Long After Bergdahl's Release, His Hometown Is Still Under Siege

NY Times ^ | 2/17/2016 | Matthew Rosenberg

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I think it would be better to try him for treason and execute him.”

Of course, but just try to get the scum in D.C. to even consider it.

[eartrumpet]

Blaine County has Hailey, Bellevue, Ketchum and Sun Valley. Lots of celebs have homes there. Kerry does. There are some fine ranchers and people in the county, but most are libs in the towns and they make it a blue county in a sea of red every election. No surprise a traitor and deserter would come from that beginning.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sergeant Bergdahl said he walked off his outpost in hopes of hiking to a larger base about 18 miles away to tell a general about what he considered the dangerous incompetence of his commanding officers.

That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. If you have problems with your chain of command, there are channels to file a grievance against your senior leadership and/or CO. If every other of several avenues fail, you've got the IG.

Be-bopping to the next camp to talk to the general is only going to get you hauled into the Security office with MPs asking "What the f&%# are you doing?!" That meeting is never going to happen, that's like walking off your job on the factory production floor, heading up to the front offices, and expecting to have a walk-in meeting with the CEO. When the general does some checking and finds out he never talked to his First Sergeant, chaplain, or Legal, he'll find out what Restriction and Extra Military Instruction are. He was a Sgt. and he was baffled by these concepts? He needed to be drummed out of the service, what an ignoramous. True or false, going forward with that story is the height of stupidity.

[MarvinStinson]

Susan Rice believes every word of that story.

So do the readers of the NY TIMES< Washington Post, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, MSNBC, the LA TIMES, the Obama White House website, etc.

[Yosemitest]

I'm retired military.
Sergeant Bergdahl should have been charged and tried for TREASON, and executed by FIRING SQUAD !

[MarvinStinson]

Of course.

[Mears]

““There’s some really ignorant people who live some places in the West,” said Fritz Haemmerle, the mayor. “They’re very right wing, they’re very militant, they’re very uninformed and they’re people with guns and with an attitude.”

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I find it astonishing that an adult would call people ignorant because they have a different opinion.

I detest the ideas of liberals but I have never accused then of ignorance.

It’s so juvenile.

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[Jet Jaguar]

Bergdahl ping.

[GOPJ]

"There's some really ignorant people who live some places in the West," said Fritz Haemmerle, the mayor. "They're very right wing, they're very militant, they're very uninformed and they're people with guns and with an attitude."

Twenty one years ago 168 people were killed by Timothy McVeigh. He was executed for his crimes as he should have been. I have NEVER met the person who defended that monster.

There has not been ONE person killed by a 'right winger' in the last 21 years.

But...

There have been 12,660 MURDERS in Chicago since 1995 - the majority of those murders committed by young black males. Year in year out... not something that happened 21 years ago - murders happening everyday in Chicago...(and other large cities in the US.)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago)

What Matthew Rosenberg did was repeat the same kind of hate/lie used against Jews for hundreds of years... lies against large groups of innocent people ... based on one person or maybe none... but used for years to justify hatred toward a group... in this case - conservatives.

Rosenberg should be ashamed of putting the above hate quote by Fritz Haemmerle in the paper. Should I repeat the lie about blood in matza? Even if I can 'quote' some random hater?

Matthew Rosenberg would not make or allow to be made - the same types of generalities against blacks or Jews or any minority... He would demand facts. Not so when the target group is conservatives. Blacks get a free pas even with overwhelmingly larger number of murders committed every month in the United States. Black murder rates are like a McVeigh every month... but there's no generalizing... not the by liberal press...

(Figure 27 shows the percentage of murder offenders by race /ethnicity for r 2011. The majority of murder offenders were Black... http://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2011-Murder-Report.pdf 2011 Murder Analysis Report Chicago Police Department Research and Development Division 53 White 3.5% Black 70.5% Hispanic 24.3)

[MarvinStinson]

Good points.

Non lefties are fair game for the lefty media.

RIGHT WING RIGHT WING RIGHT WING