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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #00222b; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#00222b"><b>Time to dodge some bullets</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Gun" title="Gun"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Guns</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Militia_movement" title="Category:Militia movement"><img alt="Icon gun.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/7/79/Icon_gun.svg/100px-Icon_gun.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/7/79/Icon_gun.svg/150px-Icon_gun.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/7/79/Icon_gun.svg/200px-Icon_gun.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#00222b; text-align:center;"><b>Come and take them!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shooters_and_Fishers_Party" title="Shooters and Fishers Party">Shooters and Fishers Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Seagal" title="Steven Seagal">Steven Seagal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_shooting" title="School shooting">School shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Got_Questions" title="Got Questions">Got Questions</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#00222b; text-align:center;"><b>Shooting stars</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond" title="Eric S. 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Raymond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh" title="Timothy McVeigh">Timothy McVeigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin" title="Chuck Baldwin">Chuck Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Gritz" title="Bo Gritz">Bo Gritz</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#00222b; text-align:center;"><b>A not-so-well-regulated militia</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Pratt" title="Larry Pratt">Larry Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Sheriffs_and_Peace_Officers_Association" title="Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association">Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_Hovind" title="Kent Hovind">Kent Hovind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Idema" title="Jack Idema">Jack Idema</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Gunnav" title="Template:Gunnav">v</a> - <a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Gunnav&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:Gunnav (page does not exist)">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Gunnav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kurt Saxon</b> (1932–2021) was an <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Survivalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Survivalist">survivalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">crank</a>. He was among the most prolific writers on the subject and even claimed to have come up with the word.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 1]</a></sup> Like many outspoken survivalists, he was quite insane, and a bit of a <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racist</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History_as_a_loser"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History as a loser</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Activities_as_a_loser"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Activities as a loser</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Insane_views"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Insane views</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History_as_a_loser">History as a loser</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History as a loser">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Saxon was born "Donald Eugene Sisco" on 6 March 1932, and managed to be in enough crank organizations to fill every sanitarium in the US, including the <a href="/wiki/American_Nazi_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="American Nazi Party">American Nazi Party</a>, the early <a href="/wiki/Minutemen_(organization)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minutemen (organization)"> Minutemen</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scientology" title="Church of Scientology">Church of Scientology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satanism" title="Satanism">Satanism</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>. </p><p>Saxon managed to keep his head on straight long enough to (and you cannot make this up) testify before <a href="/wiki/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a> in 1970, proving that not only were the 60's a terrible time for America, but that the government under <a href="/wiki/Tricky_Dick" class="mw-redirect" title="Tricky Dick">Tricky Dick</a> was not that fond of all the <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberals</a> running around. To demonstrate his sheer insanity, Saxon had a transcript of his testimony on his website. In it, he advocated for <a href="/wiki/Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Police">police</a> and private citizens using <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">bombs</a> to kill <a href="/wiki/Leftism" class="mw-redirect" title="Leftism">leftists</a>, and for college protesters to be dispersed with machine <a href="/wiki/Gun" title="Gun">gun</a> fire.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities_as_a_loser">Activities as a loser</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Activities as a loser">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Most of what Saxon did in his early years as a raging looney was to reprint out-of-date magazines and <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> books (such as military instructional manuals and antiquated reference books with lapsed <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyrights</a>) into books about home projects in <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electricity" class="mw-redirect" title="Electricity">electricity</a>, and similar subjects, imaginatively titled "Granddad's Wonderful World of Chemistry". He had been writing about the imminent <a href="/wiki/End_of_the_world" class="mw-redirect" title="End of the world">end of civilization</a>, which he called "<a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Disneyland</a> for dummies," since the early 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a></sup> To vent his insanity, he also wrote a few books on improvised weaponry and ran a short-lived magazine called <i>The Survivor</i>. When the <a href="/wiki/Militia_movement" title="Militia movement">militia movement</a> was popular in the early 1990s, he started another short-lived magazine called <i>U.S. Militia</i>. </p><p>He wrote a dozen books about survivalism and paramilitary crap, including improvised weapons and poison making but also less insane things like how to slash food budgets. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Insane_views">Insane views</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Insane views">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>His social views amounted to saying that civilization is evil because it dares to allow the <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hawking" title="Stephen Hawking">not physically strong and/or healthy</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinism" title="Social Darwinism">to survive</a>, and when civilization finally gets around to collapsing (for various reasons that never make sense) only those with practical knowledge will survive. </p><p>He was also a bit of a [[Racism|racistpdating grammar and , and had some naughty things to say about <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">including that it has a violent agenda</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">He was also</a> pro-<a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> and was an <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><b>Listed chronologically</b> </p> <ul><li>The Poor Man’s James Bond; the complete "militant’s formulary" and much, much more (1972)</li> <li>How to Cut Your Food Bill by Half or More; City Survival During the Famine to Come 2nd ed. (1973)</li> <li>The Instant Who’s Who in the Bible (1974)</li> <li>Keeping Score on Modern Prophets (1974)</li> <li>Wheels of Rage; the Story of the Iron Cross Motorcycle Club (1974)</li> <li>The Poor Man’s James Bond 4th ed. (1974?)</li> <li>Fireworks & Explosives Like Granddad Used to Make (1975)</li> <li>Medicines Like Granddad Used to Make (1976)</li> <li>Bar Drinks and Booze Like Granddad Used to Make (1976)</li> <li>Old Time Home Food Processing for Fun & Profit (1977)</li> <li>The Weaponeer (1984)</li> <li>Granddad’s Wonderful Book of Chemistry (1987)</li> <li>The Survivor (1987-1988)</li> <li>The New Improved Poor Man’s James Bond Revised ed., corr. and enl. (1988)</li> <li>The Poor Man’s James Bond Revised ed. (1991)</li> <li>Keeping Score on Our Modern Prophets (1994)</li> <li>The Instant Who's Who In The Bible (1994)</li> <li>Root-Rot, Kurt Saxon's Answer to Alex Haley (1994)</li> <li>Granddad's Wonderful Book of Electricity (2002)</li></ul> <p>In case you <b>really</b> want to read any of these, most can be found as a PDF online for free from any number of torrent sites. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.survivalplus.com/">SurvivalPlus</a>, Saxon's commercial website (No longer under Kurt Saxon's ownership)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/KurtSaxonThePoorMansJamesBondVol5.pdf">The Poor Man's James Bond Volumes I-V</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHmz7jCEGY">Video Tape Special Volume 1</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XqjHBBE7dk">Video Tape Special Volume 2</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxvr0f2N144">The Poor Man's James Bond Greets the Russians</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFD5hbQUGg">The Poor Man's James Bond Strikes Again!</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/OurFutureLiesInThePastAlternate">50 episodes of Kurt Saxon's shortwave radio show</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/kurtsaxon.com">Kurtsaxon.com archived website.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/survivalplus.com">Survivalplus.com archived website.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/manual-for-mayhem-how-one-man-tried-to-teach-everyday-people-to-make-anti-tank-missiles-84f1fffea3be"><i>Manual for Mayhem: How One Man Tried to Teach Everyday People to Make Anti-Tank Missiles</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/14/police-find-explosive-liquid-home-militia-author-kurt-saxon"><i>POLICE FIND EXPLOSIVE LIQUID IN HOME OF MILITIA AUTHOR KURT SAXON</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://harrisondaily.com/news/bomb-taken-from-alpena-house/article_3a6479e4-f5d1-11e4-a77c-47a12c11cd30.html"><i>‘Bomb’ taken from Alpena house</i></a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The Oxford English Dictionary records "survivalism" from 1892 and "survivalist" from 1882, albeit with non-Saxonian connotations.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Saxon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:80%; -webkit-column-count:80%; column-count:80%; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kurt Saxon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/h5Oq">What is a survivalist?</a> 1980. Archived from the original at aussurvivalist.com in 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/AhDs">Page 1 of Kurt's 1970 Senate Transcript</a>. 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