American soldier Christopher Mastromarino may find his army career coming to an end. As we reported earlier this month, a court martial found Mastromarino guilty of assault. Those charges, Mastromarino claims, were fabricated because his army colleagues concluded he’s a queer.
In an effort to curb the conviction, which would effectively destroy Mastromarino’s plans of serving his country indefinitely, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network sent a plea to Mastromarino’s superiors. And, as can be expected, those honchos weren’t having it.
According to information obtained by SLDN, Chris’s command simply signed off on his conviction without reading pleas from SLDN, Congressman Hoyer or Senator Mikulski to consider the shaky nature of the evidence against him. There is no indication that Major General Rowe – who signed off on the conviction along with a stack of other paperwork – even glimpsed or gave thought to the arguments in Chris’s favor. Instead, he seems to have gone along with a clearly anti-gay fishing expedition that is being used to fire a soldier who others believe is gay.
According to The Frontlines, there’s still a chance Mastromarino will get off, but it’s not looking likely.
Bill Perdue
I fully support the civil and legal rights of gays and lesbians in the armed forces, but I wonder what they’re doing there. Today Bush, now that his brain has gone missing, decided to compare Iraq to Vietnam.
They are costly wars. Vietnam resulted in the deaths of over million civilian lives, and probably much more – they were killed too fast to count. 58,219 GI’s mostly young and mostly working class were killed and 153,356 were wounded. Iraq has cost the lives of as many tens of thousands and like Vietnam an accurate civilian death toll is not available. As of today 3,722 GI’s are dead and 15,112 GI’s have been wounded and tossed back into the maelstrom, plusd 12,297 GI’s have incapacitating wounds.
Don’t worry about the costs in spending or the inflation that will smolder through the economy for a decade or so, like it did after Vietnam. Worry about the dead and wounded and ask yourself how many more will fall before we force an end to it.
How could any self respecting person be in the armed forces.
Timothy
I support and respect those who wish to protect their country and loved ones. Without a strong military, those freedoms that we hold dear would soon disappear.
Unfortunately those brave men and women don’t have a commander in chief that respects them enough not to use them as cannon fodder in his religous war.
I honor their sacrifice – especially those gay men and women who have to hide their identities so that I can freely live mine. But I cannot honor the bumbling fool – or those who advise him – who have squandered the sympathy the world had for us after 9/11 and who has engaged in a pointless and ineffective war, the eventual and inevitable end to which will be defeat, however it’s couched.
M Shane
I don’t have any respect for a person who would serve in a brutal imperialistic military, so I question his opportunism and ethics, however relative to the “gay” issue, the current law DADT is just a set up which gives no protections for set ups- which are how those things happen.
hashimoto
If you are tuff and you have a low voice
you cannot be omosex (many times homosex do have a low voice)
If you are kind
you have a soft voice and you behave with humanity, you most be a homosex.
In the army you cannot be kind to anyone
probabilly only who allowe is brain wash and do not have
humanity can make career.
probabilly there might be no space for humanity if you want to remain in the army, all they might have to look alike.
This might be the probable real reasons to the metter.
The usual rules of several lobbie is that there cannot be people with personality everyone has to be standarized.
That is probabilly why Mastromarino had the honor of the court martial,
The court martial gave to Mastromarino the chance of getting out of a probable negative experience because he might have had thechance of been a martir for part of the country which still believe in humanity.
Before all, a soldier has to be primarelly human
in his duty.
United States of America has been founded with the phrase: “IN GOD WE TRUST”
The US Army has to stand on human bases acording
to the most important article of the USA constitution
wich in GOD remitt the future of the country.
we read on the web that there isn’t any family relation between the dentist Mastromarino and Crhis family.
We hope there is not a medioeval persecution about family names.