White House adviser Stephen Miller accused Democrats of "rebellion" after they released a video reminding the U.S. military of a duty to "refuse illegal orders."In a video posted to X on Tuesday, Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, along with Reps. Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio, and ...
LAWFUL ORDERS.
Look, you don’t need a JAG officer on standby to know you’re not supposed to open up on a crowd of fuckin kids. This really isn’t the ambiguous terrain you’re making it out to be.
Would it be better to have an executive branch that wasn’t a fucking traitorous pile of garbage? OF COURSE.
And we don’t have to say “so help me god” unless we want to. Affirming your oath is fine.
Plus if the order that has made its way down to enlisted in such a way that the enlisted has to determine if it’s illegal or not, then theres a bigger problem.
If officers can give the order to hold any return fire, then they can also give the order to do something that is not illegal.
Chain of command is a powerful structure
valid. that kind of deception to the rank and file is what we’re seeing with the unlawful attacks right now.
This administration is built on the concept of gradually but continually pushing the boundaries of what’s legal. First it’s using federal troops to guard CBP as they violate constitutional rights, then it’s murdering unnamed persons in boats in the Caribbean. Next will be something just a little bit more illegal, and eventually there may come a day where there’s something as clear cut as opening up on a crowd of kids. But by then, how are a few troops supposed to prove that this is illegal while not speaking up about whatever they did last? Not to mention the longer this goes on the more they organize the command structure by loyalty over competence.
I don’t think we can rely on waiting for a clear cut example like yours, people in power need to be pushing back now or it will be too late
is it the caribbean? I think of it as the golf of stupidity…
The creep you’re describing - I think the us military institutions can survive an admin of that without total failure, but that’s the miltiary. ICE is rapidly becoming a paramilitary strong point with funding rivaling actual services, staffed with proudboys and 3% types (and apparently, as recently caught, pedophiles) that I worry about more than the Enlisted and NCOs of the services.
I think. I can certainly be wrong. And none of this should be happening in the first place, this isn’t something we should have to consider at all, but thanks to spineless fuckwit republicans covering him, his treason, his insurrection, his lies and crimes, here we are.
They have to infiltrate as many orgs as they can to get around the separation of powers system. But yeah ICE seems particularly bad.
The problem is that the UCMJ puts the onus on the “accuser” to prove that the order was unlawful. It’s an awful lot to ask of a public servant. The whole situation sucks.
as I said, would it be better to have an executive branch that wasn’t a traitorous pile of garbage? Yes.
100%
Your example? Sure. Almost certainly unlawful. It’s an extreme though. How about shooting civilian vessels in international waters? That’s more vague. How about shooting American citizens who are accused of attacking federal officers?
Yes, there are some situations that are pretty unambiguously illegal. Most orders will have some kind of argument behind them that they’re illegal, however dubious that may be. It won’t be as clear as your example most likely.
What was ambiguous to you? Also I said that. You must swear or affirm. I personally chose to affirm when I took my oath of enlistment.
Agreed, but the order is not always so clearly unlawful. You pretty much do need a lawyer on standby to challenge violations of Posse Comitatus. It is the servicemember’s duty to refuse to conduct domestic law enforcement activities like deportation, for example, but they can be required to support those same activities in other ways.
Unfortunately Fox has been screaming that the kids/Dems are traitors for 20 years now. And that Patriots something something. I don’t think a little ceremony is going to undo decades of brainwashing to hate libs.
you do realize there’s a difference between your grandparents and the US military command structure, right?
yeah, there are some conservative types, and religious conservative types in the service, but they’re far outnumbered by the people just doing the job. and people who serve have a much better idea of how hypocritical that rhetoric is coming from a bucket of traitor monkeys like faux news.
and I know conservatives who recognize it’s nothing more than a propaganda mill for the GOP. cynically, they don’t stop supporting it, but everyone knows.
I love messages that start with snark.
You do realize that people are individuals, right?
Yeah there are some intellectuals, and some that understand their oaths, but they’re far outnumbered by the people that joined the military because they had no options. And people that watch Fox 24/7 generationally who know a libtard when they see them and hate them so much and know better than their nerdy superior.
Last actual point: Don’t confuse officer command with the masses of soldiers that have watched Fox 24/7. The officers may know and may not follow, but many soldiers (not all, because why do I think I have to put in all the caveats) are lets just say entirely different. Like if you think it’s only grandparents being swayed by Fox then I have no words. Ok I’m out.
yeah you seem like a real gem.
yeah you move out high speed, we’ll call you when we need you. pfft.