Extremism in America Right Wing Extremists: Beliefs and Tactics
Extremism
Extremists • Undereducated – High school or less • Unsophisticated – Need scapegoats • Local Perspective – Narrow world view • Lone Warriors
Warrior Dreams • Culture of guns, violence, and victory. • Lone warrior against the status quo. • Justified by the doctrine of necessity. • (James William Gibson, 1994)
Ideology • • • Anti-Tax Xenophobia Identity Church Movement Conspiracy Paranoia Patriotism
Anti-tax • Citizenship is a right that is surrendered with application for a social security card. • Only legitimate government is county government. • Federal and state taxes are illegal. • Federal and state courts are illegal.
Xenophobia • Fear of those who are different. • This fear is often converted to hate. • Primary targets of fear/hate are: – Jews – Blacks – Other non-whites – Catholics (occasionally)
Identity Church Movement • Racial Identity – – Enosh - nonwhites Man - Children of Adam and Eve (whites) Jews - Offspring of Satan Mongrels - Mixed races • Based on misinterpretation of Book of Revelation
Identity Church Movement • National Identity – Variation of British Israelism – Lost Tribes of Israel – Rebirth of lost tribes as Western civilization – Tribe of Ephraim - England – Tribe of Mannasseh - United States – United States is Holy Land
Conspiracy Paranoia • Everyone but them involved in conspiracy. • Favorite conspiracy myths – New World Order – Bildebergers – Trilateral Commission – Council on Foreign Relations – Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion – Freemasons
Patriotism • Extreme nationalism • America for Americans – Americans are white Anglo-Saxon protestants • The enemy is anyone who disagrees.
Tactics • • Organizations Propaganda Common Law Courts Youth Movement
Organizations • Survivalist – Militias • Race-based – Ku Klux Klan • Neo Nazis – Aryan Nations
Propaganda • • • Newsletters Web sites Demonstrations Political campaigns Leaflets Street corner preaching
Common Law Courts • The Common Law Court movement is primarily an anti-tax movement. • The founding father was William Potter Gale, an early minister and chief spokesman for theology known as Christian Identity. • In the 1970 s Gale, who also founded the violent tax protest group, Posse Comitatus.
Posse Comitatus • Proposed that the only legitimate government under old English common law is the county. • Likewise, the county sheriff is the only recognized legitimate police official.
Posse Comitatus • Gale’s ideology includes the belief that the United States Government is really a private corporation rather than a legitimate government. • Such ideas come from a manipulation of various sources including the Magna Carta, English Common Law, U. S. Constitution, the Bible, Black’s Law Dictionary, and the 1828 version of Webster’s Dictionary
Common Law Courts • With this philosophy, Common Law Court adherents argue that the American judicial system has failed and that the U. S. Constitution has been subverted. • They claim the right to retry cases from these illegal courts in their own courts where they would receive a more sympathetic hearing.
Common Law Courts • Primary tactics are: – Filing bogus liens – Filing bogus involuntary bankruptcy notifications • Such legal documents are submitted by the Common Law Court to a county court clerk.
Common Law Courts • Unaware or untrained clerks accept these as real. • The victim spends years and large sums of money clearing these notices from their credit histories and/or mortgage records.
Common Law Courts • The targets are typically government officials. • In Texas, $1. 7 billion dollars in false liens have been filed against the Attorney General and various state judges.
Youth Movement • Skinheads – Disenchanted youth – More violent – Susceptible to manipulation
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