Posted on 03/21/2019 2:24:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
For several years The Gateway Pundit has reported on the plight of Sgt. Derrick Miller who sits in prison for life in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Today we are pleased to announce that Sgt. Miller will soon be released from prison!
U.S. Army National Guardsman Sgt. Derrick Miller... from Hagerstown, Maryland, was convicted in July of 2011 for the pre-meditated murder of an Afghan man in 2010.
Sgt. Miller shot and killed an Afghan civilian following the civilian attempting to grab Sgt. Miller’s weapon during a period of intense questioning. The Afghan civilian was a suspected insurgent that was walking through Sgt. Miller’s “platoon defensive perimeter observing their defensive positions”....
Absolutely. All of his men got to come home, except him. The idea that they called it "premeditated" is absurd on its face.
I was gonna say he could lecture by my early dementia makes me forget mid post :)
He DEFINITELY can.
Maybe run for office one day.
You never know.
He was a prisoner of war, except his own country imprisoned him.
I wish I had heard Renee. Beverly Perlson and some other freepers have been interfacing with her frequently for years now, including demonstrating outside the House Office Building in DC. She seems like a wonderful person, and she is a person of faith, which has been sustaining for Derrick.
You are 100% correct about the pawn thing. It is contemptible in the extreme.
In a just world.... so don't hold your breath waiting for it. The past admin did everything it could to utterly destroy morale, and the military itself. Mattis was just a way station. There is so much work to be done to repair all the destruction.
You've got that right. It was a complete travesty.
You are completely misinformed. This case has been thoroughly researched and vetted by dozens of lawyers and activists for the past seven years. I personally have spent many hours in research and in communication with freepers who have attended his hearings and listened to testimony. Where did you read your version, on the Internet?
Have you never heard of fragging, or of troops telling lies about their officers to get revenge for having been disciplined for some petty infractions? Derrick was lied about by some "witnesses" but completely supported by others. Do you seriously think a Congressman as prominent and well-known as Louie Gohmert, a former JAG officer, would have defended Miller without researching the facts?
See post 67 for a rebuttal of the ludicrous claims that Miller was a “dirtbag” and his supporters “ignorant fools.”
Your prejudice against Gateway Pundit is ludicrous. If Gateway Pundit published the text of the Declaration of Independence, you would claim that only dirtbags wrote it and only fools think it’s valid.
The Miller story was published yesterday and today in a number of places. I picked the GP article over the United American Patriots article and the two Facebook articles and various others, because it was short and sweet. But the contents line up with much more in-depth articles elsewhere.
I challenge you to read the following case history from the University of Chicago Law School that is clearly favorable to Sgt Miller:
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/clinics/mandel/mental/combat/miller
Derrick's mother and a committee of supporters attempted to meet with all Maryland U.S. Representatives, at least one of whom (Elijah Cummings) is also on the CBC, and appealed to many persons in public life for help with the case. All Democrats, they would not give her the time of day and did nothing in response to the many calls and letters and sidewalk demonstrations by supporters.
Lying. Post 37 explains it very succinctly.
Amen and amen, Merlin gurl!
Check out the case history from U. of Chicago Law School linked in post 46; also there's a good short summary in post 37.
I’m asking you, did you think it was done for entertainment purposes only? What reason do you think he shot that afghani? If not justified than all other paths lead to PTSD. He should have treated then, rather than prosecution.
Remember he is on his 3rd deployment with particular predilection to random murder.
How about the soldier that killed an afghani just because he was abusing children or do you think he did it for some nefarious reason?
I believe the “hero” word is, as you indicate, often bandied about carelessly. In this situation, I think it refers to his several previous deployments and stellar record from those, and most importantly, that the man he was questioning had been spying and that he warned his men to change positions. Derrick’s actions helped all his men avoid being killed in an attack that resulted from the spying. The link in post 47 explains it better than I could.
I think there was something wrong with this guy from the beginning. First of all he was not a professional soldier, Regular Army, but a weekend warrior National Guardsmen who volunteered for combat deployment at least three times. THAT in itself tells you he has a few screws loose. A would be adventurer who couldn’t get into the Army. Obviously with no civilian job and nothing but time in his hands to go overseas as active duty. Nothing to keep him in the states in terms of a future.
Second, national guardsmen are not assigned as POW interrogators. That assignment is a very specialized field. Not for part time weekend warriors.
My guess is that this guy was just playing soldier as a enemy interrogator without any formal training and things just got out of hand and he thought threatening the prisoner would make him talk and when he didn’t he just blew the guy away.
Correction: the U of Chicago Law School link is in post 69.
Correction: the link to the explanatory article is in post 69, not 47.
Your guesses are way off base. Stop while you are behind.
Well why don’t you tell us where we are wrong.
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