I will spend my day today as a free person, free to do whatever I want; to go anywhere, to work, to shop, out to dinner with my husband, free to choose what I desire from the menu. I am a free American, free to live my life as I choose. I am free because of so many people who gave their lives for my freedom, and because of so many more today who wear a uniform and take up arms to defend my freedom. But for how long? When did acts of war become subject to criminal charges? When did the toxin of political correctness invade the last bastion of patriotism and security? Why is the military so confused about its role and why does it allow lawyers to scrutinize every move and override military training to destroy the lives of those who actualize their directive as soldier? And why are we putting the enemy above our own defenders? How did this happen and who allowed it to happen?
I often listen to Michael Savage on talk radio. Yes, he is an acquired taste, but like fine spirits he dances on your consciousness and leaves you drenched in Truth. Dr. Savage has regularly featured the abominations occurring in the military masquerading as Justice. One prosecution after another of fine soldiers, Marines and Navy Seals who did nothing more than carry out their duty. I don't know if these criminal proceedings sprung from John Murtha's scandalous accusation that the Haditha incident involved Marines "killing innocent civilians in cold blood", or did it go back to John Kerry's lies that soldiers in Viet Nam were reminiscent of Genghis Khan's marauding hordes, or his statements more recently accusing our military of victimizing innocent Iraqis "in the dark of night." Are these guys pulling these characterizations out of their own memories of their unsavory actions when serving in the military or maybe just pulling them out of some other, darker part of their anatomy?
Michael Savage is exposing another travesty of military justice, that of Lt. Michael Behenna. While I dined on grilled shrimp last night in Leawood, Kansas, I thought of a young man, a member of the famed 101st Airborne, sitting in a prison cell just miles to the Northwest of me in Fort Leavenworth Kansas.
Lt. Behenna was convicted by a military jury of murder of an Al Qaeda operative linked to an attack on Behenna's platoon in 2008 resulting in the deaths of two of his men as well as two Iraqis working with them. The story can be found at http://defendmichael.wordpress.com
Beyond the outrage for another soldier being charged as a criminal for an act of war, and likely self-defense, is the fact that the prosecution, military lawyers, withheld exculpatory evidence from defense counsel. Evidence developed from the prosecution's own expert witness, a renowned forensic scientist who consulted in O.J. Simpson's murder case and participated in investigations concerning the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
After hearing Dr. Savage discuss this case and reading about it online, I emailed Vicki Behenna, Michael's mother, who is also a Department of Justice attorney and was part of the prosecution team in the Timothy McVeigh case (Oklahoma federal building bomber). Vicki responded to me with a personal email asking for help and directing me to Michael's web page. She asks that we share Michael's story with as many people as possible, sign his petition, donate to the legal defense fund, and write to Michael.
Please help me help Vicki and her son, Michael, a young man who pledged his life to keep us safe and free. I can't help wonder when Vicki's boss, AG Eric Holder will come to her aid? He had no trouble dropping the case against the Black Panthers (who brandished weapons and threatened voters in Pennsylvania in 2008 indicating they intended to get Obama elected President), even after the government won its case on default judgment. The Black Panthers threatened American citizens who intended to exercise their right to vote. They were set free, free of prosecution and free of just punishment. Major Nadal Hasan was promoted through the ranks in the Army despite openly proselytizing for radical Islam and jihad against fellow American soldiers culminating in his murderous assault on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. He is provided legal counsel courtesy of the American taxpayer. KSM and his 9/11 terror cohorts, despite pleading guilty to the infamous terror attack on US soil and the deaths of thousands, are provided defense counsel and will be given a public forum for their anti-American filth at the expense of the American taxpayer, courtesy of Mr. Holder, and Obama, again.
