From a distance the stories of Benedict Arnold and Mark Kelly seem separated by centuries and circumstance, one rooted in the muskets and muddy riverbanks of the Revolution and the other in a 90 second TikTok video recorded by a sitting US Senator, yet the structural pattern is the same.
Great analogy! Was the young man in the video identified and dismissed from the service? As for Kelly, nothing will happen to him because those "in charge" are afraid of how the left will react if he receives any punishment.
Kelly greatly disappoints. Don’t mind his rank partisanship so it is. Even that is sad given he represents voters who didn’t necessarily vote for him. AZ is nearly 50/50. As a very senior officer of the government his judgement has been clouded by TDS but perhaps there is more. Certainly it is conduct unbecoming to an officer at the least. As a retired officer he knows the rules. Courts martial following recall. Let his peers decide.
We have entered a twilight zone in our country. Will we pull through it or not remains to be seen.
There are America detractors throughout congress, and the states for that matter. I guess patriotism left the building when prayer left the school house. Accurate quote or not, America is great because America is good. Well, goodness is waning also.
It's time to force the military tribunal option with Kelly. Reactivate his military status and see how he fares in a Courts-Martial. As others have stated, the civilian judiciary is a mess, purely partisan with little notion of constitutional law.
I don't want to see the citizenry ruled by the military, but we are dancing on the edge of the abyss and if someone doesn't stop the music we surely will fall.
Thank you for the exceptional clarity of Senator Mark Kelly’s action. It definitely shows the division between political opinion and constitutional authority. However the result seems to leave you in the same circular motion that are country finds itself in day after day and year after year. However it turns out it seems like the landscape is perfectly clear
Another excellent piece. However, there are certain differences between the perfidy of Arnold and the perfidy of Kelly, the primary one being that a significant faction of the polity approves a “color revolution” and defends what all the evidence tends to prove is a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the Constitutional order. Arnold escaped to England. What would and, more importantly, should have happened to him had he been captured? He would have been summarily shot or hanged, and who would argue against that? Certainly, no one who supported the American Revolution. We live in different times. Kelly, unlike his co-conspiritors, is arguably subject to prosecution under the UCMJ for mutiny. How would that work out for us? Probably just another fiasco. Kelly will not resign. Neither will any of his Senate cohorts. We keep death row inmates around for 40 years, trying to work up the gumption to kill them. A Wisconsin jury convicts a third world grifter of egregious fraud, and a judge overrules the verdict. State court judges routinely release feral killers to prey upon a defenseless public. Public Prosecutors routinely reduce or dismiss charges easily proved to the detriment of the communities they are sworn to protect. U.S. District Court Judges routinely and deliberately interfere with the Constitutional authority of the Executive Branch, and there is, apparently, nothing to be done about it. A large number of stupid citizens fret about the “rights” of criminal invaders who are merely being sent back where they came from. Kelly has done all the things you say. He is actually worse than Arnold. At least Arnold, more or less openly, “changed sides.” Nothing will happen to Kelly. In fact, nothing will happen to any of these judges, prosecutors, or stupid people until the mob drags them out in the streets and sets them on fire - which, oddly, is exactly what they hope for.
Yes, yes, yes! Exactly 💯% correct! 👏
Great analogy! Was the young man in the video identified and dismissed from the service? As for Kelly, nothing will happen to him because those "in charge" are afraid of how the left will react if he receives any punishment.
Kelly greatly disappoints. Don’t mind his rank partisanship so it is. Even that is sad given he represents voters who didn’t necessarily vote for him. AZ is nearly 50/50. As a very senior officer of the government his judgement has been clouded by TDS but perhaps there is more. Certainly it is conduct unbecoming to an officer at the least. As a retired officer he knows the rules. Courts martial following recall. Let his peers decide.
We have entered a twilight zone in our country. Will we pull through it or not remains to be seen.
There are America detractors throughout congress, and the states for that matter. I guess patriotism left the building when prayer left the school house. Accurate quote or not, America is great because America is good. Well, goodness is waning also.
It's time to force the military tribunal option with Kelly. Reactivate his military status and see how he fares in a Courts-Martial. As others have stated, the civilian judiciary is a mess, purely partisan with little notion of constitutional law.
I don't want to see the citizenry ruled by the military, but we are dancing on the edge of the abyss and if someone doesn't stop the music we surely will fall.
Thank you for the exceptional clarity of Senator Mark Kelly’s action. It definitely shows the division between political opinion and constitutional authority. However the result seems to leave you in the same circular motion that are country finds itself in day after day and year after year. However it turns out it seems like the landscape is perfectly clear
Another excellent piece. However, there are certain differences between the perfidy of Arnold and the perfidy of Kelly, the primary one being that a significant faction of the polity approves a “color revolution” and defends what all the evidence tends to prove is a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the Constitutional order. Arnold escaped to England. What would and, more importantly, should have happened to him had he been captured? He would have been summarily shot or hanged, and who would argue against that? Certainly, no one who supported the American Revolution. We live in different times. Kelly, unlike his co-conspiritors, is arguably subject to prosecution under the UCMJ for mutiny. How would that work out for us? Probably just another fiasco. Kelly will not resign. Neither will any of his Senate cohorts. We keep death row inmates around for 40 years, trying to work up the gumption to kill them. A Wisconsin jury convicts a third world grifter of egregious fraud, and a judge overrules the verdict. State court judges routinely release feral killers to prey upon a defenseless public. Public Prosecutors routinely reduce or dismiss charges easily proved to the detriment of the communities they are sworn to protect. U.S. District Court Judges routinely and deliberately interfere with the Constitutional authority of the Executive Branch, and there is, apparently, nothing to be done about it. A large number of stupid citizens fret about the “rights” of criminal invaders who are merely being sent back where they came from. Kelly has done all the things you say. He is actually worse than Arnold. At least Arnold, more or less openly, “changed sides.” Nothing will happen to Kelly. In fact, nothing will happen to any of these judges, prosecutors, or stupid people until the mob drags them out in the streets and sets them on fire - which, oddly, is exactly what they hope for.
Perfectly stated
Excellent. But is resignation sufficient?
No, in my opinion, it is not!