Religions > Atheism > AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse
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12 Sep 2004 08:57:41 AM |
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AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse |
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/30/world/main633055.shtml
So while this guy finally surrenders, Boy Georgie has yet to be brought
to justice for his own infractions under the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. Notice that this guy Jenkins faces possible life imprisonment
for his actions, whereas Bush has evaded all responsibility, as usual.
BTW, I'm starting to like CBS News ;))
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse |
12 Sep 2004 04:54:37 PM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:15:45 -0400, DUCKofDEATH <testy4ever@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
Explain why it was more manly to be a draft dodger in the Vietnam war
than Korean, WWI, WWII, Civil War, etc. I think history'll show that
the spoiled baby boomers punked out when it was their time to
sacrifice. As a late baby boomer, I also bear that shame.
And as for those who called our vets "babykillers", well you libs know
who you are and you've get that shame to bear as well.
DoD
So, you decide to go for the F by evading the question.
Figures, right-wing-***** that you are.
It's entirely beside the point to construct a strawman that, by not dissing
conscientious objectors to *one* war, necessarily takes any position about the relative
merits of standing up against *any* war. It's only a virtue to kill people out of an
excess of testosterone and make-believe patriotism if you're a rightard numbnuts.
Rightard numbnuts.
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For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "Guardian Pegasus" |
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| Title: Re: AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse |
12 Sep 2004 11:05:23 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:50:29 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
wrote:
Only Democrat losers thirty years later give a ***** anyway.
There is no stature of limitation on treason and desertion.
The republicans are trying to drag Kerry's 'Nam record into question.
Don't you think it follows that the dems should be allowed to question
the the Deserter'n'Thief's past history?
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse |
12 Sep 2004 11:59:47 AM |
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Guardian Pegasus <pope@holysee.va> wrote in
news:pqs8k05nvga1mijfcha3mpui0lh4nthh9p@4ax.com:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:50:29 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
wrote:
Only Democrat losers thirty years later give a ***** anyway.
There is no stature of limitation on treason and desertion.
The republicans are trying to drag Kerry's 'Nam record into question.
Kerry himself dragged his 'Nam record into question.
Don't you think it follows that the dems should be allowed to question
the the Deserter'n'Thief's past history?
You've *been* on that silly AWOL piece of ***** for four years now. It's
been refuted, long since. The new forgeries only prove how gullible
Democrats really are.
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Fred Stone
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Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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| User: "George Washington Hayduke" |
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| Title: Re: AWOL army sgt surrenders. AWOL 1st Lieutenant barracaded in whitehouse |
12 Sep 2004 01:18:14 PM |
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quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/30/world/main633055.shtml
39-Year AWOL Army Sgt. Surrenders
CAMP ZAMA, Japan, Sept. 11, 2004
(AP) Frail but determined, Charles Jenkins surrendered to the United States
on Saturday, nearly 40 years after the Army sergeant allegedly defected to
North Korea and became a potent propaganda symbol for the isolated
communist state.
Jenkins' surrender ends a bizarre, twisting saga that saw the native of
Rich Square, N.C., vanish from his Army unit and resurface in propaganda
films as various devilish - and inevitably American - characters. He taught
English to spies and married a Japanese woman who had been abducted by
North Korean agents in the 1970s to teach the same spies - and won her
freedom in 2002.
The story has captivated Japan, where sympathy for Jenkins' wife, Hitomi
Soga, and other Japanese kidnapped by the North over the years is extremely
high. Soga and their two children were by Jenkins' side when he stood at
attention at Camp Zama and saluted.
"Sir, I'm Sgt. Jenkins and I'm reporting," he told military police at the
gate of this base just south of Tokyo.
"You are now under the control of the U.S. Army," Lt. Col. Paul Nigara
responded.
Jenkins' decision was also likely to please the Bush administration, which
had ruled out a pardon over fears doing so would send the wrong message
with U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in a concession to
Japan, it had backed off demanding custody as the received treatment in a
Tokyo hospital for complications related to abdominal surgery he had in the
North.
Jenkins, now 64, resumes active duty while the military considers the case
for a court-martial, said Col. John Dykstra, a legal officer. A decision
could take months.
Meanwhile Jenkins is free to move about on the base and use its facilities,
Dykstra said. If a court martial is held, Zama would be the venue.
Jenkins will be issued a new uniform and ID card, given a haircut and
offered benefits to which U.S. army sergeants are entitled, including a
life insurance policy.
He was assigned to a new unit and would be performing administrative duties
pending legal action, officials said
Jenkins is charged with defecting in 1965 along the Demilitiarized Zone to
the North, where he lived for 39 years, and faces a maximum sentence of
life in prison if convicted. U.S. authorities say they have letters he
wrote that show he intended to defect.
Jenkins is widely expected to strike a plea bargain to avoid prison. He has
met several times with an Army-appointed attorney to prepare his case. The
attorney also accompanied Jenkins here Saturday.
"I expect we have a lot more to face in the days to come," Soga said as she
left a Tokyo hotel. "But we hope that the four of us can live together as
soon as possible."
Jenkins' family members in North Carolina have argued that he was kidnapped
by North Korean agents and taken there against his will.
"Hopefully we can get the truth," Jenkins' nephew, James Hyman, said from
his home in Dallas, N.C. He said he believed his uncle would plead guilty
to the charge related to his appearance in propaganda films in the plea
bargain.
"I'm not ashamed of what my uncle might have done, because I don't believe
he did anything wrong," Hyman said.
Jenkins' fate has become the focus of intense interest in Japan because of
Soga, who was one of more than a dozen Japanese citizens abducted by North
Korean agents in the 1970s and 80s and taken to North Korea.
She and Jenkins met soon after she arrived in the communist state in 1978.
Soga was allowed to return to Japan after a historic Japan-North Korea
summit in Pyongyang in 2002, but Jenkins and the couple's daughters
remained in the North until this summer.
Tokyo arranged a reunion of the family in Jakarta, Indonesia, in July, and
then persuaded Jenkins to come to Japan for medical treatment. He has not
publicly addressed the charges against him.
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And yet we still have a deserter in the White House.
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