You're Not Gonna Like This

    I sure don't, but facts are facts.

    A group of six senators and congresspeople, called the "Seditious Six"

Not to be confused with...
Although The Vulture is bald. 

are catching deserved flak over a video they made exhorting the American military not to obey illegal orders.  They did not mention which specific orders were illegal, but they kept up a consistent drumbeat.

    I suspect they meant whacking drug boats in the Caribbean or deployment if the National Guard to crime-ridden cesspools cities.  But, they didn't give specifics.

    One of the six, retired Navy captain Mark Kelly, is in especially hot water.  There are threats to have him brought back to active duty where he would then be court-martialed on charges of sedition.  This may, in fact happen, as the Attorney General and Secretary of War want to make it so.

Frankly, as it should be.

    Now, Kelly knows (or should know) that, even though he is retired, he is still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  When I retired wayyyyyy back in 2005, I knew that to be a fact.  For instance, were I to lead a rebellion against civil authority, I could very easily find myself being tried by the military.

    NOTE:  To be honest, at 67, the only thing I want to lead is myself to bed.

    Here's the problem, though.  Kelly stated something which is drummed into every servicemember in boot camp: that we are not to obey unlawful orders.  He did not say anything false and any lawyer worth his or her salt will get him off on the technicality.

    Another problem:  we all know what those seditious pieces of shit were doing.  They hoped to undermine the chain of command and cause dissension.

    But, what we think we know and what was said are completely different, legally speaking.

    It's like the 14th Amendment.  We all know they were talking about slaves, but that's not how it reads.

"Subject to the jurisdiction of" can be "lawyered," I suppose.

"Everyone will know we're talking about the slaves, right?"
"Duh, of course."
"Oh, I don't know.  This could be interpreted to mean others."
"Really?  Like who?"
"Well, Mexicans, for example."
"PFFFFTTTT!  Mexicans.  Are you retarded?"

    I'd love to see that piece of shit busted and thrown in jail.  But, I predict it won't happen.  He may go to a court-martial, but he'll be acquitted.

    It makes me sick, but it is so.  

    Bet me.