“Why do you not respect the US Constitution.”
I am staying within the parameters of the Constitution. I’m disapproving of the actions that Gallagher took by placing people in peril by pounding his chest for Charlie to see and incite further action. I am staying within the parameters established by the Geneva Convention and the follow on training of military personnel that he ignored. Everything I have said is by the book.
I disagree with Trump’s pardon and the confusion of how the military system works when it went public and the media was given the opportunity to cut the action apart and mislead the world through falsehood publications.
This is not the WWE our people are in. It is a combat action and unless we stay within and display the proper discipline, we create casualties and define ourselves as no better than the sect we are opposing.
You find fault with that? Then you haven’t been there and by supporting this type of behavior, you approve of it. You tell me which one is a lost cause? Doing his job or acting like a lowland gorilla pounding his chest? That’s the bottom line.
rwood
Just you. You are the list cause.
Twice now you have disrespected our constitution that you gave sworn to obey.
“Let me give another anecdote bearing on the same subject. A Congressman went up to the White House one morning on business, and saw in the anteroom, always crowded with people in those days, an old man, crouched all alone in a corner, crying as if his heart would break. As such a sight was by no means uncommon, the Congressman passed into the President’s room, transacted his business, and went away. The next morning he was obliged again to go to the White house, and he saw the same old man crying, as before, in the corner. He stopped, and said to him, ‘What’s the matter with you, old man?’ The old man told him the story of his son; that he was a soldier in the Army of the James – General Butler’s army – that he had been convicted by a court-martial of an outrageous crime and sentenced to be shot next week; and that his Congressman was so convinced of the convicted man’s guilt that he would not intervene. ‘Well,’ said Mr. Alley, ‘I will take you into the Executive Chamber after I have finished my business, and you can tell Mr. Lincoln all about it. On being introduced into Mr. Lincoln’s presence, he was accosted with, ‘Well, my old friend, what can I do for you to-day?’ The old man then repeated to Mr. Lincoln what he had already told the Congressman in the anteroom. A cloud of sorrow came over the President’s face as he replied, ‘I am sorry to say I can do nothing for you. Listen to this telegram received from General Butler yesterday: ‘President Lincoln, I pray you not to interfere with the courts-martial of the army. You will destroy all discipline among our soldiers.’ – B.F. Butler.”
Every word of this dispatch seemed like the death-knell of despair to the old man’s newly awakened hopes. Mr. Lincoln watched his grief for a minute, and then exclaimed, ‘by jingo, Butler or not Butler, here goes!’ Writing a few words and handing them to the old man. The confidence created by Mr. Lincoln’s words broke down when he read – ‘Job Smith is not to be shot until further orders from me. – ABRAHAM LINCOLN.’
‘Why,’ said the old man, ‘I thought it was to be a pardon; but you say, ‘not to be shot till further orders,’ and you may order him to be shot next week.’ Mr. Lincoln smiled at the old man’s fears, and replied, ‘Well, my old friend, I see you are not very well acquainted with me. If your son never looks on death till further orders come from me to shot him, he will live to be a great deal older than Methuselah.’ 1”
I am staying within the parameters of the Constitution. I’m disapproving of the actions that Gallagher took by placing people in peril by pounding his chest for Charlie to see and incite further action. I am staying within the parameters established by the Geneva Convention and the follow on training of military personnel that he ignored. Everything I have said is by the book.
I disagree with Trump’s pardon and the confusion of how the military system works when it went public and the media was given the opportunity to cut the action apart and mislead the world through falsehood publications.
This is not the WWE our people are in. It is a combat action and unless we stay within and display the proper discipline, we create casualties and define ourselves as no better than the sect we are opposing.
You find fault with that? Then you haven’t been there and by supporting this type of behavior, you approve of it. You tell me which one is a lost cause? Doing his job or acting like a lowland gorilla pounding his chest? That’s the bottom line.
rwood
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SUGAR CANDYCLIVE
Well, am I dead?
Does my knowledge count for nothing?
Experience, skill?
You tell me.
THEO
It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive.
The enemy's different,
so you have to be different too.
CLIVE
Are you mad? I know what war is.
THEO
- I don't agree.
- You...
I read your broadcast up to the point
where you described collapse of France.
You commented on Nazi methods-
foul fighting, bombing refugees,
machine-gunning hospitals,
lifeboats, bailed-out pilots and so on -
by saying that you despised them,
that you would be ashamed to fight on their side
and that you'd sooner accept defeat than victory
if it could only be won by those methods.
CLIVE
So I would.
THEO
Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them
just because you are too fair to hit back
the same way they hit at you,
there won't be any methods but Nazi methods.
If you preach the rules of the game while they
use every foul and filthy trick against you,
they'll laugh at you.
They'll think you are weak, decadent.
I thought so myself in 1919.
I heard all that in the last war.
They fought foul then
and who won it?
I don't think you won it.
We lost it, but you lost something too.
You forgot to learn the moral.
Because victory was yours,
you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago.
And now you have to pay the school fees again.
Some of you will learn quicker
than the others. Some will never learn it.
Because you've been educated to be a
gentleman and a sportsman in peace and in war.
But, Clive...
..dear old Clive...
..this is not a gentleman's war.
This time you are fighting for your very existence,
against the most devilish idea
ever created by a human brain.
Nazism.
And if you lose...
..there won't be a return match next year.
Perhaps not even for a hundred years.
Oh, you...
you mustn't mind me, an alien, all this.
But who can describe hydrophobia better
than one who's been bitten...
..and is now immune?
Retitled to:
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP