Reply #41: VA hospital - military prohibited from criticizing CIC [View All]

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Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) political criticism that calls for disobedience to orders could be considered "sedition". When you sign up, you sign away many of your rights under the Constitution, unfortunately. Whether that charge might apply in this case would depend upon whether the nurse was active military at the time.

Those who criticize BushCo from within or blow the whistle take a terrible risk, and one has to be astonished at their bravery for doing so. They deserve our support, such as donations to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: http://www.nswbc.org/

Sedition under the UCMJ is defined as:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode10/usc_sec_10_00000894----000-.html

U.S. Code

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§ 894. Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition


Release date: 2005-07-12

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.