Far-Right Extremists Gather At ‘Liberty Convention’ | TPMMuckraker
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The event — organized by far-right activist Mona Docteur, and her Celebrating Conservatism group — was predicted to attract 5000 conservative foot soldiers. In fact, only around 250 showed up. But what the event lacked in numbers, it more than made up for in the anti-government animus — and sometimes outright wackiness — of some of its speakers. (See a flier for the event here.)
Docteur herself was tied to a recent effort to have local leaders in Montana fill out a “questionnaire” pledging, among other things, to form a local militia and to make federal government employees to get written approval before approaching “any Citizen.”
Here’s a quick rundown on some of the other speakers:
Red Beckman: A veteran tax protester who has frequently clashed with the IRS, Beckman is also a conspiracy theorist who according to an Anti-Defamation League report has said that the “Federal Reserve Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the so-called New World Order are conspiring to dominate the world.” In his 1984 book The Church Deceived, Beckman wrote that the Holocaust was God’s judgment on Jews for worshipping Satan. He also has spoken at Christian Identity events, which promote a white supremacist version of Christianity.
Beckman told the Liberty Convention this weekend that the federal government was violating the Old Testament commandments about respecting God, and would fall just as the atheist Soviet Union had, reports The Missoulian. “I know the federal, small-g god is going to go down,” he said. “The king I serve says its going to go down.” He also said that under the current administration, “You’ve got to be the scum of the legal profession to get on the Supreme Court.”
More at the link.