by Jack
UPDATE: England’s PM, David Cameron, tore up the orders from the defence ministry over not wearing uniforms in public! Mr. Cameron told a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee in Whitehall:’The best way to defeat terrorism is for everyone – including our brave service personnel – to go about their lives as normal.’
Guess that means grounding of every aircraft in the whole damn country on 9-11, thus crippling the economy, then the brainstorm to block off access to AP parking lots deemed too close to the terminals, then calling out the national guard to enforce parking, then failing to rebuild damaged building, then hiring thousands of federal employees to check luggage and then creating a multi-billion dollar bureaucracy called Homeland Security and blowing through billions more for grants to upgrade security at county fairs and such would be kinda stupid? Well, that’s us. We’re as dumb as bricks.
As a result of the latest attack on a British soldier near his barracks, military cadets have been ordered not to wear uniforms on the streets because they could be targeted by terrorists. Officer in Charge of Accrington Sea Cadets, Mark Thompson, said sea cadet forces in the Lancashire had received Royal Navy advice to take precautions.
He said: ‘The safety of the cadets is paramount and when it comes to children, basically it is better safe than sorry.
‘Rightly or wrongly when a cadet is in a uniform, sometimes the uniform is more conspicuous than the age of the person wearing it. Who is to say whether they are a cadet or a serving member of the forces?
This much is somewhat understandable, because they’re under 18…but, the order has been extended to serving members of the armed forces! Hard to imagine a more demoralizing order for a soldier than to tell him to take off the uniform and hide after an enemy’s attack. And the powers that be know it: They’re stressing that the order’s temporary in order to blunt public indignation over their decision.
The twisted punchline here is that the victim soldier in London wasn’t wearing a uniform. The two degenerates who murdered him apparently targeted him because they saw him entering or exiting a barracks. There’s the next move, presumably — evacuate the barracks nationwide until they’re safe. For soldiers.
The news media is making much of this story and rightly so, but when I was a reservist we were told not to travel in uniform when reporting for active duty training. The reasoning was the same as the Brits. My reaction was like most service people, “This is America, I’m wearing a uniform of this country, I would rather take my chances and risk an attack, if only to expose those hate filled Muslims.” The last time I was issued such an order was in 2009, but I bet the policy is still in place.
This is a perfect example of the great lengths some of our leaders are prepared to go to accommodate those who will never love us, no matter how much back peddling we do to appease them. These leaders feel if they can reduce the threat of attacks by removing a target this is a good thing. It’s just the opposite, because we’re capitulating to terrorism. We’re showing weakness when strength is demanded.
Military people are called combatants for a reason and risk comes with the job.
Don’t wear a uniform for safety reasons? Hogwash!
Take another look, Royal Navy. If reason doesn’t triumph here, the terrorists have won one.
I agree! But, UK aside, the Guard and possibly other services here have orders not to wear the uniform in route to base for training or from base back to home. All personnel are to change into civilian attire for safety concerns. That’s just wrong!
Kudos to Cameron for not bowing to the PC crowd. Would that we had a leader that could do the same.
“…but when I was a reservist we were told not to travel in uniform when reporting for active duty training.”
You and me both, brother. We got the same crap while our beloved 102nd Bn was headquartered at the Roseville armory. At this late date, I don’t remember which attack it was the set them off at State HQ. As Bn C.O., I passed the word to the troops, but also told them that I could not in good conscience enforce such an order. I also told them that each unit member could decide for themselves if they wanted to travel to drill wearing civilian clothes. To a man (and woman) their response was not just “No” but “Hell no”.
Had push come to shove, I was prepared to tender my resignation. I also had my CCW license and carried a sidearm in my vehicle. Had a situation arisen where I had to return fire, I had my response prepared for that as well. “Sir, I plead guilty to all charges and specifications. Expect no apology”.
Did anyone hear about this? I didn’t.
Mainstream Media Ignores Beheading Deaths of 2 Christians In New Jersey
http://dcxposed.com/2013/02/26/mainstream-media-ignores-beheading-deaths-of-2-christians-in-new-jersey-2/
The notion or policy that armed services personnel here (or in the UK) should not wear their uniforms in public is reprehensible and disgusting.
If Muslims or anyone else do not like it, f*** them. In your face scum.
Peggy your article indicated that the main stream press didn’t cover the story. The author did a search with the words: Christian/Muslim/beheading included in the search.
I managed to find the story within the same number of hits by leaving out the word Christian. I found three stories:
The Examiner covered it and reported that authorities indicated the 2 (Christian ) men were first murdered, gunshot close range in the chest, and their heads and hands were removed later and buried in a seperate place “to try to prevent identification of the victims”.
The New York Daily News covered the story.
And a local NBC channel carried it as well.
Clearly these were grisly murders but the motive is as yet undetermined (or shared). At least one of the victims was a Coptic Christian from Egypt. the victims were roommates. The murder suspect is a Muslim man but it’s unclear as yet if jihad was part of the motivation.
The murders happened was back in February; there probably hasn’t been anything to report since. Who knows how long it takes to bring something like this to trial?
I agree that the religions of the men involved are reasons to be suspicious but unless there is evidence of terrorism as a motive we probably didn’t hear about it on 24/7 TV because it couldn’t be exploited and it was politically better to avoid it.
Hmmm…I wonder what else was going on in February?
Tina, I got the article yesterday on FB from Breitbart news.
Sad to say its gotten to the point we expect our government to lie to us and the news to be biased and selective about what they report.
We get 24/7 coverage for over four months of some chick who stabbed her exboyfriend 37 times, shot him and almost beheaded him when she cut his throat.
The Jody Arias murder was going on in February. Bet it was decided one horrendous murder at a time was our limit and since the other involved Christians being killed by Muslims it only got a few lines on page 42 if it got covered at all.
The reporters didn’t show up for the Gosnell trial like they did for the Arias’ trial. We’ll see if they do for this one.
There’s no excuse for the lack of balance in news coverage, Peggy which is why we depend on folks like you. We may never know whether the motive for the murders was fanatical religious hate. This government is not inclined to make such distinctions and the attitudes of leadership do trickle down.