White supremacists sign up for military to train for race war — with little pushback from Pentagon

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/white-supremacists-sign-up-for-military-to-train-for-race-war-with-little-pushback-from-pentagon/



White supremacists sign up for military to train for race war — with little pushback from Pentagon
The Guardian
29 Jun 2015 at 07:17 ET

After the horrific massacre at Charleston’s historic black church, Americans are slowly realizing the threat posed by white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements. But few know that their presence has grown within one of the most powerful institutions in America: the US military.

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Wilson’s claims can’t simply be dismissed as empty boasting. In a 2006 report , the National Gang Intelligence Center, which operates under the DOJ and integrates gang intelligence across agencies, noted: “various white supremacist groups have been documented on military installations both domestically and internationally.” Neo-Nazis “stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they’re inside, and they are hard-core,” Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The extent of the threat is evident if you speak to people like Dennis Mahon, a white supremacist who acts as a “lone wolf”. I spoke to him in 2008 on the phone. Four years later, he was sentenced to 40 years for a bomb attack that injured a black city official in Phoenix.

“I know two people in the military – one in Marines and one in the army. One has done two tours of Iraq,” he told me. “They are so desperate at the moment; they are going to let you in with a small swastika. If you are an obvious racist and shoot niggers and queers you might find it difficult, but generally you are fine,” he continued.

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Once upon a time a criminal record would prevent anyone from signing up in the US military.

There was a shitload of gang activity at US military bases in Germany in 2005. You can thank dubya for starting that trend.

The Five-Sided Puzzle Palace apparently continues this practice.

[shenmue]

1. On a religious forum I go to, there's a guy from Stormfront

who says he served in the Marines.

I was baffled: why serve the country if he hates so many people in it?

(To be clear: I don't think most Marines are that way, but he said that about himself.)

[Faux pas]

2. Yikes!!!!!