1st Lieutenant Mark Bashaw was kicked out of the Army and court-martialed for “failure to obey lawful orders” when he refused to comply with the Biden Regime’s unconstitutional COVID-19 requirements, The Gateway Pundit previously reported. Bashaw was the first to be persecuted with a court-martial for his refusal to abide by COVID tyranny.
Lt. Bashaw was targeted by Eugene Vindman, the brother of traitor Alex Vindman.
Apparently out for vengeance for his perceived mal-treatment at the hands of the Trump Administration, he used his military position, his large social media following, and his command influence to push far-left political policies, particularly in the area of foreign relations and aggressive COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Not enough for him to simply encourage leftist policies, Vindman sought to punish service members under his charge who had religious objections and exercised their legal rights to refuse to go along with these leftist policies. The vindictive Vindman found his ideal victim in the form of one Lieutenant Mark Bashaw, an Army Public Health Officer stationed at the Army Public Health Center.
Bashaw’s duties at the Army Public Health Center included investigating potential risks to personnel from diseases and recommending risk mitigation strategies for his leadership to implement. Lieutenant Bashaw, an openly practicing Christian, was one of the first to identify the significant lies being perpetrated by the Army in the course of pushing various COVID-19 mitigation measures as safe and effective. When his leadership refused to listen to him, he became a congressional whistleblower and played a role in several investigations being run by Senator Ron Johnson. Knowing that the military masking and testing mandates were both ineffective and against the laws governing EUA products, Bashaw ultimately elected to exercise his legal right to refuse these products.
Aware of Bashaw’s Christian values from his Religious Accommodation Request, and seeing a potential political opportunity, Yevgeny Vindman sought to have Bashaw’s chain of command court-martial him for exercising of his rights. Nearly all JAG Lawyers knew the COVID-19 vaccine mandate was on such shaky legal grounds and that a conviction over a vaccine refusal would be nearly impossible. However, many left-leaning JAG Lawyers felt a court-martial conviction over masking and testing refusal was a much more likely outcome. On January 18, 2022, Vindman was finally successful in convincing Major General Robert Edmonson to order Bashaw’s court-martial.
On April 29, 2022 Bashaw was found guilty by Judge Robert Cohen in the special court-martial ordered by General Edmonson. Judge Cohen, likely understanding the politically-charged nature of this court-martial and the national security implications of discharging the conservative Christians who opposed the unlawful COVID-19 mitigation measures, elected to award “no punishment” to Bashaw at sentencing. He then highlighted Bashaw’s outstanding character, 16 years of honorable service, and even recommended that General Edmonson drop all charges and reverse Bashaw’s conviction.
The Army refused to drop the charges. They then inflicted additional harm by attempting to involuntarily separate Bashaw based on the unjust and unlawful court-martial conviction alone. Not to be outdone, the vindictive Vindman took a very public victory lap at Bashaw’s expense.
……..After the trial, Bashaw’s defense team took note of Vindman’s politically unrestrained social media commentary and filed a motion to have Vindman recused. Instead, the defense team was told that Vindman, in a surprise move, had gone on terminal leave in preparation for his retirement. The vindictive Vindman essentially abandoned his post immediately after betraying his ethical obligations as an officer of the court and doing so at the expense of a conservative Christian junior officer just trying to do his job.
Eugene Vindman destroyed the life and career of a Soldier because he refused to inject a toxic vax into his body. Ironically, because of the recruiting deficit, the Army sent letters to the Soldiers who were forced out and begged them to come back.
To complete Lt. Bashaw’s vindication, he should receive back pay and exoneration from the Army.
The Biden regime knowingly violated the constitutional rights of service members who refused the risk of taking poison.
All of them should be compensated and the tyrants who ordered this shit should be held accountable.
Related article:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/commander-1st-lieutenant-mark-bashaw-facing-court-martial-covid-mandates-packing-list-trial/