{"id":32280,"date":"2012-10-07T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32280"},"modified":"2012-10-09T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T00:32:11","slug":"micah-turner-deserter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32280","title":{"rendered":"Micah Turner; deserter (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil sends us a link from YouTube which was posted on October 6th of Micah Turner. AKO says he was a sergeant at Fort Bragg and he&#8217;s surrounding himself with smelly hippies celebrating the fact that since he went AWOL 30 days before this video, he&#8217;s now a deserter. It looks like he&#8217;s making his little press conference at the Occupy DC camp a few blocks from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>I think he&#8217;s trying to make a point, but since the war in Afghanistan is over, for all intents and purposes, I don&#8217;t know what that point could be. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CzVHCFmopbg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know people are still fighting and dying in Afghanistan, but this administration is doing it&#8217;s best to not win the war. I also wonder why we&#8217;re still over there, but since this administration has as it&#8217;s only strategy to withdraw, former sergeant Turner is pretty much joining in the rush for the exits.<\/p>\n<p>He kind of reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8723\">Ward Reilly<\/a> who claims he went AWOL in Germany to protest the Vietnam War at a time when there were no more combat troops in Vietnam. Yeah, I&#8217;m sure the hippies love Turner, but I think he needs a throat punch. Using your uniform to make a political statement is never cool. Luckily, he won&#8217;t be a sergeant long after he turns himself in at his unit, like he promises. And I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s someone at his unit that will give him the throat punch he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Phil for the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>Seems that he tried to turn himself into a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.yfrog.com\/5e936ahjmcncuhhlxwowvllpz\">local police station<\/a> that did not seem interested in it. ALso it seems that he is all about the drama by taking photos of himself in front of  a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Unoccupier\/status\/255366118254989312\/photo\/1\">Army Recruiting station and at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Unoccupier\/status\/255277257088712704\/photo\/1\">Fort Hamilton<\/a>. <\/a> Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U12uZmnGs9k\">another video<\/a> that was made yesterday by him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil sends us a link from YouTube which was posted on October 6th of Micah Turner. &hellip; <a title=\"Micah Turner; deserter (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32280\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Micah Turner; deserter (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":[8,131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32280","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=32280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}