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~ (Author) "Randy Weaver, a former Green Beret in his mid-thirties, moved to Idaho from Iowa in the early 1980s..." (more)
Key Phrases: many militia members, militia movement, unorganized militia, United States, Oklahoma City, Aryan Nations (more...)
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The violent, horrific events that plagued Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City thrust subversive militia under the public microscope, exposing the growing feeling of mistrust that has caused some to take up arms against the government. The more extreme among these anti-government "patriots" are examined in A Force upon the Plain, as Kenneth Stern keenly focuses on the growing influence and anger of the paramilitary movement. Stern investigates the reasons some are compelled to join, delivering objective and insightful analyses that eschew media hype and the misconceptions that characterize much coverage of modern militia.

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Stern (Holocaust Denial) issues a wake-up call regarding the growing paramilitary movement, which, he estimates, has a membership of between 10,000 and 40,000, largely in states west of the Mississippi. Most of these militia members (principally men) are armed, view the federal government as the enemy of the people and feel that civil war is not only possible but justifiable. Stern cites evidence that, in addition to paranoid, these people are often racist, anti-Semitic, anti-environmentalist and anti-gun control. With the collapse of the Soviet regime, he points out, the most easily defined target of hatred disappeared, and has now been replaced by the U.N. and the federal government. Stern warns that the paramilitary groups should not be dismissed but recognized as a genuine threat, as the Oklahoma City bombing dramatized. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition. edition (January 10, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0684819163
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684819167
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.6 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,429,436 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Okay if you want a particular slant on understanding, October 5, 2000
This review is from: A Force upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate ; With a New Foreword by the Author (Paperback)
Stern's book does in journalistic fashion detail some of the "events" that have occured recently related to this fuzzy group known as the militia. However I would agree with most other reviewers here that this work proceeds from the desire to further alienate the already alienated and offers little in the way of allowing the reader to understand this phenomena. I'd recommend Dyer's Harvest of Rage for an understanding of this issue.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a reliable source of information on the militias., June 13, 1997
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I'm sorry, but this book is nothing short of a smear job. Everyone is well aware of the fact that some modest portion of the militia movement is allied with racist or Nazi viewpoints. Stern, unfortunately, seems intent on practicing a sort of leftist McCarthyism in which he sees all opponents of the government as inherently racist, neo-Nazi, proto-skinhead thugs. This book is raw sensationalism at its worst. Stern's attempts to equate hatred of the government with hatred of groups of people such as Blacks or Jews is simply incredible. The idea that a person who places an anti-IRS bumpersticker on their car is the same as a person who gets a swastika tatoo, which frequently seems to be Stern's thesis, is ludicrous
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9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Seems more convincing than its detractors., June 23, 1999
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Well, I'm just as sorry as I can be that the members of the various militias feel that they're the victims of paranoia. Maybe now they have some idea of how the ACLU, the feminist movement, gay rights advocates, the Black Panthers, Americans for the Separation of Church and State, and dozens of other organizations feel when they're judged unfairly; of course, none of those agencies are cursed by the militias' burden of extremist ties, reprinted hate literature, and those pesky 140-odd dead in Oklahoma City.

I found Mr. Stern's book to be informative and convincing. As for his detractors, I just have to know: if militias aren't bands of right-wing racist/sexist/homophobic/religiously intolerant fanatics, then why are they exclusively made up of straight white Christian males? Where are the black militias, the Asian-American militias, the Jewish militias, the Muslim militias, the gay militias, the woman-dominated militias, or even the MIXED militias? If the militias aren't the vile and dangerous threats to the American way of life that Mr. Stern depicts them as, then what's with all the HATE LITERATURE and GUNS? What am I missing here?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Could it Be Any Worse?
If the facts don't fit, make up some facts! This book isn't about militias, it's about white supremecy organizations. Read more
Published on September 24, 2006 by Lester Smith

1.0 out of 5 stars is writing down so many lies even legal?
this book is total and utter trash. not even worth ripping out the pages and burning to keep yourself warm. Read more
Published on June 7, 2006 by Total Resistance dot Com

1.0 out of 5 stars Another waste of time and money
Anyone who understands anything about the militia movement in america first knows that the american militia is not limited to a bunch of white hicks living in the woods. Read more
Published on September 21, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Typical unsubstatiated BULL manure...
I bought this book because I had heard that I was written up in it. Sure enough, there were two different places that I came up in the book. Read more
Published on March 10, 2001 by Mark Reynolds

3.0 out of 5 stars Loses steam quickly...
Kenneth Stern does an exceptional job describing the facts surrounding the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents, and how the attitudes generated from those incidents fueled the militia... Read more
Published on August 7, 2000 by Kevin

4.0 out of 5 stars Accurate view of the paranoid, radical right.
Stern's research on the background and personal profiles of several militias and their leaders is accurate. Read more
Published on October 24, 1999 by TSullivan

5.0 out of 5 stars Kenneth S. Stern
Stern's "book" is really just a joke, right?
Published on April 23, 1998 by rhall@tpmc-dc.com

2.0 out of 5 stars Propaganda Fun
Read this book if you love to read some good ol' propaganda. Actually, I would suggest checking it out at the local library. Read more
Published on October 22, 1997

1.0 out of 5 stars An intellectually dishonest hatchet job.
This is a survey of some rather insignificant groups of social misfits we sometimes call "hate groups", but they are not militias, and don't even call themselves... Read more
Published on September 11, 1997

2.0 out of 5 stars An example of falsely yelling "fire!" in a crowded theatre
A prime example of neo-McCarthyism. Condemns themilitia movement through guilt by association.Libelously accuses militia leader Samuel Sherwood of incitement to violence with a... Read more
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