Posted on 10/31/2013 5:52:56 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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There are allegations that the Marines' top officer, Gen. James Amos, illegally interfered with the judicial proceedings in an effort to ensure harsher penalties.
Amos spoke about the video and other incidents last year during a worldwide tour of Marine bases. And in a written statement after the video came to light, he said the Marine Corps would not rest until the allegations were resolved.
He appointed a senior officer, Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, to investigate. Waldhauser said Amos told him he wanted those involved "crushed" and kicked out of the Marine Corps.
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A Marine lawyer, Maj. James Weirick, was increasingly troubled by what he saw. There was an apparent effort to withhold information from the defense, including the details of Waldhauser's removal. That removal might show unlawful command influence, and could lead to dismissal of the cases.
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Weirick was removed from his job six months after filing the complaint with the Pentagon's inspector general. He was told by Marine officials to surrender his personal firearm and make an appointment with the mental health clinic. Weirick did both, said his lawyer, Jane Siegel, and got "a clean bill of health" from mental health workers.
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
I’m worried about you, comrade. You’re not supposed to think for yourself.
My apologies, comrade, but sometimes I'm watching decadent American Sports Center and I just can't focus. How many times in one day can a man sit through League of National Football highlights before the mind begins to wander?
My guess is that this is an overreaction. I think the people in the Pentagon feel like they are walking through a minefield every day in their dealings with the Obama administration. You don’t want to give this administration any reason to take even more swipes at the military. That doesn’t justify this, but I can see how it could happen.
It certainly does not.
There is a simple rule for living. Do what is right. I once thought that the USMC would be the last bastion for men who could recognize right from wrong and stand for right no matter the consequences or the cost.
But it seems now that the Corp has at it's head a crew of men who have no spine. It is disgusting.
Ultimately this whole unlawful command influence episode came about to keep the punishment from spreading up the chain of command in the battalion where the previous CMC’s son served.
“I think the people in the Pentagon feel like they are walking through a minefield every day in their dealings with the Obama administration.”
You have no idea what you’re talking about. The higher ups in the military got there by brown nosing any and all politicians. They are for the most part as socialist in their views as Joe Stalin and are more than happy to destroy any and all that rock the boat.
Because the push to do this is coming from higher up...
I can't prove anything one way or another but that may not be the case. Political animals don't have to be told specifically what to do most of the time. They can sense what will make their masters happy and do them instinctively. Amos may well have charged off on this witch hunt seeking a pat on the head from above without one person suggesting it.
Of course it's also quite possible someone had a little talk with him; chances are we'll never know.
Please notice that I didn’t say that walking through a minefield was a bad thing for them. I just said that they feel like they’re walking through a minefield.
a ‘PC’ Marine Corps will lead to many corpses..
It already has.
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Do check this out.
True, we will never know.
Sounds appropriate for the stupidity of letting the video go public.
Amos presided over and enabled the Haditha railroad job and that was under Bush.
I kinda thought the oath to protect America against enemies foreign and domestic didn’t just apply to giving your life for your country but perhaps instead your career for your country.
Oops. Sorry. I got James Amos mixed up with James Mattis.
Nevermind.
Believe it or not, for many that is true. Allen West may be an example, among others. But too many of the top commanders are disgusting political whores. The "Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon", they are called. "You want a feminized, homo-friendly military? Hey! Me too, President Obama!"
I agree.
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