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• #PENTAGON ROOT OUT EXTREMISM RANKS UPDATE#

#PENTAGON ROOT OUT EXTREMISM RANKS UPDATE#

The CEWG will also oversee military department secretaries as they update and standardize screening questionnaires for service members to solicit any current or previous extremist behavior, Austin’s memo stated. Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs.- Bishop Garrison July 28, 2019 He is only going to get worse from here, & his party and its leadership are watching it happen while doing nothing to stop it. Silence from our Congressional leaders is complicity.

The CEWG, under Garrison’s leadership, is tasked with reviewing and updating the Defense Department’s definition of prohibited extremist activities among uniformed military personnel, Austin said in an April 9 memorandum to senior Pentagon leadership. “There is no more ‘but I’m not like that’ talk.” “There is no room for nuance with this,” he added. “If you support the President, you support that.” “He’s dragging a lot of bad actors (misogynist, extremists, other racists) out into the light, normalizing their actions,” Garrison, an Army veteran, tweeted. “Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs,” Bishop Garrison, who was appointed by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to lead the Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG), tweeted in July 2019 in reference to Trump. The regulations lay out six broad groups of extremist activities, and then provide 14 different definitions that constitute active participation.The leader of a Pentagon working group overseeing efforts to root out domestic extremists in the military tweeted in 2019 that any supporter of former President Donald Trump unequivocally supports extremism and racism. Instead, it is up to commanders to determine if a service member is actively conducting extremist activities based on the definitions, rather than on a list of groups that may be constantly changing, officials said.Īsked whether troops can simply be members of an extremist organization, officials said the rules effectively prohibit membership in any meaningful way - such as the payment of dues or other actions that could be considered “active participation.” The new rules do not provide a list of extremist organizations. But they also noted that data have not been consistent so it is difficult to identify trends. The number appears to be an increase over previous years where the totals were in the low two-digits. Officials said that the substantiated cases may be small, compared to the size of the military, which includes more than 2 million active duty and reserve troops. And extremist groups routinely recruit former and current service members because of their familiarity with weapons and combat tactics. The risk of extremism in the military can be more dangerous because many service members have access to classified information about sensitive military operations or other national security information that could help adversaries. But, he added, “even the actions of a few can have an outsized impact on unit cohesion, morale and readiness - and the physical harm some of these activities can engender can undermine the safety of our people.” In a message to the force Monday, Austin said the department believes that only a few service members violate their oath and participate in extremist activities. Austin III and other leaders launched a broader campaign to root out extremism in the force after it became clear that military veterans and some current service members were present at the Jan.

The military has long been aware of small numbers of white supremacists and other extremists among the troops. The officials spoke about the new rules on condition of anonymity because they have not yet been made public. But several officials said that as a study group spoke with service members this year they found that many wanted clearer definitions of what was not allowed. What was wrong yesterday is still wrong today, said one senior defense official. Previous policies banned extremist activities but didn’t go into such great detail, and also did not specify the two- step process to determine someone accountable. The rules also specify that commanders must determine two things in order for someone to be held accountable: that the action was an extremist activity, as defined in the rules, and that the service member “actively participated” in that prohibited activity. The new policy lays out in detail the banned activities, which include advocating terrorism, supporting the overthrow of the government, fundraising or rallying on behalf of an extremist group, or “liking” or reposting extremist views on social media.