Timothy Birdnow

This should be easy; the DOJ can file charges against this guy right now. He is sworn to uphold the law.

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Until these insurrectionists are charged and jailed tthis will spread like the plague.

During WWII there was just one soldier who refused to go to the front. Edward Donald Slovik deserted, saying he preferred Leavenworth to doing his duty. What did the military do? He was court-martialed and executed by firing squad. Because Eisenhower and the rest of the top brass understood if Slovik got just a prison term it might appear a more attractive prospect than wading into the hell of combat. A nice warm jail cell with three square meals a day versus facing down guns, in rain or snow, and sleeping outside in a fox hole was a no-brainer for some. An example had to be made. There were no more chanrges after that.

The Civil War and earlier wars all saw the executions of deserters. Washington was well-known for executing deserters when he caught them and did so regularly. He understood that the only way to enforce the law was to punish the transgressor.

So if guys like this get away with it it will spread like a plague. Barney Fife here has given the proseution what it needs to charge this guy. It's time to use it. He needs to be sent up the river.

Mutinies do not occur when the rules are enforced; they happen when the commander is too soft. Take the famous mutiny on HMS Bounty; Lieutenant Bligh (who was an experienced seaman but a new commander - he wasn't a captain) was too soft of his crew. He replaced the experienced and hard-nosed John Fryer as Second Officer during the cruise with his friend, the well-liked young Fletcher Christian. Fryerr knew the dregs he had for seamen and enforced the rules, sometimes harshly, and there was no trouble. Christian was more interested in being liked and was soft. When Bligh tried to restore order after things had deteriorated he was viewed as a tyrant and subsequently Christian backed the mutiny. Fryer and Bligh and the other loyal officers were cast adrift in a skiff and Bligh sailed the tiny boat four thousand some-odd miles in one of history's great maritime feats. (His actions saved the crew and his career; the Admiralty frowned upon men who lost their ships.)Christian and the other rebels fled to safety, finding Pitcairn island, a land that had been discovered but not charted properly. Within a few years every man was dead, killed fighting over women, except John Adams, who raised all the children born of the Polynesian women they had brought with them.

Bligh, by the way, was involved in FOUR mutinies during his career. He simply negotiated at least one of them (being asked as he had experience doing that) but his last mutiny was in Australia, where he was the governor. He tried to rein in the soldiers there, who abused the ex-prisoners (and the prisoners themselves) and the officers mutinied, holding Bligh prisoner for years, until the Admiralty sent in warships to get back the King's representative. So Bligh was a man of great talent but was simply too weak to be an effective commander.

At any rate history is replete with this sort of thing, and it always is caused by the same deficiency; a lack of willingness to enforce the rule of law.

We may not want to hang this guy but he needs to enjoy some time behind bars. Do that and the others will be far less willing to buck the system.

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