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Neo-Nazis in US military

A recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center exposes neo-Nazi use of the US military to train and recruit racists.
This American soldier was caught smuggling AK-47s into the US from Iraq.
This American soldier was caught smuggling AK-47s into the US from Iraq.
Desperate for recruits, the US military is lowering standards and turning a blind eye to neo-Nazis joining up. Iraq is not only a training ground for the next generation of Al-Qaida, but the next generation of Timothy McVeigh-style domestic terrorists are getting combat training, combat experience, and even using the military to steal weapons and recruit new members.

"As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United States Army infantry with skinheads. As street brawlers you will be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen you will join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood." --Resistance magazine, 1999

This is a long, detailed article that anti-racists need to check out:

Front Page:
 http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp

The article:
 http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?pid=79

Resistance magazine's advice to neo-Nazi soldiers:
 http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?sid=21

!!!!!!!!!!!!! 13.Jul.2006 17:28

AR

Holy crap! This article scared the shit out of me!

nothing new 13.Jul.2006 17:47

aunty fascist

ok so now the fascist elite are recruiting boneheads. so we got neonazis on top of the social pyrimid and neonazis at the bottom. welcome to germany late 1930s.

The Down-Turner Diaries 13.Jul.2006 19:59

Pravda or Consequences

"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."

Because Nobody wants to be in the Army, Nazis have found free training for their final solution.

and psychopaths... 13.Jul.2006 20:04

this thing here

they're so desperate for fresh grunts that it's obvious they've thrown out any standards. the former soldier recently arrested in north carolina for his role in raping a women/girl in iraq and killing her family had recently been discharged for a "personality disorder". well, which personality disorder? in turns out the guy was a psychopath.

i'm not an expert in the military by any means, but as i understand it, in former times boot camps were designed to weed out psychopaths and creeps. primarily because raping and killing is exactly what a psychopath would do in uniform, rather than follow orders and try to function as a team member. always looking out for #1, the rest of the unit can go fuck themselves. does not a good soldier make.

so, with nobody voluteering anymore to go do heavy rotations of 18 month t.o.d.'s in a futile war, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, and put some boots and stars and stripes on creeps, psycho's and neonazi meat heads, along with unfit 45 year old fathers. all the army's doing is sowing the seeds of it's own destruction, from within...

these boys ever heard of DU? 14.Jul.2006 08:54

x

Sick minds, sick bodies, no babies, etc etc. Gonna wage race-war inbetween chemo treatments? Hope the VA gets funding? If they're so smart, why are they following dumbo leaders?

not to mention the irony 15.Jul.2006 17:13

x

of keeping the blood lines pure and fighting a race war. get exposed to DU. corrupt your genes. no more blood line. how smart is that?

boneheads running scared 15.Jul.2006 20:38

guess who?

Hostile aggression is motivated primarily by fear, profound insecurity, lack of personal self-confidence, etc. This is clearly evidenced in the increasingly violent, hateful and draconian rhetoric of hate radio, rightwing pundits, reactionary politicians and Republican power brokers. They see the writing on the wall, and they are scared shit.

Democrats are set to sweep the congressional, presidential, and many state and local government elections this year, so the nazis are coming out of the woodwork, just like they did under Carter and Clinton, to raise hell and threaten "revolution" (ie: reactionary counter-revolutionary civil war).

For those who revile the Democrats for not being sufficiently "politically correct", this might seem like an empty threat against the right, since Democrats have all too often caved in under pressure, gone along with the right, or failed to effectively block Republican sabotage of social, environmental and economic programs, etc.

But the right hates and fears the Democrats a lot more than we usually give the Democrats credit for. The right will stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to prevent the Democrats from prevailing with even the wimpiest liberal reform programs...it's not that they have so much to fear from the Democrats or their programs, obviously, but they recognize that under the Democrats genuinely revolutionary programs do have a somewhat enhanced potential for development, since they are not as likely to be totally stifled and crushed, as they are more likely to be under Republican policy.

Liberal reformists may not be revolutionary, but they do tend to cut the revolutionaries some slack, and to be somewhat more succeptable to the pressure of the masses. Democrats are much more prone to submit to the popular democratic will of the People, or to at least try to give some appearance of trying...

This is extremely dangerous to the extreme right, because it raises the hopes and expectations of the masses, who continue to press for more and more radical changes, which capitalism, naturally, cannot deliver. The danger is not the Democrats, per se, but the radicalization of the population, which they must prevent by any means necessary, including deployment of brownshirt terrorists into the population, to militarily attack democratic impetus.

Ever since the rightwing conservative reactionary fundamentalist fascist pigs abandoned the Democratic Party en masse so many years ago to join the Republicans over issues like civil rights, womens' rights, the Viet Nam war, environmental regulations, etc. etc. the lines have been drawn, with the right screaming bloody murder and vowing revenge over the fact that it is no longer legal, or "politically correct" to be a racist, sexist, eco-raping pig, in their "own" country...(they should love it or leave it, I like to say...this is a democratic country, and we decided on these policies, fair and square, democratically, a long time ago).

The problem is not so much that the Democrats tend to be such corrupt wimps, or that there is "no democracy" in the US. The real problem is that the rightwing reactionary fundamentalist fascist pigs refuse to submit to the popular democratic will of the People, and will resist any such compliance to the death, with electoral, economic and social sabotage, and even military attack, if necessary.

Yes, the Democrats need to recognize that they are going to have to stand and fight, to the death, in the face of this very real threat from the right...the first step of that is to enhance the democratic electoral process, by opening it up, in terms of access (ie: the whole media/money thing), making it easier and more convenient to vote, and, of course, bringing forward more progressive candidates at all levels (and, of course, nixing the electronic voting!).

But all that is just the first step toward getting the comprehensive and genuinely democratic massive mandate that is needed, to take it a lot further than that. Besides the obvious need to purge nazis from the military, the same goes for all levels of our society. Personally, I think every single person who has ever registered, voted or supported Republican should be arrested. I'm not saying they should all just be dragged out into the street and shot, out of hand...they should get a fair trial first! Crimes against humanity should be punished as such. Lesser crimes might be let slide, with some re-education, rehabilitation, restitution, and probationary practice.

But until the right is effectively, relentlessly, absolutely suppressed, they will continue to threaten every aspect of our lives with their violence, lies and ripoffs. This is not about being mean to them, for revenge, to grind their face in the dirt...it's about stopping their wanton slaughter and destruction! They should be suppressed reasonably, and fairly, ie: democratically...those who resist or refuse must be sanctioned, severely, but justly, as can only be determined democratically. Their stolen assets must be expropriated, and dedicated to serving the people. Those who resist militarily must be suppressed militarily, for their ultimate counter-revolutionary anti-democratic treasons.

For those "anarchists" who will call me a "Fascist/Stalinist authoritarian" for wanting to see the right harshly (but justly) suppressed, I can only say that the revolution is not about your ultra-individualist bourgeoise "right" to do just whatever...such spurious "libertarian" perspectives are the main claim the nazis have, to their "right" to be pigs! Fuck that! Denying such "freedoms" is not oppression! It is a legitimate defense against the oppression they seek to impose on everyone else!

This country decided to be anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-environment, pro-peace and justice, a long time ago. We won the revolution. But the pigs still refuse to surrender the power, and now we are faced with their very rich and powerful counter-revolution. The struggle continues, until the Republicans (and their brownshirt militias) are finally completely outlawed, expropriated, and thoroughly suppressed, for justice and peace, to save the planet...


Death to Fascism!
It will probably take both...
It will probably take both...

You know I been sayin.... 17.Jul.2006 11:45

Lady Celticfire

You know a WHOLE lot of us have been making the comparisons of the US now and Pre Holocaust Germany for a LONG time... Maybe now people will start listening and stop thinking we are just a bunch of fucked up extremist idiots... HELLO... We are IN Nazi Germany pre death camp....

Ironic line by one of the skinheads 19.Jul.2006 07:25

Anon

One of the first quotes by a skinhead in the article seems quite ironic:

"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."

And now he's serving as a useful idiot for Israel! If he were truly interested in fighting a war on "Jews", he'd go AWOL and switch sides or he'd frag the Israeli-controlled US military.

Of course those in the know know that the typical neo-Nazi believes Jews are nonwhite. If he/she spotted a Jew on the street, he/she would not recognize the Jew, but would consider the Jew a fellow Aryan. Neo-Nazim consider Jews a separate race from whites. When they see Blacks, they think the Blacks are Jewish (in reality, the true Jews indeed have rather dark skin, as the Jews in control are not real Jews, they're Ashkenazim with no genetic ties to the original Semitic Jews.

Odds of these racists actually attacking any Jews in the USA: zero percent.

Nazi's in the army 19.Jul.2006 10:17

ex-soldier

I was in the Army from 84 up til around the start of the first Gulf War.
There have always been racists and skinheads in the army.
One guy in my platoon thought violence against Jews was justified because "they killed Jesus."
The army attracts ignorant hicks from all over. Many are from the deep south and from the moutain west. They guy I just mentioned was from a small town in Montana.
Bottom line is most people with half a brain will avoid signing up these days. If they want military bennies they can always go Air Force, Navy, or Coast Guard.
When you recruit cannon fodder for an oil war you can't be too choosy.
I have no idea whay Bush hasn't been impeached.

um...who cares 06.Sep.2006 18:21

Anonymous

So some skinheads are going to get themselves killed. The dangerous ones are dangerous military or no military training. At least the stupid ones are gonna go bye-bye.