Appeal....
I thought part of being a soldier was to disobey illegal commands?
How is a soldier to determine the legality of any command, given what's happening to New (and probably others)?
That's a crock! What an idiot liberal judge. He doesn't seem to realize that our military people joined to serve the U.S. and wear U.S. military uniforms.
Simple analysis:
Soldier's actions: Correct
Judge's actions: Both Idiotic and Criminal!
This judge should serve the prison term not the soldier!!! What a Jacka$$!
This is not the UN doing the forcing; this is the US Military dictating what the uniform for the day is. The federal judge is right on this one. A soldier does NOT tell his superiors what he will, and will not wear. A soldier accepts commands, then takes action without question. There is nothing illegal about a command from the military to change insignia or change the uniform.
Now, as to the sense of this order; I agree that the UN SHOULD NEVER have been given the authority to have US Military under their command. However, this was done with the full consent of the Commander In Chief (Clinton, the despised); and was therefore fully legal, even if it was rehensibile.
Friedman Biography
U.S. District Court Judge, District of Columbia. Room 6321, 333 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20001. 202-273-0440.
Judge Paul L. Friedman was an assistant to Lawrence Walsh in Iran-contra investigation. He was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton. His best known decision is FEC v. GOPAC, 897 F.Supp. 615 (DDC 1995), in which he ruled against GOPAC. Judge Friedman was also an attorney in the law firm of White and Case for almost two decades.
Judge Friedman was born February 20, 1944. He received his B.A. from Cornell in 1964, and his J.D. from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo in 1968.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/people/friedman.htm
This is sure to put a dent in the military's recruiting program. Then again, maybe that's what the judge is hoping for.
I can't object to this decision, because it follows the tradition of judges not intervening in military decisions unless there is an overwhelming reason to do so.
The fault was with clinton and his politically correct military commanders. The damage needs to be undone by the military, not be judges imposing demands on the military.
I'm sorry for Michael New, but there it is. It would be a terrible precedent for the judiciary to start micromanaging military discipline.
The UN seeks to establish sovereignty over the USA. So did Hitler.
That makes the UN an enemy.
It also makes American supporters of the UN traitors.
Right. How does a federal judge from one district rule for the armed forces of the United States? What a clymer.
This is not news. Read the UN Constitution. People who are shocked by this will also be shocked when the UN imposes its global income tax on the US. Already on the books. Read it. Or put your head back in the sand.
FYI
THE MAN WHO SHOT PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN in March 1981 will be able to take unsupervised outings from the psychiatric facility where he was sent after being found not guilty by reason of insanity.
This ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman has caused widespread outrage. It will cause more when Americans learn that this highly-partisan judge was himself involved in an attempt to “assassinate” President Reagan politically.
Prior to his 1994 appointment to the Federal bench by President Bill Clinton, Paul L. Friedman in 1987-1988 was one of five Associate Independent Counsels assisting Lefty Lawrence Walsh’s political witch-hunt undertaken to cripple or destroy the Reagan Administration that history remembers as Iran-Contra.
Given his past as a partisan Reagan persecutor, Judge Friedman should have recused himself from deciding whether to release John W. Hinckley, Jr., 48, whose bullets came within inches of killing the same President that Friedman tried to bring down.
Instead, Friedman this week sent a message to America’s mentally unstable residents now being whipped by Democratic propaganda into hatred against current President George W. Bush that one can shoot a Republican President and not only escape the death penalty but also gain fame and regain freedom after doing so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042650/posts
Alamo-girls informative page about Judge Friedman
http://www.alamo-girl.com/03152.htm