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The Pentagon official tasked with leading efforts to crack down on extremist views among military servicemembers once asserted that backers of former President Donald Trump were also supporters of racism, misogyny and extremism.
The official, Bishop Garrison, is a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and head of the Pentagon’s Countering Extremism Working Group. Garrison expressed his view in a series of tweets on July 27, 2019. Silence from our Congressional leaders is complicity, Garrison tweeted. He is only going to get worse from here, & his party and its leadership are watching it happen while doing nothing to stop it. Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs.
The Biden administration is using the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol building as a pretext for a domestic spying campaign that will supposedly target “violent extremists” but is more accurately described as the beginnings of a Biden police state. Last week, we learned that the Defense Department plans to monitor service members’ social media posts for “concerning behaviors.” According to The Intercept, which broke this story, the plan is to enlist a private firm to do the spying, so as to avoid nasty entanglements with the First Amendment. The Intercept reports that: An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, … Continue reading →
30 Republicans Urge Pentagon Chief to ‘Fight Back’ Against ‘Left-Wing Extremism’ in US Military
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) led a group of 30 House Republicans in urging Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to fight back against “creeping left-wing extremism” in the U.S. military.
Rosendale and his GOP colleagues said in a May 25 letter to Austin that they’re concerned about “the growing trend of left-wing extremism and politicization in our armed forces,” while citing several examples in support of their position that the nonpartisan legacy of the U.S. military “is now in jeopardy.”
The lawmakers expressed concern about the firing of a Space Force commander over his remarks that diversity and inclusion training in the military was “rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism”; about West Point training that they said was “anti-police” and “racist”; and about the appointment and subsequent reassignment of the first chief diversity a