Any veteran who took part in the January 6th Insurrection at the US Capitol should be stripped of his or her VA benefits and labeled a “traitor.”     

Twenty Percent of Capitol Criminals were Veterans

There is a disturbing number of current and former military personnel identified among those who broke into the Capitol to overturn the election. About 20 percent of the nearly 300 arrested, according to NPR. They should no longer receive treatment at VA hospitals, get the GI Bill for attending school, or obtain a mortgage loan.

    They have acted against the United States by taking part in a rebellion and should be viewed as turncoats who have betrayed their country and the Constitution that all of us veterans vowed to protect and follow upon our enlistment. 

     Congressman Ruben Gallegos, a Marine Corps veteran, has contacted the head of the VA, as well as Homeland Security and Attorney General Merrick Garland, to seek action against the veterans who betrayed our country. The Democratic congressman from Arizona, who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has suggested that all forego disability compensation, educational benefits, access to health care, employment opportunities, and access to veteran-affiliated state programs. 

Charging Into the Capitol a ‘Subversive Activity’

     The US Code governs benefits for veterans and their dependents. Under Sections 6104 and 6105, veterans and other individuals receiving VA benefits who commit mutiny or treason or who are convicted of ‘subversive activities,’ as listed in Section 6105(b), forfeit their right to VA benefits.” 

Publish the Names of Subversive Veterans in Newspapers

      I would go further and suggest the government publish the names of the traitors in the newspapers and identify them on television and the radio. Contact their bosses where they work and the churches their families attend, decrying them as traitors and deserters of the worst order. 

      Remember that five people were killed in the attack. One was a police officer. 

      No veteran should have taken part in such a heinous action, let alone follow the instructions of a draft-dodging coward.