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    These guys look slightly built for Marines Davis. If your earlier description of him was accurate, they don't look as big and bulky as I expected. I had Marines pegged more in the shape of your former avatar.

    US Marines provide cover for Pemberton | GMA News Online

    From the comments on your link and mine, it seems the media have not bothered to even outline the custody rules according to VFA? Plenty of resentment being built up locally.
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    ^Look at Pemberton's booking pictures. About 5'8" or 9", maybe 150 lbs.

    Pretty standard for lots of Marines I've known over the years. Young guys a few years out of High School.

    Many of the press comments here are simply stupid. The government will very clearly explain the VFA and the next day leftist Senators, lawyers and court officials will put up an article as if they had never heard of the VFA before.

    It's all part of the anti-VFA fervor, by a small group of special interest groups. Most Filipinos simply don't give a shit, unless they work in businesses which are getting hit by no shore leave.

    I might add, I was a Drill Sergeant for about 18 months. I filled with a new Platoon of about 50 recruits every six weeks. If I had two or three who were jocks in really good condition, it was an exceptional group. Most teenagers are in horrible shape...even moreso now than then. Pumped up weight room guys - don't recall ever having one. Had a few big, bulky High School football players - most had a tough time as they were carrying too much weight for their strength.
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    Seems to me both sides need this agreement. The US forces remit is to concentrate resources in the Pacific for very obvious reasons.
    PI needs the financial lift that VFA can provide. So many potential upsides for PI.

    Hearts and minds campaign not helped by Pemberton trial but if the US wants it they will have to work that much harder.

    My own experience of working with US forces in UK, Germany and as part of ACE mobile force land, was quite positive. First impressions they do come across as very insular. Get to know them through work and socially/off duty and they are much more like us than we care to admit.

    When this Pemberton issue goes away, they need to begin a charm offensive.

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    ^Indeed.

    When I enlisted, I was 5'10" and about 135lbs - in great shape from working for a moving company. When I got back from a year of injury, disease, lack of sleep and lack of food in Vietnam, I doubt I was 125lbs.

    After 18 months of mess hall food, weight rooms, and being the Company primary physical training instructor, I got out, at age 21, at close to 180lbs.

    Lots of these kids tend to start packing on the muscle after a few years of service. Most of those surrounding Pemberton look very young and low-ranking - as it would be for a donkey job like that.

    VFA has been, and always will be, a thorn in the side of certain special interest groups here. If a Filipino had killed young Jeff in a hotel room, it would possibly have made the local news for a day in one short article. This is not about murder, it's about VFA.

    Unfortunately, Pemberton served them up an issue on a platter.

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    Not much. Pemberton still hasn't been arraigned. His legal team today filed a lengthy brief seeking to have the charge reduced from murder to manslaughter, citing numerous legal and procedural problems with the court's decision to charge him with murder. Most of the points they made seemed extremely good ones to me.

    Normal groups doing the normal whining. Several anti-VFA editorials to stir the mob, until you look at the fine print and see the authors - Gabriella, Communist Party of the Philippines, Boys who Dress Up As Girls Association, etc.

    Whiny letter from Jeff's faggot Kraut about the financial pain and suffering he endured because his employer was miffed at his being in papers all over Germany as a fag who was deported from the PI. Doesn't sound like he has enough money to come looking for a Pattaya Somchai this year....maybe next year, fellas.

    Doubt there will be much more before Christmas.

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    Som nam na to that kraut pansy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton
    charge reduced from murder to manslaughter
    Don't know PI distinction but US manslaughter is applied when an event which would cause a reasonable person to lose self-control results in the killing.

    Would losing it and killing after discovering she was a he apply here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton
    charge reduced from murder to manslaughter
    Don't know PI distinction but US manslaughter is applied when an event which would cause a reasonable person to lose self-control results in the killing.

    Would losing it and killing after discovering she was a he apply here?
    I think that's what they're shooting for, Norts. It's very hard, in my opinion, to make a case for premeditated murder when he had met Jeff only minutes before, and according to testimony from Jeff's tranny running partner, at the time Pemberton entered the hotel room, he still thought they were both female.

    So yeah, I would say ole Jeff whipped out his dick, and Pemberton, who had been drinking, just lost it.

    That reads manslaughter to me.

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    I think it's about time the law was changed, a Katoey in any part of the world should be made to wear a neon sign " fake bloke, Fake bird"
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    Having read some more stuff today, it appears the prosecution is going for murder vice manslaughter based on the severity of the injuries and viciousness of the attack.

    Take this with a HUGE amount of skepticism, as it comes from scum lawyer Roque, but he claims the victim was bitten, savagely beaten black and blue all over his body, had a broken neck, and was drowned in the toilet.

    The autopsy said nothing about a broken neck that I recall. And who really cares? I don't. Would it have been less or more of a crime if he had just quietly strangled him? Dead is dead.

    In fact, I think the frenzy of the attack, if true, plays to the fact that Pemberton totally lost in when Jeff waved a dick at him and his homophobic Jarhead brain imploded.

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    Indo just banged up the 5 school cleaners on the say so of a 6 year old with no medical signs of rape.
    Don't think definitions and due process will enter into it too much.

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    This isn't Indonesia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    This isn't Indonesia.

    Are the cops and the courts that much different from the rest of asia?

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    Court just denied prosecution's request for Pemberton's transfer to a local jail.

    Court just denied prosecution's request to have media of any kind admitted to the trial.

    Court has thus far denied every nuisance filing by scum Roque and cohorts.

    Court just approved the defense plea for a 60-day delay in beginning proceedings.

    C ya in February......

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    Sounds like Pemberton has a fairly switched on defence team, and the showboating lawyer has been sussed by the courts.

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    ^Pretty much. He's going down, as he should, but I hate to see the kid go down due to a scummy lawyer with a political agenda that has nothing to do with the case.

    I once was a stupid 19 year old Private in a foreign country - as were several of us - stupid things can happen. I believe that Pemberton killed the guy. I don't condone it, and I don't excuse it. If he killed the guy, no matter the provocation, he was wrong, and should face the consequences. A simple punch in the face and a walk out the door would have done it - he took it several levels above that.

    I don't know what happened in those few minutes in that hotel room - only Pemberton does. But it cost two lives.

    I feel some sympathy for Pemberton - whether posters like it or not. I feel none for Laude. Laude wrote the script for this drama, like drama queens do. Pemberton just didn't react like a pole-smoking Kraut faggot.

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    Pembertons life aint over, he will Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.

    He might even be pardoned one day, if the world comes to it's senses, then he will given as medal for services to humanity, his back pay for several years , and a heroes welcome back to the USA.

    laude a 26 year old was trying to sexualy assault teenager pemberton.
    If a woman strangled a man, trying to rape her, to death would she be facing this outrageous show trial?

    The only person I feel sorry for in this, is jeffery Laudes sister who heartbreakingly refers to him as her brother, none of the 'she' PC misnomers for her. Mistakenly she's angry at Pemberton; she should have got angry at scum like 'Barbie ' and the German gay and anyone else who led him astray, rather than tell him to pull himself together and get his head straight..

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    [QUOTE=Davis Knowlton;2921593]
    Quote Originally Posted by ttonyy2002 View Post

    I have heard nothing about problems anywhere. Most Filipinos don't give a shit about trannys. Most social media comments reflect the opinion that the tranny, in many ways, brought it upon himself.

    All the vocal protests are from a few, small, anti-VFA or pro-fag organizations.

    I don't think you will have any problems except being mobbed by bimbos looking for a payday.
    Thanks Davis for the feed back yes pro-fag organization's are every where in the world, how do they defend trickery. This young Marine was drunk and this tranny thought it would get away with it. Well it back fired and the kid freaked out. The tranny should have been happy with the money the German fag was giving it and waited until they got married and it was brought to Germany so it could bang other German fags. I am in no way defending the young Marine he had choices and choose the wrong way out now he has to deal with the consequences

    Anti VFA groups the only thing i have to say about that is i hope they have plenty of Chinese for dummies books to study because they will need them .

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    I guess nothing going on

    I guess there is nothing going on with this case last couple of weeks. Feb things should start moving again. Court case slow, but what about anti-VFA protest anything ? What about USN ships pulling into port ? Still a no liberty restriction going on ?

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    Slow days in the PI. Popes visit and typhoons bring the country to a standstill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ttonyy2002 View Post
    I guess there is nothing going on with this case last couple of weeks. Feb things should start moving again. Court case slow, but what about anti-VFA protest anything ? What about USN ships pulling into port ? Still a no liberty restriction going on ?
    Nothing but a few nuisance filings by scum lawyer Roque. Things don't start again for another month. No anti-VFA stuff in the news. No shore liberty until the trial is over...if then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    I believe that Pemberton killed the guy. I don't condone it, and I don't excuse it. .
    ...and yet you do ! Constantly! In nearly every post you do.

    You constantly proffer mitigation for the defendant.

    And you perceive the murder victim as the true culprit.

    You feel sympathy for a killer and not a prostitute murdered in the course of work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Ghost Of The Moog View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    I believe that Pemberton killed the guy. I don't condone it, and I don't excuse it. .
    ...and yet you do ! Constantly! In nearly every post you do.

    You constantly proffer mitigation for the defendant.

    And you perceive the murder victim as the true culprit.

    You feel sympathy for a killer and not a prostitute murdered in the course of work.

    Acknowledging mitigation isn't the same as condoning.
    And there are mitigating factors.

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    I didn't see it that way, Moog...

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