Posted on Sep 20, 2017

Save Our Heroes Requests Congressional Hearings - Save Our Heroes

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Save Our Heroes – Chairman of the Board, Doug James, publicly announced Friday their organization is formally requesting Congress to hold Hearings on the military judicial system. At the National Coalition for Men conference in San Diego, Mr James said there are too many innocent service members incarcerated due to a politically tainted judicial system. James went on to say the system has been used to push a political agenda and has morphed into a ‘Kangaroo Court’ and a threat to national security. When you have multiple testimonies in Court, from Generals and Admirals, admitting they succumbed to political pressure to put innocent service members in jail, you’ve got a serious problem. Mr James forcefully told a crowded conference room, “As a combat vet, I ask Congress to bring military Senior leadership who have perpetuated this threat to hear directly from them why they are putting innocent service members in jail. In our constitutional government, political pressure is not an excuse”.
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LTC (Join to see)

Posted 7 y ago

"Politically tainted judicial system"., where have we seen this before? There is nothing wrong with the system. Man has corrupted it. Man will corrupt the next one. Enforce standards at every echelon. Recruit upright citizens. Make service a calling rather than a social experiment. Bring back honor in our system. Bring back principles and morals and the system will work. We are all guilty of allowing men and women of a substandard nature to positions of power and influence. And we are surprised at their human failings?

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MSgt Lisa Silva

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There have been several cases that admittedly have involved unlawful command influence. Hell from our former POTUS on down, it's not the only issue but one of the reasons there needs to be hearings and change.

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LTC (Join to see)

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MSgt Lisa Silva - OK, so we have had the UCMJ for lets call it 100 years. And there have been "several" cases that involved command influence. So what is the solution? How is changing the system going to help? How do you eliminate Command Influence? You simply can't. As a Commander you will understand say when a Division Commander wants you to do something his/her way. You might not like it but that is command influence. It can be direct as in an order or indirect as in a poorly written OER. Changing the UCMJ will not change command influence.

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MSgt Lisa Silva

7 y

It's not the only issue,
➢ Preferring criminal charges to court-martial based on false allegations or which lack sufficient probable cause for prosecution.
➢ Excessive military prosecutorial and law enforcement agent misconduct.
➢ Rogue military prosecutors and law enforcement agents.
➢ Failure on the part of military prosecutors and law enforcement agents to pursue evidence of innocence.
➢ Failure to comply with discovery obligations.
➢ The enticement of lavish financial compensation packages encouraging many to make false allegations.
➢ The failure to hold those accountable for filing false allegations.

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LTC (Join to see)

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MSgt Lisa Silva - I understand the points there but that has nothing to do with UCMJ. That is unscrupulous people using specific questionable techniques. I'd like to know how anyone could address your last point. False allegations are made every day in the Army and I witnessed a BN CDR that was relieved because of false allegations. It may not be right but the current culture and weak leaders allow it to happen.

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