By Lewis Loflin
Note from the webmaster: After reader concerns and double-checking sources, the below article is simply far-left propaganda. Most claims don’t check out, so my comments are in RED. I didn’t write this article and leave it with comments to clarify the record. The simple fact is the vast majority of "patriots" or "militia" or whatever name their leftist detractors give them are not racists or crazies. I was allowed to join their meetings in Tennessee, and they had no idea of my positions on the issue or this website. So I write from direct observation.
Even more disheartening is the slander campaign against conservative Christians by mostly leftist, non-Jewish Jews. This is the name given by Dennis Prager for those Jews who have rejected Judaism and substituted any number of "isms," then act as secular religious fanatics themselves. Worse, real Jews who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph—they represent this sickness as being Judaism, thus fermenting antisemitism in the process. Their continuing efforts to equate Christians in general with Christian Identity is just utter dishonesty. These non-Jewish Jews revile religious Jews almost as much as Christians.
This nonsense here was put out by the Anti-Defamation League circa 1997. This is the kind of propaganda that drove federal agents to excess during the Clinton presidency (Randy Weaver and Waco). The ADL was directly behind much of this unfounded hysteria and should be called to account for it. Here I will concentrate on their claims in Virginia. The same non-Jewish Jews (often far-left of center) are behind the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL, etc. But for all their support of far-left causes, the greatest antisemitism is on the political left, as we shall see.
Norman Olson, a regional militia commander in northern Michigan, has envisioned violence erupting if present government policies continue. Olson, a Baptist minister who owns a gun shop, declared: "We're talking about a situation where armed conflict may be inevitable if the country doesn't turn around." (Emphasis added.) Most often the central issue of the militants has been the legality of guns themselves.
Webmaster: The fact is, in the almost 20 years this "militia" has been around, neither the organization nor Mr. Olson have ever been convicted or involved in any form of criminal activity. The organization declined in the 1990s after Y2K failed to produce anything for either side in the debate.
In fact, the Michigan Militia was cleared of all alleged involvement with Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who acted alone in the Oklahoma City Bombing. In the FBI report Project Megiddo, carried out under President Clinton, stated just that. The study was named after the site of the great end-times battle in the Bible and those groups that attached some significance to 2000 and Y2K.
As far as "militias" go, to quote the report, they "are characterized by factionalism and disunity" and "have adopted a fragmented, leaderless structure..." To further quote, "Clearly, the worst act of domestic terrorism in United States history was perpetrated by merely two individuals: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols." Yet it’s odd that two people can be defined as a "militia" while armed street gangs numbering sometimes in the hundreds or even thousands are routinely ignored.
Thus, no real national "militia" movement even exists in this country, and far-left smear organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center classify any group or individuals as "racists" or "white supremacists" based merely on political beliefs or opposition to far-left causes. The same political groups ignore non-white race-based groups such as La Raza ("the race" in Spanish), the NAACP, etc., but attack any white who stands for the very same thing they do as racist. The claims of "hater," "racist," etc., are used to silence public debate on issues the far left can’t win. Their definition of "hater" is not recognized by law enforcement or the FBI.
Clearly, their deeper suspicions and terrors should be of concern: Is their militant cause merely the alleged gun-toting "right" of citizens? — or is it the "turning around" of the U.S. itself from what the militants see as the "treasonous" direction of the federal government's present policies? What are the policies these people see as "treason?"
Webmaster: Yet when this article was written circa 1997, every prediction the far left made has failed to materialize. The same left-wing groups continue to make excuses for every Muslim terrorist attack, stoning, honor killing, etc., committed by Muslims, but smear thousands of Americans if a single individual misfit gets a parking ticket.
Most of these people hide behind the Bible or wave flags to cover the simple fact they are religious and racial bigots. According to Kenneth Stern, author of A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate (Simon and Schuster, 1996):
Christian Patriotism teaches that the United States is the biblical promised land, promised to white/Aryan/Nordic types. It preaches that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are divinely inspired and have to be treated like Scripture. The amendments to the Constitution following the first ten, such as equality under the law, votes for blacks and women, freeing the slaves, et cetera, are seen as "man-made" and a derogation of the "original" or "organic" Constitution.Borrowing heavily from the political program of the 1970s and 1980s far-right group Posse Comitatus, Christian Patriots frequently file documents announcing that they are "sovereign citizens" with no linkage to the "corporal entity" known as the United States of America, that evil government that elects its senators directly (Seventeenth Amendment) and otherwise pays attention to those troubling post-Bill of Rights amendments. Accused Oklahoma City-bomber Terry Nichols and Militia of Montana leader John Trochmann made such "sovereign citizen" pronouncements.
The Freemen group in its self-proclaimed "Just Us" township in Montana also subscribed to Christian Patriot beliefs. They were not holed up because they simply did not want to pay their taxes. For Christian Patriots, America is promised to the white race, and by opposing and severing connections to an evil government that tolerates equal rights for minorities, white Americans can reclaim their birthright.
Dean Compton, for example, is a California militia leader who said that "The Mayflower Compact was by Christians and for Christians, and when they said 'God Bless America' they didn't mean 'God Bless Gandhi.'" How different is this from Pat Robertson, who said on his "The 700 Club" program, "The Constitution of the United States... is a marvelous document for self-government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christians and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society."
The idea that certain Americans have a greater claim on the country's traditions and rights than others becomes more attractive in a time of uncertainty, when people fear that "our" society is under attack. Both the Religious Right and the militias have grown since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Our old, comfortable "evil empire" upon which we could project our worst fears, no longer exists. For those who believe in Christian supremacy and those who believe in white supremacy, the enemy has become internal: the United States government. This shared new enemy has helped create ideological images which empowers both the Religious Right and the far right.
Webmaster: These self-hating leftist phony Jews hide behind charges of antisemitism or racism every time somebody questions their motives. Since Mr. Stern wrote this in 1997, not a single prediction he made has come true. Again, as the FBI report shows, there’s no central leader or organization among so-called "militias" of any type, so nobody speaks for any of them. Yet Mr. Stern insists a few individuals nobody has even heard of speak for everyone. His great book sells for $1.48 at Amazon. Mr. Stern is a professional agitator.
Who is Kenneth S. Stern? To quote, "A longtime member of the ACLU and veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights ... Kenneth Stern and the AJC The American Jewish Committee (AJC)..." In other words, he is another atheist, far-left activist with the ACLU. The ACLU, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, are bigoted to the extreme against both Christians and religious Jews alike. While some ignorant Christian fools claim these are Jewish fronts for the anti-Christ, etc., they are simply neo-Marxist, not Jewish. Their activities do cause a backlash against all Jews, sadly to say.
He is director on antisemitism, hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee. (Wiki) Also, it turns out Mr. Stern writes for the Southern Poverty Law Center to promote their anti-American agenda. He wrote an article in Freedom Writer in October 1996 equating the Christian Coalition with Christian Identity, a racist group. That is in fact false, and he gets it from guess who, Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is simply another SPLC propagandist.
They give Christians in general a bad name. What is scary is the Christian Coalition and others have identical ideas but only go at it by legal means.
Webmaster: Finally, the above statement is the only fact they present, if only partially. Christians, believing Jews, Patriots, those of us who believe the Constitution is the law of the land, do follow law and are legal. That is why the ACLU, SPLC, Mr. Stern, etc., resort to distortions and character assassination because their position has no merit. Yes, individuals such as Pat Robertson have idiot positions in my opinion, but he doesn’t represent most people and he has never broken the law.
Webmaster: While we are on the subject of these leftist, self-hating Jews so obsessed with antisemitism by Christians, the American Jewish Committee needs to take a hard look where the antisemitism really is. In a crushing survey of the Democratic Party (better called the socialist democratic party) that 80% of Jews vote for like blind sheep and spend millions to fund (50% of their funding by some claims), almost one-third of Democrats blame Jews for the financial crisis. Yes, in the secular left heavily Jewish-funded Democratic Party, almost one-third blame Jews for money whatever woes (classic antisemitism), while only 18% of Republicans. (Survey: Jews are Blamed for Economic Crisis by Hillel Fendel, Israel National News, 5-7-2009)
