Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Tres cool.
Here’s hoping what goes around, comes around tomorrow and y’all aren’t handed any more ammunition against the lawyer types.
Poetic.
Me thinks the bottom feeder Grodner is going to have a very bad day tomorrow.
Jim C
“Karma?” One could be inclined to think someone might be dipping his toe into plagaraism…. maybe.
This loser is about to find out how tough a place Chicago can be…
He will begin to understand the phrase, which has been used many times before by many different people. “Paybacks, they are a real [REDACTED]! I do not want to be caught by the “Plagaraism Police.” I wish a good day to all, minus one.
Grumpy
I betcha if that guy had apologized on the spot, and offered to make the damage good, we would not have heard of this. I’ve known some Marines, and they seemed like reasonable people when sober, who would accept an apology, and go on from there.
Looks to me like the Marine was being reasonable, and controlling his violent passions, and Mr. Grodner wasn’t.
I bet he’ll try to claim do to the judges service that he cant be fair and partial… Got to leave it to the lawyer in him to try to weasel out of it.
Man I hope the judge makes him cry like a little (you know what).
FbL, I took the liberty, after I commented and was very happy with your post on your own blog. Why is this important? We could look at the strategy of Gen David Petraeus and get an insight. He calls it, “Social Networking.” This is not something new, our parents used this strategy when we were kids. The internet is nothing more than the highway and our computers are our vehicles. This whole milblogging insanity is the same thing. We are still building those same “Social Networks”. FbL and Lex, Thank you, for all that you do for the milblogging, military and veterans’ communities. Last, but not least, THANK YOU for your continual service to this GREAT NATION.
Grumpy
Justthisguy,
I figure you are right on the mark.
Grumpy,
Thanks so much for your kind words, though I protest that putting me in the same sentence as Lex on the topic of milblogging is quite a stretch.
Yes, the social networking aspect is one of the great things about blogging. I feel like a very tiny cog in a constantly growing/adapting machine (milblogs) that continually accomplishes new and amazing things. In that way, I’m very lucky.
I hope he goes off on the guy DI-style, like R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket or some such…
Knowing what I know about Chicago, I’m pretty sure the assignment of this case to the judge was not an accident or random. Someone in the courthouse administration unit is laughing.
“I hope he goes off on the guy DI-style, like R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket or some such…”
or even better, has R. Lee Ermey in on-hand and turns him loose against this clown.
As a lawyer who is concerned that all who are charged with a crime get a fair and unbiased hearing before an impartial trier-of-fact, I must urge that we not engage in a rush to judgment. Facts and circumstances are sometimes not what they seem.
But, if facts and circumstances are what they seem, I just want to take this moment to say to the Judge hearing the case, “Tear him a NEW one, Devil Dog!!!”
Uuuuuuu-RAH!!!!
This is just too rich. Nice to start the day off with a smile.
Semper Fi – Once a Marine always a Marine (less one named Murtha) – No better friend – no worse enemy.. can’t wait to hear the outcome… Irish
Knowing what I know about Chicago, I’m pretty sure the assignment of this case to the judge was not an accident or random. Someone in the courthouse administration unit is laughing.
I had exactly the same thought. There’s a clerk (or whatever they call them) in there who is also a former Marine or a proud parent of one (there’s that “No better friend…” thing, again).
The great thing is that I doubt expect the judge to be unfair, but we can be assured he will not give Grodner an inch, and that justice will be done according to the evidence and as all involved deserve. No free rides for the lawyer!
(Oops! “Doubt” above = “don’t”)
Me thinks there was a docket dallying.
Excellent!!!!
Can’t wait to hear what happens. I’m betting the Marine will be stoic, calm and classy. Unlike this Grodner weasel.
Blackfive has the current facts. Grodner was spanked hard. Click the link above and settle back for a good laugh. !@%# Grodner. POS weasel.
Verdict just reported on CNN: It was an arrest and $20,000 bond for not showing up in court on time. Then a guilty plea, with 30 hours community service and an unspecified amount of money to the Semper Fi fund. Grodner now says he’s thinking about leaving the country – good riddance and please, let the door hit you firmly on the ass as you leave.
Lou Dobbs reporting for CNN, also said that he would make a substantial donation to the Semper Fi fund as well, in honor of the Marines.
Not enough imho. Needed to be sent to Paris Island to wash skivvies for the recruits.
Getting snippy, here: “Grodner now says he’s thinking about leaving the country.”
Dare we guess his choice?
Spanked Hard? Please! $600 and 30 hours community service (per BF) hardly qualifies as being punished at all. What a joke of a sentence.
Ron, I’d bet being taken into custody and relieved of his belt, shoelaces, necktie, etc (“treated like any other prisoner”) and being required to elocute his offense in open court with his trousers falling down dinged this turds ego and over-inflated sense of self-worth worse than anything else would have. I’d have loved to read that he was breaking rocks in a Georgia workhouse, but that wasn’t in the cards anyway for a crime against property. I was surprised not to see anything about restitution to Sgt McNulty, though.
Great point, Hiram. But the restitution part is simple. Since Grodner confessed, collecting via small claims is a cinch.
I am just wondering … what judgement a French court would have given in case somebody keyed a car because he felt offended by a Foreign Army sign on it? I don’t think France is where he should go …
oops … I mean “French Army” sign.
OMG! It just dawned on me that the plaintiff and the judge are not only fellow Marines, but fellow Irishmen, judging by their surnames.
Reminds me of a comment on the last St. Paddy’s Day post on this very blog, to the effect of
“This is America, where the forces of order are Irish. Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
(I think it was quoted from a t-shirt)
Thank God for Jerry Pournelle’s Viking Manliness as a counterpoise to that!
Snork.