Sabotaging America”s Military From Within, by Michelle Malkin

USAFA Course of 2022 cadet and COVID-vaccine objector Nathan Suess

A year back this month, a comparison of military services recruitment ads from China, Russia and the U.S. went viral on social media. Our overseas opponents wooed their opportunity enlistees with muscular appeals to national delight and safety of the standard nuclear family members. A U.S. Military marketing marketing campaign, by contrast, featured a pastel-hued cartoon depiction of a woman soldier named “Emma” who marched in a homosexual pride parade with her two moms and turned a soldier to “shatter some stereotypes.”

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Wokeness is a terminal cancer in our armed forces, eroding the foundational bones of its honor-sure institutions and ravaging the main values of generations of America’s frontline fighters. Integrity, honor, personal courage, excellence and determination to reality have been subjugated to the progressive fake gods of range, fairness and inclusion. Who wants exterior threats to our troops when the most deadly saboteurs are embedded within the bowels of our individual Pentagon and provider academies?

“Diversity,” of course, is exclusively described by selective pores and skin color and politically accurate pronouns. “Equity” is a farce if you are white, male, Christian and patriotic. “Inclusion” is a grand illusion. Nowhere are these toxic realities extra obviously illustrated than in the American military services bureaucracy’s vindictive witch hunt against our most effective and brightest soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and Coasties who have resisted the COVID-19 jab.

“I’m discouraged,” Air Pressure Academy cadet Nathan Suess instructed me on Monday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as he braced for punishment and retaliation throughout graduation week. The 21-yr-aged civil engineering important is a single of 4 seniors who objected to the COVID-19 vaccine mainly because of their deeply-held spiritual beliefs — as nicely as on irrefutable scientific and authorized grounds. Suess quietly filed his religious exemption request final drop as a “devout follower of God,” citing aborted fetal mobile lines utilised to produce the shots the very low mortality fee between young, healthful active-duty staff a lot more than 600,000 adverse vaccine reactions described to the federal government, including long lasting heart injury between young adult men and the illegality of mandating experimental vaccines not absolutely approved by the Food and Drug Administration and undermining knowledgeable consent (as identified by courts that ordered the suspension of the military’s anthrax vaccine mandate in 2004).

“I could not dirty my conscience” by obeying an unlawful order undergirded by “deception and dishonesty,” Suess instructed me.

Suess and his fellow objectors ended up still left in the dim about their fate until finally previous 7 days, when the Academy publicly outed and humiliated the quartet — threatening to force them to reimburse their tax-subsidized tuition (upwards of $200,000) and denying them military commissions. The Air Force Academy, progressively infiltrated by radical leftists who call for significant race theory brainwashing and subsidize pagan, witch and Wiccan worship on campus, is the only one particular of the military academies imposing these types of draconian penalties.

The self-explained “Navy brat” from a spouse and children with three generations of veterans believes “critical wondering is crucial for officers.” Joining the Air Pressure was Suess’ “biggest significant university intention.” But he now feels “ostracized” and betrayed by leaders who have “made everything up on the spot” in defense of sham science and unconstitutional orders. “This is tyranny at its very best,” he lamented as he packed his bags this past weekend, but he vows to fight it on behalf of other friends.

“We do not swear an oath to obey our leaders,” Suess declared defiantly. “The Structure generally comes just before military mandates.”

Suess is not on your own. As a federal choose in Texas dominated in January in halting punishment for 35 Navy special ops customers who refused the COVID-19 shots, “There is no army exclusion from our Constitution … There is no COVID-19 exception to the Very first Amendment.” And just this week, a secretive Navy Administrative Board dominated unanimously that LT. Col. Invoice Moseley, a Navy weapons professional with 22 yrs of active-duty services, was not guilty of “misconduct” for refusing to obey a direct purchase to post to the COVID-19 jab due to the fact of his religious objections.

Conveniently, the entire ruling is hidden by a convoluted army method that only discloses effects when dissenters’ worries fall short. But Moseley’s attorney, R. Davis Younts (who himself served 12 yrs lively-responsibility in the Air Drive and in the Choose Advocate General’s Corps), was ready to tell me this 7 days that “it was pretty very clear that the board experienced genuine issues about the lawfulness of the buy and no matter if the vaccine mandate was moderately essential to accomplish” the Navy’s mission. “We are meant to be absolutely free-wondering and use our discretion. We are legally certain to challenge illegal orders.”

Younts, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Power reserves, is now defending a lot more than 50 military purchasers battling to guard their religion. He has filed his own religious exemption request from the COVID-19 shots as effectively. “This is a very own battle for me,” he uncovered, and “it’s not just about the vaccine … It is a really tough time in the military now for people of Christian religion who hold to Biblical teachings.”

In a sane and self-respecting sovereign nation, intelligent, courageous, God-fearing, independent-minded warriors like USAFA cadet Nathan Suess, Navy Lt. Col. Invoice Moseley and armed forces protection law firm R. Davis Younts would be celebrated and promoted, not spurned.

But in woke, broke The us, our military services no more time liberates the oppressed. It oppresses the liberated. And all our enemies chuckle mightily at our self-inflicted civilizational wounds.

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