Ok so this whole article feels like having a stroke
GOP congressman calls for execution of “sodomy-promoting” US Army general
Submitted 1 year ago by PizzaMan@lemmy.world to conservative@lemmy.world
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
tallwookie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
dadt hasnt been a thing for ~12 years. but most of congress are career politicians, so…
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So the reason given is that Gen. Milley delayed the response to Jan 6. If thats true, then theres good reason for a dishonorable discharge, possibly some time in Leavenworth. Execution is a bit much, but it is the traditional punishment for military members committing treason.
geekworking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is bullshit to deflect blame from Trump.
The entire thing was about 2.5 hours. National guard members need to be called in, fitted out, and given a coordinated mission. Every other riot in history where they used National guard the response time was days instead of hours.
Independent review shows no undue delays
They are calling to hang this guy because he took more than an hour to ensure that at least some plan was in place before sending the military against citizens.
If you want to blame military leaders, how about the commander in chief that set it in action and happily watched without doing a single damn thing to try to stop it.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And that he is a “sodomoy promoting”, “homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist”.
The only reason somebody says something like that in the context of calling for execution is when they find these things as reasons for execution. Calling for the deaths of homosexuals is fascism, and the GOP is openly embracing it when they support people like Gosar.
Because of fascist rhetoric.
sj_zero 1 year ago
America is a democratic Republic with a civilian head of the military. The elected president is that head.
There are some very concerning things we've learned since the end of the last administration.
We know that the military in the Middle East was lying to the commander in chief about numbers to stop a pullout ordered by the president:
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
We also know that Milley bragged about secretly being in touch with the Chinese military reassuring them that it the head of the military ordered them to do something they'd refuse to do it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/milley-held-secret-calls-with-china-others-as-trump-pushed-election-lies.html
You might like these things because you agree with them, but America isn't supposed to be a military dictatorship, it isn't their call to disregard the civilian leadership, and it isn't their job to be doing diplomacy with countries America is hostile towards.
Accepting such actions has a dangerous precedent. The military had planned project Northwoods, an operation to attack civilian targets in the US to justify a war. It was the civilian leadership of the military who put a stop to that plan, and everyone agrees that's a good thing.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
Presumably, in 2023 instead of the civilian leadership stopping such a plan, the military would just go through with it.
I don't agree with the anti-gay rhetoric, but it's true that in many other ages, a high ranking military man openly telling a hostile countrys military he'd disregard any orders to act against them would be treason, and the penalty for that would be death.
If we keep letting the military go rogue, we might reach a point we wish we'd acted decisively sooner, when a leader we didn't control previously marches on Washington. Then the truly imperial phase of America shall begin.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given who’s saying it, it’s almost certainly not true. Additionally, if it was, gosar and trump would not be roasting him for it.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Also feel the need to mention that hes a politician, so hes probably lying or at least stretching and bending the truth.