You equate orders to deploy to an ongoing conflict, predating
the current resident of the White House, to orders to round up
American citizens inside the continental U.S.?
You’re reaching. Really reaching.
I know, you’re all riled up over this.
You may be allowing your anger to cloud your judgment.
No, I’m not equating the two. But I am saying that if the rule of law and Constitution are abandoned, then even the unthinkable would become “lawful orders”, and that would put your son, my nephews, and a lot of good, honest, red-blooded American heroes in a very bad way.
Which is what I believe has already happened to Lakin. Judge Lind ruled that the whole issue of valid authorization from the POTUS, who alone is authorized by Congress to decide to use force, is IRRELEVANT and won’t be allowed to enter the arguments at all.
If your son was required to go rape every person he saw and he disobeyed because the orders weren’t lawful - and the judge ruled that the orders WERE lawful and any argument about lawfulness would be thrown out of the court-martial.... where would that leave your son?
That’s basically what has happened here. There are 4 criteria for lawfulness under Article 90, plus a few added on for Article 92(1). Lind allowed ONE - count ‘em, one - of those criteria to be addressed, and all the others were considered IRRELEVANT; no evidence admitted nor argument accepted.
This is serious, serious doo-doo. And I care precisely because of people like your son and my nephews. They deserve much, much better than this.