Just…wow… I thought the whole veterans bad thing was bad…
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.
State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred him to the Justice Department for investigation on the grounds that he was involved in “Religiously Motivated Violent Extremism,” or RMVE, according to a lawsuit he filed earlier this month against the State Department.
Pemberton said in his lawsuit that he first told his superior, Diplomatic Security Mobile Security Deployments Office Director Jeff Thomas, he was refusing to sign the voluntary pledge because he couldn’t wave his constitutional rights. Nor could he stop exercising his religious beliefs, he said. Thomas later retaliated by referring him to the department’s insider threat program.
Full article, HERE from Headline USA, and a video HERE. h/t S.
Soooo, basically they went after him because he is a WASP and heterosexual. Therefore he ‘must’ be a threat to the Xiden administration/State Department… sigh.
What is unbelievable is that this has drug on for FIVE years! At least now he’s fighting back and from the reports seems to have a good case! Of course I’m NOT a lawyer, and we all know ‘where’ the case is filed and ‘who’ the judge is will play a major role!
I just hope he wins!
Grrrr…
oh noes! He wants to go to church; can’t have that!
It just goes to show how much of the Vid was about seeing who would be compliant and who would push back.
Thanks for covering this.
^^^^ This
And it allowed the Deep State to add him to the “target list” of people to be removed from Gov’t. Note they tried the same thing with non-Gov’t workers & the Jab, where you would lose your job if you weren’t Jabbed until the Supreme Court ruled against them.
I’ve read many posts where people had the choice between getting Jabbed, and being unemployed. ‘Optional’ sounds almost Soviet in choice and starving is the preferred method to get people to ‘behave’.
I’ll also note we didn’t have a pandemic die-off due to people attending church without being Jabbed.
The irony. Didn’t they shut the churches down?
Yeah, church bad, riots and sex parties good.
Christianity and Judaism were not their religions, so preventing the practice of them was not a cost in their eyes.
‘collective models’, ‘expertise’, and ‘leadership’ are their religions, and they are and were angry that the rest of us do not share their perceptions.
They drew on a bunch of seeming shared norms, demanded a significant cost, and drove a lot of people insane.
In terms of utilitarianism, purporting to be an expert, demanding a high cost, and also providing all the information to disprove ‘expertise’, is not a wise choice.
They basically disproved either the hypothesis that they can do arithmetic or they disproved the hypothesis that they are not psychotic partisan actors. The only way to justify the pro-riot lockdown as a mathematical choice is if frauding Biden in was important enough to offset all other deaths. That four years of Biden would defy normal understanding enough to offset decades of consequence otherwise to be expected was not a model that those ‘experts’ had broad permission to act on.
They are communists, and thought as always i) that this gamble on leadership will pay off, and not turn out later to be ‘fascist’ ii) that they have their enemies on the run, and just need to scare or hurt them a bit more. If you can get infinite worldly good from doing the correct magical ritual, and right away, then someone caught in a bad ‘gambler’s fallacy’ will try.
There may be expertise in bits and pieces buried away still in academia, but when academics come together and collaborate the result is not automatically useful and non-harmful.
re: Jab.
I’ve been unemployed before.
My financial situation was not so good or so spendy that I could not just go back to unemployment for a while, if pressed.
I have spent a lot of time crippled with one, or maybe more, medical problems that are maybe a bit related in terms of systems, risks and technology. There was pretty clearly zero prep for those ‘making the decisions’ to pay the costs if the consequences were not lethal for me.
Therefore, I am not persuaded that I ought to defer to anyone else in decisions about risks I am or am not willing to take with my own health. (If I had a wife and children, that would be a more valid sort of constraint of that type.)
The medical professions were the recipients of a long march of fucking them over.
The legal professions seem likewise.
There is no reason to expect that any profession must necessarily have good outcomes if they keep their professional schools inside the universities.
Some Professors Cartmann, and some Cartmanns Esquire and MD still want us to respect their authoriteh, and treat them as if they have not personally screwed up their appeal to credibility.
Of course, they are mixed up with some poor bastards who kept their heads down and tried to do the right thing to the best of their understanding.
Lots of people can pull obviously absurd models out of their ass. But, when I do stuff like pull “spanish speakers will cause the earth to make the sun explode” from my ass, I expect some people to laugh, I am trying to make people laugh.
A very finicky and needs careful handling model that says that some types of human contact or human movement are bad, and that others are good, well, terrible models are also the business of academics. But, the expected task of academics are to ignore the more terrible models and select the better models when they are asked what other people should do.
This breaks when the academics in questions have values incompatible with the mainstream, values which forbid them from participating in the mainstream’s peace consensus.
Shutting down all tertiary graduate schools that admit students who can not show i) documented regular church attenders ii) forty years or older iii) still be married to the same person, with oldest children now adult? A) when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a measure B) we would still be able to find extremely wicked and evil people in such a group.
The solution is to find whoever generated that pledge, cane them 20 times in public, and watch such problems disappear.
State Dept Protective Services men and women tend to be the most conservative employees of all of Foggy Bottom folks. I don’t recognize either name but it’s been 10 years plus since they were my customer.
“The director of the Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) Office within the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) is an appointed position, typically held by a career member of the Senior Foreign Service or Senior Executive Service.” Google
So Mr. Thomas was a diplomat, not a security professional
nice
All- Yep, punish the Christians, let the rest side… Gerry- Possibly…
He may have been a drunk but Joe McCarthy was no fool.
He saw Godless Commies at State back in the ’50s and damn if they aren’t still there.
Anyone who had any lingering doubts that the .gov is our enemy should think about this case.
Stretch- True, sigh…
TB- Agreed!
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A true and meaningful win would include those specific people who retaliated against him would go to prison.
Government is an institution. It is inanimate. It is specific people in positions of authority who do this crap.
Penalizing government only harms The People, not the perpetrator. Until the perpetrator is made to feel the full weight of the consequences of their actions, they’ll keep right on. For they will have become more clever and the price is not too high.