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Patriot Movement http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=patriot_movement_1 !Donate Home | Contact UserName Login Not registered yet? About Timelines Blog Donate Volunteer Search Go Home » Entities » Patriot Movement Printer-Friendly View Email to Friend Profile: Patriot Movement Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Patriot Movement was a participant or observer in the following events: Ordering Date ascending February 1992: White Supremacist Calls for ‘Leaderless Time period Resistance,’ Concept Employed by ‘Patriot Movement’ In a number of venues, including “The Seditionist” magazine and an Illinois publication called “The War Email Updates Eagle: A Voice and Forum for Revolutionary Receive weekly email updates Pan-Aryanism,” white supremacist Louis Beam calls for summarizing what contributors “leaderless resistance,” or cells of fighters who report to have added to the History no one. Beam writes that the idea originated in the early Commons database 1960s as part of preparations for a Communist takeover Email Address Here Go of the United States; he has adapted it to the idea of resisting what he calls the threat of “federal tyranny” Donate and the federal government’s “ever increasing Developing and maintaining persecution and oppression.” Beam writes that the usual this site is very labor “pyramidal” scheme of organization, “with the mass at intensive. If you find it useful, please give us a hand and the bottom and the leader at the top,” is “not only donate what you can. A young Louis Beam, useless, but extremely dangerous for the participants Donate Now dressed in his Ku Klux Klan when it is utilized in a resistance movement against regalia. [Source: Edit International (.com)] state tyranny.… In the pyramid type of organization, an Volunteer infiltrator can destroy anything which is beneath his level of infiltration and often those above him as well. If the traitor has If you would like to help us infiltrated at the top, then the entire organization from the top down is with this effort, please contact us. We need help with compromised and may be traduced at will.” Beam recommends the independent programming (Java, JDO, “cell system” of organization, and cites two examples: the Revolutionary mysql, and xml), design, War-era “Sons of Liberty” and the more recent use of “cells” by Communist networking, and publicity. If you want to contribute infiltrators in the US. Beam writes that if the cell system is adopted without the information to this site, click top layer of leadership—leaderless “phantom cells”—this can thwart government the register link at the top of efforts to infiltrate and monitor the groups. Every cell must have the same the page, and start fundamental ideology and agenda, Beam writes, and then can be trusted to contributing. Contact Us operate independently, taking actions that further the cause of the larger group without top-down direction. He concludes: “America is quickly moving into a long dark night of police state tyranny, where the rights now accepted by most as being inalienable will disappear. Let the coming night be filled with a thousand points of resistance. Like the fog which forms when conditions are right and disappears when they are not, so must the resistance to tyranny be.” Beam’s idea will be used by many in the so-called “Patriot Movement.” The “Patriot Movement” is later defined by founder John Wallace and by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a loose confederation of anti-government organizations, groups, and individuals who believe that the US government is illegally infringing on citizens’ liberties. The “Patriot Movement” is largely comprised of right-wing, separatist, and white supremacist organizations, groups, and individuals. [THE SEDITIONIST, 2/1992; NEW YORK TIMES, 7/5/1995; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, 6/2001; JOHN WALLACE, 2007] Entity Tags: Louis R. Beam, Jr, John Wallace, Southern Poverty Law Center, Patriot Movement Timeline Tags: US Domestic Terrorism 1 of 2 6/20/2012 6:25 PM Patriot Movement http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=patriot_movement_1 Home | About | Timelines | Forum | Development | Donate | Contact Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Except where otherwise noted, the textual content of each timeline is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2 of 2 6/20/2012 6:25 PM US Domestic Terrorism: Oath Keepers http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=us_domestic_terr... !Donate Home | Contact UserName Login Not registered yet? About Timelines Blog Donate Volunteer Search this timeline only Search Go Home » Timelines by Topic » Topics » Governance » Politics » US Domestic Terrorism Printer-Friendly View Email to Friend US Domestic Terrorism Increase Text Size Oath Keepers Decrease Text Size Project: US Domestic Terrorism Open-Content project managed by blackmax Ordering add event | references Date ascending Time period March 9, 2009: Anti-Government ‘Oath Keepers’ Organization Categories Launched at Pro-Militia Rally General The Oath Keepers, a newly formed far-right Abortion-Based Rhetoric “patriot” organization whose membership is and Actions (109) restricted to soldiers, police officers, Anti-Communist Rhetoric firefighters, and military veterans (see March and Actions (5) 2010), is formed at a pro-militia rally in Anti-Government Rhetoric Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the first and Action (518) battle of the Revolutionary War. It is founded Anti-Health Care Reform Oath Keepers logo, as pictured on a (24) T-shirt sold on the organization’s Web by Army veteran and lawyer Stewart Rhodes, Anti-Semitic Rhetoric and site. [Source: Oath Keepers (.com)] who delivers a fiery speech at the rally. “You Actions (78) need to be alert and aware to the reality of Anti-Tax Rhetoric and how close we are to having our constitutional republic destroyed,” he tells the Actions (42) assemblage. “Every dictatorship in the history of mankind, whether it is fascist, Environmental Activism communist, or whatever, has always set aside normal procedures of due process (63) under times of emergency.… We can’t let that happen here. We need to wake Faith-Based Rhetoric and up!” The crowd of listeners includes many well-known “patriot movement” Actions (100) Gender-Based Rhetoric members, including Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff who refused to and Actions (30) enforce the federal Brady law (see November 30, 1993) in his jurisdiction; Mike Other (6) Vanderboegh of the “Three Percenter” movement (see October 1995 and After); Race and Ethnic-Based and others. Rhodes gives the rally his group’s “Orders We Will Not Obey,” a list Rhetoric (157) of 10 orders he considers unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable, whether Interventions they are issued by commanding officers, policemen, or the president. When Court Actions and Rhodes finishes, Captain Larry Bailey, a retired Navy SEAL who leads a group Lawsuits (194) called Gathering of Eagles, asks the crowd to raise their right hands and retake Federal Government their oath—not to the president, but to the Constitution. [MOTHER JONES, 3/2010] Actions (46) Posting the 'Orders' - On the Oath Keepers blog, Rhodes posts the “Orders We Law Enforcement Actions (199) Will Not Obey” along with an introductory statement culled from the speech given by then-General George Washington before the Battle of Long Island: “The Organizations Animal Liberation Front time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans (27) are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can Army of God (21) call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and Aryan Nations (37) destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human Christian Identity (31) efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, Earth Liberation Front under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army.” Rhodes writes: “Such a (30) time is near at hand again. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under Elohim City (21) God, on the Courage and Conduct of this Army—and this Marine Corps, This Air Ku Klux Klan (16) Michigan Militia (11) Force, This Navy and the National Guard and police units of these sovereign Montana Freemen (76) states.” He calls the Oath Keepers “non-partisan,” and issues his list of orders Montana Militia (14) they will refuse to obey, calling these “acts of war” against the American National Alliance (28) people “and thus acts of treason.” He cites Revolutionary War actions and Oath Keepers (5) Operation Rescue (18) 1 of 9 6/20/2012 6:26 PM US Domestic Terrorism: Oath Keepers http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=us_domestic_terr... precedents for each of his 10 statements. Other Anti-Abortion “1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.” Rhodes Groups (6) explains that this means the government will not attempt to restrain gun Other Environmental Activists (4) ownership in any way, and states his group’s opposition to any bans on assault Other Militias, Separatists rifles or any attempts to enforce gun regulation or registration. (117) “2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the PLAL (6) American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects—such as warrantless Posse Comitatus (25) house-to-house searches for weapons or persons.” Rhodes compares these to the SHAC (10) Revolutionary War-era “writs of assistance,” carried out by British soldiers Stormfront (12) against American colonists without judicial orders. The