Eunice R's Reviews > White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland

We always think of terrorists as being those nasty people from somewhere foreign; not our own home-grown kind. Notwithstanding, the USA seems to have a growing number of violent militia groups with members of the white supremacist breed; "hate, violence and exterminate," their tag lines. You no doubt witnessed such behavior before, during and in the aftermath of the failed Donald J. Trump re-election campaign of November 2020. In this story, White Hot Hate by Dick Lehr, you will bump into such in monstrous, literal reality. This is NOT fiction, folks.

Lehr delineates such a horrrific story that will take you aback in traumatic shock. Dan Day, the great man of courage hero, becomes an unwitting informant among the Kansas Security Force (KSP), Crusaders on behalf of the FBI. The build from "only talk" to action over the months was captured on multiple lengthy recordings of Zello phone conversations and in-person confabs on a specialized recording device. These were firsthand inner sanctum talks to which Day was privy.

As the four-man insider group of KSP, (Dan Day being one of the four) laid their wicked plans to decimate the Somalis Refugee community in Garden City, the talk often became volitale and full of foul language. Day's heart was often in his throat not to give himself away, but also for wisdom to know how to cool the heat. The inclusion of such language comes from all those hours of taped evidence of raw conversations, not only of their plans but of the non-fiction epitaphs of hatred which constantly spewed forth from the men's souls and pores.

The old adage, "Truth is often stranger than fiction" rings really clearly in this report.

It was an exceedingly stressful operation for a non-professional undercover man who also had to overcome fallout such as sleepless nights and if he did get to sleep, nightmares. The stress, the secrecy and so on, on his family, who thankfully, did support him, and see him through, took its toll as well. Dan Day is one of those people who were born and placed into a position for "just such a time as this," I believe. He was equal to the task as he plunged, neck-deep or more, into militia extremism.

Thank God for such people! It's great to know there are still such counter-balances yet. However, I'd say, we'd do well to be aware of such undercurrents and maybe even pray against such evilness on our own homefronts.

~Eunice C., Reviewer/Blogger~

September 2021

Disclaimer: This is my honest opinion based on the review copy sent by the publisher.