Describe the three events that gave rise to the new extremist right in the 1990s. How did the extremist right mutate after 9/11?
What will be an ideal response?
• First, the Brady Bill caused many conservatives to fear federal gun-control legislation.
• The extremist right played on these fears, toning down issues like white supremacy and Christian Identity and claiming that the intrusive federal government was out to eliminate gun ownership.
• The second issue dealt with U.S. Marshal's office attempt to arrest Randy Weaver on a bench warrant at Ruby Ridge in the mountains of Idaho.
• A white supremacist and adherent of Christian Identity, Weaver was charged with selling illegal firearms to undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).
• Weaver was arrested and released on bail.
• When he refused to appear for the assigned court date, U.S. marshals tried to bring him in; U.S. Marshal William Degan and Weaver's young son, Sammy, were killed in the ensuing shootout.
• The FBI responded by laying siege to Weaver's mountain cabin, an FBI sniper shot and killed Weaver's pregnant wife before Weaver surrendered.
• The third event: the federal siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
• In 1993 ATF agents attempted to serve a search warrant on the compound, but they were met with a hail of gunfire, four agents were killed, and several were wounded.
• When the FBI moved in, after a three month siege, the Branch Davidians burned their fortress, killing eighty-two people, including several young children, inside the compound.
• After being revitalized in the 1990s, the movement mutated after September 11, 2001
• Violent members of the right-wing movement melted away from large organizations and began to congregate in small groups.
• Following the pattern of international terrorist groups, they organized chains or hubs, small groups operating autonomously; the movement in the Pacific Northwest looks more like a conglomeration of terrorist cells.
• They remain violent and anticipate that white Christians will experience an anti-Jewish awakening.
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