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Originally posted by duffster
reply to post by SectionEight
I'm sure alot of people will care,mostly the family of the 200 people
You might say it's only 200 but they are the 200 that had the balls to stand up and say this is wrong and i'm not going,i wish them all luck in the quest for freedom.
[edit on 24-8-2008 by duffster]
Originally posted by Dronetek
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
I like how you call him a "resistor" when hes actually a coward traitor. He signed up to fight and than decided he didn't have the balls to do it.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Well, there you have it. 15 months of jail time for refusal to fight in the profiteering mongers invasion / occupation...
It sounds like he is at peace with his decision and punishment, based on his demeanor.
I wonder if more comparable sentences are soon to follow for the rest of the "dissenters"?
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[edit on 24/8/2008 by Mirthful Me]
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
......may think he made a heroic decision not to continue engaging in warfare in a war based on BS and Profiteering.
Tell that to the guys in his unit that are sporting Purple Hearts. I think they'll have a different opinion.
Since he was "just" deserting, I think his time ought to be spent at Walter Reed. Maybe working in the wards with guys that were wounded might help adjust his attitude.
Originally posted by jerico65
Some people here are having a hard time understanding that you do get a contract when you enlist. It's up to you to ask questions and read the whole f**king thing prior to signing.
It's the military. If they don't like it, they can go find out what Mickey D's is putting in the secret sauce.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny."
The Collected Works of ABRAHAM LINCOLN edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, "Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland" (April 18, 1864), p. 301-302.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
--Thomas Jefferson
Originally posted by Andrew E. Wiggin
reply to post by muzzleflash
So you dont have a problem with him collecting a free paycheck for yeras - and then when he's called upon to perform what we - the tax payers - pay him for, he wimps out and runs for the border?
Originally posted by Dronetek
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
I like how you call him a "resistor" when hes actually a coward traitor. He signed up to fight and than decided he didn't have the balls to do it.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
ummm, you dont realize that - is the exact reason he probably deserted?
he saw the guys w/purple hearts at Walter Reed and thought "Holy crap that could be me!" then got scared and ran to canada?
how would seeing guys with their legs/arms/faces blown off, going to make you WANT to go into a WAR? ???