Stupid criminal tricks

Ok, now I have not gone to law school, but I am taking Constitutional law for college. Therefore, I follow new Supreme Court decisions in the news. Now, today they ruled that if the police question a suspect the part of the miranda warning about lawyer being present expires after 14 days. Now, as a reasonable human being with a tiny bit of common sense this decision is one that makes sense and in the case before the Court made extreme sense.

When you have a scumbag that was questioned with his attorney present, and then released it would seem he should have his lawyer present when questioned again, right? Ok, well, the said scumbag is questioned about the said crime 2 and a half years later, while in prison on another charge. Now, this individual obviously has some familiarity with the legal system and his rights to legal counsel. There are still bonehead judges that were willing to let this guy go, saying that even though time had passed it didn't make his original right to a request for a lawyer any less valid. When it has been almost three years and you are in prison for another crime, the confession and conviction should stand based on the facts of stupidity alone...lol

Hypocritical thinking?

I keep thinking and finding myself wondering about something. I was a soldier from the time was a boy, because when I first donned my uniform I was just a kid. I grew up quickly afterward, but I was when I first put on my soldier suit. It became part of me and has defined me forever within myself and those who know me.

Today, I say good-bye to someone I love as he returns again to another tour. For our family this makes 3 tours in the war on terror, and one of us disabled.

People ask me was it worth it, and would you do it again? I reply without a second thought that yes it was and no matter what some would have people believe that it was the right thing. It was easy to put myself in harms way, but as I watch family and friends depart I wonder at the cost.

I know what I go through each day, and I know that I can consider myself one of the lucky ones vs. the alternatives. I wish I could protect them all from that, and just hope they all come home safe.

Soon you will leave me but
Only for a year. I hope and
Pray that is true, and you'll
Just spend a boring year in
A shithole FOB and whine.

I say this and laugh, because
I would have made fun of you
For that years ago. I know now
That excitement and action
Are not the answer for all.

I know that we are different
And the jobs we do are as well
You have good soldiers with you
But they are not Tommy, Ro
SFC Mann or SSG Sharpe.

Keep your head down
and your powder dry
IED's are not as much as
I have joked. Take care of
your fellow troopers.

I know that their wive's
Parents and loved ones have
put them in good hands. So
Take care of them and all
Of you come home to us safe.

"Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle;
be our protection"

I know you are all in good hands, take care of each other.

Thinking

I hunted my prey by night,
And the good ones waited
Ready. I laughed back then
It was a game to see which
Of us was really the best.

The ones we caught when
They let their guard down,
I made fun of as losers. I
Would see some of them
One more time, usually.

Later, I would learn that
The joke was on me. I would
Get home, and learn the game
Had a price. I paid in full, and now
I watch as more get ready to go.

You are my brother and my brothers,
I love everyone of you and
Wish that I could replace you.
Some of you know what I mean
And will guard the rest.

I wish that I had the courage,
To read this before you all.
I don't want heroes or medals
from you all. I just want you
To come home to us safe.