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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: This is how you get an actual civil war, America The rising, alarmist rhetoric about purges and surveillance needed to root out potential insurrectionists in the US military is far less likely to prevent a shooting civil war than to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024 blared a headline of a Newsweek piece on Monday, quickly going viral on Twitter. The argument it makes is seemingly absurd on the face of it. After all, if Republicans view the US government as tyrannical and illegitimate, what exactly stopped them from rising up in arms over the 2020 election? General Mark Woke Milleys collusion with the Democrats? Ah, no, says the author the January 6 insurrection crowd was mostly unarmed, undoubtedly thanks to Washington DCs strict gun-control laws. This utterly moronic argument that people allegedly seeking to overthrow the government by storming the Capitol would pay any heed to gun laws seems enough to dismiss the piece out of hand. Which would be a mistake. Kyle Hooten @KyleHooten2 Former generals want the DOD to conduct "war-games[s]" to figure out how the military will respond if the citizenry tries to revolt after the next election They also want the armed forces to figure out how to counteract media narratives they don't like ("misinformation") Thats because the Newsweek piece did not appear in a vacuum. Just three days prior, the Washington Post published an op-ed by three retired US generals that clearly inspired it. Antonio Taguba, Paul Eaton, and Steven Anderson warned about a 2024 insurrection and the significant potential for a total breakdown of the chain of command along partisan lines, with entire units going rogue to support a Trumpian loser over the rightful commander-in-chief. That alone ought to make it clear where their loyalties lie, without knowing that Eaton advised Hillary Clinton in 2008, backed Barack Obama, and cut an attack ad against Donald Trump in 2016, working with the Democratic outfit Vote Vets or that Anderson works for John Kerrys American Security Project while pretending to be a conservative Republican. Taguba, Eaton, and Anderson want the military to undertake more intensive intelligence work at all bases to identify, isolate, and remove potential mutineers; guard against efforts by propagandists who use misinformation to subvert the chain of command, and understand how misinformation spreads in the ranks. They also want the Pentagon to war-game the next potential post-election insurrection or coup attempt. Just in case there were any doubts, Eaton went on CNN to argue that Republican propaganda about the 2020 election which he insists was one of the best, one of the safest, one of the most well-monitored elections we ever had is infecting the impressionable youths joining the military. Therefore, the Pentagon must ban Fox News and Tucker Carlson, and message better, he said. CNN Newsroom @CNNnewsroom Ret. Major Gen. Paul Eaton discusses why he and two other ex-US generals wrote a Washington Post op-ed warning that the Pentagon needs to confront and mitigate deep divisions within the US military as they fear of a potential 2024 insurrection or civil war. This obsession with narratives and messaging helps explain why the Pentagon failed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but thats a different topic for a different time. Eatons co-author Anderson also appeared on CNN and cited rejection of vaccine mandates as proof the troops need to be re-educated in Civics 101. We need to gather intelligence about people in our midst. We need to find the next generation of insurrectionists out there and get them out of the army, he told the network. Yes, you heard it right: here are retired military generals advocating ideological purges and doubting the loyalty of the troops to the regime. Aside from being as un-American as it gets, the sentiment is virtually guaranteed to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Never mind the lessons of history from other countries, has no one read Robert Heinleins sci-fi novella If This Goes On? The fastest way to foment a mutiny is to subject the troops to an inquisition. Yet thats precisely whats coming. On Monday, the Pentagon announced an update to rules about extremist behavior that would be grounds for discipline and maybe even dismissal. Much like social medias ever-shifting community guidelines, the new rules dont define extremism, but focus on behaviors allegedly in support thereof such as liking social media posts. They were informed by recommendations from Bishop Garrison, a rabidly partisan activist appointed as equity adviser by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. One doesnt have to be a genius to figure out how these rules will be enforced by the same military that thinks its perfectly fine not to punish murderers of children, but cashier a colonel who dared ask for accountability. The Democrats have had a strange obsession with civil war all this year. It is somewhat puzzling, given that they just fought and won one. What was last years fortification but a culmination of a years-long effort to replace the old constitutional republic with a more equitable Our Democracy, after all? Meanwhile, the supposedly dangerous, armed-to-the-teeth Republicans basically rolled over, stupidly convinced the old rules were still in effect. Even if a number of them think Biden is not a legitimate president, they are not willing to challenge the system they still believe in. Yet in their very moment of triumph, the Democrats are about to launch a witch hunt that may push their opponents over that edge. Poster Comment: General lies and says that Biden won the 2020 election. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
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The real problem is that there are a lot of weapons in the hands of the American people BUT will they really "Lock and Load"????
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