The US military has loosened regulations, issuing “moral waivers” allowing convicted criminal to join up just as they did during Vietnam. GIs suffering from PTSD and TBI are being called back into combat for third and fourth tours to make up for the 99% of the US that do not care to enlist. Read my essay about drafting war supporters here
Nevertheless, despite Army regulations that prohibit soldiers from participating in racist groups the military have hit a new low as to meeting their recruitment needs and are accepting white supremacists.
Following an investigation of white supremacist groups, a 2008 FBI report declared: “Military experience — ranging from failure at basic training to success in special operations forces — is found throughout the white supremacist extremist movement.” In white supremacist incidents from 2001 to 2008, the FBI identified 203 veterans. Most of them were associated with the National Alliance and the National Socialist Movement, which promote anti-Semitism and the overthrow of the U.S. government, and assorted skinhead groups.
Because the FBI focused only on reported cases, its numbers don’t include the many extremist soldiers who have managed to stay off the radar. But its report does pinpoint why the white supremacist movements seek to recruit veterans — they “may exploit their accesses to restricted areas and intelligence or apply specialized training in weapons, tactics, and organizational skills to benefit the extremist movement.”
In fact, since the movement’s inception, its leaders have encouraged members to enlist in the U.S. military as a way to receive state-of-the-art combat training, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, in preparation for a domestic race war. The concept of a race war is central to extremist groups, whose adherents imagine an eruption of violence that pits races against each other and the government.
Given the military are not focused on winning hearts and minds or nation building it may seem inconsequential to have extremists of this type in the military unless, of course, the guy backing you up or giving you orders is black or Jewish or Hispanic, or heaven forbid, Gay! and the supremacist is depending upon them to survive.
It is sad that people like this exist. It is criminal that people like this should be allowed into the military and taught how to use weapons. It is sickening that people like this live in Coos County.
Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Hard to understand but most superiority issues stem from deep seated inferiority issues. As an example, homophobes may be afraid they have latent homosexual tendencies and thus attack homosexuals to mask their own perceived sexuality.
KKK members hide behind masks or phony monikers to enable them to spew their hate without retribution because they are cowards. Although the soldier featured in the article above presumably didn’t hide his tattoos in the shower from his fellow servicemen. It is a tribute to the non white GIs they didn’t punch his lights out.
Great, then they learn more ways to kill other humans. And, they are called hero. Boy that’s a tough one. I can’t imagine where that puts their minds.
You know I don’t even know people who would hate another human because their cells are stronger. That should throw em off.