07 July 2006

Hate Groups Infiltrating U.S. Military

File under what the fuck:
A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization...

The report said that neo-Nazi groups like the National Alliance, whose founder, William Pierce, wrote "The Turner Diaries," the novel that was the inspiration and blueprint for Timothy J. McVeigh's bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, sought to enroll followers in the Army to get training for a race war...

The 1996 crackdown on extremists came after revelations that Mr. McVeigh had espoused far-right ideas when he was in the Army and recruited two fellow soldiers to aid his bomb plot...

...the report...provided evidence on 320 extremists [in Iraq] in the past year, but that only two had been discharged.
726 service members were discharged during 2005 simply for being gay. That is up 11% from 2004. Yet these neo-Nazi skinheads are infiltrating all branches of the armed services - in violation of a 1996 law - and only TWO have been discharged? Again I ask, "what the fuck?" These guys aren't signing up to fight because they are patriots. On the contrary. They are terrorists, plain and simple. They wish to use their military training to start a civil war at home. As Steven Barry wrote in Resistance, a neo-Nazi magazine:
Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war. It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.'
When a gay person enlists in the military, he does so because he is a proud American, risking life and limb to protect his country. And then he is thrown out - dishonorably, like common street trash - simply for loving someone of the same sex.

Yet, as this article clearly demonstrates, when a neo-Nazi skinhead joins the armed services he does so not out of any sense of patriotism or love of country, but rather to obtain the training and weapons needed to start a war against his fellow Americans.

That is called treason.

And in George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld's military, that is apparently ok.