Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’

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Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’

The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a warlord after the collapse of America, a Guardian investigation has found.

Federal and state tax and company filings show that the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) and its creator, Charles Haywood, also have financial ties with the far-right Claremont Institute.

SACR’s most recent IRS filing names Haywood as the national organization’s principal officer. Other filings identify three lodges in Idaho – in Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Moscow – and another in Dallas, Texas.

SACR’s public-facing presence is confined to a slick one-page website advertising the organization’s goal as “civilizational renaissance”, and a society “with strong leadership committed to family and culture”.

The site claims SACR is “raising accountable leaders to help build thriving communities of free citizens” who will rebuild “the frontier-conquering spirit of America”. It condemns “those who rule today”, saying that they “corrupt the sinews of America”, “[alienate] men from family, community, and God” and promising to “counter and conquer this poison”.

It also prominently features SACR’s cross-like insignia or “mark” which it describes variously as symbolizing “sword and shield” and the rejection of “Modernist philosophies and heresies”.

  • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Get in here y’all, new Right wing villain just dropped!

    This is probably his Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheWorthyHouse

    This may be his blog: https://theworthyhouse.com/authors/

    Their website: https://sacr.us/ (look they even have a completely non-threatening sword! /s)

    And they sound just like the Sons of Jacob.

    I’m honestly getting real tired of all of these right wing groups running around wishing for the collapse of the country, or worse, actively participating in trying to bring it about, like what is the FBI even doing? Oh that’s right they’re suppressing investigations into Trump and friends.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    his future as a warlord after the collapse of America

    Society for American Civic Renewal

    One of these things is not like the other. Freedom is slavery etc etc

  • hauntology@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 year ago

    This guy wants society to collapse because he saw Fury Road and thought Immortan Joe was the character he was supposed to emulate.

    Just tell him there won’t be any electricity or internet or reliable food networks in his fucked up fantasy world to and he’ll change his tune pretty quick. Or maybe not. Maybe his desire for a slave harem outweighs all that.

    • _bug0ut@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      These dickheads always think they can translate the power they hold in civilized society to the wild post aoocalyptic free for all. Makes you wonder what will be going through their heads when some brutish psycho decides it’s his turn and is about to stomp their heads into the tightly packed wasteland dirt.

  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    It seems to me that Shampoo Boy want wants to protect his millions with fascist ideology.

    EDIT: grammar, sorry