One major New Year’s Resolution I made for 2023 was to read 10 books this year and here’s number one!
Home is a frighteningly well-documented account and update to what I was reading 30 years ago, United They Hate; all about the History of the White Power Movement (WPM) back in the early Twentieth Century. We all know WPM by their usual names: the KKK and the (American) Nazi Party. Today, they also hide behind the banner of Blue Lives Matter and openly dictate policy to the Republicans via the “Freedom Caucus.” I’m not shocked. The Republican Party’s founding took in Nativists from the Know Nothings. Sure, the Democrats were racist and pro-slavery, but 150 years later, which one purged this and which one has embraced it?
Belew begins with Vietnam’s conclusion and how some veterans get caught up in the lie about how they weren’t allowed to “win” the war. All their efforts were undermined by ZOG, Liberals/Lefties, Gays, Blacks, Communists, Feminists, the ACLU, etc. Nevermind that their kind of “winning” would have involved a thousand My Lai massacres or how the US was just the latest invader the Vietnamese were skilled at driving out; see China, Japan and France. Given how much the old guard WPM was aging out, these well-trained veterans were what the WPM needed to keep going. The Feds receive way too much credit for putting the hurt on them in the Sixties since they failed to eradicate the problem. Why? Many law-enforcement types are secretly WPM members, allies or sympathetic.
What changed to warrant this book? I would say, their establishment of training camps operating in the open with the monikers of “survivalist schools” or facilities. I remember all the stories on TV. I even had a classmate in grade school whose mom bought him Solider of Fortune magazine; a WPM publication. Their rhetoric remained the same with some additions of post-nuclear war scenarios until the late Eighties when the Enemy (or really, their Other) changes to The State. Due to some high-profile trials they still won, they decided St. Reagan isn’t on their side so they must undermine this illegitimate government as per the blueprint from their new pornography called The Turner Diaries. The newly corporatized and consolidated Media (thanks Eighties®) is easily deceived into believing by the Nineties how these WPM types are this weird Militia Movement sweeping the Northwest after the FBI bungled Ruby Ridge and then Waco. Nope, with Ruby, it was the same old racist screeds in a new bottle of poison. They just continued to be several steps ahead of the Federal agents who sincerely want to bring our homegrown problem to justice. Their skill at distorting public opinion would make “Poison” Ivy Lee jealous if you recall the narratives they’ve spun. The Ruby culprits were not hermits who wanted to be left alone, harming nobody. These assholes were modifying guns and reselling them illegally, ignoring court appearances, fines and killed at least one Federal agent before they hunkered down in a standoff. Throw in the FBI’s long record of incompetence when it comes to handling informants, evidence tampering and being J. Edgar Hoover’s personal gestapo until his death, you can see why WPM is a game of Whack-a-Mole while the EU states would’ve crippled such a thing decades ago.
There’s also a change of strategy by the Eighties. To keep the Feds from arresting the thugs at the top (avoiding accountability for hate speech), they break up into cells similar to the French Resistance in WWII or Communist infiltrators. It seems to work as a legal strategy given the FBI and other law enforcement’s built-in impotence with White suspects. They’re not fooling anybody. Especially when an armored-car is robbed by “mercenaries,” all these disparate hate groups get sudden “donations” of cash. Besides, how else did Timothy McVeigh get caught? For once, the Feds got its collective shit together on his case despite all his claims of working alone, again the Media loves to promote this lie (see every shooter today). The Feds proved…
- He practiced making bombs in Michigan with two other known WPM goons.
- He had been involved with other “cells” passing out literature.
- He called compound suspected of acting as a safe house for other WPM operatives on the Top Ten Wanted listed shortly before he detonated the bomb.
- Lastly, the WPM had been casing the OKC building for TEN YEARS.
Throw in all the new waves of vets from Bush the Elder’s re-election stunts (Panama, Iraq) and America’s last 20 years of lost blood and treasure (Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan), WPM will carry on for generations. The GOP just throws more gasoline on the fire, thinking they can control the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters (new WPM branches) until they’re no longer needed as per Hitler with the SA.
Back to the book…
I can only give you the gist of what I came away with. Mrs. Belew’s work is meticulous and she gives an ironclad account of the WPM’s operations, motives and inner workings. The biggest shock I found was how much of a large role the wives/girlfriends have given how WPM tends to treat women as second-class citizens whose primary job is to make more Aryan babies. That and how White Women need to be protected from non-White men. Funny, I wonder what their stance is on Thomas Jefferson’s five kids with Sally Hemmings or Mitch McConnell’s trophy wife Elaine Chao? The women in the WPM get overlooked as a threat even though they often act as drivers, smugglers, nurses, copyeditors in addition to being married off between WPM camps to solidify ties a la feudal states.
If you care about what’s eating away at America from within and how January 6th, 2021 is just a small example of their flexing, read Mrs. Belew’s book. Then join me in debunking the myths when they’re brought up in conversations. I’ll read Malcolm Nance’s book later. Mrs. Belew deserved to be read first because she’s not an apologist for the US Intelligence Community’s ongoing century of incompetence via its attacks on the American Left since World War I. The threat has ALWAYS been 90% on the American Right.
