A tweet states that National Guard or Active Duty military ordered to violate constitutional rights can call the GI Rights Hotline for support, with the number 1-877-447-4487 provided.

  • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    Because the UCMJ has done such a great job of preventing war crimes and punishing war criminals…

    Just because something is illegal doesn’t make it unjust and vice versa.

    After all according to the German military the holocaust was legal. If soldiers then murdered their officers they would have been seen by the world as heros.

    Legality should not be the basis of your morality

    • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      2 hours ago

      Dudes are saying that soldiers should shoot their officers if they give a “bad” order … that’s not how things work. Anyone that thinks it is has watched way too many movies.

      • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Nobody said that, I certainly didn’t.

        What I said was if your CO orders you to kill civilians it is absolutely moral to ignore that order and if necessary go beyond the law to prevent it even if that includes killing your CO.

        There is a huge difference between a “bad” order and being complicit in war crimes and killing unarmed civilians in your own country.