{"id":5395,"date":"2008-11-19T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2008-12-25T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T18:55:25","slug":"bellyaching-jack-murtha-hides-behind-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"Bellyaching Jack Murtha hides behind Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this doesn’t get your blood boiling nothing will; fatassed cow John Murtha claims that he can’t be sued by the Marines who he slandered by calling them murderers because to do otherwise would violate his freedom of speech as a legislator. In other words, the same crowd who claims they can arrest and impeach the President of the United States for supposed lies are saying that to hold them accountable for their lies violates their privileges. From The Hill<\/a>, by way of Defend Our Marines<\/a>, by way of Michelle Malkin<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A government lawyer representing Murtha argued that the congressman does not have to agree to testify under oath and is immune from the lawsuit because he was acting in an official capacity as a member of Congress when he made the comments to the media.<\/p>\n

Last year a federal judge ordered Murtha, a decorated former Marine and Vietnam veteran and close ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to testify in the case. His lawyers are appealing that decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently this isn’t the first ridiculous defense the slimy, scum-sucking lawyers defending slimy scum-sucking Murtha have tried;<\/p>\n

Murtha cited a Time magazine report when asked how he knew the killings were conducted in cold blood and why he thought there was a cover-up. Murtha\u2019s lawyers later claimed that Defense Department officials briefed him and \u201cdeliberately provided him with inaccurate and false information,\u201d according to a court filing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it wasn’t his fault that Murtha lied – the evil Pentagon fed him false information. Maybe if Murtha\u00a0 wasn’t in the habit of shooting off his heavily-jowled face, he wouldn’t have been a target of this imagined misinformation campaign.<\/p>\n

What Murtha said on May 17, 2006<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Now, two days after I made my statement, on November 19th, we had an incident in Haditha in Anbar province, where a Marine was killed with an IED. Time magazine reported it, and it’s kind of a puzzling report, because they’re investigating it right now. Let me tell you what the consequences of this have been.<\/p>\n

It’s much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. And that’s what the report is going to tell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Murtha thinks his right to shoot off his stupid mouth supercedes the rights of those Marines to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law. It seems to me that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights was written to protect the Marines from the Murtha’s pompous and arrogant wielding of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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