Choi, the drama queen, in court
Dan Choi, our favorite pin cushion was in court yesterday. His lawyer managed to screw the pooch early and put Choi on the stand;
On the stand, Choi said the First Amendment provides for the right of people to petition the government for a redress of grievances, which also, he said, is a moral responsibility of patriotic Americans. Choi responded under questioning by Feldman that he believed his actions were a form of speech, and that the government did not have a right to censor them by arresting him.
At times, Choi raised his voice and spoke in such a tone that he almost seemed close to shouting, especially when asked about his arrest. Under cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George, he compared the various protests against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to the 1960 sit-in by students in Greensboro, N.C., at a Woolworth’s department store and said he was “insulted” by his prosecution on federal charges.
He claims that after his arrest and rough trade treatment, he could feel his finger for two weeks. What was he doing that he needed to feel his finger? There’s a picture of Choi outside the court house in his camouflaged uniform, but it doesn’t say when the picture was taken so I’m not sure if he showed up in court in that uniform or not, but it certainly looks like it.
For someone who has insulted the uniform often enough over the past few years with his childish behavior, not to mention his behavior before he “outed” himself when he struck a platoon sergeant in his unit, Choi sure is in love with his uniform and the attendant accoutrements. He’s NOT an officer and he shouldn’t be addressed as such, especially since he broke the law at least twice while wearing that uniform.
Eight years as a first lieutenant should be some kind of indicator of the character of his service.
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Arrahhhhh. Brain-bleach, where IS my brain-bleach….
Choi is posterboy for gay fundraising efforts this election season. Instant martyr, character not necessary.
Brain bleach – heh
Reading online, his attorney seems to be on a par with Branum.
Feldman claims that “people arrested for protesting at the White House are usually charged in local court”, but the story goes on to say that “Twelve other demonstrators arrested with Choi previously accepted deal with prosecutors, agreeing to plead guilty in federal court but serve no jail time if they were not re-arrested within four months”. So, which is it, Feldman, was Choi-Toi singled out, or did the others plead out in Federal Court, where Choi-Toi is on trial? http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-08-29/news/29946527_1_dan-choi-federal-court-gay-man
There’s also a pic of Choi-Toi in a class A uniform, claiming it was taken on August 29, 2011, in the WaPo. I won’t link to that rag, but it’s easily searched.
And, Choi-Toi isn’t standing on conviction or principle, he’s claiming he didn’t hear the order to disperse, “because he couldn’t hear police warnings to leave owing to other crowd noise”.
Gee, I dunno…see a bunch of cops with bullhorns in a place where you know you’re not supposed to be, then act all butt-hurt when they drag your ass off to jail?
Or was he just butt-hurt from his latest round of clubbing in Dupont Circle?
He should be arrested, charged, fined, and imprisoned for the four years of fraud that he perpetrated on the US Government while he was a cadet at West Point receiving a fully funded education.
1. Try not feeling you whole hand for half a decade, and then we’ll talk, Dan.
2. I could see where he would be disadvantaged, however, playing the “that’s not my finger/that’s not my bellybutton” game in the slam.
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