Michael New: a Refusal to Obey Orders An Interview with Daniel D. New By Carlo Stagnaro EXERPT: About a century and an half ago, Henry David Thoreau wrote his masterpiece, Civil Disobedience. He said that anybody has the right and the duty not to obey unjust laws - or unlawful orders, if the laws are just. Who knows if Army Specialist Michael New ever read Thoreau? But in 1995 New refused to obey an order: he didn't join the United Nations mission in Macedonia. "Nobody," he said, "has the constitutional right to make me wear a non-American uniform, like the UN one". This is why he was court-martialed. We have discussed these and other issues with Daniel D. New, Mike's father, who from the start supported his son's decision. "It was both disconcerting and at the same time something that made us very proud of Mike," he said. What follows is the result of our dialog: reasons for which a man, an American, a soldier, must serve and protect the United States and its Constitution. But today, "serving and protecting" might mean refusing to follow US policy: both domestic and foreign policy. *********************************** Q: Why did Mike New refuse to obey an order? Didn't he betray his own oath "to serve and protect" the American people and the US Constitution? A: Mike's first reaction was instinctive. The removal of the U.S. flag from the right shoulder (dominant position) to the left (subservient position) and addition of United Nations insignia on the right shoulder indicates allegiance to, and/or subservience to an organization to which he felt neither. There was no oath of allegiance to the UN, there was no contract, and there was nothing about it in the recruiting or enlistment literature. His reaction was, "If they can make me wear that blue helmet in Macedonia, they can make me wear it in Texas or New York. Geography is no defense. It is a question of authority." To bring the issue home to your readers, I might add that if the government of Rome can force Italians to wear a blue beret in Africa or Asia, it can also force them wear one in Padania, should it be necessary. It was only later that he learned how the uniform was actually not authorized by the Army, hence illegal; that the chain of command was in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States, to which he (and all his officers, including the President) took an oath to defend; and that the deployment to Macedonia was illegal, and that the President had lied to Congress about his "authority" to send troops under the UN. Q: He was court-martialed. This means that they think a soldier has no right to refuse joining a United Nations mission, doesn't it? A: Yes, but the charge was simply for refusing to obey a direct (and presumably lawful) order. We admit that he disobeyed the order, because we contend that the order was NOT lawful. But the judge refused to allow the panel (jury) to see any of the evidence!! That highly irregular procedure is what has us currently before the highest military court in the nation, the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces. There is a good chance that they will overturn the original court-martial. In the meantime, we have a bill before Congress, which may pass this year, maybe next year, which would clarify existing law to prevent the government from FORCING any American citizen to serve as a mercenary under the United Nations against their will. It is called the Citizen Soldier Protection Act of 2000, and may be found on our website at: http://www.mikenew.com/. 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