Posted on 06/03/2025 4:37:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On May 29, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to First Lieutenant Mark Bashaw -- the only service member in U.S. military history court-martialed for refusing to comply with unlawful COVID-19 mandates. It was a long-overdue act of justice, but a pardon, while powerful, doesn’t come close to honoring the enormity of what this man endured -- or what he represents.
Mark Bashaw was never a criminal. He was never disloyal. He was a principled officer who stood on the Constitution, federal law, and his faith, and for that, the U.S. Army tried to destroy him. His refusal to wear a mask, submit to repeated PCR tests, and comply with an experimental injection -- all of which violated his conscience and religious beliefs -- was treated not as a cry for accountability, but as a mutiny. And so the system moved to make an example of him.
He was convicted under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice -- failure to obey a lawful order -- but even the military judge refused to punish him, recognizing the absurdity of the case. As reported by Military.com, Bashaw was sentenced to nothing, a silent admission that the conviction was political, not legal. But the damage was done. His record was flagged. His promotion was halted. And in June 2023, he was discharged from the Army under the authority of Major General Robert Edmonson, with the approval of a political class more interested in punishing dissent than following the law.
Let’s be absolutely clear about that law. The COVID-19 vaccines being pushed on the military at the time were only authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, not fully licensed or approved. According to federal statute -- 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb-3 -- every individual, including military
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I bet they would not have done this if he was black. Just an observation of Biden regime tactics.
Everyone responsible for the charges against him need to be discharged from the service.
Only after they are court marshalled and have served their sentence.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
These Pentagon *officials* ... Austin, Milley, et al ... mandated these horrid $hots on purpose ... to decimate and compromise our military.
Evil to their core. They should be court martialled.
BINGO!
Everyone responsible for the charges against him need to be discharged from the service.
Those under command in the military are expected to carry out orders. I can assume that there were men and women involved in enforcing the military's Covid protocol who did not discern that protocol as being an invalid/unlawful one.
All too often DC and the press focus on small potatoes, while the elites and those in high office (President, Fauci, NIH panel etc. ) are never held accountable. So tired of Kabuki theater that never gets to the TOP/HEAD of the criminal activity and never puts elites in jail.
Vindman is a POS spy. A liar. A bullshit artist. Man, it ruins my day to think of him. I am convinced Bashaw is doing the right thing. He preserves his right to appeal. Hegseth needs to get this scab pulled off and start some serious repercussions. Go Bashaw.
Found the missing qualifier for you.
What’s really sad.... just one refused out of how many.
When an order is 'clearly' against the conscience of a soldier, e.g., shoot civilians, that shoulder should be held accountable for his actions. There are scenarios when underlings are asked to carry out orders that he does not see or understand as being illegal. Underlings are not military legal experts particularly when it comes to gray areas like enforcing Covid protocol. The ones that should be investigated are those in the know like Biden's team, the pharmacutical companies, Fauci, the NIH etc. When will the heads of the snake be investigated and prosecuted. Until that happens it's just kabuki theater.
He may be the only one court martialed but he is not the only one persecuted. I know that to be a fact.
“Bashaw was sentenced to nothing”
A sentence of no punishment is often because the Accused was not permitted to present evidence of what’s call the “good soldier defense”. Not sure if that’s the case here. It happened with then-Colonel Mike Murphy (who then retired as a First Lieutenant), but there was significant evidence of wrongdoing - generally recognized wrongdoing, not didn’t-take-the-jab wrongdoing.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
From new emerging information he will most likely out live his detractors, the members courts marshal and the prosecutor. Any and all who stupidly took the jab....
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