This is all stuff that has been leaked or told second-hand on the internet from the Military’s extremism stand down.
I will take it at face value for now.
SCOOP: Navy extremism training today shut down sailor who asked about Antifa, BLM riots, and radical Islam
"That's not what this is about" pic.twitter.com/vHFVTgTmhP
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) March 24, 2021
This is the email from the Tweet:
A picture from one of the training sessions:
Right there we see the Oath Keepers logo.
This conversation on Twitter:
My buddy is in AIT right now and got his 1st extremism briefing the other day. They were told the capitol protestors are enemies of the Army but “we still have to protect people like them, for now”. Note a blindingly bright warning signs in those last 4 words: like them, for now.
— Ty (@6Shot38Special) March 17, 2021
The Company was asked to give examples of extremism they’ve seen in the US. One guy said he was from Portland and antifa has ruined his city. Instructor said “we aren’t looking to talk about things like that.”
— Ty (@6Shot38Special) March 17, 2021
I cannot verify any of this, but (as I said above) if taken at face value this is highly partisan with extremism being narrowly defined as groups that align with the support of Trump.
I will continue to keep my eyes out for more of it as it surfaces.
The photo of the slide, lower right corner — Antifa.
They put the symbol there, but if they can’t talk about it, it’s just window dressing.
One of the things I was taught in classes about influencing people (management and propaganda) is that you always want to be able to show you are balanced while there is still discent.
So you add a token to an image but don’t talk about it. You put up images during a video but the music under one group is a cued as “evil” or “bad guy” and the music cue is missing under the other group.
You spend most of your time talking about one set of people and how bad or extreme they are and almost no time on the other group.
And you conflate the groups. So you put a recognized symbol for the SS lower than 3pers and oath keepers and proud boys. It visually tells you that those groups are worse.
You put antifa as an after thought after a bunch of symbols nobody recognize.
Yes, the antifa symbol is there, but nobody gets around to telling you what those flags in the symbol stand for.
The training for MARFORCYBER, and from what I heard of NSA, wasn’t that bad. No groups were mentioned, and it went over what is and isn’t permissible, the Hatch Act, etc.
But I’ve heard horror stories from the Air Force sessions, along the lines of what you shared above.
That graphic would be funny if it wasn’t so terrifying.
Upper left corner is the ‘Three Percenters’ logo (a common brand among pro-2A and militia types). Nice to know promoting self defense and gun ownership is ‘extremism’.
Second row, next to the Oath Keepers tab? That green flag? I think that’s a 4chan emblem. Oh wow, is the military now going to protect us from spicy memes and garbage posts? Yeah. Pepe the Frog is also up there too. Good gravy.
What is that pink symbol in the shape of a Star of David? It’s to the left of Pepe the Frog.
Star of David has 6 points, not 5. Don’t know what this one is. Not Pink Pistols, I checked.
When I reverse image searched it, it pulled up a matching profile image from someone on gaiaonline, but I can’t see the profile and don’t feel like making an account:
https://tineye.com/search/fac27294b8cfa9d80757312a0f02e5d9faef4d5c?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
Any bets as to how long it is before the U.S. military is being used to kill American citizens on American soil?
It’s been done already if you use the slightly broader term “armed forces”. Even ignoring Kent State, there was of course the Waco massacre, and Ruby Ridge.
There may be some slight differences in training. The military have an oath to protect and defend the constitution, which many (at least the grunts) take seriously, officers less so judging by available evidence. Does the ATF have an oath? It should, by the Constitution — except for the minor complication that by that same Constitution the ATF has no right to exist in the first place. People working for an unconstitutional agency (ATF, FBI) can’t really be expected to take Constitutional rights all that seriously.