Posted on 02/04/2021 9:11:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attends a congressional tribute on Wednesday to the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who died from injuries sustain protecting the Capitol building from a mob breaching the facility on Jan. 6. Pool Photo by Erin Schaff/UPI |
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Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he has ordered a military-wide stand down over the next 60 days to deal with extremism in the military's ranks after active and former military personnel participated in the mob that stormed the Capitol building last month.
"Today, I met with senior leaders to discuss extremism in the military. As a first step, I'm ordering a stand down to occur over the next 60 days so each service, each command and each unit can have a deeper conversation about this issue," he said in a statement. "It comes down to leadership."
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters during a press conference Wednesday that details of the military pause, such as what training service members will undergo and what exactly the goals the military seeks to accomplish are, need to be hammered out.
The purpose of the stand down, however, will be to reinforce the Pentagon's policies and values and to start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism, Kirby said.
The meeting between Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and other military leaders was "an initial discussion" and the issue of extremism and White supremacy within the military, Kirby said.
Austin told the military leaders that the vast majority of those who serve in uniform do so with honor and integrity but no matter how few espouse such beliefs that led to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol it is an issue that needs to be addressed.
"No matter what it is, it is ... not an insignificant problem," Kirby said.
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"He hasn't ruled anything in or out," Kirby said.
The order was made nearly a month after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election win, resulting in five deaths, including that of former Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she breached the building.
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Several other former and active military have been identified among the mob, including some who now face charges for participating in the insurrection.
Weakening the US military does not bother me any more, because they will never again be on the side of me and mine. I understand that now.
He will continue the purge of conservatives started under Obama.
It sounds like they are about to purge anyone who isn’t “woke.”
Question: Would you fire on US citizens? Yes - you are in, No - you are out.
Assume this new purge will include dishonorably discharging all conservatives in order to ensure they can’t find work after discharge (cancel culture would demand it).
AAAAA. African American Affirmative Action Austin?
So, the new Black SecDef wants to persecute whites in the military.
“The purpose of the stand down, however, will be to reinforce the Pentagon’s policies and values and to start a two-way conversation between the troops and leadership about extremism,”
And here we go. The final purge of anyone who isn’t brainwashed into neo-Marxism is about to begin.
This is Obama part 3. They will gut every part of the government, search out and eliminate anyone who isn’t a leftist.
The media will never cover the extent of the firings.
This is very clever. Obama spent much of his time in office being sure that the government was populated with fellow travelers. And that accounts for the heavy resistance president Trump faced.
Per JoeBama’s puppeteer who lives in Kalorama district— the 3rd term manager muzzie in chief. NONE of this will ever EVER examing the “extremism” that has exhibited itself repeatedly over the last 15 year-— ISLAMOFASCISM.
-—Ft. Hood Army Psychiatrist detected with this extremism, reported .... and NOTHING done. Then the shooting, the many many subsequent hearings... and final decision recommending death sentence, back in 2013. 7 years later he has not been executed. — the muzzies embedded from obiwon still perpetuating the “pleas”. He needs to be executed— that would reduce the empowered current “extremism”.
-— earlier during Iraq (II?) a grenade attack fragging incident by a islamofascist Army soldier killing his CO- it happened. What happened to the clearly guilty soldier? Zip?
NO- THIS ‘extremism’ by this not terribly bright political appointee resurrected from his retirement (could they not find someone better for force unit integrity across the forces? No. Because they want BLACK WHITE and especially ISLAMO ascendancy and division in the ranks vs. Christians of any denomination and the real points of the Spear. Austin is part of the political insurgency being INFLICTED on our Military. It is not going to go well.
BTW— isn’t this to be 60 days from now— or is it the “slow pissing up everyone’s leg” that it is supposed to cause dissension. An “ethnic” cleansing for the politically correct obiwon islamofascists and muzzie embed fed gov permanent class.
The military are not under the command of Biden, Austin or Miley. They will ignore this pathetic attempt to exert control. Biden and his cronies are sitting in a big white building in a deserted city surrounded by 9 ft fencing and thousands of troops. They aren’t commanding anything. Its the Wizard of Oz.
The Commissars are the real extremists and they're flexing their muscles on the issue. The Purge is coming.
‘senior leaders’ = sandbox monitors
I didn’t know we recruited Generals in kindergarden
Add: Private space initiatives are shut down.
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