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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-21 19:13:14 +0000, Rudy Canoza said:   
      
   > In fact, based on their oath to defend the Constitution, and also based   
   > on the law, they are legally *obligated* to refuse to obey illegal   
   > orders. The conundrum, of course, is that most members of the military   
   > don't have the requisite knowledge of the law to examine every order   
   > and determine if it's lawful or not. But there is no question about   
   > some hypothetical Trump orders. If Trump had ordered troops to   
   > machine-gun "no kings" protesters who were marching peacefully in the   
   > streets, that would be an illegal order, and the troops would be in the   
   > right, both legally and morally, to refuse.   
   >   
   > Democratic legislators who implored people in the military to refuse to   
   > obey illegal orders committed no crime, and they were and are morally   
   > correct.   
      
   Refusing to carry out an illegal order from an unstable paranoid   
   schizophrenic like Capt. Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" is no different   
   than refusing to carry out an illegal order from an unstable paranoid   
   schizophrenic like Donald Trump (filtered down from sychophants like   
   Pete Hegseth and others). The members of our military should take that   
   to heart.   
      
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