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| QUOTE (Hannibal_Smith @ 5 March 2018 - 06:01 PM) | If anyone cares, I just finished reading a book that came out last year called "Hitler In Los Angeles" by Stephen J. Ross, which people who enjoyed this episode might be interested in.
It covers the activities of Nazi and Nazi-affiliated groups in 1930s Los Angeles (groups like this existed in a lot of places, but it turns out LA was an unusually strong center of activity for them), and efforts to investigate them. Depressingly, "efforts to investigate them" mostly doesn't mean the police. The book is about the work is done by a Jewish lawyer named Leon Lewis and a number of his friends and associates, many of them veterans and many of them Jewish, who tried to infiltrate and either disrupt or raise awareness of the activities of these groups. For 90% of the book, the LAPD and LA Sheriff's Department are completely useless, largely because they're chock-full of people who sympathize with the Nazis and/or who don't view them as a real threat and/or don't care what they're doing because they figure they're only doing it to Jews and blacks and commies and other people who deserve it anyway. The FBI is barely better; they, too, don't really care about Nazi movements, they're obsessed with Communists instead, and remain that way pretty much all the way until the outbreak of the war. As for getting the public to pay attention, that too is a heavy lift. People in general aren't fans of Hitler, but plenty of them are still antisemites and/or suspicious of Jewish activists that they think are just trying to get the entire country to care about problems that're specific to them.
When the war starts, LA's fascist groups are finally cracked down on hard, but it's noted that 90% of the intelligence the local FBI office relies on for that is simply stuff that Leon Lewis and his associates fed them - they themselves didn't do a hell of a lot.
In other words, it's the kind of book that "The Ten Percent Solution" might've been based on, if it had been released a few decades earlier. Not just for its coverage of American Nazis, but its coverage of American Nazis with sympathizers in all kinds of highly placed spots. |
Interesting.
What you describe is not so abnormal. If there really was a viable threat, I'd say the government would be investigating and not the police. Besides before the Pearl, the US didn't want have anything to do with what was at that time a European war. And there still was no OSS at the time either to investigate. But indeed the idea of such movements are scary, even if it was before the war. I've read once that Hitler had plans to invade America. Maybe this was a sort of prelude to start those plans. Eventually they haven't got any further but I also read that U-boats were creeping around the coast of Florida and the America was to be defeated in 1980 after years even decades of preparations.
Looks like an interesting book nonetheless.
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| QUOTE (MacBeth @ 12 June 2010 - 11:27 AM) |
From what I recall, Rocky, there wasn't a specific event at the time of production, but there was a very high level of anxiety. The Aryan Nations had settled in Idaho with the express purpose of establishing a five-state area as the new Aryan homeland, which is the origin of the 'ten percent solution' idea (5 states out of 50). California was never one of the states they wanted -- it was too heavily populated and already had (in the eyes of the racists) too many minority residents. But since MacGyver is set in California, they had to show that as part of the target area.
They planned to have all the white supremacists in the US move to the area -- Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and (I think) Wyoming -- take over, and secede from the US. The 'Master Plan' never grew past the single Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, largely because the white supremacists aren't a unified group -- they're a huge number of individual groups acknowledging no central leader. When the call went out, the racists in other parts of the country basically said, "Why should we listen to you and move out there? You move here."
And in the end, the Aryan Nations went too far and lost everything except their hatred. The Idahoans (with some exceptions) were very happy to see them broken.
Not that many years ago, I recall the Libertarians tried the same thing with Vermont, and failed in much the same way.
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Today, July 21st, I happened to be watching a documentary about a guy he turned witness against the Aryan brotherhood. In the documentary it refers to the Aryan brotherhood as "The Brand." Interesting that villain wasFrau Brandenburg and that her nephew's last name was Brand.
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| QUOTE (MacGyverOnline @ 21 July 2018 - 08:35 PM) | | QUOTE (AmigaDeVenezuela @ 22 July 2018 - 02:44 PM) | | QUOTE (KiwiTek @ 25 March 2013 - 01:35 AM) | | I've seen him squint in other episodes when he's concentrating on doing something. I think it's one of those "acting with your face" things he does. |
I read somewhere Anderson is farsighted. He would have to squint to see things close up.
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He wears contact lenses to correct his vision - so no problem there.  |
That's the one thing I can't do: willingly put something in my eyes. I rather get a 1000 vaccinations. 
"He always used to say, 'There are no great things to be accomplished in? this life, just small things done with great love.'" Rachel, remembering Father Jim
"Primitive working conditions. Lowsy hours. Monster workload. No pay. What a deal!"-MacGyver Slow Death about the clinic for Hassan's people.
"...but our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us." Peeta Mellark in Catching Fire.
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