SCOTT TAYLOR: Keep Proud Boys out of Canadian military | National-Perspectives | Opinion

In his ultimate media interview as Canada’s chief of the defence employees, Gen. Jonathan Vance brazenly addressed the problem of white supremacists inside the ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Particularly, Vance pointed to a July 2017 incident involving members of a right-wing, anti-immigration group often known as the Proud Boys.

What was a reasonably benign confrontation in Halifax between Indigenous protesters and the Proud Boys rapidly garnered nationwide media protection when it was revealed that these specific 5 Proud Boys had been serving members of the CAF.

At that juncture, most Canadians had been blissfully unaware of this alt-right, violent fringe group. The Proud Boys had been based by Canadian Gavin Mcinnes. They’re a male solely group of selfproclaimed chauvinists who’re devoted to preserving “western values” they usually “refuse to simply accept any guilt for the present state of the fashionable world.”

To turn out to be a Proud Boy requires 4 primary rites of passage for can be recruits: should publicly declare their membership, get a Proud Boy tattoo, obtain a beating from fellow Proud Boys whereas reciting the names of 5 breakfast cereals and, final however not least, chorus from masturbating.

In accordance with founder McInnes, the breakfast-cereal-beating is to make sure that the Proud Boys maintain a cool head throughout a fistfight.

Their trademark uniform is a black polo shirt with yellow trim, however fairly ceaselessly they don physique armour earlier than assaulting leftists and antifa protesters.

It was the media highlight on CAF members belonging to this right-wing group that purportedly brought about Gen. Vance severe concern. “Earlier than that, I used to be fairly assured that our stance on values was robust and wellarticulated,” Vance stated to the Canadian Press. “I didn’t see this as a harmful phenomenon, however one which wanted to be handled. Proud Boys, that received me.”

Sadly, Vance’s alarm didn’t translate into any instant disciplinary motion. Inside only a few weeks, 4 of the 5 Proud Boys had been again at their jobs, whereas the fifth member was already finalizing his voluntary launch from the CAF. There was no punishment meted out to those people, solely counselling.

As a corporation, the Proud Boys brazenly boasted on their social media platforms that these Proud Boy CAF members had been totally reinstated with out sanction by army officers.

“We win, our brothers, the Halifax 5 are returning to lively army responsibility with no fees, let the social justice warriors tears pour. Pleased with our boys!”

Since that incident allegedly opened Gen. Vance’s eyes to the seriousness of the white-supremacists-in-the-ranks downside, throughout North America the Proud Boys have solely grown in numbers and infamy.

Final summer season through the wave of Black Lives Matter protests and riots, the Proud Boys had been on the forefront of the violence, busting leftists heads and pounding on antifa supporters.

In the course of the Sept. 29 U.S. presidential debate, President Donald Trump refused to sentence white supremacy and particularly known as upon the Proud Boys to “stand again and stand by.”

They clearly took his phrases to coronary heart and consequently had been seen on the forefront of the unhinged mob of Trump fanatics that stormed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

A lot of these Proud Boys on the Washington D.C. debacle wore physique armour patches that had been emblazoned with 6MNE. That’s an abbreviation for the phrase “six million, not sufficient” which promotes the sick notion that Hitler’s Holocaust didn’t kill sufficient Jews. Disgusting.

In Canada, NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh has known as for the Proud Boys to be listed as a terrorist group.

No matter label is ultimately bestowed upon them, not one of the Proud Boy members ought to ever put on the uniform of the CAF.

Gen. Vance has simply handed the torch to incoming chief of the defence employees Admiral Artwork Mcdonald. It’s now his job to root out the white supremacists and I recommend he begin with a Forces-wide seek for these telltale Proud Boy tattoos.

One is just too many.