It really comes down to bullying and threatening. If a group is big and powerful enough, they can make rules for everyone else to follow, but don't have to follow the rules themselves. Congress does it all the time, too. And they can just be brazen about it, right out in the open, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If they place you under military arrest out of jurisdiction, find you guilty of whatever specification they want, then stick you in Leavenworth, your lawyer can jump up and down and read to both the military and civilian courts the clearly-worded military regulations proving that you're free of military jurisdiction and it won't matter. Even if the civilian court finds you to be within your rights, Leavenworth physically has your ass, and the military courts can just sit there and tell the civilian courts to pound salt all they want.
The military sees it this way: "Oooooh! The civilian courts just issued us a piece of paper with some words printed on it. Big scary monsters! Gee, what can I make out of that piece of paper? I can make a cute little sailor's hat, or maybe an origami bird, or one of those fortune teller thingies. Cool! I guess if they really wanted this guy they'd have to break in to the best-held military prison in the world, use firearms to overpower the toughest trained soldiers in the business, and then take him away. But they're never going to do that, are they? I mean, we can just claim jurisdiction all day long and tell them where to stick it. We have our rules; they have theirs. All they're going to do is issue pieces of paper with words printed on them. Kind of like the UN telling North Korea what to do with strong words on pieces of paper. And all we have to do to keep him here is decide to put his case on the bottom of the queue and then delay it on a technicality again when it comes to calendar. Then after a year or two we just casually ask him if he would rather 'serve his country' then stew in prison, and he jumps at the chance. Hey -- we're better at this intimidation thing than the freakin' mafia!" And that's that. We've been rocking and rolling with Microsoft big time, pushing things to the next level. We're taking a big step up over the next year, and The Lovely And Talented Lisa joined the practice. Give me a call some time and I'll fill you in on the details. David's great, and says "Hi" to you and your wife. He just got a gold PT Cruiser Dream Cruiser Edition with all the trimmings, and he's playing both guitar and bass these days. Pretty good, too. How you doing? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: loathe To: CF-Community Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:44 PM Subject: RE: Military Draft On? See now that's hosed up. One of my professors when I was at GW was an older guy, retired as a Colonel. He got called back at 50 something, against the age limitations. I guess he was some DARPA genius or some crap, he wasn't too happy about it. How you been man? Haven't seen to much of you lately. How's your boy doing? > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Military Draft On? > > Actually, they don't even pay attention to resigning your commission > anymore. Many former officers who did resign after being released full > term have been re-summoned. When their attorneys tried to argue that they > were no longer commissioned officers according to the armed forces' own > rules, JAG threw hissy fits and told them to report anyway with > Leavenworth waiting for them if they didn't. 60 Minutes did something on > it a while ago, IIRC. > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee > > > > Get advanced intensive Master-level training in > C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at > ProductivityEnhancement.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: loathe > To: CF-Community > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:02 PM > Subject: RE: Military Draft On? > > > That means she must have been an officer. They sign a different > contract, > and they volunteer, plus she can resign her commission, something that > an > enlisted soldier cannot do. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214347 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
