11/26/2025
What an Illegal Order Actually Is — And Why People Don’t Want You Asking Questions About Those Venezuelan Boats
The loudest people screaming “TREASON!” at Senator Mark Kelly don’t want anyone to understand what the UCMJ actually says.
Because once you understand it, you start realizing why certain things happening right now look… bad.
So here’s the lesson they’re terrified you’ll read:
👉 U.S. troops are REQUIRED under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to refuse illegal orders — not encouraged, not suggested, REQUIRED.
👉 If they obey an illegal order, THEY can be prosecuted.
👉 And some of the orders floating around right now might be illegal as hell.
Let’s unpack this the way adults do.
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🔵 1. What the UCMJ actually demands — not what Facebook influencers pretend it says
A lawful order must:
✔️ Be legal
✔️ Be within the authority of the commander
✔️ Follow U.S. law, treaties, and the law of armed conflict
✔️ Use force only when force is legally justified
An unlawful order is any command that tells a service member to:
❌ Kill people who are not lawful combatants
❌ Use lethal force where force isn’t legally justified
❌ Target civilians or noncombatants
❌ Break U.S. criminal law
❌ Violate maritime or international law
❌ Act outside congressional authorization
❌ Treat law enforcement situations like war
If a recruit followed one of these in basic training, they’d flunk the test.
If a soldier follows it in real life, they can be charged with a crime.
But the people shrieking “treason!” hope you don’t know that.
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🔵 **2. When is it actually legal to shoot a vessel on the high seas?
(Hint: almost never)**
Under U.S. law and international maritime law, lethal force is only authorized when:
✔️ A. The vessel is actively threatening U.S. forces
Ramming, firing, hostile intent — a real threat, not a guess.
✔️ B. The vessel is a legitimate military target in an armed conflict
Which requires…
• A declared war
• OR a congressionally authorized war
• OR an internationally recognized armed conflict
We’re not at war with Venezuela.
Nobody even pretends otherwise.
✔️ C. Non-lethal force failed and lethal force is necessary to protect life
Not to “speed up interdiction.”
Not because “they ran.”
Not because “it might be drugs.”
SUSPECTED smuggling doesn’t make a vessel a combat target.
Ever.
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🔵 3. The part that suddenly got awkward: the Venezuelan boats
The administration has admitted that U.S. forces have shot Venezuelan vessels out of the water and then justified it by saying:
“They were drug boats.”
Okay.
Even if that’s true, let’s be honest:
🇺🇸 Drug smuggling is a crime, not warfare
⚓ It does not create combatant status
🚤 It does not authorize sinking a vessel
⚖️ It does not bypass international law
🛑 It does not justify lethal force
So ask the obvious question:
👉 Who gave the order to fire?
👉 Under what authority?
👉 Where was the imminent threat?
👉 Why weren’t normal interdiction steps used?
If the answers don’t line up with the law?
Then the order was illegal and troops were required to refuse it.
That’s not my opinion.
That’s the UCMJ.
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🔵 4. Why they’re attacking Mark Kelly instead of answering questions
Because once Americans understand what an “illegal order” actually is, they start noticing things:
• Some troops are being told to do things on U.S. soil that look like law enforcement without authority
• Some units are being used in ways that stretch or violate congressional limits
• And yes — some maritime engagements look like they jumped straight to lethal force without legal justification
If voters learn the actual rules, the narrative collapses.
So instead of explaining the law, certain people scream “TREASON!” and hope the noise covers the details.
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🔵 5. Here’s the truth they don’t want you repeating
👉 The U.S. military answers to the Constitution — not any individual.
👉 Lawful orders must be obeyed.
👉 Unlawful orders must be refused.
👉 If someone in ExSeth’s Pentagon issued commands to sink vessels that weren’t lawful targets, those were illegal orders.
👉 Mark Kelly isn’t the problem.
👉 The people abusing the military to do things the law doesn’t allow are.
The moment you understand this, the shouting loses its power.
Knowledge is kryptonite to people who rely on confusion.
And that’s why they hate posts like this.
