Ignore Alien Orders

Let's see if I am getting this right: There is a kerfuffle going on about members of the "intelligence community" and the military following unlawful orders. Killing someone without due process or cause would seem to be part of that batch, at least from where I am sitting. That just happens to be with easy access to the Costitution of the United States as well as the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  Always thinking ahead, our nation's leaders chose to put these documents where people like you and me can access them, just in case there was any questions about how the Law should be meted out. 

Some Schoolhouse Rock for you all: The Three Branches of Government. Not perhaps as memorable or tuneful as "I'm Just A Bill," this little ditty reminds us that those three branches are there to keep an eye on one another with a little system we call "checks and balances." It would be easy to forget that in a nation that is currently dominated by a bunch of MAGAts controlling the highest offices in our land that there is a judicial system that extends out beyond the so-called Supreme Court. To that end, I point you toward U.S. District Judge James Boasberg who ruled that the current administration identify the officials involved in authorizing an unprecedented deportation operation in March that sent the men to a prison known for abusive treatment.

Up pops the name of Kristi "Puppy Terminator" Noem, who chose to defy the court's order to stop sending one hundred Venezualans to El Salvador's CECOT, euphemistically labeled a "terrorist confinement center." Anyone who ignores the judge's orders is breaking the law, which puts a whole lot of folks in line for being good at following orders, except these were not legal. 

There are plenty of other examples of this kind of chicanery, a great deal of it having to do with Krist's passion for generating photo-ops that would make John Bunell blush. There is no current law of the books for egregious showboating by a government official, but I offer the ICE Queen up as America's Most Wanted, right along with the rest of the Clown Car the convicted Felon refers to as his cabinet. 

That is what retired astronaut and former US Naval officer Mark Kelly was talking about. Alas, there is no Schoolhouse Rock ditty that covers this foolishness.