WEBVTT - Part Two: An American Fascist Faith 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:11.560 Hmm, what's talking too much about? Come my Cody's part 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.160 two of my reading to my friends of the war 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.840 on everyone. I have armed myself additionally with a fistful 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.000 of plastic silverware packets. Sophie, No, I have to throw 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.160 the cans. She's trying to take my cans, my pressure. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.080 I need all of these to throw now. Katie commented 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.920 during the show break that the oranges I have are 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.920 very soft and almost certainly bad. You're ready to burst 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.680 you you could touch it, lightly needed explode. I'm so 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.720 excited to throw those at the wall. So if you 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.840 just give me a withering look, that's her excited look. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.320 That's her excited look. Look. Well, speaking of excitement, it's 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.800 time for part two, Chapter two. Because this is an 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.920 Adeo book, which is different from a seven part podcast 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.520 for reasons. I'm glad that I'm finally recording an audio book. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.800 Maybe this will start my audiobook career, I think so. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.120 Thank you for narrating the Katie parts that I wrote 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:19.400 ahead of time, he thought out loud. Chapter two, An 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.560 American Fascist Faith. At nine fifty a m. On October eighteen, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.120 Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.160 He carried a cult a R fifteen three glock handguns, 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.080 chambered in three fifty seven six body armor, and a 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.880 substantial amount of ammunition. Bowers proceeded to open fire during 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.400 a Shabbat morning service. He killed eleven of the seventy 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.200 five people worshiping at the synagogue that morning, and the 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.640 hours and days that followed, journalists and researchers in the 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.160 countering violent extremism community began to dig into Mr. Bowers's 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.560 social media presence and Internet footprint. If you read or 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.320 listen to any coverage about this, it probably focused on 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.160 his use of the social media website gab, which is 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.400 essentially Twitter for Nazis. Gab earned a lot of attention 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.920 because it's where Bowers chose to announce his attack and 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.120 his belief that a Jewish conspiracy was responsible. Sounds like 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.720 a teen girl magazine. It is. Yeah, yeah, it should 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.000 be in a sane world. Uh so, Yeah. Gab earned 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.240 most of the attention, Like the media coverage in the 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.440 wake of that attack. Gained attention for that attack mainly 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.480 because it was seen as like the place that radicalized 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.240 him um and it was, of course the place where 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.359 he announced the start of his attack. But in addition 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.800 to announcing the start of his attack on gab Robert 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.800 Bowers said other things on the site stranger things. In 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.960 various posts, he claimed that people of Anglo European descent 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.960 were the chosen people, with Jews as their ancient enemy. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.120 He warned his fellow racists of a coming false flag 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.480 attack that would be quote one of the final desperate 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.600 attempts by the Jewish international oligarchy to maintain power in 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.520 the face of collapsing public trust in the media, which 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.639 he believed they controlled. On the profile page for his account, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.880 Bowers included a quote Jews are the children of Satan. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.440 A little more than two weeks before his rampage, he 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.760 reposted to link to the Wikipedia page for Christian identity. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:08.200 Have you ever heard of Christian identity? Yeah? Exactly, that's 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.320 what we're getting into today. Uh So, he reposted a 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.600 link to the Wikipedia page for Christian identity and wrote 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.959 if the Jews hate it, then it must be truth. Now, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.680 if you haven't heard much about Christian identity, don't worry. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.520 Neither had I before Bowers went on his rampage. Um 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.320 A friend of mine, actually a woman named Sarah, who's 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.959 a CV researcher, is the person who like first said 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.840 that you should start looking into this ship, and as 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.880 soon as I did, I found that it connected to 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.920 basically everything that's ever happened in American fascism after World 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.240 War Two and kind of before it. Uh now. Christian 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.840 identity theology is not widely known in modern America, and 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.640 in fact, the vast majority of people who have been 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.280 influenced by it have probably never actually heard the term. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.680 Bowers is sort of a rare figure in that he 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.400 was aware of it. Um it's been around for so 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.840 long and embedded itself so deeply in the consciousness of 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.080 the far right that it's woven itself into the DNA 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.120 of American facis M. Christian identity, however, did not begin 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:07.080 in America. The origin of this philosophy traces back to Britain, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.000 in when a crazy person and retired navy man named 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.760 Richard Brothers started having visions. Rather than writing these visions 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.880 off as the result of bad can sardines or or 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.760 got poisoned bread, he decided that these visions were God 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.960 telling him that he had to lead the Jews back 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.520 to Palestide. Now. He also decided that he was a 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.160 descendant of the biblical King David, for reasons which are 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.040 slightly less clear. Revelation followed revelation, as they often do 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.760 for people with this sort of thing going on in 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.440 their brain, and by the time Richard Brothers was done, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.719 he had concluded that the majority of Jewish people were 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.480 actually hidden in Britain. This hidden Israel, as he called it, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.520 became one of the central tenets of British Israelism. Yeah, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.839 all of the Jews are secretly British. Yeah, that's British 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.160 Israelism in a nutshell. Now, Brothers was eventually declared insane 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.719 by the state, which is probably fair. He was stuck 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.039 in an institution, which is probably unfair, from sevent to 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.320 eighteen o six. But in the four years before he 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.120 got locked up, he earned himself some followers, and although 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.800 his flock didn't stick together until he got out of 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.239 the asylum, some of his ideas persisted for years amongst 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.560 the fringes of British society. In eighteen forty, a writer 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.520 named John Wilson wrote Lectures on Our Israelitish Origin and 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.520 began lecturing across England and Ireland about the theory that 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.359 the real Jews were basically everyone but actual Jewish people. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.920 According to the book Religion and the Right by Michael 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.000 barkun quote, the lectures depended less on the interpretation of 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.240 Biblical prophecy than on Wilson's attempt to demonstrate empirically that 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.680 the Lost Tribes had in fact migrated from the Near 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.120 East to Europe. Like many writers after him, one of 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.159 his favorite techniques was to look for words in different 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.680 languages that sounded the same, assuming, usually erroneously, that if 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.240 the words sounds were similar in the languages and their 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:56.520 speakers had to be connected this stuff. Yeah, yeah, since 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.359 similar sounds often crop up in otherwise unrelated languages, they 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.800 allowed Wilson claim and to believe that he had proved 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.000 that quote, many of our most common English words and 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:10.480 names of familiar objects are almost pure Hebrew. Yeah. It's 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:11.960 one of those things when you when you read like 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.400 early arguments as to why the Bible shouldn't be printed, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.880 like back when like they wouldn't give out copies of 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.880 the Bible to people, like only the priest would have 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.800 a copy of the Bible. The Internet makes me have 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.760 a little bit more respect for those arguments. It's like, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.960 oh yeah, maybe just letting everyone read everything is a 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:32.760 bad Maybe maybe human beings naturally look for patterns and 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.560 not all those patterns actually exists. Are irrelevant. I took 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.040 a sip of tea and started laughing, though, And Sophie, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.320 can I have one of my Canada drives? I promise 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:50.880 I won't throw it. I love professionalism. That's the best 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.760 thing about podcasts is the professionals. And this one specifically 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.599 is the most professional. This one specifically is the most professional. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.440 And as a mark of my professionalism, I'm gonna throw 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:14.880 the sack of clement Clementine's everywhere ads We're back, We're back. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.800 There's oranges all over the floor, h Cody or any 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.880 of them oozing. No, that's a shame, that's unfortunate. I'm 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.920 gonna stomp on. Well, let's not remove them in the 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.320 hopes that they get forgotten and begin to rot and 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.600 dan All finds them. That's the dream, and it's a 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.000 dream that could be a reality. Just leave it for 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.800 a month and then you come back and there'll be 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.200 a bunch of flying at like what happened at our 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.280 office last night. I don't know if y'all remember but 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.200 months ago when we did the Rockwell episodes, I tossed 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.400 the coffee mate up on the ceiling of the poison rooms. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.160 Still there are you guys looking forward to making some 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.000 coffee with that next year. So yeah, it's going to 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:05.120 be a laxing, one pump, one shit cottage cheese. Alright, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:10.480 we're talking about British Israelism, the normal same concept of 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.160 British realism. Yes, the idea that the British people are 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.000 the Jews and the Jews are not the Jews all 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.680 makes sense. Well, at this point the Jews are still 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.320 the Jews, but also British people are secret Jews. That's 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.800 British is Realism in a enough shehell. So British Israelism 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.160 continued to evolve over the course of the eighteen hundreds. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.079 Fella named he and added the assertion that Germans were 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.920 really Assyrians because apparently those people had gotten lost to 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.800 and wound up in Germany somehow. Hein claimed that the 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.480 United States was also full of Israelites. Now, at this point, 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.920 actual Jewish people, like real Jewish folks, were not seen 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.360 as bad guys. They were considered part of a greater 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.720 community called all Israel, which was made up of the 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.640 House of Israel, which was Europe, and the House of Judah, 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.199 which is actual Jewish people. Now, there was no evidence 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:00.920 for any of this at any point in time. This 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.480 was this was and I'm not using this was slow. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:05.960 It was all just the result of a guy's mental 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.160 illness like that. That's what was going on, is this 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.320 was a sick man who had a dream about leading 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.800 the juice back to Palestine and read too much into that. Um, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.240 so that's where this starts. Now, A fellow named Joseph 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.120 Wilde was the very first American British Israelite, or if 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.760 he wasn't the first, he's the first guy who tried 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.480 to popularize it here in the first one we have 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.480 any records of. Wild was a pastor at the Union 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.160 Congregational Church in Brooklyn. At this point, the theory or 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.320 whatever you would call it, was fundamentally pretty harmless. But 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.040 as it drifted through the United States from the frigid 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.520 East to the also frigid Northwest, something funny happened. British 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:51.360 Israelism turned racist as fuck. That's weird, weird, you know, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.520 weird weird that would happen surprising, Yes, surprising indeed now 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.680 The man most responsible for this turn was an Oregonian 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.880 named Reuben eight Sawyer. In the late nineteen teens, he 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.120 started writing for a monthly magazine called The Watchman of Israel, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.040 which was dedicated to the idea that quote, the English 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.640 speaking peoples of today are the lineal descendants of the 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 lost ten tribes of Israel and must fulfill in these 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.559 latter days the responsibilities decreed for them through the patriarchs 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.480 and the prophets. So Reuben was the pastor of the 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.319 East Side Christian Church in Portland, Oregon, and over the 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.960 years he built up a sizeable British israel group in 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.800 the city of Roses. In fact, he was so successful 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.680 at this that he left his job as a pastor 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.520 in nineteen twenty one to lecture and write about British 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.240 Israelism full time, well not quite full time. He did 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.560 have one other side gig as a member of the 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:52.720 Oregon Ku Klux Klass. There we go, and you know, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.439 I love talking about the nineteen Clans, that one beautiful 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:01.720 wacky clan before I got back to being terrorists, back 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.920 when they were still hanging out at the cool Coast 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:12.160 hilarious losers dangerous. Yeah, not the mass murderers, um, although 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.439 they still killed a lot of people. We probably shouldn't 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.599 laugh at them as often as we do. But I 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:23.000 mean the Cool Coast Camp and the christ Can you 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.120 imagine the pitch meeting for the Cool Coast Camp. I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:32.480 can now that you mentioned, I think someone mentioned, someone suggested, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.360 and everyone else like, that's a great idea, idea we 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.840 shouldn't so. Reuben was big into the clan for several years, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.720 and in fact he helped sell his fellow Portlanders on it, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.920 addressing six thousand of them on December two the municipal auditorium. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.720 He told them the KKK saw it quote a cleansed 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.199 and purified Americanism, where law abiding citizens will be respected 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.560 and their rights defended, irrespective of race, religion, or color. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.240 So long us they make an honest effort to be 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.760 Americans and Americans only, So that's nice, regardless of race 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.240 or color. Yeah, and that at this point this wasn't 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.640 totally bullshit. The twenties clan was more of a pyramid 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.360 scheme than a terrorist organization. It was racist, but not 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.280 more racist than mainstream American society. When it came to 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.719 skin color. They were, however, more racist than mainstream Americans 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:26.520 about certain things. They hated the Catholic, the foreign born Asians, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:33.520 and of course Jews. This presented an issue. Yeah, like 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.400 we were great on a curve in the twenties. Yeah, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.000 so suggesting that like, when you create like a big group, 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.400 inevitably you'll have a bunch of a bunch of our 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:49.720 groups an increasing number of outs. Interesting now, Uh. The 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.320 effect that KKK hated the Jews presented an issue for 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.480 Reuben Sawyer because British Israelism loved the Jews, at least 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.400 it traditionally did, right, Like that was part of the 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.559 whole idea, was this kind of like veneer ration of 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.880 Judaism that like all these British people wanted to be 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.360 Jews as well. Um. So Reubens started out as like 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.320 kind of being you know, on the side of Jewish 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.600 people and like liking them, but over time and exposure 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.480 to other anti Semites and the KKK, Reuben radicalized. In 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.760 his first speech about the clan, he brought up the 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.760 Jewish question, but made a point of noting that some 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.240 Jews were of ancient and honorable faith, while only a 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.800 few were objectionable according to the book Religion and the 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.080 Right Quote. By ninety two, however, this inu window had 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.480 been replaced by full blown anti Semitism that was as 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.079 crude as it was open. Quote. Jews are either Bolshevists 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.439 undermining our government, or are shylocks and financeer commerce who 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.080 gained commanded control of Christians as borrowers or employees. It 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.360 is repugnant to a true American to be bossed by 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.800 a sheeny. And in some parts of America the Kikes 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.840 are so thick that a white man can hardly find 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.120 room to walk on the sidewalk. And where they are 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.080 so thick, it is Bolshevism. They're talking Bolshevism and revolution. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.760 The transformation is so startling that one wonders at first 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.400 if it is the same person speaking. This is back 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.480 to a quote from the book. Yeah, out of my 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.720 head listening to that. Yeah, that is a lot of 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.280 racial slurs for Jewish people in like like a paragraph 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.480 that's like all of them. Yeah, I've run out of yikes. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:19.160 Yeah yeah. Uh so yeah. He started out making a 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.200 distinction between like good Jews and bad Jews. Uh and 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:28.360 then eventually just decided that all Jews were terrible and 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:34.240 ethic Jews. Yeah yeah, So Rubin became a major force 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.440 for pushing his fellow American British Israelites towards anti Semitism. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.200 In the early and midnighteteen twenties, the Dearborn Independent, the 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.280 newspaper funded by Henry Ford, began pushing even more extreme 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.480 anti Semitic ideas on the wider American public. It's editor, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.240 William Cameron, was a British Israelite. Thanks to people like 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.400 Reuben and Cameron, the category of good Jews shrank every year, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.800 and the dangers of the bad ones expanded to something 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.360 resembling the all encompassing anti Semitic conspiracy theory that set 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.640 Robert Bowers off on his rampage. From the late nineteen 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.640 twenties to the nineteen thirties, Howard Ran, a British Israelite 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.760 from New England, became a thought leader in the movement. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.600 His goal was to build it into a political organization. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.120 In nineteen thirty three, he formed the Anglo Saxon Federation 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.120 of America, which claimed that actual Jewish people were not 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.400 in fact descended from Judah. By the late nineteen thirties, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.400 RAN's ideas had evolved to the point where he began 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.160 to claim that Jewish people were literally the children of 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.760 the devil. If you're curious about how this went down, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.440 here's an explanation from the website of a modern Christian 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.560 identity group. Quote. Most that call themselves Jews today are, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.200 in fact the race of Lucifer through his son Kane. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.120 Kane was inherently evil from the beginning because he was 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.560 of Lucifer's seed. Eve was beguiled by Lucifer and did, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.120 in the carnal sense, lay with him and begot Kane. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.440 It was a pair on the ground, not an apple 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.920 on the tree. Eve was deceived by Lucifer and was 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.600 led to believe that she was laying down with Yahweh God. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.840 That's the conspiracy theory that the devil tricked Eve and 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.040 to fucking him and thinking that he was God. But 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.720 it was really the devil. And that's where Caine comes from. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.800 And Caine is the father of the Jews. Well, that 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:16.600 all makes sense. I love him history. Yeah, you can't 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.920 not put quotation marks around it in that context. God. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.800 So Howard Rand was the very first person to use 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.280 the term Christian identity, and his thinking had a big 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.200 impact on a fella named William Dudley Pelley, who was, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.680 of course the founder of the American fascist Silver Shirts movement, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.040 who we also talked about on an episode of Behind 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:41.480 the Bastards, really bringing all the hits yea like tour. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.600 I mean, it's all culmination. It's all called intersectional fascism. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:50.000 Intersectional fascism, we're coining it here. But the nineteen forties, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.400 the core of the Christian identity belief system was more 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.240 or less formed. It includes three specific ideas. Number one, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.440 Arians are descendants of the biblical tribes of Israel. Number two, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.280 actual Jews are the result of the devil having sex 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.320 with Eve in the garden of even Eden. And number three, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.480 the apocalypse is nigh and when it comes, Arians will 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.679 have to go toe to toe with the worldwide Jewish 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.000 conspiracy in order to save the planet. When he walked 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.560 into the Tree of Life Synagogue that cold October morning, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.520 Robert Bowers saw himself as a soldier taking place in 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:25.480 this great apocalyptic battle against the Jews. Now, Heart and 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.000 his fellow Christian identity believers had to be careful during 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.560 World War Two, since their belief system was essentially just 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.720 Nazism without the swastika, but that didn't stop him from 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.120 railing against FDR's appointment of the first Jewish Supreme Court, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.479 Justice Felix Frankfurter. It also didn't stop him from opposing 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.120 the admission of Jewish refugees into the United States after 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.920 ninety eight. Heart specific beliefs were always fringe, but they 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.480 bled over into the mainstream American right wing due to 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.359 the right subsessive fear of socialism. I like to quote 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.320 next from a Great Tablet magazine article the Bloody History 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:59.520 of America's Christian Identity Movement. Quote. The broader concern of 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.360 Heart and his allies in the respectable wing of anti Semitism, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.000 liberal journalist Kasey McWilliams called them the armchair andy Semites 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.479 of the right, was that liberal and socialist Jews were 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.760 ultimately behind the hated New Deal and the corresponding transformations 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.000 of in American society. These armchair anti Semites believe that 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.080 admitting Holocaust survivors into the United States after World War 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.480 Two would be the first step in dismantling the Immigration 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.960 Act of nineteen to preserve the racial character of America. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.240 American Jews, many of whom supported easing immigration restrictions broadly, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.719 were the boogeyman of the nativist right, and since right 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.320 wing nativists also often subscribe to Judeo Bolshevik conspiracy theories, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.080 opposing immigration was a way to strike a blow against 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.879 communism as well as Judaism and preserve the white Christian 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.760 character of the United States. I just hate this song. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.080 I hate the song. I hate that we have to 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.359 play it, yeah all the time. It's the same song. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.320 It's not even catchy. It doesn't have a good hunt. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.080 It's not it's a bad song. It's just play it 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.760 all the time, a big mushpot are you trying to say? 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.520 It's like, yeah, play encore, play it again. Let's let's 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.159 keep complaining about how immigration is going to destroy the 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.399 country like we have for two straight years, the inflation 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.760 of like all this like anti semitism, and then like 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.320 the communism and the socialism and the immigration, all these topics, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.560 it's all the same. Or actually, don't pick any of 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.639 those lanes, don't pick any just get off, get off 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.440 the highway. It's yeah, pull over, go to a rest stop. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.240 You need to sleep. Buring your car, burning your car, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:34.320 and burn your car taking nap in the pathroom. So 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.120 from the beginning, Christian identity connected more with the dark 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.600 and violet chunks of the far right than mainstream conservatism. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.960 This started with the silver Shirts in the KKK and 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.160 continued into nineteen sixty four when this peculiarly American fascist 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.600 cult met a little guy named George Lincoln Rockwell. And 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.080 that's what we're going to talk about after this ad 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:59.640 pivot pivot. Should I throw something? No, not yet, No no, no, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:11.280 not not yet. Products we're back. I rejected the urge 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:12.919 to throw another thing, but I'm looking at I think 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.119 I'm gonna throw this big fistful of silver ware packets. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.160 You showed your strength. Thank you in that moment. Thank you, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:28.000 thank you. Character counts the best. Yeah, these these seem safe. 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:32.560 They're projectiles, but they're covered in plastics. At the amount 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.760 of mess they're going to make, because that's really going 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.119 to be a lot for Daniel lidial with. So if 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.200 he says they have a cleaning staff, now, I don't 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.199 want a cleaning staff to have to deal with it. No, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:48.920 just stantal well, the plastic, the plastic forks and knives 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.080 will be all right. That's that's not like a mess. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.639 I wouldn't describe that as can I put a clean 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.600 sign on the door. I'm gonna do that. Just a 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.440 little agent of chaos over here, aren't you? Yeah? Yeah, 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:06.480 he didn't. Yeah a little bit. Shucks. I want to 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.560 hear some more about some about some fucking George Lincoln 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.560 Rockwell and the identity movement. I don't, but I will. Yeah, 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.040 So in case some of the people listening haven't listened 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.399 to the Three Party. On George Lincoln Rockwell's life and 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.720 impact that we we talked about earlier, I'm going to 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.159 summarize his life here. Rockwell was the founder of the 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.600 American Nazi Party not much more than a decade after 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.800 World War Two ended. He was the first post war 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.200 Holocaust denier. He was the first fascist to make money 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.560 by lecturing in American colleges and provoking fights with anti fascists. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.320 He invented the term white power, and was in general 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.400 basically the Johnny apple Seed of Nazism in America. Now. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.200 Rockwall was an original thinker, a pioneer of the tactics 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.679 that fashy folks still used today to get media coverage 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.600 and play the victim. But he came into the game 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.720 early enough that he never quite figured out how to 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.360 hide his power level, which is a term modern fascist 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.160 used for hiding their beliefs as garden variety conservatism. Rockwell 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.840 was initially somewhat anti Christian, because you know, Jesus was Jewish, 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.240 which is something that didn't exactly play well with nineteen 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.480 sixties American conservatives. But in nineteen sixty four Rockwell met 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:12.560 with Wesley Swift, leader of the Christian Identity Church. Rockwell 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.960 instantly recognized what an opportunity Christian Identity represented for Nazis 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.240 in America. As it stood at that point in the 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.160 party's history, American Nazis and was basically just a cheap 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.359 rip off of German fascism that was good for triggering 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.080 Jewish War veterans and civil rights activists, but it didn't 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.440 click with regular Americans in a way that would allow 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:36.480 it to spread. American Fascism, Rockwell thought needed a spiritual core, 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:41.520 something esoteric, a little occult, and thoroughly American. Wherever it 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.639 arises in the world, fascism takes pieces of different spiritual 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.320 traditions and hammers them together around its central authoritarian framework. 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:50.199 This is part of what allows it to spread in 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:55.159