Sunday, August 20, 2017

The murdering Nazi James Alex Fields, Jr


In school, there were always a few kids who had a not-entirely-grudging admiration for the Nazi military in World War Two. The Brits had more attractive and perhaps better aircraft, but Messerschmitts looked so manly.

In the '70's, there was a report on a TV news magazine. A neo-Nazi explained that he first got into Nazism because he was into military stuff and the Nazis seemed so good at it. He was in the Army himself and got married in an Army uniform with a Nazi armband added (can't they be court martialed for that?)

And now we have this Nazi, James Alex Fields, Jr, who is charged with murder after he drove his car through a crowd of counter demonstrators. His high school teacher said he had written a long paper on the Nazi military. The teacher tried unsuccessfully to steer him away from Nazism. 

Fields joined the Army himself but got kicked out after four months for unknown reasons and he was once accused of beating his disabled mother and threatening her with a knife. He was on medication at the time to control his temper tantrums. In another incident, she told him to take a break from a videogame so he "smacked her in the head" and locked her in the bathroom.

In 2015, Fields went on a school trip to Europe. Fields hated the French and only wanted to visit "the Fatherland", Germany. 

A classmate, Keegan McGrath, told reporters, "He just really laid on about the French being lower than us and inferior to us." He argued with Fields. It became so heated that he went home after a few days because he couldn't stand being in a room with him.

Why did that Nazi bastard get to go to Europe? They never did that at my school.

Fields had taken high school German for two years. He made a Holocaust joke in class.

Well, let's all hope that his life is over and that he'll never see the light of day again.

He was from Kentucky. Defense attorneys have noted that people from out of state are often treated more harshly by courts. Let's hope they're right in this case.

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