By Russ Bellant
When Senator Mark Kelly joined other legislators to remind troops of every rank and station that they do not have to follow illegal orders, he was usefully emphasizing what is taught in the military. I remember it from my Army days.
But when Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth said that his words were undermining order, he invited attention to his own recent past when he bragged about furthering ‘insurrection” against the United States.
Hegseth wants to overthrow the established order. In promoting this on a podcast last year, he said that ”you build your army underground with the opportunity later of taking offensive operations in an overt way.” He cited his wartime counterinsurgency experience and Mao Tse Tung’s strategic paradigms for explaining how to conduct insurgency.
Hegseth derives his motives from his outlook and engagement with a Christian Reconstructionist network led by Doug Wilson. They explicitly reject the U.S. Constitution in favor of Old Testament biblical law. Hence his willingness to pursue insurrection to collapse our current society to create a theocracy. He is building his “underground army” from a network of hundreds of schools across the U.S., which a podcaster ally of Hegseth said were the “boot camps” of the insurrectionary army.
Additionally, leader Doug Wilson said that all in the many churches of the network must be ready for the ultimate sacrifice. ”Being Christian means that you have to be willing to die”he wrote several years ago.
So how can Hegseth justify going after Mark Kelly for citing the Uniform Code of Military Justice when he and his networks seek to dis-establish the public order and Constitutional governance?
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