(UK) Naked marines bullying video 'not typical'

UpInArms

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Mon Nov-28-05 09:36 AM
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(UK) Naked marines bullying video 'not typical'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/28/umarines.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/28/ixportaltop.html

A video apparently showing the bullying of Royal Marine recruits "was not typical of what goes on" in the military, Adam Ingram, the Armed Forces Minister, has said.

Speaking at the Royal Marine base of Chivenor, North Devon, he said there was a "zero tolerance" to bullying within the services.

A criminal investigation has been launched after a video emerged allegedly showing a naked young Royal Marine being beaten unconscious by his superior during a recruit initiation ceremony at Bickleigh.

Mr Ingram said he became aware of the alleged events at Bickleigh ten days ago.

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Mon Nov-28-05 09:37 AM
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1. First Abu Ghraib, now this. Why do people videotape this shit?

Are they really that stupid?

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Lerkfish

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Mon Nov-28-05 09:41 AM
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2. its a good thing they ARE that stupid, really.

otherwise under the rug this would sweep.

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mrfrapp

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Mon Nov-28-05 09:52 AM
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3. Deliberate?

The impression I got was that this was videotaped with the express purpose of blowing the whistle. I don't think stupidity comes into it.

With regards to sweeping scandals under the carpet, the British military have a history of it.

The families of four young soldiers who died at Deepcut barracks in Surrey are renewing their calls for an immediate public inquiry.

June 1995 - Private Sean Benton, from Hastings, East Sussex, was found dead at the Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut, with five bullet wounds to his chest. Despite ballistics tests suggesting that only one bullet was fired from close range and the others from a distance, the Army said he had committed suicide.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2372983.stm

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Lerkfish

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Mon Nov-28-05 10:42 AM
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4. true. I wasn't the one that used the word "stupid", I was just responding

to a post that used it.
However, your point is well taken that it appears (by back following the link to a prior story) that it WAS leaked by someone who was appalled by the process.
Unfortunately, the linked story in the OP does not reveal that info unless you follow the other link.

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Monkey see Monkey Do

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Mon Nov-28-05 02:44 PM
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5. FYI (although it's not pretty) link to the video

(& I'm very sorry for it being to a Murdoch taboid rag)

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news1.shtml

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