Ex-Marine decries nature of Japan prison work

Stars and Stripes ^ | 18 Jul 04 | David Allen

[GATOR NAVY]

This sleazebag animal is lucky to be out of prison already. Political considerations meant he and his buddies had to tried by the Japanese, but I'm pretty sure that if they had been turned over the military and court-martialed, they would have received quite a bit more than 7 years.

[Billthedrill]

That @%$$%#$ can cry me a river. He dishonored his uniform, his shipmates and his country. He raped a 12-year-old girl and he's bitching about being made to assemble cellphones?

If I say what I truly think I'll get banned.

[egarvue]

...for his part in the infamous abduction and rape of an Okinawa schoolgirl in 1995

Am I supposed to feel pity for this vermin? Cry me a river, you @#%$*#!, they let this scum off too easy.

[egarvue]

Great minds think alike :-)

[Vigilanteman]

“Japan is in gross violation of international law by forcing prisoners to work for commercial companies,” Griffith said via telephone from his Long Island home. “It amounts to slave labor, nothing less.”

You nailed it. All I can say is boo-f***ing-hoo for these sleezebags. If they needed to get laid so badly, there are a wide choice of cathouses to service their needs for half a day's pay within a short drive of their base. When they picked on a little 12 year old on her way home from school, they should have been castarated in my book. Serious damage was done to the reputation of this country and the military because these three dirtbags were too cheap to pony up for a professional.

[struggle]

Yeah, he should have been in prison for life. Soldiers like him should be beaten savagely for the disgrace they bring to the men doing their jobs everyday for the rest of us, and for the lack of trust they foster in the Okinawa public.

[claudiustg]

---Harp was a 22-year-old Marine private first class when sentenced in March 1996 with Pfc. Kendrick Ledet, 21, and Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 23, a medic, for raping a 12-year-old girl they abducted from a street corner in Kin village, just outside Camp Hansen. The incident occurred on Labor Day 1995.---

I'm sure their are quite a few people that would happily beat these three clowns to death.

---Michael Griffith, a New York-based lawyer who specializes in defending Americans overseas---

Should find another ambulance to chase.

[IncredibleHulk]

They should be making gravel out of mountains. When they get through with Mt. Everest, they can get out.

[Zeroisanumber]

SOB can cry me a river, he's lucky he wasn't smashing rocks at Leavenworth. Oh...Put him in the quiet room, make him sit in the comfy chair. Asshat.

[Bogey78O]

He dishonored his uniform
He is a criminal
He hated having to work
He cries about how unfair the world is to him.

Guess who he will vote for President.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...yeah, I do sense a certain lack of sympathy...

[JLS]

Exactly, these moron better get some drug convict or something and stay miles away from people who kidnapped and raped a young child. And personally, I do not think that given the US crime rate we are really in a position to tell other societies how to run their corrections.

[null and void]

Haven't seen a single post I disagree with here.

A bit muted, but all spot on.

[Old Sarge]

Aw, C'mon, folks, at least they didn't (shudder) put panties on his head - THAT would've REALLY violated international law...

[spokeshave]

If he was in a US prison would be administered by a Wahabbi sect inman....no doubt a potential convert...his image of women will fit right in with the islamics.

[GATOR NAVY]

As Billthedrill said, muted to keep from being banned.

I apologize for posting a photo of him in the uniform he disgraced.

[endthematrix]

"“You had no choice. If you refused to work, they put you in what we called a chill box, a little cell with nothing in it, and they forced you to sit rigidly all day at a desk until it was time to eat and sleep. "

Bring on the CHILL BOX, baby!

[x1stcav]

The fellow got sentenced and served his time. I agree with you that he is a whining SOB.

However!

Let's save most of our anger and outrage for the ambulance chasing attorney who specializes in these sorts of cases. My guess is that Hart didn't try to find an attorney; I'll bet the scum was waiting for him the minute he set foot back on American soil.

[A Jovial Cad]

Gee...that just breaks my heart that these sweethearts didn't like all that "hard labor" they had to perform as a consequence of their actions after a night out on the town...[/extreme sarcasm]

You said it better than I could--I agree 100%. Wish the reporter had taken the time to contact the *victim* and ask her what *SHE* thinks about this pity-fest...I'd be willing to bet that she's probably outraged, too, though not over the "hard labor" these scumbags had to perform; but rather that there was *ONLY* seven years of it...