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turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:14 AM May 2018

Why Didn't Marine Corps Expel A Violent Neo-Nazi?

Reprinted with permission from ProPublica.

An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response
It was Oct. 29, 2017, when Ed Beck decided he had to contact the military police.

For weeks, Beck had been tracking the online life of a 21-year-old lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He said he had concluded the young man, a North Carolina native named Vasillios Pistolis, was deeply involved in neo-Nazi and white supremacist activities.

Beck said he had compiled an exhaustive dossier on the young Marine, tracing the evolution of Pistolis’ racist worldview over recent years and linking him to violent altercations at the bloody white power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. The most recent piece of evidence, Beck said, was a fresh video that appeared to show Pistolis standing alongside a leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a fascist group, during a confrontation with an interracial couple at a restaurant in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.

Beck was well-positioned both to be offended by Pistolis’ alleged conduct and to report it: Beck had served in the Marines from 2002 through 2006, including a tour in Iraq. In fact, he’d been assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Unit, the same unit in which Pistolis was serving.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-didnt-marine-corps-expel-a-violent-neo-nazi/


Hey United States Marines Corp and your Commanding General Robert B. Neller is the 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the Commander, Marine Forces Command from July 2014 to September 2015 and Commander, Marine Forces Central Command from September 2012 to June 2014.


I don't know........................but the Corps is not suppose to be a breeding ground for terrorists, that's not what the tax dollars are suppose to be spent for.......................got it, if not resign



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Marengo

(3,477 posts)
3. Not a new problem unfortunately. There was an openly neo-Nazi Marine in my unit. When we moved...
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:31 AM
May 2018

Into our barracks in Camp Scwab, Okinawa, he had the gall to hang a full size Blutfahne by his bunk. Company commander threw a fit and the idiot was NJP’d, but he should have been tossed out for that nonsense.

turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
4. I remember being at March Air Force Base and they had some racist shit and the base commander got
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:35 AM
May 2018

rid of assholes, during the Vietnam deployments, he basically told the assholes everyone bleeds red, when you die, stripped them of there ranks and they got dishonorably discharges .....................

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
5. What were they convicted of in order to get the dishonorable discharges?
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:38 AM
May 2018

Or do mean less than honorable?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. It appears military personnel and veterans went strongly for trump. I bet a significant percentage
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:56 AM
May 2018

would fall in the Neo-Nazi or white supremacist group. Of course, another huge chunk would "just be" racists/bigots.

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