RON ARMSTRONG
President, Stand Up Michigan | Memo to the Senate
Save America’s Military
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military!
RON ARMSTRONG, President, Stand Up Michigan
RON ARMSTRONG, President, Stand Up Michigan
You know, we put this together so that we could give you the tools, the information necessary for you to take action. For you to be able to connect with your local officials, the organizations that you work with, the people that are in your family and your community.
But certainly, the senators that have been making the decisions that were recently made that have continued the Marxist trajectory of our country in regards to our military. I wanted to share with you, you know, well, first of all, we've heard from over 20 people today. You've heard from generals from. All of the services from the Marines and from the Army and from the Air Force. You've heard of people from the CIA. You've heard from national leaders, organizational leaders, and specifically you've heard from grassroots leaders, people who represent you and me.
And whether you're a senator or a staff member of a senator that might be watching this, you need to horse watch this. You need to understand that the people of America are very concerned about what is happening in our military. I wanted to share with you a quote, first of all, from Ronald Reagan, who said, we know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. This is the time. The tempts, the tyrants. We look at this and think that our enemies are only from abroad. But we often try and express to you that our enemies are both foreign and domestic.
We have many people within our own country that seeks a Marxist ideology and a destruction of our Constitution and our country. They seek to destroy that because of what it stands for, because of those unalienable rights and the things that we want to preserve. America's military and soldiers have never been identified as man or woman. A black or white. Of sexual orientation or nationality. They have always been identified as soldiers and Americans.
This effort here is not about a political persuasion. It's not about Republican or Democrat. This is about Americanism. It is about patriotism. And it is about an understanding that we have as we listen in.
These grassroots people that you heard from who are listening to the people across America, who have young people who are of age to serve. This is not because we lack resolve or commitment to our country. It's not a lack of patriotism that exists. It is a withholding of the parents and the people themselves who are not willing to commit to getting involved and serving in a military that is going to judge them based on those criteria. Those litmus tests. You heard from several people that said if they knew when they joined that this is how they were going to be treated, they would have never joined or they would get out.
Look, this is not how we move forward as a nation.
I believe that many of the senators believe that this is just another election. This is just another budget, just another cycle. It is not. America is on the brink of destruction. And I will leave you with this quote. From Abraham Lincoln who said America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms, it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.
Let that not happen on our watch. Let that not happen in our time. Let us rise up not as Republicans or Democrats or color of our skin or nationality or religion, but as Americans. We can change the trajectory of our nation. We can offer the life, the liberty and the pursuit of happiness for future generations.
But we must take action now. And I ask that you would take the number on the screen, take the video of this entire incredible recording that was put together, by the way, and just a matter of days. And we would ask you to share it with everyone that you know. Because America is indeed. At stake Our sovereignty. The traditions that we hold so dearly. We thank you for your time. We appreciate it. And I'll turn it back over to Frank for some final comments.