STARRS Town Hall with Guest Speaker Rick Addante: DEI is NOT Dead at the Department of War

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning everyone .
Welcome to another Stars TownHall.
On behalf of Lieutenant GeneralRod Bishop, our board chair,
and other members of ourleadership team, I am Ron Scott,
president and CEO, and today'shost.
Cindy, if you would pleasedisplay the American flag, we'll

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I pledge allegiance to the flagof the United States of America
and to the republic for whichit stands one nation under God,

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Let me cover a fewadministrative protocol tips.
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address during the session.
Today's lineup I'll make a fewintroductory remarks about STARS
activities and then we'll havea presentation by Dr Rick Adante

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, another individual who's beenin the news and someone that's
demonstrating some tremendousleadership, given some of the
cultural issues that we'rewrestling with, and then we'll
have a short follow up by STARSGeneral Counsel, the Honorable
Mike Rose, and then we'll openup to questions and answers.
So a couple of quickintroductory comments.

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Quick introductory comments.
Stars has achieved its goals ofremoving DEI, crt and DEI from
the Department of Defense andseeking remedies for those that
were harmed by the COVIDvaccination.
We're currently recommending aconcept called Operation
Sentinel, which consists of fourpillars.

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The first is a duty honorcountry commission that's being
pushed by our friends in theMacArthur Society at West Point.
The second one is a warfightereducation reset.
Here we're talking the warcolleges, all of our training
programs and the K-12 Departmentof Defense education system.
The third is Operation Rescueand Restore, which is fully in

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play right now thanks to MikeRose, our general counsel.
And the fourth pillar isOperation Right the Wrongs, and
that was addressed most recentlyin a meeting that was hosted by
Undersecretary of War forPersonal Righteousness, general
Tata, and more will follow.
We're also working withCongress to get merit in the

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legislative language as itrelates to admissions to our
service academies.
And, finally, we're doing anationwide push on a
presentation that we puttogether called the American
Creed Threatened by RadicalIdeology.
It's getting a very favorableresponse and we invite you to
take a look at it and, if you'reso inclined, take it on, use it

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, tailor it to your own purposes.
But what we see is there's areal hunger out there for
Americans true Americans whobelieve in their country to get
a better feel for what we'redealing with, and that there are
very good things that we can doto get beyond that, without
violence, without hatred,without some of the negative

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things that we see playing outin our society today.
So that's a noble mission andwe invite you to be part of it
mission and we invite you to bepart of it.
So with that, I'd like tointroduce our guest speaker for
today, dr Rick Adante.
We posted his bio on theregistration site so you have a
chance to see what hisbackground is.

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He's an incredibly credentialedindividual who demonstrated the
courage to do something thatwas right.
They offered him $96,000 whilethey were kicking him out of a
tenured position to remainsilent, he refused to accept the

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30 pieces of silver and leftthe university to become a
whistleblower.
So Rick has demonstratedtremendous courage, definitely
aligned with the whole missionof STARS.
And at this time I'd like tohand it over to Rick, who's got
a set of slides that he's goingto present in his presentation.
Rick, over to you.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Hi, thank you very much.
It's a very humbling honor tojoin such an esteemed group as
all of you and I thank you, sir,and I thank everybody for your
time in advance.
Like I said, it is a trulyhumbling opportunity.
I'm going to share my screenwith some slides that I've
prepared that will help to tella little bit of the story of the
journey that Mr Scott justalluded to.

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I'm a civilian, so I apologizein advance if I get any military
terminology wrong or anythinglike that, so apologies in
advance.
I am a civilian.
I've served for 13 or 15 yearsor so with the Air Force
Auxiliary that you may know asthe Civil Air Patrol, but

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ultimately I've worked inacademia for 25 years and I'm
here to share a little bit of astory of exactly what it is that
I've seen from the inside, asyou might think of as deep cover
of academia, and giveessentially a direct action
report of exactly what ishappening and perhaps some steps
necessary to fix it.

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So the main thesis here is thatDEI is not dead.
It's being laundered, as I'veobserved it, and it's being
laundered to stay alive and wellinto the Department of War.
So I have been a tenuredprofessor at Florida Institute
of Technology and the Departmentof Psychology, and also with

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biomedical engineering.
I'm a neuroscientist by tradeI'll share a little bit about my
background in a moment and Icurrently run some small LLCs.
But I'm otherwise unemployedand doing the best I can to
speak truth of what's happeningthat people aren't going to be
able to see behind the closeddoors of the pillars of academia

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, because I've been on theinside and I'm going to tell you
and I'm going to show you videoof exactly what it is that's
happening.
So I had a very different talkplanned when we first scheduled
this until the events of lastweek, and I would be remiss if I
didn't start by acknowledgingthe importance of DEI as related

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by Charlie Kirk.
I have a few of his quotes here.
That says President Trump's waron DEI is one of his most
important accomplishments so farand, as was alluded to in the
beginning of this session, thatis due in no small part to
everyone on this call and theleadership of this group and the

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courage of this group to takeit forward from a time when it
was not at the forefront ofpopular issues to champion.
But you guys have done that andthat is a great testament to
you, charlie Kirk said.
The Secretary of Defense, peteHegseth, said DEI is dead at DOD
and we're going back to genderneutral, colorblind, merit-based
performance standards.
And when the terrible tragedyhappened in the Texas floods not

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very long ago at all he askedwhy isn't every leader in Texas
connecting the dots here?
The Austin fire chief was therebecause of DEI and failed to
deploy resources because hedidn't understand the word
reimbursement.
Charlie was a champion of thesame issues that you guys are a
champion of.
On the military side.
He was helped leading thecharge forward on the civilian
side and on the right-hand side.

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Here is his own website,professor Watch, that Turning
Point USA owned and led,featuring the story that I broke
with James O'Keefe aboutFlorida Institute of Technology
and our president there, johnNiccolo, who I caught on
undercover video admitting andconspiring with a cabal of other
faculty to defraud and lie toGovernor Ron DeSantis' face and

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the federal government for many,many millions of dollars.
And I will be sharing that withyou as we go along.
But I think that we would beremiss if I didn't acknowledge
this leadership here fromCharlie and how much this meant
to him and his vision of what hesaw was important and the
alignment of what you guys haveseen important in leading our

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country forward.
Because, as many here know, andcertainly we've all learned
recently, our time will comelike a thief in the night we
won't know when it comes.
And that is a call for courage.
That's not an excuse forcowardice, but to make sure that
every day we go to bed knowingthat we lived this day right and
lived it with integrity andcourage in the way that Charlie

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did every day and the way heextolled all of us too.
So I wanted to start byacknowledging that because, as
I'll allude to later on throughthis presentation, I shared much
of this on the show of JamesO'Keefe which was called my
Price is my Life, and he said ifyour price is not your life,

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then you are for sale.
And Charlie was never for saleand he paid that price.
And he's not alone.
There've been many heroes andchampions who are willing to lay
down their life for the truth,and he certainly did, and I know
many here uh, know many otherswho did too.
So we are here because of themand we are here to take that

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forward and I intend to.
So one champion of that that'sbeen leading this forward is
straight from many of your guys'contacts, mr Matt Lohmeyer,
undersecretary of Defense forthe Air Force.
He led this forward right inresponse to the Charlie Kirk
tragedy.
He said thank you for bringingthis to our attention.

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We've now visited members'Facebook pages and seen public
criticism of thecommander-in-chief pictures he
posted upside down US flag.
We will verify and take swiftaction.
And he said it was brought toour attention what appears to be
explicit violations of the oathto defend the Constitution
coming from a uniformed servicemember, the public criticism of
our commander-in-chief andoverall partisan behavior.
There will be swift actiontaken.

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This is the mark of an absolutechampion.
I am grateful as a civilian forthe leadership that's being
taken and this is one of the bigmessages that I will return to.
Ending with today is the callfor that civic leadership, that
civic courage that so many herein the room know of on the
military side, and the physicalcourage and the battle courage.

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The battle is now on thecivilian side and leadership
like this coming from your groupis such a humble honor to be
able to speak with you, becausethis is the result that we see
of all the hard work of everyonehere.
Is that kind of leadership,taking this forward and

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connecting these dots, asCharlie said to do just in the
slide prior.
So background about me.
I'm not going to go through allthese, but the point is that I
had an illustrious academiccareer for 25 years, starting
with an undergraduate degree inpsychology at the College of New
Jersey.
I was a four-time NCAA wrestler, was a volunteer relief worker

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at Ground Zero of the WorldTrade Center attacks in 2001,.
A Rhodes Scholar finalist,awarded the Marshall Smith Award
for the top student inpsychology and John Wandition
Award for truth and integrity.
I went on to get a PhD inneuroscience at the University
of California, was a diversityfellow at the American
Psychological Association, aNational Research Service Award
winner, president of theNational Neuroscience Graduate

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Student Association.
There I went on to become athree-year postdoctoral fellow
at UT Southwestern Medical, atenured professor, ultimately at
Florida Tech, with stopovers atUniversity of Texas, at Dallas
and Cal State, san Bernardino.
So what I'll be sharing withyou today is a snapshot of
things I've seen from all sortsof states and all sorts of
different kinds of institutionsacross America.

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As I mentioned earlier, I'vealso been a volunteer pilot and
aerospace education officer atthe Civil Air Patrol, dallas
Composite Squadron, riversideSquadron.
Patrick Space Force BaseSquadron.
I was an Education Officer ofthe Year and a Commercial
Multi-Engine Pilot.
I've served on several NASAoperational missions, was a
Mission Specialist at the HERAmission, where I lived in a

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space capsule at NASA JohnsonSpace Center for the largest
study they do on psychology forlong duration missions.
Principal Investigator of aNEEMO mission, which is NASA
astronauts living under thebottom of the Atlantic Ocean
here off the coast of Florida,and was a finalist for astronaut
selection in the year 2017,making the top 0.07% out of

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18,350 people.
So a lot of scientificcontributions awards.
But I'm still the editor ofseveral associate editor of
several journals and societies.
All of that's now gone becauseof the role that we caught DEI
playing and I'm going to sharewith you exactly how that looks.

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One of my core theses to youhere is that DEI is a Trojan
horse of the Americanuniversities that has been and
will continue to be used asmilitary readiness in the
respect of personnel advancement.
College degrees are requiredfor military officers and
especially required foradditional promotions, as I
understand it, through higherlevels as a civilian, what I

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might think of as brass level orflag officers, masters, phds
it's from my understanding, it'sreally tough to go anywhere on
climbing the career ladder ifyou're not going through that
academic pathway.
The GI Bill pays for enlistedand officer education with an
inordinate amount of funding Imust presume of millions of
dollars.
And ROTC is a very commonorganization on campuses all
across the country that reliesupon Department of War funds to
train military personnel inaddition to the GI Bill that, I

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think, goes through theDepartment of Veteran Affairs.
In addition, department of Warfunds a major component of
academic research atinstitutions across the country
through DARPA, through NewArks.
And what does this DEI have as aconsequence of how it impacts
the Department of War?
Well, one, it infiltrates theseinstitutions with a faulty

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ideology that is ultimately anideology of hate and division
and exclusion.
It indoctrinates students andfuture leaders.
It teaches students who are DODpersonnel to hate America
through their ideology and theresults are that it will find
the ultimate destruction ofAmerica because it will lead its
countrymen to destroy eachother.

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We are seeing that even withinthe last week or so of
everything that's transpiredsince the political
assassination of Charlie Kirk,in that we have now seen the
ideologies of many people thatare put forward and the hate
that they have to this country.
A lot of that comes fromideologies that they've been
taught through theseinstitutions, and that has not

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just been on the civilian side,as a few slides ago acknowledged
.
That has been a common finding,and the military personnel
posting on public websites too.
I suggest to you that this isan existential problem.
We must fight back or we willlose the republic, because we
will not have any left who arewilling to defend it if they are

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taught to hate it.
So, 25 years, what have I seenfrom the inside?
Going back to post 9-11 collegein New Jersey, I saw our
college prohibited the flying ofAmerican flags from dorm
windows.
I was writing op-eds in thepaper against that.
At this point, almost 25 yearsago.
Moving forward to UT Dallas,when I first started my first

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faculty position, I wasconfronted by the dean of the
school, who asked me to help auniversity student who happened
to be a military veteran fromthe Navy SEALs and help him to
understand a scam that was beingconducted by the University of
Texas at Dallas at the Centerfor Brain Health on soldiers

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suffering from traumatic braininjury and using them for
funding and raising funding Onelection night of 2016,.
I was having beers, like manypeople were watching that
evening's events, sitting nextto a professor, amy Von Shagen,
who called for the assassinationof the president-elect at that
time.
As 2017 emerged, we saw the riseof Antifa and the resistance

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sales by students, facultyadministrators on the academic
side, much as we did in thefield of government, students,
faculty administrators on theacademic side, much as we did in
the field of government.
Of course, we are all familiarwith in this group the coercion
and tyranny that the COVID-19pandemic brought forward between
vaccines, masks, compliance andanti-science indoctrination.
And as we move forward, we'veseen the rise of transgenderism

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taking control and ideologicalcapture of the institutions.
Just last year, I published, Iwas asked to review a textbook
that included the codificationof transgender therapies and
gender-affirming health care forpeople and underage minors, and
I was faced with theopportunity to overlook that,

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but we chose not to.
We spoke the truth and wepublished critical corrections
of that textbook as well.
What I'm here to talk abouttoday is what we've seen.
Is the president of Florida Techwe caught with James O'Keefe
and O'Keefe Media Groupadmitting to lying about
complying with the federal andstate mandates that are supposed
to be prohibiting DEI, to makeus think that DEI is dead.

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I'll share with you a video onthat in a moment.
And in that conversation hesays that we may lose some
funding, but he's going to focuson using the US Space Force
funds to compensate for that inparticular.
And we can see on the right.
Here is a screenshot of theribbon-cutting ceremony of a new

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educational facility that theSpace Force has opened up at
Patrick Space Force Base inorder to partner with this
institution, florida Tech.
That is accepting federal fundsand indoctrinating its students
with critical race theory andDEI.
That is not supposed to behappening, ultimately teaching

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them to hate America andpotentially to even celebrate
these political assassinationsbased on that indoctrination.
I caught that on tape.
They were conspiring to defraudthe state and federal
governments.
They were saying we will changeour words, but do not change
your actions.
The president said I thinkcritical race theory is valuable

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history.
It should be taught.
He said he thinks thatdiversity is the same thing as
giving veterans preference.
Veterans preference, eventhough veterans earn their
preference and protection fromdiscrimination by their service
and their courage and theirbravery and their sacrifice,
whereas diversity, equity andinclusion promotes people based

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upon illegal discrimination offactors that are not earned.
He acknowledged that we teach aclass called DEI 101.
And then they went on video andlaughed about it because they
know that they've never beencaught and they never thought
they would be and so far they'venever been held accountable.
They went on to say how theywere going to change the catalog

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of courses, their names anddescriptions, even after
students have registered, inorder to hide DEI and CRT, which
is a different kind of fraud,of false advertising.
And more recently, if any of youguys are alumni or related to
Texas A&M, there's a bigmilitary culture there.
State Senator Brian Harrisonhas done a fantastic job in real

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time every day the last twoweeks, breaking news stories of
how they are also engaging inDEI indoctrination with courses
about trans justice.
So these things connect andthey connect for me at a very
personal level in seeing thetragic assassination of Charlie
last week, because these DEIseeds are the same seeds of

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these trans justice courses thatare being taught.
They're the same seeds thatblossomed into the weeds of the
shooters who actually committedthese heinous acts of murder.
And make no mistake, they wereshooting at Charlie, but they
were aiming at all of us andthey won't stop because they
said that that is their goal.
They won't stop because theysaid that that is their goal.

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I've also caught otherpresidents at Cal State
admitting to believing thatanyone in the current
administration has residualwhite supremacy and it's his job
to denigrate them and bringthem down.
That hasn't broken in the news,but I'll share that with you
later if we have time.
So I was fired upon reportingthat I was now unemployed, lost
my job.
This was not very long ago.
About six or eight weeks ago,they offered me almost $100,000

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in hush money to stay silent.
I said the truth is not forsale.
My integrity is not for saleand it never will be.
We walked away with nothing,but we kept everything intact in
respect to our dignity and myintegrity.
And when I say our, I mean mywife too.
She's been an absolute hero inhelping to support this.
Much like the military spousesthat keep the home front afloat

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during times of challenge, shehas been an absolute hero to our
family too.
I'll share with you a littlevideo here.
That is a compilation, so youcan see exactly what it is that
I'm talking about.
This is about three, three anda half minutes.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
The era of DEI is gone at the defense department.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
The president, a man named John Nicklo talking about
changing the wording to getaround the presidential
executive order in order not tolose funding.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
The summarization is like yeah, we're going to screw,
we're going to pretend thatwe're not pushing DEI, but we're
really pushing DEI.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Screw them and give me the money.
Was that kind of a?

Speaker 4 (23:19):
good summary.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
It was that, but even more summary, it was that, but
even more, I've always used theclaim that you were opposed to
diversity.
Yeah, I am.
How do you feel about theveterans?
We opened the paddock to SpaceForce off site instructional,
off campus instructional site.
In the fall.
I said are you saying criticalrace theory?
He said, yeah, yeah, how do youfeel about that?

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I said, well, I believe inteaching all the district, the
good and the.
Yeah, I can feel about that.
I said, well, I believe inteaching all the district, the
good and the bad.
I believe in.
I'm saying it's a removedcourse.
It's probably a very dominantcourse Deeds, not words.
Diversity is important for anumber of reasons.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
I think this is a valuable part of education.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
And if we have to change some words so they're not
being scraped and so we're nottargeted, it allows us to do our
work Deeds, not words.
You know, $7 million that's alot of money, but if I lose $7
million we can live.
We can live with it.
In fact he teaches DEI 101,because that course would not be
a public university curriculumbefore.
My inclination is that youcontinue to teach those courses.
The way I put it, the verse wehave in place, we're going to do

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what we do.
Let's not unnecessarily thetarget on our back.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Just tell the truth, ed.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Deeds, not words.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
We opened a space force off site, off campus
instructional site.
In the fall, we're just lookingfor words.
And we modify some of thelanguage we have not changed.
If you notice our core valueson our website, diversity is

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important for a number ofreasons.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
First and foremost, up front, you have to tear out
DEI and CRT initiatives, rootand branch out of institutions
100%.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
We have a force, and it was called DEI 101.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
We have a force Deeds , not words.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Rick says there are certain times that we are all
called.
He has now been fired recentlyfrom Florida Tech for coming
forward with video evidenceshowing what appears to be an
alleged fraud and cover-up.
They offered you $100,000 toshut up and you didn't take it.

Speaker 9 (25:59):
Yeah, we felt free.
We're done with that shit.
We're done with that shit.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, so um my hope is that you guys are still with
me on this and I ended on thatcomponent to that video of the

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discrepancy between not just thewords versus the actions but
what's being said by twodifferent people.
You have the president of auniversity saying we're
obviously not done underminingthe federal government's
requirements for acceptingfederal funds so that we can
continue to indoctrinate you,your children, your

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grandchildren in critical racetheory and DEI versus the
Secretary of War and, of course,speaking for the president of
the United States, saying thatshit is done.
So you have this bigdiscrepancy here where people
think it's over, they think it'sdone, but what's happened is I

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caught them burrowing andactually describing how they are
going to be resisting andfighting back so that they can
keep your money to indoctrinateyour children and destroy this
nation.
If you want to see the writtenversions of that, there's two
sub stacks I have linked here tothat will tell those story, the

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details.
They provide video support andall that good stuff and the
links to the respective showsthat have been done One by James
O'Keefe there, and DavidRutherford is a retired SEAL and
CIA contractor that just had ashow come out detailing those
details.
A week or two ago.
I had a show come out detailingthose details a week or two ago,

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and so it's not just the DEIthat's happening there, but what
we can also see is that, orwhat I can tell you, is that
this DEI is being taught byforeigners on H-1B visas, such
as Brandon May, who Iparticipated in his hiring from

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just a year or two ago.
He's very junior, he's not verybright.
I caught him faking hisqualifications on his resume,
which is immigration fraud, andhe came here and he says he
wants to do influence operationson American citizens.
He participated in that,co-conspiring with the president

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to defraud those funds, as wascaptured by James O'Keefe.
He was in that video and ifyou're familiar with the Minerva
Institute at the Pentagon, thatwas shuttered under scandal for
surveilling and coercingAmerican citizens with
propaganda, that is what he wasseeking to do and I'll see if I
can show you a clip of that too.
So when we talk about theinfluence on DOD, on our

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warfighters and militarypersonnel going to college for
what you might think of as aninnocent education on the GI
Bill or ROTC or continuingprofessional development, these
are the people on the inside andwhat they're doing, not just
with DOD funds, but they'reteaching students as well, so
here's a clip of his.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
Brandon, you just got to deploy some of those memes
for propagandizing to the rightway that you guys do.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
We have a project rejected on the basis of ethics,
as they argue that we don't dothese types of things, so
influence operations don't exist, apparently, really, yeah, okay
, so for timing I'll keep thatshort, but you saw the gist of
it there.
He says I had a project at DoDrejected because even DoD said

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it was poor ethics, and theysaid that we don't do those
things anymore that he wasasking to do, which was
influence operations.
As a European foreigner, comingin a time now where people are
grieving a national politicalassassination, when we have

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people come back from warfighting PTSD, other things like
that, 90 percent of thepsychological services and
trainees and programs are womenwho are ideological liberal DEI
sympathizers, who've often nowbeen caught with great disdain
for the values and beliefs ofAmerican military personnel, and
we've seen that now, in theaftermath of this recent
assassination, psychology has amajor problem with this lack of

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political diversity.
I'm not the first person to sayit.
There's a great paper that waspublished by Joe Duarte in 2015
in Brain and Behavioral Sciences, which literally chronicled the
data of how ideologicallycaptured the field of social and
psychology is and theimplications for that long term.

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So I suggest here that thisalso becomes a force readiness
issue and preservation of thetotal force related threat If
the kinds of places we're goingto send people to to get
services, and under the umbrellathat struggles, are a mental
health problem that we need toprioritize.
Well, let's pull back the onionand look under the hood a

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little bit there and say who arewe sending our people to to get
treated for mental healthissues?
They're going to be people thatdon't understand them, or or or
perhaps sympathize with thepeople who assassinated Charlie
or whatnot.
That is a problem in its ownright.
So what are some pathwaysforward that we can do for that?
Well, for one thing, charliegives us that pathway.

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He tweeted here March 5th ofthis current year that Lockheed
Martin had earlier promised toend its DEI programs but it
looks like it hasn't.
He said, from endorsing childgender transitions to non-binary
single-use bathrooms, this isabhorrent.
He said they should cut off allfederal contracts if they're
still doing business with thefederal government.
You and I all know that that'snot happening.
So it is a fantastic thing thatDOD and Department of War, if

(32:20):
they've gotten rid of all theways they think DEI is embedded
in the department, that isfantastic.
I celebrate and I cheer themTruly, truly, truly.
We have champions in there doingwonderful things to right that
ship, but it can't just beextinguishing the PowerPoints
that say diversity and DEI onthem.

(32:42):
We have to look deeper underthe hood and understand where
these ideological seeds arebeing planted and burrowing.
And where are we sending ourmoney to indoctrinate our people
, our personnel and our children?
We will lose this war ofattrition if we only play
whack-a-mole and ask for theresignation of each mole that we

(33:03):
catch after they've done thedirty deed.
I suggest that we can findbetter use in replacing all
sympathizers of DEI and criticalrace theory and imposing these
unconstitutional coercions likevaccinations.
This includes professors, staffadministrators and boards of
trustees.
They all need to be replaced.
I'm telling you from the insidethat if they were to fire my

(33:26):
president at the FloridaInstitute of Technology, the
chairman of the board oftrustees gave a full throated
endorsement of him when O'Keefehad this story came out, because
if you Google her, kristenDreger sees a senior executive
in engineering at LockheedMartin out here outside of
Kennedy Space Center and PatrickSpace Force Base.
She has a ton of storieswritten about how big of a

(33:46):
champion she is for diversity atLockheed and how she says
that's the key to engineeringsuccess, and I think that the
people who were in the Boeingsthat weren't going and the
Starliner that was stuck inspace might have a difference of
opinion.
These institutions cannot beallowed to self-certify
compliance.
That's another big issue ofwhat's happening here on the
inside is when we think DEI isdead.
It's only because you ask themto tell you that they're not

(34:10):
doing it.
But, as I hope I've convincedyou with through video, they are
lying to you.
They're absolutely lying to you.
When they're done lying to you,they're laughing about you.
They're laughing about itbecause they know they're going
to get away with the lie tocomply.
This is an unconventional warand it's being waged against us

(34:34):
to beat us, and I suggest thatwe need to adopt unconventional
warfare approaches to beat theenemy.
Within Just last night, ifyou're not aware of the news, it
was incredible as far as I'mconcerned that the president of
the United States issued adeclaration that the
organization of Antifa is nowdeclared a terrorist
organization, with all thetrappings that come along with

(34:54):
that.
This is, I think, a terrificapproach to addressing this
unconventional warfare beingwaged against us.
There's been a massiveideological capture of
institutions for decades.
They're a core threat to theUnited States of America and I
think things that people aren'tyet thinking about and talking
about as pathways to look at interms of policy and approaches

(35:15):
include the accreditation ofuniversities and programs.
That's usually housed throughthe Department of Education, but
there's been great new effortsbeing led by governors in
Florida and Georgia to createthese new regional accrediting
bodies that aren't going to besuffering the same ideological
capture, and the same is truefor professional licensing and
certifications the AmericanPsychological Association,
american Medical Association,american Academy of Pediatrics

(35:37):
I'm sure I don't have to tellyou, guys, if you have
overlapping interest in theissues of the COVID vaccine
mandates in the military and thecivilian world.
They're wildly capturedideological organizations that
are not necessarily the purelyprofessional medical, scientific
organizations that they brandpeople to think that they are.
I think that they're capturing.
We have a serious termiteproblem in this house and

(35:59):
fumigation is the only option.
We have to replace theleadership or decertify their
accrediting processes, becausethis is the way that it is
burrowing.
This is the way that the Trojanhorse is being used to launder
DEI right back into the DOD, theDOW.
That is assuming that they'renow clean, but they're not.

(36:22):
We've seen DEI impactoperational things.
I've seen it in missions we'veworked on at NASA.
The things that were the worstchallenges of our team and the
success of our mission were thethings that people say are our
differences?
Your differences are not ourstrength.
Diversity is not our strength.
It's what unites us, that weshare together.
That is our strength, thathelps us to overcome our

(36:44):
differences.
So this is a slide I typicallygive about what made our team
succeed, and it was oursimilarities that overcame our
differences.
And our strength was whatunited us operationally as a
mission unit and team members.
It was not our differences,that was our strength.
It was what we shared that gaveus the greatest strength, amid

(37:07):
those moments where we're alwaysgoing to have some differences
of opinion and that's the natureof humanity but the other part
of that humanity is that ourstrength is the humanity of what
we share together as humans, ascountrymen.
And so I suggest to you that DEIis this existential threat to

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the future of our nation.
It's a Trojan horse.
It's morally wrong.
It's factually wrong Criticalrace theory does not teach
accurate American history.
It's legally wrong.
The Department of Justice hasclearly indicated that.
It's illegal forms ofdiscrimination.
It's a threat to team cohesionand mission operational success.
It's a threat to competency,excellence and, ultimately,

(37:50):
victory.
And that moniker that everyone'sbeen drummed with that
diversity is our strength Iwouldn't humbly but confidently
tell you that's not true.
Our strength is the things thatunites us.
Our strength is the things thatunites us.
That is our sameness.
And I'm not talking about color, I'm not talking about economic

(38:11):
class.
The things that unites us areour values, our values and the
belief of God, country andfamily.
That is what makes us ourcountry.
That is what makes us strong.
And so when they are telling youthat it's gone and done,
they're lying to you, they'relaughing at you and they're

(38:31):
indoctrinating your children tohate your country while they're
laughing at you and whilethey're lying to you.
And we're going to need themback to defend our country.
So why is the Department ofDefense and VA continuing to
fund the academic institutions?
I would say that this is apathway that can be explored
creatively and unconventionally.

(38:52):
Hold those funds back until thechanges are seen and don't have
them self-certified.
We need to have the courage tofight these wars of culture and
society on the home front, andthat means overcoming the fears
of losing jobs, losingreputations, but maintaining our

(39:16):
dignity, our integrity andcertainly our hope for the
future of the country.
So that's what I shared withJames here.
I said wars are not fought bychildless men and it's not the
excuse for cowardice havingchildren, but they are the
reason for us to have courage.
So with that, I know we'relooking at a time transition

(39:40):
here.
So I want to thank you guys.
I want to thank God and prayersfor everyone.
Our US service to women hasmade it possible for us to speak
freely and exercise this freespeech.
Thank James O'Keefe and theO'Keefe Media Group for
featuring these stories andCharlie Kirk and Turning Point
USA for covering that andpushing that out.
When it did the DavidRutherford Show, the voters and

(40:01):
the Trump administration helpedto work with you guys through
policy and lobbying to makethese things happen.
And I would be absolutely remisswithout acknowledging the
heroics of my wife, erica Dante,who's stepped up to help me and
work through this Certainlydonors, supporters and friends.
For those interested, I have aGiveSendGo account that can help
us stay afloat and it certainlyis right.

(40:22):
Now I'm asking for one dollarmore than what they offered for
the lie.
I think the truth is worth atleast one dollar more than lies
and cover up, and I'm happy totalk and share more things of
some videos I have of otherpresidents saying some pretty
rough stuff.
But in lieu of that, I'll stopsharing for the moment and I

(40:43):
will hand it back off to youguys.
I know I've talked for a whileand I do appreciate your
patience.
You guys know what it's like tobe in my classroom now, where
people fall asleep and just hopethat I stop.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I want to thank you for having the courage to put
your thoughts together and offersolutions.
I'll venture real quick andjust to plant a seed, because I
think this will be an importantpart of the Q&A session when we
get to it.
But your solution is verylogical and sound in principle,

(41:22):
but in carrying it out we'llhave some issues that we'll have
to deal with, For instance,eliminating people that are
anti-American or whatever.
We have to be able to have away to do that, getting into the

(41:46):
same way of acting that we'reconcerned about.
So I just want to plant thatseed.
Obviously, you've demonstratedtremendous courage and you know
and you're no lightweight youknow the credentials that you
have are very, very powerful.
The credentials that you haveare very, very powerful.
So we want to be able to takeadvantage of your experience,

(42:08):
not to exploit you, but to buildupon that and to keep moving
things in a good direction.
So, with that, let me pause theQ&A part so we can hear from
our general counsel, theHonorable Mike Rose, because
he's dealing with some stuffvery directly related to what
you've been dealing with, Rick.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Mike, you're up.
Well, hello everybody.
I'm going to describe whatSTARS is doing regarding the
harm caused by DEI to members inthe military, which is sort of
the flip side of the coin thatRick has been describing.
He's been describing how DEI isin our institutions and not

(42:52):
being eradicated.
I'm going to tell you aboutsome of the lasting damage to
real human beings that STARS isworking to correct.
I met on August 14th theUndersecretary of Defense, tata,

(43:13):
with three West Point graduatesin Tata's Pentagon office and
afterwards met withUndersecretary of the Air Force,
matt Lohmeyer and his actinggeneral counsel and an SES.
When I met with Matt Lohmeyer Ihanded him 15 paperwork about
15 cases of military membersbeing harmed by DEI or the COVID

(43:39):
vaccine mandate.
Ten were Air Force, three wereNavy, one was Army, one was
Coast Guard and I described fourof those cases.
I'm very happy thatUndersecretary Lohmeyer has
followed up, as he said he would, and I know he has, because
last week a GS-14 from the AirForce Board of Correctional

(44:02):
Military Records called andemailed six of those 10 Air
Force members and the email saidshe had been instructed by
Undersecretary Lohmeyer to workwith STARS to, on an expedited
basis, have the Air Force Boardof Correctional Military Record

(44:23):
evaluate how to give remedies tothose six people.
So I've worked with those sixpeople to submit their
narratives and documentaryevidence of how they were
wronged and let me just give youa couple examples of this.
Now most of the people on thiscall have received a 27-page

(44:46):
document that Captain Matt Longo, air Force Captain Matt Longo,
an OSI agent, submitted two daysago and it shows an outrageous
example of DEI run amok.
Captain Longo had receivedseveral awards for being such an
outstanding OSI Office ofSpecial Investigation officer

(45:12):
until he was assigned by ordersto serve on a board that would
select which ROTC students wouldbe selected to go into the
field of OSI.
He was the only white person inthat board.
He objected to a black personbeing selected over a white
person because he thought thewhite person was clearly more

(45:33):
qualified.
He lost that.
The selection was made on thebasis of skin color and gender.
The selections and he wasdenigrated, called racist,
created a toxic environment andsuddenly his career all went

(45:55):
downhill.
He was removed from command andI'm not exaggerating this.
He's been at home in Missourifor over a year collecting pay,
doing nothing.
Been at home in Missouri forover a year collecting pay,
doing nothing.
I've never heard of a militarymember being punished by being
sent home with pay for anyperiod of time, much less over a
year.
So he's filed congressionalcomplaints Article 138

(46:16):
complaints Inspector Generalcomplaints and I urge everybody
on this call to read hisnarrative.
It's lengthy but the feedback Iget from people reading it,
including some in his calls justhow outrageous his treatment
and how blatant the OSI ideologyruined his career to this point

(46:38):
.
Now another case that's going tobe submitted today is Brigadier
General Melissa Cunningham.
She is an Air Force Academygraduate.
She refused to take the COVIDvaccine because of medical and
religious objections.
She was given a choice of beingcourt-martialed taking a COVID

(46:59):
vaccine or resigning.
She resigned and she wants togo back into the military, or
resigning.
She resigned and she wants togo back into the military, and I
think she it would be in theinterest of the Air Force in our
country clearly to get her backin Now.

(47:22):
Today a Lieutenant General, paulCarlton, former Surgeon General
of the Air Force, is going tobe interviewing, at my
instigation, an Air ForceCaptain, brittany Justice.
Brittany Justice is anelectrical engineer for the Air
Force who refused to take theCOVID vaccine because of
religious objections.
Well, the Air Force's tacticwith her is to send her to
mental health clinics and theyconcluded she was delusional.

(47:46):
So now they're processing herout and this former Surgeon
General of the Air Force tellsme in the seven commands he's
had he's never sent anybody to amental health clinic.
But it's clear to me that insome of our cases the mental
health clinics or psychiatrists,but basically if they can't
find a criminal conduct ormisconduct by the person they're

(48:09):
trying to get rid of, afallback position is to send
them to some mental healthprofessional that will say
there's something wrong withthem.
We have an Air Force chaplainwho became a whistleblower about
fraud.
He's a West Point graduate.

(48:30):
They drummed him out.
We found out last week thatMajor Brennan Shilliport
actually won his case.
And finally, I'll tell youabout an Air Force Academy
senior who won his case lastweek.
An Air Force Academy senior whowon his case last week where he
was not going to be allowed toget his bachelor of science

(48:52):
degree even though he completedall the academic requirements.
His problem was not DEI, it wasreally just a screwed up
disciplinary system.
But through STARS help he nowis getting his degree and he is
now saying he's going to lookinto with cadets at the academy,

(49:13):
to creating a Turning Point USAchapter at the Air Force
Academy.
Now, finally, stars has what wecall a Operation, rescue and
Restore proposal.
We have over 170 cases like theones you've just heard of
people who have gone to MattLohmeyer's website or the STARS

(49:34):
website asking for help, andthose cases come to be and I
triage them.
A certain percent we can't helpor shouldn't help.
But most of them deserve helpand some of them need immediate
help.
And now I'm very happy we got apipeline to Matt Lohmeyer.
I can email him on even hisprivate email.
But we have cases that I'vesent to Matt from the Army,

(50:00):
coast Guard and Navy that don'thave his counterparts approved
yet, and I'll just give you twoquick examples here.
A Navy ROTC midshipman atGeorgia Tech was removed from
his program because he refusedto take the COVID vaccine
because of religious objections,that is, he had a right to do

(50:23):
so.
He had to borrow $70,000 tofinish his degree at Georgia
Tech and he still wants to be anaval officer and a Navy pilot
and one part of the Navy senthim a letter saying okay, we
accept your application, you canget back in, but another part
of the Navy sent him a lettersaying he owes $35,000 to

(50:43):
compensate for the two years ofNavy ROTC that he had and we
can't get the two parts of theNavy to agree to forgive the
$35,000 and letting him get backin the Navy.
It seems to me that somebody atthe top levels of the Navy
ought to be able to make acouple of calls or send a couple
of emails and get that resolved.
I had two general officers andtwo admirals that were retired

(51:09):
on more than an hour Zoom callwith a Coast Guard former
officer candidate named JoshuaRosin.
I want to show you how screwedup this DEI is.
He's removed the week before hegraduates.
He's at the Coast Guard Academytaking his officer candidate
school course for being racist,having made a racist remark.

(51:31):
Well, what is his remark?
His remark is that a blackofficer candidate applied to be
a rescue swimmer but he couldn'tswim and he failed the swim
test.
So this officer says why in theworld would anybody apply to be

(51:51):
a rescue swimmer if they can'tswim?
And that's twisted into sayingthat black people can't swim.
And at the end of this hourconversation, both generals and
both admirals said I believe you.
This young man was in a suit.
It was heartbreaking to hearhis angst and agony over this,

(52:18):
but we don't have the mechanismin the Coast Guard yet to
restore these people.
So we're trying to systematizethis because, even though STARS
has like 170, some cases, Ibelieve there's not only
hundreds, there's thousands outthere of people still hurting
when their careers have beenruined and we're trying, through

(52:38):
Operation Rescue and Restore,to basically the reason I have
these generals and admiralsinterview the people is just to
determine whether they'll writea letter saying I interviewed
this person and I think that itwould be in the best interest of
the military in a country tolet them resume their career.

(53:00):
One last thing I would sayLieutenant General Mike Flynn
and an Army colonel both wrote aone-page recommendation of an
Army enlisted man who had beenremoved the day before
graduation at Fort Carson notFort Carson, fort Jackson here
in Columbia, south Carolina,when they saw a picture of

(53:21):
President Trump on his cellphone picture.
And next thing, you know, abunch of people black people
above him and so forth areaccusing him of saying this and
saying that and in the end, youcan't prove it.
He said.
She said so you really can'tprove what happened.
But this guy persisted.

(53:41):
He even had a congressman fromArizona go to Fort Jackson and
meet with a major general incharge.
He's very competent and it wasannounced about two weeks ago
he'll be allowed to come backinto the Army.
Actually, we're very lucky thatthese people want to come back
into the Army or the military,depending on their branch.
Now, very briefly, let me tellyou and by the way I've been

(54:05):
asked well, why do you work sohard on these cases?
But let me draw an analogy.
Some of you have seen the movieHacksaw Ridge.
Hacksaw Ridge and I saw aninterview of the real Desmond
Doss Medal of Honor winner, whois a conscientious objector
enlisted and he was a medic andhe rescued 70 people or so from

(54:30):
the top in a battle in Okinawaof Hacksaw Ridge and he was
wounded himself but he loweredpeople down this cliff and
rescued these people, cliffedand rescued these people, and I
saw him on the real documentaryasked what kept you going?
And he said all I did is.

(54:57):
I kept saying Lord, please helpme save one more, lord, please
help me save one more.
So now, if you're in front of,if you see somebody about to be
run over in a truck and youdon't push them out of the way.
It's immoral.
I see these people gettingscrewed and I see a path to
getting the situation reversedin their favor, so that's what
motivates me and the otherpeople in the stars to keep

(55:20):
going here.
I told this Brigadier General,melissa Cunningham, yesterday
thank you for doing this,melissa, you don't have to go
back to the military, but thecountry needs you, the Air Force
needs you, and that's true.
Now, the last thing I'd like tosay that Rick may be interested,
since we're talking aboutboards and academia.

(55:41):
There's a ideological battlegoing on, basically at the Air
Force Academy Association ofGraduates Board of Directors.
General Bishop, who's on thiscall, and four others got
elected by referendum to theboard of directors of the Air
Force Academy Alumni Associationand three incumbents who ran

(56:06):
for reelection all got defeated.
So the people that elected thenew people wanted a new
direction, a new reform, and weknew it was transparency and
accountability and and a coupleother things.
So I've attended, with thosefive new people, two board of
directors meetings and it's Ican just tell you it's very

(56:28):
toxic.
It's like saltwater hittingfreshwater or freshwater hitting
saltwater, and even one of theboard members I'm just in the
back minding my own businesstaking notes and one of the
board members at both meetingstook an on-the-record swipe at
me which I couldn't respond tobecause I'm not on the board.

(56:48):
But the point is not me.
What I want to say is that abreak of the husband, retired
Air Force colonel of thechairwoman of the board went up
to General Bishop, called him aracist and demanded he resign
from the board, and then went toGeneral Mookie Walker as you

(57:12):
can see on this is black andsaid he was racist and you guys
on the Unity Five representTrump extremists and demanded
that he resign.
And that was one of these.
There's three witnesses thathave written memos for the
record, and one incident was infront of the chairwoman.
So what would you do if yourspouse and you were chair of

(57:35):
some board like this, didsomething like that?
I don't know about you, but Iwould disassociate myself from
it.
I would disavow and say I'm notresponsible for what my spouse
did, but I apologize for it.
Not a word, not a comment, notan apology.
And who would presume to walkup and say two people that have
just been elected byoverwhelming percentages of

(57:58):
those who voted to say thatthey're racist and they should
demand to resign.
So that's the environment here.
And I guess, the last thing I'dlike to say.
There is now a movement to makeCharlie Kirk either an honorary
member of the AOC or to createa new category, sort of like the

(58:20):
Medal of Freedom is given byPresident Trump to civilians,
medal of Honor is given tomilitary, so we can create a new
category of once a year awardor acknowledgement to somebody
who's no longer with us, who hascontributed a lot to our
country and the Air Force.

(58:40):
So, and, by the way, that'sgoing to be opposed too.
One last thing I want to say onthis board.
I can barely contain mylaughter at this, but when these
five new people were electedand the three who ran for
re-election defeated, there wasabout a two-month gap of lame

(59:01):
duckness before the new peopleofficially became members.
During that two-month period,the lame duck board appointed
two new voting members, two newvoting members.
So, lo and behold, when the newfive came in and the three old

(59:21):
came out, this woman, whosehusband accosted General Bishop
and General Walker, was electedby two votes.
Which two votes?
The two they appointed?
Now this would be like Trumpand a Republican Congress being
elected last November, butduring the lame duck period, the
Democrat Congress created twonew a bunch of new congressional

(59:45):
positions and appointed them asDemocrats, so that, once the
new Congress went in, theDemocrats would be in control.
How absurd is that?
And so that's just the kind ofchanges that the new group's
trying to implement.
Okay, I'm done with my comments.

(01:00:06):
Turn it back to you, ron.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
All right, Mike.
Thanks for that update.
As you can see by the volume ofmaterial that Mike presented,
he doesn't need to sleep likethe rest of us, so he is an
energizer rabbit.
So with that, let's open it upto questions for our speaker, Dr
Rick Adante or Mike.

(01:00:29):
So raise your hand.
If you want to ask a questionor make an observation, Go ahead
, David.

Speaker 9 (01:00:38):
Hi, rick, it's nice to meet you.
I'm a fellow academic as welland I'm on the inside for 22
years now I speak out here inGeorgia.
I won't mention my employer.
You can find it online.
But you're right, everything ishidden from the public.
We have a board of regents thatare appointed by the governor.

(01:00:58):
They're all Republican on paper.
They're all conservative onpaper.
I've had meetings with many ofthem.

(01:01:25):
Sonny Perdue is our chancellor.
He refuses to meet with me.
So you can maybe turn Georgiainto the national example of a
wolf in sheep's clothing, so tospeak, because if they're not
willing to do that, nothing'sgoing to happen.
People are policy.
A policy written on paperdoesn't really help anything.
We've got to get these peopleoff the payroll.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Great Thanks, Dr Bray .
Any other questions orobservations?
While we're waiting, I have totell you that the mental health
matter that Rick talked aboutought to be extremely disturbing
to all of us.
In the American Creedpresentation that we've been

(01:02:03):
giving, General Arbuckle added aslide that talks about the 45
goals that the Communist Partyadvanced in America in 1963.
1963, one of those 45 goalstalked about using the mental
health industry to help inindoctrinating Americans.

(01:02:23):
Talked about using the mentalhealth industry to help in
indoctrinating Americans.
That was in 1963.
And so we see that they've gonea long way to fulfilling that
particular goal in America.
Any other questions orobservations.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Does anybody want to see a video of a university
president that has not beenreleased public talking about
how he thinks the Trumpadministration are white
supremacists?

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah, if you've got it available.
How long is it, Rick?

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
It's about a minute or so, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, get ready to show that.
Meanwhile we got Al Palmer witha hand up Go ahead Al.
Go ahead, al, you're muted.

Speaker 7 (01:03:16):
Yeah, somebody muted me.
I wonder who that could havebeen.
Concerning funding, and a lotof the argument has been with
universities, particularly ingetting federal grants from the
government, that they somehowcontrol that, that they do that,
that it's their obligation andtheir right to get it.
Well, that's not true.

(01:03:37):
That's a gift from Congress andthe people of the country.
And each of those grantsbecause I've had one of those
before, a major one running amuseum you get a contracting
officer who's going to be onyour back.
There's a lot of things thatthey will look at and that's a
place.
If anybody sees something iswrong can go to that contracting

(01:03:58):
officer.
It doesn't have to be a part ofthat organization and that can
be brought up.
And that may be one avenue to goafter some of this work we're
talking about, with DEI beingobstructed Because from the

(01:04:20):
federal contracting officer'sstandpoint, there's been a rule
or a law violated run by theUnited States, and I think
that's one of the things youmight want to try to get to.
And the other thing I'd offeris, as a solution to the bad rot
that's happened withdisrespecting the country and
particularly the things in themilitary, I think we ought to
start telling the stories of thepeople who have been in the

(01:04:40):
military, who are the trueheroes, who have sacrificed.
There's not much of that.
Everybody says thank you foryour service.
And yeah, we know, peoplesacrifice.
They don't know exactly how,they don't know why and they
don't know about what it's takenfor those people to serve their
country in combat where theirlives are at stake.

(01:05:03):
And I think we can do more ofthat.
That's my two cents.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Yeah, that's a great point, Al.
You know we keep talking aboutcompeting narratives.
We've got a good one to telland it's all based on truth, and
justice and the American creed,and so the more we can tell
that story.
You know, that's one way Ithink we can battle this.
We can tell that story.
You know, that's one way Ithink we can battle this.

(01:05:27):
So, admiral, if you hold yourthought here just for a second,
let's tee up the video that Rickis talking about and then we'll
come back to Admiral Rodriguez.
So you're cleared.
Hot, rick.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Okay, let me give this a go here and slideshow so.
So here's a president from CalState, dominguez Hills, and he's
saying the Trump administrationtries to feel good about
themselves by denigrating otherpeople.
You can see where residuals ofwhite supremacy and racism come
in if you understand that racistideology is all about.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Could you provide?

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
some concrete examples of how a therapist
could help a client identify theimpact of residual white
supremacy.
And with that I'm going to addin a.
So what allows you to be ableto engage in that space?
What allows you to treat othermembers of the human family in
the derogatory ways that you do?
Because there's an assumptionthat design the ideas of the

(01:06:22):
substance of behavior.
There are assumptions inpeople's head that they make
about the way in which theytreat folk.
So part of providing that levelof insight right and, and the
next one they do is thereeverybody knew this current
federal administration was notliking black folk, was not

(01:06:42):
liking Latino folk and was notdown with immigrants.
Everybody knew that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
And so I will stop sharing.
That's a little bit of asnapshot there.
I hope I've passed that backover to you, but you know that's
somebody who's determining thepedagogical and instructional
direction of an entireinstitution that has a website
that boasts how proud they areof their ROTC unit at Cal State,

(01:07:12):
Dominguez Hills.
That happened just a few weekand a half ago.
I was on that call.
That was like this they saidthis is publicly available,
We'll share this.
So they're free recording andthey're not trying to hide it.
It's just you don't often seeit and I mean I guess it's for
other funding agencies todetermine if that's the kind of

(01:07:35):
policy and viewpoint that wewant leading the instruction of
our personnel being trained tobe leaders and officers.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Yeah, no, very, very dangerous.
Thanks, Rick.
And after this call we'll gettogether with you.
We're probably going torecommend to the board of
directors of adding you to ourboard of advisors and I'm going
to link you up with Sam Thiessen, our VP for education, and John
Brockman, who heads up ourChairman's Group, which is our
internal think tank, to see howwe can take advantage of the

(01:08:09):
extra time you have betweenemployment positions to advance
our story.
So with that, Admiral Rodriguez, over to you, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:08:19):
Thank you, ron, and appreciate it.
And a great suggestion to bringRick on to our board of
advisors.
Rick, you're spot on and Ireally admire your energy and
what you've gone through.
Service that promote DEI.

(01:08:49):
I know this from personalexperience.
There's one for women, the SeaService Leadership Association.
There's one for AfricanAmericans, the National Naval
Officers Association, andthere's one for Hispanic
Americans of Hispanic descentpardon my, because there's no
such thing as a hyphenatedAmerican called the Association
of Naval Services Officers.
This cuts across all three seaservices the Navy, marine Corps

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and Coast Guard.
When I made flag, I was orderedby the CNO to get involved by
virtue of my last name, and for27, 28 years prior to that, I
tried to avoid all that mess,and so I did become the
president of the Association ofNaval Services Officers, and for

(01:09:30):
the eight years I was nationalpresident, I tried to promote
meritocracy, and meritocracyonly, and I even went to a point
where I was stronglyrecommending to the three
service chiefs the Commandant ofCoast Guard, commandant of
Marine Corps and the Chief ofNaval Operations to get rid of

(01:09:50):
these organizations, becausethey were doing nothing more
than creating or widening thechasm between races and between
ethnicities, and so forth and soon, but they still exist.
And after Secretary of Defense,now Secretary of War, pete
Hegseth, announced that DEI isdead, the CNO, admiral

(01:10:13):
Franchetti, who is no longer CNO, thank goodness put a Band-Aid
over this and canceled thememorandums of understanding
there wasn't an existingmemorandum of understanding
between the Navy, the MarineCorps and the Coast Guard with
these three affinity groups andcanceled those MOUs just to the

(01:10:34):
point where the sea serviceswould not support the
organization but still encouragethese organizations to exist in
the name of DEI and notmeritocracy per se.
And that just it's irritating asall get out.
I don't know how to get rid ofthese nonprofit organizations

(01:10:58):
because they are nonprofit,they're independent of the
Department of Defense,department of War, and I'm not
sure how we can go forward.
There's also anotherorganization that I completely
and I wrote an op-ed about ayear and a half, two years ago
with the Hispanic VeteranLeadership Association, which
has in its membership AOGmembers from the Air Force

(01:11:21):
Academy, but we'll get onto thatlater.
But we need to get rid of theseorganizations and I'm not sure
how to do that and I think STARSis on the right path, but we
really need to dig deep and digout these roots of DEI and get
rid of them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
I think that's a great point and, you know, the
thing I would add to it is kindof the first comment that was
made right when I finished right, which is that a lot of what I
tried to share was sort of twosides of a coin One, the nitty
gritty of what's actually reallytruly happening, but also the
big picture view of like how youknow and I and I think what

(01:12:02):
you're saying is is absolutelytrue like the big picture view
is is it's important to have thekind of whole view of the
battlefield but like, actuallyimplementing hill by hill,
taking each hill by hill, isgoing to be a really tough thing
, because some is reallyentrenched and I think that the
way that that's going to have tobe approached is absolutely in
unconventional ways that we'vetraditionally seen it approached

(01:12:25):
.
I think, again, this designationof Antifa as a terrorist
organization is a really goodexample of that, because it's a
creative, unconventional way tolevy the new levels of tools
available towards approachingit's the same overlapping
Vendira, the people advancingAntifa, or Hamas or terrorism

(01:12:47):
are the same people taught andbred through the seed of DEI and
so you can attack one.
Those overlapping Venn diagramsreally work well, because I mean
, you know I'm no lawyer, but Imean you can go after their
financing, their 501c status,their tax approach status.
Every university in the countryhas an Antifa student group and

(01:13:07):
if that's now considered aterrorist organization, then
every university can beconsidered potentially a
terrorist cell.
Withhold all funding, almost asa voice of at least
understanding, if not compassion, to the people who might look
at things in the opposite waythan we're discussing, which is

(01:13:28):
that I think thatpsychologically, even you know,
they've kind of been raisedtheir entire life with the
framework of thinking that thisis proper and good and moral to
do.
For you know, oftentimes, andsometimes it's just a cudgel for
them to, you know, bully acommunist takeover, but some

(01:13:49):
people they really think so, andso I think that, like even just
the Supreme Court's overturningof affirmative action was only
12, 18 months ago.
This is a really newpsychological thing for people
to kind of wrap their headaround and that might take time,
that might take sort of winninga hearts and minds approach.
But I'm not willing to holdback the train of progress while

(01:14:10):
we wait for the hearts andminds to get on board, because
our country can't afford for usto wait Right.

Speaker 11 (01:14:15):
Right, and you got a good point there.
I didn't even think about maybeattacking them from a 501c3
perspective, canceling their501c3 status.
These three affinity groups arepushing 50 years.
They're well ingrained.
I mean, they came out of theVietnam era for those of us who
joined right after that and wewere invited to go to all these

(01:14:40):
training sessions.
But anyway, be that as it may,I think that might be a good
avenue is approach it throughIRS, but that's going to take
some legal things.
Well, anyway, thank you verymuch.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Yeah, well, great, great discussion and it really
drives home that we may be at apoint where we have to update
definitions that are consistentwith the American creed, that
are consistent with the Americancreed, the life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness and theadditional civil liberties that
were expanded in the Bill ofRights in a system of

(01:15:15):
self-governance codified in ourConstitution.
So we have to approach thisvery, very legally and ethically
.
And as one of the developmentsthat hopefully will shine a
light on some possibilities, myclassmate, eric Vogel, did a
book review on a book publishedby a couple of West.

(01:15:35):
Given current definitions youcan't really definitively
establish treason, but theintent, the behaviors, are
certainly treasonous inprinciple.

(01:15:55):
To do a comparative analysis onthat book with a book that came
out in 1999 and GeneralArbuckle, our vice chair, has
introduced this into our Creedpresentation A book published by
two colonels in the People'sLiberation Army called

(01:16:16):
Unrestricted Warfare, and sotheir whole intent is to defeat
the United States without usingmilitary force, and a lot of
those actions are underway rightnow as we speak in America.
So we're starting to shine alight on it.
The challenge we have is to beable to address it legally and
ethically and consistent withour constitutional principles.

(01:16:39):
So with that we've got a coupleof hands up Chip, and then Mike
.

Speaker 10 (01:16:47):
Thank you, colonel Scott.
I have a quick question for DrAdante, and obviously the way to
solve this is with our kids andeducation.
I think it begins at K through12.
But my question for you is howdo we change the faculties at
our colleges so they embraceAmerican values?

(01:17:11):
That's my question for you.
Do you have a suggestion?
And then the second one forColonel Rose, with the Restore
Project, do you have anyattorneys helping you pro bono
on any of these cases, or whatcan we do to expand that part of
the operation?
Thanks a lot.

(01:17:31):
I appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
Hi, thank you.
That's those are.
That's a tough question, I.
I mean, I think the simplestanswer is we don't have the
manpower to simply replaceeveryone ideologically, so to
speak, and I think that there'dbe problems with that
potentially.
Anyways, in some, in otherrespects at it, you could think,

(01:17:59):
might be that you know you'readdressing almost what becomes
an academic, legal kind of like,debate of like.
To what extent can you, shouldyou and could you kind of like
handle, you know, theideological belief systems of
people, teaching with, balancingwith academic freedom, free

(01:18:20):
speech, which are all veryvaluable things?
I mean, it's a really goodquestion you have, sir, because
it's a tough one and you know itgoes back to this sort of
creative approach.
I think we were just discussingearlier that.
I think we're in kind of a newera.
That's a little bit differentthan how things have been
approached in the past, which isto say, you know, if we're

(01:18:40):
going to pay, you, let's say andI think this is why I looked at
this through like the lens ofthe DOD or the Department of War
, which is that, like this isnot just civilian students who
are free to take their money andgo to another university if
they don't like what they'rebeing taught, so to speak, so to
speak in like a free marketapproach.
But if this is DOD personnelthat are considered property of

(01:19:05):
the DOD, the citizens have aninterest and the DOD has an
interest in what they're beingtaught.
And so perhaps an avenue mightbe explored to say, if you're
going to take our federalfunding, particularly DOD
funding, through the GI Bill orROTC or DARPA or you know
whatever mechanisms those fundsare administered through, then

(01:19:26):
you can say and think whatever,of course, you want in a free
speech, free society.
But you can't teach people tohate the country they're sworn
to defend.
You can't.
I think that there can be anargument made that you can
reasonably impose someboundaries that shall not be
crossed.
If you're going to take thisfunding for people who are

(01:19:49):
training to defend this nation,they have to be taught the true
things, which means you can'tteach critical race theory
because it teaches falseamerican history.
So I I think it's fair to sayyou can teach full academic
freedom, free speech, say andthink whatever you want, but
it's got to be true, like, like.
You can teach full academicfreedom, free speech, say and
think whatever you want, butit's got to be true, like like
you can't just defame people.
That's illegal, you getdefamation, it has to be true.

(01:20:09):
You can say if they're a dirtbag, you can say they're a dirtbag,
it's true, right, but it has tobe true.
So I think that there might bea pathway that could be explored
of holding content and teachersaccountable in a to the truth.
But it's going to take somenewer approaches to litigating,

(01:20:31):
I think, than what we've seen inthe past.
But that's just my non-legalapproach.
I'll leave it to Mr Rose.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
No great great thoughts.
Thanks, rick.
Yeah, we got three more handsup Mike, jim and then Lola.
Go ahead, mike.

Speaker 4 (01:20:45):
Okay, I have two comments.
One is about affinity groupsthat Admiral Rodriguez
referenced.
Now I like Alan Dershowitz'sshoe on the other foot test.
So to test whether or not whatyou're doing is proper, ethical,
maybe even legal, you askwhether the other side could do

(01:21:07):
the same thing.
So if we're going to haveaffinity groups, like at a
service academy, based on skincolor black why can't you have
white?
And if you have it based ongender, like for gays, why can't
you have for straights?
And of course you can't sopolitically.

(01:21:29):
So I think that eradication ofthese affinity groups should
start at the most effective andeasy way to do it is to start at
the service academies and startat the officer training schools
.
I think I read that West Pointabolished affinity groups.

(01:21:49):
We have affinity groups at theAssociation of Graduates, but we
can never have a white affinitygroup, we can never have a
straight affinity group.
So what winds up happening isyoung people get ingrained in
their training by their trainingto have divided loyalty loyalty

(01:22:11):
to their affinity group, notjust to what unites us or is
supposed to unite us, as amember of, say, the Air Force.
Now my second comment is aboutthe question do I work with
other lawyers.
Yes, I do work with otherlawyers, but not enough, and

(01:22:34):
we're constantly looking for newlawyers, additional lawyers, to
work these cases.
There are people, there arecases that need to be worked now
.
If you know anybody who mightwant to help, please inform me.
But we're short, and not onlythat.

(01:22:56):
It's like Dr Adante saidthere's not enough people to
fill positions.
Even the head of the CivilRights Division in the Justice
Department I saw her beinginterviewed.
There were like 200 lawyers orsomething of that scale quit
when she announced the first daythat she took over that our

(01:23:20):
agenda is to fulfill PresidentTrump's agenda and if you're on
the Civil Rights Division as anemployee can't do that.
You need to leave, and they did.
So she's short, she's got allthis stuff to do and they're so
short.
She basically said if you'vegot a lawyer that's interested
in this, they don't have to havea background, just let them
apply and if we select them,we'll train them.

(01:23:41):
So we just have to fight thebattle with what we have and
where we are, and that's whatwe're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Great Thanks, Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
Okay, Jim, you're up.
Yes, Dr Adante, I'd reallythank you for your service,
really, Really it's service.
Now, these comments are mostlyabout education.
First, Dr Dante, I hope you arealready in contact with Dr
Stanley Ridgely, who wrote boththese two great books, Brutal
Minds, and he's recently comeout with another about DEI.
It probably meshes witheverything that you're saying

(01:24:19):
and everything that you'veexperienced.
Now we talk about universities.
I think the universities werekind of like in the center of
the whole system.
They crank out K-12 teachers,who then join the unions, who go
back to the young kids andsoften them up.
So by the time they hit theuniversities, they're in classes
that are taught by professorswho are even farther, just
slightly farther left than theones who hired them.

(01:24:41):
And that's been going on sinceabout 1965 or 1968, when I
started watching it.
Then the universities crank outthe liberal arts and those
people write the scripts andwrite the books, write the
scripts for Hollywood movies,write the scripts for the
mainstream news, corporate news,which has turned on us.

(01:25:02):
The only thing they left alonewas some of the STEM people, but
even then, DEI has invaded STEMas well.
But that's not the thing.
I think we should skate towhere the puck's going to be,
not to where the puck is rightnow.
All of education is changing.
Artificial intelligence andthese computer networks are

(01:25:23):
helping to do that.
So soon, and not all of the newAI tutors are going to be
controlled by big tech therewill be plenty that will be
independent.
So I already have friends whotutor.
They homeschool their threetoddlers, so there's going to be
.
It's much, much easier forparents to get their educational

(01:25:44):
material and, quite frankly,they can teach in two days of a
week.
What a normal school with allits discipline problems, what a
normal public school, couldteach in five days.
And those kids will be wellprepared when they're adults.
So with tutors through themachines and with new education
systems, these brick and mortarschools are not going to have

(01:26:07):
the same kind of I don't knowwhat the actual word is the
stamp that we wanted.
We wanted the sheepskin fromthose things.
But soon there are alreadycertification organizations and
things like that tests thatindependently will show
education is improving.
So I'm optimistic in the longrun and pessimistic in the short

(01:26:27):
run because of what you'vediscovered, and I'll send you
some of these hints later on,just in case.
But already you're going in theright direction, so thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
Hey Jim, your Wayne Gretzky puck analogy is awesome.
Thanks for injecting that.
Ski puck analogy is awesome.
Thanks for injecting that, drAdante.
Anything to respond to Jim?

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Yeah, I think you made some really great points
and it made me think of a couplethings.
One I think that one thing thatwe haven't done very good of as
a nation is thinking ofcivilian positions as service
positions, and I think that'sled to an absolute hollowing out
of academia that has left onlya single ideology that has
looked at it as service.
They've had a great sort ofteam mindset where a lot of

(01:27:14):
people you know think of likewell, I'd rather go make money
in industry, or the same reasonthey don't want to go and work
in federal government in DC oranything it's like like it's not
that attractive, like they wantto go do something else or make
more money or do something elseif they're talented, because
they can, and I think that theydon't.
It hasn't always beenapproached as a service position

(01:27:35):
where the left has always kindof looked at themselves as
social soldiers doing a duty andstanding a post, and because of
that they've held a very wellcarved position now that we've
kind of abandoned in somerespects.
So I think that's a useful wayto start taking some steps
forward is sometimes adoptingthat point of view whether it's
a lawyer offering to serve inthe DOJ, where that you know,

(01:27:58):
like that's a service positionthat the country needs.
But I think the other side islike when we've seen this rise
over the last 25 years and saythe DEI's implementation.
One thing that I think has beena trap as well has been looking
at things with too much ofcredentialism.
So we'll promote the people inall of our organizations

(01:28:18):
military, civilian, governmentthat might have the best looking
resume, but that all thatessentially translates to, if
you think about it, is they'rethe most indoctrinated.
They may not even know that,they believe it, but they've
been in the system with the mostcredentials.
I have a lot of credentials too.
So like, and what has happened,if you think about the actual
sort of math equation, is inorder for those DEI kind of

(01:28:42):
policies to have been brutallyenforced and implemented over
the last 20 some odd years,there has been so much talent
that has been overlooked and notpushed forward and they're
actually not going to have thesame looking credentials on
paper.
But that might be an opportunityto do what Lincoln did and hire
Ulysses S Grant out of hismainstay line of generals, and

(01:29:04):
that could be a pathway forward.
And the last thing that I'lladd before shutting up for the
next person here is this ideathat if we do need to start
replacing positions and I'veadvocated replacing boards of
trustees and things like thatthey're trustees we can think of
other people to mandate throughthe cudgel of federal funding

(01:29:25):
threats that says you know whatwe're going to put some take
moms for liberty or retiredmilitary people, but or or but
somebody we're going to trust astrustees to sit on these boards
.
It's a we don't, it's amanpower issue.
We don't have a lot of it, butwe can.
We have to think creativelyabout who can we staff and put
into these positions to actuallybe trustees, to re-guide a

(01:29:46):
centering towards a healthybalance, for lack of a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:52):
Rick, that's awesome.
You know, building on the WayneGretzky skate to where the puck
will be.
The future is ripe forinnovation.
The future is ripe forinnovation and we're gathering
the right minds and right peoplewith the courage and the
experience and the insights.
I think they can offer somevery prudent vectors for the
future.
So with that, two morequestions, and then I'm going to

(01:30:15):
ask General Bishop to wrap itup.

Speaker 12 (01:30:24):
Lola, you're up.
I guess I unmute myself.
Okay, thank you so much, rick.
I'm in Florida and I've beenworking since probably 2015 on a
sort of similar issue, but notthe same veterans, monuments and
memorials.
We've discovered that those aresort of a litmus test the

(01:30:44):
canary in the coal mine forwhether someone's patriotic and
pro-America or if they areMarxist, communist, whatever you
want to ism that you got.
I've made some great contactsthere in that world.
Michael Ross, I have someattorneys that might have an

(01:31:05):
interest in working on this, soif we can get connected, I'd
like to talk to you about that.
But, rick, I've made somecontacts also with the Santas
appointees in the universitysystem.
Have you got any contacts there?
May we connect?
Is there some help I canprovide connecting you to some

(01:31:26):
people who would like to knowmore about this?

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
I don't have contacts , but I'd love to and I'm happy
to talk and share for any kindof purpose, to help me sure, of
course, who doesn't like to helpthemselves but to help other
people?
Share the word.
I'll help literally at anylevel of anything I can help
people with.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:31:47):
Well, ron or Michael , someone tell me how I can
connect with Michael and alsoRick.
And then, last thing I justwanted to say everybody on this
call and the leaders of thisgroup I'm so thrilled for what
you're doing.
Leaders of this group, I'm sothrilled for what you're doing
and I've heard about what hashappened that Rick discussed

(01:32:09):
today and I see it in ourhistory work.
We have people at University ofSouth Florida who are actually
for destruction of historicsites and just crazy stuff and
they've just rebranded.
So you know, I have otherexamples in this other silo as
well.
So it's what's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
So reach out to us with your questions, ideas and
whatever, and we'll follow upwith that.
If stars can't take it ondirectly, we'll hand you off to
other groups or individuals thatwe think might be in a position
to advance your thinking there.
So, dave, you're up.

Speaker 13 (01:32:49):
Just quickly.
Mike mentioned a little whileago that West Point had
announced that they hadeliminated their affinity groups
and yes, they did announce that.
There's some doubt that theyactually did it.
There was a leadershipconference a couple of months
ago that consisted of classpresidents and presidents of

(01:33:10):
parents groups and West Pointsocieties around the country and

(01:33:40):
our class president reported tous that the superintendent
announced that they were lookingat those affinity groups and
how they might be redefined,reconstituted that would be
compliant with the directioncoming out of DOD.
Those groups used to be readilyfindable, I guess searchable on
the academy's website.
They no longer are.
I went looking for them acouple of weeks ago, so there is
nothing left there currently.
But kind of what I see going onin the background is, even if

(01:34:02):
they're not publicized, they'regoing to be reconstituted.
So just my observation.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Yeah, great.
Yeah, these are the types ofthings we've got to keep our eye
on, Dr Adante.
Any other thoughts before Ihand it over to General Bishop?

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
No sir, um, no sir, other than just raw gratitude
for everyone in this group andthe deep thanks for your time
and patience and and support ofall this before I even showed up
on the scene.
You guys have been absolutechampions, leading this forward.
And I spoke with you know Ihave a handful of friends of
mine who are in or have servedin the military and one of the

(01:34:43):
things I told them not too longago about being excited about
seeing and learning about youguys and everything you've done
and accomplished and arecontinuing to champion forward
is that I said you know it mayindeed end up being that it's
the military heroes who end upsaving the civilian side of this

(01:35:05):
country.
You know you can't have amilitary without a civilian side
and you can't have a civilianside without the military
protecting them.
But it may be the courage andthe integrity of the military
heroes like you guys who end up,you know, being the leverage
point that pivots civiliansociety to be saved as well.

(01:35:27):
And so deep, deep thanks andgratitude for me for all that
you've all done.

Speaker 1 (01:35:34):
Great Thanks, dr Adante.
Welcome to the fight With thatGeneral Bishop over to you, sir.
So with that General Bishopover to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:35:43):
Thanks very much, ron .
I'd like to close with a momentof silence for someone that Dr
Adante mentioned several times,our good friend Charlie Kirk.
But before I do that, I'd beremiss if I didn't thank all of

(01:36:03):
you for attending today Greatdiscussions.
Didn't thank all of you forattending today Great
discussions, and certainly toyou, rick.
You know our raw appreciationfor you and telling the story
and the courage that you had.
And I'd like to particularlyjust call out two things the
recognition of your spouse thoseof us who have been in this
battle for five years would saythe same thing that you said we
couldn't do it without them, noquestion.

(01:36:24):
And then also, to echo whatAdmiral Rodriguez said, spot on.
I mean, I don't know if you gotthe Trojan horse from Mostert,
if you came to the sameconclusion, but we've been using
that visual for years, alongwith gee.
I think the first time I eversaw diversity is not our

(01:36:45):
greatest strength.
Unity is our greatest strength,made all the more diverse by
the fact that, or made all themore greater because we're a
diverse country, is in an emailexchange between myself and our
former superintendent.
So great message.
Thank you for your courage.
So to turn just for a second tosomeone who made the ultimate

(01:37:08):
sacrifice and the courage thathe showed.
Charlie's death last week hashit the Stars team hard.
There is no question and I'mgoing to give you a minute of
history as to why that is.
Some of you on this Zoom havebeen with us since our inception
, so you know.
The genesis of thisorganization was a Black Lives

(01:37:32):
Matter video put together by ourfootball coaches and, despite
conversations that I had withthe superintendent who had
worked for me when he was acolonel, to please take this
video down, it's going to bedivisive.
Have you been to the BlackLives Matter website?
Can't you see that they'reanti-family?
Can't you see that they'reanti-capitalism?

(01:37:55):
Can't you see that they'reMarxist?
You know we never got the videodown.
Under his tenure the video down, uh, under his tenure, our
general counsel, mike rose,wrote a 29 page outstanding ig
complaint.
Certainly our government, themilitary, would see that
chanting black lives matterseven times in a three-minute

(01:38:15):
video is politics.
It's political, it's expousing,you know, using the slogan of
an organization that's told usis Marxist.
It broke so many DODIs, so manyAir Force regulations and
instructions, but yet two daysafter President Biden was
elected, we get a one word orone sentence, your IG complaint

(01:38:36):
is dismissed.
So we came up with the idearight after that.
Well, let's, let's go to ourboard of trustees, our board of
visitors.
Certainly, if we educate them,they can start to provide the
oversight.
And Mike and I, in particular,spent the months of November and
December of 2020 and January of2021.

(01:38:58):
Mike even went and stayedovernight with one of our newly
appointed board of membersspinning them up on what was
happening so we could get thiscritical race theory, dbi, you
know, expunged from our almamater.
I think everybody knows whathappens President Biden comes
into office in January of 2021.
And two weeks later the boardsof visitors were suspended and

(01:39:23):
then the Trump appointees werefired.
So with this new election, youknow, we tried it once before,
let's try it again.
And we specifically looked andfollowed closely who the board
of visitors members were goingto be of our alma mater.
We know people at West Pointand the MacArthur Society were
doing the same thing and thesame with the Calvert Task Group

(01:39:43):
at the Newark.
We targeted four people inparticular, because one I don't
think Stoli's on here, but Stoliis really who's on our Board of
Visitors, is kind of also anhonorary member of the STARS
Board of Advisors.
But we targeted Dan Clark,who's one of the most renowned

(01:40:05):
motivational speakers in ourcountry and the world.
We targeted Congressman Crankwho owns the Air Force Academy.
That district of Coloradobelongs to him.
And we targeted CongressmanPfluger because he's a grad and
he's now chairman of the boardof the visitors.
And of course, we targetedCharlie Crook.

(01:40:26):
We had an hour long Zoom hourlong plus Zoom with Charlie in
November.
He let us speak for over anhour about what we were seeing
and I walked away from that Zoomwith just such great confidence
that we had such a strong voicethat was going to speak on our
behalf.

(01:40:47):
I drove down from where I amwhere I spend the summer up here
in Breckenridge down to theBoard of Visitors meeting on the
7th of August, met with Charliebeforehand, told him how much
we appreciated him taking thetime of what he was doing
worldwide to help our alma mater.
You know he had just had thebiggest smile.

(01:41:08):
One of the things he did at theend of the Zoom was he said
let's set up a signal chat.
I don't want people reading ouremails.
So we exchanged a number ofsignal chats back and forth here
and there.
And then, as the Board of Visvisitors meeting convened, dr
Scott and I sat right behindCharlie and you know the signal

(01:41:29):
chat was still going strong andGeneral Bauerfein was asked a
question about DEI and CRT andhe went through all the steps of
things that he had done toeliminate DEI.
And I signal chatted Charlie atthe time.
I said General Bauerfein hasdone a good job of eliminating

(01:41:53):
DEI from our institution.
The question is one for thefuture what are they doing to
make sure it's eradicated?
And you know this is an ad libhere, but to quote our former
vice president, now theundersecretary of the Air Force,
to make sure this monster neverraises its head again.
Charlie Signall chatted back, Igot it and this is what he said

(01:42:17):
at the board of visitorsmeeting.
The importance of thisinstitution goes back to one
other thing I know the boardwants to focus on and that is
we're educating them.
We need to educate them towardsbeing something, towards being
a warrior, but for what?
It's one thing to strip awayDEI and critical race theory,

(01:42:38):
and he stopped and he looked atGeneral Barenfein, of which
we're going to continuallypolitely be bothering you about
with questions, but we also wantto make sure that cadets, over
the course of four years, canarticulate, and they can feel in
their soul the Americanexceptionalism.
What are they willing to diefor?

(01:43:00):
What is that constitution thatthey are swearing an oath to?
It shouldn't just be there'sAmerican history.
We want them to be on firebecause good leaders can
articulate the why.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank youagain for attending.
Those are the words of a strongvoice that we no longer have

(01:43:23):
with us.
I would ask us to close thissession with a moment of silence
in Charlie's memory.
Thank you everyone forattending.

(01:44:08):
We'll look forward to seeingyou in the next town hall.
Thank you.

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