Father angry about Army's decision

[Sequoia]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The father of a Jewish soldier who was beaten by a fellow soldier says he's "infuriated" by the Army's decision to give the alleged offender nonjudicial punishment.

Commanders at Fort Benning, Georgia, have decided not to seek a court-martial in the attack on Pvt. Michael Handman and will resolve it as a personnel matter rather than a crime.

Jonathan Handman, the beaten soldier's father, says the Army's trying to "just shovel this under the carpet." He says "it should be treated and charged as a hate crime."

Handman's son says he was beaten by a fellow trainee in a laundry room next to their barracks.

Four days before the attack, Handman was interviewed by commanders of his basic training unit about complaints he'd made in letters to his parents that he had been harassed by two drill sergeants because he's Jewish.

http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=9161622

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Disgusting...but sadly, not surprising.

[onethatcares]

2. when you allow criminals and neo nazis to join the military

would you expect a different scenario? Then you teach them to hate, then you teach them to hate while locked and loaded. Yeah, somebody is gonna get hurt, you betcha.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. They still don't do anything about soldiers that beat up their

wives (female soldiers or not) either.