We Can Save America

By John Armeau

This book provides the information that Liberals do not want you to know. With over four decades of experience as a military officer and senior intelligence analyst, John T. Armeau provides analysis, facts, humor, and personal stories about the "Thought Police," Big Tech censorship, socialism, illegal immigr

• Language: English
• Publisher: Armeau Enterprises
• Release date: Jan 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985497137

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PREFACE

Our nation is under attack. The most significant threats to our way of life are not from foreign nations or terrorists, but from within our own borders. We live in a time of deadly viruses, racial tension, anarchy, and political divisiveness, all fueled by media bias. Our politicians are so engrossed in seizing and holding power that they are ignoring the cracks in the nation’s foundation. We can no longer sit by and hope that the major issues in this country resolve themselves. Regardless of our political affiliations, Americans who support national security, law enforcement, capitalism, and the Constitution need to speak up. We, the people, can save America.

America has changed. From 2010 to 2018, my family and I spent eight years overseas, while I was a senior intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense. After returning to the states, I attended a military ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base, at Special Operations Command – Central in Tampa, Florida, where a Marine Gunnery Sergeant was being promoted to Master Sergeant. At the start of the ceremony, the national anthem began. Everyone stood and watched as the color guard marched in, prominently carrying the American flag. Young children, spouses, grandparents, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines stood at attention or with their hands over their hearts. There was no hesitation. They were all patriotic and keenly aware of the cost of freedom, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender. 

A wall, covered in rows of gold stars, is at the entrance to the headquarters. Each star represents a member of the Special Forces who gave his or her life in defense of this nation. These service members did not join the military for fame; rather, they risked their lives so that others may live free.

While driving home from the promotion ceremony, the day before Independence Day, a radio news broadcaster announced Nike’s decision to discontinue the Air Max1 Quick Strike Fourth of July sneaker. The shoe featured the design of the original American flag with thirteen stars for the original colonies, with red and white stripes representing the blood and sacrifice of our early American heroes. The marketing decision by Nike was the result of years of spineless politicians, businessmen, school boards, judges and others who cowered to those who find the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, and Star-Spangled Banner offensive. Fortunately, other companies, such as Born Primitive, Thin Blue Line, USA Patriot Store, Keds, Converse, and Brooks Running proudly feature the flag on their attire, with patriotic collections and patterns dedicated to the military, police, and firefighters.

First and foremost, free speech is critical to the survival of a fair and balanced democracy. We must be able to gather facts, debate issues, compromise, and together develop viable solutions. China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and other totalitarian regimes disallow opposing voices. America is heading down the same path.

Progressive liberals, self-designated members of the Orwellian Thought Police dictate what they deem is acceptable for all Americans to say. These elitists prohibit the use of politically incorrect words such as he or she in government documents, redefine words such as infrastructure, and ban immigration agencies from using the word illegal to describe immigrants smuggled into the country. They encourage groupthink, and instantly brand anyone who opposes them as racist, misogynist, xenophobic, sexist, or homophobic, rather than debate the facts. They push critical race theory that we are either oppressors or oppressed based solely on the color of our skin, not on our character. These elitists attempt to cancel anyone who dares voice an opinion on any subject they deem unassailable. Grant Napear, the TV voice of the Sacramento Kings for over 32 years, was publicly denounced and ultimately fired for daring to comment, All Lives Matter, Every Single One.¹

Self-righteous Big Tech monopolies are also censoring American voices across the country. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Spotify, Snapchat, Instagram, Shopify, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Pinterest all either banned or restricted the former President of the United States from speaking to the country on their platforms, some citing violence as a reason. If they can block the president, they can deny the free speech of any American.² All Americans need to voice their support for those individuals, politicians, and corporations who stand up against Big Tech censorship, political correctness, and cancel culture. Inaction will result in our voices being drowned out, trampling our rights and freedoms and paving the way for one-sided political indoctrination. 

Reporters and even the so-called fact-finders on both the Left and Right intentionally warp the truth, omit facts, and tell misleading stories to appease their editors and audiences. We absolutely cannot rely on single sources for the news. 

This book is the result of a personal quest for the truth. Each chapter is focused on a particular topic and arms the reader with facts for open debate. Key topics include political incorrectness, anti-American indoctrination, socialism, immigration, travel bans, media bias, violence in our cities, riots, anarchy, and our Constitutional rights and freedoms.

There is hope. Americans are praying, crying, and recovering as they emerge from their homes. We are aware of health concerns, economic pressures, and racial issues, but at the same time, we yearn to eat, work, and spend as we desire. America will turn the corner on the virus, and the country will return to normalcy.

The Space X and NASA partnership demonstrates that the country is on the verge of tremendous technological advancements. Self-driving cars are on the streets. Industries are returning from overseas. Drones are commonplace. Made in the USA is coming back in style.  America’s free market economy, the largest in the world, is poised to rebound with a vengeance.

Now is the time for Americans to become involved, to steer America onto the right path. We do not all have to agree on all issues, but we must face our problems head-on, genuinely listen to each other, examine the facts from more than one side, embrace diversity, and work together to find mutual solutions. All Americans need to stand up for our rights and freedoms, particularly freedom of speech. We need to encourage open and civil debate across America. Politicians should be commended, not condemned, for compromise.

The average citizen holds the real power, not the politicians. It only takes enough concerned individuals, with loud voices and determination, to restore the values and institutions that made this country great. This book provides the facts, from an intelligence analyst’s perspective, that should be shared with as many Americans as possible. By working together, we can save America. 

CHAPTER ONE

Political Incorrectness

I just think political correctness is crap.

Gary Oldman

Everyone deserves respect, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, age, or religion. Even those individuals who are not woke and use politically incorrect terms deserve a voice and should not be attacked for speaking freely.

A friend recently posted a picture of a rainbow on Facebook. The picture included the following words, When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. Genesis 9:16. She was instantly and viciously attacked online. She was called a racist, homophobic, misogynist, a whore, and a series of other very personal insults for daring to use a rainbow, now associated with the LGBTQIA+ community. Some of the attackers were family members.

In this country, we are at a point where we cannot engage in a civil conversation over differences of opinion. The self-righteous Orwellian Thought Police, backed by mindless lemmings in the mainstream media, now dictate what they deem appropriate for us to say. It is impossible to keep up with the constant barrage of acceptable words or other taboos. Intolerant elitists defile the concept of free speech by instantly labelling those using politically incorrect language as racist or worse.

In October 2019, BBC News reported that President Obama, while referring to being woke, stated, I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people. If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because, man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out!¹

Liberal elitists use political correctness as a hammer. On September 13, 2020, Dr. Evan Gerstmann, a professor and researcher, who focuses on the balance between individual and minority rights, wrote an outstanding article entitled Cancel Culture Is Only Getting Worse. There is no single accepted definition of cancel culture, but at its worst, it is about unaccountable groups successfully applying pressure to punish someone for perceived wrong opinions. Victims end up losing their jobs or [are] significantly harmed in some way well beyond the discomfort of merely being disagreed with.²

New York Times columnist Charles Blow disagreed via a tweet: Once more, there is no such thing as cancel culture. There is free speech. You can say and do as you please, and others can choose never to deal with you, your company, or your products ever again. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent. The opposite is true. The average person or business owner, who is not rich, cannot hire a legion of lawyers to fight back. An unfair accusation or boycott can destroy a person’s livelihood or small business. Reporter Jeff Blow wrote, The truth is that the behavior to which critics of cancel culture are referring typically constitutes an overblown reaction to people who make comments that the left doesn’t approve of. People’s jobs should not be deliberately endangered by social media mobs just because [a] CEO praised a politician that the left hates.³

Political hate contributed to Major League Baseball (MLB) relocating the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta over controversy generated by Georgia’s new voting law. The MLB decision may have caused Atlanta $100 million in lost revenue. These were economic losses to local businesses, including sports bars, hotels, and local restaurants. Governor Kemp remarked, These are the same minority businesses being impacted by COVID through no fault of their own. It is being moved from a city in a metro area that is 51 percent African American to a city that is 10 percent African American. So, who is getting screwed in this? It is the little guys and minority-owned business.⁴

Governor Kemp called the decision by the MLB a capitulation to cancel culture, saying the state would not be bullied. He called Biden’s support for moving the All-Star Game ridiculous. Kemp continued, stating that Biden lied about Georgia’s voter suppression law, which aimed at expanding early voting, strengthening voter ID measures, increasing the use of secure drop boxes statewide, and making it easier for local election officials to administer elections. The Atlanta Braves also released a statement on the decision, adding that the organization is deeply disappointed with the MLB’s course of action. Ironically, MLB moved the game to Colorado, which has similar voting laws. ⁵,⁶

The victims of cancel culture are generally not powerful people, Gerstmann responded. "They are often vulnerable people who suffer devastating harm. A previous post discussed an African American school security guard who was fired for using the N-word in the course of telling a student not to direct that word at him. The security guard was eventually re-hired after a national furor erupted. The same post discussed a teacher who was fired for inadvertently failing to address a student by his self-identified gender pronoun. At Skidmore College in New York State, a professor was boycotted for attending a pro-police ‘Back the Blue’ rally. He did not participate in any way. He said he just wanted to hear what the demonstrators had to say. But an e-mail circulated at the college saying, ‘Tonight, other Skidmore students [and I] witnessed Profs. David Peterson and Andrea Peterson at an anti-Black Lives Matter protest. We demand the immediate dismissal of both Skidmore staff members for engaging in hateful conduct that threatens Black Skidmore students.’ Andrea Peterson doesn’t even work at the college.⁷

Major media outlets use political correctness as an excuse to squash intellectual diversity. On July 14, 2020, New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss submitted her resignation to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, stating that she joined the Times due to their failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election, [which] meant that [they] didn’t have a firm grasp of the country [they] cover. Weiss continued, But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Weiss wrote that colleagues at the Times called her a Nazi and a racist.⁸

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor, Stan Wischnowski, resigned after a Buildings Matter, Too headline ran an article on the damage caused to businesses during riots. The Inquirer revised the headline, Black Lives Matter. Do Buildings? Then the newspaper changed the article title to Damaging buildings disproportionately hurt the people protesters are trying to uplift.⁹

Elitists strive to assign politically correct labels to everyone by skin color, nationality, sex, and gender. An examination of these artificially imposed labels for skin color reveals how truly inane they are.

My great grandparents travelled from France to Canada, and then to the United States. I am French American and brown, but classified as white. I guess I am a dark white. I am not from the Caucasus, so not Caucasian. My wife is Hispanic, from South Texas. She is lighter than me, but labeled brown, perhaps a light brown. Our children are all brown. Our grandchildren are a mix of brown, Black, and white. We don’t refer to each other by the color of our skin. We are just family. 

The Thought Police attempt to categorize all groups. A new term used by woke elitists is Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). This term seems to indicate that Black and indigenous people are not people of color. Who is a person of color? Is it politically correct to lump all Hispanics and Asians into one label, People of Color? Are most of my family of color? Why do we call some people of color, and others are not of color, such as Indigenous? What color is assigned to billions of Asians? 

Two of my retired military friends at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida are labeled as African American. I asked them whether they preferred the term Black or African American. They both preferred simply American when referring to nationality, and Black for race. One had ancestors from India, and the other was from Jamaica, so neither was African American. Vice President Kamala Harris is part Jamaican and part Indian, and refers to herself as Black, but is not African American.

A few decades ago, the term colored was discouraged. Now the term person(s) of color is in vogue. Strangely, one could infer that a person of color is colored, but that would be politically incorrect. All Blacks are not African Americans, and all African Americans are not Black. An individual from Africa could be white, Black, or brown. It is impossible to accurately derive labels based on nationality, skin color, or ethnicity for populations worldwide.

Labelling people by gender is even more complicated. The Thought Police are especially proud of deriving new labels for gender neutral persons. Some individuals do not want to be referred to as he or him or she or her. Some prefer terms like ze or xe, or zir. Gender-fluid persons are those whose gender identity is not fixed, feeling more male some days and more female on other days. This newly derived vocabulary includes a list of acceptable pronouns such as: coself, enself, emself, himself, herself, hirself, themself, zirself and verself. Soon, you may hear that ze went to the store by zirself.

On November 12, 2020, the woke Mayor of Portland tweeted, The language of the documents that guide the city should reflect our community. The City Council authorized the City Auditor to remove feminine and masculine terms from the City Charter. He said, This important step will help make our documents more inclusive of all gender identities. Nancy Pelosi, not to be outdone, implemented a non-gender policy in the House of Representatives just before the 117th Congress. Outrageous terms such as "He, she, him, her, mother, father, sister, or brother are not to be included in official documents.¹⁰,¹¹

Another set of constantly evolving terms is based on sexual preferences. The current acceptable terms include: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA). Elitists are now recycling terms such as queer and gay, which years ago were declared socially unacceptable. Many of the labels for sexual preference seem redundant. For example, aren’t lesbians also gay? There are new terms such as gender queer or binary. You can now call a person gay or queer, but are chastised if you say homosexual. The Associated Press, the New York Times, and the Washington Post reportedly restricted the use of the word homosexual.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in America (GLAAD) Media Reference Guide provides acceptable and non-acceptable words to be used by mainstream media outlets.

For example, the following terms are now deemed offensive: homosexual, homosexual relations,