Brave New Military and Pvt. Manning
March 6, 2015
HENRY McCULLOCH writes:
Here is a story that is linked, in its own bizarre way, to The Thinking Housewife′s ongoing series about the myriad oddities of women in the military.
U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning (the story refers to him incorrectly as a Private First Class; at his conviction Manning was reduced in grade back to Private) may have lost at his court-martial for releasing classified information, but he has just won a victory from the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Note that this is a ruling from a military court, not from some Leftist presidential appointee to the federal bench. The Court of Criminal Appeals has just ruled that hitherto Private Manning, who is a man and can never be anything else despite his unfortunate homosexual inclinations, may not be referred to as a man by any agency of the U.S. armed forces. Manning must either be referred to as female, which he is not and can never be despite any amount of chemical and surgical mutilation, or in “gender-neutral” terms.
Thus the war against reality that seems to be the U.S. government’s first order of business proceeds, especially in the captive social engineering rat-lab of the armed forces. Unfortunately, we should expect any uniformed person in today’s armed forces whom this ruling affects to comply without hesitation, or even thought. As with the forcing of women into combat roles in the armed forces and the forcing of homosexuals on the armed forces period, it is judges in the pay of the U.S. government who are the assault troops (double-entendre fully intended) of the Cultural Revolution. How far the post-modern Left will have to go before it believes it has achieved true “equality,” I have no idea. But I suspect Cultural Marxist Leftists will never believe they have achieved it, and that there will always be some social institution or custom they must attack and destroy.
I am a patriotic American, although I no longer have any love for the U.S. government, Nevertheless, in the geopolitical struggle the United States and its NATO satrapies appear hell-bent to have with post-Soviet Russia I’m finding myself more and more sympathetic to the Russian side. The role of the U.S. government (along with American media and entertainment) in pushing institutionalized perversion of the sort this ruling represents on the rest of the world has a lot to do with why I feel that way.
Buck writes:
The court ordered: “Reference to appellant in all future formal papers filed before this court and all future orders and decisions issued by this court shall either be neutral, e.g., Private First Class Manning or appellant, or employ a feminine pronoun.”
The three judges didn’t order that Manning be referred to as female, just that he be “she” or “her” on paper. Not a critical difference to the low-information, non-thinking; but in the current, cowardly atmosphere, these three judges had to have some sort of hook to hang their career robes on. If they can comfortably argue and agree among themselves, on a well-nuanced gender theory and all still sleep at night, then mission number one is accomplished: a secure career and full retirement benefits. The military is nothing but a career choice, after all.
It’s reported that there are 150,000 trannys still connected to the military, 15,500 on active duty. How very relieved they must feel. The United States Secretary of Defense publically welcomed them. I almost expect him to “come out” at some time.
The game is over. Man’s law, society and culture have all adopted their terms and language. The idea then, that we can discuss this in a sensible way with any possibility of effectively pushing back against public policy is just as dysfunctional.