UPDATE: MARINE SERGEANT LAWRENCE GORDON HUTCHINS, III

*General David Brahms:

I just received a phone call from Kathi Hutchins, Mother of Pvt Hutchins.

She was distraught and in tears, to the point that she could hardly talk.

She had just received a call from her son, Larry, at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Ks.

Sergeant Hutchins told his Mother that he had just been released from the hospital. Larry stated that he was sitting in his cell with ear phones on, listening to music, when all of a sudden he was attacked from behind by a black inmate, from across the cell block.

Larry said that he was unaware that another inmate had placed a wedge, at the point of closure, to his cell door and with ear phones on, and his back to the cell door, he did not hear this individual enter his cell.

Apparently, this individual grabbed Hutchins around the neck and threw him to the cell floor and beat him severely.

I have placed a call to Sergeant Hutchins' Congressman, (Congressman Bill Delahunt and his Counsel John Kivlan) requesting an investigation.

I also placed a call to Leavenworth, but it was after hours. I talked to a Sergeant 1/C, but naturally he was not about to say anything. He gave me the number of a Mr. Istes, Director of Prisoner Affairs (913) 758-3669 and requested I call after 0800 tomarrow. I don't think he will discuss this incident with me, because I am not immediate family. I am requesting Mr. & Mrs. Hutchins to call Istes in the a.m.

This is the second such incident, since Hutchins incarceration, at Leavenworth, each involving a black inmate. Sounds like they have some gang activity going on out there.

Hutchins is still a United States Marine, has not been discharged and I feel someone, at the HQMC level should look into this.

Sir, sorry to bother you with this, but some type of action has to be taken.

V/R & S/F,
Don Greenlaw


Copyright © 2009 The JAG HUNTER



*David Brahms: Former Judge Advocate General, Marines

POSTINGS FROM THE SWEETWATER LIBRARY

(Seventh in a series)

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Congressmen and commanders nowadays are like leaky diapers. They can't be trusted and must be frequently changed for the same reasons.

--The JAG HUNTER

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"--'can I call you Court?' she asked him. 'It sounds so--I don't know: so strong and savage. Ruthless, sort of, General Court..."

[Army General Courtney Massengale interrupted the movie starlet, finishing her sentence]

'Ah, but imagine if my last name had been Marshall.' "

--Anton Myrer in his military classic novel: ONCE AN EAGLE (1968)

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The military system can say this for itself: It knows what it wants, and it systematically goes in and gets it."

--John Henry Wigmore, dean of American evidence law and World War I JAG

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JAG HUNTER HERE WITH TIM HARRINGTON AND GEORGE REILLY:



Promising general courts-martial punishment and deep family embarrassment non-related accusations regarding sex crimes and aberrant personal behavior (real or invented) unscrupulous military detectives and JAGs forced false witness testimony to knowingly and illicitly imprison Sergeants Larry Hutchins, Ray Girouard, and other innocent men.

Sponsors in the sacrifice of our sergeants to the gods of political expediency Congressmen Jack Murtha, Bill Delahunt and John Duncan--in concert with the generals, the JAGs, and creep detectives--are furiously scrambling today to contain (with frantic hope to control) the unstoppable political firestorm about to explode in a stiffening wind.

Representatives Norm Dicks, Jay Inslee, and John Shadegg--standing upwind with burnt matches fallen at their feet--suffer the same worries.

But damage control is impossible, overtaken by unfolding events.

The word is out!

Detailed public disclosure regarding threats made against Brad Mason, Jason Graber, Corey Clagett, William Huntsacker, and Robert Pennington forcing these warriors to lie under oath are imminent.

OPPORTUNITY

Ironically it was the perceived threat of compromise and public disclosure that led us to where we find ourselves this day. Disgruntled troops shooting off their mouths combined with Iraqis angling for a hush-money payday panicked U.S. commanders and lawmakers by intimating they'd tell all regarding the true nature of urban street fighting and the rules of engagement (ROE) approved for use by U.S. infantry troops.

It became necessary for the congressmen and commanders to invent barefaced falsehoods to foist a valiant character on themselves. So those specific, but routine combat events about to come under a magnifying glass were declared "war crimes" and the Marines and soldiers involved dragged into courts-martial.

MOTIVE

The strongest argument to be advanced in protest to America's military adventures overseas is that congressmen and commanders are more than capable and willing to entomb innocent infantry soldiers and Marines to conceal from the folks at home the stark reality of urban, counter-insurgent war fighting against an enemy that refuses to wear a uniform.

Given our politically correct and incendiary society congressmen and commanders were unprepared and unable to survive the scorching scrutiny should the ROE for ground operations be revealed.

These command creeps didn't want you to know, for instance, what Marine Lieutenant Nathan Phan recognizes as every day, unremarkable routine combat events:

"We do what is necessary to get the job done" Phan writes. "I'm what they call a Paying Agent. It means I'm authorized to reimburse Iraqi civilians with U.S. government dollars as restitution in the event we damage their personal property or cause unnecessary grief. This tends to happen a lot. Not because we're a bunch of [vulgarity deleted] who like to blow things up, beat [or kill] women and children...[but because] What is necessary for us means unnecessary suffering for them. We conduct raids in the dead of night, kick families out of their homes and take over...we do this on a regular basis. This may seem harsh or even cruel, but it is absolutely necessary."

Make no mistake...Sergeants Hutchins and Girouard and their men faced general courts-martial for doing what is commonly considered "absolutely necessary." They did exactly as they were ordered!

Army Colonel Michael "Black Hawk Down" Steele exhorted his men to regard the enemy as faceless, immoral, and inhuman (what we know of Steele's "hoo-ah" speech comes from those very few people who've viewed a not yet released documentary titled: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER). Steel's men were ordered to kill all military aged males (MAMs) on sight during their IRON TRIANGLE operation assault on a terrorist training camp near Samara, Iraq. It was in the infantry's ROE!


But congressmen and commanders could not allow Lt. Phan's or Col. Steele's testimonies to be publicly voiced in defense of their sergeants and infantrymen. Military aristocrats, martial royalty toiled aggressively, tirelessly, and decisively to block ground commanders from repeating orders they'd given their men in the field.

Ergo: The need for the cover stories!

MEANS

"The military system can say this for itself: It knows what it wants and it systematically goes in and gets it!"

For the cover story plans to work command racketeers had to hang the sergeants (plausible deniability doncha know).

Since May 1951 the character of the court-martial is that of a psychological operation (PSYOP). It's simply an imposing tool in the ultimate expression of Executive will. Courts-martial--in their design, intent, and sublime operation--are the naked application of irresistible force.


The courts-martial PSYOPs process is forceful enough to make people lie about others and to lie about themselves.

Courts-martial PSYOPs prey upon the very weakest.

Flag officers--generally speaking--do not face courts-martial (pun intended!).

Unscrupulous military detective creeps and deceitful, dishonest JAGs are sanctioned, encouraged, and nowadays emboldened to commit despicable acts against our warriors, their families, and their extended communities.

Martial monsters--the JAGs and detective agents assigned by military royalty--exploit targets whose psychological complexions and makeups are marked by lower levels of maturity, sophistication, education, and intelligence.

Special agents like Jim Connolly (aggressively profiled on these JAG HUNTER pages regarding the Camp Pendleton Eight series of courts-martial) mentally torture our kids during interrogation sessions like those American POWs suffered during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. Devious and sinister JAGs and special agents deprive those they accuse, their comrades, and their families of the freedom to speak the truth. Congressmen and commanders play with their constituents and men by inoculating them with false hope and extraordinary fear. These terrible people inject terror, suspicions of one another, doubts, and mistrust.

Men and women like Jim Connolly threatened obstruction in one Marine seeking U.S. citizenship.

Pernicious men and women like Jim Connolly threatened the kind of repercussions and violence attendant to accusations of pedophilia, child-porn, statuary rape (real or not in any case) that had nothing to do with the events in question.

Innuendo tore combat units and families apart. Mom and dads wondered if they knew their boy. Siblings wondered if they knew each other. Privates were forced to lie about their sergeants while the officers betrayed and lied about their men.

This is how the restructured courts-martial PSYOP works. It is the ultimate expression of Executive will. The will of the commander in chief.

The congressmen and commanders are more than willing to build and advance ghost stories about the lowly infantryman, to protect and shield themselves, and to keep secret from you--the American body politic--the orders being issued to men like Hutchins and Girouard.

Courts-martial PSYOPs facilitated martial injunctions guarding against disclosure or compromise of ground combat operations overseas.

Recent and alarming comments uttered by military politicos close more public cases are particularly clear and instructive explaining how courts-martial are so exceptionally useful in the exploitation of U.S. servicemen.

David Brahms, pointing at the congressmen, sardonically commented: "Who cares about these men?" Brahms continued: These soldiers and Marines are insignificant...no one can find where these men live on a map of the U.S."

John Kivlan flaunting his prior knowledge of conviction, and who later sat in the hearing room, told Sergeant Hutchins' parents that no one was going to uncover the corruption. Their son was going to a military prison innocent or not. Pay attention to the sentencing phase.

Jonathan Griswold, when petitioned to challenge Ray Girouard's court-martial (among others) declined in this candid response: "Who wants to take on the DOD?"

David Brahms is a retired one-star brigadier general and former Judge Advocate, Marines.

Kivlan is the staff attorney to Representative Bill Delahunt.

Griswold is the national security advisor to Congressman John Duncan.

It's worth noting that Brahms was the paid civilian defense counsel to Marine Lance Corporal Robert Pennington. Brahms was (and remains) a full participant in the travesties described above. David Brahms is to Lcpl. Pennington as Rich Brannon is to Sgt. Hutchins, as Anita Gorecki is to SSgt. Ray Girouard. Each of the defense attorneys robbed their clients, their families, and their communities by cooperating with and advancing the government's ghost cover stories.

The cover stories were easy to dismantle. Military detectives and unreliable witnesses and evidence were ripe for impeachment. Competent and concerned--honest and honorable defense teams and individual counselors could have extracted from the infantry COs information regarding the ROE and actual scheme of operations for the urban street war fight. Under defense questioning the infantry commanders could have narrated in intimate detail the routine nature of raid and ambush carried out in watch-bill rotation before and after those days in question. The COs could have discussed ROE orders to kill all MAMs, to patrol and engage any suspicious vehicle or structure. They could have revealed the existence of the high-value insurgents hit list and the deployment of "Hunter-Killer" teams to reduce the number of MAMs on that list, or to shoot on sight those insurgents found in the act of planting improvised explosive devices.

Cowardly lion commanders instead crafted and advanced elaborate "war crimes" cover stories pointing to their men as rogue soldiers or Marines gone off the reservation. The infantry COs dishonored themselves by providing cover for higher ranking officers and congressmen (the command racketeers). The commanding officers in monstrous acts of betrayal, turned their backs leaving their men for dead--buried alive in the DOD catacombs.

Corrupt and complicit defense teams colluded with each other and with the government abandoning our warriors in service to their own self-aggrandizement, self-promotion, and self interests.

Congressmen and commanders nowadays are like leaky diapers. They can't be trusted and must be frequently changed for the same reasons.

America does not plant the seed of democracy on foreign shores--in this Great Moral Enterprise--by burying innocent soldiers and Marines alive at home as political prisoners.

Congressmen and commanders fail to extend or extol the virtues of Freedom overseas by destroying the lives and homes of innocent people!

The children are watching!

As so many others are watching.

Here endth the lesson.

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE INNOCENT MAN!

Copyright © The JAG HUNTER 2008

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

Wednesday, 8 August 2007

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

Attorney General Gonzales:

Military commanders and their confederates are engaged in the widespread criminal offense of Attainder overarching command racketeering unbounded in scope and time. My criminal complaint of military outlawry demands that you, as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, arrest this illicit business and its perpetrators instantly.

Fully aware you’ll do nothing unless the forcing function of public outrage increases pressure, my purpose here is as much to incite fury and rage as it is to demand arrests and prosecutions. I’m confident in my ability to inform my fellow citizens that military governors, contumacious commanders—generals, admirals, senators, and representatives—have with treachery and intent seized the power of the citizen jury.

Attainment of Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins, III and Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard supplies oxygen to the tinder-dry imaginations of a weary populace that I—with fellow military personnel, their families and communities—intend to ignite with the suddenness of a thunderstorm lightening strike in dry prairie-grass.

This wildfire burst will occur as the imaginings of ordinary citizens and stand-up Marines are transformed into reality watching, shocked and astonished, while their innocent sons and comrades are locked up in military dungeons by dishonored leaders acting directly against the Constitution and our young servicemen without a jury’s permission.

Military marshals and federal legislators are strictly forbidden by constitutional command from seizing jury power, replacing it with Attainder power. Lieutenant Generals Michael D. Maples and Tom Turner, Major General Jeffrey Schloesser (all Army) and James Mattis (USMC), for instance, are proscribed from directly disciplining Americans for criminal conduct (real or perceived) unless a civilian, citizen jury first gives its permission. Federal legislators such as Representatives Bill Delahunt, Norm Dicks, John Shadegg, and John Duncan aid and abet this ubiquitous and clear crime of Attainder.

Do not dismiss or diminish this criminal complaint as novitiate work product. Do not ignore this writing or regard it in diminution. The polemic is not a new one. It’s a debate running the nation’s entire history, aggressively complained about alike in literature and professional writings. Summary martial murder is Herman Melville’s 19^th century tale in the novella Billy Budd (based upon factual reports regarding the “Strange Affair of the Warship Somers”) with additional examination of military discipline in a longer narrative, White Jacket. James Fenimore Cooper joined Melville in railing publicly against the 1842 execution-murder aboard USS Somers.

Army Judge Advocate General (or TJAG) Samuel Ansell (post World War I, 1917 – 1920) raised constitutional challenges against Attainder but was simply pushed aside, nowadays reduced to an ancient historical footnote. Reaction and revulsion to the draconian outrages visited upon citizen-soldiers-sailors and Marines during World War II resulted in renaming the Article of War as the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Murder at the hands of military leaders was William Branford’s topic in his 1954 tome, The Execution of Private Slovik (later a made for T.V. movie (1974)). Abuses visited upon American citizens during WWII supply prominent subtexts to novels of James Jones’ (From Here to Eternity) and Anton Myrer’s (Once An Eagle).

Little else besides a name changed with enactment of the UCMJ. Military commanders betrayed the trust vested in them by continuing terrible treatment they’d been caught before in the abuse of regular folks called into military service. Attainder and command racketeering were retained as Defense Department fixtures throughout the Korean and Vietnam conflicts while members of Congress turned blind eyes.

After Vietnam (1975 - 1980), Albert Fletcher, Jr. sitting on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals (or COMA) worked aggressively to “civilianize” the military discipline system in revulsion to one he (but very few Congressman) recognized as still not reconciled with the Constitution. Fletcher lost his federal position as a result. Meanwhile the service TJAGs, with full backing from DoD officials, very nearly disestablished Fletcher’s outfit altogether so as to prevent the possibility of any future “COMA revolts.”

And yet, for all of this, Military royalty is more powerful today, due to its criminal ingenuity, than British military governors during our pre-Revolution history. “The United States military…has its own [court-martial] system, its own trial procedures, its own judges, its own [command review process], even its own prisons and police.” Martial government has evolved into an illicit, corrosive, government within our constitutional government; the enemy within—an alien!

M. Night Shyamalan conjures a frightening visual image of our military’s specialized, secret society and unconstitutional government in his stylized movie drama, The Village. In the real world, America’s tight-knit Mafia-like command controlled community lives in mortal fear of oppressive evil manifested by the beast lurking and hovering just outside the compound fence (think Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Army Criminal Investigative Division, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Coast Guard Investigative Service, and the DoD Criminal Investigation Service). As frightening is NCIS’ insinuation into local civilian community law enforcement. (Note: Begun as the Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, the organization has been renamed twice since its origination. First to Naval Investigative Service, then, after the tail hook scandal, to the NCIS)

Professional, internal condemnations, such as the finding of the 2001 Cox Commission, are as profound as they are disturbing if for no other reason than their full exposure of disinterested and disconnected federal legislators. Representatives and senators who’ve abrogated oversight duties to command racketeers and village beasts (NCIS, Army CID, AFOSI, CGIS, and DCIS) regarding the scope and operation of military discipline.

In assigning failing grades in its performance audit, the Cox Commission envisioned precisely the contemporaneous NCIS crime spree battle raging before our very eyes regarding the NCIS vs. our U.S. Marines. Congressmen, ignoring the Cox Commission importunity, have turned instead against our Marines (and soldiers and sailors). With laser-beam focus I point directly to federal lawmakers like John Murtha, Bill Delahunt, John Shadegg, John Duncan, Dave Reichert, Jay Inslee, and Norm Dicks.

This is not the place to rehash the litany of criminal offenses military leaders and federal legislators are committing (have committed) against our young men and women subsumed beneath the overarching crime of Attainder. My personal experiences and extensive criminal complaints (numbering in the thousands over nearly twenty-years) are well known to various federal law enforcement agencies to include the FBI. Those complaints, each and every one, are extended and renewed here again.

For the “CP8 families,” Kathi & Larry Hutchins, Aunt Betty, Glenda Ewing, Sarah Leonard, Edward Richmond, Darryl Sharratt, Bonnie & Alan Cleveland, Pastor Orr, Tim & Mary Harrington, Ilario & Merry Pantano, and to the folks in communities like Plymouth, MA, Sweetwater, TN, Granger, IN, and Canonsburg, PA; to these people and all others, it was never meant, nor should it be allowed to continue that military leaders wield such extraordinary, extra-constitutional war power while federal and state courts are open and accessible. Remedy and relief must be afforded instantly to those so far trampled asunder while reform and reconciliation with the Constitution is begun.

So, town-hall meetings are completely appropriate and necessary. Criminal complaints filed with the FBI are as appropriate given the background and context of crimes committed by NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly in the Camp Pendleton Eight series of courts-martial (all cases void).

The same is appropriate regarding the nearly two-decade old Navy-NCIS crime spree and illicit conduct of Navy Rear Admiral John Bitoff, Captain of Marines “Andy” Anderson, and Navy Commander Tim Zeller (in the forgery of my name), and JAG Zeller’s recent admission that military court-martial ceremonies are rigged as a matter of standard operating procedure.

The same is appropriate regarding the recent outrages stemming from SSgt. Ray Girouard’s court-martial, and companion military ceremonies (all void). Neither Lt. Gen. Tom Turner nor Maj. Gen. Jeff Schloesser are allowed to directly punish U.S. citizens (acting under unconstitutional specialized, secret military government) replacing their “judgment” in substitution for the permission of a constitutionally recognized and formed, independent civilian citizen jury.

I’m confident other criminal complaints (and political activism) follow from agitated family members holding standing in those abuses now widely reported and those about to be reported.

Alexander Hamilton is quoted: “If it be asked, what is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws—the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”

Your duty, Mr. Attorney General Gonzales is clear.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man,

/s/Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

Cc: FBI Special Agents Robert Clifford, Andy Farabow, Danny Barclay, Patrick Gann, Stephanie P. Gleason, FBI offices in Boston, MA, Seattle WA, Charlotte, NC, Oklahoma City, OK, Chicago, IL, Knoxville, TN, Phoenix, AZ. To: Messrs. Edward T. Pound, and Seymour Hersh, wide press distribution, and widely distributed to families, friends, and Marines!

Hamdania Update:
Cpl Magincalda Acquitted of Murder and Kidnapping, Convicted of Conspiracy

JAG HUNTER HERE: With the definition of ATTAINDER--"A [government] body that can [directly] vote to acquit or convict [a U.S. citizen] regardless of the evidence."

MEMO TO ALL (and specifically to Messrs. Rogers and Liewer): Juries in the military discipline system are like dinosaurs: EXTINCT!

CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT UPDATE
(and Happy Birthday to Army Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymoun Girouard!!)

Trial starts Monday - Wicked Local Plymouth - News

"...the government was unable to prove the victim’s identity and could not even use his name in the closing stages of the trial," Harrington said.

Harrington is part of a group of former Marines who believe that flaws in the military justice system allowed investigators to manipulate the probe into the killing.

JAG HUNTER HERE:

Reporter Rich Harbert only scratches the surface regarding what JAG HUNTER Tim Harrington disclosed.

Tim has worked relentlessly on the side of U.S. Marines in their running gun-battle with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

NCIS SPECIAL AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY IS NAMED HERE, ONCE MORE, AS A PARTICIPATING FELON IN THIS AND OTHER CONTEMPORANEOUS LONG-RUNNING CRIMINAL BUSINESS.

CONNOLLY REMAINS UNDER A TWO-YEAR OLD FEDERAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FOR ATTEMPTED INTIMIDATION, AND COMMUNICATING THREATS OF PHYSICAL HARM (WITH OTHER NCIS HENCHMEN), IN A STRONG-ARM ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THE WELL-KNOWN MILITARY PRACTICE OF COERCING CONFESSIONS FROM INNOCENTS. THIS THE VERY SAME POLICY CONNOLLY EMPLOYS AGAINST THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT.

CONNOLLY, lead investigator in the Camp Pendleton Eight cases, rigged the evidence (with his NCIS playmates) as a matter of accepted NCIS procedure. Proofs of NCIS outlawry have become as ubiquitous as they are now in public view in the war the NCIS is waging against our young Marines in service to political expedient.

Attorney John Kivlin, staffer to Congressman William Delahunt (Sgt. Hutchins' representative), said to Sergeant Harrington that although, "no man should be charged with the crime of murder in combat," still admits that Sgt. Hutchins is pronounced guilty before his court-martial ceremony, with only the length of imprisonment left to determine.

Folks, among so many others, such as Kivlin, Delahunt, Congressmen Norman D. Dicks, John Shadegg, Duncan Hunter, John Duncan, Jay Inslee, Walter B. Jones all know the military discipline is badly broken (as reported out by the COX COMMISSION in May 2001). So do Senators Ted Kennedy, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, John McCain, Jon Kyl, and John Kerry know the fix is in.

The complicity of most media outlets, those using Marines to profile liberal press political agendas, is outrageous.

Physical evidence in the CP8 nightmare is a hash, every bit of it manufactured, none of it able to survive scrutiny outside the military establishment. It's reported to Tim Harrington by individuals tied to the CP8 case, for instance, that photographs of "the body" produced in last week's Trent Thomas general court-martial are different from those used to coerce plea deals from the other four Marines and Navy Corpsman.

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON.

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!