The Americans For Loyalty Act of 2021

Let The Purges Begin Until Morale Improves

A post or two ago I mentioned surprise at the absence of loyalty oaths to the Queen of the Capitol. It seems I was merely a tad premature.

I saw where the Secretary of Defense instituted a 60-day military stand-down to allow time to investigate the activities of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on social media for their “disloyalty” to the self-styled aristocrats of the estabishment (SSAOTE). I wonder if those deemed “disloyal” will be discharged, and what that discharge might be. Is DOD going to create a new “Disloyal” discharge category, or better a “Dissenter” category: Honorable, General, Bad Conduct, Dishonorable, and Dissenter? Thought police anyone?

I was told, once upon a time, that in America, people were presumed innocent until proven guilty. Until recently, most laws required an active breach, such as having robbed a bank, or having committed “X.” The SSAOTE now seem to consider simple disagreement with their position sufficient grounds for adjudication–action on the part of the “perp” is not required, merely disagreeable speech.

The treatment of General Mike Flynn by the same SSAOTE makes one wonder if “disloyalty” will be a disqualifying criterion for current military pensioners somewhere in the future.

Thinking about the precedent these actions precipitate, I realized it’s not the first time an administration instituted arbitrary loyalty standards. An earlier, self-styled aristocrat deprived Americans of due process, seized their property,and shipped off to internment camps those deemed “dangerous” to “regular” Americans. Can you spell Japanese internment camps? Why were not Italian-American, or German-Americans rounded up? Was it because they were descendants of Europeans, and thereby acceptable?