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In response to this article, I believe it's time to bring charges against the Clueless Old Liberal.
What charges you ask?
Disrespecting a senior officer (in this case, the Commander-in-chief) would be a fine start.
Anyone that has read any of the COL's articles or responses in various threads and blog entries can probably follow my point here. If the COL really has been an officer and a gentelman, then he'd be showing much more respect for the office and the office holder than he has in any of his rants and articles at JoeUser.
I begrudge no-one their right to free speech or free thought. I know that members of the military sign away many of those rights when they engage in their contract with the military. Once your raise your hand and take the oath, you lose many of the rights you are sworn to protect and defend -- one of the biggest being freedom of speech.
The COL is certainly entitled to have his thoughts and ideas, but his actions in expressing those ideas are at times borderline treasonous, and most certainly disrespectful. Were the COL still in the military, he could be facing Courts martial, where he could be busted down in rank and potentially face dishonorable discharge or worse.
Less hysterics and theatrics would be advisable. Using inflammatory article titles such as "Impeach Bush" are very much the equivalent of the types of tactics that the perpetrator of the fraudulent Bush National Guard memos attempted to pull. Flame the President in any way possible, despite it being against every bit of military decorum that should have been drilled into the head of the military member shortly after becoming a member of the armed forces of the United States.
Well, I say it's time to reactivate the COL and bust his butt back down to buck private. Perhaps then he'd really have something to howl about.
What charges you ask?
Disrespecting a senior officer (in this case, the Commander-in-chief) would be a fine start.
Anyone that has read any of the COL's articles or responses in various threads and blog entries can probably follow my point here. If the COL really has been an officer and a gentelman, then he'd be showing much more respect for the office and the office holder than he has in any of his rants and articles at JoeUser.
I begrudge no-one their right to free speech or free thought. I know that members of the military sign away many of those rights when they engage in their contract with the military. Once your raise your hand and take the oath, you lose many of the rights you are sworn to protect and defend -- one of the biggest being freedom of speech.
The COL is certainly entitled to have his thoughts and ideas, but his actions in expressing those ideas are at times borderline treasonous, and most certainly disrespectful. Were the COL still in the military, he could be facing Courts martial, where he could be busted down in rank and potentially face dishonorable discharge or worse.
Less hysterics and theatrics would be advisable. Using inflammatory article titles such as "Impeach Bush" are very much the equivalent of the types of tactics that the perpetrator of the fraudulent Bush National Guard memos attempted to pull. Flame the President in any way possible, despite it being against every bit of military decorum that should have been drilled into the head of the military member shortly after becoming a member of the armed forces of the United States.
Well, I say it's time to reactivate the COL and bust his butt back down to buck private. Perhaps then he'd really have something to howl about.
