Don't forget about Sgt Blackman Royal Marines

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Jimbo

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Get your hands in your pockets & purses and give to a truly worthwhile cause! I have & so should everybody who considers themselves to be British! Sgt Blackman was acting under extreme stressful battlefield conditions, so who are we to judge him when we have never had our arses in the same hell hole where he was!...He was risking his life to rid the world of Taliban terrorist and he done just that!...For us!
Help get a true British hero his life back ....War is a dirty business and this war is particularly nasty with no Geneva convention rules adhered to by the enemy!... So he shot & finished off a dying armed Taliban, who he believed to possibly be already dead....regardless of the situation...I thought that was what he was sent there to do, to help rid the world of terrorist?
Sgt Blackman was ordered to Afghanistan by the British government who now have wrongly imprisoned him for doing what he had been trained to do?
The British Government have sent millions of young men to war over the years, these young men were told on many occasions not to take prisoners,
ie: first 24hrs of D Day 1944 /first day of the Somme 1st July 1916, to name just a couple, and this was against an enemy who recognized the Geneva Convention!
So what right has our government of today got in keeping Sgt Blackman behind bars??
Help Mrs Claire Blackman in the fight to get her husband justice and his life back, go to the above website for more information and how to make a donation to help with the legal costs involved to help the man... He's suffered enough for his country!
Regards
Jim(y)
 

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Damn right Steve, couldn't agree more!....It's a total disgrace that the guy was ever brought up on a charge for it...the MP who found the film should have just erased it, it was a bloody witch hunt by people who had not been in the front line & faced what St Blackman had.
Jim
 
This guy, I am aware of! ...

A total political travesty, and shameful :mad:.

Same as the 'SAS', guy that was gifted a 'Glock 9mm ',.. Who also got 'Mullered', by the ' MOD', 'Moron's.

However your donation link does not seem to work?

I will be first in!
 
Tubby-nuts 2 if you wish to make a donation go to :www.justiceforsgtblackman.co.uk it's the daily mail site I believe, they are trying to kick the campaign off to try and get funds to help Mrs Claire Blackman pay for the legal cost to get her husbands case reopened, further evidence has come to light that was "ignored" by the MOD during the trial, hopefully this "new" evidence will help Sgt Blackman get the justice he deserves.
Cheers
Jim(y)
 
Jim,

Yet again our soldiers have been stitched up and used as scapegoats ...let's hope he gets freedom and the respect he deserves from everyone and grateful thanks for doing his job .

While I am on get this area why doesn't the so called bloody political leadership to get all those sleeping in doorways after serving their country rather than prioritise others

Donated with pleasure

RESPECT and HONNOUR to ALL servicemen and women

Nap
 
I was not aware of this person and incident. Some more information about the incident
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cuted-Taliban-insurgent-sentence-reduced.html
Having served in missions abroad and having lost comrades over there I won`t comment on this touchy theme any further. I just wonder why we enjoy so much to put our actions - including these - on camera??? Is this part of "combat stress"?

Cheers, Martin
 
Martin
I'll never understand why the helmet camera was not switched off either, but there it is I guess, I just think the guy has had his hand cut off for stealing a loaf of bread!
Jim
 
I haven't read up on the Blackman case but we had a similar one. Captain Robert Semrau was convicted of a mercy killing of a mortally wounded Talib and was demoted and expelled from the Canadian Army, serving no jail time. I don't know if the facts are analogous but I thought the case might be of interest. I recall it triggering quite the ethics debate here.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/capt-robert-semrau-dismissed-from-the-forces/
 
Yes thanks CRF I am aware of the similarity of Captain Semrau case & the Sgt Blackmans case, just goes to show in my opinion how Sgt Blackman has been unfairly treated & given an over the top sentence when compared to Captain Semrau, I don't think sgt Blackman is a murderer for one moment, and quite honestly it should be considered as a mercy killing, after all the Taliban fighter was hit by an Apache gunship, I've not seen what this can do to a human being but I can well imagine there wasn't much that could be done for him regarding first aid. I suspect this sort of thing has gone on many times out there, just unfortunate this was caught on camera & then not erased? I still think that anybody has got the right to judge somebody who's been fighting in the thick of it in Afghanistan especially when that said judge has never been there?
I just wanted to bring to the attention of members on PF who feel the same as me who may wish give some small financial help to Mrs Claire Blackman in her bid to have her husbands name cleared of murder.
Cheers
Jim
 
Hi Martin
I don't want to get into a debate over this I just wanted to make people aware that new evidence has come up that was ignored during the original court case, and that Mrs Blackman needs all the financial help she can get to clear her husbands name, I thought that some members here might feel as I do and wish to contribute.

I can see where your coming from Martin and I won't argue with it, it is a difficult one, if it had been a British soldier or in fact any allied soldier who had been shot under the same circumstances, there would have been an uproar!
But would a Taliban ever shoot a wounded Allied soldier as an act of mercy??..I don't think so!

Having said that our military forces were over there to try & protect & free the Afghan people from an evil oppressive force that was pressing down on them, so we hold the moral high ground. we were there for the right reasons the Taliban were/are not.

I just don't accept that a Royal Marine Commando should have 10 years( reduced to 8) taken away from him for what happened over there, in my mind he rid the world of one more evil Islamic extremist who can no longer murder innocent Muslim civilians.....so good on Sgt Blackman.

Jim
 
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