Posted on 06/22/2017 6:17:39 PM PDT by seekthetruth
Sgt. Miller is serving life in prison with the opportunity for parole in 2020. 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”.
Following the shooting, Sgt. Miller’s unit was implicated in a complex attack and Afghan National Army fighters that were assigned to stay with the platoon disappeared prior to the onset of the firefight. They hid behind a building.
Sgt. Miller was embroiled in a firefight the night he killed the Afghan man. The Afghan man was an insurgent and yet no one in the military wants to say this and directly confront the duplicitous Afghanis. The firefight was not instigated by American soldiers; the firefight was meant to kill American soldiers, and Afghan National Army fighters were nowhere to be found.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
BTTT.
Ask that he be pardoned !
I wrote to Derrick long ago, when the effort started to free him. I received a personal reply and thank you. Beverly Pearlson was the organizer I think.
I wish we had an address to send things to his daughter who is with his Mother. Prison rules make only direct shipments from suppliers, to him. Example: Books only from a publisher!
What can we do?
If he had been a cop on an American street doing the exact same thing, there wouldn’t have even been an indictment.
The Knish readers will be most interested in helping.
pretty friggin sad when you sacrifice your time, energy and life by putting it on the line every day for your country, and you president and ilk turn on you and falsely convict you of crimes while you were just trying to help your country- Talk about being friggin betrayed by your own president! May President Trump rectify this immediately! AND compensate the man for having been falsely imprisoned in the first place
Life in prison for serving your country? That is a pretty friggin low thing to do to a soldier protecting the world against TERRORISTS! And i hardly ever say friggin!
This young patriot needs to be released and compensated for his unjustified imprisonment!
Mr. President, we know you're busy with America's business but PLEASE take time to look at this poor patriot's dilemma and PARDON him as soon as possible!
F*** the Congressional Black Caucasians, they care not for ANYONE in the U.S. Military!
Imo, everyone in the chain of command that put up with this should be placed before a wall...
Direct link to the petition for “Clemency/Pardon for Sgt. Derrick Miller”
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Damn straight. Listen, we have got to get away from this whole “soldiers and police are interchangeable” foreign policy.
Let each do what they specialize in.
I’d like to get all the facts of this case prior to making judgement one way or another. The article shows a singular POV and of course if you are in support of that view well you share it.
Missing is what was presented at trial of his military superiors? His case was either heard by jury or judge. What did the prosecutor charge him with? A jury or judge heard a case and if true this gentleman got life then the crime had to be quite severe.
Obama had nothing to do with this. It was a military judge and/or military jury under the UCMJ that convicted this soldier.
They are pathetic cowards in the pocket of much more powerful Democrats, and we all know how so many Democrats look at our soldiers.
Preach! Tell it like it truly is, sister!
They need to pardon and hand him a medal .
This is about saving the life of one of our own.
Prayers going up for all.
one question, and one question only: Did this conviction come from a Civilian or Military court?
i think that the original jurisdiction powers of the Civilian courts needs be removed, and returned to the Military court system. IIRC, this was an “innovation” of the Bush 43 Administration. It hasn’t worked out well in practical terms.
Of course even in my day, the Federal courts had appellate jurisdiction over Military cases, and this should remain as it was.
Second, military prosecutors should be screened, and a great many of them (especially those trying to make a name for themselves) should be removed from the JAG staff.
A TRUE STORY:
i worked with a friend who had a son in Iraq. The boy ended up shooting in Iraqi kid who was picking up an AK-47. He was charged. This young man had two Bronze Stars (with Valor Devices) and a Purple Heart.
He was charged with two other members of his platoon.
The Judge in charge of the case was a Brigadier General with a Special Forces combat patch (worn on the right shoulder part of the sleeve), had three Silver Stars, and Three Purple Hearts. He was not happy.
The prosecutor was a First Lieutenant.
The Judge looked over the paper work and scowled.
He immediately ordered the court room cleared, and went off record and stood the prosecutor at Attention...the term is “Locked his heels”.
This is an accounting of the General/Judge’s statenemt:
“Lieutenant, are you out of your F#@k!ng mind? Have you ever been in combat, or fired your weapon outside of a rifle range?
If you EVER bring $#!+ like this into MY courtroom again, I’ll toss your @$$ in jail. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?”
The Judge then brought back all who were cleared out by his earlier order, and went back on record, and made the following comment: “I FIND NO MERIT TO THESE CHARGES. CASE DISMISSED!”
My friend’s son was on his third combat deployment.
END OF STORY.
We need some common sense and combat experience in the JAG office. There is a big difference between Sgt. Derrik Miller and Lt. William Cally, and it isn’t just their colour.
If this was a civilian Federal Court, we need to remove the primary jurisdiction of said Federal Courts so that this kind of travesty does not EVER happen again.
This of course assumes that we are being told the entire story.
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