Kokesh attorney seeks new hearing

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By DAVE HELLING
The Kansas City Star
The attorney for embattled reservist Adam Kokesh has asked the Marines for a new hearing.

In papers filed Tuesday with the Marine Mobilization Command, Michael Lebowitz said the three-member administrative board that heard the case was “improperly convened” because one of its members wasn’t a commissioned officer.

The board recommended Monday that Kokesh, a corporal in the Individual Ready Reserve, be given a general discharge for wearing a stripped-down uniform to a war protest and using an obscenity in an email to a superior officer.

But Lebowitz has asked for a new hearing because he said Chief Warrant Officer Steven Turner, a hearing board member, isn’t considered a commissioned officer under Marine regulations. He said Marine rules require all such board members to be commissioned officers.


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1. If CPL Kokesh

had worn the same uniform and was waving the flag and carrying a pro bush sign we would not be going through this nonsense.

- CPL Kokesh told the truth and is tempting punishment.

- libby lies and the right wing hate machine cries crocodile tears when there is a wiff that a member of the party of responsibility and integrity may be held accountable.

The corporal's turds have more integrity then that of the entire membership of the gop combined.

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2. The IVAW members who came to KC with him

for his hearing wore their uniforms all weekend. :)

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5. I saw the one guy in a wheelchair

Maybe the Marines should recall him and court martial him.

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6. That's Tomas Young

He is an area vet.

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3. The VFW has told the Marines to 'knock it off'.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060102421.html

The VFW issued a blistering statement on the controversy yesterday. Headline: "VFW to Corps: Don't Stifle Freedom of Speech."


The national commander of the proud, patriotic, 2.4 million strong Veterans of Foreign Wars (motto: "Honor the dead by helping the living") took one look at the mushrooming dispute between three antiwar Marine reservists and the U.S. Marine Corps, and knew where his sympathies lay: with the protesters.

"What the Marine Corps is trying to do is hush up and punish these individuals who served our country," Gary Kurpius, the national commander, said in a telephone interview. "All they're doing is exercising the same democratic voice we're trying to instill over in Iraq right now."

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4. Good for the VFW

I am no fan of the organization but I agree with them on this issue and I hope they throw their weight around for the CPL.

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7. And as soon as the VFW released that statement,

the Marines decided to emphasize Adam's vulgar language in a letter to them. It wasn't about the uniform anymore. Interesting timing.

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8. Wow a Marine using vulgar language. I'm shocked

The CPL was just replying to the profanity he received from the CORPS. Semper FI his ass.