Posted on 10/01/2021 2:37:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
A US Marine officer, Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller, publicly criticized the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan which left 13 servicemen and women dead at Kabul Airport.
He particularly targeted the top brass of the military, a military to which he devoted his energy and his life to serve, for their abysmal performance in the closing days of the Afghan withdrawal.
Scheller was relieved of his command shortly after he posted a video on Facebook demanding senior officers be held to account for their actions. In the video, Scheller said that he intended to resign his commission.
In the video, he is heard saying, “I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability.”
On September 27, Lt. Colonel Sheller was suddenly arrested and placed in solitary confinement in the military jail at Camp Lejeune, N.C., according to Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Sam Stephenson.
He is held incommunicado, under a gag order, unable even to speak with his parents.
Throwing people into solitary confinement has become, it seems, a repeatable tactic to the current Democrat enforcers.
Under a previous Administration, and under the close, informed, and watchful eye of the current president, political opponents were arrested in the middle of the night, or had false charges brought against them and their reputations tarnished. People like Roger Stone, General Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos.
The Democrats arrested hundreds of citizens who participated in protests at the Capitol Building and placed them in solitary confinement. Hundreds are still held in solitary confinement nine months later. The government demanded that some must plead guilty to charges beyond trespassing even if they had not committed violence or property damage.
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Aren’t there any whistleblower laws that can protect him?
Zola died due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Fifty-one years later, a letter to a French newspaper claimed that a chimney-sweep who disliked Zola for his role in the Dreyfus Affair covered up the chimney to Zola's fireplace one evening.
-PJ
I am so sick of these Soviet style tactics. This good man should be celebrated instead of persecuted.
The whistle blower laws are like making a law against gravity. A whistle blower is a referee. A referee has the power and authority to stop play because he does not work for the team he is watching. We live and work in hierarchical situations. A person at the bottom of the pyramid has no right to “blow the whistle” on someone above him and then expect that the person above him will treat him with the same trust and expectations of obedience he had formerly. For the whistle blower to stay in the organization after essentially betraying his trust is impossible. The whole idea that this can happen is a pretty bad idea.
If you are somewhere in the bottom of a pyramid and you want to say something about what you see, you had better be ready to leave. As a matter of fact, you should leave before you say anything.
He isn't a whistleblower. He's a military officer who had the courage to express his opinions and to accept the consequences. I was under the impression he had already submitted his request to leave the Marines. Jailing him seems to be overkill. Just expedite the paperwork.
You don’t get it do you?
There is no law
” I was under the impression he had already submitted his request to leave the Marines.”
I read somewhere else that he submitted his resignation, and it was rejected, and he was then jailed.
You are largely right.
Been trying not to believe it.
He is held incommunicado....
Leavin’ such a hole in a world that believed....
When Congress holds hearings on this activity they need to call Major General Alford and see if he will testify under oath that he was not influenced by by his higher authority in his actions against Scheller. It appears Alford may have been the subject of command influence.
When Congress holds hearings on this activity they need to call Major General Alford and see if he will testify under oath that he was not influenced by by his higher authority in his actions against Scheller. It appears Alford may have been the subject of command influence.
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