If you are arrested for yelling "Fire!" in a crowed movie house the charge isn't about your speech, it's about inciting a panic.
The UCMJ has some very strict limitations on speech, even after your EAOS, and especially regarding retirees drawing pension.
It's just like getting charged for committing a felony with a firearm. It's about the felony, but if you use a firearm committing the felony you have probably added 10 years or more to your sentence.
Your example is flawed because it supposes the direction government has taken is legitimate in limiting free speech. The UCMJ cannot undermine the Constitution.
I am not defending these morons for what they attempted to do, but I also cannot refute the right to free speech, regardless of who objects to it.
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” ~ Justice William J. Brennan (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
1982
If our rights come from our Creator (they absolutely do) then pray tell, how does government have any legitimate authority to take or restrict them? The answer is, they do not have that authority, or jurisdiction.
If that were not the case, then no one in the military could ever be charged for a war crime since they were just following orders. They could never refuse to follow an unlawful order because they have no rights. I served several years in the Army, and was an MP and am very familiar with the UCMJ, and now, even more familiar with the Constitution and the principles upon which our Republic was founded. It is through ignorance that we have had our rights eroded, not because we lost them, or they were taken.
Unfortunately he does in the case of free speech, which is the assertion here.
He gives up part of that when he joined up.
Incorrect. You do not give up, nor can anyone take away, any of your natural God-given rights.
You obviously never served.
Actions and decisions have consequences.
If you are arrested for yelling "Fire!" in a crowed movie house the charge isn't about your speech, it's about inciting a panic.
The UCMJ has some very strict limitations on speech, even after your EAOS, and especially regarding retirees drawing pension.
It's just like getting charged for committing a felony with a firearm. It's about the felony, but if you use a firearm committing the felony you have probably added 10 years or more to your sentence.
Your example is flawed because it supposes the direction government has taken is legitimate in limiting free speech. The UCMJ cannot undermine the Constitution.
I am not defending these morons for what they attempted to do, but I also cannot refute the right to free speech, regardless of who objects to it.
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” ~ Justice William J. Brennan (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice 1982
If our rights come from our Creator (they absolutely do) then pray tell, how does government have any legitimate authority to take or restrict them? The answer is, they do not have that authority, or jurisdiction.
If that were not the case, then no one in the military could ever be charged for a war crime since they were just following orders. They could never refuse to follow an unlawful order because they have no rights. I served several years in the Army, and was an MP and am very familiar with the UCMJ, and now, even more familiar with the Constitution and the principles upon which our Republic was founded. It is through ignorance that we have had our rights eroded, not because we lost them, or they were taken.
Yeah, that’s not true. My dad, a Colonel, made that point to me countless times. He could be fired or imprisoned by the military (USMCJ).
You agree,if you want their pay.
Members of the military don't have free speech. They are under orders.
Wrong, see my post right above this one.