{"id":32086,"date":"2012-09-20T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32086"},"modified":"2012-09-20T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:29:21","slug":"rivera-apprehended-at-canadian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32086","title":{"rendered":"Rivera apprehended at Canadian border"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC reports<\/a> that Kimberly Rivera, who we’ve been anxiously waiting to return and face her punishment, has turned herself in at the border crossing near Fort Drum, NY. But let’s look at the BBC article, shall we?<\/p>\n

Kimberly Rivera, a mother of four, had claimed refugee status in Canada, but she was ordered to leave last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, she’s a mother of four, but two of those children were born in Canada since she defected. So being a mother of four shouldn’t get her much sympathy when we realize that the children were created to strengthen her claim as a refugee. And is she really a refugee? How many women have been excused from deployment when they simply applied? I’m sure there were a lot. I know of a few by name.<\/p>\n

On Thursday she voluntarily went to a border crossing in New York State, where she placed into military custody, anti-war campaigners say.<\/p>\n

She faces between two and five years in prison, her lawyer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, no she went to the border station because Canada threw her big ass out, hardly voluntarily. Maybe she wasn’t escorted by Canadian authorities, but it wasn’t of her own free will. Even in the article, BBC says that the two men who’ve been imprisoned for the same offense only sent a year locked up, so how can they say “between two and five years” with a straight face?<\/p>\n

Ms Rivera served in the Iraq war in 2006, but on her return to the US said she had become disillusioned with its cause and thought it was “immoral”.<\/p>\n

She went to Canada with her husband and children while on leave and between deployments in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, she wasn’t “between deployments”. The Army let her go home on leave WHILE she was deployed to Iraq and instead of returning to Iraq, she absconded to Canada and left her fellow soldiers in Iraq short handed and probably at least delayed their own leaves at mid deployment. She’s, in the parlance of the day, a “Blue Falcon”. <\/p>\n

As I explained earlier today<\/a>, her obese and extremely lazy husband got moody as she got closer to the time she had to return to Iraq and complete her deployment and that’s what made her go AWOL, not some sudden disillusionment with the war, like the Beeb says. Read the Marie Claire interview<\/a> if you don’t believe me.<\/p>\n

You’d think that BBC would get at least part of the article correct. And I wonder how many of those 200 they claim deserted and absconded to Canada were like Corey Glass<\/a> who went to Canada, applied for refugee status even though he’d been discharged from the Army months before he went to Canada and wasn’t even a deserter?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Aunty Brat for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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