Disability Services Advisory Council of Clackamas County

12/03/2025

Of course it doesn’t make sense because his actions are based on what or how they will serve his own self interests!👎👎👎

11/29/2025

11/29/2025

They’re Going to Have to Arrest a Lot of Lawyers

It was my first day in the Army. We were herded into a room, and an Army lawyer, Captain, gave us a briefing on what the Drill Sergeants could and could not tell us to do. After going over the list of things they could not order us to do, he closed with, “If your Drill Sergeant tells you to do any of these things, that is an unlawful order, and you should never follow an unlawful order.”

Day one in Baghdad. I was ushered into a room with a group of officers and civilians. A JAG Captain came in and briefed us on the Rules of Engagement. He closed with, “If you violate the ROE, you will be held accountable. If you are ordered to violate the ROE, that is an unlawful order, and you cannot follow it. Follow it, and you will be held accountable.”

Last week, six Members of Congress, all veterans of the military and intelligence communities, released a video reminding members of those communities that not only could they refuse an illegal order, but they were legally and morally obligated to do so.

No specific unlawful orders were mentioned. President Trump was not named. That made no difference. Trump exploded. He called it treason and sedition, and he said these six senators could all be executed for sedition.

Okay, let’s unwrap the layers of stupidity here.

First, as a 30-year veteran of the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, I can’t count how many times lawyers told me I was NEVER authorized to break federal law or violate the Constitution… EVER. They always told us that if a superior ever ordered us to break a law, we should report them to the Inspector General or the General Counsel’s Office immediately.

Second, Trump doesn’t seem to realize that treason and sedition are different. What these Members of Congress did doesn’t come close to fitting the definition of Treason in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution or in 18 U.S. Code § 2381. And “Sedition” by itself isn’t a crime. 18 U.S. Code § 2384 defines “Seditious Conspiracy” as a crime. It’s a small difference, but it shows Trump is using words he doesn’t understand.

Oh, and the maximum punishment for Seditious Conspiracy isn’t death; it’s twenty years.

Always in a hurry to add another layer of dumb, at Trump’s behest, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Secretary of the Navy to investigate with the intent of recalling Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain, back to active duty for court-martial. If he goes through with it, Hegseth is going to look particularly stupid… even for him.

The Manual For Courts Martial, United States (2024 Edition) in Para. 18c(1)(c) says, “A general order or regulation is lawful unless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or lawful superior orders or for some other reason is beyond the authority of the official issuing it. In Rule 916, the manual says, “An act performed pursuant to an unlawful order is excused unless the accused knew it to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known it to be unlawful.”

These Members of Congress are absolutely in line with that. If Hegseth and Trump push it, Mark Kelly reads these two quotes, drops the mic, and then walks out of the court.

Many are angry because they don’t think Trump has ever issued an unlawful order. Still, Federal Judges have ruled Trump’s use of troops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and DC as unlawful… so yeah, the President issuing illegal orders is a thing.

But someone is missing from this drama.

The courts ruled that the President is issuing illegal orders. Trump is threatening to execute six members of Congress for saying the same thing every Drill Sergeant and every military lawyer says. The Secretary of Defense, at the President’s urging, is threatening a current U.S. Senator with arrest and a kangaroo court. You would think someone on the Armed Services Committee would have an opinion on all of this. Someone like Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. But what does he have to say? We don’t know. Once again, he’s AWOL.

Rogers claims it’s vital that we have to keep electing him because he’s the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee and that loss would have HUGE negative impacts, but what is he actually doing with that title? How often do we have to ask… Where is Mike Rogers?

We deserve better.

11/27/2025

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.

11/10/2025

President Donald Trump has pardoned Michael McMahon, a retired NYPD sergeant who was convicted in 2023 for his role in stalking a New Jersey family on behalf of the Chinese government. McMahon was found guilty of conspiracy, stalking, and illegally acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Prosecutors said the case was tied to Beijing’s “Operation Fox Hunt,” an international campaign aimed at tracking and coercing Chinese nationals living overseas. McMahon, however, insisted he was innocent, claiming he was “unwittingly used” after accepting what he believed was a legitimate private-investigator assignment.

Trump’s decision to grant him a full pardon cited McMahon’s long police career and concerns about the fairness of his prosecution.

📸: Getty

11/05/2025

All he does is lie 🤦‍♂️

10/25/2025

Trump just gave away America’s last wild frontier — to Big Oil. It’s the largest giveaway of public land to fossil fuel companies in modern history. The announcement, made Thursday by Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, opens 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness to oil and gas drilling.

Burgum bragged that “Alaska is open for business,” calling it a win for “energy independence.” Translation: the Arctic is open for destruction.

And this isn’t just about drilling in the Arctic. Trump’s team also reissued permits for the Ambler Road Project — a 211-mile industrial road slicing through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, home to more than 200,000 migratory birds and dozens of tribal communities that rely on the land for hunting and fishing.

Thirty-nine Alaskan villages and 37 tribes have already said no. Trump didn’t care.
As if that weren’t enough, the White House also greenlit new oil and gas lease sales across the National Petroleum Reserve, reversing Biden’s 2024 decision to expand protections there.

Let that sink in: during a government shutdown, when public workers go unpaid, Trump found time to hand Big Oil the keys to the Arctic — and the shovels to dig its grave.

Environmental groups are furious — and rightly so.
“The Arctic Refuge is the crown jewel of our public lands system,” said the Alaska Wilderness League. “Opening it to drilling would destroy one of the most ecologically significant landscapes on Earth.”

The Sierra Club called it what it is: “A collective wrecking ball aimed at fragile Alaskan ecosystems, all to boost the bottom lines of CEOs.”

And the Gwich’in people, whose ancestors have protected this land for millennia, called it a “direct assault on our culture, our food security, and our future.”
This isn’t about jobs. It’s not about energy independence. It’s about greed — pure and simple.

Trump’s “America First” energy plan is really Planet Last.

He’s trading caribou for campaign checks, glaciers for gas wells, and Indigenous rights for profit margins.

If this makes you angry, you’re paying attention. Because when Trump says “America is open for business,” what he really means is: our future is for sale.