not give them the benefit of the doubt. arno, i want to bring you into this conversation. how did you become a skinhead and how did you get out of that culture of hate? i got into it because i was a violent drunken teenager. i was already very enamored with fighting and with i felt like i hated society. white power skinhead music gave me a context for that and gave me a justification. once i banded together with other disgruntled white kids, we kind of radiated hostility into the world. the world reflected it back to us, which validated all of our paranoid ideology. and actually the reason why our skinhead gang grew so fast was because we could rely on brawls against anti-racists and anti-fascists. their violent opposition to us was a huge part of our recruitment. it was a part of our ongoing
authorities say white supreme assists and ethic gang sim papa nicers were already there. no organized effort but does find 22 soldiers with links to racist skinhead groups. i was the leader of a white power skinhead organization as well as the lead singer in a white power band. with aid mongers like mikvah and page, hassan, with mosques burning and domestic terror even including this week s foiled attack on the family research council hate crimes will be as much a part of our nation s future as of our past. too many sikhs have been targeted and victimized simply because of who they are and how they look and what they believe. that is wrong. it is unacceptable. and it will not be tolerated. since the 9/11 attacks a number of self-described hate organizations has increased 69%
carolina which, of course, has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at ft. bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. what have you found about his time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on ft. bragg. ft. bragg produced a lot of heroes. thousands and thousands of heroes. but back in 1995, it had a mark on that fort because there was a murder of a black couple outside the base, anderson. three soldiers identified as neo nazi skin heads were caught and convicted of that crime. they basically just picked their victims for one reason. they wanted to kill blacks. the army came under fire because it was very obvious that these soldiers were neo nazis. one of them even had what was described as a nazi shrine where he was living. that lead to a crack down by the army trying to weed out racists in the ranks. about two doz b soldiers were kicked