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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Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD
Founder and President, The American Freedom Alliance; Founding Member, The Sovereignty Coalition
TRANSCRIPT:
[00:58:25] Karen Siegemund: Thanks so much, Frank. Yeah. It’s really an honor to be among all [00:58:30] of you. And yes, as Frank noted, we traveled the country with a conference called “World War III, The Early Years.” We started it in Los Angeles and then went various places, highlighting all the various threats that we have been under. Also, just as an aside, yes, back in the 80s, I was one of the first, if not the first woman on Navy combatant vessels frigates, destroyers, various others. And I learned at that time [00:59:00] that my being there was a really bad idea. So while I did sort of play a role in breaking that glass ceiling. I apologize wherever I can. I realized how even though I made every effort to not be disruptive, it was disruptive having me there. So the idea of, you know, how much worse it’s gotten since that time. Whatever role I played, I do apologize. But I also learned tremendous respect for our men and women [00:59:30] in uniform and in the Navy in particular. There is no doubt that we’re at war. That was the whole conference. We are absolutely at war. But I want to pose this question. There’s an age old philosophical query that people ask if a tree falls in the woods and there’s nobody there to hear it. Does it? Does it still make a sound? I would posit that there’s an analogous query if you’re at war and nobody will acknowledge it, can you still lose? And of course, the answer to both of those is [01:00:00] you bet you can.
[01:00:01] Karen Siegemund: And it feels very much that we have been in a war. People have not been acknowledging it, and we have not been doing very well in this war. Having the current regime playing for the other team, of course, doesn’t help. We, as other people have noted, we have been undergoing the left’s long march through the institutions wherein they find and peg various of our institutions, education, [01:00:30] media, whatever got them of their original mission and replace them with Marxism. The main one at hand that we’re talking about now is the military, which has also been similarly gutted. And its purpose, which is supposed to be war fighting. And may I also add winning all in, in service of defending our nation. That purpose has been replaced by, as many have said, social engineering, various kinds of experimentation, [01:01:00] all giving putting a back seat to the actual war fighting. And we have been suffering under this for far too long. Die, as everyone has noted, has no place anywhere. But it certainly has no place in the military. It’s destructive. It’s dangerous. It’s also ridiculous. Absurd, laughable. The entire world is laughing at us. And yet that’s where we are. And just as another aside that we’re even having this conversation, it’s crucial [01:01:30] to have it. But it’s appalling that it’s required that we’re even talking about needing to return the military to its purpose. But yet that’s where we are. The left’s Long March also includes the war against men, masculinity, fatherhood, the family, Judeo-Christian roots and values, all these fundamental tenets on which we all depend.
[01:01:53] Karen Siegemund: Given all of that, is it any wonder that they’re going after Pete Hegseth, who represents all of these Profoundly [01:02:00] important institutions that are crucial to the survival of this nation. Of course, they’re going to go after him, and of course they’re going to go after him in ways that have nothing to do with actual war fighting. At the same time, we’ve also been victims of what the Chinese Communist Party calls unrestricted warfare, which is a way of subduing all, include all means of subduing the enemy up to and including kinetic warfare. What better way [01:02:30] of unrestricted of conducting unrestricted warfare than by. I’m just going to say this doing their best to emasculate our military. And that is what has been happening again. The reason we need to step in in that role, it’s we need a strong military. We need to be defending this nation as best we possibly can. We need to be building back our confidence, our courage, our strength, our pride in America. I also [01:03:00] want to bring up this point, though, because it exhausts me personally when anybody of any kind of caliber and honor and strength stands up for so many of these positions, what is it that the left does? Their first line of attack is trotting out women making accusations. I find this so reprehensible because at this point, when we see this parade of women coming through, all we all say is, oh my gosh, here we go again.
[01:03:29] Karen Siegemund: And [01:03:30] we are mistrusting of the entire process. What this does now is instead of making us more compassionate to women who may or may not have been attacked, we don’t believe them on its face because we know that this is a tried and true tactic of the left. I find it exhausting. It’s insulting. It’s insulting of the men, it’s insulting of women, and it denigrates actual acts that have actually occurred when we all just yawn and say, oh my [01:04:00] gosh, here we go again. So it’s time to just put that kind of nonsense completely aside. We need to return all of our institutions to their purposes, which is we’re fighting. In this case, we need to get rid of Dei everywhere it rears its ugly head. It makes us more vulnerable on every single front. We need to stand up for our men, for our fathers, for our warriors, for war fighting. We need to rebuild our courage to stand for our convictions. [01:04:30] We need to resurrect our confidence in this great nation. We need to let men be men. Women be women. Stop this DEI nonsense. Stop the Marxism. Return our military to being a war fighting on a war fighting institution. We need to let men do the right thing by their country and women as well. We are in a war we need to fight. Face it. And we need to fight it. We need to win it. Thank you.