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Nazis in the military: 'I'm so proud of my kills'
Orcinus —
... situation, these veterans not only will have served with neo-Nazis amid their ranks, they will likely be faced with unemployment and a wrecked economy, eager for someone to blame and fully trained and capable of violent action. SPLC Chief Counsel Richard Cohen has written another letter to the Defense Secretary pleading that the DoD take concrete steps to deal with this problem. Here's hoping he produces something other than denial this time. [Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars.]
Shoes for industry! Shoes for the dead!
The Reaction —
... claiming that Bush is still loved and cherished, well, let's just say that the parties who love and cherish him are not the kind of people I'd invite to dinner. ...
New Lows for the Left
QandO —
You can tell its a relatively slow news week. Crooks and Liars is reduced to resurrecting the "Nazis in the Army" story of a couple of years ago. ...
More proof that liberals hate LOVE the troops
Wizbang —
How do they show their love and respect for our men and women in uniform? By calling them Nazis , of course! According to David Neiwert at Crooks and Liars, Nazis have "infiltrated" our military. Of course, the story he's referring to is a few years old, and both the Pentagon and the FBI disagree, but who cares? David Neiwert has teh investimagation skillz! He knows its true, because some soldiers write dumb stuff like this on teh internets! Earlier this year, the founder of White Military Men identified himself in his New Saxon account as "Lance Corporal Burton" of the 2nd ...
Will ex-military 'Patriots' form a more dangerous kind of militias?
Orcinus —
... Remember, too, that there have already been concerns raised about the infiltration of neo-Nazis into the ranks of the military. If Patriot-movement beliefs -- which are only a few degrees removed from neo-Nazi beliefs anyway -- have become somewhat common in the ranks of the military, then the ...
Is the DHS watching returning veterans? Only when they join far-right hate groups
Orcinus —
... parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they’ll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists." An example of this kind of crossover is the case of Shaun Stuart, a young man from Montana who returned from Iraq ready to join the National Socialist Movement, and gave a speech three years ago at the state Capitol steps in Olympia: And, as we noted awhile back, there are predictable results: Earlier this year, ...
Neo-Nazis working their way inside the military: Salon report has stunning details
Crooks and Liars —
... in gangs and extremists is an indicator of this." Military investigators may be concerned about white supremacists, he says. "But they have a war to fight, and they don't have incentive to slow down."
Tom Metzger is the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and current leader of the White Aryan Resistance. He tells me the military has never been more tolerant of racial extremists. "Now they are letting everybody in," he says.
Now, much of this, in fact, we have already reported at C&L. Indeed, this is not a new problem, as Kennard makes ...
Neo-Nazis working their way inside the military: Salon report has stunning details
Orcinus —
... gangs and extremists is an indicator of this." Military investigators may be concerned about white supremacists, he says. "But they have a war to fight, and they don't have incentive to slow down." Tom Metzger is the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and current leader of the White Aryan Resistance. He tells me the military has never been more tolerant of racial extremists. "Now they are letting everybody in," he says. Now, much of this, in fact, we have already reported at C&L.; Indeed, this is not a new problem, as Kennard makes clear: ...
Nazis in the U.S. military: SPLC will ask Congress for action
Orcinus —
... future domestic terrorists,” Morris Dees, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel, wrote to the legislators. “Evidence continues to mount that current Pentagon policies are inadequate to prevent racial extremists from joining and serving in the armed forces.” Added Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, a magazine produced at the law center: “The Pentagon really has shrugged this off and refused to look at this in any serious way.” We've been reporting on this trend for some time now, and have discussed especially the ...
Right-wingers have been looking for a fresh excuse to scapegoat Muslims, and Fort Hood gave them one
Orcinus —
... Rivera answers "Yes," of course, but the answer is actually, "Political correctness has nothing to do with it." After all, the Army allows neo-Nazis within its ranks to post online and does not treat them as a particular threat -- even though they pose a variety of problems, not the least of which is that they tend to become violent themselves. If the military is practicing "political correctness," it's a peculiar kind. ...
