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Veteran Forcibly Dragged from Air Force Ceremony for Mentioning God
Breitbart News ^ | 6/20/2016 | Breitbart News

Posted on 06/20/2016 3:56:19 AM PDT by Cato in PA

When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

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Those living in the dark will try to extinguish the Light because they don't want to see.
1 posted on 06/20/2016 3:56:19 AM PDT by Cato in PA
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"Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or prepare to face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

Apologize my ass! Sue the atheistic bastards responsible, name 'em and shame 'em, seize their g*ddamned pensions!
2 posted on 06/20/2016 3:59:50 AM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: Cato in PA

He should have said, “Allah”, and he wouldn’t have been bothered.


3 posted on 06/20/2016 3:59:58 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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These airmen did not do this alone, they where ORDERED by someone to do this if the word God was mentioned, this goes way up the chain of command. Follow it.


4 posted on 06/20/2016 4:05:00 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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The thugs who assaulted the veteran, and the bigger thugs who gave the orders, need criminal charges NOW.

Or we have indeed turned into the g.d. Soviet Union.

5 posted on 06/20/2016 4:07:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. -Rom. 11)
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"According to a demand letter sent by First Liberty Institute on Sunday, when the squadron’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Sovitsky, learned that Rodriguez would give the traditional speech mentioning God, he expressed his opposition and allegedly tried to block it."

"Sovietsky"-What an appropriate name for an Obama Regime military officer, but can it be real?

6 posted on 06/20/2016 4:07:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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If it were Allah, all would have been fine.


7 posted on 06/20/2016 4:12:12 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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Is it my imagination? It seems to me that these types of stories about militant atheism are more common in the Air Force than in the other branches of the military. Do others get the same impression?


8 posted on 06/20/2016 4:12:40 AM PDT by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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This is not the military I grew up in as an Army brat and served honorably as a member of both the Army and Air Force. How much lower can we go?


9 posted on 06/20/2016 4:13:59 AM PDT by animal172 (RIP USA)
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OMG!!!! Wonder why we are going into the toilet so fast.....THIS IS THE REASON!!! We have kicked GOD out of our country, mothers have KILLED 56 MILLION of their Babies, we have GAY EVERYTHING now.......we are DOOMED unless we invite GOD back into this country and our lives!


10 posted on 06/20/2016 4:19:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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One day those God haters will stand before Him at the Great white Throne and be cast into the outer darkness of the Lake of Fire. That is the punishment that awaits them if they don’t get on their knees and ask Him to forgive them for their crime against HIM!!!


11 posted on 06/20/2016 4:21:11 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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Or we have indeed turned into the g.d. Soviet Union

or Saudi Arabia


12 posted on 06/20/2016 4:22:08 AM PDT by mouse1
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This policy of not referring to God dates to 2005, during the George W. Bush administration. So the secularist policy is really a uniparty move. And people like Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, etc. want us to support RINOs.
13 posted on 06/20/2016 4:26:56 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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Man has the military changed


14 posted on 06/20/2016 4:28:19 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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It seems to me that if the person giving the remarks was civilian, the local police could arrest the thugs dragging him off stage with assault and battery.


15 posted on 06/20/2016 4:30:37 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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Per the article, “In 2005, the Pentagon changed the speech to remove all references to the divine, substituting additional historical facts such as Neil Armstrong’s planting of an American flag on the moon in 1969.”

IIRC, the Election of 2004 resulted in a Republican president and Congress. Why was such a policy allowed to stand?
Sidestepping to an indirect issue, this is why I will fight the GOPe ‘tooth and nail” if they try to take out Trump. Has any other Republican candidate so openly called for defending Christians?


16 posted on 06/20/2016 4:32:06 AM PDT by texteacher
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He couldn’t have over powered them all, but he could surely have left permanent disfigurement on one bastards face.


17 posted on 06/20/2016 4:32:30 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Cato in PA

Your comment is profound.


18 posted on 06/20/2016 4:33:03 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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The one who needed disfigurement was the thug officer who gave the order.


19 posted on 06/20/2016 4:33:53 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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Atheistic thuggery is more common in the Air Force & it is the doings of Mikey Weinstein who needs the s*** beat out of him the day President Trump takes offices.


20 posted on 06/20/2016 4:34:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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