('em you're gay that is). even if you're a valuable translator (of let's say an arabic language). but it seems (according to this article at least) they AIN'T gonna boot your ass if you're a white supremacist. nice! (not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
a GIANT w t f to the military on this shite
(by the way. i know MANY MANY MANY peeps with celtic crosses. they are NOT necessarily a neo-nazi symbol. i even have some on clothing and i'm planning on embroidering one soon as well)
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.
Editor's note: Research support for this article was provided by the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund.
By Matt Kennard
June 15, 2009 | On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.
Over a plate of chicken wings, he tells me about his path into the white-power movement. "I was 14 when I decided I wanted to be a Nazi," he says. At his first high school, near Los Angeles, he was bullied by black and Latino kids. That's when he first heard Skrewdriver, a band he calls "the godfather of the white power movement." "I became obsessed," he says. He had an image from one of Skrewdriver's album covers — a Viking carrying a staff, an icon among white nationalists — tattooed on his left forearm. Soon after he had a Celtic cross, an Irish symbol appropriated by neo-Nazis, emblazoned on his stomach...............
Photo: Matt Kennard
Iraq veteran Forrest Fogarty sailed through recruitment despite his neo-Nazi tattoos.
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