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Don't Let The Bastards Getcha Down
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Prologue
West Point Exposed
The US Military Academy at West Point has been churning out America's elite officer corps since 1802. The father of our country and first President George Washington in his 1796 presidential farewell address extolled the virtue and importance of establishing a national military academy for our new nation's security. A few years earlier, then General Washington believed West Point the garrison to be the most important location during the entire Revolutionary War as it effectively prevented the British Army from splitting the colonies in two. And so under the presidential authority of our third President Thomas Jefferson, the granddaddy of all military academies throughout the world was opened at West Point, New York.
This pivotally crucial war garrison strategically located fifty miles up the Hudson River from New York City was to be called the United States Military Academy, otherwise most famously known as West Point. For more than two centuries now this most prestigious, revered institution has enjoyed a sterling reputation for its renowned brand of leadership. All of America's most famous generals such as Grant, Lee, Pershing, MacArthur, Patton, Bradley and Eisenhower were all West Point graduates that led America through its most perilous wars and toughest times. Spawning two presidents, countless legendary war heroes, senators and CEO's, West Point and America's history are forever intertwined in the annals of our national glory and triumph.
That said, the modern West Point is an overrated institution that has been living on its past laurels far too long. For more than a half century the brass factory on the Hudson has been cranking out a cookie cutter mold of mediocre to toxic leadership responsible for losing America's three longest wars in its history, made our world more dangerous than ever before, and created a war machine that is globally destructive, gluttonously corrupt and morally bankrupt.
Strong indication of inferior leadership this past half century is when West Point officers continue leading America astray down three decade long, critically exorbitant wars that result in costly defeats in Vietnam, Iraq and still Afghanistan. The other much briefer Empire interventions like Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Kosovo and the first Gulf War were all lopsided war crime victories in violation of international laws where we either pulverized our enemies with firepower overkill that murdered far too many innocent civilians or overwhelmed much smaller weaker forces to saber rattling, jingoistic chants of "America's Number One!"
Then after Vietnam came our next major counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. Our Pentagon brass commanded these losing causes, learning nothing from Vietnam as they simultaneously sank our nation into two protracted quagmires involving decade long military occupations, while draining our economy. When we realized we couldn't win these wars either, we began euphemistically calling for more modest strategic objectives like "nation building." The problem is the insurgent enemy forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, like in Vietnam, are stronger than the corrupt puppet governments we set up and their forces we train to defend and feebly take over when we leave. Both wars have been conceded as costly humiliating losses for America, in each case against the will and sentiment of the American people. But Empires do not operate on behalf of the interests of the people but instead the ruling corporate elite. So once the Bush regime ended, the neocon agenda under Obama lives on, militarizing and destabilizing the planet with continued brute force unilateral aggression. The neocon plan to systematically take out Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria and Iran, installing weak puppet governments that look the other way while global corporations get first dibs on oil production and control, one by one is executed with growing disapproval from the watching world.
The brilliant mind who was a "starman" at West Point, meaning top 5% academically, never quite got it. General David Petraeus' PhD dissertation from Princeton ironically as all about learning lessons so we would avoid more future Vietnams. Despite his West Point stars and Ivy League post grad degree, the starman only proved he needed to go back to school. From day one in both Iraq and Afghanistan West Point generals have failed because they caved in and went along with their neocon bosses' overly inflated optimistic plan that our superior firepower would have us in and out of both countries like a breeze. America failed its stated mission to build democracies in either country. Presently a weak puppet government in Iraq is mired in indefinite sectarian civil war violence and Afghanistan's puppet government has little control outside the confines of its capital Kabul. As a West Point cadet during the final years of the Vietnam War and a graduate from the Class of 1973, I am uniquely qualified to expose the less than honorable machinations of this most cherished and honored institution.
[Ed.'s note: If readers want to know how these Neocon militaristic components are structured that have taken control of American Institutions including West Point, Dr. Frederick Kagan was a professor of military history at West Point from 1995–2001 up until the events of September 11, 2001. Kagan is out of the Kagan clan of Neconservatives. Kagan is now at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) which is a Neocon think tank that puts out a lot of policy papers on a coming conflict between Israel and Iran. Kagan's brother is Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father Donald, are all signatories to the Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) which was the manifesto used to slam through the Middle East. Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (General David Petraeus mentioned above is a big supporter of CNAS) and who arranged for the bloody events in Kiev, Ukraine that the Russians know all about during the Maiden uprising in 2014. Frederick Kagan is married to Kimberly Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War, another Neocon think tank about, well you guessed it, war and militarism.]
As the first cadet ever to successfully challenge and beat the West Point system in a court of law, I single handedly brought the constitutional right to due process to the Academy, forcing it to change its rules after 170 years to no longer operate above the law. For the very first time, I shall lift the veiled curtain and reveal the very broken system for what it really is, and how my West Point peers and classmates are busily pushing us off the doomsday cliff.
My freshman roommates were none other than the longest running four year commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars General John Abizaid and the recent American Ambassador to Afghanistan retired General Karl Eikenberry. Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus, current Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey and current National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Keith Alexander are all members of the Class of 1974 directly behind me. Having received the exact same West Point education and leadership training as the most powerful men in America presently leading us to catastrophic ruin, I offer a never before insider's view of the military system that shapes and molds America's leaders into cutthroat, blindly obedient bureaucrat-politicians.
Through the telling of my own personal odyssey as both a cadet and Army officer, I shall illustrate how our world has been driven to the brink of self-annihilation. With an overstretched military protecting the powerful interests of the ruling elite, humanity is headed on a collision course that has placed the life of every person on this planet in peril. America's pervasive culture of violence and its Empire wars are threatening the very survival of this earth.
With over a thousand active military installations spread throughout the world with 1.3 million American military occupiers, both the military industrial complex and Pentagon have never been more powerful. Our warmongering government teamed with a war waging military and the killing war machine of an unchecked military industrial complex has created an unholy trinity that has our world more armed and dangerous than any previous time in recorded human history. In the meantime, America's shrinking middle class has seen its hard earned taxpayer dollars squandered funding an overstretched Empire on multiple warfronts. America's very way of life and standard of living have been sacrificed in this blood for oil end game. The story of America's most famous living general, David Petraeus, exposes what has gone wrong with both West Point and America.
To demonstrate the sharp contrast of then and now, two historical figures from America's past are offered in a chapter to exemplify West Point at its best, followed by the modern poster boy Petraeus for West Point at its worst. The final two chapters explore America's disastrous foreign policy responsible for today's permanent global war state and the increasing militarized police state here at home. The final chapter covers our rapidly vanishing lost liberties at the hands of the US government's tyranny and oppression. The Epilogue addresses before it becomes too late what we citizens of the world can do to unite and save our precious and sacred planet for future generations to come. The telling of my story exposes the broken West Point-military system, shattering its myth, mystique and illusion to uncover how we arrived at this dangerous precipice.
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The finest West Point has to offer America...the "starman" accused of running death squads in Iraq...Petraeus' Neocon overlords rewarded him well. Petraeus is currently at KKR Global Institute which is an offshoot firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. just closed a $2.2 billion growth fund dedicated to growth equity investment opportunities in the technology space in North America, Europe and Israel.
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Source: Front Page Mag
West Point Tackles 'Toxic Masculinity'
"I'm being taught how not to be a man."
Feb 10, 2020 | By Mark Tapson | 137 Comments
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
If you are a good, committed cultural Marxist and your mission is to help dismantle the cultural, economic, and power structures in the capitalist West from within, how do you undertake such a grand task? How do you subvert an entire civilization? You undermine its foundations, and the most basic building block of all is the nuclear family. To deconstruct the family successfully, you must subvert masculinity, because masculinity is the warrior spirit of that nuclear family. To emasculate a civilization, you indoctrinate its youth to believe that the natural traits typically associated with masculinity – such as aggression, competitiveness, and emotional self-control – are poisonous to society and even to boys and men themselves. You convince men – especially society’s warriors – to reject their very nature altogether.
This January, cadets at West Point, the United States Military Academy, were required to attend educational events for "Honorable Living Day," the academy's third such day hosted during the short tenure of Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams. The first was held last February and focused on eliminating sexual assault and harassment at the academy, which has been co-ed since 1976. The second, held last semester, called upon cadets, staff and faculty to improve the culture in order to combat sexual assault further.
At this most recent Honorable Living Day, the goal was to "expand the discussion beyond sexual assault and talk about how all aspects of the community can come together and promote an atmosphere of honorable living to include diversity, inclusion and acceptance of people from differing backgrounds, races and genders." Lt. Gen. Williams described the curriculum as being "connected" to improving combat readiness.
Eradicating any sexual assaults or harassment at West Point is a worthy goal. They shouldn't be tolerated in any work or study environment. Encouraging cadets to live with personal integrity and to treat others according to the content of their character and not the color of their skin are also vital aims. But if reports from several male West Point cadets are true, there appears to be more going on in this past Honorable Living Day than meets the eye. Breitbart News reported that it received comments from some cadets, on condition of anonymity, complaining that the program went beyond merely discouraging sexual harassment. As one cadet put it: "I'm being taught how not to be a man."
The day's schedule included discussion groups led by upper-class cadets who referred to “toxic masculinity," which is the notion, rapidly becoming a household phrase, that our traditional understanding of masculinity is a sexist, violent social construct that is harmful to men themselves as well as to others, and must be acculturated out of existence. Those who push this concept insist that the label does not mean that masculinity itself is toxic, but in fact that is exactly what they mean, because they never concede that there are any positive characteristics of masculinity, and their only solution for it is to replace it with characteristics stereotypically attributed to women: empathetic, emotionally open, and conciliatory. The whole aim of indoctrinating young men about their "toxic masculinity" is to convince them that their very nature is problematic for society and therefore they must act more feminine (meanwhile, our culture pushes women to adopt all the character traits of the most "toxic" men: aggression, hyper-competitiveness, crudity, and promiscuity).
West Point cadets were required to view Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In, two documentary films produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gavin Newsom, a California Governor so leftist he makes former Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown look like former Governor Ronald Reagan. I have seen both these films.
Miss Representation examines "the ways in which mainstream media and culture contribute to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence," according to its website. It features commentary from such experts on masculinity as Cory "Spartacus" Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Jane Fonda, Rachel Maddow, Rosie O'Donnell, and Gloria Steinem. Needless to say, these far-left ideologues have no inspirational insights to offer West Point's male cadets (or the female cadets, for that matter).
The Mask You Live In focuses on the false "masks" of masculinity that boys and young men are pressured to wear in order to be considered men. Masculinity is presented as emotionally repressive. "We've constructed an idea of masculinity in the United States that doesn't give young boys a way to feel secure in their masculinity, some make them go prove it all the time," declares Stony Brook University professor Michael Kimmel, a prominent male feminist, in the film. There is absolutely no discussion of traditional masculinity as a positive force.
"Masculinity is not organic," claims Occidental University professor Caroline Heldman in The Mask You Live In. "It's reactive. It's not something that just develops. It's a rejection of everything that is feminine… through our popular culture, through our parenting styles, through our educational style, and through assumptions of natural manhood and maleness." In other words, femininity is the baseline nature of humanity, and masculinity exists only in opposition to it, like darkness exists only in opposition to light. It is an unnatural, false social construction that is oppressive and damaging.
Afterward, Breitbart News was told, cadets attended workshops in which they were questioned about the films' content. They were also addressed by featured speaker Bruce Stewart, a self-described "leading thought leader in the field of inclusive diversity," who told them, "This whole thing around sexual harassment, sexual assault, discriminating and saying racist things has got to stop.” Below are a few other activities presented in the day's curriculum:
Session 1 (gender-based Discussion):
•Cadets will bring a 3×5 card identifying 3 things that make them feel included/valued and 3 things that make feel excluded/no [sic] valued
• Cadets will discuss their gender socialization and how that socialization affects behavior and relationships
Live Honorably Lunch:
• Facilitators will invite cadets to share their thoughts from the morning discussion and examine how society/culture/West point, etc. shapes their gender norms and expectations
Session 2 (Role Play Scenario Development)
• Cadets will select from 8 topics per company and create role play scenarios
• Settings or topics for role play scenarios: Sexism, Racism, Cyber bullying, Alcohol, Mental Health, Sexual harassment or Sexual assault, Discrimination based no [sic] Sexual orientation, Cadet choice (other topic)
According to the complaints Breitbart News received, Honorable Living Day didn't have quite the effect it should have. "I'm going to quit West Point. It's no longer teaching me to be a leader of men. It's teaching me how to be a victim," said one cadet. "I'm being taught how not to be a man," another added. "The real bias we need to talk about [is] why it's scandalous to be conservative in a professional environment but 'brave' to follow the crowd and be liberal," yet another cadet wrote. A fourth reported that “The guest speaker had us all make a black power sign and yell, 'Fight the power!'"
"Fight the power" is, of course, a call to revolution against society's purportedly oppressive power structures. What does that have to do with living honorably, eradicating sexual harassment or improving combat readiness? The answer is: nothing. It is an act of subversion, pure and simple. Asked about the Black Power salute, West Point responded to Breitbart News that it was unaware of any speaker encouraging it.
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West Point being stripped of its history and military relevancy...
Motto linked to hate group removed from West Point football flag
Between sexual harassment and assault being at an all time high in 2019 with 5,200 Pentagon employees under investigation for watching child pornography, no wonder "we can't let the bastards get us down."
Sexual Assault Reports in U.S. Military Reach Record High: Pentagon
Okinawa is a special kind of US military problem...
US Military Personnel Have Committed Nearly 6k Crimes in Okinawa Since 1972
West Point demonstrates "duty, honor and country" when it did nothing to bring justice to the family of assassinated West Point graduate Lt. Col. Ted Westhusing. The corruption, theft, graft and greed of the neocon war criminals in charge clashed with the ideals and morals of the 44-year old Army officer who represented West Point at its best.
The Honorable Life and Untimely Death of Colonel Ted Westhusing–Joachim Hagopian
Seventeen years after the US military slammed through Iraq destroying that country, causing the deaths of all told over one million Iraqi people, creating death squads to drive the Sunni and Shiite Muslims into internecine warfare and innumerable fraud and unaccountability with 4,574 US military killed, the US military plans on remaining in Iraq.
Trump Plans to Keep U.S. Troops Permanently in Iraq
Senior Iraqi MP: Over 1,000 Terrorists Transferred By US From Syria To Iraq
"NATO Go Home!"
Bottom line: If you have a daughter or a son discipline and nurture them well from birth so that West Point and the military NEVER becomes an option for them.
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