Posted on 09/01/2006 10:19:01 AM PDT by StarCMC
Hey, good plug for the rally! ;-)
"Hey, P," he gasped. "Terrorists exploded a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center's North Tower. Six people KIA and over one thousand wounded."
I wouldn't see the pictures until our next port, but the thought of choking office workers, their faces stained with soot, streaming out of the building drove me to a furious outburst.
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And then I thought about the cocky response I'd give the Israeli sniper.
I thought of my father the tour guide who went to the towers once a week. I dreamt of my mother in her Midtown office trying frantically to find a staircase as smoke and fire consumed her. But I shrugged off the terrorist attack as an isolated incident. An anomoly.
WARLORD NO BETTER FRIEND NO WORSE ENEMY - page 52 - Ilario Pantano
Did you forget the Commander In Chief? You know the guy who could change all this with a simple order to the inferior officers.
bttt
MRGA DITTOS TO THAT!!Imagine the caterwauling from THE LEFTIES if those TERRORISTS at Club Gitmo were treated like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the defense is setting up an "ineffective counsel" appeal.
Bump to that -- you're so right!
I'm a former cop, and I can think of just one such case: the defense is certain that it's a slam-dunk conviction, so they want to have an appealable issue from the get-go. The problem is, the appeal would be based on the defense counsel alleging that they were ineffective and/or incompetent.
This is not a civil court. The defendants can choose their own civilian counsel if they wish but they will also be assigned a military lawyer. "Ineffective counsel" won't be considered. Sounds more like the civilian lawyer has her own agenda she wants to push and is using the defendants to further it.
There's a possibility, all right. But what agenda would be served by getting her clients convicted?
I think her agenda is her, and her belief is no publicity is bad publicity. Judging from her remarks she seems out to damage or destroy any confidence or trust that the Marine Corps will conduct a fair hearing or, if the evidence justifies it, a fair trial. Destroying confidence in your commanders is not conducive to good morale.
That was the kind of crap that left-wing attorneys pulled in the 1960s and 1970s when they were representing clients that were guilty as sin--ensure that the "community" became convinced that "DA MAN!" was rigging the case.
Why do I find it so disturbing to see conservatives embracing this kind of thing?
I spent most of my adult life as a naval officer, active duty and reserve. And I can say without a moment's hesitation that if I were one of the defendants, and I was innocent, I would sleep soundly knowing that my fate was in the hands of a military court martial rather than a civilian judge and a civilian jury made up of people who can't wait to sell their story to 20/20.
Bump!
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