Rummy again: Racist extremists active in U.S. military

[whometense]

This might explain a few things. http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=66

A Few Bad Men
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military.

by David Holthouse

July 7, 2006 -- Before the U.S. military made Matt Buschbacher a Navy SEAL, he made himself a soldier of the Fourth Reich.

Before Forrest Fogarty attended Military Police counter-insurgency training school, he attended Nazi skinhead festivals as lead singer for the hate rock band Attack.

And before Army engineer Jon Fain joined the invasion of Iraq to fight the War on Terror, the neo-Nazi National Alliance member fantasized about fighting a war on Jews.

"Ever since my youth -- when I watched WWII footage and saw how well-disciplined and sharply dressed the German forces were -- I have wanted to be a soldier," Fain said in a Winter 2004 interview with the National Alliance magazine Resistance. "Joining the American military was as close as I could get."

Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies on extremist activities by active duty personnel -- a move that came in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat veteran Timothy McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of a skinhead gang in the elite 82nd Airborne Division -- large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world's best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. Military recruiters and base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in Iraq to fill the ranks, often look the other way.

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 Intelligence Report. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he added. "That's a problem."

The armed forces are supposed to be a model of racial equality. American soldiers are supposed to be defenders of democracy. Neo-Nazis represent the opposite of these ideals. They dream of race war and revolution, and their motivations for enlisting are often quite different than serving their country.

"Join only for the training, and to better defend yourself, our people, and our culture," Fain said. "We must have people to open doors from the inside when the time comes." (more...)

[beachmom]

1. The terrorism that came out of the Persian Gulf War

Al Qaeda and Timothy McVeigh: 9/11 and Oklahoma City

What acts of terror from Islamists and far right militias will come out of THIS war? Because you know that if we get a Dem president in '08 who asserts him/herself then the violence from the right wing will increase.

There IS violence from the far left: extreme environmental groups and animal rights groups -- but not to the extreme of the right, which is Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph. Nobody died that I know of from the lefty groups although a lot of property damage; however the right kills more. I shudder to think what we have in store. The only thing that may put a lid on RW violence is the larger GWOT which will shame those groups out of doing terrorism.

[whometense]

2. First thing that came to mind

when I read this was wondering about the hate crimes that have been (allegedly) committed in Iraq by members of the military.

[karynnj]

3. What is truely frightening is how well trained they will become

This is so foolish. Also, at the state the war is now, what's to stop these violent people from killing their peers, officers and innocent civilians.