Seventeen years ago, I said this in a magazine interview:
“We are facing a national security threat in this country that is every bit as significant in magnitude, width and breadth internally as that presented externally by the now-resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. And it is the destruction of the US constitutionally mandated wall separating metaphysical and physical, spiritual and non-spiritual, church and state, in the technologically most lethal organisation ever created by humankind, which is our honourable and noble military. I’m here to report to you today that that wall is nothing but smoke and debris. We are facing an absolute fundamentalist Christianisation – a Talibanisation – of the US Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and Air Force.”
I take ABSOLUTELY no pleasure in the fact that the hideous, fundamentalist Christian nationalist, and overall piece of shit Pete Hegseth’s rise to Secretary of Defense, specifically, and the ascendancy of tRump and MAGA, generally, completely prove me and MRFF to have been 100% correct regarding the above quote so many years ago.
But even my words from seventeen years ago, as foreboding as they were, do not adequately express the Christian nationalist cataclysm now occurring in our armed forces. For that, there are no words.
Behold, my friends, the latest of the slew of official military memoranda and other documents that have been flooding into the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) over the past few weeks.
This memo, released yesterday by our nation’s oldest military academy, West Point, orders all cadet clubs for women, blacks, and other ethnic minorities to be immediately disbanded, and all other clubs to be re-evaluated to make sure they’re MAGA-approved. (The academy’s Christian clubs will no doubt be spared in this purge of non-MAGA-conforming student activities.)
Then there’s this one, also from yesterday, which went Army-wide, implementing tRump’s anti-trans executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
If you are not able or otherwise unwilling to comprehend the in-your-effing face significance here, I am truly very sorry for you.
Perhaps expeditiously expand your reading list to include George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale?
Welcome to Nazi Germany, circa 1933.
You have a choice; either collaborate or resist: ethically, morally, and legally.
MRFF and I have made our choice.
If you are reading this, you will know what that choice is.
Now FREAKING make yours!
