By CHRISTOPHER MANION
And the solution to the above? Free abortion vacations!
When the Biden administration took over the Defense Department, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, initiated policies requiring that Critical Race Theory become a prominent factor in military training and practice.
At the same time, officers in the field began receiving orders to spy on not only the men and women under their command, but to spy on one another, looking for signs of “racism,” “white supremacism,” “extremism,” “Christian nationalism,” and more.
The results should not surprise. Military recruiting fell to historic lows.
Among those few interested in serving, there was more bad news: Last summer, it was revealed that 77 percent of those eligible for military service could not pass even the lowered induction requirements due to obesity, drug use or criminal records, or failure to meet minimal physical and mental standards.
“The military has not had such a hard time signing recruits since 1973, the year the U.S. left Vietnam and the draft officially ended,” Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation told journalist Thomas Novelly last summer.
“Spoehr said he does not believe a revival of the draft is imminent, but ‘2022 is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force’,” Novelly wrote.
As the Biden administration enters its third year, recruitment for the U.S. military has plummeted. To address the crisis, the Department of Defense has not only steadily lowered recruitment standards, it has also introduced an added enticement aimed at potential female recruits:
Abortion vacations!
We reported last fall about the Department’s program to assist women in active service to get abortions, even if they had to travel to another state. Last week the Department expanded that ambitious policy, pledging not only to allow such travel but to finance it, even offering up to three weeks of paid leave for the woman traveling to kill her unborn child.
The Military Times reports that the Department’s new policies “aim at closing some of the gaps that the overturn of Roe v. Wade opened up in service members’ ability to access reproductive health care.”
“These policies that we’re releasing today will help ensure long-term that we’re able to recruit, retain, and maintain the readiness of a highly qualified force,” a Defense Department official told the Military Times.
The new policy forbids commanders to question or to advise a woman requesting abortion leave in any fashion. Such “toxic” officers will be relieved of duty and possibly court-martialed, the official said.
Meanwhile, as the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine grows, and Communist China focuses on seizing Taiwan, U.S. military force readiness continues to deteriorate.
Sun Tzu would not be amused.
DEI Pandemic Spreads, With No Vaccine In Sight
Diversity
As you will see
Is when you all
Agree with me — Burma Shave
We reported last week on Notre Dame’s spirited embrace of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) craze. But Notre Dame is not alone. In fact, the University Board of Trustees published its DEI policy during the same month — June 2021 — that Joe Biden issued his DEI Executive Order that gives stern (and unconstitutional) marching orders to millions of federal employees here and abroad.
A year later, on June 27, 2022, Forbes Magazine, an authoritative source for business news, noted that the “tidal wave of pledges of support for greater diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across corporate America and beyond…had erupted since May 25, 2020.”
That date is significant because it marks the day George Floyd died in Minneapolis. Apparently, that event touched off not only the deadly riots, dozens of murders, “mostly peaceful” violence, the destruction of countless minority neighborhoods, and damage (over $1 billion and counting) that followed — it also launched the DEI campaign.
“Black Lives Matter” (BLM), the organization that adroitly stoked the violence, grifted untold millions from businesses nationwide in one of the most successful shakedowns since the days of Jesse Jackson’s Chicago. BLM’s principals — all Marxists, plus one terrorist who bombed the U.S. Senate chamber in 1983 — became instant millionaires.
Before long, Black Lives Matter was exposed as a corrupt, racist, and allegedly criminal organization. The group then quietly disappeared, cash in hand.
But “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” did not disappear. It grew into an epidemic, infecting not only government and business but institutions of every kind. Today, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs, offices, and commissars in the United States number in the millions. (An Internet search for “DEI programs” renders 62 million links.)
“Sorry, The Doctor Can’t See You Yet”
DEI policies have proven to be as debilitating as they are divisive. We will look more closely at the phenomenon in coming weeks because DEI threatens to become the successor to “Racism!!” — the Leninist weapon wielded to silence dissent, weaken resolve, condemn opposition, and command obedience — or else.
I’m not kidding. I went to the eye doctor last week. After he put the drops in my eye for the glaucoma test, he didn’t send me down to the usual dark room. Instead, he went down the hall for a moment and came back with a copy of Ophthalmology, the professional journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
On the cover was a blurb pledging the organization’s membership to “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” forever. Inside there were dozens of articles — academic articles, peer-reviewed and heavily footnoted — all singing the praises of DEI.
Every article overflowed with multisyllabic bureaucratese about “disparities,” “gender,” and “unequal access.” Not one contribution addressed any new finding that indicated progress in treating conditions or diseases of the eye.
When my doctor returned, he asked, “What am I supposed to do with this? None of us knows.”
When I got home, I searched for the various websites of professional medical associations. Within minutes, I found the DEI programs for obstetricians and gynecologists, neonatal specialists, pediatricians, orthopedists, surgeons, hematologists, dermatologists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, geriatric specialists, and medical colleges. There was even a DEI pledge from the College of American Pathologists.
The question rises immediately: These are specialties so refined that one wonders, how much time away from the life-saving practice of their profession do these practitioners have to spend to bow to some DEI Kommissar who wouldn’t even know how to spell “psychotic”?
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The experience brought back memories of 1993, when Hillary Clinton’s illegal White “House Task Force on Health Care” cooked up a plan to nationalize health care in the United States. I still have my 1342-page copy, and on page 514, Section 2013, Subsection (c)(2), the bill describes how positions for residency in medical specialties will be required to filled on the basis of racial quotas.
The whole thing was such a mess that a Democrat Congress refused to bring it up for a vote. Opposition to the plan played a major role in the “Contract with America” that brought a Republican majority to Congress in the 1994 elections.
Congress would never pass HillaryCare, and they wouldn’t pass any of Joe Biden’s 107 “Executive Orders” either. But while his unconstitutional DEI Executive Order works its way through Federal Court challenges, he will enforce it with impunity.
What Comes Next?
The term DEI is intentionally vapid, an empty abstraction that can conjure up Thought Crime at a moment’s notice. In the military, in the government, in universities — indeed everywhere — DEI breed mistrust and fear.
Well, almost everywhere.
The National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Baseball all have DEI programs for their organizations. None has implemented programs to enforce DEI quotas on the court or on the playing field.
Not yet, anyway.
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