[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.

[John O]

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

[Safetgiver]

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

[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.

[DuncanWaring]

We are seeing here an ignominious end to the Long Gray Line.

From Gen. MacArthur's speech on receipt of the Sylvanus Thayer award:

The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.

[Joe Brower]

“Wars, and rumors of wars...”

[Lady Heron]

Racist Trend The ideological trend most familiar to Americans is the racist one, which is comprised of white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), neo-Nazis such as the National Alliance, and skinhead groups such as the Hammerskin Nation.

National Socialist......Oh, they really mean the left.

[PapaBear3625]

To begin with, the American far right is characterized by a large base of supporters (the base of the “iceberg”) who are usually engaged in low level violence (usually minor incidents of vandalism or low sophisticated attacks against individuals) and are not affiliated with any formal organizational frameworks (for example, just one percent of the attacks by unaffiliated members includes the use of firearms or explosives, well below what could be observed in any of the other trends). Based on the body of literature developed in the last few years regarding political radicalization, it is possible to carefully assume that the perpetrators of these attacks are the future recruitment potential of the more institutionalized organizations. In other words, after crossing the line and performing some minor attacks on their own initiative, at some point these individuals may look for more organized, systematic mechanisms to express their ideas for political activism, and thus will join one of the other, more formal, streams of the American far right toward the top of the iceberg.

Somebody who was actually paying attention would notice this describes the Left. Underneath the "Animal Liberation Front", PETA forms the base of the iceberg. Underneath the SDS, the rest of the Left formed the iceberg. Etc.

[Gilbo_3]

wow...just a generation or two to redefine all of these socialist groups into 'far right wing' extremists...

do the troops taking the Oath even have a clue as to the text of the Constitution ??? if not, its gonna get stupid soon...hopefully the PTB have jumped the proverbial gun and dont have that dumbed down a population in the Services...yet...

how is the *purge* going to look in the US military...???

forcing the queers in was prolly just step one...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most damaging and dangerous mass of an iceberg is actually the section that is underwater.

TRANSLATION: Just because right-wing violence is practically non-existent doesn't mean we can't pretend it is threat #1.

[Dead Corpse]

More psy-op prepping the battle-space.

If we do need to take back our Country via kinetic ballot, we’ll be fighting this bias as well...

[Weirdad]

bump

[Wallace T.]

Here is a key phrase in this article, citing Ehud Spinszak, an Israeli political scientist: "He (Ehud Spinszak) argued that the Gush (a nationalist Israeli group) is best understood not as a classical protest movement, but as the extremist tip of a large social and cultural “iceberg,” in effect a religious subculture, which supports and nurtures the Gush. Pyramidal in structure, this iceberg—Gush’s social and political bases of support—broadens as one moves from the politically extremist tip to the less extremist base."

In other words, the occasional act of violence by a "lone nut" or small group of racists is supported by the culturally and religiously conservative, though not violent, community. In Israel, that would be the most orthodox Jews, especially those who support the expulsion of all non-Jews from the nation. In the United States, that would be primarily fundamentalist Christians, especially homeschoolers, self-reliant rural people, gun enthusiasts, etc. Other, smaller groups with a similar profile include traditionalist Catholics, especially those who believe that no Pope since Pius XII is legitimate; Mormons in several LDS offshoots that support polygamy; Objectivists and freethinkers in the Lysander Spooner mode; believers in "Identity" religion (Anglo-Saxons are the real children of Israel and the actual Jews impostors); and the stricter Mennonite sects.

The fact is that the Nazi, Klan, militia, Identity, and similar movements are heavily infiltrated by Federal, state, and local law enforcement, as well as non-government groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Said groups have been under surveillance and subject to infiltration since the 1960s, following the murder of civil rights workers in the South. It is unlikely a member of one of these group buys a loaf of bread or a tank of gas without being watched and reported on. They constitute minimal threat and most of the group actions are provoked or at least countenanced by law enforcement.

The real goal of these "extremist" alerts is to smear the broader base with the actions of a few violent individuals. Conservatives play the same game. Senator Joseph McCarthy was mostly correct in his identification of Communists in the State Department and the military, but others, such as Martin Dies, used the treason of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs to smear leftists and liberals in the entertainment business. However, the Left now controls the levers of power, especially under Obama. (Even with a Romney victory, leftists are well positioned in academia, the foundations, local and state governments in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and West Coast, and the Federal civil service to continue their war.) The Communists suppressed similar groups in the hellhole called the Soviet Union, first by ridicule, then by isolation, and finally by imprisonment. The Nazis did the same with the Jews. Our leftists have a similar goal.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

These all look like left-wing examples.

The most obvious is the KKK, which is leftist and was formed by the Democrat party.

[jimt]

...if anything, the level of far right violence has been rising steadily for the last two decades.

Horsepuckey.

[ctdonath2]

Based on analysis of 4,400 cases of violent attacks by far-right elements in a 22-year period

Sounds impressive, but at 1 incident perpetrated per year by each member of a group constituting .00006% of the population - contrasted with over a million violent crimes per year - is little more than statistical noise. Far-left elements/adherents surpass that rate in individual protests, not just over years.

And that's not considering that what he's calling "far-right elements" are often originated from the Left (KKK) and are so far out there they are completely disconnected from the left/right spectrum period.

[JimRed]

I went to the website and- surprise, surprise! There is no contact author information or comments section on which to post rebuttals.