FBI warns of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest power grid spike

[moniss]

34. Agreed

and you can see they are fighting it as guerilla type activity. Years ago these terrorist types made the calculated decision to cloak themselves with a religious aspect in order to use "freedom of religion" and "Christianity under attack" as weapons to defend themselves against criticism/legal proceedings. They knew if they started spouting this stuff they could get the more radical evangelical ministers etc. to help give them cover from being held accountable.

Well over 40 years ago there were investigative journalists writing in-depth articles about the infiltration of these people using religious cover to work their way into the military, their recruitment of service members and their strategy to have members enlist in the military in order to recruit and also to receive training in weapons and tactics. I remember specifically in the mid '80's people raising alarm about this activity in the Air Force and at the service academies. The screaming from Falwell and his ilk was enough to get the government to back off.

Remember how the GQP shot down having the FBI get deep into these wackos. They howled about "persecution of conservatives" the same way they do now. That was part of the plan. Buying time as they got stronger and more entrenched in local law enforcement, elected/appointed offices and deeper into developing funding ties with hostile foreign intelligence services.

They have cowed much of the media that used to expose them. Reporters live in fear as do elected/appointed officials who speak out and oppose them. A good read about this from long ago is from a Playboy article titled "The Button-Down Terror of David Duke". That was well over 40 years ago and Duke spelled out the strategy to mainstream hate by putting on a suit instead of a white robe, running for office, cozying up to religious leaders etc. All as a way to make the Nazi/White Supremacist movement more palatable and give them allies and defenses against "those who oppose them". A more recent scholarly article is from 2000 written by Barbara Perry, then of Northern Arizona University, titled "Button-Down Terror: The Metamorphosis of the Hate Movement". This was published in the quarterly journal "Sociological Focus" a peer reviewed publication which is produced by the North Central Sociological Association and has published since 1968. I'm including a link here that has a preview page of the paper and various ways to get the full paper. I believe logging in at a school or library gets you the article free. Maybe.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20832071