Former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Steven Rogers said on Thursday that an order by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for the military to stand down to address “extremism” is unprecedented, unnecessary, and a dangerous road that leads to “communist China.”
“This to me, dangerous, it looks like a political litmus test, and it’s a road that you would only find in communist China or in the former Soviet Union,” former Lieutenant Commander Rogers told NTD.
Austin ordered a DOD-wide stand down to address extremism in the ranks on Wednesday.
Rogers said that the United States military has been a role model in addressing discrimination, extremism, radicalism, which has made the U.S. military the greatest on the earth.
He expressed concern about whether conservatives would be singled out.
“I believe it’s the Defence Secretary under the Biden administration. Are they now going to purge conservatives? Are military members who have conservative views and values—are they the ones that are going to be targeted?” Rogers asked.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby noted on Wednesday that some of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were active duty service members and others were military veterans.
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I hate to say it but he military will have to take some of the blame. They could step in. The military steps in in other countries all the time. It should step in here, too, and put Trump back into his rightful position.
We finished falling into Communism when THEY sat an Unconstitutionally elected President per U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 1, Clause 2.
Kirby is a lying P.O.S. from Chairman Bao's cabal of lying leftist EXTREMISTS!!!.
Full Tilt Communism IS NOT Coming To The United States... The Insane Left Think It Is But MORE and MORE of The Treasonous Acts Of The Far Left Extremists Is ALL Comming Out Into The Wide Open Now..! Trump Has Just Won 2/3rds Of The Law Suits Heard On The Merrits - Trump Actually Won This Stolen Election And Now The Courts Are Hearing Those Cases and He Has Won This Election In Reality..! Trump Is Still Working and He Will Be Back As President and The White House That Sits In The DC Swamp Will Be Over By Spring..!
I agree with Commander Rogers. I beleive this to be a needless and potentially very harmful move by Austin. How come these dopey Democrats keep putting their efforts everywhere but where it is needed. Like bringing our troups home from the middle east and compbating Terrorism here at home by addressing the issues of Antifa and BLM (please don't misunderstand that - I don't believe the military should get involved in domestic terrorism, it is the Democrats that should).
This clown Austin wants to repopulate the military with Antifa and BLM terrorists,to oppress the poeple
THAT EXTREMISM IS THOSE ACCUSING THE LAW BIDDING CITIZENS AND IN FAVOR OF THE CRIMINALS, CRIMINALS BEING ALL THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA, THE FIRST LINE OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.