““A Navy F-18 fighter pilot and former Top Gun instructor is publicly warning admirals that retention is beginning to suffer from the military’s relentless social conditioning programs.

Cmdr. Guy Snodgrass, until recently a Pentagon speech writer for the chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said sailors are becoming fed-up with the constant emphasis on social issues – an apparent reference to gays in the military, women in combat and ending sexual harassment.”

This isn’t the training material they use in these Maoist struggle sessions these sailors are fed up with. It’s what they use to train the equal opportunity advisers who lead those struggle sessions. It’s the brainchild of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. In fact, they tell the EO advisers not to use it on the job, because of course the sailors must be kept in the dark about the true nature of what they’re suffering.

http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2014-01/deckplates-do-not-use-job

” Criticism of DEOMI last October involved a lesson on Power and Privilege, chapter EOAC-3000 of the Equal Opportunity Advisor Course student guide. The chapter emphasizes how “power and privilege can sometimes create exclusive work environments at the expense of others” and introduces students to the concept of white privilege. Two themes of that chapter deserve scrutiny. The first is that white males gain privileges and success through “unearned advantage.” The second is the assumption that “racism is everywhere.”

DEOMI defines white privilege as “the package of unearned advantages granted to those members of a diverse society with white skin.” Discussion of the concept explains that whites today benefit unfairly from historical institutional racism. By logical extension, that argument means whites–the text emphasizes white men–who achieve some level of status do so unfairly, suggesting their accomplishments are undeserved.

According to DEOMI, regardless of their socioeconomic starting point, intellectual capacity, or other factors affecting professional success, individual members of this group did not earn anything because they were unfairly advantaged by factors outside their control.

…Likely anticipating controversy, DEOMI labeled the chapter on Power and Privilege with the phrases ‘FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY’ and ‘DO NOT USE ON THE JOB’ [emphasis not added]. These phrases, which appear only once, will not prevent the concepts and conclusions from influencing equal opportunity advisers in the force. In fact, parts of the chapter are quite directive. ”

As I mentioned, this is only supposed to used to train the trainers. The students the trainers will teach aren’t supposed to know about it. It must be used to shape the trainers’ behavior, but never revealed to the students in the fleet. And this is DoD wide.

Substitute kulak for white and you’ll get an idea of the origins of these ideas. Bring up the Frankfurt School and talk about cultural Marxism and leftists will insist it’s all just the figment of the imagination of right wing crazies. Well if you go to that hotbed of right wing looniness, the Stanford Univ. Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online) and look up critical theory you’ll see it’s not all in my imagination. The Frankfurt School did exist, they were Marxist, and they had social theorists. And this is their brainchild (mostly; other socialists helped). They found that Americans weren’t readily amenable to being divided by economic class. But race, gender, and sexual orientation would do nicely as substitutes for oppressive bourgeois and oppressed proletariat. Guess which ones have “white privilege.”

The orwellian nature of the training these sailors are getting mirrors the orwellian nature of the language this administration uses. So even though I’m disgusted by the crippling cuts this administration is making to the military, does a Navy that’s just supposed to be a social experiment really need missiles and ships?

“Every member of the private county range where I am a dues paying member (there are currently 205 of us) has relayed the same message to county and town LEOs.”

Excellent comment! Everyone should reread it, even government spies and foreigners who hate us.

I love to read various pulp-type writers, and I’ve learned a lot.

Right now, I’m reading David Weber’s Safehold series, and he has many useful ideas on personal defense, building a navy, making allies, etc.

I mention this because we’re probably regressing to a world of daggers and pirates. Once chaos enters the world, each and every citizen will be a menace to the so-called high and mighty.

Government toadies should be ready for the chaos that’s awaiting us when the rule of law is destroyed by power-hungry fascist/commies.

Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.

“To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending navy ships and long-range bombers to the region for the first time in years.

Russia’s defense minister says the country is planning bases in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and just last week, Putin’s national security team met to discuss increasing military ties in the region.

“They’re on the march,” Gen. James Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command said at a Senate hearing earlier this month. “They’re working the scenes where we can’t work. And they’re doing a pretty good job.”

Kelly said there has been a “noticeable uptick in Russian power projection and security force personnel” in Latin America.

“It has been over three decades since we last saw this type of high-profile Russian military presence,” Kelly said at the March 13 hearing.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/201305-putins-quiet-play-for-latin-america#ixzz2xAuymaS8
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Not bad for what’s merely a weak regional power, eh?

Meanwhile, according to the PACOM intel officer China is preparing for a war with Japan. We did nothing about that air defense information zone that announced over that bit of Japanese territory called the Senkaku Islands. They think they can take them. And perhaps some of their sea claims in the South China Sea in the Paracel and Spratly Islands without starting a major war. Because they’ve seen who’s in our White House. The strong, restrained type, who out of strength is above responding with force due to the fact he knows they’re just doing this out of weakness.

I’d say now is the perfect time to cut the TLAM and Hellfire missile programs, and put us on the path to cut the Navy by half in the next 10 years. If I were an enemy of the United States.

Unimaginable that Comrade Putin would even contemplate an invasion of the Ukraine in the time of GWB.

If there is anything we have learned from History: WEAKNESS IS PROVACOTIVE.

The lessons of the recent 20th Century—with accompanying Rivers of Blood—may as well be pre-historic in this Age of Idiots. Tweety by Insta Facey, anyone??

The Dutch responded:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/dutch-reject-claim-that-srebrenica-fell-because-of-gay-troops/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

“Soon after the hearing, the Dutch ambassador to the United States, Renée Jones-Bos, said that she ‘couldn’t disagree more,” in a statement posted on her embassy’s Web site. The ambassador added:

The military mission of Dutch U.N. soldiers at Srebrenica has been exhaustively studied and evaluated, nationally and internationally. There is nothing in these reports that suggests any relationship between gays serving in the military and the mass murder of Bosnian Muslims.

On Friday, Dutch radio noted that ‘among all the introspection and adjustments made in the wake of Srebrenica, the issue of homosexuality never came up.'”

Of course there was no introspection. Of course there weren’t any adjustments made. Of course there was nothing in the reports. It can’t be talked about.

http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf

That’s a link to the DoD report on MAJ Nidal Hasan’s murderous rampage. Guess what there was no introspection about? Guess what’s not in the report? Neither Islam, that he was a Muslim, he’s not even identified by name. One would think it might have come somewhere in the sections dealing with “identifying the threat” or “The Alleged Perpetrator” but no. It too can’t be talked about. And if you can’t talk about something because it’s taboo, then no adjustments can be made.

When that fighter pilot is telling his Admirals that sailors want to get out because of the “social issue” indoctrination he wasn’t just talking about gays or women in the military. This report’s message, “Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood,” had a message that was heard loud and clear, too. It kills morale when you have a situation that’s hurting morale, or in Hasan’s case a deadly threat, and you know if you mention it you will be the one considered to have a problem. That report just screamed out that they don’t want to protect the force, because they don’t want to learn the lessons, because that’s too sensitive to talk about. So it’s no wonder those sailors want to get out.

“A Navy F-18 fighter pilot and former Top Gun instructor is publicly warning admirals that retention is beginning to suffer from the military’s relentless social conditioning programs.”

It was obvious despite what the Joint Chiefs and SecDef were saying that this was going to be a huge issue. The guys I know who are still in told me that Officers and Chiefs/senior NCOs refused to even take the survey. They were assigned their logins so they knew they were traceable. So they couldn’t say what they really thought because they were just marking themselves for reeducation camp and/or a quick end to their careers.

So the survey results allowed the Pentagon to say it was mostly going to be a non-issue. But of course it is, as you can see. There is just no way you can spend six months on a ship and not offend anyone. And the services just can’t have that. Recall how the media and the left wanted Commandant of the Marine Corps head for simply defending what was current policy. The writing was on the wall. It WILL be a success and the beatings will continue until it is. The point being that mere tolerance was never going to be enough. You have to “celebrate diversity.”

Well, a certain kind of diversity. The services have been giving training designating Catholics, Baptists, and Evangelicals as hate groups. Perhaps that’s what was going on here.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/military-blocks-access-to-southern-baptist-website.html

“The U.S. Military has blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention’s website on an unknown number of military bases because it contains “hostile content” – just weeks after an Army briefing labeled Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics as examples of religious extremism, Fox News has learned.

Southern Baptist chaplains reported that SBC.net had been blocked at military installations around the nation. An Air Force officer told Fox News that when he tried to log on to the website he received a message that his Internet usage was being logged and monitored for trying to access a blocked site.”

Unruly Progressives

A lot of people formulate their worldview in a particular order. From what they’re taught as children, and what they observe as they age, they come up with a series of principles. Then they assess others around them, concluding that the ones who live by those principles are the good people and the ones who don’t are the bad people.

…

Many progressives organize their worldview in the reverse order: They pick the good people – themselves – and everything else is negotiable.

I know, on a personal level, the sheriff and his deputies in my county. I know every individual (not a lot of people) on the police force in my town. They know that I know where they live and I know all of all their spouses and where they work. They also know that I will retaliate accordingly should they forget their oath to uphold the Constitution. This is not possible in urban areas, but it is possible in more rural areas.

Every member of the private county range where I am a dues paying member (there are currently 205 of us) has relayed the same message to county and town LEOs. We all understand what is at stake once “every man for himself, government against all” occurs. Many of us have also had a sincere discussion with local members of the Iowa Guard. We have them out numbered and we have more fire power because few, if any of them, have a 30 caliber rifle and can hit a dinner plate at 400+ yards.

rickl,

Back 3 generations ago, in Kentucky, my ancestors knew how to handle revenuers who came to arrest them for making white lightening in order to pay property taxes. They simply disappeared in the hog pen. Unknown unknowns are pigs that come home to eat everything, including the bones.

Back in the 60’s, William Buckley and Ayn Rand were my heroes. They did not agree with each other in fundamental ways, but they were each non-Leftist meteoric intellects, in their own way they both saw the emperor had no clothes.

They represented the usual minority opinion, roughly the opinion of Brutus and Cassius. Do you have an opinion on the assassination of Julius Caesar?

We have two things to consider, what the present reality actually is, and what we can do about it.

I refer to Hitler reluctantly but necessarily. The Left has collectively achieved dominance in the same bogus yet effective way Hitler did.

I say this with a great deal of sadness, and I hope I am wrong.

There is no realistic chance the non-Left can adopt Alinsky tactics. Alinsky adopted Hitler tactics perfectly.

Alinsky tactics are the actual point, essence, meaning, explanation, definition of the Left. Doing what is required at the current moment is the bizarre significance of it all.

The non-Left is (honorably) incapable of the child’s play.

The non-Left can be much smarter than it is. Much smarter.

We have very narrow options necessarily and can only (IMO) go with the flow.

The bizarre reality is that we non-Leftists must merely remain faithful to our adult, prudent, wise pov.

We must talk about Frost.

And Mamet.

And Barzun.

For all the other stuff, the stuff which overcomes epistemic closure, we have only the truth, always a roll of the dice.