Military officers have a primary responsibility to the Constitution and are obligated to disobey illegal or unconstitutional orders.

“I was also taught that if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, uh, that my responsibility was to the law and to the constitution.”

It is unacceptable for the military to follow illegal orders and conduct domestic operations against civilians.

“Unfortunately, as you said, when you have the military walking the streets, jumping out of helicopters, right, scaling down um the ropes from the helicopter, these Apaches in Chicago, rounding people up. I got a problem with it. I'm shocked that they're actually following illegal orders.”

Military service members are obligated to refuse illegal orders even at the risk of personal career consequences.

“if you believe you're being told to do something illegal, truly illegal, you should say no. you should be willing to get court marshaled and you should be willing to go and defend yourself and say this was illegal and and win the arguments.”

The recent video featuring members of Congress is intended to assure high-ranking military officers that they will be supported if they refuse illegal orders.

“I think that's what I think to your point I agree that's what they were trying to do is say you need to start thinking about this and we will have your back when that day comes if it”

Service members are legally obligated to refuse any orders they receive that are illegal.

“If anybody in the chain of command, anybody ask you to do something that's illegal, not only are not only should you not do it, you're actually required not to do it. You have to file you have to follow legal orders. You are not to follow illegal orders.”

Torture is an illegal and immoral practice that is fundamentally ineffective, despite claims to the contrary by intelligence superiors.

“Because my superiors kept repeating that torture worked, but besides being illegal, immoral, unethical, it just wasn't true.”

The killing of children is a moral failure that should not be excused or defended regardless of the circumstances.

“I would not kill children, period.”

The speaker rejects the claim that the Israeli army is the most moral army, citing soldiers' behavior as evidence of immorality.

“So, you know, the IDF army, uh, the Israeli army, the IDF, they consider themselves the most moral army in the world because they can't help but lie, right? So, they have to lie. And whatever they say, just think the opposite”

The military's killing of shipwrecked individuals is a clear violation of international law and constitutes murder.

“Our military laws, not Venezuela's. Not anybody else's. That says so specifically, not just that you cannot kill people who are defenseless, but also says that people who are shipwrecked cannot be killed.”

Anthony Aguilar characterizes the IDF's alleged actions of targeting civilians and detaining aid workers as unethical and indicative of criminality.

“when the IDF says, um, they didn't do it or um, they didn't do something, that's like asking a a criminal to adjourn their own trial.”