Kokesh Penalty Reduced to General Discharge

Kansas City Star by Dave Helling | Jun. 13, 2007 (News Report)

Lebowitz said even though the appeal will continue, the general discharge was a good outcome for his client: "I want to stress that we did beat them back on the other-than-honorable (discharge)."

Kokesh said he wanted to continue to argue the case for other servicemen and women; that way, he said, "the next Marine who faces harassment and intimidation will have something to stand on." Full Story »

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Topics: U.S. Military, War in Iraq
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 18, 2007 - 12:57 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The bush administration was trying to chill anti war statements of people coming out of the military. A legal push-back resulted in a lessened punishment. This is another worthy warning that we need to protect free speech rights from would-be tirants.

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