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2005-03-26 Home Front: WoT

Navy Files Charges Against Pablo Paredes

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Posted by Frank G 2005-03-26 10:39:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 With a courts martial he'll have a federal felony conviction on his record as well. That wipes out a lot of employment opportunities. However, I'm sure the bleeding hearts in Hollywood can find you a 'show' job to make them feel, ah, so important. Like adopting some foreign orphan or such.
BTW, he seems to have forgotten his 'oath' was executed "...without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion...".
Attorney Jeremy Warren, who represented Paredes, hopes...
Hope is not a plan.
If he asks for 'peers' on his courts martial, make it up from the Marines recoverying from their injuries from Fallujah.

Posted by Glereger Clugum6222 2005-03-26 11:13:03 AM|| 2005-03-26 11:13:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sublime, indeed, Frank: on which side of the Naive or Sentimental argument do you suppose this huckster falls? I think Schiller would be proud that his ideas are still topical.

Enjoy your post-prison career at 7-11, Pablo.

Posted by Armchair in Sin 2005-03-26 11:18:28 AM|| 2005-03-26 11:18:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Let me help you with your career preparation, Pablo. Repeat after me:

Do you want fries with that?

Posted by Dar 2005-03-26 11:48:19 AM|| 2005-03-26 11:48:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Not a felony conviction unless convicted at General Court Martial. If convicted at Special Court Martial, is a federal misdemenor conviction. The Big Chicken Dinner can be given at either.

Posted by Bill 2005-03-26 1:23:00 PM|| 2005-03-26 1:23:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Big Chicken Dinner? LOL! I love it

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-26 1:38:59 PM|| 2005-03-26 1:38:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Glereger-
Under the UCMJ, 'peers' simply means 'other enlisted personnel'. His lawyer (who, unlike others I've seen, seems to have a dim idea as to how the military justice system actually works) hopefully will not let that happen - because the result will be 12 grizzled CPOs glaring down on him from that jury box. Better he go with the officers, statistically they're more lenient.
And Frank is right - this case was WAY too high profile for the USN to cut him a break. He actually had several valid, legal options open to him under which he could have had all the publicity he wanted and the Navy couldn't have done a thing about it. But, like all Classic Asshats(TM), he got greedy.
Hope you like USMC Disciplinary Barracks Quantico, Pablo. My dad was an MP there in the 50's and one of my troops got sent there in the late 80's.
It hasn't gotten any better.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-26 1:57:16 PM|| 2005-03-26 1:57:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Twits! it's all gone down hill since they closed Portsmouth. Reopen and close Gitmo.

Posted by CPO from Hell 2005-03-26 4:00:48 PM|| 2005-03-26 4:00:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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