One of the various scenes in JustinAstein Kurzel "Order" (a movie that found a larger audience thanks to streaming) It takes place at the National Alliance Convention. There, Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hultt), the leader of the neo -Nazi terrorist group "The Order" (aka quiet fraternity), gives a speech to recruiting soldiers. The room standing is covered with gigantic swastikas and blood red and American blue American flags, and its air is difficult with hatred and testosterone. Matthews knows his crowd. He prayed with these people's despair and anger, saying, "If you are like me, I'm not sure how many more conversations I can hear. Because everything is, don't you? Talk, talk ... Chat! "There is no action, no real results. He knows all the points of pressure on the mind of a white surreal to continue pushing until empty words of hatred turn into malicious actions of racism and violence. He promises a future where his brothers and sisters stand tall and united after purifying the whole nation under their regime.

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The scene hit hard for two reasons: first, Hull slowly became the master of his craft As an actor who can command an audience with his alluring charisma and powerful gravity on both sides of the screen. And secondly, most of the movie plot is based on (unfortunately) A very true story It happened in the early 80s. Bob Matthews and his fraternity actually existed, and they represented the most inappropriate and harmful beliefs of white nationalism that can only bring ruin, chaos and bloodshed to the land - and in the world.

Kurzel's film is based on a non-fiction book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhard, "The Quiet Brotherhood: The Stantic Story of the Violent, Anti-Spot Militia Movement of America." Accordingly, the order was founded in September 1983 by Robert Jayei Matthews in Metalin, Washington. He was an American born in Texas of Scottish descent who developed his extremist views very early. The neo -Nazi organization shown in the film was not his first. He also had founded Anti -Communist militia before, known as sons of freedom, which was mostly made up of fundamentalists and Mormon survivors.

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Matthews and his Arish followers (some of whom were military experience veterans) primarily attracted inspiration for their anti-government and anti-Semitic ideology from the 1978 novel Turner, written by William Luther Pierce-founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of the founder of National Alliance where Matthews and his comrades were regular. In essence, the book had six steps (recruitment, fundraising, armed revolution, domestic terror, assassination and rope day) to overthrow the government and declare war for purification of America (with the extinction of Jewish and non-white people) and the creation of the ultimate white nation.

Although Matthews hardly He drew a little inspiration from the book, it was obvious that he treated Pierce's words like the Bible with white nationalists. (He read from him to his son as a sleeping story and reportedly kept dozens of copies at his militia's headquarters.) And just like the terrorists who came after him (including Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McAg and Norwegian mass killer,

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While active, the order set camps in Idaho and Missouri to train his new recruits using US Army manuals and weapons for supplies and surveillance equipment. After several unsuccessful efforts to raise funds legally, Matthews decided to falsify money and distribute the accounts of other groups of white power in order to strengthen his growing militia. Just that wasn't enough, so it started to rob Pornography shops, armored cars and eventually banks he considered to be institutions related to or controlled by the Jewish people. He did something to justify his crimes in front of his followers to realize his great ideas.

After Matthews began robbing armored vehicles and banks and acquiring large amounts of money (over $ 4 million), the order attracted the FBI's attention (the primary view of the film events). But the real point of turnaround - eventually led to a drop in the group in December 1984 - came when Matthews ordered the assassination of the famous Radio -Show Alan Berg host. As Mark Maron played in the film, Berg was Jewish and well known for his sincere and often controversial views on religion and liberal politics, which has repeatedly angered Matthews and his people. Once a member of the order even appeared in the show and went to Tangent, sharing a theory of conspiracy on how the Jewish people plotted to take over the world. But the group's deep hatred really escalated to him in June 1984, at that moment two of the men in the row (David Lane and Bruce Pierce) killed the host of Denver Radio on the highway of his home. Berg was shot by Pierce, who fired 13 bullets into the 50-year-old's body.

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After the murder, the organization Matthews received world publicity, and the FBI special team was ordered to stop the group. As you can see in Kurzel's film (which painstakingly has adapted most real life events in its story), the order came to an end when Matthews was attacked In a rented water house on the island of Vidbey and after a two-hour shootout with machine guns, tear gas and helicopter-died when the building exploded. Just weeks before his death, Matthews had a warrant for him to kill an FBI agent.

Authorities have learned where Matthews is located because one of his Acle (Tom Martinez) became the FBI informant Months earlier and gave up his leader when he started spiraling out of control.

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Although the order had a short period of functioning in the 1980s, unfortunately, its heinous acts and toxic ideologies of right-wing extremism did not die with Matthews and still affect extreme views today. As author Kevin Flynn put in A. Iredic interview"We did not write the book about the details. We wrote it to expose the banality of evil so that readers could understand where these people came from and how endemic it was in American society."