Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive (I think I can help decipher some of this - here goes - pure speculation on my part but let's see - feel welcome to skip reading this post.
Aha - new account - only these 2 posts. It appears this was written by someone who may be connected to or actually be the accused - someone so close to this who is deeply upset and impacted- dare I say unhinged- so emotional it's hard to follow the bouncing ball. This poster is taking a few steps to attempt to protect the accused by attacking anyone who, say, shared an article about this, or is the one prosecuting, or reporting on it, etc. I find it both sad, and I have empathy that someone who take such desperate steps to, like a magician, redirect focus here to attack others to refocus against some very serious charges.
The playbook is simple:
First, Ad Hominem attacks - attack and eviscerate anyone who implies the accused is guilty. even anonymous internet posters are careless, anyone who is trying this is a liar, anyone reporting on this is careless, lying, etc. Smear them as careless, racist, corrupt - the whole lot of them, or I guess in this case, us.
Denial- not just a river in Egypt. Challenge any statement that doesn't look good as completely false untruths. Challenge anyone who states anything damning as unfair, inaccurate, untrue, careless.
Repeat innocent until proven guilty to the people who said that (me) initially (see my original post title) as if it's new or news.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
I've seen this before - years ago a 35 year old youth pastor slept with one of the teens in his congregation - a15 year old kid His Daddy was the full pastor, he was just somehow put in charge of kids. -he was in a supervisory position over that child. She told her 15 year old friends about her adventures, bragged she thought he would leave his wife for her, her friends told the school, who called the police and a criminal trial ensued. Someone close to that man or that man too himself got online, rebutted posts with comments like innocent until proven guilty, and quoted bible verses, and like here talked about whether this was even the full criminal matter or should be in a different venue (there they argued civil vs criminal, here I see an argument for diversion - which by the way, the accused requested and that was denied. It's the same playbook but in the end the facts are what they are- my posting an article doesn't mean the article is correct, or wrong, or that this person did or did not do what they are accused of.
It must be difficult to fall this far, and if there's one thing we agree on, it's the hope the accused will get help if he needs it. I also hope they can help the victims as they are notified if the accusations are true. Constructively, attacking anyone who points out a ROTC leader was arrested and trying this case in anonymous internet boards? Again, sounds desperate, from someone in crisis. OP, read your posts - you sound hysterical - not the good Rodney Dangerfield kind -the spiraling / not-cohesive kind - I think you have a point to make but you're so wound up and lashing out that you're not appearing to make much sense - please sober up or if you are sober, get some sleep, and try to make your point again in the morning if you'd like. Good luck to you, good luck to the victims if proven there were any, and when the UCMJ adjudicates this, please follow-up to let us know how you/they/he/we - whatever pronouns you would like to use here fair. The good news for you is that if the accused is innocent he will retain his military pension, likely have a huge settlement coming his way. I don't agree everyone accusing or discussing is wrong and that there is no foundation, but my opinion matters not -I'm not on the court martial jury - let's see what happens at the court martial.
OK,
@Dark Shadow/ISA you said your peace. I've offered food for thought that may help you understand how you appear (at least to me) - compose yourself and let us know what else is on your mind.
