Sailor still imprisoned despite court victory in Navy rape case

Stars & Stripes ^ | 8/25/15 | Michael Doyle

[sparklite2]

“She … testified that while ‘making out’ with (Clark) on the couch earlier that night, she told him she was not interested in having sex with him,” judges later recounted.

She reported the alleged rape to law enforcement three months later.
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I wouldn’t blame the sailor if he said
this country isn’t worth defending.

[DaveyB]

When it comes to rape a man is guilty until proven innocent guilty!

[Pollster1]

I wouldn’t blame the sailor if he said this country isn’t worth defending.

The country is worth defending. As for the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, I'm always amazed that anyone in the Secret Service stays with a job in which they are expected to take a bullet for one of the most evil men in history. The communist druggie is not worth defending.

[MichaelCorleone]

The feminazis are not in the armed forces to defend this country. They’re there to dominate, emasculate, and oppress the straight male. Make no mistake.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sounds like the making of another lawsuit.

[cuban leaf]

The country is worth defending. As for the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, I’m always amazed that anyone in the Secret Service stays with a job in which they are expected to take a bullet for one of the most evil men in history. The communist druggie is not worth defending.

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The problem is that Obama is not the problem. He is the symptom. The problem is the electorate. Technically this makes your first sentence contradictory. i.e. The electorate is not worth defending. And they are the country, so the country is not worth defending.

[2ndDivisionVet]

PIV is always rape, ok?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3108209/posts

[Mark17]

The feminazis are not in the armed forces to defend this country. They’re there to dominate, emasculate, and oppress the straight male. Make no mistake.

I am glad I retired.

[Bogey78O]

When do Navy enlisted get called “airman”?

[markomalley]

When do Navy enlisted get called “airman”?

Depends upon the rate:

• Seaman is the title assigned to general-duty deck and administrative sailors, who wear a triple white striped insignia.
• Fireman is the title assigned to sailors working in the engineering and hull departments, who wear a triple red striped insignia.
• Hospitalman, or Hospital Corpsman, is the title assigned to sailors specializing in the medical and hospital departments. This is the only rank available to hospital corpsmen, who wear triple white striped insignia.
• Constructionman is the title assigned to sailors specializing in the naval construction battalion, or Seabees. They wear triple blue-striped insignia.
• Airman is the title assigned to sailors specializing in aviation, who wear triple green striped insignia.

[Rodamala]

Surprised all of those designations have not been changed to “person”.

[cport]

A Navy commander found Clark guilty on Feb. 21, 2014, of rape and forcible sodomy

If the sodomy law is still in the UCMJ, then every act of homo sex is prosecutable.

[dila813]

I can’t remember, but when I was in the service, I believe they told me that even if you aren’t convicted, that if you are in the brig, it shows up as a Federal Prison Stint.

Is that true? Like even though you aren’t convicted you still have a Federal Prison record.

[Bigg Red]

The suffix “man” as in “airman” means “person”.

[TChad]

The woman further testified that “throughout the evening she engaged in consensual amorous activity with three different men” before ultimately blacking out, judges noted.

Yet he was convicted, and that conviction will probably ruin his life. Who wants to hire a convicted rapist? Who wants to live near a convicted rapist? Who wants to marry a convicted rapist? Who cares if he is eventually released on some "legal technicality"?

Absolutely nothing will happen to her. Zero consequences.

Whatever facts are revealed, he will remain the rapist, and she will remain the victim.

Makes you want to encourage young men to enlist in the Navy, doesn't it?

[knarf]

I'M amazed no one has a patriotic thread in their fabric

I know defense lawyers are bound by oath and jurisprudence to defend a person even when you know they're guilty .... but ....

[rockinqsranch]

“.......the lower-level Navy and Marine Corps court gave the government until Sept. 3 to provide reasons why Clark should not be released.”

Like beating ones head into a wall. When one is in the military, no matter the branch of the military one is considered an asset, not a person. This young man is an asset assigned to a jail cell until a decision is made of where to utilize the asset next.

The military doesn’t care the asset is a human. Could be a sink in the Admiral’s mess for all they care. They’ll move the asset to some duty down the road, but for now they know where the asset is, and that it won’t be making any problems for them where it’s at.

[pacific_waters]

No, unless things have change in 45 years, which is entirely possible. My last year in I worked in a unit that processed soldiers awaitng trial, discharge or reassignment. There is no official reassignment unless orders a have been cut.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!