To J.M. Berger, a counterterrorism analyst and editor for IntelWire.Com, the military attracts extremists because of the weapons training it provides.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing that we really have to keep in mind is that extremists are often explicitly interested in joining the military because they get training that they can use later,\u201d Berger told CNN, adding that \u201cthere have been some explicit discussions among leaders of some of these groups that their followers should join the Army to get trained.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And what, exactly, are they going to do with that training? Seriously. This miniscule portion of the population is going to raise up and use their military training to take over country? Or will they just use it to make pin-prick insurgencies that will make them more hated than are already?<\/p>\n
I’m pretty sure that most gun owning Americans would say they’ll protect their homes and families from neo-Nazis just as quickly as they’d defend against anyone from the other end of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n
Leyden, the former white supremacist who wrote the book \u201cSkinhead Confessions: From Hate to Hope,\u201d said he openly displayed his extremist leanings while serving in the Marine Corps in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to hang a swastika flag on my wall locker and everybody in my unit all the way up to my commander knew it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only time they ever asked me to take it down was when the commanding general would come through, just so they wouldn\u2019t get in trouble. And afterwards, I would put it right back up and they were perfectly fine with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted that his brother\u2019s unit had less tolerance for such displays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, I don’t see that happening. A Nazi flag would last about three seconds in any of my units and more than likely, it’d be one my privates who would have removed it before I saw it.<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Defense website, the task force visited 28 installations and interviewed more than 7,500 soldiers. It found that less than 1% said they had seen soldiers or civilian employees involved with extremist groups.<\/p>\n
A decade later, the Southern Law Poverty Center reported in 2006 that some high-profile members of extremist groups were serving in the U.S. military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, we talked about the SPLC report a few years ago. The assclowns went on what the Neo-Nazis told them about their military service but never bothered to check on them. We could find no record of them ever serving. So if you suspend common sense, it’s easy to believe SPLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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