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Friday, October 28th, 2022

Congress Urges DoD, VA to Defend Troops and Veterans Against Extremists Who Want to Recruit Them

Author:     SONNER KEHRT
Source:     The War Horse
Publication Date:     OCTOBER 27, 2022
 Link: Congress Urges DoD, VA to Defend Troops and Veterans Against Extremists Who Want to Recruit Them
Stephan:   I have been following this trend for several years now (see SR archive). Infiltrating into the military, law enforcement, and military vets are completely predictable fascist moves, and sure enough it is happening big time in the United States, as this article describes. we need to face the fact that as the country becomes a racial majority-minority nation, about a third of White men are totally freaked out and have joined MAGAt world. This is a growing trend and problem that is not being properly addressed, so it is going to cause increasing problems.

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs recommends the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs work more actively to identify, prevent, and combat the problem of violent extremism among veterans and military members as they approach the end of their service, a report released to The War Horse states.

The report, which summarizes testimony from two committee hearings in the past year, finds that, while no single pathway leads to or predicts radicalization, military service and the transition to civilian life include stressors that can make some veterans vulnerable to recruitment tactics used by extremist groups. 

The committee recommends prevention and intervention programs for both service members and veterans. The committee also called for the government to collaborate with veterans organizations to better understand the threat and to provide peer support to service members as they leave the military.

“Ideologically motivated violence must be rejected by everyone in public office—and it must be a bipartisan concern,” Rep. Mark Takano, the committee chairman, says. “Acknowledging the small but growing threat of violent extremism among the veteran population does […]

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3 Comments

  1. Albus Eddie on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 5:34 am

    This would be a non-issue if both parties had not consistently fed, and continue to feed, the war machine over the past 60 years. How many years over the past 60 have we not been bombing or invading other nations? That is the root of the evil.

  2. Vonu on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 8:14 am

    What if Congress are the extremists?

  3. Rev. Dean on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 11:50 am

    I am involved with a lot of other veterans who oppose war and we all vote Democratic. There are a lot of branches besides mine with similar voting habits, who would not think of voting for Trump or anyone he supports and who would never vote Republican.