Temple gunman's extremism grew in military [View all]
Source: wral.com
Fayetteville, N.C. — Wade Michael Page's white-supremacist leanings coalesced during his six years in the Army, including time at Fort Bragg, according to a researcher who knew the man who killed six people when he opened fire inside a religious temple over the weekend.
Pete Simi, a professor of criminology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said Thursday that he spent nearly three years studying a group of neo-Nazi skinheads in southern California a decade ago and came to know Page very well.
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Page told Simi that said he had some interaction with skinheads as a youth in Colorado, but he never identified himself with the movement until he was in the military. There, he met like-minded soldiers and began reading supremacist literature.
White serving in a psychological operations unit at Fort Bragg, Simi said, Page got to know Pvt. James Burmeister, who was convicted of targeting a black couple on a Fayetteville street and killing them in December 1995.
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Many of us speculated that Page's time in the Army - particularly his experience in Psy-Ops - was relevant. It looks like we were right. The article goes on to state that the Army recognized that they had a problem with white supremacists at Ft. Bragg and kicked a bunch of them out, but not before some friends of Page's committed a racially-motivated murder.
This is really sad. The question for us all is - is it still going on? Are there still cells of white supremacists in our armed forces? If so, what can we do about it?
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