Posted on 10/09/2015 6:39:53 AM PDT by HomerBohn
In the Obama military, you can celebrate immorality — but you can’t confront it. That’s the lesson the Army is trying to teach the Green Beret’s Charles Martland. A hero by both record and reputation, Sergeant First Class Martland is about to lose his career over something that any parent or decent American would have done: intervene in the violent rape of an innocent boy. When Martland confronted the attacker (a member of the Afghan police), the rapist laughed off the soldier’s horror, insisting it was “just a boy.”
Shocked and outraged, the Sergeant and a fellow Green Beret said they felt a “moral obligation to act.” With a few shoves and kicks, they made it clear that tying up little children to posts and raping them for up to two weeks at a time would no longer be tolerated by the American force. Like most soldiers, they were sick and tired of standing by while Afghans tortured local children and undermined everything the U.S. was trying to accomplish through the police presence. But, in the Obama military where everything is upside down, no good deed goes unpunished — and Martland has been kicked out of the Army, effective November 1.
After several attempts to fight the ruling, the two time Bronze Star winner enlisted the help of Representative (and Marine) Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) — who’s helped ignite a national firestorm over Martland’s ouster. Now, several weeks into the controversy, everyone from veterans groups to conservative congressmen are protesting the discharge — insisting that Martland doesn’t deserve punishment, but promotion.
They’re right. When the Army is unable to meet recruitment goals and retention rates slip, combined with high suicide rates and near historically low morale, not to mention its own sexual assault problems, we need more good soldiers — not less! Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) agrees, and he’s doing everything in his power to ensure Martland gets a fair shake. As Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, he sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh urging him to reconsider Martland’s case. “Congress cannot substitute our judgment for that of the military chain of command,” Thornberry wrote. “We are, however, responsible for ensuring that the processes in place are fair and adequate to the demands of an Army at war. In my review of SFC Martland’s case, I noted potential procedural errors in due process. I believe the best recourse now would be to allow SFC Martland to remain in the Army long enough for him to prepare an appeal with the adequate military counsel, and for the Army to act on such appeal.”
Out of respect for Thornberry and the good working relationship the two have, McHugh responded that he would postpone Martland’s discharge for two months so that he could find adequate counsel and appeal. In the meantime, Thornberry won’t be satisfied until the Defense Department finds a better solution to the real problem: rampant human rights abuses. “I am not satisfied that the policies in place [to combat these incidents] are robust enough, or that our men and women in uniform find them reliable. We expect a lot of our forces while deployed in harm’s way, but we cannot expect them to stop being Americans.”
Lately, however, you can’t blame soldiers for questioning what, exactly, that means. They serve a commander-in-chief whose military tolerates rapists but not prayer. Whose administration protects defectors like Bowe Bergdahl and punishes heroes like Charles Martland. Unfortunately, what the Army stands for — and what the President does — are two radically different things. That’s why reinstating Sergeant Martland is so important. It shows that some American values — like honor, integrity, and sacrifice — are not up for debate.
Help us send that message. Join the 66,000 people who have signed FRC’s petition in defense of Sergeant Martland — and every brave man and woman in uniform who refuses to back down in the face of evil.
Homosexuality is a moral disorder. It is a moral disease, a sin and corruption... No person is born homosexual, just like no one is born a thief, a liar or murderer.
Come home now troops! When your ally is a monster who brutalizes little children in front of your eyes our time there was wasted.
When our military decides to punish you for stopping such crime, then it is not worthy of your obedience.
Well, that’s official. The CiC approves of homosexual child rape.
When this administrations steps down or is otherwise removed from office, this whole incident needs to be dealt with as a war crime, and walked all the way up the chain of command to identify the accomplices and punish them accordingly. They still haven’t closed the files on Nazis. Neither should they close the file on Gaystapo in American uniforms - and suits.
This is just sickening. I weep for the future of this country. Good men are being trampled on and the depraved are held up as heroes. Sick, sick. Sick.
It is time for a mutiny. All Army enlisted personnel should go on a sick out or sit down strike until Martland is reinstated. This is not an Army worth fighting for.
Sir, you are only half correct. It is time for a coup and a takeover until the next election.
As is our enemy islamist CIC.
“Well, that’s official. The CiC approves of homosexual child rape.”
By muslims, anyway.
Can another CiC reinstate Martland? Has something like that ever occurred, except for e.g. upgrading Lurch’s discharge?
Army agrees to postpone discharge of Green Beret
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3345820/posts
His story would make a great movie about the true nature of the beast in that part of the world. I know, it wouldn’t fit the picture, but I’d go to see it.
The shame of a nation.
Good luck Charles Martland. Consider this a success not a failure.
I’ve heard the same stories from other SF that must live and work closely with Afghan Officers. It probably has been the root cause of some of the violence against our troops.
“Silver wings upon their chest / These are men, America’s best / One hundred slaves get raped today / But all ignored by the Green Beret.”
The Obama administration protects defectors like Bowe Bergdahl and punishes heroes like Charles Martland.
I agree. If the right person did it and didn’t use it as another propaganda spin.
I wonder if any member of our intrepid press corps will ask Obama directly why he is defending homosexual child rape. And the followup question is whether he would also have our troops stand aside and ignore the rape of little girls. Presumably the administration’s hashtag campaign on the abducted girls in Africa suggests that heterosexual rape is not approved by Team Obama. If so, why is homosexual rape privileged?
"Mrs. Clinton, President Obama has ordered the punishment of decorated American soldiers who intervened to stop child rape by a perverted Afghan police officer. The president believes that child rape is a legitimate Muslim custom that we are bound to respect. Do you agree that child rape is a legitimate Muslim custom, and that American soldier should stand aside and let it happen?"
If so, please comment on the epidemic of rape committed by Muslim immigrants to Europe and the U.S. Do you believe we are bound to respect Muslim rape culture here?
Given your own history of providing legal defense to a rapist, and laughing about how you got him off on a technicality, as well as your long history of savaging women who made sexual assault charges against your own husband, why should the American people believe you when you say you take rape seriously?
The next president should re-instate this man and give him a commission in the Army.
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