/ Over the span of a few days in January, several rural Oklahoma towns awoke to recruitment flyers from the Ku Klux Klan on their lawns. The corresponding website has been obscured on this photo.
They came late, in silence. No one noticed anything unusual that night in Marietta. I haven’t heard anybody say, Hey, there was a suspicious car, or some people sneakin’ around. Nothing, nothing like that, said Marietta City Council member KorDale Lornes, talking about the night the Ku Klux Klan swept through Love County.
On the morning of Saturday, January 23, dozens of Marietta’s 2,700 residents made unsettling discoveries.
10 Right-Wing Extremist Plots That Failed Miserably
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 784 known hate groups operating in the United States as of 2014. They’re mostly right-wing groups, white supremacist groups, or both. The crimes of their members range from random acts of violence to organized domestic terrorism plots.
Sometimes, these individuals and groups want more than to commit acts of violence. Sometimes, they try to plan full-scale uprisings or form revolutionary groups. Here are 10 such attempts, ranging from the absurd to the chillingly orchestrated.
10 Chevie Kehoe And The Aryan People’s Republic
1997
Chevie Kehoe, Daniel Lee, and Faron Lovelace were charged in 1997 with planning to overthrow the US government and take over territory to make a “new republic limited to whites.”