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Voices crying in the wilderness. I doubt many will be moved by this very rational and true analysis than any other I've heard. I will vote for any politicians of any political party who dedicate themselves to eliminating the fiction of "CLIMATE CRISIS!" It simply does not exist.
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Right-wing propaganda organization PragerU begins targetting children
January 11, 2022
Right-wing YouTube channel PragerU specializes in whitewashing historical figures and spreading disinformation to attempt to sway young people to the right. And now it is trying to expand its audience to a new target demographic: kids.
When conservative radio host Dennis Prager launched PragerU back in 2009, he began making short videos that were targeted at teenagers and college students.
These animated videos are full of vibrant colors and graphs that contain little to no factual data and are voiced over by prominent conservative political commentators such as Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk. Prager’s goal is to indoctrinate young people who are submerged in left-wing politics and culture but still susceptible to the disinformation of the right.
To help expand PragerU’s potential audience, it created the PragerForce, a group of over 6,500 teenagers and young adults that organize PragerU events on college campuses and ask students questions. These questions, asked in bad faith, are recorded in an attempt to make the (often left-leaning) students seem uninformed or wrong.
These videos, often with exaggerated titles, rack up millions of views and further spread PragerU’s conservative influence on young people’s political ideologies.
SOURCE : https://warhawknews.com/4020/opinion/right-wing-propaganda-organization-prageru-begins-targetting-children/
1.) PragerU isn’t just fake news, it’s dangerous
Prager University is just fake news done well.
However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous. If you scroll through your Facebook feed, you will probably see one of their videos.
They feature a pleasant blue background with a reasonable-looking, mild-voiced narrator. Their videos’ titles usually pose questions like, “Who are the racists? Conservatives or Liberals?” and then always fall far right of center with their answer.
The videos’ issues range from one professing their enthusiastic endorsement of fossil fuels to challenging the idea of rape culture on college campuses.
PragerU isn’t concerned with facts and often skirt around making any substantial claims, but they still put on academic airs to benefit the conservative platform.
To understand the videos, you must understand the man behind PragerU, and how, with enough money and slick graphics, any opinion can be made to seem reasonable.
It all started in 2011. Prager’s rise to prevalence in politics as a radio-host established him as an authority in discerning the moral character of political actors.
One certain billionaire with strange hair and a clementine-esque hue drew his attention: Donald Trump.
Believe it or not, he came out against Trump’s botched run in the 2012 election for president, releasing a column on the Jewish World Review on May 3, 2011 criticizing Trump’s speech, which was rife with profanity. In the piece Prager asserts, “the words render him unfit to be a presidential candidate, let alone president.”
However, five years later during the Republican primary when it was becoming increasingly apparent Trump would actually be the Republican nominee, Prager changed his tune.
Just before the general election, he took it upon himself to fund a social media campaign rivaling the Russian Facebook fake ad campaign, not in size, but in persuasiveness.
While Russia might have put out numerous ads bashing Clinton and leftist ideology, they were rather crude and overtly racist.
Most of the videos put out by PragerU were well done, using their panache to sell their views, which would have been considered radical had they portrayed them any differently.
In particular, their views on climate change are problematic.
Despite there being little to no scientific debate on whether or not climate change exists — spoiler: 90 to 100 percent of scientists believe it does according to a Dec. 14, 2016 article from Forbes — PragerU puts out videos insisting there is some matter of argument for the other side.
SOURCE : https://sdsucollegian.com/891/opinion/prageru-isnt-just-fake-news-its-dangerous/
2.) Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It.
“I find something like this…to be really dangerous.”
AUGUST 18, 2023
It’s also, apparently, where science goes to die. Last month, Florida became the first state in the nation to approve the use of “educational” videos produced by the conservative organization Prager University Foundation, a group co-founded by right-wing radio host Dennis Prager.
While no school district has announced plans to show any of PragerU’s videos, NPR reports, there’s nothing to stop teachers from independently airing the material. As a Florida Department of Education spokesperson said in a statement, the material aligns with Florida’s revised civics and government standards.
SOURCE : https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/prageru-climate-skeptic-science-florida-education/
January 11, 2022
Right-wing YouTube channel PragerU specializes in whitewashing historical figures and spreading disinformation to attempt to sway young people to the right. And now it is trying to expand its audience to a new target demographic: kids.
When conservative radio host Dennis Prager launched PragerU back in 2009, he began making short videos that were targeted at teenagers and college students.
These animated videos are full of vibrant colors and graphs that contain little to no factual data and are voiced over by prominent conservative political commentators such as Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk. Prager’s goal is to indoctrinate young people who are submerged in left-wing politics and culture but still susceptible to the disinformation of the right.
To help expand PragerU’s potential audience, it created the PragerForce, a group of over 6,500 teenagers and young adults that organize PragerU events on college campuses and ask students questions. These questions, asked in bad faith, are recorded in an attempt to make the (often left-leaning) students seem uninformed or wrong.
These videos, often with exaggerated titles, rack up millions of views and further spread PragerU’s conservative influence on young people’s political ideologies.
SOURCE : https://warhawknews.com/4020/opinion/right-wing-propaganda-organization-prageru-begins-targetting-children/
1.) PragerU isn’t just fake news, it’s dangerous
Prager University is just fake news done well.
However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous. If you scroll through your Facebook feed, you will probably see one of their videos.
They feature a pleasant blue background with a reasonable-looking, mild-voiced narrator. Their videos’ titles usually pose questions like, “Who are the racists? Conservatives or Liberals?” and then always fall far right of center with their answer.
The videos’ issues range from one professing their enthusiastic endorsement of fossil fuels to challenging the idea of rape culture on college campuses.
PragerU isn’t concerned with facts and often skirt around making any substantial claims, but they still put on academic airs to benefit the conservative platform.
To understand the videos, you must understand the man behind PragerU, and how, with enough money and slick graphics, any opinion can be made to seem reasonable.
It all started in 2011. Prager’s rise to prevalence in politics as a radio-host established him as an authority in discerning the moral character of political actors.
One certain billionaire with strange hair and a clementine-esque hue drew his attention: Donald Trump.
Believe it or not, he came out against Trump’s botched run in the 2012 election for president, releasing a column on the Jewish World Review on May 3, 2011 criticizing Trump’s speech, which was rife with profanity. In the piece Prager asserts, “the words render him unfit to be a presidential candidate, let alone president.”
However, five years later during the Republican primary when it was becoming increasingly apparent Trump would actually be the Republican nominee, Prager changed his tune.
Just before the general election, he took it upon himself to fund a social media campaign rivaling the Russian Facebook fake ad campaign, not in size, but in persuasiveness.
While Russia might have put out numerous ads bashing Clinton and leftist ideology, they were rather crude and overtly racist.
Most of the videos put out by PragerU were well done, using their panache to sell their views, which would have been considered radical had they portrayed them any differently.
In particular, their views on climate change are problematic.
Despite there being little to no scientific debate on whether or not climate change exists — spoiler: 90 to 100 percent of scientists believe it does according to a Dec. 14, 2016 article from Forbes — PragerU puts out videos insisting there is some matter of argument for the other side.
SOURCE : https://sdsucollegian.com/891/opinion/prageru-isnt-just-fake-news-its-dangerous/
2.) Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It.
“I find something like this…to be really dangerous.”
AUGUST 18, 2023
It’s also, apparently, where science goes to die. Last month, Florida became the first state in the nation to approve the use of “educational” videos produced by the conservative organization Prager University Foundation, a group co-founded by right-wing radio host Dennis Prager.
While no school district has announced plans to show any of PragerU’s videos, NPR reports, there’s nothing to stop teachers from independently airing the material. As a Florida Department of Education spokesperson said in a statement, the material aligns with Florida’s revised civics and government standards.
SOURCE : https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/prageru-climate-skeptic-science-florida-education/
Right-wing propaganda organization PragerU begins targetting children
Right-wing YouTube channel PragerU specializes in whitewashing historical figures and spreading disinformation to attempt to sway young people to the right. And now it is trying to expand its audience to a new target demographic: kids. When conservative radio host Dennis Prager launched PragerU back in 2009, he began making short videos that were targeted...
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Klan Youth Corps 1980 CBS Documentary
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V1 : https://youtu.be/ZNseiMAC8ow?si=dvNzUdQbLwweb97q
V2 : https://youtu.be/5D10Y_35p98?si=-Mi0rlu84nUy14X4
1.) Klan Youth Corps: Just Like the Scouts
NCJ Number 122018
Journal Southern Exposure Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1980) Pages: 43-44
Author(s)
N Warnecke;
K Loggins;
S Thomas
Date Published 1980
Length 2 pages
Annotation
The Klan Youth Corps recruits white youth to teach them white "superiority," black "inferiority," and "beware the 'enemy' -- the Jews."
Abstract
The published goals of the Youth Corps are to organize white youth in schools, use a "get-tough" policy with "arrogant nonwhites," force school administrators to drop their "appeasement policy toward minorities by threatening public exposure followed by possible boycotts," demand "equal rights for white students," and segregate classes followed by segregation of schools. At their meetings, Klan youth are told by Klan adults that they are losing all their rights to minorities. Youth are encouraged to air grievances against blacks and teachers sympathetic to minorities. Some groups are instructed in the use of firearms, from pistols to sawed-off shotguns, in preparation for the day when "weapons may be the solution to the race problem." Members of the Klan Youth Corps bond to one another through social activities and even summer camps. Klan leader Tom Metzger has likened the Youth Corps to "the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts, only racist."
Publication Format
Article
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Language
English
Country
United States of America
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/klan-youth-corps-just-scouts
2.) Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
DATE
* ca. 1920-ca. 1929
DATE
ca. 1920-ca. 1929
FORMAT
Three dimensional object
COLLECTIONS
The Ku Klux Klan in Northwestern Wisconsin, circa 1915-1950
Wisconsin Local Histories
State of Wisconsin Collection
Subjects
* Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
* White supremacy movements — Wisconsin
SOURCE : https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AJRX5WUOH5ANCO8B
3.) Ku Klux Klan facts for kids
Kids Encyclopedia Facts
The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group. It was started in the southern United States on March 3, 1865. Most of its hate has been towards African Americans, but it has also attacked Catholics, Jews and immigrants. It has sought to keep "white power", often through very violent acts such as killing people. The first Ku Klux Klan broke up and does not exist anymore. However, other groups with the same name and the same ideas have been created.
The Ku Klux Klan (acronym KKK) is an organization which was started in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865. This was after the American Civil War.
It started as a social club for former Confederate soldiers. The Klan quickly became a terrorist organization. Its aim was to resist the Reconstruction of the United States.
SOURCE : https://kids.kiddle.co/Ku_Klux_Klan
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1.) “FBI DOMESTIC TERRORISM DEFINITION:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”Mar 23, 2017
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
SOURCE: https://nij.gov/topics/crime/terrorism/pages/welcome.aspx
“Domestic terrorism: Perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a 1.) political, 2.) religious, 3.) social, 4.) racial, or 5.) environmental nature. “
2.) FBI and Terrorism
NCJ Number 107703
Journal FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Volume: 56 Issue: 11 Dated: special issue (October 1987) Pages: 14-17
Author(s)
S L Pomerantz
Date Published 1987
Length 4 pages
Annotation
In 1982, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) terrorism program was elevated to national priority status.
Abstract
The FBI defines terrorism, domestic or international, as the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government or civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives.
The FBI is the lead agency for operational response to domestic terrorism and also has responsibility for some terrorist actions against Americans overseas.
The FBI has a dual mission to prevent and react to terrorist violence. It does this by collecting and disseminating information, planning, and investigation.
The FBI is also involved in crisis and special events management, research (trend analysis, threat assessment), training, hostage negotiation, and interagency coordination and cooperation.
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/fbi-and-terrorism#:~:text=The%20FBI%20defines%20terrorism%2C%20domestic,of%20political%20or%20social%20objectives.
3.) Terrorism
Protecting the United States from terrorist attacks is the FBI’s number one priority. The Bureau works closely with its partners to neutralize terrorist cells and operatives here in the United States, to help dismantle extremist networks worldwide, and to cut off financing and other forms of support provided to foreign terrorist organizations.
Terrorism Definitions
International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
* Reports: Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism
* June 2023
* October 2022
* May 2021
The Current Threat
The FBI is committed to remaining agile in its approach to the terrorism threat, which has continued to evolve since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Years after these attacks, the threat landscape has expanded considerably, and international terrorism remains a serious threat. The threat of domestic terrorism also remains persistent overall, with actors crossing the line from exercising First Amendment-protected rights to committing crimes in furtherance of violent agendas.
Many factors have contributed to the evolution of the terrorism threat on both the international and domestic fronts, such as:
* Lone offenders: Terrorist threats have evolved from large-group conspiracies toward lone-offender attacks. These individuals often radicalize online and mobilize to violence quickly. Without a clear group affiliation or guidance, lone offenders are challenging to identify, investigate, and disrupt. The FBI relies on partnerships and tips from the public to identify and thwart these attacks.
* The Internet and social media: International and domestic violent extremists have developed an extensive presence on the Internet through messaging platforms and online images, videos, and publications. These facilitate the groups’ ability to radicalize and recruit individuals who are receptive to extremist messaging. Social media has also allowed both international and domestic terrorists to gain unprecedented, virtual access to people living in the United States in an effort to enable homeland attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), in particular, encourages sympathizers to carry out simple attacks wherever they are located—or to travel to ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria and join its ranks as foreign fighters. This message has resonated with supporters in the United States and abroad.
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
V2 : https://youtu.be/5D10Y_35p98?si=-Mi0rlu84nUy14X4
1.) Klan Youth Corps: Just Like the Scouts
NCJ Number 122018
Journal Southern Exposure Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1980) Pages: 43-44
Author(s)
N Warnecke;
K Loggins;
S Thomas
Date Published 1980
Length 2 pages
Annotation
The Klan Youth Corps recruits white youth to teach them white "superiority," black "inferiority," and "beware the 'enemy' -- the Jews."
Abstract
The published goals of the Youth Corps are to organize white youth in schools, use a "get-tough" policy with "arrogant nonwhites," force school administrators to drop their "appeasement policy toward minorities by threatening public exposure followed by possible boycotts," demand "equal rights for white students," and segregate classes followed by segregation of schools. At their meetings, Klan youth are told by Klan adults that they are losing all their rights to minorities. Youth are encouraged to air grievances against blacks and teachers sympathetic to minorities. Some groups are instructed in the use of firearms, from pistols to sawed-off shotguns, in preparation for the day when "weapons may be the solution to the race problem." Members of the Klan Youth Corps bond to one another through social activities and even summer camps. Klan leader Tom Metzger has likened the Youth Corps to "the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts, only racist."
Publication Format
Article
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Language
English
Country
United States of America
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/klan-youth-corps-just-scouts
2.) Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
DATE
* ca. 1920-ca. 1929
DATE
ca. 1920-ca. 1929
FORMAT
Three dimensional object
COLLECTIONS
The Ku Klux Klan in Northwestern Wisconsin, circa 1915-1950
Wisconsin Local Histories
State of Wisconsin Collection
Subjects
* Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
* White supremacy movements — Wisconsin
SOURCE : https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AJRX5WUOH5ANCO8B
3.) Ku Klux Klan facts for kids
Kids Encyclopedia Facts
The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group. It was started in the southern United States on March 3, 1865. Most of its hate has been towards African Americans, but it has also attacked Catholics, Jews and immigrants. It has sought to keep "white power", often through very violent acts such as killing people. The first Ku Klux Klan broke up and does not exist anymore. However, other groups with the same name and the same ideas have been created.
The Ku Klux Klan (acronym KKK) is an organization which was started in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865. This was after the American Civil War.
It started as a social club for former Confederate soldiers. The Klan quickly became a terrorist organization. Its aim was to resist the Reconstruction of the United States.
SOURCE : https://kids.kiddle.co/Ku_Klux_Klan
——————
——————
1.) “FBI DOMESTIC TERRORISM DEFINITION:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”Mar 23, 2017
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
SOURCE: https://nij.gov/topics/crime/terrorism/pages/welcome.aspx
“Domestic terrorism: Perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a 1.) political, 2.) religious, 3.) social, 4.) racial, or 5.) environmental nature. “
2.) FBI and Terrorism
NCJ Number 107703
Journal FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Volume: 56 Issue: 11 Dated: special issue (October 1987) Pages: 14-17
Author(s)
S L Pomerantz
Date Published 1987
Length 4 pages
Annotation
In 1982, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) terrorism program was elevated to national priority status.
Abstract
The FBI defines terrorism, domestic or international, as the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government or civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives.
The FBI is the lead agency for operational response to domestic terrorism and also has responsibility for some terrorist actions against Americans overseas.
The FBI has a dual mission to prevent and react to terrorist violence. It does this by collecting and disseminating information, planning, and investigation.
The FBI is also involved in crisis and special events management, research (trend analysis, threat assessment), training, hostage negotiation, and interagency coordination and cooperation.
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/fbi-and-terrorism#:~:text=The%20FBI%20defines%20terrorism%2C%20domestic,of%20political%20or%20social%20objectives.
3.) Terrorism
Protecting the United States from terrorist attacks is the FBI’s number one priority. The Bureau works closely with its partners to neutralize terrorist cells and operatives here in the United States, to help dismantle extremist networks worldwide, and to cut off financing and other forms of support provided to foreign terrorist organizations.
Terrorism Definitions
International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
* Reports: Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism
* June 2023
* October 2022
* May 2021
The Current Threat
The FBI is committed to remaining agile in its approach to the terrorism threat, which has continued to evolve since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Years after these attacks, the threat landscape has expanded considerably, and international terrorism remains a serious threat. The threat of domestic terrorism also remains persistent overall, with actors crossing the line from exercising First Amendment-protected rights to committing crimes in furtherance of violent agendas.
Many factors have contributed to the evolution of the terrorism threat on both the international and domestic fronts, such as:
* Lone offenders: Terrorist threats have evolved from large-group conspiracies toward lone-offender attacks. These individuals often radicalize online and mobilize to violence quickly. Without a clear group affiliation or guidance, lone offenders are challenging to identify, investigate, and disrupt. The FBI relies on partnerships and tips from the public to identify and thwart these attacks.
* The Internet and social media: International and domestic violent extremists have developed an extensive presence on the Internet through messaging platforms and online images, videos, and publications. These facilitate the groups’ ability to radicalize and recruit individuals who are receptive to extremist messaging. Social media has also allowed both international and domestic terrorists to gain unprecedented, virtual access to people living in the United States in an effort to enable homeland attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), in particular, encourages sympathizers to carry out simple attacks wherever they are located—or to travel to ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria and join its ranks as foreign fighters. This message has resonated with supporters in the United States and abroad.
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
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PragerU - Bias and Credibility
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibitsone or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no
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Army Veteran CALLS OUT Ron DeSantis, goes MEGAVIRAL
In today’s episode, Ken Harbaugh talks with the Army veteran who called out Ron DeSantis for saying he would “start slitting throats” on day 1 of his preside...
https://youtu.be/qr5S7D_cKp4
1.) Ron DeSantis
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say
Veterans resign from force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’
Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Sat 15 Jul 2023 13.54 EDT
A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his personal command, according to military veteran recruits who have quit the program.
Several veterans resigned after an encampment last month having become concerned at the “militaristic” training and “abuse” one disabled veteran suffered at the hands of instructors, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.
Promoted by DeSantis as an “emergency focused, civilian defense force” when it was established in June 2022, the state guard has quickly morphed into something quite different, the report found.
Volunteers have been trained for military combat, including the use of weapons; khaki polo shirts and pants were replaced by camouflage uniforms; and recruits were “barked at” by boot camp instructors at the joint training base who woke them before dawn and imposed lights-out by 10pm.
Additionally, DeSantis’s compliant, Republican-led state legislature has contributed to the change of direction, this year approving a massive expansion in the force’s funding, size and equipment. Its budget increased from $10m to $107.5m, and its maximum size more than tripled from 400 recruits to 1,500.
On the governor’s shopping list were helicopters, boats, police powers and reportedly even cellphone-hacking technology for a force outside of federal jurisdiction, and accountable directly to him.
“The program got hijacked and turned into something that we were trying to stay away from: a militia,” Brian Newhouse, a retired navy veteran with 20 years’ experience, told the reporters.
Newhouse was originally chosen to lead one of the state guard’s three divisions, and said he was removed from the base near Jacksonville on the first day of training after raising his concerns with national guard staff who were acting as instructors.
SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit
1A.) Turmoil in Florida’s New State Guard, as Some Recruits Quit
Some who volunteered for the force commissioned by Gov. Ron DeSantis said the group, billed as a natural disaster relief organization, had become too militarized.
But the deployment this spring has been mired in internal turmoil, with some recruits complaining that what was supposed to be a civilian disaster response organization had become heavily militarized, requiring volunteers to participate in marching drills and military-style training sessions on weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
At least 20 percent of the 150 people initially accepted into the program dropped out or were dismissed, state officials acknowledged, including a retired Marine captain who filed a false imprisonment complaint against Guard sergeants with the local sheriff after he got into a dispute with instructors and was forcibly escorted off the site.
Several of those who left and spoke to The New York Times said they objected to the direction the organization was taking and either quit or were fired when they tried to voice their concerns.
Mr. DeSantis, to whom the new State Guard reports directly, has suggested that concerns over the organization’s future role are unwarranted.
“If you turned on NBC, it was ‘DeSantis is raising an army, and he’s going to raze the planet,’” Mr. DeSantis told reporters last year. “But, you know, the response from people was ‘Oh, hell, he’s raising an army? I want to join! Let’s do it.’”
SOURCE : https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/florida-state-guard-desantis.html
2.) Dueling Ads: Trump and DeSantis on Social Security and Medicare
By Robert Farley
Posted on April 20, 2023 | Updated on April 21, 202
SOURCE : https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/dueling-ads-trump-and-desantis-on-social-security-and-medicare/
3.) Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training
One retired Marine Corps officer called the police on instructors, alleging abuse.
SOURCE : https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Turmoil-in-Florida-s-New-State-Guard-as-Some-Recruits-Quit/5-2659014/
* Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation to Honor Victims of Communism and Preserve
* History of the Freedom Tower On May 9, 2022,
SOURCE : https://www.flgov.com/2022/05/09/governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-to-honor-victims-of-communism-and-preserve-history-of-the-freedom-tower/#:~:text=MIAMI%20–%20Today%2C%20Governor%20Ron%20DeSantis,communist%20regimes%20across%20the%20world.
1.) Ron DeSantis
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say
Veterans resign from force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’
Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Sat 15 Jul 2023 13.54 EDT
A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his personal command, according to military veteran recruits who have quit the program.
Several veterans resigned after an encampment last month having become concerned at the “militaristic” training and “abuse” one disabled veteran suffered at the hands of instructors, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.
Promoted by DeSantis as an “emergency focused, civilian defense force” when it was established in June 2022, the state guard has quickly morphed into something quite different, the report found.
Volunteers have been trained for military combat, including the use of weapons; khaki polo shirts and pants were replaced by camouflage uniforms; and recruits were “barked at” by boot camp instructors at the joint training base who woke them before dawn and imposed lights-out by 10pm.
Additionally, DeSantis’s compliant, Republican-led state legislature has contributed to the change of direction, this year approving a massive expansion in the force’s funding, size and equipment. Its budget increased from $10m to $107.5m, and its maximum size more than tripled from 400 recruits to 1,500.
On the governor’s shopping list were helicopters, boats, police powers and reportedly even cellphone-hacking technology for a force outside of federal jurisdiction, and accountable directly to him.
“The program got hijacked and turned into something that we were trying to stay away from: a militia,” Brian Newhouse, a retired navy veteran with 20 years’ experience, told the reporters.
Newhouse was originally chosen to lead one of the state guard’s three divisions, and said he was removed from the base near Jacksonville on the first day of training after raising his concerns with national guard staff who were acting as instructors.
SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit
1A.) Turmoil in Florida’s New State Guard, as Some Recruits Quit
Some who volunteered for the force commissioned by Gov. Ron DeSantis said the group, billed as a natural disaster relief organization, had become too militarized.
But the deployment this spring has been mired in internal turmoil, with some recruits complaining that what was supposed to be a civilian disaster response organization had become heavily militarized, requiring volunteers to participate in marching drills and military-style training sessions on weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
At least 20 percent of the 150 people initially accepted into the program dropped out or were dismissed, state officials acknowledged, including a retired Marine captain who filed a false imprisonment complaint against Guard sergeants with the local sheriff after he got into a dispute with instructors and was forcibly escorted off the site.
Several of those who left and spoke to The New York Times said they objected to the direction the organization was taking and either quit or were fired when they tried to voice their concerns.
Mr. DeSantis, to whom the new State Guard reports directly, has suggested that concerns over the organization’s future role are unwarranted.
“If you turned on NBC, it was ‘DeSantis is raising an army, and he’s going to raze the planet,’” Mr. DeSantis told reporters last year. “But, you know, the response from people was ‘Oh, hell, he’s raising an army? I want to join! Let’s do it.’”
SOURCE : https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/florida-state-guard-desantis.html
2.) Dueling Ads: Trump and DeSantis on Social Security and Medicare
By Robert Farley
Posted on April 20, 2023 | Updated on April 21, 202
SOURCE : https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/dueling-ads-trump-and-desantis-on-social-security-and-medicare/
3.) Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training
One retired Marine Corps officer called the police on instructors, alleging abuse.
SOURCE : https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Turmoil-in-Florida-s-New-State-Guard-as-Some-Recruits-Quit/5-2659014/
* Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation to Honor Victims of Communism and Preserve
* History of the Freedom Tower On May 9, 2022,
SOURCE : https://www.flgov.com/2022/05/09/governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-to-honor-victims-of-communism-and-preserve-history-of-the-freedom-tower/#:~:text=MIAMI%20–%20Today%2C%20Governor%20Ron%20DeSantis,communist%20regimes%20across%20the%20world.
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