This guy…

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    They need to make Miller sit down in an austere interrogation room with only a recording of Charlie Kirk talking about how executions need to be televised and force children to watch.

    And over that audio recording an AI video of… well… whatever is it you imagine it should be.

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    “It is insurrection, plainly, directly, without question,” Miller later told Fox News. “It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying that you have not only the right, but the duty and the obligation to defy orders of the commander-in-chief that those who carry weapons in America’s name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection.”

    Always lovely how on Fox news you can twist words, twist reality, outright lie, it’s all fine, because as they claim themselves z they’re not a news channel but an entertainment channel. Even sued the government to be able to lie…

    And these magats just eat it up like cupcakes

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    I challenged Stephen Miller to a fist fight, but that chicken fucker didn’t respond.

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    Good soldiers know they are fighting for the constitution and the american citizenry. I don’t think we need to be worried about Stefan Mueller for too much longer.

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    If you’re saying “refuse illegal orders” is a rebellion that’s uh…preeeetty telling on what sort of orders you’re planning on giving.

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      I carry a little glimmer of satisfaction knowing that as soon as this administration crumbles, be it political fallout from Epstein or Trump just finally keeling over one day, Miller is most likely going to become the fall-guy for a massive portion of the wrongs committed by the administration. Rightfully too.

      But the point is, he’s not liked. He is disgusting and off-putting and the only reason he has any station or power at all is because he learned how to wormtongue Trump and has no qualms about acting as sycophantic as he acts fascist.

      Nobody likes working with him, nobody wants to be around him, and everyone is happy to let him do the talking because he seems to think he’s invincible and will never face consequences. He doesn’t fit into modern politics, it’s just that we’re surrounded by so much other nonsense daily that he seems to just blend into the background. When Trump’s power wanes, he will stick out like a swollen, festering, sore thumb and the sharks will smell blood.

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        On a related note: South Park is back to form with true satire by definition

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        This. I don’t think Miller knows just how much his own side doesn’t like him. He does have people over him with more power who keep him around because he’s useful, and they protect him because he’s useful, but once he’s outlived his usefulness, they’ll wash their hands of him.

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    Miller fails to recognize the Nuremberg Trials, Following illegal orders is inexcusable in a courtroom.

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        I mean I’ve worked directly with ACLU lawyers on this matter, and have organized with the original members of the appeal for redress.

        I went so far as to organize this panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsrwIJcxYWY&t=529s

        Where we brought on lawyers, historians, other veterans, and political commentators, all of whom had specific experience (as in, had been involved in a military court in some manner) around the relationship around disobeying illegal orders.

        And yeah. I stand by the point I made. As a service member you are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.

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      That’s what my dad always told me when I was growing up as a brat; refusing to obey an illegal order isn’t a choice, it’s a requirement. You must not follow illegal orders, if you do you are committing a crime.

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        Also a brat who spent around 16 years growing up on various military bases… The problem with this idea is the expectation that enlisted men are knowledgeable enough to recognize an illegal order, while simultaneously being stupid enough to put their necks on the line to refuse a direct order from an officer.

        In the military as an enlisted man, you are guilty until proven innocent. It would be easier to get off knowingly participating in a war crime than to knowingly refuse an illegal order.

        The idea that American servicemen are trained to recognize and refuse illegal order is a fallacy. My dad did 26 years as an enlisted man and eventually made chief, he will openly admit to having zero faith in the US military ability to do the right thing.

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          The rules are there to ensure the proles are the ones always getting the short end of the stick.

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          Oh yeah, dad did say that he wasn’t taught anything like that until he went to OTS.

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        It does, however, require you to swear or affirm that you will follow the orders of the President, and the UCMJ puts the onus on the accusing service member to prove that an order is unlawful. It’s a lot to ask of service members that likely only joined because they needed college money.

        I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God)."

        Edit: Ya’ll are right, I didn’t realize the officer oath excluded the “following orders” bit.

        I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. (Title 5 U.S. Code 3331, an individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services)

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          It does, however, require you to swear or affirm that you will follow the orders of the President,

          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.

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            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

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              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.

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            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

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              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.

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                They have to infiltrate as many orgs as they can to get around the separation of powers system. But yeah ICE seems particularly bad.

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            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.

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            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.

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            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.

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            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.

            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.

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            to know you’re not supposed to open up on a crowd of fuckin kids.

            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  yeah you seem like a real gem.

                  Ok I’m out.

                  yeah you move out high speed, we’ll call you when we need you. pfft.

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          Officers do NOT follow unlawful orders.

          Period … see the period? That ended the sentence.

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    “It is insurrection, plainly, directly, without question,” Miller later told Fox News. “It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying that you have not only the right, but the duty and the obligation to defy orders of the commander-in-chief that those who carry weapons in America’s name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection.”

    It’s a short article that’s mostly his quotes, worth the read.

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    Well, I don’t think this makes any difference. Half of US soldiers’ and their families’ lives depend fully on the money from their service. The other half are sadists and psychopaths, either from the start or became so during their time in the military. How many of them realistically want to and/or are able to refuse orders?

    Furthermore, I’m curious how many soldiers even realize they are legally protected if they refuse illegal orders, and would be prosecuted for following them. I wouldn’t be surprised if this topic was conveniently skipped or covered very briefly during new recruits’ training and classes.

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      The UCMJ is a huge part of training and members know they are able to refuse unlawful orders. The trouble is distinguishing what is unlawful. They certainly don’t have international law degrees and nobody can be fully up to speed on all treaties and mutual aid agreements.

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    Is Stephen Miller A Sociopath? Examining His Controversial Actions And Rhetoric

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    Disregard for Laws and Social Norms

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