Louis Beam

Coming Anarchy on Louis Beam and "leaderless resistance." The big problem with the theory is that it assumed a need for a cohesive motivation/doctrine. It doesn't.

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[Charles Cameron]

Louis Beam's Leaderless Resistance tied in very neatly with the idea of the Phineas Priests -- people who (like Phineas in Numbers 25) took it upon themselves to do what God would intend without first receiving clerical approval.

The story of Phineas played a role in the thinking of both Yigal Amir, the killer of Yitzak Rabin, and Byron De La Beckwith, the killer of Medgar Evers.

The notion of Phineas Priesthood is laid out in some detail in Richard Kelly Hoskins, Vigilantes of Christendom.

See also:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_24_116/ai_55881832

[Bjorn]

Well, if you're going to post about Louis Beam's "leaderless resistance", I guess now is the time to ask you about "The Turner Diaries". I've often wondered if you were familiar with that book. If not, it's about a race war, and it seems like it anticipated alot of your ideas about systems disruption and global guerillas. They say it was the blueprint for the OKC bombing.

The book is available for free on the 'net, so you don't have to support the politics of the author just to check it out.

[Dan Yurman]

I've written, as have others, extensively on the effort to apply "leaderless resistance" in the context of the militia movement in Idaho in the mid-1990s. Both the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden, ID, and the Elohim City compound in Oklahoma served as indictrination centers for people who then went out on their own to commit murder and mayhem.

http://www.geocities.com/progpop/Samizdat.1.html

[Ken Hagler]

I don't know who "they" are, but McVeigh wrote a letter (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,17500,00.html) explaining what was behind the Oklahoma City bombing. He wasn't trying to imitate a novel, he was just using the Feds' own tactics against them. Apparently he never learned that two wrongs don't make a right.