Pentagon Using "Spin" to Push Obama Gays-in-Military Goal

[Harry Riley]

		November 21, 2010
	TO:  Col. Harry Riley, USA (Ret.)
	From:  Elaine Donnelly   Re:       Pentagon Using “Spin” to Push Obama Gays-in-Military Goal     Dear Colonel Riley,             That didn’t take long.   Devastating election returns are in, but Senate Democrats already have forgotten the message that voters clearly sent.  Arrogance and irresponsibility still control the 111th Congress.   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced his intent to disregard more important matters just to ram through legislation to repeal the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military.  That legislation and approval for abortions in military hospital are embedded in the same National Defense Authorization Bill that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and 41 other senators blocked on a cloture vote requiring 60 votes to pass on September 21.   Normally it takes at least two weeks to debate this bill, not counting time to conduct a conference committee reconciling differences with the House version.  But President Barack Obama and Harry Reid are prepared to shove aside all other issues, keeping Congress in session until Christmas, if that is what it takes.  All this chaos──just to deliver on the president’s campaign promises to LGBT activist groups.    They are basing their hopes on perceptions about the Pentagon’s “Comprehensive Review Working Group” report, due on December 1.  As this editorial reveals, that report is being carefully “spun” as a military endorsement of gays in the military:   Washington Times: Barack’s Brokeback Barracks What we are seeing is a campaign of perception management (PM), employed by Obama Administration officials who seem quite willing to allow or encourage beliefs in a “reality” that does not exist.  Senator McCain has already raised important questions about the workings and assumptions of the DoD Working Group with this September 28 letter.   Letter from Sen. John McCain to CRWG   In the waning days of the 111th Congress we are going to need your help to make sure that LGBT Left activists do not get their way.  We will have much more to say about the Pentagon Working Group report in the coming days.  In the meantime, I encourage you to call or send a message to your own state’s senators.   U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202/224-3121 (Messages can be left on weekends)   ·         Information on how to reach all senators is available here.   ·         Key Republican senators include Richard Lugar (IN), Susan Collins (ME), Olympia Snowe, (ME), George Voinovich (OH), Mark Kirk (IL), and Scott Brown, (MA).  Democrats include Jim Webb (VA), Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas (both voted with Sen. McCain in September), Ben Nelson (NE), and conservative-leaning Democrat Joe Manchin (WV).   ·         Also, please call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at 202/224-3135 and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at 202/224-2235, to thank them for their leadership and to encourage them to continue fighting hard to defeat this unacceptable defense policy bill.   As always, you should be brief and persuasive, expressing what you would like to say to your senator if you had only 10 seconds to say it.  In your own words, briefly stated, please ask the members to:    ·         Support the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military (often mislabeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell)   ·         Oppose any action on the current defense authorization bill, which would repeal current law with “delayed implementation.”   ·         Refuse to vote for repeal before the Congress has time to fully examine the DoD Working Group report on what repeal would mean, due on December 1.   These ten points summarize the main arguments in the current debate:   Ten Reasons to Oppose the Proposed “LGBT Law” for the Military   Best Regards,     * * * * * * *   The Center for Military Readiness is an independent public policy organization that specializes in military/social issues.  More information on this and related topics is available on the CMR website, www.cmrlink.org.

[Steven G. Elliott]

I was a First Sergeant from 1986 untill 1999. This social experiment is going to cause way more problems than these idiot elites can ever imagine. They will never take responsibility for it, I guess they can always blame it on George Bush.

[21m8h57s48a2v]

Well with this war in the Middle East or Islamic nations, why don't we do this. Why don't we take the straight people out of the military and place the homosexuals in. Then that way we get rid of their trashy pathetic selves once and for all and not have to worry about being seen as them if we are straight women who just cant seem to find a man PERIOD. Man I love how Islam treats the homos. Excuse me people, I am feeling a little down and frustrated with myself here and being high functioning autistic doesn't help matters much either.

[Sandra Lee Smith]

Actually that's not such a bad idea, msamericanpatriot. Put them all in cute little pink fatigues, so the Muslims can't be mistaken about them, and let them go to the front lines, but bring the rest of the troops home for a rest and then to deal with securing our nation. I suspect we'd be hearing the screams of protest that "you can't DO that!" all the way from Afghanistan without benefit of or need for audio equipment of any sort. Mixing them with heteros is ONLY going to cause serious problems, as it's been doing whenever they try to come in or have been drafted in the past, and found out, and it seems like they almost always do get found out. For once, McCain is doing the RIGHT thing in opposing this fairly strongly, but then he was in the service around the same time I was and likely saw the same kinds of reactions I saw.

[21m8h57s48a2v]

Thanks gf. I needed that.

[Sandra Lee Smith]

You're most welcome. :-)

[Sandra Lee Smith]

This issue is NOT about degrading anyone; just as not everyone is suited to be a pilot, for physical reasons, not everyone who wants to is suited for life in the military. Service in the military is NOT a Constitutional "right" for anyone. And there have always been standards, including of conduct, even sexual conduct for heteros, as long as we've had a military. This is about keeping our military in peak shape to do the job we ask of them; and active, openly practicing homosexual behaviors are detrimental to that. It's that simple. If they'd control their sexual behaviors, while on active duty, it would be less a problem; but they are demanding the right to not do that; despite the fact that heteros are required to do so. Truckdrivingfool pointed out one of many "solutions" to homosexuals in the military that was used frequently during the Vietnam war, along with fragging, or "red blanket" or other violent behaviors, because we ask and expect our soldiers to BE aggressive. It's what we train them for, and then civilians wonder why they respond with aggression to unwanted advances from homosexuals. Gee, I can't imagine... A little common sense applied, instead of political correctness for a change would help here.

[crashaxe]

The gays and gender challenged should have they're own brigade.

[Harry Riley]

Where the h...l they going to put them.........I had a battalion with multifloor barracks.......women on one floor and men on two.........that was a nightmare..........

[Larry]

Seems to me the troops will deal with this in the manner they see fit. Our troops are very resorceful when needed to be.This will play out soon when the Gay see how treatment will be toward them. They just might see the military is not a good place for their activities,

[2pkolocb5zjdh]

1969. Blanket party. Beat-up on a regular basis. Transferred out with no explanation. (Anyone coming in from another unit was suspect.)
1969-1973 Germany U.S. Army post. Two suspected were hung. (One was written up as killed in a vehicle accident. 20+ years service. Story goes he got drunk and made a pass at another soldier. Soldiers buddies beat him up and hung him. Clean service record made higher-ups make it go away.)