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Obviously you have never served in the Armed Forces. The First Amendment did not exclude Congress from Regulating the Military from limiting Political speech as being imitable to good discipline.

Obviously you never studied constitutional law. Any law that limits free speech must be "Narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest." The blanket rule against expressing political opinions is neither narrowly tailored nor necessary to serve any compelling state interest.

If Congress needs to limit free speech in any context including the military, then it needs to state what the compelling interest is and to show that the rule it has adopted is as narrow as possible to serve that compelling interest.

You're right. I was never in the Military, but I am a lawyer. So you stick to what you are a professional at (which I suspect is following orders without question) and I will stick to what I am a professional at (which is questioning authority and insisting that Congress follow the restrictions given in the Bill of Rights).

Any law that limits free speech must be "Narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest."

See, and without being snarky (might I mention you can do the same?) allow me to observe that this is one of the indicators that you don't have military. Chain-of-command is everything. You can sometimes need to send people into certain death.

Anything that corrupts or sheds bad light on the chain of command is against the compelling state interest. And it is narrow: Don't publicly criticize superior officers in your chain of command.

The same would have applied if the soldier publicly talked crap about a Second Looey in his C.o.C.MAny law that limits free speech must be "Narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest."

He can talk politics ALL HE WANTS. "I am against referendum 20238995499.12883!", "I am a staunch conservative", "Please go vote this election!", "Boy, my city mayor SUCKS!".

Just not about people in the C.o.C.

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