Re: Racist...White Supremacy...Hate...Neo-Nazis...Proud Boys

by Guest Sun 06 Jan 2019, 7:21 am

If racism exists in the Forces, it's because of a lack of leadership.

A serious reckoning about how our Armed Forces are trained and led needs to take place.

by Jeremiah Mon 27 May 2019, 5:53 pm

May 27, 2019

Canadian Armed Forces members linked to six hate groups: internal report

By Stewart Bell and Mercedes Stephenson Global News

https://globalnews.ca/news/5322011/canadian-armed-forces-members-linked-to-six-hate-groups-internal-report/

by **Proctor** Tue 28 May 2019, 11:30 am

May 28, 2019

Defence minister to look into ‘further action’ to tackle Armed Forces members in hate groups

https://globalnews.ca/news/5324576/defence-minister-look-into-armed-forces-hate-groups/

by Thunder Tue 28 May 2019, 5:57 pm

Canadian Military Confirms Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Was Within Its Ranks

May 28 2019

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https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/a3xndb/canadian-military-confirms-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-was-within-its-ranks

by Lionfield Thu 30 May 2019, 6:09 pm

The Canadian Armed Forces ignore extremism in their ranks at their peril – and ours, too

ELIZABETH MOORE
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED MAY 30, 2019

Elizabeth Moore is an anti-hate educator and former racist extremist.

This week, Global News uncovered a troubling internal report from 2018 by the Military Police Criminal Intelligence Section titled “White Supremacy, Hate Groups, and Racism in the Canadian Armed Forces,” which documents 16 CAF members’ ties to six hate groups and another 37 allegedly engaged in racist or hate-motivated conduct between 2013 and 2018. It suggests what many anti-hate activists have suspected: The Canadian Armed Forces have a racist extremism problem.

But the seven-page report inexplicably dismisses its own findings. “At this time," it concludes, "hate groups do not pose a significant threat to the CAF/Department of National Defence.”

The assumption appears to be that low numbers equal low or no risk. Since these hate group members and sympathizers make up less than 0.1 per cent of the CAF, the report says, the military believes a few bad apples won’t spoil the bunch.

This shows a distressing lack of understanding of their own history and the dangers of having radicalized individuals with weapons training on the ground.

In 1993, during the since disgraced and disbanded Canadian Airborne Regiment’s peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations operation in Somalia, Canadian troops shot Somali civilians Ahmed Arush and Abdi Hunde Bei Sabrie, killing the former. A little more than a week later, regiment members would sadistically torture and kill Somali teenager Shidane Abukar Arone.

During the subsequent investigation, the public learned that white supremacist literature was commonplace in the regiment and that sub-unit 2 Commando in particular, where the Rebel flag was flown on base, was a hotbed of racist extremist activity. The investigation also revealed that during this unspeakable cruelty and violence, Master Corporal Clayton Matchee told another soldier: "In Canada we cannot do that, and here they let us do it.”

The CAF also have a responsibility to Canadians to ensure they are not unwittingly furthering the radicalization of their members and, by extension, civilians. The report acknowledges that “current and former military members find that their skills are valued by these groups. Further. they provide structure to these organizations. therefore affording them the ability to gain positions of leadership."

This dynamic has existed since at least the 1990s, and the risks associated with hate-fuelled people receiving military training cannot be overstated. When brothers Elkar and Eric Fischer, themselves members of the Airborne Regiment, provided security for Heritage Front events and conducted paramilitary-style training, their activities escalated until they kidnapped and assaulted a fellow Front member they suspected of providing information to anti-racists.

Today, the six hate groups the report identifies as having CAF members and participation are not, as the Proud Boys once tried to portray themselves, casual drinking clubs. The Proud Boys, Atomwaffen Division, La Meute, Hammerskins Nation, III% and Soldiers of Odin are militant and violent. Atomwaffen, in particular, is considered extreme even within the far right and has been linked to assaults and five murders within the past three years. The anti-Islamic III% take their cues from American far-right militia organizations and are one of the most dangerous groups to set up shop in Canada.

And a recent case in the United States shows us what happens when the military shirks its responsibility to the public. Coast Guard lieutenant and former marine Christopher Paul Hasson was originally arrested and charged with drug and weapons offences, but over the course of their investigation, police quickly learned that he was also a self-described white nationalist plotting a terrorist attack “on a scale rarely seen” in the U.S. He had a hit list and had been stockpiling weapons since 2017. The U.S. military failed to screen this.

The CAF should not wait until one of their radicalized members reaches this point to intervene. For his part, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said he would look into whether “further action” was needed on this matter, but that is wholly insufficient; as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network has advocated, the identified hate group members who remain in the Forces must be put on immediate leave, pending a full investigation.

We now have, on the record, military recognition that white supremacist influence is at least real among the ranks of our most weaponized Canadians, but this is not a true indicator of white supremacist influence within the CAF’s ranks; the 0.1 per cent quoted in the report is surely an underestimation of the hard-to-measure quality of hatred. We’ve also known, because of a sad mark in our history, that this hatred can be funnelled into violence against citizens.

Now all we need is for the Canadian Armed Forces to realize it, too.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-canadian-armed-forces-ignore-extremism-in-their-ranks-at-their/

by Ravenson Fri 14 Jun 2019, 9:10 am

Sajjan taken to task about white supremacists in the Canadian Forces – military says it’s dealing with the issue

DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN June 14, 2019

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https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/sajjan-taken-to-task-about-white-supremacists-in-the-canadian-forces-military-says-its-dealing-with-the-issue

by **Starman** Thu 27 Jun 2019, 8:48 am

FARBER: EXTREMISTS IN OUR RANKS

By Bernie Farber - June 27, 2019

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June 6 was the 75th anniversary of D-Day – the operation that finally helped destroy the evil of Nazism.

And yet, last month, a 2018 report titled, White Supremacy, Hate Groups, and Racism in the Canadian Armed Forces, which was written by Canadian Military Police Criminal Intelligence Section, was released to the public. It found that between 2013 and 2018, there were 53 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members who had connections to hate groups or were alleged to have been involved in hate-motivated activities.

“At this time hate groups do not pose a significant threat to the CAF/Department of National Defence,” reads the report. “Less than 0.1 per cent of the total CAF population were identified as part of a hate group or engaging in racist/hate motivated activity.”

I was stunned. We know how potentially dangerous even a single well-trained person can be when radicalized to violence. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh, an American white supremacist and a Gulf War veteran with explosives training, planted a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which led to the murder of 168 people, including 19 children in an adjoined daycare centre. Another 680 were wounded.

Similarly, in Canada during the 1990s, Eric Fischer, a former corporal in the Canadian Airborne Regiment and a security chief in the violent neo-Nazi Heritage Front, was “actively recruiting within the military for the (World Church of the Creator, a white supremacist group) … investigations against the white supremacist leadership in Canada revealed ‘that leading racists believe that the military is good recruiting ground,’ ” according to a 1994 report by the Security Intelligence Review Committee.

In 1993, a special government commission was called after soldiers from the Airborne Regiment tortured and executed 16-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone during a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. In the end, it led to the disbandment of the division.

More recently, in February, American Coast Guard lieutenant, former marine and white supremacist Christopher Hasson was arrested for plotting the assassination of politicians and journalists. This came after similar reports to what we saw here in Canada uncovered white supremacists and neo-Nazis within the U.S. military.

Research by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which I chair, has shown that Canadian neo-Nazis encourage their fellow travellers to join the military to “learn to kill” and take that skillset back to teach their comrades.

We need to start asking the military some serious questions, such as:

Why are 30 of those who were identified in the report still serving in the Canadian Armed Forces? Why does the military think they don’t pose a threat to the combat readiness of the CAF, or Canadians in general? And does the CAF’s leadership find it concerning that it is training and providing weaponry to members of hate groups?

At a time when much of the world has seen an extraordinary increase in white supremacist activity and when innocent people have been murdered by these types of extremists on our streets and in our houses of worship, it’s incumbent on the Canadian military to not ignore or diminish the potential danger we face.

How is it possible that government leaders and military authorities have remained so passive in the face of these threats? If we were talking about ISIS supporters within the ranks, surely we would see immediate action by the minister of defence and the chief of the defence staff.

It must be crystal clear by now that all such groups are a threat to public safety and that individuals who are connected to hate groups and extremism should be immediately dishonourably discharged.

This is not a time for silence. Our veterans fought the scourge of Nazism and hatred. Our government’s failure to act devalues their heroic efforts and leaves Canadians vulnerable to violent acts of terrorism and hate.

https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/farber-extremists-in-our-ranks

by Lucifer Mon 19 Aug 2019, 10:25 am

Canadian Armed Forces must root out neo Nazi and white supremacist elements

Mon., Aug. 19, 2019

Sajjan asks watchdog to probe Forces racism, Aug. 15

While I commend Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan for initiating an investigation through the military ombudsman’s office into racism within the Canadian military, there remains a serious issue with which no one has publicly addressed: The acknowledgment by the Canadian military of neo Nazi and white supremacist elements presently in the Canadian Armed Forces.

According to an official report from Canadian military intelligence released through an access to information request, 53 members of the CAF have an alliance with a Canadian hate group or “made statements/took actions deemed to be discriminatory in nature.”

Most troubling are the far right groups, including Proud Boys, La Meute, a paramilitary group called 111%, the Soldiers of Odin, the criminal neo-Nazi organization Hammerskins and Atomwaffen Division, designated a domestic terrorist group by the American Southern Poverty Law center.

We sent a letter to the defence minister earlier this year asking that more concrete and immediate action be taken to restore trust towards this key, reputable Canadian institution.

To date, we have no knowledge of any action taken by either Minister Sajjan or the CAF.

Bernie M. Farber, chair, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Toronto

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2019/08/19/canadian-armed-forces-must-root-out-neo-nazi-and-white-supremacist-elements.html

by Charlie Mon 19 Aug 2019, 4:53 pm

White supremacist in army reserve

By: Ryan Thorpe
Posted: 08/19/2019

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/white-supremacist-in-army-reserve-553050082.html#&gid=null&pid=2

by **Accer** Tue 20 Aug 2019, 1:22 pm

Military, RCMP investigating Winnipeg neo-Nazi army reserves leader

By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 08/19/2019 7:00 PM | Comments: 47 | Last Modified: 08/19/2019 7:58 PM | Updates

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https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/military-rcmp-investigating-winnipeg-neo-nazi-army-reserves-leader-554974742.html

by Cool~Way Tue 20 Aug 2019, 2:54 pm

Canadian solider could lose job for alleged neo-Nazi links

CBC News
Published on Aug 20, 2019

by Mojave Tue 20 Aug 2019, 8:00 pm

'We're going to act:' Military investigating reservist for hate group link

Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, August 20, 2019

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/we-re-going-to-act-military-investigating-reservist-for-hate-group-link-1.4557639

by Lonestar Wed 21 Aug 2019, 9:59 am

RCMP seize guns from CAF member allegedly tied to hate group

Aug 20, 2019

by Ironman Wed 21 Aug 2019, 5:42 pm

Military faces calls to train soldiers to identify neo-Nazis, hate-group members

by The Canadian PressPOSTED AUG 21, 2019 1

https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2019/08/21/military-faces-calls-to-train-soldiers-to-identify-neo-nazis-hate-group-members/

by Ironman Wed 21 Aug 2019, 5:57 pm

RCMP raid home of alleged neo-Nazi soldier

CBC News
Published on Aug 21, 2019

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