"AS PART OF the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents reviewed by The Intercept, as well as a source with direct knowledge of the program.
"An extremism steering committee led by
Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently
designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously”
monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon
briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at
surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First
Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance
firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government
monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official."
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/17/military-pentagon-extremism-social-media/
Well, now, isn’t that just wonderful. Used to be, what a soldier said after a few beers off duty was his business. Of course, way back when, presidential administrations did not suspect their uniformed hirelings of harboring ill intent, and I doubt, seriously doubt, that military personnel today have any intent to overthrow the government. Soldiers take seriously their oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Soldiers today don’t have time for that "extremism" sort of thing, and each has a God-given right to think as he/she wants about the present government in power.
You have to wonder, too,
since the Pentagon is so busy looking for “domestic extremism,” did the
eavesdroppers miss three Fort Campbell soldiers who sold hundreds of guns to
Chicago street-level gun dealers?
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