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Neo-Nazis Are In The Army Now

Submitted by Cape Republican... on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 01:29
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Matt Kennard of Salon reports on how the army has lowered its standards and is allowing in more white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His article is entitled  Neo-Nazis are in the Army now. Some will also be outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday.

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Clearly the DHS report smearing right-wingers is the problem

Submitted by thirdeblue on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 07:30.

...somehow.

Meanwhile, from the Democratic Party side of things

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:33.

In 2006, the FBI warned about street gangs being active in the military (link). Wait, what's that you say? That's as unfair as the current case, with Dem sockpuppets trying to smear the GOP as somehow sympathetic to neo-Nazis?

(IIRC, the Nazis angle was first harped upon by the Southern Poverty Law Center after the FBI released their report).

Some are also in the Minutemen

Submitted by NextRightNando on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 07:34.

Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, said Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Ariz.

The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a home about 10 miles north of the Mexican border in rural Arivaca on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their 9-year-old daughter.

Their motive was financial, Dupnik said.

"The husband who was murdered has a history of being involved in narcotics and there was an anticipation that there would be a considerable amount of cash at this location as well as the possibility of drugs," Dupnik said.

Forde is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group, and Bush goes by the nickname "Gunny" and is its operations director, according to the group's Web site.

That'd be interesting

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:36.

Let's hope the other groups with "Minutemen" in their names who are being smeared by titles like that aren't litigious! The last thing anyone would want to find out is who exactly "NextRightNando" really is.

I'm Wide Awake.

Submitted by Knackers on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:49.

who the fuck are you?

Well you can definitely hold

Submitted by Strider on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 07:51.

Well you can definitely hold GWB and the neocons ultimately responsible for this: we have a volunteer army fighting now two wars, not to mention U.S. maintaining occupying forces and military bases across the globe.

How is the military suppose to keep the ranks filled?

This was bound to happen.  It’s one of the reason I was hoping team Obama would pull us out of Iraq sooner rather than later -- the military is stretched too thin as it is.  Having to recruit from the bottom of the barrel is just the tip  of all the problems.

yeah, it's really kind of scary.

Submitted by Knackers on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 09:21.

how's recruitment now?

Agree with your comments

Submitted by acinphx on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 13:58.

Tolerance for extremists of all stripes in the U.S. military should be zero.  I'm also concerned about the extent of use of high-paid contractors (mercenaries?), and evangelizing by officers among the ranks and locals.  All of these pose serious dangers to discipline, morale and our image when our military is operating in the field.

Total layman thinking out loud here so bear with me and feel free to fire at will as there are bound to be considerations I haven't thought of with these ideas to increase military recruitment to a level where extremists and mercenaries can be kicked to the curb:

  • use stimulus money to pay attractive recruiting bonuses; downside I can already think of:  resentment among current personnel at bonus amounts paid to new recruits; upside (aside from goals stated above): direct employment gains
  • increase military pay; downside: long-term fiscal impact of higher personnel costs (perhaps reduced down the road through attrition if/when we can get out of Iraq and seriously review base needs); upside: improved attractiveness as a career field and/or short-term alternative during current employment downturn 
  • enhance education (e.g., loan forgiveness) and/or other benefits for military service (e.g., guaranteed lifetime access to reasonably-priced health insurance coverage after discharge, if broad health care reforms go down in flames; downside: fiscal impact; upside: more highly-educated military force and even more incentive to remain in service longer

Other ideas?

Someone mentioned the DHS report above.  I fully expect to get flamed for this and perhaps deservedly so, but I wonder:  if extremists groups learn that their adherents are being tolerated, will that serve as an incentive to them to encourage their own to enlist to acquire free high-value training?  While the DHS report spoke of efforts by those groups to recruit among returning veterans, couldn't the news that extremism is being tolerated potentially lead some of those groups to view the military as a training ground for their forces?  Flame away!

 

stormfront has been sending people into the military

Submitted by Knackers on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 09:18.

for YEARS. and we're not just talking training with a gun... we're talking specifically aiming for high explosives training.