{"id":5697,"date":"2008-11-28T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2008-11-28T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T14:20:05","slug":"deserter-applies-for-asylum-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5697","title":{"rendered":"Deserter applies for asylum in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet Andre Shepard, the latest in a short line of deserters from the US military. Shepard is unique in that he has applied for asylum to Germany. Asylum. As if he’s persecuted in his own country, instead of being one of the unique few who’re allowed to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Why did he desert? Well, because he had a revelation of sorts;<\/p>\n

Andre Shepherd, 31, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 as an Apache helicopter mechanic in the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, has been living in Germany since deserting last year.<\/p>\n

“When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing,” Shepherd told a Frankfurt news conference Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I could not in good conscience continue to serve.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was a mechanic in a support battalion (he’s not a flight line helicopter mechanic) that HEARD about people being ripped to shreds. Just ordinary people walking down the street minding their own business were suddenly being ripped to shreds for no apparent reason. Well, see that’s not all;<\/p>\n

The specialist was posted to Germany in 2005 where he undertook desk jobs, but he gradually began questioning the justification for the Iraq war<\/span> and began worrying he would be sent back to serve there….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was worried he MIGHT be sent to Iraq. And he wasn’t even performing in a role that would have directly ripped perfectly innocent people walking down the street minding their own business. Actually his unit, the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, did go to to Iraq and they returned to Germany in September – but he didn’t know that when he deserted.<\/p>\n

So, instead of absconding to The Netherlands, or Spain, or Turkey, where his “asylum” application might have been seriously considered, Shepard is staying right in Germany, a country that has never accepted applications for asylum from Americans. Most likely because he has a fraulein in Germany whom he doesn’t want to take his eyes off for a second, lest she abscond with the next guy in uniform she meets.<\/p>\n

There’s always an ulterior motive for these guys, it’s never as simple as their conscience – and it usally relates to thoughts from their “other head”.<\/p>\n

Hat tip to someone for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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