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Politics => News => Topic started by: 90sRetroFan on July 02, 2020, 10:42:37 pm
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www.huffpost.com/entry/white-nationalists-military-identity-evropa_n_5c8ab70ae4b0d7f6b0f1094b
Two Marines, two Army ROTC cadets, an Army physician, a member of the Texas National Guard and one member of the Air Force all belong to an organization called Identity Evropa
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There is growing concern about white nationalists connected to the U.S. armed forces, of which Trump is commander-in-chief.
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In February, federal authorities arrested Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson, a white nationalist who prosecutors allege was stockpiling weapons to massacre leftists and reporters in a violent plot to establish a “white homeland.”
Last year, a series of investigative reports by ProPublica and “Frontline” found multiple members of violent neo-Nazi groups among the ranks of the military.
And a 2017 poll conducted by the Military Times found that nearly 25 percent of service members surveyed said they encountered white nationalists within their ranks. That poll found that 30 percent of troops said they saw white nationalism as a bigger threat to national security than the wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Kathleen Belew, the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, told HuffPost that white nationalists in our armed forces pose a clear danger.
Veterans and active-duty personnel, she said, have “played an instrumental role in moving weapons, training and tactics from military to civilian spaces” and “dramatically escalated the impact of white power violence on civilian populations.”
Daryle Jenkins, the founder of the anti-racist group One People’s Project and an Air Force veteran, expressed concern over the safety of nonwhite and non-Christian members of the services who have to work alongside white nationalists in uniform who could “undermine and threaten their fellow soldier,” he said.
Identity Evropa itself was founded by an ex-Marine.
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Days after the chat logs were published, Identity Evropa’s leader, 29-year-old Patrick Casey, a resident of Virginia who rose to a leadership role after producing videos for a white nationalist site, announced a rebrand: Identity Evropa is now the American Identity Movement.
A list of the servicemen in Identity Evropa identified by HuffPost is below.
Stephen T. Farrea, 29, is a corporal in the Selected Marine Corps Reserve, a spokesperson for the military branch confirmed. In the chat log, Farrea used the username SuperTomPerry-RI and often noted that he was in the military.
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In the chat logs, Farrea made racist comments. He wrote, “Portsmouth my town 95 percent white very nice” and said he couldn’t wait to post “It’s okay to be white” flyers in Rhode Island.
Also at the gathering in Kentucky was another Marine, Jason Laguardia, who the Marine Corps confirmed is a lance corporal in the Selected Marine Corps Reserve.
On Identity Evropa’s Discord server, he goes by the name Jason-CT.
Jason-CT regularly posted pictures of Identity Evropa flyers and stickers he placed throughout Connecticut and New York City. He often targeted college campuses with the propaganda, posting photos from Yale University, New York University and Baruch College.
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One of the most active posters in the chat logs was Lawrence of Eurabia.
Lawrence of Eurabia referred to biographical information in his chats. He said he is a member of the ROTC program at Montana State University in Bozeman and is in the Army National Guard. He also said that he was a wrestler in high school from a town in Montana and that his dad worked as a stonemason there.
Those details match publicly available information about Jay C. Harrison, 20, who the Army confirmed is in the ROTC program at Montana State University at Bozeman and is a member of the Army National Guard.
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“Go play niggerball if you aren’t tough enough for wrestling,” Harrison wrote in one post.
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Last fall, Identity Evropa flyers and stickers were posted across Brighton, New York, a town just south of Rochester. Police investigated, pulling fingerprints from the stickers, and this month announced they found a match: a 23-year-old University of Rochester student named Christopher Hodgman, who the Army confirmed is an ROTC cadet and a member of the Army Reserve.
It’s possible that Hodgman also posted on Discord under the name Alex Kolchak-NY.
Alex Kolchak-NY wrote often about Russian politics and history. Since-deleted information on Hodgman’s Linkedin profile notes that he is a Russian studies major.
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Christopher Cummins, 44, is a lieutenant colonel physician in the Army Reserve. The website of the Military Order of Stars and Bars, a neo-Confederate organization, lists Cummins’ email address as giuseppe398@*****.com.
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In the chat messages, giuseppe398 bragged about posting Identity Evropa flyers in Mississippi and Jackson and told the Identity Evropa members that he likes Tennessee because it is “conservative & Christian - implicitly white.”
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A user going by Kane in the chat logs described himself as married and residing in Texas. He wrote he was in Houston during Hurricane Harvey and that his dad was from a town in Montana.
That biographical information matches details about 25-year-old Joseph Kane, a resident of Denton, Texas, who joined the Texas Army National Guard in 2016 and is currently assigned to the 636th Military Intelligence Battalion, a National Guard spokesperson confirmed.
Before joining the Texas National Guard, Kane served in the Army for four years as an intelligence specialist and was at one point deployed to Kosovo.
On Facebook, Kane liked a Facebook post by a known Identity Evropa member and has shared the “It’s okay to be white” meme, popular among white supremacists.
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In an August 2018 message posted in the chats, a user named DannionP introduced himself as Dannion Phillips of Oklahoma. He then made arrangements to pay his membership dues.
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In October, he posted photos of Identity Evropa stickers that he put up around Oklahoma City.
How many more are in there that we don't yet know about? Those 25% who claim to have encountered WNs in their ranks should not wait to speak up about who they are. The longer they are allowed to remain undetected and uneliminated, the more they will spread their poison.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomwaffen_Division#Vasillios_Pistolis
Vasillios Pistolis, a United States Marine who was a member of Atomwaffen, was recorded chanting "White Lives Matter" and "You Will Not Replace Us"
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www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/27/white-sharia-and-militant-white-nationalism/
The brothers couch their militancy in their background as Marines, and in their book they write, “The day is soon coming when the Commandant of the Marine Corps, or some other great hero, will stage a coup, declare martial law, expel or eradicate all the liberals and traitors, and reconstitute the Republic.”
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I hate the term "white sharia" (used by the Alt-Right to refer to their desire to treat women as property) because it suggests that actual sharia is similar, when it is not:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
According to Ottoman records, non-Muslim women took their cases to a sharia court when they expected a more favorable outcome on marital, divorce and property questions than in Christian and Jewish courts.[89]
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In family matters the sharia court was seen as a place where the rights of women could be asserted against their husband's transgressions.[3]
In a better informed society, this would discredit the Alt-Right enough that it would cease to be taken seriously anymore, but in the ultra-ignorant society we unfortunately now live in, this has become a successful tactic to further misrepresent Islam.
The correct term for what the Alt-Right wants is simply "white masculinity". Even Biden gets this:
nypost.com/2019/03/26/joe-biden-blames-sexual-assaults-on-white-mans-culture/amp/
Women have been suffering in “a white man’s culture” — which has continually turned a blind eye to sexual assault and misconduct, according to former Vice President Joe Biden, who propped up Anita Hill as an example.
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Biden, who was Judiciary chairman for the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, got criticized heavily for his handling of the Hill situation. Thomas was accused of harassing Hill, who is black, while he was her supervisor.
“Last fall, you saw it all over again in the Kavanaugh hearing,” Biden blasted. “Almost 30 years…the culture — the institutional culture — has not changed. We have an obligation to change the culture in this country.”
Later on during his speech, Biden brought up a widespread misconception about the “rule of thumb” being an old reference to British common law and it’s tolerance of domestic abuse.
“This is English jurisprudential culture — a white man’s culture,” Biden said, describing how people think the “rule of thumb” was a law that allowed husbands to beat their wives with sticks no thicker than their thumbs.
So, why does ISIS' conception of "sharia" match the Alt-Right's interpretation? Simple:
Starting from the 17th century, European powers began to extend political influence over lands ruled by Muslim dynasties, and by the end of the 19th century, much of the Muslim world came under colonial domination.
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Hastings also commissioned a translation of the classic manual of Hanafi fiqh, Al-Hidayah, from Arabic into Persian and then English, later complemented by other texts.[96][97] These translations enabled British judges to pass verdicts in the name of Islamic law based on a combination of sharia rules and common law doctrines, and eliminated the need to rely on consultation by local ulema, whom they mistrusted. In the traditional Islamic context, a concise text like Al-Hidayah would be used as a basis for classroom commentary by a professor, and the doctrines thus learned would be mediated in court by judicial discretion, consideration of local customs and availability of different legal opinions that could fit the facts of the case. The British use of Al-Hidayah, which amounted to an inadvertent codification of sharia, and its interpretation by judges trained in Western legal traditions anticipated later legal reforms in the Muslim world.[96][98]
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This, together with their conception of Islamic law as a collection of inflexible rules, led to an emphasis on traditionalist forms of sharia that were not rigorously applied in the pre-colonial period
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Many Muslims today believe that contemporary sharia-based laws are an authentic representation of the pre-modern legal tradition. In reality, they generally represent the result of extensive legal reforms made in the modern era.[101]
In short, Western civilization poisons everything it touches.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/03/video-british-troops-firing-jeremy-corbyn-poster
The Ministry of Defence has launched an urgent investigation after a video emerged via social media that shows members of the parachute regiment firing at a poster of Jeremy Corbyn at a target range in Kabul.
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Labour sources highlighted that Corbyn and other Labour figures have been targeted in recent weeks and months, while the party pressure group Momentum said it reflected the “radicalising effect the rightwing press is having”.
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It is not the first time soldiers have been embroiled in a political row in recent months. An investigation was conducted in the autumn after Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist, posted an image of himself surrounded by a group of grinning trainee soldiers.
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Users of the Army Rumour Service, which describes itself as “the British army’s busiest and best online community”, expressed sympathy for the paras shown in the video in anonymous comments.
“Shame it wasn’t him in person!” said one post under the username ex_colonial, under an long online thread criticising the Labour leader.
Do there also exist other soldiers who practice shooting at pictures of Robinson? If not, this is not a good sign.....
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And then there's veterans:
news.yahoo.com/army-vet-charged-injuring-8-people-intentional-crash-051139032.html
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Iraq War veteran deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians because he thought some of the people were Muslim, California authorities said Friday.
Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, faces eight counts of attempted murder for injuring eight people, including four who remain hospitalized. The most seriously injured is a 13-year-old Sunnyvale girl of South Asian descent who is in a coma with severe brain trauma.
"New evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted the victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith," Sunnyvale police chief Phan Ngo said.
At least this one has been arrested. But how many more are out there?
(As mentioned previously, veterans are often the ones who train militias, so there is at least some likelihood that they will spread rightism to their trainees at the same time. The only counter to this is to form explicitly leftist militias, so that rightists at least do not absorb the entirety of those inclined towards this field.)
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They just keep coming out of the woodwork:
www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/05/03/the-army-is-investigating-a-fort-bliss-soldier-for-alleged-ties-to-a-neo-nazi-group/
Pfc. Corwyn Storm Carver, 22, is suspected of belonging to the Atomwaffen Division, the Huffington Post reported on Friday, a white supremacist group whose supporters have been implicated in murders motivated by bigotry.
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Journalist Nate Thayer reported allegations of Carver of holding leadership in the hate group in April, following Huffington Post stories of 11 other service members under investigation for ties to Identity Evropa, another white supremacist group.
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A handful of reports of service members’ ties to white nationalist or supremacist groups have popped up in recent years, while a Military Times poll found that nearly a quarter of troops had seen evidence of white nationalism among their fellow troops.
The popular association of the armed forces with bigotry sure doesn't help either:
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/restaurant-slammed-controversial-bumper-sticker-212634478.html
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www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/21/navy-change-pilot-call-sign-protocol-after-minority-aviators-report-bias.html
While at VFA-106, Savage said he was given the call sign "Radio," a reference to a movie about a mentally challenged black man. Other black students, he said, got call signs including "8 Ball" and "Kazaam," the latter a reference to a character played by Shaquille O'Neal.
Other minority pilots in the squadron also gave evidence of race influencing call signs. Another pilot, a lieutenant commander, said he also received the call sign "Radio" at his first squadron in the fleet, but later had it changed to "MC," short for "MC Hammer," in reference to a childhood nickname. A commander said his call sign was "Snoop," in reference to "poor rapping abilities." And a third pilot, a lieutenant, said his call sign was "Ruby Rhod," a reference to a Chris Tucker character from the movie "The Fifth Element." Only one black pilot interviewed had a call sign -- "Mr. Bucket" -- with no racial connotation.
The two pilots also submitted logs from a WhatsApp chat group called "Pure Bloods," in which instructor pilots disparaged them and their performance. In the chat, one of the instructors used the eggplant emoji to refer to the Marine pilot. It was a visual representation of a racial slur, the pilot alleged.
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At the heart of Savage and the Marine pilot's complaints, though, were allegations that they were assessed unfairly compared to their fellow student pilots, and that grade sheets were actually altered after the fact to make their performance appear worse than it was.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/troops-wearing-make-aircrew-great-again-patches-triggers-outrage-left/
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The images were first reported by White House reporters traveling with the president on his trip to Japan, where he stopped at a U.S. military base in Yokosuka
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After the photos surfaced online, leftist commentators and pundits began calling for the airmen to be punished, claiming they had violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for engaging in political activity while in uniform.
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Another leftist dug up photos to confirm whether the patches were actually real, and found they have been worn since at least September 2017:
One professor worried that the military was not loyal to civilian control and the Constitution, and was now “part of a presidential personality cult”
Leftists were similarly outraged when Trump visited a U.S. base in Iraq last year for Christmas. Several troops had “Make America Great Again” hats, which drew claims they had violated UMCJ again.
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www.salon.com/2019/07/05/the-curious-case-of-eddie-gallagher-did-donald-trump-help-a-navy-seal-get-away-with-murder/
Aside from hosting an unprecedented Fourth of July celebration that doubled as a military parade on the National Mall, President Trump made another curious decision involving the military this week. He congratulated himself for helping to free a Navy SEAL officer who had been accused of a dozen separate crimes of war.
Eddie Gallagher, who until this week was a chief petty officer in the Navy, was accused of stabbing a teenage POW to death while the teenager was being treated by a U.S. medic in or near Mosul, Iraq, in 2017. Video images show that the bleeding fighter, who was thought to be between 12 and 17, was brought to the SEAL platoon for treatment. Two of Gallagher’s fellow SEALs testified in a military court that Gallagher unexpectedly stabbed the young ISIS fighter several times in the neck and side as a SEAL medic was treating him. Members of the platoon then posed for photos with Gallagher as he held the child soldier’s head up by the hair with one hand, and held his knife in the other.
Images also show that Gallagher performed his re-enlistment ceremony next to a dead body as another SEAL member held an American flag. At trial, prosecutors presented Gallagher’s text messages, one of which said: “Good story behind this. Got him with my hunting knife.”
Nearly a dozen members of Gallagher's platoon testified during the trial against him, but a jury of Gallagher’s military peers found him not guilty of pre-meditated murder this week.
In a bombshell move, one of the SEALs who was granted immunity to testify against Gallagher instead testified that he was the one who killed the teen, blocking his breathing tube as an act of mercy. Because the charges against Gallagher weren't manslaughter or attempted murder or assault with a deadly weapon, but rather first-degree murder, he was found not guilty.
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Gallagher was also charged with attempted murder in another case. He was court-martialed on 12 counts in all.
Describing his behavior as reckless and bloodthirsty, several men from Gallagher’s platoon said he gunned down a 15-year-old girl walking along a riverbank in Afghanistan and an old man carrying a water jug. They testified that Gallagher regularly fired into civilian crowds.
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One of the seven Navy SEAL commandos from Team 7’s Alpha Platoon told investigators that senior leaders, who were allies of Gallagher, told commandos to “stop talking about it.”
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He was found not guilty on the charges of shooting civilians, despite testimony from seven other SEALs, because the trial happened too late to preserve useful forensic evidence.
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One of Gallagher's lawyers is also on President Trump's legal team, and thanked the president for bringing "this case out of the shadows and into the light" in an appearance on Fox News following the verdict. Gallagher thanked Trump on Fox News “for intervening when he did."
The president congratulated Gallagher following his appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, tweeting: “Glad I could help!”
Trump is either taking credit for the outcome of a criminal trial or admitting he interfering with it. Either possibility is deeply concerning.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a frequent Fox News guest who called the military justice system "corrupt," admitted to taking a photo with a dead combatant during his time as a Marine, and essentially dismissed Gallagher’s war crime as normal.
In May, after pardoning a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, Trump told Fox News that he was "taking a broad look at veterans jailed for battlefield crimes and considering granting more of them similar relief."
So, as if all the above is not bad enough, now we have this:
www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747144221/navy-rescinds-awards-to-prosecutors-in-case-of-seal-acquitted-of-murdering-capti
Military awards given to prosecutors in a case against a SEAL who was acquitted of murder in the death of a prisoner in Iraq have been revoked by the Navy's top official after President Trump tweeted Wednesday that the commendations should be withdrawn.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer ordered seven Navy Achievement Medals and three letters of commendation given to the prosecution team be rescinded, Navy spokesman Cmdr. Jereal Dorsey said Wednesday, hours after a pair of scathing tweets from the president.
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Former Pentagon spokesman David Lapan, a retired Marine colonel, told The Associated Press that the personal intervention of the president represented the "further politicization of the military,"
So not only are corrupt military personnel who enjoy killing "non-whites" for fun being sent a message that they should feel free to continue doing so (so long as they know how to cover for one another and exploit legal loopholes), but also conscientious military personnel are being sent a message that they should not even try to prosecute their colleagues. Could Trump be angling to have the corrupt fraction of the military to support his own interests in the event of an emergency (e.g. if the 2020 election result is contested for fraud)?
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Unbelievable:
news.yahoo.com/white-nationalists-military-kicked-out-huffpost-investigation-223944924.html
Months after a series of reports exposed a dozen known or suspected members of white nationalist groups in the U.S. military, officials have confirmed that four of those servicemen have separated from the armed forces, while another four have been allowed to remain in the Army.
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Two Marines, Lance Cpls. Logan Piercy and Jason Laguardia, were “administratively separated” from the military in May after HuffPost exposed them as members of Identity Evropa, a Marines Corps spokesman confirmed last month.
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Another Identity Evropa member, Jonathan Gould, is no longer in the military. Army spokeswoman Cathy Brown Vandermaarel confirmed that he left in April, shortly after an anonymous group of anti-fascist activists in the Pacific Northwest exposed his membership. However, she would not elaborate on the circumstances of his departure.
It appears that Gould is still active in white nationalist organizations. A photo that anti-fascist activists posted to Twitter in May showed him at the American Renaissance white supremacist conference in Tennessee.
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The fourth Identity Evropa member to leave the military is 20-year-old Jay Harrison, an ROTC cadet at Montana State University.
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In Houston, another Identity Evropa member has been allowed to remain in the armed services.
Joseph Kane, who served as an Army intelligence specialist for four years before joining the Texas National Guard, often posted white nationalist content to his social media accounts. Although he has denied being a white nationalist, Kane was active in Identity Evropa’s private message groups.
“Joseph Kane is still a member of the Texas National Guard,” a spokesperson for the Texas National Guard told HuffPost.
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In western New York, 23-year-old Christopher Hodgman has been allowed to remain in the Army despite being caught disseminating Identity Evropa propaganda in a suburb of Rochester.
Earlier this year, police found Hodgman’s fingerprints on Identity Evropa flyers that had been placed on surfaces across the town of Brighton. Hodgman, an Army private and ROTC cadet at the University of Rochester, was charged with a series of town code violations. In May, he accepted what’s called an “adjournment in contemplation of dismissal” — meaning that if he stays out of trouble with the law for six months, the citations will disappear from his record.
HuffPost’s previous reporting showed that Hodgman frequently posted on Identity Evropa’s private message server, sharing photos of the flyers he’d distributed.
Vandermaarel, the Army spokeswoman, said the investigation into Hodgman’s Identity Evropa ties is “complete,” and that Hodgman is still an ROTC cadet and a specialist in the Army Reserve.
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Andrew James Schmidt, a 19-year-old member of Identity Evropa who had posted photos of fliers he’d placed on the University of Minnesota campus, has been allowed to remain in the Minnesota National Guard because the activity occurred before he joined the military.
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In the Air Force, an investigation is still underway into Master Sgt. Cory Allen Reeves and Airman 1st Class (E-3) Dannion Phillips.
Stationed at Schriever Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Reeves posted photos of himself leaving Identity Evropa flyers outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center and Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado.
Reeves’ lawyer, also a member of Identity Evropa, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Whoever allowed them to continue to serve should be charged with treason. How can anyone loyal to "Evropa" be trusted in the US military?!
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When I served in the U.S. Army I was surrounded by more non-Whites than actual "whites", so there are some positive aspects about the U.S. Armed Forces. However, I am reminded of an Army saying now, "It only takes one ****-bag to **** it up for everyone else." They used that saying when they collectively punished us for one persons mistake, a very Judeo-Western way of handing out punishment unfortunately. But the saying is noteworthy, minus the collective punishment that often came along with it.
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www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-arrests-army-soldier-allegedly-discussed-plans-bomb-170500499.html
The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion and allegedly distributed information online on how to build bombs. He also allegedly suggested targeting Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.
According to charging documents in the case, Jarrett William Smith, who transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas, in July, joined the U.S. military only after first expressing his desire to fight in Ukraine.
On Aug. 19, 2019, Smith allegedly spoke with an FBI informant in an online chat group and discussed a plan for an attack inside the U.S., his search for more "radicals" like himself and the possibility of killing members of the group Antifa.
This time we got lucky, but it is foolish to believe we can catch them early every time.
The only serious countermeasure is to massacre WNs in larger numbers after each attempted attack against us, so that each attack by them ends up damaging them far more than it damages us. Only then will they think twice about attacking again.
This is also why I keep saying all refugees should be drafted into military service in exchange for citizenship. This would enable required troop numbers to still be filled while greatly reducing the risk of recruiting WNs.
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www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-clemency-army-officers-accused-of-war-crimes-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher
Trump grants clemency to 2 Army officers accused of war crimes, restores rank to Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
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Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance could be released from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as soon as Friday evening, six years after being found guilty of second-degree murder. Maj. Matt Golsteyn, a former Green Beret, will have the murder charge against him dropped.
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Lorance was six years into serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth for ordering his soldiers to open fire and kill three men in Afghanistan. Lorence’s supporters say he killed Taliban fighters. Nine members of his unit testified against him, saying the men were innocent.
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Golsteyn was charged with premeditated murder in the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker. His trial was expected to begin next month.
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news.yahoo.com/german-soldier-posed-syrian-refugee-154307863.html
A German soldier who lived a double life posing as a Syrian refugee is to face a new trial on charges of planning a far-Right terror attack.
Lieutenant Franco Albrecht spent more than a year posing as a Christian refugee from Syria, and was given a place in a German government refugee shelter.
Prosecutors allege he was planning to assassinate high-profile figures in a false flag terror attack and pin the blame on the fictitious Syrian.
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Lt Albrecht’s defence lawyers say he masqueraded as a refugee in order to expose the shortcomings of the German asylum system and its failure properly to identify those entering the country.
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Prosecutors allege that Lt Albrecht procured firearms and ammunition and prepared a list of possible assassinations targets including Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, former President Joachim Gauck and Anetta Kahane, a prominent human rights activist.
This is why I keep saying that EU militaries needs to be recruiting actual refugees (in exchange for citizenship), as they are by far the least likely to have far-right leanings. In times like these, every measure should be taken to ensure that militaries would not side with the far-right in the event of civil unrest, and populating them overwhelmingly with refugees is easily the single best measure available towards this objective.
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It is worth noting that the mainstream media is willing to use the phrase "false flag" to describe this, when a couple years ago it would have seemed unthinkable to do so.
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news.yahoo.com/trump-showed-off-2-convicted-103019582.html
Trump showed off 2 convicted and charged war criminals at a secretive Republican fundraiser in Florida
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He brought on stage former US Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and former US Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn during his hour-long speech at the state Republican Party's annual Statesman's Dinner, the Herald reported, calling the move "unusual."
Lorance was convicted of ordering soldiers to engage three unarmed Afghan men and was sentenced to 19 years in prison, while Golsteyn was accused of killing an unarmed Afghan man in 2010.
Trump pardoned both men last month by granting clemency to both their cases. Golsteyn had been awaiting trial at the time.
In other words, they are being held up as examples to emulate. In which case the only correct response is for us to use these same specimens as examples of what should happen to war criminals who escape punishment by the law.
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www.wsj.com/articles/west-point-annapolis-officials-investigating-possible-white-power-hand-sign-11576373230
West Point and Annapolis officials are trying to determine the motives of service academy students who flashed hand signs on national television Saturday that in certain contexts are associated with “white power.”
The hand sign appeared to be displayed both by West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen during a broadcast of the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, but U.S. Military Academy officials haven't yet determined their intent, according to a West Point spokesman. A U.S. Naval Academy spokeswoman said the academy is also checking on the matter.
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Last year, the Coast Guard came under criticism when a member of the service used a similar hand sign while in the background of a television broadcast. Coast Guard leadership issued an official reprimand to the officer who used the hand sign.
The hand sign used is what looks like the “okay” sign, where the thumb and forefinger make a circle and the remaining three fingers are fully extended.
If the military were filling its ranks with refugees instead (as I have recommended for years), it would be extremely unlikely that we would have to worry about this problem.
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Travesty!
www.yahoo.com/huffpost/senate-removes-white-nationalists-from-military-bill-aimed-at-screening-for-extremists-104500620.html
A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act meant to keep white nationalists out of the U.S. military no longer mentions “white nationalists” after Congress quietly altered the text after it initially passed the House.
The change, which has not been previously reported, could water down a House-passed amendment meant to address the threat of white nationalists in the military. The House language was specifically drafted to encourage screening for white nationalist beliefs in military enlistees. But after the Republican-controlled Senate passed its own version of the massive military spending bill and the two chambers’ bills were reconciled, the final NDAA instead requires the Department of Defense to study ways to screen military enlistees for “extremist and gang-related activity.”
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Stripping the specific mention of “white nationalists” from the legislation could leave the door open for more white nationalists to join the military and could leave the U.S. military off the hook for what many critics say are lackluster efforts to screen enlistees for white nationalist beliefs.
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Aguilar said the fact that the final NDAA does not mention “white nationalism” indicates the Senate may not be taking white nationalism seriously.
In a statement to HuffPost, he noted that white nationalists have “successfully enlisted in our military in order to gain access to combat training and weaponry.”
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Academics and law enforcement officials have long warned of the specific threat posed by white nationalists who join the military, where they receive combat training they can use to inflict violence on civilians.
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www.startribune.com/2-kicked-out-of-national-guard-over-white-supremacist-ties/566500822/
ATLANTA — Two men have been kicked out of the Army National Guard after liberal activists uncovered their membership in a religious group with white supremacist ties.
Brandon Trent East told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the Alabama National Guard sent him a separation notice on Dec. 14.
A spokeswoman for the Georgia National Guard said Dalton Woodward is no longer a member. She declined to comment on the terms of Woodward's separation.
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East and Woodward attended a 2017 speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at Auburn University. Photos show the men carrying signs.
"The existence of our people is not negotiable," East's sign read. Woodward's sign read, "We have a right to exist."
Both echo the so-called "14 words" motto popular among white supremacists who say non-white groups are displacing whites.
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OLD CONTENT contd.
www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/12/neo-nazi-group-membership-may-not-get-you-booted-military-officials-say.html
Membership in a white supremacist or neo-Nazi group won't necessarily get a U.S. service member tossed out of the military, defense officials told a House subcommittee Tuesday.
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The officials also told a hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel that they had no reliable data on how many service members had been administratively discharged for espousing white supremacist ideology or how many potential recruits had been barred from enlisting.
The testimony appeared to stun several members of the committee.
"I am flummoxed by what I've heard today," Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California, chair of the Subcommittee, said after questioning Robert Grabosky, deputy director of Law Enforcement at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Grabosky said that membership in a white nationalist group "is not prohibited," but "active participation" in the group could lead to an administrative discharge, at a commander's discretion.
"I find that astonishing," Speier said. "If you're a member, that's an activity. I think we need to take a look at that."
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Several of the subcommittee members pointed to the case of Air Force Master Sgt. Cory Reeves, allegedly a leader in the Colorado branch of the supremacist group Identity Evropa, who posted racist memes and spread far-right propaganda.
In November 2019, the Air Force demoted Reeves to technical sergeant, but he was initially allowed to remain in the service. In December, the Air Force announced that proceedings had begun to dismiss him from the service.
In a separate panel at the hearing, advocacy groups warned of the spread of white supremacist and hate group ideology in the military.
"I want to start by saying that, right now, the white supremacist movement in the United States is surging and presents a distinct and present danger to this country and its institutions, including the U.S. Armed Forces," said Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
"Recent investigations have revealed dozens of veterans and active-duty servicemembers who are affiliated with white supremacist activity," Brooks said.
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www.stuff.co.nz/national/118952222/soldier-alleged-to-have-traded-military-information-was-leader-of-white-nationalist-group
A soldier charged with sharing military information that threatened New Zealand's security was leading a growing white nationalist movement.
The 27-year-old soldier, who has name suppression, was arrested in December at Linton Military Camp in circumstances that were shrouded in secrecy.
The man had been planning a trip to Russia for Christmas Stuff revealed at the time. He is now being supervised by the Defence Force while awaiting a military court trial.
He is charged with accessing a computer system for a dishonest purpose and for disclosing information that prejudiced the security or defence of New Zealand. It is not known who he supplied the information to.
Stuff has confirmed the soldier was behind an online profile named Johann Wolfe, a self-described co-founder of the white nationalist group the 'Dominion Movement', which subscribed to the same identitarian politics as the March 15 terror suspect.
The group shut down its internet presence in the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks, but a seemingly identical group - 'Action Zealandia' - has since emerged and earlier this month vandalised signage at a National Party office in Auckland.
The soldier was also questioned by police after March 15, Stuff has previously reported.
The soldier, under the pseudonym, was interviewed by the Australian alt-right podcast station The Convict Report produced by white nationalist group The Dingoes — which also shut down after the March 15 attack.
A source close to the soldier has confirmed to Stuff the soldier is the person named Johann Wolfe in the podcast interview.
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The soldier told the interviewers of their success at gaining new recruits for the white nationalist group.
"We're getting a reputation. We have a well-fostered public image of being well-natured and well-intentioned," he said.
"We focus on the positives rather than the negatives: the love of our own culture and our own heritage, instead of what we hate about other races - which is an easy trap to fall into."
He describes his own entry to the far-right ideology, saying he found solace in online humour after feeling "beaten over the head" for being white.
The soldier then spends much of the interview making what many would regard as racist remarks about Māori, and talks "extreme anti-European agitation" from the Government.
The Dominion Movement group, on its website, claimed meetings with both Australian counterparts from 'Identity Australia' and with Kerry Bolton, the former secretary of the white nationalist group National Front.
The soldier's involvement in white nationalist groups did not end after March 15.
His arrest first came to light after members of the far-right Christian group Wargus Christi began talking about a member being arrested in a chatroom on the Telegram app.
"One of our boys has been arrested for reasons still unknown," a message from the Wargus Christi group read.
Whether he was involved with Action Zealandia, an apparent successor to the Dominion Movement, is unknown.
Members of Action Zealandia group mask their identities on online posts, and have been plastering their white nationalist message in cities around the country.
On January 10, the group posted a series of images showing its members defacing signs at the National Party's Greenlane office, due to it housing the office of Chinese MP Jian Yang.
Doxxing required.
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This also comes up under a 'Dominion Movement' search, a vegan documentary that apparently caused quite a backlash among meat-eaters:
www.dominionmovement.com/
Action Zealandia linked to Dominion Movement
Security documents leaked to Newsroom show a direct connection between a far-right group that shut down after March 15 and the white supremacist group Action Zealandia, something the latter has long denied, Marc Daalder reports
www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/13/1078385/action-zealandia-linked-to-dominion-movement
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www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/16/marine-under-investigation-allegedly-sharing-white-supremacist-material-online.html
Lance Cpl. Thomas Cade Martin, 23, posted what some experts called "white supremacist" material across at least two social media accounts over the last two years.
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The material includes a flyer with the white supremacist slogan "not stolen, conquered" over a map of the continental U.S. That flyer has been associated with the white nationalist "Patriot Front" organization. Identical flyers were anonymously distributed at San Diego State University in 2018.
His pages also include stylized patriotic graphics and photo illustrations of early 20th Century nationalistic propaganda which experts say are similar to those affiliated with the American Identity Movement, a white supremacist organization that changed its name from Identity Evropa after its involvement in planning the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd and killed an anti-racist activist.
Martin describes himself on his Twitter account as a "nationalist" and says he is the chairman of a group called the "U.S. Nationalist Initiative." Its Facebook page has more than 1,400 followers.
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Martin is assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines at Camp Pendleton — the same unit in which several Marines were arrested in July for allegedly transporting illegal immigrants and for drug offenses. Martin was not among those arrested.
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"'Conquered, not stolen' is a white nationalist belief, and despite the fancy window dressing and sharp suits, his messaging is indistinguishable from the messaging of orgs like Patriot Front, Identity Evropa (now known as the American Identity Movement) or the Rise Above Movement," she said.
Martin's own comments are suggestive of ideology as well, experts said.
In one post on his personal page, a photo of himself in uniform with a rifle, Martin says he's "dreaming about my future blue eyed blonde haired mistress."
In the comments on the post, he explains "I'd just like to help contribute to the preservation of my lineage."
In a comment thread on the group's page, Martin "liked" a comment from another user that alludes to a slogan called the 14 words: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
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"Sacrifice what you believe in ... or get called racist," Martin wrote. "I know what my choice is gonna be."
Leftists take note. Calling racists racists will not stop them. Bullets will.
A review of the nationalist organization's website shows only one other person in leadership — Everett Corley, listed as the group's vice chairman.
Corley is a realtor who ran for Congress in Kentucky in 2016 and became embroiled in controversy around the removal of a Confederate monument at the University of Louisville. Corley called a professor a "damn dirty black bastard" in a Facebook post he later deleted, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Simi said knowing Martin is currently armed and deployed with the Marines is worrisome.
"It makes me nervous, knowing he endorses the 14 words and is walking around with a firearm overseas," Simi said.
At least he is outnumbered overseas. How many more like him are there on US soil? That's what we should be worried about!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkUrnHT1VvI
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us.yahoo.com/news/german-special-forces-infiltrated-far-164030913.html
Far-Right sympathisers serving in the German army’s special forces will be “found and removed”, the unit’s commander has warned in a letter to his troops.
Brigadier-General Markus Kreitmayr, commanding officer of the elite KSK special forces, warned the unit was facing “the gravest challenge in its history”.
Gen Kreitmayr wrote to his troops following the arrest of a senior non-commissioned officer on suspicion of far-Right links.
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There are grave concerns that the KSK has been infiltrated by far-Right sympathisers. Four soldiers have been discharged from the unit over far-Right links in recent years, and 20 suspected cases are currently under investigation.
This is why I keep saying that refugees should be the main source of personnel for all EU militaries. The chances of them being far-right sympathizers are negligible.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMQLNTSP8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfqWmy6dZk
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www.yahoo.com/news/soldiers-pull-blm-signs-confederate-005401457.html
a soldier in a yellow pickup truck demands that another soldier, out of frame, remove "Black Lives Matter" decals from the front of his personal vehicle.
"Are you wearing a uniform right now? Where in the Uniform Code of Military Justice does it say that you can participate in any political protest that is going on?" the soldier in the truck says.
The other soldier, identified in the Facebook video as a specialist, retorts that other's truck has a Confederate flag in it.
"You don't like what's on the inside of my truck, don't look on the inside of my truck," the first soldier, who later identifies himself as "Sgt. Rubino," retorts.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYUuBdnSLw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQLhb_4fqs
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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/national-guard-proud-boys-california-black-lives-matter-213826430.html
The California National Guard is investigating a member’s possible ties to the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group, after he posted a photo of himself standing next to a military vehicle inscribed with one of the group’s slogans while patrolling anti-racist protests in Los Angeles last month.
Anonymous anti-fascist activists shared the photo with HuffPost, which Sgt. Brian Jackson posted on Facebook last month. After HuffPost inquired about the image, a spokesperson for the California National Guard confirmed on Wednesday that Jackson, a motor transport operator from Bakersfield, California, is now under investigation for ties to the extremist group.
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Jackson has not, however, been suspended during the investigation, Shiroma said. It’s unclear how long the investigation will last.
Jackson was among the roughly 1,000 armed California National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles County in early June to quell the uprising against police brutality, one of many such demonstrations that have swept the country in response to a series of high-profile killings of Black Americans at the hands of law enforcement.
“Hopefully a quiet night in Canoga Park,” read the caption Jackson posted with the photo on June 2, referring to the Los Angeles neighborhood.
The message inscribed on the vehicle, “POYB 2020,” is an acronym for “Proud Of Your Boy,” a Proud Boys slogan derived from a song in Disney’s ”Aladdin.”
Some of Jackson’s Facebook friends wrote “POYB” and “Uhuru” — a common Proud Boys chant — in the comments below his photo.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Proud Boys as a hate group. Its members are explicitly anti-feminist, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant. While the group publicly claims to reject the so-called alt-right and says it allows Black and brown members, its ranks have included many white nationalists and its founder, Gavin McInnes, is deeply racist.
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After HuffPost contacted Jackson this week, he replaced his Facebook profile photo — a graphic with the words “ZERO WHITE GUILT” — with an image of the comedian Will Ferrell. (Proud Boys often describe themselves as “anti-white guilt.”)
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Last month, Right Wing Watch reported that a member of the Ohio National Guard, who had been sent to Washington, D.C., to police protests there, was a white supremacist YouTuber. “They activated my unit and we’re getting real ammunition to shoot and kill,” the Ohio guardsman, Shandon Simpson, allegedly wrote on the social media platform Telegram ahead of his deployment.
“Rahowa,” Simpson added, using the popular fascist shorthand for “racial holy war.” The FBI later said Simpson had been removed from the protests in D.C. and sent home. Simpson has since said he was discharged from the Ohio National Guard.
Vice News also reported that at least one member of a private chat group for so-called Boogaloo Bois — a far-right movement hoping to hasten a violent civil war in the U.S. — claimed to be a Pennsylvania National Guardsman getting ready to deploy to protests in Philadelphia.
And in Wilmington, North Carolina, last month, three white police officers — who haven’t been connected to any extremist groups — were fired after they were caught on a patrol car camera using racial slurs while discussing murdering Black protesters.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them **** ****,” one officer said.
“Wipe ’em off the **** map,” the same officer said of Black Americans. “That’ll put ’em back about four or five generations.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkEjiS3AW4
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White Supremacist Group RISES In US Military
White supremacists and white supremacists groups are rising within the US military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InWlbgjd2rc
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/neo-nazis-seed-military-ranks-141932128.html
Germany has a problem. For years, politicians and security chiefs rejected the notion of any far-right infiltration of the security services, speaking only of “individual cases.” The idea of networks was dismissed. The superiors of those exposed as extremists were protected. Guns and ammunition disappeared from military stockpiles with no real investigation.
The government is now waking up. Cases of far-right extremists in the military and police, some hoarding weapons and explosives, have multiplied alarmingly. The nation’s top intelligence officials and senior military commanders are moving to confront an issue that has become too dangerous to ignore.
The problem has deepened with the emergence of the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which legitimized a far-right ideology that used the arrival of more than 1 million migrants in 2015 — and more recently the coronavirus pandemic — to engender a sense of impending crisis.
Most concerning to authorities is that the extremists appear to be concentrated in the military unit that is supposed to be the most elite and dedicated to the German state, the special forces, known by their German acronym, the KSK.
This week, Germany’s defense minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, took the drastic step of disbanding a fighting company in the KSK considered infested with extremists. Little Sheep, the sergeant major whose weapons stash was uncovered in May, was a member.
Some 48,000 rounds of ammunition and 62 kilograms, or about 137 pounds, of explosives have disappeared from the KSK altogether, she said.
Germany’s military counterintelligence agency is now investigating more than 600 soldiers for far-right extremism, out of 184,000 in the military. Some 20 of them are in the KSK, a proportion that is five times higher than in other units.
But German authorities are concerned that the problem may be far larger and that other security institutions have been infiltrated as well.
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“Once they really started looking, they found a lot of cases,” said Konstantin von Notz, deputy president of the intelligence oversight committee in the German parliament. “When you have hundreds of individual cases, it begins to look like we have a structural problem. It is extremely worrying.”
Von Notz pointed out that Brendan Tarrant, who massacred 51 Muslim worshippers last year at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, had traveled Europe a year earlier and included an ominous line in his manifesto.
“I would estimate the number of soldiers in European armed forces that also belong to nationalist groups to number in the hundreds of thousands, with just as many employed in law enforcement positions,” Tarrant had written.
Investigators, von Notz said, “should take these words seriously.”
But investigating the problem is itself fraught: Even the military counterintelligence agency, charged with monitoring extremism inside the armed forces, may be infiltrated.
A high-ranking investigator in the extremism unit was suspended in June after sharing confidential material from the May raid with a contact in the KSK, who in turn passed it on to at least eight other soldiers, tipping them off that the agency might turn its attention to them next.
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“These are battle-hardened men who know how to evade surveillance because they are trained in conducting surveillance themselves,” he added. “What we are dealing with is an enemy within.”
I started warning about this many years ago. No one believed me.
I also provided the solution: populate the military almost 100% with refugees (who will almost certainly be anti-AfD). If my solution had been implemented, we would not have this problem today.
As things stand now, this is why US troops must not be withdrawn from Germany, and if anything should be reinforced. In the event of a mutiny, US troops could be needed to crush it.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-us-army-cadets-were-230306621.html
Black US Army cadets say they were called the N-word and 'shunned' for reporting discrimination at West Point
Black cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point say they were subjected to racially charged harassment and weren't taken seriously when they reported it to authorities at the renowned institution.
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First Lt. Simone Askew, who graduated in 2018, recounted an incident two weeks after she was selected to become the First Captain, the senior leader representing her entire cadet class. Askew wrote she found a note under the door to her room that included "a picture of me holding a rifle, photoshopped with a monkey's face."
"Though I was aware of the historical precedence of portraying Black people as monkeys, I wondered if the depiction suggested something deeper about my leadership," she wrote. "Racing through my mind were all the presentations and conversations that I had given in the past 14 days as First Captain and whether I had made any mistakes.
"This self-interrogation fueled in me a paralyzing fear," she added.
Askew developed a strategy to "perform flawlessly" during her tenure at West Point and remained "optimistic that I had finally done enough."
Despite her efforts; however," Askew said that racist caricatures continued to spread online.
"One of the popular images even depicted me as Satan himself," she wrote. "Am I an animal, am I a demon, or am I human?"
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The letter also included some testimonials from the cadets in 2020. Many of them said they were ignored or even retaliated against for reporting these incidents. We are "consistently silenced and shunned by our Chain of Command and peers when we speak out against racist behavior," one person said.
"I was called a 'n----' during my freshman year at West Point," one person wrote. "I was told that I was going to rob someone because I was Black. A student made a noose and put it on his Black roommate's desk as a joke. I was called 'white' because I speak intelligently, which is built on the assumption that white people speak better than Black people. These are just a few of many examples."
A woman who identified herself as the only Black female in her company's class, recounted her experience with discussing the topic of race with her colleagues:
"But one day I sat with a group of white males in my company during dinner. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was coming up. One of them mentioned how his teacher made him feel 'guilty' about being white because of the oppression their ancestors put upon minority Americans for hundreds of years. The Cadet explained how he should not feel guilty because he was not the one that caused the pain.
"However, I mentioned how it is important to recognize the privilege young, white, straight, Christian males reap due to the power dynamic white men have created in American society. Once I said those words, I was suddenly being shouted at by every white male at that table. I was being told that I was 'crazy and racist,' that 'African Americans should do the same because of affirmative action,' and 'You're only saying that because you're Black.' I have learned that the 'respect for other races' at West Point is simply a coverup for the underlying racism that this institution tolerates.
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Reminder:
Trump Is Considering Deputizing the Military as a Civilian Police Force. That Is Terrifying.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-insurrection-act-military-troops-police-ice.html
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On a lighter note:
https://www.insider.com/florida-man-joseph-fucheck-racist-tirade-faked-navy-seal-report-2020-7
A white man who was caught on video holding an airsoft gun while harassing a Black man last month in Florida is not a Navy SEAL veteran, as he claimed in the tirade.
The Navy SEAL Museum, which maintains a record of every person who has become a SEAL, told the Miami Herald on Monday that Joseph Fucheck is not in their system.
Additionally, Fucheck's daughter, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to the newspaper that her father never served in the military and has been pretending to be a Navy SEAL for years.
"He's a narcissist," she told the Herald. "He just has to be the center of attention."
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"Damn right, I carry a gun because I'm a 35-year former Navy SEAL!" he yelled at one point, according to the Herald. "Go look at my Purple Heart!"
During the tirade, which Wynn partially caught on camera, Fucheck also called Wynn by racial and homophobic slurs.
He also claimed to be the former head of the SWAT team in Hillsborough County, a claim that also turned out to be false.
A Trumpist for sure.
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His last name kept playing tricks on me....
Hey, you should make your quotes with bigger font size and I'll do the same. Hard to read, for me at least?
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"quotes with bigger font size"
I just set my browser to 120% zoom.....
Back to the subject, it seems that hostility towards Turkey is really big on the right these days:
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/far-right-us-soldier-charged-with-plot-to-start-a-war-with-turkey-37550/
A neo-Nazi who had infiltrated the US army has been arrested for attempting to start a "10-year war" by manufacturing an attack on his unit in Turkey.
According to a US Justice Department court filing in Louisville, Kentucky, the ‘false flag’ operation would have seen 22-year-old Ethan Melzer working with the neo-Nazi and satanist group, Order of the Nine Angles - also known as O9A.
Melzer is accused of planning a "jihadist" attack with a view to killing as many US soldiers as possible at their base in Turkey. It was all in the hope the incident would trigger a breakdown of relations between the two countries, and cause a wider war in the Middle East.
The plot was foiled by the FBI when an informant fed details of Melzer’s plan to the bureau.
Described as "the enemy within" by US Attorney Audrey Strauss, "Melzer was motivated by racism and hatred.'' Strauss went on to add that if the accused had succeeded, it would have been the “ultimate act of betrayal”.
Melzer was arrested on June 10 and has been charged with conspiring and attempting to murder Americans and members of the US military, as well as providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, conspiring to murder, and maim in a foreign country.
If found guilty, he could face life in prison.
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Isn't O9A Myatt's old outfit?
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Myatt had long ago disavowed O9A as antithetical to his original intentions.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/navy-seal-museum-sicced-military-dogs-on-colin-kaepernick-target-during-k-9-demo
The Navy SEALs have opened an investigation into a K-9 demonstration at the Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, where military dogs attacked a man clad in a Colin Kaepernick jersey. “We became aware today of a video of a Navy SEAL Museum event posted last year with a military working dog demonstration. In the demonstration, the target is wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey,” the SEALs said in a statement. “The inherent message of this video is completely inconsistent with the values and ethos of Naval Special Warefare and the U.S. Navy. We are investing the matter fully, and initial indications are that there were no active duty Navy personnel or equipment involved with this independent organization’s event.”
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https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-for-investigation-into-navy-chaplain-in-virginia-who-wrote-that-islam-is-evil-compared-faith-to-nazism/
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/21/2020) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for the military to investigate a U.S. Navy chaplain who once wrote that Islam is “evil” and compared the faith of millions of American Muslims to Nazism.
In his book “Islam Uncovered,” published in 2002, Chaplain Brian Waite wrote that the world would inevitably see terrorist strikes “in the name of Allah.” “Some of these attacks may occur within the borders of our own nation by the remaining cell groups interspersed and hiding among the Muslim population of the United States.” He also wrote: “Should Islam be immune from attack because it calls itself a religion?. . .If Adolf Hitler called Nazism a religion, would we be speaking German today? Evil is evil, no matter what nomenclature it hides under.”
Waite is of course correct to see compatibility between Islam and National Socialism. In fact our enemies are doing a rather good job in assembling relevant media on this subject:
https://barenakedislam.com/2020/08/21/chilling-nazis-and-muslims-praying-to-allah-together/ (video available at link)
Meanwhile, False Leftists still cannot quit calling Islamophobes (such as Waite) "Nazis".....
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This is looking worse and worse:
https://news.yahoo.com/top-us-general-says-military-184502490.html
America's most senior general has declared the military will not intervene if Donald Trump were to decline to leave the White House following a disputed US election.
In a letter to Congress, Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not envisage soldiers playing any role if Republicans and Democrats did not agree on the result.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_slCh9DA0
The bystanders are useless. They think talking to a racist will do any good? Were none of them carrying a firearm, or even a knife? Even if they were totally unarmed, they could have just choked out the racist from behind.
(https://sun9-5.userapi.com/TMnm6mQIj4Tf5akEtwhetMIQ6HPJUAfenl0xuQ/Cqfedy3W1Ws.jpg)
They outnumbered him yet let him get away with this. What is wrong with them?
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They outnumbered him yet let him get away with this. What is wrong with them?
Battle at Kruger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
In the water buffaloes defense though, I doubt any of them listen to "gangsta rap", play first-person shooter games on a gaming console, watch UFC or ultra-violent movies on T.V., nor do they own guns or knives....
Talk a good one and then freeze up when the **** hits the fan.
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Maybe there is some hope left:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/
In the latest results — based on 1,018 active-duty troops surveyed in late July and early August — nearly half of respondents (49.9 percent) had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. Questions in the poll had a margin of error of up to 2 percent.
(https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/ZoSJXIkztffMNnquJvdIf6Jwiqc=/800x0/filters:quality(100)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/WRDYQUQ5SNCNHIHT7HBKY7ZJW4.jpg)
Troops agreed with Trump’s assessment of China as a national security threat (nearly 87 percent called it a significant concern) but ranked Russia (81 percent) well above Iran (58 percent). Only about 21 percent of troops saw immigration as a significant national security issue, but 48 percent identified white nationalists as a concern.
Of course, we'd wish for Russia to outrank China as well, but Iran ranking behind Russia by a significant margin is a start. Also, notice how unpopular Trump is with the surveyed officers:
(https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/4uKZPWmhcowk1yRTIx7QiM_ge30=/800x0/filters:quality(100)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/TGFPTSZFP5BHBN43ROZWMNOL3M.jpg)
I was really baffled by this however:
About 40 percent of troops surveyed identified as Republican or Libertarian, 16 percent Democrats, and 44 percent independent or another party.
Unfortunately, this reflects my experience with many leftists I know personally who also show not the slightest interest in joining the military (or a law enforcement agency for that matter). It's really no surprise that these institutions get taken over by the far-right when there are no leftists present to stop them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_slCh9DA0
The bystanders are useless. They think talking to a racist will do any good? Were none of them carrying a firearm, or even a knife? Even if they were totally unarmed, they could have just choked out the racist from behind.
(https://sun9-5.userapi.com/TMnm6mQIj4Tf5akEtwhetMIQ6HPJUAfenl0xuQ/Cqfedy3W1Ws.jpg)
They outnumbered him yet let him get away with this. What is wrong with them?
His membership in the US Military, a Zionist merceneary force, should make him a target for elimination in the eyes of a True Leftist, but I digress.
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His membership in the US Military, a Zionist merceneary force, should make him a target for elimination in the eyes of a True Leftist
Maybe in the eyes of a Duginist. A True Leftist in turn would also remember that the US military bombed Serbia in the 90s and is thus not evil by default.
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Having served in the U.S. military myself I can tell you no one I served with considered themselves "Zionist Mercenaries", in fact I didn't even know what Zionism was even at the beginning of my second enlistment.
The following is also why I continue to hold out hope for America and not the U.S.:
War on the 'Red Empire': How America planned for an attack on BRITAIN in 1930 with bombing raids and chemical weapons
Details of an amazing American military plan for an attack to wipe out a major part of the British Army are today revealed for the first time.
In 1930, a mere nine years before the outbreak of World War Two, America drew up proposals specifically aimed at eliminating all British land forces in Canada and the North Atlantic, thus destroying Britain's trading ability and bringing the country to its knees.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039453/How-America-planned-destroy-BRITAIN-1930-bombing-raids-chemical-weapons.html
The real America is still alive in there somewhere.... ;)
In actuality these soldiers were not "renegades" either, they expressed the same sentiment that General Patton would later express, that sentiment being that America should have helped the Third Reich take down the Soviet Union....
American SS Renegades - The George Washington Legion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_y71_XhQqA
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https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/confederacy-whiteness-virginia-military-academys-170000227.html
A 'Confederacy of Whiteness': Virginia Military Academy's Uncivil War Against Its Black Students
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“When you first get there, you’re on the bottom of the totem pole,” explained 2020 graduate Kaleb Tucker to The Root. “When you leave your barracks—which are your dorms—rats have to salute Stonewall Jackson. In other words, pay respect to a Confederate leader.”
“Rats” is VMI’s nickname for first-year cadets on the school’s “Rat Line”—a tradition of informal indoctrination “designed to instill and reinforce character traits that will serve a cadet well during his or her cadet years and in life after VMI.” While the rats are no longer formally required to salute the monument to a literal military traitor, the practice is still honored by many students and informally encouraged by upperclassmen, who are essentially the rats’ de-facto superiors.
“They took it off paper but it’s still enforced,” said Tucker. “It’s a class system, so anyone can order you to do anything. They can get you in trouble, scream in your face, haze you during workouts and even [subject rats to] administrative trouble. Somebody will get you in trouble for something else but really it’s for not saluting the statue.”
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The glorification of the Confederacy isn’t the only reason VMI is so white. In spite of General Order No. 16 (pdf) —the university’s written policy against discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct—current and former VMI cadets describe a campus atmosphere openly hostile to anyone who is not a white male.
In 2017, Col. William Wanovich, VMI’s commandant of cadets, posed for a picture as he pretended to climb students dressed as “Trump’s wall” for Halloween.
No disciplinary action was taken.
Another former student wrote that an upperclassman spit in his face the day he chose to transfer, telling him that he was only there because the school “needs minorities.” Eight students described how Black students are routinely targeted for violations of the school’s honor code, sometimes for offenses like “being ratchet” or “ghetto.” And, because the college is student-run, even when Black students report the incidents, the jury in the cadet-led “honor court” are usually composed of white males.
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Another current cadet and a VMI alumnus recounted another incident that illustrates the climate at VMI. According to both sources, who spoke independently of each other, a prospective Black athlete was visiting the school on a recruiting trip when a white cadet decided to introduce himself.
“The white kid walked up and said—and I quote: ‘What’s up with all this **** ****?’” said the alumnus, who witnessed the incident. “To sum it up, there was no disciplinary action taken on that cadet. And the second in command kind of made light of it, like we were in the wrong for even caring about it.”
“You hear the n-word a lot of from people who aren’t Black,” said Tucker, while other students revealed that Confederate flags are commonplace in the barracks. Students say when students speak out, their pleas are ignored or routinely dismissed.
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Jamie (not her real name), a white former VMI professor who spent years teaching at the institution, says she was diagnosed with PTSD after leaving VMI. In tears, she shared how she witnessed a white cadre (upperclassmen) tell a Black rat that they were going to send him “back where he came from.”
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/us-military-cadets-drop-malcolm-153825460.html
US Military Cadets Drop Out of ‘Malcolm X’ Screening Due to Trump Executive Order, William Jackson Harper Says
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Australian special forces killed Afghan civilians – war crimes report
Australia's most senior military official has admitted that patrol members in Afghanistan would shoot unarmed people to achieve their first kill, a practice known as "blooding."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQ6AvhIbzo
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/australian-soldier-pictured-drinking-beer-170749540.html
Australian soldier pictured drinking beer out of dead Taliban fighter's prosthetic leg
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Another shows two soldiers dancing with the leg.
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Some soldiers claimed in the Guardian that the practice was widely tolerated by officers at high levels, and even involved some of them.
Taking property without the consent of the owner may be classified as pillaging, a war crime which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
So will they be imprisoned? For that matter, will the museum people be imprisoned?
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/museum-decolonization/
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Military commander condemns racist incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0RfhvYN8s
The question is: is he willing to punish those responsible? I do not have much faith in Westerners pursuing justice....
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-retired-generals-embraced-bizarre-223607842.html
Here are 4 former military officers who have embraced bizarre Trump conspiracies
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Mike Flynn
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Flynn was one of Trump's first supporters during the 2016 presidential campaign, and Trump selected Flynn as his first national security advisor. Flynn was later fired after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about previous conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but later renounced his plea. In November, Trump pardoned Flynn of "any and all possible offenses" related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Flynn previously promoted anti-Muslim sentiments, including claiming that "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL."
In October 2019, federal prosecutors argued Flynn was delaying his sentencing by relying on conspiracy theories to compel the government to embark on a "fishing expedition for documents that could offer support for those theories."
In July 2020, Flynn was also featured in a video repeating the slogan and catchphrases of QAnon conspiracy theorists, who baselessly claim that a cabal of politicians and celebrities are conspiring on a variety of nefarious acts and that Trump is leading a covert campaign against them.
Following the 2020 presidential race, Flynn promoted a press release that urged Trump to "suspend the Constitution," declare a "limited" martial law, and to hold a new election.
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Anthony Tata
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Tata called Islam "the most oppressive, violent religion." Tata had also falsely claimed Obama was a Muslim and a "terrorist leader" with "Islamic roots," according to several reports.
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Thomas McInerney
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During the 2020 presidential election, McInerney had also promoted a conspiracy theory that alleged voting machines deleted votes for Trump. In several interviews, McInerney claimed that a military schoolhouse, which is composed of troops who are fairly new to the military, had been helping Trump and his campaign's attorneys dispute the results of the election.
McInerney also claimed without evidence that US Green Berets had "seized" computer servers in Germany that held election data during a CIA operation in which several soldiers were killed.
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Scott O'Grady
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O'Grady has promoted several conspiracy theories in support of Trump's baseless claims that the presidential election was rife with fraud.
O'Grady recently retweeted a tweet saying that "calling for martial law is not a bad idea when there is an attempted coup against the president," according to CNN, which reported on Friday that O'Grady also shared other debunked theories about the election, insulted former military officials, and retweeted at least one pro-QAnon hashtag.
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More Trump Goons Push For Martial Law Declaration
Trump DOD pick retweets pro-martial-law account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISFNCv797I
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/rioter-seen-senate-floor-combat-145400571.html
A rioter dressed in full combat gear and carrying zip-tie handcuffs during the US Capitol siege is a decorated US Air Force veteran, the New Yorker reported Saturday.
An article by Ronan Farrow named the man, seen in photos from Wednesday's attack, as Larry Rendall Brock Jr.
Farrow said that Brock was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, a senior rank that usually requires 15 years of service to achieve.
There are definitely more like him that we don't know about yet.
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See?
https://us.yahoo.com/news/lawmaker-army-secretary-investigate-troops-234430204.html
McCarthy told Crow that at least 25 domestic terrorism cases had been opened following the Capitol assaults, according to the readout, and that weapons including long guns, explosive devices and Molotov Cocktails were recovered, "which suggests a greater disaster was narrowly averted."
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Crow asked McCarthy that military members involved in the riot -- some military veterans have already been identified as participants -- receive fast-tracked investigation and courts-martial. He also made an unusual request: that the Army's Criminal Investigation Command review National Guard troops who are deployed for the inauguration "to ensure that deployed members are not sympathetic to domestic terrorists."
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How Military Service Prepared Rep. Crow For Capitol Invasion
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) discusses his experiences serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it helped him navigate the Capitol invasion. He tells Lawrence O’Donnell that as an Army Ranger overseas he was trained and prepared for the environment, and on Wednesday “none of us were ever expecting to be in that position, as vulnerable as we were that day.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTmp-QrXmxQ
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The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how bad it's gotten.
The rise of extremism in the ranks is seen as a "crisis issue" but the military's efforts to weed out radicals are "haphazard" at best.
The Pentagon is confronting a resurgence of white supremacy and other right-wing ideologies in the ranks and is scrambling to track how acute the problem has become in the Trump era.
It's an issue that has simmered in the military for years, but is now front and center following signs that former military personnel played a role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol last week.
Tackling the influence of hate groups, racist propaganda and anti-government sentiment in the officer corps and enlisted ranks must be an immediate task for Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of Defense, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, according to lawmakers, retired military leaders and experts on extremism. If confirmed, Austin would be the first Black defense secretary.
“There is a crisis issue: the rise of extremism and white supremacy in the ranks,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a retired Army officer and member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview. “That has been fueled by President [Donald] Trump, unfortunately. So that has to be dealt with right away and unequivocally. That’s top of the list.”
The overall problem of right-wing extremism has dogged the military for decades and tends to be more severe when there is a rise in wider society.
It has gained new attention in the wake of the revelation that a retired senior Air Force officer allegedly took part in last Wednesday's riot in the U.S. Capitol and a Navy veteran who also played a leading role was arrested over the weekend. Meanwhile, a rioter who was killed while trying to break into Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office suite was also an Air Force veteran who espoused far-right and QAnon conspiracies.
In another sign of the challenge, the Army on Monday announced it was ousting a junior officer who was investigated for posting a video to his 3 million TikTok followers joking about Jews being exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.
The recent events are coming less than a month after the acting Defense secretary directed a review of Pentagon policies meant to address hate groups in the military, which will include recommendations for punishing those who take part in extremist activity.
A 2020 survey found that more than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members reported witnessing first-hand examples of white nationalism or other ideologically-driven racism.
“The number of extremists in the military has increased due to a higher percentage of white supremacists attempting to join the military and the development of white supremacist leanings among some currently-serving personnel,” Mark Pitcavage, a specialist on far-right groups for the Anti-Defamation League, told the House Armed Services Committee last year.
“To an even greater degree than in previous surges of extremism," he added, "the Internet has played a role in the present one, with extremist content found on websites, discussion forums, chat rooms, social media, messaging apps, gaming and streaming sites, and other platforms."
Pitcavage recounted a litany of incidents involving right-wing extremists in the ranks over the past few years, including: troops offering to teach how to make explosives and target left-wing activists, joining pro-Nazi organizations and traveling to Ukraine without orders to train with a right-wing militia. A Florida National Guardsman even founded a neo-Nazi group.
But the military’s record of detecting such elements is “haphazard” at best, Pitcavage told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/military-right-wing-extremism-457861?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAaOOCef58
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-parler-data-points-to-users-at-police-stations-1846059897
Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon restricted access to app this week, reveal its users included police officers around the U.S. and service members stationed on bases at home and abroad.
The presence on Parler of active military and police raises concerns, experts said, about their potential exposure to far-right conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies enabled by the platform’s practically nonexistent moderation and its stated openness to hate speech. Military officials have long considered infiltration and recruitment by white supremacist groups a threat. Groups that endorsed a wide range of racist beliefs appear to have been operating openly on Parler, the experts said, with the de facto permission of its owners. The FBI has likewise raised concerns over law enforcement agents adopting radical views and being recruited—viewing their access to secured buildings, elected officials, and other VIPs as a singular threat.
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In total, Gizmodo found that 16 Parler videos were filmed within 50 feet of 10 different local law enforcement buildings, according to GPS data tied to the footage; 39 videos were filmed within 1,000 feet of domestic military facilities; and another 64 were filmed within 500 feet of the entrance of an immigrant detention center. Five additional videos were filmed within 1,000 feet of overseas military bases.
So ICE and CBP really do have the most racists! Who would have guessed?
A video posted to Parler in June of 2020, for instance, was apparently filmed just outside the entrance of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino, California. A harrowing 2018 report from the DHS’ Office of Inspector General discovered nooses hanging from detainees’ cells and inadequate medical care at the facility.
But the military racists are also dangerous:
The U.S. military has long considered infiltration and recruitment by white supremacist groups a threat. In 2018, the Air Force Reserve booted a recruit who was filmed in a vehicle on a dark road with others saying they were out “hunting” Black people (they used the N-word instead). In 2019, a U.S. Coast Guard officer arrested on drug and firearms charges was discovered to be a self-proclaimed white supremacist who idolized Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who murdered 77 people in 2011. The Military Times, whose polls documented increases in incidents of racism in the military in recent years, says the results suggest “ongoing problems with infiltration of the military by extremist groups.” A 2017 poll found that nearly 42% of non-white service members have seen examples of white nationalism in the service (versus about 18% of white service members.)
Jeff McCausland, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former member of the National Security Council, wrote in 2019 that while historically, the U.S. military has not sought to actively recruit extremists, “it has failed to establish a comprehensive way to screen them out.”
What kind of people join the US military is heavily influenced by US foreign policy. The reason why so many racists join the US military is because they see the US with a pattern over many decades of waging war almost exclusively against "Third World" countries (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.), therefore are predictably enthusiastic about joining an organization that will allow them to kill large numbers of "non-whites". Would these same racists be anywhere near as enthusiastic about joining the US military if the US hypothetically had a consistent pattern of waging war exclusively against Western countries (including Israel)? Of course not. If the US had such a noble foreign policy, we would get virtually no racists joining the military, and many more anti-racists enthusiastically joining instead.
So the answer is simple. If you want an anti-racist military, first establish an anti-racist foreign policy.
(This is why I keep coming back to the glorious US bombing of Serbia as what could have been the turning point towards a leftist hawkism. Of course, a few years later, 9/11 happened to put things back the way our enemies want them.....)
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21 US Military Veterans Identified in Capitol Assault
The storming of the Capitol bears all the signs of a skilled military operation, experts now say. Finding out where the insurrectionists got their training is "a tier one priority" of investigators, who have identified at least twenty-one US Military veterans as having participated in the riot and siege of the Capitol. Men in combat gear were captured on camera using a tactic known as ranger file to push through the crowd and make their way into the Capitol. Many rioters wore flak jackets and helmets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPnAlV0evU
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FBI Vetting Guard Troops; New Footage Goes Inside Capitol Siege
The FBI is vetting all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into D.C. for the inauguration due to fears of an insider attack. Meanwhile, New Yorker footage shows new images of the chaos during the Capitol siege.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDjtMeONIOQ&list=TLPQMTkwMTIwMjEkVNPVIdz3YA&index=2
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Meeting on military response to Capitol Hill riot included Mike Flynn's brother:
https://youtu.be/DAqABAREPJk
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The right-wing extremists plot to overthrow the German government | DW Documentary
Amid reports of right-wing extremist activity in the German police and armed forces, radical groups are said to be preparing a coup against the government. The federal Interior Ministry has promised to crack down on right-wing groups.
Concerns are growing about reports of right-wing extremist activity in the German police and armed forces -- but senior officers and politicians seem reluctant to deal with the situation.
Journalist Dirk Laabs has found evidence that far-right conspirators illegally received ammunition from government warehouses, stockpiled weapons, and made concrete plans for a coup attempt -- to be known as "Day X."
The attempt was supposedly to be carried out during a time of national emergency -- like the current coronavirus crisis. Some domestic security experts, including the Left Party’s Martina Renner, are worried about these developments. Renner says this may be the moment that the alleged plotters were waiting for.
In June 2019, several current and former officers of an elite police unit in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were arrested, suspected of supplying one of these far-right conspirators with large quantities of ammunition. Investigators say that the ammo came from military and police units from all over Germany, including the states of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia. Authorities in those two states have not yet been able to explain how the ammunition ended up in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Fears about right-wing activity among the German police and military have been growing for years. In December 2019, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced plans to expand and strengthen federal police agencies that are involved in the effort to combat right-wing extremism and terrorism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeEr3rQxfdw
Keep in mind this documentary is 6 months old, the U.S. Capitol insurrection took place in the U.S. 6 months later.
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Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in next 60 days
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.
The decision to a hold a stand-down was made by Lloyd Austin, who made history by becoming the military’s first Black defense secretary after a long career rising in the ranks of the Army. In his confirmation hearing, Austin underscored the need to rid the military of “racists and extremists”.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Austin ordered the stand-down after a meeting with the U.S. military branch leaders, who are under pressure to show progress in combating extremism after current and former military servicemembers were found to have participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The Pentagon has yet to define how it will deal with extremism or offer data estimating how many service members hold white nationalist ideology. It has also not disclosed how many troops have been disciplined for extremism.
“We don’t know how we’re going to be able to get after this in a meaningful, productive, tangible way and that is why he had this meeting today and that is why he certainly ordered this stand-down,” Kirby told reporters.
It was unclear whether the announcement was meant to foreshadow any near-term concrete actions by President Joe Biden’s Pentagon or whether the stand-down was more of a symbolic move, meant to demonstrate Austin’s acknowledgement of the problem and continued resolve.
The Pentagon did not define whether stand-downs pausing regular activity across the U.S. military might last minutes or hours, or what commanders would do during that time to express opposition to extremism.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-pentagon-extremism/pentagon-stumped-by-extremism-in-ranks-orders-stand-down-in-next-60-days-idUSKBN2A335W
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Pentagon report gives disturbing details on White supremacists in active military
A Pentagon report on extremism obtained by CNN gives disturbing insight into how White supremacists are active in the military and offers recommendations to better identify domestic extremists and prevent them from serving. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJCAoEMies
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https://us.yahoo.com/gma/white-supremacists-seek-affiliation-law-100501579.html
In some cases, they wanted to join the military or police so they would be able to commit acts of violence toward members of minority groups.
In others, they planned to join the military or police to learn how to wage war against members of those minority groups.
Based on investigations between 2016 and 2020, agents and analysts with the FBI's division in San Antonio concluded that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists would "very likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities in furtherance of" their ideologies, according to a confidential intelligence assessment issued late last month.
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The authors of the Feb. 25 report wrote that their assessment is "based on evidence [extremists] expressed a desire to join the military and law enforcement primarily to obtain tradecraft to prepare for and initiate a collapse of society, specifically by engaging in violence against the US government and specified racial and ethnic groups. Online peers encouraged them to seek these careers and [extremists] built relationships with associates seeking military employment, focusing on the associates' current and future martial skills."
In addition, the report says extremists are "likely to seek to exploit familial and social connections when pursuing military and law enforcement employment, reducing obstacles and increasing opportunities ... to acquire tradecraft."
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White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI report warns
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In some cases, they wanted to join the military or police so they would be able to commit acts of violence toward members of minority groups.
In others, they planned to join the military or police to learn how to wage war against members of those minority groups.
Based on investigations between 2016 and 2020, agents and analysts with the FBI's division in San Antonio concluded that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists would "very likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities in furtherance of" their ideologies, according to a confidential intelligence assessment issued late last month.
The document, obtained by ABC News, was distributed to law enforcement agencies both in Texas and elsewhere in the country. It focuses on extremists inspired by the white-supremacist publication "Siege," which served as motivation for the neo-Nazi group known as "Atomwaffen Division," among others. The report is titled "Siege-Inspired Actors Very Likely Seek Military and Law Enforcement Affiliation, Increasing Risk of Tradecraft Proliferation and Color of Law Offenses in the FBI San Antonio Area of Responsibility."
Conclusions in the assessment were based on information from records and informants, some of whom had "excellent access," the FBI authors wrote in the Feb. 25 document.
MORE: The symbols of hate and far-right extremism on display in pro-Trump Capitol siege
"In the long term, FBI San Antonio assesses [racially motivated violent extremists] successfully entering military and law enforcement careers almost certainly will gain access to non-public tradecraft and information, enabling them to enhance operational security and develop new tactics in and beyond the FBI San Antonio" region, the document said.
FBI spokesperson Katherine Gulotta said that "FBI field offices routinely share information with their local law enforcement partners to assist in protecting the communities they serve." She did not specifically address the content of the report.
Critics say the document once again shows the nation's top law enforcement agency has been slow to deal with the problem of white-supremacist infiltration of police and the military, even as FBI agents watched evidence mounting.
"When we asked the FBI last year to testify about white supremacists executing plans to infiltrate law enforcement entities across America, the bureau refused and told us it had no evidence that racist infiltration was a problem," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in a statement. "Now, the January insurrection -- and the growing evidence of off-duty law enforcement officers being involved in the attack on Congress -- and this newly leaked report confirm in my mind that the FBI's failure to level with the American people about organized racist infiltration of law enforcement is having dangerous and deadly consequences."
PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images, FILE)
PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images, FILE)
Raskin, the chairman of the House Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, led a hearing last year on white supremacy and the federal government's response to the problem. He also released a report detailing FBI warnings about the way white supremacists infiltrate law enforcement, and said the bureau was reluctant to deal with the problem during the Trump administration.
"We are continuing to press the FBI for information about how it plans to counteract the contagion of white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement bodies," Raskin said after learning of the newly released report. "The FBI must answer specifically for what it is doing to combat white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement. It must work to root out officers who seek state power to terrorize our communities under color of law."
Addressing the issue of violent extremism, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers last week that the bureau has been "sounding the alarm" about the rising domestic terror threat for "a number of years now."
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wray said that there are currently 2,000 domestic terrorism investigations, up from almost 1,000 when he first started in 2017.
"Whenever we've had the chance we've tried to emphasize that this is a top concern and remained so for the FBI," Wray said. "The FBI will not tolerate agitators and extremists who plan or committed violence. Period. And that goes for violent extremists, of any stripe."
MORE: In return to Justice Department, Garland brings background in domestic terror to a nation in crisis
The authors of the Feb. 25 report wrote that their assessment is "based on evidence [extremists] expressed a desire to join the military and law enforcement primarily to obtain tradecraft to prepare for and initiate a collapse of society, specifically by engaging in violence against the US government and specified racial and ethnic groups. Online peers encouraged them to seek these careers and [extremists] built relationships with associates seeking military employment, focusing on the associates' current and future martial skills."
In addition, the report says extremists are "likely to seek to exploit familial and social connections when pursuing military and law enforcement employment, reducing obstacles and increasing opportunities ... to acquire tradecraft."
Since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers and officials have increasingly focused on the issue of white supremacy and other types of violent extremism in the military and law enforcement. According to research by news organizations including The New York Times, at least 30 people with law enforcement training have been tied to the events of the insurrection, which left five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer.
The Pentagon is so concerned about right-wing extremism and white supremacy in the ranks that the entire military has been ordered to do a one-day "stand down" to address the problem.
"This is behavior that can really tear at the fabric of our institution," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told ABC News' Martha Raddatz Sunday on This Week. "And so we want to make sure that our troops are reminded of what our values are, reminded of the oath that we took coming in."
PHOTO: Members of white nationalists rally around a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., Aug. 12, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters, FILE)
PHOTO: Members of white nationalists rally around a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., Aug. 12, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters, FILE)
Former FBI Agent Michael German, whose expertise was infiltrating white supremacist groups for the bureau, said he continues to be troubled by the way FBI leadership is dealing with the problem.
"In 2006, the FBI warned in writing that white supremacists seek to infiltrate law enforcement, and its 2015 Counterterrorism Policy Guide instructed agents conducting domestic terrorism investigations of white supremacists and far-right militias to modify their tactics because the subjects of these investigations often have 'active links' to law enforcement," German said. "Yet when Congress sought answers about what the FBI was doing to address this threat, FBI managers disavowed the intelligence."
German, now an author and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, said that the new report from San Antonio "makes clear that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement and recruitment from the ranks continued to be a problem even as their superiors disavowed it. When FBI managers won't accept intelligence reports coming from their agents working the streets, it is no wonder intelligence failures like the Capitol attack occur."
"The problem isn't a lack of intelligence or barriers to collection," German said. "It is that FBI managers continue to ignore the intelligence they receive if it doesn't fit their preferred narratives about what the terrorist threat looks like."
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https://youtu.be/benDdOXhsaI
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SEALs are big guys. Mesomorphic build, above 6 feet in height. Most of our guys are pretty small. How do you expect to win against them in combat? Aren't we at a disadvantage?
Speaking of which, check out this cro-Magnoid veteran decrying "political correctness":
https://youtu.be/HxDDYOHB_yg
More on John Burk:
https://muc.fandom.com/wiki/John_Burk
ohn Burk was born and raised in Bullworth, Texas. Enlisting in the Army at the age of 17 in 1995, he spent the majority of his adult life conducting daily morning physical fitness training geared towards combat related events. He served for 17 months in the invasion of Iraq and served in a variety of positions in the Infantry. Upon returning home from his first deployment, he was honorably discharged after completing his initial enlistment. After marrying his girlfriend and having their first child, Isabella, John left the Army at 6’2” and weighed 176 pounds
They clearly possess much more physical strength than the average Aryan...
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They clearly possess much more physical strength than the average Aryan...
At least level the playing field a little bit then if you plan on getting into physical altercations with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnis
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"SEALs are big guys. Mesomorphic build, above 6 feet in height. Most of our guys are pretty small. How do you expect to win against them in combat? Aren't we at a disadvantage?"
Bigger targets tend to be easier to hit from the same distance.
"check out this cro-Magnoid veteran decrying "political correctness":"
I mostly agree with him about how soldiers need to be properly trained. We will be fighting the IDF one day, so we'd better train properly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noV3Ft7EoeM
The issue is who should be trained into soldiers in the first place. If we train only anti-racists into soldiers, we can train them without worrying about PC and they will still be anti-racists afterwards. The problem is that the US military is recruiting racists and then trying to turn them anti-racist via PC training, which will fail.
"More on John Burk:
https://muc.fandom.com/wiki/John_Burk"
Please edit the page to remove the "Aryan" classification.
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I would if I could l, but I can't:
https://muc.fandom.com/wiki/John_Burk?action=edit
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Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, brother of Lt. Gen Michael Flynn (retired from the military) (Trump's former national security advisor and foreign agent), was one of the generals who delayed the National Guard during the Capitol Coup.
Michael Flynn had urged Trump to declare martial law in order to maintain power. Trump reportedly discussed this with him personally and was quite close to actually following through on his plan.
At first, the military denied Charles Flynn was present during the phone calls about deploying the National Guard. Then, they were forced to admit he was there. Now, we know he was one of the ones to delay the National Guard.
Maybe it was indeed Trump's intent to let things get bad enough to provide an excuse to declare martial law? Additionally, who allowed Charles Flynn to oversee such a thing, given the fact that his brother was openly advocating to overthrow the government? I think I read that, after the insurrection, over 20,000 National Guard troops had their social networks investigated and weren't allowed to participate in the inauguration if they had family or friends with known insurrectionist sentiments...
Another member of the Flynn family caught up in lies and traitorous behavior? Color me shocked.
Major General William Walker testified that Michael Flynn's younger brother was indeed on the phone call while the Capitol was being overwhelmed by violent insurrectionists on January 6. The Army had previously denied Flynn's presence on the call D.C. Police Chief Steven Sund placed, requesting back up from the National Guard to help secure the building.
Not only was Lt. General Charles Flynn on the call, over by 1:49 p.m. that day, he was one of the people arguing that the "optics" of having the National Guard show up to protect Congress and the Capitol wouldn't be good. It took over three hours for the "optics" of NOT having them there to get bad enough to send them in.
According to Maj. Gen. Walker's written prepared remarks, “The approval for Chief Sund’s request would eventually come from the Acting Secretary of Defense and be relayed to me by Army Senior Leaders at 5:08pm–three hours and 19 minutes later."
When Sen. Amy Klobuchar questioned him about the call, he responded, "Who was talking about optics were General Flynn, and General Piatt. And they both said it wouldn't be in their best military advice to advise the Secretary of the Army to have uniformed Guards members at the Capitol during the election confirmation."
Nothing fishy at all about the younger brother of Michael Flynn — the guy urging Trump to institute martial law in order to stay in power — delaying sending in those same troops to protect the government from being overthrown by violent insurrectionists. Nothing fishy at all.
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/03/flynns-brother-was-jan-6th-call-arguing
Dan Lamothe, one of the reporters who broke the story, said that Army officials denied it because they were "aware of how it might look to some Americans."
The riot came one day after Michael Flynn, himself a retired three-star general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, revved up a crowd of Trump's supporters at a Washington rally with false claims of election-rigging.
"This country is awake tomorrow," he said on the eve of the siege. "The members of Congress, the members of the House of Representatives, the members of the United States Senate, those of you who are feeling weak tonight … we the people are going to be here, and we want you to know that we will not stand for a lie."
Michael Flynn has increasingly pushed QAnon conspiracy theories and was banned by Twitter in the wake of the riot, as part of the platform's crackdown on misinformation and incitement of violence. Flynn, along with his attorney Sidney Powell, met with Trump at the White House during his push to baselessly overturn the results of the election and publicly called for Trump to invoke martial law to "rerun" the election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-did-army-repeatedly-deny-that-michael-flynn-e2-80-99s-brother-was-involved-in-capitol-riot-response/ar-BB1cYaYX
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It's OK for Marines to be "white":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/13-investigations-no-court-martials-120018004.html
For decades, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have quietly kicked out some of the worst white supremacists in their ranks, offering them administrative discharges that leave no public record of their hateful activity, a USA TODAY review of Navy documents found.
The documents, obtained via a public-records request by the open-government advocacy group American Oversight, detail 13 major investigations into white supremacist activity in the Navy and Marine Corps over more than 20 years. They show a pattern in which military leaders chose to deal with personnel involved in extremism by dismissing them in ways that would not attract public attention.
Take what happened to Edward Fix and Jacob Laskey.
In the early hours of Dec. 10, 2000, three white men left a neo-Nazi rally and headed to downtown Jacksonville, Florida. They were looking for a Black person to beat up, according to the Navy records.
On Main Street, they found John Joseph Newsome, 44. They beat him severely with their fists, boots and a broken bottle, all the while shouting “Kill the n-----,” according to the documents.
Then they went looking for another victim.
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Yet the two sailors never faced military charges, which likely would have resulted in them being dishonorably discharged if they had been found guilty.
Instead, the Navy dismissed them via administrative discharges. Their only punishment from the Navy for almost beating a man to death in a racially-motivated hate crime was to lose their jobs, documents show.
Fix and Laskey entered civilian life with barely a blot on their military record.
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six members of the "RRR" gang were allegedly involved in "multiple physical and verbal confrontations with black Marines." But Navy investigators ultimately concluded that the Marines didn't violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military's criminal statute.
Outside the military, racially-motivated fights can be prosecuted as hate crimes in most states. Military prosecutors didn't have that option because no specific section of the military criminal code refers to extremism or white supremacist activity.
Ultimately, all six Marines were allowed to leave the service with general discharges “under honorable conditions.”
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Most white supremacist incidents are never formally investigated
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Jason Smedley, who has served in the Marines for 20 years in active duty and as a reservist, was involved in one of them.
Smedley was attacked by two white Marines in infantry school in 2001. One of the men held Smedley while the other punched him repeatedly in a vicious beating. It "knocked most of my teeth to the roof of my mouth," Smedley said.
He said the assault was clearly racially motivated, but it was never investigated as such.
"It was just treated like any other fight," Smedley said. "As I'm standing there, bloodied, the instructor came over and made us shake hands in front of the entire platoon, which was so humiliating — shaking hands with the guy who just beat me up."
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'You are in the wrong neighbourhood’: US soldier arrested for shoving Black man
A white US Army soldier has been charged with third-degree assault after a video of him shoving and harassing a Black man in a South Carolina neighbourhood went viral.
#Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFeFBapE658
It's not OK to be "black" in a "white" neighborhood according to "whites". But, it is OK to be a "white" in a "black" neighborhood according to "whites" and "blacks"....
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It's OK to be "white" National Guard trainers:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/most-humiliating-punishment-imaginable-black-090215750.html
WASHINGTON – Sgt. Bruce Weaver recalls in an instant the heft of the chain that the all-white trainers at the Maryland National Guard forced him to wear during training at officer candidate school.
For three days, Weaver, a Black soldier in the Maryland National Guard, hauled the chain – running, falling behind under the burden, being hectored by instructors. They claimed it would remind him to follow the chain of command.
He was stunned. It felt as if he'd been subjected to the kind of punishment used by enslavers, Weaver told USA TODAY.
"At first, my inclination was to drag it," Weaver recalled of the events five years ago. "They said, 'No, no. You wear it. That will keep you down.' That hit me. That hit me. I suppressed it and kept going. The next day, they said, 'You're still wearing this chain.' I told them this is inappropriate punishment. It's also messing with me psychologically. Chains mean something to Black people."
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The bureau's investigator scoffed at the claim by the Maryland instructors that the chain represented the importance of the "chain of command," the military edict to follow orders of superiors.
"To conclude that such punishment, meted out by an all-white chain of command on a subordinate minority cadet to reinforce that the chain of command is in charge, is simply a mischaracterization of what happened," the report states.
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"This punishment was designed to be humiliating on a cultural level as it mirrored slavery," Weaver wrote. "I have not seen this punishment before ... nor have I seen it since. It was uniquely designed to single out and humiliate."
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The report points to two instructors for their treatment of Weaver: Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Carbaugh and Capt. Jacob Day.
"SFC Carbaugh knew precisely what the chain would mean to both Complainant and the other cadets. SFC Carbaugh wanted to teach Complainant a lesson about who was in charge and he used a heavy chain to accomplish this and the rest of the OCS (Officer Candidate School) Cadre let him," the Bureau report stated. "The allegation of discrete discrimination based on race or color is SUBSTANTIATED."
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Macron warned of 'civil war' by former French generals
French President Emmanuel Macron has apparently been warned of a looming 'civil war' due to 'anti-racist' rhetoric and growing 'Islamism' by former French generals and servicemen.
#France #Islamism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKunJRAFbjc
You know your government is in terrible hands when anti-racist rhetoric and Islam are perceived as a threat to it. Interestingly, in the U.S., where racism is rampant, the government actually embraced anti-racist rhetoric under Biden recently. Anti-Racism is a superior position, something the French government seems completely incapable of....
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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-20-ex-generals-warn-macron-of-chaos-civil-war-/2218775
Former generals and military personnel warned President Emmanuel Macron in a letter to act against the looming dangers of hatred due to social tensions, religious extremism or face a civil war-like situation in the future. The open letter is an initiative of retired gendarmerie officer Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac that was published on his Place Armes blog, an online community of military personnel. "Perils are mounting, violence is increasing day by day. Who would have predicted ten years ago that a professor would one day be beheaded when he left college?," the letter asks while noting growing social problems, religious extremism and "Hateful and fanatic partisans." The letter said Islamism in France has resulted in an attempt to create districts "Where the laws of the Republic do not apply" and "Transform them into territories subject to dogmas contrary to our constitution." The letter exhorts the ruling dispensation to move beyond "Dabbling and guilty silences" and act, otherwise it will be responsible for a civil war and several deaths borne out of the growing chaos. "I will not say the word civil war but it is not far," he said. The letter was endorsed by far-right opposition leader Marine Le Pen on the right-wing news site Valeurs Actuelles.
Tldr: Letter signed warning of a coming civil war.
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Reminder:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1756879/french-army-has-secret-plan-to-ethnically-cleanse-muslims-from-france-with-the-help-of-israeli-specialists-far-right-writer-claims/
Eric Zemmour said the onslaught against an Islamic community of some five million people already has a name - Operation Brambles - and will be based on recent campaigns against Palestinian Arabs in Gaza.
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"The plan is already in the pipeline, it is called Operation Brambles. It was developed with the help of Israeli army specialists who have passed on to their French colleagues their experience of Gaza. Everybody is talking about the comparison."
The only thing that could deter this is a US promise to invade France if France goes ahead with this.
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Examining extremism in the military l ABC News
Nearly one out of 10 of the Capitol rioters arrested so far are veterans, so what is the military doing about extremism within its own ranks?
#ABCNews #Extremism #Military #CapitolRiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKt8mYbJuU
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Is France at war with Muslims?:
https://youtu.be/nnkqCyyy72g
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France: Macron gov’t, soldiers clash over ‘civil war’ warning
Some military members claim French president has made concessions to ‘Islamism’ as they vow to ‘maintain order’ if war breaks out.
The government of French President Emmanuel Macron has reacted with fury after a group of serving French soldiers published an open letter warning that “civil war” was brewing over his “concessions” to “Islamism”, weeks after a similar message from elements in the military rocked the elite.
The letter, posted on the website of the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine late Sunday, echoes the one published by the same publication last month but appears to have been written by an unknown number of younger troops still in active service.
Interior minister Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of Macron, on Monday accused the anonymous signatories of the second letter of lacking “courage” while defence minister Florence Parly dismissed it as part of a “crude political scheme”.
Prime Minister Jean Castex meanwhile told Le Parisien newspaper that the letter was a “political manoeuvre” by the “extreme right”.
But it was welcomed by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, seen as Macron’s main rival for next year’s presidential election.
She had also been blamed by some in the government over the previous letter, which was signed by a handful of officers and about 20 semi-retired generals.
‘Generation of fire’
“We are not talking about extending your mandates or conquering others. We are talking about the survival of our country, the survival of your country,” said the latest letter, which was addressed to Macron and his cabinet.
The authors described themselves as soldiers from the younger generation of the military, a so-called “generation of fire” that had seen active service.
“They have offered up their lives to destroy the Islamism that you have made concessions to on our soil,” they wrote.
They claimed also to have served in the Sentinelle security operation within France, launched after a wave of attacks in 2015.
They charged that, for some religious communities, “France means nothing but an object of sarcasm, contempt or even hatred”.
“If a civil war breaks out, the military will maintain order on its own soil … civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well,” the letter said.
In contrast to the previous missive, the latest letter can be signed by the public, with Valeurs Actuelles saying more than 160,000 had done so by Monday afternoon.
‘Is this courage?’
A high-ranking officer in military headquarters told AFP the armed forces would not let the letter go without a response.
“A firm reminder will be made by the command on the respect of duty,” said the officer, who asked not to be named, adding that remaining apolitical was essential to maintain the military’s credibility.
“One can have personal convictions but the armed forces are apolitical and have absolute loyalty to the elected president. If you feel bad you can leave the army with a clean conscience,” the officer said.
“I believe that when you are in the military you don’t do this kind of thing in hiding,” Darmanin told BFM television. “These people are anonymous. Is this courage? To be anonymous?”
“It is part of a crude political scheme,” Parly told the same channel. “It uses all the rhetoric, the vocabulary, the tone, the references which are those of the extreme right.”
Analysts say Macron has tacked to the right in recent months to prevent Le Pen and her National Rally party from exploiting a series of attacks in late 2020 blamed on “Islamist extremists” who recently immigrated to France.
Civil war “is brewing,” responded Le Pen during a visit to western France. “In any case, it is a risk. Of course, there is always a risk of civil war,” she said, adding that she welcomed the second letter as she had the first.
“It is clearly not a call to insurrection,” she said. “Otherwise I would not be supporting it.”
Castex had labelled the rare intervention in politics by military figures in last month’s letter “an initiative against all of our republican principles, of honour and the duty of the army”.
Armed forces Chief of Staff General Francois Lecointre said those who signed it would face punishments ranging from enforced full retirement to disciplinary action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/france-macron-govt-military-clash-over-civil-war-warning
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U.S. "Army" sings Israeli National Anthem:
https://youtu.be/tSGi8cDztEU
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A second letter has appeared in France; our enemies report:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/05/open-letter-from-active-duty-french-soldiers-civil-unrest-is-simmering-in-france-and-you-know-it-perfectly-well/
Below is a second open letter from members of the French military, this time from active-duty servicemen and -women. It takes courage to sign one’s name to such a document and be willing to face the disciplinary consequences.
This letter serves as a sequel to one signed by retired generals that was published a couple of weeks ago. The text was once again posted at Valeurs Actuelles. It’s not clear how many signatories it had, but I’ve read that there were 2,000.
The key line:
They have risked their skins to destroy the Islamic foe you bend over backwards to accommodate on our soil.
Will Macron have the courage to purge the military of Islamophobes?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A94ABynJOj4
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Think about how many tax-payer dollars were wasted training that piece of genetic trash....
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/space-force-commander-fired-comments-173827144.html
A commander in the US Space Force was removed from his position following comments he made on podcasts promoting his new book that claims that Marxist ideologies are spreading in the US military.
Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier was a commander of a unit responsible for detecting ballistic missile launches, according to a report from Military.com.
During a May appearance on the "Information Operation" podcast, Lohmeier claimed leftist ideologies were spreading throughout US society, including in the media, in universities, in the federal government, and in the branches of the US military.
He is behind. The more educated among our enemies have already acknowledged that Wokeness is not Marxism:
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/elon-musk-etc/
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The fact that rightists are still fighting Marxism ideologically speaks volumes on rightism as well....
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/far-soldier-charged-pretending-syrian-134417857.html
An officer in the German army is set to go on trial on Thursday on charges of impersonating a Syrian refugee and planning to carry out “false flag” terror attacks as part of a far-Right plot.
In one of the most puzzling and disturbing cases to grip Germany in recent years, Lt Franco Albrecht, who was once entertained as a guest of the British army at Sandhurst, lived a double life for more than a year.
He disguised himself with make-up and a false beard and commuted hundreds of miles every week between his army barracks and the refugee accommodation where he was known as David Benjamin, a Christian from Syria.
Prosecutors allege he was creating a false identity as part of a plan to assassinate a public figure and blame it on a Syrian refugee in order to foment civil unrest and bring down Angela Merkel’s government.
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Lt Albrecht had a history of far-Right sympathies and links to “prepper” movements inside the German military.
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Prosecutors say the 32-year-old Bundeswehr officer took weapons and explosives from the German army to carry out an attack on targets including high-ranking politicians.
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After checking his fingerprints in a database, authorities discovered that the man, born the son of an Italian father and a German mother in the Hesse region of Germany, was actually registered as a Syrian refugee living in Bavaria. Despite the fact that he spoke hardly any Arabic and was supposed to be serving full-time at a Bundeswehr base in Alsace, nobody had realized he was leading a double life.
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In 2017, First Lieutenant Franco A. was a member of the French-German 291st Infantry Battalion stationed in Illkirch, near Strasbourg. Before becoming a soldier he handed in a master's thesis at a French military academy about "race-mixing," and the "dissolution of ethnic groups." In 2014, the French warned their German colleagues about the man's right-wing ideological bent, a German historian concurred with the French assessment.
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The Bundeswehr has since remained in the headlines for alleged right-wing extremism in the ranks. In July 2020, the Defense Ministry dismantled a company of the German army's elite Special Commando Forces (KSK) after several far-right incidents were reported. Earlier this year, the Bundeswehr special forces made the headlines again for failing to track down missing weapons.
Errors by the refugee authority
Franco A.'s case remains unique, however. In November 2015, Franco A. applied for asylum at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) as David Benjamin, an alleged Syrian national from near Aleppo.
His 2016 asylum hearing was held in French. He had said he was a Christian, could speak French better than Arabic, and felt threatened in his home country. He received subsidiary protection and started receiving benefits as an asylum seeker, in addition to his full-time job as a professional soldier in Alsace, 300 kilometers (186 miles) away.
The refugee office later admitted "blatant mistakes" had been made at every stage of the proceedings, but did not find evidence of any "deliberate manipulation."
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Maximilian T., his friend and fellow soldier in the Bundeswehr, was drawn into the investigation, as well as Matthias F., a friend from Franco A's hometown of Offenbach.
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Maximilian T., who was stationed in Illkirch with Franco A., [...] [Maximilian T.'s] case has caused a stir because he also works part-time for AfD parliamentarian Jan Nolte. The MP told DW in 2018 he saw Maximilian T. as a "victim of a politically motivated attack."
https://www.dw.com/en/a-german-right-wing-extremist-soldiers-double-life/a-43540639
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Leaked List Reveals Extremists Infiltrating Pentagon
The Pentagon has brought in extremist to address extremism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBKj7Q8Hz8E
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124 retired military officers, including Generals and Admirals, are embracing the Big Lie.
Over 120 retired U.S. generals and admirals published a disturbing open letter earlier this week pushing the false conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden stole the election while arguing that he might be mentally unfit for office.
The letter, released Monday by a group calling itself “Flag Officers 4 America,” reads like a screed ripped from former President Donald Trump’s now-defunct Twitter account, replete with erratic punctuation, far-right talking points and outright lies about the 2020 election.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/retired-generals-election-conspiracy-theories-letter_n_609c1d0ae4b0909247feb276
A Marine Corps officer was arrested Thursday over his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection, making him the first active-duty service member charged over the Capitol attack.
The Justice Department said in a statement that Maj. Christopher Warnagiris, 40, “violently entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, after pushing through a line of police officers guarding the East Rotunda doors.”
He then allegedly used his body to prop a door open to allow more people to rush into the Capitol.
“When a U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer tried to pull the doors shut, Warnagiris refused and continued pushing it open. Warnagiris can be seen pushing the officer in an effort to maintain his position in the open door in security camera footage and publicly available video footage,” the Justice Department said.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/553391-active-duty-marine-officer-arrested-facing-multiple-charges-in-jan-6-riot
Then we have retired General Flynn urging for a coup again:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-coup/msg6850/#msg6850
How many more are waiting for the signal in 2022 and 2024? Remember when people kept saying that soldiers would never turn their back on the oath they took, the law, and their fellow Americans?
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Speak of the devil....
Veteran Silenced for Sharing Black History of Memorial Day
This veteran’s mic was turned off after he started talking about the Black history of Memorial Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGd1sAfuR8
Let's talk about cutting the mic on Memorial Day's history....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGB2xRmlkE
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At least there are some repercussions this time:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/legion-official-resigns-over-censored-201841488.html
Cindy Suchan, chair of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said this week that either she or Jim Garrison, adjutant of the American Legion Post 464, turned down the audio, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
Garrison resigned his leadership position a day after the state organization demanded he step down, said Roger Friend, department commander for the Ohio American Legion. Garrison has since been asked to drop his membership altogether, Friend said.
“The American Legion Department of Ohio does not hold space for members, veterans, or families of veterans who believe that censoring black history is acceptable behavior,” Friend said in a statement.
He said the censoring was premeditated and planned by Garrison and Suchan.
“They knew exactly when to turn the volume down and when to turn it back up,” Friend said.
Alternative wording: The American Legion Department of Ohio does not hold space for Westerners.
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Is the US military being cleaned up from racist infiltration as we were promised it would be? The short answer is no:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/jackie-speier-white-nationalist-air-force-shawn-mccaffrey-211132689.html
A well-known white nationalist is still serving in the Air Force, Pentagon officials have confirmed, two months after HuffPost first reported on his enlistment. And on Thursday, the chair of a House Armed Services subcommittee said she will contact Air Force leadership to see why there hasn’t been any action.
The inquiry from Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who chairs the military personnel subcommittee, concerns Airman 1st Class Shawn McCaffrey, a well-known white nationalist. McCaffrey graduated from boot camp in March, as HuffPost reported earlier this year, even as the military received a historic stand-down order so it could address the problem of extremism in its ranks.
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McCaffrey was a high-profile member of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa; attended a highly publicized white nationalist conference in Washington, D.C., in 2016; joined neo-Nazis to troll a livestreamed anti-Trump art installation in Queens, New York, in 2017; and more recently became a close ally of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, the “America First” leader who reportedly helped foment the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-death-squad-active-duty-212029684.html
An active-duty U.S. Marine came under federal investigation for allegedly plotting with at least two others to assassinate minorities, drug users, and employees of the Democratic National Committee with explosives, rocket launchers, and automatic rifles.
That’s according to a newly unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast, which indicates USMC Private First Class Travis Owens and his partners in the unrealized murder plot were influenced by Timothy McVeigh, the former U.S. Army soldier behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead and injured nearly 700. The document also states that one of the suspects had links to the Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group linked to at least five murders. A handful of active service members and veterans have been identified as being members of Atomwaffen, which calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government.
The investigation began in late August 2019, when a tipster contacted the FBI about disturbingly violent conversations they had observed in a private Facebook Messenger chat group named “Right Wing Death Squad.” According to the FBI, three men were behind the troubling chats: James Wisdom of Arkansas; mechanic Jason D’Juan Garfield—also of Arkansas—who went by the noms de guerre “Moon Man” and “Jugger Bugger;” and Owens, a Marine Corps E-1 from Arkansas stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
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The trio seemed to be preparing for a full-blown race war. Their goals were laid out in group chats underneath exhortations such as, “WISDOM: WE CAN ACCELERATE TODAY FOR A NEW WORLD TOMORROW,” and, “SP**CS AND NI***RS NEED TO HANG FROM TREES,” the warrant states. In one conversation, Garfield allegedly wrote, “Racism isn’t real, whites are the only humans.” In another, he discussed assassinating Arkansas state Sen. Stephanie Flowers, who is Black.
Note their equipment:
“I want a full auto Scar H.,” Garfield wrote to Owens in one chat, according to the FBI, referring to a fully automatic assault rifle used by Special Operations forces. “Travis, hook me up with some goodies from the armory. I’ll pay you $100 worth of McChickens.”
“Lol I can’t do that with how the security is now in the military,” Owens allegedly replied. “[It’s] ridiculous to get your issued M16A4 service rifle.”
However, Owens told the others that he could obtain enough C-4 explosives from other service members to do the job.
“I have access to 300k lbs of anhydrous ammonia,” Garfield allegedly wrote in an Aug. 16, 2019, message. “Just need a container to store it.”
“Nice,” wrote Owens, the warrant states. “I have combat engineers as friends with access to c4.”
This is what we can expect to be used against us. Are we prepared?
Owen's face:
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https://www.rawstory.com/power-grid/
A neo-Nazi terror cell enmeshed in the US Marine Corps made plans to attack the power grid last fall, hoping to set the stage to carry out assassinations in their quest to create a white ethno-state, according to a new indictment issued last month.
Arrests in the government's takedown of the terror cell, whose members called themselves "BSN," began in October 2020, starting with founders Liam Montgomery Collins and Paul James Kryscuk, and gradually expanding to include three others through June 2021. Collins and Kryscuk were initially charged with surreptitiously manufacturing and transporting firearms for profit, but in November 2020, a superseding indictment charged them with manufacturing and shipping firearms, including suppressors, "with the intention that they be used unlawfully in the furtherance of civil disorder." As has previously been reported, members fantasized about shooting Black Lives Matter protesters in Boise, Idaho in the summer of 2020.
The most recent indictment, handed down on Aug. 18, adds a new charge of conspiracy to sabotage an energy facility. The purpose, according to the government was "to attack the power grid both for the purpose of creating general chaos and to provide cover and ease of escape in those areas in which they planned to undertake assassinations and other desired operations to further their goal of creating a white ethno-state."
Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, have previously disclosed that the FBI notified them in October 2020 that their names were found on a list in Kryscuk's home in Boise around the time of his arrest.
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Liam Montgomery Collins and Paul James Kryscuk, the two earliest members of BSN, met on Iron March, a neo-Nazi online forum founded by Russian nationalist Alexander "Slavros" Mukhitdinov, in 2011. The forum shut down without explanation in November 2017. Two years later, anonymous researchers leaked the entire history of chats, and a website associated with the @JewishWorker Twitter account was set up to provide a searchable database of the contents. In its day, Iron March provided a forum to connect violent racists and allow them to meet up in real life. Participants in the forum, including future members of AtomWaffen and Vanguard America, embraced an accelerationist strain of white supremacy that rejects political solutions and calls for violent insurrection to bring about a race war.
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"First order of business is knocking down The System, mounting it and smashing its face until it has been beaten past the point of death… eventually we will bring the rifles out and go to work. I believe the System is killing itself organically and it will collapse sooner than later. It is our duty to weaken it and encourage its collapse as much as possible. When that happens, we will have to hit the streets and strike as many blows to the remaining power structure as we can to keep it on the ropes, work our punches to the body, and make it drops its hands so we can set up that big kiss goodnight on the chin and turn its lights out for good. If you consider yourself a revolutionary, you know what to do when the time comes. Remember, forget the pawns and go for the knights, kings and queens."
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Kryscuk and Duncan expressed admiration for Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who carried out a massacre against 51 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.
Do these sound like people who can be reformed by "diversity training"?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSC1sTEywX0
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Observe how our enemies are proactively addressing armed forces personnel in their propaganda:
https://vdare.com/posts/a-call-to-patriots-in-the-border-patrol-reach-out-to-us
My message to ordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, guardsmen, guardians, policemen, and especially Border Patrol agents is simple—reach out to us. Let us serve as your samizdat. Let us know what is happening within these organizations. The true legitimacy of the nation lies in you, not in those who are put in power over you to deliberately make you less effective.
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Ignore Uygur's pro-democracy statements (if the US were autocratic, the entire problem he is complaining about wouldn't exist in the first place since there can be no dispute over who won an election - and hence who is Commander-in-Chief of the military - if there are no elections):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXp0AQuHBKk
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Retired general explains rationale behind ominous op-ed
Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson speaks with CNN's Kate Bolduan about his op-ed in the Washington Post in which he and two other retired generals warn that the US military must work to quell unrest within the armed forces to prevent another insurrection from occurring in 2024.
#CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvOVSg1kXI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blWALPdF2Gc
The comments are starting to get how serious this is:
Remember, the military has representative numbers drawn from our population. Same social media access, but add more militant mindset , skills and weapons.
Drive though the service member parking lot of any military base and look at the stickers on the vehicles.
There are extremist elements in the military, and in recent years there have been unprecedented amounts of weapons "disappearing". This is a bad combination of signs.
Australia is facing a National election this year. If the Liberal/National Coalition (our equivalent of the US Republicans) retain power then you will see the Australian government affirming the outcome of a military coup in the USA.
Some are even trying to suggest solutions:
Send the extremists to overseas bases and keep them there.
Preferably to Ukraine.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-officer-relieved-command-facing-154143366.html
A lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve was relieved of command in 2020 and is now facing removal from the force after he peddled racist opinions to his troops and peppered his social media accounts with a consistent flow of outlandish posts attacking public officials that his own lawyer described as racist, inflammatory and in poor taste.
Lt. Col. Michael Spillane, a medical officer with the 7207th Medical Support Group based out of Webster, New York, wrote a memo to soldiers under his command in June 2020, warning them of the "medical crisis created by China" and that "peaceful assemblies have turned into riots, looting, and shooting."
It was a memo full of typos and half truths laced with partisan wink and nod warnings about Democrats and minority-led protests amid a reckoning of racial justice, a highly atypical memo from an Army officer to his troops.
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Another post that Spillane shared was an altered Cream of Wheat box cover that replaced the product name with the phrase "Cream of Nothing" and swapped out the now-removed smiling, African American chef's face with that of President Barack Obama.
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Multiple posts by Spillane appeared to be sympathetic to the Confederacy, the rebel group that waged a gruesome war against the U.S. mostly over the right to preserve slavery. One post shows an image of the Confederate flag, saying that "if this symbol represents racism in America, so do these" and lists logos for the Democratic Party, the BET media company, the NAACP and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
The post trashed efforts to support historically disadvantaged communities, peddling falsehoods from the far right that minorities get systemic advantages over white Americans, such as overabundant access to college scholarships through avenues like the Hispanic Scholarship Fund -- which grants mostly small scholarships to American citizens and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program recipients.
Another showed an image of Robert E. Lee with text, "Do not take a knee, take a stand! Support Saving out history and our nation," in an apparent reference to Colin Kaepernick, a former Black NFL quarterback who was a cultural lightning rod for rightwing pundits and lawmakers for kneeling during the national anthem at the start of football games, protesting racial inequality and police brutality.
Spillane also made numerous anti-Muslim posts. One saying, "77 years after Pearl Harbor, it still hurts. But, 19 years after 9/11, we are importing them in and they're writing our laws," an apparent reference freshman lawmakers Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., both of whom are Muslim and have drawn the partisan and racially charged ire of rightwing media and some GOP lawmakers. Tlaib was born in Detroit, while Omar was born in Somalia and moved to the U.S. as a teenager after her family sought asylum from violence in the East African country.
Another post shows an image of white men in hard hats and a photo of a Muslim family, saying, "Men like this are forced to work until they're 70, because the government is bringing in more and more people like this."
For each one who posts, there are thousands more who think the same but who merely don't post it.
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How Likely Is A New U.S. Civil War? | The Mehdi Hasan Show
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFUiao7EVsY
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Lt. Gen condemns racism at Air Force Academy:
https://youtu.be/mU0RfhvYN8s
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It's OK for National Guard officers to be "white":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/guard-officer-allowed-retire-benefits-161635041.html
Guard Officer Allowed to Retire with Benefits After 'Motorboating' Subordinate
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Court documents show that Capt. Billy Crosby, a logistics officer with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team who was deployed to Joint Training Center Jordan, initially was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and abusive sexual contact.
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According to court documents, Crosby told the junior soldier that he planned to "motorboat" her at her promotion ceremony to sergeant and did just that: placing his face between her breasts and "moving it from side to side ... without the sergeant's consent" during an impromptu ceremony initiated by Crosby on May 15, 2021.
Witnesses corroborated the incident, with one telling investigators that Crosby had previously expressed interest in the sergeant, asking that she ride with him to another post in Jordan because he "liked looking at her ****," court documents state.
The day before the assault, the soldier told Crosby she did not want a promotion ceremony, according to the documents. The next day, however, Crosby "approached [her], told her to stand up, placed the rank in front of her chest, leaned in to grab the rank with his teeth ... then placed his face between [the sergeant's] breasts ... [and] vigorously moved his head from side to side between [her] breasts while still holding the rank with his teeth."
Crosby was sentenced to 30 days in the brig and allowed to retire with benefits. He was not directed to pay any fines or sentenced to forfeiture of pay. He also was not required to register as a sex offender, given the lesser charge of assault.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv64_MmWRfs
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5 and 1/2 years makes it OK for soldiers to be "white":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VhsQUJdlsc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuAempwtEJE
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It's OK for top security clearance to be "white":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/08/us-military-killian-ryan-racism-social-media
US soldier who posted about killing Black people given top security pass
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A former paratrooper who enlisted in the army to become more proficient at killing Black people was given top security clearance despite ties to white supremacist organizations
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Killian Ryan was arrested on 26 August and charged with making a false statement on his army application for the secret security clearance, and then discharged on the same day for multiple drink-driving violations.
But the criminal investigation uncovered violent and racist remarks on multiple social media accounts, which had apparently eluded the agency which authorised his army credentials.
On one account, Ryan allegedly posted: “I serve for combat experience so I’m more proficient in killing n*****s.” Investigators found that Ryan registered some social media accounts with an email that included “naziace1488.”
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The case raises further questions about the extent of racist extremism in the armed forces, and the apparent ease by which service members seem able to hoodwink security officials and processes.
At least 95 people charged in connection with the January 6 insurrection served in the US military, according to a CNN review of Pentagon and Department of Justice records.
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I told you they would try something like this sooner or later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0g8YWux1mU
They will keep trying until either they succeed or until we exterminate them all.
Furthermore:
According to prosecutors, Heinrich XIII P. R., who the group planned to install as the new leader of Germany, had made contact with Russian officials seeking to establish a new order in Germany once the Berlin government was overthrown. A Russian woman, Vitalia B, had allegedly given him help with this.
so we all know what is going on here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/
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Guess we shouldn't be to surprised that the leader of the group owns a hunting lodge either then, or the fact that they are QAnon members...
You just cannot make this stuff up!
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More arrests expected in wake of the plot to overthrow the German government | DW News
A group of "Reichsbürger" allegedly spent months preparing for a "Day X," on which they wanted to overthrow the government. In a large-scale raid on Wednesday morning, several suspects were arrested, including ex-soldiers and a former member of the Bundestag.
Since November 2021, they had been holding secret meetings and engaged in shooting exercises in preparation for a coup, according to the attorney general. In their plans, the suspects did not shy away from the use of military force or homicide.
"The sheer number of arrests and searches has shocked me," sociologist Timo Reinfrank, executive director of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation told DW. The foundation is one of Germany's leading NGOs working against right-wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism.
"A real coup d'état can hardly succeed in Germany, as the state order and the constitution are too solid for that, but these people believe it is possible. That shows how caught up they are in their delusion." But attacks like the one on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, would also be possible in Germany, Reinfrank fears.
Reichsbürger reject the German legal system and the country's parliamentarism, and most of them propagate the re-establishment of the German empire founded in 1871. They also believe that the victorious Western Allies of World War II, who defeated Nazi Germany, still secretly rule the country. In recent years, the growing number of Reichsbürger has alarmed German security authorities. In its June 2022 report, the domestic intelligence service estimated that around 21,000 people belong to this scene — and their number is rising. The high potential for violence among the self-proclaimed Reichsbürger was described as particularly worrying: "Around 500 of these people still have at least one weapons permit," the intelligence report read.
The Reichsbürger are not a homogeneous group, according to a 2018 study by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. Instead, the term refers to a "large, very diverse milieu of ideologists" who vary in their propensity for violence and militancy, but all are united by the belief that the Federal Republic of Germany is not a sovereign state. They reject the constitution and all state institutions.
Around 1,150 of the Reichsbürger — or just over 5% — were classified as right-wing extremists in 2021. But many others also use elements of right-wing extremist ideology or believe in antisemitic conspiracy myths. The idea that Germany's borders should be extended to include territories in Eastern Europe, which were occupied under Nazi rule that ended in 1945, is also found in its milieu.
The suspects targeted by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office's investigation include a soldier from the German Armed Forces' Special Forces Command (KSK) and several Bundeswehr reservists. A former member of the Bundestag for the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is also said to be among the suspects, as is a former police officer who was responsible for the security of Jewish communities in Lower Saxony before his suspension, which happened before the arrest.
For years, observers have warned about right-wing networks active within security agencies and the Bundeswehr. In July 2020, then-Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer disbanded an entire company of KSK, where the banned Hitler salute had allegedly been used, and where far-right music was played at parties. Police in Saxony also found a weapons cache with ammunition and explosives at the home of one soldier in the company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Nff05tpI8
Apparently most Germans cannot read anymore either? Are most westerners just absolute illiterates with zero reading comprehension these days? I mean, we know most rightists cannot read properly. Do you people have any shame? How are you not embarrassed by your own incompetence and ignorance?
According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block. — Joseph Goebbels, Der Angriff (The Attack), (6 December 1931), quoted in Wolfgang Venohr’s book: Documents of German existence: 500 years of German national history 1445-1945, Athenäum Verlag, 1980, p. 291
We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists. — Joseph Goebbels, “Einheitsfront,” Der Angriff editorial, May 27, 1929. David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, W.W. Norton & Company (1997) p. 25
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Be afraid:
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1603098389419552768
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Be very afraid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcu-BU-_r08
For emphasis (8:30):
"They will stop at nothing to implement their agenda, which is a white ethnostate."
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-we-lose/
And we will lose if we continue to display attitudes such as:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/msg17262/#msg17262
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Your right, the only way to defeat these jewish-"white" bastards is with the sword, offensively. You can't have the fear of death stop you either, if death is coming then make sure you stare it directly in the face with sword in hand and fire in the blood.
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For a peaceful constructive order to be established the disturbers of the peace; colonial jew-"white" need to be totally annihilated, and this requires active jihad. We also need to be vigilant and on guard because these demon's are on the hunt as we speak. Inshallah God almighty will grant us victory against these kuffar, ameen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHx1LoD90k&ab_channel=GVDL
Fck Csis, Fck the Fbi, Fck France, Fck the Mossad and Fck Isreal.
I'm going to unite all the Muslim's and judeo chrisitan's of the world under the banner of the holy sword and we'll take care of our enemies once and for all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JHD1c3ooo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSLEtAQFpw
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/soldier-sentenced-murder-texas-protest-061630198.html
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors sought Tuesday to portray as racist a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, saying he was hostile toward social justice causes and looking for trouble before the encounter.
Daniel Perry's two day-sentencing hearing began with the introduction of dozens of texts and social media posts that he wrote, shared or liked, including some shockingly racists images. The texts and posts had been excluded from Perry's trial, but were publicly released after his conviction and introduced as evidence at the sentencing hearing.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott meanwhile has been pressing for the chance to pardon Perry under the state's “Stand Your Ground” law.
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Among Perry's statements introduced Tuesday, he wrote on Facebook a month before the shooting: “It is official I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo.”
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His mother, Rachel Perry, was the last person to testify Tuesday afternoon. She said her son was ostracized as a child because of a speech impediment, and that he was an observant Jew.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/anti-migrant-homophobic-bestseller-former-143745725.html
A best-selling homophobic and anti-migrant book written by a former head of Italian special forces has caused fractures in the Right-wing governing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister.
While some ministers have distanced themselves from the book by 54-year-old General Roberto Vannacci, a paratrooper, others have applauded him and defended his right to express his opinions, however offensive they might be.
The book, entitled The World Back to Front, caused a furore when it was published last week, espousing extreme views on a wide range of subjects.
It was interpreted as being hostile to a broad spectrum of society, from gay people and feminists to migrants and environmentalists.
The general, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wrote that homosexuals are not “normal” and condemned what he described as the “dictatorship of minorities” and “the international gay lobby”.
“You are not normal, come to terms with it,” he wrote, adding that “normality is heterosexuality”.
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Some senior government figures, including Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister, have defended the general.
Mr Salvini, who is the head of the hard-Right League party, said he would buy the book, which has become a bestseller on Amazon, and had a “very cordial” telephone conversation with the general on Monday.
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Good facial phenotype does not always represent good character.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-approaching-rio-grande-surprised-001318913.html
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – The large crowds of asylum-seekers waiting to enter the U.S. by Gate 36 of the border wall in El Paso are gone.
The few single adults and family units that approached the Rio Grande on Wednesday were met by a freshly dug 4-foot-deep trench on the Mexican side and an increased presence of Texas National Guard troops on the U.S. side.
“You cannot cross here. It is illegal. This is a crime. You are committing a crime. You cannot cross anywhere except a legal port of entry,” shouted an unidentified Texas National Guard official at a small group of migrants who waded across the river from Juarez, Mexico.
They say this literally at Gate 36 FFS!!! (It's OK for gates to be "white"?)
Most of the migrants stayed in the water, pleading with the soldiers to let them in. One tried to lift barbwire along the U.S. levee, but two soldiers quickly placed additional razor wire in front of him. A few of the migrants swam back with their belongings.
“This is unfair. We have been here (in Mexico) more than a month and (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) has not approved a date for an interview. We cannot wait any longer,” said Diego, one of the migrants who swam back.
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rate-of-sexual-assault-in-the-canadian-armed-forces-is-getting-worse-survey
Rate of sexual assault in the Canadian Armed Forces is getting worse: survey
A new report from Statistics Canada suggests the problem of sexual misconduct in the military is getting worse.
The survey suggests 3.5 per cent of Canadian Armed Forces personnel say they were sexually assaulted by another military member in 2022.
That is a significant increase from the 1.6 per cent reported in the same survey in 2018, and 1.7 per cent in 2016.
Statistics Canada defines sexual assault as sexual attacks, unwanted touching, and sexual activity when the victim was unable to consent.
Victims of these assaults were more likely to be women, the survey found, and they were disproportionately younger, Indigenous, members of the LGBTQ+ community or people with disabilities.
Most Armed Forces members who said they were victims of these assaults said they did not report them to authorities, in many cases because they did not think it would make a difference.
It also looks like the Canadian military and rcmp can torture and murder any one they want without any consequences. I'm sure you people in Ottawa know who's doing this to me, and they better all be arrested.
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Evidence of bias in promotion:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/12/04/ditching-promotion-file-photos-may-have-helped-minorities-report-says/
A 2020 initiative aimed at reducing racial bias in the military’s advancement process may have had its intended effect of encouraging promotion boards to consider only a candidate’s record, early research by the RAND Corporation shows.
A review of minority promotion numbers showed an increase in officers of color moving up the Army’s ranks, according to a report published Thursday.
“The difference in promotion rates between white officers and racial and ethnic minority officers was narrower after the policy change, mainly for promotion to O-4,” according to the report.
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then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced a handful of initiatives aimed at removing unconscious bias from department policies.
Chief among them was a new format for promotion packets that didn’t include photos, so that board members would not be able to ― consciously or not ― consider a candidate’s skin color when evaluating accomplishments.
The Army took an additional step and redacted most identifying information on the packets, including names, so that reviewers would not be able to guess the gender or ethnicity of the candidates.
RAND found that in the few years since the policy change, more minority officers were promoted.
Thus we can infer what was almost certainly going on prior to the policy change.
in moving up the ranks, white officers are more likely to be promoted ahead of their peers of other backgrounds, setting this demographic up to account for the vast majority of senior leadership.
“For promotion to O-4, Hispanic officers are 45 percent less likely to be promoted below the zone than are white officers, and Black officers are 39 percent less likely to be promoted below the zone,” the report’s authors wrote.
That trend holds with O-5s and O-6s, according to the report.
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“Most racial and ethnic minority groups have lower promotion rates than their white counterparts,” the report says. “Gaps tend to be largest for Hispanic and Black officers. Racial and ethnic minority groups are also less likely to receive below-the-zone promotions to lieutenant colonel than their white counterparts.”
The data does not give much insight into why, researchers found.
Why do you think?
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/
Continuing:
internal data shows that white males tend to account for the bulk of military senior leadership, compared to the services’ less senior ranks.
And since they are the ones deciding who gets promoted in the following generation, it "white" advantage becomes self-sustaining.
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Why are mainstream journalists so slow to reach obvious conclusions?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12838495/US-military-white-supremacists-insurrectionists-Pentagon.html
The U.S. military has been infiltrated by white supremacists and insurrectionists with experts warning a recent Pentagon report detailing dozens of internal plots to overthrow the Government is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Department of Defense (DoD) released a report on November 30 revealing it has investigated 183 instances of extremism within the military, including 78 cases of troops 'advocating for, engaging in, or supporting the overthrow of the U.S. Government'.
But experts have told DailyMail.com that the figures were likely to be a significant underestimate, pointing to a 2020 Military Times poll that showed a third of active service members had witnessed signs of white nationalism or racism among their fellow troops.
Historians highlighted a litany of alarming cases in which both current and former Army members have plotted to assassinate political leaders, bomb media organizations and topple the Government.
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Travis Owens was an active duty U.S. Marine when he was investigated by the FBI for allegedly plotting to assassinate members of the Democratic National Committee. Owens was never charged but the case led to his removal from the military
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Former Marine Liam Collins, 24, pleaded guilty on a charge connected to a neo-Nazi plot to attack US energy infrastructure, hatched over three years at a military camp in North Carolina
The examples also look like what we would expect.
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, accused the Pentagon of not doing enough to root out extremists within its ranks.
'If the military doesn't take this seriously, it means terrorist attacks will be more violent, more successful,' she told DailyMail.com.
'This is a poison for the rest of American society. If we don't rip these people out, they're deadly.'
In a 2019 New York Times report, Carter F. Smith, who served as an Army criminal investigator for 30 years before joining the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University, was quoted as saying that the military does not make this issue a priority.
'They always say the numbers are small, and because of that, it is not a priority,' Smith said. 'Well, the numbers might be small, but they are like a drop of cyanide in your drink. They can do a lot of damage.'
The Pentagon report comes amid a series of alarming trends of extremism within the military.
Over the past decade a murderous Neo-Nazi group has been founded by a former soldier, a growing number of plots to attack critical infrastructure in the U.S. have been hatched by current and former servicemen, while 18 percent of those charged in connection with the Capitol siege in 2021 have military backgrounds.
In the wake of the January 6 riots, The Pentagon admitted it did not know how to deal with the problem of extremism within its ranks and ordered a military-wide pause to allow commanders a window to tackle the issue.
Send 100% "white" troops to fight against Russia and Israel. Replenish personnel with 100% "non-white" recruits (especially refugees). Repeat until US military is 100% "non-white".
More recently, a former active-duty Marine and member of the Army Guard was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2020 after he was accused of plotting a terrorist massacre of journalists and Democrats including Nancy Pelosi.
Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Hasson was found to have held violently racist views even before he joined the military, raising questions over vetting procedures.
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Christopher Hasson, 54, a former active-duty Marine, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2020 after he was accused of plotting a terrorist massacre of journalists and Democrats including Nancy Pelosi
This one also looks like what we would expect.
Beirich agreed that attitudes within the military tended to reflect a rise in white nationalism in wider society.
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Beirich said there was a long history of white supremacist groups encouraging their members to join the military so they could learn how to 'blow things up and be better with weapons', while also spreading their hateful ideologies.
Duh!
There are also concerns that younger service members can be susceptible to new ideas disseminated by those in leadership positions.
For example, in 2019, Army Reserve lieutenant colonel Christopher Cummins distributed flyers for the extremist group Identity Evropa in Tennessee and Mississippi, while Army private Christpher Hodgman did the same in Brighton, New York, according to an investigation by HuffPost.
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Brandon Russell, 28, of Florida, is a founder of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division (AWD) and has a long history of plots to attack US infrastructure, according to a criminal complaint filed against him
Another one who looks like what we would expect.
Brandon Russell, 28, formerly a private first class in the National Guard, was arrested in February this year over an alleged racist plot to 'completely destroy' the power grid in the predominantly black city of Baltimore
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The group believes that modern society 'ought to be driven into apocalyptic collapse so a white ethnostate or whites-only utopia can be constructed in its wake', according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups.
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-we-lose/
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arry Rendall Brock Jr, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and decorated combat veteran from Texas, was arrested after he was photographed wearing a helmet and body armor on the floor of the Senate during the storming of the Capitol
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Fracker was reportedly accompanied to the riot by fellow Rocky Mount PD officer Thomas Robertson (left, and right with Fracker), 49, who is an Army veteran also facing charges
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The U.S. Air Force came under fire after it was accused of being slow to kick out a Colorado airman who was found to have ties to a white nationalist group.
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Technical Sgt. Cory Reeves was found to be an active member of the white nationalist group Idenity Evropa
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Jarrett William Smith, a 27-year-old private first class stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, pleaded guilty to two counts of of distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction
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Jarrett William Smith, a private first class stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, is also alleged to have said that he would like to target former US congressman Beto O'Rourke for 'fire, destruction and death', according to court filings.
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https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-military-decides-against-court-martial-for-officer-who-called-for-uprising
Canadian military decides against court martial for officer who called for uprising
The Canadian Forces quietly decided against proceeding with a court martial for an army officer who called on police and military personnel to rise up against the federal government over COVID-19 pandemic regulations.
But the decision not to send Maj. Stephen Chledowski to a court martial highlights the double standard the lower ranks face in the military justice system, says a lawyer for Warrant Officer James Topp.
“James Topp didn’t call for the overthrow of the government and wasn’t disrespectful to government officials, yet he faced a court martial, while (Chledowski) didn’t,” said lawyer Phillip Millar, who has served in the Canadian Forces and is a former Assistant Crown Attorney. “It’s a clear indication there is a double standard within the Canadian Forces.”
“I am calling on my military and police comrades to now stand up and protect your loved ones against this government-forced medical tyranny,” Chledowski said in the video, adding he was not vaccinated.
After a military police investigation, Chledowski, a battery commander at the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery School, was charged with two counts of Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order.
But National Defence has confirmed to this newspaper that military prosecutors decided not to proceed with a court martial.
During Topp’s court martial, the military portrayed the reservist’s actions as similar to those of pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. “This is a case about an experienced and seasoned warrant officer leveraging his rank and uniform to publicly challenge his chain of command
Millar questioned the military prosecution’s decision to portray Topp as being akin to a Jan. 6 U.S. rioter when they already decided not to proceed with a court martial for Chledowski
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/extremism-in-the-military-is-a-problem/677026/
Extremism in the Military Is a Problem
The United States has long been blessed with a civil-military relationship that is a model of democratic and civic stability. Extremism in the ranks, however, is growing—and dangerous.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-report-punishing-military-extremists-too-divisive-1234939861/
Punishing Military Extremists Would Be Too Divisive: Pentagon Report
USING “PUNITIVE” MEASURES to stamp out extremism in the ranks of the United States military would “risk alienating a significant part of the force.”
That’s the startling conclusion of a long-awaited report on prohibited extremist activities in the Department of Defense, commissioned in the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The assault involved dozens of individuals connected to the military, including veterans in the Oath Keepers militia who were later convicted of seditious conspiracy.
The Pentagon report insists that a perception of extremism in the ranks is “inconsistent with the military’s tradition of nonpartisanship” and risks undermining the forces’ “widespread public support.” It also underscores that violent action by “even a small number of individuals with military connections and military training … could present a risk to the military and to the country as a whole.”
Launched with a mandate to illuminate the “scope of the problem,” the new 262-page report presents surprisingly little new data. It offers, instead, sweeping generalities — some of which appear intended to downplay the problem.
the Pentagon has appeared eager to downplay this “independent study on extremist behavior” altogether.
Despite recognizing the risks of violent extremists in the services, the Pentagon report ultimately concludes that addressing hateful ideologies head-on could pose another, perhaps greater, threat — undermining the U.S. military as a rare bastion of national unity in an increasingly fractious political age.