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FTR #27 Specialized Knowledge and Abilities

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This series focuses on the Nazi tac­tic of infil­trat­ing the police and mil­i­tary, in order to com­pro­mise those insti­tu­tions and acquire the “spe­cial­ized knowl­edge and abil­i­ties” required to over­throw the state. This tac­tic has been adopted by Nazis and fas­cists world-wide and is very much in evi­dence in the United States. The series ana­lyzes, among other events, the ran­dom mur­der of two black cit­i­zens in North Car­olina by off-duty para­troop­ers from the 82nd Air­borne Divi­sion, who were appar­ently mem­bers of white suprema­cist orga­ni­za­tions. The killings took place on the tenth anniver­sary of the killing of Robert Matthews (a mem­ber of “The Order”, the Nazi orga­ni­za­tion that killed Alan Berg, a Den­ver talk show host.) Other points cov­ered in the series include: an analy­sis of the mili­tia move­ment, which dis­cusses evi­dence that some ele­ments of the mili­tias may actu­ally be an exten­sion of the very gov­ern­ment they pro­fess to be opposed to; dis­cus­sion of the Okla­homa City Bomb­ing indi­cat­ing that the per­pe­tra­tors may very well have been mem­bers of an inter­na­tional fas­cist con­spir­acy; an exam­i­na­tion of the proto-Nazi “National Bol­she­vik” move­ment in Weimar Ger­many, which com­pares that move­ment to the fas­cist ele­ments within the mili­tia move­ment. (Recorded in the late win­ter and early spring of 1996.)

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