I spent 8 years in the US Air Force and highly respect the chain of command. Not only for myself but for every military man/woman that has served in the past and future. Without the chain of command the military would just be an organized mob that picks and chooses what orders they want to obey and what orders that they don't. Having served in an elite unit and special operations unit the chain of command is highly important to reach an objective.
For six congressional leaders to come out and tell the military men and women that they don't have to obey orders that are illegal is one of the worst things that they could have done. Particularly, because some of them actually served in the military and know better. In my 80+ years I have not seen on its surface a more clear case of sedition. These people need to be charged and brought up on charges of sedition. The video is its own evidence and a complete and total insult to our military men/women.
They should be looking out from behind bars and not leading our country. Every military person takes an oath when they go into the military to defend the constitution as well as obey orders from the commander in chief and those above them. _ The United States military oath of enlistment is a pledge to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to it. Enlistees promise to obey the orders of the President and their appointed officers according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
There is a legal term called: Res ipsa Locquitur - The legal term for "the thing speaks for itself" a Latin phrase used in court cases. It is a rule of evidence that allows a plaintiff to establish a case for negligence when the circumstances of the incident strongly suggest that negligence must have occurred, even without direct proof. These people are clearly negligent.
These people need to be held accountable and charged with sedition. What a disgrace.
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As a USAF veteran, you are required to follow all legal orders. As an officer you have duty to determine if orders received are legal orders.
Amen!
Their is a difference between an Officers oath and enlisted. The officer swears an oath to fulfill his duties responsibly and faithfully and support and defend the constitution. These folks failed to distinguish between the two.
The Former JAGs Working Group responded with the kind of icy precision you only get from people who have spent their lives reading war-crimes indictments in the original French. Their conclusion? The orders, “kill everybody,” followed by a second strike to kill the survivors, constitute war crimes, murder, or both. No hedging, no polite throat-clearing. Just the law, laid bare. A patently illegal order that every U.S. service member has a duty to disobey.
Anonymous: I believe that most people would disagree with you and these 6 are guilty of sedition and should be held accountable. The war crimes are a huge leap that is not substantiated irrespective of what any JAG officers conclude.
One small problem... we are not at war... so logically and legally it's called murder no matter how it is spun !
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