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2021-10-02 -Land of the Free

36 members of Congress sign letter calling for Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller's immediate release

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 US CODE:

Original appointments in the grades of major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel in the Regular Army, Regular Air Force, and Regular Marine Corps in the grades of lieutenant commander, commander, and captain in the Regular Navy, and in the equivalent grades in the Regular Space Force shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Perhaps 50 senators could agree on no further appointments at this level will be approved unless & until Scheller is released. As if!

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-02 00:09|| 2021-10-02 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 36?
36, only 36?
Can’t these people stand for anything?

Posted by Xyz 2021-10-02 00:35|| 2021-10-02 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Meh. I agree with the guy, but he disobeyed orders. Part of civil disobedience is knowing you'll be punished but doing the right thing anyway.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-10-02 02:01|| 2021-10-02 02:01|| Front Page Top

#4 You know my theory.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-02 05:11|| 2021-10-02 05:11|| Front Page Top

#5

They have him for UCMJ violations and I doubt Biden will Pardon him.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-02 08:15|| 2021-10-02 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't you mean Obama will not pardon him?

Posted by Chris 2021-10-02 11:06|| 2021-10-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 even the UCMJ is not immune to the American prohibition against "Selective Prosecution". Lt.Col. Scheller lawyer will no doubt bring this up.
"Colonel" Vindman, "General" Milley and many other PRO-Leftist military get free-passes for criticizing their superiors, but they throw Scheller in prison...in solitary confinement!

Lt.Col. Scheller TRIED to resign his commission...they refused so they could make an example of him. AND degrade morale in the USMC at the same time. A TWO-FER!

For 42 years (since 1979) I have been a "Former Marine"...short for "Former Active Duty Marine". The feeling most of us had was: "Once a Marine, always a Marine".

I am now an EX-Marine. I have worn a Marine Corps ballcap pretty much every day, as a way to show my support...and received hundreds of "Semper Fi" responses from my fellow "Former Marines" over the years. NO MORE.

No one but me will care, but on Monday I am boxing up collection of Marine Corps ballcaps, t-shirts, etc, and mailing them to the Commandant with a (believe it or not) respectful letter explaining why. He will NOT give a damn, but it will make ME feel better.

Signed, an EX-Marine

Posted by Kofi Hupinesh6341 2021-10-02 11:06|| 2021-10-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 My heart weeps for you and your brothers and sisters, Kofi Hupinesh6341.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-02 13:47|| 2021-10-02 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Marine-que quondam
Marine-que futuram*

*in a future-state, post-woke REBORN AMERICA that shall have a new birth of freedom

Posted by Burn Loot Murder 2021-10-02 13:52|| 2021-10-02 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 I will never be an Ex-Marine Kofi, that imprinting from 1969 is for life. I will be a Retired Army LTC, who remains proud of the USMC and what it did in my life at the beginning, and am a pissed off member of the USMC fraternity over current leadership who don't have the traditional understanding to lead it.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-10-02 13:59|| 2021-10-02 13:59|| Front Page Top

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