It's not an emotional appeal, it's a counter-ultimatum. The Pentagon cannot compel anyone to like them and will not enjoy the results of radicalizing us against them. Perhaps there's some way they could seize control over training data, but it's hard to see - through what mechanism would a DoD supervisor be able to audit training data generated by a person who doesn't report to him and fed into a process he doesn't understand?

Certainly no invocation of the Defense Production Act can stop me from seeing an alert in a DoD cloud region and deciding I don't care to do a good job responding.