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Exclusive: Special Forces Warned Against Using Pepe the Frog, III%ers, Other ‘Extremist’ Symbols
Breitbart ^ | 2/4/21

Posted on 02/04/2021 2:34:05 PM PST by Altura Ct.

An Army commander recently briefed U.S. Special Forces candidates and trainees they could be detained or chaptered out of the Army if they are found affiliated with certain imagery popular on the political right that is now considered to be associated with extremism, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.

The briefing, by Army Col. Mike Henry, MD, deputy commander of Special Warfare Medical Group (Airborne)/Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center at the U.S. John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (JFKSWCS) at Fort Bragg, came two days after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, a source familiar with the briefing said.

Henry is responsible for training over 2,500 Army and Navy Special Operations medics.

Around the time of the briefing, slides from the New York Police Department Intelligence Bureau were also posted around the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center (JSOMTC) and distributed to soldiers. The slides, dated January 14, listed and described about two dozen symbols, ideologies, and memes considered to be “associated with or appropriated by domestic violent extremism.”

The slides said:

Recent high-profile mass-casualty attacks in the West have demonstrated the enduring threat posed by a wide range of racially/ethnically motivated violent extremists and conspiracy-driven malicious actors, including those inspired by far-right, neo-Nazis, and white supremacist worldviews. Due to his concerning trend, NYPD Intelligence Bureau advises law enforcement to maintain awareness of key symbols, icons, and graphics associated with or appropriated by domestic violent extremist movements that — in some cases — were observed during the January 6 deadly and destructive riot at the US Capitol.

Soldiers were told the list came from the Department of Homeland Security and was an updated list of what federal and local law enforcement need to be “on the lookout for,” according to the source.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blm; cancelculture; doublestandard; mikehenry; military; pcpersecution; purge; racism
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To: Altura Ct.
We are all extremists now!

Pepe has been a meme mascot for years at r/TheDonald => TheDonald.win => Patriots.win. This isn't extremism, it's political memecraft.

The narrative being pushed here is dangerous.

61 posted on 02/04/2021 3:26:20 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Altura Ct.
So when did the left become the norm and conservatives become "extremists?"

...and are now worried that they may be kicked out or punished for past affiliation.

If you're looking for extremist behavior I'd say you have found it right there. Punishing people for personal political beliefs - how very Brown-Shirt of the left...

62 posted on 02/04/2021 3:28:42 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Its a political purge by the 0bama Officer corp - this is how they get to their very own military to use when and where they see fit on US soil against wrong-thinkers.


63 posted on 02/04/2021 3:30:57 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Altura Ct.

somebody put together some memes in one video

i guess since trump is in it dancing you would get the boot for extremist views

https://twitter.com/TicTocTick/status/1357470974992478210

although, perhaps it is Bernie extremism that would get them fired


64 posted on 02/04/2021 3:32:20 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: Altura Ct.

I always thought the frog was a navy thing, and was associated with demolition divers or something. But, then again, it could be the French.


65 posted on 02/04/2021 3:33:27 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Husker24

yup.


66 posted on 02/04/2021 3:33:42 PM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Altura Ct.

KEK!!!


67 posted on 02/04/2021 3:42:39 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Altura Ct.

Get ready for your military belongs to the CCP
At the rate things are going with the military they are going to be the peoples enemy pretty soon.


68 posted on 02/04/2021 3:57:25 PM PST by Revel
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To: Jonty30
"I think this is done because the Democrats and globalists want to use the US military against the people and they need Americans out in sufficient numbers to take it over."

I think this is done because the communists and globalists want to use the US military against the people and they need Americans out in sufficient numbers to take it over.

If you continue to play into their hands by referring to them as democrats, they win... You are playing their game...
The disease is "communists" not "democrats" ...
Anyone who voted for them is a communist-supporter and, therefore, the enemy as well...
Call a spade a spade...

69 posted on 02/04/2021 4:02:24 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Altura Ct.

And they expect these men and women to actually put their lives on the line with this kind of bull$hit?


70 posted on 02/04/2021 4:04:30 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: SuperLuminal

I understand, but the reality is that there are not enough Democrats who can be called loyal Americans that we need to use the term to include loyal Americans.

Democrats and liberals are dead terms for what they used to mean.


71 posted on 02/04/2021 4:05:51 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: OldGoatCPO
"The Frog is a symbol for Navy UDT (frogmen)."

They'll be changing that next.

72 posted on 02/04/2021 4:07:54 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Altura Ct.

No Pope, but is a rainbow patch ok?


73 posted on 02/04/2021 4:08:07 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Altura Ct.

They are also no longer allowing the Thin Blue Line flag and flags like it (thin red/green line), any Gadsen flag, the Tree flag, Betsy Ross flag, other historical American flags, flags with “1776” in them, and “excessive” display of the American flag or patriotism (No American flags outside what is issued, no patriotic bunting or over celebration of American patriotic days). Also any Second Amendment imagery will be banned.

But the Dems plan to cut the military by at least 50% so they hope this gives them a head start.


74 posted on 02/04/2021 4:14:58 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Other imagery on the slides included those associated with QAnon, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the National Social Club 131, the “Kek” flag, the Boogaloo movement, the National Socialist Order, 14, 88, the swastika, the sonnenrad or sunwheel, the SS, the Celtic Cross, the WP “okay” hand symbol, the Archangel Michael Cross, the “Othala Rune”, the “Norse Algis Rune”, the “Totenkopf”, the Universal Order symbol, the nuclear symbol, and the ((( ))) “echo.” The descriptions of QAnon and the Oathkeepers are also accompanied by photos of protesters at the Capitol on January 6.

It looks like they would require the swastika. That's what they're acting like.

75 posted on 02/04/2021 4:19:08 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Altura Ct.
‘Extremist’ Symbols

Like BLM and Antifa?

76 posted on 02/04/2021 4:19:09 PM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Altura Ct.

The Biden military must rid themselves of any conservative member they think wouldn’t obey an order to open fire on American citizens peacefully protesting.


77 posted on 02/04/2021 4:21:08 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: All

We tried to tell ya’ll what was coming when they started on the battle ensign of the Army of Northern Virginia. Quite a few said the Confederacy was a bunch of traitors and slave owners so it was okay. Fine. Now a Celtic cross, an OK signal and God knows what all is verboten. Where does it end? When Stone Mountain is blown up?


78 posted on 02/04/2021 4:21:17 PM PST by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: Altura Ct.

The military has to be subjugated by the left to continue their plans for this country. But trust me, this did not start last month, it started on Obama’s first day and while Trump put big money in the military, he did nothing to root out the Obama era scum that were in very high positions by that time.


79 posted on 02/04/2021 4:23:49 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Jonty30
"Democrats and liberals are dead terms for what they used to mean."

Agree...
I'm old enough (87) to remember Democrat politicians and democrat voters who were American patriots...

80 posted on 02/04/2021 4:24:50 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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