Posted on 12/31/2010 4:54:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Roman leader Julius Caesar became dictator for life in 44 B.C., he had an asset all aspiring despots need: the militarys loyalty. For without boots on the ground, a totalitarian nightmare remains nothing more than an ambitious villains dream.
This occurs to me when I ponder the repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell and the overall transformation of our military. Now, I must mention something here: Ive never been much of a conspiracy theorist. Frankly, I subscribe to the maxim, Never attribute to malice what is better explained by stupidity. I dont for a second believe that most of the boots on the cultural ground the lust-blinded homosexual activists and neer-do-well civil-rights hustlers have ambitions beyond their horse-blinders agenda. Nor do I think that our rather dull Senators, such as mind-frozen Mainers Susan Collins and Olympia Snow, never gay Golden Staters Babs Boxer (sorry, maam, but it just seems fitting) and Diane Crimestein, and the provisionally pious Joe Lieberman, want to relinquish power to a potentate. Thats why we have the term useful idiots. But something does occur to me, something you may call a fantasy or a nightmare. And I dont say its likely or that it isnt; just view the following as my thinking out loud.
Lets say you were a leftist bent on orchestrating a takeover of the United States. Im talking about someone with the mindset of Obama ally Bill Ayers, who once said that to cement a domestic communist revolution they might have to kill 25 million capitalists. Now, every informed person knows that leftists arent very popular in the military; our armed forces are a bastion of traditionalism, supporting Republicans and exhibiting Christian piety to a disproportionate degree. Given this, if a leftist had aspirations of becoming the first American dictator, it seems likely that the military (or at least elements thereof) wouldnt back him. That is, unless he could transform the military.
How would you eliminate traditionalism from the armed forces? Obviously, by instituting its opposite: politically correct social engineering. You could perhaps start by enlisting more women and then making them part of combat units, and you could make military academies co-ed. Also be sure to have women serving aboard naval vessels, which will result in a sky-high pregnancy rate. You then could cater to the increasingly feminized atmosphere by issuing stress cards to trainees, who could produce them in boot camp if they felt a drill sergeant was being, you know, a real meanie. And you could bring in a psychologist nicknamed Dr. Happy to teach resiliency classes. Next, it helps if you start promoting members through the ranks based partially on a quota system. And dont forget the requisite sensitivity training, classes in how to prevent things such as stereotyping and racial profiling. Also, its important to promote pliant, boot-licking lackeys such as Admiral Mike Mullen to positions of power. Then, once this is accomplished (and I know Ive missed a few steps, programs and policies), you can dumb down the prohibition against homosexuals to a Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy and later on, finally, allow them to serve openly. Of course, all this will do nothing to solve the militarys manpower problem, but it may solve its manly-power problem. It will start to bleed good men.
And while conspiracists will say its by design, politics wonks will chalk it up to ideology and straight talkers will call it stupidity, that argument is secondary. Whether you contracted a deadly disease by accident or were purposely infected wont change the fact that if you dont cure it, you will die. And the point is that everything outlined in the above paragraph has already happened.
And the process continues.
And good men are leaving the service. Most of us have heard the stories, too. Just consider this posting under an American Thinker blog piece about the repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell: I no longer take pride in being a soldier. I will ETS as soon as my contract is up. To hell with this country now, [sic] I'm done fighting for it. Or consider a couple of posts left under an August 18, 2009 Fox News piece about Dr. Happy. One serviceman wrote:
I about fell out when I heard about stress cards in boot camp . What idiot came up with those stress cards? Do they think the Taliban or Abu Sayyaf will stop shooting at you because you show them a little pink card with Hello Kitty on it that reads, Please stop shooting at me. It lowers my self esteem?... I don't know if I want to reenlist now or not.
And after complaining about spending several days a month in mandatory classes designed to combat things such as stereotyping and racial profiling, one ex-soldier wrote, We only went to the firing range once during the last year I was in the Army, but we watched a ton of prevention presentations in air-conditioned auditoriums.
The fact is that the kind of warriors you want in the military appreciate a robust, masculine, almost Spartan environment and are deterred by a feminized, namby-pamby, Dr. Happy approach. And good men did in fact leave because of Bill Clinton. Good men left because of social engineering. And more good men are leaving because of Barack Obama.
Of course, there are still plenty of good men left in the military. It is still a relative bastion of traditionalism. And it is still, most would say, far-fetched to believe that Obama might be laying the groundwork for a future dictatorship. As I said, Im just thinking out loud.
But this is undoubtedly true: As in ancient Rome, civilizations do tend to transition from democracy to tyranny. Its also true that this transition occurs when the people become sufficiently corrupt. And what is the state of modern America? It is such that her people elected a man who, in saner times, would have been investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And this is not hyperbole. Remember that Barack Obama was raised by unreconstructed leftists, mentored by communist Frank Marshall Davis and gravitated toward Marxist professors in college. We also now know about John Drew, a contemporary of Obamas at Occidental College who used to be a communist himself. He would discuss the Red faith with Obama and verifies that The One was in 100 percent, total agreement with his communist professors and was a flat-out Marxist-Leninist who believed in old-style communist revolution.
Now, theres something else I can say about that transition to tyranny. To state the obvious, communist revolution is certainly some degree closer when communists actually start appearing in government. Of course, Obamas college days are almost 30 past, so he might have hoped and changed, right? Perhaps. But, if a man is known by the company he keeps, note that Obama not only allied himself with Bill Ayers (whats 25 million corpsemen between friends?) but also appointed avowed communist Van Jones and Anita Dunn who cited Mao Tse-tung as one of her two favorite philosophers to positions in his administration. And this doesnt even take into consideration the de facto communists in his employ, people such as Valerie Jarrett, and John Holdren of Chinese-style forced-abortion fame.
Admittedly, it does sound like the stuff of late-night radio talk shows to say that Obama aims to remake the military in his own image so he can be a third-millennium Caesar. But his history certainly is enough to make one think out loud. And history is our only guide. Because whatever Barack Obamas passions may be, the media wont ask, and he wont tell.
“In case you hadnt noticed, the left took over our schools, our bureaucracies and our media. What did we take over?”
How about 700 state legislative seats in the last election.
Did you miss that?
Temporary.
How about we take over some institutions, which do not ebb and flow with elections?
A major media operation, for example. Or all of them. We’re supposedly the side of the aisle with money.
So buy them already. Rush for example, could probably purchase at least one network, just from his walking around money.
Fox News is at best, globalist. We need to be more aggressive. More Machiavellian.
Commies are.
That would be pre-confiscation.
If the American people will tolerate 9/11 (a bigger loss of life from a sneak attack than Pearl Harbor) being characterized as a civil crime, then they're ready to kneel to tyranny.
Hitler got rid of some of his finest military leaders because he couldn’t trust them.
The right needs to be well represented in our military for our own safety.
Gen Casey said ‘what happened at Ft Hood is a tragedy, if we lose our diversity ...’
The military operates on uniformity.
I think we - you and me - are on the same wavelegnth. I guess.
Of course at one time, I thought I understand women and cats.
Man, I sure missed that.
Women are a lot like cats.
I think. :)
“The right needs to be well represented in our military for our own safety.”
Actually, I’m of the opinion that the “right” needs to be the military for our safety...not just well represented. Meaning the military should be so designed that only those of a conservative mindset could deal with being in the military. The liberal mindset should not feel comfortable in a uniformed status and should not be able to rise in rank and prosper there. This is especially needed at the higher ranks of both enlisted and officers. The term “liberal general” should be an oxymoron. That is my opinion....for what very little it is worth.
Americans traded liberty for HD flatscreen TV and cable. He controls the media and the fools who watch TV play right into his hands. The NFL, MCAA, NBA, MLB all fawn all over him. I dumped Tv shortly after he was elected. FR’ers even say Fox is fawning all over him. FOx was on election night. They were kiss major a*s.
We need to go Galt and not support any companies who support him. If he gets reelected in 2012 then it is game over. It may already be game over.
yeah right. These statements about Hussein being stupid etc etc. They are taking away one freedom after another from you each day. The drooling idiots who watch Tv enable him.
Anyone who thinks this isn’t a plan hasn’t been paying attention to Europe and in particular to the US’s closest ally the UK.
Cultural Marxism is endemic in public institutions in Britain, not just the media, schools, universities and church as in the US but across the whole gamut of state institutions where not only is it impossible to get promotion without subscribing to leftist social policy but to express disapproval can see an employee dismissed or even facing criminal prosecution.
Of course combined with this institutional leftism is its ugly twin brother; hopeless inefficiency, as more manhours are wasted teaching and discussing “diversity” rather than actually training staff to do their jobs properly.
Now all this wouldn’t be so bad if it was only universities and churches that were affected but the rot is now firmly entrenched in front line services too. British nurses used to be fine upstanding, common-sensical ladies who kept their hospital wards clean and their patients healthy. Today British nurses, who are trained in universities rather than hospital wards now, are lazy, dirty, politically correct harridans who seem to be horrified at the idea that their job might include cleaning the backsides of sick old people.
British policemen, the stolid, incorrupt “bobbies” of old are now overpaid enforcers of leftwing political doctrine, whizzing around in ever more powerful cars or helicopters to seize citizens’ firearms or arrest “homophobes” but blindly unconcerned about real crime which through their “awareness workshops” they have been brainwashed into believing are a result of social injustice.
The rot continues, a few years ago strange stories started emerging about firefighters being disciplined for refusing to partake in gay pride events or suchlike, again the pattern was clear, one more state institution widely regarded as a bastion of traditional, conservative values was being undermined.
The British military are the last holdout but already the process is well underway. The same thing is happening now in the US.
It is not a question of “using” a leftist army to take over the US, once they have control of the army there will be no US left which is not already in their hands.
Actually there have been some fine liberal leaders in the military. David Hackworth was rabidly liberal in my opinion but had a stellar record.
“The military operates on uniformity.”
Marching on the parade ground, yes.
On the battlefield, it’s initiative - can you move your troops in position to kick the enemy’s butt.
If you get a chance, read about Col. Carlson’s Marine Raiders on Guadalcanal. It captures perfectly how to kill ememies in combat.
BTW, Happy New Year to you and yours...
Sad thing is some of us have been warning about this using history and facts for years. The ‘moderates’ and libertarians will have to see it come to fruition and then realize its too damn late to do anything about it. Useful idiots..
I don’t much disagree with your post.
Maybe, with Jim’s permission, we can get a working group going.
What’s your thought?
Oh, BTW, happy New Year to you and yours.
Let us all pray that Obozo soon achieves Yamamoto’s status.
“Women are a lot like cats.”
I could write a book about cats and women - inscrutable, magical and merciless. But that’s my life.
David Hackworth was nuts.
Yeah. Stellar. Building base bordellos ;).
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