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scottwrickettsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 3:27pm
I’m a vet and I think this is fucking vile. Like everything Trump does. And he’s absolutely endorsing white supremacist violence.
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  Mercenary Chefscottwricketts
  5/08/19 3:33pm
  Same. I already said my piece in the Splinter article about this fucking disgrace, though.
  https://splinternews.com/1834570937
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  Aces_Over_Kingsscottwricketts
  5/08/19 3:49pm
  Same. Just wait until he pardons this SEAL asshole.
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Political Science isn't Rocket Science - Except when it isStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 2:43pm
Well his first pardon was for racist Joe Arpaio’s contempt of court, so this is the logical escalation for a man looking only for his next headline. And a full damn pardon too, which means he gets his Army benefits that are denied to people who did a lot less than shoot an unarmed man.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZPolitical Science isn't Rocket Science - Except when it is
  5/08/19 5:55pm
  Well, the other reason he did that was to give his cray cray racist followers hope that they would receive the same privilege if they kill somebody brown.
  Suckers.
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Brown RoseStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 5:22pm
What is there left to say. The military has broadly supported Trump and the pardon decision. I mean Obama inexplicably had only a 36% approval before he left office.
They are ok with going to the border to Iran and being firmly entrenched in the M.E. since they and America have deemed that military and cops are above basic decency and humanity dont be surprised if he runs for Governor and wil win.
Meanwhile a black woman in Texas will spend a good chuck of her life in prison for mistakenly voting in the wrong district.
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  BadOmbreBrown Rose
  5/08/19 7:31pm
  Where are you getting that number? Obama basically had over 50% approval at the end of his presidency:
  Like, let’s not start with revisionist history.
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  Brown RoseBadOmbre
  5/08/19 7:34pm
  I know that. I am talking about the military approval rating.
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skipsthebossStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 3:30pm
How many times will we see the narrative “I kidnapped this person and I was afraid they were going to try to get away so I killed him.”
If I go to rob a bank and one of the hostages tries to get away and I kill them that is murder.
- A Marine.
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mary2957Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 6:43pm
I don’t ever want to think of ill of anyone. But I hope this guy never gets a minutes peace when he sleeps. I hope he sees this man and his family in his dreams.
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  LoveHealsmary2957
  5/08/19 7:54pm
  This to the thousandth power.
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  FeministOnFiremary2957
  5/08/19 8:38pm
  That’s a very, very naive hope. If this guy were capable of seeing someone else’s humanity, he would have stopped at any point during the incident: after stopping the truck, before odering the man to disrobe, or shooting him. If he had a conscience, he wouldn’t have made the excuses before or during the trial but proffered a guilty plea. During the five years of his sentence, he would have admitted his crime, expressed guilt, kept his head low and performed acts of penance. If he were capable of remorse, he never, ever would request on his own NOR allow anyone to request a pardon on his behalf. When people show you who they are, believe them.
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JoeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 3:21pm
What else could we expect from this diaper wearing racist we have as president. He pardoned Joe Arpaio who uses racism as his calling card. In a just world, Behenna would have been executed or got a life sentence but we don’t live in a legally just world. Of course we can hold out hope that he ends up meeting the same fate as another war criminal, Chris Kyle
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZJoe
  5/08/19 5:57pm
  He did it on purpose as a silent signal to his crazy racist base
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phutnickStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 2:48pm
Oh, nice, It’s a baby Lt. Calley. Complete with a chain of command hell-bent on denying the malfeasance.
The more things change . . .
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  BurnerCauseUknowHowUArephutnick
  5/08/19 4:01pm
  The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. In September 2011, it killed US citizen Anwar Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed Awlaki’s 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike in Yemen.
  Since then, senior Obama officials including Attorney General Eric Holder and John Brennan, Obama’s top terrorism adviser and his current nominee to lead the CIA, have explicitly argued that the president is and should be vested with this power. Meanwhile, a Washington Post article from October reported that the administration is formally institutionalizing this president’s power to decide who dies under the Orwellian title “disposition matrix”.
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  phutnickBurnerCauseUknowHowUAre
  5/08/19 4:30pm
  I’m mad about any and all war crimes. So your unprompted whataboutism is wasted on me. Thanks all the same.
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AllSizzleNoSteakStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 3:06pm
a presidential endorsement of a murder that violated the military’s own code of justice
He just respects the military so much. Their traditions, their history, their recognition that avoiding service due to bone spurs is the real sacrifice...
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BlackMage2030Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/09/19 9:16am
Sanders forgot to write that Behenna is also very well connected as his mother is a well-known Oklahoma attorney who “helped prosecute Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh” and his father “worked as an FBI analyst and Oklahoma state investigator,” the Post reports.
There it is. Because bet money if this was a white hick from bumbly-fuck (the prime demographic for enlisted military service outside of black and brown folks) his whiteness would’ve only got him the five years served when he deserved the whole 25.
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Old white guyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
5/08/19 5:33pm
So does this apply to anyone or just the military? Because I know of this cop in Dallas who entered the wrong apartment, and, fearing for her life from someone she encroached on, shot him dead.
Hell, there’s this black boy who leered at my god daughter. I can kidnap him, threaten his life, wait for him to conclude he’s going to die so in desperation lunges at me, and I can then shoot him dead.
Wow, this law stuff is great!
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