Project Appleseed - Classification

Classification

In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League classified Project Appleseed as part of a trend in which idealistic concepts of armed resistance have "percolated beyond extremist groups and movements into the mainstream", but did not classify Project Appleseed as being an extremist group. Sociologist James William Gibson, classifies Project Appleseed within a broader movement that is unlikely to pose a danger to civil society, stating: "When a culture is in crisis, the first response is often to go back to the creation myth and start over again. The narrative is "we’re going to redo the narrative of the United States by returning to origins, to marksmanship". People are focusing on the idea that America’s problems can be resolved into something that can be shot. It doesn’t exactly encourage systematic reflection, but it’s a long ways from a civil war."