It is quite clear that those National Action boys were radicalised in the Army, as surely as in any madrassa. This one has been brewing for years.
Just check any Internet forum featuring serving or former Forces types, and see how long it is before anyone dissenting from that kind of view is threatened with violence, or invited to meet in order to sort the matter out, or given a demand for their address, and so on. The hunting fraternity, for example, also routinely threatens to "set the Army on" its critics. But it is every part of this country's large, growing, and highly vocal neo-Nazi subculture that knows, and openly states, that it can call in the boys whenever it likes.
The best that can be said of all of this is that its long overdue exposure will make it absolutely impossible for the military lobby to criticise Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the next General Election. The response will be obvious: "It is nice to be treated to the view of an illegal neo-Nazi terrorist organisation from the little world that has already committed the only murder of a Member of Parliament in the present century."
And that will be before mentioning the ties, via the 1980s Tory Boy subculture, to people currently or recently sitting around the Cabinet table.
Absolutely agree, some of the most vile, bigoted, racist and sexist language can be found on military blogs, forums and Face Book groups.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe these young men (as far as I'm aware they are men) join the forces with these attitudes, if they do, then the military needs to take a long hard look at what it is that attracts these individuals.