JAG HUNTER HERE (Posting from the Sweetwater, Tennessee Library):

Murder is the most despotic expression of ATTAINDER!

President Bush as Commander-in-Chief, without a jury's permission, just ordered the first military execution since the early 60s.

As decider-in-chief, President Bush, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, has the final authority to approve capital punishment in the military. He did so yesterday, upholding the death penalty for Ronald A. Gray. Here are reports from the NYT and the AP.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice is an Act of Attainder. The Constitution proscribes Attainder.

Attainder is the product of the rule of man. And in case you've not noticed: The Emperor has no clothes!

Juries hamper kings.

President Bush as CINC will be a partner in murder is this soldier is put to death! This is nothing more than the arbitrary decision of a military commander. No different in type or kind than a hit issued by a Mafia godfather.

Note to our Supreme Court Justices:

Winston Spencer Churchill observes:

Trial by jury of equals, only for offenses know to the law, if maintained makes the difference between bond and free.

You are here directly confronted and challenged to check premises. Before you stands a classic Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged contradiction: It's impossible for ATTAINDER to be, at once, constitutional and unconstitutional.

An emergency stay must be urgently issued until the ATTAINDER contratiction is effaced, until the Uniform Code of Military Justice is finally reconcilled with our Constitution.

English Minister Thomas Wentworth Strafford was murdered in an act of ATTAINDER in the Spring of 1640. The Earl of Strafford's closing speech to the Lower House of Commons is particularly cautionary to President/CINC Bush and all federal legislators as the clock ticks away:

My lords, it is my present misfortune, but forever yours...and except your lordships' wisdom provides for it, the shedding of my blood may make a way for the tracing of yours.

More on ATTAINDER appears below and throughout these JAG HUNTER and JAGMIRE pages. Go to the internal search dialog boxes and just range about.

The hope, the experiment, the prayer was that our country would evolve into a Nation of Laws, and not men. We have become instead--in abject shame--a nation of lawyers.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!

JAG HUNTER HERE (posting from the Sweetwater, Tennessee Library):

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Congress especially created and stewards those military proceedings that give legislative life to environments poisonous to our Constitution. In those courts-martial, military commissions and tribunals where military governors thrive--but deadly to juries and innocence;

GUILT is a living thing!

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IN CONGRESS (AS AN ACT OF ATTAINDER)
PROVIDED BY CONGRESS FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

AND EVERY SURROGATE COMMANDING OFFICER

EVER EXISTING AND CURRENTLY A MATTER OF

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT POLICY

"...the essence of all military proceedings is summary and vigorous action, and moreover, courts-martial are no part the Judiciary of the United States, are not even courts..., but are, in peace as well as in war, simply bodies of military men ordered to investigate accusations, arrive at facts, and--where just--recommend [to the President of the United States (POTUS) as Commander-in-Chief (CINC)] a punishment [the POTUS/CINC should award to the affected person(s) like U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Holt, Marine Sergeant Lawrence G. Hutchins, III, and Army RANGER, Staff Sergeant Raymond L. Girouard].

"...In the absence, therefore, of [constitutional protections, no military proceeding] can scarcely be held bound to the same strict adherence [to the United States Constitution] as are the true courts of the United States [created under the Constitution's Article III] and upon [military punishment ceremonies (be they courts-martial, tribunals, or commissions), the bodies of military men ordered by the CINC/POTUS to investigate accusations, arrive at facts, and--where just--recommend punishment] may properly be allowed [to ignore the Constitution and its protections against government tyranny] to pursue a more liberal course in regard to the administration of testimony and the examination of witnesses...

"Courts-martial are not courts, but are, in fact [POTUS/CINC expressions] of the executive power provided by Congress for the President as Commander-in-Chief to aid [the CINC] in properly commanding [the armed forces of the United States] and enforcing discipline therein, and utilized under [POTUS/CINC] orders...they are indeed, creatures of orders [that are unconstrained, unbounded, and completely free to ignore THE CONSTITUTION and each of the constitutional protections against government protection and tyranny]."

--WILLIAM WINTHROP
former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General

"[The POTUS/CINC wants] to get at the fact (no matter how) for the sake of discipline [and to that end,]...THERE IS NO BETTER WITNESS AGAINST A MAN THAN HIMSELF!"

Samuel T. Ansell
Former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General
(in paraphrase quoting a distinguished British officer/practitioner of the Roman Code)

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Attainder is the practice of legislating guilt and punishment in the absence of a Jury's permission. The Constitution contains in Article I, Section 9, eight specific prohibitions on congressional action. The specific prohibition against Attainder is contained in the the third clause.

The Defense Department policy narrated above are the processes by which ALL SERVICE MEMBERS, civilians, and foreign nationals are brought to U.S. military hearing rooms--UNARMED--to discover what the President of the United States/Commander-in-Chief will decide upon receipt of those recommendations received from his surrogate commanders, who are under the CINC's orders.

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The "military proceedings," the courts-martial, military tribunals and commissions are the places innonce goes to die.

Innocence does not exist in the world of attainder.

Hutchins, Girouard, Holt along with every other U.S. warrior presently are congressional prisoners of war. They're entombed behind rocks put in place under presidential order as the commander-in-chief. Federal legislators such as those listed here, although constitutionally forbidded to do so, empowered the President to forever imprison free men, to exercise the power of attainder!

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Federal legislators presently and criminally responsible for the crime of Attainder include: William "Bill" Delahunt (MA.), Delahunt's staff attorney John Kivlan, Norm Dicks (WA.), Norm's Executive Assistant George Behan, John J. Duncan, Jr., Duncan's National Security Advisor Jonathon "who wants to take on the Defense Department" Griswold, John "Faith of our fathers" McCain (Az.), Barack "Audacity of hope" Obama (Il.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Ted Kennedy (Ma.), John Kerry (Ma.), Patty Murray (Wa.), Maria Cantwell (Wa.), Jon Kyl (Az.), Jay Inslee (Wa.), Adam Smith (Wa.), Slade Gordon (former Senator, Wa.), Lamar Alexander (Tn.), Bob Corker (Tn.), John Shaddegg (Az.) joined by every other U.S. Representative and Senator, and lest we forget...there's

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Haditha's own John "Jack Massacre Murtha!"

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America's Articles of War, renamed the Uniform Code of Military Justice over half a century ago, meets each of the three U.S. Supreme Court tests that once met, declares an Act of Congress as the specific constitutional expression of the crime of attainder.

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COURTS-MARTIAL ARE NOT COURTS!!

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Here endth the lesson.

JAG HUNTER HERE:

It must be observed, correcting the report of the Advocate/Democrat, Steele's histrionics were delivered TEN DAYS BEFORE this unit deployed to Southwest Asia. This is a pre-deployment briefing, not an after-action hot wash-up.

Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard WAS in the auditorium audience.
Whether Steele's grunts and utterances conveyed unlawful orders is an open question. The details of Steel's command philosophy and junior/senior interactions are guarded as national secrets in the voluminous written record attendant to Steele's non-judicial punishment proceedings that took place months before Staff Sgt. Girouard and his men were courts-martialed.

ANITA GORECKI and ALAN DERSHOWITZ both knew the details of Steele's reprimand before the IRON TRIANGLE discipline ceremonies. GORECKI was Ray's privately retained defense counsel, DERSHOWITZ was Col. Steele's paid defense attorney.

None of this information was available in Ray's defense, nor in the defense of his men.

Testimony we heard regarding these matters was coerced!

U.S. ARMY Colonel Michael "BLACKHAWK DOWN" STEELE'S

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BRIEFING!

COLONEL STEELE WAS RAY GIROUARD'S COMMANDING OFFICER DURING THE IRON TRIANGLE ASSAULT NEAR SAMARA, IRAQ.

THIS VIDEO EVIDENCE WAS UNLAWFULLY PROHIBITED FROM THE COURTS-MARTIAL OF ARMY RANGER/STAFF SERGEANT RAYMOND GIROUARD. GIROUARD AND HIS MEN STOOD UNARMED BEFORE THEIR INQUISITORS, UNABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

THIS VIDEO ROE BRIEFING COULD JUST AS WELL BE USED TO DEFEND MARINE SERGEANT LAWRENCE HUTCHINS.

AGAIN: THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE IS A BILL OF ATTAINDER!!

Here endth the lesson.

JAG HUNTER HERE:

Justice denied is justice denied!

The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is a bill of attainder.

Here endth the lesson.