Government Has Yet to Provide Evidence to Support Its Prosecution of Navy Seals

cnsnews.com ^ | December 08, 2009 | Fred Lucas

[NavVet]

Not entering a plea at arraignment is standard procedure. The govt. asks for an arraignment to stop the speedy trial clock and the accused enters a plea one way or the other on the day the trial is scheduled.

Now that the accused has been arraignmed, the defense can file a motion to compell discovery.

[mvpel]

The last article I read suggested that one Seal punched one terrorist in the stomach. Bad form, maybe, but hardly worth the drama I’m seeing in the news.

Bad form?? Here's page nine from the Monadnock PR-TM2 side-handle police baton training manual, describing jabbing techniques:

The Front Jab is one of the most effective and dynamic active defensive skills you have in the Basic Position to defend in close with an attacker (Zone 1).

And from page 15:

(10) LOWER ABDOMEN - GREEN AREA. Abdominal region just below the navel. A baton strike usually causes minimal, temporary incapacitation.

Green Target Areas are for confrontations where the subject is resisting an officer or another. Yellow Target Areas [Upper Abdomen] are for confrontations where the subject is assaulting an officer or another, or when force applied to a Green Target fails to overcome resistence or does not correspond with the threat level. Yellow Targets are areas of the body where force is directed at a joint or an area in close proximity to a priminent Red Target Area and therefore the risk of injury increases.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Great web page. Thanks for posting it!

[drypowder]

The U.S. government is not just a joke, it is and has been for years a scam perpetrated on the citizens by crooked politicians and allowed to continue by their ignoring the laws of our constitution.

[USS Alaska]

His career is over,

If true, that's a damn shame on our military.

My son is a Captain in the Navy and he worked with the Seals {he is not a Seal}, and he told me that he'd put them up against any special forces unit in the world.

The hard work that these guys go through to become a Seal, and then to be destroyed by their own government is too much to be believed.

[BP2]

> we’re a Navy family, but on this one I want to hear
> all of the evidence before making a judgment call.

I agree, but all things being equal, I'll lean toward the idea that the Seals are the target of a Obama-driven policy aimed to show the Muslim world that he won't "tolerate" Abu Ghraib-type abuse — even though that's not what the Seal did, and even though the terrorist probably injured himself to get the Navy Seal in trouble, as is recommended in the "terrorist handbook."

IF the local commander was lied to, that honestly deserves attention.

But in terms of any alleged abuse by the Seals, the terrorist deserved the same fate as the Americans he killed.

"And We prescribed to them in it that life is for life, and eye for eye, and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and (that there is) reprisal in wounds; but he who foregoes it, it shall be an expiation for him; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unjust." - Quran, 5.45

[444Flyer]

Prayers up for these SEALs.

Al-Qaeda tells all their people to yell “torture” or “abuse” if captured. Even they have figured out how to work the system. This is all bull. Clear these SEALs and let them get back to defending our nation. They caught one of the most wanted terrorist animals in Iraq, they are more then capable and have proved themselves to be a great asset to our Armed Services.

[cyberaxe]

The hard work that these guys go through to become a Seal, and then to be destroyed by their own government is too much to be believed.

.....it's also already responsible for too many of their deaths.....

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[cyberaxe]

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[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The way I see it...I don’t think their career is over. They avoided a captains mast, which in itself is a permanent MARK of punishment, a possible freeze on them making rank.

This court martial *should* clean their records back to spotless.