To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement

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index Abanes, Richard, 7 abolition of slavery conscription perceived as product of, 114–22, 127–28 “higher law” doctrine, 102–3 See also slavery abortion, 261 Adams, Joe, 205 Adams, John, 58–61, 84, 87, 91 Adams, John Quincy, 97 Adams, Samuel, 52, 165 Adorno, Theodore, 175–77 AEN News Service, 197 African Americans in Black Legion ideology, 160–67 erasure from collective memory, 151 exclusion from citizenship, 222 formation of militia by, 6–7, 151–52, 178 as militia members, 204 agrarian rebellion, 10 Akins, John Keith, 10 Alabama, 2, 14, 225–26, 254, 350n76 Alabama Declaration, 268 Alanson, MI, 1 Albany Register, 69, 90 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 as cause for resistance, 17, 22 Fries’ Rebellion against, 20–21, 57–58, 75–84 interpretation, 306n33 politics of resistance to, 63–75, 85–93 as trigger to political crisis, 58–63 Alien Friends Act, 65 Al Qaeda, 275–76 Amar Akhil Reed, 214 America in Peril (Koernke, video), 225, 242–43 American ›ag, 113, 149, 153, 155, 163–64 Americanism. See one hundred percent Americanism American Jewish Committee, 177 American Justice Federation, 197 American Legion, 153 American Liberty League, 154–55, 165, 169 American Mercury, 170 American Nazi Party (ANP), 177, 180 American Patriot Fax Network (APFN), 197 American Revolution in the collective memory, 18–23, 95–96, 165–66, 224 de‹ning the meaning, 63–64, 66, 172–73 ideology of patriotism and, 146–53 in›uence on militia ideology, 4–7 libertarian memory of, 145–46, 175, 212–17 Suffolk County Resolves, 27–28, 33–34 Anti-Defamation League, 10, 14, 177, 229, 289n9, 290n16 Anti-Federalists, 42–45, 48–54, 239 anti-Semitism attributed to militia movement, 10 in Black Legion ideology, 155 conspiracy theories and, 242–43 during Great Depression, 155 following World War II, 177–78 Arlington Road (movie), 8 Armed and Dangerous (Anti-Defamation League), 229 armed resistance creation of colonial militias and, 34–36 legitimacy of, 4–7, 40–50 libertarian commitment to, 58 See also insurrectionary resistance Armour, James, 163, 167 Articles of Confederation of 1781, 179 Aryan Nations, 181, 190–91, 204, 218–19, 261 Aryan Nations: Far Right Underground, 181 Asbury Park Press, 170 Ashcroft, John, 273, 276 assassination, 125–28, 138, 152, 163, 259–61 Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, 190 ATF. See Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) Athon, James, 140 Attucks, Crispus, 206 Authoritarian Personality (Adorno), 176–77 Bache, Benjamin, 61 Bacon, Eziekiel, 98 Bailyn, Bernard, 293n3, 303n16 Baker, James, 273 Balko, Radley, 195 Balliett, Stephen, 84 Baltimore American, 90 Barber, James, 238–39 Barkun, Michael, 11, 260 Barnett, Randy, 214 Barrett, James, 136 Beam, Louis, 212–13, 216, 219 Bell, Daniel, 175 Bennett, David, 9 Bennett, William, 130 Berg, Alan, 181 Berlet, Chip, 289n13 Beveridge, Albert, 152–53 Biden Bill. See Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 Bildeberger conspiracy theory, 242–43 Bill of Rights Alien and Sedition Acts crisis of 1798, 60 Fifth Amendment, 65 First Amendment, 66, 210 recognizing need for, 50 Second Amendment, 22, 50–55, 166, 273 Sixth Amendment, 65 See also U.S. Constitution Bingham, J. J., 116, 131, 137–39 Birth of a Nation, The (‹lm), 151 black helicopter mentality, 1, 244–46, 265 Black Legion founding and actions, 153–55 Great Depression origins, 6, 146 ideology of, 155–58, 164–65 ideology toward women, 160–61 as insurgent movement, 21 libertarian memory of the Revolution and, 166–67 membership, 155–57, 168, 329nn33–34 military organization of, 156–57 suppression of, 8, 167–73 white supremacy within, 158–64 Bland, Richard, 34 Blight, David W., 151 Bly, Robert, 208 Bodnar, John, 19–20 Boise Weekly, 266–67 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 16–17, 201–7 Borden, Luther v., 102 Boston Independent Chronicle, 66 Boston Port Act of 1774, 28–30 Boston Tea Party of 1773, 28 bourgeois culture/concepts, 121, 130–32, 145–48. See also masculinity Bowles, William A., 134–35, 137–39, 141–42 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 (Brady Bill), 190 Branch Davidians. See Waco, TX Breckinridge, John, 74 British-Israelism, 178 Brown, John, 158, 165 Brown, Robert, 78 Browning, Christopher, 239 index 356 Brown Scare moral panic over militia menace, 8–10 suppression of Black Legion, 146, 170–73 Bulletin Board System (BBS), 197 Bullitt, Joshua, 136–37 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), 190–94, 199, 208, 231–34, 259–60 Burgess, George, 125, 127 Burnett, H...