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Another Marine is being investigated for neo-Nazi ties amid military concerns about white supremacy

Author:     Shawn Snow
Source:     Marine Times
Publication Date:     February 26, 2019
 Link: Another Marine is being investigated for neo-Nazi ties amid military concerns about white supremacy
Stephan:   Marine Times is a deeply establishment publication for members of the Marine Corps, and various companies and organizations involved with the Marines. I tell you this, to make the point this article is not something written or published in some peripheral inconsequential publication. Quite the contrary. The fact that an article like this is in Marine Times, suggests to me that White nationalism encouraged and stimulated by Trump, Fox, and Breitbart is a bad and growing problem not only in American civilian society but military as well. Trump and his minions are building a 5th column in the United States and, as Trump said explicitly the other day, prepping them for violence.

Military explosives arranged in the shape of a swastika. Tweet from Twitter account @Jacobite_Edward

The recent arrest of Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson, a former Marine who investigators say was a longtime white nationalist, has lawmakers worried that military leaders may not be adequately tracking white supremacy issues within the ranks.

Hasson was arrested on Feb. 15 on drug and firearms charges, but investigators allege he was planning an attack against political and media targets.

Hasson’s arrest underscores a potential threat emanating from the armed forces — the infiltration of the military by violent hate groups or white supremacist organizations seeking to recruit service members with firearms and explosives training.

The FBI sounded the alarm over this issue in an investigation concluded in 2008, which warned that “the military training veterans bring to the movement and their potential to pass this training on to others can increase the ability of lone offenders to carry out violence […]

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