Security Threat Groups And the Military

Security Threat GroupsSecurity Threat Groups And the MilitaryAnd the Military

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or the U.S. Government.or the U.S. Government.

DISCLAIMER

What is a Security Threat Group (STG)?

A formal or informal ongoing group, gang, organization or association consisting of two or more members who have a

common name or common identifying sign, color(s), or symbol(s). A group whose members/associates engage in a

pattern of gang-type activity or violation of laws/regulations.

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Are there currently active groups of individuals forming street type gangs and extremist groups on Military Installations? From research gathered from the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force, there is no evidence that groups of servicemen or women are forming what would be considered “Street Gangs” or “Hate Groups” solely based on military installations.

Security Threat Groups Security Threat Groups In The Military?In The Military?

There is ample evidence that members of the Armed Forces have had previous, or have current and active contact with criminal street gangs or extremist groups. There are members of these groups currently on active duty with the military.

Security Threat Group MembersSecurity Threat Group Membersin the Military?in the Military?

AR 600-20, para. 4-12, A, dated 20 December 1996: Participation: Military personnel must reject participation in extremist organizations and activities. Extremist organizations and activities are ones that:1) advocate racial, gender, ethnic hatred or intolerance 2) advocate, create, or engage in illegal discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin3) advocate the use of, or use force, violence or unlawful means to deprive individuals their rights under the United States Constitution, the Laws of the United States, or the laws of any one state.

What Has the Army Provided Commanders What Has the Army Provided Commanders for Use to Combat These Groups?for Use to Combat These Groups?

The service members in almost every case have had prior membership in these groups and merely re-associate themselves with local groups through contact at night clubs, malls or public events.

Gang members can spot other gang members with little trouble as this is a survival technique they have learned since they were first initiated into gangs.

Soldiers involved with extremist groups usually get recruited while in the service or had some contact before entering the military.

How do service members get involvedHow do service members get involvedin these groups?in these groups?

Prior affiliation is not a safety issue within the military for two main reasons.1. Military installations and surrounding areas are initially considered neutral turf, andtherefore association with those consideredrivals is not an issue.2. The service member does not usually have other members of his group with him and does not have to live up to their expectations.

Is Prior Security Threat Group Is Prior Security Threat Group Affiliation a Safety Issue?Affiliation a Safety Issue?

Military Law Enforcement utilizes several different methods to identify potential gang/extremist members within the ranks:• Extensive use of “Health & Welfare” Inspections by Commanders who find gang/extremist paraphernalia.• Direct contact with Local Law Enforcement Agencies who identify gang members through direct contact.• Mandatory Tattoo checks conducted by Commanders and in-processing personnel upon arrival at the installation.• Direct contact with Military Police through routine traffic stops or routine case work.• Information provided by Confidential Sources.

How Are Security Threat Group How Are Security Threat Group Members Identified?Members Identified?

Gangs - what are they made of?Gangs - what are they made of?Gang Names

Many gangs adopt names that have significance when related to their neighborhoods (streets, parks, hills, valleys or housing projects).

Nick Names

Many gang members adopt nicknames when recruited into the group, if they do not already have one. The gang tends to select a name that fits the individual's physical or psychological characteristics.

Leadership

Gang members do not fit the movie image in which they are portrayed fulfilling specific roles in the gang such as president or enforcer amd wearing jackets similar to those worn by many car clubs having rigid structures. Rather, leadership roles in street gangs are usually not formally recognized positions. They are assumed by a member who demonstrates or asserts dominant control at a particular time. His leadership may continue for the particular incident or a limited time thereafter. With smaller gangs, however, it is more likely that a single individual will become a recognized leader.

Gang Activity: What Do Gangs Do?

It is not practical to examine everything a gang does. In fact, many gang activities are frequently shared by a large portion of society. But when a gang is involved in a weekend party, or attends a public event such as visiting an amusement park, the potential for violence and criminal activity is far greater than for any other group of people. Gang members seek confrontation with rivals. The resulting violence often claims innocent victims. While gang violence often makes headlines, it creates even more damage on a regular basis to local property and business. Vandalism, in the form of graffiti and the wanton destruction of public and private property, is often done in furtherance of the gang's reputation. Abandoned houses are favorite targets for vandalism but even occupied homes do not escape. Local businesses suffer not only from the property damage and graffiti, but also from loss of customers and employees. Businesses facing decreasing revenue and rising insurance costs close their doors leaving another abandoned building for the gang. However, the majority of residents in a gang area who are unable to move away, live in fear.

What do gangs do?What do gangs do?

Clothing

Cars

Music

Society and GangsSociety and Gangs

"Vatos Locos" 1963 Chevy Impala

Major GangsMajor Gangs

Graffiti

Graffiti, a form of vandalism, is a problem that impacts our neighborhoods in a variety of ways. Without question, it decreases property values in residential neighborhoods and negatively affects industrial and commercial areas. Of greater concern is the inherent violence associated with gang graffiti. Gang members use graffiti to mark their gang's "turf" or territory. They also use it to advertise the gang's status or power and to declare their own allegiance to the gang. When a neighborhood is marked with graffiti indicating territorial dominance, the entire area and its inhabitants become targets for violence. Anyone on the street or in his home is fair game for drive-by attacks by rival gang members. A rival gang identifies everyone in the neighborhood as a potential threat. Consequently, innocent residents are often subjected to gang violence by the mere presence of graffiti in their neighborhood.

What is Graffiti?What is Graffiti?

M1 CRIPS

Local Area Gang GraffitiLocal Area Gang Graffiti



Warning by local CRIPs to a rival Latin Kings gang member


WEST SIDE EAST SIDE




Gang Graffiti and IndicatorsGang Graffiti and Indicators

Security Threat Group BriefingSecurity Threat Group Briefing

Major Hate GroupsMajor Hate Groups

Hammerskins

KKK

PosseComitatus

National Alliance

NEO-NAZI SKIN HEADSNEO-NAZI SKIN HEADS

ZOG = Zionist Occupational Government88 = Heil Hitler18 = Adolph HitlerCSA = Covenant of Sword and Arm of our LordCOTC= Church of the CreatorIDENTITY = White Race is the True Israel of the Bible14 Words = We must secure the existence of our race and a future for white childrenRAHOWA = Racial Holy WarAN = Aryan Nations3 x 11 = 11th letter of the alphabet K - KKKAKIA = A Klansman I AmORION = Our Race is Our Nation4/20/89 = Hitler’s BirthdaySHARP = SkinHeads Against Racial PrejudiceBraces & Laces = Identifiers of Skinheads, Black= Neutral, White= White Supremacy, Red=Neo Nazi

TerminologyTerminology

The Fourteen Word Press

David Lane, Author of theFourteen Words. Currentlyin Federal Prison

Aryan Nations Richard Butler, leader of Aryan Nations


"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." "Those who control the once-White nations deny us White nations, White schools, White organizations and everything necessary for racial survival. We resist this deliberate and malicious genocide. Is that hate? If Whites do not immediately establish an exclusive White nation, then the beauty of the White Aryan woman will soon cease to exist on earth forever. We are taught to dread the extinction of spotted owls, so why is it a hate crime to love and preserve one's race? Is that hate?"

WE BELIEVE that the Cananite Jew is the natural enemy of our Aryan (White) Race. This is attested by scripture and all secular history. The Jew is like a destroying virus that attacks our racial body to destroy our Aryan culture and the purity of our Race. Those of our Race who resist these attacks are called "chosen and faithful." John 8:44; 1Thessalonians 2:15; Revelations 17:14"

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and The Federation of Klans

World Church of the Creator


"If the Klan were in political power laws would be enacted that would prevent American industry and property from being sold to foreigners. America should be owned by Americans - not Japanese, Arabs or Jews.... Until 20 or so years ago, nearly all states had 'sodomy' and miscegenation laws and statutes that were strictly enforced. Since that time they have been repealed or are ignored, the results are obvious with the plague of AIDS now ravaging our land. Both of these abominations against God and nature must be stopped if America is ever to return to the great Christian nation it once was. "

"WE BELIEVE that the White Race, its Biological and Cultural Heritage, is now under attack by our mortal racial enemies: Jews, niggers and the mud races. WE BELIEVE that RAHOWA (RAcial HOly WAr), under the victorios flag of the one and only, true and revolutionary White Racial Religion-Creativity-, is the only road to the resurrection and redemption of the White Race"

White Aryan Resistance


"As our march toward hell proceeds, it will empower us if we heed the advice of Dr. Charles Weber and refer to ourselves as "Aryans". Furthermore, let's quit the side-shuffles and notify the world that we are, indeed, racists. We have been labeled as such by our racial enemies and it's about time we acknowledged the fact. If by some quirk of genetic malfunction, you feel you are a genuine poon-tang loving race-mixer, then stay away from Holocaust discussions, free speech band-wagons, National Socialism tea parties, and all other blight-wing parades for you will eventually be labeled a "racist" no matter how many kowtows you perform or where you choose to stuff your silly little nose. Most blacks are racist. Most jews are racist. Most chinks are racist. Most mestizos are racist. Most vietnamese are racist. Russian jews are racist. Japs are racist. Our apartheid injuns are racist. They all share a common view: They do not want Aryans to be racist. Racism lends strength to a people and the last thing non-Aryans want is to be in the middle of Aryan strength. If White America were as racist as its enemies claim, then it wouldn't be in such a fine mess. No parasite wants its host to reach for that can of Raid. "

Source - SPLC

Active Hate Groups Active Hate Groups in the United Statesin the United States

Racist Skinheads Bootgirl88 "The most precious possession on earth is our own people, and for these people, and with these people, we will struggle and we will fight, and never slacken, and never tire, and never falter, and never doubt! Long live our movement! Long live our people!" --Adolf Hitler

Neo-Nazis National Socialist White Peoples Party "These three goals; Political, Spiritual and Educational, form the phalanx of the Party's organizational activities. To these goals we as National Socialists, as defenders of the blood of our Folk, commit our total being. Once the neo-Marxist democratic dogma of political correctness' is replaced with political truthfulness and our people united once again as a true Folk, then and only then, will we return this country to the structure of the Authoritarian Republic it was meant to be and as the Founding Fathers so intended."

MusicMusic

AggravatedAssault

Aryan Battlefront Blood OathCode of Violence

No Remorse SS Bootboys Svastika Vinland Warriors

Whitelaw

Displayed MaterialDisplayed Material

Aryan Nations Shield and Ku Klux Klan card

THE MILITIA and PATRIOT THE MILITIA and PATRIOT MOVEMENTSMOVEMENTS

Identifying Factors - MilitiaIdentifying Factors - Militia

Identifying Factors - MilitiaIdentifying Factors - Militia

Source - SPLC

Militia Movements By StateMilitia Movements By State

Source - SPLC

Current Active Militias In KentuckyCurrent Active Militias In Kentucky

Defenders of Liberty, Boone County Kentucky Riflemen Militia, BrooksCouncil of Conservative Citizens, Casey CreekWest Kentucky Committee of Safety, HendersonTroublesome Creek Liberation Army, HindmanVoice of Liberty, LibertyU.S. Taxpayers Party, Louisville

Source - SPLC

Current Active Militias In Current Active Militias In TennesseeTennessee

American Patriot Federation, Chattanooga Council of Conservative Citizens, East Tennessee1st Mississippi Light Artillery, HixsonJackson Militia, JacksonAmericans for Constitutional Integrity, Johnson CityFreeman Liberty Foundation, KnoxvilleSons of Liberty, KnoxvilleTennessee Volunteer State Militia, KnoxvilleCommittees of Correspondence, Lenoir CityCouncil of Conservative Citizens, MemphisMid South Patriots, MemphisU.S. Taxpayers Party, MemphisChristian Civil Liberties Association, MorristownGuardians of American Liberties, MosheimSacred Truth Ministries, Mountain CityCouncil of Conservative Citizens, NashvilleFor Christ and Country Fellowship, NashvilleCommittee of 1776, Inc, PowellTennessee Militia, Signal MountainTennessee Volunteer People's Militia, Signal Mountain

Some Prominent Militia LeadersSome Prominent Militia Leaders

ROBERT BRADLEY, Veteran of the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces, Bradley is author of the paramilitary handbook Citizen Soldier A Manual of Community Based Defense. The 192-page book, sold by the Militia of Montana and the Christian Patriot Association, is a practical and detailed guide to guerrilla warfare.

WILLIAM COOPER, Camp Verdi, Arizona. One of the most popular Patriot short-wave radio personalities, Cooper claims to be a former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member. His book Behold A Pale Horse, a staple among New World Order conspiracy writings, combines UFO theories and ideas from the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion to argue that America is on the brink of becoming a slave nation.

"J.F.A. DAVIDSON," North Carolina. The pseudonym of the editor of The Resister, the influential quarterly newsletter of the Special Forces Underground (SFU), a clandestine Patriot group made up of active-duty and veteran Special Forces personnel.


JACK DEVAULT, San Antonio, Texas. A former Air Force major and early champion of the Branch Davidians at Waco, DeVault charged the government with conspiracy in his book The Waco Whitewash. He sends out regular updates on Waco and other anti-government issues over the American Patriot Fax Network.GEORGE ETTER, Morristown, Tennessee. Founder of the Christian Civil Liberties Association, Etter is a convicted felon and publisher of The Militia News.BO GRITZ, Kamiah, Idaho. A Green Beret Vietnam War veteran and Presidential candidate on the 1988 Populist Party ticket with David Duke, Gritz helped negotiate Randy Weaver's surrender at Ruby Ridge. Gritz heads The Center For Action and conducts weapons and survival training classes called SPIKE (Specially Prepared Individuals for Key Events). Gritz is organizing a survivalist community near Kamiah, Idaho, called Almost Heaven. He publishes the Center For Action newsletter, issues shortwave radio broadcasts and is a frequent speaker at Patriot events.


TED GUNDERSON, Santa Monica, California. A former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, Gunderson accuses federal officials of a cover-up in the Oklahoma City bombing and suggests that the actual perpetrators came from within the government itself. His reports appear regularly in the pages of Patriot publications.

JACK MOHR, Little Rock, Arkansas. A former Army colonel and John Birch Society speaker, Mohr was an early advocate of militias. In the 1980s, he co-founded the militant Christian Patriots Defense League and launched an Identity ministry for prisoners. Until failing health overtook him, Mohr published the white supremacist newsletter, Crusade for Christ and Country. His publication and ministry are now incorporated within James Bruggeman's Stone Kingdom Ministries.

ROBERT PUMMER, Mayfield, Kentucky. Founder of the Florida State Militia and convicted murderer, Pummer obtained the rights to William Potter Gale's guerrilla warfare manual The Road Back, which he sells through the Militia of Montana's mail order catalog. Pummer moved to Kentucky in 1994 where he has been active in the common law movement.

Examples Of Crimes Committed Examples Of Crimes Committed By Patriot OrganizationsBy Patriot Organizations

GeorgiaOn April 26, 1996, Robert Edward Starr III, 34, and William James

McCranie Jr., 30, leaders of the Militia-at-Large for the Republic of Georgia, were charged with conspiracy to possess explosive devices after allegedly planning to construct homemade shrapnel bombs for distribution among militia members. The two were convicted of conspiring to use a destructive weapon in a violent crime and possessing illicit explosives in November 1996. Starr was sentenced to eight years and one month, and McCranie received a six-and-a- half-year sentence.

On June 4, 1996, Troy Allen Kyser, 28, an alleged leader in the Militia-at-Large for the Republic of Georgia's "special operations team," attended a detention hearing after turning himself in to authorities on charges of conspiring to possess bombs and having an unregistered destructive device. Kyser, a former Army Ranger, and his five-member team had allegedly been trained to assassinate politicians and steal money from drug dealers to fund their activities. Kyser was convicted of conspiring to use a destructive weapon in a violent crime and possessing illicit explosives in November 1996. Kyser was sentenced to six-and-a-half-years.

Examples Of Crimes Committed Examples Of Crimes Committed By Patriot OrganizationsBy Patriot Organizations

New HampshireOn Oct. 30, 1996, Fitzhugh MacCrae, 51, was charged with stealing government property and making false statements to the FBI after an investigation linked him to stolen equipment from an Army warehouse at Fort Devens in September 1995. MacCrae is a member of the Hillsborough County Dragoons, a New Hampshire citizens' militia. MacCrae pleaded guilty on March 3, 1997. His sentencing was scheduled for May 14, 1997.

West VirginiaOn Oct. 11, 1996, seven members of the Mountaineer Militia were arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up the FBI's national fingerprint record center and two other federal buildings. The charges against Ray Looker, 56, James Rogers, 40, Edward F. Moore, 52, Jack Arland Phillips, 57, James M. Johnson, 48, Terrell P. Coon, 46, and Imam A. Lewis, 26, included conspiring to make bombs, transporting explosives across state lines and conspiring to place explosives near the FBI complex.

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