[PhilDragoo]

I recall the case at the time.

One would have to work very hard to hand the anti-US activists a bigger stick with which to beat us.

It is overflowing with irony that we deferred to Okinawan "justice" and it came as a sentence more in line with check kiting.

I would have proposed early release for the trio of rapists to be filmed by 16 video cameras ground-based and helicopter-borne.

From an altitude of 2,000 they would be released.

That there are no parachutes is a translation issue:

In order that the rest of the Marines and Okinawans get the message, it is being transmitted in the clear:

This excrement does not fly.

[SAMWolf]

This guys story just breaks my heart. < /sarcasm>