“Too Young to be a Hippy, Too Old to be a Punk. (Discussion with Mike Kelley),” Be Magazin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, vol. 1, no. 1, 1994, p. 119–123 (English), p. 124–129 (German).
Norman Cohn, quoted in Daniel Levitas, “Sleeping with the Enemy: A.D.L. and the Christian Right,” The Nation, June 19, 1995: 888.
“Green Berets” is another name for the U.S. Army’s elite Special Forces unit, trained in guerilla warfare and hi-tech weaponry. Bo Gritz is the flamboyant veteran on whom the Rambo movies are said to be based. Gritz became disenchanted with the U.S. government when he discovered high-level American officials were purchasing opium from a Burmese warlord and that the CIA was trafficking cocaine in Latin America to finance covert operations there. This led him to embrace conspiracy theory. He ran for president as the Populist Party candidate in 1992. Alan W. Block, “The Standoff,” Ambush at Ruby Ridge(New York: Berkley Books, 1995), 85-86.
George Katsiaficas, “Social Movements of 1968,” The Imagination of the New Left: a Global Analysis of 1968 (Boston: South End Press, 1987), 36-3.
Morris Dees, “The Last Best Hope,” in Dees with James Corcoran, Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996), 228-29.
Already recognized by the student left at Brandeis University in the 1950s, Herbert Marcuse theorized the eros effect as the potential for a collective human consciousness to arise spontaneously and transcend the short-term values of modern society. In place of categorical divisions and competitive modes of chronic self-interest, this effect would seek to construct social relations based first in concerns for universal prosperity and well-being. See Herbert Marcuse,Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).
For one history of the Christian Identity movement see Michael Barkun, Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
See Catherine McNicol Stock, “The Politics of Producerism,” Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 15-86.
“Populist Party Platform,” Extremism in America, Lyman Tower Sargent, ed. (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 20.
“Populist Party Platform,” 20. Section One of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment stated: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” The ERA was introduced in 1923 but not passed by the Senate until 1972. After twenty-two states quickly ratified it, Phyllis Schlafly’s organizations, the Eagle Forum and STOP ERA, rallied opposition against it. The ERA failed to reach the necessary thirty-eight state minimum for ratification.
Sargent, “Introduction,” 11.
Reed Benson and Robert Lee, “Your Family: the Fight for America Begins at Home,” Extremism in America, 213-3.
Medford Evans, “Childcare: the Great Federal Kidnap Conspiracy,” Extremism in America, 204.
Richard Abanes, “Holy Wars,” America’s Militias: Rebellion, Racism, Religion (Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1996), 214-215.
Tom Metzger quoted in Abanes, “Holy Wars,” 217.
Gary Allen, “New Education: the Radicals are After Your Children,” Extremism in America, 225.
Bennett, “Reshaping of the New Right, Rise of the Militia Movement,” 452-453
Ibid, 443-44.
Richard Abanes, “Sovereign Citizens Rebellion,” American Militias: Rebellion, Racism, Religion (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 36. See Abanes, 30-32 for a discussion of Fourteenth Amendment citizens.
Ironically, the Grange Movement advocated printing more paper money as part of a cheap money policy which would enable farmers to more easily pay off their debts
Sargent, “Introduction,” 4.
Abanes, “Guns, Government, and Glory,” 70.
Posse Comitatus, “It is the Duty of Government to Prevent Injustice—Not to Promote It,” Extremism in America, 346.
Ibid, 348.
Quoted by Dees and Corcoran, “Militia Warriors,” in Gathering Storm, 87.
Dees, “The Last Best Hope,” in Gathering Storm, 220-21.
Abanes, “Guns, Government and Glory,”
The bill was named after Reagan’s former press secretary, James Brady, whom Hinkley shot and left partially paralyzed. Brady then became a strong advocate of gun control. The Brady Law bans sales of several types of assault weapons and requires background checks before guns can be purchased.
Alan W. Bock, “A Government Out of Control?” Ambush at Ruby Ridge (New York: Berkley Books, 1995), 275.
To be continued in Politics of Hate in the USA, Part II.