The white supremacists and Aryan nations have been in the news lately. Years ago they were the only ‘terrorists’ that I was aware of.
I was fascinated by them and even wrote a Political Thriller- Mind Blindness about them and their conservative religious connections to the White House.
I actually agree with some of their rhetoric, most of which has to do with the government controlling almost everything we can or cannot do. My agreement stops at their hatred of Jews and minorities.
What I haven’t been able to find is how they think of George Bush, but I am searching.
Since Bush came into power many extreme fringe groups have come out of the woodwork. Does the Left have any fringe groups of note?
NEW YORK, April 18, 2005 — A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News, identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations.
The Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups, are cited in the report for hate crimes, fire bombings, threats via mail, as well as robberies and murders. The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 FBI investigations alone, according to the report.
In fact there are “ticking time bombs,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, “who have the capacity, skill and hatred to carry out acts worse that what Timothy McVeigh carried out 10 years ago.”
Levin, and other terrorism experts, say that the Internet has become the principal recruitment tool, attracting the loners and the disturbed who boast of finding viable U.S. targets.
“We are likely to see more terrorist attacks by lone wolves, or small cells,” Levin said, “They’re in their bedroom accessing bomb-making information on the Net, and accessing hateful rhetoric which empowers them.”
James P. Wickstrom, who calls himself the world chaplain of the Aryan Nation, uses “Death to the Jew” as a mantra of sorts. He also regularly calls for the deaths of government leaders, including the president.
“There is none of them in this Cabinet that damnably deserves to breathe the air in this country today,” Wickstrom said in a speech given at the Aryan Nations World Congress in Pennsylvania July 2002.
Federal officials say his calls to action are not unlike those of leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Wickstrom has declared himself an enemy of the United States government.
“I tell you we do not need this Congress and legislative body,” he said in the same speech. “We don’t need these vile bastards telling us what to do on our property and with our water and with our children. We don’t need to tell them we have to wear a seat belt. We don’t need have to be told anything.”
I am wondering if these American fringe groups are the last of the original pioneer freedom-lover patriots? They are willing to fight for what they believe in. Although I despise their bigotry and hateful acts that have harmed many innocent people (Like Bush hasn’t?), they are fighting for freedom and liberty from the government’s shackles.
The blurry line is my concern. How extreme must one become to get our democracy back? I don’t believe that killing anyone is the answer, but the government sends people to kill for freedom of democracy (Iraq), so what is the difference? The supremacists rob banks to fund their activities-Bush just steals from the American tax payers, so what’s the difference?
