The Save America’s Military Coalition Senate Video Telethon 2.0:
Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the ServicesThursday, Jan 2, 2025
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Col./Dr. Ron Scott, PhD, Col
USAF (Ret.); President and CEO, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services); Vice President and Director of Operations, American Constitution Foundation
TRANSCRIPT:
[01:21:20] Ron Scott: Thanks, Frank. It’s an honor to be part of this session. What I want to emphasize today is the notion that a particular political faction in America is advancing [01:21:30] a narrative, or a series of narratives that don’t necessarily have to be true, and in the process, they have subordinated the importance of transparency and accountability. And so let me give you evidence to support that. Freedom of Information Act requests. We have now, a little more than four years later, filed nearly 60 FOIA requests, six zero FOIA requests. Only one was answered within the 20 day statutory [01:22:00] period. Only one of the 60 Judicial Watch has filed two lawsuits on our behalf, and they’re getting ready to file another one. The big question we have is a lot of this information is pretty neutral politically. Why the resistance in releasing the documents and records we’re asking for? So that makes the situation very suspicious. Which leads me to two organizations that operated under the radar. The first was the Military Leadership Diversity Commission that was chartered in the national Defense 2009 [01:22:30] National Defense Authorization Act. It was pushed by the Congressional Black Caucus without any debate, so they stood up. This commission, chaired by a retired black four star general, Lester Lyles. And in March of 2011, when they issued their final report, two things stood out. In the introduction. They were explicit about the importance of discriminating to achieve equity. And here equity was a proportionate representation of minorities in the general officer [01:23:00] ranks. The other admission was that assimilation was bad. It was dangerous because it subordinated subcultural differences. This was so contrary to the E pluribus unum, which made America the melting pot where they truly embraced diversity, different ethnic backgrounds and nationalities to come together to be part of the American creed.
[01:23:25] Ron Scott: And so they were explicit about that. That was March of 2011. [01:23:30] Five months later, the president issued an executive order in August of 2011, establishing diversity and inclusion personnel and programs across the entire federal government. So they demonstrated they could do this and get away with it with the Department of Defense. Now they proliferated it across the entire government. Okay. Years now passed in 2020, the current secretary of defense realized that all of the recommendations in that commission were not implemented. So they stood up the Defense Advisory Committee [01:24:00] on Diversity and Inclusion, again headed up by a retired black four star general, Lester Lyles. They have been deliberately discriminating. We had a representative at a December 2023 session, the only member from the public in attendance, and that got our her attention again, flying under the radar. So in their May of 2023 or 2024 session, we had 19 individuals signed up to attend in person. Three days before that event, [01:24:30] they made an announcement that due to unforeseen circumstances, the session would be virtual only. So there was one particular presentation and we watched it, recorded it. It was the diversity and inclusion officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, who reports directly to the director of the CIA, admitting that they veto promotions for individuals that have not sufficiently embraced diversity and inclusion. So really quickly on the Covid vaccine mandate, eight federal [01:25:00] courts ruled that what the Defense Department was doing was in violation of public law of informed consent and the religious freedom laws.
[01:25:11] Ron Scott: Et cetera. Et cetera. So we’ve taken on that issue. And so the last thing I want to mention is that on December 17th, Congressman Loudermilk issued an interim report on the January 6th. Oversight investigation. Very disturbing, very disturbing. No [01:25:30] fanfare in the media. And there’s a good reason for it. So I want to close, Frank, with the notion that a professor at UC Berkeley kind of symbolizes what’s happening here on the left. He’s written several books, one of them with the title Thinking Points. And it’s an instruction guide on how to shape the, the narrative, how to frame it. And one of his axioms is that it’s the frame that matters. The facts fit great. If not, they’re [01:26:00] irrelevant. He’s published another book called Moral Politics, and I will close with this notion for those that have worn the uniform and keep saying that we have to be Apolitical. What they really mean is we need to be nonpartizan. The big difference. And so if we’re apolitical, that means we’re also amoral. And we can’t afford to be amoral. You know, these service academies are developing leaders of character characters based on a moral [01:26:30] foundation. And so we’re losing it big time because we’re being deceived by members of the left who control the narrative. And so I’ll close with that thought.