As most of you know, SPC Michael New was the first and only American ever convicted of the crime of wanting to serve his own country exclusively. You can get the background on the story here. That conviction was based upon a decision by the court-martial judge that the order to deploy under a United Nations general to Macedonia was lawful. The Army Court of Appeals and the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces upheld that conviction.
The problem was that President Clinton had issued an executive order, Presidential Decision Directive #25 (PDD25), outlining the terms (which Clinton invented in direct contradiction of the UN Participation Act of 1945 - UNPA) under which he would be deploying American troops under United Nations command and control. It's important for Americans to realize that the president was authorizing himself, ignoring the law, ignoring the Constitution, assuming power unto himself. To make sure that Congress did not object, he classified the order so that no member of Congress was allowed to read it, including Rep. Bob Dornan, Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee! I know that because Rep. Dorman told me so himself.
About a year ago, PDD25 was declassified, and we got a copy of it. Guess what! Bill Clinton lied to Congress. Doesn't that shock you? He deliberately told Congress that he had the authority to make the deployments, but he based that claim on the wrong section of the UNPA. That was no accident.
We suspected that was what happened at the time of the court-martial, but of course we could not prove it because we were not allowed to read the executive order. The obfuscation extended from the White House to the court-martial in Schweinfurt, Germany, where SPC Michael New was convicted without being able to show any evidence in his own defense.
Now that we have read the declassified document, we can say with a degree of certainty that if it had been admitted into evidence, SPC New would have won, if not in the court-martial, then upon the appeals. Which is precisely why it was not allowed. Clinton and his people knew they could not allow the American people to read the document, much less the many congressmen who were very upset at the situation.
Now that we have this evidence, it is only a matter of time needed to go back through the original transcripts, with a fine-tooth comb, looking for any error or fact we may have missed, and then we will be heading back to one of two places. We can simply go to one of the Army review boards and ask them to either overturn the Bad Conduct Discharge, or at least to award to a good soldier the Honorable Discharge which he deserved. But that doesn't preclude that we are seriously considering going back in to either the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, or to Federal District Court, filing a motion of coram nobis: "The designation of a remedy for setting aside an erroneous judgment in a civil or criminal action that resulted from an error of fact in the proceeding."
You know the story, but most soldiers don't, since today's recruits were still in diapers when this case began. And yet, it affects them today, because the question of whether the president has the authority to force American military personnel to serve under foreign military commands is a profound legal question. If the answer is yes, then the USA is no longer a sovereign nation. If the answer is no, then the president will be curbed by the authority of the Constitution (once again), and American sovereignty will be preserved, at least in part.
While we wait for lawyers to do their research, I am asking you to get at least one copy of the book, MICHAEL NEW - Mercenary... or American Soldier? and get it into the hands of a soldier, marine, sailor, airman, guardsman, etc. This is important reading for them, as current today as when the case first began. The future of our military is hanging by a thread, and they need to know about it.
If you don't know a single person serving in the military today, you can still make a donation that will make it possible for us to send one at no charge to the recipient. Click here to provide one or more books to your chosen warrior. You will then be given the option of sending an e-book or a hard copy book. We know that most military personnel today have e-mail, or the more sophisticated phones that can receive a book they can read as an electronic file. Hard copies of the book are available for $5 each, and we'll pay the postage, or you can give electronic copies for $1 each! At that price, we hope you'll want to make this gift to several men and women in uniform.
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The Clinton influence is virtually as strong today as it was in the 90's, and you can rest assured that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama want our military to read this book -- which is precisely why we need to make it happen.
For a sovereign Republic, and an independent military,
Daniel New
Project Manager
Michael New Action Fund www.MikeNew.com/ Real Americans don't wear UN blue!
Cover of Military edition of the book
PS. People frequently ask what they can do, and the answer changes as the times change. Right now, if we could just get Ron Paul's attention, to introduce the Citizen Soldier Protection Act of 2011, it would not take him 30 seconds to tell his staff to reintroduce that vital piece of legislation. But because he is so busy, it's almost impossible to get to him. He has introduced it several times in the past, and I'm asking YOU to drop Ron Paul a line, by snail mail or by e-mail or however you do it, and ask him to again sponsor this bill and let's keep the pressure on Congress to help them reclaim some of their Constitutional authority to be the ones to declare wars and to control our military. The Commander in Chief was supposed to report to Congress, not tell them how it is going to be.
