ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
Some people believe abortion is the murder of an innocent life.
Let’s suppose Bill believes abortion is murder and he uses his right to free speech to convince others that abortion is murder. Bill becomes a leader of part of a movement to make abortion illegal because he believes abortion is murder.
Bill does a number of things to “fight” against legal abortion. He encourages people to hold rallies at abortion clinics where people hand out anti-abortion pamphlets. He encourages people to carry signs to picket and protest the abortion clinics. He might even ask people to shout “baby killer” at the abortion doctors.
However, some of the people decide to take extreme measures. After all, they believe that abortion is murder, just as Bill said. So they decide to set bombs and blow up several abortion clinics. The plan is carried out. Several people are killed in the abortion clinics including abortion doctors.
Note: Bill never told or even suggested to anyone to act violently and bomb abortion clinics. Is Bill guilty of inciting the bombing of the clinics?
Likewise, since Trump never told people to attack the Capitol Building, is Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection?
Only problem is, Trump was the leader of this country, and he holds something called the "bully pulpit". I spent 20 years in the Navy, and the CO's word was generally followed as law, no matter how much they couched their language in gentle terms. If the Skipper said it, we followed it.
Really?
So, you never learned anything about unlawful orders?
Actually, I did learn about unlawful orders. And yes, if the CO said to to something, we did, but if we knew it was unlawful, we didn't. Trump said things that the average civilian would follow, but many in the military wouldn't. But then again, civilians don't know the difference between lawful and unlawful orders.