How Will the Pentagon Define 'Extremism'?
PJ Media,
by
Rick Moran
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/10/2021 6:47:52 PM
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is determined to root out “extremism” from the ranks of the military. He has just concluded a 60-day series of “listening sessions” dealing with the question of how he should go about the task of cleansing the armed forces of bad thoughts and is now ready to begin implementing programs and policies to that end.
But Austin has a huge problem. He has to be able to define “extremism” in such a way as to safeguard our constitutional liberties while rooting out the skinheads, the Klan members, the gangbangers, and violent revolutionaries that make up a small but significant fraction of the armed forces.
What is “extremism”?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 4/10/2021 6:52:23 PM (No. 750758)
The same way I define "patriotism", I'm sure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 4/10/2021 6:54:36 PM (No. 750762)
Being a registered republican.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/10/2021 7:10:11 PM (No. 750768)
Here's an idea. Purge the military of actual bad actors, not people who have thoughts inimical to progressive dogma.
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The answer is pretty obvious, an "extremist" in the new Army is anyone who will oppose using troops to enforce the will of the Democratic Party.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/10/2021 7:24:13 PM (No. 750777)
They'll define it as, "conservative", "anti-warmist", "patriotic", "family oriented", "loyal", "self-motivated", "religious", "intelligent"...
They'll keep the goons, the mooks and those who cower before their threats. They'll do what the left says, without question. They think modern military technology will make up the difference - especially if they can call in UN troops if things go sideline for them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Boliver 4/10/2021 7:31:44 PM (No. 750784)
Root out gang-bangers in the military while letting them in at the border to smuggle drugs, kill and make America a hell-hole. Disturbing yet consistent leftist logic. They make me sick.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/10/2021 7:33:12 PM (No. 750786)
Of course anyone supporting Trump, gun owners, the 2nd Amendment, Christians, constitutional conservatives and heterosexuals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/10/2021 8:03:57 PM (No. 750797)
Why would anyone join the military to be investigated? That is insulting. They need to investigate the idiots running the military. They are a disgrace, and not fit for their offices.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
leonardo 4/10/2021 8:08:19 PM (No. 750801)
Hmm, a THOUGHT POLICE ... run by the GOVERNMENT.
Contemplating "Cleansing" are we? Stalin did that too.
How very special, comrade.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/10/2021 8:09:54 PM (No. 750803)
I will say this. Gang members are a much bigger problem in the military than are actual white supremacists. I can also say that I spend 10 years in the Navy and never once met a white supremacist or extremist.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JL80863 4/10/2021 8:18:45 PM (No. 750806)
The Plan: Force out good soldiers and then recruit trash to form biden's tranny troop.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/10/2021 9:06:49 PM (No. 750829)
Does he mean extremists like Nidal Hassan?
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A Defense Department official stated that it was "unacceptable" for soldiers to equate the 500 BLM riots last year with the January 6 riot at the Capitol because the former were for "social justice." The Secretary of Defense let that statement stand without contradiction. Obviously "extremism" is any thought inconsistent with leftwing orthodoxy in general and Black Lives Matter sloganeering in particular.
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What is Mr. Austin's, or any other Government official's, authority to inquire into the personal beliefs of any American citizen, soldier or not? What is Mr. Austin's authority, or any other Government official's authority to prescribe a political orthodoxy or to punish thoughts which deviate from it held by any American citizen, soldier or not? There is as yet no such thing as a "thought crime" in the United States, Lloyd Austin notwithstanding.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/10/2021 11:41:41 PM (No. 750864)
So Mr. Austin when are you going to grow a mustache a real short one about an inch wide?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/11/2021 4:51:44 AM (No. 750914)
#3, Thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary. Inimical.
#4, You have hit the nail on the head. Now they just have to come up with a narrative to sell it without letting us know what it is they actually mean.
That Lloyd Austin is anywhere near the levers of power is a frightening thought. We should be getting used to it though. Everyone O’Biden has appointed is an extremist of the highest order.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/11/2021 6:31:28 AM (No. 750939)
The Clown Austin appears to be the only extremist in play here.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/11/2021 6:35:03 AM (No. 750941)
Our "Affirmative Action" Secretary of Defense, earn his Silver Star sitting on his ass, while E4s were being shot at. Austin was sooo brave.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
weejun 4/11/2021 7:42:52 AM (No. 750960)
Just more actions that will guarantee in the future the greatest military in the history of the world can be beaten by ragtag bands of losers and evil ideologies that don't give a hoot about "equity." But that isn't the primary objective here: it is to ensure that the dems, leftists and evil woke people - when they finally achieve permanent control of our government - will have their instrument with which to crush any rebellion arising from the real patriots in this country. My WWII veteran dad is rolling over in his grave.
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Lloyd Austin wants to cleanse the armed forces of "bad thought."
They can't possibly know someone's thoughts. They can only ascribe thoughts to certain actions based on their agenda. Mindreading gives Marxists unlimited power.
Here comes The Thought Police.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/11/2021 8:02:32 AM (No. 750972)
White and male.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mifla 4/11/2021 8:20:09 AM (No. 750984)
And China is loving it...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/11/2021 8:25:31 AM (No. 750990)
Give me a break... extremism is the socialist's agenda of the Obama/biden regime....not very American... so you go to your church... I'll go to mine...you wokies can change definitions all day long...it doesn't affect me...as for the military...they are patriots and I'm sure they'll have a good laugh at the "sensitivity sessions"...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/11/2021 8:42:17 AM (No. 751011)
Definition: Extremism - the leftist behavior of hating white people who openly disagree with leftist dogma.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/11/2021 8:44:09 AM (No. 751014)
simple answer: white male
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Salt5792 4/11/2021 8:47:57 AM (No. 751019)
The Joint Chiefs are leftist activists.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
gone2pot 4/11/2021 9:49:46 AM (No. 751089)
Right now. Right this minute at the service academies, there is critical race theory training, called by a different name but it is exactly the same thing Trump banned. At Navy, they're called Diversity Teams. Every mid must be on one of those teams and white mids are "encouraged" to confess their white sins to their team. Anyone who has not been deemed an "anti-racist" is kicked out. You MUST profess and demonstrate that you are an anti-racist to graduate. So, things are MUCH worse than you think. What Austin says is pure Marxism lying and what you are not allowed to witness is the Pol-pot like indoctrination. This is but one of dozens of things being done to make the United States of Dominion the most Marxist country in history, and they're moving at afterburner speed and success. Mask up now you new Dominioners, be patriotic. It' science!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/11/2021 10:49:43 AM (No. 751167)
Sun Tzu's Strategy: Formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Austin's Strategy: Vague, Deceitful and Treacherous, he's NO Sun Tzu!
Sun Tzu's Strategy: Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Our Leftist Military Leadership's Strategy for many years: Defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Our Military Leadership and Politicians declare Victory after they have actually been defeated... Korea, VietNam, The Middle East...the list is very long. Strategy made by Coward Leftists cannot ever win!
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