It’s not sedition to remind military personnel of the oath they took to defend the Constitution. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“The United States boldly broke with the ancient military custom of swearing loyalty to a leader. Article VI required that American Officers thereafter swear loyalty to our basic law, the Constitution… Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law… This nation must have military leaders of principle and integrity so strong that their oaths to support and defend the Constitution will unfailingly govern their actions.”—“Loyalty to the Constitution” plaque located on the grounds of the United States Military Academy
Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state.
Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told—by their own government—that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold?
That question isn’t hypothetical.
It is the moral line now being tested in real time, and it goes to the heart of what kind of country we are: do we live in a constitutional republic governed by the rule of law, or in a militarized police state where “legality” is whatever the person with the most power and the biggest army say it is?
The answer becomes painfully clear when you look at what our troops are being ordered to do—and what “we the people” are tacitly allowing them to be ordered to do—in the so-called name of national security.
Members of the military are now being deployed domestically to police their fellow American citizens in ways that trample the spirit, if not the letter, of the Posse Comitatus Act.
It’s legally dubious enough that the military is being used to enforce immigration crackdowns and police protests in American cities. But now they’re being tasked with killing civilians far from any declared battlefield in the absence of an imminent threat—all while being told that questioning the legality of those missions is itself a form of disloyalty.
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The Constatooshun got thrown overboard long before esteemed CPUSA (D) party member comrade kommissar FDR.
No thinking person thinks that all these Seditious Six were doing is just quoting black letter law though. Please, pull the other leg.
if this tripe is intended to excuse the 6 politicians, it fails. that was a cowardly, passive-aggressive, attempt to sow discord among the ranks.
once a service member can disobey one order, they can disobey them all.
there is good reason why there is a chain of command. the military has figured out, over a long time period, that obedience to orders is essential to a fully functional fighting force. there is a well developed process in place to address “unlawful” orders, but disobedience ain’t one of them.
oh, and the author may be interested in this fun fact: that red octagonal thingy with “STOP” written on it…is a stop sign. so, be sure and remind everyone of that.
Can we us this opportunity to remind Congress that they violate their Oath of Office and commit Treason against the Constitution each time they propose infringing upon the people’s Right to Bear Arms?