Marine Officer Warns Congress Against Classifying Christians in Military as ‘Religious Extremists’

epoch times ^ | 24 March A.D., 2021 | Mark Tapscott

[DownInFlames]

So is Biden!

[Jan_Sobieski]

The best advice I can think of is from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn...

”And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[Fred Hayek]

Welcome to State Atheism.

[NormsRevenge]

Adam Smith, the Pinocchio of the Hou$e. Did his face crack when he said he respected the Constitution?

[Kudsman]

It probably doesn’t take a whole lot to qualify as a religious extremist to an atheist. Context is everything.

Too bad our national drive by media doesn’t provide it anymore.

[TianaHighrider]

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[daniel1212]

Thanks for posting this, and more than about 2 sentences which many FR posters lazily do. I posted this 2 days ago on the same issue: SERGEANT MAJOR OF THE MARINE CORPS MEMORANDUM SMMC Core Values Mem [worse than bad: the enemy is us; it's not your father's military. See comment]

From your article post:The training manual that Berry referred to is used in Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s recently ordered “stand-down” to identify and root out extremists in the U.S. military. Austin’s order came in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, in which some of the participants were military veterans. .. Rogers said “extremism was a factor” in the separation of only nine soldiers from the U.S. Army in 2020, and he noted that “since 2018, 17 Marines have been separated for extremism, gang or separatist activities. “That’s 17 out of 200,000. While I agree that this number ought to be zero, this is far from the largest military justice issue facing our armed services,” Rogers said.

The newest Republican member of the committee, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) pointed out that “recently the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, NPR, and the New Yorker magazine, just to name a few, skewered the SPLC for, among other things, corruption, harassment, racism and a widening credibility gap.” Fallon also noted that Cronin claimed 37 of those arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol were either U.S. military veterans or reservists. “There are 18 million U.S. military veterans. Thirty-four were rioters. This means that 17,999,966 of us were not. That’s one out of 529,000,” Fallon said.

[AFreeBird]

Oh that’s rich. I look forward to seeing the spin / moonwalk on the push back that’ll bring.

Then again maybe they’ll get a pass for not being white.

[daniel1212]

Is The US Military Being Purged Of Rightists?

American Conservative ^ | March 23, 2021 | Rod Dreher Posted on 3/24/2021, 8:53:25 AM by C19fan This came into my inbox today from an Army lawyer (judge advocate). The reader gave me permission to post it if I left off his name and the names of mutual friends who urged him to reach out to me: I just read your piece, “Witness Against Wokeness” which reverberated strongly with me — not because I have any experience with Eastern European Communism, but because it is happening here and now and I am on the receiving end. I’ve already spoken with our mutual friends [names] about this matter and had hesitated to bring it to your attention. However, given the tenor of your latest article I have to warn you, the soft totalitarianism you’ve been trying to draw attention to is right in your own backyard. The great purge of Conservatives from the US military has begun; once the ranks are sufficiently cleansed then the overarching work to remake our country can begin in earnest. I am a part-time Army Reservist who has drilled for the past 4 years at the [unit] in [Louisiana city] and had recently transferred to the [unit near a different Louisiana city]. A week ago, I received my “Notice of Purge” in the form of a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand (“GOMOR”) personally signed by Lt. Gen. Charles Pede, The Judge Advocate General of the Army (the guy who advises the Joint Chiefs of Staff and briefs at the White House).

[Red Badger]

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Senator Barry Goldwater R-Arizona, Republican Convention Presidential Campaign Acceptance Speech.............................

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I doubt they make that classification. However, the military still does have a good bit of Conservative Christians in all of the ranks.

My brother is one, though the diversity crap will probably drive him to leave soon.