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Wednesday, February 25, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
Speaker: extremists rejected by farmers
By Kirk Zebolsky
Staff Reporter
Most Nebraska farmers blame them
selves if they have financial troubles
and resist recruiting efforts of extrem
ist groups that blame government and
the international banking community
for the farm depression, said a UNL
professor Monday at a seminar in the
East Union.
Jack Kay, associate professor of
speech communication, is evaluating
150 hours of taped discussions with 100
farmers, said farmers acknowledge
contact with members of the groups
but believe that "a lot of their ideas are
just not true," and quickly repudiate
them.
The groups, which also advocate
white supremacy, are trying to increase
their numbers by taking advantage of
failing farmers, Kay said.
But in the last 2 12 years Nebraska
farmers have been "very, very resist
ant" to the groups, Kay said, because
more farmers buy into the metaphor
"farming is a business" and blame only
themselves for financial problems.
The "Farmer-as-a-businessperson"
metaphor was created by the govern
ment about 15 years ago, Kay said,
when farmers were recommended
through agricultural extension offices
and farmers' cooperatives as good bus
iness people. Books and literature have
perpetuated the metaphor, he said.
The problem with farmers blaming
only themselves is that they resist not
only extremism but all outside help,
including church groups, and face their
problems alone, Kay said.
Farmers who sympathize with the
extremist groups think in terms of the
metaphor "farming as embodied as a
cultural heritage," Kay said, and
believe someone "is trying to take my
life, money and heritage."
Arthur Kirk, the Cairo farmer who
was shot by state patrolmen in a stand
off over foreclosure papers, is now seen
as a martyr to some extremists, Kay
said.
Thirty percent of the farmers inter
viewed last summer claimed they were
in financial distress, and 70 percent
said they were "OK or prospering," Kay
said.
The interviewing was funded by a
grant from the UNL Research Council.
On his own, Kay visited last year's
"world congress" a meeting of 40
extremist leaders in Hayden Lake,
Idaho.
Kay said that until experiencing the
activities of the extremists, he didn't
think they seriously believed the ideas
they advocated. He said he was sur
prised to find that they are "incredibly
sincere."
Active members number about 1,500
nationwide and they have up to 300,000
sympathizers, according to a Kansas
City researcher who has made the
extremists his life's study.
Kay said the extremists have more
influence among farmers in the South
and Pacific Northwest. Kay said he is
more worried about their inflience
among students than among farmers
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