Kerrigan Attacker Tries To Get Clear Record, Become Navy Seal

KOIN News 6 ^ | 12/1/2005 | Drew Mikkelsen

[DuckFan4ever]

I kinda have some sympathy for this guy. If he really is following the law and wants to serve his country, a second chance doesn't sound unreasonable.

[rlmorel]

I am all for giving people a second chance to serve in the military. There are a lot of people in the past who had turned their lives around in just that way.

[stevem]

Thursday, trying to clear his record so he can become a Navy Seal.

I don't think he will succeed in this quest. Luckily, there are lots of ways to serve your country. He will have to look down another path.

[CWOJackson]

1) Military standards have no place for felons.

2) You can't enlist to be a SEAL.

[hole_n_one]

[GarySpFc]

I feel for the guy, and it does sound like he has straightened out. I really like the way he took the news. That said, I suspect he is in his thirties, and at that age becoming a SEAL is going to be pretty tough. I know making SF in my early twenties was rough.

[garyhope]

The tragedy ( or stupidity) of that incident was that Tonya Harding probably could have succeeded on her own eventually and gone on to a much bigger success instead of the infamy she brought on herself.

She was a talented skater who came from a lower class background and was unprepared to deal with that world.

[SteveMcKing]

Man with much to prove and nothing to lose... Why not have Dirty Dozen units?

[stop_fascism]

Yeah, the Seals are often called upon to beat up ice skaters.

[Sloth]

The guy assaulted an innocent woman with a pipe. Why should he be in the military (not that there'd be a snowball's chance of him ever becoming a SEAL anyway)?

[Marshall1]

Agreed. He can do many other things useful to society such as volunteer his services for the incapicated victims that have lost limbs in the war.

[CWOJackson]

"Yeah, the Seals are often called upon to beat up ice skaters."

Sh#%^&*! I think I have internal injuries from laughing so hard.

[Firefigher NC]

He can find other ways to serve. Hell, after I was medically disqualified from enlistment in the military I joined a fire department.

[beaver fever]

"Tonya Harding "

You can't put lipstick on a pig.

As for Stant he is a violent felon. Why would the Navy even want him?

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Maybe not a Seal, but we could use him as one of the Dirty Dozen and send him after the terrorists.

[HardStarboard]

>>>I kinda have some sympathy for this guy. <<<

I assume you feel the same way about Tookie?

[Marshall1]

Hey....do you know where I can purchase the NY Times bestseller book " I Tookie Ur Children"...??

[rlmorel]

Agreed on the second point. And, as you said, enlisting to be a SEAL is a nice goal for someone, but you have to get there on your merits, not your wants.

That said, I believe that the Military could be an option on a case by case basis for a subset of people who have run afoul the law. It is true that there were some people in the past who were given the choice of jail or the military, chose the military and did well. Granted, these were not murderers or rapists, but I would not advocate that anyway.

I would advocate a system where someone who has shown reliable evidence of reform (and not being of a certain class of criminal) being able to enlist under a probationary status on a case by case basis, where even the smallest infraction can result in immediate expulsion.

[grasshopper2]

I agree with you. The man is sorry for what he did in his youth and I do feel he is entitled to redemption. If he wants to serve his country, I think a place should be found for him, somewhere.