So you place an oath to govt over an oath to a nation, its laws and its people?
When the government and its employees represents the people of a nation, an oath to government in tantamount to an oath towards its laws and its people. Unless you like anarchy.
Are you a communist, socialist, or just a fascist in general under whatever banner a govt calls itself?
Oh there! That was a lot of complicated words in that sentence
I'm for law and order, regardless what form of government upholds them.
Incidentally, I live under a Monarchy. I love my King my country, I support our troops and differ to our police force.
The point of a whistleblower is to expose the illegal or unlawful acts of a given group or person. It is only upon the commission of these acts that a person exposing them can gain that title.
Those acts become a breach of contract to any "oath" they may have sworn in accepting that position, therefore a whistleblower is in his right, under law, to expose them! That is abiding by their oath, not breaking it!
America was founded by such people!
A certain amount of govt is necessary to protect the rights of the people. It was never meant (in a Republic) for the govt to control. They are elected to act and fulfill the wishes and protect the rights of the "governed", NOT control them!
Within a Republic even the smallest voice has a vote, is born with certain unalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Nowhere does it state that you swear an oath to govt! You swear to uphold the laws of the Constitution, to protect and defend them.
When govt breaks those laws it becomes the sworn duty of the governed to oppose, expose, and take any and all actions allowed under the law to correct it up to and including (sadly) rebellion or revolution against it.
The Declaration of Independence: A partial Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations. Such oaths are often required by the laws of the state, religious body, or other organization before the person may actually exercise the powers of the office or any religious body. It may be administered at an inauguration, coronation, enthronement, or other ceremony connected with the taking up of office itself, or it may be administered privately. In some cases it may be administered privately and then repeated during a public ceremony.
Some
oaths of office are a statement of loyalty to a constitution or other legal text or to a person or other office-holder (e.g., an oath to support the constitution of the state, or of loyalty to the king). Under the laws of a state it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office.
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I don't see anywhere where it says an oath is to a govt! It actually states everything to the contrary!
But again, the USA is a Republic, NOT a Monarchy, a Democracy, or an Oligarchy
Edited by
Sojourning_Soul
on Thu 08/04/16 02:27 PM