Caveat: As many of The Roper Report’s listeners and readers know, quite a few of The ShieldWall Network’s affiliates – including our Coordinator himself – have significant tattoos, including those of a racial nature. That having been said, this article by a new affiliate relating his experience with another group is instructive on how too many tattoos can be viewed by those we may wish to approach, and could have an impact on recruitment into the network.
by Michael James
When I was first being recruited for the military, there was the ASVAB, weigh ins, meetings with the Recruitment office, and a general inspection of my tattoos. All of it made sense and was designed to protect the US Army first and foremost, my feelings and wants be damned. And all of this came rushing back the other day when I attended a small meeting of outcasts, social pariahs, and street living skin heads – covered in ink. There were Swastikas, 1488’s scrawled against the side of their heads, shamrocks on forearms and calfs, and lots of other symbols and names I didn’t recognize. I was fascinated, but I couldn’t just keep staring like I was Kat Von D or something. But the truth is, I was not intimidated, but felt very, very out of place. My look is one of jeans, t-shirt, baseball cap, some Beechnut chaw, and an empty Coke bottle in which to spit in. I’m hardly on the level of these guys. They wore their love for the Fuhrer, literally on their sleeves.
And that leads me to the discussion I want to have today, I hope there’s lots of feedback and a general agreement on where we go from here. My first thought is we need to blend in. Our enemies must not see us coming. This pack of lone wolves will take no one by surprise, and if anything, put the normies we’re recruiting on the defensive. And getting jobs? And making more women join and feel safe? Forget that! If I was uncomfortable, I can only imagine how a 23 year old millennial getting her associate’s degree from the local junior college is going to react. I think it boils down to where do you look when speaking to these tatted up ‘warriors’? I was always taught to make and keep eye contact when having a conversation but how can I keep my eyes in place and ignore the poorly drawn spider web across your neck and throat? It’s impossible and surreal.
However, there can be no debate that we do need these street toughs for the fights to come. The doctors and lawyers that occasionally donate funds, which is very appreciated, will NEVER truly bleed for us. Their fancy ties will never get dirty. Their manicured hands will never make a fist. That’s the cold hard reality of our situation. We need the money to expand. We need soldiers to keep the ground we’ve won.
Just like that day in the Sergeant’s office where I was watching clips of MOS’s I could choose from, other Texas boys were coming in looking for answers. Some just had the look. Others, you knew right a way would be living mannequins for ISIS’s machine guns to tear apart. I love our race. I love our past. And I’m in this fight, cause for the first time in my life, I’m really worried about our future. But like other organizations, we must defend what we’ve already built. Are we obligated to let every Tom, Dick, and Harry among our ranks just cause they want in? But on the flip side, the sand grains are slipping faster and faster through the hour glass; so do we really have the luxury of being picky? Perhaps the answer is right in front of our face. On the home page of theroperreport.whitenationalists.net is a terrific quote from Adolf Hitler. Not familiar? Shame on you! You really should login to Billy’s website more. Read that, think about the plight Whites truly face and give us some honest feedback. Where should the men who will be in our foxholes, the men who’ll make up the ShieldWall, come from? And do we really care?
Fr. John+
Tattooing is a disgrace, and a mark of paganism. There are ample Christian articles denigrating the disfigurement of the body out there, but let me say, as a Priest- the body is holy, should be kept undefiled, and the ‘cutting of one’s self’ (no matter how you wiggle around that scripture verse) is just some attempt to be ‘edgy’ or ‘manly’ (whatever that means, these days, when Bruce Jenner dresses in drag, and wants to be considered a female), as puerile as that may seem.
Indeed, to me (and millions of other Christians across the centuries) anyone with tattoos on their body, is almost immediately ostracized from the Body of Christ, because they value their [supposed] Lord and Saviour so lightly, that they would mar the ‘imago dei’ so cheaply.
And it just looks gross, especially as you age!
Admin
An edict issued by the Council of Northumberland in 787 makes it clear that the Fathers of Church distinguished between profane tattoos and Christian tattoos. They wrote: “When an individual undergoes the ordeal of tattooing for the sake of God, he is greatly praised. But one who submits himself to be tattooed for superstitious reasons in the manner of the heathens will derive no benefit there from.” The heathen tattooing referred to by the Council was the traditional tattooing of the native Britons, which was still practiced at the time.
I think that not using your real name and refusing to fight God’s enemies in public is more of a disgrace than being tattooed.
Medieval crusaders who reached the Holy Land had crosses tattooed on their arms as souvenirs of their travels, and it is likely the custom that continued throughout the Middle Ages.
One of the oldest souvenir religious tattoos is referenced in a manuscript written in 1612 by William Lithgow on writing about a pilgrimage to the Holy Land:
Early on the morrow there came a fellow to us, one Elias Areacheros, a Christian habitour at Bethlehem, and perveierfor the Friars; who did ingrave on our severall Armes upon Christ’s Sepulchur the name of Jesus, and the Holy Crosse; being our owne option, and desire; here is the Modell thereof. But I deciphered , and subjoined below mine, the four incorporate Crowns of King James, with this Inscription. In the lower circle of the Crowne, Viva Jacobus Rex; returning to the fellow two Piasters for his reward.
travel journals of Christian pilgrims and the practice continued well into the twentieth century. In 1956, a professional tattooist, Jacob Razzouk was using tattoo designs carved on woodblocks that had been handed down from father to son in his family since the seventeenth century. The blocks he used were copied and published in Carswell’s book Coptic Tattoo Designs, printed in a limited edition of 200 copies in 1956. The book contains reproductions of 184 prints together with descriptions of the traditions and symbolism associated with each design. There are only two definite dates in the collection of woodblocks and one is Armenian and dates to 1749 and the other is Resurrection one dating to 1912.
http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo_museum/christian_tattoos.html
Dixie Jim
I don’t have any tats, and at my age, really no sense in getting any now. A few years back I thought about a nice Blue Max on my upper arm, but never went through it.