{"id":41954,"date":"2017-10-19T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41954"},"modified":"2017-10-19T01:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T04:37:48","slug":"mikey-weinstein-accuses-air-force-jag-of-being-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/mikey-weinstein-accuses-air-force-jag-of-being-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Accuses Air Force JAG of Being a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with an <a href=\"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12311\">obscure website<\/a>, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein spontaneously began a religious assessment of Air Force leadership.\u00a0 He first noted that Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen David Goldfein is &#8220;ethnically Jewish.&#8221; It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/05\/17\/sites-highlight-nomination-of-jewish-general-as-chief-of-staff\/\">being Jewish<\/a> let Gen Goldfein off the hook, though, because\u00a0Weinstein then laid into The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/108386\/lieutenant-general-christopher-f-burne\/\">JAG of the Air Force<\/a>, LtGen <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/12\/11\/president-obama-nominates-new-jag-of-the-air-force\/\">Chris Burne<\/a>, and <em>his<\/em> (alleged) religion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force is a three-star General named Christopher Burne who is either an Evangelical Fundamentalist Christian himself or a sympathizer. He&#8217;s the worst&#8230;TJAG that we&#8217;ve ever had, and he has a tremendous amount of sway over what happens there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein had plenty of time to say something about the <strong>merits<\/strong> (or lack thereof) of these men, but chose instead to make <strong>their religion<\/strong> his qualification &#8212; and the target of his derision.<\/p>\n<p>And Mikey Weinstein has the gall to accuse <strong>other<\/strong> people of being bigots.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, <!--more-->Weinstein didn&#8217;t simply <em>assign<\/em> Gen Burne a religion &#8212; as was his laughable <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/03\/05\/weinstein-defines-religions-assigns-followers\/\">practice<\/a> for years. Just as badly, however, Weinstein said Gen Burne just <strong>has<\/strong> to be a Christian, or at <em>least<\/em> a sympathizer &#8212; because he hasn&#8217;t kowtowed to Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42122\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/burne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"296\" \/>demands and conspiracy theories about Christians trying to take over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he mentions it, however, it is an interesting observation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LtGen Jack Rives<\/strong> was\u00a0the\u00a0TJAG until 2010.\u00a0 After he retired, it was revealed LtGen Rives was actually a strong <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/02\/23\/mikey-weinsteins-friends-and-allies-in-military-high-places-part-3\/\">ally of Mikey Weinstein<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; and he explicitly endorsed Weinstein&#8217;s ideology and vendetta against Christians.\u00a0Thus, LtGen Rives was the lawyer charged with <strong>defending<\/strong> the Air Force from Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s attacks, while <strong>agreeing<\/strong> with Weinstein&#8217;s ideology.\u00a0 Wonder why Weinstein made such headway with the Air Force in the early years?<\/p>\n<p>LtGen Rives was replaced by LtGen Richard Harding &#8212; whom Weinstein, a former Air Force <em>Captain,<\/em> derisively addressed as &#8220;Rich.&#8221; When Weinstein burned his bridge with Gen Mark Welsh in February of 2013, he was passed on to LtGen Harding &#8212; the last holdout from the previous administration that had appeared to have been so receptive to Weinstein&#8217;s demands. While there&#8217;s no indication LtGen Harding was friendly to Weinstein&#8217;s cause after that date, it is noteworthy that the highest ranking lawyer in the Air Force appeared to legitimize Weinstein by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/04\/29\/reports-us-air-force-consults-michael-weinstein-on-religious-policy\/\">meeting with him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, it seems that with the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/12\/11\/president-obama-nominates-new-jag-of-the-air-force\/\">appointment of LtGen Burne<\/a>\u00a0in 2013, Weinstein essentially lost the access to\u00a0Air Force leadership he&#8217;d enjoyed for the prior years.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, one reason why Mikey Weinstein has been complaining to the DoD IG, rather than the Air Force.\u00a0 The Air Force has simply\u00a0stopped listening to him.\u00a0 Amazing how that works.<\/p>\n<p>Since he clearly didn&#8217;t have access to DoD leadership (and, of all people, Secretary James Mattis is likely to tell Mikey Weinstein exactly where he can stick his &#8220;advice&#8221;), it seems Mikey Weinstein has been relegated to the same access point as any other citizen, making third\u00a0party\u00a0complaints with the Inspector General.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of sad, actually.<\/p>\n<p>One final note: Mikey Weinstein has said he&#8217;s seen &#8220;almost an exact doubling of our client load&#8221; since Donald Trump was inaugurated. It&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s trying to hitch his horse to the anti-Trump movement as a public relations move &#8212; and it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s not being forthright. Weinstein has yet to claim more than 100,000 &#8220;clients&#8221; &#8212; which he would certainly do were it remotely close. In addition, Mikey Weinstein has been impotently silent for the majority of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>If there really were significant Trump-related issues, Weinstein would have had a scandal-a-day since January 20th. Rather, Weinstein has been clawing to have anyone remotely pay attention to him. In September, the scandals were so rampant, so cancerous, Weinstein could only find &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/02\/20\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-mikey-weinstein-over-nativity-scene\/\">uncomfortable<\/a>&#8221; people to say they didn&#8217;t like it. No one even <em>complained.<\/em> Weinstein even went so far as to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/02\/20\/mikey-weinstein-attacks-mikey-weinstein-over-nativity-scene\/\">complaint about Christmas<\/a> &#8212; in February. He&#8217;s had nothing to talk about &#8212; yet claims it&#8217;s been terrible under the current President.<\/p>\n<p>As to Mikey Weinstein&#8217;s accusation that Gen Burne may be a Christian &#8212; or a sympathizer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He says that like its a bad thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with an obscure website, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein spontaneously began a religious assessment of Air Force leadership.\u00a0 He first noted that Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen David Goldfein is &#8220;ethnically Jewish.&#8221; It appears that being Jewish let Gen Goldfein off the hook, though, because\u00a0Weinstein then laid into The JAG of the Air Force, LtGen [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,4486,96,5597,2798,651,39,2284,85,2,5218,7,10,171,3872,2957],"class_list":["post-41954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-chris-burne","tag-christian","tag-david-goldfein","tag-jack-rives","tag-james-mattis","tag-jewish","tag-mark-welsh","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-richard-harding","tag-tjag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}