Posted on 12/23/2015 10:29:36 AM PST by jazusamo
Since an Army general has finally demonstrated the backbone, rarely seen nowadays among his peers, to defy the White House and proceed with the prosecution of Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, the liberal media is doing its very best to downplay the possible seriousness of the charges. Even conservative venues are repeating the deceit that the desertion charge carries a maximum penalty of five years confinement while the lesser known second charge can result in a life sentence at maximum.
I hate to disappoint all the liberal Democrats and their media mouthpieces whose war heroes always seem to be tainted, often so much so as to be heroes to our enemies, such as John Kerry and Jane Fonda, both venerated by Communist Vietnam, but the truth is that both charges against Bergdahl do, in hard fact, carry the death penalty. For the charge of desertion, it is this subparagraph from Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that puts the lie to the liberal misinformation campaign:
(c) Any person found guilty of desertion or attempt to desert shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, but if the desertion or attempt to desert occurs at any other time, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial may direct.
Violations of the seldom-used Article 99, Misbehavior Before The Enemy, also may bring the ultimate punishment:
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Listening to a 3 hour CD of hillarys most famous speeches
Obama will pardon him before he leaves office.
It is not media - it is Pravda-us.
Ready him on the gallows and start the CD, he’ll beg the hangman to trip the trap door.
Our number one goal ought to be to hunt and destroy all liberal involvement with the media. The media has become nothing more than a giant Liberal brainwash machine.
Why not delay the trial until after Obama leaves office?
Anyone remember the OTHER traitor in Viet Nam? Robert “Bobby” Garwood.
Punishment should be 50 sharp shooters, a running start of 50 yards, then we start firing. If he makes it out unscratched, he goes free. My guess we won’t make it out.
The military is not a place for stupid liberals to practice their liberal ideologies and join forces with the enemy, particularly when it gets other service members killed.
Lets change the term Benedict Arnold to “pulling a Bergdahl”
Used to be that only soldiers got a firing squad. Traitors got a rope.
A president can pardon the accused at any time in the process. See Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon.
Why not delay the trial until after Obama leaves office?
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Obama can pardon him before he is convicted or even charged if he had wanted to.
Gerald Ford opened that can of worms.
Ya know when we went in to Panama and Grenada we played heavy metal music to drive em crazy and surrender.
Can you imagine being in a holed up position and have em play Hillary cackling and all for a few hours or days without let up?
Oh no, the horror, please make it stop, I’ll speak I surrender.
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