Posted on 05/30/2024 12:36:30 PM PDT by george76
There has arisen in America a generation which never heard of a lowly enlisted combat medic in the US Army who defied Bill Clinton and his entire chain of command, refusing to serve on a United Nations deployment wearing a blue helmet under the command of a general officer from a foreign country. It happened this day, 1995. Ask people over 50 years old, or better yet, 60. MANY of them remember the story - it was front page and nationwide, indeed worldwide news.
No good deed unpunished, however, and Army SPC4 Michael New was court-martialed, received a kangaroo trial, in which the Army sought to give him a term in Leavenworth prison - for refusing to deploy as a UN mercenary to Macedonia. Fortunately for him, there was plenty of sympathy among the ranks, and the panel (jury) did not give him the Dishonorable Discharge the Pentagon and White House were seeking. They returned with a Bad Conduct Discharge - "Failure to obey a lawful order." No prison time. But an appeal was possible - we went to the Supreme Court three times, and each time they denied us a hearing.
The entire problem was, of course, that the order wasn't lawful. Mike's attorneys had boxes of documentation proving the uniform was unauthorized and the deployment order unlawful. In fact, the entire mission into Macedonia was unlawful, because President Clinton LIED TO CONGRESS about the legal authority he had to send more troops on UN missions. (I know, you are "shocked, positively shocked!") So they did the only thing they could do - they refused to allow his attorneys to present ANY evidence!
The fate of one soldier, the loss of one career, is of little concern to Americans 27 years later. But the fate of our sons and daughters in uniform today ought to be of concern, because the mental case residing in the White House today is on the verge of getting American troops involved in yet another United Nations war, and when he does, many Americans are going to die. For the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Perhaps you thinkthe Ukraine conflict is merely a NATO war. How many people realize that NATO is a "regional military arrangement" under the authority of the United Nations? If you don't believe it, look up their charter, on-line, and read the Preamble to their charter. It's there in black and white. The United Nations and the USA are dedicated to the same goal - One World Government, total domination. What a sad state of affairs we have come to.
And is this not the greatest irony of our lifetime? Russia has become the number one obstacle to the New World Order! And only because Russians believe in national sovereignty and will not tolerate a threat to their national existence. How very selfish of them. One does not have to "like" Vladimir Putin to respect his fierce protective stance in favor of his native country - we should wish that America had a president with that kind of gumption and understanding of national sovereignty!
The issue is real - for every person in a uniform of our armed forces. Many of them are going to be shocked, and totally unprepared for this type of war. This next war is going to be nothing like anything our military has fought in living memory. And we won't be the only ones with high tech weaponry. And if (when) we push Putin too far, we are going to set off a nuclear war, the scale of which is impossible to predict.
“There has arisen in America a generation which never heard of a lowly enlisted combat medic in the US Army who defied Bill Clinton and his entire chain of command, refusing to serve on a United Nations deployment wearing a blue helmet under the command of a general officer from a foreign country.”
Interesting. Never heard about that. The UN’s “blue helmets” have been traditionally supplied mostly by countries such as Bangladesh or Pakistan and they choose them from a large crowd of volunteers as the UN is covering the costs including wages, which in case of these countries are several times higher than what they are normally getting.
America has been near the bottom of that list. I’ve just checked and currently there’s 27 Americans serving as UN “peacekeepers”. So, leaving aside the whole concept of serving under that strange flag, there’s no need to force anyone to do that.
Anyway, the rest of the article is utter nonsense.
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