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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018)

de Kathleen Belew

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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war which, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and bearing future recruits. Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.--… (més)
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When American paranoia spilled out into the open on January 7, 2021, I thought it a good time to re-educate myself about the players on the field.

To an outsider, the attack on the US Capitol looked like a cross between the storming of the Bastille and the burning of the Reichstag with some crazy costumes. It was tragic that four Capitol policemen lost their lives defending the seat of American democracy, and it could have been much worse had the legislators not gotten out of the building ahead of the mob.

What is equally crazy is the stonewalling by the Republican Party over efforts to get the bottom of such pressing questions as:

1) Why was there insufficient policing of the Capitol even though the FBI and the Capitol police knew something was underfoot?

2) Who were the organizers and what were their ultimate objectives?

3) Was Donald Trump actively engaged in an attempted coup-d’état?

4) Is another event brewing and if so how can it be stopped?

This brought me to Kathleen Belew’s excellent sociological study “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.”

As Belew sees it there are distinct contributors to domestic terrorism in America:

- there are the garden variety racists, amply represented by the Klu Klux Klan and their derivatives,

- there are the more generalized racists, alt-right, skinheads and easily identifiable neo-Nazis, anti-semites, and groups like the Proud Boys

- there is the stream of anti-communists stretching back to the Red Scare originating at the turn of the 20th century reaching its summit in the McCarthy Hearings of the 1950’s. Belew tracks a new variant of this epidemic in soldiers returning from Vietnam, and crazies who want us to believe they defended America even though they never did.

- there are groups of unmoored religious cults who variously believe in the Second Coming of Christ and where the men hate Arabs but conveniently believe in the Arab custom of polygamy.

- there are the contemporary and un-sanctioned militia groups who believe the right to bear arms means carrying around semi-automatic rifles to the neighbourhood grocery store. America is unique in having about 300 million licensed firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens.

- there are the anti-taxers, anti-abortionists, anti-unionists, anti-vaxers, and anti-maskers.

You could easily confuse these groups but they represent unique challenges to law enforcement.

In the 1990’s law enforcement took far too extreme measures to disarm a white separatist family in the hills of Idaho. Google Ruby Ridge and you’ll see what I mean. Then there was David Koresh and the Waco Texas standoff.

The ultimate expression of the paranoia was undoubtedly Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of a government building in Oklahoma. McVeigh conspired with militarists, white power, and anti-taxers.

McVeigh did not act alone. There were plenty of weapons and bomb-making expertise in the hands of white power groups. A lot of weapons had been stolen from US military bases. They were used to terrorize minorities, commit murder, and rob banks.

I was less familiar with the Greensboro massacre in 1979 where white power factions attacked and killed members of the Communist Workers Party who had organized a “Death to the Klan” march. The white-power attackers were exonerated by an all-white jury.

We can all see how the current partisan political environment played into the events on Capitol Hill. Donald Trump tried everything to reverse the results of the election with the help of Republican legislators, FOX News, and Vladimir Putin’s troll farm.

The question remains what are the sources of these extremist views? Many are not solely American-made behaviours. Colour-based prejudice, anti-semitism, nativism, and separatism go way back before the founding of the American Republic.

Of course, America was founded to some degree by religious separatists, anti-taxers, and grew up on a dangerous frontier. The historical frontier is long gone, but the frontier as a paranoid fantasy lives on.

And there is plenty of venom and envy to go around. ( )
  MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |
A readable, detailed chronology of the rise of the White supremacy movement in post-Vietnam war America. Thus is a detailed account, but quite engaging. ( )
  Osbaldistone | Jan 7, 2023 |
With the mid-term political elections on the forefront and the horrific memory of the January 6 insurrection at the Nation’s capital the detailed account of the White Power is particularly helpful. The author spent ten years compiling her extensive documentation. Like deadly a deadly fungus in the forest America was suddenly confronted by an organized and armed citizenry under the cloak of “Save America”. The presence of the Alt-right was not unknown but operated under the radar of inappropriate surveillance. Its rhetoric struck a chord with disgruntled veterans and others. Many were well trained in the military or recruited from prisons across the United States. Time and again its leaders escaped juridical penalty. It is clear from the author’s extensive journalistic presentation that the danger still exists. It is not easy reading but crucial to be informed in this age of the “Big Lie”. ( )
  mcdenis | Nov 19, 2022 |
Important, deeply researched for the timeframe she chooses to cover. Not a boffo dramatic read, but the people and the story are eye-opening, appalling, and very frightening. The scariest part is just how long these folks have been at this, the technology they have amassed, and the fact that the current iteration - as only the last of many over decades - is emerging as a public force, no longer just hunkered down in the woods of Idaho playing with their guns (and armored vehicles, and grenades, and C-4 plastic explosive, and in one case, enough cyanide to kill more people than have died of Covid in the US), but now marching down our streets with Congresscreatures in their pockets. I found the description of how these groups set up a communication system via "Liberty Net" before the internet was even a thing fascinating - they were decades ahead of Facebook, Parler and Gab. She plays fair by also tracing the intense militarization of the police and how it contributed to the atrocity of Ruby Ridge and the Waco debacle. For those of us waking up to the terrors and new prominence of the white power movement (her chosen term to encompass the Klan, Aryan Nations and other white supremacists, which eventually folded in the modern militias), this is a useful and cautionary work of history and background with an urgent currency. ( )
1 vota JulieStielstra | May 17, 2021 |
I've got about halfway through this during my last archive trip to DC, and haven't finished it yet because I got sidetracked with research, but it's a truly important book about the rise of white nationalism and the dangers of white supremacy. Kathleen is an incredible researcher and I highly recommend reading her work. ( )
  rjcrunden | Feb 2, 2021 |
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The history of the white-power movement can reframe how we think of activists like this [Dylan Roof]. Thinking of people as people with an ideology, even if it’s something we don’t agree with, changes the way that we think about opposition. It discredits the idea of lone wolf operatives or single incidents with mad gunmen and calls on us to try to understand people’s own stated motivation, and to find the connections when they exist between different actions and between different groups.
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war which, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and bearing future recruits. Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.--

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