Marine charged with assaulting parents

[genieroze]

Marine charged with assaulting parents

By Matt Sutkoski
Free Press Staff Writer

A U.S. Marine pleaded not guilty to assault charges Monday after prosecutors said he beat his parents over the weekend in Colchester.

Charles W. Blount, 31, was released on conditions, including that he not make contact with his family and that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation. He is charged with one count of aggravated assault and one charge of simple assault. Court papers indicate Blount has no prior criminal record in Vermont.

When Colchester police arrived at the Blount home after a 911 call just before midnight Friday, they saw through a window that Blount was assaulting his bloodied mother, according to court papers. Police kicked in the door and subdued Blount after a brief struggle.

The inside of the house
was strewn with broken furniture and blood was spattered on the walls of the kitchen, hallway and living room, police said, according to court papers. Blount's father, Edmon Blount, was found bloodied and nearly unconscious on a couch, the court papers indicated.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/local/tuesday/5000h.htm

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/local/tuesday/5000h.htm

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Did he learn this at Gitmo?

"Court records show Blount has been a Marine for 13 years. Prosecutor Carolyn Hanson said until recently, Blount had been posted at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. military is holding detainees from Afghanistan and elsewhere at Guantanamo."

[Carl Brennan]

2. Isn't Blount the same name of the guy whose campaign Dubya

was working on when he was in the Air National Guard?


Also I think there is a General Blount in Iraq.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I don't know

sounds like an interesting point to research.

[elehhhhna]

4. just going mano a' mano with the parents. big deal.

[Carl Brennan]

5. Hot damn. It was General Blounts tanks that killed the journalists

in Iraq.

http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/JournalistKillings_Fisk.html
.....The Americans responded with what all the evidence proves to be a straightforward lie. General Buford Blount of the US 3rd Infantry Division - whose tanks were on the bridge - announced that his vehicles had come under rocket and rifle fire from snipers in the Palestine Hotel, that his tank had fired a single round at the hotel and that the gunfire had then ceased. The general's statement, however, was untrue......

This little story was cited in a recent movie "Weapons of Mass Deception".

[Carl Brennan]

7. Wayne Madsen did an article on Blount: "The Butcher of Baghdad"

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen04122003.html

The man who ordered his tanks to open fire on the Baghdad offices of Al Jazeera, Abu Dhabi TV, and Reuters is Major General General Buford "Buff" Blount III. Like his three bosses, General Tommy Franks, General Richard Myers, and George W. Bush, Blount is a native of Texas. <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560254149/counterpunchmaga>
After the war is over, Blount will return amid ruffles and flourishes to accolades from Bush administration officials and a doting media. It must never be forgotten what crimes Blount perpetrated on April 8 in Baghdad.
We should all know what kind of person Blount is. He is the top military officer in the Savannah, Georgia region. His command includes Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. Blount is a 1971 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, the Hattiesburg college that did not integrate its student body until 1965, three years before Blount enrolled as a student and three years after the University of Mississippi was forced to admit its first black student. Blount's wife, Anita Barr, is also a native Mississippian. Hailing from Collins, Mississippi, she graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. "Buff" and Anita, who is a school teacher, have two children.
The Third Infantry Division commander comes from a politically-connected family. His father, Buford Blount II, is a former Air Force Colonel who was once the deputy commander of Keesler Air Force Base, and is now mayor of Bassfield, Mississippi. General Blount's sister, Lisa, told the Jackson Clarion Ledger that she was worried about the lives of her brother's troops, however, the story made no mention of any concern for the lives of the civilians which they encountered. General Blount's uncle was also an Army general. He was Major General Dr. Robert E. Blount, who after his Army career became Dean of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560254149/counterpunchmaga>

[Carl Brennan]

6. It was another Blount whose campaign Bush worked on in 72'

This was the lost summer where Bush supposedly worked on this campaign.

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html
...Bush made the move to Alabama in May to work on Winton "Red" Blount's campaign for the U.S. Senate against Southern Democrat John Sparkman. The lessons of that year were not lost on Bush or his political adviser Karl Rove, who also cut his political teeth in 1972. Their path to electoral success is a lesson in itself about the state of American Democracy, an issue suitable for an H.L. Mencken-style analysis.

Privileged Son

Those who encountered Bush in Alabama remember him as an affable social drinker who acted younger than his 26 years. Referred to as George Bush, Jr. by newspapers in those days, sources say he also tended to show up late every day, around noon or one, at Blount's campaign headquarters in Montgomery. They say Bush would prop his cowboy boots on a desk and brag about how much he drank the night before......

[genieroze]

8. Most likely. eom

[Carl Brennan]

9. I wonder if the father that got beaten is linked to the other Blounts?

Anybody have access to a geneology website?