Addressing the Redress: Is Trump's EO for the Military Worth a Damn?
President Donal Trump issued an Executive Order to reinstate military personnel that were involuntarily separated due to refusal to take the Covid 19 jab. This EO seems to expressly set conditions to “justice” that read more like leverage than good faith.
Is it really justice to require contractual service in order for justice to be served?
To briefly relitigate all the problems with the Covid 19 vaccine mandate in the military, the implementation was illegal and in violation of the rights of service members. I don’t care how many vaccines service members take, I don’t care if you believe it was a lawful order, you’re wrong or lazy and will always be wrong or lazy.
If I am reading this as it is plainly written it is requiring that if you were unjustly and involuntarily separated you MUST recommit yourself to the institution that violated your rights? Am I understanding this correctly? I am aware that returning to your job is a common course of redress, but the military is unique in the way that those that once wronged you (the commanders etc) have authority that no other civilian position does.
Can your boss at the grocery store use their power to subject you to a court martial? No, this is a unique and disconcerting aspect of service each member has to contend with. So what would prevent a commander that happily charged you with a violation of Article 92, despite legal evidence to the contrary, to not drum up some other bogus charge? The ideological rot is so pervasive that it is reasonable to assume returning “refusers” will be at the mercy of the shitty leadership that booted them in the first place. Not only the leadership but the JAG corps that provided the legal cover for the bad actors throughout the entire ordeal.
As the EO is overly broad and could be interpreted a few different ways during its implementation, it is my hope that it is well executed by the incoming Secretary to the Department of Defense but I am not holding my breath. Unfortunately, on the surface it looks more like a campaign promise kept that doesn’t serve the members that stood up for what was right and paid for it greatly.
Toxic oathbreakers still in command and in IG, medical, and JAG.
No declaration of truth and rightness.
No provisions to fix root problems, secure rights, or prevent future abuse, despite the pattern from Anthrax.
No recognition or accountability of the many unlawful things that were done.
Returning servicemembers have to deal with flu vaccine hazing and being 3years behind their peers missing jobs, training, education, PROMOTIONS and vital experience.
Service members who stayed in and had their careers ruined are ignored.
No apology.
About as lame as the rescission of the mandates that nullified the lawsuits servicemembers were dominating.
60 days wasted nickel and diming an army over 100,000-strong proven to have discernment, courage, and loyalty to God and Constitution.
Should give the President and SECDEFvtime to realize how desperate they need competent, loyal people in office.
So we continue a feigned appreciation, patient and longsuffering.
My sons remain forbidden from joining the military