Re: militias and finance capital

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good questions.  So:
On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Scott Marshall wrote:

> Bryan:
>
> >An obvious and immediate angle of appeal (or attack) for a left approach
> >to the militias is to work with their hatred of finance capital.
> >
> Scott:
>
> 1) As someone who has spent time face to face talking to these guys, I don't
> think they hate finance captial, it's more like Jewish bankers.
This aspect, although true, *seems* overblown by corporate media.  In my
limited experience, I've found the proportions of militia and total US
populations who believe in Elders of Zion, Bilderberger, etc, crap to be
about the same.  Not that it's a good thing, mind.
 >
> 2) Has anyone else noticed the preponderance of 'retired' us military cadres
> in these movements?
This is always a staple for paramilitary groups.  Think about US
gangsters in the 1920s, fresh from the trenches, skilled in machineguns.
Think of Soviet Red Army vets from Afghanistan now employed by Russian
mafia.  Then again, these guys tend to be underclass, right?
 >

> 3) Also I suspect that with some digging we can show some interesting money
> links between finance capital and the militias.
THIS is a serious angle.  Has there been any work done?  I'd add this to
Louis P's excellent list of research items.
 >
> 4) Their anti-government stance is very selective - they support a 'strong'
> military and increased military spending for example.
        This is not a general opinion, again based on my limited
experience (talking with some of these guys, reading a variety of
sources).  They seem isolationist, more often.



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