MILITARY REJECTS OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

MILITARY REJECTS OBAMA'S
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

If we thought John Kerry for Secretary of State was bad, then hold onto your hat, because Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense is even worse. A growing list of high ranking military officials is publicly condemning Obama's choice to lead the Department of Defense.

STAND WITH OUR AMERICAN MILITARY HEROES - DEMAND THE SENATE REFUSE ...

Where John Kerry was "swift boated," Chuck Hagel needs to be ARMIED, NAVIED, MARINED and hopefully AIR FORCED right the hell out of government service.

Generals and Admirals publicly demanding the Senate REFUSE to confirm Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. When something like that happens, we had better pay attention because Flag Officers do not usually do anything like this; they keep their heads down, stay quiet and keep political opinions to themselves. When they do speak out, it is only because they see an immediate clear and present danger to America.

A partial list of the military brass speaking out against Hagel's nomination includes:

• Adm. James "Ace" Lyons, USN (Ret).
• Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, USA (Ret).
• Vice Adm. Robert Monroe, USN (Ret).
• Lt. Gen. E.G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., USAF (Ret).
• Maj. Gen. Thomas F. Cole, USA (Ret).
• Maj. Gen. Vincent E. Falter, USA (Ret).
• Rear Adm. H.E. Gerhard, USN (Ret).
• Rear Adm. Robert H. Gormley, USN (Ret).
• Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Higginbotham, USMC (Ret).
• Rear Adm. Don G. Primeau, USN (Ret).
• Maj. Gen. Mel Thrash, USA (Ret).
• Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, USA (Ret).
• Brig. Gen. William A. Bloomer, USMC (Ret).
• Brig. Gen. Ronald K. Kerwood, USA (Ret). 

STAND WITH OUR AMERICAN MILITARY HEROES - DEMAND THE SENATE REFUSE ...

These military men of outstanding repute are delivering a VERY clear warning - Chuck Hagel is a DANGER to our Department of Defense and should be kept from the gates at all costs!

Hagel is not a military man and clearly he has no clue when it comes to negotiation, strategy or protecting America. Here are just a few examples of what has these American heroes so concerned:

• Hagel wants to eliminate our nuclear weapons even as our enemies increase theirs. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are all openly and admittedly modernizing their nuclear weapon capabilities and have declared their willingness to use those nukes on us. Now is NOT the time to have a limp response!
• Hagel's proclamations that we should never use military force against Iran are telegraphing a weak response and actually emboldens our Sworn Enemy! Sen. Hagel has repeatedly opposed sanctions against Iran and insists we should "play nice" with the nation that calls America "The Great Satan." Such actions undercut the effectiveness of both diplomatic and military policies to prevent Iran from acting against us.
• Hagel agrees with Obama's weak foreign policy, stressing the importance of so-called "soft power." IMPOTENCE seems to be the word of the day when dealing with our enemies as Obama continues to BEG, BORROW and BOW America into a globalist poor house. Chuck Hagel PROUDLY carries Obamas mantle of incompetence on the world stage.

STAND WITH OUR AMERICAN MILITARY HEROES - DEMAND THE SENATE REFUSE ...

Our President has chosen yet another lost soul to help him take down and hopefully kill the country and ideals that the above named Admirals and Generals have spent their lives defending.

STAND America, while we still can!

STAND WITH THESE AMERICAN HEROES AND DEMAND A REAL LEADER AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE - one who will not roll over and show his belly for the enemies who seek to tear us apart.

STAND & demand the Senate REFUSE to confirm Chuck Hagel as Secr...

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[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

1,100 Green Berets set record straight on guns

'AR-15 is not an assault rifle. It is a single shot semi-automatic'

Politicians, pundits and private citizens have been sounding off on Barack Obama’s new push for gun bans, but what do the professionals whose job it is to use guns in the protection of their nation, their fellow countrymen and themselves say?

Watch out.

An open letter has been posted on the Professional Soldiers blog that has been signed as of this writing by more than 1,100 current and former U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers, the Green Berets.

The soldiers say first it’s important to define the issue and set the record straight.

“The terms ‘assault weapon’ and ‘assault rifle’ are often confused,” they say. “According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, ‘Prior to 1989, the term ‘assault weapon’ did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of assaults rifles.’”

The Green Berets, who use the weapons, point out the M4A1 carbine is a U.S. military service rifle – it is an assault rifle.”

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“The AR-15 is not an assault rifle. The ‘AR’ in its name does not stand for ‘Assault Rifle’ – it is the designation from the first two letters of the manufacturer’s name – ArmaLite Corporation. The AR-15 is designed so that it cosmetically looks like the M4A1 carbine assault rifle, but it is impossible to configure the AR-15 to be a fully automatic assault rifle. It is a single shot semi-automatic rifle that can fire between 45 and 60 rounds per minute depending on the skill of the operator. The M4A1 can fire up to 950 rounds per minute. In 1986, the federal government banned the import or manufacture of new fully automatic firearms for sale to civilians. Therefore, the sale of assault rifles are already banned or heavily restricted!”

Likewise, they say, a ban on “high-capacity” magazines would be irrelevant, pointing to the shooting by Eric Harris at Columbine High School as proof. The letter explains that when the first weapons ban was adopted in 1994, manufacturers retooled their products to meet the requirements of the law.

“One of those ban-compliant firearms was the Hi-Point 995, which was sold with ten-round magazines. In 1999, five years into the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, the Columbine High School massacre occurred. One of the perpetrators, Eric Harris, was armed with a Hi-Point 995. Undeterred by the ten-round capacity of his magazines, Harris simply brought more of them: thirteen magazines would be found in the massacre’s aftermath. Harris fired 96 rounds before killing himself.”

And, underlying the issue, the letter says, is the Constitution’s assurance of protection for the “sacrosanct” right of self-defense.

“Our Constitution established a system of governance that preserves, protects, and holds sacrosanct the individual rights and primacy of the governed as well as providing for the explicit protection of the governed from governmental tyranny and/or oppression,” they say..

They write that it is easy to blame guns, but weapons aren’t really the problem. Civilized society already proves it, they contend.

“We cite the experience in Great Britain,” they write. In 1987 was the Hungerford massacre that killed 18, and the government followed with a 1988 law banning semi-automatic guns. But eight years later, a “disturbed” man murdered 16 children and a teacher the Dunblane school. Immediately the law was amended to ban “all private ownership of handguns.”

Somehow, criminals apparently didn’t get the message, the letter suggests.

“Despite having the toughest gun control laws in the world, gun related crimes increased in 2003 by 35 percent over the previous year with firearms used in 9,974 recorded crimes… Gun related homicides were up 32 percent over the same period. … Gun related crime had increased 65 percent since the Dunblane massacre and implementation of the toughest gun control laws in the developed world,” the letter says.

“In contrast, in 2009 (5 years after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired) total firearm related homicides in the U.S. declined by 9 percent from the 2005 high,” the letter says, citing FBI statistics.

Since gun bans don’t really impact violence, what is the issue at hand?

“The purpose of the Second Amendment is to secure our ability to oppose enemies foreign and domestic, a guarantee against disorder and tyranny,” the Green Berets say.

“Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession of power. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes. At the beginning of our own nation’s revolution, one of the first moves made by the British government was an attempt to disarm our citizens. When our Founding Fathers ensured that the Second Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They were acting to ensure our present security was never forcibly endangered by tyrants, foreign or domestic.”

But school shootings are horrible and need to be addressed, they write.

“First, it is important that we recognize that this is not a gun control problem; it is a complex sociological problem. No single course of action will solve the problem.”

The military veterans say local schools should make their own decisions and plans.

“Most recently the Cleburne Independent School District will become the first district in North Texas to consider allowing some teachers to carry concealed guns. We do not opine as to the appropriateness of this decision, but we do support their right to make this decision for themselves.”

Further, those individuals with diagnosed conditions that impact their ability to make decisions can be addressed with programs of treatment.

“In each of these mass shooting incidents the perpetrator was mentally unstable,” the Green Berets says

Firearms safety programs in schools could help, and a repeal of laws making them gun-free zones should be considered by local officials.

Also, the violence in video games needs to be addressed.

“”War and war-like behavior should not be glorified. Hollywood and video game producers are exploiting something they know nothing about. General Sherman famously said, ‘War is hell!’ Leave war to the professionals,’” the letter says

“This is our country, these are our rights. We believe that it is time that we take personal responsibility for our choices and actions rather than abdicate that responsibility to someone else under the illusion that we have done something that will make us all safer. We have a responsibility to stand by our principles and act in accordance with them. Our children are watching and they will follow the example we set,” they write.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/1100-green-berets-set-record-straight-on...