Congressman Jason Crow,
As a Vietnam combat veteran who once refused an unlawful order, and saw my boat captain instantly stand down because the chain of command works when it’s respected, I am writing to you directly.

You and five fellow Democrats, hiding behind your own military service, released a video telling currently serving troops to “refuse illegal or unlawful orders” from the Commander-in-Chief. You named no order. You cited no violation. You simply issued a vague, preemptive call for selective obedience.

That is not “defending the Constitution,” Congressman. That is a textbook violation of your own oath of office and a deliberate attempt to fracture civilian control of the military. Title 18 U.S.C. § 2384 defines seditious conspiracy as two or more persons conspiring to oppose by force the authority of the United States or to interfere with the execution of its laws.

Your video, coordinated with other members of Congress and aimed squarely at the uniformed services, meets that definition with room to spare.

Every troop already knows how to recognize and report an unlawful order. They do not need a partisan member of Congress, especially one who swore to “support and defend the Constitution… against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” whispering mutiny in their ears.

Your calculated vagueness is the proof of malice. By conjuring phantom tyranny without evidence, you are weaponizing the oath troops take to the Constitution and the office of the presidency, not to any individual, into a political weapon against a duly elected leader. That is the very nullification doctrine the Democratic Party first championed in 1861, now dressed in a suit and posted on social media.

You are not protecting the Republic, Congressman Crow. You are actively conspiring to undermine the lawful authority of the President and the Constitution you swore to uphold. History will not remember this as courage. It will record it as sedition wrapped in the stolen valor of veteran credentials.

The Confederacy lost once. Do not force the American people to bury it again.

With the contempt your actions have earned,

Terry M. Sater
River Assault Squadron 13
Mekong Delta, Vietnam
1968-1969