Inside the Camp Pendleton 8

Townhall Daily ^ | Thursday, August 31, 2006 | Rick Amato

[StarCMC]

This artist's sketch shows defendant Pfc. John Jodka as he testifies at a pretrial hearing held at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Marine Corps Base Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006. Jodka is one of seven Marines and one Navy corpsman accused of kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi civilian in the town of Hamdania last spring. (AP Photo/Bill Robles)

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Murtha is a traitorous sack of excrement.

[StarCMC]

Ping

[goldstategop]

The same Left that is so outraged over the third degree being applied to our enemies seems more than happy to have our own soldiers denied all their rights so our government can be politically correct in its handling of the Iraq War.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[stm]

These brave Marines need our support. I feel they are being railroaded by PC talking heads within the USMC and Sen. Murtha

[StarCMC]

there is the steady rhetoric of Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, and the New York Times along with the absolute deafening silence of Republican members of Congress.

This sentence is the one that makes me sickest. Blech!!

[TimesDomain]

Heroes are shackled amd chained while cowards like murtha, clintoon, and deserters are praised and worshipped by politicians and the media.

What was that about freedom needing the blood of patriots to be refreshed? Maybe so ...

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"The government has just completed the construction of a brand new $800k media center at Camp Pendleton. Will this be the scene of a fair, impartial hearing with a true presumption of innocence?"

A reverse nuremburg. "We trained you to kill, why did you do it?"
Are the soldiers allowed access to an attorney? What are the reasons that access to evidence is denied? Doesn't this have to be entered to be considered?

[Airborne1986]

"Ms. Siegal's strategy to waive the article 32 hearing and go directly to trial was based upon her belief that the case is certain to go to trial anyway, so why waste time and money with a pre-trial."

This is a strange "strategy." Article 32 hearings are free discovery for defendants. They get a preview of the Governent's case. Defendants get to examine witnesses under oath, find out what they will say and lock them into their stories. Those are good things for a defendant. Unless it is part of a plea deal, I can't think of a good reason for a defendant to waive the 32.

[NormsRevenge]

HELP

http://www.bootmurtha.com/

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Help the 'Pendleton 8' and their families.

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The 'Pendleton 8': A look at the 7 Marines and Navy corpsman charged in Hamdania incident
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670877/posts

Some web sites with more info and also accepting donations.

Cpl. Robert Pennington
http://www.defendrob.com

PFC John Jodka
http://www.innocentmarine.com

Tyler Jackson
http://www.fightingfortyler.com

Cpl. Marshall Magincalda
http://www.defendourmarine.com

Cpl. Trent Thomas
http://www.defensefundformyhero.com

Lance Cpl Jerry Shumate
http://friendsofjerry.blogspot.com/


Hospital Corpsman Third Class Melson J. Bacos
http://patriotdefensefund.com/


Other sites supporting the men:

http://www.defendthetruth.com

http://www.warrior-fund.org

http://www.pendleton8.com

http://www.marinedefensefund.com/

If your financial situation permits, please help as you can to cover legal representation costs.

Thanks!

[StarCMC]

Thanks for that -- I couldn't remember who to ping on this one.

[NormsRevenge]

No problemo, I'm gonna ping freema and racebannon for more ping firepower.

[Non-Sequitur]

Are the soldiers allowed access to an attorney? What are the reasons that access to evidence is denied? Doesn't this have to be entered to be considered?

An Article 32 hearing is like a grand jury indictment. It's for the prosectution to demonstrate that they have sufficient evidence to justify a trial. As with civilian grand juries, the prosecution doesn't need to present all it's evidence or even most of its evidence. It need present only enough to make it's case that a trial is justified. If a trial is granted then the prosecution has to disclose its evidence to the defense. As someone else pointed out, the Article 32 does give the defense a chance to see at least some of the prosecutions case and I agree with them that only a fool of a defense lawyer would pass up the opportunity to do that.

[StarCMC]

Pinging a few friends.

[panthermom]

Ya know, after I got to the 6th paragragh I had to force myself to read the rest. I was so enraged, where is Human Rights Watch et al? Our enemies are not allowed to be treated as bad as they are treating these soldiers.

I read this past week that the villagers did not report any of this until a week later at a meeting. All these accusations on the part of the Iraqi villagers and nobody saw an urgency to tell someone sooner? It's like an after thought, "Oh yeah, by the way, the Americans kidnapped a man an put him in a hole and shot him. Who's supposed to bring the refreshments for next weeks meeting?" It just doesn't make any sense to me.

[Coop]

Semper Fidelis. Always Faithful.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[freema]

Ping

[freema]

That's not the sentence that makes me the sickest-this one is:

The lives of eight young men are at stake.

The only thing the author failed to mention was that these lives were at stake in Iraq, and now in America.

[jazusamo]

Support the presumption of innocence for the Pendleton 8 and Boot Murtha.

[North Coast Conservative]

Just paypal'd my money, ordered my shirts.

The BootMurtha rally will be a good place to wear it.

I can't believe that the Corps would be an active partner in this lynching, but I guess the sickness that is Liberalism permeates everything, (including the Corps), like stink on a skunk.

In God We Trust…..Semper Fi!