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Where is due process?

Sun., June 8, 2014

I can’t help wondering: For some people, is no stick too dirty to prevent them from beating on their favorite targets?

Someone wandered from his post, as he had before, except this time he was captured by the enemy in less than an hour. But before this information became available, he was branded as a deserter and traitor. Perhaps that was a convenient stick to use to beat on the current administration.

Trial by press, especially Fox News, seems to be becoming the norm. Whatever happened to due process, anyway? Find some other fellow servicemen with convenient interviews, and boy do we have a story.

Tim Rolfe

Spokane

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