Armed struggle in the United States

[Subversive Pessimist]

Does anybody have any information on these groups, their ideology, strength and objective?

Armed Commandos for National Liberation

Armed Forces of Popular Resistance

Army of God

Aryan Nations

Guerrilla Forces of Liberation

Los Macheteros

Militia Groups

Mountaineer Militia

Organization of Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution

People's Revolutionary Commandos

[Edward Norton]

The following groups you listed are far-right paramilitary/terrorist groups:

Aryan Nations

Mountineer Militia

Army of God

Aryan Nations has done numerous actions under the name of the The Order, including the killing of a Jewish talk show radio host in 1984 and many bank robberies. They also influenced the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy MacVeigh.

Army of God has killed doctors who carry out abortions and targeted gay clubs with bombs. Their members were arrested in 1997 for a plan to attack New York with anthrax and nerve agent, had the attack been carried out around 200000 people were to have been killed. Army of God aim is to establish a Christian State in North America and to restructure the Church in line with the practice of the original Christian community of Jesus. They consider all societies since then, with the exception of the Taliban in Afghanistan, to be unholy.

The other groups are far left urban guerrilla groups, two of them Puerto Rican.

I haven't heard of all of these groups, the three far left groups that I know of are the Symbionese Liberation Army, Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army. All three are now out of action.

How did you hear of the groups you mentioned? Are some of the far left groups you listed still active?

[Urban Rubble]

Dude, all you have to do is read the names of most of them, they're obviously nutjob rightwing militias, most likely from Idaho and Montana.

[Edward Norton]

The Matchetes and the Armed Commandos for National Liberation are leftwing groups that seek Puerto Rican independence from the US, their ideology is Castroite.

The Guerrilla Forces of Liberatrion are Marxist/far left, NOT far right.

The Left has engaged in armed struggle in the US as WELL AS the right.

I suppose its a tradition inherited from the American Revolution.

[Xvall]

Armed Commandos for National Liberation: No information.

Army of God: Dumbasses; need to be killed.

Aryan Nations: Dumberasses; need to be killed in public.

Los Macheteros: Los Macheteros is a revolutionary group that operates from Puerto Rico. It was set up in the 1970s by Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Juan Enrique Segarra Palmer and Orlando Gonzalez Claudio. The group began in 1976, but it can trace its origins back to the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN).
The group attracted a wide variety of politically interested people, including some that had belonged to another group, named University Pro-Independence Federation, or Federacion Universitaria Pro Independencia (FUPI). FUPI was the youth arm of another group, named Movement Pro Independence, or Movimiento Pro Independencia (MPI). Those who came over from FUPI included Marta Sanchez Olmeda and Avelino Gonzalez Claudio who used the alias of Carmelo. Clearly, unlike Ruben Berrios' PIP party movement, The Macheteros has an agenda of making Puerto Rico independent by means of violence.

January 2 of 1977, one day after Carlos Romero Barcelo, who looked for Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of the American Union, was sworn in as Puerto Rico's governor, two bombs were placed at a ROTC building in San Juan. The bombs did not explode because the police destroyed them, but The Macheteros took responsibility for the incident.

The group later became also experts in bank robberies, as a way to finance their activities. Their famous robberies included one of a Wells Fargo facility in West Hartford, CT. in 1983. They have claimed responsibility for hundreds of attacks, specially many that happened during the 1970s.

They are considered to be terrorist by most Puerto Ricans and patriotic heroes by much fewer people because they seek the independence of Puerto Rico, mostly by commiting criminal acts against American targets.

Mountaineer Militia: Paramilitary anti-government weapons rights organization who claim to be strict constitutionalists and violently oppose abridgement of the rights to privacy and the right to bear arms. The leader of the group was convicted in August of 1997 for conspiracy to engage in the manufacture of explosives and FBI agenst claim this leader was targeting the FBI fingerprint center. The operate in West Virginia

Organization of Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution: Similar to Los Macheteros. Firebombed United States. military units on several occasions. They denounce 'Yankee Imperialism'. (But who doesn't?) More people would probably join if they shortened their god damn name.

People's Revolutionary Commandos: Similar to the Puerto Rican rebellion groups above. Has also engaged in violent acts against the United States' military.

Armed Forces of Popular Resistance: Another Puerto Rican rebellion group.

[Hate Is Art]

Do they do much though? Exept for wave flags and smoke pot/pary to god?

[PenguinChe]

Though it still exsists the Aryan nations has well lost all power it once had. I live in N. Idaho, which is where there former compund used to be. After an incident where they shot up a car, with a mother and her child in it, with assault rifles, various lawsuits were brought up against them by the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force. This task force had been working for years to disrupt the Aryans bigotry. They succeded in Bankrupting John Butler, the millionare behind the groups founding, and the court sumarily granted the County the rights to his property/compound. The area is now a Human rights memorial as well as a place were diversity seminars etc, are held and the court case has been used as an example for other Human rights groups across the country.