[seekthetruth]

Please read at the link and help spread the link to everyone you know who supports our military. Sgt. Derrick Miller is a hero and should be home with his family. Thanks for your help!

[seekthetruth]

Florida Freeper ping here!

[lgjhn23]

He was “railroaded” by the dumbass odongo muslim administration.
He should be pardoned and allowed to go home.

[onyx]

Look closely at the powers that exist in this nation and who is fought for and who is not fought for.

Look now at the Congressional Black Caucus, a poor excuse for a representative caucus within Congress, and beyond this, they are execrable for refusing to fight for Sgt. Miller, a black soldier that saved countless lives.

Leave it to the Congressional Black Caucus to be silent.

They are pathetic cowards in the pocket of much more powerful Democrats, and we all know how so many Democrats look at our soldiers.


Isn't that big mouth Elijah Cummings from Maryland?

[leaning conservative]

I am not a military person and do not know all the ins & outs, but it sure sounds like this man is being unjustly held. Are military just supposed to let the enemy grab their guns????? Is so that is insane.

Very surprised that the Congressional Black Caucus is not behind him.

[Albion Wilde]

MAGA list ping.

Boy Scouts list ping.

My Big Trump list ping.

FR Graduate and Professional degree ping.

Please forgive me for multiple pings if you are on more than one of my lists. Derrick Miller’s dilemma is very close to my heart. Help if you can.

[Robert DeLong]

You do know you can contact the White House and send an email via this URL: Contact The White House

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

He should be pardoned, conviction expunged, bumped two pay grades and then be allowed to retire if he wants to. I suspect he would want to be part of Trump’s military though.

MAGA

[stillfree?]

Bump

[stars & stripes forever]

The petition is just a blank page. Is there another link?

[apocalypto]

bump!!!

[exit82]

BTTT.

[3D-JOY]

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!

[WASCWatch]

If he had been a cop on an American street doing the exact same thing, there wouldn’t have even been an indictment.

[Bob434]

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!

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you for the Ping & Post!
Petition Signed.

[Carthego delenda est]

Direct link to the petition for “Clemency/Pardon for Sgt. Derrick Miller”

https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-clemency-pardon-for-sgt-derrick-miller?source_location=minibar

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

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.

[ApplegateRanch]

Signed, and reposted to Facebook.

[Pollster1]

Unrelated case:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/25/military-court-overturns-convictions-possible-command-influence.html

“In a 3-2 opinion published last week, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said that because then-Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, the authority in the case, had been told to retire or be fired because of his decisions in previous sexual assault cases, his move 10 days later to court-martial the airman could appear to be tainted by unlawful command influence”

Unrelated case:
https://warontherocks.com/2015/10/sexual-assault-in-the-military-and-the-unlawful-command-influence-catch-22/

“Recently, a military appellate court once again overturned a rape conviction on the grounds of unlawful command influence. This time (United States v. Garcia), the source of the influence went beyond a base commander or even a service chief and included comments made by President Obama and the general climate around sexual assault in the military command structure . . . It is with this background that the Garcia case was decided. The Garcia opinion noted that “with multiple references — some overt and others thinly veiled — to the Army’s efforts to confront sexual assault, the government attempted to impermissibly influence the panel’s findings by injecting command policy into the trial.” In the Garcia case, the prosecutor repeatedly, and improperly, mentioned the Army’s stance on sexual assaults.”
and
“Then, in the high-profile prosecution of Army Brig. Gen. Jeffery Sinclair for sexual assault against a subordinate, the military judge ruled that unlawful command influence had tainted the trial. Former Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos, was also found to have exercised unlawful command influence when he commenced on a worldwide speaking tour addressing the Corps about the problem of sexual assault. His actions resulted in a military court of appeals overturning a conviction for sexual assault.”

Unrelated case:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/12/patrick-lorge-retired-admiral-charges-pentagon-bra/

“A retired admiral is accusing the highest levels of the Navy legal corps at the Pentagon of improperly interfering in the case of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of sexual assault. Retired Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge charges in a May 5 signed affidavit that the then-judge advocate general of the Navy and her deputy tried to persuade him not to exonerate the sailor because it would be bad public relations for the Navy and hurt Mr. Lorge’s career.”

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While these and many others that come to mind are all sexual misconduct cases, they prove a pattern of improper command influence in military trials under the former occupant of the Commander-in-Chief’s office. That is certainly relevant to the question of whether there was improper political influence in yet another trial with political significance.

[treetopsandroofs]

Free Derrick Miller Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/FreeDerrickMiller/

Not sure what this guy’s deal is:

https://www.facebook.com/UsMilitaryOnTheMoveByDerrickMillerJbGoodwinRealtor/