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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Quietly Cut Term 'White Nationalists' From Measure to Screen Military Recruits
A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act intended to encourage screening for white-nationalist beliefs in military enlistees was quietly altered by the Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday, according to HuffPost. The original House amendment was passed to keep white nationalists out of the U.S. military, but the term no longer appears in the act as the revised version requires the Department of Defense to instead screen military enlistees for extremist and gang-related activity. The Senates version of the massive military spending bill went directly to President Donald Trumps desk.
The original legislation was introduced by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) in July after reports about a spike in white nationalists in the U.S. military, and the new version effectively heightens the chances for white nationalists to join the military. A series of HuffPost investigations revealed earlier this year that 11 U.S. military servicemen were Identity Evropa members, a notorious white-nationalist group. Aguilar told HuffPost that the Senates alteration means that they may not be taking white nationalism seriously, adding, we cannot turn a blind eye to this growing problem which puts our national security and the safety of the brave men and women serving our country in jeopardy. White nationalism has consistently posed a threat to the military, according to academics and law enforcement officials. In the 1970s, a Department of Defense directive authorized military enlistees to join the Ku Klux Klan.
The original legislation was introduced by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) in July after reports about a spike in white nationalists in the U.S. military, and the new version effectively heightens the chances for white nationalists to join the military. A series of HuffPost investigations revealed earlier this year that 11 U.S. military servicemen were Identity Evropa members, a notorious white-nationalist group. Aguilar told HuffPost that the Senates alteration means that they may not be taking white nationalism seriously, adding, we cannot turn a blind eye to this growing problem which puts our national security and the safety of the brave men and women serving our country in jeopardy. White nationalism has consistently posed a threat to the military, according to academics and law enforcement officials. In the 1970s, a Department of Defense directive authorized military enlistees to join the Ku Klux Klan.
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Senate Quietly Cut Term 'White Nationalists' From Measure to Screen Military Recruits (Original Post)
mucifer
Dec 2019
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sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)1. Headline should say 'Senate'.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)2. Thanks! I edited and changed it. I had cut and pasted the headline from
the Daily Beast article.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)3. I thought you meant to keep white nationalists out of the Senate.
That would give us a one-party system.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)4. Kick! WTF is going on in the military??
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212804026 US service academies say hand gestures at Army-Navy game were a game and not racist
Coincidence??
Coincidence??