Just what we need...

[Caliman73]

White supremacists and other gangs in the military...great!!


June 15, 2009 | On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.

Over a plate of chicken wings, he tells me about his path into the white-power movement. "I was 14 when I decided I wanted to be a Nazi," he says. At his first high school, near Los Angeles, he was bullied by black and Latino kids. That's when he first heard Skrewdriver, a band he calls "the godfather of the white power movement." "I became obsessed," he says. He had an image from one of Skrewdriver's album covers — a Viking carrying a staff, an icon among white nationalists — tattooed on his left forearm. Soon after he had another white power symbol, a Celtic cross, emblazoned on his stomach.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/?source=newsletter


So we are providing training for these people, putting them into combat, then letting them loose on our society? Go Army!!

[hootinholler]

1. That's ok, the DHS report that says we are doing this was burried after an apology.

:shrug:

-Hoot

[Caliman73]

2. Yep...in the name of deference to Republican Poutrage.

This is what is scary...I know there are gang members who go into the military and some come out as bad as they go in. That is unacceptable. The purpose and scale is different though. Gangs typically want money and use their training for their "trade wars". Bad enough and needs to stop now. White supremacists though, are out to establish the dominance that they feel entitled to, through violence. Just like the KKK did with their Confederate Army training in the South after the war, these guys are passing on their training to people who are already brainwashed into hating people because of their ethnicity.

From the article...

"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.

That goal comes up often in the chatter on white supremacist Web sites. On the neo-Nazi Web site Blood and Honour, a user called 88Soldier88, wrote in 2008 that he is an active duty soldier working in a detainee holding area in Iraq. He complained about "how 'nice' we have to treat these fucking people … better than our own troops." Then he added, "Hopefully the training will prepare me for what I hope is to come." Another poster, AMERICANARYAN.88Soldier88, wrote, "I have the training I need and will pass it on to others when I get out."