If you can't trust the military who is sworn and trained to honor the Constitution, you've started the split into warring camps, neither able to work with the other and subject to whoever can lead them. You've lost a united military. How do you think service men and women are going to be treated by their fellow soldiers when it comes to light they are being punished for having the wrong political opinions? Do their fellow soldiers rally behind them in defiance of Quid Pro or do we start weeding out the undesirables with each new administration?
Members of the military who have sworn and been trained to honor the Constitution have committed treasonous acts in the past.
To ignore evidence that anyone is disposed to do so again would be extremely foolish and irresponsible.
Subversives are not licensed as traitors by their having taken an oath.
Can we say then that because people commit murder, to ignore evidence that anyone is disposed to do so again would be extremely foolish and irresponsible? Having determined that it is extremely foolish and irresponsible, how do we proceed? How do we then determine who will and who will not commit murder?
This is not - and I mean IS NOT - the way we do things in this country. In this country we are not persecuted, prosecuted, blackballed or doxxed just because some fragile paranoids think someone with certain political views
might commit treason. We don't punish people because we think they might commit a crime, we punish them WHEN THEY COMMIT A CRIME.
The people that join the National Guard do so for a reason and when they do, they take an oath:
"I, _______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of ________against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to them; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of ______ and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to law and regulations. So help me God.’’
If we begin weeding out certain guardsmen for certain duties because of their political views then the above oath means precisely shit. There would be no use for an oath to defend the country if the country itself is going to prevent them from honoring it because they voted for the wrong guy. Who the **** wants to defend a country like that? I sure wouldn't.
This is a dangerous precedent and a dangerous path and if this sort of thing continues then they deserve everything they get.