Point of View September 4, 2024 – Hour 2 : Getting Politics Out of Medicine, Drafting Our Daughters

[00:00:03] Back to Point of View, we've got another hot button issue to discuss and actually good

[00:00:29] development in this situation.

[00:00:31] Last month there were some emails released showing that actually I think it was maybe

[00:00:35] late June that Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine, this is Rachel Levine and

[00:00:44] a lot of you probably know because we've talked about it here on Point of View that

[00:00:48] we have an Assistant Secretary of Health at HHS who is transgender.

[00:00:54] Male turned female or you know presenting himself as female Admiral Rachel Levine and

[00:01:05] her folks met with WPATH, World Professional Association for Transgender Health Leaders and

[00:01:11] pressured them to drop age limits from their standards of care which meant providing hormones

[00:01:21] and transgender surgeries at younger ages than they had previously recommended.

[00:01:26] This was a pressure that was coming from our federal government toward this organization.

[00:01:32] With us to discuss this and what Congress is doing about it is Jared Ross and Jared

[00:01:39] Ross is a physician, he's a board certified emergency physician with over 24 years of experience

[00:01:46] as a paramedic, firefighter and educator and he is speaking for an organization called

[00:01:55] Do No Harm.

[00:01:57] Jared thank you so much for joining me.

[00:02:00] Hannah thanks so much for having me, really appreciate it.

[00:02:03] It's so good to have you.

[00:02:04] I want to go back to when it was exposed that Rachel Levine, Admiral Levine was pressuring

[00:02:13] this organization WPATH to recommend trans-transing kids younger and younger.

[00:02:20] Tell us about it.

[00:02:22] Yeah so this was actually first revealed by the New York Times in June of this year

[00:02:28] and as of last month August we saw an investigation started by the House Oversight Committee,

[00:02:37] specifically the Subcommittee on Healthcare led by Congresswoman Lisa McClain.

[00:02:44] Well that's a good thing.

[00:02:46] Have you seen an update on their progress?

[00:02:51] So Congresswoman McClain submitted a request for documents from Health and Human Services

[00:02:59] where Dr. Rachel Levine is the Assistant Secretary for Health and they have a deadline to receive

[00:03:06] those documents of September 10th so that's next Tuesday.

[00:03:11] We haven't seen anything yet but coming back from a holiday weekend here I'm very hopeful

[00:03:16] that we'll see something later this week or early next week.

[00:03:20] When you think about this organization WPATH I know they're not necessarily as much

[00:03:26] of a medical organization as they are an advocacy group but I'm assuming they have some expertise

[00:03:32] and you have the federal government pushing them to change an opinion that's already kind

[00:03:40] of concerning recommending these surgeries but making it go younger and younger taking

[00:03:46] away an age limit on it.

[00:03:49] It's kind of amazing to think about that our government is doing that isn't it?

[00:03:55] It absolutely is.

[00:03:57] WPATH is a pretty despicable organization and very I think pseudoscientific would be a way

[00:04:05] to describe it.

[00:04:06] I'm not sure that they are opposed to having these age limits removed but they've had

[00:04:12] a lot of negative attention recently.

[00:04:15] They had a large leakage of files back in March of this year, the WPATH files

[00:04:23] and then the CAS review commissioned by the UK's National Health Service and Dr.

[00:04:28] Hillary CAS in April of this year further casts a lot of negative attention on WPATH.

[00:04:34] So I think some of this may have just been to try to stay under the radar but yes

[00:04:40] this is our political officials, taxpayer funded officials who are lobbying

[00:04:48] pseudoscientific organizations to mutilate children.

[00:04:52] I think the other part of this is that kids may be struggling with something,

[00:04:58] maybe even some kind of autism or mental illness and they get prescribed these hormones as a cure

[00:05:06] and then that sucks them in to this sort of I guess a path where they go to

[00:05:17] cross sex hormones or puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and then these surgeries

[00:05:23] and they've gone down this path and it's such a dangerous path.

[00:05:26] I mean we're now seeing the physical, not only the physical damage but psychological damage

[00:05:31] that's done and so I'm hoping that what Congress is doing is going to help us start

[00:05:38] thinking in a more logical manner about this whole path that we're putting kids on.

[00:05:44] What do you think?

[00:05:46] Absolutely, I think you bring up a very good point, Pena.

[00:05:49] We know first of all that these gender confused children have high degrees

[00:05:55] of codiagnosis of autism, anxiety, depression, ADHD so these are troubled children and

[00:06:06] often today in our medical life society we're looking for diagnoses to latch on to

[00:06:11] so whether that's the child or the parent this diagnosis becomes so central in this child's life

[00:06:20] and then this pathway is sold as a panacea for a cure and you're also very correct with that as

[00:06:30] well that we see this as this or this is sold as this harmless pathway of social transition changing

[00:06:38] names and pronouns but we know that it's a very slippery slope and that we start reinforcing

[00:06:43] this behavior and that a social transition leads to puberty blockers and then cross sex hormones

[00:06:50] and then these devastating surgical procedures.

[00:06:54] You mentioned Hillary Cass in Britain and her report which was such a actually helpful in

[00:07:02] over there to close down the Tavistock clinic that was doing these trans surgeries

[00:07:08] and to just slow things down help doctors to look at other mental health issues and not consider

[00:07:18] perhaps transing a child as a cure-all those types of things they're thinking it through

[00:07:22] and we need to too and some people are and as a matter of fact in 23 states there have been

[00:07:29] laws passed outlawing gender modification which is that final step of course in transing a child

[00:07:36] so 23 states that's almost half the states that have done that

[00:07:40] do you see that possibility that there will be other states this year that outlaw it?

[00:07:48] Absolutely we're seeing a lot of progress from the CAS review the United Kingdom,

[00:07:54] Belgium, Sweden and Finland now are no longer providing this so-called gender affirming care

[00:08:02] to minors and we've seen you know several states here in the US follow suit and I really hope that

[00:08:10] we're able to see something on the federal level here in the US and also in Canada.

[00:08:17] What do you think would happen if the House of Oversight Committee which is looking into this

[00:08:24] if they find out could they find out illegalities that could get people in trouble

[00:08:30] that are in the federal government right now? Well I think it's actually very clear there's a

[00:08:37] statement from... I gotta jump in because I asked that question too soon I think the answer is

[00:08:43] yes but we'll discuss it further right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] Charles Gasparino is a TV network business correspondent and he begins his latest book on

[00:09:07] the radicalization of corporate America by talking about the great Goldman Chick-fil-A debate.

[00:09:13] Turns out that there were a handful of young Goldman Sachs associates who wanted to order

[00:09:17] chicken sandwiches from the local Chick-fil-A restaurant others felt it would be racist and

[00:09:22] bigoted to do so an angry debate broke out. A business colleague of Charles tipped him

[00:09:27] off to the story and he was amazed as he puts it that some of Goldman's best and brightest

[00:09:32] that night were convinced that eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich would signal a significant step in

[00:09:37] America's de-evolution sending the nation back to the darker times of the antebellum south.

[00:09:43] He explains why Chick-fil-A might be controversial to some but still finds the reaction unreasonable.

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[00:09:54] The person working at the local restaurant could be an Asian or Hispanic immigrant or some

[00:09:58] dude from Ghana not a real or even imagined southern redneck. When his network contacted Goldman for

[00:10:05] a comment they wouldn't rule out that Chick-fil-A debate occurred but someone at Goldman later asked

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[00:11:03] And on the line is Dr. Jared Ross he is a board certified emergency physician and he's also the

[00:11:09] founder and president of EMSEC LLC which provides healthcare consulting and medical education

[00:11:17] and he's presented at over 90 national and international conferences and frequently

[00:11:24] interviewed in the media which we're doing today and Jared I'm so appreciate you joining me today

[00:11:31] especially on this issue. What do you think that there could be a move if we find that

[00:11:38] there was undue pressure to trans these kids younger and younger that Rachel Levine that

[00:11:47] Admiral Rachel Levine could actually be in a bit of trouble?

[00:11:55] Absolutely I think there's a large body of evidence to show that Admiral Levine was involved

[00:12:02] here. There's communication from Dr. James Cantor who's a psychiatrist at WPATH sending out an email

[00:12:10] to the WPATH internal listserv saying that we sent the draft standards of care number eight

[00:12:17] to Admiral Levine but that she is concerned about having age restrictions for surgeries in the document

[00:12:25] that that could affect access to care and then we saw that when the standards of care version

[00:12:31] eight were released that all four of the age requirements were completely stricken from there.

[00:12:38] Wow what are the age requirements? What were they and what age can you get puberty blockers

[00:12:44] what age can you get cross-sex hormones and what is the minimum age for

[00:12:48] these surgeries that not only castrate but remove breasts and build new organs and all of that?

[00:12:56] Yep so the the draft guidelines had no minimum age requirement for puberty blockers

[00:13:02] 14 for cross-sex hormones 15 for double mastectomies

[00:13:10] 16 for breast augmentation and facial surgeries and then 17 for genital surgeries and hysterectomies.

[00:13:21] This is just unbelievable. All of those ages were removed absolutely unbelievable and there's

[00:13:27] really some irony here that you know Rachel Levine has publicly come out and said you know

[00:13:34] I would have had regret had I transitioned as a child because I'm so grateful to have

[00:13:42] have had my own children. She was in a heterosexual relationship with a woman and has I believe

[00:13:49] two children from that marriage. So she's recommending removing the right for all these kids

[00:13:54] who don't even know what they're asking for to remove the right or the future for them

[00:14:03] to have children. Yes yeah and it's not just it's not just children. Dr. Marcy Bowers who's the

[00:14:14] president of WPATH herself a male to female transgender person was also quoted saying that

[00:14:26] every single child or adolescent who is puberty blocked at what we call tanner stage two it's

[00:14:32] one of the early stages of puberty has never experienced an orgasm and she's a miss came out

[00:14:40] very publicly but again WPATH and now our government continue to support this treatment of children

[00:14:49] it's just despicable. Yeah the whole idea that she's glad she got to have her kids that's kind

[00:14:57] of chilling. So Dr. Ross just why is this happening? Why is our government willing to do this to young

[00:15:06] to young people? Willing and actually I would say they're actually taking risks in doing this

[00:15:14] but nobody's called them on it until now. Yes it's unfortunate it's this corruption

[00:15:21] of ideology and this idea that self-identity is more important than anything else

[00:15:32] and it's really a shame. It has really had detrimental impacts on our society as a whole

[00:15:39] and specifically on medicine we've you know seen medicine move away from the Hippocratic oaths

[00:15:47] from doing no harm to doing a lot of harm to really harming these children with these

[00:15:55] mutilative surgeries and cross sex hormones and it's just awful. It's really it's really

[00:16:05] terrible. So I've read a book called D-Trans by Mary Margaret O'Lehan from Heritage from the

[00:16:12] Daily Signal and she talked about the stories of certain young people that are now detrancing

[00:16:19] and a lot of times they went in with their parents and they were told that if they're they

[00:16:25] didn't they were kind of most of the parents are kind of resistant to allow this kind of a

[00:16:30] progression especially the surgeries but if you don't the doctors or the psychologists would say

[00:16:35] then your child's probably going to kill themselves. We're finding out now that that's

[00:16:39] not true as a matter of fact Dr. Ross it seems like some stats are now showing that they're more

[00:16:46] likely to kill themselves if you allow this transitioning gender affirming care to take place.

[00:16:55] Exactly exactly and we've seen that lie propagated to parents it's just it's so

[00:17:02] manipulative. One of the well-known detransitioners and also a member with us at you know harm

[00:17:12] Chloe Cole talked about you know her parents being told would you you know would you rather have

[00:17:18] a dead daughter or a living son and we do know from the evidence that these kids actually

[00:17:25] have worsening mental health and higher rates of suicide with this transition that the best treatment

[00:17:34] for them is good supportive psychotherapy and addressing underlying mental health comorbidities

[00:17:44] but these you know hormones and hormone blockers and surgical procedures are absolutely not the

[00:17:52] answer and are making things much worse and we're seeing these these kids

[00:17:58] some detransition and and deal with the the effects that they've suffered from the hormones

[00:18:05] from the surgeries possible infertility inability to to breastfeed their children

[00:18:12] when they are able to have children it's just devastating. Yeah afterwards when when

[00:18:20] young people start to detransition these were some shocks that I got from that book

[00:18:26] or that well number one you can't get your breasts back you mean you might be able to try to get

[00:18:30] them back but once they've been removed there are a lot of scars and scar tissue and Chloe

[00:18:35] Cole even mentioned that she still had oozing from her surgical site years later and then

[00:18:43] the young men who've had radical surgery and then they detrans they still have these problems

[00:18:49] and pain in elimination in the normal bodily functions for the rest of their lives and so

[00:18:57] and I don't know that a lot of people understand that when you start someone on this path with these

[00:19:02] drugs they're not temporary they're something that they have to take for the rest of their lives

[00:19:07] and it sometimes involves giving yourself a shot every single day so this is you know to

[00:19:13] start children on this path where they're not really old enough to know the repercussions of

[00:19:18] it. It's almost criminal and I hope that that's I hope that that's what Congress says once they start

[00:19:26] dealing with this issue and when start coming out with recommendations.

[00:19:31] Yes it really is criminal and it creates lifelong patients out of these kids who may have a

[00:19:39] temporary or a longer lasting mental health issue but it makes them into physical patients

[00:19:44] and unfortunately that brings in a lot of money to these to these healthcare systems

[00:19:50] and so they they pursue this but it's absolutely atrocious. What are your hopes for this

[00:19:58] congressional investigation? What do you hope happens?

[00:20:02] Yeah I really hope that that Rachel Levine is removed from her position as assistant secretary

[00:20:09] for health. You know she is meddling in in ideology here that's not the job of our

[00:20:17] elected and appointed political officials not not looking out for the best interests of

[00:20:24] our citizens but pushing an ideology here and I think she needs to be removed from her position.

[00:20:31] Thank you so much Jared Ross for joining me today. I appreciate what you're doing

[00:20:35] and thank you for sharing that with us. Thanks so much Benna if I can just direct your listeners

[00:20:43] if they're looking for more information do you know harmmedicine.org is our organization

[00:20:50] and we have a bunch of information up there including some recent recent publications

[00:20:56] tracking this both in the U.S. and abroad. Great thank you so much and we've also linked

[00:21:02] to that at pointofview.net. Ladies and gentlemen this is an important issue and we want to bring it

[00:21:08] to your attention I hope this phenomenon of transing kids goes away someday. I don't know if it will

[00:21:15] but I sure hope it does. Next up we're going to talk about the military are they actually doing

[00:21:20] better on the DEI issue and why are they still trying to draft our daughters or at

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[00:23:06] or staff of this station and now here again is Pena Dexter. Welcome back to point of view I am

[00:23:15] Pena Dexter and if this has already been done this week let me just again do it and offer

[00:23:20] condolences to the family and friends of the hostages that were murdered in a tunnel

[00:23:28] in under Rafa in Gaza and it's just tragic and so we do want to remember them

[00:23:37] and we're going to move on to some of these military issues of course the U.S. military

[00:23:44] is sort of a tried and true institution in our culture and it's also used as an institution

[00:23:51] of social experimentation we've seen many social experiments that have taken place in the military

[00:23:59] some more successful than others and one person who has always been on the front lines of

[00:24:06] making some common sense on this is Elaine Donnelly she is the president of the Center

[00:24:11] for Military Readiness which is an independent nonpartisan public policy organization that reports

[00:24:18] on and lies as military social issues and I don't know if I've ever given this history of Elaine

[00:24:24] she's been my guest many times over the years but Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger appointed

[00:24:30] Elaine Donnelly to DACAWITS the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services

[00:24:37] back in the 80s that in 1992 President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential

[00:24:44] Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Arms Forces Elaine thank you so much for joining me today

[00:24:50] well you've got a long history of making sense on these issues I remember back in the 90s talking

[00:25:01] about don't ask don't tell and gaze in the military and then we've talked about the whole

[00:25:07] transgender push into the military you know in a sense I mean we've lost those battles

[00:25:14] we've saved them off many of the things that were predicted that we predicted back in 2010

[00:25:21] which the Pentagon flatly denied whatever happened did indeed happen and one of them

[00:25:27] that they denied was the issue of transgenders in the military and the issue has not gone away

[00:25:32] in fact in the civilian world it's red hot because you have biological men invading the

[00:25:38] private spaces of women in locker rooms and things like that and women's athletics I suspect

[00:25:45] the same thing is going on in the military the only difference is we're not hearing about it

[00:25:50] because rules actually forbid public discussion of problems with the transgender policy

[00:25:57] wow so yeah that's the thing and I have no idea exactly what is going on I found FOIA's

[00:26:04] FOIA's pretty much go nowhere because well the Pentagon doesn't want to reveal these problems

[00:26:10] they have thoroughly endorse the idea that if you change your appearance you can actually

[00:26:16] change your sex and there's just no biological reality to support that so when I hear people talk

[00:26:24] about gender affirming surgery that's oxymoronic people should not use language like that because

[00:26:32] biology determines sex before birth as you know and changing physical appearance even changing

[00:26:40] body parts removing body parts that are healthy that doesn't change your sex may change your

[00:26:45] appearance or your subjective belief in what you are whether man or woman but it doesn't change

[00:26:53] biological sex so that's why we're having a lot of problems with the transgender issue it is not

[00:26:59] going away frankly I think it's only just begun well there will be a lot more to be said in

[00:27:04] coming months let me on that note open the phones 800 351 1212 in case there's someone out there

[00:27:12] that has served in the military may be able to tell us something that we don't know and can't get

[00:27:17] even through the FOIA request right it is difficult I have filed some and I've heard rumors I don't go

[00:27:24] on rumors I have to know yeah exactly what is happening I always file FOIA's to try to get

[00:27:30] verification but it's pretty hard to come by because only with the approval of the very

[00:27:36] highest level of the Pentagon can there be any discussion of these issues that was written into

[00:27:42] the Department of Defense instructions and we wrote about it two years ago so it's all playing out

[00:27:49] there is a little ray of hope here though the defense bill for 2025 which is going to be

[00:27:57] finished between now in the end of the year and it's perilous because this is a lame duck

[00:28:03] session year and if the administration should change on election day there will be a flurry

[00:28:11] of activity to try to get things done that otherwise would not be done so that's why I'm

[00:28:16] watching very closely what is going on with the defense bill a couple of good things are in both

[00:28:22] bills if they're approved in conference committee it was a motion no more Department of Defense

[00:28:28] DEI positions that is diversity equity inclusion provisions that was approved in both the house

[00:28:35] and senate no sex change surgeries also approved in both the house and the senate that's interesting

[00:28:42] as that is good and medical procedures for children same thing so uh try care coverage

[00:28:49] no medical procedures for children that could result in sterilization so that passed in the

[00:28:56] senate 13 to 12 and the senate committee that's all to the good so we have some good things in this

[00:29:02] bill however there are some negative things starting with draft art daughters here it comes again

[00:29:09] comes up every again and again yeah it's been fought back many times we also know that the

[00:29:16] attempt to affirm meritocracy and to end racial discrimination there were a couple of

[00:29:22] amendments that were offered and they were defeated and in some cases with the help of

[00:29:28] republicans and it's very difficult to figure out why because you would think that senators

[00:29:35] would certainly vote to affirm and end to discrimination certainly at the military service academies

[00:29:43] but senator deb fischer for instance in north dakota she voted no on that the measure failed

[00:29:49] and there was another amendment in that was a good amendment by senator roger wicker but senators

[00:29:56] rounds and joni erntz voted no senator joni urs office gave me an explanation for that

[00:30:05] i'm not saying that i buy it but i did print what her explanation was but to me that the primary

[00:30:12] factor should include still be meritocracy meritocracy needs to be upheld because here's

[00:30:19] the problem the panagon defines meritocracy different than you and i would they say that race

[00:30:26] should be considered part of merit and your skin color should make you more merit meritorious

[00:30:32] than someone else now that is silly as it sounds that argument was made in legal terms before

[00:30:39] the united states supreme court in the case of the harvard and university of north carolina case

[00:30:47] came down a couple years ago and it said that racial discrimination in higher education was wrong

[00:30:53] and that included the rotc programs on the campuses of harvard and university of north

[00:30:59] carolina uh... the service academies were not included in that ruling they weren't even part

[00:31:05] of the case but they were cited by the government they will we want to continue discriminating

[00:31:11] and the supreme court just ignored that put it right aside and included in their ruling rotc

[00:31:19] but there needs to be more litigation in fact it's already been filed uh... to extend that

[00:31:25] ruling to the service academies but you don't need litigation congress should have acted

[00:31:30] and they had the chance to act in this last session the writing of the defense bill

[00:31:35] why is the defense bill take why does it take so long to pass it seems like

[00:31:40] i think they get it done every year by hoker by crook even if it's got really bad stuff in it

[00:31:46] quite often in negotiations at the end of the year they take out some of the really bad stuff

[00:31:51] we've got rid of draught our daughters a couple years in a row that way

[00:31:56] hopefully this one also will be removed but here's a problem

[00:31:59] to the new twist the new twist started on the house side and i saw it coming i just knew

[00:32:05] something was up on the house side they passed what looked like an innocuous amendment

[00:32:11] it said that young men would be automatically registered with selective service in other

[00:32:18] words they wouldn't have to go to the post office and sign up okay most young men do that

[00:32:22] they do fulfill their duty but many do not so all of us make it automatic that's more efficient

[00:32:29] save money blah blah blah it passed on the house side and i said look out they're gonna add women

[00:32:34] on the senate side sure enough that's exactly what happened and it happened behind closed doors

[00:32:40] so now the amendment which did pass unfortunately says that women of draft age 18 to 25 or 26

[00:32:50] that they will be automatically registered and wow with selective service now there was a little

[00:32:56] let me jump in elaine because we've got we're coming up on a break i want to unpack this a

[00:33:01] little bit more um so they still want to draft your daughters at least uh our legislators that

[00:33:08] are passing bills regarding the military think that's a good idea and uh i'm going to ask elaine

[00:33:15] why that's not a good idea there are a lot of reasons this keeps coming back

[00:33:20] every time we pass this defense bill it it raises its ugly head uh and uh we need to stop it from

[00:33:27] even doing that and certainly even this year uh to stop it so stick with us for more of

[00:33:34] one of you and again we will take your calls 800 351 1212 we will be back after this

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[00:34:08] a remote broadcast from our station in california socked in california k y cc uh he's out there

[00:34:16] all week that's why you've had several uh guest hosts and uh on friday i'll be hosting our

[00:34:24] weekend edition with kelly shackleford and jeff mature and so you can imagine that will be a lot of

[00:34:30] fun but elaine donnelly is my guest she's center for um military readiness president we're talking

[00:34:37] about this effort to require women to be registered for the draft and even to automatically register

[00:34:44] both men and women for the draft and i noticed elaine one excuse you wrote about in your

[00:34:50] article on the federalists which we posted um why a combat carve out for women is not credible so a

[00:34:58] combat carve out what is that and it sounds like it would protect women but would it

[00:35:04] no uh this attempt to pass draft our daughter's legislation this year has a new twist it says

[00:35:12] well we're going to include women in selective service registration but they will not have to be

[00:35:19] they will not be used in combat positions as defined prior to december 2015 now this is ridiculous

[00:35:29] because the army doesn't even well they don't even know how to define what a woman is they don't

[00:35:35] define what combat is so this ploy that well don't worry we're going to uh register for

[00:35:41] selective service and maybe call up women but they won't be used in combat units well

[00:35:45] this defeats the whole purpose of selective service in fact it changes it it turns it into

[00:35:51] something other than what it's supposed to be an insurance policy to replace soldiers that

[00:35:57] have fallen in battle uh the infantry is the largest branch of military that uh selective service

[00:36:05] affects okay provide soldiers to replace those fallen in battle if you say women are not going

[00:36:11] to be used in combat what are they going to be used for i mean the whole thing aren't they just

[00:36:16] going to come up with a system where you have a call up for war aren't all those women that

[00:36:21] can't be used in combat are going to just make it harder to get the men out there aren't well

[00:36:26] that's the thing because you're doing it for reasons of equity not the needs of the military

[00:36:31] if you call up 50 50 men of percentages 50 percent men 50 percent women maybe one out

[00:36:38] four maybe is qualified among women that is physically qualified for the units they would

[00:36:45] be assigned to but what do you do with all the rest of them well you gum up the system

[00:36:50] that's what happens you bring in people who are not going to be qualified who will not be

[00:36:54] found qualified you slow down the system you make mobilization even harder the whole

[00:37:00] the whole idea is just simply ridiculous it is contrary to sound policy in the military

[00:37:06] now you may make a pretty good case maybe we had to abolish the whole system all together

[00:37:10] and maybe you could make a good case for that and we we know that women have always volunteered

[00:37:16] serve in times of national emergency whether it's combat or an emergency at home women always

[00:37:22] step up so there's no need or someone saying well they are to do the same as the men

[00:37:26] for reasons of resentment that resentment is misplaced because women can and do

[00:37:32] serve their country in time of war it's always been that way but what would happen here what

[00:37:38] I'm concerned about is if you if you get people used to the idea of young people being registered

[00:37:44] with the government for service of the government's choice once they reach a certain age what you've

[00:37:51] done is taken a giant step toward mandatory national service now the supreme court has

[00:37:58] appellable like the service for the military because the constitution says congress provides

[00:38:03] for defense of the country okay they raise armies and navies and so on but the supreme

[00:38:08] court has never upheld the need to have a peace corps or some other organization that does work

[00:38:15] in the community volunteers and that kind of thing the government doesn't have that power

[00:38:20] nor should they be given that power for reasons that are less than compelling

[00:38:26] so we don't want to raise a generation of young people who automatically have to serve the government

[00:38:31] at the direction of the government only for purposes the government approves okay so I'm

[00:38:38] all for volunteerism church work people who work with pro-life organizations for instance

[00:38:43] those kinds of organizations probably wouldn't even qualify for this system this national

[00:38:49] service system what it is sort of smacking of what comes to mind is the chinese system of social

[00:38:57] credits you have to show the government a certain number of social credits in order to be able to

[00:39:03] travel freely or do what you want otherwise the government says no you can't do that that's

[00:39:08] the chinese system that's why so many people you know were allowed to travel outside of

[00:39:15] Wuhan during the covid crisis but not within the country of the of china well it was all

[00:39:22] ordered by the government and when I researched how do they enforce it well it's called national

[00:39:27] service in a way it's social credits you know the military has always been used

[00:39:34] as social experimentation we've talked about so many instances of that over the years but

[00:39:39] now as you look under the hood lane and you see that you know there could be a much more progressive

[00:39:45] agenda deep underneath what they do in the military that's almost always the case anyway with the

[00:39:52] things they try to use the military to advance isn't it well that's right and in the military

[00:39:57] it's even more intense and more problematic because everyone must follow orders that's why

[00:40:03] institution is so vulnerable to social change ordered by civilians who really don't care about

[00:40:10] the military don't understand military culture who think that skin color is more important than

[00:40:15] meritocracy even though it's a life and death situation in the military the military is not

[00:40:21] a conservative institution certainly not anymore if it ever was because of the administration

[00:40:28] in the white house right now when you compare the platforms of the two parties and the republican

[00:40:33] platform unfortunately is somewhat skinnier than it has been in previous years however it does have

[00:40:39] some good solid planks in it and what the democrats want to continue doing of course is

[00:40:45] use the military to advance de i anti extremist programs um crt critical race theory instructions

[00:40:56] even though all of that is very divisive corrosive to morale and unit cohesion

[00:41:03] to pit people against each other based on the skin color that they have

[00:41:07] i mean there's something really perverse there really is but it's deeply entrenched and when we

[00:41:12] released it actually c mr and many others put the spotlight on critical race theory

[00:41:19] starting early in this administration so what do they do they fired the woman in charge

[00:41:24] calissa wing reassigned her and embedded all of her philosophy all through the schools in the

[00:41:32] department of defense department of defense education activity do d e a so all of that is

[00:41:40] happening right now congress as i mentioned at the outset has a couple of amendments that would

[00:41:46] help in stemming the tide but personally i think we're going to need a new president

[00:41:50] we're going to need appointees and the pentagon who understand the problem

[00:41:54] and are willing to do something about it because it's very firmly entrenched it that doesn't mean

[00:42:00] it's irreversible i mean look at all the private companies that are abandoning their de i

[00:42:06] offices and expenditures and so on uh that's all well and good the military should be doing

[00:42:11] the same thing instead they're marching in the opposite direction well elaine i'm glad you're

[00:42:17] voiced out there of reason speaking into the culture and especially the military culture

[00:42:24] so grateful to you and thank you for being with me today you really are a national treasure i'm not

[00:42:30] i'm not exaggerating when i say that thank you for the information we've given us today and we

[00:42:36] will certainly check out our website your listeners can see articles there about the current defense

[00:42:40] bill what they can do people need to know that you know civilians do run the military yeah

[00:42:46] and it isn't just the people in the pentagon it's us because we elect the members of congress

[00:42:51] and congress sets policy for the military and we need to talk to our members of congress too

[00:42:56] elaine thank you so much for being with me today i appreciate it ladies and gentlemen thanks

[00:43:02] for listening it's been a packed show uh we barely ended on time i'll talk to you on friday and

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