Posted on 04/14/2021 4:50:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What a coincidence.
The Biden administration is on the offensive against extremism. However, it is having trouble defining the term.
The newly installed defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, has signed a memo ordering several "immediate actions," including military-wide "stand downs," to weed out "extremism" in the ranks of the military. Actions also included a review of and update to the DoD's definition of extremism and a review and standardization of the screening questionnaire — "[t]o solicit specific information about current or previous extremist behavior, and to clarify that any demonstrably false answers provided in response could form the basis for punitive action for fraudulent enlistment." Defense officials said the Pentagon is reversing Trump-era policies that banned transgender people from serving in the military. The Pentagon will also issue new rules that will broaden transgender people's access to medical care and cosmetic surgery to imitate members of the opposite sex. Opposition to these policies may be considered extremist.
Democrats are also calling for the vetting of National Guard members. D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser said, "When you have Guardsmen and women coming from all over the nation at this time, I do think that it is prudent to make sure that they are being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge allegiance to their missions, and may be pulled by other views, needs not only to be removed from this duty, they need to be removed from the Guard." Rep. Steve Cohen claimed, "The guard is 90-some-odd-percent male ... only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden. You've got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative — I see that on my social media, and we know it. They're probably not more than 25 percent of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden.
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It seems that the minority is trying to oust the majority. Not just the military, but all of society.
Veiled political persecution.
Translated: Anybody who cannot pledge allegiance to communism.
Conservative thinkers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Either way, they shall be cast out as demons.
If you are going to be called an SOB anyway, might as well step fully in the role of being an SOB, ending all pretense.
Steve Cohen is racially profiling white males in the national guard.
The “extremists” have no political representation in Washington. They are stuck voting for Republicans, who really only claim that they will kill them off at a slightly slower rate than the Democrats intend to. Unity is no longer possible nor even desirable.
A true people’s commissar.
With the democrats’ definition of extremists, the founding fathers were extremists, the writers of the bill of rights were extremists, and those who believe in the constitution and the rule of law, are extremists.
Why don’t these people concentrate on protecting America first. Cosmetic surgeries for transgenders is fucking over the top. If they turn the military against America ,America is finished. We better start picking the certain 100 people who need culled and get started before its to late!
So Jack Chick was right all along.
Political tests for the military is the hallmark of Communist governments.
Sorry, it’s too late. Look to your own.
I think you’re right.
They had their chance with Trump. Too many on the take, blind, or under control of the CCP.
Now, a peaceful return to normalcy is out.
If you are of a different political party then you are the sworn mortal enemy of the controlling party.
I wish it was a 2-way street, but we are not playing the same game.
Funny, not a word in either enlisted oath or oath of commission says anything about allegiance to mission or to government.
But it does clearly require allegiance to the constitution and to obey lawful orders....
Oh, it also clearly requires the duty to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
But trannys are just fine in the military. Nothing extreme about them.
“who cannot pledge allegiance to their missions,”
Hmmm, I always it was the Constitution that they were supposed to support?
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