Book · 2018 · History
Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
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I'm going to quote now from Bring the War Home. They took their induction oath on Matthews farm. They stood in a circle around a white female infant who symbolized the race they sought to protect.
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Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew is an examination of the white power movement and how the radical fringe grew in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. On the podcast Behind the Bastards, host Robert Evans relied on Belew's scholarship across multiple episodes to explore domestic terrorism, border militias, and racial conflict. Evans cited the book to provide essential context regarding the deep racial strife that plagued American soldiers stationed in Vietnam, which later fueled extremist groups back home. The text was also used to illustrate the Ku Klux Klan's border patrols, explaining how those operations functioned simultaneously as publicity stunts and as deliberate efforts to stoke anti-immigrant hostility and encourage violence. Furthermore, Evans quoted Belew's findings to describe the secret induction rituals of terrorist factions like the Order, where members swore oaths around a symbolic white infant, and to highlight how mainstream society frequently dismissed violent acts by white supremacists as the work of isolated madmen rather than an organized movement. By integrating Belew's rigorous historical analysis, Evans mapped out the dangerous resurgence of extremist politics in modern American history.
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Robert Evans I'm going to quote now from Bring the War Home. They took their induction oath on Matthews farm. They stood… 5
“I'm going to quote now from Bring the War Home. They took their induction oath on Matthews farm. They stood in a circle around a white female infant who symbolized the race they sought to protect.”
“According to Bring the War Home, quote, "Even if federal agents and a few journalists were aware of the White Power movement, the mainstream public continued to see most white power violence as the work of errant madmen."”
“So uh Bring the War home by Kathleen Belaloo provides good context for the nature of racial strife among US soldiers in Vietnam during the time Beam enlisted.”
“So, the white power movement began to grow again after Reagan failed to ban abortion and reinstate segregation. Uh, I'm going to quote again from the book Bring the War Home.”
“Anyway, here's how Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belaloo describes the clan border patrol. Quote, "The patrols function both as a publicity stunt and as a way to inculcate real anti-immigrant hostility and encourage acts of violence."”
