The Case for a Mike Waltz Court Martial
The actions of a retiree or reservist can be seen as a reflection of the entire military itself. The courts have upheld retirees are still subject to the UCMJ.
Note: At first, I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this article. It’s been sitting in my drafts while I really sat and fully thought about the consequences of Mike Waltz not being held accountable for his actions. Court-martialing Waltz is about restoring military honor, integrity, and upholding our oath to the U.S. Constitution. It also sends a message to any retiree willing to illegal work on behalf of a foreign government.
If the allegations the former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added a former Israeli prison guard turned “journalist” Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group discussing war plans, installed an Israeli app on a government phone, and discussed foreign policy with Benjamin Netanyahu behind President Trumps back are true, then he should be court-martialed.
In 2004, after the fallout of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal where not a single commander was charged for war crimes. The junior enlisted took the fall and were the only ones court-martialed. Just like we’ve seen with Israeli war crimes post October 7th, the lack of good military order and discipline starts at the top. Commanding officers must lead by example and hold each other accountable.
If the reporting from the Jewish Virtual Library that former Green Beret Colonel Mike Waltz retired from the Army National Guard after 27 years is correct, then he can be charged under the United States Code of Military Justice.
Retiree Court-Martials
Retired military service members are expected to give a good name to the Armed Forces and the United States. The actions of a retiree can be seen as a reflection of the entire military organization itself.
The decision to allow a court-martial to apply to retired service members stems largely U.S. v. Begani. In this case, a Navy Reservist pleaded guilty of sexually assault a child after he retired. He appealed the decision with the argument that the court-martial no longer applied since he was retired and now a civilian. The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals (NMCCA) initially agreed with the defendant. Later, the NMCCA withdrew its own ruling of U.S. v. Begani and found it did not possess the proper authority and totality of information required to leave the decision as-is.
The Air Force found itself in similar position in U.S. v. Ballard (2019). The case shared similar details as the previous one, Ballard was also retired before being accused of sex crimes with a child. He also entered a guilty plea and accepted various penalties, including dishonorable discharge.
In United States v. Dinger, the opinion of the court expressed that “military retirees unquestionably remain in the service” of the armed forces.
United States v. Dinger | No. 17-0510/MC | Opinion of the Court
Possible Mike Waltz UCMJ Violations
While my entire legal expertise stems from my education at the University of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blue, so we’ll need a real lawyer to review military law violations.
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who-
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
(a)(1) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any entity described in paragraph (2), either directly or indirectly, anything described in paragraph (3) shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, except that if the accused is found guilty of an offense that directly concerns (A) nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large scale attack, (B) war plans, (C) communications intelligence or cryptographic information, or (D) any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy, the accused shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
(2) An entity referred to in paragraph (1) is-
(A) a foreign government;
(B) a faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States; or
(C) a representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen of such a government, faction, party, or force.
While I doubt a military jury of Mike Waltz’s peers will convict him of mutiny/sedition or espionage (Israel is our “greatest ally” and all that nonsense) at the very minimum they would probably convict him of violating 10 USC 933: Art. 133. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump must make a bold statement: the U.S. military is not and has never been a democracy. You follow lawful orders and respect military law. Mike Waltz was willing to harm U.S. national security interest at the behest of a foreign government and betray his fellow brothers and sisters-in-arms by instigating a war with Iran. I worry if anything pops off with a Middle Eastern country no one will join the military because they’ll automatically assume it’s another Israeli false flag. That’s a dangerous position to be in.
Waltz was emboldened to do what he did is because Neocon Douglas Feith was never criminally charged for falsifying intelligence on WMDs in Iraq. Then his equally treasonous son David Feith was recently removed from the National Security Council. As if he should be anywhere near the levels of power.
I have absolutely no tolerance for this level of betrayal by those that wore the uniform after my husband and I lost friends in Iraq, spent 4 years apart during our first 8 years of marriage, and my husband deployed just 14 hours after our daughter was born.
GWOT veterans deserve accountability, and we will not stand idly by while treasonous scumbags try to do the same to our kids.
Mike Waltz being demoted to U.N. ambassador will never be enough of a punishment since he’s willing to murder our most precious resource: our patriotic young men and women in uniform.
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-DeAnna Calderón
Oh,almost forgot. Let's add doughboy Vindman and Tim Walz too.
Need to get on that Milley court martial too.