Cowards and Traitors

In 2025, three events sent Army veteran Jim Parker back into service - not with a rifle, but with a keyboard. After attending his fiftieth Officer Candidate School reunion, visiting Arlington National Cemetery on an honor flight, and returning to South Korea fifty years after his tour there, Parker decided someone needed to say what millions of Americans were thinking.
Cowards and Traitors makes the case that America's greatest threat isn't foreign. It's the elected officials, media figures, religious leaders, and billionaires who violate the Constitution through silence, complicity, and cowardice. Using the teachings of Jesus, the text of the Constitution, and documented policy evidence, Parker identifies four categories of domestic enemies and challenges readers to stop enabling them.
The book provides a foundation in what Christianity actually teaches and what the Constitution actually requires, then measures current political behavior against both standards. It includes a detailed case study of a sitting U.S. senator to show what political complicity looks like issue by issue. It closes with a blueprint for the transparency and accountability tools Americans should be demanding from every elected official.
Part civic argument, part moral challenge, part call to action - this book asks one question: If your politicians are lying to you, and you know it, why do you keep voting for them?