FALLUJAH MURDER TRIAL UNDERWAY By: Nathaniel R. Helms

Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 

View from the courtroom: The Nazario trial, day one Riverside, CA – Former Marine squad leader Jose L. Nazario showed little emotion Thursday morning when the presiding US District Judge granted a defense motion to exclude the incriminating statement of a former squad member that triggered the world-wide investigation.

Nazario is charged with voluntary manslaughter, abetting murder and unlawfully using his weapon in a crime. He was charged under a new federal law that provides the government with the authority to prosecute former service members who have completed their military obligation and no longer subject to military law.

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Submitted: Master Gunnery Sergeant Ed Evans.
Not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine.
 

I concentrate on solutions for the [illegal immigration] problems. It’s a win-win situation.
1.   Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
2.   Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
3.   Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

I’m sorry, but after hearing they want to sing OUR National Anthem in Spanish – enough is TOO much!

NEVER did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish-Celtic, German, Portuguese, Greek, French, or any other language because of immigration.

[Our National Anthem] …was written by Francis Scott Key (in English) and should be sung word for word the way it was written.

The news broadcasts gave a translation that’s NOT even close.

Sorry if this offends anyone, THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

Would you allow me to come to your country and then allow me to demand that you sing your National Anthem in ENGLISH?

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Subject: The Colonel and Mr. Lincoln

By: Colonel Harry Riley, US Army (Retired)

TAKE  A FEW MOMENTS AND READ THIS LETTER. THESE ARE STRONG, POWERFUL AND COURAGEOUS  WORDS COMING FROM A RETIRED COLONEL, AND  READ WHAT LINCOLN HAD TO SAY AT THE END. WOW!
  
33 Senators Voted Against English as America’s Official Language on June 6, 2007.

On Wed. 6 June 2007, Colonel Harry Riley, USA , Ret.  wrote:

Senators:   Your vote against an amendment to the immigration Bill 1348…. to make English America’s official language is  astounding. 
  
On D-Day, no less, when we honor those that sacrificed in  order to secure the bedrock, character and principles of America , I can only surmise your vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens.
  
I don’t much care where you come from. What your religion is. Whether you’re black, white, or some other color…male or female……Democrat, Republican or Independent……. But I do care when you are a United States Senator representing Citizens of America …and Vote against English as the official language of the United States .
  
Your vote reflects Betrayal. Political Surrender. Violates Your Pledge of Allegiance. Dishonors historical principle. Rejects Patriotism. [It] Borders on traitorous action and, in my opinion, makes you unfit to serve as a United States Senator… impeachment… Recall……..Or other appropriate action is warranted, or worse.
  
Four  of you voting against English as America’s Official Language are Presidential  Candidates: Senator  Biden, Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd and Senator Obama.
  
Four  Senators vying to lead America, but won’t, or don’t, have the courage to cast  a vote in favor of English as America’s Official Language when 91% of American Citizens want English officially designated as our language.
  
This is the second time in the last several months this list of Senators have disgraced themselves as ‘political Hacks’….. Unworthy as Senators and certainly unqualified to serve as President of the United States  .
  
If  America is as angry as I am, you will realize a backlash so stunning it will  literally ‘rock you out of your socks’……… And preferably totally out of the United States Senate.
  
The entire immigration bill is a farce…  Your action only confirms this really isn’t about America … it is about self-serving politics……despicable at best. It has been said: ‘Never Argue with an Idiot….They’ll drag you down to their level!’
  

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[Blog note: what follows is an important read as it spills over, quite adequately, into today's American Armed Forces]

August 20th is the anniversary of the Battle of Yarmuk; where in 636 A.D. the forces of Islam defeated the army of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Following the death of their Prophet Mohammed the first Muslim Caliphs burst out of the Arabian Desert, launching unprovoked attacks against their neighbors to the north. Their goal was to spread their faith, Islam, into the lands of the “Infidel” by the sword.

As one Arab column invaded Persian Mesopotamia, another drove into the Palestinian territories of the Eastern Roman Empire. The first of these two targeted territories was inhabited by a mixed population of Christians and Zoroastrian subjects of the Sassanid Persian Empire. The second was that of Christians and Jews; the very heartland of both of these faiths.

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Former Marine decries trial in civilian court [Blog note: Chelsea finally got it right...Jose Nazario is a FORMER Marine...not an "ex-" Marine]

By Chelsea J. Carter – The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 19, 2008 12:41:35 EDT
  
IRVINE, Calif. — A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq.

In the view of Jose Luis Nazario Jr., U.S. troops may begin to question whether they will be prosecuted by civilians for doing what their military superiors taught them to do in battle.

Nazario is the first military service member who has completed his duty to be brought to trial under a law that allows the government to prosecute defense contractors, military dependents and those no longer in the military who commit crimes outside the United States.

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