How far has America gone down the rabbit hole toward full Soviet-style oppression? Consider this. On Saturday, The Intercept reported that high-ranking officers of the military, like General Mark Milley, are being protected from criticism by a unit known as the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion.
That’s right — criticism. Like mean tweets and memes.
We’re not kidding.
According to the report:
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When the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley enters into his scheduled retirement later this year, one of the perks will include a personal security detail to protect him from threats — including “embarrassment.”
The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, the Pentagon’s little-known Secret Service equivalent, is tasked with safeguarding top military brass. The unit protects current as well as former high-ranking military officers from “assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment,” according to Army records.
Protective Services’s mandate has expanded to include monitoring social media for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats and identifying “negative sentiment” regarding its wards, according to an Army procurement document dated September 1, 2022, and reviewed by The Intercept. The expansion of the Protective Services Battalion’s purview has not been previously reported.
I have no problem protecting our officers from actual terrorists or those who would try to do them or their families harm. But criticism? Seriously? Give me a freakin’ break.
The report goes on to state:
The country’s national security machinery has become increasingly focused on social media — particularly as it relates to disinformation. Various national security agencies have spent recent years standing up offices all over the federal government to counter the purported threat.
“There may be legally valid reasons to intrude on someone’s privacy by searching for, collecting, and analyzing publicly available information, particularly when it pertains to serious crimes and terrorist threats,” Ilia Siatitsa, program director at Privacy International, told The Intercept. “However, expressing ‘positive or negative sentiment towards a senior high-risk individual’ cannot be deemed sufficient grounds for government agencies to conduct surveillance operations, even going as far as ‘pinpointing exact locations’ of individuals. The ability to express opinions, criticize, make assumptions, or form value judgments — especially regarding public officials — is a quintessential part of democratic society.”
Not to mention the fact that it’s enshrined in something called the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — something every member of the military, generals included, swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend. Apparently, under the Regime of Wannabe Dictator Joe Biden, that no longer applies.
Naturally, social media had a field day with this.
NEW – U.S. military unit monitors social media for mean posts about current and former high-ranking officers. https://t.co/oF7TuwZMqT
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 19, 2023
The military unit hunting down mean tweets: pic.twitter.com/9Hd35wdi3w
— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) June 19, 2023
Heh…
Mealy Milley and Raytheon Austin are sensitive to critics about their Afghan fiasco, their recruiting failures from going woke,their unneeded vaccine mandates for some of fittest risk profiles who are now having medical issues, and of course the Ukraine tax payer spend fest 🫡 https://t.co/53LxWZL054
— Tom Moore (@junogsp7) June 19, 2023
We deserve the total ass kicking we are going to get in the next war https://t.co/rN7pgiBYxa
— The Great and Unmatched Wisdom of Nero (@Adventure_Nero) June 19, 2023
“First, we introduced CRT curriculum for soldiers and now this. It is not looking good for the outcome of an eventual World War 3,” Twitchy quipped.
BWAHAHAHA!!! Seriously??? How insecure do you have to be to worry about Twitter posters calling you Milley Vanilli?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/VvLVjvsUg4
— Erin Brophy – don't forget to laugh.. (@ERINBROPHY18) June 19, 2023
Heh…
Agent **punches me**: now I'll ask you again. Did you call every 5 Star general a poopy head?!
Me **spits out blood**: what? Was that to mean for them? https://t.co/LfIA0PxOS8
— Corporate Criminal Director, Jo (@criminaljo) June 19, 2023
We laugh, but we’re dangerously close to that now. Consider this story of a mother investigated by the military and labeled a security threat for her opposition on Facebook to the left’s radical gender agenda:
https://conservativefi.wpenginepowered.com/mother-investigated-by-military-over-facebook-post-opposing-gender-agenda-in-elementary-school-labeled-security-threat-now-targeted-with-threats-harassment/
Just imagine what they’ll do to you for critical tweets…
“If they are going to start arresting tweeps for mocking Milley or Levine, I hope they have lots of holding cells. Half of Twitter will be arrested,” Twitchy added.
Or worse…
Hurt Feelings Squad is watching your mean posts.
Better lookout! https://t.co/bOIIJpd7ez— Zack (@HansonmanZ) June 19, 2023
Indeed…
The world is becoming a dictatorship and you are asleep https://t.co/dj57mtWZ6t
— Victor Munhoz (@Vihmunhoz) June 19, 2023
Sad, but true.
The proper term for this is "using commissars to ensure ideological reliability," and it's what the Soviets did
How long till Milley's commissars are executing privates from the heartland for daring to not be weirdos? https://t.co/q2fbdMqtdZ pic.twitter.com/zbdmkhlDxC
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) June 19, 2023
Good question.
Americans had better wake the hell up and smell the coffee before it’s too late. One day, we just might wake up and find ourselves in a country that more resembles Nazi Germany or the former Soviet Union than the Republic our Framers handed us.
Related:
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