Dr. RON SCOTT
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military! The U.S. Senate must reject Marxist leaders for the U.S. Military Services
Dr. RON SCOTT
President and CEO of STARRS
I'd like to point out that we've been blessed to have some tremendous and courageous leadership with our [STARRS] chairman of the board, Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, and our vice chair, Major General Joe Arbuckle, because the issue that we're working is pretty sensitive among that level of our senior officers. And so, we're blessed to have them at the helm guiding our efforts.
What I'd like to contribute, for my part this morning is the fact that we've been working very hard to make the Defense Department far more transparent in what they're doing. As an example, we have filed 42 Freedom of Information Act requests, one with the Secretary of Defense, three with the US Military Academy at West Point, two at the Naval Academy. But, 36 of the 42, have been filed with regard to activities at the Air Force Academy.
So STARRS is doing what it can to make things far more transparent so our elected officials and the courts can get us reestablished as a Constitutional Republic.
And what I'd like to point out is, it took a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to get a federal court to compel the academy to produce documents for two of our FOIAs. One of those was a 167-page assessment that a former superintendent mandated on 8th July of 2020 to determine the extent of systemic racism at the academy. We finally received those documents, a 167-page document, 52 entire pages redacted. All the pages were marked for official use only to shield it from the public domain inappropriately. And, of the pages not redacted, there was not a single piece of evidence of racism, let alone systemic racism. Yet the Academy used that two-year period of blocking public release of that document to train 82 cadets as diversity and inclusion officers and NCOs throughout the cadet wing.
Now, these are equivalent to the Soviet political officers that observe and monitor what's being said among their fellow cadets at the academy. Just a tremendously dangerous precedent to be set, but just gives a small example of the types of things that are happening right now within our Department of Defense.
So STARRS is doing what it can to make things far more transparent so our elected officials and the courts can get us reestablished as a Constitutional Republic.