My good conservative friend has a son in the military, and I posed the same question to her. She looked at me with the saddest eyes and reminded me that our military is trained to obey. She told me HER SON is being trained to obey.
I understand our military are patriots. But they are also trained to obey.
I think the people of this country need to stand up and fight like their lives depend upon it. We need to teach our children well, get involved in their education, attend tea parties, burn up the phone lines, send faxes and emails, write editorials, attend town hall meetings, volunteer at the voting booths, volunteer to get decent conservative candidates, and stand up for people like Beck and Rush and Palin when people say they’re crazy. We need to do all in our power to influence the vote, and to do what it takes to be around when the votes are tallied.
We have the responsibility to ensure that our military has a Commanding Officer and superior officers worth obeying.
They are trained to obey the oath to defend the Constitution.
Is the military’s oath to defend the constitution or to the POTUS?
Military officers serve the Constitution, not the President.
My husband took the following Oath:
“I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Yes, we were trained to obey and troops now are trained to obey... but not blindly. Again, it is a little sad that some here have little faith in the intelligence of our military.
It is your duty not to follow an illegal order.