By Walt Zlotow
Loading up or flying planes to Israel with tons of weapons, the likes of which have already killed over 70,000 Palestinians. Any service member doing that is guilty of assisting genocide… the worst crime any service member can commit.
Loading up or flying planes bombing small, unarmed boats near Venezuela. This is premeditated mass murder of unknown persons. US makes sure all the boaters are killed so no record of their innocence is retained. Every one of the hundred or more boaters killed in 20 such sinkings emanated from military orders that were illegal and should have been resisted.
The US military is not content with illegal orders to support Israeli genocide in Gaza and obliterating small unarmed boats off Venezuela. Their Commander In Chief – Trump – has ordered 100 bombing strikes on imagined bad guys in Somalia this year. Does even one American in a million believe the lies emanating from Trump’s military that this mass murder in Somalia is crucial to protect the Homeland? Orders to relentlessly bomb a pitifully poor country 7,800 miles from America, posing no threat whatsoever, are illegal and should be disobeyed.
Granted, it’s not easy to risk banishment from service, possibly even being imprisoned for disobeying these illegal orders. But one service member took such resistance to heroic heights. In February 2024 U.S. Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest US support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Refusing to obey illegal orders to commit premeditated murder is the least that patriotic service members can do to end Uncle Sam’s worldwide killing rampage. We should commend the six Democrat lawmakers for reminding and supporting them to do that.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
This piece was originally published on Walt’s Substack
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We know that ‘Superior Orders’ is not a defence against charges of criminality at any time including time of war: the Nuremburg defence by several Nazis established that tis defence is not recognised in international law and an order of a superior authority, whether military or civil, does not deprive the act in question of its character as a war crime nor does it constitute a defence in the trial of an accused individual, unless he did not know or could not reasonably have been expected to know that the act was unlawful; and that members of the armed forces are bound to obey only lawful orders. This is made clear by The US Army’s The Law of Land Warfare code and Trump should be aware of this.
For the six Democrats who have reminded Trump of this legal principle to now be under investigation demonstrates the chaos on the Trump Whitehouse in not understanding their own legal obligations.
Trump’s sickness is now a spreading pox, inflaming and murdering. His mother warned us, some of his family and associates were aware. Now, only his evaporation and elimination might save us from more and worse. Concepts of princeps and imperium have been studied fully, and we know what bowellery and bonkery comes from Trumpery. USA, end this…