Posted on 02/06/2016 7:08:45 AM PST by kindred
As any normal person with a moral compass would react, SFC Martland and his commander exercised the force necessary under the circumstances to stop these unconscionable and evil acts.
[Reprinted with Permission from ACLJ.org] We're taking direct action in defense of a war hero who honorably came to the aid of a child facing unthinkable sexual abuse. (Screengrab via Fox News)
Sergeant First Class (SFC) Charles Martland could be kicked out of the Army any day now.
Why? Because this Green Beret war hero, awarded the Bronze Star Medal for valor, refused to look the other way when he was told that a young Afghan boy was being sexually assaulted and raped by a local Afghan police commander who worked alongside the U.S. troops every day.
Before he took any action, SFC Martland and his commanding officer confronted the accused Afghan commander with the allegations. The commander not only admitted that he was raping the boy, he acted surprised that SFC Martland would even be concerned.
That did it. As any normal person with a moral compass would react, SFC Martland and his commander exercised the force necessary under the circumstances to stop these unconscionable and evil acts.
Part of the Green Beret mission was to win the hearts and minds of the local Afghan villagers and tribesmen. Yet, the local populace was beginning to turn on the U.S. soldiers because they viewed America's Afghan allies as "worse than the Taliban" given their open and notorious sexual assaults on young boys. Further, when the boy's Mother complained, she was beaten by the very same thugs.
American soldiers are trained to defend the defenseless. American soldiers are expected to do what is right irrespective of the challenges. American soldiers are bound by a code of honor and selfless service. Accordingly, Sergeant Martland acted consistent with his training and ensured that the Afghan police commander would never commit such a perverted act around U.S. forces ever again.
And now he could be days from being kicked out of the U.S. Army.
This miscarriage of justice is disgusting. Nearly 200,000 of you have spoken up for SFC Martland. And now, on behalf of all of you, U.S. law, and higher moral law, we are sending legal letters to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1; the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; the Secretary of Defense; and President Obama, on SFC Martland's behalf.
After detailing the facts and timeline, the U.S. Military policies concerning sexual abuse of children, and how sexual abuse of children is universally recognized as criminal, all four letters conclude similarly to the following letter to the President:
Mr. President, what happened to SFC Martland in 2011 was a travesty. That travesty is being compounded by the Army QMP Board's decision to separate a decorated and devoted United States warrior from the Army's ranks because he was wrongly reprimanded for taking decisive and forceful action to stop the repeated rape of a young Afghan boy at the hands of a corrupt Afghan leader.
SFC Martland's brave actions halted ongoing felonies recognized in the UCMJ. His actions halted ongoing criminal actions recognized under Afghan law. His actions halted ongoing felonies condemned by international law. Yet, it was he who turned out to be the one who was punished; he was both relieved and reprimanded. That is unconscionable.
Mr. President, it is not SFC Martland who acted amiss in what he did. It is the persons who promulgated and enforced a policy that violated U.S. law, Afghan law, and international law who acted amiss. Rather than separate SFC Martland for his honorable service, we respectfully urge you to require the Secretary of Defense to seek out those who promulgated and enforced such a despicable policy and remove them. SFC Martland acted honorably in protecting the Afghan boy from further sexual assault. That is more than can be said of those morally obtuse persons in his chain of command who promulgated and enforced a policy that subjected untold numbers of innocent Afghan children to sexual slavery and abuse in violation of U.S., Afghan, and international law.
We are aggressively pursuing our multi-pronged advocacy on behalf of SFC Martland. [Click here to sign the petition], contact your Members of Congress, and share the word.
Justice depends on it.
I wonder if the gays in the current administration and Obama would see homosexual rape of children as abuse.
The 0bomb will not be moved.
While they’re a using children themselves....??
Doubt it.
While they’re ABUSING children themselves....??
Doubt it.
(Stupid phone)
Now we know why Democrats talk so much about “the children”.
Amerika in the 21st Century...
I wonder how many gay officers are volunteering for duty in Afghanistan so they can partake of the "rape culture"? I wonder if SFC Charles Martland's superiors acted so swiftly against him because they were afraid that a real investigation would lead to exposing THEM.
Paterno and Sandusky lawyers could accomplish a lot with this.
No-—since sodomy is a learned behavior like all others-—except that it is more brutal since children have to be abused or emaculated (full of anger and hate) to become a “homosexual”. Barry was probably raped in the madrassa in Indonesia-—and probably by his “tranny” nanny...and by his mentor in Hawaii who was a pedophile and pornographer (and Marxist).
First thing BO did was make sodomy and bestiality “Good” in the military and make sure homosexual “marriage” was passed for his orgy buddies although a couple of them were killed before his election at Rev. Wright’s “church”.
Socomizing boys goes WAY back to before the Spartans and in ALL cultures until the Christian Culture eliminated it as an “Evil” . Sodomizing boys is “preferred sexual recreation” of the Saudis (Walid Shoebat) and the harems of boys in Afghanistan is sickening. The Times article with the face of a boy that I used to pass around is REMOVED-—which explains the “ancient” culture of homoseuaxlity which is just a misogynic, sexist worldview-—learning to hate and mutilate the “Other” in childhood so that you learn to lust after males, goats and boys.
There is NO morality in the sex act when you “think” like a homosexual. The Nazi Brownshirts were all sexual perverts-—same with the Bolsheviks. The more you hate women and abuse children——the easier it is to kill of masses like in WWII Germany. Homosexuality was their National Vice in the late 1800s....all the boys were being raped-—and “Boy Scouts” in Germany was founded by a homosexual so he could have orgies with the boys. It should still be a felony to sodomize each other. Vice breeds vice.
Obama is probably of the same cut as the Afghani Taliban pervert on the military base. The evil potus is a scum and may be a bisexual muslim.
The article does not specify what the soldier did to the child rapist. Did he castrate him? Beat him senseless? Kill him? Give him a stern talking-to?
Good points and so very true. It is so very sad and offensive that the pervert in chief runs the military like a scum despot. I pray the Lord Jesus to put such men as the potus out of government, or better yet, come and replace evil human government as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in Israel, His beloved.
The Afghan was on the same military base as the Americans and many soldiers knew of this evil. Only 2 men responded, Martland took the man and threw him off the base, a good deed punished by the evil potus and his leftist God hated minions.
“Pop goes another shot....”
Familiar ground for our enemy islamist...President. Ptuh!
By what official action is this NCO being separated from the Army?
Court martial under UCMJ? If so, under what article?
Administrative separation board? That’s only for druggies.
Qualitative retention board? Only if he has a string of bad efficiency reports.
DA simply cuts a set of orders saying “You are separated from the active component. Reason: (what?)” Authority: Army Regulation AR-135-XXX”?
I don’t get it.
Something like that.
It was forceful and effective, but it wasn't like beating-him-half-to-death, castrating or killing him .
I think the Americans involved should not be punished. They've already done their Community Service,
The best way to handle this would be that if Cruz is elected president, to rehire this NCO, and commission him in a rank higher than those who fired him, after firing them. That is, he was fired by the Army’s Qualitative Management Program (QMP board), so the members of this board need to be fired.
Then, after a suitable length of time, to insure that he will get a retirement at his higher rank, offer him the choice to remain an officer at that rank, or return to being an NCO with a promotion in NCO rank to Master Sergeant.
Who have we become that we won’t protect children?
Some day, warcrimes charges as accomplices to pedophilic rape of a civilian need to be brought against the entire chain of command and decision that is punishing this man. We are getting as bad as the U.N.
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