Pat Sellers in his 2010 run for PA's 6th Congressional District
I believe that more than any single person Pat Sellers is
responsible for the election of Coatesville's "Bloc of Four" City
Council. In his 1996 run for Congress the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
(https://www.box.com/shared/9a8aborcl4
) reported that Pat Sellers “sought Pratt’s support because of his
expertise on gun issues”.
Pratt's book "Armed People Victorious". Is based in part
on his experience with "death squads" in Guatemala. "Armed
People Victorious" is the "bible" of the American Militia
movement.
Eight Lanes Out
Larry Pratt, 58
Larry Pratt, a gun rights absolutist whose Gun Owners of America (GOA) has been described as "eight lanes to the right" of the National Rifle Association, may well be the person who brought the concept of citizen militias to the radical right.
In 1990, Pratt wrote a book, Armed People Victorious, based on his study of "citizen defense patrols" used in Guatemala and the Philippines against Communist rebels — patrols that came to be known as death squads for their murderous brutality.
Picturing these groups in rosy terms, Pratt advocated similar militias in the United States — an idea that finally caught on when he was invited for a meeting of 160 extremists, including many famous white supremacists, in 1992.
It was at that meeting, hosted in Colorado by white supremacist minister Pete Peters, that the contours of the militia movement were laid out...
FROM:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2001/summer/false-patriots?page=0,8#.UY6IK3e9Kc0
"GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan court on Friday
found Gen. EfraÃn RÃos Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods
of its long civil war, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity."
I think Sellers continues to influence Chester & Lancaster County Republican Party politics.
No comments:
Post a Comment
You can add your voice to this blog by posting a comment.