Posted on 03/30/2005 11:25:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Wife of soldier: 'They can't burn us, so they shut us up'
A pagan priest serving in the U.S. Army has been sentenced to seven months jail after being found guilty of willfully disobeying orders.
Specialist Blake Lemoine, 23, from Moraville, La., served a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, but became an outspoken critic of the action, and claims his religious practices were a factor in the case against him.
"I realized the sermons I gave were in direct conflict with what the United States military practices," Lemoine said, according to Stars & Stripes.
Lemoine was court-martialed in Germany for refusing orders, as he sought to leave the Army. Following his service in Iraq, he would reportedly just sit at a desk near the commander's office and refuse to do any work.
"It was simply a slow realization that serving in the U.S. military at this day and time contradicts my religion and to continue to do so would make me a hypocrite," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
They should be tried for sedition and treason during war and have their feeding tubes withdrawn.
Lemoine was court-martialed in Germany for refusing orders, as he sought to leave the Army. Following his service in Iraq, he would reportedly just sit at a desk near the commander's office and refuse to do any work.
'Splain to Thag how this (malingering) is caused by his "religion"? Thag don't understand.....
Not at all yet that case has established that removing feeding tubes and denying someone food and water is not cruel and unusual punishment under the United States Constitution.
I am simply trying to help obese people lose lots of weight very quickly.
I really think there is and it is getting old....
Thag do understand how victimization works, tho....
Aleister Crowley defined the creed of modern paganism: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Therefore, he could only exercise his religion freely by disobeying orders; requiring him to obey orders would have prevented him from "doing what thou wilt", and thus be a clear infringement of his religious freedom.
Coming soon from an ACLU lawyer to a courtroom near you....
Nice job exhibiting total ignorance of the legal issues in this case.
Good then. For this POS: "A firing squad shall execute you. Thou wilt die."
Oh, so it is unconstitutional to withhold a feeding tube, food, and water from every American citizen ? ...
Look, there are plenty of threads here for you to discuss the Schiavo case, this issue is wholly unrelated...
Trying to lose weight quickly is what killed Terri Schiavo in 1990.
If the government was doing it as punishment in a criminal matter? Probably.
That is not the case here. The TS case is about a legal guardian, in a civil case, fulfilling the wishes of a person in a PVS.
Someone you no longer love can starve you to death and a score of judges and the unwashed masses will cheer and give you the arena's thumbs down. It will all be legal and constitutional of course. If you had committed a pedophile rape and murder in the same state you will receive years of three square meals and a cot.
You are so wise and just. We commoners stand in awe of your intellect and morality.
If she died in 1990 why are they killing her again in 2005 ?
Then why are you bringing it up ?
I was simply commenting on the current treasonous and seditious perp who should have his feeding tube, food, and water denied.
Are you here to defend the perp ?
or rather, the guardian fufilling his own wishes.
(Sigh) I can't wait for this whole TS thing to be over so some semblance of sanity can return to FR.
Agreed....
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