by David Thalheimer, American Thinker:
Back in the last century (the 1990s), we “old-timers” in the armed forces wore uniforms of blue, green, khaki, or white slacks, skirts (for women only) and pressed shirts, complete with jackets and ties. Most of us worked side by side with civilian office workers, especially at the Pentagon. Some of us worked with equipment, or in labs, or in environments that required physical labor and had to get permission to wear utility or battle dress uniforms (BDUs) and boots. Camouflage often drew questioning looks, as if we were deliberately flouting the prescribed professional office attire.
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All of that changed after September 11th, 2001. Everyone felt, and with good reason, that we were all under attack and needed to look and act like warriors. Class A uniforms were out and battle dress was in for most, no matter where you were stationed, especially at the Pentagon. New camouflage patterns, including trendy “digital” patterns, signaled our preparedness to play our part as defenders of the homeland. If we weren’t sent to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq, we would be prepared to do so from our cubicles.
Massive spending went into protecting federal facilities. Where I worked, a building full of defense contractors stood next to an identical building full of government employees working on the same projects. But only the government-occupied building received the protection of high fences, turnstiles, armed guards, and barriers to stop suicide bombers in cars. Government always protects itself first, despite the fact that terrorists almost always choose to attack vulnerable citizens because it creates the most terror among the population, which is the whole point.
Yet, unless you were stationed in a combat unit, none of the office warriors in battle dress were authorized to carry a handgun. We were ready for the terrorists to strike anywhere at any moment, but had no ability to defend ourselves in the event of such an attack. And camouflage uniforms weren’t designed to blend in with the cubicle furniture. Instead, we had drills on how to shelter in place, run, hide, or fight using whatever objects were at hand. The “war on terrorism” in the Middle East was very real, but here at home, it was more of a phony war.
23 years later, our military members still wear camouflage battle dress everywhere, but are forced to participate in DEI classes to learn how white supremacy is our greatest threat and how diversity is actually our greatest strength. Military members have been forced to take experimental vaccines to protect themselves from the allegedly mortal threat of a lab-generated, flu-like pathogen funded by their own government. They have been ordered to use the politically-correct pronouns and encouraged to put their own pronouns in email signature blocks to signal support for the new insane “trans” diversity agenda—and, they’re still not authorized to carry weapons.
And now we are facing an unprecedented invasion by millions of unvetted illegal immigrants, otherwise known as invaders, aided and abetted by our own government. Some of these invaders are likely to be terrorists or foreign agents placed here for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with asylum and everything to do with advancing the interests of hostile foreign governments.
October 7, 2023 was a wake-up call for Israel, which ironically had tough gun control laws that prevented most citizens, including military reservists, from carrying weapons that could have helped to fight off Hamas terrorists. Immediately after the terrorist attacks, Israel loosened gun laws and stated “Every city resident will be able to get an armament license…. We are facing operation Guardian of the Walls 2, so we will be ensuring that we are prepared, with guns on every street corner.” According to the Times of Israel, the Ministry of National Security was “purchasing 10,000 rifles to arm civilian security teams, specifically those in towns close to Israel’s borders around the country, as well as mixed Jewish-Arab cities and West Bank settlements.”
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