An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo - Polidicks

[URL="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/a-national-security-council-staffer-is-forced-out-over-a-controversial-memo/535725/"]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/a-national-security-council-staffer-is-forced-out-over-a-controversial-memo/535725/[/URL] [QUOTE]A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda. His dismissal marks the latest victory by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war within Trump’s White House between those who believe that the president is under threat from dark forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking. Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing that the problem constitutes a national-security priority. “Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.” Higgins wrote the memo in late May, and at some point afterwards it began circulating among people outside the White House associated with the Trump campaign to whom Higgins had given it. Higgins, according to another source with direct knowledge of the incident, was called into the White House Counsel’s office the week before last and asked about the memo. On July 21, the Friday of that week, he was informed by McMaster’s deputy Ricky Waddell that he was losing his job. NSC spokesman Michael Anton declined to comment on Higgins’s firing, saying that the White House does not comment on internal personnel matters. “In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power,” the memo reads. “Functioning as a hostile complete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the ‘counter-state.’” I was able to review large portions of the memo, and to secure extracts for publication.[/QUOTE] EXCERPT OF MEMO HERE: [QUOTE]Through the campaign, candidate Trump tapped into a deep vein of concern among many citizens that America is at risk and slipping away. Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed. … Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety at some future point. (NOTE! Communist take over of Russian revolution against the Czars, N Vietnamese against the South, Maoists against the democratic forces against the Chinese dynasty.) POLITICAL WARFARE ATTACKS—a primer As used here, "political warfare' does not concern activities associated with the American political process but rather exclusively refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist insurgency model. Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies are described as synchronized violent and non-violent actions. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent operations arts and tactics as elements of combat power In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power. Functioning as a hostile compete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the "counter-state." Political warfare uses non-violent methods such as participation that undermines the morale or offers to engage in discussions, as a adjunct to violence. Political warfare methods can be implemented at strategic, operations, or tactical levels of operation. Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They run on multiple lines of operation, support the larger non-violent line of effort, are coordinated with violent lines of effort, and execute political warfare agenda promoting cultural Marxist outcomes. They principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attacks narratives are pervasive, full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies … Political Warfare has been described as "propaganda in battledress."[/QUOTE]

[quote]Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed. … Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety at some future point.[/quote] Man I didn't know that people could make that many buzzwords in a single statement

It's fucking incredible that someone this unhinged can be on the Presidents National Security Council.

Christ that man sounds like the average r/the_donald user.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52533373]It's fucking incredible that someone this unhinged can be on the Presidents National Security Council.[/QUOTE] Given who's president of the USA right now, is it [I]really[/I] that far fetched?

There's reports of Kelly + McMaster Firing everyone not qualified and loyal only to trump in the NSC. Edit: Basically purging the Bannon Infection in it. Edit2: this caught my eye too. [media]https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/892519402284908544[/media]

I like how "islamists" now somehow tie in to the Russian Revolution.

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52533374]Christ that man sounds like the average r/the_donald user.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1573418"]I mean, this happened,[/URL] soooooo it's not as far-fetched an accusation as it was a week ago.

Cultural marxism is a term used exclusively by nazis btw like [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism] like even ACTUAL fucking nazis too [/url] certainly some scary shit going on here.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;52533366]Man I didn't know that people could make that many buzzwords in a single statement[/QUOTE] I was strongly reminded of a certain poster here. he's not quite as batshit crazy as this ex NSC guy yet, but it's a fantastic example of what can happen when your head disappears up your own ass and you become so ideologically entrenched that you can no longer percieve the real world.

[quote]“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”[/quote] 'Cultural Marxism' is such a hilarious buzzword. I wonder if any of the morons that use it know it's a conspiracy theory spin on [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism"]Cultural Bolshevism[/URL]. [editline]4th August 2017[/editline] The 'intellectual skeptics' would tell you Cultural Marxism is just Critical Theory but if you ever read about the economic views of the so called 'Cultural Marxists', you'd see they push for things like more female CEOs and are often just Social Liberals who would be quite fiscally conservative. No critical theorist would ever use it to justify 'more female CEOs' and further a Marxist wouldn't advocate for CEOs in the first place.

[QUOTE=Crumpet;52538476]'Cultural Marxism' is such a hilarious buzzword. I wonder if any of the morons that use it know it's a conspiracy theory spin on [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism"]Cultural Bolshevism[/URL]. [editline]4th August 2017[/editline] The 'intellectual skeptics' would tell you Cultural Marxism is just Critical Theory but if you ever read about the economic views of the so called 'Cultural Marxists', you'd see they push for things like more female CEOs and are often just Social Liberals who would be quite fiscally conservative. No critical theorist would ever use it to justify 'more female CEOs' and further a Marxist wouldn't advocate for CEOs in the first place.[/QUOTE] wouldn't a marxist CEO be an oxymoron to begin with?

[QUOTE=Sableye;52539162]wouldn't a marxist CEO be an oxymoron to begin with?[/QUOTE] To be fair I saw a literal anarchist try to backpedal why anarchists voted for hillary when they don't even want a state to begin with, so believe me that there are such things as internally inconsistent ideologies and it's pretty fascinating.

[QUOTE=wewt!;52541703]To be fair I saw a literal anarchist try to backpedal why anarchists voted for hillary when they don't even want a state to begin with, so believe me that there are such things as internally inconsistent ideologies and it's pretty fascinating.[/QUOTE] I mean I could justify that one looking at the choice the US had in the election. It's not a good thing to be an ideologue.

[QUOTE=Sableye;52539162]wouldn't a marxist CEO be an oxymoron to begin with?[/QUOTE] I would argue that such roles might have existed in transition governments during what some have called "state capitalism" but that would open a can of worm on which communist government has done it and succeeded, and I don't have sources on that.