(12-02-2020, 04:20 PM)robkelk Wrote: Woah. That sounds like sedition to me. If it is, then it wouldn't be covered by the pardon... unless your legal system is so thoroughly borked that legal action can be taken before commission of an act. Please tell me that your legal system isn't that thoroughly borked.
That's more in the realms of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. While officers do have to say "How high?" when the President says "Jump", they are not obligated to follow an order such as "Shoot that guy on the corner - the one holding the picket sign."
Besides, Trump lost of a lot of face with the US Armed Forces when he tossed the Kurds to the wolves and then Jim Mattis resigned. He'll have few, if any, officers that will be willing to follow such orders, and the ones that do feel so inclined will think better of it as they'll be part of a tiny minority.