Is this even legal?
One look and my gut says no. It's not campaign season and yet here is a campaign banner for Gary Alejano in full military dress. I am not sure exactly the laws on wearing your military uniform while campaigning for high office. The laws are dense and I do not know exactly where to look. There are a few laws on the book about improper wearing of military uniforms and insignia but I don't know if they apply here.
What's more interesting to me is how mind-boggling ironic or hypocritical or I-don't-know-what it is to see admitted and convicted mutineer Gary Alejano proudly wearing his Marine uniform. True he was pardoned along with his co-mutineers but that only erases the legal consequences of his crime and not the fact of the crime itself.
Apparently Alejano, despite being dismissed from the military in 2008 "after a court martial found (him) guilty of violating the Articles of War" for his involvement in the Oakwood Mutiny, still proudly wears his uniform and no one has any issues with that.
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| http://metromanila.politics.com.ph/2017/08/31/gary-alejano-shows-batasan-military-uniform/ |
Magdalo Party-list Rep. Gary Alejano went to celebrate Armed Forces Week with a privilege speech before the House of Representatives.
To show his solidarity with the troops, the ex-Marine even dressed up in his gala uniform as he made the speech.
The ex-Marine? That is an understatement. Unbelievably his current Twitter profile shows him "dressed up in his gala uniform."
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| https://twitter.com/garyalejano |
Gary Alejano took an oath when he enlisted and he broke that oath becoming a traitor to his nation when he conspired to commit mutiny against the government. He has long ago relinquished any right to honourably wear that uniform.
So why does he still wear it and in such a self-promoting fashion? Why doesn't anyone speak up?
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