This isn’t the first time Islamists and leftists have intimidated military leaders here at home and demanded the silencing of Christian voices. Apparently the self-esteem of Muslim cadets and Allah’s adherents elsewhere would suffer lasting damage if General Boykin – who is unashamed of his Christian faith, an expert on radical Islam and one of the planet’s foremost practitioners of unconventional warfare – were to speak on these matters. He won’t be at West Point next week.ĬAIR lobbied the academy’s superintendent, Lieutenant General David Huntoon, to rescind General Boykin’s invitation.
But this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations put General Boykin on the new blacklist. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. General Boykin was a founding member of the elite Delta Force. Yet when the West Point National Prayer Breakfast convenes February 8, the cadets will be deprived of hearing from a world-renowned expert on counterterrorism. West Point cadets take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Many West Point graduates will deploy to fight radical Islamists who commit acts of terror against Americans and our allies.
Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point – an institution responsible for training young men and women to protect America from those who mean us harm. It’s often said that our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen and Marines serve to “protect our freedoms” and “defend our liberties.” All true. The silence from the “civil liberties lobby” is deafening. Army (Ret.), a highly decorated special operations soldier with 36 years of service in uniform, is the newest name on the roster. Now, there’s a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today’s political correctness test. The American Civil Liberties Union and others insist those on the “Hollywood blacklist” were unfairly persecuted for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and speech. But when the HUAC turned its attention to Hollywood writers, directors and actors, civil libertarians cried foul. The committee unearthed spies and traitors – Alger Hiss among them. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. Washington, DC – The definition above, from an old Webster’s dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. Blacklist (n): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.