Where Are the Four Stars?

 

by

Gadfly

Note:  This article was offered to The Military Times as a rebuttal to the referenced article below.  The Editor declined to print it because it did not meet their standards—that it should appeal to active duty troops, veterans, and their families. 

On July 15, The Military Times published “Top generals planned to resign en masse if Trump refused to leave office: reports” (see here).  This would have been a quasi-nonviolent coup.  The source for this article is a book, I Alone Can Fix It, written by two Washington Post reporters, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.

Of course, as we know, former President Trump did not refuse to leave office.  But we now live in a world where the quasi-nonviolent narrative need only sound good -- no need for facts.  Nefariously, it also disguises an actual quasi-coup, this one that did include violence (not a single Democrat denounced the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa riots during 2020 and 2021).

What is going on in America?

Collusion with a foreign spy to manufacture a predicate (i.e., the massively false dossier) to “spy on Trump and his associates” (before and after taking office) under the authority of four FISA warrants generated no outrage among those who refused to accept the legitimate election of Donald Trump in 2016.  When the Democrat-run Mueller investigation fell short of revealing crimes, weaponizing the impeachment process became the next best option.  The first fell short of a conviction.  The second required more collusion with members of the CIA and the NSC to build another predicate for a second impeachment.  Again, no conviction.

Sadly, exonerating evidence was available to the FBI when it subpoenaed Hunter Biden’s laptop and hard drive on December 9, 2019.  But the FBI covered it up.

Then came along the George Floyd incident.  While certainly abhorrent, this drug-abusing miscreant was not an altar boy, but this did not matter to a leftist cabal that lionized/martyred him to generate the nationwide mob behavior with BLM and Antifa’s colluding planners and more miscreants.  But I digress. 

Back to the Hunter Biden hard drive.  After months of trying, I was finally successful, with the help of a retired Air Force three-star general, just before the election, in getting a couple of influential players to get The New York Post to break the story.  The story was supported by contents on the hard drive. It was immediately censored by Twitter and other news sources.  Social media giants admitted the FBI alerted them to “troves of misinformation” during their Congressional testimony in late October. 

Censorship is still happening, even from the Biden White House, according to registered Democrat Jonathan Turley (see “Fear Free Speech: Biden Denounces Big Tech as ‘Killing People’ By Not Censoring Speech,” available here): “The White House recently admitted that it was flagging ‘misinformation’ for censorship by companies like Facebook. Moreover, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has called for people to be banned from all social media if any one company bans them.

While the above is reprehensible to those who believe in America (as justified in our Declaration of Independence and codified in our Constitution and Bill of Rights), where are the four stars?  Does the oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” expire upon retirement? 

Certainly, retired four-star flag officers who have hitched their horses in support of H.R. 1, “For the People Act” (via Count Every Hero, a subset of the progressive grassroots organization called Represent US), and its inevitable transformation to a single political party government, are using the prestige of their rank to sway the debate.  Amazingly, their efforts converge with those of another faction in this effort, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), already doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the Democrat Party.  CPUSA’s leader John Bachtell takes credit for the 2018 election results (see his report here).  They were just warming up for the 2020 election.

To the contrary, a group of over 120 flag officers (only one four-star, Admiral Jerome Johnson), known as Flag Officers 4 America also has spoken out.  Here is their message:

Under a Democrat Congress and the current Administration, our country has taken a hard left turn toward socialism and a Marxist form of tyrannical government which must be countered now by electing congressional and presidential candidates who will always act to defend our Constitutional Republic.  The survival of our nation and its cherished freedoms, liberty and historic values are at stake.

Hard Left Turn

This left turn includes an open southern border in violation of the Constitution’s Article IV provision (see Patrick Buchanan’s analysis here): "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion."  Adding to this complicity is the nefarious report of C-17s and commercial carriers transporting, under the cover of darkness and secrecy, illegals into various regions of our nation (see here and here).

More egregiously, the left turn includes ideological indoctrination—neo-Marxism in the form of Critical Race Theory.  It is taking place across our institutions, to include, for example, the Naval Academy (see here) and the Air Force Academy (see here). 

Yet, to speak out against it results in reprisal as in the case of Air Force Space Command’s Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of command for cause because he sounded an alarm with his self-published book, Irresistible Revolution:  Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.  Of course, he published his analysis AFTER first reporting his concerns through his chain of command and the Inspector General.  This act took courage.  Moreover, it represents what is meant by “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”  

There can be only three reasons for America’s four stars not to be speaking out:  fear, cooptation, or apathy.  None are acceptable.  Their children, grandchildren, other family members, and friends should know the role they are playing in the demise of America whether stemming from fear, being coopted, or being apathetic. 

Fortunately, some veterans (to include multiple three-stars) are fighting back.  Three such groups are Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS, Inc. – Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services), The Calvert Group (Don’t Give Up The Ship – The Calvert Group [calvertgroup69.org]), and Take Charge (Home - TakeCharge MN - Take charge of your life, family, and community).

In the movie, Judgment at Nuremberg, Marlene Dietrich, the widow of a four-star general, bemoaned to Spencer Tracey, the chief tribunal judge, that the people did not know about the Third Reich atrocities.  She was bitter because her husband was executed without the honor she believed he deserved given his rank.  Tracey’s body language spoke volumes—he knew the general, like other German citizens, hid in the shadows, afraid to push back on ideological tyranny.

Where are America’s four stars?  History appears positioned to repeat itself.