From MilitaryTimes yesterday:
Likes, shares and posts now prohibited in Pentagon’s new anti-extremism policy
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pent ... sm-policy/
"Membership in extremist groups is still not prohibited by the Defense Department, but an updated instruction released Monday seeks to prohibit pretty much everything that one might do in association with an extremist group."
I'm just a lowly, salt-of-the-earth gun guy, but...where are all these white extremist groups? If someone was doing nothing but monitoring MSNBC and CNN they'd come to conclusion that there are literally millions of them in organized phalanxes posing a clear and present danger to the country, and that America's active military and veterans make up the bulk of the numbers. Where the heck are all of them? Aren't they marching and rioting almost every day? Why do I never see any of them or even--at gun ranges, for goodness sake--come in contact with these organizations?
Back in June, the same journalist who wrote yesterday's piece noted, "The Defense Department has been having a rough time communicating about its efforts to root out extremism. Despite numerous public statements, there are still some who see the entire endeavor
as a thinly shrouded attempt to punish politically conservative troops. SECDEF Lloyd Austin was pressed on June 10 to explain exactly what the Defense Department defined as "extremism." Austin couldn't give a definition. "'Again we’re focused on, on behavior,' he said, adding that the department-wide extremism stand-down earlier this year was meant to open up discussions and give some hard-and-fast rules, but
not to attempt to define extremism itself."
So, is it like pornography? They think it's everywhere; they're sure they'll know it when they see it; but they can't actually define it or know how to tell who has it?
I remain thoroughly confused.