Posted on 09/09/2009 3:59:59 AM PDT by Loyalist
A lesbian soldier who deserted the U.S. military appealed to a Canadian judge for asylum Tuesday, claiming she was repeatedly harassed and threatened with death, then denied a discharge because her superiors wanted to send her to Afghanistan.
Pte. Bethany Smith, who adopted the name Skyler James upon fleeing to Canada two years ago, took her case to Federal Court after being rejected as a refugee by the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Smith's lawyer, Jamie Liew, said she knows of no lesbian or gay American soldier who has been granted refugee status in Canada or elsewhere based on sexual orientation.
Smith, 21, said she will face a court martial if she returns to the U.S. and fears her sentence will be stiffer than most because anti-gay sentiment persists in the military justice system .
(Excerpt) Read more at ottawacitizen.com ...
Canada has been shipping back the handful of self-proclaimed "war resisters" to the U.S. military to face what?
Summary execution? Torture? Breaking rocks at Leavenworth?
How about less-than-honourable discharges with the attendant loss of veterans benefits!
That's some mighty awful persecution for these "conscientious objectors" to be facing!
Oh, and to answer the usual question, guilty with aggravating circumstances!
Maybe she shouldn’t have volunteered?
Put her against the wall.
LLS
Imagine that ... sending a soldier to Afghanistan! What gross indignities will soldiers be forced to suffer next?
Charge he/she/it with desertion. Treat he/she/it like any other deserter. DUH!
(It's not like the military told her when to spread her legs. She did that to herself.)
She is the WTF of common sense.
Send her back and let her stand military trial for dissertion and being AWOL. She can get all the loving she wants....at Leavenworth.
What part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell applies here????? Maybe we need to change the name of the policy to Keep Your Mouth Shut!
This is certainly news.
I had absolutely no idea we were fighting a war against Lesbia.
Guilty!
Hang her from the nearest lamp post.
Can we convince Canada to just keep her?
Cost Savings plus one less lefty voter.
Next, they’ll be revealing our attempted assassination of the titular head of the government of Lesbia!
Why didn’t she simply join the Marine Corps?
I thought Greeks had a reputation for being fierce fighters?
Leave it in Canada.
I think they should letthe Lebanese war deserter stay and have asylum. Who knows what those nasty Hezbollah islamonazi types would do to...
What’s that?
Oh. Lesbian.
Nevermind.
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