{"id":31423,"date":"2012-08-09T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31423"},"modified":"2012-08-09T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:53:26","slug":"racists-infest-ft-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31423","title":{"rendered":"Racists infest Ft. Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jack M sends us a link from some ditz, who strangely enough is\/was a colonel in the Army, in Time’s attempt at being a milblog, called “Battleland<\/a>” Oddly enough they claim that “Battleland” is “Where Military Intelligence is not a Contradiction in Terms”, but that is not in evidence in this piece by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie in which she claims to have deployed from Bragg to Somalia in 1992, which might be entirely possible, but she must have hit her head on something during the deployment;<\/p>\n

Like many others, the question of military service and the mass shooting by Wade Page at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin got me curious.<\/p>\n

So I simply Googled \u201cmilitary extremism Ft Bragg.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fascinating m\u00e9lange of information surfaced, mainly from the Southern Law Poverty Center, but also from newspapers like Stars and Stripes, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the major daily near where the Sikh shooting took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, and whatever wasn’t posted directly on SPLC’s website was somehow purloined from them, because SPLC hates Fort Bragg ever since that one couple was murdered a decade-and-a-half ago. Well, if you’re wondering what Elspeth’s Google search turned up;<\/p>\n

\u2013 There was the murder of a black couple in 1995 by a pair of Soldiers, apparently to earn their \u201cspider web tattoos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nineteen Fort Bragg paratroopers were discharged for participating in neo-Nazi activities.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Timothy McVeigh tried, and failed, to complete a special-forces course at Fort Bragg, which some authorities believe was the trigger that led him to kill 168 people by detonating a truck bomb he had parked next to the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, we already mentioned the murder, but then there were 19 soldiers discharged after that – 19 out of a population of 39,457, according to the 2010 census. That’s pretty tiny, and I’ll bet you could find more racists in any county in the country.<\/p>\n

And Tim McVeigh rises from the dead again. I don’t know if he was racist or not, I can’t remember him ever saying that he was a racist, but that little nugget aside, he was at Fort Bragg for a few weeks. Did the racist cooties attack him while he in pre-phase? Is just being on Fort Bragg going to turn him into a racist truck bomber. I was there for years and I’m neither racist nor a truck bomber. It must have been my daily dosage of that watered-down beer they served outside the gate that inoculated me. And we’re talking about racism in the military, so why even mention McVeigh, well, except for the scary truck bomb imagery and the loose tie to Fort Bragg? Um, Elspeth, WTF, dear?<\/p>\n

In a 2006 report \u2013 a decade after Fort Bragg\u2019s extremists made news \u2013 the Southern Poverty Law Center said \u201clarge numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world\u2019s best-trained, best-equipped fighting force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Army officials say they do their best to weed out extremists. But as Sunday\u2019s slaughter in Oak Creek makes all too clear, one extremist in the ranks is one too many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, anyone who believes anything from the SPLC is an ignorant POS, even if they are a colonel, and secondly, Page wasn’t in “the ranks” for more than a decade, dumbass. They booted him like they were supposed to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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