{"id":20366,"date":"2010-09-03T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2010-09-03T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T01:25:03","slug":"how-one-sentence-changed-my-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20366","title":{"rendered":"How one sentence changed my opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I shouldn’t be blogging before my wedding, well, rust never sleeps or something like that.<\/p>\n

So what has me fired up enough to write this post? Well, the story about the Muslim GI who wants out on a CO. Now, the first article I read I was totally down with him. As I have said before, I don’t have any grave issues with COs, and believe that some, like Logan Laituri, come by that honestly. They have a crisis of faith and can’t go on. Let’s be honest, no one wants a trigger puller next to them who can’t pull a trigger.<\/p>\n

Well, Fox has a follow on story<\/a> that is rather lengthy, that at first blush I disagreed with the Muslim group saying this guy should basically be hung by his short and curlies.<\/p>\n

An American Muslim organization is asking the U.S. Army to deny a Muslim soldier\u2019s request for conscientious objector status, accusing him of treason and urging the military to punish him to the full extent of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<\/p>\n

Pfc. Naser Abdo, a 20-year-old infantryman who joined the Army one year ago, filed for conscientious objector status in June, saying his faith and the military don’t mix. “As a Muslim, we stand against injustice, we stand against discrimination, and I feel it’s my duty as an individual to do this,” Abdo told FoxNews.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on in this vein (vain?) for quite a while, and I was still down with this cat trying to get out. Then I saw this:<\/p>\n

Abdo’s attorney, James Branum<\/strong>, says if Abdo’s claim is denied, he can re-file with new evidence, seek to take the matter to a federal civilian court, refuse to deploy or drop the matter altogether. He acknowledged that Abdo could go to jail if he refuses to obey orders to deploy.<\/p>\n

“We’re trying to avoid that kind of showdown,” Branum told FoxNews.com. “At this moment, Abdo is in a place where he’s not going to violate his conscience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, not to put too fine a point on this, but BULL SHIT. No one hires Branum who isn’t trying to make a political point. First off, as I have stated previously, a CO application is not a legal mechanism. It’s not a legal proceeding. You don’t need a lawyer.<\/p>\n

If this douchetool hired Branum he is ever a complete fahkin idiot, or he’s full of shit. I’m betting on the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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