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Louis Beam
FBI ten most wanted poster as fugitive #414
Born
Louis Ray Beam Jr.

(1946-08-20) 20 August 1946 (age 79)[1]
Lufkin, Texas[1]
OccupationPolitical activist
Known forThe first important proponent of leaderless resistance within the white supremacist movement
MovementWhite supremacism

Louis Ray Beam Jr. (born August 20, 1946) is an American white supremacist.

After high school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam.[2] He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.[3] Once he returned to the United States, he became a Klansman, leading a maritime[4] Louisiana KKK element and Klan rally in Texas against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fishermen.[5][6] He was also the leader of the Texas Emergency Reserve, a militia that was disbanded by the courts in 1982 as a result of a lawsuit filed under Texas anti-militia law by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[7][8] The lawsuit was brought by SPLC after the militia harassed Vietnamese fishermen during the 1981 fishing season.

Beam was using Camp Puller near Houston in 1980 to train militia, including children as young as eight years old, in armed guerrilla tactics; the camp was shut down after publicity led to protests, and parents complaining that they were not aware of the children's activities at the camp.[9] The Boy Scouts Council of Houston rejected a charter request from the troop at Camp Puller.[10] Videotape shown during the shrimper hearing had Beam saying, "We're going to assume authority in this country."[11] He moved to Idaho afterwards and became active with Aryan Nations in the early 1980s.[12]

He was arrested November 6, 1987, at home with his wife in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the arrest, Beam's wife opened fire and critically injured a Mexican police officer. He was wanted as a fugitive #414 of the FBI ten most wanted list on charges of seditious conspiracy to violently overthrow the U.S. government.[13]

In 1988, he was later acquitted in a separate case of conspiring to overthrow the government.[7] He is considered to be the first important proponent of the strategy of leaderless resistance within the white supremacist movement.[14][15][16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Louis Ray Beam Jr.: Racist Leader Headed for Downfall?". Southern Poverty Law Center. June 18, 2002. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  2. ^ Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the blood: the pagan revival and white separatism. Duke University Press. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-8223-3071-4.
  3. ^ "Louis Beam". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  4. ^ Dees M. & Corcoran J. Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat (1997) photo with caption
  5. ^ Wade, Wyn Craig (1998). The fiery cross: the Ku Klux Klan in America. Oxford University Press US. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-19-512357-9.
  6. ^ Belew, Kathleen (2019). Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (paperback ed.). London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 46.
  7. ^ a b Gallaher, Carolyn (2003). On the fault line : race, class, and the American patriot movement. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742519732. OCLC 50554807.
  8. ^ Belew, Bring the War Home, 37.
  9. ^ "PARAMILITARY CAMP IS CLOSED BY OWNER; Lethal Training for Klan Members Stirs a Strong Public Protest". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  10. ^ "Woman Asserts Scouts Planned to Hunt Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  11. ^ AP (May 13, 1981). "Around the Nation; Videotapes of Klan Leader Shown at Shrimper Hearing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  12. ^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. NYU Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8147-3155-0.
  13. ^ "Mexican police have arrested a white supremacist leader named... - UPI Archives". UPI. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  14. ^ Laqueur, Walter (2000). The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. Oxford University Press US. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-19-514064-4.
  15. ^ "US Domestic Terrorism: Ku Klux Klan". www.historycommons.org. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  16. ^ Belew, Bring the War Home, 109.
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