The basic idea of 'Leaderless Resistance' was to avoid the destruction of revolutionary orgs when they were infiltrated or in other ways compromised by law enforcement, limiting damage to a single cell at most. Rather than act on orders from above, #LouisBeam wanted cells to act independently.

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In 1992, #LouisBeam revised an earlier essay on the concept of "leaderless resistance" for print in his publication. The article called on white revolutionaries to abandon planning in large groups & to instead take action in small cells of one to 6 men.
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They were acquitted in 1988, but #LouisBeam believed the trial was a perfect example of how an entire org or set of leaders could be brought down by a single case. The essay attributes the leaderless concept to a 1962 essay by an anti-communist U.S. intelligence officer named Col. Ulius Amoss.

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#LouisBeam and 13 other key leaders of the American radical right were charged with seditious conspiracy. The case basically argued that the men were involved in a far-ranging plot to overthrow the government that was allegedly hatched at the #1983AryanNationWorldCongress.
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Facts: #LouisBeam pointed out in his essay, " #LeaderlessResistance " that even if such a small cell were infiltrated, only that cell, would be destroyed.
He and 13 other key leaders of the American radical right were charged with seditious conspiracy.
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1983: #LouisBeam Published, Essays of a Klansman
Context: Similar to Tom Metzger’s deceptively termed #LoneWolf philosophy, Beam’s essay 'Leaderless Resistance', argued against large orgs and in favor of actions carried out by independently operating individuals or small cells of up to six men.

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