CMSAF JoAnne Bass is Unfit for Office

 

In November of 2020, CMSAF JoAnne S. Bass responded to me 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.

So I filed a federal lawsuit thanks to pro bono representation from the Center for Individual Rights 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 court-signed agreement 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.

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 Wall Street Journal, Stars and Stripes, the John Q Public Blog, on Military.Com, on at least one Substack, and on other media sites.  Interestingly, the Air Force Times did not cover the story.  The Free Speech Project at Georgetown also mentioned the litigation.

Eight days after my court-agreement, the DoD published its first ever social media policy, DOD5400.17 which states:

Social media account managers will not remove social media content from official DoD accounts unless there is a factual or typographical error; violation of a law, policy, term of service, or user agreement; or an operations or information security concern. Removal of content will be publicly acknowledged and communicated to audiences to provide context and appropriate clarification for the action; managers must persistently monitor, communicate, and, where appropriate, responsively engage with users regarding such removal. Removal of content can unintentionally discredit DoD information if the action appears to be taken to:

(1) Avoid embarrassment;

(2) Stifle or silence discussion about a controversial topic; or

(3) Mislead users to believe an issue is inconsequential or of minor significance

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 the biggest "cyberbully" in the Air Force.  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. 

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.

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 court-order 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.

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 as a whole.  Not for "Team 19" or for his personal friends.  For the service and, most importantly, for the nation.

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?

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.  Our enlisted men and women deserve better than an embarrassment to represent and speak for them.

 

13 Sept 22 UPDATE:  The Army's top enlisted leader's PA team banned a soldier on social media.  It was brought to his attention.  He quickly fixed it and drove on.  That's how it's done.  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.

6 Sept 22 UPDATE:  I am told that Chief Bass has uncensored my comments on her page that she previously hid from public view.

1 Sept 22 UPDATE 2:  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 "...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.

1 Sep 22 UPDATE:  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 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:

And these were the comments that were censored:

24 Aug 22 UPDATE:  Today's breach of the court agreement when Bass censored this comment:

18 Aug 22 UPDATE:  Another day, another court-agreement violation by Chief Bass.  This response to Dave below has been censored from the official page:

17 Aug 22 UPDATE:  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 as one federal court has already ruled:

My other comment response was not auto-censored, so there is something about the comment above that triggers the Chief's filter:

  Minutes after the exchange above, the comment from Stefano was hidden or deleted...

13 Aug 22 UPDATE:  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:

The Air Force Agrees to Fix the CMSAF Bass Glitch After My Lawsuit

 

I have been unbanned from the CMSAF official Facebook page and the CMSAF has changed her Facebook page "rules" to make clear that views cannot be censored simply because she, or anybody else, disagrees with those views.

See this Wall Street Journal article for more information on our First Amendment victory.

Stars and Stripes also has an article on the free speech victory, as does the JQP blog.  Military.Com covered the story here.

For more information on the discussion that led to the now-overturned ban, please visit this blog post.

The United States of America is a Puppet Government of China

 

It's not a new thing.  It's not a conspiracy theory.  The United States government has operated puppet governments around the world for some time now.  We're just not yet at the point where we can recognize that such power is a two-way street.  But it is.  If you just sit and think about it, it's not hard to understand.  Money buys politicians.  Dollar diplomacy.  And the United States government is practically a vending machine for anybody who wants to deposit money which includes corporate America (like the NBA for example) which has long sold out to China.  These things matter and they have effects.

The effects are easy to spot when you look at all the anti-American actions taken by our so-called "public servants."  It wasn't long ago that traitor, General Mark Milley, literally worked for the Chinese military in opposition to the sitting President of the United States.  Was Milley charged with treason as he should have been?  No.  He wasn't even fired.  Why not?  Well, that's because both of our so-called political parties are owned by China.  Money and media are both integral to elected office regardless of made-up party affiliation and that center of gravity is why we no longer have meaningful political checks and balances in our government.

Why did Biden just send millions of barrels of oil to China from OUR strategic oil reserves while Americans are being bled at the pump?  Why did our government print us into inflation and destroy our economy after a virus from China?  Why is divisive and racist nonsense being pumped into our military?  Why are we destroying our combat capability by booting people out of the military for not getting an experimental shot while at the same time ignoring congressional laws on religious accommodation?  Why hasn't a single General officer resigned while mission and people have been gutted by insanity from above?

The destruction of America is being done purposefully by those in our government taking their orders from foreign power.  That foreign power is China, which employs, as its western face, the World Economic Forum.  The WEF operates in the western world by pushing neo-Communism through various policies such as "equity" and "social justice" and "climate change" which all prescribe the destruction of private property and authoritarian control of assets through a global government that erases sovereign nations.  This isn't a conspiracy theory, but those who wish to label every uncomfortable truth as such, should be reminded that conspiracy theorists, as Jimmy Dore says, are 5-0 these days.

The tentacles of the WEF have invaded every inch of corporate America and both political parties.  Even so-called conservative, Dan Crenshaw, is a poster child of the WEF.  The WEF has managed to find useful idiots not only in conservative politicians like Crenshaw and the many other actively serving Republican politicians (along with tons of Democrats) that attend World Economic Forum events in a foreign nation, but also enjoys support en masse from the so-called "liberal" side of America.  That's the side that is actively participating, supporting, or condoning with their silence the destruction of American cities and the destruction of American institutions.  And that is the side of the American public that actively promotes Communism (whether blatantly stated or stated through advocacy for "equity" of outcome -- by literally taking property from others and giving it to so-called oppressed people as managed by government).  This Communism (which you might remember is a hallmark of China) is promoted, in one form or another, by nearly half of the American population today as it has been inculcated for decades through our institutions of higher learning.

There is a war waging right now and it's China (and its puppets throughout world governments) against the entire Western world.  And they are winning.

Our nation is a Made-in-China-America and that is the reality.  And after the shaping operation that was the Russia hoax, Americans don't have the focus or the willpower of the average Black Friday shopper to care about it.

But they will.  As Tucker says, China will be a "cruel master" indeed.