Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.


	Here's California <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/california-descendants-slavery-data-disaggregation">dividing black people</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		California has become the first in the nation to require state agencies to include a separate category for descendants of enslaved people in its collection of employee data.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;Advocates say the data disaggregation will help identify and address long-held inequities within black communities. Many descendants see it as a model for other states — and the federal government —&nbsp;to follow.
</blockquote>


	An obvious point is that many of the country's highest black officials are the children of African immigrants or visitors, including Obama and Kamala Harris.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		A&nbsp;2016 study&nbsp;found that in Los Angeles, the median net worth for a black descendant of enslaved people is $4,000 compared to $72,000 for a recent immigrant from the African continent.
</blockquote>


	Also obviously true. And it makes a certain amount of sense to focus affirmative action benefits on American black people rather than African immigrants. But the upshot is that this pushes further subdivisions into identity politics.

<blockquote>
	
		Organizers took a page out of Asian American advocates' book after seeing their successful effort to push the state to&nbsp;break down different ethnic groups&nbsp;in health data collection.
</blockquote>


	If you thought American identity politics wasn't divisive enough, we'll start creating black ethnic groups to build new models of privilege and oppression within the black community.

<blockquote>
	
		No one is denying that back people&nbsp;at large are marginalized in America, said Chris Lodgson, lead organizer of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. But the kind of historical oppression he faces as a descendant has different consequences than the inequities more recent immigrants face, he added.

	
		"One of the things that is core to any group's existence is their identity," Lodgson noted. "When we use these big broad categories called black or African American, not only do we hide the differences between the different groups ... [it also] prevents us from even being able to do anything about any of those differences."
</blockquote>


	What the Axios story doesn't mention is that the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California is all about ":reparations" and this paves the way for deciding who gets them and who doesn't.


	Sorry, Kamala.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Here's <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html">some more</a> "election fortification".

<blockquote>
	
		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

	
		At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them.

	
		The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said.
</blockquote>


	Criminalizing election strategies is about elections.


	Was the FBI actually looking for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago? I'd bet that they were looking for materials related to the electors stuff which is the current bugaboo of the Biden administration, its legal operatives, congressional investigators and the rest of the gang.


	The pattern isn't hard to spot and the timing is painfully obvious.


	A political investigation, as I wrote yesterday, is always about politics and elections.&nbsp;


	This is about the 2024 election. Biden and his allies know they can't win it at the ballot box. They're using the FBI to criminalize political opposition again.

FBI Targets PA Republicans Because This Is About the 2024 Election

Here's some more "election fortification".


	
		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in

FBI Targets PA Republicans Because This Is About the 2024 Election

The big question about the legal legitimacy of this move comes down to this.


	As Alan Dershowitz <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/08/mar-lago-documents-center-fbi-raid-had-already-daniel-greenfield/">had pointed ou</a>t,&nbsp;"Searches and seizures should only be used when subpoenas are inappropriate because of the risk of evidence destruction."


	The feds had already gone in and asked Trump's people to secure the room. A padlock was put on. The feds didn't think it was secure enough.&nbsp;


	In June, they retrieved documents <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/mar-a-lago-search-subpoena-latest/">using a subpoena</a>.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		The FBI&nbsp;search at Mar-a-Lago this week&nbsp;came months after federal investigators served an earlier grand jury subpoena and took away sensitive national security documents from former President Donald Trump’s property during a June meeting, people familiar with the matter tell CNN.

	
		Investigators executed Monday’s search in part because they had developed evidence, including from at least one witness, that there were potentially classified documents still remaining at the Palm Beach, Florida, property months after the National Archives arranged for&nbsp;the retrieval of 15 boxes of documents&nbsp;that included classified information in January of this year, a person briefed on the matter said.

	
		Authorities also believed the documents remaining at Mar-a-Lago had national security implications, CNN reported earlier this week.
</blockquote>


	So why not go through the&nbsp;subpoena process? If nothing else it would have provided a veneer of legitimacy.&nbsp;


	CNN claims that negotiations turned "confrontational". So what? Get s subpoena. But that's the same reason the search warrant is being kept secret. Biden's DOJ specifically did not want to list what they were after in order to freely conduct a fishing expedition.


	Now I suspect this will be backed up by some sort of informant who will claim that the feds couldn't go through proper channels because of some sort of threat to the documents which had sat at Mar-a-Lago for years without being harmed. And the informant will likely be of the same caliber we've seen thus far.


	The FBI is being used to conduct raids of Trump and of Republicans. That's not a coincidence. It's not about the documents, it's about the election.

Feds Used a Subpoena to Remove Docs in June. Why Couldn't They Do It Again?

The big question about the legal legitimacy of this move comes down to this.


	As Alan Dershowitz had pointed out,&nbsp;"Searches and seizures should only

Feds Used a Subpoena to Remove Docs in June. Why Couldn't They Do It Again?

Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked twice by reporters about the Mar-a-Lago raid. And twice he refused to answer.&nbsp;


	This Newsweek story, supposedly from an inside source,<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-informer-told-fbi-what-docs-trump-was-hiding-where-1732283"> claims that</a> Garland didn't specifically approve the raid.

<blockquote>
	
		The senior Justice Department source says that Garland was regularly briefed on the Records Act investigation, and that he knew about the grand jury and what material federal prosecutors were seeking. He insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time of the specific raid, nor was he asked to approve it. "I know it's hard for people to believe," says the official, "but this was a matter for the U.S. Attorney and the FBI."
</blockquote>


	The language here is ambiguous. It seems implausible that Garland would not have okayed such a move and while he might have avoided knowing about the timing, it's implausible that he wouldn't have signed off on the tactic itself.


	Garland keeps dodging accountability even while the media goes back and forth on whether the DOJ is being "politicized".&nbsp;


	Considering that the Garland regime just launched an effort to lynch the police officers who shot back at Breonna Taylor's drug dealer boyfriend, and insisted on talking about that rather than his decision to raid a former president in pursuit of his administration's political goals, there's really little to no ambiguity here.


	Garland's DOJ has always been politicized. But what Democrat DOJ hasn't been? The corruption of Janet Reno's DOJ paled before Eric Holder's crimes. Garland is a pale apparatchik whose job is following in their footsteps.&nbsp;

Garland Repeatedly Dodges Questions About Trump Raid

Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked twice by reporters about the Mar-a-Lago raid. And twice he refused to answer.&nbsp;


	This Newsweek story,

Garland Repeatedly Dodges Questions About Trump Raid

Blaming the FBI for the latest instances of DOJ Democrats weaponizing the system to criminalize political opposition ignores the forest for the trees.


	I know that "eliminate the FBI" is a popular take, but whatever would replace it would simply serve the same function because the problem is the federal government itself.


	There's a much better argument for eliminating the Justice Department than there is for getting rid of the FBI. Dumping the DOJ would get rid of its most pernicious civil rights component which is being aggressively used to rig elections, suppress political dissent and lynch police officers.


	But the forest here is the federal government.


	We saw in Trump's first term how thoroughly the administrative state has been corrupted when federal bureaucrats openly coordinated as members of a "resistance".


	What's really at issue here is the infrastructure of a career bureaucracy that tilts strongly leftward and wields far more power than voters or elected officials do. What people dislike about the FBI, the careerists pushing political agendas while ignoring any limits on their authority, is the entire federal government.


	That's why any national rebuilding agenda can't be separated from a small government agenda despite moves by some on the right to embrace a vision of a big government that serves them.


	What we have is a weak political system and a strong federal government. The two tend to go together. Certainly in the latter stages. If we want elections to count, we need a smaller and weaker federal government.&nbsp;


	Until we're ready to make that our agenda, the administrative state is going to rule. And it doesn't matter which alphabet soup agency, bureau or organization it's operating under the name of.


	You want an ambitious agenda? Start by eliminating the DOJ, not the FBI.

Don't Eliminate the FBI, Eliminate the DOJ

Blaming the FBI for the latest instances of DOJ Democrats weaponizing the system to criminalize political opposition ignores the forest for the trees.


	I

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	Americans are dead and our credibility is in ruins. Meanwhile the man at the top of the military chain of command is blaming everyone else while using the dead for political cover.


	When Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he suggested that any criticism of his disaster in Afghanistan would impugn the heroism of American soldiers who fought and died in the war. It was a shameless performance in which Austin blamed everyone else while using the soldiers he sacrificed as human shields.


	Indian intelligence sources revealed that the ISIS-K suicide bomber who murdered 13 American military personnel at the Kabul airport had been released from Bagram Air Base by the Taliban.


	The decision to pull out of Bagram had been reached at a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/us/politics/biden-taliban-afghanistan-kabul.html">secret meeting </a>in the Pentagon’s “extreme basement” attended by Austin, Gen. Milley, and Secretary of State Blinken.


	Any final decision would have had to be signed off by Biden and by Austin.


	It’s understandable that Austin keeps coming up with excuses for the disaster that led to the death of more American personnel in one day than in the last<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/bidens-benghazi-daniel-greenfield/"> two years of war</a> in Afghanistan.


	Austin is at the top of the military chain of command and answers only to the man in the Oval Office. No one is more responsible for the military disaster in Afghanistan than Austin except for the man who gave him his orders. But it was Austin who promised Senate members that if he were confirmed, he would speak his mind and stand up to Joe Biden.


	“I certainly wouldn’t be here if I believed the last four years of my life left me too familiar with current operations to change course when needed, too close to scrutinize people with whom I once served, or too afraid to speak my mind to you or to the President,” Austin had assured the Senate Armed Service Committee during his confirmation hearing.


	It was one of the many broken promises that Austin left in his wake during his brief tenure. The Secretary of Defense had promised to end the war in Afghanistan “on terms favorable to the United States”, had assured that, “Afghan security forces have the capability and capacity to project security and stability in Afghanistan in 2021 and beyond”, and that he would work to “ensure that the U.S. military and our Afghan partners have the capacity and capability necessary to protect U.S. personnel, our allies and partners, and our interests.”


	Austin vowed to represent national interests, to be independent and flexible, and to keep American soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan and in the United States safe.


	As the Afghanistan disaster unfolded, Austin showed off all of his abandoned promises.


	He explained that he could not rescue the Americans trapped behind enemy lines. “I don’t have the capability to go out and extend operations currently into Kabul.” Austin acknowledged that Americans were being assaulted by the Taliban. “We’re also aware that some people, including Americans, have been harassed and even beaten by the Taliban.” he admitted, but all he had to offer was a protest that he had registered with “the designated Taliban leader.”


	In eight months under Austin’s leadership, U.S. military forces had gone from a dominant force to being unable to stop the Taliban from beating Americans in the streets of Kabul.


	This disgraceful betrayal was implemented by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.


	No single military figure had done as much to radicalize the military, undermine military readiness, shatter international alliances, and destroy America’s credibility abroad.


	Austin’s opening statement at his confirmation hearing made no mention of Afghanistan or the Taliban, or even Al Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorism. Instead he vowed to fight the “enemies” that “lie within our own ranks” and “rid our ranks of racists and extremists” by which he meant anyone who wasn’t on board with critical race theory and the rest of his radical leftist agenda.


	In February, Austin held his first press conference at which he discussed the Biden administration’s illegal military occupation of Washington D.C. He also mentioned that, “I told our allies that no matter what the outcome of our review, the United States will not undertake a hasty or disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.”


	NATO allies were promised that, “There will be no surprises. We will consult each other, consult together and decide together and act together.” As the British and other NATO allies have made clear, there was no consultation and there were no joint decisions. Instead Biden and Austin made disastrous unilateral moves while leaving the nations that had aided us holding the bag.


	But Austin was spending far more time fighting conservatives in the military than fighting the enemy. While white personnel were being told that they were oppressors, and minority personnel were encouraged to believe that they were victims of white racism, the planning for a full evacuation from Afghanistan was being pushed off as it was an unimportant matter.


	Defense Secretary Austin kept sloganeering about “a responsible and sustainable end to this war” and promised, “we want to do this methodically and deliberately”. Instead, he abandoned Bagram Air Base, cutting off the only safe evacuation route, and pulled all but 600 military personnel out, only to rush troops back at the last minute for a “hasty” and “disorderly withdrawal”.


	Austin had also promised that U.S. military weapons wouldn’t fall into the hands of the Taliban.


	"We're going to responsibly retrograde all of our capabilities,” Austin had falsely promised.&nbsp; "We're going to account for all the people and resources that are working with us."


	Instead, Austin left the Taliban as the best armed Sunni Jihadist group on the planet.


	While Austin was vowing to fight all the “racists and extremists” in the military, he was ignoring a<a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/27/amid-biden-ordered-review-of-afghanistan-troop-drawdown-report-finds-al-qaida-gaining-strength.html"> report</a> to the Pentagon’s Inspector General which warned that "Al Qaeda is gaining strength in Afghanistan while continuing to operate with the Taliban under the Taliban's protection” and that "Al Qaeda capitalizes on its relationship with the Taliban through its network of mentors and advisers who are embedded with the Taliban, providing advice, guidance, and financial support."


	Al Qaeda functioned in relation to the Taliban the way that America did to the Afghan government as an embedded supportive force providing money and strategic insights. The Taliban had not only failed to turn on Al Qaeda, but the terrorist group that had attacked America on September 11 was playing the role of the wizards behind the Taliban curtain.


	In response to Senate questions, Austin wrote that the “Taliban have agreed to take concrete steps to ensure that al Qaeda never again is able to use Afghanistan’s soil to threaten the security of the United States or our allies. If confirmed, I will review the Taliban’s progress toward implementing their commitments with regard to al Qaeda.”


	The Taliban implemented their commitments to Al Qaeda, not to Austin. The Haqqani Network, longtime Al Qaeda allies, control Kabul and the terrorist group freely operates in Afghanistan.


	"We are committed to a responsible and sustainable end to this war while preventing Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for terrorist groups that threaten the interest of the United States and our allies,” Austin had said. But the report to the Pentagon IG had already made it clear that Taliban control over Afghanistan would mean the return of Al Qaeda.


	What happened wasn’t a surprise, it was inevitable.


	“The whole community is kind of watching to see what happens and whether or not al Qaeda has the ability to regenerate in Afghanistan,” Austin told reporters during his post-defeat tour.


	As usual, he was late to the party.


	"We put the Taliban on notice that we expect them to not allow that to happen," he said, referring to Al Qaeda using Afghanistan to launch attacks against the United States. The “notice” will be as effective as the one about the Taliban beating Americans at checkpoints.


	But Austin had made it his priority to use the military against fellow Americans, whether in Washington D.C. or within the ranks of the military, while betraying Americans to the Taliban.


	“This all occurred in a span of about 11 days. Nobody predicted that, you know, the government would fall in 11 days,” Austin<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/568902-austin-says-nobody-predicted-afghan-government-would-fall-in-11"> whined</a> during an ABC News interview.


	Every Biden administration official had latched on the same dishonest talking point.


	As the Washington Post noted, “On Sept. 27, 1996, Taliban forces captured Kabul overnight, flooding in from all directions after a 15-day sweep of the country.” There were plenty of intelligence estimates warning of a rapid Taliban takeover. But Austin didn’t have to wait until there were only 11 days left. What was he doing since Kamala Harris swore him in on Jan 25?


	Where were all those “responsible” and “methodical” plans he had been promising all along?


	Instead of planning how to keep Americans safe, Austin spent those months waging war on Americans with a militarization of Washington D.C. and with a purge of the military. And when 13 American military personnel died because of his actions at the Kabul airport, the dead heroes proved to be men and women, white and Latino, who represented the spectrum that Austin was trying to divide with the big lies of critical race theory and a hunt for “extremists”.


	The real extremists were Austin, Milley, and Biden.


	Like most leftists, Secretary of Defense Austin could not take the idea of an external enemy seriously. Radicals striving to take power focus all their efforts on fighting internal enemies. And while Austin fought other Americans, Al Qaeda and the Taliban claimed Afghanistan.


	Along with untold billions in military equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters, drones, armored vehicles, and a treasure trove of assault rifles and heavy weaponry.


	On his post-defeat tour, Austin has claimed that the disaster, “will be studied in the days and months ahead”, and admitted that, “No operation is ever perfect, there are lessons to be learned.” What those lessons are, he hasn’t bothered sharing with the rest of the country.


	Austin may not be especially bright, but he is a career military man who reached the pinnacle of his profession. He knew that the Afghanistan withdrawal would be a disaster and that is why he reportedly advised Biden to conduct it in stages, instead of in one fell swoop. Biden ignored his advice and Austin shrugged because he didn’t care about Afghanistan, he cared about “racism”.


	The real lesson here is on the dangers of putting radicals with racial grudges in charge of the United States military. The Afghanistan rout was not an unexpected surprise, it was the cumulative effect of radicalism, incompetence, and apathy by a politicized and disloyal brass.


	While Austin was fighting enemies at home, he enabled enemies abroad. He made fellow American military personnel into his enemies and they died at the hands of true enemies.


	The betrayal in Afghanistan began with a betrayal at home.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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	11 Marines came home in boxes after the bombing at Kabul airport carried out by an Islamic terrorist freed from a prison near Bagram Air Base that had been abandoned by Biden. Other Marines were seriously wounded and hospitalized for months after the attack.


	All across America there are recruiting billboards for the Marine Corps with the message, “For Marines There Are Only Battles Won”. But in the runup to the disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, the only things the Marine Corps really cared about were wokeness and race.


	In April, Biden announced that he would be pulling all American forces out of Afghanistan. That same month the Taliban launched their offensive that would end with a takeover of the country.


	When General David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps,&nbsp;<a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fiscal-year-2022-united-states-navy-and-marine-corps-budget">testified&nbsp;</a>before the House Subcommittee on Defense at the end of April, he did not refer to Afghanistan. Even while a skeleton force of hundreds of Marines remained in Kabul, Berger made no mention of them.


	Instead, Berger spoke about racism.


	Bizarrely enough, Berger began his presentation, not with the threats to the United States that the Marine Corps existed to fight, but by declaring that, “our nation has engaged in a long overdue conversation on race and social justice sparked by several visible incidents of institutional racism”. By that, Berger meant that Black Lives Matter mobs had torched a number of cities and their leftist allies had purged everyone who disagreed from every institution.


	Berger assured House Democrats that he was happy to lead the purge of dissenting Marines.


	“We have and will continue to actively work to identify recruits and Marines who hold extremist views and we look forward to participating in the Secretary of Defense's new Countering Extremism Working Group to develop additional methods of keeping extremists from within our ranks,” Berger vowed, declaring war on fellow Marines instead of on America’s enemies.


	“In this era of profound ideological division within our nation, some individual Marines regrettably bring with them, or fall victim to while in service, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic/ transphobic ideologies driven by hate, fear, and ignorance,” he promised. “I have instituted even more rigorous policies than previously existed to ensure we identify such individuals during enlistment&nbsp;and accession screening, I remain committed to identifying and holding accountable&nbsp;any Marine unable to uphold our core values.”&nbsp;


	These new cancel culture values borrowed from college campus safe spaces were all about punishing political dissent and had nothing to do with the task of actually winning battles.


	Berger’s presentation mentioned social justice as often as China. He did not mention Afghanistan, Iran, or Al Qaeda.&nbsp;


	Nearly 400 Marines had been killed and nearly 5,000 wounded in Afghanistan. 853 Marines had died and over 8,000 had been wounded in Iraq. And yet the Commandant of the Marine Corps felt no need to even mention the wars of the cause they had sacrificed their lives for.


	What enemy was the Marine Corps tasked with fighting? Instead of fighting Al Qaeda, the Marines were "confronting issues of inequality". And if that wasn’t impressive enough, Islamic terrorists could tremble at the thought of the new “gender-integrated training” in Parris Island.


	“Structural racism and sexism exists within our current system,” Berger falsely claimed and promised new diversity initiatives to promote more black personnel to higher ranks.


	Even though that actually is structural racism.


	In July, Berger appeared&nbsp;<a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/01/top-leaders-again-reject-claims-military-becoming-too-woke.html">to leap to the defense</a>&nbsp;of the Navy’s decision to promote&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-training-program-us-navy-daniel-greenfield/">Ibram X. Kendi’s</a>&nbsp;racist tract,&nbsp;How To Be An Anti-Racist.&nbsp;


	“There's some places on Earth, maybe more than a handful, where you're not allowed to read books. … You're only allowed to read this, and you're only allowed to espouse that,” Berger dishonestly argued. “We want our service members to read widely. We want them to actually think, not be programmed.” Except that programming them was the entire point.


	That same month, Bagram Air Base was abandoned, cutting off the only secure escape route for Americans from Afghanistan, while liberating thousands of Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS-K terrorists, including the Jihadi who would go on to kill 13 Americans at Kabul airport.


	While Berger was defending critical race theory in the military, the bloody road to the murder of 11 Marines was being paved. After the horror, he claimed that he wanted an “honest, open critique” of what happened in Afghanistan. But the honest and open critique had already been launched by Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller&nbsp;<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/free-hero-locked-telling-truth-about-afghanistan-daniel-greenfield/">who declared</a>&nbsp;"I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, I demand accountability.”


	In response to Lt. Col. Scheller’s call for accountability, he was relieved of duty.


	The day before Berger’s call for an “honest and open critique”, he showed what would happen to any officer who dared to offer honest and open critiques. Then to further incentivize honest and open critiques, Scheller was placed under a gag order and then confined to a brig when he continued to speak out.


	Scheller’s treatment made it clear that Berger's call for "diversity of thought" was as hollow as his solicitation of honest and open critiques. Promoting Ibram X. Kendi was a pathway to promotion, but demanding accountability for the deaths of 11 Marines was unacceptable.


	“Freedom comes at a cost,” Berger's statement read after the deaths of those Marines at Kabul airport. The cost of freedom isn’t a hollow cliche, it’s accountability and integrity from officials.&nbsp;


	Last year, General Stephen Neary, a two-star general in command of Marine Forces Europe and Africa, was removed from duty by Berger due to a "loss of trust and confidence in his ability to serve in command" because he had allegedly used the "N" word. Neary hadn't been trying to insult anyone. Instead he had repeated the slur only to complain about the inappropriateness of playing music containing the slur at a Marine Corps training event. But in a woke military leadership where campus cancel culture trumps honor and tradition that didn’t save him.&nbsp;


	While a top general was fired for a slur, no one has been fired for the deaths of 11 Marines. What does it say about Berger that a slur is worse than the deaths of 11 American heroes?


	The only man to go on trial has been a persistent critic of the Marine Corps leadership.&nbsp;


	During the George Floyd riots, Berger had warned that "there is no place in our Corps for racists – whether their intolerance and prejudice be direct or indirect, intentional or unintentional."


	Much like on campus, being accused of unintentional offense was a hanging crime.


	Like the rest of the military brass, Berger initiated divisive “conversations” about race in which officers were expected to listen and accept any accusations from minority personnel.&nbsp;


	“We all have unconscious biases, admitted or not,” Berger told ABC’s Martha Raddatz, parroting the corrosive racial psychoanalysis of critical race theory that says all white people are guilty.


	While Berger was ordering officers to “listen” to false accusations of racism, he refused to listen to the much more substantive criticisms of Marine Corps dysfunction, gender and racial ideology, and the disastrous policies that led to the deaths of 11 Marines in Kabul.


	General Berger has failed the Marine Corps and the United States of America.


	Instead of focusing on the fight ahead, Berger decided that what the Marine Corps needed was to get woke, to dismantle its warfighting readiness by purging political incorrectness, lowering standards for the sake of diversity, and imposing cancel culture for the slightest offenses.


	Firing Berger would be the first step to rebuilding a Marine Corps that wins battles instead of building woke safe spaces. That’s what America and the fallen heroes in Kabul deserve.

Fire Marine Corps Commandant David Berger

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	After George Floyd’s drug overdose death, military leaders declared an emergency.


	From former Secretary of Defense Esper’s false claim that, “racism is real in America, and we must all do our very best to recognize it, to confront it, and to eradicate it” last summer to Secretary of Defense Austin’s fight against “racial disparities”, the focus has been on the supposed oppressed status of black people in the military. That’s despite the slate of black leaders, including Austin and Air Force Chief of Staff Brown, holding top military positions.


	But the supposed statistical racial disparities that are being used to conduct a racial witch hunt against the bogeyman of systemic racism in the military ignores the biggest racial disparity.


	The <a href="https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3025/RAND_RR3025.pdf">suicide rate</a> among white soldiers is 20.2 out of 100,000 person years and 12.8 among black soldiers. Suicide is the real indicator of high stress and nearly every group in the military, such as Hispanics at 16.0 and Asians at 21.5, have a higher suicide rate than black people.


	Suicide rates in civilian and military life prove that systemic racism is a hoax. And that’s why they are a deeply uncomfortable subject for diversity experts because, despite claims that white men are the most privileged group in society, and that minorities, especially black people, are the most oppressed and are suffering unbelieable stress, white men are the ones actually committing suicide in much higher numbers than the “oppressed” minority groups.


	A recent New York Times article struggled to explain why "social stressors — lower socioeconomic status and racism among them — are more prevalent and severe for the black population than the white one" yet "the black suicide rate is about one-third that of whites".


	Given a choice between an inescapable statistical fact and the myth of systemic racism, politicians, experts, and the media dismiss the facts and stick with their racist myth.


	Suicide rates show who is actually being pushed to the brink… and who isn’t.


	And while the suicide rate is a serious enough problem in the country at large, it’s a crisis in the military where four times as many military personnel killed themselves as were killed in combat.


	The 30,177 suicide death toll for current and former military personnel since 9/11 is horrifying.


	In the fourth quarter of 2020, while military leaders obsessively focused on fighting racism, there were 156 known suicides across the services marking a<a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/05/military-deaths-suicide-jumped-25-end-of-2020.html"> horrifying </a>25% rise.


	The suicide rates testify to the fact that we didn’t just lose a war, we lost a culture war.


	While American military personnel were killing themselves at unprecedented rates, their “leaders” were fighting an imaginary crisis of racism with critical race theory, commissions, surveys, and assorted witch hunts searching for a problem that they know doesn’t exist.


	Meanwhile they were ignoring a problem that was there because the people committing suicide had the wrong gender and the were the wrong skin color for military leaders to care about them.


	Not only are black people not the worst off in the services, but in one study the black suicide rate among VHA users actually fell from 15.6 in 12.76 while the white rate rose 46.16 to 48.51. Among black female veterans, the suicide rate fell from 14.83 to 2.60 even as the white female rate held steady at 25. “Non-minority males”, also known as white men, remain the likeliest to kill themselves even as military leaders focus on the sham of “diversity and inclusion”.


	Air Force Chief of Staff Brown<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/air-force-chief-staff-browns-racism-witch-hunt-daniel-greenfield-0/"> has a</a> racism sob story about not being recognized in his parking space, other racism stories unleashed by the brass during its “conversations about racism” remain equally petty and trivial, meanwhile white men are actually dying at disturbing rates.


	While the Air Force <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/air-force-chief-staff-browns-racism-witch-hunt-daniel-greenfield-0/">lectures</a> airmen on “unconscious bias”, there were over 100 suicides among&nbsp; personnel in 2019 and 2020. “The last two years have not been the best for the United States Air Force,” Brown admitted. “The goal is to actually get it as close to zero as we can, and get those who are having challenges.” Those who are having challenges are white men.


	They’re the same group that Brown and other military leaders have smeared as racists.


	Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday has <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-training-program-us-navy-daniel-greenfield/">urged naval personnel </a>to read the racist ravings of Ibram X. Kendi and rolled out videos claiming that racism is endemic in the Navy.


	“Being African-American in America is not fun,” an aviation technician claimed in an official Navy video. As Gilday falsely accused whites of racism, white Navy personnel kept killing themselves.


	A suicide rate of one a month is normal at Fort Hood as the brass focus on more important things like changing the name of the base because Civil War history has become offensive.


	Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the military. In <a href="https://www.dspo.mil/Portals/113/2018%20DoD%20Annual%20Suicide%20Report_FINAL_25%20SEP%2019_508c.pdf">2018</a>, there were 304 male suicides and only 21 female suicides. There were 234 white suicides and 42 black suicides.


	In total, 400 white people from active duty to the reserves to the guard killed themselves and only 72 black people. If black personnel are more oppressed, under more stress, and need more special care than white personnel, why are white personnel under so much stress that they’re killing themselves at high rates while black suicide rates are some of the lowest?


	The new politically correct military leadership is working hard to cover up the crisis.


	As white enlisted men keep dying, Rand's National Defense Research Institute, which is funded by the Department of Defense and the Navy, among others, commissioned a report claiming that the Pentagon should focus&nbsp; "attention on suicide attempts, particularly among non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic Asian military personnel.”


	Everyone except the white men actually killing themselves.


	The Rand report also fussed over high drinking rates by "bisexual service members" while insisting that “socially disadvantaged groups—such as racial/ethnic minorities, women, and sexual-orientation minorities” were the ones actually at risk in the military.


	Rand focused on self-reported suicide attempts while ignoring actual suicide rates.


	And as the Pentagon worried about "socially disadvantaged groups" and bisexual drinking habits, 75.6% of the active duty personnel killing themselves were white.


	Even though only <a href="https://diversity.defense.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=gxMVqhkaHh8%3D&amp;portalid=51">65%</a> of active duty personnel are white.


	Among the National Guard, white people made up <a href="https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/566192.pdf">67% </a>of the force and <a href="https://www.dspo.mil/Portals/113/Documents/CY2019%20Suicide%20Report/DoD%20Calendar%20Year%20CY%202019%20Annual%20Suicide%20Report.pdf?ver=YOA4IZVcVA9mzwtsfdO5Ew%3D%3D">83%</a> of its suicides.


	The crisis of white male suicides is unglamorous and politically incorrect. The dead are disproportionately young white enlisted men. Very few officers kill themselves. The white men committing suicide at unprecedented rates believe that they have no future. And a military leadership obsessed with diversity and inclusion is doing everything it can to prove them right.


	While Pentagon elites focus on breaking the ‘brass ceiling’ through affirmative action, ordinary soldiers trying to support a family on food stamps and seeing no future are killing themselves.


	They’re doing it while General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defends imposing the ugly racism of critical race theory on the military while whining <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/general-milley-leads-enemy-within-daniel-greenfield/">that he wants to</a> "understand white rage".


	The Ivy League grad with degrees from Princeton and Columbia might do well to start with the internalized rage and pain that is driving the white men in his charge to take their own lives.


	If only he gave a damn.


	While the brass play their academic and political games, our soldiers are dying, not on foreign battlefields, but at their own hand. What’s driving them is not white rage, it’s white despair.


	Austin, Milley, Brown, Gilday, and other military leaders have invented a crisis of racism because it lets them unleash diversity initiatives and hector the troops about unconscious bias. Like so many corporations and government institutions which have embraced critical race theory, political correctness allows them to avoid tackling the real crises they are responsible for.


	The brass understands that pushing the big lie of systemic racism is good for their careers while addressing what’s driving enlisted white men to suicide would not lead to a profitable retirement.


	And while they lie, white men die.

While Military Leaders Lie, White Men Die

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	“Right now, I would say that the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/98f932c2bb7c42119c1ee02550475034">conditions are set for winning this war</a>.” That was Gen. Mark Milley, second in command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, to an Associated Press reporter back in 2013. By 2021, the war had yet to be won, and U.S. troops are heading for home. Gen. Milley has been promoted to <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/614392/general-mark-a-milley/">Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff</a>, “the nation’s highest ranking military officer and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council.” In that exalted post, Gen. Milley has found a new enemy on the home front.


	According to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Can-Fix-Donald-Catastrophic/dp/0593298942">I Alone Can Fix It</a>, coming out Tuesday from Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker, Gen. Milley believes Donald Trump is the moral equivalent of Adolph Hitler, but there is more to it. According to Gen. Milley, Trump’s followers are “brownshirts,” and his complaints about voter fraud were calls for genocide. “This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley said. “The gospel of the Führer.” That recalls the 2018 proclamation of MSNBC’s Donnie Deutsch that “<a href="https://www.thewrap.com/morning-joe-donny-deutsch-compares-trump-voters-to-nazis/">if you voted for Trump, you are a Nazi</a>.”


	As all voters might wonder, who is this General who replicates the reductio ad Hitlerum? For one thing, Milley is not a “mustang,” an enlisted man who rose through the ranks. Mark Milley received his commission from Army ROTC at Princeton, where he graduated in 1980 with a degree in political science. Milley also earned a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University. At these Ivy League institutions Milley learned the reductio ad Hitlerum, now the first resort of the left in any argument.


	As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-chairman-joint-chiefs-of-staff-should-be-fired">Tucker Carlson notes</a>, “you hear someone compare his political enemies to Nazis, you know for sure he went to Princeton.” Perhaps for that reason, the general fancies himself an erudite intellectual.


	“<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-us-general-defends-study-critical-race-theory">I’ve read Mao Zedong,</a> I’ve read Karl Marx, I’ve read Lenin,” Milley said in recent hearings. “That doesn't make me a communist.” Nobody said he was a communist, but the General had to display his mastery of the straw-man argument. On the other hand, he probably fancies himself the equivalent of <a href="https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html">Army chief counsel Joseph Welch</a> telling Sen. McCarthy “have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”


	Milley earned a masters from the U.S. Naval War College in national security and strategic studies, and he is also a graduate of the MIT Seminar XXI National Security Studies Program. Nothing in his profile about West Point but after multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and Special Forces for 39 years, there are a few things he should know.


	The sole purpose of the United States military is to fight the nation’s battles. The test for any military policy is whether it enhances the ability to fight and win. Unit cohesion and morale are both critical to victory, but Gen. Milley now deploys Critical Race Theory (CRT) a policy that will destroy both. That is what one would expect from an Ivy League type, but not from a “mustang” officer.


	According to <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-life/7-reasons-why-enlisted-love-mustang-officers/">Eric Milzarski,</a> who deployed to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne, mustang officers take on more important tasks than their peers, and don’t mind getting their hands dirty with their troops. Combat soldiers love mustang officers, as Milzarski explains, because “their heads aren’t up their asses.”


	By Gen. Milley’s standards, a lecture on the 1921 Tulsa race riot would have spurred on the landing forces on D-Day. Likewise, a breakdown of the Dred Scott decision might have helped the First Special Services Force scale <a href="https://legionmagazine.com/en/2020/12/the-taking-of-monte-la-difensa/">Monte La Difensa</a> and prevail against entrenched Nazi troops. Telling American soldiers the USA was founded to perpetuate slavery, as CRT has it, would surely have boosted morale in the Battle of the Bulge. Anyone who agrees with Milley on this front, as WWII vets would say, must have their head where no light shines.


	Current enlisted men may have grandfathers who fought in that war. Likewise, many enlisted men may have thought Donald Trump was a better choice than Hillary Clinton and a better leader than the addled Joe Biden. If these men think Milley is the worst-ever Joint Chiefs boss it would be hard to blame them.


	Back in the 1980s, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger called Polish strongman Wojciech Jaruzelski a “<a href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/caspar-weinberger-oral-history">Russian general in a Polish uniform</a>.” Chairman Mark Milley is an Ivy League blowhard in a military uniform, a jowly Gen. Ripper pining to unleash military force against Americans he dislikes. Chairman Milley is also imposing policies he knows will weaken the United States and embolden foreign foes.


	A military divided by critical race theory and Trump Derangement Syndrome is not the best military the United States can field. As George Will has noted, going into battle with the second-best military is like playing poker with the second-best hand. You have two choices, bluff or fold.


	In 2013, Gen. Milley said the conditions were set for victory in Afghanistan.&nbsp; In 2021, under the command of Gen. Milley, the conditions are set for losing any war on any front.

Thoroughly Modern Milley

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	The Space Force was created at the end of 2019. Six months later it declared war on “racism”.


	“Racism is an enemy," Gen. John Raymond and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7213126-Letter-to-the-US-Space-Force.html">declared</a>, disabusing anyone who might have thought the military enemy was Communist China, Iran, Russia, or any of the other antagonists that the Space Force was tasked with countering.


	While the People's Republic of China was deploying its series of Long March rockets, Black Lives Matter mobs were wrecking American cities and Gen. Raymond was focused on pandering to the racist mob. As China deployed its first Mars mission, and its first reusable spacecraft, and launched communications satellites, the Space Force obsessed over diversity.


	"We must build diversity and inclusion into our 'cultural DNA' -- make it one of the bedrock strengths of our service,” Raymond insisted in his co-signed letter to the Space Force.


	The Space Force letter falsely claiming that George Floyd's drug overdose death was "against the founding principles of our nation" and that racism is a "reality for many" was rushed out a few days after a Black Lives Matter mob set fire to the White House gatehouse and tried to start a fire in the Church of Presidents. It came out ahead of most service branch statements.


	Gen. Raymond, the Chief of Space Operations, told the ‘guardians’ of the Space Force that their oath to protect and defend the Constitution meant racism was "an enemy we must defeat" by fighting unconscious biases and owning the problem by having "uncomfortable conversations." Buzz words like “unconscious bias” and “implicit bias” and “structural racism” (illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act) give the ideological game away. When there are no significant racists, the promoters of systemic racism conspiracy theories claim that they’re hiding in the shadows.


	The oath to protect the Constitution was being twisted to push the anti-white racism of the left known as critical race theory.


	Raymond made no mention of the military’s responsibility to defend the United States government against the brutal assaults of the leftists and racists he was disloyally standing with. When Black Lives Matter mobs were threatening to burn the White House, General Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, refused President Trump’s request for troops to defend the White House.


	The Space Force put political correctness out front early on by adopting the genderless term ‘Guardian’ to replace the political incorrectness of the Air Force’s traditional term ‘Airman’. In the wake of the BLM race riots, the Space Force <a href="https://www.airforcemag.com/article/world-16/">went even further </a>by suggesting that it would not only pursue affirmative action promotions based on skin color and gender rather than merit , but also drop qualifying tests for promotions.


	The only qualifications the Space Force was interested in were one’s gender and skin color.


	Carrie Baker, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Space Force, who had pioneered the Air Force Academy’s first ”unconscious bias” training curriculum, was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AcademyWomen/posts/were-looking-forward-to-hearing-dr-carrie-baker-the-chief-diversity-and-inclusio/3132576786796885/">lecturing</a> once again on the alleged racism that dare not show its face. &nbsp;Major General Leah Lauderback launched a Space Force LGBTQ affinity group focused on cultural change, warning that there are, "hearts and minds that you need to change". But first "gendered language" like "mothers of preschoolers" had to go.


	Gen. Raymond described her as a “true inspiration” for leading the “LGBTQ Initiatives Team.”


	As the Space Force adopted leftist identity politics, conservatives who spoke out were ruthlessly dealt with. When&nbsp; Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron, criticised the radicalization of the military in his book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest &amp; the Unmaking of the American Military, he was quickly removed from his post, where he headed a unit whose vital task was identifying and tracking ballistic missile launches.


	Lohmeier <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/wait-perm-fired-speaking-out-frontpagemagcom/">described</a> his base commander sending out documentaries which supported Black Lives Matter and attacked President Trump, and spoke of the “intensive teaching that I heard at my base—that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified white ­supremacy as the law of the land.” This was critical race theory Marxism, whose lies were aimed at sapping the morale of America’s military and undermining the determination of its members to defend their country.


	After discussing the leftist invasion of the military on a podcast, Lohmeier was removed by Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting for being "partisan." Whiting had previously complained <a href="https://www.facebook.com/USSFSpOC/photos/a.183160833288616/260796302191735/?type=3">about the</a> "uneven distribution of opportunity" in the United States (also illegal if such a distribution was institutionally imposed) while calling for more diversity. That was not considered political or partisan. General Raymond’s smear of police officers and allegations of systemic racism were also not seen as partisan. This was part of a larger pattern.


	Former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Goldfein had faced no consequences for <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/air-force-chief-staff-browns-racism-witch-hunt-daniel-greenfield-0/">urging that </a>"every American should be outraged" by Floyd's death, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright was not disciplined for touting socialist rapper and racist Killer Mike as a model.


	Rep. Mo Brooks <a href="https://brooks.house.gov/media-center/news-releases/congressman-mo-brooks-demands-air-force-space-force-reinstate-lt-col">provided</a> other examples of "very public statements made by many senior leaders while in uniform" and warned that "we cannot allow temporary political appointees at the Department of Defense who are ideologically motivated to purge those men and women in uniform who do not agree with the cultural or political fads of the moment."


	Unfortunately that is exactly what is taking place.


	Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez, the most senior enlisted service member and the top adviser to General Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had told the troops that Black Lives Matter was exempt from the military's apolitical nature. "There were people advocating [against] social injustice, racial injustice and everything else," Colon-Lopez <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/19/some-troops-see-capitol-riot-blm-protests-similar-threats-top-enlisted-leader-says.html">argued</a>, while contending that "we needed to educate" younger troops on the difference.


	The difference was that the anti-American, criminally violent Black Lives Matter vigilantes had the support of the top military brass.


	Lohmeier's case was assigned to the Air Force's Office of the Inspector General which had also been tasked with producing the controversial report alleging systemic racism in the Air Force.


	The investigation into a critic of critical race theory had been handed over to an office whose &nbsp;mission was upholding the false systemic racism premise of critical race theory. To repeat: “systemic racism” was outlawed under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. If it existed there would be a flood of lawsuits and billions of dollars in penalties. There is no such flood because there is no “systemic racism” except in the ideologically twisted minds of leftists and the people they seduce.


	Lt. Gen. Sami D. Said, the Inspector General of the Air Force, acted as an advocate, rather than an impartial figure, talking to the Washington Post about the "pent-up angst" of those who "wanted their voices heard" – as though anyone but the military brass itself was seeking to silence anyone on the basis of gender or skin color. Like Nancy Pelosi or some other Democrat Party spokesperson, Said also <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/george-floyd-death/air-force-oig-ag-barrs-legal-justification-for-aerial-surveillance-of-black-lives-matter-protests-was-mistaken/">accused</a> Attorney General William Barr of misusing his authority by trying to defend Washington D.C. against the Black Lives Matter riots.


	After the release of Said’s racial disparity report, Gen. Raymond demanded<a href="https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2453908/department-of-the-air-force-releases-findings-on-racial-disparity-review/"> that</a>, “leaders at all levels must commit to having tough conversations, learning about racial disparities”. Again, this was Marxist propaganda. “Racial disparities” is a term of art that obscures individual accountabilities and ascribes them to groups. Only 20% of black Americans for example live below the poverty line on welfare. If 80% of blacks are productive citizens, how is the poverty of some a “racial disparity?”


	“Accountability begins with us,” he warned, using the jargon of diversity trainers. But accountability for what?


	The Space Force’s leadership had decided to become the most radical part of the military through identity politics. Its all-female unit, and its emphasis on the gender, sexual orientation and race of those it was promoting were divisive and undermined readiness, unit cohesion and morale.


	In the Space Force and across the military, “diversity and inclusion,” bland terms which concealed the poisonous agendas of Marxist race theory, had become defined as the official mission. And opposition to the new mission of identity politics was swiftly punished no matter how obvious the double standard, or the destructive impact on national security.


	Truth was the first casualty, but national security was the second casualty of the war from within.


	"It is President Trump's belief that the United States must remain as dominant in space as we are on land and sea and the air," Vice-President Pence had told Gen. Raymond before he took his oath. "And your charge is to see to that mission with the United States Space Force."


	"The best way I know how to do that is to do so from a position of strength," Gen. Raymond had assured him.


	But there’s little strength to be seen in the Space Force under Raymond’s leadership.


	Gen. Raymond has spent far more time pushing the divisive agendas of the diversity Marxists than strength. His wife, Mollie, in her role as the "Official Spouse", encouraged Space Force personnel to take a survey with critical race theory dogma answers such as, "this colorblind mentality erases a piece of my identity" which asked them if they had "advocated to fix issues caused by structural/systemic racism."


	For the diversity Marxists in the military, Martin Luther King’s vision of a color blind society is actually racist. Colorblindness was Martin Luther King Jr’s dream. It’s the foundation of meritocracy and a thoroughly integrated and cohesive American community. The alternatives are the racial quotas and perpetual victimhood that the Space Force has embraced.


	“We honor equality, while we continue to fight for it every day,” Gen. Raymond had declared, implying that America was still unequal and there was a perpetual war to wage.


	Instead of fighting to protect America, the Space Force is fighting America.


	While America’s Communist enemies advance in space, the Space Force is busy pushing Marxist dogma here on earth. Under Gen. Raymond, what was once an ambitious America First plan has become mired in identity politics, purging its best and brightest, like Lt. Col. Lohmeier, while turning our national security over to diversity experts. As China continues its long march into space, the Left is carrying on its long racist march through the Space Force.

General Raymond Takes the Space Force to War Against Racism

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	As the Black Lives Matter riots torched the country, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that the violent assaults threatening the nation’s capital were merely protests, and berated Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller who warned, “These cities are burning”.


	After the White House came under attack and a BLM mob set fire to the gatehouse, Trump aides, at the request of the president, drafted a document invoking the Insurrection Act that would have ended the nationwide reign of Democrat terror by putting troops on the street.


	Milley vocally rejected the idea, claiming that the violent riots were just a protest, and it wasn’t appropriate for the military to be involved in political issues. Of course Eisenhower had sent the troops into Little Rock to integrate the schools, Kennedy had sent them to Mississippi to do the same, and George H.W. Bush had sent them to Los Angeles to put down the Rodney King riots.


	After accompanying President Trump to Lafayette Square, where Black Lives Matter rioters had tried to set the ‘Church of the Presidents’ on fire, Milley quickly withered under media pressure.


	"I should not have been there," Milley recited in an apology video and defended the BLM-Antifa insurrections as responses to the "centuries of injustice toward African Americans."


	After scores of cities had been torched, statues pulled down, and hundreds of police officers wounded at the hands of racist Marxist hate groups, Milley argued that, "we should all be proud that the vast majority of protests have been peaceful."


	American POWs in Vietnam had held out under torture rather than record Marxist confession videos like the one that Milley made for the media to protect his career.


	But Milley didn’t just stand down in the face of the BLM race riots, he joined the move to divide and weaken the military by bringing the Black Lives Matter curriculum of anti-white and anti-American hate into its ranks. Dividing American soldiers by race has a crippling effect on unit cohesion and general morale, it weakens our national security in the face of the threats from Communist China and our other aggressive enemies, Russia and Iran..


	As the summer riots engulfed over 200 American cities, Milley joined the push for diversity and inclusion. He demanded that Fort Bragg and Fort Hood, named after Confederate generals, have their names changed. Milley had never brought this up when he was the commander of Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg and a Fort Hood commanding general, but it wasn’t politically expedient then. And Milley’s career ranks first while his country comes last.


	By the fall, Milley was talking about fighting “unconscious” bias in the military – the phantom enemy invented by Critical Race Theorists and the anti-American left to attack white people generally and the American heritage in particular.


	Milley’s routine paid off and while there had been talk among Biden’s people about removing him, he stayed on instead, and is now telling Biden and the Democrats what they want to hear.


	At a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, called on Milley to defend the imposition of critical race theory on the military


	Milley was all too ready and launched into a prepared speech<a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/general-milley-secretary-austin-answer-critical-race-theory-questions-from-matt-gaetz-testimony-transcript"> in which </a>he lied that critical race theory was studying "laws in the United States, antebellum laws prior to the Civil War that led to a power differential with African-Americans that were three quarters of a human being when this country was formed."


	This was mind-boggling ignorance on the part of a U.S. general, whom the New York Times had previously praised as an “an avid student of history”, and whom the Associated Press had promoted as a “Princeton-educated history buff”, since the three-fifths compromise had nothing to do with race and everything to do with curtailing the power of the slavocracy.


	But in the current corrupt media atmosphere, racist ignorance coming from the left is treated as academic wisdom, and here Milley demonstrated that his knowledge of the most basic elements of American history consisted of ignorant smears from the New York Times’ 1619 Project.


	Milley, the “avid student of history”, was as much a hoax as the rest of his manufactured image.


	The great “history buff” either didn’t know anything about American history, or he was willing to smear America and defame her past in order to score points with his new leftist bosses.


	Once again Milley was undermining America’s security to appease his left-wing overseers.


	“I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist,” Milley rambled in his pathetic defense of critical race theory.


	American officers studied Marx and Lenin to defeat Communism, not to adopt it. But Milley is overseeing a military that is adopting Marxism on his orders through critical race theory.


	Is Milley committed to defeating critical race theory or to embracing it? His comments at the hearing left no doubt as to which side he had chosen in the battle against America.


	Milley declared, “I want to understand white rage and I’m white, and I want to understand it”.


	The only people who talk that way are academics and white-hating Black Lives Matter Marxists.


	President Trump picked Milley because he appeared to be a salt-of-the-earth military man who seemed to share his view of the world. In fact, he was a time-serving opportunist, more committed to advancing his career than defending his country.


	Quite a few people have been fooled by Milley who looks like a Hollywood director's idea of a general, but is actually, a rarity, the second Army boss to have come through the Ivy League.


	Milley started out at Belmont Hill School, a posh private school with elite alumni, which these days promotes Black Lives Matter and the low-grade racism of Ibram X. Kendi. He went on to be a Princeton political science 'longhair', and picked up a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia. Milley’s militant defense of woke racism in the form of critical race theory was unsurprising because despite his appearance he has the perfect background for it.


	The future general had intended to join the military for only four years to “to give meaning to Princeton in the nation’s service”. And Princeton’s left-wing ideology still comes out ahead of the military oath to defend the Constitution and the country it created.


	Obama, determined to politicize the military and the intelligence services, picked the Ivy League officer over the heads of more qualified and patriotic senior officers.


	As an article<a href="https://www.defenseone.com/business/2015/05/obama-nominates-former-afghanistan-war-deputy-lead-army/112708/"> noted</a> at the time, "Milley’s rise to top Army officer came quickly. He is commander of U.S. Forces Command, a post he’s held only since last August. Previously, for a little more than one year he was the deputy commander of the Afghanistan war.”


	Revealingly, Ash Carter, Obama's Secretary of Defense, touted Milley as a "statesman" with "the intellect and vision to lead change throughout the Army". That’s what he’s still doing.


	Milley wasn’t there to win wars, but to be a “statesman” and to transform the Army.


	Army Ivy League officers love to talk about change for its own sake and Milley rose through the ranks by borrowing Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of disrupting everything. Especially the military.


	Ground war is “on the cusp of fundamental change”, he declared in 2016. Wars of the future were coming. “We must be open minded to that change. We may not have divisions or corps, tanks or Bradleys. We don’t know.” Five years later, the Taliban <a href="https://www.112fa.org/PDF/2017JanFebPB.pdf">are overrunning</a> Afghanistan using the same raiding tactics that local fighters had been employing for thousands of years.


	Meanwhile, Milley’s big achievement is the Army Futures Command in Austin whose people look and sound like the local dot com startup culture in the lefty hipster city.


	The defeat in Afghanistan and the ‘wokening’ of the military have a common origin in Ivy League officers like Milley whose enthusiasm for “fundamental change” blinded them to the complete failure of Obama’s appeasement policies and the infiltration of the armed forces by the anti-American Left.


	America and its soldiers have been failed and betrayed on the battlefield by academic officers whose sympathies were with the leftist insurgents taking over the country at home, and who saw the war in Afghanistan as a laboratory for demonstrating Obama’s exciting new ideas.


	Milley is not the worst of them. He's the successor to even more craven generals like Stanley McChrystal, but he occupies his position at a crucial time when the survival of the United States military is at stake. And the enemy isn’t in Afghanistan: it’s inside America.


	Milley has not only failed to fight this enemy, he has surrendered and joined their Marxist cause.


	After losing Afghanistan, Milley is overseeing the defeat of America.


	"The conditions are set for winning this war," Milley had <a href="https://apnews.com/article/98f932c2bb7c42119c1ee02550475034">ass</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/98f932c2bb7c42119c1ee02550475034">ert</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/98f932c2bb7c42119c1ee02550475034">ed</a> back when he was heading up NATO’s ISAF Joint Command under Obama.


	“I don't think anyone has died in vain, per se,” he recently replied when he was asked if American soldiers in Afghanistan had died in vain.


	The mothers of all the men who had died in Afghanistan were no doubt reassured, per se.


	Milley has spent his career telling politicians what they want to hear because it was good for his career. His endorsement of the divisive racism of critical race theory shows that there are no limits to what he will support as long as it’s good for his career. But this time the cost may not just be thousands of dead Americans abroad, but a defenseless nation at home.

General Milley Leads the Enemy Within

[Editors' note: To sign the Freedom Center's petitions to remove Admiral Michael Gilday and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from their positions, CLICK HERE

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			Our military is under attack by “anti-racism” activists whose message is that white America is racist.

		
			“Critical Race Theory” is the academic discipline that is used to justify the attack. Critical Race Theory is a hateful Marxist fiction that maintains America is evil because the majority of its citizens are white, and that its Constitution is evil because it was written by white people. The agents of this dogma, including those lecturing at the Naval War College, teach that white people - from the Founding Fathers to the 200 million white people in the country today - are oppressors, who are an internal enemy,

		
			Critical Race Theory began by destroying the moral integrity of colleges and corporations. Now its target is the U.S. Navy.

		
			Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday has told the third of a million naval personnel that they should be reading and learning from Ibram X. Kendi, a mediocre, fact-challenged university professor who has become the go-to “anti-racism” expert for America’s woke elites.

		
			In a congressional hearing, Admiral Gilday was asked by Representative Jim Banks to denounce Kendi’s view that white people are criminals - that they created the AIDS virus to kill black people. The Admiral refused to do so, dismissing it as a “cherry picked” quote about which he had no other opinion.

		
			By adding Ibram X. Kendi's book - How To Be An Anti-Racist - to the Navy’s Professional Reading Program, Gilday put the weight of the U.S. Navy behind Kendi’s hatred of white America and all white people as the allegedly racist oppressors of blacks.

		
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							Kendi defines anti-racism as opposition to America’s “systemic racism.” Systemic racism was outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If it were an actual problem there would be a tsunami of lawsuits and a tsunami of judgments awarding millions of dollars in penalties to the victims. There are no such tsunamis because systemic racism is a myth manufactured by leftists to disarm their critics and force their retreat. In Kendi’s dogma, the only way not to be a racist is to agree with him that racism is in America’s DNA, and white people are racists because they are white.

						
							In Kendi’s own words: “There is no such thing as a not-racist idea, only racist ideas and antiracist ideas.” Either you agree with Kendi’s leftwing politics, or you’re a racist.

						
							Gilday was not only endorsing Kendi's racism, but also his politically partisan agenda, which claims ridiculously that dissent from the left is racist even when it comes to global warming.

						
							“Do-nothing climate policy is racist policy,” Kendi argues, “since the predominantly non-White global south is being victimized by climate change more than the Whiter global north.”

						
							But the world’s greatest polluters are China, India, and Pakistan . – countries that are not white, and that refuse to implement the Paris Climate Accords.

						
							Gilday’s support for Kendi is part of his effort to divide and weaken the Navy by imposing Critical Race Theory and radical Identity Politics on the men and women who defend us.&nbsp;

						
							Last year Gilday promoted “conversations” that endorsed Black Lives Matter’s view that all whites are racists and encouraged recruits and naval officers to believe that, like America, the navy is systemically racist – no evidence required. According to Gilday-Kendi, life for black people is miserable in America, and white people have to be “transformed” by atoning for their white skin privilege . “White Skin Privilege is, in fact, a term invented by the Weather Underground: a notorious terrorist group which bombed the Pentagon in the 1970s.

						
							An official Navy video introduced by Gilday featured a black aviation tech complaining that, “being African-American in America is not fun;” a black lieutenant commander who claimed that he had experienced "systemic racism" and "implicit bias", and a white female musician confessing her “privilege as a white person” and attacking America over unfounded claims of "systemic racism"

						
							The video of Navy personnel putting down America, blaming their problems on systemic racism, and reciting Marxist talking points was the centerpiece of what Gilday called vital “conversations” about racism. Usually, a conversation has more than one side. But not in today’s U.S. Navy which has become a Critical Race Theory echo chamber.

						
							While the theme of Gilday’s racial crusade is, "One Team, One Navy”, its real message is that there are two navies and two Americas: white and non-white. The goal of the admiral’s new “diversity and inclusion” mandate is for the victimized non-white Navy to defeat the oppressive and racist white Navy. Or as one crew member in the video declares, "Tomorrow's Navy will finally stand on the right side of history when we realize that black lives matter." Considering that the latest ethnic genocide, involving millions of Uighur Muslims, is taking place in a non-white nation, China, today, it would be interesting to know what “the right side of history” is, or whether history has a side.

						
							An official video sponsored by Gilday, broadcasts the anti-American claim that the 245-year-old Navy has been on the wrong side of history, that John Paul Jones, who fought the British, Stephen Decatur, who fought Islamic pirates, and the men who fought on the USS Kearsarge to end slavery during the Civil War, were all on the “wrong side” of history until Gilday and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came along to set them straight.

						
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							Under Gilday’s leadership, minority members of the Navy are being told that it’s okay to question whether they should be serving their country. They’re being encouraged to view all of their interactions with white personnel as racist because all white people are inherently racist. Including their commanding officers and their comrades in arms.

						
							Communist China could not be damaging the Navy’s readiness any more than Gilday is with his divisive accusations about the racism of the majority of his troops.

						
							In the two years since Gilday took over as Chief of Naval Operations, morale is down, and instead of preparing them to fight America’s enemies, he has set off a civil war within his own ranks. China doesn’t need to fire a single shot if Gilday is successful in destroying our military’s cohesion, morale and will to defend the country.

						
							Biden is slashing the Navy’s shipbuilding budget even as the People’s Republic of China is building more ships than the U.S. Navy. The United States is losing the command of the seas. While Biden is undermining the physical infrastructure of the Navy, Gilday is waging a relentless war against the moral infrastructure of the service men and women under his command.

						
							Gilday and other military leaders are replacing military readiness with military radicalism. Admiral Bill Moran, Gilday’s predecessor and President Trump’s choice, had a reputation for standing up for his people. America First was his guide. Gilday has focused instead on political wokeness and demonizing those who resist his new order.

						
							Gilday – a vice admiral - was unqualified for his promotion to Chief of Naval Operations in the first place. He got his job through a political coup.

						
							His predecessor, Admiral Moran was forced out over a fake scandal generated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Gilday, a vice admiral, should not have been in line to be Chief of Naval Operations, but Democrat politicians and bureaucrats were determined to purge as many of President Trump’s appointments as they could. Their goal was to undermine his America First policies. They were so successful that no one qualified to be Chief of Naval Operations actually wanted it.

						
							As Chief, Gilday quickly showed why the same people who persecuted Moran left him alone. The men and women of the Navy can rely on Gilday to promote Black Lives Matter agendas, but they can’t count on him to watch their backs.

						
							Using race as the measure of all things, Gilday unleashed a political indoctrination campaign as the Black Lives Matter riots got underway. Video confessions of white privilege and condemnations of America are the heart and soul of that campaign. He initiated the Task Force One Navy whose report called for reinventing the Navy to fight "racism, sexism, ableism and other structural and interpersonal biases" – perfect Marxist slang for their war on America.

						
							White members of the Navy are being told to check their white privilege, to believe that they didn’t earn their ranks, but were awarded them because of systemic racism, and that the more they achieve, the guiltier they are of getting ahead at the expense of disadvantaged minorities.

						
							Officers are being told to stop thinking about ability and merit – racist categories - and to focus on meeting racial and gender quotas when it comes to mentoring and promotions. They’re being warned that their judgement is racially biased and that any decision they make will be racist. There is talk of using computer programs to achieve racial quotas for personnel and of subjecting officers to “implicit bias” training which is based on the hateful idea that whites are racists by virtue of their skin color.

						
							These are the same poisonous attitudes that destroyed American achievement on college campuses so that China’s educational system now outperforms our own, and racist mediocrities like Ibram X. Kendi become intellectual celebrities. Gilday and his allies are hard at work trying to reward activism over ability, and sow doubt about the merits of any sailor who is white.

						
							The Chief of Naval Operations is dividing the men and women of the Navy by skin color and turning them against each other. When you are a 19-year-old deciding whether to risk your young life for your country how does being told by your military commanders that America is a 400-year-old cesspool of white racist oppression help you to make the decision to fulfill your oath to defend that country and its Constitution?

						
							Gilday is undermining military readiness in the face of a possible naval conflict with enemies of the United States, especially the increasingly aggressive regime in Communist China.

						
							Gilday’s indoctrination program is already a threat to national security and must be terminated before it’s too late. And the best way to do that is for him to resign or be forced to step down.

						
							Our national security is at stake. Sign this petition and take a stand against Gilday’s destruction of the U.S. Navy.

						
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Petition to Remove Admiral Michael Gilday as Chief of Naval Operations

Our military is under attack by “anti-racism” activists whose message is that white America is racist.

		
			“Critical Race Theory” is the academic

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	As he assumed the office of Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday announced that he wanted to change the Navy. While the title of his remarks in the video you see here below was: "One Team, One Navy," its actual message was racist and divisive. His bottom line: only "conversations" about race would help. The “conversations” he referred to were in fact a lecture from America’s most popular and fact-challenged racist du jour, Ibram X. Kendi.

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	The “conversation" included "shared" videos of naval personnel claiming that America was racist and that they were angry. “Being African-American in America is not fun,” an aviation technician claimed, especially no doubt for a two-term African-American president who pocketed $100 million for the skillful exploitation of his public office.


	There was no word on whether being African in Somalia, Sudan, and Nigeria is any more “fun” than being black in America or whether being a Somalian hater of Jews and America might put you on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and get you protected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the leadership of the Democrat Party.


	In keeping with Gilday’s efforts to divide the Navy by race, an official Navy video endorsed the Marxist organization Black Lives Matter and denounced police for the death of drug-dealer-accomplice Breonna Taylor, who was shot resisting arrest when her boyfriend triggered a hailstorm of bullets after shooting and wounding a police officer doing his job. Bottom line of the video: naval recruits and officers need to hate their “white supremacist” country and question their service.


	In the video, a lieutenant commander claimed that he had experienced "systemic racism" and "implicit bias" – note, not actual bias. A white corpsman urged that "we can stand up for change" and then, mouthing the standard Marxist line, declared that "tomorrow's Navy will finally stand on the right side of history when we realize that black lives matter."


	"I have become very aware of my privilege as a white person," a female musician confessed. Then she claimed that "this country has a history of systemic racism." [FACT: systemic racism was outlawed nearly 60 years ago by the Civil Rights Act]. She called for creating a "country that is more equitable and just." How this was to be accomplished by repeating racist tropes about white people – guilty because of their skin color -- she didn’t bother to explain.


	The video closed with Gilday vowing to eliminate “systemic racism” with a new task force.


	This dangerous farce wasn’t taking place under the Obama or Biden administrations. No one from above was forcing Gilday to undermine national security or attack the foundations of this country. The year was 2020 and the Chief of Naval Operations was doing it entirely of his own accord.


	Gilday, a naval mediocrity, got to his position at the top of the Navy leadership because a new political environment made better men fearful of taking it.


	Normally, it’s not a job for vice admirals. The virtually unprecedented promotion happened after President Trump’s original nominee, Admiral Bill Moran, was kneecapped by a politically-motivated, phony scandal.


	Moran, a talented leader, was pushed out and forced to retire because he had emailed a former staff officer who had been accused of misbehaving at a Christmas party back in 2016.


	The Pentagon probe pushed by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ended Moran’s career.


	Navy Secretary Richard Spencer claimed that Moran maintaining a friendship with a former officer who had misbehaved, "caused me to call his judgment into question" and suggested it was at odds with treating "every person with dignity and respect."


	Moran’s purge wasn’t isolated. Democrat politicians, the media, and Pentagon bureaucrats had made a point of coming after virtually any Trump nominee. Their agenda was to cripple the administration and cancel its America First policies. These tactics endangered national security and weakened the military, and carried on the political agendas of the Obama-Biden administration. Under this onslaught, few leaders wanted to take a top job because they risked being destroyed on the thinnest pretext.


	Navy Secretary Richard Spencer would later be fired over the witch-hunt against Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, after which he denounced President Trump and endorsed Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Spencer had already shown that he wouldn’t stand behind a Chief of Naval Operations under leftist attack. So Gilday, a vice admiral, was suddenly given a job no one qualified wanted.


	This was bad news for the Navy and for America’s security.


	Gilday was nominated because he was “progressive” enough or could play that part. He would not be a candidate for a witch-hunt. While Admiral Moran had stood up for his people, Gilday began pushing racial campaigns before Biden occupied the White House.


	In the summer of 2020, Gilday began mandating his "conversations" about race, which insisted that the Navy was racist. The infamous video was one of the most public of these “conversations.”


	Rear Admiral Alvin Holsey, one of the few black admirals, headed Task Force One Navy whose report swapped out traditional naval tradition for fighting "racism, sexism, ableism and other structural and interpersonal biases." TF1N members vowed to advocate for "all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every sailor."


	Officers were told that it was their job to “advocate for change.”


	The new “One Navy” was a college campus whose focus wasn’t fending off China, but recruiting activists for leftist causes. Its guidelines drew heavily on “white privilege” materials, warning officers to “actively listen and do not be defensive.” In other words, if you criticize the racist propaganda we offer that in itself proves you’re a racist.


	The report also proposed fighting “systemic racism” by removing “problematic” language. It&nbsp; dismantled uniform and grooming standards. Even the term "good taste" was banned.


	But there were more ominous proposals like including bias awareness training or so-called “implicit bias” (and what might that be?) which would force Navy leadership into critical race theory sessions.


	Gilday was overseeing the transformation of the Navy into a leftist indoctrination machine.


	The same month that the report was released, Gilday had a whole new list of reading materials for the fleet. While Gilday has since tried to portray the Professional Reading Program as an optional hobby, it’s understood that these books convey the thinking of the brass. Reading and absorbing their concepts makes officers a good fit for the culture and helps their careers.


	While these books had been generally about the military with a focus on leadership, the list sharply diverged with The New Jim Crow which claimed preposterously that America is based on a "racial caste" system (tell that to Barack and Michelle Obama), and Ibram X. Kendi's How To Be An Anti-Racist.


	The leftist texts not only violated the military’s non-partisan role in protecting a diverse democratic society, they were racist texts that divided people by color and undermined the Navy’s mission and morale.


	Kendi's anti-racism message is that you either agree with his political “solutions” -- or you’re a racist.


	“There is no such thing as a not-racist idea, only racist ideas and antiracist ideas,” he preaches. The title of this text Gilday is recommending is a thesis that you’re either a left-wing activist or a racist. Either you support and will work to achieve Kendi’s leftist political objectives or you’re a bigot.


	According to Kendi, discrimination can be a good thing. “If discrimination is creating equity [like giving benefits to people who are not white], then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity [for anyone but white people], then it is racist.”


	To Kendi everything is transmuted into racism. Even <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/new-racism-david-horowitz/">the weather</a>. “Do-nothing climate policy is racist policy,” he argues, “since the predominantly non-White global south is being victimized by climate change more than the Whiter global north.” But of course, the chief global polluters, China, Pakistan, and India, are nations “of color” who have refused to change their climate policies, while the biggest pusher of climate change alarmism is the long-time white racist now-president of the “white supremacist” United States.


	Kendi’s is not your garden variety racism. It’s argued on the same level as the sermons of the long-defeated Ku Klux Klan – in reverse. In college, Kendi <a href="http://www.thefamuanonline.com/2003/09/09/living-with-the-white-race/">wrote that</a> "Europeans are simply a different breed of human” who are "facing extinction" because of their "recessive genes" and are trying to "level the playing field with the AIDS virus." His presentation since then has grown slicker without varying from the same premise that white people are innately racist and the aggressors in an endless struggle to suppress black people.


	This racist worldview, promoted by Gilday and the Democrat leadership, and funded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is fundamentally no different from Louis Farrakhan’s blue-eyed-devil explanation of everything that’s wrong with Western history and its civilization. Forget the fact that there is still black slavery in Africa and brown slavery in China, and that America and the British Empire led the world in freeing black slaves.


	Kendi sees everything through the lens of racial hatred. He even denounced Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a "white colonizer" because she adopted two Haitian children. This is the Navy’s new race guide.


	The oath of enlistment for naval recruits pledges them to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and its elected officials. But its race guru Ibram Kendi wants to replace all of that with a Department of Anti-racism (DOA) that would have total authority over all "local, state and federal public policies" and given "disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.”


	Forget the oath of enlistment; this attack on the Constitution is what Chief of Naval Operations Gilday has twisted the Navy into endorsing.


	Rep. Jim Banks, a Navy reservist who served in Afghanistan, asked Gilday at a hearing about his endorsement for Kendi's racist views. Instead of condemning Kendi's racist idea that white people aren't human and created AIDS to kill black people, Gilday argued that these were "cherry-picked quotes” and went on defending the legitimacy of pushing Kendi’s noxious agendas.


	“What this is really about is trying to paint the United States military, and in this case, the United States Navy as weak, as woke,” Gilday complained. “We are not weak.”


	Sorry but the Navy is on a path to becoming as weak as it is woke.


	If Gilday weren’t weak, he wouldn’t be occupying his current position over the heads of more qualified admirals. And if those admirals had shown a willingness to stand up to the purgers, then the entire Navy wouldn’t be subjected to woke witch-hunts and what the Chinese Communists refer to as “struggle sessions.”


	Even before the Navy confronts Communist China or Jihadist Iran, it’s under attack from their anti-American leftist allies in this country. The enemy is inside the military and waging psychological war on its own country.


	Gilday, like the rest of the woke military leaders, is a pathetic figure who has dispensed with his oath of allegiance and has sworn a woke oath to anti-white race theory. He has pledged his service to racist ideas, like those of Ibram X. Kendi, who will forever despise him on account of his skin color.


	And as a reward for his treason, he hopes to be left alone long enough to retire as a lobbyist.

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			No institution in America – from government offices to schoolrooms to corporate boardrooms and beyond – is safe today from the divisive racism of Critical Race Theory and the “1619 Project.” both of which posit that United States history is rooted in slavery and white supremacy, and that “whiteness” is an incurable disease. The institution whose subversion poses the greatest threat to our national security is the U.S. military, whose head is Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. General Austin is a determined advocate of these repulsive anti-American views.

		
			As Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin has incorporated both Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project as core elements of the Pentagon’s military training programs, under the guise of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” He has further ordered a purging of the military ranks of what he calls “extremists,” defined as opponents of these noxious views and supporters of former president Donald Trump.
		The consequence of dividing our troops by race and gender, and regarding one community of Americans as oppressors and beneficiaries of race and gender-based privileges is a direct threat to unit cohesion and military morale, the core elements of an effective military force.

		
			 
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			On April 9, 2021, Secretary Austin issued a memorandum announcing the establishment of the Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG) to spearhead the military’s internal witch-hunt of “extremism” in the ranks.

		
			To lead the CEWG, Austin appointed as his senior adviser, a black American named Bishop Garrison, who has made no secret of his profound contempt for former President Trump and the millions of people who voted for him. In July 2019, for example, Garrison wrote: “Support for him [Trump], a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs. He’s dragging a lot of bad actors (misogynist, extremists, other racists) out into the light, normalizing their actions. If you support the President, you support that.”
		As part of the re-education of our fighting force, Austin’s officers have required recruits to watch a film portraying Democrat presidents – and only Democrat presidents - as civil rights heroes, thus dividing military personnel along partisan political lines as well.

		
			 
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			Richard Torres-Estrada, the new “chief of diversity” for Special Operations, has compared President Trump to Hitler. His appointment came as part of a plan for embedding intersectionality into Special Operations diversity training through the “interconnectedness of matters relating to culture, ethnicity, religion, class, race, and gender”.

		
			“The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies,” explains Austin.&nbsp; “But we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.”

		
			Or, if they preside over those ranks.

		
			Secretary Austin claims his planned purge “is not about politics or political views.” Yet, nearly all 18 members of the Combatting Extremism Working Group in charge of the purge supported Joe Biden and the Democrats in the 2020 elections. Six of them are radical Islamists including a Pakistani national, who is not even a citizen. This is hardly surprising since in his first days as Secretary of Defense Austin ordered hundreds of former President Trump’s appointees from at least 31 Pentagon advisory boards and panels, to resign.

		
			To guide his political purge, Austin has recruited the Southern Poverty Law Center, a notorious, fact-challenged smear operation which has routinely labeled conservative organizations and individuals like the American Enterprise Institute and Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson as “hate mongers.”

		
			In a world as dangerous as ours where our chief adversary China is openly and aggressively building what it hopes will be the most dominant military force in the world, having a divisive, morale-sapping, politically partisan Secretary of Defense in charge of the nation’s defenses is a itself a threat to national security.

		
			On May 10, 2021, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, a commanding officer with the U.S. Space Force, released a self-published book titled Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest &amp; the Unmaking of the American Military. “As a commander of young military professionals, all of whom have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” wrote Lohmeier, “I became concerned that race-based identity politics would erode the trust and confidence these young people have in their country and in the Constitution.” In his book Lohmeier recounts stories of white officers who left the military because they grew tired of being told that “they are racists solely based on the color of their skin.” He describes high-school students reluctant to join the armed services because “they are unsure what their country stands for anymore.” And he cites black West Point cadets who, as a result of the Marxist propaganda with which they have been indoctrinated, are “conflicted about swearing an oath to defend a white supremacist country.”
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	"One extremist is one too many," Bishop Garrison told a Center for American Progress seminar.


	Garrison, the man tasked by the Biden administration with fighting “extremism” in the military, had reversed Blackstone’s ratio, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It was better to wreck the careers of a million soldiers to find one extremist.


	The Elizabeth Warren supporter was talking about his plans to fight extremism to a leftist group run by one of Biden’s few nominees so extreme she couldn’t manage to get past the Senate.


	Speaking alongside Garrison was Jessica Gonzalez of Change the Terms, an organization advocating for more internet censorship, formerly of the National Hispanic Media Coalition which coordinated with La Raza whose name means The Race and was derived from the works of Nazi collabotator Jose Vasconcelos. Antonia Hernandez, another participant, had taken part in a La Raza convention. But these weren’t the extremists that Garrison was looking for.


	Bishop Garrison is the sort of man who <a href="https://inkstickmedia.com/sometimes-i-count-them/">writes that</a>, “when I walk into a room — a conference room, a board room, an auditorium, a lecture hall — I count the black and brown faces.”


	The man in charge of hunting for extremism is a firm believer in systemic racism.


	He speaks in the dogmatic cant of critical race theory, tweeting about “intersectionality” in national security, promoted Ta-Nehisi Coates’ call for racial reparations, and hails the racist revisionist history of the 1619 Project.


	To Garrison, America is suffering <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1266369001032015874">from the</a> "original sin of slavery" and "the threat of systemic racism is one of our greatest national security challenges." Racism, he claims, is an “existential threat” and he sees it everywhere around him except when he looks in the bathroom mirror.


	When Governor Ron DeSantis told Florida voters not to “monkey this up”, Garrison<a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1035112510167429120"> replied</a>, "it was absolutely racist. To defend the statement is to defend racism." But Garrison also defended the Portland Antifa rioters, insisting that the riots<a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1285579928692568065"> were a</a> “peace demonstration against racism”.


	Garrison had previously <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/department-of-defense-advisor-trump-voters-support-racism/">accused</a> President Trump of “normalizing” extremists. “Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs,” he had ranted. But he <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1151107266298429440">defended </a>Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib as women of color "facing racism led by the President of the United States."


	This is the hateful radical race-driven psyche of the man appointed to head the Countering Extremism Working Group whose first task is to create a definition of extremism for the military.


	That definition would be used to prohibit "extremist activities among uniformed military personnel", ask recruits about "previous extremist behavior" and urge "veterans" to report "any potential contact with an extremist group". The Uniformed Military Code of Justice would be used to punish recruits and existing personnel found guilty of not informing on themselves.


	The surveillance program included a proposal to vet candidates for national security positions by spying on their social media using algorithms that would scan for specific keywords.


	After spending generations holding up the Army-McCarthy hearings as the epitome of fascism, leftists were embedding political tests, warning service members to inform on their own political views and those of their fellow service members, and threatening to punish those who would not inform in a purge of the military rank and file that McCarthy would never have dreamed of.


	A leftist movement that was once outraged over, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?"is asking, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Republican party?"


	All to find that one “extremist”.


	To Garrison, extremism means President Trump and Republicans.


	When President Trump criticized how Democrats had wrecked Baltimore, Garrison<a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1155840229967826947"> attacked</a> him and tweeted, “the battle against racism &amp; extremism is an issue of national security.”


	Garrison reflexively blamed all racism, no matter how implausibly, on Trump and Republicans.


	Even when a Texas school official posted, "You can't count on a black quarterback", Garrison <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopGarrison/status/1043631741582422016">blamed</a> Trump.


	Racism, in Garrison’s mind, is reducible to President Trump and his supporters. Anyone in the military who supports him is probably a dangerous racist and extremist.


	The Countering Extremism Working Group had been tasked by Biden and Secretary of Defense Austin&nbsp; to purge the military of Trump supporters in order to fight extremism. Garrison was on the job, appearing at leftist seminars and events vowing to defeat the threat of: extremism”.


	But what had occasioned the crisis of extremism? The last two personnel to carry out terrorist attacks while serving in the military were Major Nidal Hassan and Sergeant Hasan Akbar.


	Neither of the Muslim terrorists wore MAGA hats while they set out to murder Americans.


	But Garrison had not been put in charge of fighting against Islamic terrorist plots. What had he been put in charge of fighting? At the&nbsp; Center for American Progress seminar, Garrison slipped and said, "this type of ideology—excuse me, this type of behavior—is not acceptable".


	Garrison quickly corrected “ideology” to “behavior”, but it was too late.


	Biden’s hit man for the military had made it clear that he was out to purge ideology, not to change behavior. The military was going to eliminate political wrong-think.


	That’s a direct attack on the Constitution.


	Garrison went on to define extremism as "unlawful or unregulated militias" and "anti-government extremism". Not to mention "extremism based in immutable traits. Whether you’re talking about race or gender or ethnicity, none of it is acceptable and we wholeheartedly reject all of it".


	Believing that women and men were immutably different was now a form of extremism that Garrison and Biden were going to fight. One “extremist” who believes men and women are different was too many for Biden’s new woke army. And, indeed, Garrison had urged CVE or Countering Violent Extremism, originally used against Al Qaeda, for “misogynists”.


	Because the agenda is much bigger than just pursuing the phantom menace of extremism.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	Garrison’s big gimmick had been tying national security to leftist policies and personnel.


	Bishop Garrison has spent a decade arguing that military readiness is inseparable from diversity and that diversity depends on implementing identity politics and every leftist program.


	Therefore, according to him, our national security depends on everything from illegal alien amnesty to global warming to renaming Fort Benning, and President Trump’s refusal to remove the names of Confederate figures <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/73574/trumps-veto-threat-over-confederate-named-bases-erodes-u-s-security-and-american-values/">from</a> military bases “jeopardizes U.S. national security”.


	The Biden administration is plotting to transform the military by making national security inseparable from the leftist agenda. Garrison’s CEWG purge of the military is just setting the terms for a new definition of military leadership whose allegiance is purely to the leftist program.


	Any officer who doesn’t support the leftist program becomes a threat to national security.


	Like Stalin’s purge of the generals, Biden is undermining national security for political security, plotting to eliminate political opponents and transform the military into a leftist institution..


	In the last 5 years, Democrats have hijacked national security to criminalize political disagreement as “disinformation” while spying on political opponents for “counterintelligence”.


	This is just the beginning.


	The purge will begin with imposing critical race theory on the military at every level. It will end with redefining the allegiance of the military away from the Constitution, and radicalize it into another ‘woke’ organization driven by the revolutionary imperatives of destroying America.


	Like the Ivy League and Coca Cola, the military will become another former American institution whose leaders speak in critical race theory buzzwords, focused on purging political enemies, funding leftist causes, and tightening the death grip of the Left on the United States.


	The Democrats may not succeed in their plot, but they will do their damndest to try. And Republicans will, as happens all too often, do nothing to stop the plot against our military.


	A weakened America is facing a possible war with the People’s Republic of China. While the threat grows, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Bishop Garrison are fighting the military.


	“Ensuring our security means eradicating hate in our ranks,” Garrison has argued.


	It’s not the job of the military to brainwash soldiers or to control what they think. The men and women who join the military put their lives on the line to protect our country. Ensuring our security means freeing them from being harassed by racist witch hunters like Bishop Garrison.


	And letting them do their job of protecting our country from Communist China.


	Biden militarized our nation’s capital and demilitarized our border. He surrendered to Communist China and went to war against our own military. Garrison, like his Democrat bosses, spends a good deal of time throwing around words like “sedition” and “treason”.


	But this is real treason.

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