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Posted on 08/13/2022 8:00:28 AM PDT by elpadre
Less than a month after the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks.” Pentagon officials had been shaken by service members’ prominent role in the events of January 6.
Of the 884 criminal defendants charged to date with taking part in the insurrection, more than 80 were veterans. That’s almost 10% of those charged.
More remarkable, at least five of the rioters were serving in the military at the time of the assault: an active-duty Marine officer and four reservists.
Service members’ involvement in the insurrection has made the spread of extremism – particularly white nationalism – a significant issue for the US military.
A blue ribbon committee called the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group was quickly commissioned in April 2021 to evaluate the extent of the problem. The group found about 100 substantiated cases of extremism in the US armed forces in 2021.
The latest instance occurred in July 2022, when Francis Harker, a National Guard member with white supremacist connections, was sentenced to four years in prison for planning an anti-government attack on police.
Harker, who carried a picture saying “there is no God but Hitler,” was planning to attack police officers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Molotov cocktails and semi-automatic rifles.
Worried, Austin has tightened the rules regarding political speech within the military. The new rules prohibit any statement that advocates for “violence to achieve goals that are political … or ideological in nature.” The ban applies to members of the military both on and off duty.
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Is the military defining everything anti-Woke as “racist”?
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“..The military has wide latitude in deciding who is deserving of the “special trust and confidence” that comes with military employment. Military officials are free to consider political and social beliefs that are “inimical to the vital mission of the agency” in making hiring and firing decisions, the Blameuser decision said...”
and we wonder why no red-blooded American young men want to join the military anymore??? — or why the military is understrength????
Start with the female cadets who posed for pictures making the black power salute.
They are racists.
Maybe the Veterans who were arrested for attending the rally at the Capitol on January 6,2021 had a reason to be there.To see that the Constitution was followed and that the Right Person was sworn into the office of the President of the United States.
Pedophile Joe Biden is not that person.
It seems Austin is truly a Biden man and is fundamentally transforming our military. We need Trump asap!!!
I would have never thought it possible, but this country is ripe for an invasion and our military is going to be so degraded and incapable that we’ll have to be like Ukrainians, only exponentially better and bigger.
Problem is, where do we get billions in cash and bullets from? Hmmmmm.....
Don’t be on social media
“...assault on the US Capitol...”
When was the Capitol “assaulted”????????????????
1,376,658 active duty US military personnel and 799,500 reserve duty personnel.
ONE active duty Marine participated.
FOUR reservists participated.
Yes, by all means, we must purge ALL of the ranks from this widespread evil.
Thought Police out in force.
This madness has to stop.
Both the Jan 6 hysteria and the idea that anyone saying certain things is automatically a racist and ipso facto, evil.
That racism = evil actually needs to go. It’s the ultimate religion for these commie thugs.
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I call this a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the Biden administration about what constitutes a patriot that is a key factor in making him a good soldier: that soldier has to believe in the values of his country. Real patriots CANNOT in good conscience believe in the Biden administration view of what our nation should be. I suspect that many of those left do not have the fortitude to stand in the gap to defend their flimsy view of morality, honor and the pitiable leftovers of our country under Biden. . . what a disgusting, tragic waste.
I remember reading of Russian Soldiers, in WW II, being sent to labor camps in Siberia because they said or wrote home something disparaging about “the Big Man”(Stalin).
So sad our military is now in that position where the Russians were in 1942.
What next? A “Political Commissar” for each platoon?
As for the US Military, it's fast becoming a jobs program for unemployable freaks and layabouts. Normal people need not apply.
We need an alternative military. Minute Men..and women.
Austin and Milley are pushing Woke culture because that is what they believe the Establishment wants (for whatever reason). They are soldiers after all. They follow orders.
This crap is why the entirety of the military cannot now meet their recruitment goals. I know I sure wouldn’t have my son, daughters or grand-children be part of their morally corrupt deep-state ranks.
Actually they love to bloviate about Confederate flags there. As if that makesit the KKK.
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