Justice....!

[Carol M]

Some pretty strong opinions expressed here. Unless you have had your boots on the ground outside the wire and experienced the terror that is everyday existence, then I think it unlikely that you can have a truly informed opinion. We all know what's right and wrong, but not many of us have walked that walk.
The general public are deliberately protected from hearing the details of what the enemy do to service personnel if they get hold of them (dead or alive); may I suggest that if the horrific truth was exposed then the attitude of some folks may be different.

Well said that man.

I'll say again, as i've said before, he did wrong undoubtedly but unless you've put a squaddie's boots on and done the job they have to do then you can never understand what they have to experience and how it affects them.

One other thing I will say, Envy said on another thread (not word for word, but this was the gist) that squaddie's who suffer post traumatic syndrome when they come home is because they have done something bad and they feel guilty and are haunted by what they have done.
With respect, that is probably the most preposterous thing I've ever read on this forum.

 

[Converted Steve]

It would be really interesting to know what all those that think what ‘Marine A’ did was fair enough and right would think if things had been the other way around and ‘Marine A’ had been injured and then murdered by a Taliban fighter, would we then be saying the punishment is to harsh? I think the answer is probably not, because we supposedly live in a civilised society where murder is wrong what ever the circumstances, that is what makes us different from terrorists.

I do however think that the sentencing policy in the British legal system is somewhat bizarre to say the least.

Myra Hindley, I think we will probably all agree was a very evil woman however she never actually killed anyone, got life imprisonment and it meant exactly that.

Thompson and Venables who tortured, murdered, and mutilated James Bulger got life which meant a few years, then got new identities and effectively set up for a new life.

Murder is wrong, the sentence should be life imprisonment, which should mean exactly what is says.

 

[mcbeee]

Sorry to disagree but... we had our own terrorists, the FLQ. granted, it was a long time back but we did have army machine guns emplacements on primary school rooftops !

We don't invade countries but we do seem to ALWAYS end up in them, losing our soldiers regularly. :thumbsdown:
My dad taught me a lot of "politically incorrect" things that kept him alive when he was in 3 different war zones, on D-Day and attached to the SAS. Regarding the military and civilian judicial systems and sentencing, needless to say "I have NO Comment".