(02-08-2020, 11:44 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-08-2020, 02:17 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: No, sir. 

It isn’t about what you feel or think. You must know it’s illegal to be insubordinate or to report the activity of your superior. Otherwise, the entire system is caught up in a never ending cycle of petty undermining behavior. 

You can’t assign a self righteous motive to excuse his behavior. He wasn’t right, by the way. He did nothing more than offer his opinion.

People disagree about what the law says all the time.
This is all handled by legal staff who are smarter than you or me. Soldiers are adults. The consequences of obeying orders could be death. And there are real consequences for disobeying orders as well, even though there is sometimes a duty to disobey.
A soldier with a sincere and reasonable disagreement is unlikely to face punishment beyond reassignment if the higher level staff disagree with how he reads or understands the law. but a soldier just seems to me making trouble and doesn't seem to be sincere or reasonable about why they think the thing is illegal, could be discharged, perhaps even dishonorably discharged.
If a majority of the House of Representatives and constitutional scholars agree with Vindman, he belongs in the first category, not the second.

You simply don’t understand how the government or military work. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: you don’t have to have an opinion on everything. 

The majority of the House agreeing with you means nothing when they make their decisions based on politics. Anyone with a modicum of understanding in basic criminal law / case law can tell you that there was no legal standing for obstruction and abuse of powers for impeachment. I wouldn’t use the House agreeing with Vindman as a justification for his actions. They would’ve done the same for anyone that furthered their agenda.

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