Marines Ban Symbols of Treason and White Supremacy

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The United States Marine Corps released MARADMIN 331/20, dated 052137Z JUN 20. This bans display of the confederate flag aboard all USMC installations in their public spaces and work areas.

Back in April, Marine Corps Commandant General David Berger explained why he was taking this step.



We learn from the above linked article, “Confederate apologists have misleadingly framed the war as a conflict between states and the federal government over states’ rights, a falsehood that lawmakers have continued to use to oppose civil rights legislation. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, for example, is a noted Confederate apologist who portrayed opponents to slavery leading up to the Civil War as dangerous anarchists. ‘They were as mendacious as the Jacobins of Revolutionary France which placed power and rule of the chosen above local autonomy and individual rights,’ Wilkie said in a 1995 speech that praised Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president. ‘Davis saw in their ascendancy an invitation to the tyranny of the mob and the street justice of the guillotine. Like all conservatives, he fought them with everything in his power.’ The Confederate flag has become a symbol for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups to which more than a few Marines have belonged in recent years.”

As this article tells us, “Berger’s February decision to ban the battle flag and all Confederate-related paraphernalia from all Marine Corps bases came one week after a congressional hearing warned of the rise of extremism within the ranks of the military. In a February poll among active-duty troops, Military Times reported that of those 1,630 surveyed, ‘more than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks.’ The problem of extremism has plagued the military in recent years, with a 2008 FBI report noting with high confidence that ‘extremist leaders seek to recruit members with military experience in order to exploit their discipline, knowledge of firearms, explosives, and tactical skills and access to weapons and intelligence.’ In a 2018 bombshell ProPublica investigation, Marine Lance Cpl. Vasillios G. Pistolis was linked to the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group that is deemed by many to be a terror organization. Pistolis was kicked out of the Corps shortly after the investigation came to light. Berger’s letter on Thursday also comes amid the fierce ongoing national debate over what to do with the some 700 Confederate statues that are erected across 31 states.”

General Berger and the US Marine Corps made the right move. The United States military does not need to be tolerating displays of symbols of racism, slavery, and treason against the United States.

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The United States Marine Corps released MARADMIN 331/20, dated 052137Z JUN 20. This bans display of the confederate flag aboard all USMC installations in their public spaces and work areas.

Back in April, Marine Corps Commandant General David Berger explained why he was taking this step.



We learn from the above linked article, “Confederate apologists have misleadingly framed the war as a conflict between states and the federal government over states’ rights, a falsehood that lawmakers have continued to use to oppose civil rights legislation. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, for example, is a noted Confederate apologist who portrayed opponents to slavery leading up to the Civil War as dangerous anarchists. ‘They were as mendacious as the Jacobins of Revolutionary France which placed power and rule of the chosen above local autonomy and individual rights,’ Wilkie said in a 1995 speech that praised Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president. ‘Davis saw in their ascendancy an invitation to the tyranny of the mob and the street justice of the guillotine. Like all conservatives, he fought them with everything in his power.’ The Confederate flag has become a symbol for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups to which more than a few Marines have belonged in recent years.”

As this article tells us, “Berger’s February decision to ban the battle flag and all Confederate-related paraphernalia from all Marine Corps bases came one week after a congressional hearing warned of the rise of extremism within the ranks of the military. In a February poll among active-duty troops, Military Times reported that of those 1,630 surveyed, ‘more than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks.’ The problem of extremism has plagued the military in recent years, with a 2008 FBI report noting with high confidence that ‘extremist leaders seek to recruit members with military experience in order to exploit their discipline, knowledge of firearms, explosives, and tactical skills and access to weapons and intelligence.’ In a 2018 bombshell ProPublica investigation, Marine Lance Cpl. Vasillios G. Pistolis was linked to the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group that is deemed by many to be a terror organization. Pistolis was kicked out of the Corps shortly after the investigation came to light. Berger’s letter on Thursday also comes amid the fierce ongoing national debate over what to do with the some 700 Confederate statues that are erected across 31 states.”

General Berger and the US Marine Corps made the right move. The United States military does not need to be tolerating displays of symbols of racism, slavery, and treason against the United States.

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fun fact: anyone checked the date that letter got out?
 
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