{"id":17504,"date":"2010-02-17T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:39:39","slug":"halls-lawyers-try-to-block-his-move-to-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17504","title":{"rendered":"Hall’s lawyers try to block his move to Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Hall, the Stop Loss Rapper<\/a> had his lawyer file in a US District Court in Savannah, GA to prevent Hall’s unit from taking him<\/a> to Kuwait for a court martial;<\/p>\n

Hall\u2019s attorneys say the Army would violate his right to a fair trial by moving his case to a \u201cwar zone\u201d where few civilian witnesses or lawyers would travel to defend him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So? What would civilians witnesses have to testify about in this case. As far as I can tell, everything in the case is related to the military. <\/p>\n

Gespass said Hall was making a political statement with his song and intended no real violence. He said Hall\u2019s defense would likely include expert witnesses on hip-hop culture, who may be reluctant to travel to Iraq or Kuwait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Expert witnesses on hip-hop? Please.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would think you would want people to testify about the nature of hip-hop and that those things contained in the song are not necessarily things to be taken seriously,\u201d Gespass said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, because no one in the hip-hop culture has ever been murdered – well, except those rappers. And, oh, the fans at their concerts. But other than that, it’s only music, right?<\/p>\n

A note to Mr. Gespass; soldiers aren’t entitled to make political statements. And writing about internal military policy isn’t a political statement – it’s technical term is typical soldier bitching. If he hadn’t sent the CD to the Pentagon, he’d be sitting with his unit in Iraq right now doing whatever mechanics do in Iraq these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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