Former co-workers say Nathan Wooten is a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi who had a portrait of Adolf Hitler in his living room, tried to recruit others to the cause and named his son after a notorious leader of the German SS.
Missouri governor calls in National Guard to Ferguson. Meanwhile, the plot thickens.
Until last week, Wooten also was a Missouri National Guard sergeant whose full-time state job was serving as part of a state military honor guard that pays last respects at the funerals of Missouri veterans, many of whom fought against Hitler in World War II.
On Friday, as the Post-Dispatch was about to publish a story about the state's lack of action on co-workers' complaints filed against Wooten nearly a year ago, a Missouri National Guard spokeswoman notified the newspaper that Wooten had been fired from his state job.
Maj. Tammy Spicer, spokeswoman for the Guard, said late Friday afternoon that Wooten had been terminated from his state position with the funeral program as a result of an investigation into a variety of complaints. She would not elaborate.
Although he lost his state position, Wooten is still a National Guard member. Spicer said a separate investigation by the Guard is in its final stages.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri National Guard sergeant tied to Nazism is fired
Phillip O'Connor
See also, Moon of Alabama,
Ferguson - Sending In The Bigger Guns
According to Billmon's research the Missouri National Guard has some supremacists/neo-nazi problems. One wonders how diverse such a force is. It has some Military Police battalions all of which have experience with handling "sandniggers" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Daily Kos,
Authorities 'leak' that Michael Brown may have smoked pot
When the Ferguson Police finally revealed which of their officers had killed Brown, they paired it with a surveillance video meant to demonstrate that Brown had robbed a neighborhood store—only to confirm after the fact that no, the two things were indeed unrelated.
On the morning the family releases autopsy results, suddenly someone "familiar" with the investigation pipes up with oh, he may have been a pot smoker.
What does it have to do with why he was killed? Nothing. They just need to come up with reasons why maybe the kid deserved to die.
