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erronis

(24,533 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:21 AM Oct 2025

Insanity at Quantico will make it easier for military brass to disobey illegal orders -- Sabrina Haake

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/insanity-at-quantico-will-make-it

Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News bobblehead with documented alcohol problems, summoned the military’s top 800 generals, admirals and flag officers to Quantico, Virginia this week to degrade them with a message that could have been delivered via Zoom.

. . .

Generals now know what they must do

The silver lining is that every high-ranking officer stationed everywhere in the world now knows, without a doubt, two crucial facts they may only have suspected before Quantico:

1. Hegseth plans to bend the rules to deliver maximum “lethality,” regardless of domestic and international law; and

2. Trump is mentally unfit to serve as Commander in Chief.

Knowledge of those two facts will inform their future decisions on how to respond to illegal orders. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are required to disobey illegal orders, including those that violate US law as well as the Constitution. Having heard Hegseth’s criminal intent, and having experienced Trump’s insanity in person, the officers’ resolve to disobey any and all illegal orders heading their way will only strengthen.


Sabrina Haake is a columnist and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
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Insanity at Quantico will make it easier for military brass to disobey illegal orders -- Sabrina Haake (Original Post) erronis Oct 2025 OP
that was my take, too. mopinko Oct 2025 #1
Please Generals, obey the constitution Clouds Passing Oct 2025 #2
I would hope so Redleg Oct 2025 #3

mopinko

(73,936 posts)
1. that was my take, too.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:01 AM
Oct 2025

i dont think there will b a coup, but i dont think they’ll follow orders to fire on american citizens.
i’d kill to b a fly on the wall, tho.

Redleg

(7,026 posts)
3. I would hope so
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:41 AM
Oct 2025

I can't imagine that the dog-and-pony show they were forced to watch galvanized any of them to go all-in for Trump to the extent that they would dishonor their oaths to the Constitution.

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