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Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice\u2014Contempt Toward Officials\u00a0\u00a0ucmj.us\/888-article-88-contempt-toward-officials\/\u00a0\u00a0\u2014states:<\/p>

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Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even though I was a mere enlisted police officer in the Air Force during the Cold War, even I knew that one. When you join the military, you become part of something bigger than yourself and your individual rights and desires. In fact, some of those rights are suspended to uphold military discipline. Among them is an unfettered right to free speech. You largely shut up, keep your eyes open, do your duty, and follow orders.<\/p>\n

I might have had an argument with the part about no contempt toward the Secretary of Transportation when Pete Buttigieg sort of held that position, but the UCMJ is there for a reason. Sure, troops gripe incessantly about all manner of people and policies, but so long as they do it privately and quietly, it\u2019s not a problem. When it\u2019s not done privately and quietly, it is:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A U.S. Air Force major was arrested Wednesday for protesting alone on House steps as he called for the immediate impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Maj. Jason Watson was arrested by Capitol Police officers at approximately 1:15 p.m. local time for demonstrating on the House steps without a sitting member of Congress, Capitol Police told Military Times. Watson, an active-duty service member with a military career dating over 20 years, walked halfway up the steps of the House to its chained railing to hold a sign that read \u201cImpeach Convict Remove.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson was first escorted to the bottom of the steps by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who then left the area, causing the officers to arrest Watson under 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing and Incommoding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Member of Congress left the area, our officers gave the man lawful orders to stop the illegal demonstration, or he would be arrested,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cThe man refused our lawful orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Al Green? He\u2019s the dimwitted Democrat Congressman infamous for disrupting President Trump\u2019s State of the Union addresses and perpetually calling for him to be impeached.\u00a0\u00a0He was recently primaried and lost. What was he doing there?<\/p>\n

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Prior to the protest, Watson held a press conference alongside Greene, Denson, constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein, Defenders of Our Republic and About Face Veterans, calling on Trump\u2019s and Vice President JD Vance\u2019s impeachment and removal from office.<\/p>

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Ah.\u00a0\u00a0Watson is a useful idiot for Congressional Democrats<\/p>\n

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Denson, who introduced Watson for his speech, said that Watson is currently on leave from his commission post as a logistics readiness officer in Poland. She said that he approached the Removal Coalition in February and asked them to create this event for him so that it would not be in \u201cvain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And what was Watson\u2019s complaint?<\/p>\n

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He said that the greatest threat to the country\u2019s democratic republic was not a foreign one but domestic. \u201cWe the people\u201d have played a part in getting the country into the \u201cmess we are all in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past 18 months, we the people have allowed the highest levels of the executive branch of the federal government to violate our Constitution and their oaths to it with impunity,\u201d Watson stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watson apparently said he is \u201cnot a Democrat.\u201d You could have fooled me:<\/p>\n

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Watson said there are \u201cinnumerable more impeachable offenses\u201d that he could list, including denying congressional oversight of immigrant detention centers, suing media, law firms and educational institutions, weaponizing the Department of Justice and attempting to reverse birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s possible Watson could be dishonorably discharged and lose his pension, and he should. No other commissioned, active-duty officer has ever demonstrated such contempt for President Trump and Vice President Vance.<\/p>\n

Is Watson more of a useful idiot than this incident would suggest? He could have retired\u2014he reportedly has more than 20 years to his credit\u2014and then been free to criticize Trump and opine on politics to his heart\u2019s content, but he somehow thought this futile act would have some meaning. That it would get him noticed? Did someone, someone allied with Al Green, put him up to this?<\/p>\n

Watson is probably right. He will be remembered as a man who violated his oath and threw away a military career for absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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