Friendly Fire in the U.S. Senate
MAR 07, 2026
Brian McGinnis, a U.S. Marine Corp veteran, was wounded in action protesting the Iran War in the U.S. Senate. Thrown down, his arm broken, McGinnis was a victim of friendly fire from the Capitol police and Senator Tim Sheehy, who decided he’d join the police in wrestling McGinnis out of the hearing room.
McGinnis’s “crime”? Using his freedom of speech to declare that no one wants to die in a war for Israel.
You can watch it all here. (You can hear the bone crack in his arm.)
This is what happens in America when you stand up and speak truth to power. The powerful already know the truth. Their response is either to ignore truth-tellers or to silence them, sometimes with extreme prejudice.
This Marine, this patriot, exercising his Constitutional right of free speech before the Senate, became yet another casualty of the U.S./Israeli War on Iran, a victim of a deliberate and unconscionable act of friendly fire. All he wanted was to have his voice heard; all he got in return was a broken arm and a most violent silencing, even as U.S. senior leaders in uniform steadfastly ignored him.
Again, this Marine was wounded in action; his action was to speak truth before the powerful, but they don’t traffic in hard or noble truths, only in easy and convenient lies.
Shame on the U.S. Senate, shame on the military’s senior leaders, and shame on the Trump administration for waging an illegitimate, unconstitutional, and illegal war against Iran and against legitimate and courageous dissent in America.
Bracing Views 
What would have been inconceivable when I was a kid is happening daily and the war on Iran tops everything. The saving grace is that Americans are waking up and getting off their butts as did McGuinnis. Great idea of his to wear his dress uniform. Semper Fi to the country, not the leadership.
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[From my Substack entry]
Can’t bear to watch the video, the text was tough enough. I suppose he may have recourse to the courts to redress the violation of his First Amendment rights and injuries suffered, but even there the bastard politicians and generals win, years in court, ultimately up to the Supremes, the “6” of the 6-3 composition concocting some bogus opinion written by Alito or Thomas to dismiss the case.
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