Cody Green was a witty and determined kid, who loved his family, the Cub Scouts, and the US Marines. It was Cody's ambition to someday join that renowned Corps.
However, Cody was diagnosed with leukemia shortly before his second birthday, and spent the next ten years of his life fighting the disease. He never complained, and like a true Scout, tried to help others first.
When his mom was seriously injured after a stage collapsed underneath her, Cody was there for her. She had to have 30 staples in her skull and steel rods inserted in her legs, and had trouble moving around or take care of herself. Although he himself was in such pain that he often had to stop and throw up, he helped his mother with her chores, even washing her hair for her. As Mrs Green explained,
"When I started walking again after the incident, he was so worried about me, saying 'you need to keep your feet up Mom! You have to watch your step.' He never complained, he never said 'why me?' or 'I don't want to do this.' If he got sick, he would finish and say 'I'm sorry' because you were holding the bucket for him. I always told him that he had nothing to be sorry about."
Cody's struggle inspired local Marines, who said "he's fought as hard as any Marine has." They honored Cody by making him an honorary US Marine. They planned a full ceremony with a color guard presentation, but Cody's immune system wouldn't allow for that.
Last month Cody was rushed to the hospital with a fungus infection of his brain. He had beaten back cancer, but his weakened immune system couldn't handle a common household fungus.
Marine Sergeant Mark Dolfini, who lived nearby, was notified that Cody was dying. He rushed to the hospital in full dress blues & sword, and stood guard all night long, for eight hours straight, until Cody passed the next day.
The Marine Corp's website states that the title of 'Honorary Marine' reinforces the special bond between the American people and the Corps by 'recognizing individuals in the civilian community who have made extraordinary contributions to the Marine Corps. There can be no better recipient of this honor than Cody Green.
Semper Fi, Cody. Rest in Peace.
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/marine-opens-up-about-cody-green
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New post on Bare Naked Islam |  |  It's called 'Terrorist' Profiling. And the one thing most people on the Terrorist Profiling list have in common is NOT their race, it's their religion. Besides, Islam is NOT a race.
Kavon Iraniha, 27, an Iranian American SDSU graduate, who spent the past year studying international law in Costa Rica, was not allowed to board a flight home to San Diego. When he went to a Costa Rican airport Tuesday, he was told he could not fly because the U.S. government had put him on the "No Fly List." (Who goes to Costa Rica to study international law, amyway?) When he went to the U.S. embassy, Iraniha said he was interviewed by FBI agents for several hours. "Essentially at the end of the day, he was told he was on a No Fly List with no reason," said Hanif Mohebi with the Council on Anti-American Islamic relations. (Oh, you can bet there's a reason, it may only be that his name is the same as a terrorist, in which case he will eventually be allowed to fly. But until they confirm that he isn't the terrorist, he's stuck there. But that's the price you pay for 9/11 if you're a muslim. Too bad. ) According to the FBI, the Terrorist Screening Center is the agency that compiles the "no fly list". A list that allows the US government to keep certain people who are considered a security risk from boarding a plane. A local FBI spokesperson says agents are well aware of Kavon's situation, but could not comment on the case at this time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryJI7BhZoQI | | | |
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New post on Bare Naked Islam | |  The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Minnesota, in a ruling June 4, threw out 19 of 20 contempt citations that Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis had levied against Amina Farah Ali, Somali Muslim convicted terrorist funder, because she wouldn't rise when court was called to order.
Twin Cities On the first day of her trial on charges of raising money for the terrorist group al-Shabaab, Ali ignored Davis' order to rise, telling him she interpreted Islamic teachings to mean she didn't have to stand for anybody.  - Amina Farah Ali
The judge disagreed, saying that rising was a show of respect to the legal process and that court decorum demanded she stand. But the appeals court said Ali's refusal "was rooted in her sincerely held religious beliefs," and that Davis was wrong not to consider those before he found her in contempt and sentenced her to 100 days in jail. The court said Davis' ultimatum to Ali -- violate your religious beliefs or face criminal penalties -- "substantially burdens the free exercise of religion." Davis should have considered Ali's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, a three-judge panel of the court said. The panel told Davis to reconsider his actions and "reach a balance between maintaining order and avoiding unnecessary and substantial burdens on sincere religious practices." Ali, 35, and co-defendant Hawo Mohamed Hassan, 65, also of Rochester, were convicted last fall of conspiring to raise money for al-Shabaab, a group fighting Somalia's U.N.-backed government. They are awaiting sentencing while in a St. Paul halfway house.  Hawo Mohamed Hassan and Amina Farah Ali Hawo Mohamed Hassan and Amina Farah Ali caused a stir on the trial's first day in October when she refused to stand when the judge entered the courtroom. Three days earlier, after being told that Ali had remained seated at the start of a pre-trial hearing, Davis had issued an order requiring everyone to stand when court was called to order.  The woman told Davis that the Prophet Muhammad once told a group of followers they didn't have to honor him by standing. She said that if she didn't have to rise for the founder of her religion, she didn't have to rise for anybody.
The judge found her in contempt and said he'd do so every time she refused to stand. He also ordered her jailed. After two nights in jail and after talking to Muslim elders, she rose when court was called to order on the trial's third day. The appeals court let the first contempt citation stand. It said Ali's attorney, Dan Scott, should have raised the religious objection before his client violated the judge's order.  But Scott said he was pleased with the ruling. "When you get down to it, under the statute the judge has to find ... that there's just no reasonable way that he could have order in the court unless she gives up her religious beliefs," he said.
He said Davis erred in believing that he wasn't discriminating against Muslims because everyone was required to stand. (Other Muslims in the courtroom, including Hassan, rose when court was called to order.) "The judge was saying that if everybody is equally burdened, regardless of your religion, you all gotta stand up, and if it burdens one religion a little more than another, then that's too bad," Scott said. "But that's not the statute. The statute is accommodation." 
Jason Marisam, an assistant professor of law at Hamline University School of Law who has lectured on the free exercise of religion in constitutional law, said the tension between the secular and religious often winds up in court. "It's understandable that a judge would take offense when a party refuses to stand when the court is called to order. It's called the rising requirement and it's supposed to show respect for the court system," he said. "But some feel that showing respect to a secular institution doesn't respect their religious beliefs." The 1993 law "exempts religious believers from having to comply ... unless the government has a compelling reason," he said. "Here, the question is whether this symbolic showing of respect is a compelling reason. Generally, these symbolic things are not compelling reasons." 
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