Squaddie Murderer..

[apc2010]

There have been many threads on this, on various forums ......but how dumb was the guy who kept filming.........

[beerhead]

Dumb enough to join the Army

[boogs]

There have been many threads on this, on various forums ......but how dumb was the guy who kept filming.........

Beggers belief doesn't it 

[Baldy]

Dumb enough to join the Army

Quite so. 

[apc2010]

10 years .........all the ex-services (read SAS ) here are all up in arms .....saying it's not fair,,,,,,,,,while I agree that it might be ........would he be in that position were it not for Blair .......

[Grumpmeister]

As fucked up as our justice system is I have a nasty feeling that Lee Rigby's killers will get less than that. 

[Steve]

As fucked up as our justice system is I have a nasty feeling that Lee Rigby's killers will get less than that. 

How much you want to bet?  I reckon full life tariff is most likely

That 10 year sentence is about twice what I'd say was right.  You cannot make guys like that go through that experience and expect them all to act right all the time.  Manslaughter due to diminished responsibility might have been a fairer charge.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Cool Hand is across most issues affecting the human condition, but a bit flummoxed here.

What was the squaddie murder ?

[Barman]

Cool Hand is across most issues affecting the human condition, but a bit flummoxed here.

What was the squaddie murder ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518672/Alexander-Blackman-sergeant-killed-Taliban-prisoner-ID-revealed.html

[Cool Hand Luke]

Thanks, Barman. A tough call for the judge. There were similar cases involving US troops in Vietnam in particular.

Cool Hand has been to a few war museums in eastern Europe recently: not pretty. The poor bastards who survived Hitler and his local Fascist allies then had to suffer under Stalin, of course, and in many ways he was just as cruel. Between the pair I'm guessing 30 or 40 million died from the gas chambers or plain starvation. So if you were a Bulgarian or Hungarian or Ukrainian born, say, in 1920, life was no bed of roses.

I don't know why the West gets militarily involved in Muslim countries. Not good for the countries themselves, catastrophic for the lives of the soldiers, and inviting retaliation like the London bombings.

[Barman]

Thanks, Barman. A tough call for the judge. There were similar cases involving US troops in Vietnam in particular.

Cool Hand has been to a few war museums in eastern Europe recently: not pretty. The poor bastards who survived Hitler and his local Fascist allies then had to suffer under Stalin, of course, and in many ways he was just as cruel. Between the pair I'm guessing 30 or 40 million died from the gas chambers or plain starvation. So if you were a Bulgarian or Hungarian or Ukrainian born, say, in 1920, life was no bed of roses.

I don't know why the West gets militarily involved in Muslim countries. Not good for the countries themselves, catastrophic for the lives of the soldiers, and inviting retaliation like the London bombings.

Quite right CHL... 

Also not clear to me why Muslims are made quite so welcome in the UK.....

[Cool Hand Luke]

Thanks, Barman. A tough call for the judge. There were similar cases involving US troops in Vietnam in particular.

Cool Hand has been to a few war museums in eastern Europe recently: not pretty. The poor bastards who survived Hitler and his local Fascist allies then had to suffer under Stalin, of course, and in many ways he was just as cruel. Between the pair I'm guessing 30 or 40 million died from the gas chambers or plain starvation. So if you were a Bulgarian or Hungarian or Ukrainian born, say, in 1920, life was no bed of roses.

I don't know why the West gets militarily involved in Muslim countries. Not good for the countries themselves, catastrophic for the lives of the soldiers, and inviting retaliation like the London bombings.

Quite right CHL... 

Also not clear to me why Muslims are made quite so welcome in the UK.....

In Australia there's a not a great deal of tension involving Muslims. Different from the UK in the sense that we've had waves of migration from southern Europe post WWII (Melbourne has more Greeks than any city outside Athens), Vietnam post 1970, China more recently and now Muslims and Hindus from various countries, so we're fairly used to it. By and large, migration has been successful.

[Steve]

Thanks, Barman. A tough call for the judge. There were similar cases involving US troops in Vietnam in particular.

Cool Hand has been to a few war museums in eastern Europe recently: not pretty. The poor bastards who survived Hitler and his local Fascist allies then had to suffer under Stalin, of course, and in many ways he was just as cruel. Between the pair I'm guessing 30 or 40 million died from the gas chambers or plain starvation. So if you were a Bulgarian or Hungarian or Ukrainian born, say, in 1920, life was no bed of roses.

I don't know why the West gets militarily involved in Muslim countries. Not good for the countries themselves, catastrophic for the lives of the soldiers, and inviting retaliation like the London bombings.

Quite right CHL... 

Also not clear to me why Muslims are made quite so welcome in the UK.....

In Australia there's a not a great deal of tension involving Muslims. Different from the UK in the sense that we've had waves of migration from southern Europe post WWII (Melbourne has more Greeks than any city outside Athens), Vietnam post 1970, China more recently and now Muslims and Hindus from various countries, so we're fairly used to it. By and large, migration has been successful.

There's about the same level here as in Oz CLH.  You get a few incidents and so do we.  Outside of the web the dominant ethnic/religious tension in the UK is still Catholic v Protestant.  I blame that Anne Boleyn tart, she started it.

[Barman]

Thanks, Barman. A tough call for the judge. There were similar cases involving US troops in Vietnam in particular.

Cool Hand has been to a few war museums in eastern Europe recently: not pretty. The poor bastards who survived Hitler and his local Fascist allies then had to suffer under Stalin, of course, and in many ways he was just as cruel. Between the pair I'm guessing 30 or 40 million died from the gas chambers or plain starvation. So if you were a Bulgarian or Hungarian or Ukrainian born, say, in 1920, life was no bed of roses.

I don't know why the West gets militarily involved in Muslim countries. Not good for the countries themselves, catastrophic for the lives of the soldiers, and inviting retaliation like the London bombings.

Quite right CHL... 

Also not clear to me why Muslims are made quite so welcome in the UK.....

In Australia there's a not a great deal of tension involving Muslims. Different from the UK in the sense that we've had waves of migration from southern Europe post WWII (Melbourne has more Greeks than any city outside Athens), Vietnam post 1970, China more recently and now Muslims and Hindus from various countries, so we're fairly used to it. By and large, migration has been successful.

There's about the same level here as in Oz CLH.  You get a few incidents and so do we.  Outside of the web the dominant ethnic/religious tension in the UK is still Catholic v Protestant.  I blame that Anne Boleyn tart, she started it.

I don't live there any more....

But...

It has been a while since the Catholics blew anybody up in the UK or beheaded anybody on the streets for that matter....

...and I don't recall the approved humane processes of slaughtering our food being changed to appease Catholics....

...and I don't remember schools or prisons falling over themselves to apologise for serving food not approved by the Catholics...

...or Catholic versions of Tower Hamlets where anybody not conforming to the Catholic ideal would be harassed and excluded...

...or Catholics grooming and gang-raping young white girls....

... to name but a few examples of the difference between the Catholic v Protestant tension and that between the great British public and 'The Religion of Peace'....

[apc2010]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519519/Muslim-Patrol-jailed-harassing-couple-holding-hands-men-drinking-bid-enforce-Sharia-law-East-London.html