Posted on 12/21/2021 4:18:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
The new rules against extremism are very broadly written but, when taken in conjunction with other activities and pronouncements, their intent is clear.
The Biden Pentagon is obsessed with “extremism.” The moment Lloyd Austin was confirmed as Biden’s Defense Secretary, he put the entire military on a 60-day stand down to purge “extremism” in the ranks. Apparently, that stand down was ineffective because Austin is back again, this time with new rules that are again meant to counter “extremism” by preventing troops from engaging in “extremist” activities. The wise and/or paranoid among us believe that those new rules are an effort to clear the ranks of conservatives, especially Trump supporters (and, I bet, DeSantis supporters).
Ostensibly, the newly issued rules for “handling protest, extremist, and criminal gang activities in the Armed Forces,” state some obvious things that troops aren’t allowed to do, such as political violence, supporting terrorism, etc. These general descriptions of bad things allow the Pentagon enormous leeway in penalizing troops who have political views that are inconsistent with the Biden administration’s goals. We already know that, for help figuring out what extremists are, the Pentagon relies on the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hard-left organization that defines anything that’s not leftist as terrorist or extremist.
We also know that the obsession that requires a whole new set of rules is inconsistent with the current data about actual “extremism” in the ranks. Although the U.S. military has around 1.3 million active-duty personal, the AP article breaking the news about the rule changes concedes that only about 0.008% of the military is official “extremist”:
According to the Pentagon, fewer than 100 military members are known to have been involved in substantiated cases of extremist activity in the past year.
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Radical Islam - Not extremist.
It’s like early 1930s Germany being worried about the “extremism” of the old Prussian military that might have loyalty to the old idea of the Kaiser. Much better to replace those crazy dangerous people with more reliable political allies like the SA and the SS. People who will do whatever they are told.
Plainly, Biden hopes to move on from his Afghan withdrawal debacle to purging his military of those who warned of it.
Stalin purged his military too. Capable people are a threat to leftists.
Next step will be to encourage comrades to ‘tell’ on each other. The entire military is quickly becoming a shell of an organization and many of those in the trenches have no idea what’s going on.
The SecDefComPoop continues to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
The SecDefComPoop continues to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
If the Republicans were smart (and of course that’s a thin chance), they’d pursue similar “thinning” of military ranks the moment they get a chance. Now is the time to clean up bloated general officer ranks, reduce force levels, push equipment and obligations to the reserves and various national guards. Get the defense industrial establishment off the public teat until the next war, which I’m sure they’ll drum up in months to come.
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Interesting: 0.008% is exactly the proportion of Muslims in the military.
BeijingBiden/Austin/Milley are making sure that when a domestic MaiLie (sp? long time ago in Vietnam) incident occurs — and it will — that there is no one on site to tell the truth.
The coal mine is filling with poisonous gas and the powers in charge are exterminating the canaries. Deliberately.
That’s cool. In the end if not turned around we’ll have an entire army of men like the son on shitts creek and women like the male swimmer at Penn state who beat all those real women at every possible swimming event:-)
Yes indeed...
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