Military Recruiting Neo-Nazis

From The New York Times.

A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing militia groups, estimated that the numbers could run into the thousands, citing interviews with Defense Department investigators and reports and postings on racist Web sites and magazines.

"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the group quoted a Defense Department investigator as saying in a report to be posted today on its Web site, www.splcenter.org. "That's a problem."

No Shit, that's a problem. This is a catastrophy, just waiting to explode on us all. We haven't had a report this ominous since the 1995 murders near Ft. Bragg by reported Skinheads in the Army.

Two Fort Bragg soldiers described as skinheads by Army acquaintances were arrested today and charged with murdering two people in what police called a racially motivated attack.

The suspects, Malcolm Wright Jr., 20, and James N. Burmeister, 21, both with the 82d Airborne Division, were each charged with two counts of first-degree murder, said Lieut. Tom Bergamine of the Fayetteville police. Both suspects are white; the victims, a man and a woman, were black.

The police described the killings as random and said the victims had been shot in the head with a semiautomatic handgun. The victims were found in downtown Fayetteville just after midnight Wednesday. They were identified as Michael James, 36, and Jackie Burden, 27.

What do you think is going to happen when this brand new breed of Skinheads, with military training return home to the U.S. after several years in Iraq and the kind of free reign to do as they will we've seen in killing of 24 civilians in Haditha and the Rape and Murder of a 15-year old Iraq Girl and her family? Stir some bad shit up - that's what.

Back to NYT.

The report said that neo-Nazi groups like the National Alliance, whose founder, William Pierce, wrote "The Turner Diaries," the novel that was the inspiration and blueprint for Timothy J. McVeigh's bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, sought to enroll followers in the Army to get training for a race war.

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Not the Turner Diaries Boys again. You wanna talk about real home grown terrorist, you can forget about those pathetic kids from Liberty City, this is the real deal. You're talking Eric Rudolph (The Atlanta-Olympic Bomber) with training in munitions and counter insurgency.

"They're communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military," he said. "Several of these individuals have since been deployed to combat missions in Iraq."

The report cited accounts by neo-Nazis of their infiltration of the military, including a discussion on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront. "There are others among you in the forces," one participant wrote. "You are never alone."

"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.' "

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

It was cute when David McSwane pulled a Sting on Army recruiters by pretending to be a high-school dropout with a marijuana problem and filming the recruiters as they helped him fake a Diploma and pass the drug tests -- but this shit isn't funny anymore.

This puts all of us at risk for the long haul if these nutty fuckers actually try to implement the race war that McVeigh was trying to start. And considering the level of Racist Rhetoric coming from the Reich-wing of the Repulican Party these days -- it's not hard to figure out how this stories going to play out.

Vyan