THEY WANT to KILL AMERICANS: THE MILITIAS, TERRORISTS, and DERANGED IDEOLOGY of the TRUMP INSURGENCY (audiobook) by Malcolm Nance
Read by Ari Fliakos.
Duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes.
Unabridged.
Malcolm Nance served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy in cryptology. His work led him to work in intelligence and counter-terrorism. Since his retirement from the military he has worked an additional 20 years as a consultant to the military, as a college lecturer on the topic of counter-terrorism, and as the head of a think tank.
Nance applied what he knows about terrorism to the January 6 Riot and comes up with a series of disturbing conclusions.
Nance is concerned that the most extreme elements of the MAGA movement have gone beyond rhetoric and casual flirtation with militia movements and have actively engaged with them. This book was published in July of 2022 but yesterday (November 29, 2022) two leaders of the Oath Keepers militia were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Why was a fringe militia group in Washington, D.C. on that date? In the trial it was established that one of the reasons they were there was to provide security for speakers and VIPs at the Trump rally that immediately preceded the attack on the Capitol.
Nance's point would be that it should be a major point of concern when politicians move from official security to armed thugs who are not answerable to official authority. They become a private army.
Roger Stone has been a Republican campaign strategist since the days of Richard Nixon. He is an infamous dirty trickster. He was an advisor to former President Trump - close enough that he received an official Presidential pardon from Trump when Stone was convicted of lying to Congress. Roger Stone met with the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys multiple times before the election. It is well-documented because Stone was participating in a documentary. He was quite open about using violence to overturn the results of the election and he was clearly hanging out taking selfies and posing for photos with two violent militia groups in the days before January 6.
This book provides a handy guide to the militia movement in the United States. He provides recent histories, ideologies, relative strengths, and connections to the GOP establishment. Some of them are shockingly well connected. It is sobering and more than a little depressing to see how low the GOP has sunk. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan even acknowledging the existence of a group like the Proud Boys, let alone letting them speak with his advisors and telling them to, "Stand back and stand by" in a national televised debate. The Proud Boys were encouraged, not dissuaded.
Some might argue that groups like the Proud Boys are really a response to Antifa. It is not an unreasonable argument. Antifa is a real thing and they can be violent street brawlers. The difference is that Antifa is not serving as bodyguards for Democrat politicians. They are not serving as Joe Biden's off-the-books muscle.
This book is unlikely to change the mind of your hard-core MAGA uncle, but it does offer a sobering analysis of the situation the American republic finds itself in. It is good to have a long and hard look at this side of our political situation. This is a depressing and important work.
I rate this audiobook 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: THEY WANT to KILL AMERICANS: THE MILITIAS, TERRORISTS, and DERANGED IDEOLOGY of the TRUMP INSURGENCY (audiobook) by Malcolm Nance.
Duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes.
Unabridged.
Malcolm Nance served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy in cryptology. His work led him to work in intelligence and counter-terrorism. Since his retirement from the military he has worked an additional 20 years as a consultant to the military, as a college lecturer on the topic of counter-terrorism, and as the head of a think tank.
Nance applied what he knows about terrorism to the January 6 Riot and comes up with a series of disturbing conclusions.
Nance is concerned that the most extreme elements of the MAGA movement have gone beyond rhetoric and casual flirtation with militia movements and have actively engaged with them. This book was published in July of 2022 but yesterday (November 29, 2022) two leaders of the Oath Keepers militia were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Why was a fringe militia group in Washington, D.C. on that date? In the trial it was established that one of the reasons they were there was to provide security for speakers and VIPs at the Trump rally that immediately preceded the attack on the Capitol.
Nance's point would be that it should be a major point of concern when politicians move from official security to armed thugs who are not answerable to official authority. They become a private army.
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| Roger Stone in a golf cart with his Oathkeeper security forces. Click on the picture to get a larger image and read the shoulder patch of the man at the wheel of the cart. Do you want your President's advisors to hang out with violent, organized gangs? What does that mean for our political future? |
This book provides a handy guide to the militia movement in the United States. He provides recent histories, ideologies, relative strengths, and connections to the GOP establishment. Some of them are shockingly well connected. It is sobering and more than a little depressing to see how low the GOP has sunk. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan even acknowledging the existence of a group like the Proud Boys, let alone letting them speak with his advisors and telling them to, "Stand back and stand by" in a national televised debate. The Proud Boys were encouraged, not dissuaded.
Some might argue that groups like the Proud Boys are really a response to Antifa. It is not an unreasonable argument. Antifa is a real thing and they can be violent street brawlers. The difference is that Antifa is not serving as bodyguards for Democrat politicians. They are not serving as Joe Biden's off-the-books muscle.
This book is unlikely to change the mind of your hard-core MAGA uncle, but it does offer a sobering analysis of the situation the American republic finds itself in. It is good to have a long and hard look at this side of our political situation. This is a depressing and important work.
I rate this audiobook 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: THEY WANT to KILL AMERICANS: THE MILITIAS, TERRORISTS, and DERANGED IDEOLOGY of the TRUMP INSURGENCY (audiobook) by Malcolm Nance.
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