Opinion Forum

What Happens After Korans Are Burned in Afghanistan?

February 29th, 2012

By Dan Miller Who did it, why and under what circumstances? What should and should not be done? The military justice system demands justice for our troops. It does not permit revenge upon them to curry favor with others, even our enemies. The burning of an unstated number of Korans in Afghanistan and the aftermath […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, apologies, burning, Islam, justice, Koran, Quran, satire, trial
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Should Politics and Foreign Policy Affect Our Military Justice System?

January 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller The military justice system demands justice for our troops, not revenge upon them to curry favor with others. The video of U.S. Marines who apparently urinated on Taliban corpses has gone viral and not only the Islamic world is watching.

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Tags: foreign policy, justice, Marines, punishment, Taliban, trial, UCMJ, urinate
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Let’s Try All Sensational Criminal Cases on TV!

July 7th, 2011

By Dan Miller The jury system, and laws in general, can produce unpopular results and must therefore be changed. The trial of Casey Anthony for the sensationally brutal murder of her young daughter Caylee has been much in the “news.” It began to play out on national television when she was reported missing three years […]

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Tags: acquittal, Casey Anthony, Constitution, daughter, jurors, murder, satire, trial
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Pentagon and White House Cross Swords?

April 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller According to this article, In a surprise announcement, Pentagon prosecutors have declared their intention to re-file war crimes charges against the mastermind of the deadly attack on the American warship, the USS Cole, in the Port of Aden, Yemen on October 12, 2000. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 40 other American […]

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Tags: death penalty, DOD, DOJ, terrorism, terrorist, trial, USS Cole, White House
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The Truth Will Get You Jailed

October 12th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “The truth will set you free?” Don’t be ridiculous, that’s only a dark notion from our distant past! In our modern, enlightened age, we know that questions of truth are unimportant, compared to whether that truth is offensive or not. Sounds outlandish? Crazy? Or maybe secretly deep down somewhere you like it, but […]

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Tags: freedom of speech, Geert Wilders, immigration, Islam, Netherlands, trial
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