Another General bites the dust. Why is this happening?

Vincent J. Curtis

17 June 22

RE: Retired officer faces sexual assault charges.  Canadian Press news story 16 June 22.

Retired LGen Trevor Cadieu joins three other flag officers accused of criminal sexual assault in the last sixteen months.  MGen Deny Fortin was charged for an event that allegedly happened in 1988.  VAdm Hayden Edmondson was charged for an event that allegedly happened in 1998.  Adm Art MacDonald was accused but not charged after an investigation of an event that happened in 2010.  Cadieu is charged for an event that allegedly happened in 1994.

Why should the public care?  The Canadian taxpayer invested literally millions of dollars in the careers of these men, developing their talents so that now, at the peak of their careers, they can pay off that investment at the top management of the Canadian Armed Forces and Department of National Defense.  These allegations effectively deprived the taxpayer of their investments in these men, who, but for these accusations, had stellar careers that took them to the top of their profession.

The question is why so many, and why now?  Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if there isn’t a cabal of angry lesbians in the JAG (Judge Advocate General) Office, the SMRC (Sexual Misconduct Response Center), and the CFNIS (Canadian Forces National Investigative Service).  Such a loose cabal have the power to search out and prepare trouble for any high-flying male officer in the CAF.  Generals Cadieu and Fortin are charged with things that allegedly occurred when they were cadets at RMC thirty years ago.  The accusers are protected by anonymity from any fall-out.

How could CFNIS sweep the CAF for evidence against Generals?  In the vetting process for security clearances.  Very deep investigations are required to vet someone for above Top Secret clearances, which might include talking to old RMC classmates, for example, or people they’ve worked with in the past.  It’s easy to accumulate a little, unverified dirt, and once said, it’s an offense to lie to an investigator.

Another approach to this issue is suggested in the analysis by Dr. Jordon Peterson of female anti-social behaviour.  This phenomenon manifests itself in reputation destruction, the “mean girl” syndrome.  Peterson thinks that today’s society is suffering from a radical influx of female anti-social behavior in the form of cancel culture and reputation destruction and savaging.  Social pathologies that have a feminine orientation include the infantilization of everything, manipulation and innuendo, toxic femininity that derogates and savages reputations and to escape scot-free in the aftermath.  The fall of General Jonathan Vance very quickly led to the fall of Adm MacDonald, VAdm Hayden, and MGen Fortin, like within weeks.  Like copy-cat mass shootings.

A cabal could work hand-in-glove with an outbreak of female anti-social behavior.

DND might usefully call in CSIS and the CSE to check out the possibility of a cabal.  It’s costing the taxpayers millions.

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