{"id":18588,"date":"2010-04-15T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18588"},"modified":"2010-04-15T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:07:44","slug":"pentagon-to-chase-tail-for-potok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18588","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to chase tail for Potok"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon is about to conduct a witch hunt for “extremists” based on information they were handed by the left wing extremist hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization of Grand Flea Eagle Arbiter of Hate Mark Potok. This according to Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group in Montgomery, Ala., presented dozens of the user profiles to Congress and the Pentagon. The center estimates \u201cthousands\u201d of extremists serve in the ranks and has lobbied the Pentagon for three years to adopt clearer anti-hate measures and more vigorously pursue servicemembers known to be affiliating with hate groups. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote about those profiles<\/a> which were dredged up by Wikileaks, of “Collateral Murder” fame. Of the emails I examined then, membership in the hate groups was questionable and SPLC didn’t bother to check to see if those claiming to be in the military were servicemembers at all. <\/p>\n

To quote Mark Potok<\/a>; \u201cWe can\u2019t verify these things,\u201d Potok said, because his group does not have access to military personnel records. \u201cWe feel that clearly military investigators could.\u201d But that certainly doesn’t stop him from blasting military members as a whole for being members of extremist hate groups.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there’s no solid basis of research upon which SPLC can rest their estimates of “\u201cthousands\u201d of extremists serve in the ranks”.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one worry here is that enforcement of these regulations may be very uneven. It leaves the decision up to local commanders and we\u2019ve really yet to see how that\u2019s going to work,\u201d Potok said. \u201cThe hope is that this clarifies that even advocacy of these kinds of ideas is not consistent with being in the military.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So apparently, Potok and the Pentagon are going to try policing thoughts, since “advocacy” is such a subjective concept. Only a Pentagon under a Democrat Administration could consider anything from Mark “Mighty Hairpiece” Potok and the SPLC anything other than hyperbolic crackpottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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