Kurt Saxon

Kurt Saxon was an American survivalist crank. He was among the most prolific writers on the subject and even claimed to have come up with the word.Kurt Saxon, What is a survivalist? 1980. Archived from the original at aussurvivalist.com in 2012.The Oxford English Dictionary records "survivalism" from 1892 and "survivalist" from 1882, albeit with non-Saxonian connotations. Like many outspoken survivalists, he was quite insane, and a bit of a racist.
==History as a loser==
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 American Nazi Party, the early Minutemen, the Church of Scientology, Satanism, and the John Birch Society.
Saxon managed to keep his head on straight long enough to (and you cannot make this up) testify before Congress in 1970, proving that not only were the 60's a terrible time for America, but that the government under Tricky Dick was not that fond of all the liberals running around. To demonstrate his sheer insanity, Saxon had a transcript of his testimony on his website. In it, he advocated for police and private citizens using bombs to kill leftists, and for college protesters to be dispersed with machine gun fire.Page 1 of Kurt's 1970 Senate Transcript. Archived from the original at kurtsaxon.com in 2012.
==Activities as a loser==
Most of what Saxon did in his early years as a raging looney was to reprint out-of-date magazines and public domain books (such as military instructional manuals and antiquated reference books with lapsed copyrights) into books about home projects in chemistry, electricity, and similar subjects, imaginatively titled "Granddad's Wonderful World of Chemistry". He had been writing about the imminent end of civilization, which he called "Disneyland for dummies," since the early 1970s.Kurt Saxon profile on survivalplus.com. To vent his insanity, he also wrote a few books on improvised weaponry and ran a short-lived magazine called The Survivor. When the militia movement was popular in the early 1990s, he started another short-lived magazine called U.S. Militia.
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.
==Insane views==
His social views amounted to saying that civilization is evil because it dares to allow the not physically strong and/or healthy to survive, and when civilization finally gets around to collapsing (for various reasons that never make sense) only those with practical knowledge will survive. 
He was also a bit of a [[Racism|racistpdating grammar and , and had some naughty things to say about Islam, including that it has a violent agenda.
He was also pro-abortion and was an atheist.
==Bibliography==
Listed chronologically
* The Poor Man’s James Bond; the complete "militant’s formulary" and much, much more (1972)
* How to Cut Your Food Bill by Half or More; City Survival During the Famine to Come 2nd ed. (1973)
* The Instant Who’s Who in the Bible (1974)
* Keeping Score on Modern Prophets (1974)
* Wheels of Rage; the Story of the Iron Cross Motorcycle Club (1974)
* The Poor Man’s James Bond 4th ed. (1974?)
* Fireworks & Explosives Like Granddad Used to Make (1975)
* Medicines Like Granddad Used to Make (1976)
* Bar Drinks and Booze Like Granddad Used to Make (1976)
* Old Time Home Food Processing for Fun & Profit (1977)
* The Weaponeer (1984)
* Granddad’s Wonderful Book of Chemistry (1987)
* The Survivor (1987-1988)
* The New Improved Poor Man’s James Bond Revised ed., corr. and enl. (1988)
* The Poor Man’s James Bond Revised ed. (1991)
* Keeping Score on Our Modern Prophets (1994)
* The Instant Who's Who In The Bible (1994)
* Root-Rot, Kurt Saxon's Answer to Alex Haley (1994)
* Granddad's Wonderful Book of Electricity (2002)
In case you really want to read any of these, most can be found as a PDF online for free from any number of torrent sites.
==External links==
*SurvivalPlus, Saxon's commercial website (No longer under Kurt Saxon's ownership)
*The Poor Man's James Bond Volumes I-V 
*Video Tape Special Volume 1 
*Video Tape Special Volume 2 
*The Poor Man's James Bond Greets the Russians 
*The Poor Man's James Bond Strikes Again! 
*50 episodes of Kurt Saxon's shortwave radio show 
*Kurtsaxon.com archived website. 
*Survivalplus.com archived website. 
*Manual for Mayhem: How One Man Tried to Teach Everyday People to Make Anti-Tank Missiles 
*POLICE FIND EXPLOSIVE LIQUID IN HOME OF MILITIA AUTHOR KURT SAXON 
*‘Bomb’ taken from Alpena house
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