You want to join the British armed forces, though you’re overweight? You used to be not welcome; but now you are.
You want to join the US armed forces in Iraq, even though you’re middle aged? You’re welcome (see also here).
You want to join the US armed forces in Iraq, even though you have a criminal record? You’re welcome.
You want to join the US armed forces in Iraq, even though you are on drugs? You’re welcome.
You want to join the US armed forces in Iraq, even though you are gay? You’re …. UNwelcome, as the Bush administration is not that broad-minded.
From the Southern Poverty Law Center in the USA:
Under pressure to meet wartime manpower goals, the U.S. military has relaxed standards designed to weed out racist extremists.
Large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the armed forces.
Department of Defense investigators estimate thousands of soldiers in the Army alone are involved in extremist or gang activity.
“We’ve got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad,” said one investigator.
Not that surprising, as the Belgian correspondent of the Bush administration’s favourite weekly, The Weekly Standard, Paul Beliën, is in the neo nazi Vlaams Belang party.
Iraq war and economics: here.
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Press Release
Afro-Asian Peoples¹ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) has participated at the World Peace Forum in Vancouver, Canada from 23-28 June 2006 with the two member delegation led by secretary-general of AAPSO Nouri Abdul Razzak Hussain and joined secretary of International section Hamsa Abd El- Hamid.
The World Peace Forum was an international gathering of individuals, groups and civic governments from cities and communities to envision a living culture of peace and sustainability in our life time.
Thousands of participants gathered mainly from Canada and the United States. In addition representatives from Latin America, Europe, Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries joined them in this massive peace gathering in Vancouver, Canada from 23-28 June 2006 to express their united desire for Peace and against War. It was an opportunity to strengthen the peace movement by mobilizing all segments of citizens to develop effective models to reduce violence and encourage peaceful means to end conflicts and maintain sustainability in our communities.
The participants deliberated during the five days of the forum under one main theme that is ³Cities and Communities: Working together to End War, and Build a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World: A Journey to Peace². The workshops and seminars dealt with diverse subjects related to the economy, social justice, peace, environment and culture of peace.
AAPSO delegation had participated in a number of events about preventing big power conflict in Asia, the future of the US power in the Middle East, The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear issue, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and others. In addition, the delegation exchanged ideas with other peace and non-governmental organizations in finding ways and means to deal with the new challenges that face the peace movement especially for the South countries.
The participants of the World Peace Forum comprising the organizations such as the Global Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, the conference of mayors and city councilors world over, and others joined in unity to call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and removal of foreign military bases. They reiterated their appeal for a negotiated settlement of Israeli- Palestinian conflicts, reduction of military spending and to uphold the principles of human rights. They stressed the necessity to strengthen the role of United Nations and to declare a decade for disarmament.
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*Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts*
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net robinsegg
Date: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:23 am (PDT)
Yeah, let’s go all out and be complete Nazis instead of the partial
Nazis we have become lately under Bush.
It’s time to let the REAL Nazis and hate mongers represent us abroad,
especially in those countries where people live who are special targets
of neo-Nazi hate .
… recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have
allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists”
to infiltrate the military …. [their] numbers could run into
the thousands…
The ONLY way the U.S. Military has been able to meet its target of new
recruits is by LOWERING its standards and accepting people with MORE
psychological problems. lower IQs, more hate in their hearts, and by
raising the age limit.
The Army is on track to meet its target of 80,000 new
soldiers this year. Lowered standards have helped. The Army
has eased restrictions on high school drop-outs, raised the
maximum age from 35 to 42, and admitted large numbers of
neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists. >>
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053#8
[one neo-Nazi leader says] “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.’ ”
That’s the new Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld army.
All those new “detention centers” the Bushites are paying Halliburton’s
KBR to build will not go unused. The Americans these skinheads don’t
like will be sent to those “detention centers” for “discipline,” slave
labor and probably extermination.
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*Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts*
by JOHN KIFNER
The New York Times
July 7, 2006
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, http://www.splcenter.org. “That’s a problem.”
A Defense Department spokeswoman said officials there could not comment
on the report because they had not yet seen it.
The center called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to appoint a
task force to study the problem, declare a new zero tolerance policy and
strictly enforce it.
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.
[NOTE FROM ME: Yes, “to get training for a race war.”]
The groups are being abetted, the report said, by pressure on
recruiters, particularly for the Army, to meet quotas that are more
difficult to reach because of the growing unpopularity of the war in
Iraq.
The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator,
saying, “Recruiters are KNOWINGLY ALLOWING neo-Nazis and white
supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don’t remove them
from the military even after we positively identify them as EXTREMISTS
or GANG MEMBERS.”
Mr. Barfield said Army recruiters struggled last year to meet goals.
“They don’t want to make a big deal again about neo-Nazis in the
military,” he said, “because then parents who are already worried about
their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more
reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they’ll be exposed to
GANGS and WHITE SUPREMACISTS.”
The 1996 crackdown on extremists came after revelations that Mr. McVeigh
had espoused far-right ideas when he was in the Army and recruited two
fellow soldiers to aid his bomb plot. Those revelations were followed by
a furor that developed when three white paratroopers were convicted of
the random slaying of a black couple in order to win tattoos and 19
others were discharged for participating in neo-Nazi activities.
The defense secretary at the time, William Perry, said the rules were
meant to leave no room for racist and extremist activities within the
military. But the report said Mr. Barfield, who is based at Fort Lewis,
Wash., had said that he had provided evidence on 320 extremists there in
the past year, but that only two had been discharged. He also said there
was an online network of neo-Nazis.
“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.”
An article in the National Alliance magazine Resistance urged skinheads
to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.
The Southern Poverty Law Center identified the author as Steven Barry,
who it said was a former Special Forces officer who was the alliance’s
“military unit coordinator.”
“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.”
Read this at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html?ex=1309924800&en=18e0e7dce2b8c8d3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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