To be completely truthful, he was arrested for protesting on those steps, not for what he was protesting. I didn't know that it wasn't allowed there but it's true.
Is this a new kind of go fund me , get arrested with a clear and blatant violation of your most core civil right and the sue ? s/ Keep up the good fight. Nazis hate the light.
As an active duty serviceman he does not have the same 1st amendment freedoms due to the fact that his conduct is bound by the UCMJ. This will not only impede his career but he could gave serious chats including military prison time. I have mixed emotions on this. On the one hand it's good to see our officers standing up to trump. On the other he WILL be removed from any position where he could shelter his subordinates to any degree from what is happening. I don't see this as a smart play.
That's wishful thinking. Down vote me to hell if you have to, but holding every position of any power or influence is vital to resisting a fascist takeover. Unless there is something of vital importance to be achieved with that action, these symbolic gestures just remove moral individuals from positions of influence to be replaced with bootlicking fascists. Having this man in his actual position when the people stand up and say "NO MORE" would be a far greater benefit than having him in jail
Two years ago an active duty Airman immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in protest of the genocide in Gaza and it was like the world forgot about it within 24 hours.
Don't let them sweep another serviceman standing up for the Constitution under the rug.
Huge step for an active dury officer. A lot to lose. Hopefully the next Dem president pardons him of any crimes and reinstate anything Pete Hegseth takes from him. Congrats to his courage, integrity, and commitment.
The next decent human we get as a president should create a new presidential medal to award people, to remove the stink of the presidential awards Trump was giving out to the highest bidders
Uniform Code of Military Justice - ALL servicemen basically are held to this whole other second set of laws - that has NO bearing on double jeopordy - so if you get arrested for say, drunk driving - you get what the civilian courts hand out THEN UCMJ fucks you up for the same crime.
The "incommoding" section is the catch-all, unlike other disorderly conduct charges, no "breach of peace" is required for an incommoding charge/conviction. In D.C. you simply have to refuse a "direct lawful order"
Ah, so he hadn't done anything illegal until they told him to stop doing it. Which is somehow a "lawful order"? Sounds like being arrested for resisting arrest.
Yeah pretty much. This is a whole other conversation, but the steps in front of the SCOTUS have been designated a "non-public forum", the rationale being the Court should remain insulated from attempts to influence/intimidate the Justices. Which isn't dissimilar from protests being banned in front of the Capitol while voting is in session.
I am not in the military, so I'm more than willing to be corrected, but I kinda hate that this is often framed as him "giving up his military career".
He's doing the ONLY thing someone who took that oath should be doing in a situation like this. His career isn't over, he's doing THE thing his career demands. He is careering so hard right now.
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Donald Trump is a fucking domestic terrorist. I don't see what the problem is.
Ol El Presidente` is Commander in Chief. It'd be like if you stood outside your job with a sign cussing out your boss. Oh, and your job has like, a WHOLE OTHER SET OF LEGAL CONSEQUENCES it can fuck you up with.
He could lose rank and pension if Pete Hegseth wanted to throw the book at him with a dishonorable discharge, I think.. His whole career, health care plan, and retirement nixed. Not an easy decision to land on.
According the the Hatch act active duty members are not permitted to protest along political lines in any way that expresses the political opinion of the military as affiliated with any party or political agenda, members of the armed forces can protest any illegal orders or infringements upon the constitution on which they swear oaths to uphold and defend however in openly protesting the president they can also be court-martialed under the UCMJ it's a tricky position to be in.
Technically and I mean this technically he is protesting openly as a U.S. military member for the political agenda of removing the president. That can be viewed as sedition in the court of law. If they were openly protesting a person running for a third term as president 100% ok that's in the constitution. If they were out of uniform this protest would be fine and legal but the hatch act and ucmj are there to prevent the military from adopting let's say a hardlined right wing agenda openly.
Failing to agree with everything Hair Führer says and does unconditionally automatically means that you're a Democrat, and therefore across party lines. Therefore, any protest against anything Mango Mussolini chooses to do is ALSO a protest along party lines by definition.
That's how autocrats work. You're either 100% with them, or you're the enemy. Which, in turn, makes the autocrat an existential threat to everyone *else*, who must be opposed by any and all means, legal or not.
ProtestIng an a USMC uniform is illegal. Under DoD Directive 1344.10 (Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces) and Marine Corps Uniform Regulations (MCO 1020.34H), service members are strictly prohibited from participating in public speeches, marches, rallies, or any public demonstrations in uniform.
Uhhhhhhhhhh that is incorrect. He is in full uniform and active duty. He signed an oath and a contract that he will never criticize the president while active duty in uniform. He did both. He is arrested, he will be court martialed and removed from service. He effectively and immediately ended his service with his protest. He knew the consequences. I don't think there has ever been an instance this has happened. Military ppl follow this rule seriously due to its harsh penalties.
He did a whole press conference before this. He absolutely did and meant it. The military is going to show that press conference at his court martial as evidence of his criticism.
69Voltage
Sauce
spittleteets
*This* is the meaning of personal sacrifice to uphold one's morals and duty (among many others).
AshesVonDust
It's bad enough to arrest active air force but did it have to be BICYCLE COPS??
DerperDerperBoBerperBananaFanaFoFerper
/salute
Sticklebrickk
Sargeant Gravy over there can't get his vest past the bellybutton. Only the best.
RetiredLaserMan
To be completely truthful, he was arrested for protesting on those steps, not for what he was protesting. I didn't know that it wasn't allowed there but it's true.
duktayp
As you can see in the video, he is clearly a dangerous criminal, and the world is a safer place with him off the streets
ziralien
That right there. That's tyranny.
TheVillageGrouch9000
...and happy 250.
ShearingBlizzard
Get up there and stop them from arresting him, they work for you.
ItsaBeemer
Is this a new kind of go fund me , get arrested with a clear and blatant violation of your most core civil right and the sue ? s/ Keep up the good fight. Nazis hate the light.
TheVillageGrouch9000
That is a patriot. A real one.
Khanamana324
Should have been a whole fucking battalion out there protesting.
ItWasNotAcceptableIfNotToLiveForTheSakeOfPleasurableThings
Kazpur81S
…..but who was he protesting against? How did they know for whom the sign was meant?
rmellis1112
As an active duty serviceman he does not have the same 1st amendment freedoms due to the fact that his conduct is bound by the UCMJ. This will not only impede his career but he could gave serious chats including military prison time. I have mixed emotions on this. On the one hand it's good to see our officers standing up to trump. On the other he WILL be removed from any position where he could shelter his subordinates to any degree from what is happening. I don't see this as a smart play.
Feralkyn
I think it's a good thing to see, and if more of them did this, it might really start something.
rmellis1112
That's wishful thinking. Down vote me to hell if you have to, but holding every position of any power or influence is vital to resisting a fascist takeover. Unless there is something of vital importance to be achieved with that action, these symbolic gestures just remove moral individuals from positions of influence to be replaced with bootlicking fascists. Having this man in his actual position when the people stand up and say "NO MORE" would be a far greater benefit than having him in jail
Frencheeseater
Yes, resistance from the inside.
bourbonandbaddecisions
With that statement he put his career an freedom on the line. Courageous.
SackTheRipper
Those are very heavily armored bike cops.
Oonayah
Two years ago an active duty Airman immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in protest of the genocide in Gaza and it was like the world forgot about it within 24 hours.
Don't let them sweep another serviceman standing up for the Constitution under the rug.
UnattendedDeviant
Huge step for an active dury officer. A lot to lose. Hopefully the next Dem president pardons him of any crimes and reinstate anything Pete Hegseth takes from him. Congrats to his courage, integrity, and commitment.
FaeVikingPrincess
The next decent human we get as a president should create a new presidential medal to award people, to remove the stink of the presidential awards Trump was giving out to the highest bidders
Gameshow
yeah, they're gunna hold this guy down and give him every inch of UCMJ they can find
Aranon1183
UCMJ = Unconstitutional Military Justice?
Gameshow
Uniform Code of Military Justice - ALL servicemen basically are held to this whole other second set of laws - that has NO bearing on double jeopordy - so if you get arrested for say, drunk driving - you get what the civilian courts hand out THEN UCMJ fucks you up for the same crime.
FaeVikingPrincess
Active Duty Air Force Major, and defender of the CONSTITUTION, arrested by bike cops bought and paid for by corporations.
MalachiNails
Maybe they should've taken a guy that knows how to put on handcuffs?
witheredspoon
They had bike helmets on. doubt they know how to do shit.
Pulger
More info: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/1/us-air-force-major-arrested-capitol-demonstrating-trumps-impeachment/
SpammersAreScum
'... arrested for 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding,”' Um, the video makes it quite clear that he did none of those things.
zygiella
Didn't Trump just pardon a whole whack of folks that did these things?
spittleteets
The "incommoding" section is the catch-all, unlike other disorderly conduct charges, no "breach of peace" is required for an incommoding charge/conviction. In D.C. you simply have to refuse a "direct lawful order"
SpammersAreScum
Ah, so he hadn't done anything illegal until they told him to stop doing it. Which is somehow a "lawful order"? Sounds like being arrested for resisting arrest.
spittleteets
Yeah pretty much. This is a whole other conversation, but the steps in front of the SCOTUS have been designated a "non-public forum", the rationale being the Court should remain insulated from attempts to influence/intimidate the Justices. Which isn't dissimilar from protests being banned in front of the Capitol while voting is in session.
corndude101
Yea, you can influence them by holding a sign on their front door. That was his mess up.
You have to buy them under the table with jets, yachts, and other gifts.
What an idiot. /s
KatInTheCorner
I am not in the military, so I'm more than willing to be corrected, but I kinda hate that this is often framed as him "giving up his military career".
He's doing the ONLY thing someone who took that oath should be doing in a situation like this. His career isn't over, he's doing THE thing his career demands. He is careering so hard right now.
EroticZombiePants
His military career is basically over as long as Trump is still around.
DukeDarkwood
He absolutely is. And the Regime will take it all away from him for doing so.
Sorrontis
I dont know the laws for American Servicemen. Are they allow under the military code, of doing this?
LargeMonty
No but in all fairness the UCMJ is also against PDFs
discorage
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Donald Trump is a fucking domestic terrorist. I don't see what the problem is.
JohnSmithterms
Slavery was allowed under anerican laws. No one should give a fuck about stupid laws.
Gameshow
Ol El Presidente` is Commander in Chief. It'd be like if you stood outside your job with a sign cussing out your boss. Oh, and your job has like, a WHOLE OTHER SET OF LEGAL CONSEQUENCES it can fuck you up with.
LitterBoxKing
No, they are not. This guy stood by his principles to the detriment of his military career.
Maverickaura
Detriment to his very freedom. He's likely to face time in prison over this.
Sorrontis
Good for him. I do respect it.
UnattendedDeviant
He could lose rank and pension if Pete Hegseth wanted to throw the book at him with a dishonorable discharge, I think.. His whole career, health care plan, and retirement nixed. Not an easy decision to land on.
Gameshow
Yeah, he's all but certain to. JUST the arrest alone could cascade out into a dereliction of duty or some other trumped up charge.
corndude101
Which Trump is going to tell him to do to make an example out of him.
TheNoirAntagonist
According the the Hatch act active duty members are not permitted to protest along political lines in any way that expresses the political opinion of the military as affiliated with any party or political agenda, members of the armed forces can protest any illegal orders or infringements upon the constitution on which they swear oaths to uphold and defend however in openly protesting the president they can also be court-martialed under the UCMJ it's a tricky position to be in.
inmediasrays
The Hatch Act applies to civilian executive branch employees but otherwise I agree with your sentiment
FaeVikingPrincess
But he's not doing anything along part lines. Demanding a corrupt, constitutional breaking, piece of shit from office shouldn't be partisan.
TheNoirAntagonist
Technically and I mean this technically he is protesting openly as a U.S. military member for the political agenda of removing the president. That can be viewed as sedition in the court of law. If they were openly protesting a person running for a third term as president 100% ok that's in the constitution. If they were out of uniform this protest would be fine and legal but the hatch act and ucmj are there to prevent the military from adopting let's say a hardlined right wing agenda openly.
Swordguy
Failing to agree with everything Hair Führer says and does unconditionally automatically means that you're a Democrat, and therefore across party lines. Therefore, any protest against anything Mango Mussolini chooses to do is ALSO a protest along party lines by definition.
That's how autocrats work. You're either 100% with them, or you're the enemy. Which, in turn, makes the autocrat an existential threat to everyone *else*, who must be opposed by any and all means, legal or not.
NotSomoneElse68
He's Antifa
CharlesTooke
So and I. And so were my Father (USNR), my Mother (ANC), my Uncle (87th Recon, 7th Armored Div) and Cousin (327th GIR, 101st Airborne).
CharlesTooke
*am
PutThePRNDLinD
He took an oath to uphold the Constitution. And it looks like he takes that oath seriously. Good for him.
KleptoKea
Unlike those cops. "Who do you serve" is a chant that I hope will haunt them forever.
SackTheRipper
He also did nothing to break the law deserving an arrest.
bbrennert
ProtestIng an a USMC uniform is illegal. Under DoD Directive 1344.10 (Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces) and Marine Corps Uniform Regulations (MCO 1020.34H), service members are strictly prohibited from participating in public speeches, marches, rallies, or any public demonstrations in uniform.
ImAWeirdMom
Yep, unless those are mps, but it doesn't look like it.
almostalone
Uhhhhhhhhhh that is incorrect. He is in full uniform and active duty. He signed an oath and a contract that he will never criticize the president while active duty in uniform. He did both. He is arrested, he will be court martialed and removed from service. He effectively and immediately ended his service with his protest. He knew the consequences. I don't think there has ever been an instance this has happened. Military ppl follow this rule seriously due to its harsh penalties.
CharlesTooke
I don't disagree with you, AA, but technically he did not criticize the president.
almostalone
He did a whole press conference before this. He absolutely did and meant it. The military is going to show that press conference at his court martial as evidence of his criticism.