On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:26:28 -0700, Hawke
wrote:

On 8/27/2011 6:12 AM, ATP wrote:
"Ed wrote in message
...

"Obama's Fake wrote in message
...
An Air Force staff sergeant based in Germany says he's been AWOL
since last week because he read on the Internet that President
Barack Obama's long form birth certificate is a fraud.

Inspired by fellow birther, Army doctor Terrence Lakin, Staff
Sgt. Daryn J. Moran has plastered the Internet with the news
that he's deserting his post as an ophthalmology technician
overseas.

'Sounds like the dude has some prison time coming.

--
Ed Huntress
Not enough, unfortunately. Desertions and bogus claims of military service
don't seem to be punished severely in these modern times. I hope our
national defense is not impaired by the loss of this opthalmology
technician....


Military justice has been and remains an oxymoron. Case in point;
William Calley convicted of leading the massacre of hundreds of
civilians in My Lai, Vietnam. Sentenced to 40 months imprisonment; of
which most of it was spent in his quarters on a military base in Georgia.

So if all they do to you for massacring hundreds of people is what
Calley got then you can expect that same kind of lack of justice
throughout the entire system.

Hawke


He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

As an aside: "After the conviction, the White House received over 5000
telegrams; the ratio was 100 to 1 in favor of leniency.[10] In a
telephone survey of the American public, 79% disagreed with the
verdict, 81% believed that the life sentence Calley had received was
too stern, and 69% believed Calley had been made a scapegoat.[10]"

Ultimately, Calley served only three and a half years of house arrest
in his quarters at Fort Benning. He petitioned the federal district
court for habeas corpus on February 11, 1974, which was granted on
September 25, 1974, along with his immediate release, by federal judge
J. Robert Elliott. Judge Elliott found that Calley's trial had been
prejudiced by pretrial publicity, denial of subpoenas of certain
defense witnesses, refusal of the United States House of
Representatives to release testimony taken in executive session of its
My Lai investigation, and inadequate notice of the charges.

Later in 1974, President Nixon tacitly issued Calley a limited
Presidential Pardon. Consequently, his general court-martial
conviction and dismissal from the U.S. Army were upheld, however, the
prison sentence and subsequent parole obligations were commuted to
time served.
Cheers,

John B.