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 knew good and well when that group started banishing historic names that they intended to attack other Americans.
It happened just as predicted.
That’s nice, but it still shows the brass are the sort who will obey orders to suppress political opposition.
“I’m confused. Why was the name changed and who changed it?”
The name was changed in the wake of Saint George of Fentanyl by an illegal commission because Forts Bragg, Hood, Polk, Benning, Rucker, A.P. Hill, Pickett, Lee, and Gordon were named after *GASP* Confederates as a means to further unify the country post Civil War.
“Whoever created that slide, and/or put it into their “training” materials, needs to be court-martialed, and mustered out of the service.”
Yes.
Both the Corps and Division commanders are pissed about this. And the dipsh*t LT or Major who created this slide with the hopes of slipping it under the radar is getting a career ending OER.
+1.
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