Fort Bragg soldier flees to Canada [Traitor alert!]

Independent Weekly ^ | February 11, 2004 | Patrick O'Neill

[Howlin]

Profile of an Al Gore voter!

[sharkhawk]

I thought the reason that Vietnam War draft dodgers could go to Canada was that they did not have a draft, and the extradition treay we have with Canada requires it to be illegal there also? Desertion was a different story, because that was also a violation of Canadian law. Maybe I misunderstood, but I think the US Government should request extradition, since this is desertion in the face of hazardous duty.

[Leatherneck_MT]

There should be a questionnaire that is filled out prior to anyone enlisting. Plainly stating what they will be required to do as a member of the US Armed Forces. Namely, you will be required to kill other human beings. Do you have a problem with this?

Personally I think this is a situation where the kid got scared and ran and is using this political BS to cover his fear.

[Constitution Day]

You've just got to see this.

[TaxRelief]

at the Fayetteville Friends Meeting,

Aha! The Quakers in Fayetteville are the key organizers of the upcoming Mar. 20, Antiwar protest. Perhaps he's just one of their easily manipulated puppets.

[Feckless]

Traitor maybe, Coward for sure. Too bad he's already reproduced, sliming up the gene pool.

[Kenton]

A guy who was a friend of mine in high school pulled a very similar stunt back in 1969 to avoid deployment to VN.

My buddy always had a lot of similar justifications as this guy for bugging out, always managed to sound like he had made a "moral" decision. After he split, he lived in Montreal as a hippie ex-pat until Carter declared an amnesty, and all the wandering children got a free pass to come back. So he did.

Today he would be 58. And by the time you get to 58, you can't make excuses to anybody anymore, let alone yourself. And until the day he dies, he will always be branded a deserter and a coward.

Good luck with your conscience, kid.

[Tacis]

Yet, be careful! This is exactly what the ultra-left wing, neocommunist media has been hoping for. Wait until you see their extensive coverage of this sensitive young man. They will write pages about Bush's failure to do this and that.

And then, the media will build excuses for the guy (he did go to Afganistan, after all) and attack anyone who is a Republican who doesn't accept the media's logic. I can already see the propaganda piece that Molly Evens will write.

There is little we can do about this. But, it should not be taken lightly, especially, if there are several others that we do not yet know about.

You know, Hanoi John will be talking trash about this and promising amnesty if elected! These aren't dopers avoiding the draft by going to Canada, this guy deserted!

[COEXERJ145]

I'm not well versed on the UCMJ. Isn't death still one possible penalty for desertion in time of war?

[TheBigB]

Related thread about this little p*ssy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075482/posts

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the info.

I wish he would be dragged back by a team of ex-military bounty hunters that would teach him a little lesson on his way back to face court-martial.

[ibheath]

I know that is possible. However, why feed and house this crybaby? Let Canada's welfare system deal with him.

Because he has deserted his post in a time of war, and I don't want some future puke leftist president pardoning this pig before he gets his just desserts for deserting.

[theFIRMbss]

>On New Year's Eve, Jeremy Hinzman sat in a McDonald's on N.C. 401 in Fuquay-Varina explaining his precarious situation

He'll just say fast food
screwed up his brain -- he'll get off,
then sue McDonald's...

[Snuffington]

Nope not a traitor. He's a deserter. Important difference.

We used to shoot deserters on sight. Traitors got a trial and a hanging.

[Constitution Day]

I found this story through an old link on Carolina Journal and could not believe it!

Yes, he is a pussy (lol) and this is just chock full of good stuff.
He even gets a dig in at Halliburton.

[steve8714]

He can still send money to MoveOn.
This guy is too dumb to allow in a combat zone. Being a Friend would have gotten him a legit CO and discharge.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks.

I missed that one; this Independent article was the first I heard of the loser.

[steve8714]

You have insulted all pussies.

[SwankyC]

At the time of Vietnam there was no draft in Canada, therefore avoiding the draft was not an offense in Canada and the draft dodgers could hide out here without fear.

Sounds like that extradition treaty aint so strong. My guess is there is no death penalty up there too so you dont extradite murderers who face the death penalty?

[SBprone]

I'd be willing to give this idiot a pass if only he didn't have such a big GD mouth!

It's not enough for him to run out on his country and his obligation, he also has to attack everything he left behind in order to justify his foolish choice.

When this guy's legal situation is settled I want him to wish he had kept his big mouth shut!