Review of the Kurt Saxon WWW Page.

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"That People Which Eliminates Its
Underclass Will Control The
World And Save The Planet."

--Kurt Saxon

AS A RESULT OF SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS, which came off the introduction to his WWW page, Kurt Saxon has pretty well nullified any opportunity to run for elective office. But then again, he has no intention of becoming just another degenerate thieving politician trying to suck down as much pelf as possible before this "Disneyland for dummies" comes a cropper.

Kurt Saxon (a descriptive name he chose -- and he is one very kurt Saxon to fools) coined the term 'Survivalist' a number of years ago. A Survivalist by his definition is a person determined towards "survival without savagery" by choosing to prepare himself mentally for the hard times ahead.

A Survivalist is not a parasite or a preditor. By preparing for the worst by learning a useful trade from the 19th century, before the advent of the modern conveniences and complications, plus by laying in a stock of food and tools, a Survivalist helps ensure that his presence is a blessing, not a burden, in the societies which will coalesce around such like-minded individuals after the impending collapse. Philosophically, a Survivalist can be deemed a steadfast defender and preserver of civilization because he is not taking away anything except himself and his own from a decaying civilization which had no use for him anyway and dedicating himself to the rebuilding of another civilization hopefully free of the defects which ensured the demise of this one. Thus the Survivalist is a pioneer, a builder, a soldier, an outrider for a reinvigorated civilization.

Mr. Saxon takes a number of observable facts and draws a number of conclusions. They are not 'nice' conclusions and most certainly not "politically correct." However, the facts and conclusions drawn by Kurt Saxon have a logic and down-to-earth common sense that is not easily gainsaid. Yes, Saxon's conclusions can be ignored. But you do so at your own peril.

I became aware of Mr. Saxon through his excellent "U.S. Militia" magazine, which in turn directed me to the works of Lothrup Stoddard. I have on my own WWW page most of Stoddard's 1922 classic, "The Revolt against Civilization." Much of this work is the philosophical underpinning behind Saxon's belief that the bane of our civilization is caused by underbred masses negating all the progress of post-Renaissance Man.

Saxon does include in his WWW page a review of "Atlas Shrugged" because it can be "convenient to borrow a philosophy which puts us in the picture oncerning how we will, or will not, be used by our political and bureaucratic manipulators." Mr. Saxon derived his own philosophy before reading Atlas Shrugged. Even more to the point enumerated by Mr. Saxon's philosophy is a reprint of Professor Garrett Hardin's "Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept." While Mr. Saxon and Professor Hardin (not to mention Paul Ehrlich) are neo-Malthusians, and this reviewer is not, it is agreed that the only way to get around environmental shortages is through the exercise of purposeful will combined with resolute wisdom -- moral qualities in far greater shortage than mere raw materials.

Regardless of whether of not you agree with Saxon's philosophy, Saxon has a number of practical survivalist techniques, such as tire gardening, thermos cookery, alcohol making, even improvised weaponry. Saxon collects old technology from the 19th Century and adapts it to today's world.

Saxon has no use for what he calls " the idiocy of space-capsule survivalists," who he says want only to buy stuff, then emerge to parasite off the people who rebuild society. Rather the whole point to survivalism is to have small communities of survivors interact to defend themselves and to set the stage for civilization's rebirth rather than face new centuries of a new Dark Age. Such a view is sympathetic to the small, family-based 'cell' militia units, interested only in making a series of small alliances among people of proven worth and letting the overall society destroy itself -- as is inevitable anyway.

Such beliefs translate into 'an attitude' on Mr. Saxon's part inevitably leading to a disdain of public militias, talk-radio and short-wave patriots and the anti-New World Order conspiracy theorists. Mr. Saxon uses his sardonic wit and sharp tongue to skewer such people. He has a mean thing or several to say about every nitwit and con-artist.

Rush Limbaugh

"Rush mastered telling Conservatives what they want to hear. His stock in trade is hope. That's all he gives his audience and it's false hope, which prevents action on an individual's behalf. He concentrates on national problems and directs his comments to those locked into the system. If the system goes, they go with it. Most of them are unable to adapt to any sort of self-sufficient lifestyle.

So what Rush has going for him now, and growing, is simply a cult patterned on the John Birch Society. Useless to the member but quite profitable to the cult leader.

The fact is that most conspiracies are made up by people like Rush to scare the helpless into supporting them. This gives false hope to those who are aware enough to seek alternatives to a lifestyle they stand to lose. Rush is certainly aware. I can tell from listening to him that he has an excellent frame of reference and so must know that this Disneyland for dummies is about to close down and doom most of his "ditto heads".

I've never heard him discuss self-sufficiency as such. Nor have I heard him discuss anything important from the standpoint of individual effort as opposed to ineffectual group protest. He undoubtedly has as part of his audience, some of the best of our species. If he was as free and outspoken as he boasts, he could urge this segment of his audience to learn the self-reliance of their ancestors, just in case. But he's neither free nor outspoken. His advertisers permit him to denounce the bureaucracy. This is always safe, no matter how radical it may seem."

So Mr. Saxon does indeed listen to Rush Limbaugh from time to time. As a result of listening to Rush and the Ditto-Heads through his own filter, Saxon seems less than positively impressed.

"Never Trust a Patriot"

"The plain and sad truth is that some people who are anxious and alarmed by world conditions are flattered as "patriots" by frauds marking them as suckers for a line of foolish propaganda and worthless goods. The "patriot" movement isn't a movement at all but a sucker market, a flock of sheep to shear.

" . . . This wussy is a perfect example of a "patriot". A Prozac Poster Boy, . . . so driven by anxiety and fear he wouldn't dare to confront an enemy. Even if he had the guts, he wouldn't have the common sense to check out such a rumor, even in his own county."

"Now as to why you can't trust a "patriot"; it should be obvious. He's been alienated from the rest of society by the conspiracy mongers. He's been made to see himself as a kind of secret agent working against an enemy only he and a relative few like him can recognize. This makes him feel important and threatened at the same time. The "patriot" locks himself out of the real world. He can accept no ideas which don't reinforce his fantasies. Whereas normal people have their fantasies, the "patriot's" fantasies have him. He has a Jew in his closet, an ATF man under his bed and an FBI man reading his mail and tapping his phone.

Those around him who don't see things his way are either stupid or are working for the enemy. He can't depend on the stupid ones and those he considers aware but unsympathetic, he sees as traitors. Anyone who isn't with him is against him.

So he falls into the habit of using people for "the cause". No commitment or promise is above that cause. The biggest part of the cause is his struggle against the Jews, Feds and the U.N. You simply can't trust a person the conspiracy mongers have taken over.

But a person who's wasting his time and resources on the "Conspiracy" can be turned around. Actually, he's ahead since he does have a cause, whereas most people just drift along with the social tide, blowing neither hot nor cold, as it were. All he has had, up to now is zeal worthy of a better cause. So the idea is to give him a better cause, a positive cause which doesn't cost a lot and by which he can help save the best of our species.

That cause is Survivalism. . . ."

The Militia

"The latest gun-selling scam is the Militia market. Organize a flock of turkeys to fight the Jews, Feds and the U.N. and sell them guns, ammo, camos and Boy Scout equipment. All those weekend warriors buying guns and equipment makes gun dealers rich and keeps the conspiracy mongers in business, justifying such a waste of money and time. A great market but no more than a market."

Didn't think he was 12-star militia general material anyway. Talking to 'the troops' that a way.

Assorted Patriots, Kooks, Nuts & Flakes

". . . If they were telling the truth they would indeed be heroic. If people like Linda Thompson, Bo Gritz, Jack McLamb, G. Gordon Liddy, Chuck Harder, Tom Valentine, William Cooper, Don MacAlvany and Norman Olson were really opposing a despotism, they would be prime targets when that despotism took over.

People who spread such idiocy should find a more dignified way of making a living. But they've been at it so long and have so much of their reputations and resources invested in the sucker market, that they can't change. I think a lot of them also enjoy the idea that so many even believe them to be heroic saviors."

Norman Olson

"People like Norman Olson, of the Michigan Militia, feed on this ignorance to sell guns. Norman claims to be a Baptist minister yet trains people to fight the U.S. Government and kill its employees. He owns a gun store and probably makes a good living preaching fear and hatred of our government. He is not alone."

Linda Thompson

"Then, of course, there are Linda Thompson's tapes. I have three of them. She will take a camcorder, record common scenes and narrate wild stories about them. One scene is of a factory courtyard surrounded by a chain link fence. The narration says this is a concentration camp. No inmates. It can't be a concentration camp without inmates. It's just a factory courtyard.

I could photograph an empty closet and say in the caption that eighteen women had been butchered there. "Patriots" would need no more than the caption for proof that the closet was a place of murder. Anyone can take pictures of ordinary places and objects and say they're Russian weapons, concentration camps, torture chambers, enemy bases, etc.

Only the easily fooled are convinced by false narrations and captions."

John Trochman

"A while back I taped an interview with John Troutman, head of the Montana Militia. The reporter asked him about the U.N. troops hidden in the U.S. He told her that there were U.N. troops only twenty miles away. Why didn't she have him take her to see them? Why didn't he volunteer to take her? There were no U.N. troops. She just didn't want to show him up as a phony and ruin the interview."

And a lot of other stuff about such patriot icons as Randy Weaver and David Koresh.

The end results are that Mr. Saxon has been taken off of shortwave talk shows and is considered a government agent or spy for the government by the foolish. This is nonsense. Mr. Saxon has a sharp mind and sharper tongue that he uses on the people he considers "degenerates." You had ought to see what he has to say about the current government. There is no comfort there for the left to find. In fact, under his birth name of Don Sisco, back in 1970 supposedly suggested to a U.S. Senate Investigations subcommittee that police use bombs to wipe out "leftists" and recommended that student demonstrators be machine-gunned. (Page 156, U.S. Militia, Vol. 1, No. 3).

What Mr. Saxon Is For

Kurt Saxon has nothing but disdain for those people he regards as the degenerate, the foolish or the predatory. He pretty much calls things as he sees them. So what is Kurt Saxon for?

Kurt Saxon is altogther for promoting the survival of survivor types. While he is trying to sell books and his materials, the price paid for them is relatively inexpensive compared to other books, manuals and materials sold by other 'underground' publishers. Saxon is more like an anthologist, finding and collecting old technologies sustainable in a regressed social order, then bringing up via commentary these materials up to today's world. He urges the reader to learn a trade and to practice self-sufficiency in order to make possible the survival of both the reader and reader's chosen community. He urges his readership to learn how to buy grains in bulk and how to prepare these basic foods for good health and economy. While his materials can indeed be used to bad effect, the vast majority of 'survivor' types who put into practice Mr. Saxon's materials will use them for defensive and constructive reasons. The survivalist is not someone who goes out looking for a fight. The survivalist is someone who, when the fight comes to his home and can no longer be ignored, finishes both the fight and the predator who instigated the conflict.

Summary & Rating

This reviewer highly recommends Kurt Saxon WWW page contact Cary Jeffries.

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Jan. 18, 1999. .

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