became a real life rebellion. powerful new white supremacist armies sprung up in the 1980s. boasting tens of thousands of hard core members. you could say we re the front line soldiers for the movement. one group actually took its name from the book, the order. there was a sea change in the kind of activity carried out by the white power movement. the groups adopted the book s terrorist tactics. they stole $4 million. including armed robberies to get funding. allen burr was murdered. and assassinations. ten defendants were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the u.s. government. the federal government tried to bring the movement down. did you plan to overthrow the government? indicting several of its ringleaders on seditious conspiracy and other charges, but they were all acquitted by an all-white jury.
49 people were killed in domestic extremist attacks. the white house refused to beef up the fight. there s a mindset that has to be dealt with. this is not just an american story. there is now a worldwide movement of white supremacists. sharing their twisted ideas on the internet. in march, a gunman massacred 51 people at prayer in new zealand. in his 87-page manifesto, the terrorist cited his inspiration. white supremacists in america, britain, sweden, norway.
get em back, get em back! a truck bomb rips through a federal building. there was a boom and there was nothing left. seemed like the whole world ended. 168 are dead. including 19 children. you are not watching some scene of international catastrophe. you are looking at your own backyard. at the time, it was the deadliest attack on american soil since pearl harbor. the terrorist, a young man named timothy mcveigh. he has been thought of as a lone wolf. but in reality, he was part of a movement. what do we want? white power! when do we want it? he had been a member of the ku klux klan. he had contacts with other white supremacists across the country.
shameful chapter in europe s history in which europeans had often treated their foreign subjects brutally. for instance, at the end of the 19th century, belgians murdered thousands. millions. in the congo. in the 1950s the the british tortured and killed thousands in detention camps in kenya. the backlash to post-colonial guilt, the new right, remained on the fringes for decades. soon a new movement turned the ideas of the nouvelle droite into action. they call themselves the identitarians. the internet gave the identitarians the culture to build a new movement. an ber interconnected movement. our movement is growing. nationalism. population replacement. the great replacement. they tweet and repost one
the trial is really important because when it collapsed, the government got paranoid and really backed away from treating white supremacy as a coherent movement. is it our young people who are going to reclaim america. sieg heil! emboldened, these white power groups gained even more momentum in the 1980s, collaborating with other anti-government militias. the white power movement grows into the militia movement. then a bloody standoff. his son and wife and a united states s marshal were killed. between white separatists and federal agents the government in ruby ridge, idaho, and the branch of the davidian cult battling the feds near waco, texas. you are a disgrace to the white race. brought the movement to a fever pitch. while these incidents are