Air Force Major Jason Watson—who was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building last month while calling for President Trump’s impeachment—has been arrested again.
Watson was detained on Tuesday, just one day after an exclusive CNN interview in which he said the president was “violating the Constitution, breaking the law, [and] engaged in rampant corruption.” Watson is currently in pretrial confinement in Maryland based on “allegations of continued misconduct” according to the Air Force. It did not identify the specific misconduct allegations, although his attorney believes that his recent CNN appearance is to blame.
“What is happening with President Trump is not normal. He has failed us,” Watson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday. “And not only is he a failure as president, he is flagrantly violating the Constitution, breaking the law, engaged in rampant corruption, and is killing Americans. And that is unacceptable to me and it should be unacceptable to all of us.”
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Air Force Major Jason Watson
Just a reminder that the enlisted and officer oaths are different, and could be a factor here. Notably that officers do not swear an oath to follow the orders of the President like the enlisted do.
A Major would be an Officer (O-4).
The Oath of Enlistment (for enlisted):
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”The Oath of Office (for officers):
“I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the _____ (Military Branch) of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.”Even an enlisted person has the right and duty to disobey unlawful orders.
Unfortunately, Article 133 can do a lot of heavy lifting.
Yeah I remember officers having their careers ended for criticizing Bush. Word was that troops were prohibited from that type of activity, officers especially so.
Only one out of 350k-380k commissioned officers is actually keeping their word and defending the constitution.
I wonder which of our allies we’re going to start bombing first?
define “allies” lol
does the US have any of those?
Fine, “I wonder which of our more reliable victims we’re going to start bombing first?”
I don’t think enough people inside of and outside the USA truly comprehend how bad things actually are already and where they’re heading towards.
My money is on Mexico, and probably before the midterms. It’ll be sold as “unilateral anti cartel action”
Canada in 2028.
Ah yeah, I can definitely see Mexico. Do they have any form of anti-air weaponry?
This temu fucking dictatorship I swear to god they’re too incompetent to even do fascism right.
You can tell he’s actively shitting his pants in the thumbnail
That’s the look he gets when the turd is crowning.
I thank you for pointing that out. I can’t stand looking at images of him for more than a very quick glance at most. Your comment made me look a tiny bit longer, jist enough to see what you’ve mentioned but not a nanosecond longer, and while that tiny bit longer was horrible it was also nice because you’re probably right. Thinking of how much it must hurt his ego to be forced to do that without any control of when and where, which means it’s sometimes in situations like this where everyone can see it.
Vote for your favorite punctuation:
- U.S. Airman, Arrested Over Call to Impeach Trump, Is Detained Again
- U.S. Airman Arrested? Over. Call to Impeach: Trump Is Detained Again
Leslie Knope is that you?
This is the first thing i usually think of
Anyone can get a comment from Musk about total freedom speech or some shit? It looks like they’re best pals with Trump again.
Any more of that fat bastard, chances of mutiny will grow higher, not just one any individual.
Americans don’t have the president they want, but they have the president they deserve.
Except of course people like this guy, who has actually tried to do something, but apparently nobody or too few are backing him up to make a difference.
No one deserves Donald Trump except the people voted for him.
Yes well that’s the thing with democracy, it kind of goes for all people whatever the election result may be.
So Americans seen as a group deserve it, even if the individuals that tried to prevent it don’t.
So USA as a society and a people deserve to get what they voted for, because in a democracy it is the result of what the people decided. And especially since it was so fucking obvious what it was they voted for.Disenfranchised voters would like to have a word!
Where you at?
Why? So you can dig up some whataboutism?
Because I want to know that there is some wonderful place out there with no issues at all.
Straw man.
Until your own house is clean…
You know it’s hard to keep it clean when your garbage keeps spilling over.
Ad hominem.
See? We can all throw terms out to discredit each other instead of engaging.
