Royal Air Force sends doctor to jail for not going to Iraq
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: Compared the US invasion of Iraq as to being like the Nazi's
Topic: WAR
Flt Lt Kendall-Smith Gets a Prison Term and says he would not back down or change his attitude concerning this war or his participating in it.

In surfing the anti-war websites I got this information from this site --> www.guardian.co.uk! and I feel like spreading this mans story, as he makes a stand against this stupid war;

Kendall-Smith also said to police last year "As a commissioned officer I am required to consider each and every order that is given to me and I am required to consider the legality of each order in domestic and international law.

I have satisfied myself that the actions of the armed forces in Iraq were in fact unlawful, as was the conflict," he said. "I believe that the current occupation of Iraq is an illegal act and for me to comply with an act which is illegal would put me in conflict with both domestic and international law."

Then he says ....


"I have two great loves; medicine and the RAF. To take the decision I have taken saddens me greatly but I feel I have no choice."


Well Z3 Readers...guess what?
Kendall-Smith was a RAF doctor and one who loved his job and his country, but he also refused to go to Iraq when ordered to, on the grounds that the war was illegal.
He now is jailed for eight months in what the judge described as a message to the armed forces about the consequences of rejecting "the policy of Her Majesty's government".

Apparently it was not Flt Lt Kendall-Smith's responsibility to judge the legality of orders given to him, nor make charges against those superiors of his that had higher rank!

Yesterday the judge said Kendall-Smith's understanding of the crime of aggression under international law was "seriously flawed".

The judge described Kendall-Smiths accusations of a crime as..... "a crime which can only be committed by those responsible for the policy of a nation at the top of government or of the armed forces and that responsibility for it does not trickle down to those at lower levels of the chain of command".

But Ft Lt Kendall-Smith told the court.. "I have evidence that the Americans were on a par with Nazi Germany with its actions in the Persian gulf. I have documents in my possession which support my assertions. This is on the basis that ongoing acts of aggression in Iraq and systematically applied war crimes provide a moral equivalent between the US and Nazi Germany."

Flt Lt Kendall-Smith said he considered the war in Iraq to be the equivalent of an "imperial invasion and occupation". He said he was extremely disturbed by America's "imperial campaign of military conquest", which was in direct conflict with his duties.

Z3 Readers read NEO-CONS! That is what he is describing



He made his stand and will get 8 months.
He made a statement about the comparison of the Nazi's and our Invasion.
He made everybody listen to a battle cry for PEACE
He will go to jail and Joe Anybody will feel proud!

This is sad and just one more life behind iron bars of FREEDOM.

The bars of HATE.

From a machine that Deplores Liberty

And uses's Terror to keep the masses in Fear

I read where Kendall-Smith so far had received 500 letters of encouragement.
Maybe I should make it 500 and one!

STOPTHEWAR!~joe