[SlowBoat407]

Don't want to go where the military goes? Don't sign up. Get your precious ACLU to feed and clothe you.

[PghBaldy]

WHY is this not illegal for active duty men (or women) to do this?

[rockrr]

No Hutto (WTH kinda name is Hutto?!), you don't "live in a democracy" you dumba$$. You are a member of the military and have a responsibility to use your brain and not your mouth.

[wildcatf4f3]

got as far as political science at howard university...thats all i needed to know

[SC Swamp Fox]

Hutto, 29, lives and works aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. When he enlisted, the Navy trained him as a photographer. He writes for the ship newspaper and anchored its shipwide television broadcast.

I wonder what his shipmates think of him. When does the TR deploy again.

[FairOpinion]

Courtmartial him!

I thought what he was doing is not allowed under military rules.

[rmlew]

It's kind of scary that our military enlistment officers are either too stupid or too handcuffed to prevent an obvious Fifth Columnist from enslisting.

[bigbob]

Long history of left-wing moonbat activism, including the stupid "million man march" (divide by 10,000)

[Rembrandt_fan]

I once read of a 'peace activist' during the Vietnam War--whose name unfortunately escapes me--who enlisted in the Army as a means to sew discontent in the ranks. He was, I gather, quite effective in creating dissension and lowering morale.

Look, I don't mind that the guy has Malcolm X photos on his desk, I don't care that he's a supporter of the ACLU, and I particularly don't care that he went to an Ivy League college. I do mind, however, when a service member violates the oath--in spirit if not in fact. I mind very much when they encourage others in uniform to perform less than their best.

Since we evidently can't hang him, discharge him. Now, today, immediately. And I could hardly believe that 'finalist for sailor of the year' business. While former Army myself, both my paternal grandfather and my father were sailors. He shames the uniform.

And there's another thing, too: will someone on the Left please furnish a cogent, logical argument why the war in Iraq is a bad thing? Speaking in catchphrases and platitudes is not a valid means of argument. Why is it 'not worth it?' I have several acquaintances on the left, some vehemently antiwar, but they can never defend their position in any coherent way. Some kind of lockstep party-think is at work, and I simply don't understand why seemingly intelligent people go for it.

[SCHROLL]

His C.O. should calmly pull him aside and inform him his work hasn't gone for naught. "We're withdrawing from Iraq starting with you son. Here's your dishonorable discharge, now get the hell off my ship."

[dakine]

"...the cafés and bookstores in Ghent"

Don't ask, don't tell....

[TigersEye]

Commies. Send 'em to Siberia.

[kcvl]

In 2001, Hutto was a speaker at The Fight against Police Violence: from Cincinnati to PG County, Maryland. Hutto's co-speaker at the event was Glova Scott of the Socialist Workers Party. The speech was posted on The Militant website. Hutto’s article, Rebuilding the GI Movement, appeared in Thomas Barton’s GI Special on the alBasrah Iraqi Resistance website.

Hutto described the military as “an institutional culture laced with discriminatory behavior based on race, gender, sexual orientation and geography.” He lauds “the movement of soldiers and sailors against the occupation of Vietnam was pivotal in ending U.S. Imperialist aggression against the Vietnamese people.”

Jonathan Hutto and the members of VFP, MFSO and IVAW certainly have the right to speak out. But WE have the right to know what their underlying agenda is. After reading up on the backgrounds of the organizations and Mr. Hutto, it is hard to swallow the media’s portrayal of a simple non-partisan grassroots movement. The country deserves to hear the truth about the anti-American agenda of the so called “peace groups”.

UPDATE: The NY Sun is reporting on some other nasty little connections that this group has to other anti-American agenda driven organizations...

A staff member at Fenton Communications who requested anonymity said his company was approached last week by a longtime peace activist and former director of the anti-nuclear proliferation front known as SANE/Freeze, David Cortright, to publicize Appeal for Redress. Mr. Cortright is now president of an Indiana-based nonprofit group, the Fourth Freedom Forum, and his biography on the organization's Web site says he helped raise "more than $300,000 for the Win Without War coalition to avert a preemptive attack on Iraq in 2002–03."

Still, the counsel retained by Appeal for Redress, J.E. McNeil, runs the Center for Conscience and War, an organization whose mission is to defend the rights of conscientious objectors.

Ms. McNeil said yesterday that she first got in touch with some of the soldiers in Appeal for Redress through a military hotline the Center for Conscience and War runs for active-duty servicemen to find out what rights they have. According to the center's Web site, the group's lobbyist is Pat Elder, a co-founder of the D.C. Area Anti-War Network, which has organized civil disobedience demonstrations against military recruitment offices in shopping malls.

The Sun also has this little statement from Jonathan "Amnesty International" Hutto...
Seaman Hutto said none of the members of Appeal for Redress were "pacifists, conscientious objectors, or anything that would go against the military contract." He does not discuss the new organization when he is on his base or in uniform, he added.

Seeing as the supporting organizations are VFP and IVAW which have been exposed above as including conscientious objectors and activists, I find Hutto's claims about as hard to believe as his non-partisan, non-agenda stance. The Appeal for Redress signers are not posted on the website so in the interest of full disclosure, I call on the organization to make the names public. They want to speak the truth - let's see if they can handle the truth. Release the names.


More here...


http://tinyurl.com/y38orh

[usmcobra]

I hear The Navy needs photographers in Iraq.

[kcvl]

What the Media Forgot to Tell Us About the Group "Appeals for Redress"


A group of active duty soldiers, called a "grassroots group" by some in the media, is speaking out against the war in Iraq and calling on Congress to bring the troops home. Fine with me - they have every right to speak their mind (I know nothing about the military rules - I'm speaking in the realm of First Amendment rights). Having the freedom to speak out is one of the great benefits of living in the United States of America.

BUT it is disconcerting and disingenuous to report this group as a simple grassroots group trying to get their voices heard. The "Appeal for Redress" group is sponsored by three of the most virulent anti-war groups that use their "desire for peace" as a cover for their blatant anti-Americanism. You've heard of these groups - Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Whenever you see Cindy Sheehan or any of her comrades, you will see members of these organizations.


http://newsbusters.org/node/8606

[Mad_as_heck]

One day in 2003, broke and seeking direction, Hutto enlisted in the Navy.

In 2003? He knows exactly what he is up to. This looser signed up specifically to disrupt the war effort and set himself up as some sort of liberal martyr.

I remember reading somewhere about a left wing activist from England who emigrated to Israel and enlisted specifically so that he could then make a stink about refusing to serve in the "occupied territories."

Ship him off to the nastiest more remote posting imaginable and let him rot till his enlistment is over. Keeping him away from the cameras he craves is the best punishment.

[Citizen Soldier]

I'm sure a navy photoghaper knows the horrors of war from a coffee shop in Norfolk!

[goldstategop]

A liberal joining the Navy? He's rarer than a beak on a hen's tooth, simply because of the psychological makeup of these people. They loathe carrying arms, hate fighting wars, and look down upon soldiers, sailors and airmen in uniform as dummies easily commanded and led to their deaths. Liberals abhor patriotism.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[DouglasKC]

After the Web site was publicized two weeks ago, Hutto's supervisor pulled him aside and laid out the Navy's ground rules: The campaign had to be done on personal time, out of uniform and off base.
Hutto, who studied military rules and consulted lawyers before launching the campaign, agreed.

I was taught in the Air Force that any kind of protests against the government in uniform or out of uniform was grounds for discharge.

[piasa]

Another product of the red diaper doper baby bunch emerges to take his John Kerry plunge.

[RandallFlagg]

Does this bum have a website?
I agree with others here. Send this joke to war. When he cries, "MOMMY!!" give him a, "Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge)".
Then he can be Sheehan's room mate.
He's in CLEAR violation of the oath he took to join up with our fine military. Throw him out. In or out of uniform, he's a representative of our Navy. If he can't honor his obligations, he should get a boot in the a$$, pack up his sea bag, and make like the baby he is and, "Head out."