ABSTRACT
The United Nuwaubian Nation, as a “world-rejecting” movement, has weathered 25-odd years of conflict with society, but the Nuwaubians have consistently refrained from aggressive reprisals. Rather, they have sought to confound their enemies by adopting evasive tactics. Confronted with external threats and bureaucratic pressures they will stage ritualistic public demonstrations, or they may try to deflect hostility through humor, as in a photograph taken in 2002 which shows Roy Barnes posing with seven Nuwaubians dressed in clown costumes, with wigs and red noses, carrying placards that read: “Violence is no joke!” and “Hate is nothing to clown with!”1 Often they resort to camouflage; by dressing up as their mythic ancestors and stepping backwards into the mists of time. One finds many examples of these evasive tactics in their short history.
