Five Quick Things: Free Stu Scheller!
Scheller, sickness, Spartacus, stupidity, and sacrilege!
by Scott McKay
September 30, 2021, 11:41 PM
Today’s Five Quick Things promises to be actually quick, which is a departure from our usual mode.
1. Stu Scheller Shouldn’t Be In The Brig. The People Who Put Him There, Though…
Give credit to Tucker Carlson for making this point, though he’s hardly the only one. Earlier this week Carlson’s monologue pointed out the utter insanity of Ken McKenzie, Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin going in front of Congress and claiming they were bound by the chain of command to pull our troops out of Afghanistan before executing a plan to evacuate the civilians, with zero consequences, while Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller now sits in the brig for having questioned the disastrous pullout.
Scheller spoke for thousands of officers in all the branches of the armed forces who were horrified at the blistering incompetence of the leadership. That’s clear. What’s also clear is how brittle that leadership is. For speaking out, Scheller was first relieved of his battalion command, then forced to undergo psychiatric testing because of his public criticism of the top military brass. He had a gag order placed on him, which he then broke.
And then Scheller was imprisoned. Nobody seems to know when he’ll be released.
Scheller didn’t contest his being relieved. He said his firing was justified. He knew it was coming and he accepted it – Scheller was willing to suffer the consequences to his career of speaking out against the Afghanistan debacle.
Putting him in the brig is just one more disgrace our military leadership appears ready to cover itself in. Scheller should be released immediately. The American people need to demand it, forcefully. In fact, it wouldn’t be a bad idea if military enlistment ground to a complete halt until Scheller is freed.
Maybe even until the accountability for the top brass for Afghanistan Scheller called for in the first place shows up. That McKenzie, Milley and Austin still have jobs is nothing short of incredible.
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https://spectator.org/scheller-spartacus-ivermectin-midnight-mass/
