Mom of jailed marine Stuart Scheller: 'They're trying to bury our son'
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Parents of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a marine who demanded acountability on Afghanistan, went on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to talk about their son's incarceration.
The military also ordered Scheller to undergo a mental health evaluation. Scheller had said at the time that he was walking away from $2 million in pension.He also said, "I’m not going anywhere." "Everyone is scared that the weight of the system is crashing down on me. But I know something you don’t … it’s the system that’s going to break. Not me," Scheller continued."This is all for making a Facebook video that was entirely truthful," Tucker said to Scheller's parents about the incarceration. Scheller's central complaint was a lack of accountability within the military and government.
"Did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'" Scheller had asked. "I’m not saying we can take back what has been done. All I asked for was accountability, for people to comment on what I said and to say, ‘Yes. Mistakes were made.’ And had they done that I would've gone back into rank and file, submitted, and accomplished what I wanted."Scheller continued to post criticism on LinkedIn, including accusing Gen. Kenneth McKenzie of "dereliction of duty." In another post, he said "the current military-industrial machine is broken"Scheller also began widespread critiques of the government, asking "does the current government still serve the interests of the people?" Stuart's father said that his son had two requests after he was arrested: one, for his attorney to be called. Second, the Marine asked his dad to "tell everyone.""They are trying to bury our son," Cathy said, adding that she was doing her best to keep their grandkids sheltered from "all this.""I do want to say thank you to the American people, and I want to ask them to, if possible, to pray, to contact your congressmen, and to donate," Cathy said. After the Taliban took over Kabul while the Afghanistan withdrawal was ongoing, 13 service members, were killed in an ISIS-K terror attack at a gate outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport. Ten of the 13 killed were U.S. Marines.