tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87622236847464842432024-03-18T19:32:57.641-07:00Pick Your Battles...the mantra of those who don't battlePickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-33014016740187141322024-03-18T16:04:00.000-07:002024-03-18T16:04:54.628-07:00Worthless Fascist Un-American Tells Peers, "Hey guys, if you have standards you should leave service!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRY-8scB7XtwMJ_HNJvaw_Psj35G6SCoZmn09m_OhByvR_sagqtYJ3cf9ZPY2VRJBUGAj8iynflHBduFKz5oAnNRVty4ohiJqE5s9KmG0l5ZCVTOuQNiLxk5a8BrHSxQ4A15-TF4cJGm_yPpFdQJlyNU3AZkUPtlyXeLEKQzzXbIP-4ZVFPC58ec93a0-/s1326/NSPLAYR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1326" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRY-8scB7XtwMJ_HNJvaw_Psj35G6SCoZmn09m_OhByvR_sagqtYJ3cf9ZPY2VRJBUGAj8iynflHBduFKz5oAnNRVty4ohiJqE5s9KmG0l5ZCVTOuQNiLxk5a8BrHSxQ4A15-TF4cJGm_yPpFdQJlyNU3AZkUPtlyXeLEKQzzXbIP-4ZVFPC58ec93a0-/w640-h444/NSPLAYR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>It is a sad fact that this officer is still disgracing a uniform. While the navigator is confused and thinks he's a pilot because he punches buttons linked to a drone, he has never been confused when it comes to his fealty for unchecked and unaccountable government power.</p><p>NSPLAYR has been consistent in his belief that government can do no wrong. And if you're a military officer who thinks otherwise, you should get out of the service.</p><p>Fascists like this navigator, Adam Kinzinger, and many others on both "sides" of the political aisle have turned America into a complete and literal fascist shit hole. But don't take notice of that fact and, if you do, retire or leave service if you want to make this backseater happy.</p><p><br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-85692350758464403522024-02-10T13:21:00.000-08:002024-02-10T13:59:22.086-08:00Former SEAL Team 8 Leader, Chadd Wright -- Listen to This Man Right Now<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xIU4Vz_8p94?si=BzCLlqWNLnOIUlzR" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center>
<p>This great American gets it and he's trying to get the word out. This video above isn't nearly his best, you should check out his other videos, they are very well done and very relevant. I won't waste your time trying to summarize this man, his amazing story getting his trident and beyond, or his current ministry efforts. Just go watch his videos, be inspired, and heed the call to get ready. Shit is going to get very real, very soon.</p><p>ETA: And if you think he's just another NSW show boat, he's not, <a href="https://youtu.be/FEXJ2bPGY88?si=mwLqEsgoIufyzX3H" target="_blank">check this out</a>.</p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-15714487416162098992024-02-07T14:27:00.000-08:002024-02-09T11:14:06.565-08:00Former Army Lt Col Brad Miller: An Ineffective Voice for Military Accountability<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIe3z4y3qQR0g6RaxCeigJ-48DhfBafNx9UiwN736-iT81TknA3spqPdn8SvmRY-PzUM1hudYpPKjk2vZoc02qTQqxUCRwtTKU62xh2RccUiz9g-GXwga87k3LpfqdfmhKSk_Xd5OGAJSzB1IQUiw-0KvtP5xyT4xI_BBkoxx2bqOnAHNhFhNopF20sqc/s733/LtColBradMiller_DeclarationofMilitaryAccountability.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="733" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIe3z4y3qQR0g6RaxCeigJ-48DhfBafNx9UiwN736-iT81TknA3spqPdn8SvmRY-PzUM1hudYpPKjk2vZoc02qTQqxUCRwtTKU62xh2RccUiz9g-GXwga87k3LpfqdfmhKSk_Xd5OGAJSzB1IQUiw-0KvtP5xyT4xI_BBkoxx2bqOnAHNhFhNopF20sqc/w400-h224/LtColBradMiller_DeclarationofMilitaryAccountability.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Former Army Lieutenant Colonel and proud North Carolinian, Brad Miller,
the former four-month commander of the 21st Brigade Engineer
Battalion in the 101st Airborne Division, has been making the rounds in
alternative media to promote the Declaration of Military
Accountability. The declaration<span> </span>is styled as <a href="https://bardsnation.docdroid.com/58x0KsV/read-the-declaration-pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a letter to the American people</span></a>. Miller is the first signatory, and the person who<span> </span><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1741748064883282387?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">sent it</a><span> </span>to
senior military leaders. The declaration has been distributed on social
media in a campaign to solicit signatures for a companion petition, and
Miller has requested wide dissemination<span> </span><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1749471294385430750?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">particularly to elected representatives</span></a>.
The declaration is a rallying cry for veterans to run for Congress or
seek executive office in order to hold current or retired military
leaders accountable for their “complicit[ity] in recent illegal
activities,” by recalling them for court-martial, denying them
retirement pay, and/or denying them senior executive branch positions.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The goal of the document is certainly legitimate although perhaps a bit
naive in its stated strategies. There does need to be military
accountability for the widespread law breaking that produced a shot
mandate that was executed in an unlawful fashion and put the entire
military force at risk with absolutely zero concern for long-established
“risk assessment” models. But who should lead or best represent this
campaign? This blog post will make the argument that Brad Miller is a
poor representative for the cause of military accountability given his
own performance vis-à-vis the shot mandate while in the military, and
especially while briefly in command.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
If you’ve read this far, you may be asking yourself, why focus on one
person, rather than the cause as a whole? Because causes are often
identified by, and rise and fall with, the credibility of their leaders
and representatives. And although the declaration has many signatories,
Miller’s signature is first and foremost and he is actively representing
the issue in alternative media. Simply put, a movement that seeks to
impose penalties on not just those who initiated the mandate, but those
who were complicit in implementing it, demands leadership whose approach
to the mandate is beyond all reproach. Who took every possible act to
raise the alarm and shield those they were responsible for from the
“unwilling medical experimentation” the declaration discusses. Who, at a
minimum, put the chain of command on notice of the mandate’s
unlawfulness (for statutory or constitutional reasons) on their way out
the door—rather than merely expressing policy disagreements in unspecific terms.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Among the declaration’s signatories are several who fit the bill;
Miller is not one of them—notwithstanding that Miller brought many great
qualities to his role as a military officer and continues to offer the
public now. Beyond his notable achievements as a West Point graduate, a
Combat Engineer, graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies,
as well as a graduate of Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger schools,
Miller demonstrated an uncommon awareness of his oath of office by not
merely mouthing the word “Constitution” but by<span> </span><i>actually</i> studying
it. This is evident in his lengthy and remarkably accurate discussions
of the document and of early American history. Beyond these military
and public service achievements, Miller is also an impressive oral
communicator, and demonstrates a rare measure of self awareness and self
criticism, at least within his video soliloquies.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
But he has himself explained that at the time he refused to comply with
the mandate, he believed it was lawful. And even after eventually
learning of its unlawfulness, he did not convey that objection to his chain
of command. I do not fault him for evolving his thinking on the
mandate—doing so is admirable. Nor do I claim that only those who
recognized the mandate’s unlawfulness on day one are worthy. Faithful
public service is enormously difficult and also incredibly rare, and I
believe Miller suffered a legitimate trauma that I believe he is
attempting to process currently. A measure of empathy is in order,
even while critiquing a former public official currently considering
future public office.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
But those who seek to impose accountability on others must meet a higher standard. Especially because Miller has stated<span> </span><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1709421812474417213?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">he is considering</span></a><span> </span>public
office, and his declaration champions public office as the primary
avenue to achieve military accountability. Accordingly, assessing his
fitness for public office—given, in part, his previous performance while
in uniformed public office—is an important topic for discussion.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
This is not personal. I first became aware of Miller when he contacted
me on Twitter. There I learned of his career, his resignation, and his
public media. As a field grade military officer who also resigned his
commission (<a href="http://www.avoidpublitas.com/Resignation%20of%20Major%20Richard%20Rynearson.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">at the fifteen year point in my case</a>),
I dove into Miller’s media and communicated with him with the goal of
learning more about his situation and in the hope that I could support
him in some way. In the process, I have developed the opinions shared
here. Some of these opinions are critical of Miller, just as Miller
criticizes military officers and others (see <a href="https://youtu.be/IVeu4C4g660?si=L45w22xnIFER7T9W&t=261" target="_blank">Video at 4:21</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/IVeu4C4g660?si=is-b01shbV1mh3hM&t=2281" target="_blank">38:00</a>)—though my intent is not to “shame” Miller; rather, the spirit of my critique aims to be that described in the <a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/27-6.htm" target="_blank">Proverbs</a>. My
vantage point is limited. But in no way do I think Miller is a bad
person. I do think he did not do enough with the authority that he
held, that he was an inadequate military officer and failed as a
commander while briefly occupying that position. These failures do not
make him a bad person and certainly do not make his stated positions or
beliefs wrong or inaccurate. There is plenty to like about what Miller
says, but to serve the cause of military accountability and accurately
assess fitness for public office, we must honestly examine actions and,
as best we can, motivations. Words are useful but many in the wrong
will say what is right. That is the hallmark of the American "public
servant" today whether senior military leader, cop, or politician.
Action and inaction, however, tell the truth and it is there we must focus our
analysis rather than prioritizing words, familiarity, or tribe
membership. Our current government is in large part the result of
people not having standards more substantial than determining who they'd
like to drink a beer with. Changing that government requires we change
our approach in both critiquing and selecting government officials.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller and I have a great many similarities and I find myself
overwhelmingly agreeing with Miller on most important topics. I will
touch on our similarities and differences at the very end, which I think
may illuminate some of the motivation for Miller’s performance in the
service, and which should more clearly lay bare my bias for the reader's
consideration. Like all, I do have a bias. Before that, however, I will
first make the argument that Brad Miller is a poor representative for
the cause of military accountability given his previous performance in
the military. Past performance is a predictor of future performance.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
My assessment of Miller’s military performance (section I) is based on
(A) Miller’s decision to continue serving the federal government for 15
years after concluding that the federal government murdered its own
citizens while directing, or conspiring in, the 9/11 attacks; (B)
Miller’s refusal to comply with the mandate despite believing at the
time that it was lawful, and his failure to raise any concerns about its
lawfulness to superiors; (C) Miller’s unwillingness to convey to his
chain of command that the mandate was part of a treasonous plot, which
he claims to have believed despite believing the mandate lawful; and
indications that Miller’s actions regarding (D) the mandate and (E) his
resignation were motivated, at least in part, by concerns that were more
personal than public service-related. From all of this, I conclude that
Miller is a poor choice to lead or represent the military
accountability movement.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
I then turn to an evaluation of Miller’s fitness for public office, given his statement that he is considering it (section II).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>I. PERFORMANCE AS A MILITARY OFFICER</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>A. 9/11 & Fifteen Years of Service to What Miller Believed was a Treasonous Government</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Any assessment of Miller’s military performance has to account for his
decision to serve what he believed to be a government that had waged war
on the American people. Miller says that he would have admitted to you, as a military officer
in 2007, that he believed the attacks of September 11th were an inside
job (<a href="https://youtu.be/bECSdZdcbN8?si=xCEAOfbq97LEQFN2&t=203" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 03:23</span></a>). In<span> </span><a href="https://bradmiller10.substack.com/p/understanding-911-to-understand-our" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">his SubStack</span></a>, Miller writes that the federal government of the United States conducted a “slaughter of its own citizens” and explains:</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<i>“As I have detailed before, I woke up to the uncomfortable truth
that 9/11 was an inside job during the summer of 2007. From that moment
forward, that realization colored the way in which I began to view the
world and the interaction of the American government with its own
citizens.”</i>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In 2007, Miller was a military officer in the primary organization used
to produce violence on behalf of the government that he believed
murdered its own citizens. He considered leaving the Army when his
service commitment lapsed. But he chose instead to remain, continued to
serve what he believed was a treasonous government (for fifteen years after
he first reached his conclusions about 9/11), and later deployed for
operations in Afghanistan for which the 9/11 attacks served as a
pretext.<br /><br /></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1721959429929681166?s=20" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="1000" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cKd_M5P6ny2wtdZ_dUM05-fiGJl68J_2XEohwKQ7iI6WSG7AO5CE4SCsLlp8ZzWxlWGifW_VTM0BDVc3cykipconGDzMvxIhyphenhyphenrwKf1eGLY2xapyRqA2oG5N0d0YY9U_Az9M7qNO7egODopcMTgcGKWPil0xbGmAT9p7NBDX8xG0KZconfScvlXn2t2mv/w640-h128/BradMillerServe.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
For me, it is difficult to imagine rationalizing a decision to continue
working for a government that you believed caused Americans to burn
alive in the Twin Towers and to jump to their deaths from hundreds of
feet up. To do so for fifteen more years until the near-completion of a
military career, while deploying to Afghanistan which was identified as
the culprit in those attacks, raises questions for me, about Miller’s
credibility as an advocate for government accountability. However, it
is not a defenseless position. Miller was not tasked with assaulting
the buildings of New York during the attacks or coordinating a coverup,
so he was in no way obligated to leave service. Similarly, a Post
Office employee who recognizes illegality conducted by the Department of
Homeland Security is not obligated to leave his post simply because
parts of the same federal government are breaking the law. Should a
whistleblower leave federal service if unlawful actions he reports are
not properly punished? Of course not. So long as you do not conduct unlawful action
and you elevate concerns in your area of responsibility up the chain of
command and you exercise your authority to defend the Constitution, you
are honoring your oath of office and serving faithfully. A
good public servant can exist among other public servants who are not
good.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
That is how Miller explains why he continued to serve despite believing
the federal government had slaughtered American citizens—that after
2007 he “<a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1702528234070364167?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">still thought the Army needed good people.”</span></a><span> </span>(By
2023, after the shot mandate, he changed his mind and now believes the
government and military are “too far gone” to remain in military
service.)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
By staying in—and presumably performing excellently on all the
traditional metrics—Miller did achieve a position of some influence as a
battalion commander. So the question is, did he take the opportunity to
do good from the inside? Did he speak truth to power, defend those in
the right, and choose doing right over promotion and career? Enough to
justify the decision to keep serving a government that, in his view,
murdered nearly 3,000 Americans? I turn to that next.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>B. Miller Refused the Shot While Believing the Mandate Was Lawful</b>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1739796624002433478?s=20" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="749" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiB8LQCKFRE-ufvbjfIuhe5p5rcGRsPfFCf50Ut3ZI691OLDMSsWT9CTXncrQ8PCB5u3eNlX5hf38zzEawn6XDcYHrCdKSR6ueWogPjYF1zh42Cppi8BWUEUPRL20hMaJKN6QsghWAE1Z5OEYgsBGLXJnGcnQfzLkeHi927kczlOPwHmyADlRY61gWqKL-/w640-h640/BradMillerUnlawfulOrders.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><br />A fundamental problem with Miller’s credibility as the leader or
representative of an accountability movement is that he refused to
comply with the mandate while believing it to be lawful. But he has
elsewhere agreed that lawful orders rightfully must be obeyed even when
we disagree with them. He correctly states, "the military requires discipline & that means following orders, to include orders you may not like & perhaps find unsound."</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Yet that is not how Miller conducted himself when he disobeyed what he believed to be a lawful order on active duty. Miller stated:<br /></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
“…<i><span> </span>in my argumentation as to why I didn’t want to use
the COVID shot, with my superiors…. I would have used the unlawful
argument, but I didn’t know about it. You know. But by the time that I
actually resigned I was aware of that.” <span> (</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000e3;"><i><a href="https://youtu.be/6ogIyOaA_KM?si=irZkl4iCd0ry0Wnz&t=1505" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 25:05</a>)</i></span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<i>“A year later, when I tried to kinda go see [my Brigade Commander],
kinda talk to him, and one of the reasons I wanted to talk to him on my
way leaving the Army was because I was going to tell him ‘hey, you do
know this is all unlawful right?’ I never told him that when I was
getting relieved…when I got relieved of command, I did not know about
the whole BioNTech Comirnaty bait and switch, I was not aware of all
that…I became aware of all of that after I got relieved…” (</i><a href="https://youtu.be/6ogIyOaA_KM?si=3rxALUOs0nQmkgv3&t=1413" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;"><i>Video at 23:33</i></span></a><i>)</i></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller states that even before he took command of the battalion, he
knew he would get fired. He said “there was just no way” he would make
it through command (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=npK6f18dq7U_pP7_&t=1216" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 20:16</span></a>).
During a shadow program of his Division Commander, General Joseph
McGee, Miller told the General he would not get the shot and the General
told Miller he did not have to finish the shadow program, indicating
that Miller would not be in command long (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=ibdqzy-zLyE5DfLY&t=4877" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:21:17</span></a>), and he would be "out of the Army very soon” (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=ByQYFQBP3AyxR3C6&t=4681" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:18:01</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller considered telling his superiors that he would not take command (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=EvGWsjM42J28x5We&t=1291" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 21:30</span></a>).
Ultimately he decided to take command to force them to fire him,
apparently under the impression that firing a battalion commander would
be somewhat of a big deal (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=SLysijGh68zj4z1G&t=1422" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 23:42</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
That approach—forcing a noisy exit—is laudable, and fosters
accountability, but only if Miller then knew (and explained) that the
mandate was unlawful. But when the mandate dropped and Miller refused
the order to take the shot, he did so while thinking the order was
lawful. Miller states:<br />
<br />
<i>“…one thing that I had not done, that I regret, is I had not
strongly told [his Division Commander], ‘sir, this is unlawful.’ I
wasn’t gonna go along with it, but I had not strongly told him that.
Part of that is because I didn’t necessarily know that when I left
command, when I got relieved of command…”</i>(<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=6CO3eOibrY01ewwf&t=5111" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:25:10</span></a>)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller has said he didn’t know the shot was unlawful until two months
after he was fired as a commander and that he never told his superiors,
strongly or otherwise, that the mandate was unlawful. Miller did not
find out the mandate was unlawful (due to the military illegally
mandating EUA products) until closer to the end of 2021, two months
after he'd been fired. Regarding his division commander, Miller stated
“I didn’t pursue him…in order to tell him this thing is completely
unlawful, I told him it was bad news, I told him I didn’t agree with it,
but I never said to him ‘this is unlawful…’” (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=wK78yCS5xBV2CdEK&t=5275" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:27:54</span></a>). Miller has expressed his regret for not explaining that the mandate was unlawful once he learned of it.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Given that Miller never told his superiors that the mandate was
unlawful, that would necessarily mean he also did not state that he was
resigning because of the unlawfulness of the mandate, despite knowing by
that time that it was unlawful. (As far as I am aware, however, Miller
has not made his resignation document(s) public.) Resignation in
protest can be a valuable way to spark accountability. But doing so
requires an actual protest about an issue that justifies
disobedience—the unlawfulness of the order.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>C. Miller’s Failure to Convey His Belief that the Shot was Part of a Treasonous, Unconstitutional Plot<span> </span></b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
While Miller states that he did not know the order to take the shot was
unlawful at the time he refused it, in the sense that it violated a
federal statute, Miller has also indicated that from the beginning he
thought the shot mandate was "unconstitutional" and "part of a
treasonous plot.” (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=hCYMRHhOhIAKHNoK&t=5147" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:25:47</span></a>)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Of course, an unconstitutional order is an unlawful one, so if true
that Miller believed the mandate was unconstitutional because it was
treasonous, then that illegality would justify noncompliance. But if he
actually held that view from the beginning, why did he claim he had no
argument of the mandate being unlawful? Treason would present a far
greater argument of illegality than a bureaucratic (although still
important) law that states emergency use medical products cannot be used
unless the President authorizes them (which, strangely, the President
did not do). That being the case, I must question whether Miller
actually, while in uniform, thought the mandate was treasonous and
unconstitutional. Still, even if Miller did in fact hold that belief,
he did not convey it to anyone in the chain of command or even convey,
generally, that he was refusing the mandate because it was
unconstitutional or unlawful—again defeating the purpose of being fired
or resigning in protest.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller explains:<br />
<br />
<i>“But what I can definitely tell you is, by the time that I resigned,
one of the reasons that I resigned was because by then I knew, hey it’s
not just that this is unconstitutional… now I always kinda believed
this was treason, I always believed that, I didn’t necessarily, I always
believed this was a plot against our own country and against our
people, but that was based on a whole lot of conjecture and connecting a
lot of dots just over the years, I didn’t really have a way to
necessarily prove that, and so I didn’t necessarily use that in my
argumentation as to why I didn’t want to use the COVID shot, with my
superiors, I mean they would have thought I was an absolute nut case. I
would have used the unlawful argument, but I didn’t know about it. You
know. But by the time that … I actually resigned I was aware of that<span> </span></i>(<a href="https://youtu.be/6ogIyOaA_KM?si=olQ8maSPu4sdwXCe&t=1465" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 24:25</span></a>)<i>.”</i>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller has not explained his view that the shot mandate was treasonous
and unconstitutional despite critiquing other officers for also not
elevating an argument of the mandate's illegality (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=WxFShNGf2K2ehE2n&t=3182" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 53:02</span></a>),
except to say the plot was against our country and developed with
treasonous intent. But as defined by the Constitution “Treason against
the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in
adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Const. art.
III, § 3. Miller doesn’t explain how the mandate meets these criteria. If he means that the mandate was a deliberate plot to physically harm
service members to degrade military readiness, and thus qualifies as
making war on the United States, then it begs the question, why wouldn’t
he have explained this to his chain of command? How can he criticize
other military officers for not providing a legal argument to their commanders
when he himself also did not provide one to his superiors?
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He says he did not because his superiors would have thought he was an
“absolute nut case.” Despite referring to his bosses as “fantastic” and
“highly, highly, highly intelligent people” (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=LAapOfFQKCdMjT0m&t=666" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 11:06</span></a>),
Miller shirked his duty to elevate unvarnished truth, as he understood
it, to his superiors for their consideration, even when the health of
the 700 or so troops in his charge was on the line (assuming his belief
that the shot was meant to harm them).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Beyond failing to pass<span> </span>up his assessment to superiors that
the mandate was deliberately designed to harm troops (assuming, again,
that is the crux of his purported treason belief), Miller could have done more in
his role as a commander. If we assume that Miller<span> </span><i>actually</i><span> </span>believed
the shot mandate was an act of war against the United
States—deliberately intended to harm readiness and to physically harm
soldiers, then why did Miller not issue an order forbidding his
battalion from taking the shot? Or, at the least, publicly counsel them
against? When he took command, there was no mandate, so such an order
would have been perfectly lawful, just as commanders routinely issue orders
against using legal substances, like alcohol prohibitions or
prohibitions against synthetic marijuana. While such an order almost
certainly would have been countermanded by his superiors, or if he was
advising against the shot, Miller might have been ordered to stop
talking about it, it still would have made a difference. Miller would
have given his soldiers more of a fighting chance in any future legal
proceedings they might face for refusing the shot and, most importantly,
he would have exercised command authority to protect those in his
charge from what he claims he thought was a weapon being used against
them and he would have defended his unit's combat effectiveness. But Miller did not exercise such lawful command authority. Why not?</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
When the mandate did later get issued, Miller told those in his charge that
he was “agnostic” about whether they took the shot or not and that he
would “not publicly trounce the Army’s policy,” though he would have a
one-on-one conversation about it with those brave enough to schedule an appointment with him (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=Q9FHRh6lLvM0GKr2&t=2393" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 39:53</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Given Miller’s failure to take any act, or even issue a warning about
his purported belief that the mandate was a deliberate act of treason,
designed to harm, leaves us with two options. Either he did not<span> </span><i>actually</i><span> </span>then believe the mandate was treasonous and unconstitutional (and refused an order he believed to be lawful)<span> </span><i>or</i><span> </span>he
truly believed the shot was a weapon meant to damage those in his
charge, wielded by a government he believed had previously slaughtered
its own citizens, and yet he did nothing about it except personally
refuse—without so much as airing his concerns beyond a personal belief
that the shot was “bad news.” Don’t get me wrong—refusing and resigning
is a lot more than most did, and he paid a price for it. But if he
truly believed the mandate was an act of war—as his “treason” label
implies—then his failure to even sound the alarm falls far short of what
was needed. A commander refusing to "publicly trounce" a plot to harm
soldiers in his charge, failing to order his soldiers to avoid the
substance created by traitors to unlawfully harm them, and then not even
elevating these concerns and his analysis to his superiors would be
such an incredibly egregious failure of command and such a massive
dereliction of duty that it would, in my view, have merited Miller being
court-martialed and forced out in disgrace.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
There is no way to know for sure which interpretation is right. In my
view, however, Miller did not likely think the shot was treason or
unconstitutional at the time of his refusal. I believe he simply
thought it was “bad news” and he didn’t “agree with it” as he told his
superiors (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=xZgsU5QWkblYR6DA&t=5294" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:28:14</span></a>).
Miller has since stated, “I’m not here to tell you now what COVID was
or was not, I don’t pretend to know exactly. There are lots of
different theories” (<a href="https://youtu.be/n-zVpgJlMgc?si=Q_nrmWmiUxrYkYas&t=346" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 5:46</span></a>).
Had Miller actually believed it was unconstitutional then he would have
provided that reasoning to his superiors. Miller's lack of legal
argument for any unconstitutionally or treason claim, his noncommittal
assertions (ie "I always<span> </span><i>kinda</i><span> </span>believed this was treason"), and the seemingly-unlikely scenario that
Miller would have failed his troops, his superiors, and the nation so
egregiously during a treasonous plot, leads me to believe that Miller did not, in fact, believe
the mandate was treasonous or unconstitutional. Rather he refused an
order he thought was lawful at the time but didn't agree with, and then
later, when he discovered the order was in fact unlawful, failed to
inform his superiors. And then he began asserting treason and
unconstitutionality while building an audience on social media once out
of public office.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
If my view is correct and he did not refuse because the mandate was
unlawful or treasonous, why did Miller refuse? I turn to that next.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>D. Alternative Reasons for Miller Refusing the Order to Get the Shot</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Parsing motivation as an outsider is admittedly fraught. Nonetheless,
Miller’s statements provide some indications of other factors
contributing to his decision to refuse the shot. It seems likely, in my
view, that Miller’s reason for refusing the order was more a product of
his personal religious ideology than rooted in public service ideals.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Even after Miller had refused to take the shot, he was processing lists
of soldiers in his battalion who likewise had refused the shot and was
sending them up the chain of command. Miller relates that his boss, the
Brigade Commander, Colonel Mark Federovich, texted Miller and explained
that he successfully got the battalion’s list of religious exemptions
sent by Miller, but that it did not include a religious accommodation
request for Miller himself. Colonel Federovich asked Miller, “where is
yours?” (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=UB8UWnf8UUyb0nOv&t=2681" target="_blank">Video at 44:41</a>)<br />
<br />
Miller’s commander’s question indicates that he likely believed that
Miller’s objection was religiously motivated. Miller shares that he had
started a religious accommodation request, but did not submit it,
because he was looking for the mandate to be rescinded wholesale and not
merely as an exception for himself (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=L-cqjyHIQwoKGz_2&t=2721" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 45:30</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
There are other indications that Miller’s views on the shot mandate are
connected to his religious perspective. Miller talks about his
“worldview” and uses that term to describe his identification as a
Christian. Miller states that his theological beliefs "heavily inform"
his worldview (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=G5qUxBqThsAOhGtg&t=912" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 15:12</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller relates that his problem with the military isn’t really the
military itself and that “it’s not just about the shot, it’s not just
about COVID” but rather he has problems with the people who have
infiltrated and control the government, who have dominant control over
governments and corporations throughout the world, and that these people
work for the "Evil One” and are responsible for the shot (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=PiDekWTJbSQwH9bT&t=1573" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 26:13</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller adds:
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<i>“You know, I’m a believer, I’m a Christian…you know, I have a
worldview that I follow in which I believe we’re all part of something
that is bigger than ourselves, we’re all part of a family, we should do
things that align ourselves with God, that there are truths out there
that are not relative, and that we should live in accordance with those
truths. I don’t shy away from that. In our fallen world, you know,
there is a lot of evil out there too and I think it’s our responsibility
to defend ourselves from that…” </i>(<a href="https://youtu.be/n-zVpgJlMgc?si=6PjqLRPBb-aIJGFj&t=543" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 9:03</span></a>)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller discusses what he calls “worldview warfare” and how it seeks to
damage a person’s worldview and adds that “I’m certainly a Christian,
part of the reason that I do what I do is because I believe in the
concept of being a Christian man of action, I don’t apologize for that,
that is first and foremost in my mind, that is the most important thing
to me.” (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=otMf4k-zDuKELCxE&t=1170" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 19:30</span></a>)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller also states that his bosses were almost entirely “remarkable”
people who were extremely smart and cerebral, but that they had a
“warped” worldview. (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=ee09Ia6z3i1AEtfx&t=462" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 7:44</a>).
Adding all of these comments together, it seems to me that, rather than
some unexplained and unvoiced concern about treason or
unconstitutionality, at the heart of Miller’s objection was some kind of
theological worldview which he felt his superiors did not share.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>E. Alternative Reasons for Miller’s Resignation</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
As discussed below, Miller’s refusal did not make his resignation a
foregone conclusion. He has stated that he decided to leave the Army
because he "had to" in order to keep his oath intact (<a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=VEKnP4yNLS3nSIUj&t=218" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 3:38</span></a>). Miller
does not explain why he could not continue to serve in the military
while also honoring his oath. Even assuming he had come to embrace the
view that the shot mandate was a treasonous plot by the time of his
resignation, he could have tried to work against that plot by raising
the alarm, encouraging others to refuse, and so on. Just as he had years
earlier decided to stay despite his belief that 9/11 was
government-sponsored murder. I can only speculate why he made a
different decision, over a decade later, to resign on the precipice of
retirement. But, while speculating, it seems to me that Miller’s
resignation was likely due to many factors— including feelings of guilt
and loss of faith in the service—but also due to pride and the shame
that comes from being relieved of command and feeling like an outsider
to peers and superiors.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>1. When Relieved of Command, Miller Remained Hopeful He Could Limp to Retirement</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller states that, while he expected, when he took command in June
2021, that he would be removed from command, he still thought he might
be able to “limp across the finish line” and make it to retirement (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=uPhl8Y4uohX0WEY_&t=565" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 9:25</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
After refusing the order, Miller was suspended from command and later
transferred to work on the staff of the Division Commander, General
McGee, who had removed Miller from command. At this point, he was not
yet sure that he was going to resign his commission (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=XDckR6rsE1m4Q7vj&t=3136" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 52:16</span></a>).
Miller was then issued a Letter of Reprimand (LOR) and he wrote a
rebuttal response. He states that he regrets, on advice of counsel,
softening the tone of his rebuttal response, since his response didn’t
persuade his superior to not issue the LOR (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=PrfexM89AjpoQu6o&t=3510" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 58:31</a>). To my knowledge, Miller has not made either the draft or submitted versions of his rebuttal publicly available.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller stated that even though he’d become a “total pariah,” from the
perspective of the Army, while on the General’s staff, he didn't know
for sure that he wouldn't make it to twenty years (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=wWj3_cu-BNiQAOi1&t=614" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 10:14</span></a>). He took the flu shot, although he didn't want to, after he was relieved
of command. Miller explains that he took the flu shot because he
wanted to make clear his specific opposition to the covid shot, and he
held out some hope that the mandate might get corrected and that he
would be reinstated into command, so he had to be careful where he
decided to draw red lines (<a href="https://youtu.be/6ogIyOaA_KM?si=F2ZORtN4uGLcDMQ1&t=613" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 10:14-13:20</a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller was not notified until 18 days after his formal removal from
command, and he was notified via email by a JAG officer who was a Major,
rather than by General McGee himself, even though he was working on
General McGee’s staff and saw him regularly. Miller understandably
relates that the manner in which he was notified was not right, and was a
"completely cowardly" move on the part of General McGee (<span style="color: #0000e3;"><a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=bugTfCewoPzW6XsH&t=3588" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 59:48 - 1:03:22</a></span>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Despite this, Miller explains that he was still impressed that General
McGee asked him for his opinion as a former battalion commander during a
staff meeting, and felt it was as though General McGee was giving him
his "due" as a former commander who didn't get relieved for any real
infraction (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=hqN1Ksv915wvWqct&t=4044" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:07:24</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>2. Why Miller Ultimately Decided to Resign</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller explains he took the flu shot mid November 2021, started
thinking about resignation in February 2022, and resigned on March 2,
2022 after a directive came out on January 31, 2022 that all who did not
get vaccinated would get removed from service (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=YkkVS6MZiqwGhIP3&t=477" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 07:57</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Why did Miller decide to resign a month after this directive was issued? He long knew he would be fired and
even after being removed from command he was still hoping to limp to
retirement and to get reinstated into battalion command. So why resign?
He recounts that when the removal directive came out, he “decided to
resign instead” (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=MCJLqGFR-YvjMBIU&t=517" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 8:37</a>). He<span> also </span>suggests
that his resignation might have been as an atonement for failing to
leave the military after he came to the belief that the government had
slaughtered American citizens on 9/11. Indeed, he states that his
resignation was “influenced heavily” by his decision to not leave the
service in 2009 upon his realization that the government he worked for
had murdered its own citizens. Yet Miller asks himself whether or not
he feels guilty for his military service and responds “no, not exactly” (<a href="https://youtu.be/S6OQFpl7eVI?si=9X-a-QIIiCfXNyQY&t=533" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Video at 08:53 - 13:20</a>). </p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">He clearly hoped to make it to retirement, he refused to draw needless red lines in that pursuit, and he was asked by his superiors where his religious accommodation request was. Had Miller put in that request he would have almost certainly made it to retirement. Even without that request, had he gone through the military separation process, he still almost certainly would have made it to retirement. So why such an odd decision so close to retirement?<br /></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller’s decision to resign was no doubt influenced by a number of
feelings, including the sense of guilt and loss of faith in the service
that he discusses. But his description of the course of events leading
to his resignation suggests other common human emotions played a part,
including pride and a sense of feeling like an outsider after his
removal. Beyond that, in my view, is the fact that Miller had an
idolized vision of what it meant to be a battalion commander to the
point where it had become an intense part of his self identity. It
seems to me that having that identity stripped resulted in serious trauma.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller viewed commanding a battalion as "prestigious" and "very selective" and a "huge accomplishment" (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=nW7b8FMdi1V81uyw&t=266" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 4:26</span></a>). Being a battalion commander meant you were "super successful." (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=L5CiCrrl8hdM7BUT&t=4262" target="_blank">Video at 1:11:02</a>). He uses the term "almost existential" (in air quotes) to describe losing his command and career (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=eZjVxmAyfx3Nnn4u&t=2232" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 37:20</span></a>).
He describes the change of command ceremony in excruciating detail
about who is positioned where and who takes the colors and hands them to
whom, suggesting the importance of this transformational ceremony to
him (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=FQZXTB0I8Xxxue0W&t=1435" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 23:55 to 27:52</span></a>). More importantly, he concludes the lengthy discussion of the ceremony by explaining:
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<i>"I am now the commander, they can fire me, but I mean I am now the
commander which means forever for the rest of time I will be able to say
that I was a battalion commander even if they fire me later that
day....I think to myself...wow I'm a battalion commander, this is a huge
accomplishment...this is an accomplishment twenty plus years in the
making" and "whatever happens, whatever happens, I'm a battalion
commander and they can take command away from me but they can never take
away the fact that I was a battalion commander.”</i><span> </span>(<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=2V8XWWaH1RsKI50c&t=1682" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 28:00 to 29:02</span></a>)
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
This recitation suggests that Miller placed a great deal of value on
the government-bestowed title of “commander.” In his mind, it was a
massive achievement and most likely a deeply internalized identity.
Being a commander involved entering a select group, and Miller’s
attachment to the image of the commander is evident as he attempts to
critique other commanders who were his former peers and superiors.
There is a disconnect as he criticizes them heavily, yet they are
commanders, and commanders are exceptional and elite and cerebral, etc.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
For example, despite objecting to their cowardice, Miller otherwise
highly praises other commanders, both superiors and peers. With very
limited exception, he describes his bosses as “remarkable,” “extremely
smart,” and “very cerebral”—yet also “complete cowards” (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=r5zsG_jcmkRbn545&t=408" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 6:48 to 7:30</span></a>).
He describes them as “fantastic bosses” and "highly, highly, highly
intelligent” but also as lacking the ability to think strategically or
to "think in complexity” (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=K7Q9ieOJsS4g40hb&t=710" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 11:50</span></a><span> </span>and <a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=DqxkcnS3ZrLDmIdn&t=463" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 7:43</span></a>).
Miller says that if he had a chance to talk to his peers, he would tell
them they're part of the reason the military and nation is collapsing.
Yet he also says his peers are his friends and he is happy for their
accomplishments and they are "very good buddies of mine” (<a href="https://youtu.be/S6OQFpl7eVI?si=dAyIC2WmUoz9h_Ds&t=1813" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 30:13 to 32:20</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Miller’s conflicted assessment extends to senior leaders. He claims
many are really "good people," just normal guys who "just happened to be
generals or whatever,” but yet they lack "moral integrity" and
"courage" (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=E70yNw4yE4Kp3qLD&t=3290" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 54:50 to 56:22</span></a>).
He also believes that senior military officers are very very smart, but
at the same time they just can't think outside of the dialectical trap
they're in (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=bFIQW7eKk5cQrz_M&t=3421" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 57:01</span></a>). At the very top, Miller believes those who lead the Army and the DoD
are "criminals" and some are guilty of "treason" and some are "extremely
depraved individuals" (<a href="https://youtu.be/S6OQFpl7eVI?si=Qm0aT7CzFIXxxiCp&t=358" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 5:58</span></a>). Below that level, he doesn’t trust a single colonel or general, but not
because they are “bad guys”; rather, they are “good guys” (in air
quotes), but they're weak, don't have a lot of integrity, don't
understand how the world works, allowed themselves to get duped, and
because their careers depend on this mindset, they're not going to
question it (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=FPaqw1JyGcuMV41K&t=5347" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:29:07</span></a>). Similarly, despite otherwise praising his peers,<span> </span>those
who remain in the military are "weak, … do not have their country’s
best interest at heart,” there are commanders at every level who are
“complete cowards” with “no integrity,” there are leaders who are
engaged in activity to destroy the country, and those who remain in
uniform are "cowards and cucks” (<a href="https://youtu.be/6ogIyOaA_KM?si=6QcJ5-w0hoFetJ9N&t=838" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 13:59 to 16:38</span></a>). </p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Miller himself acknowledges that he is "conflicted" in how he views his former peers and their career progression (<a href="https://youtu.be/S6OQFpl7eVI?si=dAyIC2WmUoz9h_Ds&t=1813" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 30:13 to 32:20</span></a>).
Conflict is evident in Miller’s simultaneous judgment that
taxpayer-funded public servants can be “good,” “fantastic” and “really
great” while simultaneously exhibiting cowardice and<span> </span>a lack
of integrity. The same goes for his assessment that officers can be
“highly, highly, highly intelligent,” “cerebral,” and “very smart,” at
the same time that they’re unable to think critically or strategically
or to grapple with complexity.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
What explains Miller’s conflicted views? In my opinion, Miller’s
conflicted assessment of his peers and superiors is likely in part the
result of friendship attachments, but also the attachment he had for the
ideal of “the commander” (I would even suggest the myth) and the
fraternity of commanders that Miller briefly identified with as a
member. To question all those commanders is to question his own briefly held identity as one. If those commanders were all so cowardly, lacking in integrity, and unable to grapple with complexity, then is being a commander really a prestigious and huge accomplishment?</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Further, I think it likely that the trauma of being relieved from
command, removed from this fraternity, and of being ostracized in some
measure was a heart-breaking moment for him that played a large part in his decision to resign. Consider Miller’s discussion of “positive”
moments he had with General McGee, followed by a discussion of McGee’s
failure to fire him in person. Miller fishes for a word to describe
that failure, saying that it would be too strong to say he wouldn't
"forgive him for it" and settling on "wrong" and “cowardly” (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=Ah23oCmiPe1go2Sj&t=5064" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Video at 1:24:24</span></a>). The emotion is evident on Miller's face as he describes his boss not firing him in person.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In addition, as Miller describes it, while working on McGee’s staff he
might have been a "pariah," and he was viewed as a staff Lieutenant
Colonel who was “clearly not on the team” and that some may have even
thought was a “zealot” (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=xgCH0ISdVNBgVN76&t=331" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Video at 5:31</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
I believe these slights—the failure to fire Miller in person, the
belated email notice of removal from a staff Major, and some degree of
ostracization by the fraternity of commanders he was so proud to have
briefly been a part of—were primary motivating factors for Miller’s
resignation,<span> </span>which go unacknowledged in Miller’s recitation
of his decision-making. Even now the emotion, resulting from what was
obviously a significant and very real trauma that, I believe, led to an intense emotional state and a desire to simply make the situation end (which Miller might
inaccurately describe as "moral injury"), is readily apparent. The emotion is obvious and understandable. Miller claims he's "angry" and "frustrated" about what happened
to his career, and yet is also "completely at peace" with it because he
has "moved on" (<a href="https://youtu.be/IVeu4C4g660?si=W8c0vdWZoDnXsr0X&t=1744" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Video at 29:04</span></a>). He clearly has not yet fully processed the events. But
has he moved on? His media interviews, blog posts, and videos suggest
otherwise. And the question then becomes, is the Declaration of Military
Accountability campaign that he champions truly about
accountability for him? Or is it about righting perceived personal wrongs? Or leveraging his background as best he can, hoping for yet another rung on the government ladder?</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>CONCLUSION: Brad Miller is A Poor Representative for Military Accountability</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Based on all of the above, I think there are two possible conclusions
you can draw from Brad Miller’s performance and decision-making while in
the military. Neither supports Miller’s leadership or representation of
the covid accountability movement.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
One way to view events, and the most likely in my view, is that Miller
disobeyed what he then thought was a lawful order. Miller correctly
states that military readiness requires obeying lawful orders, even
orders we don’t agree with. But he did not follow this principle,
because he did not know the mandate was unlawful when he disobeyed it. And it appears to me that rather than being driven by concerns about
illegality, Miller acted out of fealty to a religious “worldview” in
refusing the mandate. He held out hope that the mandate would be
rescinded and he would be returned to command. Instead, he was
ostracized, and only then did he resign. But even having made the
choice to resign, after discovering the order was unlawful, Miller
failed to protest the mandate’s illegality to his superiors, despite
recognizing them as highly intelligent—presumably out of fear of damage
to his reputation (ie being seen as "an absolute nut case"). Miller
chose to leave the service after disobeying an order he then believed
was lawful; he was not forced.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In this view of his actions, Miller did not act in accordance with this
bedrock value of public service whereby public officials, no matter
their personal morality, are funded by the taxpayer to execute the
lawful wishes of the American people, as expressed through their
representatives. In public service, the official morality is the
morality of the whole of the American people distilled into our law.
Lawfulness is the only guardrail for a professional military officer.
Just as it would be immoral to sign a contract with a home buyer, take
his money, and then build the house you think looks nicer rather than
the house you agreed to build, it is also immoral for a military officer
to take great sums of money to be trained at West Point, accept a
paycheck and further expensive training, and then not execute lawful orders
simply because you disagree with them. Catholic, Muslim, Vegan, or
Atheist are obliged to operate solely according to the law of the land
once they don a uniform, they are not paid or permitted to fashion their
official action from private ideology. To do otherwise would be, in a very real sense, to
"infiltrate" our public government.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In the second possible interpretation of his actions, Miller disobeyed
an order that he thought was treasonous (i.e., an order that required
making war on the United States, adhering to enemies or providing them
aid or comfort). I think this interpretation is less likely, but it
would explain his refusal, because he would have believed the mandate
was unlawful. But if this was his view—that the mandate was tantamount
to an act of war on the United States—how is it enough to do nothing but
personally refuse? Before the mandate, while in command of a battalion
of roughly 700 soldiers, Miller did not exercise his command authority
to order those in his charge not to take the shot. He did not publicly
warn them about a shot that (in this interpretation) he believed was
designed to do them harm. Later, once there was a mandate, he publicly
told his soldiers that he was “agnostic” about their personal decision.
Miller did not even convey to his superiors that the shot was an
unlawful and an unconstitutional treasonous attack on military readiness,
out of concern for damage to his reputation. And even after being
relieved of command, Miller hoped he would be returned to command in an organization that he believed (in this view) was complicit in treason via the mandate.
Miller did ultimately decide to resign, at least in part based on his
regret for spending over a decade in service to a government that he
believed had slaughtered 3000 of its own citizens, but how is leaving
without in-service protest all that different from staying in? Why is protesting, outside of office, being faithful to an oath of office no longer occupied, while protesting in executive office not possible?</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Whichever conclusion is more accurate, it must be concluded that Brad Miller is a poor
representative for military accountability. Whether he failed to follow
what he thought was a lawful order, or whether he failed to exercise
command authority to protect the soldiers in his battalion against an
unlawful action intended to harm them, in both situations he failed to
provide his assessment of the illegality of the order (whichever
timeline of discovering unlawfulness) to his superiors for fear of his
reputation being damaged. Any attempt to now pass that information to
military leadership as a civilian at a minimum lacks credibility, and
risks the effectiveness of any cause of military accountability
championed by him.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In short, a military commander who got it wrong and did not pass information up his chain of command is in no position to
demand accountability from other military commanders who also got it
wrong.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>II. Mr. Miller’s Fitness for Public Office</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In addition to representing the military accountability campaign,
Miller is also apparently contemplating again seeking public office.
Beyond what I view as his prior failures in public office while serving
in the military, some of his statements raise grave concerns for me
about the direction he would take the country. Specifically, I am
troubled by (A) his declining support for the Constitution as a
foundational document; (B) his "worldview," which in my opinion is
superstitious and tends toward theocracy and divisiveness; (C) the
dangers that can occur when decision-making is driven by such a
worldview; and (D) his motivations for seeking public office.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>A. Mr. Miller Is a Constitutionalist, “But…”</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
In considering Mr. Miller's fitness for public office, which is a
personal and subjective endeavor where reasonable people will disagree, I
personally find Mr. Miller's admittedly declining support for our
Constitution to be troubling—at least so long as the public office at
issue requires an oath to support our Constitution.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
One of Miller’s strongest attributes, in my estimation, is his knowledge of the Constitution and early American history. In<span> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=HYydCpZSrKY3FXpZ" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">a video well worth watching</span></a>,
Mr. Miller gives an excellent rundown of the ratification of the
Constitution, questions about its legitimacy, federalist and
anti-federalist perspectives, and problems associated with the
Fourteenth Amendment.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller also, I think correctly, describes the Constitution as a
flawed document, although he does not point to any specifics. Due to
these unspecified flaws (which I have no doubt he could identify), he says that he is a constitutionalist, “but” he is “less of a
constitutionalist” than he was a couple of years ago and that his “view
of the Constitution is less staunch" than in previous years, because he
had a far higher opinion of the Constitution then (<a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=UXu8ZuXDoZ_Ysldp&t=112" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:52 to 4:14</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller then explains, however, that he would like to “audit” the
government of the United States, at least as a thought experiment, by
assembling delegates in a convention that includes political
philosophers, historians, lawyers, theologians, economists, religious
leaders, and other "experts,"—so long as "we" can trust them—to look at
previous governments and Christian empires for potential incorporation
into a new way of governance. In his view, the Founders largely
used Rome and Ancient Greece as models, but he would like to
include the thousand year "Christian Empire," the Byzantine Empire, as a
possible model to be emulated in some unspecified way—even though the
Byzantine era spans a timeframe that generally terminates with the end
of the Middle and Dark Ages (<a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=WaU_NRdmXVkGNGuE&t=5660" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:34:20 to 1:38:10</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller asks where does sovereignty lie? Is it with the federal
government, the States, the people, or God? He says he wishes smart
people, religious leaders, economists and such would get together and
whiteboard everything out. Although Mr. Miller would like to audit our
system of government, he says that he is a "constitutionalist" because
he recognizes it is the supreme law of the land, and there are some good
principles in it, despite it not being an overt Christian document (<a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=xZp2ofPT1rfA0lX-&t=6015" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 1:40:30 to 1:42:46</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller's knowledge of the Constitution is impressive and he
demonstrates an honest textual approach. He has the integrity to admit
that the Constitution is not a Christian document. I agree with him on
that, as the document never mentions God or a deity and the only two
times it mentions religion is to limit the federal government's ability
to establish a religion, use religious tests for office, or to infringe
on the right of the people to worship. It appears that it frustrates
Mr. Miller that the Constitution is not a Christian document, but he has
the honesty to make an accurate assessment all the same.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
All that said, I am troubled by his proposal to “audit” the
Constitution, even as a thought experiment. Our Constitution has a
mechanism for changing it through an amendment process, and Mr. Miller
is correct that the document is flawed. I would like to see several
amendments. But the apparent desire to re-write the document from its
foundations up seems to me similar to Marxist efforts to do the same,
starting from their own secular religious ideology.<span> <span> </span></span>Mr. Miller's
desire to "audit" the document using experts that he trusts, to
include religious leaders and theologians, while potentially modeling a
Christian Empire that peaked during the Dark Ages worries me. While he does not describe what portions of medieval governance he would
like to consider for emulation in America, he appears concerned about
the limited role of religion within it (at least for his personal
religious ideology). Were he in a position to pull levers of political
power to direct government violence and govern the citizenry, I would
find his worldview, coupled with his desire to make major alterations to
the government’s structure concerning and potentially dangerous.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>B. Mr. Miller's Theocratic Tendency, Divisiveness, and Superstitious Mindset</b>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTejpqQCd51D-BeHmYpzGRzRJ_aCJ26R7-dcnRkNJRRKZFt4-J7-tBSNusK9LAmTswQUZN5TvhUpdwjYK2daR73GKsAjzparvFeNTzqMfX5SUrWnzUiclEDqopeHYctipWIHuLm0TIXSgl3Q8xKJHV_m81ASndQd-HmsyIk71uHqtd9aPjFptPLwe-bouq/s939/BradMillerSorcery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="939" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTejpqQCd51D-BeHmYpzGRzRJ_aCJ26R7-dcnRkNJRRKZFt4-J7-tBSNusK9LAmTswQUZN5TvhUpdwjYK2daR73GKsAjzparvFeNTzqMfX5SUrWnzUiclEDqopeHYctipWIHuLm0TIXSgl3Q8xKJHV_m81ASndQd-HmsyIk71uHqtd9aPjFptPLwe-bouq/w400-h320/BradMillerSorcery.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><br />Mr. Miller's "worldview" can ultimately be summed up as one of "spiritual
warfare" where Satan controls or influences the actions of people,
governments, and shapes world events. For him, understanding this
spiritual warfare is vital to combating the evil in our government. He
believes many if not most Christians do not understand spiritual warfare,
even if they claim they do. In my opinion, Mr. Miller’s worldview is
superstitious and tends toward favoring theocracy and fostering
divisiveness. For these reasons, it raises concerns for me, if he were
to seek public office. Here are a few examples of Mr. Miller’s worldview:</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He not only believes that the attacks of September 11th were an
inside job by the U.S. government slaughtering its own citizens, but
also believes this mass murder was actually<span> </span><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1754643848473534617?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">an occult magic ritual<span> </span></a>and
human sacrifice. Mr. Miller states that "you may think that's crazy...I
don't think it's crazy, I've read the book, I think the argument is
compelling" and that it jives with his worldview as a Christian where he
believes in our world God is warring with "evil people" and "demonic
entities" in a "spiritual war" that people either don't know about or
are afraid to talk about (<a href="https://youtu.be/bECSdZdcbN8?si=bUtf4YRDVEsI468L&t=586" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video 9:46 to 13:00</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He talks about "Twilight Language" where communications are made in the
media and elsewhere that are like secret code where people don't
understand the messaging on a conscious level. He thinks the JFK assassination was likely an occult ritual, and claims
that plenty of researchers have come to this conclusion (<a href="https://youtu.be/HqDO769oM-Y?si=L03wkvo243_iRcjU&t=159" target="_blank">Video at 2:39</a>).</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">
Mr. Miller believes that the people at the top of the cabal or the
“pyramid,” who aim to control the world, are not atheists, but are
actually people who have deliberately chosen to follow evil. Those at
the very top know that God exists, and have chosen to fight him (<a href="https://youtu.be/bECSdZdcbN8?si=82n4Zd-DRsxC3C68&t=1516" target="_blank">Video at 25:16 to 26:15</a>).</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The way people think and the views they hold about the world are
central to what Mr. Miller calls "worldview warfare," akin to
psychological warfare, which is meant to impair your worldview and
understanding of how the world works and could impair your faith-based
views (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=x96kISXQelxGWjd3&t=1074" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 17:54 to 19:27</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He believes we are in a spiritual war that exists physically as well as psychologically, philosophically, and theologically (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=Shy2epnpcSn6V4G2&t=1434" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 23:54</span></a>). Mr. Miller believes there are "evil people" who deliberately seek the
assistance of “evil entities” to operate against good people. He
believes the world is ruled by "the Evil One," and that many or most
Christians think they understand this but don't. In his view, the world
is more evil than we see and we can't see it because of the "worldview
warfare" perpetrated against us as part of the overarching spiritual war (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=P-NOTteYSAmEP7s_&t=1585" target="_blank">Video at 26:26 to 28:24</a>).</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He explains that worldview warfare hinders our ability to challenge our
own assumptions and worldview. One of the things Miller was taught at
the School of Advanced Military Studies was to challenge assumptions, be
a heretic, and go against the orthodoxy. His problem with the school
was that people weren't willing to go far enough in challenging their
worldview, to the point of a psychologically existential moment, like
the moment where he concluded that 9/11 was an inside job (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=MT1PTcEKlBKxjuuv&t=2479" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 41:19 to 44:10</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller sums up his "worldview" by stating that there are evil
people who hate God and humanity, communicate with "evil entities," and
use spiritual warfare to engage in "worldview warfare" to degrade our
ability to accurately understand the world and our view of politics (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=6WlTXV-5jfCus6hw&t=3326" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 55:26 to 58:41</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
So, why does this worldview trouble me in reference to Mr. Miller
potentially serving in office? Because there are indications that he
would tend to want to require others to adhere to his worldview—that
is, that he would tend toward theocracy. Mr. Miller states that if he were an employer, if a job applicant had taken
the shot, he would have to question their "worldview" and he might not
hire them because of that, though he might—maybe, maybe not (<a href="https://youtu.be/IVeu4C4g660?si=RMWGO0kefPcqWPBM&t=1577" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 26:17</span></a>).
While his hypothetical involves a private company where he would be
free to hire as he saw fit, I have to wonder if this impulse would not
color his decisions in public office given his worldview is first and
foremost in his mind.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
He also states that he used to consider himself a "lower case
L" libertarian, but he now considers himself post-libertarian in some ways. He thinks
libertarians might be political allies, but libertarianism can be
fraught with problems as well (<a href="https://youtu.be/reyJgz91A00?si=Z_gc9RbwUPvfXahs&t=402" target="_blank">Video at 6:42</a>).
He does not specify what problems he detects in a philosophy that
prizes personal sovereignty and liberty over forces that wish to control
individuals.<br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">So why does Mr. Miller's belief in spiritual warfare, evil entities, and men communicating with demonic entities while controlling governments and corporations concern me in the context of a government office? I turn to that next.<br /></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>C. Religion Is a Bedrock of American Greatness, But Can Be Dangerous</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Christianity has been a force multiplier for the greatest moments in
American history. There is a reason the Founders lauded the moral
framework that came from a religious upbringing, with some saying it was
necessary to secure liberty in our young nation. Quakers, in
particular, have been on the right side of nearly every struggle in
America going back to the founding itself. The abolitionist and civil
rights movements relied deeply on a wellspring of faith and religious
organization. But colonial America also suffered from the awful
combination of religion and politics that produced the Salem witch
trials. The learned Founders were fortunately well versed in the
destructive combination of religion and government machinery, so such
events did not typically occur after 1776. (The Klan was Protestant and
anti-Catholic, and adept at infiltrating government office, but they
primarily disgraced public office from non-federal positions, and their
hatred and bigotry was primarily not religious in nature). On the
whole, America after 1776 has reaped the best that religious values have
to offer, while limiting the excesses of religious fervency that have so
frequently led to hatred, torture, and murder through history.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Our military has also benefited greatly from the character that
religion can instill in service members. The story of Desmond Doss is
but one example, and there are no doubt a great many others whose stories have never been told. When it comes to the kind of courage and sacrifice required to storm the beaches of Normandy, to face death and even certain death in the most horrific of circumstances, a strong belief in God is so often present among soldiers that the familiar saying goes, there are no atheists in foxholes. While that saying isn't strictly correct, it points to a larger truth. And yet, there are also excesses and extremes that come
with religious ideology. That is as true of traditional theistic
religions as it is of secular religions that are actively destroying our
nation today (ie Wokeism, Marxism).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Simply put, unconstrained by guardrails that limit the interaction
between religion and government machinery, religious fervor can be
dangerous. Lest you disagree, I am about to give one example of a
military officer whose religious ideology overrode his obligations and
oath as a public servant. The point is to invite the reader to consider
that, while every American has the right to believe as they see fit and
to worship as they see fit, adhering to religious ideology does not<span> </span><i>always</i><span> </span>generate good. Religious ideologies can include hateful, superstitious, and un-American values as well and can conflict with the obligations of the public servant.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>Disclaimer up front:</b><span> </span>the example I am about to give
is a violent one, and I am not suggesting that Mr. Miller could or
would commit violence. I have never seen him advocate the use of
violence; in fact he has expressly said he is not advocating violence,
and he has properly discussed the important constitutional right of
self-defense against unlawful violence (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=4HrsOG_lum1IOC97&t=1041" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 17:20</span></a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
I am not suggesting equivalence between Mr. Miller and my example.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
I do not bring up this example to suggest that Mr. Miller's views or
potential actions are like my example. Too often today, on all sides of
political aisles, demonization has been used against people with
differing, and especially minority, viewpoints. Mr. Miller accurately
discusses how the term<span> </span><b>“</b>conspiracy theorist" is problematically weaponized to call into question a person's mental health (<a href="https://youtu.be/v9J4edKAeMk?si=eeQ1SSkfyun6ht5P&t=1501" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 25:04</span></a>).
It is common to question the mental health of people with differing
views, especially if they are military veterans—where the term PTSD gets
thrown around frequently, at least in my experience. I have been the
target of these tactics from both conservatives and liberals, as well as
other military officers, and<span> </span><a href="https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1702528893586915754?s=20" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">by Mr. Miller himself</span></a> (ironically
in response to a line of questions about his belief that the Twin
Towers were an "occult symbol" along with the numbers nine and eleven) and I want to be clear that I am not doing that here. Again: Mr. Miller’s
views, past actions, or potential future actions are not like my
example’s. The reason for the example is that it invites readers to
consider what happens if we foster governmental structures where an
individual public servant’s worldview can prevail over our public law. You might agree with some or all of Mr. Miller’s worldview, but I doubt you
will agree with my example’s, and therein lies the problem: our public
servants’ actions <i>must</i> be determined and constrained by public law, not
private worldview. For them to be so unconstrained is for them to infiltrate our government with design outside the scope of public service.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
My example is a field grade officer who served in the active duty Army.
He had taken an oath to support the Constitution. He was paid by
taxpayers to act in accordance with our laws, whatever his personal
religious beliefs might have been, and, ironically, he swore before God
to do just that. But it was a source of frustration and conflict for
him. He ultimately decided that his conception of his duty to God
overrode any secular oath he swore to the United States (<a href="https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Nidal%20Hasan.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Article, pg 15</a>). He later stated in court (<a href="https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Nidal%20Hasan.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Article, pg 18</a>)<span> </span><span>:</span><br />
<br />
<i>"I broke an explicit covenant—my oath of office—that I took
voluntarily, not under duress... I ... regret both making a covenant
that had the potential to force me to fight against my religion and I
now regret breaking such an inviolable oath..."</i>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The officer did not grow up overly religious, but over time became deeply religious. His <a href="https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2016.6b10" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">religious</span></a> views
became the focus of his life, which naturally carries with it a
potential conflict when it comes to public service. Public service
cannot be conducted as if a clergy position for a church. It is a job that requires the public official to execute the will
of the American people, who have differing religious views. If someone
undertakes public office while intending to place their personal
religious values ahead of public law when taking action as a public
servant, then they could accurately be said to have "infiltrated" public office,
because they would in fact have “mental reservations” to supporting and
defending the Constitution, contrary to the oath, and they take office
while motivated by private values.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The officer in my example could be described as such an “infiltrator.” Tragically,<span> </span><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/03/28/us-could-carry-out-its-first-military-execution-in-over-60-years/" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">this particular Army officer</span></a><span> </span>let
his personal beliefs and personal values override the obligations of
his public office in a horrific fashion. He had a theistic worldview, supported theocracy, and he believed that it was justifiable to kill
those who would seek to prevent others from establishing a theocratic
form of government (<a href="https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Nidal%20Hasan.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">Article, pg 20</a>).
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Again, it must be repeated, Mr. Miller is not my example. Again, he
expressly disclaims any advocacy of violence. So again I will ask and
answer, why even bring up the example? I bring it up only to invite the
reader to consider whether there are inherent dangers in welcoming
public officials to guide their actions in a public office according to
varied religious ideologies (secular or otherwise). Mr. Miller appears at
least open to drawing from the lessons of a Christian Empire that
coincided with the Dark Ages to restructure our government. Is that not
dangerous? Not everyone with Mr. Miller’s worldview would have his scruples. If an individual's worldview is that Satan controls evil men to do evil things to others, it
would be a tiny (and logical) step to conclude that it is justifiable to
kill such evil men, because they are doing the will of the source of
all evil. It would be quite reasonable, given those religious assumptions, to justify using the machinery of government at your disposal against enemies in a spiritual war. History is replete with horrific examples of this very thing (witch trials, crusades, even Catholics killing other Catholics over a mere difference of opinion on whether the sacrament was symbolic or literally became flesh and blood in the mouth), something our
Founders knew all too well and labored to prevent in our Republic; labor that frustrates Mr. Miller.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>D. Motivations for Public Office</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Mr. Miller says that people "joke" sometimes about him being the
Secretary of Defense. He says he thinks that the idea is ludicrous as he was
just a Lt Col, and says he's not lobbying for that position and that he will never
be in that position. Mr. Miller then spends several minutes talking about his
qualifications, or lack thereof, for that particular job (<a href="https://youtu.be/S6OQFpl7eVI?si=FgekoClep-L2etQ3&t=900" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 15:00 to 18:00</span></a>).</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Given the Declaration of Military Accountability, Mr. Miller's statement about considering public office, and his efforts to build an audience on social media, it seems to me that he is attempting to position himself for some kind of future public office. But why?<br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Again, assigning motivations is fraught. I am merely speculating, but it seems to me that Mr. Miller is interested in public office again because it would in some way, in his mind, restore the identity that was stripped from him by the Army. It would be another government-bestowed (or People bestowed were he elected) title and identity, a badge of excellence and worth. As a civilian in the executive branch, or as a member of the legislature, Mr. Miller would outrank those "cowards and cucks" who stripped him of the prestigious title of "commander" and then ostracized him, made him a pariah, perhaps thought he was a "zealot," and dodged meetings with him and no longer communicate with him.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">There are issues with Mr. Miller's current view that the military is too infiltrated, and too far gone, for him to recommend others serve in it (or to serve in it again himself if offered the opportunity) while he considers public office in the larger government that he similarly criticizes for being similarly infiltrated and corrupt. Yet he is considering that very thing. Mr. Miller also gives some indication of another possible motivation. He likely wishes to use public office to further his personal religious "worldview." Mr. Miller explains:</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
"I want to see our country become the country under God that we have
long purported it to be...that's not an accurate assessment of our
country right now...but I want to change that, but it's going to take a
lot of action, in fact, as a Christian, one of the principles I believe
in is being a man of action, not just talking, not just acting in
theory, but being a man of action (<a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=LycspPS8nBC1Hiwk&t=1462" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Video at 24:22</span></a>)."</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>CONCLUSION: Mr. Miller is Not Currently Fit for Public Office</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Mr. Miller has many fine qualities including an excellent understanding
of the Constitution and American history. Given his past substandard
performance in public office, however, and his expression of some values
that potentially deny important Enlightenment values in favor of
theocratic values closer to the Middle or Dark Ages, I do not think Mr.
Miller is currently fit for public office. This is, of course, just a
personal preference and certainly others with a more theocratic frame of
mind, among others, would likely differ with me.<br />
<br />
While I do have some questions about Brad's character (and they
are questions, not conclusions), he has shown a greater capacity for
self reflection and study than most people I experience. As such, even
as he approaches middle age, he might continue to develop and improve his thinking, and perhaps eventually be worthy of public office. We humans are
not static creatures.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
That being said, it seems to me that after the trauma Brad has
suffered, he would be better served by taking some time to learn and
reflect, rather than to teach and "lead." Instead of seeking another
government-issued identity through a public office or presenting
"answers" to an audience as a teacher (which risks audience-capture at a time when more reflection is needed), Brad might instead consider forty days and forty
nights in the desert to challenge his assumptions, ask questions, and
to reflect further on his past performance and on the honest root motivations
behind any desire he has for public office. Is it about him and his pride? Or is he actually trying to serve others?</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Brad has fine qualities but he does have, at least as it appears to me, some challenges when engaged in actual conversation or debate, rather than delivered soliloquy; defensiveness, somewhat of a propensity for insult and ad hominem, projection, and even demonization. These responses to his viewpoint being questioned may well indicate the kind of insecurity that comes from incomplete thinking and unchallenged assumptions and, ultimately, a weak worldview. Notwithstanding this observation, it should be remembered that Brad is processing some serious trauma and discussion over on Twitter, and other social media avenues, which is a bit of a wild west that invites something akin to "road rage" rather than sober discussion. I am not convinced that Brad is best defined by some of his social media interactions. That is a space in which we modern humans rarely put forward our best foot.<br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">An incomplete worldview is a guarantee for the entirety of our existence and a weak worldview is also a requirement of our shared human condition. None of us are born with a correct roadmap of this increasingly complicated world. It is inevitable and necessary that we be wrong, and even vocally wrong, about things we feel passionately right about. The undying love for a girl that parents don't understand because even they never knew a "love" so real, a friendship so bonded that disloyalty was never a question until it was, adherence to a political party or cause that turned out to be wrong, association with a particular religious institution or ideology that turned out more of the world than merely in it; these are just some of the ways we are commonly wrong about things we feel so very right about and I have been pretty much wrong about all of them at some point in my own imperfect life.<br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">My favorite question when examining an adult's credibility is to ask, "what were you wrong about, that you passionately and strongly believed you were right about, something vitally important to you." Those who can't point to something meaningfully real that they were wrong about are simply not serious about searching for truth. Having the ability to challenge our worldviews, give up false assumptions even while risking our psychological safety blankets and built up identities and self esteem in the quest for truth, is a hellfire that most people could not even fathom crossing. Have no doubt, the minority of us who actually, truly, sincerely care about truth, must walk through torture to embrace it. It is not an easy task as though choosing an opinion like selecting from a salad bar. There is a reason why propaganda and social conformity are so powerful for the vast majority of people. Most people are truly, permanently, weak and they do not have the desire, let alone the strength of character, to seek the truth when it means going against social comforts.<br /><br />But Brad <i>does</i> have that strength of character in some measure. While he failed to demonstrate it to his superiors out of concern about what they would think of him, he undeniably demonstrated it when he refused the shot and risked the disapproval of not just his peers, but of those he idolized -- commanders. That is no small thing. In fact, I think it may well be the most important human character trait ever. To be wrong is unavoidable, but to <i>care</i> about being right in the first place is rare. It requires a courage that few can muster in any measure. We will all be wrong, that is inescapable, but having the fortitude to risk something meaningful in the pursuit of being right is a precious characteristic. And one that I believe Brad and I share in some degree.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
<b>Our Many Similarities, Some Differences, and My Bias</b>
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Earlier in this long blog post I promised to lay out some similarities
and differences between Brad and myself to hopefully lay bear my biases
for the reader's consideration. I do have a strong bias and it is relevant to this discussion. I'll begin with our great many
similarities.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
There are the cosmetic similarities. We were both military officers
and we both <a href="http://www.avoidpublitas.com/Resignation%20of%20Major%20Richard%20Rynearson.pdf" target="_blank">resigned</a> our commissions. We both greatly value<span> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/rKItii5_G3Q?si=aoI8sLDRzmtl3siW" target="_blank">our library of books</a></span> which
likely have some significant overlap in areas of study as we are both interested in
the topics of religion and philosophy. My undergraduate degree was in
Religion and I have a minor in Philosophy. We are both theists. We
both consider (or used to) ourselves libertarian. We both have an uncommon appreciation for the Constitution of the United States, even among our peers who also took the oath to support and defend it with true allegiance.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The similarities do not end there. Brad and I both think the shot was the product of evil intention. We both think there are
groups that control governments and the world, including corporations,
that fight among themselves and that perpetrate evil against humanity
and we agree that these groups are comprised of people who are not
incompetent. We agree they operate in the shadows and supersede
political parties and state actors and we see little to no difference between Democrats and Republicans. We both agree that government loves to lie and deceive.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Brad and I both admire the Founding
Fathers, especially Ben Franklin, and have a distaste for Hamilton.
We are both aware of the very real stress that comes from not going with the flow in the context of a military career. We both agree that the vast majority of those
in government<span> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/5LCH5iIX7CY?si=FSCb69kt6-Y_wHLJ&t=1304" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">do not care</span></a><span> </span>about
the Constitution. Brad provides valuable video discussions of our Constitution, and accurately discusses it in social media including discussion of the right of secession; <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2011/11/to-scotus-and-back-in-time.html" target="_blank">so also have I</a> for many years. While I did not make videos about the Constitution, I did personally run and fund <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2015/03/wantscheckcom-down-until-further-notice.html" target="_blank">cadet essay contests</a> focused on constitutional topics with
the goal of preparing cadets for their oaths of office; writing $1000 checks to essay winners from the Air Force Academy and several ROTC programs.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">But Brad and I also have some differences. I do not share his view that 9/11 was inflicted upon the American people by our government. I do not believe in "evil entities" communing with humans and think humans are more than capable of being incredibly evil without any assistance.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">The most glaring difference between us, however, is how we approached our military service; not our voiced views, but rather our demonstrated action.
Brad was a careerist who greatly valued the title and
status of "commander" and his desire to "achieve" that status affected
how he interacted with his superiors. He gives one example of this when
contemplating whether to "challenge [his] boss... pretty overtly" and discusses
his concern that this might sabotage his chance of becoming a
battalion commander although it wouldn't prevent him from being promoted (<a href="https://youtu.be/bqR_Wnj01cI?si=4qIIhNHPiubofhHw&t=434" target="_blank">Video at 7:14</a>). In a second related example as a battalion commander, he
explains that he did not tell his superiors why he thought the shot
mandate was treasonous or unconstitutional because they would have thought he was an "absolute nut
case" at a time when he still had hope he would be reinstated into command and make it to
retirement.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
My approach to the military profession could not have been any more different than Brad's approach. <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2010/05/formative-years-aetc-rotc-jump-school.html#more" target="_blank">From the very beginning</a> I spoke truth to, and challenged, power in the military and happily suffered for it. I had
long rejected the idea that you could "make a difference" if you
"played the game" and "picked your battles" and got to the right position of influence. Despite my father making the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force, I never considered rank or title to be hallmarks of achievement (and I'm married to an O-6 in the USAFR). Rather, I graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT), got my wings, and thereafter considered my career expendable. I
sought to serve rather than to achieve titles like rank or position. I shared the service philosophy made famous by the great fighter pilot, John Boyd, who made clear that <a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/john-boyds-roll-call-do-you-want-to-be-someone-or-do-something/" target="_blank">you can "be" or you can "do."</a> And that bias is one I readily recognize and present to the reader here. In my view, as shared by Boyd, those who seek and achieve command in our military are almost always those who serve themselves rather than the American people. They want to "be" something rather than "do" something. There are, of course, exceptions but I am unquestionably biased against careerists.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Brad sought to be a commander. He performed in the military such that supervisors promoted him and offered him command. In an organization as distant from constitutional principles as the one Brad accurately now describes, those "men of action" who labor for their oaths of office while in the service do not typically advance, just as Serpico did not get offered the position of Chief of Police. If an organization is bad, then advancing in that organization is an indictment. Brad got offered a command position and received glowing evaluations. He prides himself greatly on what he sees as a "huge accomplishment." We differ in what we label an accomplishment.<br /><br />I did not prioritize promotion or position. I never wrote my own performance report for the boss to sign (something all careerists do) and I was the only person on my thirteen man crew who refused to put in for the <a href="https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/43254" target="_blank">Distinguished Flying Cross</a> (DFC) during the hit night Al Faw invasion (as I felt, and still feel, my personal inexperienced performance that night did not merit one--I was awarded the medal anyway). So also, I did not quibble when the Wing Commander told me he thought I had <a href="https://youtu.be/NAc2mcav7tw?si=q6t3HlfNh0i2scaW&t=555" target="_blank">little chance of promotion</a> to Major. I simply chuckled, shook his hand, and told him "thanks for giving it to me with the bark on, sir" and left the meeting he scheduled me to attend with him. When my squadron commander in my
Special Operations squadron brought me in for regular career counseling as a Captain and asked me what I wanted out of the military, I told him that
my only goal was to look myself in the mirror and respect myself and that I didn't care about promotion or career advancement. I lived that and my
career was filled with battles and scars as a result. One thing the military and I agreed upon early on, was that I was not going to be given command of anything more than an aircraft and crew.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Unburdened by thoughts of promotion or career, I set out to do what I could do to make the service better and to defend our Constitution.<br />
<br />
Consider, as a young Captain AC-130U Aircraft Commander, that I informed my
squadron leadership that if I got a call from law enforcement, while
flying a local training mission, to participate in a manhunt, that I
would refuse to participate as such action violated the law (these
requests were infrequent but did occur). My leadership had no issue
with my stance, although some other pilots strongly disagreed with my
decision.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Also consider my disagreement with a different squadron commander in
that same unit, while deployed, over a chaplain showing up to every
single mission crew brief and leading a public prayer; something that violated
Air Force regulation at the time. The commander (a principled and devout Christian man) disagreed with my take, which was
unpopular in the squadron to say the least, but he actually defended me from his superiors who wanted me punished, in order to
give me space to make the argument to him (which included me contacting the head chaplain at the Pentagon). During that process I convinced my commander and the public prayers before missions ceased. The chaplain offered to avoid the briefs after that, and I suggested the chaplain could have a voluntary meeting minutes before the brief so that my crew members could attend without coercion. Many years later, I invited that same squadron commander to give the invocation at my
retirement ceremony and he did so. He was the best commander I have ever worked for, without question, and I say that while acknowledging that my community had no shortage of truly great combat commanders. That community was not, in my view, representative of the service or military as a whole. It was an exception, not the rule.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
The real demonstration of my approach to public service, however, was after this
when I volunteered to be an instructor pilot in our Air Education and
Training Command (AETC) as a Major. While in that position, I started
this blog with all of its criticisms of Air Force policy, met with
an Air Force Times reporter over a challenge I was mounting against an Air
University anti-free speech action in order to pressure a general
officer in my command to do the right thing. That general officer <a href="https://youtu.be/NAc2mcav7tw?si=rDk5vpNk8HvO-IJt&t=999" target="_blank">did finally do the right thing</a> as a result. I suspect he wasn't pleased with my efforts though.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Separate from that action, <a href="https://youtu.be/NAc2mcav7tw?si=1opgh4JspyRl1OUW&t=705" target="_blank">I filed an Inspector General (IG) complaint</a> on my squadron commander, Operations Group Commander,
Wing Commander, two-star 19th Air Force commander, and the four-star
AETC commander. I was warned before I did this by my squadron
commander (again, in the training command, not a commander from the Special Operations community) that I would get a "screw up [my] ass" if I filed the
complaint. As part of that complaint I covertly recorded a staff
meeting that gave me the evidence I needed for my complaint. The civilian in that meeting who worked for the four-star and provided me that information informed me "oh my, I think you have made a problem for us both." My
complaint went all the way to the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF) level
before being dismissed. But the regulation change I requested in that complaint was
made nonetheless very shortly after.
</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Also while in that non-combat training command, I filed <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2015/11/bda-target-destroyed-liars-in-uniform.html" target="_blank">a lawsuit against an oath-breaking police officer</a>, and another lawsuit against
<a href="https://youtu.be/NAc2mcav7tw?si=D9BFj9ocG9j5RtNs&t=2711" target="_blank">oath-breaking Border Patrol</a> agents. I spent about $100,000 of my own
money in those two failed lawsuits. Both the police officer and the Border Patrol agents contacted my military leadership. And during that time period I had the privilege of showing
up in blues to my Operations Group (OG) commander's office to get verbally
reprimanded (escorted by my squadron's Director of Operations) where
that O-6 commander (the equivalent of Brad's Brigade Commander) told me that I should have voiced no objection to the police
officer's orders even knowing them to be unconstitutional. To
which I responded by <a href="https://youtu.be/NAc2mcav7tw?si=XvbaH3GBmPisppA1&t=2688" target="_blank">telling that O-6 (and later two-star general officer) to his face</a>, in front of my squadron DO, that he was "un-American." In response to that, he tried to turn off my assignment back to the Special Operations community. He failed. But that training command did ensure I would not be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and they nearly got me removed from service during a subsequent Reduction in Force (RIF).<br /></p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Ironically, despite lucking out of their designs for my departure from service, there was the time, after leaving that careerist non-combat command
and going back to my combat command, that I was <a href="http://www.avoidpublitas.com/Resignation%20of%20Major%20Richard%20Rynearson.pdf" target="_blank">ordered to assassinate an American citizen</a> outside of a war zone who was no
imminent threat, refused that order, and tendered my resignation
at the fifteen year point. This resulted in the Air Force investigating me and, in a rare example of justice in our military, finding for me and issuing an opinion about my fidelity to the Constitution. My resignation was not accepted.</p>
<p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">
Unlike Brad, I approached public service as a means to serve the
American people and did not concentrate on promotion or career. I had few "red lines" which is why my blog is titled as it is, as so many would advise me to pick my battles. I would ask them to name a battle they had picked and, of course, they came up empty. In the business of conflict, military officers should not shy away from doing what is right for the nation and should be happy to give up their career at the drop of a hat. Somebody handing
me a stick with a flag on it did not make me a worthy military officer
and public servant, but rather, my actions did. And those actions almost
certainly do not come with promotion as John Boyd famously explained. That is the cost of being a
faithful public servant rather than an image on a chain of command
display on the wall.</p><p><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">End Transmission — You Still Here? </span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">I have a bias as we all do and I have provided my thoughts on Brad's fitness to represent the military accountability cause or to occupy public office according to my lights. None of us are perfect, but we have to up our standards for public service or we will continue to get the same people in office who are not up to the task. The cause of government accountability, military or otherwise, has never been more important in American history than it is today. May God help us achieve it.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-77793287360898927652024-01-28T14:43:00.000-08:002024-01-28T14:43:44.411-08:00Squadron Officer School (SOS) in 2003<p>This video couldn't be made today. The nudity and non-PC jokes would result in court-martial if not a firing squad. But back in 2003 when we made it, it was actually used as an SOS recruiting video for years after we all left.</p><p>Our flight instructor was cool with our class agreeing we didn't want to play flight games and instead just wanted to enjoy ourselves. His only request was that we call the baby ugly. Which we did.</p><p>And we had a great time doing it. <br /></p><p><br /></p><center><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");</script>
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invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.</blockquote><p></p><p><br />Heartened to see the Governor of Texas just explained this fact correctly citing our Supreme Law of the land. I hope to see Texas live up to its reputation against the lawless thugs currently occupying federal office.<br /><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7eXuA1lyJwL1YqVZss-jxAq-JQW-fEXKGnwp_OdJXRoKWbYvySc1S05FtusQXb5spDwIJ0QTq_fb5YDjbwdXIn-SrNg9fl9mUugjtXEBkyFMhQJIbiLKzhYuNVY8Z7lwm0yArmzOfjao5ek6VNeR0hkskzWDp_cz37_Li07DwTKYeMJrQO49j1rRGlWG/s750/Texas.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7eXuA1lyJwL1YqVZss-jxAq-JQW-fEXKGnwp_OdJXRoKWbYvySc1S05FtusQXb5spDwIJ0QTq_fb5YDjbwdXIn-SrNg9fl9mUugjtXEBkyFMhQJIbiLKzhYuNVY8Z7lwm0yArmzOfjao5ek6VNeR0hkskzWDp_cz37_Li07DwTKYeMJrQO49j1rRGlWG/s16000/Texas.jpeg" /></a></div><br />For those who quibble with the term invasion, please comment with your home address so that millions of illegal aliens might break into your home illegally, since many of them are running out of public schools and police stations to camp out in.<p></p><p>I know you won't mind since you won't consider that an invasion of your home or property.</p><p>For those who are not idiots, who remember 9/11, who have recently been groped by TSA thugs while a Chinese spy balloon flew overhead, we understand what an invasion is. <a href="https://x.com/BigFish3000/status/1750617779357798779?s=20" target="_blank">As do these FBI agents.</a></p><p>Regardless of your take on the level of threat presented by this invasion, the Constitutional authority of Texas to repel it is not in question. <br /></p><p>But of course there will always be <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2023/10/sua-stupidity-no-actually-you-are-very.html">morons like Sua Sponte</a>, who says he's not the person charged to interpret the Constitution, but when his partisan political hack bat signal is turned on and he has a chance to once again fail to protect the nation and disgrace his uniform, quickly posts that the Supremacy Clause is somehow implicated here.</p><p>News flash, it's not.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwDOZzA0RvumP-ccvXP-Tq9IhUgZM-gbj3U3ZYoFlsqeEVe-nAUIyKm2wUZQi1SeBtotU6n6UXQiBpDXPFUGnSjZE3BAjIQJ8hzetrCoc60izZp3LO9BeLPM6QdBbupzvpUy4eZw2VXQblki42CjPQU83RM7m_2Jsx0sNprJClMyCtTyK_RmIrqzLUkkt/s1200/Idiot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1200" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwDOZzA0RvumP-ccvXP-Tq9IhUgZM-gbj3U3ZYoFlsqeEVe-nAUIyKm2wUZQi1SeBtotU6n6UXQiBpDXPFUGnSjZE3BAjIQJ8hzetrCoc60izZp3LO9BeLPM6QdBbupzvpUy4eZw2VXQblki42CjPQU83RM7m_2Jsx0sNprJClMyCtTyK_RmIrqzLUkkt/w640-h296/Idiot.png" width="640" /></a>But Sua Stupidity has done his actual job well as even those who "disagree" with him have swallowed his utterly incorrect premise that States don't have a constitutional right to defend themselves. He is one god awful lawyer (as most of them are), but he's a great propagandist. Especially when talking with military officers who merely mouthed their oaths to the Constitution and stand ready to violate the rights of Americans because they have a credit card bill.<br /></div></div></div><p></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-9530826330332246542023-12-25T13:58:00.000-08:002023-12-25T14:54:19.999-08:00Air Force Amn/NCO/SNCO Facebook Group Behind the Jet As Usual<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBf1isXha7KepUyWnlyaLylJAHg3jMP96RAK6CHLvRBP3GATok2-OZdVNE1G41UnUfolkTmpIi2HU6sidFvw3bGGBgHHrh6xbeklCgUHxSfdl-mD4CkawAYeX15QzuAfNJI0OUSdiLas8Uy1XIOUxR58dqzADJ-5_B1u4OloOLRlycNUWKK_U8B5bMwFLo/s750/snco%20page.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="666" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBf1isXha7KepUyWnlyaLylJAHg3jMP96RAK6CHLvRBP3GATok2-OZdVNE1G41UnUfolkTmpIi2HU6sidFvw3bGGBgHHrh6xbeklCgUHxSfdl-mD4CkawAYeX15QzuAfNJI0OUSdiLas8Uy1XIOUxR58dqzADJ-5_B1u4OloOLRlycNUWKK_U8B5bMwFLo/w568-h640/snco%20page.jpeg" width="568" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Just got notified that a post I made on the Air Force Amn/NCO/SNCO Facebook Group page got approved. Today. And the rocket scientists that frequent that page made comments like indicating they don't understand the legal argument (that government officials should not use their official positions to censor others so long as they're doing it on Facebook).<br /></p><p>So I edited my post to clue these folks in. Which then resulted in the post being relegated back to the bin of "safety" and again requiring admin approval. The only thing that page is safe from is common sense. At least the admins were quicker about approving the edit though.<br /></p><p></p><p>That's good. Now un-American nutters that frequent that Facebook page (like Jason Burns) can save their un-American comments where they cheer on government censorship of the speech of citizens it disagrees with. Or, in Jason's case, keep on making it clear why our military is so spectacularly failing the American people.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPWb7dBreGqLROf30wM6dM7kic1HQBPoQk7j03X3nDbNXrk2Tc9DA3VusnaYpmvSKP2B21gHOVLxQU31J-K2W46jZxg8GT-bA5-fkhlVvALX8AUvWz1CtEiRyqQBN1NxhnaSm-L8o_Rz-b2Odmz0R6bDHc748imcSKyt_ZRossCPo4k9zotqZq3BWLzVE/s1000/comments.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="1000" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPWb7dBreGqLROf30wM6dM7kic1HQBPoQk7j03X3nDbNXrk2Tc9DA3VusnaYpmvSKP2B21gHOVLxQU31J-K2W46jZxg8GT-bA5-fkhlVvALX8AUvWz1CtEiRyqQBN1NxhnaSm-L8o_Rz-b2Odmz0R6bDHc748imcSKyt_ZRossCPo4k9zotqZq3BWLzVE/w640-h350/comments.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-27728409782063782272023-12-16T07:52:00.000-08:002023-12-16T08:07:55.176-08:00Yes, GearPig, You Should Have<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrlwbk7-1aEC50KBAAnSpisDAxPpabiKQcHEfARELbw2NKiz32hQ_r2w1UcC633XmWxvovIEK3W8FVwlbnUfaVQ1qZSG6iIfsLLSOyuCdcRHZqSEI4NTk6vowOu73Mqv2sA0PIF3HOEK2Oph8dIe9pubIzPa1xqX4CMT6Bh1EBzHC_eEmmh_5sEVj9OMm/s1027/gearhog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="1027" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrlwbk7-1aEC50KBAAnSpisDAxPpabiKQcHEfARELbw2NKiz32hQ_r2w1UcC633XmWxvovIEK3W8FVwlbnUfaVQ1qZSG6iIfsLLSOyuCdcRHZqSEI4NTk6vowOu73Mqv2sA0PIF3HOEK2Oph8dIe9pubIzPa1xqX4CMT6Bh1EBzHC_eEmmh_5sEVj9OMm/w640-h164/gearhog.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p>To support and defend, the oath you took, meant demanding yourself, your peers, your superiors and others in the government you held office in, meet the higher standard of public service. It's not an either or thing, that would have been you meeting the standard you agreed to when you entered federal public office.</p><p>Getting good OPRs and pleasing your boss wasn't enough. Flying a tight ILS approach wasn't enough.</p><p>You are correct that it's too late and that ship has sailed. That has been obvious for some time now. When the digital water cooler you moderated saw our rights as an annoyance and evidence of tin foil thinking and when your peers celebrated their tools of the trade being used to murder Americans in violation of the Fifth Amendment, it should have been clear. So also when they joked about fuse settings for munitions to drop on Occupy protestors or when they lashed out at Edward Snowden for trying to get the government to meet standards. Your peers have long demonstrated that they were unfit for public office and that was the culture that was accepted and celebrated.</p><p>And now we are seeing the results of that lack of character combined with a massive disparity in technology between those inside the walls, and the peasants outside them. Almost comically, some of your peers don't yet realize which side of the wall they're actually on. Supporting our Constitution, bearing true faith and allegiance to it, is a selfish act as much as the mark of a professional public servant. A DD214 makes poor body armor when a tyrannical government, filled with the current crop of fascist thugs disgracing their uniforms, is given an order by the degenerate culture you've identified as operating the levers of power. The Green Beret from Idaho could have told you that, so could any number of J6 protestors currently rotting in prison cells for exercising their First Amendment rights.<br /></p><p>It is too late. It will get so much worse. And so it goes.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-74493431899270939352023-12-13T09:44:00.000-08:002023-12-14T07:45:56.908-08:00Liz the "Lawman" Pushes Neo-Con Subjugation of America on Behalf of Foreign Nations<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmGuWZ4zxPAgPAleCBNVFtqgZ6WR-2xUjDXzc2kqYFAssSzj2FTGKEUVMsR-dKIM9L1gN04wnS1hXaGc4br9-nFurgudQW4Y1iqG38qA5mQnr-bY4gvx5EFPCzZJcUh-OSq_fAu-1KYnEaTfyulrZUG71pZzrc8INRtPYHUDA6EKECHoBdUkj0qdlyr2g/s1000/LawMan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1000" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmGuWZ4zxPAgPAleCBNVFtqgZ6WR-2xUjDXzc2kqYFAssSzj2FTGKEUVMsR-dKIM9L1gN04wnS1hXaGc4br9-nFurgudQW4Y1iqG38qA5mQnr-bY4gvx5EFPCzZJcUh-OSq_fAu-1KYnEaTfyulrZUG71pZzrc8INRtPYHUDA6EKECHoBdUkj0qdlyr2g/w640-h432/LawMan.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The ironically named Lawman never fails to spread neo-con talking points in his quest to continue the damage to America brought about by the military industrial complex. Reading his tripe for years, I'm almost convinced "he" is actually Liz Cheney in drag behind a keyboard. Clever lady.</p><p>But not clever enough (despite taking an oath to support and defend the Constitution) to realize that Americans already elected representatives who already passed a law way back in 1865 (the highest law that can be passed, ie a constitutional amendment) which already makes the draft illegal. That Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution clearly states with unambiguous text:</p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><b>Section 1.</b> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.
</blockquote><p></p><p>But people like Lawman don't care about that. They'll even try to "law" their way out of it with "interpretation" and appeals to government authority (by which they mean power). For example, pointing to lesser and lower laws which clearly are null and void as they contradict the clear supreme law that is our Thirteenth Amendment. Lawman says, "See, our government ignores our supreme law and does it anyway, so that means that's the path forward and consensus and get your ass on the train..." Any restrictions on a "free" country conscripting young adults and throwing them into a thresher to defend some foreign "free" country, must be ignored. The war machine must be fed while it destroys our economy, makes us less safe, and replaces able bodied men with double amputees and wreaths.</p><p>Liz Lawman, please move to the foreign country of your choice if America and its laws and the will of its people are not to your liking. Please stop damaging our nation from the inside by cloaking yourself in a uniform that you disgrace. Thanks lady.</p><p>Oh, and say hi to your boyfriend, Adam Kinzinger, for me. If you can pry him away from ClearedHot of course.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-74584553773866828692023-11-14T11:57:00.000-08:002023-11-14T11:57:49.846-08:00Photo of Pawnman Posting on BaseOps<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_AkQL0jlqbtJIUAbGPDZU6oBbZNWsfof8_6gl6CjiQnacG9rrwq7_nooqEQ110i88e0VpKH29dnjd3D6VQNbWj3TL6fPp230Q7Bctyt9BkhXtUSgxdBrC6-p9XxbRj_sUeEPWsc3V-KHF9bo671tNhCIo91ryLic_7UMkA-1_Ha8A4YC0bM-iBBd0r9v/s1000/ducks.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="1000" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_AkQL0jlqbtJIUAbGPDZU6oBbZNWsfof8_6gl6CjiQnacG9rrwq7_nooqEQ110i88e0VpKH29dnjd3D6VQNbWj3TL6fPp230Q7Bctyt9BkhXtUSgxdBrC6-p9XxbRj_sUeEPWsc3V-KHF9bo671tNhCIo91ryLic_7UMkA-1_Ha8A4YC0bM-iBBd0r9v/w640-h466/ducks.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In case it's not obvious, <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/04/fascism-fusion-of-mob-and-government.html" target="_blank">Pawnman</a> is the nav in this photo who doesn't have a green head.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-18955324015771611602023-11-13T09:56:00.000-08:002023-11-13T10:02:23.244-08:00The United States of America - a Tyranny Beyond Measure<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPQCFqRJ1sSTuxK4rDGY6EIfm1O6yI-H_O_I8nU6r-7KMFjzs1T_RtTOHYOuuf17uij4C48_FvgNiO3QtVbr6X9nCN9aa0tg8ZMxtVOBK-_B3a-yCHiSVk9Lz1TQEMJBjCWaMCwLz9yrcsP9M4M1HNseZTJlGzTbjj6PNFG23kmF2fQlQEqNDKcqhP0kp/s630/apple.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPQCFqRJ1sSTuxK4rDGY6EIfm1O6yI-H_O_I8nU6r-7KMFjzs1T_RtTOHYOuuf17uij4C48_FvgNiO3QtVbr6X9nCN9aa0tg8ZMxtVOBK-_B3a-yCHiSVk9Lz1TQEMJBjCWaMCwLz9yrcsP9M4M1HNseZTJlGzTbjj6PNFG23kmF2fQlQEqNDKcqhP0kp/w400-h400/apple.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Imagine a huge apple orchard with a couple dozen people in it. Millions of apples and only a few stomachs to feed. The people in the orchard are fond of saying "no place on earth has as much freedom to eat apples as our orchard."</p><p>A few people in the group set up guard towers around the orchard with machine guns. They say it's to protect the orchard. They then mandate the population wear bio-metric devices that can temporarily paralyze their bodies if the devices sense that a person is about to fall out of a tree while collecting apples, and sending out an alert for others to rescue the individual.</p><p>Now a couple people in the group point out that this is a very dangerous development and cite historical examples of other orchard communities throughout history that have had a rough go from similar measures. The others in the group, however, call these people "conspiracy theorists" and point out that everybody is going about their business eating as many apples as they want. </p><p>"Just look around, it might not be perfect here but there is no place better!"<br /></p><p>This simple little analogy pales in comparison to what has happened in the United States of America. In our nation, the vast majority of our communications are surveilled, analyzed, and saved. The weapons of warfare are far beyond machine guns with cheap drones, satellites, and other robotic devices obliterating any chance of an American population defending itself from a tyrannical government. Appeals to the Second Amendment right to own AR-15s are even less useful than had the Incans demanded the Spaniards respect their right to own spears.</p><p>And now, the United States government has passed a law requiring private auto industries install technology in newly made vehicles that will allow the government to surveil a vehicle's location and movements so that it can detect if an individual is driving under the influence and then disable their vehicle. One representative offered an amendment to strip this dystopian power from the bill, <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/news/rep-massie-amendment-to-stop-car-kill-switch-law-fails/" target="_blank">but it was defeated.</a> In a House of Representatives where the Republican party has the majority. People must be safe from falling out of trees while picking apples!</p><p>Since September 11th, 2001 this nation has become an undeniable overt tyranny. Absolutely undeniably. No hyperbole. </p><p>Americans have been murdered without charge or trial by the federal government. All Americans are spied on in their communications. The government decides who can say what and when in their communications online. The media is almost entirely owned (both "sides") and is the number one purveyor of falsehoods to the American people while protecting the dishonest in power. Alternative media is also not immune to nefarious forces and if your journalism reports truthful things the tyrants want hidden, you might find the same fate as Julian Assange. Every citizen is a journalist when they speak to an audience, and even if your comment is humorous and not particularly noteworthy, if it angers the wrong tyrant you may find yourself sentenced to a decade in a cage <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/31/douglass-mackey-convicted-for-vote-by-tweet-meme-prosecution/" target="_blank">as Douglas Mackey recently discovered.</a> If you protest your government on public property you may be put in prison after a kangaroo court proceeding by a government that has labeled you an enemy of the state for your political views. If you try to exercise your right to vote, you may find the government intelligence community launches an unprecedented lie campaign while a water main breaks in the middle of the night followed by a shocking last minute political victory, or you may not experience such if your candidate is arrested and taken off the ballot after a political prosecution.</p><p>If you refuse an injection into your body your government may require you to stay in your home; a mandate more easily enforced when your vehicle refuses to start.</p><p>An American citizen in the 1940s living in Manzanar, California could have stayed in the rustic barracks set up for them, played cards, and convinced themselves that they were free people doing as they pleased. So long as they didn't look outside and see the guard towers and the machine guns pointed inward at them.</p><p>All these steps are purposeful and have nothing to do with safety while picking apples. They are evidence that the end state will not simply be more status quo of politicians being liars and thieves that we are used to and which we delude ourselves won't affect us, but rather it will be a nightmare that cannot be measured by other examples from history because no other nation has ever had a population more surveilled and more easily controlled than the American populace of today. Unable to defend itself even close to adequately against an increasingly militarized and technologically unstoppable government, unable to communicate with other citizens, and even unable to travel. These steps are not being taken by the Devil we know for the Devil we know.<br /></p><p>The shaping operations that are taking place in our nation today indicate the physical fall of the Unites States after those, paid off inside the castle walls, open the doors to the enemy outside which employs them.</p><p>The nightmare coming to our nation will be unprecedented, just as the steps taken to bring about our nation's destruction have been. It is accelerating. This is not something far off in the distance. It's happening now.</p><p>God help us all.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-81784325024588984672023-11-03T06:34:00.002-07:002023-11-03T06:37:00.045-07:00Negative Their Negatory - There is No "Hate Speech" Exception to the First Amendment<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe-qA-sbhpvSPya0z3yHRWRCXsjNzfNeru_HgDzdujve8vjnmfz88BTBRO1GODpXEl5To810JSZyMy8w5oF152VVW5Yu8o0WzO79-Oz9sFczdu-Q6txiENo7M1Ch7lJcqt7GFMj6m3admPccPIdHGvxraojoH5tFAiCS-K-FtrLtktztCCOqHdGfLK57F/s908/negatory.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="908" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFe-qA-sbhpvSPya0z3yHRWRCXsjNzfNeru_HgDzdujve8vjnmfz88BTBRO1GODpXEl5To810JSZyMy8w5oF152VVW5Yu8o0WzO79-Oz9sFczdu-Q6txiENo7M1Ch7lJcqt7GFMj6m3admPccPIdHGvxraojoH5tFAiCS-K-FtrLtktztCCOqHdGfLK57F/w640-h528/negatory.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The judiciary has been steadfast in knocking down this fascist talking point that somehow free speech is limited when dealing with "hate speech." So called hate speech is, of course, any speech that somebody doesn't like. Too bad, lump it, avert your eyes, people have a right to express views that you might idiotically label "hate speech" even though that makes you angry that you can't muzzle your neighbors you disagree with.</p><p>Perhaps before you run your yap online in the future, you'll do a little research into the topic. That may have led you to a great many Supreme Court rulings that have all made clear that there is no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment. For example, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1293_1o13.pdf" target="_blank">Matal v. Tam</a> might be worth a gander:<br /><br /></p><p></p><blockquote>[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that
offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that
demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age,
disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest
boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to
express “the thought that we hate.”</blockquote><p> <br />As somebody who has taken an oath to support the Constitution, you might want to stop lying to denigrate the rights enshrined in it. Technique only.</p><p>P.S. The fact that you edited your post but still left in "ethnical standards" along with your false factual claims, might be reason for you to stop internetting. You're not very good at it.<br /></p><p></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-57830052697650432832023-10-20T19:19:00.004-07:002023-10-20T19:24:03.968-07:00Sua Stupidity - No, Actually You Are Very Much Charged With Interpreting the Constitution<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJIMM6UXRVNxrMDOpOIntWDjjWpA5zztElG8IrueN6_c2OPmIGNfskPlwSDyeFVt9o0kjcsF1bsxul7Ceuq4pfi2chU2F3cmVwtBQt509DTL05NdULntXKWs6KixusRXbwsEMm2CSTLG5evKUlhRrx7vPUXrP0amBoNCNW_Nt7L1qc7ePFXFUQHgXXG8W/s1200/sua_dumbass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1200" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJIMM6UXRVNxrMDOpOIntWDjjWpA5zztElG8IrueN6_c2OPmIGNfskPlwSDyeFVt9o0kjcsF1bsxul7Ceuq4pfi2chU2F3cmVwtBQt509DTL05NdULntXKWs6KixusRXbwsEMm2CSTLG5evKUlhRrx7vPUXrP0amBoNCNW_Nt7L1qc7ePFXFUQHgXXG8W/w640-h390/sua_dumbass.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Standard-issue idiot thinks that his oath to support and defend the Constitution does not mean understanding and interpreting the Constitution. Perhaps he is unaware of how language works and how one must interpret words in order to support and defend written words.</p><p>Of course this absolute mouth-breather is referring to the idiotic viewpoint that our Supreme Court interprets the Constitution for us. That view requires one ignore Article Six of our Constitution which requires all officers of the United States, to include Supreme Court justices, take the same oath to support the Constitution (which would be a silly requirement if the Supreme Court justices were interpreting the Constitution for everybody and therefore writing the Constitution themselves with every opinion).</p><p>Even if this dingus thought that was how it works (he doesn't), certainly Sua Stupidity here doesn't get an order from his boss and then tell his boss to "standby one" while he hits up West Law in order to research case law to make sure that he's acting in accordance with the Supreme Court's case law. He doesn't do that.</p><p>What he does, however, is spread anti-American unconstitutional horseshit on social media along <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2011/10/of-pigs-and-priests.html" target="_blank">with his comrades</a>.</p><p>And in case anybody is keeping score, Sua and his un-American friends are winning. Mightily.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-57094869681278944402023-09-12T08:14:00.007-07:002023-09-12T08:31:06.626-07:00Lt Col Jason P. Williams: Refusing to Violate 2A Good, Refusing to Violate 5A Bad<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehTKx_0ChgSCH34Np6nrSyTLNSb-ShEMkGk2GnZCJsIGKbE0F1dDEvj285EoG2hfCeBdkIubqSGLm185eMAtBdYRERZkihKV-ay08N7nMR3lc-kSHOe4GN4KSQJncnSFSuYD3Ls_TF7U_AwZrYdnhnOmI_3OhARylGvW8MS-zGt_MXJRhfOg7OwOG1Vg9/s1000/williams.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="1000" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehTKx_0ChgSCH34Np6nrSyTLNSb-ShEMkGk2GnZCJsIGKbE0F1dDEvj285EoG2hfCeBdkIubqSGLm185eMAtBdYRERZkihKV-ay08N7nMR3lc-kSHOe4GN4KSQJncnSFSuYD3Ls_TF7U_AwZrYdnhnOmI_3OhARylGvW8MS-zGt_MXJRhfOg7OwOG1Vg9/w640-h398/williams.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>For unprincipled people like <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/04/fascism-fusion-of-mob-and-government.html" target="_blank">Lt Col Jason P. Williams</a>, one chooses their opinions like selecting from a salad bar. "What looks good today? Oh, I had that yesterday, today I'll try..."<p></p><p>As he navigates what opinions are popular, he has apparently stumbled upon the opinion that it is a good thing that a government employed public servant has refused to carry out the orders of a sitting governor with respect to violating the Second Amendment. That's a good thing. Lt Col Williams chose his salad wisely this go around.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wtXWA63CyNDCJcDIJ4FqvYZZ5gFoW57A_k9OgepvPtJKBAy4klgBacPvIATuyK7PiEFOd-hDdHnEwlKJ3W31nnJXJD_OqbhZexVjjkkQ-6Ki-7CHcvQTqSXtt3T7U1x8BVT1-IhsimKKg-6kV4SAQEuW1S3HsYENkyaLRjpnYNRpIqA1k5Hocya6kjkd/s640/Williams%20FB.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="640" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wtXWA63CyNDCJcDIJ4FqvYZZ5gFoW57A_k9OgepvPtJKBAy4klgBacPvIATuyK7PiEFOd-hDdHnEwlKJ3W31nnJXJD_OqbhZexVjjkkQ-6Ki-7CHcvQTqSXtt3T7U1x8BVT1-IhsimKKg-6kV4SAQEuW1S3HsYENkyaLRjpnYNRpIqA1k5Hocya6kjkd/w640-h550/Williams%20FB.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />But it wasn't long ago when Williams was brow beating your humble blogger, also a government employed public servant, for refusing an order to assassinate an American citizen outside a war zone who was no imminent threat. Apparently his salad doesn't include the 5th Amendment right not to have life taken without due process of law.<p></p><p>Government refusing to unlawfully take the liberty and property of American gun owners is good. Government refusing to unlawfully take the lives of Americans is bad. And since Lt Col Williams isn't a sheriff, but rather a B-1 weapons officer in the Air Force, he can sing the praises of a sheriff with spine, but he can't be bothered to question unlawful orders that might come down to him and he doesn't appreciate those who do question such orders. They're almost as bad as those military folks who refused to get the shot that he would have punished were he a commander rather than a back seater former ROTC instructor.<br /></p><p>Good to see he's now advocating for "lawyering" unlawful orders from higher authority and crediting such action with having a spine. It only took twenty years of uniformed "service" to get there. I look forward to his new found principled view changing next week though.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-91654612906215897692023-09-02T00:16:00.005-07:002023-09-02T14:04:24.710-07:00FAA Scrubbing Pilots with Unreported VA Disability Conditions....<p>This recent comment from Danger41 in a thread about veteran pilots playing fast and loose with the VA disability system, makes me wonder if memory loss isn't one of those conditions the FAA is looking into. Memory loss and bouts of pure stupidity are definitely a danger for one. Sadly, when demonstrated by a "public servant" like this war hero, it's a danger for all.<br /><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJo9vPTkPOCS56jLzTihneVABHCyzowl2cZajGfHxVvqBy9ynaIEQyj02V-VTYFtQxIAUa4ASiIc9l8jtpANcZR65oaMQYElZH-VTlYop4midTWEWtmZ1-hdO45DMD4tnt1aDeRAbkHH2hH21r3dBB-5QCWqVmxkSBj6tjyP6cwLaGCPWOEtc1o8ZwL-v/s1000/memory.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="1000" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJo9vPTkPOCS56jLzTihneVABHCyzowl2cZajGfHxVvqBy9ynaIEQyj02V-VTYFtQxIAUa4ASiIc9l8jtpANcZR65oaMQYElZH-VTlYop4midTWEWtmZ1-hdO45DMD4tnt1aDeRAbkHH2hH21r3dBB-5QCWqVmxkSBj6tjyP6cwLaGCPWOEtc1o8ZwL-v/w640-h254/memory.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Selective memory is popular these days and, like so many VA disability claims, is often the result of will more than it is actual disability. For example, one might selectively forget how Dan Tarleton outed my identity. They might then choose to forget how I responded in kind. Proportionality is a tough concept to remember with all those diversity CBTs clogging your cranium though.<br /><a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2014/02/butters-of-baseops-proportionality.html" target="_blank"><br />Fortunately I blogged about it.</a> That was nearly a decade ago though. Hard to remember for some. But I've had several memory joggers through the years <a href="http://www.stopclarencemoriwaki.com/daniel_tarleton.html" target="_blank">to assist my recollection.</a><br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-14941350938021830752023-08-29T21:32:00.017-07:002023-08-30T06:41:29.643-07:00Lieutenant Colonel Jason P. Williams Taps Out After Being Pwned Man<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6thaoV0H4bQgXkemhTODPckw-pJ3-WCyZ0EXIF8nqDx9jZbIltGCX4WfLxb7FlVxnOoS9dxjgPlPYcBkbwmgUnVUd7by7mrD1l8UrWn-kv3cnoutJPMfjFp4NzP2Kbo-uFwxB5oCcXFeGmD-dkXwlEdKXOEsvgpmQ-ERRvbRjRZ8LVFTflarSZngSBw/s320/Pawnman_Jason_Williams_Official_Photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6thaoV0H4bQgXkemhTODPckw-pJ3-WCyZ0EXIF8nqDx9jZbIltGCX4WfLxb7FlVxnOoS9dxjgPlPYcBkbwmgUnVUd7by7mrD1l8UrWn-kv3cnoutJPMfjFp4NzP2Kbo-uFwxB5oCcXFeGmD-dkXwlEdKXOEsvgpmQ-ERRvbRjRZ8LVFTflarSZngSBw/s320/Pawnman_Jason_Williams_Official_Photo.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Lt Col Jason P. Williams (who ironically goes by Pawnman online) has <a href="https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23031-covid-19-aka-china-virus/?do=findComment&comment=531100" target="_blank">tapped out of a discussion</a> after being taken to task for his previous pro-mandate stance for military folks and for rabidly expressing his desire to punish those who refused the vaccine. Strangely, despite being such a friend to Big Pharma, Williams does not seem to want to swallow <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/09/air-force-lt-col-jason-p-williams.html" target="_blank">his medicine</a>.<br /></p><p>More than a decade ago I tangled with Williams online over his vociferous support for the United States military being used to assassinate American citizens absent charge or trial. It was then that I knew he had no respect for our Constitution or for our rule of law.<br /></p><p>More recently, I discussed his <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/04/fascism-fusion-of-mob-and-government.html" target="_blank">ties to Antifa operatives</a>.</p><p>Surprisingly, before he recently tapped out of the mandate discussion, the back seater made an appeal to "Integrity first, unless it's something I don't want to do..." An odd statement for him to make <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2022/03/lt-col-jason-pwnman-williams-tries-to.html" target="_blank">given how he tried to convince his wife to lie to the military</a> so that he could get more cats than allowed into base housing. Meow.<br /></p><p>Williams shows the wisdom of the quote attributed to Frederick Douglas, that it is easier to raise strong children than to repair broken men. He demonstrates that no amount of debate, discussion, illumination or education can fix character flaw and the insecurity that leads to the thirst to subjugate others.</p><p>Conversation quoted for posterity:</p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qyLlCQyBb_Da8JljvTCNYb9COkQRfIa8JlXm-PQaeQm1ug3H8WIX4MBsSRqE0BslvPBGMEZS7X_aPp8159hSJqjtkUtg61Um6GEdfqFcQV4fTIK2DyDNIwTsVISn4XrdLHGoNEqZxpYr5gh6ErkSGrZyXXZJZAnRad64Id25mL9r2j9TGNn5ozJ_tBw4/s1000/pawn1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="1000" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qyLlCQyBb_Da8JljvTCNYb9COkQRfIa8JlXm-PQaeQm1ug3H8WIX4MBsSRqE0BslvPBGMEZS7X_aPp8159hSJqjtkUtg61Um6GEdfqFcQV4fTIK2DyDNIwTsVISn4XrdLHGoNEqZxpYr5gh6ErkSGrZyXXZJZAnRad64Id25mL9r2j9TGNn5ozJ_tBw4/w640-h322/pawn1.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXEHhtdwEkbfZrBLHDK4P7klRAL4IbjzSCiHSZ83qSrTGkoH8zhHQE2Cxz9L0FVKLzk5Pm1ZAnSUuhZNuucEuYvxJjxpzMeg6-CmZMfrNWlORMdkZFaW2zk0EzspCMVnE6tWqYARz4Zz1K4hNeuYxfrvTonNgogoMotHeG--Go4CGHpeBXafxt0I89GT16/s1000/pawn2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1000" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXEHhtdwEkbfZrBLHDK4P7klRAL4IbjzSCiHSZ83qSrTGkoH8zhHQE2Cxz9L0FVKLzk5Pm1ZAnSUuhZNuucEuYvxJjxpzMeg6-CmZMfrNWlORMdkZFaW2zk0EzspCMVnE6tWqYARz4Zz1K4hNeuYxfrvTonNgogoMotHeG--Go4CGHpeBXafxt0I89GT16/w640-h456/pawn2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXb_YrKzwm7o4Pf04EiOJNxFZfPVcZnY5h9sRdXca1ls5OwFTPHnUGxpWidiFwm3zekSzqgrh__MPL_s6fUFL9Uyy6CvfG5PMLbJg7vkBpMlWD7JtEhfC_UpjzAnwy2nFAoHFs7zRdDnkDnoQnNobaGoMrkjxPKSuOTqhK0kFc8vXpahgBjCfauXfhI2F/s1000/pawn3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1000" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXb_YrKzwm7o4Pf04EiOJNxFZfPVcZnY5h9sRdXca1ls5OwFTPHnUGxpWidiFwm3zekSzqgrh__MPL_s6fUFL9Uyy6CvfG5PMLbJg7vkBpMlWD7JtEhfC_UpjzAnwy2nFAoHFs7zRdDnkDnoQnNobaGoMrkjxPKSuOTqhK0kFc8vXpahgBjCfauXfhI2F/w640-h408/pawn3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzpeuL57afkOYLyNLlDtAH0snpammteEIO8yIHVwCpctBgzh08VDB5hAb3ukMPPhcxISGG6aZ_H5QEP0OQKKuLrEAGHZLYzn4_QHnBmM30D-0LXeia4XalhobWB9QUqIjxCAfEERcW5GI4V7m7_gj0KKWfKO-5LDtHKlEv8fHAL3qmZ7GyXbNBuWyrlOT/s1000/Pawn10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1000" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzpeuL57afkOYLyNLlDtAH0snpammteEIO8yIHVwCpctBgzh08VDB5hAb3ukMPPhcxISGG6aZ_H5QEP0OQKKuLrEAGHZLYzn4_QHnBmM30D-0LXeia4XalhobWB9QUqIjxCAfEERcW5GI4V7m7_gj0KKWfKO-5LDtHKlEv8fHAL3qmZ7GyXbNBuWyrlOT/w640-h422/Pawn10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5nWLGzdDky6vO-UPtBrhv8mhqmXHsDQLGzVC3MPX9AB1ir7tS6ZE3TEsLYzV5ZHd29hWAdY0Ac3lXAbEU2pLXvQvxCOP3lSxPy8vtxvZuvM0U2qrWIFSDii-uzMtxDIUwmk4nhx0zM3kEE98CI9wXBQzb7S8ilIwRkYqGC4zXMaPkOjr2Jr3O3bRNR0WZ/s1000/Pawn15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbAiBT8CEPnoF5E9ypr0PU3di4zqys47Ud70_CreKYwH4ezxc844Ak1DV_OWYii6PVr3PnXX7MGnShH4jiVoW8muTrL6vFjJl0-IBrEAlzyFFL-eAULwoiw-zJ2FhzDCaJg07HIMKZBi8RyWhgA87gZecx0wj5AwT-muuiX2dXp6WJB3WhBUIaEpQJR2m/s1000/PawnC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="1000" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbAiBT8CEPnoF5E9ypr0PU3di4zqys47Ud70_CreKYwH4ezxc844Ak1DV_OWYii6PVr3PnXX7MGnShH4jiVoW8muTrL6vFjJl0-IBrEAlzyFFL-eAULwoiw-zJ2FhzDCaJg07HIMKZBi8RyWhgA87gZecx0wj5AwT-muuiX2dXp6WJB3WhBUIaEpQJR2m/w640-h380/PawnC.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-48561162375455995622023-08-14T21:00:00.024-07:002023-08-14T21:41:17.335-07:00I Have Lived a Charmed Life<p>My old man used to say that I lived a "charmed life." He wasn't wrong. In large part, perhaps almost completely in part, because of the great pains he and my mother took to provide for me and, a decade or so later, for my sister. His long hours and sacrifices, work ethic and people skills that I lack, resulted in him climbing the rank ladder to the top and, along with my mother's long hours on her feet as a military base barber, meant that I wanted for nothing. And that is the pinnacle of parenting, my entitled tendencies notwithstanding, as all of Nature demonstrates.<br /></p><p>I grew up a rich kid. Of course some kids at school wouldn't have thought so, not that I cared in the slightest or even detected that from any of them though. I never thought that way and I still don't which makes me a bit of an oddity today as I can tell people sometimes look at me like a homeless person given my complete lack of concern for fashion. As a kid, I got the Lee jeans and, from time to time but rarely, had to endure the shoes from a bin at K-mart or wherever with the plastic soles that had no traction whatsoever, but that was early on and hardly something to write back to my Appalachian relatives about. Normally I got Kangaroos from K-Mart and to this day I think they were the shit. A little pocket that I could put my key in? Sign me up. Went well with my Casio calculator watch that could store 50 phone numbers in it. A watch, as it turns out, that I was still wearing as a Gunship pilot, years later, when I walked into an F-15C squadron at Tyndall AFB (I was there for a chamber ride) and the pilot at the front desk playing the part of greeter told me "nice watch." To which I replied "if you had a watch like this you could take the number of pilots in your squadron and divide it by the number of enemy you've all killed in combat, except you'd get an error. Because even this watch won't let you divide by zero." Due to his career field, my old man loved Eagle Drivers. I didn't. But I digress.<br /><br />Still, I wasn't immune from the propaganda and fashion especially as I hit high school. I saved up for a pair of Nike Air Bo Jackson Cross Trainers from cutting lawns and my hardly-profitable (ie parent funded) paper routes, and I had an Ocean Pacific windbreaker that I could wear every day over any t-shirt. I wasn't like my always poorly dressed (in the literal sense) classmate Lisa Udell who in sixth grade burst into tears during class because her father had just died and whose parents couldn't afford to buy her school lunch. Rather, I was the kid who regularly convinced my mother to give me money for two school lunch tickets because one wasn't enough. Some of which I gave to Lisa. Many I greedily used to eat two school lunches.</p><p>I have no idea what happened to Lisa. I've tried to find her and have failed. I hope she is living a rich and rewarding life. Whatever the case, I know her life was harder than mine because she didn't have a father very long and her parents couldn't provide the basics. How would my life have ended up had I endured something similar?<br /><br />I grew up a rich kid. I never thought of it as status or ever cared about such things and, as a result, I have fortunately avoided the obsession of some of those I know who grew up poor to do anything for money and status. I never felt poor because I wasn't. My friends that I ran around with didn't have parents with the resources that I got to enjoy. In fact, I think it's a safe bet that out of every other kid in the large trailer park that I grew up in, I got better Christmas presents than all of them. I didn't have to worry about eating or if I got sick. And while most of my friends didn't work or do chores and looked at me like I was an African child labor victim when I couldn't go play because I had to mow the lawn, they also didn't get lavished upon during the holidays.</p><p>My parents had their parenting faults as people who work two jobs while trying to scratch out a living in a hostile world do. But Christmas definitely wasn't one of them. I don't know how many iterations of Commodore 64 I had growing up but I do know that I had a 3.5" floppy drive for a C64 and I do know that programming that machine was as useful as it was addicting. My parents spent a lot of money on computers and computer equipment for me in middle school and high school. Other kids in the trailer park were not getting that. And the time I spent learning BASIC and tinkering with machine language directly led to a great job I got in college, as a new sophomore no less, for the State of Florida as a computer programmer making way over minimum wage and getting to go to courses in other cities with paid for lodging and a rental car. That went a long way in college. What if my parents hadn't bought me that expensive equipment? What if they just got me roller skates or a new Huffy bike like my neighbor friends might (if they were particularly lucky) expect?</p><p>So many forks in the road that can lead to incredibly different realities. I remember so many forks. And they're not all voluntary choices like some Choose-Your-Own Adventure. Like the time in high school in Iceland when I was in Reykjavik ice-skating with some folks from school and my best friend at the time was hovering over me after I fell, and another buddy ran into him and made his skate go over my knee. Cut me deep, blood everywhere, ambulance ride back to Keflavik only to be told they had to do surgery at the hospital in Reykjavik so they put me back in another ambulance. I remember the bandage being changed and the blood spurting from my knee and hitting the roof of the ambulance. Then I remember the operating table, doctors I couldn't understand dong their thing and my dad looking through the little port window in the door. Pacing back and forth. Then raising hell because the doctors were sewing up my knee without stopping the internal bleeding. Then they undid their stitches and fixed the bleeding before giving me my lifelong Nike swoosh on my knee by going back to sewing up the outside. What if my old man hadn't had the intelligence and situational awareness to monitor the actions of a trained doctor/surgeon? I may have lost my leg or worse. I may have never gotten to be a pilot.<br /></p><p>I have lived an amazingly charmed life. Mostly due to my parents. And at so many points, my life could have changed for the worst and coming up on fifty years on this dirt ball, I realize I wouldn't have had the personal strength, competency, or character to right that ship by myself. I am ever so fortunate to have sailed on waters not of my own creation.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-66860687937714717452023-07-18T23:18:00.016-07:002023-08-05T06:24:02.986-07:00Same Drama, Different Time, and We Ran Out of It<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTHUSpGVwL15m0EZZRsxQbAvN3z4jBbovuKLnhG8vKrFoGjqVjOHFmF_Rv1RhcPpW8sk0wcbRR8qWEYLxlzSgwpZT6rKYHhCrGhSGhTDARFwxh1Fwa2dZtajfPWZKceFGUdp_DgBl8-U1EHDnw1C6xkeRqfcxij11u1pq4a3Ed65-ZenQ09_CBHZVn9Xf/s791/Gearpig.png.04352900085aaf6ce54855b826712be7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="791" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTHUSpGVwL15m0EZZRsxQbAvN3z4jBbovuKLnhG8vKrFoGjqVjOHFmF_Rv1RhcPpW8sk0wcbRR8qWEYLxlzSgwpZT6rKYHhCrGhSGhTDARFwxh1Fwa2dZtajfPWZKceFGUdp_DgBl8-U1EHDnw1C6xkeRqfcxij11u1pq4a3Ed65-ZenQ09_CBHZVn9Xf/w640-h406/Gearpig.png.04352900085aaf6ce54855b826712be7.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Leaving aside Gearpig's continual error of attributing my identity to numerous individuals who are not me, he makes a good point.<br /><br />Same drama, different time.<br /><br />When I was slapping down that fascist Rainman over on the Digital Clown Show after being invited to that forum by a Gunship guy I would later attend staff meetings with, I was doing so primarily to sound the alarm about unlawful orders and the importance of our Constitution which this blog had documented. My main thrust was an attempt to get my peers to remember the importance of their oaths, the ordinary Americans who paid their generous paychecks, and to gird themselves for <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/01/the-digital-playpen-at-it-again.html" target="_blank">the trend I saw coming</a>.</p><p>My tone was almost academic. Then enter <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2012/12/rainman-big-johnson-of-baseops-my-1-fan.html" target="_blank">Rainman</a> who began calling me a fringe nutter and claiming I would snap and murder my colleagues. I mentioned proportionality and that my communication style would change if I continued to get such invective in response to my commentary. When I responded in kind, the pitchforks came out and I was booted from the group.<br /><br />Any mention of our Constitution or our oath of office became an insult and an automatic reference to PYB. Our obligation to the Constitution was a joke on BaseOps.net. Let's not forget that point. Spoo, who I flew with and who is now a one-star, thought calling me <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2014/10/pyb-described-as-constitutional-jesus.html" target="_blank">"Constitutional Jesus"</a> (as though that was a title worth snickering at) was an awesome descriptor for me. Somehow risking oneself for the nation in order to defend the rights of the Americans who paid us was seen as laughable.<br /><br />In the years since, people are starting to wise up to our rule of law and the importance of our rights. But they're far too late. But the valuing of our supreme law was <b>not</b> a given on the forum, so the drama was somewhat different. But let's not quibble on that point.<br /></p><p>While we may assume that the drama was the same, during a different time, what should also be noted is that we have run out of that time. The same drama at the wrong time is too late so it's not really the same drama in context. That being said, <a href="https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23584-russian-ukraine-shenanigans/?do=findComment&comment=529754" target="_blank">I appreciate Gearpig trying</a> even though he's a trillion plus dollars short and a decade late. The absolute overt fascism of the federal government today is something we could have prevented had more Americans, and especially public servants paid to care about such things, had the appropriate values. They didn't and so here we are.<br /><br />Murdering Americans without charge or trial (via the military sworn to support and defend the rights of Americans to not be killed without due process) should have been a bit of red flag. Similarly, all three federal branches of government signing off on the bi-partisan law allowing the President to use the military to arrest Americans without charge or trial in America and imprison them indefinitely (as FDR did) should also have gotten military officers concerned. But it didn't. Nor did the spying and on and on. Fascists who don the masks of neo-con "conservatives" and then change into their progressive Woke outfits have ensured that America has become an outright tyranny. Nsplyr on the "left" and <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/04/fascism-fusion-of-mob-and-government.html" target="_blank">Pawnman</a> on the "right" can disagree on irrelevant nonsense that makes it seem as though they differ, while they both shake hands and push extraordinarily fascist un-American viewpoints and for the censorship of criticism.</p><p>None of this matters anymore though. The time for rescuing our nation by honoring our oaths and convincing others through uncensored discussion, argument, reasoning and evidence is long gone. It has been gone on BaseOps for an eternity now. And there is no 1776 option or Red Dawn solution. Violence will not save our nation, it will simply accelerate its further decline. But that decline is inevitable. Our nation is over and done with. The same "drama" from black and white history books, a different time, and while we can hope we have more time to enjoy a nation that no longer exists, the reality is that Moore's Law combined with the massive tyrannical moves of our government indicate it won't be long before dummies on BaseOps are denying reality with train whistles in the background.<br /><br />I also remember being a young aviator with Rich and him giving me a business card for his forum. It had some value. It was easily corrupted and turned into an un-American propaganda outlet as has most of the Internet and almost all of our media. The ACLU, CATO, the SPLC, Reason Magazine, most any outlet with any reach has been converted over the decades to shape the battlefield against America.<br /><br />Our center of gravity was character. It was exploited brilliantly. America has been conquered from the inside, by those very people paid to defend her.<br /><br />There is no coming back from it. Time? Enjoy what little time you can and, more importantly, remember the time you guaranteed for your children with your action or inaction.</p><p>BREAK BREAK</p><p>It's interesting that <a href="https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23705-tinker-afb-witch-hunt/?do=findComment&comment=530242" target="_blank">you ask questions you know the answers to</a>. For some reason you wish to talk about me so many years after I've entered private life. But since <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/09/air-force-lt-col-jason-p-williams.html" target="_blank">Jason "Pawnnan" Williams</a> is in the thread and has a habit of missing the truth target as he drops his defamation bombs, I'll answer your questions for you.</p><p></p><blockquote>Looking back at the thread, I missed this. So he won a legal case
against the CMSgt for a Facebook ban? That's pretty funny. What
ultimately happened to this guy? Did he make it to 20? I thought he
either resigned or was booted from active duty over a drone issue. It's
probably buried here somewhere, but didn't he post a vid of a sports car
that he spent thousands on turning it into a James Bond anti-cop
vehicle with electric shock door handles and a fog machine?
</blockquote><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2022/08/cmsaf-joanne-bass-is-unfit-for-office.html" target="_blank">Yes, I successfully got the CMSAF to follow the First Amendment on social media.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2021/01/the-digital-playpen-at-it-again.html" target="_blank">Yes, I retired normally at twenty after my resignation wasn't accepted and after the Air Force ruled in my favor after I refused an unlawful order.</a></p><p>Yes, <a href="https://youtu.be/VoWTd8TlaeU" target="_blank">I owned a car</a> that I used to showcase recording technology to others in the police accountability movement. It was not an "anti-cop" car, it was a car meant to protect citizens from bad cops who break the law. It was a sixty-thousand dollar car that I years ago gave away to a kid working in a gas station.<br /></p><p>Still smarting after all these years. Talk about staying power...<br /></p><p></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-44969561661818067412023-06-08T08:10:00.007-07:002023-06-08T08:16:21.905-07:00Claims From Wayne Phelps -- On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones -- Should Not Be Trusted<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hachette.imgix.net/books/9780316628297.jpg?auto=compress,format" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="400" src="https://hachette.imgix.net/books/9780316628297.jpg?auto=compress,format" width="266" /></a></div><br />I've <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2022/01/declining-interview-with-lt-col-ret.html" target="_blank">previously blogged</a> about how Wayne Phelps attempted to interview me for refusing to assassinate an American citizen without charge or trial and how I declined his interview.<p>I only recently came across this article from the <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2021/0729/What-s-combat-like-for-a-drone-operator-Up-close-and-personal" target="_blank">Christian Science Monitor</a>. In this article, if the interview as published is to be believed, Phelps stated:</p><p></p><blockquote>But this target was assigned to an Air Force drone squadron and they
refused to carry it out. The leadership, and the people in the squadron,
just flat out said, “We’re not going to kill an American citizen.” That
takes a lot of moral courage. Some people were fired as a result.</blockquote><p></p><p>This is a very strange claim to say the least. The leadership refused? An entire squadron flat out refused? People were fired? Fired for what? Refusing the mission? If they were fired for refusing the mission, then how is it that leadership refused since leadership does the hiring and firing?</p><p>I would very strongly recommend people dismiss any claims by Phelps that come with "just trust me bro" rather than evidence. It is my strong sense that Phelps does not write to illuminate the truth, but rather writes for a wholly different purpose. <br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-80477955767474903302023-04-23T09:21:00.042-07:002023-04-25T10:06:44.288-07:00The Air Force Got it Right -- My Frau Pinned on O-6<div a="" class="separator" gt="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcI52uJFwRgxXnsxW-psvZzW-mFGPo11Vr4yuK4T0rKC3vj48CkRJV-zBUQ4XAaPsFURdRXb8lxpuNUQ_fSg3qlK3aMDRUB23UbU2wpACFQYzjDtBOse6_BKJFl2YWDl9PBWSKUfMb9ZCmyKO3N-HLYgLY_oLHd16GaDE7GwzadaqEjRiQAJYuOR7wKg/s965/colonel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="965" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcI52uJFwRgxXnsxW-psvZzW-mFGPo11Vr4yuK4T0rKC3vj48CkRJV-zBUQ4XAaPsFURdRXb8lxpuNUQ_fSg3qlK3aMDRUB23UbU2wpACFQYzjDtBOse6_BKJFl2YWDl9PBWSKUfMb9ZCmyKO3N-HLYgLY_oLHd16GaDE7GwzadaqEjRiQAJYuOR7wKg/w640-h509/colonel.jpg" width="640" /></div><br /><p></p><p>For nearly a month now I have been in constant proximity to an Air Force Reserve full bird Colonel. There have been no LORs, no attempts to UCMJ me, and no face-to-face screaming matches. So it has been a bit of a novel experience, but not one I would normally write about. It goes without saying that my wife's promotion is not <i>my</i> achievement just as it goes without saying, for those who know me, that I don't see promotion as an achievement at all. I see promotion to O-6 as a negative indicator and likely indicative of character flaw. While there are exceptions in my experience, and while my bias is likely less applicable in the Reserve ecosystem, promotion to a "senior leader" rank is not something to brag about in my view. And in my wife's case, given her long list of accomplishments, military promotion doesn't even rate a mention anyway.<br /></p><p>But I am writing about it. So, why? Well, because within the last couple years, I learned in casual conversation with the wife that another Colonel, many years ago, tried to ruin her military career because of <i>my</i> actions. My actions which were wholly unrelated to my wife's performance. That worthless military officer failed to ruin my wife's career, however, as my wife's promotion demonstrates, and it gives me pleasure to point that out and to remind those still serving that it is possible to do what makes sense for the nation. Promoting excellence can be done even in these crazy days where up is down and down is up, and I like to point out when the Air Force does something right when I get the chance. Hence this blog post.<br /></p><p>It's odd that I would have only learned recently of the time my wife got a "kiss of death" stratification on her Officer Performance Report over a decade ago, but that's how the wife is. She lets such things roll off her back and she doesn't get animated over things that would get my blood pumping. So it wasn't until a recent trip down memory lane on a long drive that she mentioned that this had happened more than a decade ago. We were discussing the time I refused an unlawful order to assassinate an American citizen, who wasn't located in a war zone and who presented no imminent threat, and how the command had contacted the base Judge Advocate General (JAG) office to start proceedings against me (likely an administrative separation) and how the JAG only later discovered that my wife, then an O-4 in the Reserves, worked for her for one month a year or whatever. </p><p>My wife had nothing to do with my case, didn't review the legal proceedings or my file, and stayed completely out of it because it would have been inappropriate, obviously, for her to have involved herself in any way. The JAG officers work for the commander and that particular idiot commander was engaging the JAG office against me. And yet, despite my wife having nothing to do with my actions, her boss later wrote her a performance report with the dreaded "continue to challenge" push line; a signal to promotion boards that an officer shouldn't be promoted. Ask me how I know that.<br /></p><p>It was a breathtaking move that demonstrated the complete lack of character that our service usually rewards through promotion. Not just because it was wrong to attempt to punish an officer simply for being married to another officer who refused an unlawful order, but because it was as petulant a move as it would have been had Phil Jackson tried to kick Michael Jordan off the team because he didn't like something Jordan's wife had done. It may be a stretch to liken my better half with Air Jordan, sure, fine. But at a minimum she was a starter when the Chicago Bulls won the National Championship several years in a row.<br /></p><p>People like to brag about their spouses, or at least some do, but I'm just stating facts. My spouse not only graduated from Harvard and then served years on active duty as an intelligence officer, during a time of war (actual war, in the beginning of a war, when the real war stuff happens) for the most combat deployed squadron in the Air Force, but she did so with astounding competence that benefited me and my fellow Air Commandos in a meaningful way back when things were real at the start (and even before it started). At a time when there was a real threat to us as we pushed into threat envelopes in the earliest days, and my wife was responsible for finding and pointing out threats before our missions throughout the chaos. My wife's competence and months of twenty hour work days kept us out of trouble while the memory of Spirit 03 was fresh in our minds.<br /></p><p>Her boss at the JAG office many years ago (I don't know, but I know) has never in her life done anything that mattered as much or done it as well. But, to be fair, at the time my wife got the trash performance report with the embedded dagger, she was a JAG, not an intelligence officer, and so what really mattered was her legal competence. And that's where it becomes even more clear how staggeringly petty and ridiculous this move was. After leaving active duty, my wife attended a top ten law school on a full ride scholarship. And then graduated number one out of that school. And then she went on to clerk for a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.</p><p>For those outside the legal community, that may not sound like that big of a deal. The word "clerk" evokes images of a white coat behind a counter in a drug store but for those in the legal community, however, the term gives credibility to my earlier reference to the Chicago Bulls. <a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=9813" target="_blank">Books are written</a> about the Clerkorati (a term the late great Justice Scalia used to refer to them), there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_(Seat_4)" target="_blank">Wikipedia pages</a> tracking them, and they are top movers and shakers in the nation who travel in powerful circles. Their spouses are typically cut from the same cloth, with your humble blogger providing an obvious exception. When my wife was clerking and I would visit the high court for functions, I hoped I would eventually meet another clerk's spouse who had a normal job and who didn't graduate from Yale Law or run some high powered venture.<br /><br />I thought I had met one such spouse at Justice Stevens' retirement, may he rest in peace, which was attended by nearly all of the justice's many former clerks. An older couple walked up to my wife, who was clerking for the justice at the time, introduced themselves and the lady said "I'm doing this and that and legal work for such and such" and her husband said, "and I work at Home Depot." I was elated to finally find a normal spouse with a normal job until my wife whispered to me, "he's the CEO of Home Depot." And as it turns out, he was the former clerk. All this is to say that people with my wife's legal credentials don't normally provide their expertise to the military despite the allure of regular PT tests, software that doesn't work, and idiotic CBTs. I would not be surprised to learn that my wife is the only clerk to wear a uniform.<br /><br />All that is well and good but it may not illustrate my point as well as the free market can, since it places a monetary figure on competence. <i>Show me the money,</i> to include yet another sports reference in this blog post. So consider then that law school graduates, from the nation's top law schools, hope to get an interview with the biggest and most lucrative law firms. But that's not so with the top graduates of the top law schools who become Supreme Court clerks. Rather those same law firms hope that <i>they</i> will get granted a chance to be interviewed by the clerk. And if the firm is able to convince the clerk to join their ranks, those firms pay the young lawyers a standard signing bonus with no contract attached. The Supreme Court clerk bonus these days is about a half a million dollars. For just agreeing to take a job. It may not be what the Bulls pay for top talent, but it's in the same ball park. Or basketball court.<br /></p><p>So that was the caliber of officer that my wife's NPC boss thought needed to be "challenged." What an utterly ridiculous attempt to destroy my wife's military career. Not just illustrated by my wife's been-there-done-that wartime experience in an Air Force career field that actually mattered. Not even best illustrated by her gilded academic credentials, the circles she travels in, or the fact that her legal skills are highly prized and compensated in the real legal profession. Rather, the absolute idiocy of that former JAG boss is better demonstrated by the fact that, my wife is insanely competent, hard working, caring, and inexplicably (at least to my raised-in-a-trailer-park mind) humble and down to earth. You'll have to take my word for this one, I can't provide a Wiki link or <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/business/judges-compete-for-law-clerks-on-a-lawless-terrain.html" target="_blank">an article</a> from the New York Times for this assertion. But if you were to meet her, you'd never equate her with the picture I have just painted because she would never mention such things. She probably won't even like this blog post (<i>update: confirmed</i>, <i>she doesn't, which means she joins the ranks of a great many other O-6s who also don't like what I write here</i>). But if you spoke with her and her accomplishments were to somehow come up, you wouldn't get even the faintest impression of superiority or arrogance. Because she truly doesn't see herself that way. When I first met her I thought her demeanor must have been calculated and that she just behaved that way for social acceptance knowing that people would be quick to judge her for going to a fancy school (a joke of an institution that evokes an entirely different kind of righteous judgment these days). But I was wrong about that and after nearly two decades of being hitched, I can attest that she hasn't got an ounce of pretension in her. It's truly astonishing.<br /></p><p>Her blend of incredible competence, work ethic, and concern for others coupled with this utterly humble demeanor, is no doubt why she has been so prized by commanders throughout her career, and why her military accolades include being Distinguished Graduate (DG) from every Air Force school she has attended, and number one ratings on most of her performance reports up until that point when a worthless, utterly disgraceful, Air Force JAG slapped her with a push line intended to inflict unjustified and undeserved damage.<br /></p><p>But that push line failed to deliver its intended effect, the USAFR elevated competence within its ranks, and I now have a reason to update this blog with rare positive news about our military.</p><p>But now I have to get off the computer. A full bird Colonel is nearly done making my breakfast.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-47000477698349199812023-03-09T20:38:00.004-08:002023-03-09T20:42:41.509-08:00The Department of Defense Purposefully & Deceptively Blocks Retirees From Accessing Medical & Other Benefits<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlEKg8UsIPEb6UiTjpMO4fYE1mYoRHR_pS2bIAvRzH5_Bu_d7eyehc7dc0M3hRdppuMUe7fMWVjA6qCtrnlbVDKCvj9ewEy9u8T_ZlRFnpyx_I3l4IRrE3d4pfnIJ-r3MCDUu4z7PSzOW5Jrv6Kc6xxdb5GYKxV_raXULrUUnSw54Uh1OXGA-r6wByA/s696/remote%20proofing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="696" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlEKg8UsIPEb6UiTjpMO4fYE1mYoRHR_pS2bIAvRzH5_Bu_d7eyehc7dc0M3hRdppuMUe7fMWVjA6qCtrnlbVDKCvj9ewEy9u8T_ZlRFnpyx_I3l4IRrE3d4pfnIJ-r3MCDUu4z7PSzOW5Jrv6Kc6xxdb5GYKxV_raXULrUUnSw54Uh1OXGA-r6wByA/w400-h286/remote%20proofing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>We can go ahead and chalk this up to "conspiracy theory" that perhaps later somebody will get around to proving is true. Regardless, it's true. Whenever it comes to the federal government doing shady and illegal shit to fuck over ordinary Americans, to include veterans, it's always true.<br /><br />The military is purposefully putting up digital road blocks and circular loops, as has been practiced by horrible companies for some time now, in order to deny military retirees their benefits. Log in to check for a medical appointment one day, the next day you have to verify your identity using some insane metric. What do you mean you don't remember the correct image out of the hundreds you were told to select as part of your authentication? You don't remember picking that image, randomly given to you as though it was supposed to mean something memorably in a way the hundreds of other images didn't? Well, we don't know it's you anymore so you can't check your GI Bill benefits or log into the VA portal.</p><p>Never fret though, we have a "remote proofing" procedure we have established to figure out who you are. It's really simple. First, you take a picture of your passport or some non-military ID identification. Military ID, obviously, is the last form of identification to be used to determine you're retired military, duh. So throw in some State driver's license. Then, take a selfie. Press the submit button, we'll wait a minute, then we'll tell you that our system couldn't verify you. Maybe it was the lighting. You can try again. Once you've tried and failed four times, and you will, then you'll be locked out for a month. We have a phone number you may be able to find if you do some research. Don't forget to choose Option 7 and wait for nobody to answer.</p><p>According to this (I know, I know) Business Insider article, the DoD (led by the guy who thinks white supremacy is the biggest threat to America) has been hiring private companies (not Facebook or Twitter, different companies that come with the same plausible deniability) to perform "remote proofing." And, according to that article, at least one company has been purposefully ensuring retirees are unable to get verified in the system. While they suffer from medical ailments that need treatment.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/idme-veterans-affairs-identity-verification-va-disability-payments-emergency-assistance-2022-2" target="_blank">From the article</a>:<br /></p><p><span face="LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 32px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span face="LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 32px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><blockquote>HELP! I am trying to apply for health benefits as well as the financial benefits for my 90-year-old father who has Alzheimer's and is also a veteran. He is unable to do the application himself and ... I can't verify his identity through ID me.</blockquote><span face="LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 32px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><p></p><p>While it appears that company has been replaced, the same methods are still being employed to deny American retirees their benefits. <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/removing-barriers-to-access-from-remote-identity-proofing" target="_blank">And this is a tactic that is being used by other government organizations also trying to save a buck when it comes to people's medical expenses.</a><br /><br />While veteran suicides skyrocket and retirees die more quickly due to the purposeful roadblocks enacted by their government to ensure they can't timely access benefits that might assist them with burn pit ailments, you can be assured that this same government will be eyeing your retirement check even beyond what they've stolen from you through inflation.</p><p>To be fair though, if the government didn't get creative at stealing money from its own citizens, how would it be able to fund the pensions of those in Ukraine?<br /></p><p><br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-9457492733934198602023-03-07T14:52:00.019-08:002023-03-08T10:24:00.183-08:00Adam Kinzinger, the Domestic Enemy of our Oath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLidoEXF2Z9STn0CkJnqb_fiCVuLMf1mAPw6e4YQx-4JtREt4472DK60l8AqML2SBkUSUQCnjLdRegCLVVBTCF7zZ0Ch5rq39EF8-wvJlxV7DBrIzEPLc8G6HjWL8HFBwUZ1EwriiqWV6hVQkTzr5cuT5CfKzBd3KR52vXjVLx8oLWsYm8dliOQ6nI7w/s1381/Kinzinger.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1381" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLidoEXF2Z9STn0CkJnqb_fiCVuLMf1mAPw6e4YQx-4JtREt4472DK60l8AqML2SBkUSUQCnjLdRegCLVVBTCF7zZ0Ch5rq39EF8-wvJlxV7DBrIzEPLc8G6HjWL8HFBwUZ1EwriiqWV6hVQkTzr5cuT5CfKzBd3KR52vXjVLx8oLWsYm8dliOQ6nI7w/w640-h304/Kinzinger.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>He did it because he's an enemy of the American people and of America. Bolstered by the un-American propaganda that has been flowing in our military officer ranks for decades and which is facilitated frequently on the forum you find yourself on by your colleagues (which until recently included the Congressmen himself). Some of your other colleagues, before it became unfashionable, sung the praises of Kinzinger. They may have changed their tune, but they still share his values. That's to say nothing of the usual suspects on the forum who might as well be preaching from the Communist authoritarian hymnal. Military officers. And their choir is growing.<br /><br />Anti-American propaganda coupled with careerist carrots has destroyed the character of our military and our federal government and of the American people as a whole regardless of professed politics. The dumbing down of the population through the takeover of our education system by propagandists hasn't helped (see your colleague BashiChuni trying to talk sense to "educated" morons for reference).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm74ha85Rq1QOVbHTbDRlAJS2XJs1YdZhmcC7NLHls8Uc7S2bEhCWCqxdi1VEzAG32h9Y6IoGo0wC40FVjxmcgc167r8yZMHd8R_U60VOelqTFfT8a33ThWgj3cUNLYtxidq4cZdBmmUCzaMpI4T3nCMYdyQGmGlMtKihzC23OYz3VgH8S2V8p4HPu6w/s1449/bash.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1449" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm74ha85Rq1QOVbHTbDRlAJS2XJs1YdZhmcC7NLHls8Uc7S2bEhCWCqxdi1VEzAG32h9Y6IoGo0wC40FVjxmcgc167r8yZMHd8R_U60VOelqTFfT8a33ThWgj3cUNLYtxidq4cZdBmmUCzaMpI4T3nCMYdyQGmGlMtKihzC23OYz3VgH8S2V8p4HPu6w/w640-h466/bash.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>The federal government is the enemy of the American people and our military has been a faithful tool in its treason for decades if not longer. Why is it so obvious now? Because there is little need for pretense in the arena we find ourselves in anymore. The American people are vulnerable, weakened, and easily conquered. Peoples throughout history have been conquered because they couldn't see how the weapons of warfare had changed, they clung on to the old ways. It's the same today as people say "come and take it" and build up their ammo stores. We are in an incredibly different world from 1776, those who own our government know it, and there really isn't much need to pretend anymore. So enemies from within, like Adam Kinzinger, don't fear the little secret getting out that they hate our nation and our citizenry and use our taxpayer funded machinery against us.</p><p>We had a chance to avoid this. While the usual suspects censored and demonized American voices and asked "what are you doing except posting online," the reality is that our voices were the only chance we had. Most of us didn't use them. Now we can't use them in any effective way. And it will get worse from here.</p><p>All perfectly forseeable while our government and military was using our taxpayer money to murder Americans without charge or trial outside war zones (to the cheers of most of your digital officer colleagues). And while our government was using our money to spy on us and to pass laws giving the POTUS the unconstitutional power to use the military to arrest any of us, citizen or not, in America without charge or trial and imprison us indefinitely. And now we know it uses our taxpayer money to have us censored online (your forum likely does it for free, they're good like that in the bro network).</p><p>Murder, imprison, silence. All without due process or a jury of peers.<br /><br />So what's left before the cultists pronounce the reality of our situation? Does the POTUS need to come out with a crown on his head? The answer is that they want it. They love exercising force over other people on both the so-called "left" and "right." America cannot survive in that environment and it has not. What our nation has become has been so very evident for a long time now. There isn't a fascist despot in history who wouldn't give a thumbs up with envy at what our rulers have achieved over us with the aid of technology that is far deadlier to freedom and democracy than any Panzer division or gunpowder illuminating the face of a puzzled Aztec. But it really doesn't matter at this point. We're way beyond bingo fuel.<br /></p><p>We don't live in the world of Red Dawn. It's over. We had our chance and we passed it up. The experiment has ended. There will be no getting out of the overt tyranny that will continue to increase far beyond the insane levels we just went through. Once the Central Bank Digital Currency is released, it's a wrap, and life will start to look much more like the old history books except in color. So, if you're still serving, honor your oath and accept the consequences. Otherwise, just enjoy the show, wait for your ticket onto the train and consider, if you have children, what your action or inaction has meant for their lives.<br /><br />Adam Kinzinger isn't the exception. He's the rule.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-68432603528780990212023-02-18T17:28:00.012-08:002023-02-19T11:59:19.781-08:00Contacted Again by the Fiasco Podcast Folks<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5PQbohdQV3w" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><br /><p>I have previously blogged about being contacted by the Fiasco folks <a href="http://www.pickyourbattles.net/2022/04/declining-interview-request-with.html" target="_blank">here</a>. This morning I got another email from Leon Neyfakh. The subject line was "Brandon Bryant" and the message read:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Dear Rick,</p><div><br /></div><div>I hope you are well. Last week I
interviewed a sensor operator named Brandon Bryant. I am wondering if
you might agree to speak to me, off-the-record, about your experience
with him. I just need to know how to assess some of the things he told
me. </div><div><br /></div><div>I would be most grateful for your help. </div><div>Leon</div><div> </div></blockquote><div></div><div>I responded:</div><div> </div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>What I will tell you about Brandon Bryant is that he is a
mythomaniac and he is severely mentally ill. So whatever claims he's
making about me (and he has a habit of making false claims about me), if
you simply require him to provide evidence for his claims that should
prove helpful. If he cannot, then they're false claims. Sadly Bryant
is adept at finding "journalists" who don't require evidence and who
don't ask follow up questions.<br clear="none" /></div><div><br clear="none" /></div>You can feel free to share with me what claims he's made about me and I'll consider responding.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />You might also want to check out: <a href="https://youtu.be/HDU9Icy_E9wk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/HDU9Icy_E9wk</a><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />And also: <a href="https://youtu.be/y8gO1jBykPY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/y8gO1jBykPY</a><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Cheers.</blockquote></div><div> </div><div>I followed that up with this response:<br /><br /><blockquote><div>While
hopefully you won't sacrifice your podcast's credibility by including
Brandon Bryant in it, here is another video you may find useful. It'sf
Bryant talking about me. You might consider his claims in this video
while evaluating whatever claims he has made about me now in case it's
useful. Cheers.<br clear="none" /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="none" /></div><a href="https://youtu.be/NqOn-9uDUPY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/NqOn-9uDUPY</a></blockquote><p><b><br />19 Feb 23 Update:</b></p><p>Leon followed up with another email stating:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Hi Rick, <br /><br />Thanks for your response -- writing you back from my work email to keep things straight. </p><div><br /></div>Brandon
actually didn't mention you by name in our interview. He did talk about
someone he referred to as "the major," who he says informed him of the
order to kill al-Awlaki. According to Brandon, the major said he
believed the order was unconstitutional because the target was an
American citizen. <br /><br />This struck me as something you could provide
context for. Having watched the video you sent, and the longer
documentary you posted, I'm hoping to convince you to speak with me by
phone or video chat. (You would be free to record the conversation even
if you don't want me to use it in our podcast.)<br /><br />My purpose here
is to figure out, as best I can, how the killing of al-Awlaki happened,
and to better understand the events that led up to it. <br /><br />Leon</blockquote><p> I responded:<br /></p><blockquote><p></p><p>"He did talk about someone he referred to as "the major," who he says informed him of the order to kill al-Awlaki."<br /><br />If Bryant was referring to me, then he made a false claim.<br /><br />It's possible he is referring to some unidentified "flight operations supervisor" that he claims, in a TedX talk, told him that. See 20:43 in this video: <a href="https://youtu.be/HDU9Icy_E9w?t=1243" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/HDU9Icy_E9w?t=1243</a><br /><br />I was not Bryant's "flight operations supervisor" and have never had a physical conversation with Bryant.<br /><br />I suspect the story Bryant tells in his TedX talk is made up, but you could simply ask him to name the "flight operations supervisor" he was referring to if you want to track down the veracity of his claim.<br /><br />You should have more than enough information to make it clear that Bryant is a serial liar who makes up claims, but if you choose to investigate his claims, simply require him to provide evidence for them. Good luck.<br /></p></blockquote><p> Leon responded:</p><p></p></div><blockquote><div><p><br />Thanks Rick. Sounds like you're not the person he's talking about. </p><div><br clear="none" /></div>Is there anything you'd be willing to tell me about your own experience being ordered to target an American citizen? <br /></div></blockquote><div><p></p><p>I responded:<br /></p><blockquote><p>As I stated previously, I am not interested in participating in your
podcast but I wish you the best with your journalism. It's an important
discussion. <br /></p></blockquote><p>Leon responded:</p><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr">Can I ask you why you don't want to participate? I accept your decision, I just want to understand it... </div><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">I did not respond. He then followed up with: </div><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Haha, just saw your blog post. Hello to all your readers! If any of them want to help me, I'll await their outreach :) <br /></div></div></blockquote><p><br />If any of my two, possibly three on a busy day, readers want to assist with this story, Leon is easy to find on Twitter.<br /></p></div>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-2329037085807339592023-02-08T10:36:00.010-08:002023-02-08T11:06:40.110-08:00Welcome back JR!<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT61n0asDDjx2RQZNLil8rWTMYeIwojfUq9CpGaZy3OpQyYMtfuZ6Jxd8R36XTakCz6EcgIg_M6d2XsrGrp82Erq1wb8L586cUe7lSz9SAxAcBzBxhZNLAGVn0-GU9Ak9g-jAOIpGNk96QjwXAXZt1f0NT1SlqGR0yTifhaAhRP2ngo9J-dfzXoh6WTA/s458/GearPig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT61n0asDDjx2RQZNLil8rWTMYeIwojfUq9CpGaZy3OpQyYMtfuZ6Jxd8R36XTakCz6EcgIg_M6d2XsrGrp82Erq1wb8L586cUe7lSz9SAxAcBzBxhZNLAGVn0-GU9Ak9g-jAOIpGNk96QjwXAXZt1f0NT1SlqGR0yTifhaAhRP2ngo9J-dfzXoh6WTA/w144-h200/GearPig.png" width="144" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>For more than a decade now, one of my favorite contributors over on the BaseOps.Net forum has been GearPig. He typically offers reasoned views and has a decent enough head on his shoulders. He's a bit too responsive to bad actor pressures that lead him to practice the conformity he no doubt disdains, and he goes off the deep end every once in awhile culminating in some wild accusations of various online identities being me, going "underground" in a frenzied panic via a name change and other spectacular antics, but his offered views are often value added so I appreciate his voice on social media.<br /></p><p>If you want an interesting chit chat over coffee, or a riling forum discussion, the newly dubbed GearHog is your guy as he has an uncommon level of intelligence and an operational bullshit-meter. But intelligence isn't what makes a good military officer. Rather, what makes a good military officer (or any public servant) is intelligence combined with principle. Principle is best demonstrated by courage.</p><p>Having some "correct" views that challenge the herd may be fun for discussion and might stroke one's ego in a debate, but it's acting courageously for what is right that makes a good military officer. Most military pilots are intelligent in comparison to society at large. They can tie their shoes, they can read good, they can take tests. But few are principled. While they mouth their oaths of office and obey commands to salute symbols they don't understand or actually value, the vast majority haven't thought deeply about what America actually is (the idea that they are paid to make more real) and they don't really care about their country. They want a paycheck, they want a fun job, and they want people to see them in uniform and credit them with all the character they don't actually possess. And there it ends.</p><p>They are herd animals. Worse, they are herd animals who think they are the best of the best. As a result, people with a bit more intelligence like GearPig are able to take them to task fairly easily.</p><p>If only America's defense were a forum thread debate like the heavily censored BaseOps.Net. But it's not. It requires much more than being right on the Internets. You can admire those who venture where you dare not tread, but your admiration of your betters is also not good enough.</p><p>America is critically injured and dying. And cowardice by those entrusted with her defense is the dagger in her back.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23031-covid-19-aka-china-virus/?do=findComment&comment=522908" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1014" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhaCSU4fhZby5yCSxuYWLEBe4vmLbwXNaGJhsEikEai9uQF3QPVGWt0ls751RaaTCCK4jPAI9RZNW6F9GKD0B5fgPaxfUWQMZnJKMNz8ob2FvIwFEFTeap2NEbe98Ay7teojnWn6VlzmVIOTmERSEbd2q25-dQGBHwBiH8sqQ8Es2qEN7rhXD6uVZjtA/w568-h640/GearHog.png" width="568" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-27073547692874601132023-02-02T21:29:00.006-08:002023-02-02T21:43:46.818-08:00The Good Ole USA - a Satelite of China<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkZed36Xnk99MOIUqzeMj-cWFj3LXlkpERtSKvcMeBT30A9o9UP8cTHdCoNSiQGawvohk8-zRLwh0-Rffm70nkF6UpvyFULO58KeuNKxjQ0fb8fo13n2GyrDVmg7hqivO3COEsm5cNBFTdSPry5diwECUGkGtlAMKJO5XNLtE1sOLUHnYebyxaBvdZA/s992/balloon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="992" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkZed36Xnk99MOIUqzeMj-cWFj3LXlkpERtSKvcMeBT30A9o9UP8cTHdCoNSiQGawvohk8-zRLwh0-Rffm70nkF6UpvyFULO58KeuNKxjQ0fb8fo13n2GyrDVmg7hqivO3COEsm5cNBFTdSPry5diwECUGkGtlAMKJO5XNLtE1sOLUHnYebyxaBvdZA/w640-h360/balloon.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p>While hundreds of American citizens in Montana are herded like cattle, scanned, and groped in Department of Homeland Security airport lines that infringe on their constitutional rights, overhead is a Chinese spy balloon on its days long trip overhead our nation's ICBM facilities.</p><p>Our government could have shot the craft down before it entered our airspace, but it didn't. It could have gotten on the phone and made it clear to China that it would remove its spy balloon immediately. But it didn't do that either.</p><p>General Milley, our nation's ranking military member, certainly has Communist China's phone number since he used it to conspire with their military to thwart a sitting President of the United States and any potential nuclear strike that President might make. Despite General Milley's literal treason, he was not reprimanded and is still at the helm of our military.</p><p>Biden will do as he does, and talk a good game that doesn't comport with his actions. He has serious financial ties to China and his loyalties are less divided than they are non-existent when it comes to America. Likewise, many politicians in both parties are purchased by China just as multitudes of business leaders are. These politicians, like bureaucrats in our nation's institutes of higher learning, work tirelessly on behalf of China to implement policies that weaken our nation militarily, economically, and socially.<br /></p><p>The spy balloon is just the latest action by China to make it obvious who is in control of who. While our politicians still talk a good game and play tough, just as Democrats and Republicans pretend to oppose one another while walking hand in hand, they are merely playing to the dumbest among us who still don't get it. Much as our installed "leaders" in foreign nations would talk a good game about being against policies of the United States to appease their masses, while dutifully moving as the puppet master required.<br /><br />The United States has been conquered by China. We are a mere puppet nation. A satellite. We are a Made-in-China-America that was defeated from the inside in a fifth generation war combined with good old fashioned dollar diplomacy. Our decision makers and power base was purchased, and the rest of us have been programmed with the over-confidence we love so much, the pom-pom patriotism and cheap plastic pride in our nation and we have been conditioned to see our rights and liberty as a threat (whether the ability to freely speak, or keep and bear arms, or protest) and we have been inundated with the notion that the majority in our nation are bad because of their skin color, and that criticizing non-white nations is racism.<br /></p><p>We have been encouraged to degrade our nation's ability to produce energy, our food production, and told that every conceivable physical or taste difference between us is paramount. Our ability to speak has been controlled and censored as is done in China, protestors have been arrested and locked away without due process for having anti-government views as is done in China, and the armed-components of our government are increasingly used against citizens to punish dissent. Our nation has been divided, splintered, plundered, and conquered. From the inside on behalf of the outside.<br /></p><p>The fact that a hostile nation's spy balloon continues for days above a key piece of our nuclear triad makes this perfectly clear. That would have never happened at any other time in America's history when it was an independent nation comprised of people who valued freedom. That it is happening now while few take it seriously, to include active serving military officers, is just one more indicator of our failed nation.<br /></p><p>The United States of America no longer exists and hasn't for some time now. It has never been more obvious than it is today.<br /></p>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762223684746484243.post-73448256569776386192022-08-13T11:46:00.092-07:002023-04-21T08:13:19.930-07:00CMSAF JoAnne Bass is Unfit for Office<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mT4da0c2YBJwiFTnuQSDfMgJZC1HbFWUttFnlmcu-ejIEYWUUSnbUtyV3ptndW1tVmaFjrn5jI1RiPaBNu-TWN5P4GbDoF27SF81FmpBRX5zN1ADlr6Fnv-PnTi6FWa-y8ZcI2DDHyMKBSJg6ONM1psVbCiGcK2YN7k3nGVwaciZ8wwiU36t1vITfg/s1024/CMSgt_JoAnne_S._Bass.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="731" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mT4da0c2YBJwiFTnuQSDfMgJZC1HbFWUttFnlmcu-ejIEYWUUSnbUtyV3ptndW1tVmaFjrn5jI1RiPaBNu-TWN5P4GbDoF27SF81FmpBRX5zN1ADlr6Fnv-PnTi6FWa-y8ZcI2DDHyMKBSJg6ONM1psVbCiGcK2YN7k3nGVwaciZ8wwiU36t1vITfg/w456-h640/CMSgt_JoAnne_S._Bass.jpeg" width="456" /></a> <br /></div><p><br />In November of 2020, CMSAF JoAnne S. Bass <a href="http://www.avoidpublitas.com/CMSAF%20JoAnn%20S.%20Bass%20Violates%20First%20Amendment.pdf" target="_blank">responded to me</a> on her official Facebook page to express her disagreement with my viewpoint. She then censored my comments and banned me from the page. Ironically, my deleted comments included the comment that the First Amendment does not permit those, like Chief Master Sergeant Bass, to censor people due to their viewpoints. After my ban I sent several messages to Chief Bass asking her to comply with the Constitution in order to avoid a lawsuit and negative press directed at our Air Force. While at least one of those messages did make its way to Chief Bass, and despite the "response requested" box on the message form checked, Chief Bass chose not to respond.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJBNLis76AuNCIgdeGDT9_XSAMntoVz4ktUEWb_wupsFwkMGYoeYdZUlc05aUhbVW7lktC4JxX2njDX_SK2yGPAp-XecdU3-LJbAxh8GWEsXrAx-yxEKiJeBtf9WVnEuF25y9rae7Ra2s4xupwHFrOKo1BIMC9gAldV8qvo9hh2nvNJ3fiQ1b7kycoQ/s2096/CMSAF%20Bass%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="2096" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJBNLis76AuNCIgdeGDT9_XSAMntoVz4ktUEWb_wupsFwkMGYoeYdZUlc05aUhbVW7lktC4JxX2njDX_SK2yGPAp-XecdU3-LJbAxh8GWEsXrAx-yxEKiJeBtf9WVnEuF25y9rae7Ra2s4xupwHFrOKo1BIMC9gAldV8qvo9hh2nvNJ3fiQ1b7kycoQ/w640-h182/CMSAF%20Bass%205.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />So I filed <a href="https://www.cir-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/rynearson_v_bass_cpl.pdf" target="_blank">a federal lawsuit</a> thanks to pro bono representation from the <a href="https://www.cir-usa.org/case/rynearson-v-bass/" target="_blank">Center for Individual Rights</a> which resulted in Chief Bass being directed to unban me from the page and to change the rules of the page to make it clear that people cannot be banned or censored due to their viewpoint. Chief Bass failed to abide by the <a href="https://www.cir-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-1-settlement-ag.pdf" target="_blank">court-signed agreement</a> in the agreed upon time frame but, after the Department of Justice was made aware of Bass' breach, she quickly reinstated my account access to her official page and I have been able to post several comments there so far.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHi4RgM0z0xkkLnD4lhkf7yUgv69fyRI2JWvy7ehK5zVgt8a0WVkVAZ-634cRMMo7x4RRtIRt7lM1FyVezkNz2DtJxD0JYWPDIhCgnqBjoGvspqiHlrbZ3hlv5USQJmJIRkWmGZfvib0KyuzOThz2GWIsm7rUQD1PGJ9nKOSOdtBGdLonSDZv3F6cOA/s1320/CMSAF%20Bass%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1320" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHi4RgM0z0xkkLnD4lhkf7yUgv69fyRI2JWvy7ehK5zVgt8a0WVkVAZ-634cRMMo7x4RRtIRt7lM1FyVezkNz2DtJxD0JYWPDIhCgnqBjoGvspqiHlrbZ3hlv5USQJmJIRkWmGZfvib0KyuzOThz2GWIsm7rUQD1PGJ9nKOSOdtBGdLonSDZv3F6cOA/w640-h432/CMSAF%20Bass%206.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p>As a result of the lawsuit and the actions of Chief JoAnne Bass, the Air Force has garnered some less than stellar media attention including an article in the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/shut-up-the-us-air-force-explained-facebook-rynearson-bass-discrimination-public-forum-lawsuit-11659630925" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-08-06/air-force-settlement-facebook-critic-6896690.html" target="_blank">Stars and Stripes</a>, the <a href="https://jqpublicblog.com/chief-master-sergeant-of-the-air-force-ordered-to-stop-banning-facebook-users-after-usaf-veteran-sues/" target="_blank">John Q Public Blog</a>, on <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/08/09/air-force-allows-facebook-comments-criticizing-service-online-after-veterans-lawsuit.html" target="_blank">Military.Com</a>, on at least one <a href="https://esguniversity.substack.com/p/social-media-matters-especially-in" target="_blank">Substack</a>, and on other media sites. Interestingly, the Air Force Times did not cover the story. The <a href="https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/air-force-changes-social-media-speech-policy-to-resolve-lawsuit-with-veteran/" target="_blank">Free Speech Project at Georgetown</a> also mentioned the litigation.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/shut-up-the-us-air-force-explained-facebook-rynearson-bass-discrimination-public-forum-lawsuit-11659630925" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1155" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LfCw2E_w58JugmQ0eWK_FMnKVboFUHWdbhlN4emGfdUdHydrQbT3je9h2xXxeZAswp5pquaondgkT49RIrCw4q6v5w-DlkIhO1CTb-8bWba2vmSvrEeeQ9Sot8XgDqrrtkOd5lbem6ogdEDSNpqnBx5OcrfIPxoSDMksjNySsM0Y983HzscRR4nqzQ/w640-h476/WSJ_Bass.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Eight days after my court-agreement, the DoD published its first ever social media policy, <a href="https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/540017p.PDF" target="_blank">DOD5400.17</a> which states:</p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid13"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 150px; top: 935.167px; transform: scaleX(0.797862);"></span></span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid13"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 150px; top: 935.167px; transform: scaleX(0.797862);">Social media account managers will not remove social media content from official DoD</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 958.067px; transform: scaleX(0.789588);"> accounts unless there is a factual or typographical error; violation of a law, policy, term of</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 981.067px; transform: scaleX(0.78641);"> service, or user agreement; or an operations or information security concern. Removal of content</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 1004.07px; transform: scaleX(0.789976);"> will be publicly acknowledged and communicated to audiences to provide context and</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 1027.07px; transform: scaleX(0.781455);"> appropriate clarification for the action; managers must persistently monitor, communicate, and,</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 1050.07px; transform: scaleX(0.787141);"> where appropriate, responsively engage with users regarding such removal. Removal of content</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 120px; top: 1073.07px; transform: scaleX(0.785656);"> can unintentionally discredit DoD information if the action appears to be taken to:</span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid14"><br /><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 180px; top: 1116.07px; transform: scaleX(0.818168);">(1) Avoid embarrassment;</span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid15"><br /><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 180px; top: 1159.07px; transform: scaleX(0.79586);">(2) Stifle or silence discussion about a controversial topic; or</span></span></span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid15"><br /><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 180px; top: 1159.07px; transform: scaleX(0.79586);">(3) Mislead users to believe an issue is inconsequential or of minor significance</span></span></blockquote><span class="markedContent" id="page15R_mcid16"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: serif; font-size: 20px; left: 180px; top: 1202.07px; transform: scaleX(0.795561);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></span> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3l58zetVuaDv8oJIGs3qG5dA_Dtyreb3mldmXeN5L0SljwAvOLL3TUJG7wndGTb70WdneN0e99ZthUm-EbKUGnspWVENuVfqmkNDF99JNtlE4J3bqO54ik2M-3P6Cg4fElFYgLAIAdT6hjbbUcmIoujM2idUZ22r3AR6FUck5Snb5p5kdQu-hs-UYA/s1415/CMSAF_Bass_DOD_social_media.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1415" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3l58zetVuaDv8oJIGs3qG5dA_Dtyreb3mldmXeN5L0SljwAvOLL3TUJG7wndGTb70WdneN0e99ZthUm-EbKUGnspWVENuVfqmkNDF99JNtlE4J3bqO54ik2M-3P6Cg4fElFYgLAIAdT6hjbbUcmIoujM2idUZ22r3AR6FUck5Snb5p5kdQu-hs-UYA/w640-h396/CMSAF_Bass_DOD_social_media.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6a8Y9dFx9-zEQtgVrfJDDTk6NluzXra-nlH87NZ_CyPDseHISHisl4ktk-pMmHYLFeHrL_BGCleoBBO5VQZEuG3PHQjQgq1xaA0F0JgUtID9TSYanzTj9ZswGLt8yld9dJ2kPO24d42tkVq11fLKyU9fx303K7oQv5Wd8UNkvaQQlhw2BY9Nda-yvw/s1560/cmsaf_bass_hats.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6a8Y9dFx9-zEQtgVrfJDDTk6NluzXra-nlH87NZ_CyPDseHISHisl4ktk-pMmHYLFeHrL_BGCleoBBO5VQZEuG3PHQjQgq1xaA0F0JgUtID9TSYanzTj9ZswGLt8yld9dJ2kPO24d42tkVq11fLKyU9fx303K7oQv5Wd8UNkvaQQlhw2BY9Nda-yvw/s16000/cmsaf_bass_hats.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7aR_t4aApTGGZvHiBmbeSlphAR5XHRKB1i_oWABDH0bCRT0y0EZlOL0et_7MsyR92vt7T-tCjxPzN4J3kTCngSauLwyNNJ-UUXl9w579a2SyVenhx-r0bnraAtr7UFpNTElZWECqeNyNkjqox9Nl22IkHMYP1wW6rnwVnM7AyFkgMHvN5RDnczLYIg/s1355/cmsaf_hats_response.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1355" data-original-width="752" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7aR_t4aApTGGZvHiBmbeSlphAR5XHRKB1i_oWABDH0bCRT0y0EZlOL0et_7MsyR92vt7T-tCjxPzN4J3kTCngSauLwyNNJ-UUXl9w579a2SyVenhx-r0bnraAtr7UFpNTElZWECqeNyNkjqox9Nl22IkHMYP1wW6rnwVnM7AyFkgMHvN5RDnczLYIg/w355-h640/cmsaf_hats_response.jpeg" width="355" /></a></div><br />Chief Bass' actions have also resulted in continued negative commentary across social media from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit. Even folks outside of the Air Force and DoD have taken note of Chief Bass, with one vlogger providing an excellent analysis of Chief Bass' "non-apology" for the "hats" smearing of a PJ, asking the critical question "where are the officers?" and calling Chief Bass <a href="https://youtu.be/n2JvnhPHYdE" target="_blank">the biggest "cyberbully" in the Air Force</a>. The main thrust of this commentary from digital military trenches is that Chief Bass is a net negative on social media, that she acts like a high school girl who refuses to admit fault, and that she was an unqualified pick for the position of CMSAF who is doing a poor job in that role. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxe6CvryJjZCiOH8aIei6lJ0zoBIMOUmj-MLKNo6ApEAdUVls39ljLOrr7CJhh35AQriMJQ4AWRIuva3clB3YBEHew9cTZbivg2OjjDT1SdaDxiy0nMHhRXziEOdThMQ_SnvlotXHz-EN9gSQetnac2v_CBSevYdsPLc6cUg8Lp0CwHCxwNUeKbb3dhQ/s2111/CMSAF%20Bass%204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2111" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxe6CvryJjZCiOH8aIei6lJ0zoBIMOUmj-MLKNo6ApEAdUVls39ljLOrr7CJhh35AQriMJQ4AWRIuva3clB3YBEHew9cTZbivg2OjjDT1SdaDxiy0nMHhRXziEOdThMQ_SnvlotXHz-EN9gSQetnac2v_CBSevYdsPLc6cUg8Lp0CwHCxwNUeKbb3dhQ/w640-h326/CMSAF%20Bass%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqQQ5WGIAeuq0MKIobNeaizvwPMIqRmOqfJA7UhXgWAMXlAoJMEdQF9J3t040RJW1PaakawO6RYX_fyVhAuMJCHMBg6GxOllltZCohv0tGqgj8ySC3ZjbLF4EgLnFN3rK9FzFnEfMRvIpYjJ-JMZQiqJW2vQ9NRD3-6CJK3890Zp_awbnheSyc_RG0w/s2051/CMSAF_feedback_Cx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="2051" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqQQ5WGIAeuq0MKIobNeaizvwPMIqRmOqfJA7UhXgWAMXlAoJMEdQF9J3t040RJW1PaakawO6RYX_fyVhAuMJCHMBg6GxOllltZCohv0tGqgj8ySC3ZjbLF4EgLnFN3rK9FzFnEfMRvIpYjJ-JMZQiqJW2vQ9NRD3-6CJK3890Zp_awbnheSyc_RG0w/w640-h228/CMSAF_feedback_Cx.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />In my view, this depiction of Chief Bass is correct. She is not qualified for the office she occupies and her selection for it was a gross error. Chief Bass does not demonstrate the seriousness one would expect of a senior leader in a military service which is often, although not always, to be expected from an individual so far removed from the serious aspects of the core military mission. Rather, CMSgt Bass consistently role models petulance, hypocrisy, gossip, and vindictiveness. Her actions make a mockery of her office, invite ridicule from those she is meant to lead, and only reinforce her glaring insecurity which results in her decision making being further clouded.<p></p><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a3p3S89PX74" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><p></p><p>Further, the fact that Chief Bass repeatedly demonstrates an inability to own up to her failures (to include violating the very Constitution of the United States she has sworn to support and defend, in full view of airmen) and given that she had to be dragged into complying with <a href="https://www.cir-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-1-settlement-ag.pdf" target="_blank">a court-order</a> indicates that Chief Bass does not have the proper respect for authority, be it our supreme law or judicial processes that direct her to comply with the law. As such, Chief Bass is wholly and completely unqualified for the position she finds herself in. A person who does not respect the laws and judicial processes of the United States has absolutely no place in public service in any capacity, certainly not as the highest enlisted member in the Air Force.<br /></p><p>Chief Master Sergeant JoAnne S. Bass should be removed from office immediately before she further damages the mission of the United States Air Force and the security of the United States. This is an opportunity for General Charles Q. Brown, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, to role model leadership by fixing his mistake for the benefit of the service and the nation. Chief Bass should not be allowed to "quietly" go into the night through retirement. She needs to be removed with a quickness. The thing about the double-edged sword of social media, which General Brown would be wise to remember, is that all airmen are watching what he condones and what steps he takes, or does not take, for accountability and for the service and nation <i>as a whole</i>. Not for "Team 19" or for his personal friends. For the service and, most importantly, for the nation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4nUwWM2jS0XlBg09eeyWKTeH-Inlbd8ghzsxPQxBa0JVw6FrrZFMc-R7Imr0G1SrIobG6qdSSwfK2Ak0Zpd9I5lWF6FwgQFNTOufzMiKSmOExHIj7--zQulq41s3fGqI1VJ6tI4Y139Y9ROxyy1u9iHUrKigqwIV8Y-KTkcFYtKTuH4VBzqS-A79hXw/s3250/General_Charles_Brown.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3250" data-original-width="2600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4nUwWM2jS0XlBg09eeyWKTeH-Inlbd8ghzsxPQxBa0JVw6FrrZFMc-R7Imr0G1SrIobG6qdSSwfK2Ak0Zpd9I5lWF6FwgQFNTOufzMiKSmOExHIj7--zQulq41s3fGqI1VJ6tI4Y139Y9ROxyy1u9iHUrKigqwIV8Y-KTkcFYtKTuH4VBzqS-A79hXw/s320/General_Charles_Brown.jpg" width="256" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Does General Charles Brown think his pick for CMSAF accurately represents and speaks for the backbone of our service? Does he even care how well our enlisted force is represented?</b><br /></div><br /><div><p>That General Brown has not corrected his mistake of selecting this CMSAF after episode after episode of blunder from her and despite the calls from so many for her to be held accountable, calls into question General Brown's respect for our enlisted troops. Perhaps he does not think it important for them to be accurately represented by somebody of quality? If so, that also needs to be addressed. 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PA team banned a soldier on social media. It was brought to his
attention. He quickly fixed it and drove on. <a href="https://twitter.com/PickBattles/status/1569846479459876864?s=20&t=cjUkwzDkFWjOyZQli6n7Kg" target="_blank">That's how it's done<b>.</b></a>
There are way more pressing issues to focus on than Day Care internet
bullshit. Leaders in the actual profession of arms understand that
given our incredibly dangerous world.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHpVARYwkPYAbhiD2dJtsTQ8R4YFrcnTaqiW2asS5GaVHv7tnNAp4DypHqIkunEdbXbMXpBRZD4-GPyauTvXdroUSPy6sn4yoZ-mZSkb-lbakZPUtbp9KuNwCDDxWY6Idlqh0IpEfueHk7fc0N7ZvmiAvPi_eQIPiMdmDiIJoMyebLG-E1-VzOWGRIA/s1353/SMA%20Grinston.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="1353" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHpVARYwkPYAbhiD2dJtsTQ8R4YFrcnTaqiW2asS5GaVHv7tnNAp4DypHqIkunEdbXbMXpBRZD4-GPyauTvXdroUSPy6sn4yoZ-mZSkb-lbakZPUtbp9KuNwCDDxWY6Idlqh0IpEfueHk7fc0N7ZvmiAvPi_eQIPiMdmDiIJoMyebLG-E1-VzOWGRIA/w640-h296/SMA%20Grinston.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>6 Sept 22 UPDATE:</b> I am told that Chief Bass has uncensored my comments on her page that she previously hid from public view.<b> <br /></b></p><p><b>1 Sept 22 UPDATE 2:</b>
Chief Bass' censorship-filter took out a response I made on her page.
So I split my response up into little bits and it all got through,
except, interestingly enough, the phrase "<span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf ocv3nf92 b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas f5mw3jnl ib8x7mpr k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6" dir="auto" lang="en">...to
add to the corporate distraction bread-for-the-masses..." Why would
Chief Master Sergeant Bass have an unconstitutional censorship filter
set up to not allow the phrase "corporate distraction" or
"bread-for-the-masses?" The graphic below shows my commentary and the
censored comments are highlighted.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSd9_zqUjeILtPyYO7AfyOB_oVjeqCu5mDQnfaeLKPuwjVD8Ujrxwlj3y5Z-NDRiG6k-qAHaNy0j1xQ9D4O2c4MezzxAzu8AX46H-t_CIoy1yTWU7E2T7XIlcNMG3x6mW3tk5skTmIE55tGf9PtsXTPhupExU1xxu2JFHbMuIDy79mRRrw_72cxh1aQ/s968/CMSAF_Bass_Split_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="769" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSd9_zqUjeILtPyYO7AfyOB_oVjeqCu5mDQnfaeLKPuwjVD8Ujrxwlj3y5Z-NDRiG6k-qAHaNy0j1xQ9D4O2c4MezzxAzu8AX46H-t_CIoy1yTWU7E2T7XIlcNMG3x6mW3tk5skTmIE55tGf9PtsXTPhupExU1xxu2JFHbMuIDy79mRRrw_72cxh1aQ/w508-h640/CMSAF_Bass_Split_0.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcPrtsA4IZEL45YBDpWdMeIuVsGS-fkh_LvwYCZkTdVPQrYdaHDz0u0venPNz6r5HrXWWkzT-VVRA_KB_LHArC11BrmInp8wIxdjNhISkHSuT6h7b2SsLbKDOZCYjClSXvMMeTbEH2oA34EnqdrSaFiGm6JTVLRy62Q5kOauYkdMpQ2Slncjn94Bj5A/s765/CMSAF_Bass_Split_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="765" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcPrtsA4IZEL45YBDpWdMeIuVsGS-fkh_LvwYCZkTdVPQrYdaHDz0u0venPNz6r5HrXWWkzT-VVRA_KB_LHArC11BrmInp8wIxdjNhISkHSuT6h7b2SsLbKDOZCYjClSXvMMeTbEH2oA34EnqdrSaFiGm6JTVLRy62Q5kOauYkdMpQ2Slncjn94Bj5A/w640-h328/CMSAF_Bass_Split_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><br />1 Sep 22 UPDATE:</b>
Chief kicked off the new month with her usual disdain for our judicial
system by censoring a comment from myself and from another retired
special operator in response to her upcoming "coffee talk." First I'll
provide the comments that were not censored<b> </b>and then show the
comments that were censored. See if you can determine why those
particular comments were not allowed by Chief Bass as it appears there
is a theme here:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyFCH6ZVTRmjavsRMy-wMbq1xQzgpm_zCAc9cJEJ_RzdXLVo8Ht1CZ0FYBXJDV0lJfX4Mss4rpQyW8ZtYtgaNo1rjbZFq7gVgSKndQrTs2WWNQ5Toycunzy0pJ2W6GusnF0GJ-tb3xstKtIUYSNVhoCh7-7PoRdEBnELLabxhyiKFy6ltvXB63dltBw/s915/CMSAF_a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="915" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyFCH6ZVTRmjavsRMy-wMbq1xQzgpm_zCAc9cJEJ_RzdXLVo8Ht1CZ0FYBXJDV0lJfX4Mss4rpQyW8ZtYtgaNo1rjbZFq7gVgSKndQrTs2WWNQ5Toycunzy0pJ2W6GusnF0GJ-tb3xstKtIUYSNVhoCh7-7PoRdEBnELLabxhyiKFy6ltvXB63dltBw/w640-h420/CMSAF_a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQAKf_AyaWJZgVzlNG3xyj6Ux6e2566By4Wpeb79-SgxfNhJicfAhk7ErWpq9ETZyRTeHlKUlAR482SLg_unmJ42N6B1EpSPlrLZjgBF4Ij-t0eWKQqFTdNZoWOufBKma9Fzzhh2BItGiS96y3SIbDEp4clePiRH3CSSBD8c7WoSfc5NmqJ4Tyy7P5A/s838/CMSAF_B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="838" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQAKf_AyaWJZgVzlNG3xyj6Ux6e2566By4Wpeb79-SgxfNhJicfAhk7ErWpq9ETZyRTeHlKUlAR482SLg_unmJ42N6B1EpSPlrLZjgBF4Ij-t0eWKQqFTdNZoWOufBKma9Fzzhh2BItGiS96y3SIbDEp4clePiRH3CSSBD8c7WoSfc5NmqJ4Tyy7P5A/w640-h510/CMSAF_B.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTxSfwmrzggjt1TJ25XYWeY8hu3-v6lww0On-cfpzki3G1-7ywFsWtLhlSl4HvowETMHB2mjDMdc2J9j8i6ZUKXW3nqJ-ymVhprEXlYz-tDrqJmm8dwYMryyLj0mX2jNqVGV0AG1TBGJWzuKKVQtXwK7HxJLc1ewbSY2RaIDc-f9I410331UgjXioWQ/s831/CMSAF_c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="831" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTxSfwmrzggjt1TJ25XYWeY8hu3-v6lww0On-cfpzki3G1-7ywFsWtLhlSl4HvowETMHB2mjDMdc2J9j8i6ZUKXW3nqJ-ymVhprEXlYz-tDrqJmm8dwYMryyLj0mX2jNqVGV0AG1TBGJWzuKKVQtXwK7HxJLc1ewbSY2RaIDc-f9I410331UgjXioWQ/w640-h606/CMSAF_c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />And these were the comments that were censored:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65wtJPDcB_noadnLt_Lwh6Ha1vaOKWEjYC4T-AfA9nflnNPHqe55Nodz1-NQKOsRSCoRpDJZdlt1V-BPee3mFLMTwNMi7OFWlSDRsbWzWCDwcqggxm6o-2F1vUHDdFWTiei8RCfkufftQWz80lqB_vc95_Kir84z7BlvGJgIjD9R3TvXNdzZfPPtszQ/s1015/CMSAF_censor_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="774" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg65wtJPDcB_noadnLt_Lwh6Ha1vaOKWEjYC4T-AfA9nflnNPHqe55Nodz1-NQKOsRSCoRpDJZdlt1V-BPee3mFLMTwNMi7OFWlSDRsbWzWCDwcqggxm6o-2F1vUHDdFWTiei8RCfkufftQWz80lqB_vc95_Kir84z7BlvGJgIjD9R3TvXNdzZfPPtszQ/w488-h640/CMSAF_censor_1.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><b><br />24 Aug 22 UPDATE:</b> Today's breach of the court agreement when Bass censored this comment:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzb_c1OTs0JZA0To4RM_2sp3tQaHBjjCzt-cdnPdC0K_PtWViH5Cnl1zyK_kMuuM-zggLZqNmTMn_1CiX286UUSkgIeLNbAzm7YVZIbEWRY3e0wKSlrVF3cY234zLA8q_RTHEAIenwP_AOHOcvEpBhxEe2KHfseWL9yDdOq4ZhtMbs4oY8dOYxp7WLA/s942/bass_filter_censor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="942" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzb_c1OTs0JZA0To4RM_2sp3tQaHBjjCzt-cdnPdC0K_PtWViH5Cnl1zyK_kMuuM-zggLZqNmTMn_1CiX286UUSkgIeLNbAzm7YVZIbEWRY3e0wKSlrVF3cY234zLA8q_RTHEAIenwP_AOHOcvEpBhxEe2KHfseWL9yDdOq4ZhtMbs4oY8dOYxp7WLA/w640-h504/bass_filter_censor.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><p><b>18 Aug 22 UPDATE: </b>Another
day, another court-agreement violation by Chief Bass. This response to
Dave below has been censored from the official page:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FpvpjTkGwixe3NCt8fNnSMhb5-4nzXEHTTHojIqiOF-m9cABD3ackWjGvofZoxMp7Oi4u3eF-wrF83tfKBwo0jPQUKJd4x1xYFPbKwVS4wFh_YppYkPQouCX5Qi6zTPkDCbbonm2Xdmowsh10VW-AfBxwAH9oWaCMUbukSmLzECGcGl6ZV7P60XDqg/s947/CMSAF_bass_censor_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="947" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FpvpjTkGwixe3NCt8fNnSMhb5-4nzXEHTTHojIqiOF-m9cABD3ackWjGvofZoxMp7Oi4u3eF-wrF83tfKBwo0jPQUKJd4x1xYFPbKwVS4wFh_YppYkPQouCX5Qi6zTPkDCbbonm2Xdmowsh10VW-AfBxwAH9oWaCMUbukSmLzECGcGl6ZV7P60XDqg/w640-h528/CMSAF_bass_censor_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br />17 Aug 22 UPDATE:</b>
My second comment was censored today on Chief Bass' page in breach of
the court agreement. It would appear that my comment was censored
through a filter that auto-hides certain content (making it only visible
to the person commenting and their FB friends). I tried to investigate
the particular terms that might have triggered the filter but could not
isolate the term. "China" does not appear to be the trigger, nor does
the combination of "China" and "General Milley" so I'm not sure what
about this comment below triggered Chief's auto-censorship filter. I am sure, however, that these filters constitute a violation of the First Amendment <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/05/government-agencies-may-not-use-facebooks-strongest-comment-filtering-settings/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">as one federal court has already ruled</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4iOFXuMsvzEj8gF_GRffAoVNgczwVXwJ6svMaxCNczNm2SQRo9EbXmOQNqaI08E4TF32u0XmjBu9rX8GEKWgsTx7mdkW3hbd_8yC0QS5IrUMgIr5fYLseLieiXufZ_83CGYLLMKMovn1GzhG650njJIcJ75apJXTUvewDekkDW2oxsUgQCpV9cZIK1Q/s837/Bass_filter_cap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="837" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4iOFXuMsvzEj8gF_GRffAoVNgczwVXwJ6svMaxCNczNm2SQRo9EbXmOQNqaI08E4TF32u0XmjBu9rX8GEKWgsTx7mdkW3hbd_8yC0QS5IrUMgIr5fYLseLieiXufZ_83CGYLLMKMovn1GzhG650njJIcJ75apJXTUvewDekkDW2oxsUgQCpV9cZIK1Q/w640-h498/Bass_filter_cap.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>My other comment response was not auto-censored, so there is something about the comment above that triggers the Chief's filter:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFOdoI1Xd4huDQ3xjk3nUyDDEcDQEqLWgNt8Wwj4bKUJhY8DeKbBz5efGIL0FqBr4jXB1pHfGC59MrH3r8tkUgLMGLqa1KVEvSJdfLFgrNHzQJMX2miuOxNsiJvur9PORln-9DFMKDEV2Xacn-IA3zELYJQS7Gjt3VZGsGcE6VeppxnGbnTuJTX9_CQ/s915/Chief_filter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="915" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFOdoI1Xd4huDQ3xjk3nUyDDEcDQEqLWgNt8Wwj4bKUJhY8DeKbBz5efGIL0FqBr4jXB1pHfGC59MrH3r8tkUgLMGLqa1KVEvSJdfLFgrNHzQJMX2miuOxNsiJvur9PORln-9DFMKDEV2Xacn-IA3zELYJQS7Gjt3VZGsGcE6VeppxnGbnTuJTX9_CQ/w640-h342/Chief_filter.jpg" width="640" /></a><b> </b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Minutes after the exchange above, the comment from Stefano was hidden or deleted...</span><br /></b></b></div><p><b>13 Aug 22 UPDATE:</b>
Chief Bass is yet again in breach of the court agreement. Not only has
she immediately censored a comment I made today on her official page,
but she has also, in her latest post, hidden a comment from somebody
else. I can't see that individual's comment, so I have no ability to
determine the merit of her decision to censor that person. In my case,
however, Chief Bass has yet again violated a court agreement; she has an
apparently strong insurrectionist streak that doesn't recognize our
laws or government judicial authority and she violates our laws with
abandon. This will be addressed shortly. The comment about China, in
response to a post from Bass about the Chinese military versus the
American military and the importance of culture (which she hid from all
but my Facebook friends) is reproduced below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Q7jb3zANTR9O1q2-IGUStvIrGDsKC8koXl8gFPj7EXStKJCDcH3vGdWWzQKWflw3tp5CBx0B_I00UWVKmPjB_A1XRcv2t0AvIWcc_XGIAE-3U3f0dUwrKKI5JhsYeM3lcZ4RRdX3lFXmfP_bOiPkU9uXhVgs8riWhvfztm1HlIivtTZal1SQrr5qoA/s1012/CMSAF_Bass_PLA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1012" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Q7jb3zANTR9O1q2-IGUStvIrGDsKC8koXl8gFPj7EXStKJCDcH3vGdWWzQKWflw3tp5CBx0B_I00UWVKmPjB_A1XRcv2t0AvIWcc_XGIAE-3U3f0dUwrKKI5JhsYeM3lcZ4RRdX3lFXmfP_bOiPkU9uXhVgs8riWhvfztm1HlIivtTZal1SQrr5qoA/w640-h450/CMSAF_Bass_PLA.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkAjgbMAb5uZS3uYnX3c1qeQ84wmBnPDvJyMxP9vs0aD_SKoIxkuul1lezJie0ThTEzDjqzYuqHs-VkuAtvXRrMuYDoRWmJKIjyCV4Vrsyrr3-3BPX5NHECNS_sT0mBtbnUGZ6nc9OL-jCVeZ2iIqxHITs9JEduSsBeJhhA9xdtoRX8lyr5UPQf3bgg/s994/CMSAF%20Bass%20Breach.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="922" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkAjgbMAb5uZS3uYnX3c1qeQ84wmBnPDvJyMxP9vs0aD_SKoIxkuul1lezJie0ThTEzDjqzYuqHs-VkuAtvXRrMuYDoRWmJKIjyCV4Vrsyrr3-3BPX5NHECNS_sT0mBtbnUGZ6nc9OL-jCVeZ2iIqxHITs9JEduSsBeJhhA9xdtoRX8lyr5UPQf3bgg/w594-h640/CMSAF%20Bass%20Breach.jpg" title="The following comment responding to Chief Bass' comment about military cultural differences between the United States and China, was censored in violation of a court agreement" width="594" /></a></div>PickYourBattles.Nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16448529287854593110noreply@blogger.com0