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Veterans and White Supremacy
New York Times ^ | 4/15/2014 | KATHLEEN BELEW

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 ...


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To: JOAT
The Times manages to overlook one moral atrocity after another, aimed at the American tradition; yet tries to parlay the actions of one nut, into a piece intended to alarm its readers against a fanciful threat from those who have put their lives on the line, in America's interest. The real threat in America is from the Leftist pseudo-intellectuals with whom the Times ordinarily identifies.

Of course, this is the same shameless tactic that has worked so well for the Left in the past.

William Flax

21 posted on 04/17/2014 11:25:24 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: GeronL
Nothing “right-wing” about it

Does it even matter?!

It's as predictable as the sun rising.

After every shooting the left trots out the same old time-worn cliches and tries to pin blame on the 2nd ammendment and/or the 'right-wing'

22 posted on 04/17/2014 11:25:35 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT

OK, just so I understand Time’s point:

1. All white men, especially veterans, are probably Nazis.

2. All muslims, especially those who spout radical anti-America/anti-Israel stuff, are legitimately aggrieved by evil Western civilization and evil Zionist colonialists and must be given the benefit of the doubt.

3. Also, a killing by a crazy white is terrorism, but mass killing by a muslim screaming allah*-fubar is workplace violence.

* piss be upon him.


23 posted on 04/17/2014 11:28:06 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

You pass the test.


24 posted on 04/17/2014 11:29:01 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT

Is the NYT unaware of black gang violence? Seems a lot more blacks killing whites than whites killing blacks.

Also, were the victims black or Jewish?

Has the NYT ever heard of the knockout game? Have they ever read the FBI’s interracial violent crime statistics?

If not, that would make the NYT totally clueless and/or racist.


25 posted on 04/17/2014 11:29:25 AM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott
Is the NYT unaware of black gang violence? Of course

Also, were the victims black or Jewish? Dont confuse the narrative.

Has the NYT ever heard of the knockout game? Of course

Have they ever read the FBI’s interracial violent crime statistics? Probably, but once again, you're messing with the story they are trying to paint.

The official story must be: White veterans are bad/dangerous/racist and must therefore be monitored for compliance.

26 posted on 04/17/2014 11:34:33 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT

blah, blah, blah


27 posted on 04/17/2014 11:36:45 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (i)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Frazier Glenn Miller is a Democrat and voted for Obama.

Don't forget that he was briefly a REPUBLICAN, so therefore an evil right-winger!

(Of course, after that he was an independent)

28 posted on 04/17/2014 11:38:05 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT
The Klan was a threat when it had the tacit support of the democrat establishment in the Jim Crow South... Back then southern police officers and sheriffs were part of the group - and Southern Newspapers ‘looked the other way’. It was cultural.

It's like Nazis - when the German government was behind the Nazis - and they had the force of the military and the culture with them - they were a horror. They were worthy of every bit of fear and hatred anyone could conjure. They has massive power...

Today when 15 losers get together and call themselves ‘Nazis’ it's a joke. Fifteen losers can't do squat other than borrow a name that strikes fear into people's hearts. If they were to call themselves the 'Gas Station Street Gang' no one would quake in fear. People would look at the losers and say,'what power do these 15 losers have?" No one from the New York Times would cover them...not for a minute.

It's the same with KKK losers. They don't have the power of a culture behind them like they did in the South decades ago. Today it's just a bunch of losers. And so far I haven't even seen the name of any other members. If there were any... I think the guy worked alone.

KATHLEEN BELEW needs to research the mastheads of Southern Newspapers... the kind that offer knee-jerk responses to any black person who might be mildly offended TODAY. And see how those papers (run by racist democrats before 1964) were STILL run by the same racists 10 years later. And they did not care... with very rare exception. The only difference was news people switched en mass... to the newer more fashionalbe ideas of the sixties. When the civil rights movement needed southern journalists there were very few who took the movement seriously. Kathleen Belew could at least do a numbers comparison between so-called KKK members today ( if there are any ) and the number of killings they've been convicted of in the last 10 years.... and compare that to the number of killings done by black gang members.

She might be in for a surprise.

The monster in this story does NOT represent the South, or the Southern Establishment, or Jim Crow, or Conservatives. The monster has taken a frightening name from the past and used it to get attention.

KATHLEEN BELEW - if seven liberal losers got together and called themselves the 'Charlie Manson Gang' would you respond the way you have?

29 posted on 04/17/2014 11:38:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC reporters couldn't spot a criminal if he was at the company Christmas party.)
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To: JOAT

I emailed her and asked if she studied the correlation between Klan membership and party affiliation.


30 posted on 04/17/2014 11:40:21 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: GOPJ
It is like the old adage: The first person to invoke 'NAZI' in a debate automatically loses.

It is pathetic to watch the left march this tripe out like clockwork. No intellectual honesty.

31 posted on 04/17/2014 11:42:46 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT

KATHLEEN BELEW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE4Gp4R0o6s Thumbs down!

32 posted on 04/17/2014 11:45:38 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: demshateGod
I emailed her and asked if she studied the correlation between Klan membership and party affiliation.

I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess she can't possibly answer you honestly.

After all, she IS pimping a new book she is writing on the subject of veterans and racism (coming out soon) and an inconvenient factoid like overwhelming DEMONRAT enrollment/leadership in the KKK would not fit well or sell books.

33 posted on 04/17/2014 11:46:12 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: cynwoody
Well, I could imagine FReepers will give that crappy video more hits today than everything she's received since 2012.

(A whopping 191 when I clicked it)

34 posted on 04/17/2014 11:49:21 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: JOAT

If I were her adviser, I’d tell her to do more research. She needs to ask herself, “How could I be wrong?” That’s basic scholarship.


35 posted on 04/17/2014 11:51:11 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: JOAT

It is amazing how left wing maggots in our universities ignore which political party formed the KKK and kept it going for years.

In fact one of the KKK’s great leaders was $inator Byrd. Liars like this b$tch ignore that reality.

The way her self title is, she apparently doesn’t have her PHD yet. What the heck is a post doctoral?


36 posted on 04/17/2014 11:52:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obama cannot divert resources from his war on Americans!)
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To: JOAT

I have no doubt that all of this fool’s worldly experience has been on a college campus. She has no idea that the KKK got its start as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. She doesn’t know anything about veterans except what she read in some subversive textbook.

I’m a Vietnam veteran. I’ve never been moved to randomly mow down people on a city street or a public school. I don’t belong to any militia groups. I’m only a skinhead because of the bald genes passed on to me by my dear departed mother. In other words, I’m a pretty typical retired guy like millions of others who have no use for liberals and commies and apologist pusscakes and muzzies and enviro-nazis and JBTs and, and.... it’s time for my pill. Please excuse me.


37 posted on 04/17/2014 11:57:25 AM PDT by beelzepug ((you can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it))
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To: JOAT

Yo, KATHLEEN BELEW, a lying liberal wanna be PHD! Study these facts:

In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

In 1963 a radical left wing communist, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.

In 1975 a two wing radical Democrats fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States in separate acts of mental illness.

In 1981 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan.

In 1984 James Huberty a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant.

In 1986 Patrick Sherril a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.

In 1990 James Pough a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.

In 1991 George Hennard a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 23 people in a Lubys cafeteria.

In 1995 James Daniel Simpson a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.

In 1999 Larry Asbrook a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 8 people at a church service.

In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.

In 2003 Douglas Williams a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.

In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech .

March 2010: John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon security. A right-wing extremist, media asked? (A registered Democrat and 9/11 Truther.)

In 2011 a mentally ill, registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The pot smoking Loughner killed 6 and wounded 18 in another liberal shooting tragedy.

In 2011 another mentally ill and registered Democrat named James Holmes went into a Colorado movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.

On 9/16/2013, another mentally ill liberal, Aaron Alexis, killed 12 innocents at the Navy Yard in Washington DC.

12/14/2013 Karl Pierson entered Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Co. armed with a shotgun with intent to kill one of his teachers. He shot Claire Davis, a senior, @Arapahoe High in the head. Yes, Pierson is/was another mentally ill liberal punk.

We could go on, but you get the point, even if the media and the anti gun pyschos in Congress do not.

Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats/the mentally ill having guns or being around them.

No NRA members, No Tea Party members, or No Republican conservatives are/were involved.

Political correctness and leftist policies are to blame in these mass shootings:

If Seung-Hui Cho had been institutionalized for mental illness, 32 people would still be alive at Virginia Tech.

If Jared Loughner had been institutionalized, 6 would be alive in Tucson.

If James Holmes had been institutionalized, 12 lives spared in Aurora, CO.

If Adam Lanza had been institutionalized, 26 would still live in Newtown, CT.

If Nidal Hasan had been properly reported, investigated, and discharged from the Army, and institutionalized, 13 would not have died at Ft. Hood.

If we really want to improve safety, keep criminals in jail, terrorists out of the U.S., and people who are mentally ill/deranged in institutions.

Again, It should be illegal for any Democrats to own guns or be around them.


38 posted on 04/17/2014 11:57:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obama cannot divert resources from his war on Americans!)
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To: beelzepug

If you disagree with her, have a chat.

k-belewnorthwestern.edu


39 posted on 04/17/2014 12:02:05 PM PDT by beelzepug ((you can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it))
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To: JOAT

White power bad. Black power good? /s


40 posted on 04/17/2014 12:02:29 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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