West Point Professor Calls For Military Strikes On Journalists Critical Of War On Terror

Submittted by Cassius Methyl via TheAntiMedia.org,

An assistant professor from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point recently declared that professionals critical of the “War on Terror” constitute a “treasonous” opposition that should be subject to military force.

He believes the U.S. should have the right to attack people who are critical of U.S. military operations — specifically, professionals, legal scholars, journalists, and other people effectively spreading ideas that oppose war.

Professor William C. Bradford went as far as to publish a long academic paper in the National Security Law Journal that aggressively promotes suppressing dissent about military force, civilian casualties, and expanding military operations in the Middle East.

Using the excuse that victims would be “lawful targets,” Bradford argues that “law school facilities, scholars’ home offices and media outlets where they give interviews” should be targeted with military force to suppress dissent. He asserted that the war on terror should be expanded, “even if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage.”

He further suggested that the U.S. should wage “total war” on “Islamism,” using “conventional and nuclear force and [psychological operations]” to “leave them prepared to coexist with the West or be utterly eradicated.”

He said that “Threatening Islamic holy sites might create deterrence, discredit Islamism, and falsify the assumption that decadence renders Western restraint inevitable.”

Despite his self-description as an “associate professor of law, national security and strategy,” a representative of the National Defense University has tried to distance the school from Bradford by saying he wasn’t part of the staff, but rather a contracted professor.

Sporting a long history of exaggeration and pro-military extremism, “He resigned from Indiana University’s law school in 2005 after his military record showed he had exaggerated his service,” according to The Guardian.

Though the man seems to be held in high esteem by the military, he spoke with such disregard for human rights that the National Security Law Journal had to apologize.

The NSLJ released a statement on the front page of its website, saying it “…made a mistake in publishing [the] highly controversial article…”

“The substance of Mr. Bradford’s article cannot fairly be considered apart from the egregious breach of professional decorum that it exhibits,” it admitted.  “We cannot ‘unpublish’ it, of course, but we can and do acknowledge that the article was not presentable for publication when we published it, and that we therefore repudiate it with sincere apologies to our readers.”

Ironically, Bradford has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard University with a focus in Human Rights Law.

This is a man who is apparently incorporating his violent philosophy into his teaching at West Point. He started on August 1st 2015 — after he published his article.

This is only the tip of the iceberg in forming a complete understanding of the ideological fabric held by many of the war hawks in U.S. Military.

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Backtable
Backtable

Here’s a novel idea – how ’bout military strikes on professors who are critical of the First Amendment of the US Constitution?

kokoda
kokoda

Is it the fluoride in the water or the pill pushers that are creating a large colony of perverted, morally corrupt people with no conscience or consideration of human life.

Whether it is the heinous abortion trade, hands-up = shoot copfucks, politicians selling out America for a few thousand dollars, judges siding with gov’t, wall street crime goes unpunished, gov’t rewarding wall street for crime, Civil Asset Forfeiture by CopFucks to steal from citizens, the prison ‘industry’ housing mostly non-violent victims of gov’t oppression, etc.

Anonymous
Anonymous

If there were a valid (Congressionally) declared declaration of war against a specific enemy Bradford might have some credibility under the law to back him up.

Until that happens he does not and any treason is limited to giving actual aid to aforeign nation through espionage and such.

Ever wonder how Jane Fonda got away with it?

Homer
Homer

Hitler is alive and well.

Reliving the past, same ole, same ole!

OH! When will they ever learn, OH, when will they ever learn?

Homer
Homer

Fascists, always think the same and act the same.

TJF
TJF

William C. Bradford resigned from West Point because of the backlash from his article. Also it appears he lied on his resume to even get hired there in the first place. Looks like he was just hired on Aug 1st, so he made it one month before they figured out he was an idiot. According to USA Today he also got ran out of Indiana University 10 years ago for fabrications on his resume. What an idiot, but I don’t think his ideas are shared by many (if any) in the military.

Welshman
Welshman

TJF,

Thanks for the info, I was wondering how this idiot got a job at West Point.

Donna
Donna

Hastings comes to mind.

Sensetti
Sensetti

SOooooooooooo dude is psych patient.

AC
AC

Obviously, what we really need is some sort of official government body to tell the proletariat what the Truth is, and oversee the dissemination of this Truth, while simultaneously suppressing Untruth.

The only appropriate name for such an entity would clearly be ‘The Ministry of Truth.’

DC Sunsets

Sooner or later, when the S hits the F there will be calls for a “strong leader” to rescue “us.”

Despite the irony, I fully expect there to be a military coup de tat.

It’s just one of the stepping stones in the path ahead.

Lysander
Lysander

If this professor is a lying, psychopathic loon, then it should be a cinch for him to get a job on hitlery’s cabinet. For now he can help run the campaign as official spokesman.

Billy
Billy

Freedom of speech – meaning political speech – should not be suppressed or chilled. Speech – no matter how profane, heretical, ugly or obscene it is – should be protected. That’s the whole purpose of the IA.

However, with regards to Islam….

Fuck em.

They’ve tried many times over the centuries to overrun the West. Charles Martel stopped them cold when they tried coming out of Spain. King Jan Sobrieski again stopped them cold at Vienna a couple hundred years later…

Theirs is a militant religion. From the moment a single Muslim enters an area, they are at defacto “war” – and that war only ends when the last “infidel” is converted or killed. Then they move on. They’re fucking locusts. Goddamned savages.

If they want to obliterate the West, then they’re welcome to try. I got no problems using everything – with the lone exception of nuclear weapons – to get them to back the fuck off. Nothing should be off the table. They’re fanatics. True Believers. Nothing short of a 168g Matchking will change their minds.

They think in terms of hundreds of years, whereas we think in terms of the next election… they’ve tried and tried, and will try again – they will not give up until they are convinced to go the other fucking way and never, ever fuck with us again.

If that means dropping MOAB’s on Mecca and Medina until nothing remains but smoking ashes, then that is what that means… blow their magic rock to smithereens, no stone left on stone. Yeah, I get how all this shit started, but Haji won’t quit. Not until he’s convinced to fuck with someone else, or is dead.

Haji might have defended his digs against all comers and maintained his culture, but Haji is one ignorant fuck, completely ignorant of shit like running water and flush toilets… his culture is not ours, and frankly, every single Muslim should be ejected from Europe and the West in general – forcibly, if necessary. Dump his bitch ass back across the line – send him packing back to Sandland.

And if he fucks with us, then fly the black flag. Fuck him, his camel, his goat and his Jihad…

Phil from Oz.
Phil from Oz.

Don’t worry – there are plenty more with exactly the same views as this “Professor”. Apart from the thought that West Point might have been expected to show a little due diligence prior to appointment (it’s supposed to be a Military Institution, isn’t it??), the inevitable suspicion must be that his appointment was based on his “outspoken views”

So – maybe those who did the interview had similar views, and so on up the chain of command.

Still sure your “Military” will back “The People” in any uprising?? Might be time to think again, might it not. With people like this in positions of power (and you KNOW that is the case Nationwide), any “insurrection” will most certainly be stopped with whatever means and degree of force your betters feel best “projects the message”.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

This guy needs counseling.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

Journalists ( a finer group of targets cannot be found)

yahsure
yahsure

The war on terror and our wars all over the world should be judged in court on live TV. So people can see for themselves what is going on and why.
At least i have knothing to do with letting Muslims immigrate into the U.S.

SSS

“However, with regards to Islam” …. (epic rant follows)
—-Billy

I agree. 100%.

Zarathustra

SSS says:

“However, with regards to Islam” …. (epic rant follows)
—-Billy

I agree. 100%.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Persian_poets_and_authors

History is more nuanced. All of the muslim Persian poets talked about love. Personally I think Islam was more humane 1000 years ago than it is today.

Monger
Monger

Maybe we could lock up children who ask ” why” also…

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