{"id":35281,"date":"2013-04-25T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35281"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:52:08","slug":"atlantic-despite-evidence-to-the-contrary-vets-are-the-greater-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35281","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic: Despite evidence to the contrary, vets are the greater threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic publishes the words of completely vacuous David Sterman, of the New America Foundation<\/a>, as he breathlessly warns “The Greater Danger: Military-Trained Right-Wing Extremists<\/a>“. This idiot meanderings through the English language was more than likely lifted from the moronic mind of Mark Potok, the anti-American, anti-military hate monger at the Southern Poverty Law Center who inspired Floyd Corkins II<\/a> to try to shoot up the Family Research Council in DC last year.<\/p>\n

But there’s meanwhile a more worrying danger: that right-wing extremists who have served in the U.S. military will use their training in carrying out terrorist violence.<\/p>\n

Right-wing extremists are more likely than violent Islamist extremists–or, as they are sometimes called, jihadists–to have military experience. They are also better armed, and are responsible for more incidents. The past two decades have seen multiple attacks from right-wing extremist veterans, from Wade Michael Page, who trained at Fort Bragg, to the group of former and active-duty soldiers in Georgia, who collected weapons to carry out a plan to assassinate President Obama. In 2011, Kevin Harpham, who had served in the army, placed a bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. During the 1990s, violent extremism in the militia movement and other right-wing movements relied heavily upon those who served in the military. Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil before 9\/11, was a military veteran whose libertarian views were also heavily influenced by a novel by a former American Nazi Party official. Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who bombed the 1996 Olympics, had also enlisted in the army. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wade Michael Page<\/a> was the guy who shot up a Sikh temple. He was booted out of the Army in the late 90s. Kevin Harpham<\/a> did fail at bombing a parade. Harpham, was also booted in 1999 from his Army job as a Red Leg cannon cocker at Fort Lewis, which is in no way related to anything that has to do with making and emplacing bombs. The Fort Stewart murderers had a plot to assassinate the President, but they were a bunch of headquarters wienies who had no skills related to the task that they planned. They murdered two people who they thought might expose their plot, but people who haven’t been trained by the military do that everyday. McVeigh was a Bradley gunner in the first Gulf War, nothing in the 11MB20 Skills Manual is remotely related to anything he did that day in Oklahoma, just like the others, including Eric Rudolph.<\/p>\n

I have no idea why the media is so preoccupied with waving this warning flag about veterans when there are millions of veterans who don’t hurt a soul every day. I think it’s very telling that they’re so preoccupied with warning about veterans in the days after an attack by real terrorists who are violent jihadists with no relationship to the military. They have to go back to the fricken 90s to find military veteran terrorists, for Pete’s sake. Yes, they all had military training, but nothing about their training had anything to do with their deeds.<\/p>\n

The only person Sterman interviews is our old friend Daryl Johnson, who wrote the now-famed Homeland Security Department report which warned of veterans as the greatest threat to our security. Johnson was fired soon after and his sole mission in life is to get morons like Sterman to vindicate his idiot report. The problem is that there are too many people in the media who don’t know what the military actually trains people to do, so since it sounds scary to them, it must be scary to everyone else. <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, wait until you read the part about scary, nutty veterans accumulate weapons, unlike jihadists, who only accumulate pressure cookers, I suppose. I guess they’re coming for our guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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