The following was an email recently sent to all employees of the Department of Defense. It was signed by the new Secretary of Defense, Retired General Lloyd J. Austin III.
The military (and apparently the Congress and other federal offices) does a poor, if non-existent job of teaching their employees what their oath of office actually means (in practical terms). Currently the oath is seen as just another requirement for employment, not as something that requires active participation to follow.
For instance, the oath says the employee will uphold and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Before you can really perform this part of the oath, one must know the US Constitution and understand the meaning behind each part. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers must be taught in order to understand that meaning. The General Welfare clause does NOT have the meaning to which the writers of the Constitution purposed and has caused many harms to the United States.
Some questions come to mind after reading the above. These questions might be a little embarrassing to the General but need to be asked and honestly answered.
- What does it mean to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic? How can this be done?
- Since Congress is tasked the only branch tasked with declaring war, if ordered to go to war (from Korea thru Iraq and Afghanistan) without a declaration of war, are the ones ordering this deployment enemies of the Constitution? Is Congress an enemy of the Constitution for being derelict in their duties?
- Is the Congress an enemy of the Constitution since they have passed many laws that infringe on the Bill of Rights, rendering many of those rights mute?
- Is the Supreme Court an enemy of the Constitution for upholding laws that are obviously unconstitutional?
- Is the President an enemy of the Constitution when he/she issues Executive Orders that go beyond providing guidance to the Executive Branch and are rather enforced as laws on the people of the United States?
- Is the President and his officers enemies of the Constitution when they order their employees to perform unconstitutional actions such as deploying and killing others without a declaration of war from Congress?
- When encountering a breach of the Constitution, what is the individual employee authorized to do? Arrest the perpetrator? Complain to their chain of command (who are probably complicit in the breach)?
- How can FISA Courts be constitutional? Answer is they cannot and are not. Who is culpable?
There are other question I am sure that can be asked. The problem is the answers. They lead to a very dark place as it seems the entire government has been active in subverting the US Constitution almost since its inception. How can this be rectified when there are more of the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto in place than the first 10 amendments, also called the Bill of Rights?
It is a sad day when the US military must be lectured due to an overblown incident where there were no fatalities except for protestors and none of the police – being called an insurrection and attempted coup. Those in high government office should know what a real coup looks like since they have fomented so many in the last 100 years, starting with Iran in 1953. The actions on 6 January 2021 cannot be classified as anything more than an unarmed mob temporarily disrupting Congress and causing minor damage to the building.
Once we have the “stand-down” I’ll come back and let you know what came of it and if any of my questions above were answered.
“Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… our freedom!” – Mel Gibson as William Wallace in the movie “Braveheart”
UPDATE: I was not informed in time to attend the meeting for my unit so was unable to ask the questions.
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