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Hundreds of military veterans and currently active service members signed “an open letter to the American people” detailing lawlessness among military leadership over the past few years and vowing to hold those responsible accountable under the law.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated two years ago that all service members under Pentagon authority receive COVID vaccinations, an order which was reversed last year only after thousands were forced out of their positions and denied their constitutional right to apply for religious accommodations. The letter informed the public that the signatories had “exhausted all internal efforts to rectify recent criminal activity” in the military as top brass “trampled constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted unwilling medical experimentation, and suppressed the free exercise of religion” while requiring COVID vaccines for service members.
The mandates resulted in physical and mental health impacts, vaccine injuries, and other harms to service members and their families which the signatories vowed to address in the coming years as they pursue positions that will enable them to hold leaders accountable.
“Thousands within our network will run for Congress and seek appointments to executive branch offices, while those of us still serving on active duty will continue to put fulfilling our oaths ahead of striving for rank or position,” the letter said. “For those who achieve the lawful authority to do so, we pledge to recall from retirement the military leaders who broke the law and will convene courts-martial for the crimes they committed. For those of us who attain legislative offices, we pledge to introduce legislation to remove all retirement income for the military leaders who were criminally complicit, and we will ensure none serve in or retire from the Senior Executive Service. This endeavor will be a continuous process with a long-term time horizon, but fulfilling our oaths to defend the Constitution requires just such persistent vigilance.”
The service members contended in the letter, which drew language from founding documents, that leadership “cast aside constitutional rights” for political expediency with the mandates.
“We the undersigned, on behalf of hundreds of thousands of service members and the American people, while appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for guidance and purity of intention, mutually pledge to each other that we will do everything in our power, through lawful word and action, to hold accountable military leaders who failed to follow the law when their leadership and moral courage was most desperately needed,” the document continued.