The military needs to curb-stomp these members. Drunk, young, Twitter generation, whatever, the lessons apparently need to be taught again that you don’t have the same rights as civilians when you enlist.
You are not allowed to be political when in the military and for damned good reasons. You have the right of your anonymous vote to voice your politics.
Edit: Because I actually was in the military, and I actually read the QR&Os I’ll provide a link to one of the relevant orders.
Section 2 – Dealings with Public, Civil Employment and Political Activities
19.36 – DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OR OPINION
(1) For the purposes of this article, the adjective “military” shall be construed as relating not only to the Canadian Forces but also to the armed forces of any country.
(2) Subject to article 19.375 (Communications to News Agencies), no officer or non-commissioned member shall without permission obtained under article 19.37 (Permission to Communicate Information):
(…)
j. publish in writing or deliver any lecture, address or broadcast in any dealing with a subject of a controversial nature affecting other departments of the public service or pertaining to public policy.
Yes, and if you watch the rest of the CBC leftist garbage you will see that the interviewer had a professor on that painted the Proud Boys as nothing but an extreme right-wing group.
You know folks, the war is lost…Stalin won.
hay Rance, and you are to effing stupid to see that this very thing needs to be brought out in the open, as it has now been. You claimed to be a “social” liberal, and I’ll agree with you there, as you are stupid enough to be one!
They hurt my little feelers! Oh boo ****in’ hoo.
So, Lance thinks that only the brass and the elite can voice political views? Lance doesn’t like the way that Chief Grizzly Momma’s “ceremony” was “interrupted” by asking questions?
Lance thinks that defending the Flag from desecration is “political?”
…and now he doesn’t like that the Rebel has got involved?
Curb-stomped? Not just a wee verbal warning, at worse?
You make me sick.
I really think you are wrong, Lance. Very wrong. Regardless of this “code of conduct”. The response to these men’s actions, these proud and brave Canadians, will undoubtedly be backwards, wrong, and stupid. Precisely because the politically correct, neutered eunuch’s of the military brass will be doing the reacting… as directed by their lying, cowardly, political masters.
This story is mainly bait and switch. Remember Omar Khadr? He went from 50% news coverage to about 2% with this pantomime in Halifax taking up the slack.
Some of these marching groups have the faint whiff of background organization by puppetmasters. Remember the Heritage Front?
It serves our globalist masters well to have a few useful idiots for the six o’clock news, then Sincere News Girls can shake their heads each time they mention Right Wing Extremism.
The whole problem not being addressed is Left Wing Extremism which has basically run Canada for half a century now.
The part that says “Subject to such limits as are reasonable in a free and democratic society”. It is reasonable to have soldiers, sailors and airmen charged with following the commands of a democratically elected government refrain from active public political activity.
The “political discourse and its limits” opinion of any officer has never been within my listening range in the past,
nor of anyone with such an officer like mentality. The ones who won’t stick up for their men are just total sleaze.
If these young sailors find the going gets too rough here, I’m sure there are real navies elsewhere that would find
their qualities and skills very useful.
As a Canadian, I would be thoroughly ashamed of any soldier that DIDN’T confront people flying a defaced Canadian flag upside down. And the “F-ck Canada” stickers all over the Cornwallis statue – yeah, real classy Chief Grizzly Mama. (Although, interestingly enough, even the Head of Canada’s Indigenous Veterans Group said: “I saw several races down there [at the statue], it’s just a hodgepodge of activists, they’re not productive people at all,” . . . “These point one percenters, they did some silly stuff, because they know what the hot-button issues for the media are. They’re the bottom feeders,” Blackwolf said. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-veterans-group-proud-boys-1.4191749
So yes, quite the “religious” ceremony you had going on there Grizzly Mama – oh – and exactly WHICH band are you a chief of?? I searched the Mi’kmaq Nova Scotia bands and you aren’t mentioned. And the thoroughly obnoxious Raccoon Eyes ordering Canadians on Canada Day to “put down your f–king flag” and calling the Cree soldier a “f–king traitor” – so classy and inclusive with someone who disagrees with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VelZdp5DEAg
This is a terrible thing to see at SDA. The boys did nothing wrong. Since when does a protest become a “Ceremony”? Is it only when Indians do it? Shame SDA.
This is a terrible thing to see at SDA. The boys did nothing wrong. Since when does a protest become a “Ceremony”? Is it only when Indians do it? Shame SDA.
This is a terrible thing to see at SDA. The boys did nothing wrong. Since when does a protest become a “Ceremony”? Is it only when Indians do it? Shame SDA.
Failure One. As serving personnel, the five should never have been there. A complete lack of common sense on their part. I would not have been caught anywhere near a political demonstration (if you could call this ludicrous “native protest” that) when I was in the military.
Failure Two. The craven response by the chain of command right up to the Minister himself. The admiral could have simply and tersely stated something akin to: “The personnel in question will be disciplined as necessary in accordance with the pertinent regulations.” The subsequent fawning and grovelling by the CDS and the MND to a handful of noisome pests was not edifying: such is what passes for leadership in our military these days.*
* I call it the “Paulson Effect”(named for RCMP Commissioner Paulson): that’s when you’d happily throw your troops under a bus in order not to endanger your future chances at a cushy government sinecure.
‘Fight back’ is an odd way of saying ‘promulgating lies’.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/five-false-things-right-wing-provocateur-gavin-mcinnes-said-in-a-cbc-interview/wcm/1d7c786e-78e5-4524-ac8b-10b221a116dd
Gavin McCinnes is an idiot.