Alexander Blackman Refused Bail.

[webbo3]

For what reason would they refuse him bail, he not a risk to the general public.
Another case of out of touch judges.

Sgt Alexander Blackman refused bail pending new appeal
http://news.sky.com/story/sgt-alexander-blackman-refused-bail-pending-new-appeal-10704220


Dave.

[douglas9401]

Is there really any doubt that he did the guy a favour in making it quick?
I get the impression that some think it was done out of bravado for the benefit of an audience.

[Quizproquo]

Eddie's not playing a card and I find some of yours answers disturbing to say the least.
BTW Deskdiary, Islay is equally, if not more qualified to answer any question they want than you, unless you can provide me with proof of some special power you have that makes you better than anyone else?
Alendander Blackman shot and killed an enemy captive, right after the idea of medical care was mentioned (so he knew he was alive) and shortly before he uttered the admission that he had broken the Geneva Convention and then tried to hush his colleagues. He is a murderer, plain and simple and the fact that he is wearing a British army uniform changes that not one jot.
He doesn't deserve bail and he does deserve jail time.
This was not perpetrated on "English Soil". This was carried out by an invading army on the victim's homeland.
The question has been asked already and deemed to be irrelevant, but it's not.
What if an afghani force had invaded London and the exact same scenario had happened, with let's say a 62 year old white grandad of 5 as the shot victim. Would the people defending this soldier be as quick to demand the perpetrator's release? I don't think so.

[RandyMarsh]

What makes Islay more qualified? Military experience perhaps?
He or she has compared a battlefield to Oxford Street.

[Quizproquo]

Randy please don't try to twist my words.
Islay is certainly no less qualified to answer questions than anyone else.
Unless you know a username on this site in real life, in which case it's off forum and therefore irrelevant unless you are prepared to out them for their particular expert talents, or are super-dooper an expert on the subject at hand yourself to the point of being able to back it up with researchable facts the truth is Deskdiary has no right to call another user's opinion less valid than their own.
Happy to clarify that for you.

[Baldric]

This thread has nosedived to the point I'm out of here.

[RandyMarsh]

How plain and simple do you think must be when you are in a fire fight and the enemy want to kill you ?

[Quizproquo]

If you're after carte balanche agreement Baldric the maybe this is not your venue, so I bid you goodnight. There's nothing wrong with an alternative view though, that's what debate and discussion is all about. That's not a nosedive, abandoning it is a nosedive.

[Baldric]

You really have no idea do you?

[Quizproquo]

Randy you have chosen to ignore everything I've said and instead asked me a new question.
The Geneva Convention is there for a reason. I can't deny that the "enemy" weren't following it, but I also can't remember them agreeing to us just rocking up and killing a very large number of their citizens and then refusing to leave. Can you remind me why we needed to be there in the first place?
If there was a firefight it is because we were there. Yes, our soldier was in the heat of the moment, but so was theirs and let's be clear, any British soldier has chosen that path. Conscription is no longer in place.
It does not excuse a murder, no matter how you would like to paint it.

[Quizproquo]

Wearing a uniform does not make you a different human Baldric. You either do it rightly or wrongly.
I have as much idea as you do. You were no more in his head that day than I was.

[RandyMarsh]

I am not trying to excuse it but I am not painting it as pure and simple either.

[Quizproquo]

I don't think it's pure and simple either Randy. At least, not the reasining behind it, but the fact is he's a murderer in law.
I'm railing against people who blindly defend what he did and name call anyone who disagrees.

[RandyMarsh]

Is that not what Islay has done?

[Quizproquo]

No Randy it's not.

[RandyMarsh]

Granted Islay has not name called but he or she did over simplify the situation and compared it to a stroll on Oxford Street.

[Quizproquo]

Not any more than the glut of people trying to silence her and any other alternative opinion.
I get it that this section is predomininantly right wing, however telling someone with an alternative view to shut up in so many words is always going to make me respond.
A love in of the same opinion is what Chatterbank is for.

[RandyMarsh]

Is it right wing to want some context here? I don't think so.

[Quizproquo]

I do.

[-Talbot-]

Wasn't it EDDIE telling posters to shut up?

[RandyMarsh]

Why is it right wing to try and understand why a soldier did what he did in a warzone?