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Busted - Elaine Donnelly's secret, desperate meeting to preserve DADT

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 06:00:00 AM EDT


The handwriting is on the wall for Elaine Donnelly and the  The Center for Military Readiness. She is well aware that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is likely to go by the wayside, particularly if Obama is elected, and because the polling shows that most Americans in and out of the military, see no good reason why gays and lesbians cannot openly serve.

So what to do? Well, the doyenne of discrimination has decided to do a little Black Ops meeting with veterans service organizations (VSOs) to figure out how to turn up the Homosexual Terror Alert. Fortunately Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) received the secret memorandum on this briefing, and you've got to read the cloak and dagger BS. The Blend has obtained a scan of the memo and transcribed it for your reading pleasure.

Because I admire your organization's work in support of our nation's armed forces, I am writing to ask you a question. The determined campaign to repeal the 1993 law stating that homosexuals are not eligible to serve in the military is gaining ground. In this critical battle over the culture of our military -- the only one we have -- do you care who wins?

Homosexual activists are pushing hard to impose their agenda on our military, regardless of the impact on morale and discipline. They are pleased that pro-defense and veterans organizations, which helped to pass the law in 1993, appear to be missing from the field this time. Organizations such as the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the ACLU are well-funded and politically powerful, even though they have no arguments that withstand scrutiny.

Given your organization's long-standing commitment to military readiness and the high standards and sound policy that promotes it, I hope I can count on you in joining CMR to defend the law regarding homosexual conduct in the military. We need to talk about what can be done, and why, face to face.

I am writing to invite you and other concerned organizations' leaders to a private, off-the-record briefing to discuss this critically important national security issue. Please join us at the CMR office in Washington DC:

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Where: CMR Conference Room, 1615 L Street,  NW, Suite 650
Time: 12:00-2:30 PM (Light lunch will be served)
RSVP: Executive Director Tommy Sears, 202/347/5333, tommy@cmrlink.org

Due to this issue's urgency, this invitation is not transferrable to casual observers, interns or other non-executive support staff. This PowerPoint briefing, which includes short video excerpts of the July 23 House Armed Services Committee hearing on gays in the military, will cover everything you need to know to provide the type of principled, engaged leadership that only you can give. I would welcome new ideas and commitment that could turn the situation around.

We are not without advantages. On our side we have the 1993 law, several court decisions declaring the law constitutional (the most recent in June, 2008), credible facts, common sense, and, I believe, majority support among men and women in uniform.

There are so many outlandish things about this memo and Donnelly's bluster, considering the sitcom-worthy performance she gave earlier this year at the House hearings on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  More below the fold.
Pam Spaulding :: Busted - Elaine Donnelly's secret, desperate meeting to preserve DADT
Elaine, who has no military background and zero qualifications of any kind to speak with authority on the subject, went on live TV and gave bigoted, fact-challenged testimony that was ridiculed not only by the people in the hearing room, but on The Daily Show, and in the mainstream media. Dana Milbank of the WaPo:
Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage. She warned of "transgenders in the military." She warned that lesbians would take pictures of people in the shower. She spoke ominously of gays spreading "HIV positivity" through the ranks.

"We're talking about real consequences for real people," Donnelly proclaimed. Her written statement added warnings about "inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community," the prospects of "forcible sodomy" and "exotic forms of sexual expression," and the case of "a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault" a fellow soldier.

At the witness table with Donnelly, retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, a lesbian, rolled her eyes in disbelief. Retired Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, a gay man who was wounded in Iraq, looked as if he would explode.

As Steve Ralls of PFLAG notes, she's desperate to restore what imaginary credibility she believes she had prior to her homo-obsessed C-SPAN meltdown.
It has long been a high-priority of Donnelly and other extremists to organize veterans services organizations to counter momentum in Congress, which has shifted to pro-repeal advocates over the past few years. As more and more veterans - such as retired Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili and Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy - have joined efforts to topple the law, Donnelly has become increasingly desperate to find allies who will join her in advocating for the continued exclusion of lesbian and gay Americans from the armed forces.

Those efforts have failed miserably. In addition to the support of more than five dozen high-ranking military veterans, the effort to repeal the law is also supported by 148 lawmakers in the House of Representatives.

...And if July's hearings in Congress are any indication, Thursday afternoon should be the last, sad show that brings down the curtain on Donnelly's already-lost crusade.

Unfortunately for her movement, she's not finding friends in the military willing to give her the time of day - or even answer her phone calls at this point. It's all downhill for Elaine and the CMR. She even launched an online campaign to try to drum up support (does this woman have a real J-O-B?), with this ridiculous video:


"Our nation's military should not be used as a tool to advance the goals of gay activist groups. Forcing a sexual agenda on the armed forces would hurt discipline and morale."

When you think about issues that really affect boots on the ground -- adequate body armor, guaranteed health care when they return home, adequate counseling -- a laundry list of more important things, Elaine Donnelly's obsession with persecuting and root out gays in the military looks petty, cruel and quite frankly, unbalanced. So many service members have come forward to say that they have served openly with their COs aware, and colleagues not giving a rip about sexual orientation.

What on earth is this woman going to do when DADT is repealed?

Related:
* Elaine 'forcible sodomy' Donnelly scorched by WaPo for ludicrous DADT testimony
* Don't Ask, Don't Tell supporter Donnelly provides comic relief during House hearing
* Elaine Donnelly honored on The Daily Show

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She does not have
credible facts, common sense, or the support of a majority of troops(at least in the Regular Army) on her side.

My son is home on leave.
They need replacements for men injured, killed and whose enlistments have run out.

Elaine Donnelly says that my son only deserves gang members, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, murderers and other sociopathic or mentally ill or defective people to help him to protect America and to back him up.

Elaine Donnelly says that my son and others like him do not deserve the best men and women available to serve in the War on Terror and to keep America safe.

Elaine Donnelly is weaking our war effort, she is alienating and weakening the resolve of our allies, she is jeapordising soldiers of distinction and determination like my son who need good men and women serving with them, not the mentally retarded, mentally ill and criminals.

John McCain lied; Democrats do not want us to lose in Iraq; fundamentalists do.
They are weakening our armed forces, destroying unit cohesion and morale, they are by their policies and actions getting our patriotic men and women killed.

In wartime we call that treason.
Elaine Donnelly: Serving Osama Bin Laden's cause since 9-12.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


No Sense
I could not agree more. I would also be very curious to learn how many folks showed up for the "secret" meeting.

[ Parent ]
Facts is as facts does
"credible facts"

If they are 'facts,' then they are 'facts.'

The word 'credible' would be a modifier for things like: assertions, theories, etc.

If there is a credibility concern when Ms. Donnelly asserts things that actually are 'facts,' the credibility gap goes to Ms. Donnelly.  If the credibility gap proves to be justified, it likely will be because what she asserts to be 'facts' are actually 'myths' or wacko christianist theories.

With Donnelly, life is a box of _____.

I find it very unlikely that anyone will fill in that blank with the word 'facts.'

>^..^<


Condoms?
would that work in the blank?

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[ Parent ]
If a picture was ever worth a thousand words --
the one you've posted of this bitch breaks the bank.  

Great Pic, Elaine
You could be the poster mama for Uptight Prigs Everywhere.

[ Parent ]
I am one...
... of those who served somewhat-openly as a lesbian in the Navy. I say "somewhat" because I did keep some minor cover from my CO (who probably would not have reacted well). However, the other junior officers knew and did not care. Some of the more senior officers knew (or, I believe, strongly suspected) and did not care. The one concern was if I could do my job. I did my job, and that was that. I wouldn't be surprised to know the enlisted in my Division knew - and didn't care.  

When I was a lesbian LPO
None of my sailors gave a rat's ass. They cared that I knew what the hell I was doing for the mission, and that I took care of them and stood up for them. That's what leadership is.

Interesting to note, a poll of troops last year showed that opinions widely vary between officers and enlisted. Enlisted, in large part, don't care. Roughly 75% of them supported the repeal. The officers' numbers were inverted - only 25% of those polled supported the repeal. I'll try to find the original polling data. Right now, it's just a blip in my memory and only the numbers stick out.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


[ Parent ]
you know what
there's a part of me that thinks that all gay people, transgendered people and, heck, maybe all non-Christian people should be pulled out of the military.  Let them have their way, provided they start drafting all those good young Christian men to serve - preferably on the front lines.  Maybe then we can have some normalcy and a chance to clean things up at home

A "Conference Room"?
WTF about the "conference room"????  They can't afford a real office in Our Nation's Capital?  It just leaves me wondering whether Elaine really loves America.  What's more patriotic than leasing a permanent D.C. outpost for your shockingly ineffective campaign to litter the halls of Congress with discord, misinformation, and hate?

Oh, and their "conference room" is about a block from the Mayflower Hotel, where Eliot Spitzer got down with a high-class escort.  I wonder if Elaine plans on holding a few "private, off-the-record briefings" there, too.  That'd be one way to shore up her shoddy financial situation!


I read that
as "the conference room in our office space." Maybe I'm wrong, though...

[ Parent ]
Actually, if I'm not mistaken . . .
1615 L Street is a building in Washington where one can pay to have a "DC address," and reserve conference space.  It's essentially a suite of non-descript offices that those who need to have a Washington address can pay to share a receptionist, mail slot and, when the occassion calls for it, a conference room for secret briefings.

CMR does not have an official suite there, I'm guessing, but uses it as an established office in the capital.


[ Parent ]
offices on-demand
1615 L St NW is one of many buildings in DC that are home to "office on-demand" suites.  Funny that they chose to be right around the corner from Planned Parenthood, though.

[ Parent ]
I thought about that, too.
I actually went to their website (YUCK!) to try to find out if they have an official office in D.C., but to no avail.

Considering how they tend to be so self-aggrandizing, I found it rather strange that they would write "CMR Conference Room" instead of "CMR World Headquarters Executive Convention and Conference Center" or some such BS.

Ergo, it seems to raise a legitimate question in my mind.  (Plus, it's more fun to ignore the facts--it puts us in good company, right Elaine?)


[ Parent ]
Elaine is so sad
There are militaries all around the world who have seamlessly adjusted to openly gay and lesbians serving their Nations. She is simply on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of EVOLUTION. She has no power to change EITHER.  

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Elaine, dear,
I think you're missing the fact that there are already LGBT people in the military! This would just allow them to quit lying about who they are. You know about Lying don't you? Now, and I say this with all due respect, STFU.

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

Maybe she wants an all christian military...
  and since her kind do call LGBT folks the anti-christ and anti-christian. What a way to keep those who don't believe in their 'World Is Coming To An End' fantacies to prevent them from pushing the button to destroy the world.

 And we all know how secret they are about their christian mission that they needed a secret meeting.   Scary indeed.  and as Pam posted Questions of Sarah Palin's Faith Need to be Answered, this is Very Scary.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


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