Posted on 10/24/2013 10:26:23 AM PDT by grumpygresh
Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a half hour discussing how evangelical Christians and groups like the American Family Association were “tearing the country apart.”
Michael Berry, an attorney with the Liberty Institute, is advising the soldier and has launched an investigation into the incident.
“The American public should be outraged that the U.S. Army is teaching our troops that evangelical Christians and Tea Party members are enemies of America, and that they can be punished for supporting or participating in those groups,” said Berry, a former Marine Corps JAG officer.
“These statements about evangelicals being domestic enemies are a serious charge.”
The soldier told me he fears reprisals and asked not to be identified. He said there was a blanket statement that donating to any groups that were considered a threat to the military and government was punishable under military regulations.
“My first concern was if I was going to be in trouble going to church,” the evangelical Christian soldier told me. “Can I tithe? Can I donate to Christian charities? What if I donate to a politician who is a part of the Tea Party movement?”
Another soldier who attended the briefing alerted the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. That individual’s recollections of the briefing matched the soldier who reached out to me.
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UPDATE: Army Halts Training Program Labeling Christians as Extremists
The Secretary of the Army has ordered military leaders to halt all briefings on extremist organizations that labeled Evangelical Christian groups as domestic hate groups. The shutdown comes just four days after I reported exclusively about a briefing at Mississippi’s Camp Shelby that labeled the American Family Association as a domestic hate group.
The King’s recent ousting of 10 or so top military brass is an ominous sign. Something evil is brewing.
The people who built the nation and have kept it safe all these years are terrorists?
Socialism is the opiate of the masses.
you clearly do not know our soldiers , sailors and Marines .
Not sure about AF
“you clearly do not know our soldiers , sailors and Marines .
Not sure about AF”
Couple marines in the immediate family, they’re getting out. Air Force career officer also, he’ll get out if they go too far. No one in my family is considering joining what the military has become.
Point is, if they are ordered to shoot, half of them will walk, and the other half will shoot. And, if you are talking to one, do you know for sure which way they lean? Will they report you, or stay quiet at the risk of you being a test for their loyalty to zero?
I will not trust any member of the military that I did not know before they were military, or before zero came to be.
Thanks for the update. I guess that trial balloon failed...for now.
The bottom line is that this again clearly reveals the administration’s intent and they will try again.
Wasn’t there an Army training a few months ago that was teaching something similar?
Stopped for now? No, just hidden.
They took an oath to the Constitution, not to a man.
The first few gun owners will die for the cause... then the word gets out and all of the Nazis will be dealt with.
Yes, they are the finest that America has!
I share all of my knowledge with my family here! You are welcome.
Depends on how it’s done.
If they follow the Weather Underground playbook and orchestrate civil unrest/race riots throughout the country forcing the governors of the states to use national guard troops, then when the NG troops are in the streets you follow with terrorist attacks by foreign terrorist.
This would make it appear as if a militant group has teamed with foreign terrorist to wage war against the US.
With an act of war the federal govt takes over. The troops would be responding to an act of war by a foreign power against the US.
Zippo’s hands would be clean since he’s not the one that sent the troops into the streets, governors did.
Indeed!
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