FIRST • PREVIOUS • NEXT • LAST
(permalink to this strip)
ALL STRIPS
SUPPORT WTFA ON PATREON

Orange Meanie: I never said Democratic lawmakers should be executed. Toad: Responding to a video made by Democrats you "truthed" "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" Orange Meanie: What they did was really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Toad: Saying that enlisted persons should disobey illegal orders is explicitly following the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Orange Meanie: Playing by the rules is punishable by death! Toad: Never tell people their rights and responsibilities, got it.

NEW COMIC TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK, OR WHEN THE MOOD STRIKES

The Uniform Code of Military Justice is is pretty clear on the point of disobeying illegal orders. The US military has known for many years that a fighting force of unthinking automatons is less effective than one comprised of citizens capable of making their own decisions. Do they always get it right? Of course not. In fact history shows they're pretty bad at it, right up to the current day where someone somewhere in the Caribbean is pushing the button to obliterate innocent people in small boats.

Still, it's good that some Democratic lawmakers got together to remind US servicemembers that they swore an oath and have, not just the option, but the duty to disobey illegal orders. Of course that would make Trump mad.

Notice how angry the right gets whenever anyone tells people their rights and responsibilities. Remember how upset they all got about Chicago's Know Your Rights initiative? It's like Catholics and the Bible -- don't read it for yourself, we'll tell you what it all means. Curiously, it all means "we're in charge, take your medicine."