Qasim Rashid, Esq.

A note from a human rights lawyer to members of the U.S. Armed Forces: If you are directed to execute illegal orders, remember, declaring “I was just following orders” was not deemed a valid defense during the Nuremberg trials, and it won’t be a valid defense here either.

You have an oath to the U.S. Constitition and due process of law. Honor that—not the illegal orders of a 34X convicted felon.

Jun 8, 2025 at 3:32amMastodon for iOS
Show threadjesseJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid: Not sure how many active duty military there are frequenting mastodon out there...
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 8, 2025

@QasimRashid

The Jan 6 Insurrectionists may have been pardoned eventually, but in the meantime many faced ruinous legal bills and public opprobrium.

Larry Ellison
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/12/tech-billionaire-larry-ellisons-record-political-giving-funds-election-deniers-in-midterms/

The billionaires who funded Jan 6 faced no consequences, only their chumps did.

Dick Uihlein

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2023/01/27/where-the-uihleins-sent-their-cash-after-the-insurrection-00079999

The ICE Nazis face the same fate.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/money-behind-january-6-flowing-2022-elections

After sacrificing themselves for the 1%, these gullible fools get dumped when things get too hot.

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss

The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

The Washington Post
Show threadAzureArmageddonJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid The mystery of how one man can be convicted 34 times and not face any jail time...
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid everyone who doesn't acts as a war criminal and will be identified, found and face justice!
Show thread�Jun 8, 2025

@QasimRashid they all forgot what they shouted sooo proudly:

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

https://www.army.mil/values/oath.html

Oath of Enlistment - Army Values

The following is the Oath of Commissioned Officers

Show threadJeffandthekidJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid One breadth away from betraying your country.
Show threadjesseJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid The sad thing is that the governor(s) of whatever state's NG they are using could simply refuse to activate their units and turn them over to the federal government, if they had any backbone. It's not wartime, there is no disaster, and Guardsmen aren't going to be any better riot police than the police whose job it is normally. It's a dangerous political stunt, is all.
Show threadIndy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid It worth pointing out that in Nazi Germany those who reported their neighbours, those who arrested these people, those who transported them to the death camps and those who killed them were not breaking the law of the time. The person who was breaking the law was the one who tried to help these people.
Just because something is 'the law' doesn't make it right.
Show threadFrobbotzimJun 8, 2025

@QasimRashid

Old enough to remember Lt. William Calley; have since learned that much of his sentence was commuted, but that he claimed not a day went by without remorse.

That's cold consolation for the relatives of the victims of his actions. But a good reminder that we're all sentenced to life with our consciences.

Show threadLance, Enjoying Copious PollenJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid The incongruity between not knowing if it's your job to uphold the Constitution, while simultaneously vowing to punish "lawlessness," is simply mind-blowing.
Show threadBabadofarJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid yes the Nuremberg principle is very significant. In my interpretation it makes it quite difficult to participate as a soldier of lower rank. It puts, rightly, the responsibility on the individual for any action they take part in. Therefore, obeying orders, becomes optional. Makes the army inefficient
Show threadTrez13Jun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid Sadly, I doubt most soldiers who would be deployed to these situations know what the Nuremberg trials were.
Show threadMemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲Jun 8, 2025

@QasimRashid

I guess they can all "hang together" if they follow illegal orders?

According to the Military Code of Justice?

Show threaddecapitaeJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid We're going to have to drop flyers of this, using drones on top of active conflict zones. The military "leadership" is renowned for not telling troops the truth in order to acheive desired objectives.
Show threadDr Susi ArnottJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid Remembering #Chimerica play: 'tank guy' hero at Tiananmen Square was the one who wouldn't obey orders and drive over the protestor. That said, overwhelmed by bravery of people on the streets of LA
Show threadЄвгенJun 8, 2025
@QasimRashid please boost that there is legal help and counseling available.
https://girightshotline.org/
877-447–4487
GI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military Counseling

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