains and no ethics or morals. They also have no manners.

[Debi]

20. Link to PDF of all the emails

http://www.pamspaulding.com/graphics/Ramode_Andrew_emails_SLDN.pdf

He did a good job of articulating his position....the recruiter? Not so much :eyes:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

21. "Thousands of qualified people join the army every day?"

Wow, that recruiter needs to be relieved of duty immediately. Kee-rist, and to think we're paying her salary.

Good one Corey about the U.S. not having a problem with taking your "gay" dollars!

[Debi]

23. I like the racism...

Since he tells her he's African American she lets him know that she has more rights than he does b/c she's of Native American descent. That's why he should go back to Africa and do his Gay Tango Wango Voodoo dance....:puke:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

25. I'll admit to laughing at his "rain dance" comment, but mainly because...

he makes interesting points and tells her to STFU! Do we know who Steve E. Ralls is in all of this?

Keith O. mentioned this last night. Rather than devote time to Britney's toothache and/or Anna's many Rx's , I wish he had focused on this more in-depth.

I think I may have done the Hetero Tango Wango Voodoo dance in New Orleans, but that was after many, many of those slurpee drinks!

[salin]

27. If I hadn't read the exchange - but only a description... I'd be off to Snopes...

b/c the words of the recruiter are *that* absurd. But in bushworld - the crazies and bigots and crazy bigots are empowered and feel no concern about exposing themselves.

[Marr]

22. If that's 'all she can be', I'd prefer not to pay her salary.

[Kurovski]

24. Why would she write something like this, thus creating evidence?

Is she nuts? Is this for real? Is it merely par for the course, standard operational procedure?

[kdpeters]

26. So, Ms. Ramode, as a recruiter, do tell, are we gays supposed to support you troops or not?

Hmmm? Doesn't seem so as it doesn't seem this "freedom" you fight to defend is anything you would extend to me. So tell me, I'm supposed to support you, WHY?