Kurt Saxon

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'''Kurt Saxon''' {{lived|1932|2021}} was an [[United States|American]] [[survivalist]] [[crank]]. He was among the most prolific writers on the subject and even claimed to have come up with the word.<ref>Kurt Saxon, [https://archive.is/h5Oq What is a survivalist?] 1980. Archived from the original at aussurvivalist.com in 2012.</ref><ref group=note>The Oxford English Dictionary records "survivalism" from 1892 and "survivalist" from 1882, albeit with non-Saxonian connotations.</ref> Like many outspoken survivalists, he was quite insane, and a bit of a [[racism|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 (organization)| 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 [[liberal]]s 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 [[terrorism|bombs]] to kill [[leftism|leftists]], and for college protesters to be dispersed with machine [[gun]] fire.<ref>[https://archive.is/AhDs Page 1 of Kurt's 1970 Senate Transcript]. Archived from the original at kurtsaxon.com in 2012.</ref>

==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Most of what Saxon did in his early years as a raging looney was to reprint out-of-date magazines and [[public domain]] books (such as military instructional manuals and antiquated reference books with lapsed [[copyright]]s) into books about home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 the world|end of civilization]], which he called "[[The Walt Disney Company|Disneyland]] for dummies," since the early 1970s.<ref>[https://www.survivalplus.com/ Kurt Saxon profile] on survivalplus.com.</ref> 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 [[Stephen Hawking|not physically strong and/or healthy]] [[Social Darwinism|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]], [[irony|including that it has a violent agenda]].

[[Stopped clock|He was also]] pro-[[abortion]] and was an [[atheism|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==

*[http://www.survivalplus.com/ SurvivalPlus], Saxon's commercial website (No longer under Kurt Saxon's ownership)
*[https://archive.org/details/KurtSaxonThePoorMansJamesBondVol5.pdf The Poor Man's James Bond Volumes I-V] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHmz7jCEGY Video Tape Special Volume 1] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XqjHBBE7dk Video Tape Special Volume 2] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxvr0f2N144 The Poor Man's James Bond Greets the Russians] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFD5hbQUGg The Poor Man's James Bond Strikes Again!] 
*[https://archive.org/details/OurFutureLiesInThePastAlternate 50 episodes of Kurt Saxon's shortwave radio show] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/kurtsaxon.com Kurtsaxon.com archived website.] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/survivalplus.com Survivalplus.com archived website.] 
*[https://medium.com/war-is-boring/manual-for-mayhem-how-one-man-tried-to-teach-everyday-people-to-make-anti-tank-missiles-84f1fffea3be ''Manual for Mayhem: How One Man Tried to Teach Everyday People to Make Anti-Tank Missiles''] 
*[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/14/police-find-explosive-liquid-home-militia-author-kurt-saxon ''POLICE FIND EXPLOSIVE LIQUID IN HOME OF MILITIA AUTHOR KURT SAXON'']  
*[http://harrisondaily.com/news/bomb-taken-from-alpena-house/article_3a6479e4-f5d1-11e4-a77c-47a12c11cd30.html ''‘Bomb’ taken from Alpena house'']

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