Posted on 08/21/2013 4:40:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Law: Based on recent decisions, military justice isn't what it should be. In several cases, judges have made what seem to be major errors, swayed perhaps by outside pressures. Have military courts been politicized, too?
The military justice system has a near-impossible job. It must not only dispense justice under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but it often must do so with outside civilian interference.
But recent events suggest that military justice is going off the rails — in large part due to the influence of politically correct thinking from civilian politics.
Take the case of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who decided, as he put it, to "switch sides" in the War on Terror by slaughtering unarmed fellow soldiers in a jihad-inspired shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
After the defense rested this week in Hasan's case, Judge Col. Tara Osborn told prosecutors they won't be able to enter evidence that Hasan meant to commit jihad in his mass murder. She also disallowed his correspondence with al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
This is key, since it forms the very core of the prosecution's assertion: That his murders were motivated by extremist Islamic ideology in the service of al-Qaida.
Osborn's was a strange decision, to say the least.
In the Bradley Manning case, it's clear he intended to leak U.S. secrets indiscriminately to Wikileaks and, by extension, to our enemies.
Serious stuff. Yet, Manning got a 35-year sentence, a slap on the wrist really compared to the life without possibility of parole he once faced. With good behavior and time already served, he'll get out in eight years. Apparently, treason no longer carries much of a cost.
Manning avoided a much longer sentence largely because of the judge's original finding that Manning didn't really mean to give secrets to...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Thought control commissars are in control.
The article makes a good point..the military courts seem to bow to be influenced by outside pressure in recent years.
Thirty five years for Manning is a joke..although I suspect we will have had a major attack by then and paroling traitors will not seem like as good of an idea as it does now...
Yep, and this is only the beginning.
Truth is what matters in a Justice System.
We haven’t had Truth—”Right Reason” which is Common Sense in laws since Oliver Wendell Holmes,jr—the Socialist— destroyed the meaning of “Just Law” and “Rule of Law”—and removed the Higher Power and replaced it with John Austin’s-—”Might makes Right” cr*pola that even Socrates stated was NOT TRUE JUSTICE. Legal Positivism is UNCONSTITUTIONAL if it is antithetical to the Supreme Law of the Land and Natural Law-—no matter what precedents. Null and Void—like John Marshall stated about ANY law which was antithetical to the Constitution.
Convoluted, irrational “Laws” are unconstitutional because they don’t use “Reason” according to Natural Laws (where our Natural Rights come from and the whole reason for the Constitution and our “Justice” system is to protect our Natural Rights which preceded the Constitution and man made-up laws.)
Sickening how these judges ignore the “Rule of Law”.
Agreed...Manning would have been executed in previous wars for his treason and Hasan would have been treated like the scum that he is. No JAG conducting his courts-martial would have allowed him to grow a beard and wear the uniform.
My guess is that the Obama Administration is trying to avoid lawsuits over their failure to remove a known Jihadi from the ranks and to cover up Hasan’s (and his family’s) relationship to the Obama Regime.
Just a guess.
wrong...ODUNGO AND HOLDER
Bump!
Christians and conservatives in the military, finish up your commitments and liberate yourselves from that mess. It’s not going to get better.
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So....will he be bullet-proof when he gets out?
I hear you...Another thing, will he be safe at Leavenworth? There’s a lot of patriots there even though they’ve committed criminal acts.
“finish up your commitments and liberate yourselves from that mess”
I disagree I’d go back myself if I was not so long in the tooth that they wont take me anymore.
Our Armed Services need good people more than just about anytime in our history..our survival as a nation depends on it.
Actually His Arrogance will order a correction for the situation. Digging into his bag of Community Organizer and Stalin Era tricks, he will order the assignment of a “political adviser” for every unit, large of small. David Axelrod, Bill Ayers, and Baghdad Bob Gibbs will constitute the commission that selects and assigns the PA dudes.
It wouldn’t be a surprise, he gets much of his script from commies and Marxists and political officers were common.
Yeah, I also have concern for the safety of Hasan in there.
“Our Armed Services need good people more than just about anytime in our history..our survival as a nation depends on it.”
While that may be true, the good people who remain are are finding an increasingly hostile environment. There is nothing to show that trend is going to reverse.
Yep, concern is a good word for it.
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