Intro to “Major Victory: Sergeant First Class Martland
Exonerated, Will Remain in Military”
Edited by John R.
Houk
5/3/16
Thanks to an email update from Christian Breaking News, I
discovered that Sergeant First Class Charles Martland has been removed from an
Army list that would have had him prosecuted for going after an Afghan
policeman who sexually molested several young boys. Frankly I am uncertain if
this means Sergeant Martland is totally exonerated from future prosecution
however according to an American Center
for Law and Justice (ACLJ) he can resume duty with the Army.
In case you haven’t heard the Obama Administration’s
reasoning why SFC Charles Martland should be punished here are some excerpts I
have gleaned:
… It seems Sergeant Martland
committed a heinous infraction, one for which there is no forgiveness, no
accommodation in Obama's Army.
He is being discharged from the Army because he shoved a corrupt Afghan police
official who was repeatedly raping a 12 year old boy. The police official is a
Muslim pedophile who kidnapped the boy, raped him repeatedly and decided to
keep him as a sex slave, so he chained the boy to his bed. That way he could
continue raping the boy at will.
The boy's mother tried her best to
secure his freedom. She complained to the rapist/kidnapper's superiors, but
unfortunately they did nothing. She confronted the rapist/kidnapper directly in
an attempt to free her little boy. But the child rapist was having none of it.
Instead of freeing the child, he savagely beat the woman.
Because the boy was being raped and
was imprisoned on a US military base, and having nowhere else to turn, the
boy's mother appealed to the US Army for help. This story made its way to
Sergeant Martland and his detachment commander, Captain Daniel Quinn. These two
highly decorated special forces soldiers did exactly what every American who
reads this article would do under the same circumstances. They confronted the
child rapist and demanded that he release the boy.
The child rapist, who is a corrupt
Afghan police official, admitted all of the crimes and perverse acts we have
outlined in this article and laughed at the two Americans who confronted him.
When he laughingly refused to release the boy, Sergeant Martland shoved the
child rapist sending him to the ground. SFC Martland showed tremendous
restraint when he didn't kill this pedophile.
Sergeant Martland and Captain Quinn
really had no choice in the matter; their path was set. After all, the men were
Green Berets, whose motto is De oppresso liber, which means to liberate
the oppressed. … (Shocking Why Obama Kicking Green Beret Out
Of Army; By SCOTT
SCHAEFER; Intelligent US Politics;
10/9/15)
Here’s another example:
According to CNN, SFC Martland is
under a Pentagon-imposed gag order, but at the request of Rep. Duncan Hunter,
R-Calif, he wrote a statement detailing
his actions on Sept. 6, 2011.
“Our ALP (Afghan Local Police) were
committing atrocities and we were quickly losing the support of the local
populace,” he wrote to Rep. Hunter. “The severity of the rapes and
the lack of action by the Afghan Government caused many of the locals to view
our ALP as worse than the Taliban.”
As reported by Fox News and countless
other news agencies, SFC Martland and CPT Quinn learned that the boy had been
tied to a post at the home of ALP commander, Abdul Rahman, and raped repeatedly
for up to two weeks. His mother was beaten when she attempted to intervene. The
boy showed the Green Berets his arms where the scars from being tied remained.
A medic took the boy to a back room for an examination with an interpreter.
Quinn verified the story with other nearby ALP commanders.
“After the child rapist laughed it
off and referenced that it was only a boy,” CPT Quinn and SFC Martland took
action, physically removing the Afghan commander from the U.S. military camp.
According to SFC Martland, “He was never knocked out, and he ran away from our
camp.” He reiterated that the incident lasted no more than five minutes. (Green Beret Cut from Army for Intervening
on Behalf of Child Assault Victim in Afghanistan; By Jay Sekulow; ACLJ; 12/2015)
Yet another:
Five years ago, Sgt. Martland saved
the life of an Afghan boy who was abducted from his mother, imprisoned as a sex
slave, and repeatedly raped by an Afghan police chief, Abdul Rahman. Martland’s
heroic actions to rescue a defenseless child cost him dearly. The Army punished
not Rahman, but Martland, and relieved him from his duty post in Afghanistan…
…
In 2011, Martland and his Special
Forces Captain Dan Quinn (who has since resigned from the military) physically
assaulted Abdul Rahman, after learning that Rahman had abducted an Afghan boy,
chained him to a bed, repeatedly abused him as a sex slave and beat up the
boy’s mother when she sought to find and rescue her son. The Green Berets
intervened when they discovered that the boy was being raped and held by
Rahman. According to the Martland and Quinn, the Afghan villagers were pleading
with them to do something about repeated sexual assaults against children by
the Afghan police.
Here is the dirty, not so little
secret of Afghanistan: The sexual abuse of children is widespread and embedded into
the Afghan Pashtun culture. There is scant prosecution of child sex
exploitation in Afghanistan. American military have long been saddled with the
knowledge of the Afghan practice of “bacha bazi,” translated as dancing boys.
Bacha Bazi is the ancient and widespread practice of Afghan men who abduct and
lure poor boys into the grisly world of child sex slavery where they are raped
and exploited by Afghan men. Frontline
exposed this lurid child sex trafficking trade.
U.S. military stationed in
Afghanistan experience the hideous reality that children are expendable in the
worthless Afghan criminal justice system. Cultural mores trump human rights
among the tribesman of Afghanistan. Incredibly, our military is warned to turn
a blind eye to this insidious abuse of children. See no evil.
This wasn’t the first time that
Martland and Quinn experienced inaction from the Afghan government for serious
child sexual exploitation crimes committed by the Afghan police force. Martland
and Quinn knew that two Afghan commanders were not prosecuted nor punished for
the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the honor killing of an Afghan commander’s
12 year old daughter who kissed a boy.
Martland, who was disgusted and fed
up with the ongoing sexual exploitation of children by Afghan officials said, “I
felt that morally we could no longer stand by and allow our Afghan commanders
to commit these atrocities.” (NONE
SO BRAVE; By Elizabeth Yore;
FrontPageMag.com;
2/11/16)
JRH 5/3/15
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Major Victory:
Sergeant First Class Martland Exonerated, Will Remain in Military
By Jay Sekulow
April 29, 2016
It’s a massive victory more than six months in the making.
Sergeant First Class Charles Martland – a decorated war hero who faced
expulsion from the Army for defending a child – has been exonerated and will be
allowed to remain in the U.S. military.
We have been aggressively advocating for SFC Martland for
more than six months, and now we’ve helped achieve a significant victory for
this Green Beret war hero.
SFC Martland faced expulsion from the Army for defending a
child from sexual abuse and confronting an admitted sexual predator in
Afghanistan. The ACLJ argued that his actions – stopping the perpetrator who
was violating Afghan law and forcibly removing him from a U.S. military base –
were heroic.
Today, the military reversed course. As Fox News reports:
An Army spokesman said Thursday
that Martland's status has been changed, allowing him to stay in the Army in a
statement to Fox News.
"In SFC Martland’s case, the
Army Board for Correction of Military Records determination modified a portion
of one of SFC Martland’s evaluation reports and removed him from the QMP list,
which will allow him to remain in the Army," said Lt. Col. Jerry Pionk.
The decision by the Army to retain this hero is long overdue
and represents a significant victory for SFC Martland. Justice has been
served. The U.S. military has a moral obligation to stop child sexual abuse and
exonerate SFC Martland for defending a child from rape. The Army finally took
the corrective action needed, and this is not only a victory for SFC Martland,
but for the American people as well.
The ACLJ has been on the front lines of the fight for SFC
Martland. We’ve sent critical legal letters to President Obama, Army Chief of Staff General
Mark Milley, Army Deputy Chief of
Staff, G1 Personnel, General James McConville, the chairmen and
ranking members of both the House and Senate Armed Services
committees, acting Secretary of the Army Patrick
Murphy, three letters to Secretary of Defense Ashton
Carter, and 19 letters to
the leading veterans organizations in the country.
Earlier this week, we delivered
a letter signed by 65,102 concerned Americans to the acting Secretary of the
Army and the Secretary of Defense in addition to another 1,743 individualized
letters from Americans who wished to express their support for SFC Martland.
The letters, urging top U.S. military
officials to reinstate SFC Martland, were clear and direct:
SFC Martland's actions reflect
American values – military values – and I am proud of what he did. He
intervened on behalf of a victimized child. Please intervene for him. SFC
Martland is the consummate American hero. He should be defended, not
discharged. Please don't turn your back on him. SFC Martland has dutifully
sacrificed to defend the freedom I hold dear as an American, and as an American
I am standing up for this war hero. Please put this warrior back on the
battlefield where he belongs. Do the right thing. Clear SFC Martland's name and
reinstate this American hero immediately.
At the same time, nearly 350,000 Americans signed
on to the ACLJ’s petition demanding justice for SFC Martland.
This massive letter-writing and legal advocacy campaign has
paid off. SFC Martland is now able to return to his dedicated service in
defense of our nation – what he has always wanted to do and what he has done
superbly well.
We are hopeful that this victory sheds new light on the
horrific practice that SFC Martland helped expose and that it will lead to
meaningful policy changes in the U.S. military and our interaction with our
allies. The sexual abuse of children must not be tolerated, and those who
are willing to stand up to this horror should be supported and honored, not
condemned.
Protect Afghani Kids
from Sexual Torture
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