neonascent

A few days ago I blogged a sculpture I had installed for a recent exhibition. The sculpture featured Nazi imagery (red-white banner with black icon) to point out the fascist tendencies of US government “warring against terror”, etc.

I had worried that the use of such imagery was pushing it towards the clichéd and would be considered hyperbolic - although to my mind the comparison is valuable in a media environment where perspective and historical context is as far removed as composed intellectually analysis.

Now, in an interesting twist the New York Times is reporting that neo-Nazis have infiltrated the US Military in Iraq. It seems that in the face of rising ire over the war in Iraq it is getting harder for military recruiters to fill their quotas, and they are no longer maintaining a block on racist and extremist recruits. Neo-Nazis already have an agenda to get into the military, and so are only too happy to be allowed in.

An article in the National Alliance magazine Resistance urged skinheads to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.

“Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war,” he wrote. “It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.’ “

• Link to New York Times article