Bruno bruhwiler biography

Conspiracy-obsessed 'Patriot' organization's L.A. chapter chief involved in 'sovereign citizens' movement

We Are Change (WAC) is an organization that likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr., Einstein, Gandhi and others talking about the evils of war.

It describes itself as a nonviolent “citizens based grassroots peace and social justice movement” and reacted angrily this year when the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) categorized it as part of the conspiracy-obsessed, antigovernment “Patriot” movement.

WAC’s leader, Luke Rudkowski, complained at the time that the SPLC said nothing of WAC’s alleged “raising money for 9/11 first responders, toy drives during the holidays, clothing drives and feeding the homeless.”

But Bruno Ernst Bruhwiler, WAC’s Los Angeles leader, puts the group — the largest Patriot organization in the country, with 102 chapters in 33 states — in a considerably more r