{"id":28783,"date":"2012-02-17T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28783"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:05:38","slug":"be-thankful-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28783","title":{"rendered":"Be thankful, Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Kokesh, an IVAW member and Ron Paul supporter complains that the military is enforcing their policy of prohibiting members of the military publicly supporting a presidential candidate during the Ron Paul Rally he&#8217;s scheduled for Monday morning &#8211; the rally that specifically announces themselves as members of the military who support a presidential candidate;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gz6INkQViaw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The letter reads;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subject: [ETHICS] Partisan Political March<br \/>\nImportance: High<\/p>\n<p>It has come to our attention that a partisan political march targeting military personnel is being organized for February 20, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, active duty personnel are prohibited by DoD Directive 1344.10 paragraph 4.1.2.10 from marching in a partisan political parade regardless of whether they are in uniform or civilian clothes. Reservists not on active duty and retirees may not march in uniform pursuant to paragraph 4.1.4. Reservists not on active duty and retirees may march in civilian clothes provided that they do not otherwise act in a manner that could reasonably give rise to the inference or appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>The directive is a lawful general regulation. Violations of paragraphs 4.1. through 4.5. of the Directive by persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice are punishable under Article 92, \u201cFailure to Obey Order or Regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, DODI 1334.01, paragraph 3.1.2 prohibits the wearing of the uniform by members of the armed forces (including retired members and members of reserve components) during or in connection with political activities.<\/p>\n<p>You may wish to advise your command regarding this particular event because of the apparent solicitation of active duty personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Joel A. Weger<br \/>\nSenior Attorney<br \/>\nDepartment of the Navy<br \/>\nOffice of the Assistant General Counsel (Ethics)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a law, Adam. it&#8217;s not like the military had a choice whether or not they had to advise members of their responsibilities to their oaths. It wasn&#8217;t written just to victimize Ron Paul supporters. It pertains to members of the military who want to support the President, too.<\/p>\n<p>Your march is named as members of the military, which is &#8220;apparent solicitation of active duty personnel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Adam should be thanking the Navy for the letter, now he has an excuse when participation is quite a bit less than he expects. Regardless, I&#8217;ll be there to photographically record the rally for posterity on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Carolyn for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamvstheman.com\/blog\/us-military-issues-warning-to-ron-paul-supporters\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Kokesh, an IVAW member and Ron Paul supporter complains that the military is enforcing their &hellip; <a title=\"Be thankful, Adam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28783\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be thankful, Adam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}