When starting my research for this video I came across an article on Globalresearch.ca regarding how “We the People Refuse to Fight”. This article was done on Friday the 14th. There was a quote that really caught my eye by William Rockler from the Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor about how our lovely government has forgone the legalities of going into a country and has run amok with imperialism (Chossudovsky, 2020). I didn’t know that there are codes that require troops to refuse and justifies that act. According to Mr. Lawerence Mosqueda, The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) 809.ART.90 (20) gives the guidelines which all troops must adhere to the constitution over the whims of a president. To that, they have a duty to disobey orders which are outside of the constitution. My late father used to tell me that there are a few exceptions in which the military has the “duty” to disobey orders. The case which Mr. Mosqueda referred to was of Olive North. In the 80s during the Iran Contra affairs, Oliver North blindly followed orders as the Nazi soldiers had done. Then-Senator D. Inouye of Hawaii referred to the fact that Nazi soldiers had followed every order they received. They never stopped to compare the legality of the order. Oliver North had repeated the same act. At this point in his career, he was a General and there foreknew about the UCMJ 809. ART. 90. Thus he knew he had an obligation to refuse the orders he had been given. Just like in 2001 and 2003 which the generals knew the invasion on Afghanistan and Iraq was illegal and unconstitutional. They had an obligation to refuse this order and were protected by UCMJ 809 ART. 90 from any possible prison time.
Now that we have established the fact the generals today have an obligation to uphold the constitution over any order from any president, we have to ask ourselves, why aren’t they? They have an obligation to protect us here, at home in America… Syria did nothing to threaten us here. Nor did Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Iran has done nothing to threaten us. As in you and me here in America. If they threaten Israel, then let their government deal with it. And they shouldn’t be antagonizing their neighbors.
References:
Chossudovsky, M. (2020). “We the People Refuse to Fight”: Abandon the Battlefield! Disobey Unlawful Orders. https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-the-people-refuse-to-fight-abandon-the-battlefield/2130
Mosqueda, L. (2003). An Advisory to US Troops A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders. https://archives.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOS303A.html
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