Tea Party Military

A new Tea Party group, Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, has grown quickly since being launched last month by an active duty Marine Corps sergeant. The group, which vows to “stand up on the very soil we defended to preserve common sense conservatism and defend our Constitution that is threatened by a tyrannical government,” currently has over 400 members, who have signed up through its Facebook page, though many are not active duty military. And it has close ties to the broader Tea Party movement.

“My oath was to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and that oath will be kept. I wont’ “Just follow” orders. There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But many others do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution and to the people…”

According to this guy, every member of the military is free to interpret the Constitution as they wish (or, of course, listen to Glenn Beck and get a crash course on how NOT to interpret the Constitution) and disobey orders at will. Lovely. Experts on the military say this guy is walking a fine line between First Amendment rights and sedition.

Eight years of a corrupt, inept administration running roughshod over the Constitution and not a peep from the right. Get one liberal black guy in as President and they all come running out from the rocks they hide under yelling “Save the Constitution!”

Oh shutup already.

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Comments

Jacki says:

April 13, 2010 at 11:01 am

I get so disgusted when I see former or current military turning extreme. I served under President Reagan and although I didn’t vote for him, he was Commander in Chief and we were taught to respect him. It’s terrible that they don’t seem to be teaching this to our servicemen and women anymore, or if they are, so many are ignoring it.
Sandi says:

April 13, 2010 at 11:19 am

Didn’t we notice the all volunteer military was moving this way all along? Have you checked out those wack jobs in Colorado Springs lately?
janine says:

April 13, 2010 at 11:30 am

This guy already crossed the line into sedition. I think he’d prefer chaos and anarchy
Melody Brynne says:

April 13, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Apparently, these military guys haven’t read the guidelines for when they can lawfully disobey an order. The guidelines are quite clear. They need to go back and read the book on military justice. My late husband was 20 Navy Ret. and he gave me a general sense of what it says. It says that to disobey an order you need to prove that the order is in direct conflict with higher orders that are already explicitly given and violates the mission, when an order is to kill unarmed civilians, when an order is to kill other military personnel without cause, when the order violates the military code of conduct, when the order willfully and unnecessarily endangers the lives of others without being a part of the mission. There are several other parameters but this gives a general sense that orders are given to complete a mission, have respect for human life, follow the Geneva conventions and other human rights treaties we are signatories to, and to adhere to the military code of conduct. Disobeying orders otherwise is a political act and if military personnel choose to disobey outside the guidelines, they are doing politics, not military conduct and their actions can land them in a courts martial. Being enticed to disregard the Commander-in-Chief because of the comments of political groups is a very foolish move that those military personnel should think long and hard about if they wish to serve their country with honor.