The Sad Case Of Marine LTC Scheller
My uncle was a lieutenant in the Army in the mid-1950s. When he got out, he left his collection of manuals with my parents, where I found them in our attic. Among them was the Manual for Court Martial, which I eagerly studied. One of the offenses I discovered was Contempt Toward Officials, which struck me as so strange that I still remember it. Although the wording has changed slightly since the time I read it, the current version is probably very close: Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. This immediately came to mind when I learned of Marine LTC Scheller's YouTube video : In August, Scheller posted a video denouncing senior military lea...