Striking pagan soldier sentenced to seven months for disobeying orders
By Jessica Inigo, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, March 29, 2005
DARMSTADT, Germany — A 3rd Corps Support Command soldier was sentenced Monday to seven months’ confinement for willfully disobeying orders after being found guilty at a court-martial at Cambrai-Fritsch Casern.
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He explained that while deployed to Iraq from May 2003 to May 2004, he realized he did not like working with U.S. Army troops. He claimed that racism is widespread in the military, with troops encouraged by command to treat civilian Arabs poorly. He also described several accounts of animal cruelty and derogatory name-calling.
A pagan priest, the Louisiana native said, “I realized the sermons I gave were in direct conflict with what the United States military practices.”
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“If we were any other mainstream religion, the Army would not be doing this. They wouldn’t do this to a Jew or Christian,” she said. “It’s a vendetta against pagans. They can’t burn us, so they shut us up.
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http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28051Soldier was sentenced to "one month longer than the prosecution recommended."Pagan DUers meet other Pagan DUers at:
Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality Group
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=262