SS I would feel alot safer off base then on base..Look how well they protected Maria..![]()
She was killed off base. Why do you think that is? It is way safer on a base than off of one.
SS I would feel alot safer off base then on base..Look how well they protected Maria..![]()
I have been trying to follow Meredith Emerson's mom's advice to "focus on the light, because the darkness does not deserve our time or attention". Yet I have such a strong sense of justice, I cannot turn a blind eye to people who would lie to cover up a horrendous crime. In this case, I believe that the Marine Corps are lying to cover up this crime. Every woman I know who has been in the service has experienced what SuziQ referenced in her links. Sign me up for the Maria Corps.
She was killed off base. Why do you think that is? It is way safer on a base than off of one.
I have been trying to follow Meredith Emerson's mom's advice to "focus on the light, because the darkness does not deserve our time or attention". Yet I have such a strong sense of justice, I cannot turn a blind eye to people who would lie to cover up a horrendous crime. In this case, I believe that the Marine Corps are lying to cover up this crime. Every woman I know who has been in the service has experienced what SuziQ referenced in her links. Sign me up for the Maria Corps.
steadfast don't take me literally..I'm just so mad about the way Marias whole case was handled from the start. I'm not mad at the marines let me clarify by saying I have nothing against the military I have been military my whole life I have NEVER lived in the civilian world. Obviously I am pro-military. What I will say though is the marines in camp lejeune failed this girl. I don't know if they just didn't believe her or if they didn't take her serious enough. Onslow county may have been able to protect her had they known. Unfortunately they knew nothing until AFTER the fact. All the while the marines on camp lejeune knew everything this girl was going through and dealing with. I don't want to blame anyone because (and yes that is piece of S*it) is the one who commited this horrific crime. I just wish someone would of protected Maria from him. Almost 9 months of warning signs were there!!![]()
What specific statements from LeJeune are you referring to as lies?
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Oh, I completely agree, if you are talking about their unit. There are something like 67,000 people working on the base, so I don't want to say that everybody on base knew what this girl was going through, by any means. Nor do I think the higher brass on the base had any idea. They are most likely rather busy with training and maintaining units in Iraq and on base, and would expect her CO, JAG, NCIS, and the Sexual Assault advocate to have things under control.
I do think the investigators were taking her case forward by scheduling an Article 32 hearing and making plans to test the baby for DNA. But not putting Laurean in pretrial detention was a big mistake -- obviously! -- and also not taking the instances of harassment seriously. The unit CO and First Sergeant had a mistaken impression of the characters of these two soldiers, and if they had their ears to the ground, I think they could have figured out what was really going on. Her Sexual Assault ombudsman (whatever they call that position in the Marines) let her down, too. It is that person's job to make sure the victim is taken seriously and that her concerns are addressed.
I hope all military commanders and soldiers learn a lesson from this highly-publicized case.
put a little convenient lipstick on that pig of a presser............
Seven you're a crack up! Sounds like something Boss Hogg would've said!
Night All
Good questions .... and ....
You just reminded me of something else: One of the talking heads a couple of days ago, talking about that party where their fellow marines were there for the bonfire that Maria/Gabriella were underneath ..... well, I the only way to say it is to say it ............. The TH started talking about the smell of burning flesh and how there was no way that the people who were there at that party wouldn't have noticed that smell.
Do you agree w/that?
In the note Laurean wrote that she had a plan and then the plan didn't work out so she came back to his house. I was thinking MAYBE he told her to buy the bus ticket for herself to get out of testifying against him and going to El Paso which is so close to Mexico he would meet her there and take her to his family to take care of her? Maybe she was willing to do that and then decided against it and came back to his house to tell him she couldnt go through with the plan...Then he killed her?! There is always some truth to a lie so quite possibly there was a plan!
If you want an unbiased article to compare to Ms. Price's, then here is one: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/28/earlyshow/contributors/tracysmith/main3212398.shtml
I AM a woman...and I said it. Big deal. I don't think women should be given preference over men nor men should have preference over women...