all they did was weaken a country.



of course when they arent the ones standing in the kill zone its hard for them to see that.

but its cool, the more they rant, then the more the little bad guys try to hunt soldiers down and that less of them trying to kill people back in the states and more slugs for us to kill there, so in the end they are doing their parts.

I think theyre claiming to be more intelligent than Pelosi and Reid. An assertion that I believe as well.

To many times in recent history we republicans have been characterized and assaulted for not being as "smart" as the hippy loving socialist communistic party known to most as the democrats, Im glad happy and messing all over myself watching the collapse of their elitistism, people waking up all over the place, just out of the blue saying wait a damn minute, I know I work in a union and they tell me dems are the greatest, but these people dont believe what i do!

texas and ohio yesterday did more than predicted, first they kept Hillary in the race (just as I said they would), second they insured the dems would lose all power this coming november. its more than a prophecy, it will be fact. people are tired of their stupidity.

go find a tree to hug

ever been through or sat in a military trial?

I have, as a bailiff (the unit which the tried individual is from has to supply someone to be represented as the courts bailiff I got chose)

anyway- the old saying innocent until proven guilty does not fly in the military, except on capital offense type things. the military prosecutor could have held up anything and submitted it into evidence.

our particular case was a man accused of assaulting his wife. 3 counts of assault actually.

assault one, he threw water in her face at a restaurant, where she had taken him (a public place) to inform him of her pregnancy---to another man from when he was deployed.

assault two, taking her phone away from her that had pictures of her new lover and his "junk" on it. (a phone that he paid for BTW)

and final assault was for putting his hands up blocking her slaps, she has bruises that he caused on her hands if you can believe that crap.


the trial was a joke, it lasted three hours...... pictures were blown up from her phone and submitted into evidence. the prosecutor objected of course saying that the pictures were of the soldier, luckily when the soldier stood to drop his pants to prove it wasnt him the courts prosecutor conceded.

end result, the soldier was found guilty of three counts of assault to cause bodily harm. sentenced for time served (3 months) and ordered to be immediately kicked out of the military. WHAT A JOKE!!! the things that the military men and women go through just to make the PC crowds happy. you can all bl*w me.

I would have loved to have seen the abu graibe trial go to court in the civilian world, everybody involved would have got off with no judgments against them.

wow, liberals take over and come out in droves showing heavy support.. all the while wasting the time of a small town community.
whats the matter couldnt get this measure put on the ballots of a state? its cool though, really a "w" in the win column is just what ya'll needed to solidify the truth right?

no offense to your town of brattleboro but the fact that these people were able to get enough signatures to even place this ridiculous notion on your ballot is kind of funny, wheres the common sense up there?

the smirkingchimp theres a news source of substances

okat cutting copying and pasting, I have been guilty as charged lately throwing it back into the faces of the madster dragoon, having said that Hiker, whats your take of the substance of this post?

Just curious because you never did say.



doc

copy and paste? its cool, im making the effort though, not that my views or opinions are wrong mind you. and not like i will take the shots that i have taken by a couple of you either. i will just do it in an even more superior way. neenerneenerneener.

party pooper

what a shame, can get it in jail, but not in iraq or afghanistan.

oh well............... hopefully they'd get some help to.

My only real interpretation to this is in regard to the militia. understanding what a militia was at the time that it was written and who wer the militia. they were the everyday people. the cobbler guy, silver smith etc etc, they were not soldiers they were not the national guard or some other organized or controlled group of people. think of it more like a volunteer fire fighter. You hear the alarm if you are in the neigborhood you stop by.

rpg's flamethrowers, bazooka's.... i would say, that if it is available for general public sale then yeah sure you can have it, but i dont think they sale flamethrowers down at JR rifle and handgun shop. and the federal reg's on them now..... shoot son do you really think the government wants you to have what they have? they call it national security, and sorry but the bazooka has to stay in the closet....

*****I see democracy as a conversation to be had. According to this conception, the genius of Madison's design is not that it provides a fixed blueprint for action. It provides us with a framework and rules, but all its machinery are designed to force us into a conversation.
Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p. 89-92 Oct 1, 2006*****


This is a very nice sounding very well spoken way of saying that we can throw out the constitution when it doesnt fit with what we are trying to do(in my opinion). like it is an obstacle of some sort to the advancement of something. an advancement of what I ask? What is it the constitution stood in the way of Barack?

The constitution is very clear with regards to damn near everything we do, it is only when trying to rewrite it or "interpret" it do we find that it gets mangled up and watered down.

Im not going to lie, I wish I could speak like he does(except truthfully). Democracy is a conversation, it is one being had right now in small places in the world where people long for freedom. Barack you are no founding father, as smart as you make yourself out to be, you will never be on the same intellectual playing field as they where.

wheres ben franklin when you need him most?

do you know what rights he has where he is from? just asking.

are they the same as here? just asking.

his company did what, arranged for trips to cuba(which has been embargoed by this country since JFK. His country doesnt have the same embargo with them that we do, but wasnt his site set up using american company iso or an american owned whatever domain name company.

its a very gray area at best, i agree it should have just been left alone. BUT I can understand why it was that it was shut down- if you use the embargo as your defense.

Forge.........

damn.

its good to know someone looks into FACTS. Ive heard some of that before but not all of it.

good looking out.


doc

some view prison as one long drug rehab, they come out clean of drugs....

but i do see where you are coming from too.

never mind I found the mandate


Why did countries decide to set up an International Criminal Court? How is it different from other courts?

In 1948, following the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after the Second World War, the United Nations General Assembly first recognized the need for a permanent international court to deal with the kind of atrocities that had recently taken place. Since then, the need for such a court has been discussed off and on at the UN. The scope, scale and hateful nature of atrocities that have taken place during the last 20 years in many parts of the world gave impetus to creating a permanent mechanism to bring to justice the perpetrators of such crimes as genocide, ethnic cleansing, sexual slavery and maiming, including amputation of limbs of non-combatants, even women and children, and to finally put an end to the impunity so often enjoyed by those in positions of power.

In the aftermath of the events in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the United Nations Security Council responded by creating tribunals to bring individual perpetrators to justice. However, tribunals established after the fact are typically bound by mandates that are specific in time and place. To establish such a tribunal is a challenging, lengthy and expensive undertaking. A permanent court with a mandate to bring to justice individuals responsible for the world's most serious crimes, atrocities and mass murders will be more effective and efficient. It will be able to take action quickly, and possibly limit the extent or duration of violence; by nature of its very existence, it will provide a much stronger deterrent. Potential war criminals might reconsider carrying out their plans when they know that they may be held accountable - as an individual - even if they are a head of State. The International Criminal Court, established as an independent entity, will be able to act regarding crimes within its jurisdiction without a special mandate from the United Nations Security Council.

no exceptions

international court, what is the main purpose, can someone tell me their main reason for being, what is their charter. and heres one, are they more lenient than the US laws? or more strict? just floating this out there but i would say less strict.

I agree with everything you just said.

How do you tell the right from the loons? thats my question. I would not be opposed as some would to making someone taking a mental exam initially. but then again people all have their own snapping points, and what makes people snap generally is still not detectable by science(mostly).

buy a gun, it should come with a gun lock, maybe that way dumb little johnny wont shoot his cute little sister in the head.

keeps you on your toes.

I know I wouldnt want to be one of their propaganda tools, put up on a stage bound by ropes and slowly have my head sawed off for the TV camera's. No thanks, think I'll do the training, fatigued or not. it sucks at the time no doubt about it, but the end result(coming home) is well worth the pain.

i wish, but they are the furthest thing to us you will find as far as organized military's goes. their structure and how they operate, definitely not the way we would do it. theyre a little more in discriminant than we are. but whatever works for them.

Its cool.....

I just take it as she didnt know that we did water boarding on ourselves, now she does. of course I dont know what info you can find on the web about S.E.R.E. school maybe they'll mention it in there? it is away to experience what light torture and drowning are going to be like. gives you a real world perspective and hopefully a little added inscentive not to be captured by those nice people using drills and dull knives.

funny you should say that.

water boarding is experienced by soldiers during their sere training. as well as riot control gas. in fact US soldiers are continually put through training that you couldnt even think imaginable with regards to torture and captivity. so yeah, water boarding, been there done that. thanks for the post tho.