Dec 15th, 2018
The Joint Chiefs of Staff indicate that wars are for freedom.
In some cases, the US Armed Forces provide for our physical security. That’s as good as it gets.
In terms of American rights and freedoms- The Dept. of Defense has no more say than the Dept. of Agriculture.
Legal marijuana, concealed carry of handguns, federal minimum drinking age, interracial marriage, gay marriage, voting rights, hemp farming, etc. None of these are linked in any way with The Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Troops, The Dept. of Defense, jet noise over Coupeville, or the outcome of military operations overseas.
As the decades of undeclared/unwon wars stack up (The Department of Defense track record goes back to 1949.) the greater the cultural urge to glorify people who do, or did time in uniform.
If there is an honest reason to send people away into decades of undeclared/unwon wars overseas let’s hear all about it.
More here:
Is A Free Society An Honest Society?
Too Many Lies From Veterans – Straight Out of a Land of Make Believe
Freedom Comes And Goes – Joint Chiefs of Staff Play No Part
Why do we speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization?
How Do The Troops Defend The Constitution?
Not asking about the oath of enlistment. Asking about what happens after the oath has been taken.
A Border Wall?
Dec 11th, 2018 Washington Post
Trump’s arguments for necessity of border wall have already been broadly debunked
Illegal drugs “mostly come through the ports of entry” at the border, one senior administration official testified before Congress last year.
June 7, 2018 The Epoch Times
DEA:
Apr. 10, 2018 Business Insider
“The US Drug Enforcement Administration said in its 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment, however, that Mexican transnational criminal organizations transported illicit drugs into the US across its southwest border using varied methods.”
“The most common method employed by these TCOs,” it said, “involves transporting illicit drugs through US ports of entry in passenger vehicles with concealed compartments or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor trailers.”
Secretary of Homeland Security:
The US Dept. of Homeland Security “stops an average of 7 known or suspected terrorists a day – 50 a week- trying to come to our country.”
With such an impressive handle on US Dept. of Homeland Security performance- why do heroin-trafficking cartels continue to move product into local communities?
Each year, at the Super Bowl, the US Dept. of Homeland Security promotes their own image Re: preventing criminal activity. Why do these impressive capabilities fail to keep meth and heroin trafficking cartels from moving product into the US?
Related:
Fentanyl – What part of the story is missing?
Post 911 Homeland Security Protocols vs. Tennessee Meth
Homeland Security Meth/Heroin Racket Rolls On
17 Years Past 911 – Welcome Home Troops
Newspeople Ask Questions If It’s A Sports Story
The open attitude about sports reporting does not cross over to stories about the US Dept. of Homeland Security, big drug busts, The Troops, the War on Terror or local water quality.
Sports Culture Tends to be Open and Honest
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