Military Training Document:
Anti-Christian SPLC a Trusted Source to Define 'Extremism'
by Ken Klukowski 23 Oct 2013, 9:41
PM PDT
For months, the Obama-Hagel Pentagon has promised that
reports of military trainers teaching troops that traditional Christian groups
are extremists akin to terrorists were isolated incidents by rogue instructors.
Now an official Army document
contains evidence to the contrary.
Fox News's Todd Starnes reported
Wednesday on a Ft. Hood briefing where reportedly soldiers were told
that evangelical Christians and Tea Party supporters are a threat to the United States
and are “tearing the nation apart.” Soldiers were reportedly told that they
could be charged with committing a military crime if they supported or donated
to such organizations.
Ft. Hood
denies these allegations, but a separate source claiming to have been present
during the briefing asserts the original account is true.
Ironically, in the place where an
Islamic radical—Maj. Nidal Hassan—committed an act of terrorism that murdered
fourteen Americans, including the unborn child of one of the female victims—a
presentation on terrorism singled out Bible-believing Christians and supporters
of the Constitution as serious threats to this nation. Islamic terrorism was
barely mentioned.
This is just the latest outrage in
a long train of disgraces. Just days ago, soldiers at Camp
Shelby in Mississippi were instructed that the
Christian conservative American Family Association is a domestic hate group. A
month earlier, a security presentation portrayed the Founding Fathers as
extremists. Before that, Breitbart News reported on a Christian chaplain who
was officially censored by military commanders for talking about the importance
of religious faith. And several months before that, Lt. Col. Jack Rich at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky,
instructed soldiers that traditional Christian beliefs are incompatible with
“Army values.”
All this started in April, when
Breitbart News broke the story of top Pentagon brass meeting with an
anti-Christian activist calling for court-martialing observant Christians who
share the gospel of Jesus Christ with others in the military. This activist
calls them “fundamentalist monsters” who are “enemies of the Constitution” and
should be punished for “sedition and treason.”
All along, the nation was told
these were a series of isolated incidents, not authorized by military
leadership. Now military documents suggest otherwise. Judicial Watch used a
FOIA request (Freedom of Information Act) to obtain a document from the Defense
Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), which is part of the Department
of Defense (DOD). In this 133-page training document, entitled “Extremism,” on
pages 32-33, under “Lesson Emphasis,” it claims to:
provide[s] information that
describes sources of extremism information, definitions, recruitment of DoD
personnel, common themes in extremist ideologies, common characteristics of
extremist organizations, DoD policies, and command functions regarding
extremist activities.
On the same page, it cites the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as
an approved source for information—and its affiliate Teaching Tolerance. It was
SPLC that labeled the American Family Association a “domestic hate group,”
along with the Family Research Council (FRC, where I do religious liberty work
as a senior fellow), the Traditional Values Coalition, and various Tea Party
organizations and conservative border-security/immigration groups. In short,
SPLC labels as hate groups organizations that promote a traditional Christian
view of marriage and other social issues, believe in border enforcement, or
promote constitutional limited government.
Ironically, SPLC is the only group
in this news report linked to terrorism, as convicted domestic terrorist Floyd
Lee Corkins told the FBI in a videotaped and signed confession that he chose
his targets for an attempted mass-shooting at FRC from SPLC’s hate group list,
including a map of how to get to FRC’s office. He then had the names and
locations of other traditional groups he was going to target after murdering
whoever he could in FRC's building.
This DEOMI document goes on
several pages later to say that service members cannot participate in such
organizations, raise funds for them, encourage others to support them, or
attend public rallies organized by them. It then adds, “Furthering the objectives
of extremist organizations is viewed as detrimental to the good order,
discipline, or mission accomplishment of the unit and is, therefore, subject to
appropriate disciplinary action.” It tasks service members with “assist[ing]
unit commanders in being vigilant about the existence of such activities.”
Is this DEOMI training material
the fountainhead of this growing anti-Christian discrimination? And if so, who
wrote it, and who authorized it? Or is this training document just the result
of something else, coming from higher up the food chain in the Pentagon?
Michael Berry is a lawyer at
Liberty Institute, which is investigating this matter. He tells Breitbart News:
The Army’s responses that these
are isolated incidents raise more questions than answers. The incidents
comprising this disturbing trend all seem to have one thing in common in that
they use similar terminology. And that language appears to come from a document
produced by DEOMI. It may not be a smoking gun, but it might be a bunch of
shell casings.
Berry tells us that he has been contacted by someone who works
at DEOMI and is gravely concerned about this developing situation.
Congress is empowered by Article
I, Section 8 of the Constitution with establishing the training and discipline
of the military. Congress needs to get to the bottom of this—quickly.
U.S.
Army
Ann E.
Dunwoody is a U.S.
Army 4-star general, the commander for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, and a member of the Belizean Grove.
Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, U.S. Army Materiel Command
commanding general
June 2, 2010
Note: Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club.
Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club.
George H.W. Bush talks about the NWO and Walter Cronkite
said he is glad to sit at the Right Hand of Satan
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Center for American
Progress, and Demos.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress, and a contributor for
MoveOn.org.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Center for
American Progress.
Chuck
Hagel is the chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense for the Barack Obama administration.
Melody
C. Barnes was the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, the SVP
for the Center for American Progress,
and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Van
Jones is a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, a trustee at Demos,
the founder for Green for All, and
was a co-founder for ColorOfChange.org.
James
Rucker was a director at the Green
for All, a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org, is a co-founder for ColorOfChange.org, and a director at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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