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Commentary: By Allowing White Racists in the Military, We’re Training Domestic TerroristsDate: Friday, July 14, 2006
By: Judge Greg Mathis, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com
White supremacists believe that the white race is superior to all others and have used their beliefs to discriminate against those that didn’t share their same ethnic or religious backgrounds. The U.S. government, realizing that such ideologies threaten the health of our country, has spoken out against such groups. In fact, 10 years ago, the Department of Defense made it clear that anyone subscribing to extreme separatist beliefs was not welcome in the U.S. military.
But, with wars waging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military is spread thin and desperate to recruit new soldiers. So desperate, in fact, that they are willing to overlook the growing number of white supremacists that have joined the military in the last few years. As long as they are willing to train hard and fight for their country, these new recruits are accepted into the armed forces.
Unfortunately, these newly-minted soldiers aren’t really in the military to defend the U.S. They are actually, in their minds, training for the race wars that they believe will inevitably take place. These future domestic terrorists are learning much of their trade at the expense of taxpayers, many of whom they will eventually rise up against.
According to a study recently released by the Southern Poverty Law Center, extremists enter the military purposefully -- they want to learn combat techniques and want access to weapons, all with the ultimate goal of initiating race wars here in the U.S. Considering the military the perfect training ground, white supremacy groups encourage their members to enlist.
Military personnel quoted in the report say that there are several hundred known extremists in the military. They are spread across the different branches of the military, yet manage to communicate with each other about weapons and recruiting new members. One officer based in Fort Lewis, Washington noted that there are 320 white supremacists at the base; only two have been discharged to date.
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Extremists present a serious threat to both their fellow soldiers and to the public at large. Ethnic soldiers not only have to worry about dying in combat, but they also have to worry about being the potential victim of their fellow soldier’s racially-motivated acts. Once their tour of duty is up, these white supremacists are back in society, more violent than before and, now, with an intimate knowledge of guns and explosives.
The U.S. government can’t sit around, waiting for the next Timothy McVeigh to reveal himself. By identifying and discharging known extremists from the military, we can stop future domestic terrorists in their tracks. Taxpayer dollars should not pay for White Supremacy Boot Camp. The military is supposed to protect all of America, not train those who plan to wreak havoc on its citizens.
Judge Greg Mathis is national vice president of Rainbow PUSH and a national board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/mathis714 Racist Extremists Active in U.S. militarySPLC urges Rumsfeld to adopt zero-tolerance policyJuly 7, 2006 -- Under pressure to meet wartime manpower goals, the U.S. military has relaxed standards designed to weed out racist extremists. Large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the armed forces.
Department of Defense investigators estimate thousands of soldiers in the Army alone are involved in extremist or gang activity. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," said one investigator. "That's a problem."
Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to adopt a zero-tolerance policy regarding racist extremism among members of the U.S. military.
"Because hate group membership and extremist activity are antithetical to the values and mission of our armed forces, we urge you to adopt a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to white supremacy in the military and to take all necessary steps to ensure that the policy is rigorously enforced," Cohen wrote in a
letter to Rumsfeld.
Military extremists present an elevated threat both to their fellow soldiers and the general public. Today's white supremacists become tomorrow's domestic terrorists.
"Neo-Nazi groups and other extremists are joining the military in large numbers so they can get the best training in the world on weapons, combat tactics and explosives," said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project.
"We should consider this a major security threat, because these people are motivated by an ideology that calls for race war and revolution. Any one of them could turn out to be the next Timothy McVeigh."
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=197 A Few Bad MenTen 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.
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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.
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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."
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"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."
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Barfield, who is based at Fort Lewis, said he has identified and submitted evidence on 320 extremists there in the past year. "Only two have been discharged," he said. Barfield and other Department of Defense investigators said they recently uncovered an online network of 57 neo-Nazis who are active duty Army and Marines personnel spread across five military installations in five states -- Fort Lewis; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Camp Pendleton, Calif. "They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military," Barfield said. "Several of these individuals have since been deployed to combat missions in Iraq."
Every year, the Army's Criminal Investigation Division conducts a threat assessment of extremist and gang activity among army personnel. "Every year, they come back with 'minimal activity,' which is inaccurate," said Barfield. "It's not epidemic, but there's plenty of evidence we're talking numbers well into the thousands, just in the Army."
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