You think it’s a good idea to put a pic of him on a public forum? Unless his pic is already plastered throughout the media?
It is. I purposely withheld any/all info I had about him until the press did their thing. Now, it’s up to us, his comrades-in-arms, to make sure the word gets out that this man is NOT a psychopath, that if he did indeed do this, then he needs help, NOT a prison cell or a death sentence.
The New York Times found and used another photograph of him on the internet: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/world/asia/afghan-shooting-suspect-identified-as-army-staff-sgt-robert-bales.html
There's also a photo of him in training at Fort Irwin taken by the 28th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment which has been used in the media, and there are probably others as well. In other words, his photo is already out there. However, Capt. “FSE,” except that the ranks on the uniforms are outdated, your photo is better than the one the New York Times found, which means Free Republic got the best photo out there of SSG Bales. Take that as a compliment.
Hopefully Army Public Affairs will soon release an official DA photo of him in his Class A uniform so all these other photos recede into the background.
2 posted on Friday, March 16, 2012 5:57:57 PM by JoanneSD: “Fort Leavenworth, I dont think the guy who massacured 13 at Fort Hood, including a pregnant lady, went to Leavenworth.. in fact have not heard much about the muslim, Pray for this soldier and his family.”
Maximum security can be important for the protection of the inmate. Not only can he not get out, nobody can get to him, either.
At this early date, much will be speculation. I do not want to second-guess Army decisions on protecting SSG Bales and his family — keeping this under wraps for nearly a week must have been extraordinarily difficult.
Again, thanks to Future Snake Eater and others on this thread for their service. None of us yet know what happened with SSG Bales, but I suspect in the next few weeks and months many of us on Free Republic will be grateful for the often-maligned work of defense attorneys, and for the presumption of being innocent until proven guilty, and for America being a country of laws and not of men.
I've covered a fair number of courts-martial as well as more civilian court cases than I can count. People who are accused deserve a fair trial and while no system is perfect, I'm confident about the court martial system in ways I am not about the civilian courts with grossly overworked prosecutors and courts which churn people through at far higher numbers than the military.