GREAT PATRIOTS – AT 12:46 P.M. ET:   There are always groups in society, usually groups that fancy themselves as great intellectuals, who don't feel any obligation to national defense.  We have a prime example.  From The New York Times: 

TORONTO — The American Psychological Association on Friday overwhelmingly approved a new ban on any involvement by psychologists in national security interrogations conducted by the United States government, even noncoercive interrogations now conducted by the Obama administration.

The council of representatives of the organization, the nation’s largest professional association of psychologists, voted to impose the ban at its annual meeting here.

The vote followed an emotional debate in which several members said the ban was needed to restore the organization’s reputation after a scathing independent investigation ordered by the association’s board.

Its reputation with who?  The political left?

That investigation, conducted by David Hoffman, a Chicago lawyer, found that some officers of the association and other prominent psychologists colluded with government officials during the Bush administration to make sure that association policies did not prevent psychologists from involvement in the harsh interrogation programs conducted by the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.

Nadine Kaslow, an association board member and head of a special committee established by the board to oversee the investigation into the organization’s role in interrogations, said she was pleased by the overwhelming vote in favor of the measure. “This is a very resounding ‘yes,’ ” Ms. Kaslow said. The ban was approved by the association’s council by a vote of 156 to 1. Seven council members abstained, while one was recused.

COMMENT:  I'm sure all these fools will now feel good about themselves, like the "anti-war" activists before World War II, who worked against military preparedness.  These miniature intellectuals never apologized for the number of men killed in part because we weren't ready to defend ourselves.

Even the Obama administration isn't left-wing enough for the current crowd of self-proclaimed good people.  May this group be sentenced to watching five years of Bill Moyers re-runs.

Participation in the common defense is a basic requirement of citizenship.

August 8,  2015