Here's how the UK honors their veterans

[Rex B]

" Sgt. Nightingale, a 17-year veteran of the armed forces (11 of them in the SAS, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan), was charged with illegally possessing a 9mm Glock pistol, which he had been presented with by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service."

18 months in the brig

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[JJVP]

" Sgt. Nightingale, a 17-year veteran of the armed forces (11 of them in the SAS, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan), was charged with illegally possessing a 9mm Glock pistol, which he had been presented with by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service."

18 months in the brig

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Not the first time.

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[Rex B]

Not the first time.

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That guy should have just moved that firearm a few yards down to a neighbor's trash, one that he doesn't get along with.

[Beiruty]

Request Political Asylum and move to USA.What a donkey excretion that person was in?

[VMI77]

And here's how they treat ordinary adults and teenagers: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20104567/i ... me-in-jail

One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell." A third posted a picture of a burning paper poppy, symbol of remembrance of war dead.

All were arrested, two convicted, and one jailed — and they're not the only ones. In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene, and the number is growing as our online lives expand.

[Jumping Frog]

Those of us from Ireland have long known of Little Britain's tyranny and oppression.

Nothing new here.

[OldCurlyWolf]

Those of us from Ireland have long known of Little Britain's tyranny and oppression.

Nothing new here.

Per family history, my GGGGGG-Grandfather walked across Ireland at the ripe old age of 12, in 1762, to catch a ship to the "New World". He was the last surviving member of the clan.

The English had killed the rest. Hopefully the English lost 10 for every one of the clan they murdered.

[mamabearCali]

Most of my family had the sense enough to leave that place a few hundred years ago.

[jdhz28]

The guys I work with from the UK cannot understand why we "Yanks" have such a fascination with our guns and knives and free speech, I just tell them not to try and wrap their small minds around such a grand idea...take your small thoughts back to your small island, and serve your masters every command with all of your other small fellow servants. That usually ends the discussion, actually almost got me fired once now that I think about it..

[philip964]

Watch the movie Pirate Radio. After enjoying the rock and roll, pretty girls, raunchy behavior on the screen, think about what really happened. Is England different today?

[Heartland Patriot]

An SAS sniper has been released after his 18 month sentence for illegally possessing a pistol was cut and suspended by the Court of Appeal.

Sgt Danny Nightingale, from Crewe, admitted possessing the 9mm Glock pistol and 338 rounds of ammunition at a court martial earlier this month.

The judges heard Nightingale had forgotten he had the gun and cut his sentence to 12 months and suspended it.

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My guess is they saw how badly they looked and decided, in their pompous magnanimity of course, to generously show him some mercy...glad he's out, though. Truly shameful that nation would treat one of their "brave lads" like that at all, IMHO.