{"id":307789,"date":"2025-05-03T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307789"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:37:36","slug":"royal-marine-detained-under-terror-legislation-after-questioning-corps-dei-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307789","title":{"rendered":"Royal Marine Detained Under Terror Legislation After Questioning Corps DEI Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oliver JJ Lane \u2013 Breibart April 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A British Royal Marine claims he was subjected to a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d, interrogated, and detained by counter-terror police after he questioned what is allegedly diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies to get women into the Corps even if they don\u2019t meet its stringent training standards.<\/p>\n<p>A Royal Marine says he circulated a survey questioning the wisdom of quietly dropping the standards of the elite fighting force to increase its diversity by pushing women through the selection process that would have otherwise failed had they been men. It was signed by 1,000 Corps members, he claims.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged after this document was escalated up the chain of command it was initially dismissed as Russian misinformation and then subjected to a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d that culminated in the Marine being detained by terrorism police as he returned from a family holiday because they wanted to interrogate his \u201cviews\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>British newspaper\u00a0<em>The Daily Telegraph\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/royal-marines-engulfed-in-dei-row-over-women-on-front-line\/\">states<\/a> it has verified some claims made, including that the Marine was flown to London from his posting for an interrogation and that he was later held by police under counter-terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The claims come from a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T8o2LcVfego?si=cov-M2XINXd1UFf8\">video monologue<\/a> posted to a gaming YouTube channel delivered by the Marine, who stated of his motivation: \u201cwe believe we have the high standards that we keep for a very important reason, which is to prevent Marines from being killed in dangerous situations when we go to war, and we\u2019ve been told that we will go to war very soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These high standards are \u201cbeing selectively dropped for political reasons for the bespoke intention of forcing women through Royal Marines training for a political victory lap\u201d, he asserted, claiming: \u201cEveryone talks about this, everyone in the Royal Marines is concerned about this. Not because we wake up in the morning and want to say anything bad about the other gender, but because everyone knows implicitly in the Royal Marines that if you speak out, because of the political landscape and who is in political power at the moment\u2026 you will be silenced as I have been silenced\u2026 your career will be threatened\u2026 your friends and your family will be threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No One Sanctioned for Royal Air Force\u2019s Discrimination Against White Men<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OiMm5nLT3z\">https:\/\/t.co\/OiMm5nLT3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1688928057678000128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Royal Marines is one of the world\u2019s most respected fighting forces and its coveted \u2018Green Beret\u2019 can only be worn by those who have passed the 13-week All Arms Commando Course. The unnamed Marine said in the bid to get a woman through the course, they were being handed \u201cunearned paper-passes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI voiced that concern and now I am being treated like a terrorist and a criminal\u201d, he said, explaining that other Marines were threatened with punishment if they did not divulge the identity of the anonymous petitioner. Having been eventually identified, the Marine said he was flown from his posting to London and subjected to an interrogation. In that discussion, he said his superiors dismissed the concerns raised and said their only interest was his attitude to women serving in the corps.<\/p>\n<p>He was later detained by police under counter-terror laws while returning from holiday, an assertion the\u00a0<em>Telegraph<\/em> report states has been admitted by the Ministry of Defence. He said of that episode: \u201c\u2026\u2019we\u2019re holding you here under the Terrorism Act\u2019. And I\u2019m just shaking my head in this instance. And I said: \u2018Have I committed any acts of terrorism? Am I expected to commit any acts of terrorism?\u2019 And they said: \u2018No, we have you here because of your views\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is stated the Ministry of Defence denied engaging in positive discrimination in the Marines, asserting that\u00a0despite the Marines being theoretically open to women since 2018, not one has yet passed the Commando Course.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive claims of the Ministry of Defence\u2019s allegedly unforgiving posture on DEI policy comes hot on the heels of a Royal Air Force recruitment scandal, where it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/06\/01\/raf-recruiters-told-to-stop-selecting-useless-white-male-pilots\/\">proven it had actively discriminated<\/a> against what it internally called \u201cuseless white male pilots\u201d because it wanted to get \u201ca balanced BAME\/female\/male\u201d intake for pilot training. The Royal Air Force is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/raf-facing-pilot-shortage-diversity-scheme-backfires\/\">now said to be short <\/a>on pilots after not enough applied, although it denied this as \u201cnonsense\u201d, claiming \u201cThe past RAF recruitment discrimination issue has no relevance to pilot training or recruitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2018No Consideration\u2019 of Performance \u2013 Air Force Told to Hire Women and Minorities over White Men: Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7AEABAIP0p\">https:\/\/t.co\/7AEABAIP0p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1561324738147917824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2025\/04\/30\/royal-marine-detained-under-terror-legislation-after-questioning-corps-dei-policy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Marine was held and interrogated by counter-terrors police after he questioned why standards were being lowered to enable women to pass the unit\u2019s rigorous selection course<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":191037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Unreported_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307791,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307789\/revisions\/307791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}