Posted on 10/01/2021 3:49:44 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
The Department of Defense and Marine Corps bar active-duty troops from participating in “partisan political” activities. Military personnel cannot “speak before a partisan political gathering, including any gathering that promotes a partisan political party, candidate, or cause,” according to policy.
Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark spoke for less than a minute at Trump’s event as the Republican former president stood by at the “Save America Rally” at the Georgia state fairgrounds in Perry last Saturday. Clark introduced himself as the “guy that pulled the baby over the wall” outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month during the chaotic exit of U.S. personnel.
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Video of the “crime”
Hunter Clark at Trump Ga rally: “I am the guy who pulled the baby over the wall” (Afghanistan)
https://rumble.com/vmyve5-hunter-clark-at-trump-ga-rally-i-am-the-guy-who-pulled-the-baby-over-the-wa.html
He did NOT go in uniform.
This is bull.
I was there.
Trump honored the marine as a local hero. He was from a neighboring town. The marine basically said thanks and sent out a shout out to his fellow marines. He said nothing political at all.
Not only was he not in uniform, his sentiment did not touch politics or policy - no hint of questioning the calamitous question withdrawal.
He was just thanking the crowd for a nice “welcome home.”
He was in civilian clothes, he didn’t say a single political word, if they prosecute him they will be sought out in a year or so and have their careers ended.
Mark Milley is on the case!
This is an enhancement of the Great Purge the dems started as soon as they got back into power.
They have already put servicemen in prison for criticizing democrat policies.
We are in a dictatorship.
We need a new America and military.
From https://www.army.mil/article/71574/rules_restrict_political_activity_by_dod_personnel:
Military members, for example, may attend political meetings or rallies only as spectators and not in uniform. They're not permitted to make public political speeches, serve in any official capacity in partisan groups or participate in partisan political campaigns or conventions.
Now the argument becomes does the prohibition apply if no political speech was made. Which apparently there was not any made by him.
The regulation is pretty specific. It clearly says got a member of the military may not speak at any sort of political or partisan rally.
The regulation says nothing about what the speech might say. It says the military member may not speak at such an event.
If he went up to the microphone and waved and read out sports scores or recited multiplication tables, that is a violation of the regulation. No speaking is allowed.
I would guess this will be a reprimand.
A Marine can become a marine biologist if that Marine studies marine biology.
This Marine is a reminder of the regime’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and anything that embarrasses or exposes the regime will be purged by the regime.
Defund the military.
Retired in ‘92 but that’s the way it was for my 20 years and 24 days...
Talk about optics!
What can the Afghan refugees think about the Biden administration when they PUNISH AN AMERICAN WHO WAS TRYING TO SAVE THEIR BABY?
How cold can Biden and his merry band of cold bastids, like that Psaki person, are so oblivious to their plight.
I doubt Afghan refugees is a big Fox viewer demographic.
It would be no problem if he were at a BLM rally.
AND MARK MILLEY, WHO COMMITTED TREASON, WALKS FREE.
And I won’t argue this marine or Lt. Col. Scheller’s case, but wasn’t it interesting that the military imprisoned Lt. Col. Scheller right before THAT TRAITOR MARK MILLEY testified in the sham hearings this week? Like Lt. Col. Scheller was a distraction from an already uncomfortable situation. Had to put him on ice. Cant have MARK MILLEY’S LECTURE CIRCUIT FEES OR BOOK TOURS SUFFER.
When it comes to true honor and true character, we are all human and all make mistakes. But I know in my heart and in my mind who deserves those emblems on their chests, and those men save babies, and some speak out against treachery and wind up (right or wrong) sitting in a prison cell.
Men like that don’t make treasonous calls to China or get calculated “quotes” placed in a book by a tabloid author past his prime. Those are men like MARK MILLEY. Political social climbers, who have no compunction about who they step on so long as their greed for personal glory is met. The only thing I see when I look at Milley is an arrogant snake.
Show me one time this reg was applied to a Democrat recently. You can’t. Anything is a crime if support Trump and MAGA. Nothing is a crime if you oppose him.
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