US Deserter to be deported from Canada

FoxTrot9R · 05-21-2008, 08:19 PM

Do you think he can spell Leavenworth ?

U.S. deserter faces deportation from Canada - CNN.com

WUchi · 05-21-2008, 08:21 PM

good, we don't want your emo's

DrSatanDracula · 05-21-2008, 08:23 PM

I think a rope and a tree would serve this coward right.

BP3 · 05-21-2008, 08:23 PM

Deporting? Thats racist.

WrestlingNerd · 05-21-2008, 08:28 PM

Damn hippie.

Sohei · 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WUchi

good, we don't want your emo's

Hahahahahah that dude does look emo!!!

how did he join the NG?

some more interesting excerpts form the article:

Glass, of Fairmont, Indiana, says he joined the NG believing that he would be deployed only if the United States faced occupation. After he returned from his first tour of duty, he said, he tried to leave the Army but was told that desertion was punishable by death.
Penalties for desertion range from a demotion in rank to a maximum penalty of death, depending on the circumstances, said Maj. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman.

Wow so people get killed for desertion? Im assuming this is desertion in the midst of battle.

The high court has yet to rule on its sixth challenge of this kind from Army combat engineer Joshua Key, who fled to Saskatchewan with his wife and four children in 2005.

"This has been our home for three years now. It's a lot like the U.S., and it's as close to the U.S. as you can be," said Key, who served on the front lines in Falluja before he returned to the United States in 2002.

Key said that fleeing to Canada was a difficult but obvious choice when faced with returning to Iraq.
"There was nothing but violence and innocent civilians dying in our hands for no justification," Key said. "We became the terrorists."

**Typhus** · 05-21-2008, 08:40 PM

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

-- Deciderius Erasmus

To the people calling him a coward: have you heard or seen the horror stories that come out of that place? Are you serving in the military and have been over there? Do you know how many soldiers have killed themselves after returning?

The answer: probably not.

So don't judge, I personally think the lot of you are a bunch of pussies. Especially the ones that support this war but have nothing to do with it.

chriskiss · 05-21-2008, 08:43 PM

I'm not qualified to quantify what he's seen, experienced or capable of handling. If he wants out, that's his prerogative. I don't care if his signature is in blood. I'd probably want out too.

KoscheckBaby · 05-21-2008, 08:49 PM

I remember reading that desertion can be punishable by death, but the last known case was some guy during World War 2. It's just an example of the government holding a ridiculous amount of power over it's military members.

I'm honestly surprised Canada isn't offering support to these guys. I don't think these are bad guys at all; just people that's minds changed during the war or didn't realize the shit they would see. The government has no right to punish these people, but they will.

FoxTrot9R · 05-21-2008, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Typhus

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

-- Deciderius Erasmus

To the people calling him a coward: have you heard or seen the horror stories that come out of that place? Are you serving in the military and have been over there? Do you know how many soldiers have killed themselves after returning?

The answer: probably not.

So don't judge, I personally think the lot of you are a bunch of pussies. Especially the ones that support this war but have nothing to do with it.

Wow do as I say not as I do huh? Well while we are judging each other for no good reason, fuck you you wannabe russian thug. Plenty people sign up, and fulfill their commitments. No one put a gun to his head, as far a I know there has been no draft instituted.