Since Fitzpatrick has thrown himself into this matter, I thought I would post the facts about his own background as best as I could discern them.

Fitzpatrick was charged with 20 counts under the UCMJ and court martialed on one of them, which resulted in a letter of reprimand that de-facto ended his career. He rode his time out in the Navy and was forced to retire after being passed over for promotion three times (as is the military policy).


http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1994/9404220093.asp

Of course, Fitzpatrick claims he was railroaded and tried to contest the adverse action against him, but to no avail. After leaving the Navy, Fitzpatrick has devoted a lot of time to attacking military justice, the UCMJ, and JAG corps in general and has a couple of websites devoted to this (that you can find easily enough through google).

A case of this:


http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2004/jun/0 ... til_today/

Lest you think Fitzpatrick is a partisan looney, he also accused "W." of being a criminal for allowing the Haditha Marines to be brought up on charges.

Fitzpatrick can be heard talking about his recent actions on this web-show. I have listened to most but not the whole thing and have yet to hear him talk about his situation.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/P ... alice-Show

I've been to his jaghunter site. And, he and "kit" at that other site seem to be pretty tight. He is one angry guy.

I think that sums it up. He's pissed off that he got shafted (whether rightly or wrongly), and is determined to de-rail the military justice system. This is a guy that had a promising career, Naval Academy, executive officer of a ship, and screwed it up.

And he did screw it up. I don't see how he could ever justify using MWR funds for anything that didn't directly end up in the hands of the soldiers/sailors. It's even more absurd that it was $10 grand and his wife was the benefit of part of it. I could admit that he showed poor judgement, (maybe not intentional criminality), but officers are expected to pay for that stuff themselves, not take money out of the sailor's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation funds for it. That's probably why the Navy refused to listen to his appeals.

Ironically, on the interview, Fitzpatrick admits that he has no idea what has happened to Easterling. I suspect that nothing will happen to Easterling. Most likely his poor judgement will reflect on his efficiency reports and he will not be promoted and his career will be over too (as opposed to UCMJ porceedings).

Fitzpatrick wants to be charged under the UCMJ. However, that would require him to be recalled and charged. If Easterling, who is on AD, wasn't charged under the UCMJ than Fitzpatrick is engaged in wishful thinking.

Nothing is going to happen to him. He essentially wrote an angry letter to the editor on a USNA letterhead.

thanks for this OG
i googled for awhile the other day but just kept getting hits to his jaghunter site and my head started to hurt
lol

yep.letter of reprimand.kiss of death.
I still say he's a shitbag.

Okay.... I'm a West Point grad myself, which officially qualifies me to say bad thing about Navy grads.

The guy is frankly not well. Whether he was driven to mental illness by the disappointment of his truncated career, or whether the truncated career is a result of his descent into mental illness... the signs are obvious.

Just read the "open letter." For god sakes... who in their right mind writes an open letter to the president and misspells the word "criminal" in the subject line? The letter is a rant... a poorly thought out, poorly organized, linguistically challenged rant. And the facts that he used Naval Academy letterhead (i.e. the stationary Midshipmen use to write letters home to their high school sweethearts) and then notes his class year with his signature (something grads normally do only when writing to other grads) plunges into the depths of pathos.

He is actually of a type... and I even have at least one classmate of my own that shares his mental pathology; a guy who was riffed as a Major (equivalent to Fitzgerald's rank) for even less reason than Walt. And his response was a full bore retreat into guns and religion. I recently had to remove his wife as a friend on Facebook because he was using her account to post hateful right-wing blather on my wall.

The officer corps can be very unforgiving for an error in judgment of this sort, and rightfully so. If you are an artillery lieutenant and you shell the observation post rather than the impact area just once, your career is over. If you get pulled over for DUI outside the base in Germany just once, your career is over. If you tie one on at the Officer's Club, stand up on a table and try to lead your peers in a rousing rendition of the the obscene version of Allouette just once, your career is over.

And this should come as a surprise to no one, especially a service academy grad. The disciplinary systems at the "trade schools" are designed to teach this lesson over and over and over. At West Point, the classic and most common reason for a disciplinary action was "Gross Lack of Judgment." It was a hammer used even when the "lack of judgment" was hardly "gross."

Remember what these guys do and how important their judgment is. My first job as a 21-year-old 2nd Lieutenant included custodial responsibility for nuclear warheads in a foreign country. We are not messing around.

Most officers understand and move on when their careers have been killed by an error in judgment. A handful descend into bitterness and anger. A tinier handful still allow that bitterness and anger to consume the rest of their lives. That last group is mentally ill.

Walt Fitzgerald should be an object of pity and understanding. A bad decision has killed his career, and his inability to cope with it has destroyed his life.

Now, if you forgive me, I'm heading out to the University Club tonight with a West Point classmate who, after you get a few drinks in him, usually can be talked into standing up on a table and leading us all in a rousing rendition of the the obscene version of Allouette.

This guy seems to be the birthers new hero, Ed Hale and others was in conference with this guy, and comes on radio lastnight after conference with a historial announcement ( Ed's words ) about taking down Obama and Berg and will tell all evidence next wed night

Good. the more wackos on that Ship of Fools, the better. Their credibility wanes each time someone like Walt and Orly and Pidgeon hops aboard.

They don't let Walter on ships anymore. He has to stand on the shore and wave his handkerchief.

Yeah, he's got a serious axe to grind, I'll repeat what I wrote in another forum:

If you have a couple of hours, listen to the interview and you'll hear how deluded he is. He's begging for the military to arrest him for insubordination. He deems the fact that he hasn't been arrested as proof that Obama is a "userper".

He doesn't get that no one is going to do anything to him, because no one cares about him.

In this regard, he is no different than Childers or any of the other crazy retired goofs that have been every bit as bombastic as Fitzpatrick.

I don't get why Fitzpatrick thinks he's an exception. The one who is in danger here is Easterling, and if nothing happens to him, than nothing is going to happen to Fitzpatrick (at least legally).

It's like he's dying to revive a career that has been dead for over 20 years over this matter.

Thanks!

I take exception to any commissioned officer encouraging soldiers and sailors to do something that is contrary to good order and dicipline.

If you listen to Fitzpatrick's interview, that is exactly what he is doing.

This is the cognitive dissonance that fuels Fitzpatrick and his flunkies. ( From: http://www.riseupforamerica.com/ a site run by one of Fitzpatrick's conspirators). By the way, this was posted under the byline of "For the first time in our History a sitting POTUS has been officially charged with TREASON !!!" Of course, Obama hasn't been officially charged with jack, but when you live off of twisted logic, the facts don't have to add up. Anyways.



There are actually three outcomes; he is simply ignored because he has standing. This is what is happening to him right now. Of course, Fitz and his boys take that as evidence that Obama is guilty of Treason.

Of course, it didn't bode well when the federal prosecutor informed him that, a nasty letter from a citizen doesn't equate to an actual charge or indictment.



Fitzpatrick was evaluated by the secret service to see if he posed a threat to the President's life. That's what they do.

Fitzpatrick himself apparently realizes that he might quite meet the legal bar for treason. Thus, the need for more twisted logic to make sqaure pegs fit in round holes:


http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/

Have fun proving your last three sentences Fitz. It seems a little premature to make a "criminal complaint" without establishing that Obama is foreign born, gives aid and comfort o enemies and adheres to enemies, but, again, facts aren't your friend.

Doesn't one have to be a citizen of a country in order to be charged with committing treason against it? One could be charged with being a spy, but that is not committing treason. Or one could be an enemy warrior, but that is not treason. So doesn't Fitzpatrick's first claim make his other two claims irrelevant? Or is Fitzpatrick admitting that Obama is a citizen of the U.S.?

It's a good point and another example of the cognitive dissonance you have to accept to be a birther.

I found the blogtalk thingy with Walt Fitzpatrick yelling at Phil Berg last night. On a regular webpage, so it shouldn't screw up your computer.

When you listen to him, you understand why he was visited by Secret Service.

Let the audio load for a minute or whatever. Then cue up to about the 59:00 mark. That's the only part of the show I listened to. He talks for 5 or 6 minutes and then they cut him off.

He is one scary guy.

http://www.tsrn.us/blog/

Thanks for reviving my thread, Mimi!

I think Fitzpatrick is unstable. It's obvious that he has a huge grudge on his shoulder towards military justice. I can't say, based on my studying of the facts that he has that right. You just don't appropriate MWR funds for the personal use of yourself or family. That is the soldiers/sailor's money.

I suspect that he wouldn't have been allowed to retire honorably if not for the "Annapolis Protection Society", but I could be wrong about that.

*I couldn't find the show though.

Well, now the Canadian version of the Free Republic has picked up the saga of my favorite court-martialed officer, Walter Fitzpatrick:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11853

I left them a snarky message. I doubt it will make moderation.

If this gets out to the point that Shepard plans to discuss this a bit on his program, perhaps with a juicy interview of Walter Fitzpatrick III (seditionist), then what would need to happen to make this a very positive event? Simple mocking with no interview? An in-depth investigation of Fitzgerald and his unsavory past, along with the pseudo-charges? Something in-between?

And the rest of you should be quaking in your boots, you're all guilty too. Praise the lord "Hallylooooya" that a few of us aren't under U.S. jurisdiction .Though when Wally is successful and the "Usurper" is deposed and Wally is reinstated and becomes Chief of Staff of the military who knows what could happen.

Can you hear the pigs wings flapping?

I wouldn't get too smug there, Aussie. When Walt takes control of the US military, he's gonna invade the Down Under to steal your bereavement funds.

Well here's my bereavement fund... what's he gunna do with this?

Well flutterby you had better come over and well all get together (maybe at the Woy Woy RSL CLub) and spend it on a Grand Jury.By the way we dont drink pints we drink schooners. I' ll have an old thanks Oz.

Here's one I took last year in Queensland, all up close and personal like - don't think Wally would like to run into one of these fellers if it was in a bad mood, 'cause I reckon those claws could do some damage: