Dying To Be Politically Correct?

Engaging A Real Enemy

We in the United States are at war. It’s not a war we ever dreamed we'd fight and certainly not one for which we knew to prepare. This war is against what may prove to be the most dangerous foe our country has ever known...political correctness.

That political correctness could infect our country's civilian culture so thoroughly is difficult to accept. But the fact that it's infected our military to an alarming extent is inconceivable. In the most necessarily cohesive body in the country, that of our military, the divisive nature of political correctness might now be considered its most dangerous enemy. It must not be allowed to spread any further. The rules of engagement are simple. Seek and destroy.

An Army psychiatrist, avowed “warrior for Allah,” declares his radical Islamic beliefs to any and all in his military community and beyond, yet political correctness prevented any action be taken. Thirteen dead and thirty injured, countless lives changed forever due to sacrificing good judgment at the alter of political correctness. This terrorist, wearing the uniform of a country which gave him freedom to pursue happiness, chose to destroy the happiness of others instead. And still many in our nation just don’t get it.

Are US soldiers, enlisted and officers alike, being coerced or even threatened with career destruction in the name of political correctness? Is there a silent directive "from the top" to turn a blind eye to treasonous behavior if that behavior is exhibited by a soldier of a certain ethnicity, race, gender or religion? Surely common sense isn't being trumped by the disease of political correctness...or is it?

Much like a patient with a serious mental disorder, political correctness may so completely infect the nervous system of today's military that it could soon drift into a permanently dysfunctional state!

How many average Americans realize just how politically correct our US military has become? Few may be aware of the fact that special awards are conferred on enlisted personnel who first must "qualify" for these awards based on race, ethnicity or gender. A simple Internet search will yield hundreds if not thousands of articles about "diversity" awards presented by active military branches, veterans organizations and even private corporations allied with the military. Diversity awards for gay and lesbians? Not yet, but stay tuned.

But if a black, white, Hispanic soldier…man or woman…achieves a level of excellence identical to ANY soldier in the military, just why should that success be attributed in any way to race, ethnicity or gender?

Suggesting a good soldier be given an award with the first qualification being race, ethnicity or gender must be viewed as condescending by any rational person. Yet how many, including the recipients of such awards, appear to view it as such? In fact, isn't being viewed first by one's race, ethnicity or gender the evil we've been fighting all along? Oddly enough, being called "A credit to your race" was considered condescending not so long ago.

Individual excellence, as well as failure, is difficult for the politically correct to measure because they judge everyone based on group identity...good or bad. Rather than preferring a "good soldier" the politically correct prefer "ethnic soldiers" or " women soldiers", good or bad being defined by group identity rather than their individual "soldierly" qualities. The politically correct never believe themselves racists, but clearly heterosexual Caucasian males need not apply for diversity awards in the military. Apparently they must be satisfied with simply being good soldiers, no special handling required.

So we're still left struggling to make sense of this disturbing trend in our country and it's military. Perhaps we might have some luck if we suspend critical thinking and approach this from the politically correct point of view...

Let’s use the US Navy as an example, arguably a trend setter for diversity in our branches of military service.

In 2004, the Navy formed a Directorate dedicated to supporting the Chief of Naval Operations' vision of expanding the Navy's “diversity initiatives”. Note the use of the word “expanding”…this has been going on for some time, folks.

Link from the official website of the US Navy:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=13469

The following excerpt from this page bears witness to the sort of “diversity” we may never have expected from our navy:

“Seeing a direct relationship between diversity and mission readiness, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark added new focus on diversity in his Guidance for 2004. Clark expanded the traditional focus of diversity beyond race and gender, and folded in a Sailor’s creativity, culture, ethnicity, religion, skills and talents.”

I bet you thought diversity in the Navy meant “let’s send a battleship instead of an aircraft carrier” or “we’ll need a surface attack here instead of air attack” Now it might mean “Sheila may not be a top notch sailor, but I’m sure her Native American heritage will serve us well if we ever need a tracker."

While the above example may appear as ridiculous as it is demeaning, the idea that even one member of US Navy brass believes there is a “direct relationship between diversity and mission readiness”, at least as they seem to define it above, seems an odd notion. Oh sure, natural abilities or even cultural talents have been and are used in our military. The Navajo code talkers of WWII comes to mind. Even today young men who routinely hunt in rural areas are highly prized as marksmen due to their excellent firearm skills. But natural or trained abilities notwithstanding, race, ethnicity or gender shouldn't be the first qualification of a good soldier. Qualification should be the successful performance of duty.

A popular belief is that prejudice destroys equality. But does “prejudging” to promote diversity preserve equality? By refusing to recognize our soldiers as human warriors and human warriors only...regardless of race, ethnicity or gender...our military is making a costly mistake. Very simply, it may well find itself hoist by its own petard…blown up along with the very device (diversity) it attempts to incorporate into its arsenal!

Certainly from the outside it appears our Navy along with other branches of the military so fear charges of prejudice they blindly jump through politically correct hoops, apparently essential to career advancement in the modern military. Our soldiers and the country at large are caught in this foolish social experiment.

And it appears to becoming deadly foolish.

Political correctness has spread from the institutionalized epidemic in our branches of military to an even more dangerous mutation in the war on terror. It appears that prejudice against our OWN warriors in an attempt to avoid the appearance of prejudice against a vicious and deadly enemy is occurring at alarming rates. Just who do the politically correct consider the enemy? The US government bureaucracy and apparently the upper echelons of military command by all appearances are marinated in politically correct culture. Is it possible they are blind to the damage being done to the morale of our fighting forces and the security of our country? The answer to that question may be terrifying.

Navy Seals

...fighting a politically correct war is suicide

While seemingly pervasive political correctness within our armed forces during peace time is a major problem, political correctness in theaters of military operation during war may be suicide.

Consider the ongoing persecution of 3 elite Special Operations warriors, Navy Seals who delivered to justice a known terrorist suspected of unspeakable crimes. In an incredibly warped alternate universe, these 3 Special Operators find themselves the victims of a convoluted hyper-reaction to a minor incident which allegedly occurred while concluding their mission. While simple laymen like myself are not privy to the protocol or silent code used in the military to determine when to let a situation slide or when to call a man on the floor, it seems unwise to me to blithely punish our valuable warriors at the expense of morale. For we observers on the outside, what appears to have occurred is all we can examine when making even a limited critical analysis. Is it a mistake for the US Navy command to charge on toward prosecution of these brave men, ignoring the option of dismissing charges? Using seemingly inexplicable upside down reasoning they must believe morale will be better served among our military AND civilian population by punishing our heroes!

In the meantime three highly trained, valuable military assets await their fate, in large part it would seem, as victims of a knee jerk reaction based on political correctness...and our enemies laugh.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, the high value target captured by these 3 Seals is the suspected mastermind of the bombing, burning and desecration of the bodies of US contractors working for our military in Fallujah, Iraq. Poor Mr. Abed...almost assuredly guilty of planning the ambush which culminated in the hanging of the charred bodies of our countrymen on that bridge in Fallujah... complained about a bit of rough treatment en route to his cell. Likely he was following the Al Qaeda handbook:

"At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison."

The identity of the Master of Arms, 3rd Class, apparently the main witness for the prosecution of Navy Seal SO2 Matthew McCabe has not been disclosed to the public. McCabe denies all charges and he along with two other Seals who captured Abed, SO1 Julio Huertas and SO2 Jonathan Keefe refused non-judicial reprimand, preferring a trial to clear their names. Charges include dereliction of duty and lying to investigators, with SO2 McCabe being the only Seal charged with assault on Abed.

There’s been an outpouring of support for these brave young men, including the following support group “Support the Navy Seals who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed” on Facebook, link follows:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=201355981560

While historically our military branches have been charged with the responsibility to fairly judge their own and equitably mete out punishment or commendation, political correctness appears to be tainting the honest dispensation of both. This alarming development should really be no surprise to any, as political correctness continues to adversely affect the daily lives of us all.

The simple truth is that political correctness dishonors all with its false promise of “fairness”. It demands we suspend common sense judgment and disown our natural gift of discernment, that most valuable ability to determine right from wrong, good from evil.

When our military is required to place political correctness above discernment, that my friends, is suicide.

SUPPORT OUR NAVY SEALS

…and our nation's collective soul will rise to a higher standard

Let us establish a premise. The citizens of these United States are unlike any other people in the world in their patriotism. While this statement may seem arrogant to those all too ready to fault this great nation and its people, it is nevertheless, true.

As a nation established and melded into a great and beautiful country from many blending as one, we are strong in our collective histories. I’m not referring to destructive “ethnic diversity”, promoted by those who would see our great nation divided into little pocket countries. Rather, I cherish the contributions to the whole created by our many and varied ethnicities and archetypes. Our nation in union will always be, as our forefathers rightly knew, stronger than its individual parts.

From the earliest days our military, from farmer soldier to professional warrior, has enjoyed the staunch support and undying gratitude from its countrymen. It is only in the past 50 years that a malignancy has been found growing in this otherwise enduring support and gratitude. It resembles a cancer, fed by those who would welcome the destruction of all we've cherished since the birth of this nation. It is all too evident that this cancer is spreading through many organs of our nation’s body, but one of the most pernicious assaults is being fought in a most critical organ, our military.

We might point to the Vietnam war era as the origin of blatant condemnation of our modern US military, although some might argue it began in the Korean War era. We accept the fact that through the ages militaries, regardless of country, have met with unpopularity depending on the cause or campaign. For instance, I’m pretty certain my North Carolina ancestors had very little nice to say about the Union Army! But excluding that anomaly in our history, it’s probably safe to say that for our current generations, the war in Vietnam is seen as the action most associated with war protesters and their hateful rhetoric. While most hoped the shameful and dishonorable treatment of our fighting forces ended with that sad era, it appears that hope was in vain. Therefore it is of paramount importance that our patriotic voices come to the fore, now more than ever.

While our warfare has evolved...technologies perhaps more than strategies...our soldiers are pretty much the same tough minded, brave individuals they were in colonial days. Let’s face it, as a country we are very young, but as a people we have centuries of elite warriors from many countries as our heritage!

This heritage is a blessing of the finest kind. Because of it we have the greatest warriors in the world, well trained, disciplined and fair. While every force has its wash-outs, its square pegs or outright bad actors, the vast body of our military is beyond reproach. As a nation we ask them to perform an extremely difficult balancing act, performing their duties as soldiers, while maintaining their humanity.

Beyond the average in our armed forces we find the elite, our Special Forces. These warriors are considered elite because they have been found to be exemplary in every respect as human beings. They are courageous for us when we cannot be and they are efficient beyond our abilities. They are asked to do the impossible and to do it without fanfare or expectation of public recognition. They go to dangerous places, fight men and forces evil beyond our comprehension in order that we may never be required to meet that evil.

These elite warriors are brutally good, faithful in their training and maintaining to remain so. They are ready to go "wheels up" when called upon day or night, fair weather or foul, bound to meet their duty wherever they are called. Super human is a goal they strive for, superb human is the goal they meet everyday.

When considering the debt of gratitude owed to our elite Special Forces, it is all the more difficult for me to understand how our military executive and federal government can make the profound mistake in believing lies from enemies over the word of our special forces warriors.

The current case of three Navy Seals is an excellent example of the upside down logic we're expected to embrace.

Special Warfare Operators, Petty Officers 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe and SO1 Petty Officer Julio Huertas captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, a known terrorist and suspected mastermind behind the brutal murder and desecration of the bodies of four Blackwater contractors for our US military in Iraq. These honorable Navy Seals chose to face court martial rather than allow the Seal brotherhood and their own reputations be sullied. In some misguided attempt to appease a hateful enemy our good soldiers were asked to accept a lesser reprimand by admitting guilt for actions they claim they did not commit. Perhaps lesser men would shrug it off, appease their superiors and "play the game", accepting the lesser reprimand. But elite warriors don't "play games".

The Navy Seal creed demands a finer brand of integrity than the average person might understand. As the excerpt from that creed above states, "My word is my bond." Now, I'm just one of those average people, but that promise is good enough for me.

The cancer I spoke of earlier seems to be developing into a particularly virulent form in our military these days. That form being a ridiculous desire to avoid offending a murderous enemy...politically correct disease in lethal doses. If implementation of protocol based on political correctness does not immediately cease, our military will crumble and our nation will not survive.

While there’s no mistaking the stench of political correctness wafting from our federal executive power down to the upper echelons of the military, those of us who cherish our military men and women in the field simply must continue making our support known. To this end, PLEASE visit and join the following Facebook support group, Support the Navy Seals Who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=201355981560

And when you’ve joined, invite all your friends and associates to do the same!

Waiting for Some of "That Obama Money"?

Reporter Ken Rogulski (WJR) interviewing people waiting in line for their handouts outside Cobo Hall, Detroit, October 7th:

ROGULSKI: Why are you here?
WOMAN #1: To get some money.
ROGULSKI: What kind of money?
WOMAN #1: Obama money.
ROGULSKI: Where's it coming from?
WOMAN #1: Obama.
ROGULSKI: And where did Obama get it?
WOMAN #1: I don't know, his stash. I don't know. (laughter) I don't know where he got it from, but he givin' it to us, to help us.
WOMAN #2: And we love him.
WOMAN #1: We love him. That's why we voted for him!
WOMEN: (chanting) Obama! Obama! Obama! (laughing)


Lest we still refuse to believe that a totalitarian state could evolve in this country, the above is terrifying evidence that one of the main tasks Aldous Huxley postulated was required to develop willing slaves of the populace is coming to fruition. Our educational system has succeeded in "dumbing down" it's citizenry to the extent that even the most rudimentary understanding of US government, especially the collection and distribution of public funds is completely absent. But this isn't at all surprising given that precious time our children are supposed to be spending getting a useful and proper education is spent instead indoctrinating and destroying whatever natural born critical thinking they may possess!

Mr. Huxley envisioned this trend a half a century ago when he wrote of how old, iron-fisted totalitarian methods of gaining control would be replaced with more refined methods:

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited.

Exhibit A: The interview outside Cobo Hall above.

Exhibit B: The disturbing videos of our public school children learning songs and chants extolling the virtue, indeed almost worshipping Barack Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlIZg9faWs

While these children are forbidden to pray in our schools, they may sing an homage to the supreme leader to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Jesus Loves The Little Children!

Any person having even a light knowledge of history as it pertains to Nazi Germany, Mao in China or more recently any one of several dictators in South America would find these videos chilling. Those viewing who have children attending schools where drilling in worshipful chants and other indoctrination is done would be within their rights to remove them from these institutions. They should then demand a thorough house cleaning of propagandists, left OR right in political philosophy and the installation of quality instructors with no sociological or political agenda.

Is it a fact that every sleeping giant will finally awaken? Even the fat and happy ones, slumbering in complacent bliss secure in the false belief that the country they always knew will be the one they know tomorrow?

Let us hope our US giant will not only awaken but spring up quickly into action in order to snatch our freedom back from the fascists currently populating our federal government.

Are freedom loving Americans finally rousing themselves enough to take notice? Will we act to avert the disaster awaiting us on the very near horizon? Will we raise our heads from the millstones...those who still have millstones from which to raise one's head in this devastated economy...in time to prevent our hard earned wealth and freedom from being torn from us completely and forever?

And if we value our hard earned wealth as a mark of our freedom are we then supposed to feel selfish in our desire to see it put to our own use? Should the fruits of our labor be forcibly collected and distributed to those who did not earn them?

We are not discussing charity. The people of the United States are the most charitable people on the planet. And even charity given is not always charity deserved or worse, even appreciated. Yet good people give that others in need may benefit and ultimately pull themselves out of need to give charity to yet others. But charity forced is not charity, especially when forced by a corrupt government. Even if the forces behind the government distribution of charity are altruistic in their aim, distributing other people's money makes them reckless. What may have started out as good intention rarely ends that way where central governance is concerned. Rather, "charity" from the government with few exceptions becomes waste of the worst kind benefiting the recipient little and robbing the true provider (the taxpayer) of his money AND the choice of where it's spent!

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley

Slaves and Masters

...willing slaves or masters of our own fate?

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)




If ever there was an advocate, indeed a champion of rugged individualism it was Ayn Rand. In fact, she believed the enlightened self-interested individual is the one person worthy of true love and loyalty. This was amply illustrated in her writings, especially in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.


Rand believed the individual is more important than the collective.


In Christian religious teachings the directive is to love God and as those teachings also tell us we were created in the image of God, by default we must love ourselves, God's creation. This type of "self love" is what is popularly known as enlightened self interest. It is man's nature to preserve his existence, loving himself enough to endure great hardship in order to preserve that existence. A natural outgrowth of loving himself enough to live, is loving what is also part of his life, his family, his friends and to a degree, his greater community of man. It is a love that can only be given freely, springing from the spiritual soul.


The enlightened self-interested individual will toil or even die for those valued and loved. This individual, as whole a human as can be in this imperfect world, is motivated by enlightened self interest to produce commodity or service to benefit himself and those he values. The happy side effect is an overflow of produced commodity or service which can then be bartered or sold to other individuals. This commodity may be intellectual property, manufacture, research, any number of services or even artistic creation.


The provision of such, traded in kind or for tender, provide the necessary comforts for existence on this earth for himself and his loved ones.

Free and lawful commerce between individuals, exempt from unreasonable restraint or central government interference, is the linchpin of a free and peaceful civilization.


Referring to Rand's quote above, "The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."


Our federal government demands we sacrifice our product to it's whim while voicing no protest. We are expected to watch this product squandered with impunity and still voice no protest. Will we consent to be slaves? Will we bow to a tyrannical master?


"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."-Thomas Jefferson

An Ounce of Huxley...

Brave new World Revisted, Aldous Huxley, 1958:

"In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationaliza­tion -- the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationaliza­tion of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manip­ulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these tech­niques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrele­vance the rational propaganda essential to the mainten­ance of individual liberty and the survival of demo­cratic institutions."

Tried and True...Baffle 'em with Bull Excrement

Tyranny...the home version



After the Second World War Hitler's Min­ister for Armaments, Albert Speer, delivered a long speech at his trial in which he described the Nazi tyranny and analyzed its methods. His analysis of these methods is truly chilling in light of what we are witnessing today in the current US administration's descent into tyranny. Speer stated the following:

"Hitler's dictatorship differed in one funda­mental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of mod­ern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possi­ble to subject them to the will of one man. . . . Earlier dictators needed highly qualified assistants even at the lowest level -- men who could think and act inde­pendently. The totalitarian system in the period of modern technical development can dispense with such men; thanks to modern methods of communication, it is possible to mechanize the lower leadership. As a result of this there has arisen the new type of the uncritical recipient of orders." - Albert Speer

This "uncritical recipient of orders" and the "lower leadership" Speer describes should ring a warning bell. Very possibly because we can draw comparisons to the current administration.

Let's examine the "uncritical recipient of orders", or what we might translates as today's complicit state media and it's relationship to the "lower leadership" for a moment. There are definite marching orders for both the uncritical recipients and the lower leadership.

The White House news corp and professional obfuscation artist, Robert Gibbs along with Rahm Immanuel, his henchmen and Obama's czars dispense talking points and further advise their complicit state media, the "uncritical recipient of orders" on what propaganda to feed to the populace. Simultaneously these "lower leadership" organs (yes, I called Gibbs, Immanuel AND Obama's czars organs!) send out marching orders to the iron fist division of the "lower leadership."

Evidence identifies the thug enforcer units as members of Acorn, SEIU, AFL-CIO and a number of other bullying unions and quasi-community organizations. Are these the ground troops, called into action to intimidate and worse, attempt to bait peaceful citizens into confrontations? We must believe the evidence of our eyes.

Yes, among the ranks of corrupted unions and radical community organizers it appears the "brown shirts" or storm troopers for the 21st century in the US are emerging...and a very sad statement of fact is that we are funding them!

Videos are popping up on the Internet revealing these thugs at work in town hall meetings and any other venue where regular US citizens gather to protest. These thugs seek to deny their fellow citizens the right to gather in peaceful dissent, a right guaranteed by the US Constitution. That would be our most cherished document the current president is ripping into shreds. The same president who is now sending his brown shirts out to terrorize citizens into abandoning their right to passionate dissent. The man who would be dictator. Hitler would be SO proud!

But back to Speer's comments on the value of modern methods of communication. In a nutshell he was describing the method used to facilitate the swift conversion from critical reasoning to a suspended state of emotional imbecility. Historians expound on how Hitler entranced his audience by bombarding them with a constant barrage of what they wanted to hear. Sound familiar? Possessing great charisma, Hitler might have been considered almost god-like in his ability to sell his vision to the masses. Before their blinders where finally lifted he was, in many German citizen's eyes, a "man for the ages". Certainly he was considered one of the great communicators of his age. As slick as he was, Adolph would most assuredly sorrow over the fact that he didn't think up the recent campaign slogan, "We are the ones we've been waiting for!" But he'd probably recognize what Obama has revealed, that the slogan should actually read:

I am the one you've been waiting for!"

Just what sort of "one", we are now finding out...and it's terrifying.

But there is a silver lining to the use of modern methods of communication to sway public belief and that is the sword can cut both ways. While the "uncritical recipient of orders" state media may spew it's lies and propaganda, we have the Internet. While we might also count the Fox News Network as another life raft in this storm, we must count as a more important blessing the World Wide Web. It is almost impossible for thugs to hide their dirty work, or politicians to hide from their constituencies thanks to the Internet. While a number of those constituencies may not be computer savvy, the vast majority are. Today granddad owns a computer and knows how to do research and find like minded individuals! And granddad and his friends are connecting through the Internet with younger conservative counterparts who share the same goal and new passion...taking back our country.

Very simply, in order save our country from it's descent into tyranny, the flow of accurate information and free congress between all citizens must never be impeded. Big media has become that "uncritical recipient of orders" Speer described. They are no longer to be trusted. It is our task to learn the truth, the real truth. As John promised, the truth shall set us free.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson