WEBVTT - Part Four: How To Build An Army 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.440 What's clear in my throats. I'm Robert Evanson. This is 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.520 once again Behind the Bastards, the podcast where YadA YadA, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.720 bad people talk about him whatnot. This is the fourth 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.920 chapter of my audiobook, The War on Everyone. It's our 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.919 second day recording it. I'm here with Cody Johnston, Katie Stole. Hey, guys, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.560 we are all higher than we were last time. Goodness 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.560 very much. The first time we were not high. We 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.400 were not We were all strung out too, yeah, tired. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.080 And now we're a little bit high. We're more than 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:35.760 a little bit high. We're more than a little bit high, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.239 but we're not as strung out. So I have a 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.480 considerable assortment of throwing things around me that doesn't worry 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.080 me at all. Cody called this hyper normalization, um, because 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.559 I can no longer be satisfied with just just look 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.840 at this, tossing some fucking bagels. You to do nothing 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.720 for me, nothing for me. So I have a bag 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.959 of roughly twenty paper towel rolls. I have to say that. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.320 Right before we started recording, Robert suggested that we all 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.560 get on helmets and armor and he would practice his 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.080 throwing knives. And that's a that's a null practice is 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.040 a strong word. I just want to throw knives one 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.520 episode and see if I could stick him in the 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.080 soundproofing on the wall. Yeah yeah, I mean I would 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.920 argue that we don't have to be here in front 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.919 of you for that. Well you could be on my side. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.039 Oh yeah, Okay, now that you've said that you want 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.280 to throw around knives and we're like, no, you can 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.360 say something a little bed you can have. I have 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.959 these throwing prinkles. You can throw some pringles. I have 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.240 a box of around twelve little hundred calorie packs of 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.920 pringles that are all in an open topped box together. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:46.960 I am excited to throw that if I can kind 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.200 of wing it. My my theory, because it's kind of 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.600 rectangular shaped, is if I can wing it like a frisbee, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.040 I can get it to go straight until it hits 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.840 the wall and then bursts like a scatter bomb over 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.000 an Afghan wedding right right. If angle it properly enough, 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.720 you could get it on the stone boards. Yeah. I 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.200 mean that that's the dream. That's the dream, But I 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.399 think it might be a little bit unreasonably bounce out 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.080 and you have to start like sharing pictures of this 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.520 room so that people can get an idea of what 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.240 you're talking about. We did this morning there's Danil shared 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.280 a picture of the of the bagels that are stuck 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.280 on the top of the sound perfect I do have 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.639 a plan for those bagels and for if you guys 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.320 remember two months ago we threw the coffee mate on 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.600 top of the poison room. Um, so when we start 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.480 our new podcast, which will be named some variant of 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.720 the worst Year Ever, for the worst year of our lives, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.440 we haven't we haven't quite set yere bad year for everybody. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:43.919 Bad year, bad podcast, fine podcast about a bad, bad year. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.480 In January. We should inaugurate the show by taking the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.920 by that point, very very very stale bagels off of 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.560 the soundproofing and taking the very very very bad uh 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.919 coffee mate off of the top of the poison room 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.440 and having ourselves some coffee made bagels. Gross. That sounds awful. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.000 Let's do it. Let's do it, terrible bagels to start 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.200 a terrible year. We can at least see what comes out. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.240 You know, choose some coffee cream. I mean it was 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.519 expired the last time we had. How much worse could 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:19.600 it get? One pump a portion of a cream curdled cream, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:26.720 just like several several dusts. What that's the Joe Biden. Yeah, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.400 so he covered her mouth with that. Her reaction is 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.600 hard to place. No, what do other podcast talk about 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.400 before they start? Well, coach doesn't like for us to 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.520 talk about too much because we always feel like, well, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.320 I feel like we've talked for like ten minutes at 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.040 this point. We have, we have, we have, but like 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:52.360 so we normally just talk. We um, we say whatever 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.320 holiday it is, happy, whatever, and we make a couple 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.840 of jokes or whatever about that, and then we get started. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.680 What is your book? You know? It is my audio 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.760 book and there's a version of it with none of 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.440 this where it's just me reading it. So I feel 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:10.880 like they've got options, So fuck it. Fuck them assholes 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:17.360 who donated money generously so that I do work theoretical 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.360 bastards that haven't actually complained, but that I'm imagining. Well, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.160 what are you doing, Sylphie read the book to it? Okay, yeah, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.360 we might be high. It's it's possible. Chapter four, How 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.280 to Build an Army Fun times. Everything you're going to 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.080 read about in this chapter or listen about here about 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.599 in this chapter I wrote here, but I said read 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.120 I don't know why. Maybe because I'm reading is documented history. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.320 I feel the need to emphasize that here at the beginning, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.560 because the history I'm about to discuss is very much underreported. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.320 Most of this is probably not stuff you heard about, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.960 certainly not in a textbook, And the question of why 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.400 that is the case is a really good one, because 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.080 the story that I'm going to tell in this chapter 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.719 is the story of a bloody, vicious, and exceptionally deadly 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.919 insurgency that, had a few things broken differently, might have 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.159 plunged the nation into mass violence. As it was, hundreds 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.359 and hundreds of people were killed, and the killing continues 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.320 to this day. A weird way to read that last 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.440 line there. Yeah, this story of the story of this 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.120 insurgency starts, as most stories of insurgencies do, with a 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:29.279 single guy. Now, this guy's name was Louis Beam. Guys 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.000 remember talking about Louis Beam a little bit in our 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.160 Border episode? Um is he uh? One of the He's 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.800 one of them? Listiamen that yep, yep had a border 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.960 KKK guy. He had a lot to say, a lot 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.320 to say, so like me, Louis Beam was a Texan. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.880 He was born in ninety six in Lufkin, Texas. And 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.680 I had a roommate who was from Lufkin. Once he 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.880 used to drunkenly punch out light bulbs. But that's neither 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.160 here nor there. Um fun guy Sam was his name. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.839 I'd like to hear sometimes it's that's the whole story. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.680 He would get drunk and he would punch light bulbs. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.320 He was seven ft tall. Okay, so Lefkin alright. Wi. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.960 Beam was from Lefkin. He grew up in the America 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.200 that modern conservatives still longingly hearkened back to. His parents 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.600 were working class people, and his father served in combat 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.599 during World War Two. That tradition inspired Beam to enlist 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.880 in the army at age nineteen. He had a pregnant 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.080 wife at this point and every reason to avoid conflict, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.039 but Beams sought out a baptism by fire and he 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.520 got it. So when Beam entered the U. S. Military, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.320 he was entering an organization that, for the very first time, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.479 was racially integrated. Vietnam was the first war where like 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.920 black guys and white guys would fight and mixed units 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.160 and black people were allowed to do all the jobs. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.279 And yeah, um, now This did not sit well with 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.160 Beam because he was a big supporter of George Wallace. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.160 You might remember from the last Segregation Forever fella. Yeah, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.839 a lot of common you know, idols and heroes and 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.320 people that these people towards. Yeah, they're all connected in 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.640 at least two or three ways. Part of the trouble 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.640 putting this together was figuring out, like where to stop 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.680 talking about their connections, like with Matt Brack and the 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.280 guy who wrote the third series of books inspired by 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.760 the Turner Diaries, also a guest on Alex Jones's show. Right, Yeah, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.320 there are a lot of these sea And at what 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.560 point is it? Are you saying it too much? And 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.160 it's like taking the time to from it? Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.760 So Louis Beam joins the military, love and segregation and 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.480 George Wallace. Uh, and yeah, he's frustrated by the military 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.440 that he finds himself in frustrated it serving alongside black people. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.160 At one point, Beam and several of his most racist 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.200 comrades hang Confederate flags in their barracks and active protest 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.720 against the civil rights movement. That was the right thing 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.360 to protest during the Vietnam War. So that's the guy 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.960 Beam is super psyched about Vietnam, hates black people being 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.160 able to drink from the same water. Fans Yeah, so 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.040 Bring the war Home by Kathleen Blue provides good context 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.920 for the nature of racial strife among the U S 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.520 soldiers in Vietnam during the time Beam enlisted. Quote will 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.120 white and black soldiers faced combat together, the rear echelon 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.600 was intensely segregated. One black soldier described Saigon as just 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.560 like Mississippi. In Beams camp at Chiu Chi and Vietnam, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.840 black and white soldiers frequently exchanged insults, slights, and blows. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.640 Beam served in the twenty Aviation Battalion at a moment 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.160 of escalating racial tensions. As the language of black power 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.440 circulated between home and battlefront, black soldiers created a culture 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.160 of a frozen black berets greeting each other with fist bumps. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.080 Some white soldiers in the twenty five reported feeling alienated 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.080 are threatened because of such actions. Klansman, serving as active 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.800 duty personnel in Vietnam announced plans for cross burnings and 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.480 spray painted racial epithets on rear echelon buildings. By nineteen seventy, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.719 the Marine Corps recorded more than a thousand incidents of 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.680 racial violence and installations, both in Vietnam and back home. Wow, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.120 that's actually I've never heard that before. That you never 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:50.520 hear that story. Yeah, I'm not surprised. But also back 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.800 in the States there were murders and lynchings on military bases. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.360 of course there were. I can't stop using those voice 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:02.400 of like mild interest, not not appropriate for this. Uh. Yeah. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.840 In nineteen sixty four, four members of the United Clans 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.920 of America murdered a Black Army Reserve lieutenant colonel. Later 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.680 in the nineteen sixties, the Camp Pendleton Clan chapter reached 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.800 two hundred members in size and carried out a campaign 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.920 of shootings, fire bombings, torture, and harassment of black marines. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.560 Beam did not join the United Clans until after he 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.960 was discharged from service, but he served in a military 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.600 where racial violence was common and where membership in extremist 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.120 groups by uniformed service members was also common. It was 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.040 not illegal yet you could openly be a clansman and 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.480 serving the U. S. Military. At this point. That changes 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.240 as a result of some of the things that happened 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.280 in the story. It's a good change, yea positive change. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.520 Good move. Maybe soldiers shouldn't have the right to join 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:46.080 organizations that urge the enslavement of huge chunks of the populace. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.440 What's the It's no, it's a quarter of soldiers. It's 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.800 a quarter of active duty in the u S. Soldiers. No, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.120 not our members have have met white supremacists at some 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.240 point during their time. So yeah, yeah, but it's not 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:05.440 a quarter of them are experienced. Yeah it's common though, Yeah, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.120 yeah common. Yeah. Beam was a helicopter doorgunner. He manned 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.320 a fifty caliber machine gun on a Huey and by 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.040 his own recollection, killed over fifty people. Um, yeah, so 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.080 he had he had a hardcore job. He saw some 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.199 hardcore combat. He expressed appreciation for quote the joys of 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.600 killing your enemy, but he also struggled with what would 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.840 later become known as PTSD. Beam and many others at 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.680 the time called it post Vietnam stress syndrome because again, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.320 like this is not something people really had vocabulary for it. Yeah, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.360 after coming home from the war, he said this to 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.920 an undercover reporter at a KKK event. Quote, after I 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.679 got home from the war, things didn't seem like they 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.240 were before I went to Vietnam. Everything seemed different. The 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.319 whole climate of the nation had changed. Before I went 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.920 over to fight, most of the people seemed behind US soldiers, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.080 but when I returned, it seemed the majority of Americans 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.920 were against us, against the war as a whole. So 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.719 he doesn't see that as a good thing. It kind 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.440 of sees it as like a stab in the back 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:04.120 sort of tuation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's never happened to 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.520 a soldier before later turned into a fascist revolutionary. Louis 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.840 Bim came home in nineteen sixty eight and almost immediately 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.000 joined the KKK. He was racist, certainly, but the primary 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.800 hatred he developed in Vietnam was an intense discussed with 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.079 the left and with communism. In the early nineteen seventies, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.600 he was involved in a spate of terroristic crimes, machine 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.360 gun attack on a Communist party headquarters in Houston, the 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.960 bombing of a left wing radio station. No one died 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.160 in these attacks, and he managed to avoid charges for 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.880 either of them. In nineteen seventy six, he switched to 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.000 a different section of the KKK, the Knights of the 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.920 ku klux Klan lived by a little tyke named David Duke. Yeah, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.600 d Duke, Yeah, so Duke had grown up as we 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.840 stayed in the last episode, reading Willis Carto's Western Destiny 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.559 paper and flirting with Nazism in college, dressing in his 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.520 SSU learn Well, he's a little bit, a little bit Nazism. Yeah, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.160 I mean he was wearing his S. S uniform as 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.720 a protest for a guy whose name I have forgotten 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.760 when he marched in it a been down to school's 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:07.280 free speech alley, but he also had an S. S uniform. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.880 Duke's Knights of the Ku Klux Klan became the most 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.200 prominent clan group of the nineteen seventies, due in large 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.760 part to Duke's decision to wed the organization more closely 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.839 with outright Nazism and help organize clan border patrols to 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.000 stop migrants. Racial paranoia and fear of communism led to 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.880 a vast surgeon clan ranks throughout the nineteen seventies. What's 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.840 up coding to this racial paranoia? Yeah, this is never 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.559 this has never happened again, thankfully. In nineteen seventy five, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.440 there were an estimated sixty clansmen nationwide. By nineteen seventy nine, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.040 that number had increased to ten thousand. Plus another seventy 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.280 five thousand Clans sympathizers. So for a while, Duke seemed 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.160 like a pretty good pick for someone who might manage 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.320 to take on the role of being the next George 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.760 Lincoln Rockwell. He was charismatic and go to drawing media attention. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.120 In nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine, he became a 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.600 constant figure on American talk shows, who would have him 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.600 on because they thought he was funny. In nineteen seventy five, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.640 Willis Harte covered Duke's campaign for the Louisiana Senate in 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.760 an issue one of his weekly magazine, The National Spotlight. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.599 Carto wrote, he sees the Clan not as a terrorist organization, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:16.520 but as a political movement with ideological leadership now zing 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.240 and whatnot. Duke only one about one third of the vote, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.640 but that was still seen rightly as a huge improvement 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.680 in the political fortunes of the fascist right. Gallup reported 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.000 that the number of Americans with favorable opinions of the 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:32.160 Clan nearly doubled from nineteen nineteen seventy five. Duke then 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.199 represented the best hopes of main streamers in the late 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.720 nineteen seventies, Beam and a number of other clansmen would 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.920 wind up on the side of the Vanguardists. One of 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.760 these other men was Bill Wilkinson, a former mid level 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.280 leader in Duke's clan who created his own group, the 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.960 Invisible Empire, in the late nineteen seventies. Bill was noteworthy 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.360 for his sheer willingness to make violent threats, saying in 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.040 an interview, I'm the only clan member who believes in 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.000 having guns around. These guns aren't for shooting rabbits, therefore 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:05.000 wasting people, cool, cool company, wonderful thing to just publicly 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:10.680 say today, loud, very loud. If he were saying that today, 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.600 he would be posting it on Facebook, and there would 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.600 be a minion in the background on all those little 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:22.040 image messages. Maybe. In nineteen seventy nine, Wilkinson's clan protested 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.640 a march by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Indicatur, Alabama. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.640 They showed up with clubs and wound up fighting with 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.840 both the marchers and the local police. Gunfire ensued and 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.480 three people were wounded. No one was killed, but that 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.320 would change November nineteen eighty, when Wilkinson's clan marched against 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.920 communist demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina. Now, have you heard 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.360 of Greensboro, North Carolina. Yeah, it's a long story that 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.640 we won't be getting into enough detail in this because 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.840 we just have to so much to cover. But there's 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.360 a clash between the communists in between the klansmen, and 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.080 the clansmen opened fire, killing five of the protesters, and 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.160 their stories of them like specifically targeting black protesters and 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.880 like not shooting white ones. It's it's it's a it's 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:07.640 a murder. They murder five people. Now, later investigation reveals 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.840 that police were complicit in the massacre, actively directing officers 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.480 away from the side of the protest in order to 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.400 ensure that no law enforcement was present when the clan attacked, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.760 aside from an FBI agent who was embedded with the 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.280 clan attackers but did nothing to stop them from firing 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:28.040 into the crowd. Cool, yeah, go FBI. Why would you? 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.240 Why would you do anything in that situation. It's one 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.480 of those surprising yeah. Now, none of the killers in 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.600 Greensboro were found guilty. In a subsequent criminal trial, they 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.840 argued that opening fire into the crowd, often when the 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.240 back of moving vehicles, had been justified because of the 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.920 threat to their lives. Posed by the communists. Yeah, because 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.400 communists are inherently dangerous. There's one thing we know about communists. Yeah, 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:59.320 I love these feelings that all these people are gravitating towards. Yeah, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:05.120 I us legal facts, do care about their feelings. I wish, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.560 like it would be cool if like someone who embodies 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.600 a lot of these things became the leader of the country. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:16.360 That would probably end well, would be interesting to watch, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.400 interesting to watch, like a guy. And yeah, I like, now, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.120 let's talk about real history rather than your nonsense fantasizing. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:30.040 Just what happened, not crazy theories about the future. It 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:35.280 was just like what if? Like all right. So, Greensboro 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.800 was a huge moment for the clan, and it was seen, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.360 as many within the American fascist movement as nothing less 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.160 than the first shots fired in a war to take 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.840 back their country from communist infiltraders. The Greensboro Clansmen went 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.120 on to become heroes in the movement, giving speaking tours 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.400 and acting as living billboards for the cause. So that's cool, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.800 very cool. It's so pretty cool. And this brings us 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.920 back to Louie Beam. While he was not president Greensboro, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.880 Beam kept extremely busy in the late nineteen seventies. In 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.919 nineteen seventy nine, Dang Joping, the leader of China at 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.880 the time, visited the United States. When he arrived in Texas, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.919 Beam attempted to spray him with red paint in the 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.159 lobby of his hotel. He was punched out by a 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.199 security guard. Later variations of the story would mark it 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.000 down as an assassination attempt against the Chinese statesman, but 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.280 the reality seems to have been much dumber than that. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.600 He was just trying to cover him with paint, paint 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:27.040 him red because he's communist. That's such a like cheap attempts. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.680 It was the seventies, okay, everything was a little more primitive, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:38.480 except for Indiana Jones movies. Great time. Yeah, speaking of 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.840 Indiana Jones movies, you know what else is perfect art? 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:47.920 What the products and services and stuff that represents the show. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.639 And unlike Indiana Jones, it was not made with the 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.680 female protagonists being initially envisioned as a fourteen year old. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:18:10.840 I shouldn't talk about that. Well, we're back. Sophie just 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.040 opened an enormous bag of chips, made a tremendous amount 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.600 of noise. Yeah, it was so loud, really really unprofessional. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.320 So I can't believe you, Sophie, excited to see what 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:27.520 I throw next. Speaking of professional we're back. Oh yeah, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:32.920 Robert lecturing about professionalism. I'm a I'm a consummate professional. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.920 Thank you anything yet? Yeah, except for those bagels. I 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.440 started throwing bagels and they brought me no joy now 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.399 because I've just moved past that, but not past throwing. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.480 Never moved past throwing. So when we last left Louis Beam, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.120 he had tried to literally paint Dang Jiao Ping red 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.560 and gotten the ship punched out of him by a 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.080 security GUARDA that will be the most emotionally satisfying beat 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.000 of this story. The rest is just frustrating. Okay. So 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.240 right around the same time he was attacking Danja Pain 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.399 with paint uh, Louis Beam began to operate a paramilitary 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.240 training camp in Oklahoma called Camp Polar. White supremacists would 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.159 gather there to train and combined arms techniques and prepare 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.840 for it to fight in a civil war against communists, Blacks, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.400 and Jews. Attendees with military experience were encouraged to wear 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.679 their medals in insignia over their clan fatigues. So I 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.600 found an interesting article from U p i UH in 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.360 November of nineteen eighty that covered this camp and a 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.720 little kerfuffle it ran into legally when they kind of 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.720 brought a bunch of Boy Scouts over. Quote a Ku 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.919 Klux klansman who says he is prepared to do battle 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.160 against communists and homosexuals and structs explorer Scouts and Civil 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.480 Air Patrol cadets and guerilla warfare techniques at a paramilitary camp. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.000 A newspaper reports. The post, which has not been fully 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.479 chartered by the Boy Scouts of America, is run by 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.040 Robert Johnson Sente of Deer Park, who denies he as 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.640 a clan member, and Lewis Beam of Pasadena, the Grand 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.840 Dragon of the Texas. I am proud to be a 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.199 member of the clan, said Bogert, a former marine from 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.000 the Port, Texas, who said he had been a member 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.080 for two years. There are only two groups. I'll do 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.679 battle with communists and homosexuals. That's the basic reason I 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.920 joined the clan. Yeah, what a statement, what a man. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:25.240 The Grand Dragon just a simple paramilitary training camp teaching 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.480 Boy Scouts. It's not a clan camp. It's just run 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.560 by the Grand Dragon of the clan and another random guy. Unbelievable, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:37.080 just a guy. The article notes that the concerns about 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.719 the camp were initially sparked when parents of Explorer scouts 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.159 and Civil Air Patrol cadets complained that their fifteen and 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.879 nineteen year old sons were learning guerilla warfare techniques and 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.919 racial slurs from leaders of the camp, which would be 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:52.800 a thing to complain as a parent. I usually think 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.119 parents are being too sensitive about stuff like this, but 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.640 not stuff actually yeah soft these days. But yeah, yeah, 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.320 kids are still too soft. But maybe it's bad for 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.120 the KKK to teach them how to fight a war. 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.119 The other guy, Well, yeah, you're right. The other guys 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.560 not with the KK So I guess that's fine. Yeah, 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.920 we got both sides. That's why all of us kids 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.640 are pussies because we didn't grow up been talking like 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:30.000 you get it, we're all I just gave up. Yeah, 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.880 how can you? So, if there's anything to edit out, 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.159 it's that no, no, no, no, no, send him a verity, katie. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:44.080 That's what this is. So uh yeah, the parents complained. Uh. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.640 Civil Air Patrol Major Paul Renfro, who invested gated the camp, 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.080 stated to the newspaper quote. There was nothing boy scout 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.240 about it. They were on maneuvers, they were firing unloading 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.560 using live ammunition, and the parents were very upset because 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.280 they were told nothing about this. These guys misled the Scouts. 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:02.639 So Camp Puller was you know, shut down after this 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:08.120 as resulted the controversy, but not forever. Oh no, Now, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.040 Camp Pollar came together again during a very different time 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:12.480 in the US, So the fact that a lot of 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.800 these guys were active due to U S service members 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.800 was not a problem. Uh. It was also consequently a 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.240 time in what's weapon theft and the smuggling of military 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.240 grade armaments like rocket launchers to civilian militias and terrorist 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:27.560 groups was incredibly common. So might be tied together those 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.160 two things. I don't know what you're talking about. So 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.480