Killing on Orders Is Murder!

“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

In 1931, a quote from an opinion piece by Kurt Tucholsky, under his pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel, in the weekly German magazine Die Weltbühne, stated: “Soldiers are murderers.” This quote is very simple but very true, and although many will cringe at the suggestion, with any critical thought or scrutiny whatsoever, there is no other conclusion that can be reached. Any man who orders another to kill a third party has committed a heinous crime, and should the individual given this charge to kill complete his task, he is guilty of murder. Should this sanity ever become the rule, wars would immediately cease, and peace therefore, would reign.

Before you call for me to be drawn and quartered, or hurl expletives in my direction, allow me to explain my reasoning and expand my thoughts on this subject. First and foremost, I was in the military a few decades ago. I was conscripted by this government, which means I was forced, obviously against my will, into slavery. My very first act when I arrived at the Army inception center in Memphis, was to stand up and say as loudly as I possibly could, that I would never take any order to kill any individual in Vietnam. This caused quite a stir of course, but I was still forced into active duty. My dissent was not tested, as one of my drill sergeants knew of what I was capable of doing, and made sure I stayed stateside for the balance of my two years. The bottom line here of course, is that I refused to kill anyone on orders. If I could do that, any others can as well.

Obeying orders to kill another is never a valid excuse for murder, but soldiers continue to kill knowing that they will be protected by the State. In many cases, this is due to actual fear of state retribution, as most assigned to kill on orders are young and brainwashed, have already been thoroughly indoctrinated since birth to support the nation-state, and due to the lies of which they have been fed, they ‘believe’ in the propagated cause. In other words, the entirety of war and aggression is based on total deception. Regardless of the reasons for this insanity, stupidity, and evil, I agree completely with Herbert Spencer’s view when he said:

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.”

The only use of violent force acceptable in any moral society, is that of actual self-defense against threats of harm or death to self, family, or others, when no other option exists. If in fact one has to defend self, that defense should end once the threat is squelched, or the perpetrator(s) is eliminated. This does not carry over to the idiocy of nationalist State wars, nation against nation, or any aggression supposedly ‘warranted’ by any government. All U.S. wars in history, have been wars of aggression, and never defensive, and killing those in other countries (or domestically) on orders is always an abhorrent crime against man.

Have any of you heard about U.S. soldiers standing down and refusing to kill on orders? Have you heard of any soldiers attempting to stop other soldiers from killing innocents on orders? How many military resignations have occurred for the explicit reason of a refusal to kill based solely on orders? The answer to these questions is in almost every case, none. I am sure there are a few exceptions, but they are not reported, or ever seen on any mainstream media outlet.

Currently, the U.S. government, its military, ICE, and the so-called ‘intelligence services,’ whether directly or by proxy, are funding, arming, or killing on orders in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Somalia, Niger, Libya, parts of South America, and who knows in how many other countries as well? The criminal murderer Trump is ordering boats off Venezuela and Columbia to be blown up with missiles; not knowing who is being killed, as if he or any other has any right to demand the murder of anyone. Soldiers are aggressively killing people far away in other nations on orders , all without any attack on this country of any kind. Soldiers seem always to follow orders without any resistance.

Domestically, Trump has used martial law actions to take over many cities, and killings have occurred on this soil by ICE, police, and military personnel; all on government orders . If any dissent deepens, and ‘planned’ civil unrest takes place, these State atrocities will only worsen, and all brutal and violent enforcement will be levied based on orders.

As I stated almost 15 years ago:

“Is there any order given to U.S. military personnel that is not obeyed? Is there anyone that the U.S. military won’t kill (murder) when given an order? Will there ever be an order that U.S. troops will disobey? As far as I can tell, the answer to all these questions is no!”

“Many who commit horrible deeds have excused these acts by simply saying, “I was just following orders.” This is an empty excuse, and has been used in the past to give cover for some of the most heinous crimes of mankind. Most of those crimes were carried out in the name of war, and those willing to prosecute those unjust wars are just as responsible as those who start them. Guilty all those who purposely participate in these heinous crimes against mankind, every damn one of you!”

And just think for a moment of all of the mass killing here and afar that can take place with AI, drones, poisons, and all the technological ways to murder and psychologically destroy the masses of voluntary slaves who inhabit this earth.

What will you do when more war in your name is responsible for the deaths of millions or billions of innocent people? What will those of you in the military do when you are ordered to kill your friends and neighbors, and/or innocent strangers? What will the rest of you do when the National Guard, police, ICE, or military soldiers are ordered to attack you or your family and friends? Have you ever even considered this distinct possibility? I think not.

The military and its soldiers never serve the people, they only serve the ruling State monsters. The next time you choose to utter the idiotic words, “thank you for your service,” remember this: “Soldiers are just government approved terrorists.” Their loyalty is only to their nation-state masters, and never to the lowly masses. Government uses the children of others as its fodder in war, because they can be brainwashed, but only those who suffer greatly due to their contribution to unnecessary death due to orders, have found their conscience.

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