Identifying Three Trends in Far Right Violence in the United States

USMA Combating Terrorism Center ^ | September 26, 2012 | Arie Perliger

[Travis McGee]

CW2 Ping

West Point is now being used to advance the "Evil Right Wing Racist Extremists Must Be Crushed!" meme.

This relates directly to the Small Wars Journal article from August, "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A Vision of the Future."

Now the West Pointers are being prepared to turn their guns against Americans. This is a very dangerous trend, folks.

As the U.S. Army returns from abroad, it appears that they are being prepared for operations at home, against other Americans.

[STJPII]

A friend of mine has a son who has received an appointment to USMA and USNA but he is worried about political correctness at the academies which is in full force

[Travis McGee]

Lucky for us, the federal government is way out in front, preparing to battle the

Evil White Racist Right Wing Tea Party KKK Nazi Militia Extremists.

[Tublecane]

Why does everyone assume neo-nazis are “far right”? Original nazis weren’t.

[mdmathis6]

So where are the studies regarding left wing violence?

[txrefugee]

Perhaps we should reconsider funding this unconstitutional standing army. It was never intended that the USA should have one for the very reason that the Founders knew the danger to freedom of government armies.

[Chainmail]

Part of a very strange evolution within our government towards regarding all of us as enemies. On one hand, they need us for taxes. On the other, they are accumulating armored vehicles and billions of rounds of ammunition for “homeland security”. We need to keep an eye on them, don’t we?

[Venturer]

I guess if we can call skinheads far right we should call Black Panthers and all Hispanic and the Bloods and crips far left.

Who poses the most danger to America a few skinheads with one of them going nuts in a year or the blacks and hispanics whio kill every day in most large city ghetto’s in America.

Hoa many died at the Sikh temple in that one incident and how many died in Chicago last weekend?

I don’t hear them worrying about the killers on the far left.

[Travis McGee]

“Everyone” does not so assume.

Nazi means National SOCIALIST. The leftist totalitarians try to attach “Nazi” to “Right Wing,” but use it as an opportunity to correct those who don’t know.

As in:
Communism and Nazism are two sides of the SOCIALIST coins. They are both totalitarian ideologies, differing only in their “official enemies,” one hating class enemies, and one hating racial enemies.

Both forms of SOCIALISM are at the opposite pole from CONSTITUTIONALISM, which is where most “right wingers” reside.

Then remind the leftist goons (even at the USMA) of their oath to defend the CONSTITUTION.

[Travis McGee]

See my reply just above.

[niteowl77]

We need to keep an eye on them, don’t we?

The founders thought so, but who are they compared to such luminaries as Dr. Arie Perliger (the Class of 1977 Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy at West Point)?

Mr. niteowl77

[John O]

skinheads (who tend to be neo-nazis) are far left.

[Tublecane]

The racism thing is a red herring. Naziism, or rather I should say fascism, is socialism in one nation, whereas communism is supposed to be for the globe. Nazis are slightly to the right of commies and to the left of the rest of us.

[Safetgiver]

One guy killed six people in the USA. Meh. I recently heard of 19 people who killed 3000+ people in the USA.

[Texas Fossil]

Correct, Nazis were the “National Socialist Party”. Something the left has waged a propaganda war to try and paper over. But it is a FACT. They were Fascists, Socialists. in other words: “Leftists”.

[cripplecreek]

Why does everyone assume neo-nazis are “far right”? Original nazis weren’t.

You should read The Language of the 3d Reich. It explains how the nazis changed the language to manipulate German society.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Third-Reich-Imprerii/dp/0826457770

Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The existing social culture was manipulated and subverted as the German people had their ethical values and their thoughts about politics, history and daily life recast in a new language. This notebook, originally called LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii) - the abbreviation itself a parody of Nazified language - was written out of Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture. As Klemperer writes: "it isn't only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, and its breeding ground: the language of Nazism".

It wasn't so long ago that the word "Militia" conjured images of honor and patriotism. Today, even many people on the right use it as a pejorative term.

[TADSLOS]

Which groups contribute most to the tip of the iceberg, and which are closer to its base? The findings show that the KKK (and on some level anti-abortionists), with its current informal and fragmented structure and low level of operational sophistication, is the formal movement that is closest to the base of the iceberg (and may be the first station for those joining the “formal” American far right). The higher one “climbs” to the top of the iceberg, the more lethal the group’s attacks and the smaller they are in volume. Therefore, following the KKK, the order can be ranked as follows from least to most lethal: skinheads, militias, neo-Nazi groups and finally attacks perpetrated by individuals or groups affiliated with the Christian identity movement. To illustrate, while Christian identity elements perpetrated “just” 66 attacks in the last 22 years, their attacks generated close to three victims per attack on average. The skinheads, which are part of the racist trend, were responsible for more than 200 attacks, but averaged close to one victim per attack.

Christians, conservatives, the KKK and skinheads all tied together as a giant lurking iceberg. How convenient and right out of the Joseph Goebbels School of Propoganda.

[FreedomPoster]

Some useful readings regarding the Left-wing nature of Nazi politics.

Hitler’s Handouts
Inside the Nazis’ welfare state
http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/hitler.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143131/posts

For the best short summary of the similarities of the Reds and the Nazis, see the two-paragraph Hayek quote on my FR profile page. It’s the 3rd one down.

[Chode]

UP...!!!