The current state of the Canadian Forces
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Ok, the military remaining apolitical is critical to the preservation of a free society. They're the Canadian military. Not the conservative party military. Not the Liberal party military. The Canadian military.
The politicization of the military is what happens in backwards banana republics. Would-be tyrants indoctrinate the military into being personally loyal to them and their 'cause' instead of loyal the people and democracy, they purge the ranks of supporters of opposing parties, and the next thing you know the military is no longer a national military, it's a personal army of loyal thugs working for the tyrant against the people. Oppression and tyranny follow. See places like China where the military is just the communist party's muscle used to repress the citizens. That's what the Liberals are converting the CAF into.
Supporting gays? Ok, one could arguably excuse that as a human rights thing. But the CAF choosing a side in the proud boys vs antifa debate? Choosing to support communist insurrectionists against anti-communist counter-insurrectionists? That's what our military is doing now? Holy shit.
What's on your opinion on military members calling Trudy a traitor? Should they be kicked out for voicing a political opinion?
Did they do it in uniform and/or using official CAF social media accounts?
You're entitled to political opinions - as a private citizen. That's why soldiers are allowed to vote. They're even allowed to participate in party politics to an extent.
It's when the military itself gets involved in politics that a line is crossed. So wearing uniforms in political demonstrations like pride parades, using official CAF twitter accounts to cheerlead for communist revolutionaries - that should get you kicked out at the very least.
Like, perhaps, the CDS encouraging CF members to participate in Pride parades in uniform? To have LGBTQ+ "champions". To hoist the LGBTQ+ flag on a base, on the 11th of September? THat kind of involvement?
This is a problem with your stance in my opinion. Where is the line? Can I post a picture of me in my uniform on Facebook with the caption "Trudeau/O'Toole is a traitor that has to be stopped" as CAF member?
And btw, no CPC member will speak out against this tweet. They would be kicked out by O'Toole faster than Bernier can spell supply management.
The distinction between doing something in an official capacity as a representative of the government and doing it as a private citizen is a pretty well established and easy to follow distinction.
No, because that would be a soldier - an agent of the government who has a duty to be apolitical - engaging in politics. You are not speaking with your own voice when you present yourself as a soldier in uniform, you're speaking as a representative of the government. You do not get to superimpose your personal political opinions onto the military by expressing them publicly while in uniform.
Holy shit, someone who actually understands China.
George Soros.