GUILTY AS CHARGED
Jeremy Sivits will serve a year in jail for obeying orders;
Camilo Mejia will serve a year in jail for disobeying orders.
What a country.
Bob Herbert has some interting comments about the Mejia case.
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May 21st, 2004 at 10:03 pm
Nice try. Mejia’s conviction is not based on consciencous objection. It is based on the simple fact that he deserted his post. He did not apply for objection status, but went AWOL. Clear guilt. Like not showing up for work. You’re fired.
Sivits has been convicted of abusing prisoners. Plain case. Whether or not he was ordered to do it has nothing to do with the case. The military has built in a method whereby you can refuse an order if it violates the law.
You should know better. You are a lawyer. Trying to spin this as a problem with out country is misleading.
May 25th, 2004 at 8:10 pm
What was interesting about what Bob Herbert had to say? Nothing that I saw. Sounds as if he is saying that the guy told him bad men shot at me and I was scared so now I want conscientious objector status. Nice try, sucker. A little late. You should have gotten conscientious objector status before you went to Iraq.
The rest of it is ridiculous. The kid is shooting at the soldier. The soldier shoots away from him to scare him off. The kid is still aiming at the soldier. It becomes the soldier or the kid. If you were the soldier which would you choose. Big choice.
Bob Herbert has become less and less pertinent and worth reading for years. He has just about reached his nadir now. The Times should just shuffle him off their mortal coil and be done with it.