American Swastika

George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated 38 years ago. Rockwell was shot by a sniper in a shopping center parking lot in Arlington, VA. His 15 minutes were for founding the American Nazi Party in 1959. He believed all Jews should be dispossessed and the proceeds used to ship all Blacks back to Africa. His group regularly attended Civil Rights meetings and demonstrations. He donated $20 to an event of Malcolm X and was loudly applauded. Malcolm told Rockwell that would be the loudest applause he would ever receive anywhere.

Rockwell studied at the Hebron Academy in Maine and attended Brown University before enlisting in the Navy and becoming a pilot who flew the Pacific in WWII. In 1967 after his assassination the Pentagon refused burial in the national cemetery at Culpeper because his followers refused to take off their swastika armbands before entering. His assassin was a party member (ex-Marine) who had been expelled from the party shortly before for "Bolshevik leanings."

Rockwell ran for Virginia governor, posing with a corncob pipe, mimicking one of his heroes, Gen. MacArthur. He used the confederate flag, but the stars have been dyed and replaced with Rockwell's name in his run for governor.

His autobiography This Time the World can be read online. He makes a statement in the final chapter : "There are many who think as we do but who haughtily condemn our wild and wooly tactics as "undignified," etc. These know-it-alls cannot understand that being "dignified" or "refined" or "reasonable" has not helped any of the right-wing movements so far to success."

He was later called up again to serve in Korea, where he developed even more hatred for communism/socialism. When he set up the Nazi headquarters in Arlington in 1959 he distributed leaflets on the American Nazi Party and waited for media attention. The NYT editorialized that Rockwell should be heard because of the first amendment. In 1961 he spent time in New Orleans making anti-Jewish noise. (This time period is reminiscent of Lee Harvey Oswald career.) At one point he traveled Europe looking for recruits. He was often arrested for disorderly conduct, rioting, etc. He chose Jewish lawyers to represent him. Always acquitted or paying fines.

There are many who believe as Rockwell. Previous notables who supported Nazi ideology were men of ability: Charles Lindbergh, who accepted the German medal of honor from Hermann Goering because not to accept was "an unnecessary insult" to the Nazi leadership. Henry Ford, Prescott Bush, William Randolph Hearst, John Rockefeller, Allen Dulles; America's industrialists, bankers, media moguls, oil men, spy chiefs. Then as now, powerful people who supported world domination and cultural change, by force. A group of power brokers who were "wooly" tacticians but they knew when to cut and run, when to change their tune. And they learned not to target Jews or retracted if they did. Many later claiming it was only Hitler's economic finesse they admired. Men like today's Arnie of California who admire Hitler's speaking ability, as Arnold clicks his heels and plays Nazi marching songs from his collection.

Rockwell, was not the low life the public has been trained to associate with the modern neo-Nazi movement. Had he used a different rhetoric he could have sat in congress. As a WWII pilot, a patriot, fairly handsome; put him in a George de Paris suit and he could be a politician of the millennium. But Rockwell didn't understand the game, due to his middle class roots and lack of exposure to real power. He didn't grasp who the monied elite are and who directs political movements. His kind of bigot is packaged too blatant for mass consumption.

Today, hired hands like Jerome Corsi are the new mouthpieces for the old order. Corsi, swiftboat veteran writes at Freepers:"..."Ragheads are Boy-Bumpers (sodomizers) as clearly as they are Women Haters...it all goes together...Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed."

Men and women like Corsi are the Rockwells, just more con in their conversation; some better paid and more low-keyed, and more slippery than Corsi. To all of them it's simplified, it's "supremacy" (white) which is why it's so attractive to the lower classes; many who don't sign up, sympathize. Many who have nothing going for them can at least claim white brotherhood.

Men like Rockwell don't die out. Today's public neo-nazis are portrayed as skinheads, losers like Matt Hale, anti-government Timothy McVeigh, militia fanatics, a small isolated bunch of extremists. An attempt was made to connect Timothy McVeigh to the Turner Diaries. Connecting the nuts to other nuts keeps the real nuts safe and quietly in power.

The "neocons" are not neo. They've just updated their doctrine to give the appearance of inclusiveness. Men like Strom Thurmond who said "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches." And Thurmond was rewarded with 50 more years on the job. Men like Lott in 2002 who said, "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." All "these problems." What problems would that be Trent? I've seen the same mindset, especially here in the heartland. Racism is alive and well, and just itching for a government approved comeback. Scratch any rightwing conservative and there's a bigot. If one could pass for white and rub elbows with whites (of all economic classes) one might be shocked at the crude racism voiced openly.

The modern slippery Rockwells are expert pundits who appear regularly telling their fans what to think. Michelle Malkin,who believes internment is good, or in malkinspeak it's "evacuation." Rush Limbaugh, hero to both the dueling banjo confederate flag wavers and their cleaned up brethren in suits with a briefcase here in the Heartland. Michael Savage, burned out former Weiner, Oliver North former felon and current schmuck who describes a bag of enemies, accuses liberals and Hillary Clinton of supporting Saddam Hussein. Ann Coulter, another slurmeister who claimed we won the war in 17 days flat. Clarence Thomas, who feels martyrdom because of his attempts to obliterate the same social programs that helped put him ahead. There are hundreds of other high profile, vociferous fools, both secular and religious, shilling for the rightwing agenda. New Rockwellians, goose stepping, too busy basking in rightwing glory circles to realize they will eventually be a target as they are disposable, being themselves unlovable female dogs, mud people, addicts, closet homosexuals, and in North's case just plain patsy without a clue. But for now they're a convenient conduit for the elite belief systems and right-wing/mainstream agenda, as they speak to the working-class and unemployed masses. Useful idiots?

They're here. The crowd that has always believed they will reign supreme. The same group who imported Nazis to the US in the 1940s and '50s. The group who bought Nazi scientists, spy chiefs, doctors, eugenicists to live, work, and advance their ideology among us, stealth cons with a new strategy, same agenda. We defeated Hitler the man, not the idea. The overseers of the ideology are here to prune and cultivate global world order. They've a new flock of the too lazy and too cowardly who are too willing to follow. Numbed masses, entertained by a gruesome reality as long as it happens to someone else. They're not all blue-eyed blondes. Just as Hitler had Jews initially with him, today's' meisters appear inclusive. They legitimize racism and bigotry with paid non-white shills who support racial profiling, social program bashing, and demonization of anyone who deviates from the "conservative" party line. Non-white conservatives are deemed "noble" by fellow white conservatives. The thought seems to be if a non-white damns other non-whites behavior or ideas, then the condemnation, without question, must be valid.

The directors of the project for a new century believe they can succeed this time, can arrange an international order that is friendly to the goal of American (white) greatness. The same world dominion ideology, disguised as suited up members of mainstream politics, think tanks, religious hawkers, experts. Just keep the American public from viewing too much of the collateral damage or seeing too far ahead on the road they're taking.

There's a tendency to toss around the word "Nazi" by both sides. There's a reluctance to use it by some. The media will convince us it's wrong to even think a Nazi agenda could happen here and only the misguided freaks on either side would use the analogy. More propaganda so no one makes comparison? This time a swastika will not look like a swastika. Like Rockwell's flag, it will be painted over and other letters stitched on. Like Rockwell's confederate flag, folks get the message but don't think beyond the lettering, it's just a flag. Maybe today's swastika is no more than a bumper tattooed with decals announcing where a person stands with the government agenda, just supporting god, country, and the troops. Maybe the new swastika is entirely innocuous, like a cross, a star, or a ribbon. Not scary at all, if you're a refined tactician and let others do the wooly work.