I’m glad I retired before this became an issue. Hopefully it will be resolved before more American Military personnel are forces to wear the uniform of a foreign government.
Posted on 12/24/2004 1:12:15 PM PST by gimmebackmyconstitution
GIs Can Be Ordered To Wear U.N. Beret BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun December 24, 2004 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/6763
A federal judge in Washington has upheld the right of the American military to place its personnel under United Nations command and force those soldiers to wear insignia designed by the world body.
The ruling from Judge Paul Friedman came in the case of a former Army specialist, Michael New, who resisted orders that he serve in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Macedonia nearly a decade ago. He also refused, during unit muster in 1995, to wear the light blue U.N. cap and shoulder patch.
Mr. New was court-martialed for failing to obey the order to don the cap and patch. He was convicted in 1996 and given a "bad conduct" discharge from the Army. Military appeals courts upheld the decision.
In his 35-page decision filed Wednesday, Judge Friedman rejected all of the legal arguments put forth by Mr. New's attorneys. The judge said most of the ex-soldier's assertions involved thorny political disputes best left unresolved by the judiciary.
Judge Friedman wrote that trying to sort out whether the president had ceded too much authority to foreign military officers "would involve policy determinations beyond the competence of the court."
Mr. New could not be reached for comment yesterday. His father, Daniel, said his son was in Germany for the holidays.
"We're disappointed," Daniel New said. "It's not printable what I want to say." He added that an appeal is likely.
A spokesman for the Pentagon said no one was available yesterday to comment on the decision.
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The President can always not deploy American military under UN command.
bad conduct discharge????????????????????????????
It SHOULD have been the Presidential Freedom Medal!
/Founding Fathers' Constitution
/sarcasm?
There is no doubt as to what that particular soldier thought about the subject of this thread!
There's one way to put an end to this silliness and that is to do what we should have done a long time ago; get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
"The President can always not deploy American military under UN command."
American military? Look for the Military of North America before long.
Do I go to jail if I show my respect by urinating on the UN flag or beret?
We live in a different world these days. I would love to see the UN fade away into oblivion, but that is not a priority for the Bush administration.
We have a real President now, I would be deeply dissappointed if George Bush placed troops under the UN
The Chihuahua cavalry next to the Ohio infantry next to the Calgary artillery.
BINGO!!
The President has said that our troops will not go anywhere that they fall under the international court. If they were under un command they would be subject to international treaty. The un is so over.
I’m glad I retired before this became an issue. Hopefully it will be resolved before more American Military personnel are forces to wear the uniform of a foreign government.
Touche' DUBYA; poot or get off the pot
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