Conscientious Objector status extended to all veterans, active duty and National Guard and Reserve military personnel will be the true catalyst in making America great; Even be the birth of a new America. What could lead us there? Conscientious objector status can be claimed to guarantee our freedom from unlawful–conceived and illegal interventions. Refuse to participate in war game exercises. It is a legal response to the illegality of all wars since WWII. The present reckless war games being played in Korea and on the borders of Russia, China and Iran are ill–advised.
The Nuremburg War Trials post World War II were an indictment of war more than convicting war criminals. The question for all of us is: Do we fight for American Ideals or fight for corporate profit, which have been set up to benefit a corrupt few?
According to a poll taken last winter, a majority of Americans look up to America’s military; More so than our political leaders. Yet, America is so much in the fog of militarism to have not grasped fully the abuse of America’s military and the suffering veterans have had to endure besides post traumatic stress and moral injury heaped upon it’s warriors and their families.
Many people voted for Biden in hope of him being more responsible than his predecessor. Is it not all our responsibility to recognize corporate control asserting passively aggressively, its shadow, upon the nation? The President needs to be advised ethically, of aggressive policy and the the consequences of his escalatory rhetoric.
Who, but veterans claiming Conscientious Objector status and encouraging our active duty brothers and sisters to claim Conscientious Objector status can demonstrate to this commander–in–chief? Who has more in common with George Armstrong Custer than Dwight Eisenhower. Veterans can answer the call by refusing orders to participate in any passive — aggressive military war game and posturing. Exercising your right to CO status can stave off a national catastrophe.
Isn’t it time to give respect where it is due? Isn’t it time to repair the broken system? The United States military has a responsibility to defend the constitution. It can defend Americans and the Constitution by refusing to obey illegal orders. Conscientious Objector status is patriotic. CO status is heroic.
Americans need to see how its military can protect us from hate crimes and bad decisions by political leaders, by not following unlawful orders. Isn’t it time to give respect where it is due? Isn’t it time to repair the broken system? As a true American Chaplain once quipped: Coming in 2nd isn’t all that bad.
Suicide prevention
at the Pentagon, Capitol Hill & elsewhere
is abandoning nukes; re-purposing the troops.