{"id":36736,"date":"2013-07-22T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36736"},"modified":"2013-07-22T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:39:08","slug":"chris-munoz-the-blue-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36736","title":{"rendered":"Chris Munoz, the Blue Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you remember Christopher Munoz, the prospective conscientious objector at Fort Hood who decided that he opposed war ten days before his unit deployed to Afghanistan. NBC<\/a> does a brief discussion of his case, in which I participated a few weeks back;<\/p>\n

At “This Ain’t Hell, but you can sure see if from here,” a blog by Army combat veterans, Jonn Lilyea wrote in an email to NBC News that he has strong doubts about the sincerity of Munoz’s CO claim. <\/p>\n

“I’ve met some real COs and this guy, Munoz, doesn’t seem to be one of them. It looks more to me that he doesn’t want to be separated from his young family, which is fine, but it’s NOT CO,” wrote Lilyea, who retired from the Army in 1994 after serving in Desert Storm as an infantry platoon sergeant. He lives in West Virginia.<\/p>\n

“Actually, me & most of my readers sympathize with real COs, we can appreciate true religious or philosophical opposition to war. Most of us have been to war and understand the feelings that arise from that experience. But, this Munoz guy hooks up with the anti-war vultures days before he’s scheduled to deploy to make his case,” Lilyea wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Munoz’ lawyer, James M. Branum tells NBC that Munoz tried to apply for CO while he was at Benning in basic and AIT, but “a higher-ranking soldier” would suggest each time that he wait until he got to Hood to apply. Well, he arrived at Fort Hood in April and didn’t mention it until 10 days before his unit deployed. That sounds odd to me. And who are these “higher-ranking soldiers”? An E-2 platoon guide?<\/p>\n

I’m surprised, but most of the commenters on the NBC article agree with us. But everyone needs to understand that Munoz is doing jail time for his decision. With James M. Branum as his lawyer, that is guaranteed. If he had a speeding ticket and Branum as a lawyer, he’d be doing jail time, because Branum hasn’t had one military client who didn’t go to jail, because Branum is an activist and he needs martyrs rotting in jail cells. <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, Branum almost had a conscientious objector client not go to jail once, then that client was found to have downloaded child porn to his computer, so Branum helped him to abscond to Fort Hood where he and IVAW hid that soldier. That soldier was later arrested for planning to blow up a restaurant in Killeen – yeah, it was Nasser Abdo. When that happened, Branum fired his client, like he had nothing to do with it, but Branum had everything to do with it – he hid Abdo at Fort Hood in the first place.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are new here, Branum has earned his own category<\/a> of posts here at TAH because of his history of screwing over troops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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