CHARACTER COUNTS

      If anybody still doubts that things inside the Beltway have been changing radically since the 2016 election, we need look no further than President Trump's Proclamation issued this afternoon. The President proclaimed next week National Character Counts Week. The full text of the address can be read here; and is reflects definite change from the amoral and often immoral attitudes of the last four administrations.

        Unfortunately, not everyone inside of the Trump Administration shares his sentiments. Among the worst of these is Obama's former CENTCOM commander---now Defense Secretary, James Mattis. Mattis has done practically nothing to end the Deep-State corruption in the Pentagon; in fact, he was a wholehearted supporter of Obama's policies until his last-minute 'conversion' to Trump in 2016. 

       The American Military used to have a reputation for building character. It still does; but the characters it builds are nothing to brag about. As a specimen of these trends---on the same day that Trump complained about Iran calling our country the Great Satan no less---these four worthies made the news:

          
         The two dykes and two thugs pictured above happen to US Air Force personnel. They are, as of this morning, sitting in the Sumter County Jail in South Carolina for desecrating a church. 

          Our brave men and women in uniform are accused of spray-painting the Salem Black River Church with Satanic graffiti, causing several thousand dollars in damage. They also broke down the church doors, though they apparently fled the scene before entering. 

          Alannah Staver, a woman with lieutenant's rank at the politically-correct 20th Fighter Wing, told the Corporate Media "Such behavior is not representative of the personnel at Shaw Air Force Base. We are part of this community and disappointed to hear of this incident."

          The Pentagon is looking more and more like a low-budget version of the NFL. 

           The Salem Black River Church belongs to the Presbyterian denomination and is an historic building, constructed in 1846. The building is considered an excellent specimen of Grecian Revival Architecture---which was very popular in the decades before the Civil War. Local historians state that it was constructed on the site of an earlier church founded by Scotch-Irish immigrants in 1759.

          The church building is also believed by local tradition to be haunted. A churchgoer who asked not to be named told a South Carolina newspaper that such stories have attracted Satanists and other occultists in the past. It was also among churches included on a 'target list' that investigators found in Dylann Roof's car. Roof killed nine people in an historic church in nearby Charleston.

         So what are Satanists doing in the Air Force? Well recall that in 1999 the Clinton co-presidency lifted the long-standing ban on Satanists, Wiccans, and others of that stripe. The handbook for Military Chaplains issued that year lists the Church of Satan as a recognized religion and did so for nearly a decade afterwards. There are many quasi-Satanist sects still listed in the current manual.

          A better question, though, is why RINO Mattis hasn't bothered changing any of these policies. Probably because he is largely a product of the Clinton Administration himself. And that Administration was famous for boasting that "character doesn't count."