Anti-War Judge Prevents Foster Kid from Enlisting

[Marvin Blank]

Bitch.

He seems like a good kid, and it looks like he's got a pretty good attitude about the whole thing, too. Good pickup for the USMC in a year or so.

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_8482917?source=rss_viewed

[10thvet]

I like the way the kids sounds, good head on his shoulders and is trying something to get him out of the system... It sounds like he will enlist any way. I dont like the judge and her bully pulpit. If she had a better reason I would back her up but just to say she does not support the war is not reason enough in my book.

Good luck young man and I hope you get your wish.


I signed up for DEP about 2 months after my 17th b/d with the permission of my parents. So I can feel for this kid

[CA SGT]

Just another symptom of what activist judges are doing to our country...The 9th circuit court of appeals in calif are the best example of how bad things can get with activist judges

[Mr. Blonde]

The foster parents and social worker support him and the judge that doesn't know him gets to deny him.... Makes me embarrassed to have grown up near where they let this BS happen.

[iraqgunz]

This really pisses me off! I enlisted on my 17th birthday and went to basic 32 days later, with parental consent of course. I do not understand why the foster parents are not allowed to sign, just like my parents did. Unfortunately, this happened in Kalifornia and the twat judge will probably be promoted. I think there needs to be an ethics complaint filed against her.

What happened to being impartial and looking at the facts? I hope this kid makes it and then drops in her courtroom and gives her the finger.

[Remington Raider]

The recruiter ran me down to MEPS the morning after my seventeenth birthday. Anybody local who could appeal this decision as an abuse of discretion? The grounds are obvious. Oh, wait, 9th Cir. All those people are different from you and me.

[iraqgunz]

I actually live about 45 minutes from Simi Valley. Maybe when I get home I will go down there and say hello.

[Bravo Five Romeo]

This may have been the right ruling
...but for the wrong reason.

Making the decision because of an antiwar and antimilitary bias was way over the line for the judge.

However, as a minor he needs parental consent, unless he can legally emancipate himself.

The article doesn't cite the judge's actual ruling, just quotes from the recruiter repeating her remarks after the hearing... but if her ruling was based soley on her own political bias... then she needs to step down.

[iraqgunz]

If I read correctly she declined to comment, wonder why? I still don't understand how the foster parents can be his guardian(s) and not be able to sign the consent to enlist paperwork.

This may have been the right ruling
...but for the wrong reason.

Making the decision because of an antiwar and antimilitary bias was way over the line for the judge.

However, as a minor he needs parental consent, unless he can legally emancipate himself.

The article doesn't cite the judge's actual ruling, just quotes from the recruiter repeating her remarks after the hearing... but if her ruling was based soley on her own political bias... then she needs to step down.

[ex]

This may have been the right ruling
...but for the wrong reason.

Making the decision because of an antiwar and antimilitary bias was way over the line for the judge.

However, as a minor he needs parental consent, unless he can legally emancipate himself.

The article doesn't cite the judge's actual ruling, just quotes from the recruiter repeating her remarks after the hearing... but if her ruling was based soley on her own political bias... then she needs to step down.
The article says that his parents abandoned him when he was two years old.
That's about as emancipated as you can get.
He seems like a real 'foster child' success story. Good luck to him with whatever he ends up doing.