Armed and Dangerous [antikvár]

Preface to the New Edition A decade has passed since America's hate group nightmare opened in the hail of machine-gun fire from a racist-survivalist hit squad that took the life of a Jewish talk-radio host named Alan Berg in his Denver driveway. The death of this one man, which just a few years ago seemed an almost indescribable atrocity, is no longer unique. Now Alan Berg is just one more casualty in a war in which the body count stands in the hundreds after survivalist-inspired catastrophes in Waco, Texas, in 1993 and in Oklahoma City in 1995. Yet this book, which was written in an effort to understand the malevolent forces that robbed Berg of his life, has as much to say to those who would understand Waco and Oklahoma City as it does to those who grappled with the grotesque disclosures about the seething American hate underground that emerged when investigators solved the Berg case. That probe encountered a maze of paranoia and violence, a melange of misfits as diverse as the "congregation" at the Neo-Nazi Church of Jesus Christ Christian Aryan Nations, in Idaho's rugged north country, and demented lone wolves like David Rice, who