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Military Justice System Problems Go Beyond Sexual Assaults
"Retired Air Force Col. Don Christensen, a former military prosecutor and current president of Protect Our Defenders, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual violence in the military, said lawmakers need to overhaul the entire U.S. military justice system because it's archaic, with a framework that's inherited from a British system created by King George III and that has ties to ancient Rome."
Concerned Citizen
10/18/2021 12:49:28 pm
Both a nonsequitur and misleading.
Anon
10/19/2021 10:03:06 am
OK, so, "we have always done it so we need to think about updating it" is a non sequitur? Then, so is: "we have always done it so therefore we don't need to change."
Scott
10/19/2021 09:38:15 am
Large parts of our system of government, and certainly of our legal system, were inherited from pre-revolutionary-war Britain. Similarly, though less directly, these systems were influenced by Rome.
Lone Bear
10/19/2021 09:43:38 am
Yeah, weird argument. When you read the story, it sounds like a case that would be difficult to prosecute and probably shouldn’t go to trial. The issue is that it’s the Commander who makes the decision. It’s just unseemly and undermines trust in Commanders. It’s as true for other serious crimes as it is for sex assaults.
Scott
10/19/2021 11:35:11 am
As is often the case, there are not enough facts to tell wether the case highlighted had prosecutorial merit or not. But your point that a commander making that decision subjects the decision to increased scrutiny, and perhaps increased skepticism, is certainly valid.
Anon
10/19/2021 11:41:41 am
A military accused’s unsworn statement comes from our British military legal heritage. Should we ditch it bc King George III apparently was cool with it? Not everything that is old is bad, sometimes it is old bc it’s functional and valuable.
Brenner M. Fissell
10/19/2021 12:17:20 pm
These responses seem very sophistic to me. He was obviously saying old AND bad. The latter part is implied in "archaic"--old and no longer fitting in with modern standards or sensibilities.
Concerned Citizen
10/19/2021 12:29:03 pm
Was just addressing the part of the argument highlighted on the website. It's a bad argument.
Scott
10/19/2021 02:28:19 pm
Well done using a reference to Ancient Greece in a comment stream about whether roots in Ancient Rome make a system outdated. I’m assuming that was intentional and I appreciated it. Comments are closed.
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