By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74
STARRS Chairman of the Board
Email in response to this article: ‘Integrate DEI into Everything We Do’: Pentagon School System Pushes Progressive Ideology on Children of Service Members which shows DoDEA closing its DEI office was “purely cosmetic.”
It’s just like the James O’Keefe undercover interview with the guy in the USAF DEI office--bragging about how they just changed the name of the DEI “officials” in HQ USAF (took away “DEI” in their job descriptions) so they could circumvent the $80K/yr pay cap of DEI officials Congress put in place in last year’s NDAA.
John Adams told us “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” Lots of examples today of how we have moved away from that ‘charge’ unfortunately.
A recent example I found as egregious as this one, though, was the slide that went around on Friday of the US Army teaching that “pro life people are ‘terrorists’“.
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” people are somehow now “terrorists” according to the US Army.
Stop and just imagine that for a minute.
A large portion of our society has bought into the Aesopian “women’s reproductive health care” above “life“–apparently even past ‘viability’ outside the womb and up until the time of birth. (Governor Northam’s comments about “after birth abortions” aside.)
I took a call a couple of weeks ago from our civil rights lawyer friend and radio show host, Jim Breslo, who told me there are only two political parties with any power left in California–the Communist Party and the neo-Marxist party–we know both Communists and Marxists are Godless.
Certainly, the “new left” has a drastically different view of what America should be than what our founding fathers envisioned–our founders based so much of their research of what kind of government we wanted for this new country they created on one book in particular–the Bible.
My mom, a lifelong Democrat, recognized this on her deathbed–asking me “what is happening to our country–what has happened to my beloved Democratic Party?”
That was in 2010. I am glad the Lord spared her from seeing what we have become today! Mary, whose dad was in first wave of Marines landing on Saipan in WW II says the same thing about her dad (he passed in 2017).
And it is all being “pushed” and “thrust” upon us by people who seemed to have lost their “critical thinking” skills–many of whom are “Godless”– Anitifa, BLM, DEI zealots.
And when we push back, reminding people of the values upon which our nation was founded–and warn others all of this is rooted in Marxism–we are called every “phobic” name in the book.
Your prescription, Mike, (new Commander in Chief) is an obvious one on how we could begin to right the path we are traveling down. That said, I took Greg Salsbury, the lead of our STARRS.US writing team and a former University President, jeeping today.
A VERY smart guy! He gave Trump only a 40% chance of winning this election–even in spite of current polling– because he says–the “Democratic Party machine” has perfected cheating.
(I told him as an aside about my FB post on Hunter Biden’s laptop in Sep of 2020 going from 865 shares one day to zero the next (and how Ron and I eventually got the Hunter Biden story to the NY Post and Fox News and how we were censored everywhere else–If that wasn’t “election interference” (fraud) than what is?)
Greg went on to add–well there is no state that requires voter ID (I didn’t know that–and he has since updated that assertion), “they” have the government paying for all the NGOs that will do all the “ballot harvesting”, mail in ballots are now the routine, (add in the fact that we now have allowed 10-16 million illegals to enter our country (and all although illegal to vote–there is really nothing from keeping them from registering and doing so)) and most of America has no clue how the information they receive is being controlled by only 7 agencies/organizations (some government and some private).
Response from Greg:
There are only 16 states that do not require voters to present identification to vote at the polls on election day. But more importantly is what is required for ballot verification of mail in ballots, which looms larger today than ever.
Trump would have won the popular vote by 15 percentage points in 2020 if only election day voting were counted. There were some 28.8 million votes cast on election day in person, and a record 66.6 million votes (ballots) cast via mail. There in lies the rub.
There are five categories of ballot verification, ranging from requiring both a signature and identification, to having no witness or signature verification on the returned ballot:
1. No verification required.
2. Witness only.
3. Signature only.
4. Signature and witness.
5. Signature and ID.
Out of all 50 states only Arkansas requires number five. So I was wrong about that Rod. Arkansas is the holdout state.
I added–“and we just had 198 democrats in the House vote this week against the Voter Safe Act–a VERY simple proposed law that would require people to prove they are American citizens before they cast a vote. That is telling.
Game is up. Can’t win a debate on policies–so are they saying “we have to cheat?” Sure seems so.
If you followed this, Mike–you know the argument from the left in opposition is “it would make it too hard for some Americans to get an ID to vote.”
Give me a break! The most sacred right of a citizen is to vote and you can’t get take the time or don’t have the $ to get an ID? Bet you have a cell phone! That is about the biggest piece of BS I think I have ever heard! You need a picture ID to go pick up a lamp at American Furniture Warehouse. My son-in-law (Chilean born) just became an American citizen this year. (Proud of him for so doing.). I bet he has “proof” that he is an American citizen!
As Benjamin Franklin told Elizabeth Powel–“we are giving you a Republic–IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.”
We are being undermined from within, Mike–just like Abraham Lincoln warned us in his Lyceum speech.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
I would submit, we are dying by suicide:
–so many Americans have been brainwashed/indoctrinated
–so many Americans have lost the skill (if they ever had it) of critically thinking
–so many Americans have just become “so comfortable” in the life our Republic has provided for them and don’t wish to “rock the boat.” Apathy, throughout history, has preceded the downfall of many governments as we know.
Perhaps what happened in Butler PA tonight will wake some people up. Hope so. As Bill Barr (certainly no Trump fan) said tonight–“the Democrats have to stop the vitriol about Trump being a threat to democracy.”
When:
–you falsely and intentionally cast a spell of “Russian Collusion” upon a Presidency–handicapping it for 2 years
–you impeach the President of the US for a phone call after completely censoring a laptop which provided exculpatory information and conspiring with “51 so called intelligent agents” to produce a false narrative
–you impeach that same President for a second time for “inciting” an “insurrection” (a protest for which Nancy Pelosi turned down additional security offered by Trump, had Antifa and multiple FBI agents present and an “insurrection” (yeah–really?) in which no weapons were found anywhere near the protest)
–you unleash (weaponize) the power of the DOJ to persecute your political opponent (even lifelong Dem–RFK Jr says this)
–you collude with the media feeding them questions you will only allowed to be asked of the President
–you collude with Big Tech (my personal example above) to censor the freedom of speech of “we the people”
–you totally cover up for a President who is obviously suffering from some form of dementia for years
–you do everything in your power to enlarge the voting block–even though illegal–just let in 10-16 million illegals, make sure they don’t have to provide any ID to vote
–you take slander to a new level (did you see Biden in Detroit yesterday? I was disgusted by his tone!)
one has to ask–“well really who is the very real threat to “democracy?”
Critical thinking has indeed gone missing in the USA of today.
As our four-star friend has shared with us, the left “has taken a page out of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and bamboozled half of America.”
It is past time for the other half of us to stand up and take our country back! ( Donate at STARRS.US! )
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