The US military has announced an initiative to root out violent extremism within its ranks. Of course, violence and extremism are the very core of what it means to be in the military.
This Is the Military! No Violence Allowed!
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Does anyone still report on how gangs and white supremacists put members of their groups into the military in order to gain access to training? I did a lot of research on the sovereign citizen movement back in the early 1990s, before they really took off thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and social media, and it was a “known problem” even then. The events in Ruby Ridge and Waco really fired up those groups and, despite the best PR campaigns around, some of these neo-Nazis and sovereign citizens are actually very clever people.
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