Soldier Box: Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror

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At the time of the protest against the war, the number of British soldiers killed by the war since 2001 stood at 345. [64] [65] 2011 [ edit ] Anti-war march in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 19, 2011 Glenton, Joe (2014-03-03). "Rape and sexual assaults in the military need more than 'kangaroo court' justice". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-09-09. The judge clearly didn't listen to the arguments or if she did she ignored them. The lawyers are considering an appeal. Joe Glenton’s family may not have been well-known to us, but their presence after his release from prison says much about the value of family support during trying times. On April 30, 2007, thousands of Afghans staged a protest accusing U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops of killing civilians in the western province of Herat. The protesters stormed a government district headquarters in Shindand, south of Herat city, where Western troops have a large base. The anti-U.S. protest came a day after an angry demonstration in eastern Nangahar province over the killing of civilians by coalition and Afghan forces there. [20]

That means if someone who’s voluntarily joined the armed forces develops a conscientious objection, like we’ve seen from many US soldiers around Iraq – many of whom are now in military prisons, like Kimberly Rivera, a pregnant mother-of-four who is in prison in Colorado for ten months – they also have the right to claim conscientious objector status, just like those who are conscripted into the armed forces.’ Hugues Micol's graphic novel Scalp: La Chevauchée funèbre de John Glanton et de ses compagnons de carnage, again based on Chamberlain's book, was published in 2017 by the French publisher Futuropolis [ fr].Glenton has been referred to as a working-class hero and a symbol of opposition to the absence of democracy in the military. He has also demanded that falsehoods about the military and its history be debunked. Joe Glenton Wikipedia – Who Is He? The oath itself is worth little. In all honesty, I was a republican of some shade even then. Yet nearly 11 years on, I reflect upon that moment as a defining one. Not because my utterances were themselves significant, but because those were the first few moments of a journey so strange, rich and life-altering that I am still trying to grapple with its implications today. In recent years I have fallen in with a band of former veterans who are unlike anything this country has ever seen Furthermore, in the book, he recounts his transformation from a potential soldier to a rebel against what he perceived as unjustified military action. I have a slightly more sophisticated view of the origins of the “war on terror” these days, but his sense of reactionary outrage was fairly closely to mine at the time. a b Kennedy, Frances; Palmer, James (2001-10-15). "Anti-war rallies in Italy and India attract thousands of supporters". London: Independent.co.uk . Retrieved 2009-07-16. [ dead link]

After the hearing a spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition said: "Joe Glenton is not the person who should be facing a jail sentence. He has been made a scapegoat for speaking out against the war, even though they said they were dropping those charges. I am so angry.” Topping, Alexandra (2009-07-30). "Soldier delivers Afghan war protest to Gordon Brown". The Guardian . Retrieved 2023-11-02. A soldier who had gone AWOL for two years was recently given four months in prison, but Joe has been given nine months,” she said.What incentive is there, we might ask, to be multiculturalist when so much military identity – for example, the battle honours embroidered on your unit’s colours – stems from the names of Indian or Afghan towns whose mutinous citizens were ravaged, robbed and raped by the “warrior” ancestors you toast at mess evenings?