[lbo-talk] DADT

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug:
> This just in from my friend Ken Sherrill, chair of the Hunter College
> poli sci department... Interesting pattern in "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
> discharges of same-sexers from the military: up during the Clinton
> years, down during Bush's. Guess they need the queers as cannon
> fodder.
> 
> 1994    617
> 1995    772
> 1996    870
> 1997  1,007
> 1998  1,163
> 1999  1,046
> 2000  1,241
> 2001  1,273
> 2002    906
> 2003    787

Or that they are running out of queers to be purged.  These number total to
9,682 queers purged between 1994 and 2003, or about 1% of the total military
personnel (as of 1997).  

Although the number of homosexuals is not known, various estimates
http://www.leaderu.com/marco/special/spc11b.html
put at 1 - 3% of the population.  Assuming that gays are underrepresented in
the military for obvious reasons - these 9,682 purged souls may represent
nearly the entire queer population in the valiant US armed forces.

Wojtek