Forgiveness and Accountability are not mutually exclusive.
We should have both.
If you don’t have accountability, the reason you need to forgive will happen again.
3 years ago I posted about an Army officer who popped hot for cocaine when he was a Major and working as an aide for then-GEN Austin.
I was right; he was on path for making general.
I guess knowing the right people really can help!
Do you guys remember when Stephanie Miller was General Austin’s conservative-person “Extremism Hunter?”
Because we certainly do.
Time for accountability.
The Army COVID Reinstatement & Reconciliation Task Force works so hard to put up Good numbers. They toil tirelessly to be Good and faithful servants, fulfilling POTUS and SecWar's promises. I've been thinking; why do they have to work so hard?
Stephanie Miller
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@JoelValdezDOW Here’s another example of DEI being the standard in promotion boards under the last admin. There was a study on it. The study isn’t the important part. It’s the fact that this was sanctioned and endorsed by our leaders.
https://t.co/uqheo8fIZa
The Army COVID Reinstatement & Reconciliation Task Force works so hard to put up Good numbers. They toil tirelessly to be Good and faithful servants, fulfilling POTUS and SecWar's promises. I've been thinking; why do they have to work so hard?
Stephanie Miller
🧵 A thread...
I was one of the first 8 religious accommodation approvals touted by the USAF in Jan ‘22. However, my approval was “conditional” on the basis that I retire within ~90 days. How many other “approvals” were similar—a veiled denial? Anyone else know similar stories? #MandateTruth
The giants of our past show us the path to a brighter future, but we must fully commit to following in their footsteps.
That is why my advocacy in defense of individual liberty is done publicly and in my own name.
Thank you Charles Carroll of Carrollton, for showing us the way!
The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.
His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.
Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.
That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.
Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.
And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.
So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.
Then he simply outlived everyone.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.
He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.
The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.
We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.
Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?
One more time, if you pushed harmful ideology like DEI you should never get a star and go ahead and retire after a grade determination. @SecWar is doing an exceptional job culling these people. I hope he establishes plucking boards soon to cull these people current generals and admirals too. And no, he’s barely touched that particular problem set.