{"id":10186,"date":"2009-04-29T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2009-04-29T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T22:54:32","slug":"cliff-crybaby-cornell-gets-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10186","title":{"rendered":"Cliff &#8220;Crybaby&#8221; Cornell gets a year (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cliff-cornell-releasedpreview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10190 aligncenter\" title=\"cliff-cornell-releasedpreview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cliff-cornell-releasedpreview-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cliff-cornell-releasedpreview-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cliff-cornell-releasedpreview.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting on some answers to some of our questions from the Army, but I wanted to run this story before it gets too stale. I may update it later.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we discovered from our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthouseontheright.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/deserter-gets-one-year-in-prison.html\">Just A Grunt<\/a> that Cliff Cornell, the Arkansas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7773\">deserter who broke into tears<\/a> for a local news station wasting his time trying to take a few days off between the time Canada tossed his sorry ass out and he turned himself in to Fort Stewart, GA authorities, got off easy<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2009\/04\/ap_army_war_resister_042809\/\"> with a twelve month sentence<\/a> yesterday. The other deserter who absconded to Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2337\">Robin Long<\/a> got 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s hard to keep these buffoons straight so in celebration of Cliff&#8217;s impending nuptials at the Graybar Hotel, here&#8217;s a recap;<\/p>\n<p>He deserted in January, 2005 and became quite a celebrity while he was there. His standard line was that recruiters suckered him in with the promise of money and a skill. I&#8217;m guessing that he got the cash and the training&#8230;still;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cornell-tom-joad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10187\" title=\"cornell-tom-joad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cornell-tom-joad-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cornell-tom-joad-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cornell-tom-joad.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7638\">February 4th, the Canadians<\/a> showed their good judgement by tossing the bozo out of their country. Immediately, never ones to pass up a fund raising opportunity, the Geezers For Peace started lobbying for a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; to hide deserters in the same comfort and conveniences that they refuse to protect.<\/p>\n<p>On February 10th, he arrived in Savannah, GA and laid up in a hotel room with an AP reporter who painted a portrait of a little sissy who was suddenly afraid to face the situation he&#8217;d created for himself;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m nervous, scared,\u201d Cornell said, wiping puffy eyes beneath his sunglasses Monday at a Savannah hotel after a three-day bus ride from Seattle. \u201cI\u2019m just not a fighter. I know it sounds funny, but I have a really soft heart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the dragon and skull tattoos make that clear, Chrissy.<\/p>\n<p>So two months later he pleads guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Robin Long, the other absconder who held out in the comfort of Canada is angry that Cornell got off with three months less than Long.  Long&#8217;s lawyer claims that the reason Long got a more severe sentence is because of his activism against the war on terror and Cornell&#8217;s more selfish motives. So what have we learned today, Robin?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated:<\/strong> A statement from our new friend LTC Nathan Banks, hero, scholar, Literary Sumo Grand Champion and PAO;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army does not agree with the statement of Long&#8217;s punishment being longer than Cornell because he spoke against the war. Each case was tried in front of a different judge with different outcomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cornell made the comment that he recieved a $9000 enlistment bonus, so I asked the good Lieutenant Colonel if Cornell was liable to the tax payers for that bonus;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYes, Cornell would be obligated to pay back any bonus he received. Not fulfilling his contractual obligation to the Army is clearly a breach of his contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll never be broke as long as Cornell owes us that money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still waiting on some answers to some of our questions from the Army, but I &hellip; <a title=\"Cliff &#8220;Crybaby&#8221; Cornell gets a year (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10186\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cliff &#8220;Crybaby&#8221; Cornell gets a year (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}