Louis Beam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American white nationalist
Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1946
Place of Birth: Lake Jackson, Texas, United States
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Louis Beam
- Louis Ray Beam, Jr.
- (born 1946) is an American white nationalist.
- After high-school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam.
- He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
- Once he returned to the U.S.
- he became a Klansman, leading a maritime Louisiana KKK element against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fishermen.
- He was also the leader of the Texas Emergency Reserve, a militia that was disbanded by the courts in 1982 as a result of a lawsuit filed under Texas anti-militia law by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- The lawsuit was brought by SPLC after the militia harassed Vietnamese fishermen during the 1981 fishing season.
- Beam was using Camp Puller near Houston to train militia in 1980, including children as young as 8 years old, in armed guerrilla tactics; the camp was shut down after publicity led to protests, and parents complaining that they were not aware of the children's activities at the camp.
- The Boy Scouts Council of Houston rejected a charter request from the troop at Camp Puller.
- Videotape shown during the shrimper hearing had Beam saying, "We're going to assume authority in this country." He was later acquitted in a separate case of conspiring to overthrow the government.
- He moved to Idaho afterwards.
- He became active with Aryan Nations in the early 1980s.
- He is considered to be the first important proponent of the strategy of leaderless resistance.
- In recent years, Beam has maintained a significantly lower profile. According to ADL/LEARN, he has been fighting against a government he views as "tyrannical and controlled by Jewish conspirators" for more than thirty years.
- He first became engaged on the far right as a paramilitary Klansman, later with ties to Christian Identity groups.
- He cites Thomas Jefferson in resistance to tyranny.
- Beam refused the Aryan Nations' head Richard Girnt Butler's offer of leadership of the religious group in 1988 and chose to continue to work alone.
- During the past twenty years, he has had limited influence except for rare postings on the internet.
- His essay Leaderless Resistance has been translated into seven languages.
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