I just realized I forgot to even address what you specifically asked about: the rank-and-file.
At this point I believe we have put the rank-and-file in the exact same position as the hero of the “Valkyrie” movie. Whether it is Constitutional or not, the military and the US courts all consider Obama to be the CINC, and the only way the rank-and-file military people can obey the Constitution when the communist coup comes and they receive orders from their chain of command to capture and kill the US citizens who resist the takeover, maybe even carry out the execution of the 25 million who resist re-education, is by boldly obeying their oaths and doing what the SOCIETY considers criminal: disobeying the usurper.
The Lakin situation was the perfect way to demoralize our guys so they would never have the gumption to do that, because we had not only the chain of command, the media, and the threatened “conservative” commentators, but also our own military heroes and their fellow-soldiers saying that the soldier’s duty is to obey orders, regardless of the Constitution, as long as the immediate order is not blatantly criminal.
I had a conversation with somebody right here on FR regarding whether these orders would have to be obeyed (which they refused to answer):
The commander tells Soldier A to hook up lethal gas to the showers.
The commander tells Soldier B to move all the prisoners to the shower area.
The commander tells Soldier C to turn on the shower.
The commander tels Soldier D to take out the dead bodies in the shower and put them in the incinerator.
None of those orders is criminal in and of itself, so according to what everybody was screaming about Lakin, every one of those orders had to be obeyed. It would be a violation of law and the oaths the soldiers took if they refused to obey those commands.
What does that tell us about what the rank-and-file soldiers will have on their shoulders come communist revolution? It will happen when Obama is in power, so everything he tells them to do they have a supposed duty to do. These are honorable people who will be having to go against their own oath (unless they are an officer) and thus against their own conscience. We are all being demoralized to the point of believing that anybody who is against the government or who suspects a conspiracy is either crazy or evil.
We are totally ignoring the lessons of the Holocaust. Once the Reichstag in the Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler the power to make laws all by himself - even laws that contradicted the German Constitution - the only path of resistance, the only way of obeying the Constitution, was civil disobedience. The military is trained to obey. Their minds are specifically configured that way because that is what is needed in combat situations. For anybody in the military to resist Obama at the point of the communist coup, they have to defy their own oath, their own conscience, and their own training.
If they have learned the lessons from the Holocaust they will have the strength to do that. But the lessons from the Holocaust are being suppressed. Obama’s allies believe the Holocaust never happened. In a thread a while back I made the point that it is absolutely critical that we stop Obama BEFORE he has absolute dictatorial powers, because once he gets those powers the only way out of the communist takeover is Valkyrie. In response to that a site that monitors Free Republic suggested that I am calling for the assassination of Obama - which is a real quick way to get Homeland Security to monitor my every move (which I have pretty good reason to believe they’re already doing anyway). Because I have verbalized the lesson of the Holocaust I will be presented as a crazy, violent wacko advocating the assassination of Obama. I’m not, but this is the way the current mindless society cuts off any clear, critical thinking regarding the lessons of the Holocaust.
I’ve mentioned before that the Soros machine - and it’s been pinpointed to Soros himself, David Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel - has threatened the media with FCC and anti-monopoly annihilation if they reported on Obama’s eligibility problem, once in October before the election and another time within the first couple months after the election. The exact details are known to others but not to me. That is why we have even “conservatives” ridiculing the eligibility issue - for fear of their lives, since the media heads passed on the threat by saying that if the on-air personalities or any of their guests said anything about Obama’s eligibility problem (including a listing of very specific evidence of Obama’s non-eligibility) their career would definitely be over and their lives and families’ lives were in question. This is the 1930’s in Germany all over again. It’s reported that this is why Glenn Beck left Fox - because Soros continued the threats on Beck when he continued to expose the communist and Islamist connections of both Soros and everybody in the Obama puppet regime, and Fox refused to protect Beck’s colleagues which Beck could not hire bodyguards for (like he could for his own family). Those who thought they could appease Soros by simply mocking the eligibility issue have since learned that as long as Soros can threaten them, he is their puppet-master to tell them ANYTHING they can say. IOW, we have a full LITERALLY state-run media that rivals anything Josef Goebbels had going on.
And this is what the rank-and-file soldier is up against because that whole media - including “conservatives” are telling them it is their duty to turn on the shower if the chief tells him to.
Someone in a very important position right now told me that at this point we need to cling to God and our guns and pray for divine intervention because at this point that’s all we’ve got. I agreed. I am fearful for my nephews in the USMC.
One of my sisters at one point told me that if she believed what I do about the condition of the country she couldn’t go on. It would be a lot easier to go merrily on my way but the next step in this progression is to have to smell the burning flesh - for her, not for me. My flesh will be what she smells burning, and at this rate it may be my own nephews who set my skin alight.
This isn’t a cheery picture but I believe everybody in the country needs to know this is what we’re looking at if we don’t rise up against the lawlessness of the current regime before it’s too late. The rank-and-file military people cannot save us from this.
Shoot. In one breath in that post I said the rank-and-file need to obey their oaths and in the next I said they needed to disobey their oaths.
Clarifiaction: The officers take oaths to defend and protect the CONSTITUTION. They need to obey their oaths.
The rank-and-file make an oath to obey lawful orders. They will need to disobey their oaths because even though the whole system calls the orders “lawful” and so on the books they supposedly are, they are in fact unconstitutional and thus cannot be truly lawful.
One other thing. It is a LEGAL ORDER if Obama tells a soldier to kill me on the spot right now, no questions asked. It is also a LEGAL ORDER if soldiers are told to arrest me and send me to Gitmo, no questions asked. And no questions will EVER be allowed to be asked.
The military also has the ability to assassinate me from miles away.
That is where the country is at right now. That is what the rank-and-file has to deal with. There is NOTHING unlawful for Obama to do to me (or others like me) at this point. And there is nobody in Congress, the courts, the media, or law enforcement who are willing or able to change that reality.
If that doesn’t scare the crap out of everybody, then we’re already dead.