Daniel Swift, a former Navy SEAL, is one of the many American victims to die in the fighting in Bakhmut, Ukraine.In a battle that has raged since Russian armed forces withdrew from the western banks of the Dnipro in the Kherson region shortly before the new year, Swift, a former veteran from “America’s war on terror,” died from an artillery wound on January 17th, 2023.
In the Saturday / Sunday edition of the Wall Street Journal for May 13 – 14, 2023, the newspaper ran a story entitled, “The Navy SEAL Who Couldn’t Stop Fighting,” that covered the turning points in Mr. Swift’s life leading up to his decision to join the foreign mercenary forces under the command of the Ukrainian military.
In particular, the authors are at lengths to mention how Swift came off of a “failed” marriage before deciding ultimately to disappear before reappearing as a volunteer ready to fight for Ukraine. In a description of a typical familial altercation between parents whom the family law courts exploit to enrich lawyers, bribe judges or empower the Court, WSJ reported: “Ms. Swift moved the children to her sister’s house while Mr. Swift was traveling. When he returned, a scuffle ensued as he tried to put his younger daughter in his car. Ms. Swift and Mr. Swift said he was fending off the women as they attacked him; they said he choked Ms. Swift’s sister. The police arrested him.”
The Court subsequently issued a bench warrant for Mr. Swift’s arrest, alleging that he engaged in an act of false imprisonment during the schuffle. The Court restrained him as to his four children.
The vast majority of orders judges in family law courts issue are corrupt primarily because State court judges issue orders in family law courts from the bench. Jury trials are not allowed, even though the 7th amendment requires a jury trial “where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars,” an amount family law cases exceed without exception. The entire lot of family law cases—in state after state—is therefore nothing less than unconstitutional.
In addition, the family law courts in the United States favor mothers in matters of child custody and they do so with the intention of handicapping children for the rest of their lives. Children raised in single mother households, for instances, are statistically more likely to be imprisoned later in life than in a single father household. 63% of youth suicideds are from fatherless homes (i.e., 5 times the national average). 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes (i.e., 32 times the national average). 85% of all children who show behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (i.e., 20 times the national average).
Judges are well aware of these statistics so the judge from the Superior Court of North Carolina, North County, likely had in mind the desire to handicap Swift’s children when he issued the felony bench warrant against their father for false imprisonment. He succeeded. The judge’s decision contributed ultimately to the young veteran’s demise. With their father dead, Mr. Swift’s children are now 5 times more likely to commit suicide, 32 times more likely to become homeless or a runaway, and 20 times more likely to develop behavioral disorders.
Furthermore, there is no constituency within the United States that finds the judiciary to be anything less than without the slightest degree of trust. A Gallup poll from 2022, for instance, indicated that trust in the judiciary within America’s population is at its lowest level since the Country’s founding. Less than 25% of the American population trusts the judiciary. The Superior Court of North Carolina, North County, is undoubtedly one of the many state courts whose activities—the unjust persecution of fathers—contribute immensely to the population’s declining trust in the judiciary.
Any attempt to reform the corrupt family law Courts, however, is absolutely futile. California, the United States’ most populous state, is a perfect example of the futility of reform. In 2022 California ballot propositions, Attorney General Rob Bonta, rejected a ballot proposition to amend California’s corrupt family law courts to conform more closely with the Constitution’s 7th Amendment. Measure #21-0004, for instance, would have amended child dependency and and child custody proceedings to provide a right to jury trial and require the court to verify beyond a reasonable doubt allegations against parents in hearings to eliminate parental rights. Bonta’s rejection Measure #21-0004 before the 2022 ballot propositions is a reflection of Bonta’s commitment to preserving the status quo ante and guaranteeing that corrupt judges like the one from North County continue to deprive parents of their civil rights, namely the 7th Amendment.
It is important to mention, however, in passing that Bonta’s rejection of Measure #21-0004 is not his own rejection. Bonta’s rejection Measure #21-0004 is a reflection of the class interests he position as Attorney General seek to preserve. Bonta’s decision to keep the Court’s power over parents, children, or familial assets in the hands of judges rather than juries is designed to ensure, in the final analysis, the centralization of the State.
The attempt to attribute a false imprisonment charge against Swift failed to take into consideration the fact that Swift is among the many thousands of veterans whose lives have been forever tainted by mental illness from wartime trauma. As the WSJ reports, “A Navy psychologist said Mr. Swift had adjustment disorder, a term for difficulty re-entering civilian life.” It is likely, however, that Mr. Swift suffered from much more than merely adjustment disorder, as many former veterans of America’s wars suffer from a broad range of mental health disorders.
It stands to mention that no less than 20 years after Colin Powell lied to the American public about Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapon’s of mass destruction, the fallout from that deadly war continues. Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan collectively more than five times, Swift witnessed combat to a greater degree than most.
It is now widely acknowledged that Secretary of State, Colin Powell’s lies, now on their 20th anniversary, provide a legitimate basis upon which to charge members of the Bush administration with war crimes. Despite the widespread acknowledgment, relief for veterans, whose lives are destroyed by the effects of these wars, is lacking, if not altogether absent, especially in the family law courts.
There is another detail from Swift’s story that deserves mention. Upon his arrival, Swift managed to secure nothing more than a uniform for service within the foreign legions of Ukraine’s armed forces. Swift is said to have used duct tape to secure armor plates to his uniform for lack of a chest carrier. Swift did not receive chest carrier until after many months of fighting on the front line.
It seems odd that after the disbursement of more than $113,000,000,000 Ukrainian armed forces cannot even afford to buy a chest carrier for the members of its foreign legions, especially a Navy SEAL, whose battlefield expertise is the highest in the world for a soldier. It certainly demonstrates that the complete absence of any kind of accountability for the more than billions of dollars spent on the Ukraine. It underscores the utterly corrupt character of Washington’s continued support for the Zelensky regime, whose armed forces are more concerned with the attachment of Nazi symbols to their chests than supplying soldiers with protective gear.
The Pentagon, which designated Swift as AWOL, refuses to recognize Swift as a fallen veteran. Swift’s remaining family, the four children against whom the corrupt judge from the Superior Court of North Carolina, North County, restrained Swift, are now no longer eligible to receive benefits from the US Navy. The US Navy argues that Swift’s status as AWOL disqualifies him for the benefits US Navy personnel such as SEALs receive as a casualty of war. In the WSJ, a Navy spokesman, who qualified the SEAL as an active deserter, is quoted as saying, “we cannot speculate as to why the former Sailor was in Ukraine,” noting, however, that the Navy likely intends to deny the active desert any benefits he might have otherwise received through an honorable discharge.
In this regard, the Pentagon, which must take responsibility for the Navy’s decision, is duplicitous. In a fully display of its duplicity, the Pentagon, which is surging arsenals of weaponry to Russia’s borders in a clearly identifiable act of war, refuses to honor the soldiers who have served its mission. The Pentagon’s hypocritical, two-face, backstabbing policy towards veterans like Swift reveals the treacherous depths to which the United States descends to preclude veterans, veterans’ wives, or children from receiving the relief veterans of wars, even the Ukraine war, should receive. Since the Ukraine war is a NATO war, any or all American soldiers, honorably discharged or active deserters, should receive any or all due compensation, despite the Pentagon’s or the Navy’s lies not know what soldiers are doing in Ukraine.
Furthermore, the Biden administration’s key decision makers in the Ukraine war must be held accountable for any American death on the battlefields of the country. Biden, Miley, Austin, and Blinken must be charged with war crimes not only for their decision to lie to the American people about the status of Ukraine’s armed forces, which the Jack Texeira leaks have exposed, but for their decision to continue to prosecute the war well after the status of Ukraine’s military became exposed. Biden, Miley, Austin, and Blinken are responsible for Swift’s death.
There do not appear to be any allegations that Swift engaged in violations of the Geneva convention, wore the Nazi patchwork so common among battalions like the Azov battalions, or served alongside fascistic elements of Ukraine’s armed forces. Mr. Swift’s decision to serve as a foreign legionnaire for Ukraine’s military forces, however, demonstrates the degree to which veterans of military service, especially from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, or elsewhere, are severely disorientated.
Against disorientation, veterans of armed forces must reject both sides of the Ukraine war. Neither the Ukrainian armed forces nor the Private Military Corporations or Russian armies provide a solution to the everyday problems facing mentally ill veterans. Veterans, mentally ill or healthy, must look away from the shadows the various politicians cast upon the wall to mislead citizens in the Republic. Veterans must turn towards the sun.
Veterans, who have been masterfully deceived by one of the least successful screeds in the history of mankind, J. Edgar Hoover’s Master of Deceit, must reject these shadows on the wall for the light at the end of the cave. Veterans must turn towards the sun, reaching for the Russian revolution, the St. Louis Commune, the Paris Commune, Marx and Engels in the difficult task of ascending from political disorientation to enlightenment, choosing revolution over war.