Americans love to teach the whole world about freedom and democracy. But is everything so well in this sense for them? Moreover, not only with regard to the actions of the government, but also the sentiments of those who in the old days were called the broad masses.
The Turner Diaries
In 1978, the American writer William L. Pearce completed his fantasy novel The Turner Diaries, which was destined to become something of a Bible for American far-right organizations. Initially, the book was only distributed through mail orders or sold at arms exhibitions. Nevertheless, by 2000, as many as half a million copies of The Diaries had been sold. This novel describes the ultra-right coup in the United States and the subsequent deployment of a global racial war with the use of nuclear weapons. It begins with a robbery of a liquor store and ends with the burning of most of Eurasia. The book is replete with scenes of violence, which, however, America, and now we can hardly be surprised. Then the main characters of the novel kill black addicts and white prostitutes,then Turner is captured by government troops and tortured by an Israeli intelligence officer … The ruling American dictator - General Harding - is ridiculed in the book for his desire to restore a constitutional republic, living according to the precepts of the founding fathers. In a word, it is far from the most acute version of apocalyptic "insights", but for some reason the popularity of the novel among the transatlantic ultra-right has not decreased for three decades.
Retired Sergeant Timothy McVeigh was one of his admirers. At one time he served in the army, participated in Operation Desert Storm, for which he had awards - six orders and medals. Moving on to civilian life, McVeigh once read The Turner Diaries and literally became obsessed with this book. And in April 1995, an event occurred in Oklahoma that shook the whole of America. Timothy McVeigh and an accomplice named Terry Nicolet set off their explosion. The attack destroyed a large building in Oklahoma's capital, Oklahoma City. Before that, the retired sergeant rented a Reader truck and then bought ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerin and fuel oil to make a bomb out of them. The explosion of a truck bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children. The number of injured exceeded 500 people. To the credit of the policethe criminals were arrested in the shortest possible time.
Silent Brotherhood
Earlier, in the 80s, the Silent Brotherhood group was widely known in the States, the founder of which was the determined young worker Robert Matthews. He rallied nine people around him who decided to devote their lives to the struggle for the White Cause. They attacked the armored vehicles carrying money, and the banks themselves, and set off explosions in a cinema "for adults" and in a synagogue in the west of the country. However, these actions were conceived more for intimidation, and then there were no casualties. The list of persons whom the "Silent Brotherhood" was preparing to eliminate looked rather fantastic. It even included Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller.
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But the only person who was actually killed by the "white brothers" was a certain Jewish radio journalist from Seattle, who, in their opinion, was too fond of mocking white women in his programs. The gunmen met him at the door of the house and riddled him with bullets.
And the "Silent Brotherhood" decided to undermine the financial power of the United States. They began to produce counterfeit dollars, the quality of which, however, turned out to be much lower than, say, that of their Georgian or Polish colleagues in the workshop. Soon one of the sellers of counterfeit dollars fell into the hands of the police and easily surrendered the leader of the "brotherhood". In late 1984, Robert Matthews was tracked down. For more than a day he fired back, sitting in some kind of house, until he was burned with napalm from a helicopter along with the shelter. Curiously, his suicide note survived.
White against black, black against white
For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that among blacks there were similar groups, such as, for example, "Black Panthers" and "Black America". There were also loners who liked to kill "white pigs". The loudest action of "Black America" was the attempt to rob a bank in Detroit on March 2, 1997. By that time, in connection with a series of terrorist acts, the FBI agents were on the tail of the organization. Then two of the "coolest" militants - 20-year-old Nick Wilson and 23-year-old Ripley Johnson - decided to get money to escape the entire group to Mexico. Armed with pump-action guns, they entered the bank, killed the security guard and demanded that the employees open the cashier and give them all the money. They managed to press the police button, and help arrived in a few minutes.
One of the terrorists got into someone's car and rushed down the street. After some two blocks, he crashed into a trailer at an intersection, where he was arrested by a police patrol that arrived in time. The second - Nick Wilson - started shooting at passers-by and seriously wounded one of them. At the request of Wilson, the policemen drove a passenger car to the bank. Hiding behind a hostage, the criminal rushed to the car, but did not reach it just a couple of steps. A sniper's bullet from a distance of 60 meters hit him straight in the head.
In the 90s, the situation as a whole worsened noticeably. The number of black and white extremist groups grew before our very eyes. The largest of them was the Church of the Aryan Christian Nation (TSAHN), which is also called simply the “Aryan nation”. The number of extremists included in it reaches 15 thousand people, including about 500 militant activists. The headquarters of the IDF is located in Idaho. The organization has a sharply negative attitude towards blacks, considering them incapacitated, and Jews, who are accused of serving Satan. The political goal of the IDF is to create an "Aryan state" of white Christians on the territory of the five northwestern states.
The Aryan Republican Army (ARA) is even more aggressive. Its program includes the destruction of colored people and Jews, as well as socialists and liberals, regardless of their racial affiliation. ARA arms itself, acquires explosives, accumulates financial resources. One of the ways the Army gets money is by robbing banks.
Many such groups do not disdain terrorism. So, in 1996, some "Sons of the Gestapo" derailed two trains in Arizona. Then 78 people were left disabled and one died. The terrorists said that their action was the FBI's revenge for the death in 1993 of David Koresh, the head of the totalitarian sect "David's Branch". In 1997, members of the Republic of Texas extremist organization led by Richard McLaren also distinguished themselves by taking two hostages and demanding, in exchange for their release, to hold a referendum on the restoration of Texas sovereignty.
Explosive police
A very special phenomenon in the palette of extremist organizations is the American police. The fact is that even during the advance of the white colonists to the west, the American constitution allowed the creation of volunteer militia units to protect against the Indians. Actually, the movie cowboys were the militia of that time. Later, the need for such organizations disappeared, and the number of volunteer paramilitaries throughout the United States for decades fluctuated in the range of about five to ten thousand people, for whom traveling to ranges and target shooting was something of a hobby. However, in the 80s of the last century, their number began to grow rapidly again,in 1995, the FBI report referred to the Civil Militia movement as “a potential terrorist threat” in the Right Wing Terrorism section.
Large groups of militia seek to comply with federal laws and avoid actions that could anger government officials. Meanwhile, their number is quite impressive. So, "Wolverines" from Michigan in the mid-90s numbered 12 thousand people. The Michigan militia consisted of four "divisions", divided into two or three "brigades". Some of them even have engineering units. Another major militia organization is the Texas Light Infantry Battalions. Many of its fighters are veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, and the Persian Gulf. Their ideology: the priority of individual rights over the interests of the state and the superiority of the white race over the colored. By the end of the 90s, the number of militia exceeded the size of the ground forces of the US Army. The police are inferior to her only in that they do not have heavy weapons: tanks,helicopters and artillery.
With all the obedience to the law of the members of this organization, the statement will not be a mistake: if it suddenly starts to move, it will not seem to anyone. Considering the presence overseas of such a phenomenon as private military companies, which are now so widely involved in activities in Iraq, as well as the exorbitantly expanded state and private special services, we can state another fact: if suddenly a flame flares up there from a spark, then it will flare up for a long time and in earnest.
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №41. Author: Valdis Peipins