American Redoubt

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The American Redoubt movement is an conservative political migration initiative created by novelist James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog. The movement encourages citizens to pull up stakes and to move to a more open and free location, a safe haven similar to a Galt's Gulch—to vote with their feet. This movement has targeted a multistate area in the Intermountain West of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, and Eastern Washington as a relocation zone.

The movement was launched when Rawles started advocating that libertarians relocate to the area on his SurvivalBlog. Rawles and his followers do not track how many people have actually moved into the area in response to these efforts.

The American Redoubt concept was endorsed by former presidential candidate Rev. Chuck Baldwin, who had recently relocated his entire extended family to western Montana. It also soon inspired the launch of a weekly survival-preparedness podcast by Christian libertarian journalist John Jacob Schmidt, called Radio Free Redoubt,[1] as well as a volunteer network of amateur radio operators called AmRRON (the American Redoubt Radio Operators Network) established in 2012.

The second podcast is by Alex Barron (http://alexanderbarron.com), an African American Catholic redoubter, who founded the Charles Carroll Society podcast (https://charlescarrollsociety.com). Alex is the self-proclaimed Bard of the American Redoubt who speaks from a Traditional Catholic, Constitutional Conservative, American Patriot viewpoint. Alex says, "Jim Rawles coined the term, but it is actually a simple concept, it is called political migration. There are many groups who have done this over the years; Protestants and other minority religious groups escaping the Catholic church in Europe (I guess that would actually be religious migration but you get the point), liberty-minded people escaping the Protestant King of England. Native Americans moving West to escape the European colonization (I guess forced ethnic cleansing, but again I hope you get the point). Americans of African descent escaping the South (racial migration?). Many, many groups move because of various reasons including political reasons. The American Redoubt is Christian and Jewish liberty-loving traditionalist politically migrating from militant progressive secular states.".. -- Blue states such as California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Washington DC and others.[2]

People move to the American Redoubt from Nanny states such as the "Left Coast" and the East Coast. "The East Coast and West Coasts had the most liberal states including Vermont, Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Maine, California and New Jersey." [3]

Politics

The American Redoubt movement differs from the Free State Project (FSP) where the FSP seeks to have a threshold number of libertarian political activists move into a single state to gain a significant amount of political power in that state. In contrast, the American Redoubt movement has no organized leadership, has targeted a zone that is divided between several states and has no objective way to measure its political influence in the target zone. The FSP had its supporters sign a pledge to relocate within a specified time period, while there is no specific time table for the American Redoubt. As a result, although the American Redoubt has experienced a net increase in population, it was unclear whether those relocating were aligned with the American Redoubt movement.

The major test of the political strength of the American Redoubt movement was prompted by the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which was an armed standoff in Harney County, Oregon, between armed anti-government militants and county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. The militants occupied the headquarters building from January 2 to February 11, 2016. The occupation was prompted by the sentencing of ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven Hammond for arson on federal lands.[4]

During the occupation, the occupation's leaders attempted to organize meetings with local citizens to secure wide-spread popular support for their actions. At first, these meetings were held at the local high school in Burns, Oregon. However, when attendees were bringing guns to the meetings and the meetings proved to be acrimonious, Steve Grasty, the chair of the Harney County commission, ordered the meetings move to a local senior center which did not allow guns.[5] In general, the occupation did not draw widespread public support. Eventually, the occupiers surrendered and were arrested, but the dissatisfaction with Gasty's curtailing of the meetings lead to Harney County residents filing a petition to hold a recall election.[6] On June 28, 2016, 70% of the voters cast ballots to retain Grasty. The results were:

Grasty Recall Election[7]
Result Votes Percentage
Recall 861 29.7%
Retain 2,038 70.3%

The leaders of the American Redoubt movement, including John Jacobs and Hugh Latimore, also sought to use the May 2016 primaries to gain more political positions in Idaho, but lost more of the positions than they won.[8] Since then, politics have shifted to the national Presidential election.

American Redoubt Relocation

Because of its low population density and diverse economy, Skousen,[9] James Wesley Rawles, Chuck Baldwin and Boston T. Party,[10] all recommend the Intermountain West (American Redoubt - Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, northern Utah) region of the United States, as a preferred region for relocation and setting up survival retreats.[11]

See also

External links


References

  1. ↑ http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com accessed December 4, 2014
  2. ↑ https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2013/01/28/the-american-redoubt-who-the-players-are accessed December 4, 2014
  3. ↑ http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie Accessed December 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Thomas, Judy L.. "Experts: Oregon standoff may be small, but it's just the tip of a growing militia iceberg", The McClatchy Company, January 6, 2016. Retrieved on July 17, 2016. “The rally was peaceful, authorities said....But afterward, a group of armed militants split off, went to the wildlife refuge 30 miles away and took it over. Ammon Bundy has been acting as the group's leader, and they say they won't back down until the government relinquishes the federal refuge to the people.” 
  5. ↑ Oregon standoff: Canceled meeting is latest casualty of online discord (January 25, 2016). Retrieved on July 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Recall petition filed against Harney County Judge Steve Grasty", May 12,2016. Retrieved on July 17, 2018. 
  7. ↑ Steve Grasty recall, Harney County, Oregon (2016). Ballotpedia. Retrieved on July 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ News From The American Redoubt (May 24, 2016). Retrieved on July 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ http://www.joelskousen.com/About/about.html
  10. ↑ http://www.survivalblog.com/retreatareas.html
  11. ↑ http://www.survivalblog.com/redoubt.html The American Redoubt -- Move to the Mountain States

Bibliography - Further Reading

  • Skousen, Joel, Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places, 3rd Edition Perfect Paperback, 2011, ISBN 1568612621, ISBN 978-1568612621
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