@higreg wrote:
It went a little beyond anarcho-primitivism. It had all the hallmarks of a religious cult with John Africa at the center. Most folks would have been tolerant of them, even in the 70s but they were also dancing on the public menace side of provocative. Not just the loudspeakers 24/7, but the mounds and mounds of (quite literal) shit and threats of violent reprisals against neighbors who spoke up.
There are no heroes in the MOVE story just plenty of victims.