Racist Extremists Serve in the U.S. Military [Update]

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   Oui on August 6, 2012 at 4:19 am

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   Shooter described as Army vet in his 40s

   (JS Online) – A few details did emerge about the man whose Cudahy duplex apartment was searched by police hours after the shooting. He was described as white, single, in his 40s and an Army veteran.

   That description came in part from Kurt Weins, who lives in the 3700 block of E. Holmes Ave. in Cudahy. He said he rented the property to a man he believed to be from Chicago with no record of violence in Wisconsin.

   Jenny Czarnecki, a neighbor a block away, said she and her daughter know a woman who lived in the same duplex as the man. Czarnecki said the man lived there with his girlfriend, whom he broke up within the last few weeks before moving into 3725 E. Holmes across the street.  

   VIDEO – Brother, Father-in-law tell 12 News that temple president was killed in shooting

   In their grief they send a message of peace. The US is on a wrong track with gun violence at home and losing the peace in the world by its foreign policy.

   Live wire WISN.com

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   Oui on August 6, 2012 at 5:55 am

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   Obama has been targeted with vicious hatred and all minorities he has engaged have become endangered species, even Justice Roberts.

   Terror, tragedy for tight-knit Sikh community

   Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) — The FBI will investigate Sunday’s rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb as a “domestic terrorist-type incident ” that left at least six people and the gunman dead, the town’s police chief said.

   Another three people were wounded, including the first officer to respond to the scene, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said. A second officer returned fire, killing the suspect, according to the chief.

   There’s always an apprehension and a sense of fear that this kind of incident will take place anywhere, anytime,” said Rajwant Singh, chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education.

   Sunday’s attack occurred about 10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. ET), when temple members were reading scriptures and cooking food in preparation for the main Sunday service and community lunch, said Kanwardeep Singh Kaleka, a member of the congregation and the nephew of its president.

   Kaleka was not at the temple at the time of the shooting, but helped police interview witnesses in the aftermath. He said members described the attacker as a bald, white man, dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants and with a 9/11 tattoo on one arm — which “implies to me that there’s some level of hate crime there.”

   It seems the few casualties that have been divulged to me have been the equivalent of priests, the holy leaders of our people,” he said. “My uncle is one of the administrators of the temple. It’s mainly those individuals who have been targeted or shot. Maybe it’s because the ladies were fortunate enough to dodge it out, but so far most of the people I’ve heard have been shot and killed were all turbaned males.”

   Obama Greets Sikhs on Guru Nanak’s Birth Anniversary and hosts an event at the White House

    « click for WhiteHouse press release

   Sikh temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka killed in shooting

   • “We Are Americans Too”(pdf)
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   Oui on August 6, 2012 at 7:56 am

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   USA Number of homicides by firearm on decrease
   Year  Number
   2003   9,659
   2004   9,385
   2005  10,158
   2006  10,225
   2007  10,129
   2008   9,484
   2009   9,146

   Link to a A global picture of homicide rates

   Norway and The Netherlands were shocked a shooting spree with an assault rifle was possible in their country.
   The statistics are found under health concern in a nation. Too often a mental health issue (schizophrenia) plays a role and perpetrators are male.

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   Oui on August 6, 2012 at 12:05 pm

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   Sikh temple shooter was military veteran who lived nearby

   OAK CREEK, Wis. (Washigton Post) — A senior law enforcement official identified him as Wade Michael Page, 40, a six-year Army enlistee who rose to the rank of sergeant before being demoted to specialist and leaving the military in 1998.

   Page was fatally shot by a police officer in the parking lot after he allegedly shot a different police officer at close range. Edwards said police were investigating reports that the shooter, who was white, may have harbored extreme racial views. And the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on its Web site that Page was “a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band” called “End Apathy.”

   A Defense Department official said Page was in the Army from 1992 to 1998. He trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and served at Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Page worked as a repair techinian for the Hawk missile system and later was detailed to Psychological Operations as a specialist, the official said.

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   CAPOC pamphlet disseminated in Iraq. The text translates as, "This is your future al-Zarqawi," and depicts
al-Qaeda terrorist al-Zarqawi caught in a rat trap. The arm holding up the trap has the Iraqi flag on it.

   PHOTO: member of the band “End Apathy”

   Wade Michael Page, member of the band “End Apathy” has been identified as the Wisconsin Sikh Temple gunman. His landlord’s mother told Greendale Patch that Page had recently broken up with his girlfriend.

   Featured track on MySpace “Self Destruct” with Labe56 located in North Carolina. End Apathy began in 2005 with roots in old school hardcore punk and metal influences. The music is a sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress. Our first release will be a 7″ split with Definite Hate.

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     The Voice In The Wilderness on August 6, 2012 at 6:05 pm

     Demoted and cashiered, it makes one wonder what he did.

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   Oui on August 6, 2012 at 1:13 pm

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   Sikh Temple Shooter and Colorado Connection

   DENVER – 9News has learned a man with the same name and age as the shooting suspect in Wisconsin – Wade Michael Page – may have a Colorado connection. According to research done by 9Wants To Know, a man named Wade Michael Page was convicted of a DUI at Leetsdale Drive and South Oneida Street in 1999 in Denver.

   It is unclear at this time whether he served jail time for that DUI. He was also given a ticket for driving without a valid license in 1999 in Arapahoe County in Littleton. He pleaded guilty to this charge. He also faced charges of driving when license is under restraint in El Paso County in 2000, but that charge was later dismissed.

   Suspected temple gunman lived in metro Denver for 15 years

   Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, lived in Centennial, Englewood, Littleton and Denver at various times from the 90s to 2007. He was discharged from the Army in 1998. Link to map Greater Denver Area.

   The Southern Poverty Law Center described Page as a “frustrated neo-Nazi” who in 2005 led a “racist white supremacist” rock band called End Apathy. The Montgomery, Alabama-based organization, which monitors hate groups, said it has been tracking Page for a decade.

   Columbine shooting happened in 1999 (pdf) – Aurora and Oak Creek in 2012

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   Superpole on August 6, 2012 at 6:24 pm

   Great work, Oui.

   Appreciated, as I may need to use your info/links to update my diary here: “FALSE Premise: We Cannot Preempt Rampage Killing in the U.S.”

   As Moby recently said: “Everything we do is wrong”.

   if the military is harboring/encouraging bigotry against brown/black skinned peoples, it’s not a surprise.

   After all, dark skinned people are sitting on a large chunk of the petrol in the world– and we need this to fuel our giant trucks and SUV’s.

   this attack on peaceful, God seeking Sikh’s sickens me.. we are floundering as a nation.

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     ishmael on August 6, 2012 at 6:46 pm

     Seeing that the US military draws from the population it shouldn’t be surprising that there are a few soldiers who are racist, extremist, crazy and whatnot.

     The weeding out process isn’t all that strict and until they develop mind-reading technology some number of nutjobs will put on the uniform.

     The military is not encouraging bigotry against brown/black skinned people.

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       Oui on August 6, 2012 at 7:51 pm

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       What eight years under Bush/Cheney has wrought …

       Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk

       America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics.

       The military is hardly alone in dealing with anti-Islam instructional material passing itself off as responsible counterterrorism. Over the years, hundreds of documents claiming “mainstream” Muslims are “violent” have made their way into FBI curricula, alongside internal claims that agents working on counterterrorism cases could “bend or suspend the law.”  

       Robert Spencer and SIOA’s declared mission is to educate Americans

       About the threat that Islamic doctrine and those who support it present to our freedoms, and the future of our democracy and country.” The organizers call themselves “scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government,” as well as in “the defense of… our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency.

       See depictions Nuking Muslims and Mecca

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         ishmael on August 6, 2012 at 8:41 pm

         Yes, but this is different from a top down order. I agree that the climate fostered by Bush/Cheney encouraged such behavior. Even so, it’s hard to tell what the impact of being exposed to such lectures had on policy. Dempsey was right to order all such public views and materials eliminated.

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   Oui on August 7, 2012 at 12:12 pm

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   A Bad Dude, even discarded by the Army and turned loose in American society

   (JS Online) – Fred Allen Lucas, a Bloomington, Ind., man who served with Page at Fort Bragg, N.C., in a psychological operations battalion, recalled that he spoke of the need for securing a homeland for white people and referred to all non-whites as “dirt people.”

   “It didn’t matter if they were black, Indian, Native American, Latin – he hated them all,” Lucas said.

   Lucas said he met Page in 1995, the same year that the killings of a black couple in Fayetteville by two members of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg revealed the presence of a white-supremacist movement among soldiers on the base.

   At the time, Lucas said, Page was covered with tattoos, including one that made a reference to the “14 words,” a phrase used by white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

   Application for joining the Ku Klux Klan

   According to the Fayetteville Observer, he worked at a Harley-Davidson dealership as a parts coordinator, but was fired after a series of clashes – one involving his displeasure at taking orders from a female co-worker.

   The newspaper quoted general manager John Tew as saying that, after Page was fired, he found an application for joining the Ku Klux Klan on Page’s desk.

   Page never disguised  his hatred – Oak Creek Gunman’s Supremacists Beliefs Revealed.