Posted on 07/12/2024 11:59:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Following massive online criticism, Fort Liberty has walked back a slide in an anti-terrorism presentation that claims pro-life Americans are terrorists.
As LifeNews.com reported, Journalist Sam Shoemate exposed the terrorism briefing on X (Twitter) that was held at Fort Liberty (Bragg) yesterday where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.”
The military facility has since walked back the slide with a post on X (Twitter).
“After conducting a commander’s inquiry, we determined that the slides presented on social media were not vetted by the appropriate approval authorities, and do not reflect the views of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty, the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense,” the post said. Mr. Shoemate told his readers on X to “keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations , but as terrorist organizations.”
“These slides will no longer be used, and all future training products will be reviewed to ensure they align with the current DoD anti-terrorism guidance,” said the fort in its post.
The slide was clearly offensive to the majority of Americans who are pro-life and a pro-life group depicted in it has condemned it.
“The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East,” Shoemate explained. “The organizations labeled by the army as terror organizations include National Right to Life and Operation Rescue.”
“They also included a screenshot of a license plate with “IM4IT,” which is a plate many Pro-Life citizens put on their car which implies normal citizens are terrorists if they display this plate,” Shoemate elaborated.
“The slide goes on to mention activities which these organizations participate in which include being Pro-Life, opposing Roe v Wade, demonstrating and protesting (a 1st Amendment protected right), “Truth Displays,” and picketing,” he continued. “They also falsely attribute the bombing of abortion clinics to National Right to Life.”
“Keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations (which would still be crazy), but as terrorist organizations,” Shoemate said. “The military and Dept of Defense are insanely out of control. Service-members are being indoctrinated to view Pro-Life groups as the enemy.”
The presentation and the slide accusing pro-life groups and pro-life Americans of being terrorists was quickly condemned by pro-life Congressman Elise Stefanik.
“The Biden Administration’s Department of Defense is allegedly attempting to teach our service members that pro-life organizations in America are “terrorist groups,” she said on X in response, and called on top political and military officials to condemn the presentation and slide.
“This is despicable. @POTUS, @SecDef, and @SecArmy, must immediately condemn and open an investigation into this vile and dangerous attempted indoctrination of our service members,” she said.
This is not the first time that peaceful pro-life Americans have been called terrorists.
A database funded by the federal government and run by a research group at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) recently labeled Students for Life of America (SFLA) as a “terrorist group.”
UMD’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) operates the research database known as Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS).
According to The College Fix, PIRUS “purportedly tracks ‘ideologically motivated criminal activity’ and known ‘extremists’ through 2021.”
“[T]wo Students for Life of America members who were arrested for writing ‘black pre-born lives matter’ on a sidewalk in 2020 are recorded in PIRUS,” the Fix reported. “This puts them among white supremacists, jihadist groups, and other threats.”
“Moreover, SFLA appears under a ‘Terrorist_Group’ label in the raw dataset,” the Fix added.
SFLA spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick blasted this labeling as “an attempt to smear the reputations of peaceful students who use their free speech right to advocate for mothers and their children, born and preborn.”
“It is a highly offensive and highly suspect organization that can’t tell the difference between students with signs and actual terrorists threatening violence,” Hamrick told The Christian Post last month.
And Joe Biden’s FBI has put pro-life Americans in prison and singled them out as “potential terrorists.”
I will never call it Fort Liberty.
I’m confused. Why was the name changed and who changed it?
Possibly needs to go to prison.
This is some very dangerous crap, and it’s clear the “Commanders” are either unaware of what goes on in their commands, or are complicit.
Either way, it’s bad. But I’m sure they don’t see it, and will defend their little fifedoms as perfect.
THIS is why recruitments are shortfalling. But they won’t — can’t — see it.
I bought a few shirts that say, “Life Member of Fort Bragg, NC”.
It will always be Ft. Bragg to me and my buddies who jumped and humped there!
t the slides presented on social media were not vetted by the appropriate approval authorities, and do not reflect the views of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty, the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense,
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Well, just whose views do they reflect?
Or did PowerPoint just get woke and go rogue, and made it up by itself.
That’s it. PowerPoint did it. (Sounds like Bart Simpson.)
Oh my, again, the total hypocrisy….paint a whole group with a good record and a few nuts as terrorists, but BLM and Antifa (latter hardly even acknowledged to exist) doing violent arson protests nationwide for months are not terrorists.
The CIC and SECDEF are left-wing extremist radicals.
THAT’s where this crap originates.
Fort Bragg and other bases were caught up in the cultural cleanings of anything related to white Southerners.
I don’t know anyone that viewed Fort Bragg as a Confederate base. It is an elite US Army base.
Surely you’re aware that terrorists ruled the day after the COVID-fueled Endless Summer Riots and statues had to be removed and federal installation names had to be changed in complete agreement with BLM terrorists.
I believe it was buried in one of the NDAAs.
Another one of these “we are extremely sorry we got caught” apologies. Rest assured, nothing has actually changed.
Professors call Founding Fathers ‘terrorists,’ founding ideals a ‘fabrication’
16NOV2016
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3496616/posts
Absolutely. Removing the slide is insufficient and provides zero accountability. Anyone involved in the development of the slide, and the approval of the presentation should face discipline appropriate to the offense. Career ending discipline.
Unless their democrats.
Then it’s okay.
“Walk it back”
AKA, put the toothpaste back in the tube. This is like the stupid Bud Light marketing woman’s screw up — only a million times worse.
Thank God somebody took a photo of the slide and released it.
Its not like they are terrorist terrorists, just terrorists.
I agree. It’s Fort Bragg!
Changing the names of these forts was only the start of their transformation.
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