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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-captiMilitary 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.htmlThe 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-gallagherTrump 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-11576373230West 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.htmlA 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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