Active-Duty Marine Moonlights as Leader of Violent White Supremacist Group: Report

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https://www.theroot.com/active-duty-marine-moonlights-as-leader-of-violent-whit-1825856300
Michael Harriot
Today 11:44am

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Every person who enlists in the U.S. military swears this oath of loyalty and honor to their country. But apparently, there are some people in the ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps who have really taken that pledge to heart. As they train to become a Marine, they are preparing their fellow Marines for a different war ...
A race war.

In the past few years, reporters and news outlets have uncovered a troubling number of people employed by the U.S. military who are actively involved with white supremacist hate groups. But ProPublica and Frontline may have uncovered one of the most disturbing stories of all.

The tale of Vasilios Pistolis is the story of a Marine who doubled as a soldier in one of the most violent white supremacist organizations in the nation. The plot includes a violent attack in Charlottesville, Va.; a Nazi extremist group that has been linked to at least five murders; an 18-year-old who led preparations for a race war; and a U.S. military that knew all about it but did nothing to stop him.

The Root has covered the violent extremism of Atomwaffen before. When reporting on the murder of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein by Atomwaffen member Samuel Woodward, we revealed how the group was inspired by James Mason, who took mass murderer Charles Manson’s advice and left the American Nazi Party in the 1970s because it was “too moderate.”