Posted on 04/17/2014 11:08:07 AM PDT by JOAT
EVANSTON, Ill. — WHEN Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement:
The number of Vietnam veterans in that movement was small — a tiny proportion of those who served — but Vietnam veterans forged the first links between Klansmen and Nazis since World War II.
In 1980, Mr. Miller formed a Klan-affiliated organization known as the White Patriot Party.
In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a nine-page report detailing the threat of domestic terrorism by the white power movement. and a new factor, the election of a black president.
The report singled out one factor that has fueled every surge in Ku Klux Klan membership in American history, from the 1860s to the present: war. The return of veterans from combat appears to correlate more closely with Klan membership than any other historical factor. The agency was “concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.”
The report raised intense blowback from the American Legion, Fox News and conservative members of Congress. The threat, however, proved real.
Mr. Miller obviously represents an extreme, the overwhelming majority of those in treatment are still Vietnam veterans.
When we interpret shootings like the one on Sunday as acts of mad, lone-wolf gunmen, we fail to see white power as an organized — and deadly — social movement.
That Mr. Miller was able to carry out an act of domestic terror Would he have received greater scrutiny had he been a Muslim, a foreigner, not white, not a veteran? The answer is clear, and alarming.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Predictable leftist smearing of our veterans, attempting to portray returning soldiers as racist timebombs.
“Vietnam veterans forged the first links between Klansmen and Nazis since World War II.”
What the heck?
Hey!!! New York Slimes!!!
The US feral government ENABLED the protected-witness SOB!!!
Really, a pretty transparent attempt to do a "guilt by association" job of potentially all returning veterans and a racist nut job who shot some people and happened to be a former soldier.
If the Slimes gave as much ink to crimes committed by black racists, they would have to go to triple editions and triple the number of their internet stories.
Even though blacks are but 13 percent of the population.
Is there a more evil rag out there than the NY Times?
No.
I would invite Ms. Belew to take a casual midnight stroll down Martin Luther King Boulevard in any one of the many cities that have one. I’d advise her to be especially wary of any white veterans she encounters along the way.
This next one is going to make the first civil war look civilized and tidy. It’ll have nothing to do with “white power, white supremacy” or the race(s) of the current occupant of the executive mansion. The author might end up wearing a blindfold and smoking her last cigarette sooner than she might think, though. I wonder if she realizes that?
“...Would he have received greater scrutiny had he been a Muslim, a foreigner, not white, not a veteran? The answer is clear, and alarming...”
Clearly, he wouldn’t. See “Major Nidal, Fort Hood, Workplace Violence.”
End of story.
It’s the New York Times... wipe your butt with it, as that’s all it’s good for.
“...between Klansmen and Nazis...”
Oh, he means between OLD Democrats, and the NEW Democrat socialists?
Didn’t the NYPD just yesterday disband it’s squad that kept an eye on Muslims under intense pressure from the press, mayor, public and CAIR?
Absolutely not. She is enlightened you peasant!
They did say that
Two words: Leon Trotsky
Nothing “right-wing” about it
I got déjà vu reading this thread and comments. As if I have seen this thread before today
“The answer is clear, and alarming”
Yes we get it NYT’s, all white males anywhere, except for the pajama boy types are white supremacist.
So when will be see an article about the killing of Christians by Muslims or should I wait for pigs to fly?
Former soldier, and Democrat.
Frazier Glenn Miller is a Democrat and voted for Obama.
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