Behind The Militia Ideology

Posted by | January 4, 2016 17:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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It’s not pretty.

As Daniel Levitas explains in “The Terrorist Next Door,” his 2002 book on the history of the militia movement, the ideology of today’s antigovernment extremists is built on the ideas first formulated by William Potter Gale, a racist and anti-Semitic California preacher who argued in the 1960s and 1970s that local “posses,” under the leadership of a county sheriff, hold the true law enforcement power in the country and must resist an oppressive federal government. But Gale’s ideas really took off when they were plagiarized and distributed by Mike Beach, a former member of the fascist “Silver Shirts” movement living in Oregon.

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12 responses to Behind The Militia Ideology

  1. FatRat January 4th, 2016 at 17:07

    The Sheriff is the highest law of the land? lol The Sheriff is going to be corrupt or he will be appointed by a coven of corrupt businessmen. Have we learned nothing from The Dukes of Hazzard?

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3TSLMCmxsnE/hqdefault.jpg

  2. William January 4th, 2016 at 17:10

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  3. anothertoothpick January 4th, 2016 at 17:33

    Anyone that reads US history knows about the impact of Shay’s Rebellion.

  4. mistlesuede January 4th, 2016 at 17:44

    “Silver shirts” or “brown shirts?”

    • Richard Banville January 4th, 2016 at 19:09

      “Brown shirts” were already taken and discredited, so they thought they were being clever by changing the color.

      This is what passes for cunning genius in neo-Nazi circles.

      • mistlesuede January 4th, 2016 at 19:13

        Yes. :)

      • bpollen January 5th, 2016 at 06:14

        Brown Shirts – been done.
        Black Shirts – been done
        Silver Shirts – been done

        Next up – pastels!

    • Darksnark January 4th, 2016 at 23:13

      Officially, the Silver Legion: http://oddculture.com/silver-shirts-murphy-ranch-and-william-dudley-pelley/

      A group of goose-stepping American Fascists who threw their sympathies to Hitler and the Third Reich….

      • mistlesuede January 4th, 2016 at 23:31

        Thank you for the link. Guess I was onto something after all?

  5. Darksnark January 4th, 2016 at 23:07

    In other words, these “militia” dingbats are nothing more than offshoots of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party started by George Lincoln Rockwell, and the most paranoid, racist fringe of the John Birch Society.

    Traitors then, and traitors now….

    • rg9rts January 5th, 2016 at 04:33

      The JBS is legitimate now…its the teabaggers

      • Buford2k11 January 5th, 2016 at 08:49

        yes…they call themselves the “Freedom Caucus”….in our very own congress….they are the group that was financed by the Kochtopus in various States…JBS is alive and well, and living in congress…

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