SAN DIEGO — Anti-war activists have taken up the cause of an Army deserter from Fort Carson who was deported from Canada and is being held in the brig at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
Two dozen members of Military Families Speak Out and San Diego Veterans for Peace protested Tuesday afternoon outside the base in support of Robin Long, a onetime Army private who was sentenced in August to 15 months behind bars and a dishonorable discharge.
The activists support Long’s view that the Iraq war is illegal and say his sentence is particularly cruel because it could prevent him from returning to his sick girlfriend and their 2-year-old son in Canada. Canadian law makes it difficult for convicted felons to enter Canada.
Long, 25, of Boise, Idaho, enlisted in 2003 and deserted in 2005.
