Two Illinois National Guard members told CBS News they would refuse to obey federal orders to deploy in Chicago as part of President Trump’s controversial immigration enforcement mission — a rare act of open defiance from within the military ranks.
“It’s disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your neighbors,” said Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek, a Latina guardswoman and state legislative candidate from Illinois’s 13th District. “It feels illegal. This is not what we signed up to do.”
I don’t disagree. But the people speaking publicly and trying to change things should be the commanding officers.
A general refusing to deploy troops, or even better, actively siding with local citizens, would have a far greater and significant impact than what these two have done.
General staff resigning achieves nothing. They are the ones who should be resisting the attack against the American people.
“I was only following orders” is not a valid legal defence
if the people at the bottom are brave enough to speak out, it puts alot of pressure on the people at the top to be brave as well.