Hippies everywhere are stupid
Stars and Stripes reports this morning that a 67-year-old hippie in England is trying to sue a US airman for injuries she suffered after she scaled a fence at an Air Force base there and was promptly tossed in irons;
Lindis Percy, co-coordinator for the group Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, has filed a £1,000 claim against Senior Airman Frank McDonald, whom she alleges caused superficial cuts, swelling and pain to wrists from handcuffs being too tight and other injuries when he detained her at Croughton in February 2006. McDonald is now a staff sergeant at Croughton.
A criminal case against McDonald was dismissed when U.S. officials filed a certificate of military duty with the court on the airman’s behalf in April 2008. The certificate prevents British courts from assuming jurisdiction in the case under the U.K. Visiting Forces Act of 1952.
Percy, 67, said she hopes to get some justice from filing the civil claim.
“This is a claim for monetary damages of £1,000, but more importantly it is bringing this man to account,” Percy said. “It was a disgrace what went on.”
See, here’s the thing, Lindis – you broke the law and Sergeant McDonald was charged with enforcing the law that you broke. Percy has a problem with the US military, yet takes it out on an individual. That’s like Code Pink and IVAW taking out US military recruiting policies on the individual recruiters. And I guess none of those “superficial cuts” resulted from Percy scaling the fence? Maybe she should sue the company that erected the fence for making it so difficult to climb.
The only disgrace here is a 67-year-old woman acting like a 12-year-old drama queen.
Category: Politics
that would make a great T-shirt –
“Hippies Everywhere Are Stupid”
He should have shot her and been done with it.
I agree, maybe Ranger Up should get this for a tee?
Here’s the twit’s email address: caab@btclick. com
Is there legal precedent in the UK for this sort of thing?
Do they still have those signs on the fence that read, “USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED” ?
She got off light, and should thank her lucky stars.
I would buy that shirt maybe include something about how they also need to be punched.
Sure those cuffs were tight, but I’m sure the airman showed some restraint when he ONLY cuffed her. If she was about 10 yrs younger and possibly male he might have CS’ed her. I’m sure while he was in proper jurisdiction to such, she should consider it an act of mercy that he didn’t. As a woman at her age might have died (or wished she was dead) after getting properly snatched up.