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Former Rep. Bob Barr: The Strange Priorities Of Biden’s Department Of Defense
Daily Caller ^ | 02/15/2021 | Former Rep. Bob Barr

Posted on 02/15/2021 5:03:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Although our Founders correctly recognized that the overriding responsibility of the president is to secure our liberties by “protect[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution,” in this modern era most Americans likely would consider that the most important job of the president is to serve as “commander-in-chief” of the armed forces, and thereby protect the nation’s security. If so, the new Biden administration is establishing a rather odd vision for how the Department of Defense will meet its responsibilities in this regard.

The national defense priorities of this administration, as revealed in public documents issued already by the president and his chosen Secretary of Defense, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, reflect a sharp departure from his recent predecessors and from historic norms.

In one of his first executive orders, Biden chose to exercise his power as commander-in-chief not to affirm or reaffirm the need for a strong military defense against our nation’s adversaries or to announce an important national security initiative as a way to send a message to a particular adversary. No, the most important national security issue on the mind of the new president, insofar as official public pronouncements reveal, is protection of transgenderism in the military. This was affirmed in presidential Executive Order No.14004 signed just five days after he assumed office.

At the Pentagon, the first publicly revealed priorities regarding the operation of the world’s most powerful military under the Biden Administration were similarly unusual.

On Jan. 29, four days after Biden’s transgender executive order, Secretary Austin followed with a military-wide order that all restrictions on transgenderism would be lifted, at least pending a thorough review of this issue which he and his boss obviously consider crucial to America’s national security.

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The following week, Austin continued his focus on domestic policy matters, issuing another services-wide memorandum ordering a “stand-down” across all branches of the armed forces in order to address “extremism” in the ranks.

While links within military ranks to white supremacy groups is a valid concern and should be addressed, it remains unclear whether the stand-down order will extend more comprehensively to encompass ties by military personnel to non-traditional groups such as Black Lives Matter, with its clear socialist agenda and Marxist underpinnings and its involvement with last year’s riots in cities across the country.

1 posted on 02/15/2021 5:03:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

1st priority was to seal off the nations capital.


2 posted on 02/15/2021 5:10:20 PM PST by NoLibZone (Any Guard in DC are traitors. I don't pray/hope for their safety.They passed the test and will shoot)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unit political officers next.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 5:11:43 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

Xiden is planning on making the U.S. military the largest LGBT organization on the planet.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 5:14:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d say you should read Matt Bracken’s take on this.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3934555/posts?page=47#47


5 posted on 02/15/2021 5:19:35 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I would not be surprised that the pedophile biden wears womens clothes. Really I bet he does.


6 posted on 02/16/2021 1:03:27 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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