Honoring Heroes
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 6th, 2008 5:28 am by HL
Honoring Heroes
WASHINGTON — Freedom Alliance is an educational and charitable foundation that, among other things, provides college scholarships to the offspring of U.S. military personnel killed in action. Every year, coincident with the Army-Navy game, the organization presents its “Defender of Freedom Award” to an individual whose character, courage and selfless deeds inspire virtuous service from the rest of us. This year’s recipient, U.S. Marine Andrew Kinard, unequivocally meets these criteria. On Oct. 29, 2006, Kinard was leading his Marines on a foot patrol in Rawah, Iraq — searching for a terrorist bomb factory — when a command-detonated IED exploded directly next to his left leg. The blast blew him into the air, and he landed almost 20 feet from the crater. Three other Marines were wounded.
Welcome to VirtualCrimes.gov
If rumor-mongering, poor taste, gratuitous jerkiness and adolescent skulduggery on the Internet are now considered federal crimes, well, you can imagine, there won’t be much of an Internet left. And if we allow government officials to charge citizens with criminal behavior over their online interactions and conversations, we have permitted a frightening precedent. Yet a couple of recent incidents illustrate a disturbing trend among prosecutors to abuse this power – whether by contorting law or satisfying the blood lust of juries.
