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Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat

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I revisited this book after noting Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center's continuing miserably low rating with charity watchdog The American Institute of Philanthropy. Fifteen years ago, Dees promised to stop fundarising at $55 million, only to raise that to $100 million two years later. Now he has $120 million and spends $6 million per year on fundraising and only half that much on helping victims of civil rights violations. I can't find a single figure, let alone a detailed financial report, on the SPLC web site. But he did build himself a massive stainless steel office building in Montgomery.
Race-baiting and scare-mongering pays very well, at least for Moe.

Dees has a desire to emasculate those who have reacted to what they see as unfair. We have a very sad state of affairs where people lose what they have and no one fights for their rights and assists them to keep what they have.

Can Dees look at those with a sincere need to recoup losses and regain a sense of dignity? As we lose more individually owned farms and ranches to the big corporate comglomerate who buys at a discount from themselves, further dissenfranchising the farmer, what do we do. If you want to understand the struggle of those in rural America read Harvest of Rage.

Dees, in his tabloid-style account of the militia movement, omits facts, and connects militias to racist groups, a gross and innacurate generalization if ever there was one. Horribly biased throughout, this irresponsible book gets even worse in its last chapter, in which Dees rationalizes limiting the liberties of good, honest Americans for the security of paranoid winged monkeys of the New World Order such as himself.

This is one of the best books I've read about the militia movement. It's extremely well documented and so neatly detailed it can be overwhelming. I was personally appalled by learning about the degree of paranoia displayed by most so-called "patriots" believing seriously deranged and illogical conspiracy theories. The part of the book that interested me most was the one where Dees details the connections between the militia movement and white supremacism and anti-Semitism. Same old hate in a new dress.

I would also like to point out that I found most of the reviews in this section to be extremely biased, paranoid and absolutely demeaning. Most of the previous reviews are nothing but rants attacking the person of Morris Dees. I wanted to balance those subjective views by pointing out that Mr. Dees is the person responsible for putting the KKK out of business by legal means, a hero of Human Rights. It's no surprise that most pro-militia readers automatically dislike Dees. As I said before, same old hate in a new dress.

The groups the author writes about are not militias, and by his own admission during a television interview, they don't even call themselves militias. He totally ignores the true militia movement, which detests hate groups and has nothing to do with them, and misapplies the term "militia" to such detestable groups as a way, apparently, to try to discredit critics of the extensive usurpation of undelegated powers by the government and the massive violations of civil rights by officials. The author once won a lawsuit against a KKK group, and has since made a living trying to magnify the threat from hate groups, most of which are insignificant, as a way to get support from contributors. The greatest threat from racists is from those who have infiltrated the government at all levels, and which the militia movement has been instrumental in exposing, such as the annual "Good 'Ol Boys Roundup", an orgy of racism and sexism that is attended by law enforcement and judicial personnel , federal, state, and local

If you want to read a book filled with hate speech, and constant innuendo, one that is short on facts, but long on meandering lectures that try to paint a picture that is just not there this might be the book for you.. nothing in the book dovetails with anything the FBI analysis has shown to be the current state of militia's.. in fact the numbers from the FBI, when compared to what is painted in this book are almost direct and complete opposites..

If you want a creative colorful fantasy, this is the book for you, if you want truth and facts look else where.. this book is a huge waste of money and time..

Save your money, go read the FBI reports they are online, and they are free, and they are not a waste of your time and money like this book is.

..wish I could get my money back, I feel like I was ripped off..

149 used from $0.01, man that says it all. Dees is a race-baiting huckster who has reaped millions from his unverified and delusional rants. His favorite ploy to to go after goobers and steal their compounds for publicity and donations. Yet, while hate groups like the Nation of Islam appear on his "hate-watch" web site, they NEVER EVER go after them in any way. If one of his "agents" happens to drive by a picnic on a windy day and the ground cloth blows over those gathered a new hate group pin will show up on their little map the next day. Why won't ANYBODY put these charletons under the microscope? This book is wipe for a camping trip, nothing more, nothing less.

Gathering Storm This book does an excellent job of reflecting american militias! Great for beginners. If you know nothing about militias, this book will turn you into a real genius about them(NO JOKE!)! Before I bought this book, I knew absolutely nothing about militias(I wasn't even sure what militias were). After reading this book, I knew so much about it(friends would tease me about it. They always told people that I was a militia member due to the abundant information I knew about militias). This book is great with explaining everything from beginning up to McVeigh! GREAT BOOK! EXTREMELY DETAILED!!! ILIYA PESIC

Google his name and see what court documents said about him and some things he had done.

Morris Dees is not a very nice guy and make millions off of peddeling hate literature. He wants you to be scared of the militia devils out there and the only way to be safe is to send him money. Of course his charitable rating is about as low as it can get and he already has a few hundred million but it isn't enough to save you. Send him more money or the militia will get you.

Morris seems to forget that many militiamen are BLACK. Many miltiamen are JEWISH. I know I know. That won't bring in money so that is why you won't read about that in his book.

Some of his 'proof' of the crimes these evil militia's have done are listed simply as 'two white guys rob a store'. Thats it! Some of his groups are listed as 'unknown group with unknown members'. Morris wasn't even smart enough to finish his book with at least a fake group.

You want to know about the militia? Then look in the mirror because YOU are the militia.

Then after you google some info about 'mr' Dees, look up some quotes on the founders on the militia or better yet check out some militia pages and see that Morris is full of hot air and other people's money.

Morris, didn't mommy tell you it wasn't nice to lie about people? Sicko.

This book should classified as Hate Literature. I've followed Morris Dees and he is one of the most hateful people, cowering under the umbrella of "liberalism".

This book is over a decade old and none of the fear-mongering he promoted in this book has come to light.

Now that we have a new enemy, and to prove Dees doesn't just hate white Christians (which is very obvious), I would like him to write a companion book, or amend this one with our new threat, Radical Islam, who pose a real and valid fear within America.

For some reason, I don't think he will.