Yeah, that's gonna get you trouble.

Before you do stuff like that. Bad move on his part.

Unfortunately for him, this is probably an easy win for the prosecution and will likely lead to a dismissal.

Sometimes a small match will start a large fire….

It's called sacrifice for your principles.

That uniform means you are willing to sacrifice your life itself for the Constitution.

Posting on a website doesn't require that, and that applies first to myself.

It's going to take a hell of a lot more than lip service to stop the descent into a dictatorship.

This man obviously understands that.

Well, excuuuuuse me.

He is very brave.

He is an officer, he can't do that without his uniform, either.

He knew the risks and did it anyway. If there was a lot more of that, we might not be where we are today.

Trump is an unAmerican criminal.

Taking orders from a corrupt and criminal commander is colluding in crime. I feel complicit as a law abiding taxpayer. We have murdered people in fishing boats and children in schools and asylum-seekers in concentration camps and ordinary citizens at protests. Our government is us.

This officer is standing for us.

As long as Americans have their beer, football and other mind-numbing pursuits, they just don't care if fascists take over.

But I am gathering with a group of demonstrators in some withering heat shortly to at least make some noise. I have met some grand people on the front.

So much for being a lifer…

….

Cowardice and self centeredness are what got us in this mess. Think about that.

and our democracy while a felon sits in the oval office. My god, how we have fallen.

Yes, it really is that simple.

He was actually not arrested for calling for impeachment while in the service and in uniform. He was arrested as a planned arrest for being in an area that was closed to the public after giving his remarks. I am sure that the Air Force will investigate, but if I were to guess, he may have been charged with failure to obey an official order or something of the sort. He was with a Member of Congress and when the Congressman left, he was no longer allowed to be where he was.

My comments were not to diminish his actions as they are principled and will cost him significantly.

... but the clickbait-y headlines and thumbnails do not present a true picture of what and how things happened.

In any case, he was very courageous. I admire him. I hope he has investments, or a wealthy spouse, family property... or something... because it seems unlikely that he'll be able to depend on a military retirement check or medical benefits.

That's called courage if your curious.

My husband and myself would stand with any person like that.

about "DoN't WeAr a UnIfOrM iF yOu'Re GoNnA pRoTeSt" proceeds on the assumption that our institutions are still intact.

They are not.

This is a brave man, not a coward.

There are too many cowards.

I remember the typewriter department at Montgomery Wards.

You'd inevitably see a test piece of paper in a typewriter that read: "NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN (that's how people wrote 50 years ago) TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY" or something like that.

and stop being controlled by evil

Dishonorably discharged, losing all his retirement benefits. This is a steep price for being honest.

The next president will have to pardon him and restore his rank and privileges.

only seems fair to me. After all, those #+&!{ۤ&! January 6 scumbags got one!

certainly be proven a sacrifice by Major Jason Wilson -- at least in the shorter term.

Or whatever we replace it with now that trumpenstein has diluted the meaning of it by treating it like grocery store coupons.

Civil disobedience is honorable but takes extraordinary courage. So long as the Major understood and accepts the consequences, his actions are commendable.

Even though it is good, I just don't that is enough. Things like that are well scouted.

The point is someone standing up when sitting it out is personally intolerable.

When I was still serving, I was carefully apolitical in public. Even when I was in the reserves, I wouldn't put a political sign in my yard or a bumper sticker on my vehicle because people in my small town knew I was in the reserves. I scrupulously protected my apolitical appearance. However, the times were different. I often disagreed with the actions of a succession of GOP administrations but it was not impossible for me to remain publicly apolitical.

I am fortunate that I am not currently serving and do not have to question how much is too much. I am not confident that I would have the courage shown by the Air Force major. I am not sure that he made the right decision but I do admire his courage.