That’s the only conclusion we at Truthdig can come to when faced with these facts: Recruiters are increasingly admitting neo-Nazis and skinheads into the military, and the number of soldiers kicked out of the military for being gay rose 11% over last year.
Also, allegations of harassment and outright crimes committed by military recruiters are up. (story or .pdf report)
A Few Bad Men
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies on extremist activities by active duty personnel—a move that came in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat veteran Timothy McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of a skinhead gang in the elite 82nd Airborne Division—large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world’s best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. Military recruiters and base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in Iraq to fill the ranks, often look the other way.
Neo-Nazis “stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they’re inside, and they are hard-core,” Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the Intelligence Report. “We’ve got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad,” he added. “That’s a problem.”
Discharges of Gays Up Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
AP:
... The Pentagon has said there were 726 military members discharged under the policy last year ? up 11 percent from the year before ? but did not publicly release base-specific information.
Allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. military recruiters jumped by 50 percent from 2004 to 2005, and criminal violations such as sexual harassment and falsifying documents more than doubled, a congressional agency said on Monday.
The Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative agency, said the full extent of violations by military recruiters is unknown because the Defense Department does not have an oversight system.
While the GAO said available information likely underestimated the problem, it showed that allegations of recruiter wrongdoing increased to 6,600 cases in fiscal year 2005 from 4,400 a year earlier.
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By robert puglia, August 16, 2006 at 7:49 am Link to this comment
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By John Tibbals, August 15, 2006 at 6:00 pm Link to this comment
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I’ve read that among those discharged on the basis of sexual orientation, over forty were Arab language specialists! It reminds me of Peter Ustinov’s remark in his autobiography concerning his own experience in the military to the effect that “you scarcely have time to savor one absurdity before it’s replaced by another!”
By R. A. Earl, August 15, 2006 at 4:02 pm Link to this comment
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It’s not that we don’t feel like commenting… it’s just, “what’s to say?”
The senseless, hypocritical, prejudiced political and cultural environment in which today’s “authority” operates can lead only to injustice. When people are discarded because of who they choose to love, but welcomed because of who they hate, you know it’s SNAFU all over again.
Any INTELLIGENT person knows that sexual oriention has nothing to do with ABILITY to perform a tasks in the armed forces… any task. But then, “military intelligence” has always been an OXYMORON.
It’s so depressing watching the machinations of absurd humanity. I look forward to the next life - it just has to be better than this one because it can’t possibly be worse.
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By robert puglia, August 16, 2006 at 7:49 am Link to this comment
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like unto like, some news.
Report thisBy kevin99999, August 15, 2006 at 11:19 pm Link to this comment
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And why not? It seems to me that the neo-cons have the same ambition of conquering the world as Nazis did, and is pretty much using the same language.
Report thisBy John Tibbals, August 15, 2006 at 6:00 pm Link to this comment
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I’ve read that among those discharged on the basis of sexual orientation, over forty were Arab language specialists! It reminds me of Peter Ustinov’s remark in his autobiography concerning his own experience in the military to the effect that “you scarcely have time to savor one absurdity before it’s replaced by another!”
Report thisBy HorrifiedWitness, August 15, 2006 at 5:27 pm Link to this comment
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And Bush dares to criticize other countries for their religious fanaticism and intolerance. Never did blacker pot call a kettle.
Report thisBy R. A. Earl, August 15, 2006 at 4:02 pm Link to this comment
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It’s not that we don’t feel like commenting… it’s just, “what’s to say?”
The senseless, hypocritical, prejudiced political and cultural environment in which today’s “authority” operates can lead only to injustice. When people are discarded because of who they choose to love, but welcomed because of who they hate, you know it’s SNAFU all over again.
Any INTELLIGENT person knows that sexual oriention has nothing to do with ABILITY to perform a tasks in the armed forces… any task. But then, “military intelligence” has always been an OXYMORON.
It’s so depressing watching the machinations of absurd humanity. I look forward to the next life - it just has to be better than this one because it can’t possibly be worse.
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