Louis Beam
Louis Beam | |
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Born | Louis Ray Beam, Jr. 20 August 1946[1] |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Political activist, Author, Journalist |
Known for | The first important proponent of leaderless resistance within the white supremacist movement |
Notable work | Inter-Klan Newsletter & Survival Alert, Essays of a Klansman, The Seditionist |
Movement | Christian Identity, Neo-fascism |
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Louis Ray Beam, Jr. (born 1946) is an American
After
Beam was using Camp Puller near Houston in 1980 to train militia, including children as young as eight years old, in armed guerrilla tactics; the camp was shut down after publicity led to protests, and parents complaining that they were not aware of the children's activities at the camp.[9] The Boy Scouts Council of Houston rejected a charter request from the troop at Camp Puller.[10] Videotape shown during the shrimper hearing had Beam saying, "We're going to assume authority in this country."[11] He moved to Idaho afterwards and became active with Aryan Nations in the early 1980s.[12]
In 1988, he was later acquitted in a separate case of conspiring to overthrow the government.[7] He is considered to be the first important proponent of the strategy of leaderless resistance within the white supremacist movement.[13][14][15]
See also
Vietnamese Fisherman's Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
References
- ^ a b "Louis Ray Beam Jr.: Racist Leader Headed for Downfall?". Southern Poverty Law Center. 2002-06-18. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ISBN 978-0-8223-3071-4.
- ^ "Louis Beam". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
- ^ Dees M. & Corcoran J. Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat (1997) photo with caption
- ISBN 978-0-19-512357-9.
- ^ Belew, Kathleen (2019). Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (paperback ed.). London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 46.
- ^ OCLC 50554807.
- ^ Belew, Bring the War Home, 37.
- ^ "PARAMILITARY CAMP IS CLOSED BY OWNER; Lethal Training for Klan Members Stirs a Strong Public Protest". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
- ^ "Woman Asserts Scouts Planned to Hunt Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
- ISBN 978-0-8147-3155-0.
- ISBN 978-0-19-514064-4.
- ^ "US Domestic Terrorism: Ku Klux Klan". www.historycommons.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
- ^ Belew, Bring the War Home, 109.