Treason
the New World Order
by GurudasChapter XVI
The Oklahoma Bombing
“All warfare is based on deception.”
Sun Tzu Wu
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”
James Baldwin
There is ample evidence that the government is involved in a major cover-up
in the Oklahoma bombing. Much about this atrocity have been revealed by various investigators including Dave Hall until recently owner of KPOC-TV in Ponca
City, Oklahoma; Channel 4 KFOR-TV the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City; Brig.
General USAF (Ret.) Ben Partin; Ted Gunderson, an FBI agent for 27 years who
retired as head of the FBI office in L.A.; John Rappoport author of Oklahoma
Bombing The Suppressed Truth; J.D. Cash; and Pat Briley. One doesn't have to
believe all the information these investigators have uncovered, but why is the
national media keeping it from the American people? J.D. Cash, an Oklahoma
reporter told me the local Associated Press (AP) branch wouldn't carrying his
stories because the U.S. Justice Department wouldn't approve them. In a free
society there would be outrage. Instead there is silence and news censorship.
As in any crime, one must examine who benefited to find a motive in the
Oklahoma bombing. The secret government had seven objectives including: discredit the militias and Patriot movement, weaken the NRA which helped defeat
many anti-gun congressmen in 1994, pass repressive bills in Congress, increase
federal power to tighten control over the people, and destroying records about
Waco and the Gulf War Syndrome which were reportedly stored in that federal
building. The bombing also provide Clinton with another opportunity to call the
Republicans extremists by linking them with the militias. The secret government
wanted to slow the momentum of the new Republican members of Congress. In
addition, on April 22, 1995, Hillary Clinton was questioned about Whitewater by
independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and three aides. You probably didn't hear
about this because of the Oklahoma bombing.
If you are going to maintain a large national security state, there must be a
threat to justify its continued existence. Otherwise too many people would realize
that we don't really need to spend billions of dollars on a problem that barely exists. For the security state to continue, there must sometimes be large terrorist
acts in the U.S. The last thing the national security state wants is peace and no
enemies. For decades there was the communist threat. In recent years, with the declared end of the cold war, numerous “experts” have appeared in the media warning
about the dire threat of terrorism. Meanwhile, terrorist incidents against Americans
have dropped from 111 in 1977 to nine in 1987. In 1991 there were seven terrorist acts. Several years ago, the largest number of attacks on Americans overseas was
in Chile against the Mormon church. People in the militias and Patriot movement
strongly criticized the bombing, and they have nothing to gain and much to lose
by committing terrorist acts. It is also strange that no groups claimed credit for the
bombing, which is the norm with terrorist attacks.
We now have terrorism on demand when certain bills are before Congress.
The FBI released a terrorist alert August 1, 1995 saying there might be a terrorist
attack at the end of August to commemorate the Randy Weaver raid in 1992. On
August 19, Clinton said “It's hard to imagine what more must happen to convince
Congress to pass the bill.” Then a terrorist alert for the airports was publicized in
August, and right on schedule on August 28, three New York City area airports
were closed for hours after a phone threat to an unlisted phone number at a key
facility. The FBI suspected a disgruntled employee, because it would be very difficult for terrorists to get this unlisted number. These events occurred just as the
House again considered passing the terrorist bill. The 1968 crime bill passed after
King and Kennedy were assassinated, and another crime bill passed in 1994 after
the World Trade Center (WTC) bombing.
Oklahoma may have been chosen partly because Governor Frank Keating had
been an FBI agent, a senior official in the Justice Department, and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the ATF. Instead of trying to answer questions about the bombing, Keating has criticized people in Oklahoma who question
the government version of the attack and has said people should trust the government and the FBI. Keating has stymied efforts in the Oklahoma legislature, led by
Rep. Charles Key, to get a state investigation of the bombing independent of the
FBI. Also, in Oklahoma almost 45 percent of the jobs are government related so
many people are afraid they will be fired and lose their pension if they complain
about the investigation.
If you have difficulty believing the government was involved in the Oklahoma building consider what happened at the New York WTC. The New Yorker
said the CIA funded and trained certain Afghan groups that trained some of the
gang that bombed the WTC. 1
After the arrests, it was revealed on the front page of
the New York Times October 28, 1993 that Emad A. Salem, a member of the
gang and a retired Egyptian army officer, was an FBI informant who had secretly
recorded his conversations with the FBI. Salem became a full-time FBI informant
on November, 1991. The Washington Post said he stopped working for the FBI in
1992, supposedly because he failed a polygraph test. Despite these claims, after
the bombing he again miraculously became qualified to be a government agent,
and was paid one million dollars for his court testimony. 2
How convenient!
According to the transcripts, Salem targeted the WTC per FBI orders, and he
wanted to use phony explosives to prevent damage to the WTC, but the FBI
supervisor blocked this. The gang were amateurs, so Salem rented the garage and
provided technical assistance to build the bomb. This was recorded on FBI surveillance tapes. 3
The FBI did just about everything to help the gang, but refused to
arrest them. Salem told an FBI agent “Your supervisor is the main reason of
bombing the WTC.” The supervisor Salem complained about was probably
brought in by higher authorities to make sure the terrorist attack occurred. FBI
agent Frederic Whitehurst, who testified about improprieties with the FBI crime
lab during the O.J. trial, also testified at the WTC trial. He was physically threatened and pressured to lie about questionable lab results.
Salem wanted to complain to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. about the
local FBI's failure to stop the bombing, because he felt the FBI didn't listen to his
warnings to stop the attack before it occurred. One agent agreed that the local FBI
people “didn't want to get their butts chewed.” Another agent said: “You cannot
force people to do the right thing.” 4
The FBI even tried to cover-up their actions to
make Salem's claims unbelievable. Why didn't these revelations cause an uproar in
Congress and the press? Instead there was silence and the Oklahoma City bombing. With over 1,000 people injured, it is amazing that no one has sued the federal
government for negligence.
The Discovery TV channel, on April 28, 1996, said the arrests took place
because of good police work and tracing the car axle code. Recently A&E TV
presented a show on the WTC bombing and Mike Wallace referred to “a lucky
break” in making the arrests. Then Salem's role as an FBI informant was noted,
but no one explained why the bombing wasn't prevented. Perhaps one day James
Fox, the ex-FBI agent in charge of the New York office during the bombing, will
be forced to testify about these events. On May 19, 1996 Parade magazine, in a
front page story that appeared in Sunday newspapers across the country, proudly
and falsely declared that identifying the number on the rented van played a “crucial”
role in arresting the gang. No mention was made of the crucial role the FBI played
in setting up this bombing. Increasingly our society is built on lies.
McVeigh rented the truck used in the bombing in his own name, was arrested
while speeding in a car without license plates, and he had no registration. It is also
strange that McVeigh made no attempt to resist being arrested despite having a
gun. He stayed in motels under his own name using the Nichol's Michigan farm
as his home address. How could McVeigh have done such a sophisticated bombing
and yet be so careless? That makes no sense unless he was deliberately set up to
take the fall as Ted Gunderson and others have said. The same pattern occurred
with Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan. McVeigh did not
have the training, money, resources, or record of resourcefulness to do this bombing alone. Time was also told by investigators that McVeigh was not smart
enough to pull off the operation alone. While McVeigh certainly seems to have
been involved he was being used by others.
McVeigh had no reliable job yet he had lots of money. Time said he had
$10,000 with no explanation of how he got this money. 5
McVeigh supposedly
robbed Roger Moore, an Arkansas gun collector, November 5, 1994. Moore admitted being friends with McVeigh and said he was a guest at times. Reportedly,
Moore has CIA and ATF contacts and ran a CIA front company. Linking
McVeigh to this robbery may be disinformation to explain how McVeigh had so
much money. When the Detroit Free Press filed an FOIA request to obtain information about this robbery, it learned that the FBI pressured the local sheriff to
alter the robbery report. According to an affidavit given by FBI agent Arthur
Baker, Moore did not even file an insurance claim for items stolen in the robbery.
Evidence suggests that McVeigh was known to the ATF and that he was possibly under surveillance for some time before the Oklahoma bombing. McVeigh
was never even questioned about the Arkansas robbery, and he was at Waco, during
and shortly after, the siege selling bumper stickers. The government used surveillance cameras to record such people. At a 1994 Arizona gun show, McVeigh was
spotted by a government agent illegally selling an anti-helicopter weapon. No
action was taken against him. NBC reported on August 1, 1995 that Glynn Tipton called the ATF because McVeigh was trying to buy large quantities of a fuel
additive and a fuel used in auto racing which might be used in an explosive. The
ATF did not act on this tip. 6
John Doe 2 has still not been found. Just after the explosion the police released an All-Points Bulletin (APB) for a late model brown pickup driven by two
Middle Eastern males. Within hours the FBI cancelled the APB, refusing to say
why, and demanded that it not be rebroadcast. According to Dave Hall, the authorities had pictures of McVeigh and another person leaving the scene of the crime in
this pickup. Yet weeks later, when Hall asked the authorities why they weren't
still searching for this car along with John Doe 2, they denied having said there
was such a car. When a tape of the admission was played the authorities had “no
comment.” J.D. Cash has interviewed almost 30 people who saw McVeigh with
other people in Oklahoma and Kansas shortly before the bombing. Authorities
have also not found the small trailer seen hitched to the Ryder truck that McVeigh
rented in Junction City, Kansas. 7
The New York Times 8
and Newsweek 9
interviewed various witnesses who saw
John Doe 2 with McVeigh. However, the New York Times quoted authorities as
saying they have turned up little evidence that John Doe 2 exists. Time also
quoted investigators who now claim John Doe 2 doesn't exist. 10
An ex-FBI agent
told USA Today “I'm starting to wonder if he exists if he wasn't a red herring.”
There was an announcement that John Doe 2 was identified as a U.S. soldier but
this claim was quietly dropped. The people who rented the Ryder truck to
McVeigh remain certain that a second person was with him and that John Doe 2
exists.
In Oklahoma City Channel 4 news director Melissa Kinzing confirmed the station has two witnesses who saw McVeigh and an Iraqi ex-soldier in a local bar, and a witness who saw an Iraqi driving away from the bombing in a brown pickup. Over the weeks, Channel 4 interviewed at least six people who saw McVeigh with several people including John Doe 2, and concluded that he is probably an Iraqi and a former member of the Republican Guard. In 1993 and 1994, Clinton brought thousands of Iraqi soldiers into the U.S. Many of them settled in Oklahoma. On October 18, 1993 the Washington Times said over 3,400 Iraqi soldiers and their dependents had settled in the U.S. with 4,600 more expected. On August 30, 1993 the Salt Lake City Tribune said 100 members of Congress wanted this program stopped. This is one more quiet operation that has brought thousands of foreign troops into the U.S.
Channel 4 KFOR-TV on June 7, 1995 presented a report on John Doe 2 claiming he was still in Oklahoma City, and eye-witnesses identified him with McVeigh. The FBI has refused to even interview this person. Although this Iraqi wasn't identified by Channel 4, two other local TV stations, Channels 5 and 9, interviewed this person and he denied involvement in the bombing. Channel 9 presented a time sheet supporting the person's claim that he was at work during the bombing, but Channel 4 found people at that business who confirmed that this firm doesn't use time sheets. On August 24, 1995 Al-Hussaini Hussain, an Oklahoma City resident and Iraqi who may have been in the Republican Guard, filed a suit against Channel 4 claiming they had falsely accused him of being involved in the bombing.
On August 17, 1995 Jayna Davis a Channel 4 reporter said: “These eyewitnesses show prime suspect McVeigh could not have acted alone....At least two more men, possibly three, were also there.” NBC won't run the reports of these witnesses nationally, supposedly because Channel 4 won't give it the names of several of its witnesses who are terrified of being publicly identified. People remember the many deaths surrounding the Kennedy assassination. 11 Except in a few cities, like Seattle and New York, NBC stations have refused to carry the many reports by Channel 4 on the Oklahoma bombing because they don't support the government version.
Although aware who many of these witnesses are, the FBI refuses to interrogate them, others were told by the FBI to keep quiet, and none were brought before the grand jury or offered protection. On January 24, 1995 PBS radio interviewed several of the witnesses who saw McVeigh and John Doe 2. One said someone threatened to kill him if he didn't shut up. The independent investigator, Pat Briley, has received death threats and been harassed by the FBI. One witness not called to testify before the grand jury, Mike Moroz of Johnny's Tire in Oklahoma City, gave McVeigh and another person directions to the federal building at 8:40 a.m. on April 19. Private investigators believe John Doe 2 is a government agent or informant, which is why the government won't let these people testify before the grand jury.
There are at least five surveillance video tapes from buildings near the federal building that prosecutors have refused to release to the press or the defense. These videos show McVeigh with John Doe 2 just before the bombing, but the grand jurors were only shown video still photographs of the Ryder truck. The public release of a photo of John Doe 2 from a video would have made it easier to arrest him, which may be why this evidence is being suppressed. The FBI has admitted it is investigating two of its agents in the L.A. office for illegally attempting to sell a video for $1 million to two TV networks. These two agents did not even have the authority to possess these tapes. Oklahoma private investigator, Robert Jerlow, saw the video in L.A. and along with his attorney, Randy Shadid, got involved in negotiating with a TV network. Jerlow said John Doe 2 got out of the truck 2 to 5 minutes after McVeigh which means the defense might be able to claim that John Doe 2 not McVeigh set the bomb. Consider the many leaks about the Unabomber which upset the Justice Department. Increasingly federal police are leaking information and serving as media consultants. 12
There is considerable evidence that it is absolutely impossible for a fertilizer bomb to have caused the resulting damage. Clinton appears to understand this. On June 12, 1995 the Cape Cod Times using an AP report quoted Clinton saying the bomb used in Oklahoma was “a miracle of technology.” Retired Brigadier General Benton K. Partin is one of the world's foremost experts on explosives technology including precision-guided weapons and related target acquisition. He spent 25 years designing and testing weapons for the U.S. military. On July 13, 1995, Partin released a 23-page report on the Oklahoma bombing. It was put on the Internet and summarized in The New American. 13 The magnitude and pattern of damage made it impossible for the damage to have been caused by an explosion outside the building on the street. “The total incompatibility with a single truck bomb lies in the fact that either some of the columns collapsed that should not have collapsed or some of the columns are still standing that should have collapsed and did not.” He said the pattern of damage suggested an implosion with explosives attached to the columns probably at the third floor because that is where the columns failed.
Authorities raised the bomb yield from 1,000 to 1,100, to 2,000, to 2,500, to 4,800 pounds. Using the official claim of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate would yield on the high end 1/2 million pounds per square inch (psi) at the detonation site. It is a basic laws of physics that the destructive potential of an explosion dramatically falls off even a few feet from a blast. Traveling through the air the first column hit would drop to 375 psi and to 25-38 psi at more distant columns. Concrete yield strength is 3,500 psi and pressure in the hundreds of thousands of psi would be required to cause the resulting damage, especially to reduce concrete to powder as occurred at some columns. The general concluded: “This is a classic cover-up of immense proportions.”
The WTC truck bomb with explosive power similar to the Oklahoma bombing destroyed no support beams although some were quite close to the truck. The truck bomb in Oklahoma supposedly destroyed 20 to 30 main support beams that were 30 to 75 feet away. This is simply not possible. If the blast came from one origin the pattern of damage to the surrounding buildings would have been rather circular. Instead, the pattern of destruction was more linear and directed mainly at the federal building suggesting a sophisticated explosion. Building debris including reinforced steel was blown outward towards the street, which indicated a blast from inside the building.
Ted Gunderson believes the main damage was caused by an electrohydrodynamic gaseous fuel bomb developed by Michael Riconosciuto. The size of a pineapple it cost about $100,000 to build. It requires Q Clearance to build this secret device and only a few people in government have the technical ability to construct and use this devise. Riconosciuto's laboratory in Aberdeen, Washington was robbed in the late 1980s, and reportedly the signature from the Oklahoma bombing has been traced back to this laboratory. Gunderson prepared a report listing 15 reasons why an ammonium nitrate bomb couldn't have caused the resulting damage. 14 Damage to nearby structures was more extensive than what you would expect from just ammonium nitrate, which is not that efficient. It makes a loud noise but doesn't pulverize material unless packed into the area for direct contact. That much ammonium nitrate would have made the area dangerous with nitric acid in the air, but this did not occur. The explosion left no soot and only a small amount of unexploded fertilizer was present, which means an expert set off the blast. While the FBI said the axle from the Ryder truck was found three blocks away, why did it blow upwards when the bomb, which was above the axle, made a 30 foot crater, and a large ammonium nitrate truck bomb of this size would blow upwards and would not create a crater.
Further investigation is needed to clarify these two views, although it appears that General Partin is correct that demolition charges were placed on various columns. It would be difficult for anyone to place such charges in a secure federal building, and this is one more sign that this was an inside job. One witness claims she saw someone culling into a column in the federal building several weeks before the explosion. When she walked over to the person, he covered his tools and said he was fixing up the building.
It is one thing to use a small ammonium nitrate bomb as farmers often do to remove trees, but to blow up one involving 4,800 pounds with about 20 containers linked together requires great technical ability. It is extremely difficult to build such a large device with numerous canisters using home mixing equipment. The only way to have blast control with a 4,800 pound ammonium bomb would be with volumetric initiation which requires sophisticated electronic circuits. Very few people have the training to build such bombs. The Albuquerque Journal said the ATF in mid-August, 1994 conducted tests blowing up car bombs made of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil at White Sands, New Mexico. Was this a trial run in preparation for the Oklahoma operation? 15
Two seismographs near the explosion clearly showed there were two or three explosions. Ray Brown, geologist for Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, 16.25 miles from the explosion, initially said there were “two separate seismic events” and the simplest explanation is “two separate explosions.” Dr. Brown believes that the second event could not be explained by surface wave velocity dispersion, air waves, or air-coupled Rayleigh waves. 16 ABC and other reporters visited the OSG, but this information was suppressed.
The second event could not have been the building collapsing. The April 19 blast had 60 million tons of concrete fall, while 200 million tons fell when the entire building was destroyed. Falling debris does not send the same high and low frequency waves as an explosion. Extensive seismograph equipment was used to record the demolition of the federal building. Equipment at Norman could barely record the demolition, unlike the clear record of the April 19 bombing, and the recording at the much closer Omniplex center was clearly different from the April 19 bombing. 17 Also, based on the laws of gravity the 11 seconds that separated the two blasts was too long a time period in a collapsing nine story building for the debris to have caused the second record on the seismograph. Steve Due, who operates one of the local seismographs, believes the second explosion was a “chainreaction detonation of explosive materials.” 18
On June 1, 1995 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) claimed there was only one bomb explosion April 19 and wrongly said the scientists at OGS all agreed with this conclusion. Dr. Charles Mankin, head of the OGS, urged that the June 1 claim not be released until more evidence had been analyzed and, with other scientists, still feels the evidence suggests there were two blasts and that the USGS prematurely reached its conclusion. 19 The experts in Oklahoma also rejected the claim that the two events were one wave traveling at different speeds. Was the USGS pressured to help in the cover-up?
On November 20, 1995 at a meeting in Oklahoma City, Brown said he is now certain there were three explosions, and one of them was demolition charges, supporting General Partin's claims. Previously, Brown was not shown the complete seismograph record from the Omniplex center just 4.3 miles from the blast because it was seized by the FBI. In October, 1995 he obtained a better copy of the original seismograph, but the FBI still has the original and they won't release it to government geologists or to the defense attorneys who have been trying to obtain it. Brown and Tom Holzer, the government geologist at the meeting, agreed that they should see this original record to give a more complete analysis. Holzer said there may have been more than one explosion but this couldn't be proved. After the meeting, U.S. Prosecutor Ryan misquoted Holzer and said this conclusively confirms there was only one blast. 20
An important factor in the bombing that has received little publicity is that the damage was much worse because munitions were illegally stored on the ninth floor of the federal building by DEA and ATF offices. The AP refused to carry stories published in the McCurtain Gazette about several illegal arsenal rooms in the Murrah building. Storing such material in office buildings violates state and federal laws. Munitions are only supposed to be stored in bunker-style arsenals. Information about the illegal arsenal rooms is being suppressed, partly because federal authorities are liable for huge damages in this criminal negligence. 21 The ATF is very worried about this, especially because in civil lawsuits broader discovery is allowed than in criminal lawsuits, and it would be much harder for federal authorities to withhold information. Already, local attorneys are exploring this; and Edye Smith, a mother who lost her two children in the blast, and her family have filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against McVeigh. They plan to also sue the U.S. government. Of 462 federal employees affected by the bombing, all but Edye Smith and her mother-in-law were approved for workers compensation. This is how the government treats people who stand up to it.
Many believe the second explosion, which included the stored weapons, was more severe than the first. These munitions did not initially cause the blast but they made the resulting damage much worse and exemplify how the Feds have lied in this investigation. The arsenal room on the ninth floor collapsed onto the areas where the greatest number of casualties occurred, such as the day care center. The explosives included C-4 explosives, which will explode without a fuse under 3,500 pounds of pressure as occurred when the building collapsed. The authorities have generally denied storing any weapons in the building, although the regional head of the ATF in Dallas, Lester Martz, blamed the DEA for the arsenal room. 22 Cash believes there were four arsenal rooms in the Murrah building.
After the initial explosions, the media said work was stopped several times to dismantle unexploded bombs. Police radios said the bomb squad found “undetonated military bombs” in the building. Explosive experts and a bomb-disposal truck were brought in. Many people near the federal building heard and felt several explosions. Witnesses also saw several five gallon containers of mercury fulminate inside the building. This volatile material could have collapsed the entire building. Bill Martin, of the Oklahoma City police, told Phil O'Halloran, a local reporter, about this discovery and then the department wouldn't discuss this report. Dick Miller, Oklahoma City assistant fire marshal, said high explosives such as an intact container marked “High Explosives” were moved from the building right after the blast. One initial rescuer a veteran heard live ammunition going past him from inside the building. 23
After the explosion, some unexploded munitions remained on the ninth floor although much had fallen to the ground, so munitions were removed from both areas. One civilian helping to remove munitions from the building weeks after the blast saw hundreds of guns, including a five-gallon bucket of hand-grenades, in the building. Witnesses even saw an ATF agent remove a TOW (anti-tank missile) from the destroyed federal building. Several times, FBI and ATF agents got into arguments as to when the munitions should be removed from the building. 24
The McCurtain Daily Gazelle obtained a film from the sheriff's department showing federal officials removing munitions from the federal building weeks after the explosion. On the film, the Feds yelled at the local police to leave the area. They did not want witnesses to see this evidence. This film confirms that there was an illegal arsenal room in the federal building. These munitions exploded in an area of the building where experts say the building could not have sustained so much damage from a truck bomb. 25
Rick Sherrow, an ex-ATF agent, said this is not the first time federal agents illegally stored munitions in a public building. In 1987 Soviet rocket fuses exploded during a fire at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. After that, the ATF ordered federal officials across the U.S. to stop this illegal practice, but there have been other incidents. 26 The Tulsa World reported in April, 1990 that IRS headquarters in Tulsa was robbed. The loot included ordinance and thousands of rounds of ammunition. 27
It is also suspicious that the government rushed to destroy the entire building as they did at Waco, before independent tests could be conducted by outside experts. The government wouldn't even allow McVeigh's lawyer to take scrapings from various areas of the building. The damaged columns had chemical traces which would identify the explosives used in the bombing. Various architects, including Jim Loftis who designed the building, said it was structurally sound and did not have to be demolished although he and others were pressured by the governor to support demolishing the building. Brig. General Partin and others tried to delay the building's destruction in order to conduct a thorough investigation. Partin wrote to various members of Congress saying “The damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from a single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases....A careful examination of the collapsed column bases would readily reveal a failure mode produced by a demolition charge....A separate and independent assessment should be made before a building demolition team destroys the evidence forever.” Instead, the rubble was removed and buried underground with a fence around it to keep people out, and people at the site were told to not let anyone in to examine the debris. Is there something to hide here? Reportedly, the new judge may allow the defense access to the destroyed building.
There is considerable evidence that the government had advance notice that a federal building, probably in the midwest, was going to be attacked. An informant told the U.S. Attorney in Denver, Henry Solano, that a federal building probably in Denver or the midwest was going to be attacked. 28 Conspirators included Americans and people with Arabic names. This person was transporting drugs between L.A. and Kingman, Arizona. McVeigh, Michael Fortier, and Terry Nichols spent time in Kingman. Although supposedly not credible this person got a letter of immunity September 14, 1994 from the Justice Department, which is not provided that easily. And the Feds spoke to him three times including as late as March, 1995. In early April he sent a letter to federal authorities in Denver warning that a federal building would be attacked within two weeks. Even after the bombing, the Feds still said this informant was considered unreliable, and he did not testify before the grand jury.
On March 22, 1995 The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. published a report from Eduardo Gonzalex, head of the U.S. Marshals Service. A reliable source said there was going to be a terrorist attack against a federal courthouse or government facility in the U.S. in conjunction with the WTC trial, with the intent to kill many innocent people to attract press attention. The threat was considered very serious, and security was being increased throughout the U.S. On April 20, 1995 the Israeli newspaper Yediol Ahronot headlined a story by Zadok Yehezkeli that, in recent days, U.S. intelligence officials received information originating in the Middle East about an imminent Islamic terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The initial trial judge, Wayne Alley, admitted to The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in Oregon, on April 20, 1995 that he had been warned of a possible terrorist attack several weeks before the bombing. Because of this, the judge stayed away from the court and his grandchildren were kept out of the day care center. He was probably removed from the case by a higher court because it would have been rather bizarre for the trial judge to openly acknowledged he was warned in advance about a terrorist attack, while the authorities denied there was any such warning. 29 The defense had tried for months to disqualify Alley. Two days after it submitted the interview as evidence of his unsuitability he was removed by a higher court. The press refuses to discuss this interview and government prior knowledge of the bombing.
The FBI called the Oklahoma City fire department on Friday, April 14, and warned of a terrorist threat in the area possibly in the next week. When a local investigator asked Assistant Chief Charles Gaines about this he denied receiving any warning. Then Chief Dispatcher Harvey Weathers confirmed they had received a message from the FBI to be alert to a bombing. When told about Gaines' comment, Weathers said: “I'm not going to lie for anyone. A lot of people don't want to get involved in this.” Two other dispatchers confirmed Weathers' story. The Oklahoma City fire and police departments have since been ordered to not speak about the bombing, and inquiries must go through the city attorney.[Yeah nothing strange about that DC]
All Oklahoma City fire department communication tapes from that Friday until the bombing have been erased. This was called an error. When Channel 4 got the police log for the night before the bombing there were only two pages when normally it would be 12 to 15 pages. A public affairs official for the police department acknowledged to a local investigator that pages were missing and that a court order would be needed to release them. Under Oklahoma law such records and tapes from the police and fire departments should be readily available. The media constantly refers to the Turner Diaries as the inspiration for right wing extremists to do the Oklahoma bombing. Yet the press ignores the fact that Martin Keating, brother of Oklahoma's governor Frank Keating, wrote a novel The Final Jihad in 1991, which much more accurately portrays the events of the Oklahoma bombing. This book described a federal building in Oklahoma being destroyed by someone named Tom McVay. The key suspect was stopped by an alert Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer. What are the odds of this novel's plot being just a coincidence when compared to the actual events? While writing the novel Frank Keating, then a senior official in the Justice Department, introduced his brother to some FBI officials, including ex-FBI agent Oliver Revell, who served as a consultant to provide ideas for the project. 30
In addition, when Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was arrested, a well-read copy of Al Gore's book Earth In the Balance was found in his cabin. This was generally kept out of the news. I don't think this incident should be used to attack the entire environmental movement, but the same standard should exist with the militias. Instead the press falsely claims The Turner Diaries was the Bible of the right, to demonize the militias.
Various people report that ATF and DEA workers were told not to come to work that day because of a bomb threat On September 12, 1995, KFOR TV interviewed three witnesses who spoke with an ATF agent on the street just after the explosion who admitted no ATF agents were in the building during the blast because they had been warned to not come to work that day. At least four independent witnesses saw the local bomb squad at a parking lot by the Murrah building between 7:30-8:30 a.m. shortly before the blast. Norma Smith told her relatives in Texas about this. 31 Attorney Daniel Adomitis told the Fort Worth Star/Telegram that he saw a bomb squad by the county courthouse at 7:30 a.m. the morning of the blast. Other witnesses saw a bomb squad by the IRS building that morning. The government denies all these reports. 32
Pat Briley's wife works with the wives of two FBI agents, including Dan Vogel, and minutes after the bombing they called their husbands, and then said the FBI knew in advance about the bombing. Two days later they said they shouldn't have admitted this, and the conversation should not be repeated. In the days before the bombing, Dana Cooper, director of the day care center, who was killed in the blast, received numerous bomb threats, which she reported to several government agencies. At 9 a.m. sharp, some FBI agents normally brought their children to the day care center, while they conducted business in the building, but this wasn't done the day of the blast.
Although 15 to 17 ATF agents were assigned to the federal building in Oklahoma, none were in the building during the blast. Despite claims that some of them were injured or killed, no such victims were ever identified. The U.S. News & World Report, August 14, 1995, published the names of all the identified Oklahoma bombing victims with photos for most of them. No ATF, DEA, or FBI agents were listed here. Although there was massive media coverage of the Oklahoma bombing, few of the injured were interviewed. Victims like Judy Morse realized a bomb exploded inside the building, and the government didn't want the public to hear such reports. When Edye Smith asked, on CNN May 23, 1995, why no one from the ATF was in the building, a shocked announcer cut her off and the press didn't pursue this.
Lester Martz, regional head of the ATF in Dallas, on May 23, 1995 said ATF agent Alex McCauley and a DEA agent fell five stories in a free fall from the eighth to the third floor in an elevator during the explosion, and they managed to open the stuck door to escape. ATF head John Magaw repeated this story the next day on CNN. However, the company that inspects the elevators happened to have two inspectors across the street when the blast occurred. With a government inspector, they immediately examined the elevators, and they confirmed that the ATF story was not possible. Repairman Duane James called it pure fantasy. None of the doors were forced open and safety switches to prevent excessive speed remained in place. No elevator had a free fall which was impossible unless a cable was cut, which did not happen. 33
This bombing is not the first instance of a terrorist attack in which the U.S. government had advance warning that was kept from the public. Previously it was reported that the U.S. knew in advance of a terrorist threat to Pan Am, and there was even a warning posted at an American Embassy. In the months after the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, many were angry at the government because this warning wasn't openly published. In July, 1995 the London Guardian said the State Department received a warning three weeks in advance that there would be an attack against Pan Am and U.S. military bases. In late October, 1995, Hoppy Heidelberg a member of the grand jury that indicted McVeigh publicly complained that U.S. prosecutors were intimidating the grand jury refusing even to present witnesses who saw John Doe 2. About John Doe 2, in transcripts released by the defense, Heidelberg said: “I'm satisfied that I know the government knows who he is.” Heidelberg said this person was a government agent or informant. “Either way...they had prior knowledge to the bombing, and that's what they cannot afford...to have come out.” FBI agents went to Heidelberg's home and showing a gun confiscated his juror notes. When Heidelberg tried to get a copy of those notes, as allowed under the FOIA, the government refused to comply. When grand jurors wanted to directly question witnesses, prosecutors removed the witness from the room and after getting questions from the jurors asked such questions in their own words. This is quite unusual and represents serious misconduct by prosecutors. According to the federal grand jury handbook the government is supposed to assist, not block, a grand juror in a search for the truth. A grand jury is an independent body that serves as a check against an overzealous prosecutor. 34
After complaining to the judge in early October, 1995, Heidelberg was removed from the grand jury and threatened with jail and a fine if he spoke up. His removal was partly based on an interview he had with an FBI agent. It is extremely rare for a grand juror to break the oath of secrecy, which is illegal, and publicly make such complaints. One expert said it only happens once every few decades. The government falsely claimed that Heidelberg was a militia radical. Just after Heidelberg was removed from the grand jury, Rep. Key on October 26, 1995 started gathering 1,000 signatures to have a county grand jury. He warned that “criminal obstruction of justice charges could be levied against any person or persons who have destroyed documents related” to the bombing. Although quite unusual, a judge has twice turned down the request for a grand jury and the decision has been appealed. In June, 1995 relatives of the bombing victims petitioned Congress to hold an investigation.
On November 3, 1995 The Dallas Morning News wrote an editorial that Heidelberg should be held in contempt. USA Today attacked Heidelberg in an article entitled “A 'Terrible' Turn in Bomb Case.” 35 Is it more terrible that the government is covering up evidence about such a crime, or that one juror had the integrity to speak out? In November, 1995 U.S. prosecutor Patrick Ryan told the Daily Oklahoman anyone who disagreed with the government's version of the case was being unpatriotic. He said independent investigators were “extremists who want to somehow harm this country.” The British couldn't have said it better over 200 years ago! As in a communist country, if you challenge the party line you are an enemy of the people. That a brave person speaks out in the name of truth is not acceptable to the government and our corporate controlled media.
The indictments, which didn't describe a motive, made it clear the Feds believe others are involved. “Others unknown to the grand jury” were described. 36 However, Time called the indictment “A Two-Bit Conspiracy” involving just two drifters with no broad conspiracy. 37 Nichol's lawyer, Michael Tigar, requested a hearing to explore government misconduct. There have been various leaks of information that are often false, federal authorities have prevented witnesses from speaking with defense attorneys, and they have provided information to the press while withholding it from the defense.
The Rocky Mountain News said on March 29, 1996 that FBI agent Whitehurst believes the FBI is illegally withholding evidence that is hurting the McVeigh defense. He wrote a letter last November saying: “I will consider it an obstruction of justice and will testify in court to that opinion...if that information is suppressed by the Department of Justice and/or the FBI.” This evidence involves the testimony of another FBI agent that residue from the explosion had been found in McVeigh's shirt. At a pretrial evidentiary hearing on April 9, 1996, the U.S. prosecutor admitted that Whitehurst tested this shirt and found no chemical residue from the bombing. Reportedly, nine FBI agents have signed declarations supporting Whitehurst's statements about government misconduct in the Oklahoma bombing investigation. The judge in the case sealed these documents but they were leaked.
Witnesses have even been intimidated by the government. People who made statements different from the approved version have been so criticized that certain witnesses are afraid to come forward. Some witnesses are afraid to lose their pension. A safety officer in the federal building saw McVeigh in the building several weeks before the blast, and had information that could explain who owned the leg found in the rubble. He was told to shut up or his reputation would be ruined. After Heidelberg was dismissed from the grand jury, a reporter made an appointment by phone to see him. The Assistant U.S. Attorney for the case then reportedly called and told Heidelberg if he saw this person he'd be go to jail. This is another sign of widespread phone wiretaps. One person, seriously injured in the blast, has important information that sharply differs from the government story. An FBI agent came to her door and said an L.A. Times reporter was coming to her place and she would be in serious trouble if she spoke to him. Ten minutes later there was a knock at the door, which she refused to answer. Later by her door she saw a card from an L.A. Times reporter. By the spring of 1996, federal agents revisited certain witnesses to harass them into changing their stories.
McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, asked the court to force the CIA to release secret records about the Oklahoma bombing. Reportedly, he did this because the military secretly released records to him showing the involvement of the CIA and foreign nationals in causing the Oklahoma bombing. If this were obtained through the court it would probably be entered as evidence during the trial, but naturally the government cried national security to block this request. Jones appears to now understand that much is involved in this trial. He spoke of a broader conspiracy with McVeigh being only a foot soldier. 38 He has spoken of foreign nationals being involved in the plot, his investigators have spoken to people like Ted Gunderson, and there are signs Jones may mount a defense involving some of the evidence discussed here that is being covered up. In November, 1995 Jones told reporters when they know what he has learned about the government's role in the bombing, they would never again have the same view about the government and the way government intelligence works. McVeigh's sister in 1994 told a reporter at the Spotlight that her brother worked for the ATF. According to Heidelberg, during the grand jury proceedings, McVeigh's sister read a letter from her brother in which he claimed to be a member of a U.S. military Special Forces Group conducting criminal activity. 39 This important revelation has received little publicity.
However, it is difficult to believe the government will allow information on its involvement in the bombing to be presented in open court. The Feds will go to any extreme to continue the cover-up. Jones has complained about the location of the trial but it remains to be seen how serious he will be in challenging the government's case. Jones barely attempted to delay the federal building's destruction. Attorney John De Camp was prepared to file for a 30-day delay in the demolition as a lawyer for a victim. Jones contacted De Camp and asked him to back down because he would be in a better legal position to get this delay. De Camp agreed, also releasing his bomb expert, as Jones requested. Then Jones only asked for a 48-hour delay, he didn't use this bomb expert, and the defense agreed not to even take soil samples to investigate. De Camp was stunned. A defense lawyer in a criminal investigation has a right and duty to examine evidence at the scene of the crime. At the same time, in fairness to Jones, the rapid destruction of this evidence may provide grounds for an appeal.
Many similar cases in the past were settled before a trial took place, such as the killing of the Kennedys, Martin L King, and John Lennon. It is quite possible McVeigh and Nichols will be killed, an out-of-court settlement will be made, or the lawyers for the defendants will back off and not present certain evidence. During a trial, it would be a public relations disaster for the government if the truth came out. It remains to be seen what Jones will actually reveal in a trial. Gunderson said the security for McVeigh when he was initially moved was “very poor, sloppy, an open invitation for someone to kill him.” Authorities refused to even give McVeigh a bullet-proof vest when he was initially moved, and no one knows how the crowd knew who he was and when he was being moved. In late August, 1995 the security chief where McVeigh and Nichols were jailed was removed after he attempted to increase security around them. Some investigators believe McVeigh was supposed to die in the blast, and this makes sense.
In a crime like the Oklahoma bombing with an on-going cover-up there are many loose ends. Why were thousands of elite Iraqi troops quietly moved to the U.S? Why did the government give immunity to the Denver informant and then, even after he was quite accurate, still ignore him? What is the relationship between the secret government and the foreign terrorists who may be involved in the bombing? The exact role of the U.S. government in this cover-up has not yet been clarified. When McVeigh was arrested, the officer's video recorded the license plate of a truck owned by Steve Colburn. He was arrested May 13, 1995 but nothing further has been heard about him. The unidentified leg found in the federal building was identified as belonging to a white male. Then the Feds said it belonged to a black woman. It is not that difficult for forensic experts to determine the sex and race of a victim.
A German friend of McVeigh's Andreas Strassmeir, may be involved in the bombing. Several witnesses claim Strassmeir was with McVeigh in Junction City, Kansas shortly before the bombing, and Strassmeir may soon be named in the Smith family's civil lawsuit. Coming from a prominent political family in Germany, he became a German officer with intelligence training in 1989 and then moved to the U.S. to visit KKK and neo-Nazis supporters. Phone records show that McVeigh and Strassmeir communicated including possibly on April 5 and 18, 1995, and Strassmeir admits meeting McVeigh. In December, 1993 the FBI said German and U.S. intelligence agencies would work together to limit the influence of Nazis in each country. This included surveillance of certain Americans. For years the government has used foreign agents to perform illegal acts in the U.S. to avoid being detected. Strassmeir admitted to the London Sunday Telegraph that he first lived in the U.S. in 1989 because he planned to work for the U.S. Justice Department on a special assignment. 40 The McCurtain Daily Gazelle obtained an FBI memorandum dated April 26, 1995 that an imprisoned White Aryan Resistance (WAR) member had met McVeigh several years ago with John Doe 2 who was a German national. 41 On February 4, 1996 the Sunday Times of London said British and German extremists may be linked to the bombing. 42
Strassmeir fled to Germany after the McCurtain Daily Gazette started writing about his possible involvement with McVeigh and the bombing and suggested he may be an undercover intelligence agent. His U.S. attorney Kirk Lyons confirmed that he returned to Germany through Mexico with the help of GSG-9, the German military counter-terrorist unit of which he is a member, reportedly because of death threats. 43 A warrant for Strassmeir's arrest for overstaying a tourist visa was never served, although the FBI received a copy of the warrant. In February, 1992, when Strassmeir's car was impounded, the State Department and governor's office called and said he had diplomatic immunity.
Cash received help in his investigation by someone from Interpol frustrated with the U.S. governments refusal to investigate various white supremacists. In Tulsa, Cash visited Dennis Mahon, a leader of WAR, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and a friend of Strassmeier. Mahon and his brother own a sporty 1973 Chevrolet pickup similar to a vehicle the FBI was looking for immediately after the bombing. During the visit, Cash also spoke to Mark Thomas, leader of the Pennsylvania WAR, and he admitted being at Elohim City days before the bombing. Also discussed at the meeting was Mike Brescia, another WAR member and roommate of Strassmeirs at Elohim City. At least one witness has identified Mahon as driving with McVeigh the morning of the bombing. McVeigh's lawyer confirmed that, although it had questioned 11,000 people, the FBI had not questioned any of these people about their possible involvement in the bombing, although Mahon did give a deposition in Edye Smith's lawsuit. A member of the WAR, Richard Snell, was executed in prison by the government on April 19, 1995 hours after the bombing. 44 The Denver Post quoted Arkansas prison guard Alan Ablies as saying: “Snell repeatedly predicted that there would be a bombing or an explosion the day of his death.”
On May 21, 1995 Reuters News Agency said Newsweek had information the government “pretty well knew who was involved in the April 19 blast, and that husbands and wives as well as children as young as 12, were going to be arrested at” Elohim City, a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma. “The major players, already targeted by the FBI, were talking to investigators to get lighter sentences,” and a government informant had provided information on the bombing. The government usually has informants in targeted groups. On May 21, 1995 WUSA in Boston profiled the Newsweek story, but this report was suspended and not widely disseminated. Newsweek only ran a watered-down story on May 29, 1995. McVeigh, Michael Fortier, and Terry Nichols visited Elohim City many times while Strassmeir lived there for some months, and no one could confirm Strassmeir's alibi during the bombing. 45 On October 12, 1993 McVeigh got a speeding ticket a few miles from Elohim City on the road to the village.
Reportedly, the extensive investigation by the Smith family, discussed above, has led them to conclude that Mike Brescia is John Doe 2. Eyewitnesses place Brescia with McVeigh in Junction City, Kansas shortly before the bombing. Just after the composite of John Doe 1 was released, before McVeigh was publicly identified, a women in Kansas told the FBI John Doe 1 was McVeigh, who she had dated and John Doe 2 was Brescia, who a friend had dated. Amazingly, the FBI refused to even interrogate Brescia even though he remained at Elohim City for months after the bombing until the press started asking about him. Then he disappeared and no one is sure where he is today. Strassmeir is going to be named in the Smith lawsuit as a “U.S. federal informant with material knowledge of the bombing.”
Lester Martz, regional head of the ATF, confirmed that there was a sting operation the night before the bombing, but he wouldn't confirm if the sting operation was related to the bombing. 46 Rep. Key also said someone involved in the sting operation confirmed its existence to him. Reportedly, there were ATF agents on a stake out of the Murrah building at 3:30 a.m., and they had a tracking device. At 4:30 a.m. these agents set up a road block two miles from the Murrah building, and other agents were probably watching another near by federal building. Some feel they were following McVeigh's car with a transmitter, and that McVeigh and his friends were going to be arrested before the blast, or the blast was supposed to occur early in the morning when no one was in the building. Others feel that because the sting operation failed, the Feds are trying to cover-up their advanced knowledge. Or the failed sting operation may have been a deliberate cover to carry out the actual bombing.
The WTC bombing involved an FBI informant working with terrorists possibly trained by the CIA. About the Oklahoma bombing Strassmeir said, “The ATF had an informant inside this operation. They had advance warning and they bungled it.” 47 In the New York and Oklahoma, officials openly admit that they haven't yet found the masterminds of the crime and aren't sure how funds were obtained to support the bombing. 48 In each case, authorities claimed they were able to arrest people within a few days, because the vehicle ID number of the truck involved in the bombing was found, but this was false. The Feds already knew who they were looking for in New York. The vehicle identification number (VIN) of the Ryder truck supposedly led investigators to McVeigh, but GM said the VIN is not on the rear axle as claimed, and Ryder confirmed that it doesn't add VINs to its trucks. In each case, no one in Congress has demanded an explanation for the many discrepancies in these cases. Several congressional aides told one investigator that Congress would not permit hearings on the Oklahoma bombing, partly because they were afraid it would so undermine federal law enforcement that it might jeopardize passage of the Anti-Terrorism bill.
The many inconsistencies in the Oklahoma bombing raise serious questions about the integrity of the government's case. Why does the national media and progressive press refuse to discuss this government misconduct? If there was no federal involvement in the Oklahoma bombing, why are they covering up the facts? The government won't interview many witnesses because they would start talking about other people who they saw with McVeigh. Several private investigators believe the CIA was definitely involved with foreign nationals and American KKK/neo-Nazis members working together. During the Gulf War German Nazis openly supported Iraq, so it is quite possible Middle Eastern and German terrorists work together on certain operations. Hopefully, the rule of law will be reestablished in America so that the perpetrators of this atrocity can be arrested and brought to trial.
As many are aware, in recent years thousands of Americans have joined unenrolled militias in many states. Militia units should be set up across the country to protect the people, as was the intent of the Founders. People should consider joining armed militia units to train, study, assist the people during emergencies, and to more effectively get involved in politics. If more raids like the Waco massacre take place, there will be an explosion of membership in the militias. Many state codes have laws allowing for general unorganized or unenrolled militias, but their role today is not well defined. In 1946 Virginia ordered its unenrolled militia to restore peace in a labor dispute. They are still regarded as a reserve source of manpower for the state National Guard and the Army. However, the National Guard, not the unenrolled state militias, are seen as the main source of manpower for the Army.
Many people joining militia units belong to the Patriot movement which exists in every state. People in this populist movement are often not armed. The movement includes constitutionalists, homeschoolers, tax protesters, progressives, New Agers, and Christian fundamentalists. Many would benefit by attending its meetings. While the Patriot movement is rather large, it has received little national media coverage even after the Oklahoma bombing. The militia movement is just the tip of the iceberg of a broad-based movement involving millions of people determined to restore constitutional government. Many people are joining the Patriot movement to stop the coming one world government, because so many things written about it for years are now actually happening.
The national media have continuously attacked the militias and patriots linking them to racism, anti-Semitism, and white supremacists like the Aryan Nation, although there is little evidence of this. The press often says the militias consist of angry white men; yet many Jews, blacks, and women belong to the movement. 1 The San Francisco Chronicle said, while groups that watch extremist organizations have claimed “the militia movement is linked to dangerous right-wing ideologies, they offer little supporting evidence.” The article said militia members “engage in voter registration drives, assist local law enforcement agencies in flood relief efforts and other emergencies.” This is what the Missouri militia did during recent flooding. 2
Most people in the militias and Patriot movement have no prejudice against any race or color, 3 although there have been some generally unsuccessful attempts by racists to infiltrate militia units. In one incident, a militia unit in Fort Bragg, California was offered 1,500 acres for training. A check revealed that the man was a white supremacist, so the offer was rejected. 4 Sheriff Dupont said white supremacists in his Montana county initially tried to influence the local militia as it formed, but they were totally rejected. 5 According to the U.S. News & World Report, a few people from right wing groups have joined militia units, “but law enforcement officials believe most recruits are simply disenchanted with what they consider the growing intrusion of government into their lives.” 6 When a few skinheads and neo-Nazis attended a Missouri militia meeting, they were thrown out, as was the person who said he could build landmines. This unit states in its manual that it will not tolerate racism or criminal behavior. 7
Time said many militias throw out racists and some militias have minority members. James Aho, author of The Politics of Righteousness and a sociologist who has interviewed 368 people in the radical right, said “The vast majority of people in the militias are not violent or dangerous.” 8 Most people in these groups are middle-class, law-abiding citizens who realize how dangerous the federal government has become. There is also a growing interaction between the Patriot movement and black nationalists. Many black Americans understand the danger of corporate domination and government abuses of power. 9
While most people in the secret government are Christian, some are Jewish, and some claim there is a Jewish plot to control the world. The real religion of all these people is money and power. There is no Jewish conspiracy, just as there is no Christian conspiracy. To attack the religious views of a few bankers is morally reprehensible and provides no real insight into what is actually taking place. Attacking the secret government as a Jewish plot also falls into a trap, because then you are being anti-Semitic and that becomes the whole issue instead of actually analyzing the secret government. Even Jewish patriots who attack the secret government are called anti-Semitic. This is a classic example of attacking the messenger to avoid an intelligent discussion of the message. This strategy is another layer of protection the corporate elite use to keep the public from learning about their evil deeds. People like Henry Kissinger are promoted partly so people will see a Jewish conspiracy and be attacked on that basis, while the real work of the secret government is not even discussed. On February 2, 1995, the New York Review of Books reviewed Pat Robertson's book, The New World Order. While this book describes in great detail the history and plans of the corporate elite to establish the one world government, Robertson also mentioned certain Jewish individuals. The reviewer barely explored the theme of Robertson's book. Instead the review focused on the “question of whether Robertson was an anti-Semite.”
Members of the secret government who claim to be Jewish are far less than a fraction of one percent of the millions of Jews throughout the world, most of whom have no interest or even knowledge of a secret government desiring world domination. It is morally wrong to slander an entire race because of the evil deeds of a few people. “A tragic canard, the Jewish conspiracy merits no further comment. Its existence, however, tends to unfairly discredit other conspiratorial interpretations of events that have nothing to do with making scapegoats of any ethnic or religious group.” 10 While some people use anti-Semitic or racist remarks to attack the bankers, that is a minority view that offends most people in the militias and Patriot movement. One reason there is very little anti-Semitism in the Patriot movement and militias is because there are so many Jewish members. The 100- man militia unit in San Diego has a Jewish membership of 50 percent. Jews For the Preservation of Firearms has thousands of members, Nancy Lord, a Jewish attorney, represents members of the movement throughout the nation, and I am one more of thousands of Jewish members of the Patriot movement.
The national media often uses quotes from critics of the right, like Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which calls the militias dangerous with ties to “hate-mongering groups,” but they provide little evidence of this. The SPLC sent information to the U.S. Justice Department in October, 1994 about the supposedly dangerous militias, but the Justice Department until recently took no legal action because it received no evidence of illegal activity. The SPLC also wrote to many state attorney generals in May, 1995 asking that existing laws be applied to stop the militias. By April, 1996 no state had taken action against any militia, because most militia members follow the law. The Idaho Deputy Attorney General said people in the militias should not be cut off from the political process.
The SPLC is one of the wealthiest non-profit organizations in America. On April 25, 1986 The Montgomery Advertiser said Dees's entire staff of five lawyers and his top aide resigned because they were surprised to learn that the center's goal was to enrich Dees, not to help poor people. An ex-attorney for the center Deborah Ellis said: “I felt that Morris (Dees) was on a Klan kick because it was such an easy target—easy to beat in court, easy to raise big money on.” Now it is the turn of the militias, so the SPLC can reach $100 million in assets. In 1993, the American Institute of Philanthropy, a watchdog over charities, gave the SPLC a low D grade because of its poor use of funds. Several times the SPLC has been accused of discrimination. On December 28, 1994 The Montgomery Advertiser reported that 12 former black employees experienced racial problems at the SPLC. In 1958 Dees supported George Wallace partly because he supported segregation. In the Joan Little case, Dees was dismissed by the judge after he was accused of trying to get a witness to commit perjury. Millard Farmer, a Georgia lawyer and ex-partner of Dees, sued and won after Dees cheated him out of $50,000.
Kenneth Stern, in A Force Upon the Plain, constantly claimed that arrested individuals had militia ties but usually no proof of this was offered. Guilt by innuendo is the mark of the government, the national press, and professional critics of the right. In Loud Hawk, published in 1994, Stern revealed that he was a lawyer for the militant American Indian Movement from 1975 to 1988. Harshly critical of the government, his phones were wiretapped and he was followed at times. Stern admitted that as a young lawyer he “would have thought bombing property was almost romantic, a sign of defiance....” Stern never denounced acts of violence by the left. In 1988 he established the National Organization Against Terrorism and, with the support of ex-CIA head George Bush and ex-intelligence officer Arthur Goldberg, he became a successful lawyer with many establishment connections. Who is the real Kenneth Stern?
Some phony experts now attacking the right are operatives working for the government or large corporations, others on their own or in conjunction with certain private groups, attack any action considered right wing, while some of these people are simply confused individuals making a living. Often these people make wildly exaggerated claims about the militias as a vehicle to raise money and enhance their importance. Morris Dees identified an 86-year-old woman in Colorado as a radical militia leader. His list of militia groups in Colorado and many other states was devoid of reality, but he has raised millions of dollars because of the supposed militia threat.
Professional critics of the right often name leaders of the Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as being leaders of the militias and Patriot movement. In January, 1996, the editor of Media Bypass rejected an ad from a Klan group and readers supported this. I listen to patriot talk radio for hours each day. It is extremely rare for someone to call such shows and promote white supremacist or racist views. About once a month, I do hear such a caller, and most programs cut them off. A popular patriot radio station, the USA Freedom Network, has a Jewish owner and several Jewish announcers. I have never once heard a radio announcer or guest promoting racist or anti-Semitic views. The objective observer can easily confirm this.
I am not saying that there are no racists in the militias and Patriot movement, but such involvement is minimal and it is a lie to claim otherwise. Attend a Preparedness Expo that takes place in various states, and you will not see any hate groups. 11 Even Chip Berlet, an extreme leftist who follows the movement, said that people in this movement are not especially racist or anti-Semitic but are part of a broader movement. 12 There are people in white supremacist groups who criticize the federal government and want the Constitution restored, just as members of these groups hold racial purity views. I am aware of one Christian Identity newspaper that presents patriotic themes. While some racist groups would probably like to bring in new members from the Patriot movement, they also harshly criticize the militias because militia members are not white supremacists. Jonathan Karl, author of The Right to Bear Arms, interviewed Aryan Nations' leader Richard Butler in the New York Post. Butler said the militias were traitors to the white race, and militias were a government-sponsored movement, maybe working with the CIA. As Karl told me, he is aware that the militias are not part of white supremacist, Klan, or neo-Nazi groups. Karl was on CNN, where he now works, just after the Freeman surrendered. He said only a small, small minority of militia members are white supremacists.
The hysterical media attack on the militias after the Oklahoma bombing was a propaganda barrage that had little to do with reality. People who think there is a free press in America are in a state of denial or are ignoring the evidence. In a free society, there would be at least some diverse opinion in the national press. The orders were given and there was a constant hysterical attack on the militias. How can you demonize the militias when the Nichols brothers attended one or two meetings of the Michigan Militia and were then thrown out because of their radical views! McVeigh denied being involved with the militias when interviewed and no one has ever presented proof to dispute this, yet to this day, critics of the right still blame the militias for the Oklahoma bombing, even though they provide no proof of this. The FBI has not arrested any militia member for the Oklahoma bombing.
In the gleeful rush to attack the right, proof of militia involvement in the Oklahoma attack was not necessary. James Ridgeway, in a April 25, 1995 Village Voice article, linked the militias to the Oklahoma bombing by using words like “It is probable” and “there is every reason to believe.” Guess work and personal beliefs replaced professional journalism. It suddenly became politically correct to blame the militias for everything, from property rights issues to bombing abortion clinics. I went to one meeting where the speaker, a private investigator, spent 10 minutes blaming the militias for attacks on environmentalists and then acknowledged there was no proof of this. Over and over again, in the national media when the militias are discussed, there is typically one expert and one or more reporters who are extremely hostile to the militias. Only on occasion is there a rational discussion with opposing views presented.
In some instances, the media blatantly distorted the truth to attack the militias and Patriot movement. On April 27, 1995 ABC's Day One showed a headline of the Resister magazine describing the U.S. military's Combat Arms Survey which suggested U.S. soldiers might shoot citizens who refused to surrender their arms. The reporter called this right wing extremism instead of noting this was a U.S. government survey. The Progressive, Harpers, and several TV shows took Bo Gritz's words out of context and falsely claimed he supported the Oklahoma bombing, when the opposite was true. The press including Time, the Wall Street Journal,13 the Village Voice on May 23, 1995, and many other publications quoted two local liberal reporter who falsely claimed that Sam Sherwood, head of the U.S. Militia Association in Idaho, had said a civil war may be coming and you may need to shoot legislators. Sherwood strongly denied stating this. He lived on a kibbutz in Israel, and the Idaho militia is extremely conservative in its actions. Unlike the ranting press, Mack Tanner, a retired U.S. diplomat, who wrote a detailed article on the militias in Reason, was at the meeting when Sherwood spoke. Tanner heard the opposite of what the press claimed. Sherwood asked that political action, not violence, be used to correct improper government policies. 14
One result of the propaganda attack on the militias is that many people mistakenly look at the militias as a great danger, when the exact opposite is true. The militias exist in a defensive mode, formed in response to an increasingly oppressive government. Who is the real threat in America—people who call for a return to constitutional government, or a government that seizes property from hundreds of thousands of citizens and whose agents break into people's homes without due process even killing innocent citizens? If a militia threatens violence or is accused of violence, it may be an FBI operative, like John Parsons and the Tri-State Militia, when they threatened war with the federal government.
On July 30, 1995, Rep. Schumaker said regarding Clinton's involvement in the Waco raid: “Before you make some allegations...have some facts.” This advice should apply to all Americans. Instead, opposition to government policies is called unpatriotic and racist. Amazingly Clinton said May 5, 1995: “You cannot be a patriot and despise your government.” He would probably consider the Founders dangerous radicals. Clinton obviously has no understanding of our history. It has long been part of our heritage to be suspicious of state power. “Clinton has sought to intimidate critics of government policy by branding them as terrorists....Loud voices are not the same as violent deeds....Wide open debate is the best chance for restraining violent impulses....Information is the enemy both of out-of-control government and of paranoia. Vigorous, open dissent is a powerful check on government excesses—and an important, peaceful outlet for citizen grievances.” 15
Clinical Psychiatry News said government critics were suffering from “government-phobia.” Supposedly, this recently discovered disorder has become an epidemic, with people becoming delusional and even psychotic. On May 3, 1996, NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, in a story on the Freemen, referred to a “pathological fear of the government.” As in the Soviet Union, if you disagree with the government, you must be crazy. People like George Washington would be put in mental hospitals. 16 With tens of millions of people supporting the Patriot movement, the objective observer should consider whether there is mass hysteria, or are things happening in America that you should examine!
USA Today and CNN reported a Gallop poll on April 23-24, 1995, showing that 39 percent of the people felt immediately threatened by the federal government. 17 They were surprised at this high number, so they conducted another poll dropping the word “immediate” and were shocked to see the percent rise to 52 percent. 18 The Los Angeles Times conducted a similar poll and found that 45 percent felt threatened by the federal government. Thomas Jefferson said: “When people fear the government, you have tyranny, but when government fears the people, you have liberty.” A USA Today reporter said the newspaper didn't understand what was happening, but the militias appeared to represent a political movement that had not previously been identified by the politicians and national media.19
On May 18, 1995 the Washington Post, in a poll conducted with ABC News, revealed that one in eight Americans (32 million) support the goals and activities of the militias and that six percent (15 million) of Americans consider the federal government the enemy. 20 The Patriot movement, which is much bigger than the militias, represents many more people, and this poll underestimated the true feelings of the country, because it was conducted just after the Oklahoma bombing during a massive campaign to demonize the militias.
You may be surprised to hear about these polls, because they received little publicity. These four polls involve five of the most prestigious news organizations in the U.S. That so many fear and distrust the government should make the objective observer explore what is really happening to our Republic. At what point do views held by tens of millions of people stop being called extremist or racist? At what point do supposedly extremist views become reasonable opinions when such views are held by millions of people? The anger and hostility that tens of millions of Americans feel towards the federal government is much broader and deeper than the Washington crowd and the national media will acknowledge, although many Republicans understand the popularity of the Patriot movement. The only Republican in Congress to harshly attack the militias was Rep. Peter King. He was shocked to be so criticized and his office was flooded with hundreds of angry letters and calls. 21
Progressives joined in the rush to demonize the right after the Oklahoma bombing. For years, the left tried to rally the people to counteract the increasing power of the large corporations. Now that a powerful, populist, middle-class movement led by the right has developed that can threaten corporate power, many progressive leaders are quite upset. There is a tendency for progressives to automatically label anyone who has conspiracy views as a right wing fanatic. The error of this perspective is exemplified by the research of progressives like Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Gore Vidal, and Holly Sklar, who often describe the same groups and problems as presented by the Patriot movement. When these people criticize the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission (TC), it is similar to concerns expressed on the right. The one world government that Noam Chomsky described in World Orders Old and New and in other writings 22 is similar to the new world order the right attacks. Holly Sklar's book, Trilateralism, described the TC and its plans for corporate influence but, perhaps as a leftist, she openly criticizes the right and its conspiracy theories. 23 The only difference between conspiracy theory and institutional analysis is that the former better describes a complex power structure whose machinations defy economic and institutional analysis.
After the Oklahoma bombing, David Helvarg blamed the militias and property rights groups for attacking environmentalists. Yet, in War Against the Greens, Helvarg identified three prime sources for attacks on environmentalists without naming the militias. 24 Alexander Cockburn was right to state that no one has provided any evidence that the militias are attacking environmentalists. 25 The call by progressives for more government power to suppress the right will only weaken the left. Inevitably, enhanced government power will be used to attack the left. 26 One progressive correctly said of the right: “These folks are absolutely correct that the fear generated by the Oklahoma bombing will be cynically manipulated by a state security apparatus desperate to further consolidate and extend its control in the name of antiterrorism.” 27 However, hating the right and supporting big government the left, except for Prevailing Winds, has refused to discuss the government cover-up and many discrepancies in the Oklahoma bombing reports. Even with this atrocity, leaders in the left defend the government, which is one more reason why so many progressives have joined the Patriot movement.
People like Jerry Brown ask where all the progressives have gone. Noam Chomsky said people who joined the unions 60 years ago now join paramilitary groups. Recently the New York Times published an article about progressives forming a militia unit in Maine. 28 To publicize one more militia unit is unusual, but there is a potential threat to the corporate elite if the left and right join together. Recently, 125 members of this militia, including Earth Firsters and Buchanan supporters, lobbied the state legislature to weaken corporate power. This is the wave of the future. The progressive establishment should wake up before it becomes even more irrelevant. The Patriot movement is a genuine populist movement that includes many progressives. The right has grown so powerful in recent years, partly because it supports populist issues, the left has abandoned. For the left to be revitalized, it must understand that the foremost issue of our time is to restore constitutional government. After The Nation and The Progressive harshly attacked the militias, they published letters from upset readers correctly stating that the militias were not being accurately portrayed and the right was attacking the same forces these magazines often criticize. 29
On May 10-12, 1996 leading progressives and environmental leaders met in Washington, D.C. at a conference presented by the International Forum on Globalization. The meeting was called to confront the threat of corporate dominance over democracy, traditional cultures and nationalities, human welfare, and the environment. The goal was to confront the problem of “unelected and unaccountable global elites who are seizing control of one-world governance.” Internationalists and the TC were criticized. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was attacked because it was “designed to serve as a global governing body for transnational corporate interests.”
Leading environmental groups like the Sierra Club attacked GATT and NAFTA. Carl Pope, director of the Sierra Club, said: “The global economy is not really inevitable (and) Pat Buchanan deserves a more serious look.” Jean-Luc Jouvet of Greenpeace said: “We are staring catastrophe in the face.” He acknowledged that statements from the World Bank about concern for the environment and the world's poor were false. “They were lies....There is no way any of us can ignore that reality now.” Willard Smith of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union spoke for the AFL-CIO. He said that five years ago, “many of the people here were dreamy internationalists of one sort or another. But what we have seen of NAFTA, the WTO, and international financial speculation has been a rough wakeup call.”
The press refused to discuss this conference because it did not suit the corporate model of what we are supposed to think. Most people in the militias and Patriot movement would agree with the conclusions reached at this conference about stopping the new world order. Except for a brief comment in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the progressive press refused to even discuss this important conference. Wall Street has much more control over the progressive press than is generally understood.
The left and right have many similar goals and should work together to restore the Constitution and stop the large corporations from establishing the new world order dictatorship. Many in the left and right have already been working together to stop NAFTA, GATT and the anti-terrorist bill. The Washington Monthly correctly said the Patriot movement's constitutional views brought it closer to the ACLU and the New Left than to right wing conservatives. 30 The New Yorker described the merging of the left and right to fight the governing elite as “fusion paranoia.” This is called paranoid because people who no longer accept the liberal mind-set of massive government control are considered crazy! 31
Most progressive critics of the militias and Patriot movement ignore the many constitutional issues that are at the heart of the movement; yet this concern is the key reason why so many progressives have joined the Patriot movement. Chip Berlet blames the rise of the militias and Patriot movement on economic problems and “anger over gains by oppressed groups” in the U.S. Scapegoating and wild conspiracy theories are to blame! 32 Marc Cooper in the Nation said: “The constitutionalist rhetoric used by the 'patriot' militias merely cloaks the most bigoted of views.” 33 These people are more concerned about citizens that criticize the government then about government abuses of power because they are blinded by their own ideology so they must attack anyone on the right.
Some voices on the left have acknowledged the constitutional concerns of the patriots. Alexander Cockburn attended a gun/militia rally of 2,500 and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the populist issues raised were similar to the concerns of the left. Martin Luther King, Jr. was cheered as was the imprisonment of a Detroit policemen for killing a black man. When given a copy of a speech just presented, Cockburn said: “Most of it could have been delivered by a leftist in the late sixties without changing a comma.” 34 Cockburn asked why people who object to oppressive governments and economic regulations as in Mexico are hailed as heroes by progressives, but when Americans try to defend their rights over similar oppressive government policies progressives call these people right wing extremists and paranoid racists. 35
Barbara Dority, in the leftist magazine The Humanist, said after the Oklahoma bombing, “This rush to judgment (of the militias) has been accompanied by a near-total avoidance of rational analysis, and much of the information attacking the militias is being distributed by anti-hate groups with their own agenda.” Dority discussed the constitutional issues inspiring the Patriot movement and militias and agreed with many of these concerns. 36 Reason magazine had an excellent article on the militias by a retired U.S. diplomat. The author interviewed many militia members over several months and found that “culturally ignorant reporters” were telling “sensational stories” rather than looking for the truth. Instead of finding racists and anti-Semites, he found that most militia members were employed in middle class jobs and had a deep distrust of the government. 37
The militias and Patriot movement follow the tradition of populism, not that of conservatives. The recent conservative attack on Buchanan, partly because he attacked the new world order and corporate dominance, exemplifies how conservatives and patriots differ. 38 Conservatives support free trade and an international outlook, while patriots support American sovereignty and managed trade. Populists attack the asset forfeiture and corporate-welfare laws that conservatives pass. Conservatives stress economic issues, while patriots defend constitutional rights. Conservatives pass numerous laws such as in welfare and education rarely acknowledging, as patriots do, that this violates the Constitution. Conservatives want more law and order, while patriots what to stop police tyranny. Conservatives like Newt Gingrich are considered enemies of the people by many patriots because he is a CFR member. Progressives attack patriots partly because they do not understand that patriots and conservatives are different, because when someone is perceived as an enemy, truth doesn't matter. The real fight is not between the left and right, it is between liberty and tyranny. Traditional liberals and traditional conservatives have sold out to the corporate elite and are destroying the Constitution.
Progressives who attack the right for wanting less government ignore our history. A massive federal government is not part of the Constitution. Charles A. Reich, in Opposing the System, described how the large corporations are quietly gaining total control. He said the constitutional system of checks and balances has been superceded by corporate control, yet he supports the New Deal social contract of big government helping the people. With the New Deal, liberals abandoned constitutional government and installed democratic centralism. Liberals claim that we need big government to help the people, yet they also claim to believe in the Constitution and the rule of law. This is the great liberal paradox. Most federal programs started in the New Deal are unconstitutional. Liberals ignore that the Founders did not trust government, so a central government with few powers was established with checks and balances installed. Along with restraining the corporations, many federal programs should be shifted to the states. Then constitutional government could be restored, and there would be less threat of tyranny from a smaller federal government.
Some liberals want to resolve the great liberal paradox by redoing the Constitution. Lewis Lapham favorably reviewed The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, which called for a new Constitution. Our present predicament exists partly because many have little interest, understanding, or respect for the Constitution, which is still the supreme law in America. This is partly why the rule of law has been so weakened. Unfortunately, a new Constitution today would be totally dominated by the large corporations, and the people's rights would be lost. The problem is not the Constitution, it is the misuse of power. We don't need big changes in the Constitution, we need to enforce it. Thomas Jefferson warned: “In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
Many Americans believe big government is the main problem, and the media supports this myth. In many daily activities, abusive government officials are a serious problem; however, the threat of a one world government and the loss of all our rights is coming from the large corporations, not from the government. Progressives understand that the real problem is the large corporations and their dominance of government. Government officials are merely agents of the large corporations. While the right often speaks of CFR and TC control, sometimes describing the dangerous power of the banks, there is rarely a direct recognition that the large corporations are the real problem. Instead the Patriot movement primarily attacks problems with the government. This is the biggest weakness in the Patriot movement.
Too often the Patriot movement focuses only on oppressive government actions without understanding that the main enemy of the people is the large corporations. These are the key leaders of the CFR, TC, and related organizations. In a 1978-1979 study of CFR members, G. William Domhoff in Who Rules America Now?, found that 70 percent of the 100 largest corporations had at least one official in the CFR. Twenty-one of the 25 largest banks, 37 percent of the 500 largest businesses, and 16 of the 25 largest insurance companies had at least one official in the CFR. Twenty percent of the CFR members were listed in Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives. Just as the Patriot movement works to restore constitutional government, a second major focus should be to restore corporate charters to the same limited status that existed in the early days of our Republic. This will help curtail corporate power.
Charles A. Reich, in Opposing the System, had one chapter titled “The Invisible Government.” After this excellent description that anyone in the Patriot movement would benefit from studying, this liberal said there is no conspiracy. 39 While the left understands better than the right how dangerous the large corporations are, only the right carries this threat to its logical and inevitable conclusion. If the large corporations aren't stopped, a corporate police state is inevitable. This is what the right warns of, but they are called racist and extremists for saying this. Why do progressives think corporate leaders are such nice people that they wouldn't carry their quest for power to the logical conclusion? One need only study how the corporate leaders tried to establish a dictatorship in the 1930s, and what these elitists say in hundreds of publications, to understand that a dictatorship is coming. The left focuses too much on economic and institutional concepts and less on our rights being lost.
Part of the problem is that people on the right and left have an inbred dislike and even hatred of each other, so that even when they support the same positions and can benefit by working together this is rarely done. The corporate elite often play the left and right against each other, while they sit back and laugh. Divide and conquer is an old strategy. People on opposing political spectrums often won't even talk to each other. On talk radio, I have never once heard a progressive or patriot radio talk show have someone from the opposing political spectrum as a guest. People on the left and right are often drawn to attack the other, however destructive that may be. This book will probably be attacked by some on each political spectrum, because I quote from the left and right. To do this is not politically correct.
Often when people are arrested for a criminal act, professional critics of the right immediately claim these people are militia members when there is no proof of this. We have entered a period in which the militias will be attacked and blamed in numerous incidents, however little evidence there is of militia involvement. The Amtrak bombing exemplifies this trend. A message was found which the press said made this a terrorist attack tied to the militias. U.S. News & World Report, in an editorial, attacked the growing pattern of the press to label criminal acts as terrorism that threatens the foundations of America. 40 When the Freemen siege developed, the media called them militia extremists. The Freemen don't even call themselves a militia, and most militia groups refused to support them.
On April 19, 1996 CBS, Evening News described a post office assault as a militia style robbery. Perhaps soon the press will call George Washington and all patriots criminals! Will there next be militia diseases or militia hurricanes? One must never underestimate the silliness and intensity with which a government can demonize a targeted group. The New York Times, in describing the Russian/Chechnya war, noted “States usually mobilize public support for a war by demonizing their opponents....” The only difference in the U.S. is that the government's assault on the patriots and militias is usually with words, although this may change after the election.
When white soldiers killed a black couple, ABC Evening News on December 20, 1995 and the Washington Post on December 9, 1995 described the attack as racist and right wing extremism and then claimed the Resister was part of this problem, but no evidence of this was provided. The article quoted the Resister's attack on internationalism and U.S. policy towards Haiti and the UN and said the Resister supported “individual rights, strict constitutionalism, limited government....” This is what the Founders said. The New York Times and the New Republic have used the same strategy to falsely attack the Resister. The New Republic said there were “white terrorists” and a “sinister club,” the Special Forces Underground that opposes “liberalism” and “internationalism.” 41 Is everyone who opposes Wall Street policies a racist and extremist? The Resister does not publish racist material, and no one in the press has been able to prove otherwise. But it is published by soldiers in the Special Forces Underground, and the ruling elite is nervous that such soldiers are critical of their policies.
As the government has done for decades with targeted groups, it is infiltrating agent provocateurs into the militias, trying to cause violence that results in arrests and makes it easier for the press to attack the militias as dangerous radicals. The April, 1996 FBI alert about possible militia violence was associated with a threat issued by an individual from Kansas City, Missouri. This individual was ejected from militias in Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota because of his calls for violence. Not only was this individual no longer associated with a militia, but his status is highly suspect.
Recently three people in Oklahoma were convicted of planning to bomb several groups, including Morris Dees' center. Ray Lampley, a preacher, suddenly called himself a militia leader, although the Oklahoma militia would have nothing to do with him. While Lampley and two other people were convicted of the plot, two other individuals inspired the plans and testified for the government. One of them, Richard Schrum, admitted in the The Daily Oklahoman newspaper that he was an FBI informant. Schrum said the FBI hired him after the Oklahoma bombing to infiltrate militias in the Southwest and that most militia members are patriots who just want to preserve the Constitution. 4 2 The other person involved in instigating the plot, Larry Wayne Crow, was a pilot for Tyson Foods in Arkansas. He quit his job, moved in with Lampley, and tried to form a militia and get some militia groups to commit violent acts. Crow was initially indicted, but then all charges against him were dropped. Morris Dees falsely said the militia was out to get him, when, in fact, the Feds initiated this plot which did not even involve the militia.
Another typical case of government entrapment occurred in April, 1996, when two members of a Georgia militia were arrested. Initially the press claimed they were going to bomb the Atlanta Olympics, but that assertion was withdrawn within hours. Then it was reported that there were no bombs, but the defendants Robert Starr and William McCranie supposedly had bomb-making materials. At the preliminary hearing on May 6, the defense lawyers questioned ATF agent Steven Gillis about the case in what is normally a quick and routine proceeding. Gillis admitted that government agents placed bomb-making components on Starr's property, and he wasn't sure if Starr was even aware the materials were there. There was no evidence that the defendants actually possessed or even had any knowledge of any bomb-making material. Gillis said they were able to go right to the buried material on Starr's 16 acres of land, when they obtained a search warrant, because government agents had originally planted the material. Nancy Lord, Starr's defense attorney said: “This is beyond entrapment. It is manufactured evidence. The materials were put on Mr. Starr's property without his knowledge. The whole evidence upon which this case was based was fraudulent....They have no conspiracy, they have no nexus to interstate commerce, they don't even have an explosive devise. What they have is an agent provocateur who came into a group, trying to cause trouble....”
Gillis admitted the other defendant, James McCranie, was not at any meetings where bomb building was discussed, and when a government agent started talking about bomb-making McCranie walked away saying: “I don't want to know anything about it.” Gillis could not identify an agreement between anyone except government agents to commit an illegal act, so there was no conspiracy. The only people who attended bomb-building classes were government agents and possibly one, not two, defendants, and to discuss or write about bomb building is perfectly legal.
Starr, on a short-wave radio show two nights before being arrested, said he was going to expose a government set-up against him. The next day, the government obtained arrest warrants. Lord said: “Mr. Starr was arrested not because he intended to build those bombs, but because he intended not to. He intended to expose the government's confidential informants.” Despite government complicity in creating this case, the judge forwarded the case to a grand jury which issued indictments, and a third militia member was also indicted. The charges include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered destructive device, although the government admitted in court that the defendants wasn't even aware the material was on their property.
The Macon Telegraph and Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote several articles critical of the government's conduct in this case. Bail has been rejected for the defendants although they are respected members of the community with no criminal record. This case shows how the government harasses targeted groups. In the initial arrest there is much media attention, and later when charges are dropped, as in the Earth First case I discuss in Chapter XII, the press ignores that. The result is that people think the targeted movement is dangerous. 43
The arrest of the Viper group in Phoenix, Arizona on July 2, 1996 may be another example of an overreaching government. CBS Evening News on July 2, 1996, quoting federal investigators, said an attack on government buildings wasn't imminent. Earlier that day when Bryant Gumble on NBC had asked the U.S. prosecutor in Phoenix if there was evidence that the Viper group actually planned to carry out attacks or if they were just preparing for a possible future, she refused to respond. However, as when the Georgia militia members were arrested, the government and most of the press said this was a dangerous group planning an imminent attack. Immediately after the arrests Clinton said danger was narrowly avoided, and Ray Kelly, under Secretary of the Treasury, falsely said they would be indicted to blow up federal buildings. The defendants were not charged with planning to bomb any buildings nor to overthrow the government.
Publically it was claimed that the videos show a conspiracy to bomb buildings but that wasn't shown in the charges. The charges did not even say what would be done with the explosives. In addition, why did the government rush to destroy the explosives, supposedly taken as evidence? Why was there a rush to destroy this evidence? As in the Georgia case, was this evidence planted by the government? Reportedly the grenades were inert and the rockets were toy weapons. The government case was so weak that at the preliminary hearing the judge agreed to free six of the 12 defendants until the trial despite the governments claim that these were dangerous terrorists.
On July 9, ABCs Nightline, usually a harsh critic of the right, admitted that the government made many strong charges against this group, the press fully supported this, and then the charges filed in court weren't nearly as serious as what the government initially told the press about this group. An ATF agent testified at the preliminary hearing that the government was absolutely certain there was no plan to bomb any building. The agent even said they didn't warn anyone of a possible threat because there was no immediate danger from this group.
As in the Georgia case, it is too early yet to tell if the Feds also planted evidence such as weapons in the Viper case. Several months ago the Viper group was approached by two government agent provocateurs to identify certain buildings to attacked in the future. This group refused to support this. Why are the Feds encouraging people to attack government buildings? At least one Fed tried to get this group to pass out Aryan Nation literature, but they refused.
In the 1970s, when agent provocateurs infiltrated the left there was an uproar in the national media and supposedly the Federal police stopped such illegal acts. Today, as the secret government tightens its control over all levels of society, there is a loud silence from the press and Congress about this infiltration program. Although an ATF agent testified in the Georgia case that the government manufactured the evidence and there was no proof linking the two defendants to the bomb-making material, the press refused to discuss this. Members of the national press attended the preliminary hearing, but the results were not reported. Newsweek May 6, 1996, just before the hearing, falsely claimed that pipe bombs existed and the Olympics were targeted. A free press is essential to have a free society, but it must be a press that has some connection with the truth. Our press is used as a propaganda tool by the corporate elite and government.
Rarely does the national media intelligently discuss the issues that concern millions of people in the militias and Patriot movement. Few in the national media ask if there is any truth to what is believed by these people. Few want to look at the deeper causes of the developing militia movement. Few want to acknowledge that the militias have historically played an important part of our heritage. Instead, certain patriot positions were stated, such as concerns about the UN, without analysis except for the comment that these views were paranoid and extremist. People representing the militias and Patriot movement are rarely allowed to speak in the national media. Only the corporate approved version of events is allowed to be heard.
Instead of intelligently discussing the many issues relevant to the patriot community, the press continues to demonize the right. To the corporate-national media what they decide is politically correct can be discussed. When other views on the right or left are introduced, it doesn't matter how many tens of millions of people hold such views; they are deemed to be dangerous, extremists, and racists. Attack the messenger to avoid discussing the message. The more powerful a movement becomes, the more nervous the government becomes, and the more intense is the attack. Governments always act this way. The Democrats call Republican attempts to weaken government power extremism, while the right calls environmentalists extremist crazies. Those who supported democracy in Nazi Germany were called extremists. Over 200 years ago, people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were called patriots, but to the British they were dangerous radicals. Vietnam War protesters were called communist inspired, Goldwater might have used the nuclear bomb, Gore Vidal was an anti-Semite, Perot was paranoid, and Buchanan is a neo-Nazi. The real sin of these people is that they threatened establishment control. Why have many liberals forgotten this lesson?
That genuine political dissent is so demonized increasingly alienates millions of people from the political system. Tens of millions of people are so disgusted with politics that they won't vote. There have been times in our past when people would have said we should explore why many people are so angry, perhaps correcting excesses. We saw this during the soul searching of the civil rights movement, but now the response of the Washington crowd is to call protesters racists and paranoid, passing more laws to take away more rights. Criticism of the government is called criticism of the nation. Political extremism is a label often applied to attack beliefs that those in power don't like. Openly and fully debating issues, including problems that have been ignored, and advocating unpopular positions gives our society the variety and vitality needed to function as a free society. Justice Brandeis said: “Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government; the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies.” The main unifying wish of those in the Patriot movement and the militias is to see the Constitution restored and to return to the teachings of people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. To the ruling elite these are very dangerous concepts.
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Chapter XVI The Oklahoma Bombing
1 Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad,” The New Yorker, June 12, 1995, 40-47. 292 Treason The New World order
2 Eleanor Randolph, “Prosecutors in Terrorism Trial 'Vent' Star Witness's Trouble With the Truth,” Washington Post, March 13, 1995, p. A6.
3 James C. McKinley, Jr., “After the Trial, Many Questions Remain,” New York Times, October 2, 1995, p. A10.
4 Ralph Blumenthal, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast,” New York Times, October 28, 1993, p. Al, B3.
5 Elizabeth Gleick, “Something Big is Going to Happen,” Time, May 8, 1995, p. 50.
6 Kevin Johnson, “No Racing Fuel in Okla. Bomb,” USA Today, August 3, 1995, p. A2.
7 Jo Thomas, “Little Used Law Becomes A Lever,” New York Times, August 29, 1995, p. Al, A9.
8 , “Sightings of John Doe No. 2: In Blast Case, Mystery No. 1,” New York Times, December 3, 1995, p. 1, 22.
9 Melinda Liu, “A Case Built On a Web of Damning Detail,” Newsweek, July 3, 1995, p. 28.
10 George J. Church, “A Two-Bit Conspiracy,” Time, August 21, 1995, p. 25.
11 Jon Rappoport, Oklahoma City Bombing The Suppressed Truth (Los Angeles: Blue Press, 1995), p. 45-46; Richard A. Serrano, “Second Witness at Odds With Oklahoma Blast Theory,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1995, p. A38.
12 Lawrence W. Myers, “A Closer Look,” Media Bypass, III (December, 1995), 33-37; Lawrence W. Myers, “FBI Leaks Threaten Fair Trial for Kaczynski, Others Accused,” Media Bypass, IV (June, 1996), 16-18.
13 William F. Jasper, “Explosive Evidence of a Cover-Up,” New American, August 7, 1995, p. 4-7, 21-27.
14 Ted Gunderson, The Gunderson Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City, Oklahoma April 19, 1995.
15 Scott Sandlin, “White Sands A Car Bomb Laboratory,” Albuquerque Journal, July 16, 1995, p. Al.
16 William F. Jasper, “Were There Two Explosions?” New American, June 12, 1995, p. 15-7.
17 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “Feds Try to Discount 2nd Bomb Explosion,” McCurtain Daily Gazelle, June 4, 1995, p. 1, 2.
18 Jeff Holladay and J.D. Cash, “Secondary Explosion Revealed in Murrah Blast,” McCuriain Daily Gazette, May 4, 1995, p. 1, 2.
19 William F. Jasper, “Seismic Support,” New American, August 7, 1995, p. 13- 16.
20 People interested in examining the scientific arguments in the debate can get a video for S15.00 from the Geophysical Society of Oklahoma City, P.O. Box 12163, Oklahoma City, Ok. 73157.
21 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “ATF's Explanation Disputed,” McCuriain Dally Gazette, July 30, 1995, p. 1, 12.
22 Jeff Holladay, “Bomb Probe Beginning Today May Answer Questions,” McCuriain Daily Gazette, May 5, 1995, p. 1.
23 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “Witnesses Confirm Explosives, Second Explosion,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, June 25, 1995, p. 1, 2. 24 , “Worker Helped Remove Munitions, Missle from Murrah Building,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, July 7, 1995, p. 1, 2. Notes 293 25 , “Murrah Film Provokes New Call for Investigation,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, September 10, 1995, p. 1, 2. 26 Ibid., p. 1, 2. 27 J.D. Cash, “Feds Violated Explosives Law,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, May 18, 1995, p. 1, 2.
28 Tom Morganthau, et al, “Still Holes in the Case,” Newsweek, August 21, 1995, p. 29.
29 Dave Hogan, “If He'd Been at Work...Former Portlander Says,” The Oregonian, April 20, 1995, p. A9.
30 Arnold Hamilton, “Book Plot Parallels Bombing,” Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1995, p. 46A. 31 Sherry Koonce, “Bombing Leaves Family Worried For Older Sister,” The Panola Watchman, April 23, 1995, p. A1, A6.
32 Rapopport, op. cit., Note 11, p. 66.
33 Cash, op. cit., Note 21, p. 1, 12. 34 Lawrence W. Myers, “OKC Bombing Grand Jurors Claim 'Cover-Up,'” Media Bypass, III (November, 1995), 4448 .
35 Kevin Johnson, “A 'Terrible' Turn in Bomb Case,” USA Today, October 19, 1995, p. 3A.
36 Morganthau, op. cit., Note 28, p. 29.
37 Church, op. cit., Note 10, p. 22-26.
38 Kevin Johnson, “Bombing Case Now Moves Into the Courtroom,” USA Today, August 7, 1995, p. 8A.
39 Myers, op. cit., Note 34, p. 44-48.
40 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Andrew Gimson, “Did Agents Bungle U.S. Terror Bomb?” The Sunday Telegraph, May 17, 1996, p. 26.
41 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “McVeigh, White Supremacists, German Linked by FBI Agent's Memo,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, March 21, 1996, p. 1, 2.
42 Tim Kelsey, “British Link to U.S. Bomb Massacre,” London Sunday Times, February 4, 1996, p. 1, 22.
43 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “FBI Ignored Lawman's Elohim City Information,” McCurtain Sunday Gazelle and Broken Bow News, April 14, 1996, p. 1, 12.
44 , “Is Tulsa Resident John Doe No. 2?” McCurtain Daily Gazette, February 27, 1996, p. 2, 4.
45 “Mystery Surrounds German's Link to Bombing,” McCurtain Sunday Gazette and Broken Bow News, February 4, 1996, p. 1, 12.
46 William F. Jasper, “New Charges of OKC Cover-Up,” New American, November 27, 1995, p. 6.
47 Evans-Pritchard, op. cit.. Note 40, p. 26.
48 James C. McKinley, Jr., “After the Trial, Many Questions Remain,” New York Times, October 2, 1995, p. A10; Morganthau, op. cit., Note 28, p. 29.
Chapter XVII Recent Attacks on the Militias and Patriot Movement
1 John Harwood, “Equal Hostility: Women Are Angry at Government Too,” Wall Street Journal, May 12, 1995, p. Al, A14; Katy Kelly, “Women Find Niche in Militias,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. 6D. 294 Treason The New World order
2 Bill Wallace, “A Call to Arms,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1995, p. 1, 5.
3 Alan W. Bock, “Weekend Warriors,” National Review, May 29, 1995, p. 41 .
4 Wallace, op. cit., Note 2, p. 1, 5.
5 Keith Schneider, “Fearing A Conspiracy, Some Heed a Call to Arms,” New York Times, November 14, 1994, p. A12.
6 Mike Tharp, “The Growing Militias: Thunder on the Far Right,” U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 1995, p. 36.
7 Rebecca Shelton, “The New Minutemen,” Kansas City New Times, February 22, 1995.
8 Jill Smolowe, “Enemies of the State,” Time, May 8, 1995, p. 58-64, 66, 68- 69.
9 Jesse Walker, “The Populist Rainbow,” Chronicles, (March, 1996), 25-27; Jonathan Karl, “Birds of a Feather? White Militia Bigs Like Farrakhan,” New York Post, October 19, 1995.
10 Jonathan Vankin, Conspiracies Cover-Ups and Crimes (N.Y: Dell Publishing, 1995), p. xiii.
11 These shows take place several times a year. Preparedness Shows P.O. Box 25454 Salt Lake City, Utah 84125 (801-265-8828).
12 Schneider, op. cit., Note 5, p. A12.
13 Albert R. Hunt, “Stop Encouraging the Crazies,” Wall Street Journal, April 27, 1995, p. A15.
14 Mack Tanner, “Extreme Prejudice,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 45.
15 Virginia I. Postrel, “Fighting Words,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 4, 6, 7.
16 Psychiatrists' Forum “Health Care: Air or Software?” Clinical Psychiatry News, (October, 1994), 22.
17 Mark Potok and Katy Kelly, “Militia Movement Draw: A Shared Anger, Fear,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. D16.
18 Joe Urschel, “Sentiments Not Held Only by the Fringe,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. Al , A2.
19 Alfred Adask, “Fed Fear,” AntiShyster, V (Spring, 1995), 3-6.
20 Richard Morin, “Anger at Washington Cools in Aftermath of Bombing,” Washington Post, May 18, 1995, p. Al , A14.
21 Charles V. Zehren, “Vitriolic Reaction to Militia Stance Shocks Lawmaker,” The Boston Globe, July 9, 1995, p. 16.
22 Noam Chomsky, “Democracy's Slow Death,” In These Times, November 28, 1994, p. 25-28.
23 David Barsamian, “Militias and Conspiracy Theories,” Z Magazine, VIII (September, 1995), 29-35. 24 David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens (San Francisco, Ca: Sierra Club, 1994), p. 364-5.
25 David Helvarg and Alexander Cockburn, “Exchange,” The Nation, August 14/21, 1995, p. 150.
26 Robert Perkinson, “Oklahoma Fallout,” Z Magazine, VIII (July/August, 1995), 8-11.
27 Erik Davis, “The Right Wing Hunkers Down on Line: Barbed Wire Net,” Village Voice, May 2, 1995, p. 28.
28 “Maine Novelist Organizes a Populist 'Militia,'” New York Times, February 19, 1996, p. A7. Notes 295
29 “Militia Roundup,” The Progressive, 59 (August, 1995), 6; “Militias-Ness,” The Nation, July 17/24, 1995, p. 74.
30 Paul Glastris, “Patriot Games,” Washington Monthly, XXVII (June, 1995), 23-26.
31 Michael Kelly, “The Road to Paranoia,” The New Yorker, June 19, 1995, p. 60-75.
32 Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, “Militia Nation,” The Progressive, 59 (June, 1995), 22-25.
33 Marc Cooper, “Camouflage Days, E-Mail Nights,” The Nation, October 23, 1995, p. 464-466.
34 Alexander Cockburn, “Beat the Devil: Who's Left? Who's Right?” The Nation, June 12, 1995, p. 820-821.
35 , “Beat the Devil: Liberals as Cops, Liberals as Bombers,” The Nation, June 26, 1995, p. 911.
36 Barbara Dority, “Is the Extremist Right Entirely Wrong?” The Humanist, 55 (November/December, 1995), p. 12-15.
37 Mack Tanner, “Extreme Prejudice,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 42-50.
38 Steven Stark, “Right Wing Populism,” Atlantic Monthly, 211 (February, 1996), 19-20, 28-29.
39 Charles A. Reich, Opposing the System (N.Y: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1995), p. 52.
40 Stephen Budiansky, “One More Leap for Nuttiness,” U.S. News & World Report, October 23, 1995, p. 14-15. 41 Philip Shenon, “U.S. Army Says Rightist Militias May Be Recruiting Elite Troops,” New York Times, March 22, 1996, p. Al , 12; “Notebook,” New Republic, January, 1, 1996, p. 8.
42 Robby Trammell, “Informant Proud of Role in Arrests of Bomb-Plot Suspects,” The Daily Oklahoman, November 15, 1995, p. 1-2; Doug Ferguson, “'Prophet,' Ex-Corporate Pilot Indicted in Bombing Plot,” The Daily Oklahoman, November 16, 1995, p. 12.
43 Audrey Post, “Magistrate Delays Ruling to Examine Evidence More Closely,” The Macon Telegraph, May 7, 1996, p. A1, 10; Audrey Post, “Starr, McCranie Plead Not Guilty in Federal Court,” The Macon Telegraph, May 31, 1996, p. Bl .
In Oklahoma City Channel 4 news director Melissa Kinzing confirmed the station has two witnesses who saw McVeigh and an Iraqi ex-soldier in a local bar, and a witness who saw an Iraqi driving away from the bombing in a brown pickup. Over the weeks, Channel 4 interviewed at least six people who saw McVeigh with several people including John Doe 2, and concluded that he is probably an Iraqi and a former member of the Republican Guard. In 1993 and 1994, Clinton brought thousands of Iraqi soldiers into the U.S. Many of them settled in Oklahoma. On October 18, 1993 the Washington Times said over 3,400 Iraqi soldiers and their dependents had settled in the U.S. with 4,600 more expected. On August 30, 1993 the Salt Lake City Tribune said 100 members of Congress wanted this program stopped. This is one more quiet operation that has brought thousands of foreign troops into the U.S.
Channel 4 KFOR-TV on June 7, 1995 presented a report on John Doe 2 claiming he was still in Oklahoma City, and eye-witnesses identified him with McVeigh. The FBI has refused to even interview this person. Although this Iraqi wasn't identified by Channel 4, two other local TV stations, Channels 5 and 9, interviewed this person and he denied involvement in the bombing. Channel 9 presented a time sheet supporting the person's claim that he was at work during the bombing, but Channel 4 found people at that business who confirmed that this firm doesn't use time sheets. On August 24, 1995 Al-Hussaini Hussain, an Oklahoma City resident and Iraqi who may have been in the Republican Guard, filed a suit against Channel 4 claiming they had falsely accused him of being involved in the bombing.
On August 17, 1995 Jayna Davis a Channel 4 reporter said: “These eyewitnesses show prime suspect McVeigh could not have acted alone....At least two more men, possibly three, were also there.” NBC won't run the reports of these witnesses nationally, supposedly because Channel 4 won't give it the names of several of its witnesses who are terrified of being publicly identified. People remember the many deaths surrounding the Kennedy assassination. 11 Except in a few cities, like Seattle and New York, NBC stations have refused to carry the many reports by Channel 4 on the Oklahoma bombing because they don't support the government version.
Although aware who many of these witnesses are, the FBI refuses to interrogate them, others were told by the FBI to keep quiet, and none were brought before the grand jury or offered protection. On January 24, 1995 PBS radio interviewed several of the witnesses who saw McVeigh and John Doe 2. One said someone threatened to kill him if he didn't shut up. The independent investigator, Pat Briley, has received death threats and been harassed by the FBI. One witness not called to testify before the grand jury, Mike Moroz of Johnny's Tire in Oklahoma City, gave McVeigh and another person directions to the federal building at 8:40 a.m. on April 19. Private investigators believe John Doe 2 is a government agent or informant, which is why the government won't let these people testify before the grand jury.
There are at least five surveillance video tapes from buildings near the federal building that prosecutors have refused to release to the press or the defense. These videos show McVeigh with John Doe 2 just before the bombing, but the grand jurors were only shown video still photographs of the Ryder truck. The public release of a photo of John Doe 2 from a video would have made it easier to arrest him, which may be why this evidence is being suppressed. The FBI has admitted it is investigating two of its agents in the L.A. office for illegally attempting to sell a video for $1 million to two TV networks. These two agents did not even have the authority to possess these tapes. Oklahoma private investigator, Robert Jerlow, saw the video in L.A. and along with his attorney, Randy Shadid, got involved in negotiating with a TV network. Jerlow said John Doe 2 got out of the truck 2 to 5 minutes after McVeigh which means the defense might be able to claim that John Doe 2 not McVeigh set the bomb. Consider the many leaks about the Unabomber which upset the Justice Department. Increasingly federal police are leaking information and serving as media consultants. 12
There is considerable evidence that it is absolutely impossible for a fertilizer bomb to have caused the resulting damage. Clinton appears to understand this. On June 12, 1995 the Cape Cod Times using an AP report quoted Clinton saying the bomb used in Oklahoma was “a miracle of technology.” Retired Brigadier General Benton K. Partin is one of the world's foremost experts on explosives technology including precision-guided weapons and related target acquisition. He spent 25 years designing and testing weapons for the U.S. military. On July 13, 1995, Partin released a 23-page report on the Oklahoma bombing. It was put on the Internet and summarized in The New American. 13 The magnitude and pattern of damage made it impossible for the damage to have been caused by an explosion outside the building on the street. “The total incompatibility with a single truck bomb lies in the fact that either some of the columns collapsed that should not have collapsed or some of the columns are still standing that should have collapsed and did not.” He said the pattern of damage suggested an implosion with explosives attached to the columns probably at the third floor because that is where the columns failed.
Authorities raised the bomb yield from 1,000 to 1,100, to 2,000, to 2,500, to 4,800 pounds. Using the official claim of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate would yield on the high end 1/2 million pounds per square inch (psi) at the detonation site. It is a basic laws of physics that the destructive potential of an explosion dramatically falls off even a few feet from a blast. Traveling through the air the first column hit would drop to 375 psi and to 25-38 psi at more distant columns. Concrete yield strength is 3,500 psi and pressure in the hundreds of thousands of psi would be required to cause the resulting damage, especially to reduce concrete to powder as occurred at some columns. The general concluded: “This is a classic cover-up of immense proportions.”
The WTC truck bomb with explosive power similar to the Oklahoma bombing destroyed no support beams although some were quite close to the truck. The truck bomb in Oklahoma supposedly destroyed 20 to 30 main support beams that were 30 to 75 feet away. This is simply not possible. If the blast came from one origin the pattern of damage to the surrounding buildings would have been rather circular. Instead, the pattern of destruction was more linear and directed mainly at the federal building suggesting a sophisticated explosion. Building debris including reinforced steel was blown outward towards the street, which indicated a blast from inside the building.
Ted Gunderson believes the main damage was caused by an electrohydrodynamic gaseous fuel bomb developed by Michael Riconosciuto. The size of a pineapple it cost about $100,000 to build. It requires Q Clearance to build this secret device and only a few people in government have the technical ability to construct and use this devise. Riconosciuto's laboratory in Aberdeen, Washington was robbed in the late 1980s, and reportedly the signature from the Oklahoma bombing has been traced back to this laboratory. Gunderson prepared a report listing 15 reasons why an ammonium nitrate bomb couldn't have caused the resulting damage. 14 Damage to nearby structures was more extensive than what you would expect from just ammonium nitrate, which is not that efficient. It makes a loud noise but doesn't pulverize material unless packed into the area for direct contact. That much ammonium nitrate would have made the area dangerous with nitric acid in the air, but this did not occur. The explosion left no soot and only a small amount of unexploded fertilizer was present, which means an expert set off the blast. While the FBI said the axle from the Ryder truck was found three blocks away, why did it blow upwards when the bomb, which was above the axle, made a 30 foot crater, and a large ammonium nitrate truck bomb of this size would blow upwards and would not create a crater.
Further investigation is needed to clarify these two views, although it appears that General Partin is correct that demolition charges were placed on various columns. It would be difficult for anyone to place such charges in a secure federal building, and this is one more sign that this was an inside job. One witness claims she saw someone culling into a column in the federal building several weeks before the explosion. When she walked over to the person, he covered his tools and said he was fixing up the building.
It is one thing to use a small ammonium nitrate bomb as farmers often do to remove trees, but to blow up one involving 4,800 pounds with about 20 containers linked together requires great technical ability. It is extremely difficult to build such a large device with numerous canisters using home mixing equipment. The only way to have blast control with a 4,800 pound ammonium bomb would be with volumetric initiation which requires sophisticated electronic circuits. Very few people have the training to build such bombs. The Albuquerque Journal said the ATF in mid-August, 1994 conducted tests blowing up car bombs made of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil at White Sands, New Mexico. Was this a trial run in preparation for the Oklahoma operation? 15
Two seismographs near the explosion clearly showed there were two or three explosions. Ray Brown, geologist for Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, 16.25 miles from the explosion, initially said there were “two separate seismic events” and the simplest explanation is “two separate explosions.” Dr. Brown believes that the second event could not be explained by surface wave velocity dispersion, air waves, or air-coupled Rayleigh waves. 16 ABC and other reporters visited the OSG, but this information was suppressed.
The second event could not have been the building collapsing. The April 19 blast had 60 million tons of concrete fall, while 200 million tons fell when the entire building was destroyed. Falling debris does not send the same high and low frequency waves as an explosion. Extensive seismograph equipment was used to record the demolition of the federal building. Equipment at Norman could barely record the demolition, unlike the clear record of the April 19 bombing, and the recording at the much closer Omniplex center was clearly different from the April 19 bombing. 17 Also, based on the laws of gravity the 11 seconds that separated the two blasts was too long a time period in a collapsing nine story building for the debris to have caused the second record on the seismograph. Steve Due, who operates one of the local seismographs, believes the second explosion was a “chainreaction detonation of explosive materials.” 18
On June 1, 1995 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) claimed there was only one bomb explosion April 19 and wrongly said the scientists at OGS all agreed with this conclusion. Dr. Charles Mankin, head of the OGS, urged that the June 1 claim not be released until more evidence had been analyzed and, with other scientists, still feels the evidence suggests there were two blasts and that the USGS prematurely reached its conclusion. 19 The experts in Oklahoma also rejected the claim that the two events were one wave traveling at different speeds. Was the USGS pressured to help in the cover-up?
On November 20, 1995 at a meeting in Oklahoma City, Brown said he is now certain there were three explosions, and one of them was demolition charges, supporting General Partin's claims. Previously, Brown was not shown the complete seismograph record from the Omniplex center just 4.3 miles from the blast because it was seized by the FBI. In October, 1995 he obtained a better copy of the original seismograph, but the FBI still has the original and they won't release it to government geologists or to the defense attorneys who have been trying to obtain it. Brown and Tom Holzer, the government geologist at the meeting, agreed that they should see this original record to give a more complete analysis. Holzer said there may have been more than one explosion but this couldn't be proved. After the meeting, U.S. Prosecutor Ryan misquoted Holzer and said this conclusively confirms there was only one blast. 20
An important factor in the bombing that has received little publicity is that the damage was much worse because munitions were illegally stored on the ninth floor of the federal building by DEA and ATF offices. The AP refused to carry stories published in the McCurtain Gazette about several illegal arsenal rooms in the Murrah building. Storing such material in office buildings violates state and federal laws. Munitions are only supposed to be stored in bunker-style arsenals. Information about the illegal arsenal rooms is being suppressed, partly because federal authorities are liable for huge damages in this criminal negligence. 21 The ATF is very worried about this, especially because in civil lawsuits broader discovery is allowed than in criminal lawsuits, and it would be much harder for federal authorities to withhold information. Already, local attorneys are exploring this; and Edye Smith, a mother who lost her two children in the blast, and her family have filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against McVeigh. They plan to also sue the U.S. government. Of 462 federal employees affected by the bombing, all but Edye Smith and her mother-in-law were approved for workers compensation. This is how the government treats people who stand up to it.
Many believe the second explosion, which included the stored weapons, was more severe than the first. These munitions did not initially cause the blast but they made the resulting damage much worse and exemplify how the Feds have lied in this investigation. The arsenal room on the ninth floor collapsed onto the areas where the greatest number of casualties occurred, such as the day care center. The explosives included C-4 explosives, which will explode without a fuse under 3,500 pounds of pressure as occurred when the building collapsed. The authorities have generally denied storing any weapons in the building, although the regional head of the ATF in Dallas, Lester Martz, blamed the DEA for the arsenal room. 22 Cash believes there were four arsenal rooms in the Murrah building.
After the initial explosions, the media said work was stopped several times to dismantle unexploded bombs. Police radios said the bomb squad found “undetonated military bombs” in the building. Explosive experts and a bomb-disposal truck were brought in. Many people near the federal building heard and felt several explosions. Witnesses also saw several five gallon containers of mercury fulminate inside the building. This volatile material could have collapsed the entire building. Bill Martin, of the Oklahoma City police, told Phil O'Halloran, a local reporter, about this discovery and then the department wouldn't discuss this report. Dick Miller, Oklahoma City assistant fire marshal, said high explosives such as an intact container marked “High Explosives” were moved from the building right after the blast. One initial rescuer a veteran heard live ammunition going past him from inside the building. 23
After the explosion, some unexploded munitions remained on the ninth floor although much had fallen to the ground, so munitions were removed from both areas. One civilian helping to remove munitions from the building weeks after the blast saw hundreds of guns, including a five-gallon bucket of hand-grenades, in the building. Witnesses even saw an ATF agent remove a TOW (anti-tank missile) from the destroyed federal building. Several times, FBI and ATF agents got into arguments as to when the munitions should be removed from the building. 24
The McCurtain Daily Gazelle obtained a film from the sheriff's department showing federal officials removing munitions from the federal building weeks after the explosion. On the film, the Feds yelled at the local police to leave the area. They did not want witnesses to see this evidence. This film confirms that there was an illegal arsenal room in the federal building. These munitions exploded in an area of the building where experts say the building could not have sustained so much damage from a truck bomb. 25
Rick Sherrow, an ex-ATF agent, said this is not the first time federal agents illegally stored munitions in a public building. In 1987 Soviet rocket fuses exploded during a fire at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. After that, the ATF ordered federal officials across the U.S. to stop this illegal practice, but there have been other incidents. 26 The Tulsa World reported in April, 1990 that IRS headquarters in Tulsa was robbed. The loot included ordinance and thousands of rounds of ammunition. 27
It is also suspicious that the government rushed to destroy the entire building as they did at Waco, before independent tests could be conducted by outside experts. The government wouldn't even allow McVeigh's lawyer to take scrapings from various areas of the building. The damaged columns had chemical traces which would identify the explosives used in the bombing. Various architects, including Jim Loftis who designed the building, said it was structurally sound and did not have to be demolished although he and others were pressured by the governor to support demolishing the building. Brig. General Partin and others tried to delay the building's destruction in order to conduct a thorough investigation. Partin wrote to various members of Congress saying “The damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from a single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases....A careful examination of the collapsed column bases would readily reveal a failure mode produced by a demolition charge....A separate and independent assessment should be made before a building demolition team destroys the evidence forever.” Instead, the rubble was removed and buried underground with a fence around it to keep people out, and people at the site were told to not let anyone in to examine the debris. Is there something to hide here? Reportedly, the new judge may allow the defense access to the destroyed building.
There is considerable evidence that the government had advance notice that a federal building, probably in the midwest, was going to be attacked. An informant told the U.S. Attorney in Denver, Henry Solano, that a federal building probably in Denver or the midwest was going to be attacked. 28 Conspirators included Americans and people with Arabic names. This person was transporting drugs between L.A. and Kingman, Arizona. McVeigh, Michael Fortier, and Terry Nichols spent time in Kingman. Although supposedly not credible this person got a letter of immunity September 14, 1994 from the Justice Department, which is not provided that easily. And the Feds spoke to him three times including as late as March, 1995. In early April he sent a letter to federal authorities in Denver warning that a federal building would be attacked within two weeks. Even after the bombing, the Feds still said this informant was considered unreliable, and he did not testify before the grand jury.
On March 22, 1995 The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. published a report from Eduardo Gonzalex, head of the U.S. Marshals Service. A reliable source said there was going to be a terrorist attack against a federal courthouse or government facility in the U.S. in conjunction with the WTC trial, with the intent to kill many innocent people to attract press attention. The threat was considered very serious, and security was being increased throughout the U.S. On April 20, 1995 the Israeli newspaper Yediol Ahronot headlined a story by Zadok Yehezkeli that, in recent days, U.S. intelligence officials received information originating in the Middle East about an imminent Islamic terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The initial trial judge, Wayne Alley, admitted to The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in Oregon, on April 20, 1995 that he had been warned of a possible terrorist attack several weeks before the bombing. Because of this, the judge stayed away from the court and his grandchildren were kept out of the day care center. He was probably removed from the case by a higher court because it would have been rather bizarre for the trial judge to openly acknowledged he was warned in advance about a terrorist attack, while the authorities denied there was any such warning. 29 The defense had tried for months to disqualify Alley. Two days after it submitted the interview as evidence of his unsuitability he was removed by a higher court. The press refuses to discuss this interview and government prior knowledge of the bombing.
The FBI called the Oklahoma City fire department on Friday, April 14, and warned of a terrorist threat in the area possibly in the next week. When a local investigator asked Assistant Chief Charles Gaines about this he denied receiving any warning. Then Chief Dispatcher Harvey Weathers confirmed they had received a message from the FBI to be alert to a bombing. When told about Gaines' comment, Weathers said: “I'm not going to lie for anyone. A lot of people don't want to get involved in this.” Two other dispatchers confirmed Weathers' story. The Oklahoma City fire and police departments have since been ordered to not speak about the bombing, and inquiries must go through the city attorney.[Yeah nothing strange about that DC]
All Oklahoma City fire department communication tapes from that Friday until the bombing have been erased. This was called an error. When Channel 4 got the police log for the night before the bombing there were only two pages when normally it would be 12 to 15 pages. A public affairs official for the police department acknowledged to a local investigator that pages were missing and that a court order would be needed to release them. Under Oklahoma law such records and tapes from the police and fire departments should be readily available. The media constantly refers to the Turner Diaries as the inspiration for right wing extremists to do the Oklahoma bombing. Yet the press ignores the fact that Martin Keating, brother of Oklahoma's governor Frank Keating, wrote a novel The Final Jihad in 1991, which much more accurately portrays the events of the Oklahoma bombing. This book described a federal building in Oklahoma being destroyed by someone named Tom McVay. The key suspect was stopped by an alert Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer. What are the odds of this novel's plot being just a coincidence when compared to the actual events? While writing the novel Frank Keating, then a senior official in the Justice Department, introduced his brother to some FBI officials, including ex-FBI agent Oliver Revell, who served as a consultant to provide ideas for the project. 30
In addition, when Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was arrested, a well-read copy of Al Gore's book Earth In the Balance was found in his cabin. This was generally kept out of the news. I don't think this incident should be used to attack the entire environmental movement, but the same standard should exist with the militias. Instead the press falsely claims The Turner Diaries was the Bible of the right, to demonize the militias.
Various people report that ATF and DEA workers were told not to come to work that day because of a bomb threat On September 12, 1995, KFOR TV interviewed three witnesses who spoke with an ATF agent on the street just after the explosion who admitted no ATF agents were in the building during the blast because they had been warned to not come to work that day. At least four independent witnesses saw the local bomb squad at a parking lot by the Murrah building between 7:30-8:30 a.m. shortly before the blast. Norma Smith told her relatives in Texas about this. 31 Attorney Daniel Adomitis told the Fort Worth Star/Telegram that he saw a bomb squad by the county courthouse at 7:30 a.m. the morning of the blast. Other witnesses saw a bomb squad by the IRS building that morning. The government denies all these reports. 32
Pat Briley's wife works with the wives of two FBI agents, including Dan Vogel, and minutes after the bombing they called their husbands, and then said the FBI knew in advance about the bombing. Two days later they said they shouldn't have admitted this, and the conversation should not be repeated. In the days before the bombing, Dana Cooper, director of the day care center, who was killed in the blast, received numerous bomb threats, which she reported to several government agencies. At 9 a.m. sharp, some FBI agents normally brought their children to the day care center, while they conducted business in the building, but this wasn't done the day of the blast.
Although 15 to 17 ATF agents were assigned to the federal building in Oklahoma, none were in the building during the blast. Despite claims that some of them were injured or killed, no such victims were ever identified. The U.S. News & World Report, August 14, 1995, published the names of all the identified Oklahoma bombing victims with photos for most of them. No ATF, DEA, or FBI agents were listed here. Although there was massive media coverage of the Oklahoma bombing, few of the injured were interviewed. Victims like Judy Morse realized a bomb exploded inside the building, and the government didn't want the public to hear such reports. When Edye Smith asked, on CNN May 23, 1995, why no one from the ATF was in the building, a shocked announcer cut her off and the press didn't pursue this.
Lester Martz, regional head of the ATF in Dallas, on May 23, 1995 said ATF agent Alex McCauley and a DEA agent fell five stories in a free fall from the eighth to the third floor in an elevator during the explosion, and they managed to open the stuck door to escape. ATF head John Magaw repeated this story the next day on CNN. However, the company that inspects the elevators happened to have two inspectors across the street when the blast occurred. With a government inspector, they immediately examined the elevators, and they confirmed that the ATF story was not possible. Repairman Duane James called it pure fantasy. None of the doors were forced open and safety switches to prevent excessive speed remained in place. No elevator had a free fall which was impossible unless a cable was cut, which did not happen. 33
This bombing is not the first instance of a terrorist attack in which the U.S. government had advance warning that was kept from the public. Previously it was reported that the U.S. knew in advance of a terrorist threat to Pan Am, and there was even a warning posted at an American Embassy. In the months after the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, many were angry at the government because this warning wasn't openly published. In July, 1995 the London Guardian said the State Department received a warning three weeks in advance that there would be an attack against Pan Am and U.S. military bases. In late October, 1995, Hoppy Heidelberg a member of the grand jury that indicted McVeigh publicly complained that U.S. prosecutors were intimidating the grand jury refusing even to present witnesses who saw John Doe 2. About John Doe 2, in transcripts released by the defense, Heidelberg said: “I'm satisfied that I know the government knows who he is.” Heidelberg said this person was a government agent or informant. “Either way...they had prior knowledge to the bombing, and that's what they cannot afford...to have come out.” FBI agents went to Heidelberg's home and showing a gun confiscated his juror notes. When Heidelberg tried to get a copy of those notes, as allowed under the FOIA, the government refused to comply. When grand jurors wanted to directly question witnesses, prosecutors removed the witness from the room and after getting questions from the jurors asked such questions in their own words. This is quite unusual and represents serious misconduct by prosecutors. According to the federal grand jury handbook the government is supposed to assist, not block, a grand juror in a search for the truth. A grand jury is an independent body that serves as a check against an overzealous prosecutor. 34
After complaining to the judge in early October, 1995, Heidelberg was removed from the grand jury and threatened with jail and a fine if he spoke up. His removal was partly based on an interview he had with an FBI agent. It is extremely rare for a grand juror to break the oath of secrecy, which is illegal, and publicly make such complaints. One expert said it only happens once every few decades. The government falsely claimed that Heidelberg was a militia radical. Just after Heidelberg was removed from the grand jury, Rep. Key on October 26, 1995 started gathering 1,000 signatures to have a county grand jury. He warned that “criminal obstruction of justice charges could be levied against any person or persons who have destroyed documents related” to the bombing. Although quite unusual, a judge has twice turned down the request for a grand jury and the decision has been appealed. In June, 1995 relatives of the bombing victims petitioned Congress to hold an investigation.
On November 3, 1995 The Dallas Morning News wrote an editorial that Heidelberg should be held in contempt. USA Today attacked Heidelberg in an article entitled “A 'Terrible' Turn in Bomb Case.” 35 Is it more terrible that the government is covering up evidence about such a crime, or that one juror had the integrity to speak out? In November, 1995 U.S. prosecutor Patrick Ryan told the Daily Oklahoman anyone who disagreed with the government's version of the case was being unpatriotic. He said independent investigators were “extremists who want to somehow harm this country.” The British couldn't have said it better over 200 years ago! As in a communist country, if you challenge the party line you are an enemy of the people. That a brave person speaks out in the name of truth is not acceptable to the government and our corporate controlled media.
The indictments, which didn't describe a motive, made it clear the Feds believe others are involved. “Others unknown to the grand jury” were described. 36 However, Time called the indictment “A Two-Bit Conspiracy” involving just two drifters with no broad conspiracy. 37 Nichol's lawyer, Michael Tigar, requested a hearing to explore government misconduct. There have been various leaks of information that are often false, federal authorities have prevented witnesses from speaking with defense attorneys, and they have provided information to the press while withholding it from the defense.
The Rocky Mountain News said on March 29, 1996 that FBI agent Whitehurst believes the FBI is illegally withholding evidence that is hurting the McVeigh defense. He wrote a letter last November saying: “I will consider it an obstruction of justice and will testify in court to that opinion...if that information is suppressed by the Department of Justice and/or the FBI.” This evidence involves the testimony of another FBI agent that residue from the explosion had been found in McVeigh's shirt. At a pretrial evidentiary hearing on April 9, 1996, the U.S. prosecutor admitted that Whitehurst tested this shirt and found no chemical residue from the bombing. Reportedly, nine FBI agents have signed declarations supporting Whitehurst's statements about government misconduct in the Oklahoma bombing investigation. The judge in the case sealed these documents but they were leaked.
Witnesses have even been intimidated by the government. People who made statements different from the approved version have been so criticized that certain witnesses are afraid to come forward. Some witnesses are afraid to lose their pension. A safety officer in the federal building saw McVeigh in the building several weeks before the blast, and had information that could explain who owned the leg found in the rubble. He was told to shut up or his reputation would be ruined. After Heidelberg was dismissed from the grand jury, a reporter made an appointment by phone to see him. The Assistant U.S. Attorney for the case then reportedly called and told Heidelberg if he saw this person he'd be go to jail. This is another sign of widespread phone wiretaps. One person, seriously injured in the blast, has important information that sharply differs from the government story. An FBI agent came to her door and said an L.A. Times reporter was coming to her place and she would be in serious trouble if she spoke to him. Ten minutes later there was a knock at the door, which she refused to answer. Later by her door she saw a card from an L.A. Times reporter. By the spring of 1996, federal agents revisited certain witnesses to harass them into changing their stories.
McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, asked the court to force the CIA to release secret records about the Oklahoma bombing. Reportedly, he did this because the military secretly released records to him showing the involvement of the CIA and foreign nationals in causing the Oklahoma bombing. If this were obtained through the court it would probably be entered as evidence during the trial, but naturally the government cried national security to block this request. Jones appears to now understand that much is involved in this trial. He spoke of a broader conspiracy with McVeigh being only a foot soldier. 38 He has spoken of foreign nationals being involved in the plot, his investigators have spoken to people like Ted Gunderson, and there are signs Jones may mount a defense involving some of the evidence discussed here that is being covered up. In November, 1995 Jones told reporters when they know what he has learned about the government's role in the bombing, they would never again have the same view about the government and the way government intelligence works. McVeigh's sister in 1994 told a reporter at the Spotlight that her brother worked for the ATF. According to Heidelberg, during the grand jury proceedings, McVeigh's sister read a letter from her brother in which he claimed to be a member of a U.S. military Special Forces Group conducting criminal activity. 39 This important revelation has received little publicity.
However, it is difficult to believe the government will allow information on its involvement in the bombing to be presented in open court. The Feds will go to any extreme to continue the cover-up. Jones has complained about the location of the trial but it remains to be seen how serious he will be in challenging the government's case. Jones barely attempted to delay the federal building's destruction. Attorney John De Camp was prepared to file for a 30-day delay in the demolition as a lawyer for a victim. Jones contacted De Camp and asked him to back down because he would be in a better legal position to get this delay. De Camp agreed, also releasing his bomb expert, as Jones requested. Then Jones only asked for a 48-hour delay, he didn't use this bomb expert, and the defense agreed not to even take soil samples to investigate. De Camp was stunned. A defense lawyer in a criminal investigation has a right and duty to examine evidence at the scene of the crime. At the same time, in fairness to Jones, the rapid destruction of this evidence may provide grounds for an appeal.
Many similar cases in the past were settled before a trial took place, such as the killing of the Kennedys, Martin L King, and John Lennon. It is quite possible McVeigh and Nichols will be killed, an out-of-court settlement will be made, or the lawyers for the defendants will back off and not present certain evidence. During a trial, it would be a public relations disaster for the government if the truth came out. It remains to be seen what Jones will actually reveal in a trial. Gunderson said the security for McVeigh when he was initially moved was “very poor, sloppy, an open invitation for someone to kill him.” Authorities refused to even give McVeigh a bullet-proof vest when he was initially moved, and no one knows how the crowd knew who he was and when he was being moved. In late August, 1995 the security chief where McVeigh and Nichols were jailed was removed after he attempted to increase security around them. Some investigators believe McVeigh was supposed to die in the blast, and this makes sense.
In a crime like the Oklahoma bombing with an on-going cover-up there are many loose ends. Why were thousands of elite Iraqi troops quietly moved to the U.S? Why did the government give immunity to the Denver informant and then, even after he was quite accurate, still ignore him? What is the relationship between the secret government and the foreign terrorists who may be involved in the bombing? The exact role of the U.S. government in this cover-up has not yet been clarified. When McVeigh was arrested, the officer's video recorded the license plate of a truck owned by Steve Colburn. He was arrested May 13, 1995 but nothing further has been heard about him. The unidentified leg found in the federal building was identified as belonging to a white male. Then the Feds said it belonged to a black woman. It is not that difficult for forensic experts to determine the sex and race of a victim.
A German friend of McVeigh's Andreas Strassmeir, may be involved in the bombing. Several witnesses claim Strassmeir was with McVeigh in Junction City, Kansas shortly before the bombing, and Strassmeir may soon be named in the Smith family's civil lawsuit. Coming from a prominent political family in Germany, he became a German officer with intelligence training in 1989 and then moved to the U.S. to visit KKK and neo-Nazis supporters. Phone records show that McVeigh and Strassmeir communicated including possibly on April 5 and 18, 1995, and Strassmeir admits meeting McVeigh. In December, 1993 the FBI said German and U.S. intelligence agencies would work together to limit the influence of Nazis in each country. This included surveillance of certain Americans. For years the government has used foreign agents to perform illegal acts in the U.S. to avoid being detected. Strassmeir admitted to the London Sunday Telegraph that he first lived in the U.S. in 1989 because he planned to work for the U.S. Justice Department on a special assignment. 40 The McCurtain Daily Gazelle obtained an FBI memorandum dated April 26, 1995 that an imprisoned White Aryan Resistance (WAR) member had met McVeigh several years ago with John Doe 2 who was a German national. 41 On February 4, 1996 the Sunday Times of London said British and German extremists may be linked to the bombing. 42
Strassmeir fled to Germany after the McCurtain Daily Gazette started writing about his possible involvement with McVeigh and the bombing and suggested he may be an undercover intelligence agent. His U.S. attorney Kirk Lyons confirmed that he returned to Germany through Mexico with the help of GSG-9, the German military counter-terrorist unit of which he is a member, reportedly because of death threats. 43 A warrant for Strassmeir's arrest for overstaying a tourist visa was never served, although the FBI received a copy of the warrant. In February, 1992, when Strassmeir's car was impounded, the State Department and governor's office called and said he had diplomatic immunity.
Cash received help in his investigation by someone from Interpol frustrated with the U.S. governments refusal to investigate various white supremacists. In Tulsa, Cash visited Dennis Mahon, a leader of WAR, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and a friend of Strassmeier. Mahon and his brother own a sporty 1973 Chevrolet pickup similar to a vehicle the FBI was looking for immediately after the bombing. During the visit, Cash also spoke to Mark Thomas, leader of the Pennsylvania WAR, and he admitted being at Elohim City days before the bombing. Also discussed at the meeting was Mike Brescia, another WAR member and roommate of Strassmeirs at Elohim City. At least one witness has identified Mahon as driving with McVeigh the morning of the bombing. McVeigh's lawyer confirmed that, although it had questioned 11,000 people, the FBI had not questioned any of these people about their possible involvement in the bombing, although Mahon did give a deposition in Edye Smith's lawsuit. A member of the WAR, Richard Snell, was executed in prison by the government on April 19, 1995 hours after the bombing. 44 The Denver Post quoted Arkansas prison guard Alan Ablies as saying: “Snell repeatedly predicted that there would be a bombing or an explosion the day of his death.”
On May 21, 1995 Reuters News Agency said Newsweek had information the government “pretty well knew who was involved in the April 19 blast, and that husbands and wives as well as children as young as 12, were going to be arrested at” Elohim City, a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma. “The major players, already targeted by the FBI, were talking to investigators to get lighter sentences,” and a government informant had provided information on the bombing. The government usually has informants in targeted groups. On May 21, 1995 WUSA in Boston profiled the Newsweek story, but this report was suspended and not widely disseminated. Newsweek only ran a watered-down story on May 29, 1995. McVeigh, Michael Fortier, and Terry Nichols visited Elohim City many times while Strassmeir lived there for some months, and no one could confirm Strassmeir's alibi during the bombing. 45 On October 12, 1993 McVeigh got a speeding ticket a few miles from Elohim City on the road to the village.
Reportedly, the extensive investigation by the Smith family, discussed above, has led them to conclude that Mike Brescia is John Doe 2. Eyewitnesses place Brescia with McVeigh in Junction City, Kansas shortly before the bombing. Just after the composite of John Doe 1 was released, before McVeigh was publicly identified, a women in Kansas told the FBI John Doe 1 was McVeigh, who she had dated and John Doe 2 was Brescia, who a friend had dated. Amazingly, the FBI refused to even interrogate Brescia even though he remained at Elohim City for months after the bombing until the press started asking about him. Then he disappeared and no one is sure where he is today. Strassmeir is going to be named in the Smith lawsuit as a “U.S. federal informant with material knowledge of the bombing.”
Lester Martz, regional head of the ATF, confirmed that there was a sting operation the night before the bombing, but he wouldn't confirm if the sting operation was related to the bombing. 46 Rep. Key also said someone involved in the sting operation confirmed its existence to him. Reportedly, there were ATF agents on a stake out of the Murrah building at 3:30 a.m., and they had a tracking device. At 4:30 a.m. these agents set up a road block two miles from the Murrah building, and other agents were probably watching another near by federal building. Some feel they were following McVeigh's car with a transmitter, and that McVeigh and his friends were going to be arrested before the blast, or the blast was supposed to occur early in the morning when no one was in the building. Others feel that because the sting operation failed, the Feds are trying to cover-up their advanced knowledge. Or the failed sting operation may have been a deliberate cover to carry out the actual bombing.
The WTC bombing involved an FBI informant working with terrorists possibly trained by the CIA. About the Oklahoma bombing Strassmeir said, “The ATF had an informant inside this operation. They had advance warning and they bungled it.” 47 In the New York and Oklahoma, officials openly admit that they haven't yet found the masterminds of the crime and aren't sure how funds were obtained to support the bombing. 48 In each case, authorities claimed they were able to arrest people within a few days, because the vehicle ID number of the truck involved in the bombing was found, but this was false. The Feds already knew who they were looking for in New York. The vehicle identification number (VIN) of the Ryder truck supposedly led investigators to McVeigh, but GM said the VIN is not on the rear axle as claimed, and Ryder confirmed that it doesn't add VINs to its trucks. In each case, no one in Congress has demanded an explanation for the many discrepancies in these cases. Several congressional aides told one investigator that Congress would not permit hearings on the Oklahoma bombing, partly because they were afraid it would so undermine federal law enforcement that it might jeopardize passage of the Anti-Terrorism bill.
The many inconsistencies in the Oklahoma bombing raise serious questions about the integrity of the government's case. Why does the national media and progressive press refuse to discuss this government misconduct? If there was no federal involvement in the Oklahoma bombing, why are they covering up the facts? The government won't interview many witnesses because they would start talking about other people who they saw with McVeigh. Several private investigators believe the CIA was definitely involved with foreign nationals and American KKK/neo-Nazis members working together. During the Gulf War German Nazis openly supported Iraq, so it is quite possible Middle Eastern and German terrorists work together on certain operations. Hopefully, the rule of law will be reestablished in America so that the perpetrators of this atrocity can be arrested and brought to trial.
Chapter XVII
Recent Attacks on the
Militias and Patriot Movement
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and
scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to
be a patriot.”
Mark Twain
“These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it
now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not
easily conquered....”
Thomas Paine
As many are aware, in recent years thousands of Americans have joined unenrolled militias in many states. Militia units should be set up across the country to protect the people, as was the intent of the Founders. People should consider joining armed militia units to train, study, assist the people during emergencies, and to more effectively get involved in politics. If more raids like the Waco massacre take place, there will be an explosion of membership in the militias. Many state codes have laws allowing for general unorganized or unenrolled militias, but their role today is not well defined. In 1946 Virginia ordered its unenrolled militia to restore peace in a labor dispute. They are still regarded as a reserve source of manpower for the state National Guard and the Army. However, the National Guard, not the unenrolled state militias, are seen as the main source of manpower for the Army.
Many people joining militia units belong to the Patriot movement which exists in every state. People in this populist movement are often not armed. The movement includes constitutionalists, homeschoolers, tax protesters, progressives, New Agers, and Christian fundamentalists. Many would benefit by attending its meetings. While the Patriot movement is rather large, it has received little national media coverage even after the Oklahoma bombing. The militia movement is just the tip of the iceberg of a broad-based movement involving millions of people determined to restore constitutional government. Many people are joining the Patriot movement to stop the coming one world government, because so many things written about it for years are now actually happening.
The national media have continuously attacked the militias and patriots linking them to racism, anti-Semitism, and white supremacists like the Aryan Nation, although there is little evidence of this. The press often says the militias consist of angry white men; yet many Jews, blacks, and women belong to the movement. 1 The San Francisco Chronicle said, while groups that watch extremist organizations have claimed “the militia movement is linked to dangerous right-wing ideologies, they offer little supporting evidence.” The article said militia members “engage in voter registration drives, assist local law enforcement agencies in flood relief efforts and other emergencies.” This is what the Missouri militia did during recent flooding. 2
Most people in the militias and Patriot movement have no prejudice against any race or color, 3 although there have been some generally unsuccessful attempts by racists to infiltrate militia units. In one incident, a militia unit in Fort Bragg, California was offered 1,500 acres for training. A check revealed that the man was a white supremacist, so the offer was rejected. 4 Sheriff Dupont said white supremacists in his Montana county initially tried to influence the local militia as it formed, but they were totally rejected. 5 According to the U.S. News & World Report, a few people from right wing groups have joined militia units, “but law enforcement officials believe most recruits are simply disenchanted with what they consider the growing intrusion of government into their lives.” 6 When a few skinheads and neo-Nazis attended a Missouri militia meeting, they were thrown out, as was the person who said he could build landmines. This unit states in its manual that it will not tolerate racism or criminal behavior. 7
Time said many militias throw out racists and some militias have minority members. James Aho, author of The Politics of Righteousness and a sociologist who has interviewed 368 people in the radical right, said “The vast majority of people in the militias are not violent or dangerous.” 8 Most people in these groups are middle-class, law-abiding citizens who realize how dangerous the federal government has become. There is also a growing interaction between the Patriot movement and black nationalists. Many black Americans understand the danger of corporate domination and government abuses of power. 9
While most people in the secret government are Christian, some are Jewish, and some claim there is a Jewish plot to control the world. The real religion of all these people is money and power. There is no Jewish conspiracy, just as there is no Christian conspiracy. To attack the religious views of a few bankers is morally reprehensible and provides no real insight into what is actually taking place. Attacking the secret government as a Jewish plot also falls into a trap, because then you are being anti-Semitic and that becomes the whole issue instead of actually analyzing the secret government. Even Jewish patriots who attack the secret government are called anti-Semitic. This is a classic example of attacking the messenger to avoid an intelligent discussion of the message. This strategy is another layer of protection the corporate elite use to keep the public from learning about their evil deeds. People like Henry Kissinger are promoted partly so people will see a Jewish conspiracy and be attacked on that basis, while the real work of the secret government is not even discussed. On February 2, 1995, the New York Review of Books reviewed Pat Robertson's book, The New World Order. While this book describes in great detail the history and plans of the corporate elite to establish the one world government, Robertson also mentioned certain Jewish individuals. The reviewer barely explored the theme of Robertson's book. Instead the review focused on the “question of whether Robertson was an anti-Semite.”
Members of the secret government who claim to be Jewish are far less than a fraction of one percent of the millions of Jews throughout the world, most of whom have no interest or even knowledge of a secret government desiring world domination. It is morally wrong to slander an entire race because of the evil deeds of a few people. “A tragic canard, the Jewish conspiracy merits no further comment. Its existence, however, tends to unfairly discredit other conspiratorial interpretations of events that have nothing to do with making scapegoats of any ethnic or religious group.” 10 While some people use anti-Semitic or racist remarks to attack the bankers, that is a minority view that offends most people in the militias and Patriot movement. One reason there is very little anti-Semitism in the Patriot movement and militias is because there are so many Jewish members. The 100- man militia unit in San Diego has a Jewish membership of 50 percent. Jews For the Preservation of Firearms has thousands of members, Nancy Lord, a Jewish attorney, represents members of the movement throughout the nation, and I am one more of thousands of Jewish members of the Patriot movement.
The national media often uses quotes from critics of the right, like Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which calls the militias dangerous with ties to “hate-mongering groups,” but they provide little evidence of this. The SPLC sent information to the U.S. Justice Department in October, 1994 about the supposedly dangerous militias, but the Justice Department until recently took no legal action because it received no evidence of illegal activity. The SPLC also wrote to many state attorney generals in May, 1995 asking that existing laws be applied to stop the militias. By April, 1996 no state had taken action against any militia, because most militia members follow the law. The Idaho Deputy Attorney General said people in the militias should not be cut off from the political process.
The SPLC is one of the wealthiest non-profit organizations in America. On April 25, 1986 The Montgomery Advertiser said Dees's entire staff of five lawyers and his top aide resigned because they were surprised to learn that the center's goal was to enrich Dees, not to help poor people. An ex-attorney for the center Deborah Ellis said: “I felt that Morris (Dees) was on a Klan kick because it was such an easy target—easy to beat in court, easy to raise big money on.” Now it is the turn of the militias, so the SPLC can reach $100 million in assets. In 1993, the American Institute of Philanthropy, a watchdog over charities, gave the SPLC a low D grade because of its poor use of funds. Several times the SPLC has been accused of discrimination. On December 28, 1994 The Montgomery Advertiser reported that 12 former black employees experienced racial problems at the SPLC. In 1958 Dees supported George Wallace partly because he supported segregation. In the Joan Little case, Dees was dismissed by the judge after he was accused of trying to get a witness to commit perjury. Millard Farmer, a Georgia lawyer and ex-partner of Dees, sued and won after Dees cheated him out of $50,000.
Kenneth Stern, in A Force Upon the Plain, constantly claimed that arrested individuals had militia ties but usually no proof of this was offered. Guilt by innuendo is the mark of the government, the national press, and professional critics of the right. In Loud Hawk, published in 1994, Stern revealed that he was a lawyer for the militant American Indian Movement from 1975 to 1988. Harshly critical of the government, his phones were wiretapped and he was followed at times. Stern admitted that as a young lawyer he “would have thought bombing property was almost romantic, a sign of defiance....” Stern never denounced acts of violence by the left. In 1988 he established the National Organization Against Terrorism and, with the support of ex-CIA head George Bush and ex-intelligence officer Arthur Goldberg, he became a successful lawyer with many establishment connections. Who is the real Kenneth Stern?
Some phony experts now attacking the right are operatives working for the government or large corporations, others on their own or in conjunction with certain private groups, attack any action considered right wing, while some of these people are simply confused individuals making a living. Often these people make wildly exaggerated claims about the militias as a vehicle to raise money and enhance their importance. Morris Dees identified an 86-year-old woman in Colorado as a radical militia leader. His list of militia groups in Colorado and many other states was devoid of reality, but he has raised millions of dollars because of the supposed militia threat.
Professional critics of the right often name leaders of the Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as being leaders of the militias and Patriot movement. In January, 1996, the editor of Media Bypass rejected an ad from a Klan group and readers supported this. I listen to patriot talk radio for hours each day. It is extremely rare for someone to call such shows and promote white supremacist or racist views. About once a month, I do hear such a caller, and most programs cut them off. A popular patriot radio station, the USA Freedom Network, has a Jewish owner and several Jewish announcers. I have never once heard a radio announcer or guest promoting racist or anti-Semitic views. The objective observer can easily confirm this.
I am not saying that there are no racists in the militias and Patriot movement, but such involvement is minimal and it is a lie to claim otherwise. Attend a Preparedness Expo that takes place in various states, and you will not see any hate groups. 11 Even Chip Berlet, an extreme leftist who follows the movement, said that people in this movement are not especially racist or anti-Semitic but are part of a broader movement. 12 There are people in white supremacist groups who criticize the federal government and want the Constitution restored, just as members of these groups hold racial purity views. I am aware of one Christian Identity newspaper that presents patriotic themes. While some racist groups would probably like to bring in new members from the Patriot movement, they also harshly criticize the militias because militia members are not white supremacists. Jonathan Karl, author of The Right to Bear Arms, interviewed Aryan Nations' leader Richard Butler in the New York Post. Butler said the militias were traitors to the white race, and militias were a government-sponsored movement, maybe working with the CIA. As Karl told me, he is aware that the militias are not part of white supremacist, Klan, or neo-Nazi groups. Karl was on CNN, where he now works, just after the Freeman surrendered. He said only a small, small minority of militia members are white supremacists.
The hysterical media attack on the militias after the Oklahoma bombing was a propaganda barrage that had little to do with reality. People who think there is a free press in America are in a state of denial or are ignoring the evidence. In a free society, there would be at least some diverse opinion in the national press. The orders were given and there was a constant hysterical attack on the militias. How can you demonize the militias when the Nichols brothers attended one or two meetings of the Michigan Militia and were then thrown out because of their radical views! McVeigh denied being involved with the militias when interviewed and no one has ever presented proof to dispute this, yet to this day, critics of the right still blame the militias for the Oklahoma bombing, even though they provide no proof of this. The FBI has not arrested any militia member for the Oklahoma bombing.
In the gleeful rush to attack the right, proof of militia involvement in the Oklahoma attack was not necessary. James Ridgeway, in a April 25, 1995 Village Voice article, linked the militias to the Oklahoma bombing by using words like “It is probable” and “there is every reason to believe.” Guess work and personal beliefs replaced professional journalism. It suddenly became politically correct to blame the militias for everything, from property rights issues to bombing abortion clinics. I went to one meeting where the speaker, a private investigator, spent 10 minutes blaming the militias for attacks on environmentalists and then acknowledged there was no proof of this. Over and over again, in the national media when the militias are discussed, there is typically one expert and one or more reporters who are extremely hostile to the militias. Only on occasion is there a rational discussion with opposing views presented.
In some instances, the media blatantly distorted the truth to attack the militias and Patriot movement. On April 27, 1995 ABC's Day One showed a headline of the Resister magazine describing the U.S. military's Combat Arms Survey which suggested U.S. soldiers might shoot citizens who refused to surrender their arms. The reporter called this right wing extremism instead of noting this was a U.S. government survey. The Progressive, Harpers, and several TV shows took Bo Gritz's words out of context and falsely claimed he supported the Oklahoma bombing, when the opposite was true. The press including Time, the Wall Street Journal,13 the Village Voice on May 23, 1995, and many other publications quoted two local liberal reporter who falsely claimed that Sam Sherwood, head of the U.S. Militia Association in Idaho, had said a civil war may be coming and you may need to shoot legislators. Sherwood strongly denied stating this. He lived on a kibbutz in Israel, and the Idaho militia is extremely conservative in its actions. Unlike the ranting press, Mack Tanner, a retired U.S. diplomat, who wrote a detailed article on the militias in Reason, was at the meeting when Sherwood spoke. Tanner heard the opposite of what the press claimed. Sherwood asked that political action, not violence, be used to correct improper government policies. 14
One result of the propaganda attack on the militias is that many people mistakenly look at the militias as a great danger, when the exact opposite is true. The militias exist in a defensive mode, formed in response to an increasingly oppressive government. Who is the real threat in America—people who call for a return to constitutional government, or a government that seizes property from hundreds of thousands of citizens and whose agents break into people's homes without due process even killing innocent citizens? If a militia threatens violence or is accused of violence, it may be an FBI operative, like John Parsons and the Tri-State Militia, when they threatened war with the federal government.
On July 30, 1995, Rep. Schumaker said regarding Clinton's involvement in the Waco raid: “Before you make some allegations...have some facts.” This advice should apply to all Americans. Instead, opposition to government policies is called unpatriotic and racist. Amazingly Clinton said May 5, 1995: “You cannot be a patriot and despise your government.” He would probably consider the Founders dangerous radicals. Clinton obviously has no understanding of our history. It has long been part of our heritage to be suspicious of state power. “Clinton has sought to intimidate critics of government policy by branding them as terrorists....Loud voices are not the same as violent deeds....Wide open debate is the best chance for restraining violent impulses....Information is the enemy both of out-of-control government and of paranoia. Vigorous, open dissent is a powerful check on government excesses—and an important, peaceful outlet for citizen grievances.” 15
Clinical Psychiatry News said government critics were suffering from “government-phobia.” Supposedly, this recently discovered disorder has become an epidemic, with people becoming delusional and even psychotic. On May 3, 1996, NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, in a story on the Freemen, referred to a “pathological fear of the government.” As in the Soviet Union, if you disagree with the government, you must be crazy. People like George Washington would be put in mental hospitals. 16 With tens of millions of people supporting the Patriot movement, the objective observer should consider whether there is mass hysteria, or are things happening in America that you should examine!
USA Today and CNN reported a Gallop poll on April 23-24, 1995, showing that 39 percent of the people felt immediately threatened by the federal government. 17 They were surprised at this high number, so they conducted another poll dropping the word “immediate” and were shocked to see the percent rise to 52 percent. 18 The Los Angeles Times conducted a similar poll and found that 45 percent felt threatened by the federal government. Thomas Jefferson said: “When people fear the government, you have tyranny, but when government fears the people, you have liberty.” A USA Today reporter said the newspaper didn't understand what was happening, but the militias appeared to represent a political movement that had not previously been identified by the politicians and national media.19
On May 18, 1995 the Washington Post, in a poll conducted with ABC News, revealed that one in eight Americans (32 million) support the goals and activities of the militias and that six percent (15 million) of Americans consider the federal government the enemy. 20 The Patriot movement, which is much bigger than the militias, represents many more people, and this poll underestimated the true feelings of the country, because it was conducted just after the Oklahoma bombing during a massive campaign to demonize the militias.
You may be surprised to hear about these polls, because they received little publicity. These four polls involve five of the most prestigious news organizations in the U.S. That so many fear and distrust the government should make the objective observer explore what is really happening to our Republic. At what point do views held by tens of millions of people stop being called extremist or racist? At what point do supposedly extremist views become reasonable opinions when such views are held by millions of people? The anger and hostility that tens of millions of Americans feel towards the federal government is much broader and deeper than the Washington crowd and the national media will acknowledge, although many Republicans understand the popularity of the Patriot movement. The only Republican in Congress to harshly attack the militias was Rep. Peter King. He was shocked to be so criticized and his office was flooded with hundreds of angry letters and calls. 21
Progressives joined in the rush to demonize the right after the Oklahoma bombing. For years, the left tried to rally the people to counteract the increasing power of the large corporations. Now that a powerful, populist, middle-class movement led by the right has developed that can threaten corporate power, many progressive leaders are quite upset. There is a tendency for progressives to automatically label anyone who has conspiracy views as a right wing fanatic. The error of this perspective is exemplified by the research of progressives like Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Gore Vidal, and Holly Sklar, who often describe the same groups and problems as presented by the Patriot movement. When these people criticize the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission (TC), it is similar to concerns expressed on the right. The one world government that Noam Chomsky described in World Orders Old and New and in other writings 22 is similar to the new world order the right attacks. Holly Sklar's book, Trilateralism, described the TC and its plans for corporate influence but, perhaps as a leftist, she openly criticizes the right and its conspiracy theories. 23 The only difference between conspiracy theory and institutional analysis is that the former better describes a complex power structure whose machinations defy economic and institutional analysis.
After the Oklahoma bombing, David Helvarg blamed the militias and property rights groups for attacking environmentalists. Yet, in War Against the Greens, Helvarg identified three prime sources for attacks on environmentalists without naming the militias. 24 Alexander Cockburn was right to state that no one has provided any evidence that the militias are attacking environmentalists. 25 The call by progressives for more government power to suppress the right will only weaken the left. Inevitably, enhanced government power will be used to attack the left. 26 One progressive correctly said of the right: “These folks are absolutely correct that the fear generated by the Oklahoma bombing will be cynically manipulated by a state security apparatus desperate to further consolidate and extend its control in the name of antiterrorism.” 27 However, hating the right and supporting big government the left, except for Prevailing Winds, has refused to discuss the government cover-up and many discrepancies in the Oklahoma bombing reports. Even with this atrocity, leaders in the left defend the government, which is one more reason why so many progressives have joined the Patriot movement.
People like Jerry Brown ask where all the progressives have gone. Noam Chomsky said people who joined the unions 60 years ago now join paramilitary groups. Recently the New York Times published an article about progressives forming a militia unit in Maine. 28 To publicize one more militia unit is unusual, but there is a potential threat to the corporate elite if the left and right join together. Recently, 125 members of this militia, including Earth Firsters and Buchanan supporters, lobbied the state legislature to weaken corporate power. This is the wave of the future. The progressive establishment should wake up before it becomes even more irrelevant. The Patriot movement is a genuine populist movement that includes many progressives. The right has grown so powerful in recent years, partly because it supports populist issues, the left has abandoned. For the left to be revitalized, it must understand that the foremost issue of our time is to restore constitutional government. After The Nation and The Progressive harshly attacked the militias, they published letters from upset readers correctly stating that the militias were not being accurately portrayed and the right was attacking the same forces these magazines often criticize. 29
On May 10-12, 1996 leading progressives and environmental leaders met in Washington, D.C. at a conference presented by the International Forum on Globalization. The meeting was called to confront the threat of corporate dominance over democracy, traditional cultures and nationalities, human welfare, and the environment. The goal was to confront the problem of “unelected and unaccountable global elites who are seizing control of one-world governance.” Internationalists and the TC were criticized. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was attacked because it was “designed to serve as a global governing body for transnational corporate interests.”
Leading environmental groups like the Sierra Club attacked GATT and NAFTA. Carl Pope, director of the Sierra Club, said: “The global economy is not really inevitable (and) Pat Buchanan deserves a more serious look.” Jean-Luc Jouvet of Greenpeace said: “We are staring catastrophe in the face.” He acknowledged that statements from the World Bank about concern for the environment and the world's poor were false. “They were lies....There is no way any of us can ignore that reality now.” Willard Smith of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union spoke for the AFL-CIO. He said that five years ago, “many of the people here were dreamy internationalists of one sort or another. But what we have seen of NAFTA, the WTO, and international financial speculation has been a rough wakeup call.”
The press refused to discuss this conference because it did not suit the corporate model of what we are supposed to think. Most people in the militias and Patriot movement would agree with the conclusions reached at this conference about stopping the new world order. Except for a brief comment in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the progressive press refused to even discuss this important conference. Wall Street has much more control over the progressive press than is generally understood.
The left and right have many similar goals and should work together to restore the Constitution and stop the large corporations from establishing the new world order dictatorship. Many in the left and right have already been working together to stop NAFTA, GATT and the anti-terrorist bill. The Washington Monthly correctly said the Patriot movement's constitutional views brought it closer to the ACLU and the New Left than to right wing conservatives. 30 The New Yorker described the merging of the left and right to fight the governing elite as “fusion paranoia.” This is called paranoid because people who no longer accept the liberal mind-set of massive government control are considered crazy! 31
Most progressive critics of the militias and Patriot movement ignore the many constitutional issues that are at the heart of the movement; yet this concern is the key reason why so many progressives have joined the Patriot movement. Chip Berlet blames the rise of the militias and Patriot movement on economic problems and “anger over gains by oppressed groups” in the U.S. Scapegoating and wild conspiracy theories are to blame! 32 Marc Cooper in the Nation said: “The constitutionalist rhetoric used by the 'patriot' militias merely cloaks the most bigoted of views.” 33 These people are more concerned about citizens that criticize the government then about government abuses of power because they are blinded by their own ideology so they must attack anyone on the right.
Some voices on the left have acknowledged the constitutional concerns of the patriots. Alexander Cockburn attended a gun/militia rally of 2,500 and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the populist issues raised were similar to the concerns of the left. Martin Luther King, Jr. was cheered as was the imprisonment of a Detroit policemen for killing a black man. When given a copy of a speech just presented, Cockburn said: “Most of it could have been delivered by a leftist in the late sixties without changing a comma.” 34 Cockburn asked why people who object to oppressive governments and economic regulations as in Mexico are hailed as heroes by progressives, but when Americans try to defend their rights over similar oppressive government policies progressives call these people right wing extremists and paranoid racists. 35
Barbara Dority, in the leftist magazine The Humanist, said after the Oklahoma bombing, “This rush to judgment (of the militias) has been accompanied by a near-total avoidance of rational analysis, and much of the information attacking the militias is being distributed by anti-hate groups with their own agenda.” Dority discussed the constitutional issues inspiring the Patriot movement and militias and agreed with many of these concerns. 36 Reason magazine had an excellent article on the militias by a retired U.S. diplomat. The author interviewed many militia members over several months and found that “culturally ignorant reporters” were telling “sensational stories” rather than looking for the truth. Instead of finding racists and anti-Semites, he found that most militia members were employed in middle class jobs and had a deep distrust of the government. 37
The militias and Patriot movement follow the tradition of populism, not that of conservatives. The recent conservative attack on Buchanan, partly because he attacked the new world order and corporate dominance, exemplifies how conservatives and patriots differ. 38 Conservatives support free trade and an international outlook, while patriots support American sovereignty and managed trade. Populists attack the asset forfeiture and corporate-welfare laws that conservatives pass. Conservatives stress economic issues, while patriots defend constitutional rights. Conservatives pass numerous laws such as in welfare and education rarely acknowledging, as patriots do, that this violates the Constitution. Conservatives want more law and order, while patriots what to stop police tyranny. Conservatives like Newt Gingrich are considered enemies of the people by many patriots because he is a CFR member. Progressives attack patriots partly because they do not understand that patriots and conservatives are different, because when someone is perceived as an enemy, truth doesn't matter. The real fight is not between the left and right, it is between liberty and tyranny. Traditional liberals and traditional conservatives have sold out to the corporate elite and are destroying the Constitution.
Progressives who attack the right for wanting less government ignore our history. A massive federal government is not part of the Constitution. Charles A. Reich, in Opposing the System, described how the large corporations are quietly gaining total control. He said the constitutional system of checks and balances has been superceded by corporate control, yet he supports the New Deal social contract of big government helping the people. With the New Deal, liberals abandoned constitutional government and installed democratic centralism. Liberals claim that we need big government to help the people, yet they also claim to believe in the Constitution and the rule of law. This is the great liberal paradox. Most federal programs started in the New Deal are unconstitutional. Liberals ignore that the Founders did not trust government, so a central government with few powers was established with checks and balances installed. Along with restraining the corporations, many federal programs should be shifted to the states. Then constitutional government could be restored, and there would be less threat of tyranny from a smaller federal government.
Some liberals want to resolve the great liberal paradox by redoing the Constitution. Lewis Lapham favorably reviewed The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, which called for a new Constitution. Our present predicament exists partly because many have little interest, understanding, or respect for the Constitution, which is still the supreme law in America. This is partly why the rule of law has been so weakened. Unfortunately, a new Constitution today would be totally dominated by the large corporations, and the people's rights would be lost. The problem is not the Constitution, it is the misuse of power. We don't need big changes in the Constitution, we need to enforce it. Thomas Jefferson warned: “In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
Many Americans believe big government is the main problem, and the media supports this myth. In many daily activities, abusive government officials are a serious problem; however, the threat of a one world government and the loss of all our rights is coming from the large corporations, not from the government. Progressives understand that the real problem is the large corporations and their dominance of government. Government officials are merely agents of the large corporations. While the right often speaks of CFR and TC control, sometimes describing the dangerous power of the banks, there is rarely a direct recognition that the large corporations are the real problem. Instead the Patriot movement primarily attacks problems with the government. This is the biggest weakness in the Patriot movement.
Too often the Patriot movement focuses only on oppressive government actions without understanding that the main enemy of the people is the large corporations. These are the key leaders of the CFR, TC, and related organizations. In a 1978-1979 study of CFR members, G. William Domhoff in Who Rules America Now?, found that 70 percent of the 100 largest corporations had at least one official in the CFR. Twenty-one of the 25 largest banks, 37 percent of the 500 largest businesses, and 16 of the 25 largest insurance companies had at least one official in the CFR. Twenty percent of the CFR members were listed in Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives. Just as the Patriot movement works to restore constitutional government, a second major focus should be to restore corporate charters to the same limited status that existed in the early days of our Republic. This will help curtail corporate power.
Charles A. Reich, in Opposing the System, had one chapter titled “The Invisible Government.” After this excellent description that anyone in the Patriot movement would benefit from studying, this liberal said there is no conspiracy. 39 While the left understands better than the right how dangerous the large corporations are, only the right carries this threat to its logical and inevitable conclusion. If the large corporations aren't stopped, a corporate police state is inevitable. This is what the right warns of, but they are called racist and extremists for saying this. Why do progressives think corporate leaders are such nice people that they wouldn't carry their quest for power to the logical conclusion? One need only study how the corporate leaders tried to establish a dictatorship in the 1930s, and what these elitists say in hundreds of publications, to understand that a dictatorship is coming. The left focuses too much on economic and institutional concepts and less on our rights being lost.
Part of the problem is that people on the right and left have an inbred dislike and even hatred of each other, so that even when they support the same positions and can benefit by working together this is rarely done. The corporate elite often play the left and right against each other, while they sit back and laugh. Divide and conquer is an old strategy. People on opposing political spectrums often won't even talk to each other. On talk radio, I have never once heard a progressive or patriot radio talk show have someone from the opposing political spectrum as a guest. People on the left and right are often drawn to attack the other, however destructive that may be. This book will probably be attacked by some on each political spectrum, because I quote from the left and right. To do this is not politically correct.
Often when people are arrested for a criminal act, professional critics of the right immediately claim these people are militia members when there is no proof of this. We have entered a period in which the militias will be attacked and blamed in numerous incidents, however little evidence there is of militia involvement. The Amtrak bombing exemplifies this trend. A message was found which the press said made this a terrorist attack tied to the militias. U.S. News & World Report, in an editorial, attacked the growing pattern of the press to label criminal acts as terrorism that threatens the foundations of America. 40 When the Freemen siege developed, the media called them militia extremists. The Freemen don't even call themselves a militia, and most militia groups refused to support them.
On April 19, 1996 CBS, Evening News described a post office assault as a militia style robbery. Perhaps soon the press will call George Washington and all patriots criminals! Will there next be militia diseases or militia hurricanes? One must never underestimate the silliness and intensity with which a government can demonize a targeted group. The New York Times, in describing the Russian/Chechnya war, noted “States usually mobilize public support for a war by demonizing their opponents....” The only difference in the U.S. is that the government's assault on the patriots and militias is usually with words, although this may change after the election.
When white soldiers killed a black couple, ABC Evening News on December 20, 1995 and the Washington Post on December 9, 1995 described the attack as racist and right wing extremism and then claimed the Resister was part of this problem, but no evidence of this was provided. The article quoted the Resister's attack on internationalism and U.S. policy towards Haiti and the UN and said the Resister supported “individual rights, strict constitutionalism, limited government....” This is what the Founders said. The New York Times and the New Republic have used the same strategy to falsely attack the Resister. The New Republic said there were “white terrorists” and a “sinister club,” the Special Forces Underground that opposes “liberalism” and “internationalism.” 41 Is everyone who opposes Wall Street policies a racist and extremist? The Resister does not publish racist material, and no one in the press has been able to prove otherwise. But it is published by soldiers in the Special Forces Underground, and the ruling elite is nervous that such soldiers are critical of their policies.
As the government has done for decades with targeted groups, it is infiltrating agent provocateurs into the militias, trying to cause violence that results in arrests and makes it easier for the press to attack the militias as dangerous radicals. The April, 1996 FBI alert about possible militia violence was associated with a threat issued by an individual from Kansas City, Missouri. This individual was ejected from militias in Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota because of his calls for violence. Not only was this individual no longer associated with a militia, but his status is highly suspect.
Recently three people in Oklahoma were convicted of planning to bomb several groups, including Morris Dees' center. Ray Lampley, a preacher, suddenly called himself a militia leader, although the Oklahoma militia would have nothing to do with him. While Lampley and two other people were convicted of the plot, two other individuals inspired the plans and testified for the government. One of them, Richard Schrum, admitted in the The Daily Oklahoman newspaper that he was an FBI informant. Schrum said the FBI hired him after the Oklahoma bombing to infiltrate militias in the Southwest and that most militia members are patriots who just want to preserve the Constitution. 4 2 The other person involved in instigating the plot, Larry Wayne Crow, was a pilot for Tyson Foods in Arkansas. He quit his job, moved in with Lampley, and tried to form a militia and get some militia groups to commit violent acts. Crow was initially indicted, but then all charges against him were dropped. Morris Dees falsely said the militia was out to get him, when, in fact, the Feds initiated this plot which did not even involve the militia.
Another typical case of government entrapment occurred in April, 1996, when two members of a Georgia militia were arrested. Initially the press claimed they were going to bomb the Atlanta Olympics, but that assertion was withdrawn within hours. Then it was reported that there were no bombs, but the defendants Robert Starr and William McCranie supposedly had bomb-making materials. At the preliminary hearing on May 6, the defense lawyers questioned ATF agent Steven Gillis about the case in what is normally a quick and routine proceeding. Gillis admitted that government agents placed bomb-making components on Starr's property, and he wasn't sure if Starr was even aware the materials were there. There was no evidence that the defendants actually possessed or even had any knowledge of any bomb-making material. Gillis said they were able to go right to the buried material on Starr's 16 acres of land, when they obtained a search warrant, because government agents had originally planted the material. Nancy Lord, Starr's defense attorney said: “This is beyond entrapment. It is manufactured evidence. The materials were put on Mr. Starr's property without his knowledge. The whole evidence upon which this case was based was fraudulent....They have no conspiracy, they have no nexus to interstate commerce, they don't even have an explosive devise. What they have is an agent provocateur who came into a group, trying to cause trouble....”
Gillis admitted the other defendant, James McCranie, was not at any meetings where bomb building was discussed, and when a government agent started talking about bomb-making McCranie walked away saying: “I don't want to know anything about it.” Gillis could not identify an agreement between anyone except government agents to commit an illegal act, so there was no conspiracy. The only people who attended bomb-building classes were government agents and possibly one, not two, defendants, and to discuss or write about bomb building is perfectly legal.
Starr, on a short-wave radio show two nights before being arrested, said he was going to expose a government set-up against him. The next day, the government obtained arrest warrants. Lord said: “Mr. Starr was arrested not because he intended to build those bombs, but because he intended not to. He intended to expose the government's confidential informants.” Despite government complicity in creating this case, the judge forwarded the case to a grand jury which issued indictments, and a third militia member was also indicted. The charges include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered destructive device, although the government admitted in court that the defendants wasn't even aware the material was on their property.
The Macon Telegraph and Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote several articles critical of the government's conduct in this case. Bail has been rejected for the defendants although they are respected members of the community with no criminal record. This case shows how the government harasses targeted groups. In the initial arrest there is much media attention, and later when charges are dropped, as in the Earth First case I discuss in Chapter XII, the press ignores that. The result is that people think the targeted movement is dangerous. 43
The arrest of the Viper group in Phoenix, Arizona on July 2, 1996 may be another example of an overreaching government. CBS Evening News on July 2, 1996, quoting federal investigators, said an attack on government buildings wasn't imminent. Earlier that day when Bryant Gumble on NBC had asked the U.S. prosecutor in Phoenix if there was evidence that the Viper group actually planned to carry out attacks or if they were just preparing for a possible future, she refused to respond. However, as when the Georgia militia members were arrested, the government and most of the press said this was a dangerous group planning an imminent attack. Immediately after the arrests Clinton said danger was narrowly avoided, and Ray Kelly, under Secretary of the Treasury, falsely said they would be indicted to blow up federal buildings. The defendants were not charged with planning to bomb any buildings nor to overthrow the government.
Publically it was claimed that the videos show a conspiracy to bomb buildings but that wasn't shown in the charges. The charges did not even say what would be done with the explosives. In addition, why did the government rush to destroy the explosives, supposedly taken as evidence? Why was there a rush to destroy this evidence? As in the Georgia case, was this evidence planted by the government? Reportedly the grenades were inert and the rockets were toy weapons. The government case was so weak that at the preliminary hearing the judge agreed to free six of the 12 defendants until the trial despite the governments claim that these were dangerous terrorists.
On July 9, ABCs Nightline, usually a harsh critic of the right, admitted that the government made many strong charges against this group, the press fully supported this, and then the charges filed in court weren't nearly as serious as what the government initially told the press about this group. An ATF agent testified at the preliminary hearing that the government was absolutely certain there was no plan to bomb any building. The agent even said they didn't warn anyone of a possible threat because there was no immediate danger from this group.
As in the Georgia case, it is too early yet to tell if the Feds also planted evidence such as weapons in the Viper case. Several months ago the Viper group was approached by two government agent provocateurs to identify certain buildings to attacked in the future. This group refused to support this. Why are the Feds encouraging people to attack government buildings? At least one Fed tried to get this group to pass out Aryan Nation literature, but they refused.
In the 1970s, when agent provocateurs infiltrated the left there was an uproar in the national media and supposedly the Federal police stopped such illegal acts. Today, as the secret government tightens its control over all levels of society, there is a loud silence from the press and Congress about this infiltration program. Although an ATF agent testified in the Georgia case that the government manufactured the evidence and there was no proof linking the two defendants to the bomb-making material, the press refused to discuss this. Members of the national press attended the preliminary hearing, but the results were not reported. Newsweek May 6, 1996, just before the hearing, falsely claimed that pipe bombs existed and the Olympics were targeted. A free press is essential to have a free society, but it must be a press that has some connection with the truth. Our press is used as a propaganda tool by the corporate elite and government.
Rarely does the national media intelligently discuss the issues that concern millions of people in the militias and Patriot movement. Few in the national media ask if there is any truth to what is believed by these people. Few want to look at the deeper causes of the developing militia movement. Few want to acknowledge that the militias have historically played an important part of our heritage. Instead, certain patriot positions were stated, such as concerns about the UN, without analysis except for the comment that these views were paranoid and extremist. People representing the militias and Patriot movement are rarely allowed to speak in the national media. Only the corporate approved version of events is allowed to be heard.
Instead of intelligently discussing the many issues relevant to the patriot community, the press continues to demonize the right. To the corporate-national media what they decide is politically correct can be discussed. When other views on the right or left are introduced, it doesn't matter how many tens of millions of people hold such views; they are deemed to be dangerous, extremists, and racists. Attack the messenger to avoid discussing the message. The more powerful a movement becomes, the more nervous the government becomes, and the more intense is the attack. Governments always act this way. The Democrats call Republican attempts to weaken government power extremism, while the right calls environmentalists extremist crazies. Those who supported democracy in Nazi Germany were called extremists. Over 200 years ago, people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were called patriots, but to the British they were dangerous radicals. Vietnam War protesters were called communist inspired, Goldwater might have used the nuclear bomb, Gore Vidal was an anti-Semite, Perot was paranoid, and Buchanan is a neo-Nazi. The real sin of these people is that they threatened establishment control. Why have many liberals forgotten this lesson?
That genuine political dissent is so demonized increasingly alienates millions of people from the political system. Tens of millions of people are so disgusted with politics that they won't vote. There have been times in our past when people would have said we should explore why many people are so angry, perhaps correcting excesses. We saw this during the soul searching of the civil rights movement, but now the response of the Washington crowd is to call protesters racists and paranoid, passing more laws to take away more rights. Criticism of the government is called criticism of the nation. Political extremism is a label often applied to attack beliefs that those in power don't like. Openly and fully debating issues, including problems that have been ignored, and advocating unpopular positions gives our society the variety and vitality needed to function as a free society. Justice Brandeis said: “Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government; the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies.” The main unifying wish of those in the Patriot movement and the militias is to see the Constitution restored and to return to the teachings of people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. To the ruling elite these are very dangerous concepts.
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Murder As A Political Act
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Chapter XVI The Oklahoma Bombing
1 Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad,” The New Yorker, June 12, 1995, 40-47. 292 Treason The New World order
2 Eleanor Randolph, “Prosecutors in Terrorism Trial 'Vent' Star Witness's Trouble With the Truth,” Washington Post, March 13, 1995, p. A6.
3 James C. McKinley, Jr., “After the Trial, Many Questions Remain,” New York Times, October 2, 1995, p. A10.
4 Ralph Blumenthal, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast,” New York Times, October 28, 1993, p. Al, B3.
5 Elizabeth Gleick, “Something Big is Going to Happen,” Time, May 8, 1995, p. 50.
6 Kevin Johnson, “No Racing Fuel in Okla. Bomb,” USA Today, August 3, 1995, p. A2.
7 Jo Thomas, “Little Used Law Becomes A Lever,” New York Times, August 29, 1995, p. Al, A9.
8 , “Sightings of John Doe No. 2: In Blast Case, Mystery No. 1,” New York Times, December 3, 1995, p. 1, 22.
9 Melinda Liu, “A Case Built On a Web of Damning Detail,” Newsweek, July 3, 1995, p. 28.
10 George J. Church, “A Two-Bit Conspiracy,” Time, August 21, 1995, p. 25.
11 Jon Rappoport, Oklahoma City Bombing The Suppressed Truth (Los Angeles: Blue Press, 1995), p. 45-46; Richard A. Serrano, “Second Witness at Odds With Oklahoma Blast Theory,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1995, p. A38.
12 Lawrence W. Myers, “A Closer Look,” Media Bypass, III (December, 1995), 33-37; Lawrence W. Myers, “FBI Leaks Threaten Fair Trial for Kaczynski, Others Accused,” Media Bypass, IV (June, 1996), 16-18.
13 William F. Jasper, “Explosive Evidence of a Cover-Up,” New American, August 7, 1995, p. 4-7, 21-27.
14 Ted Gunderson, The Gunderson Report on the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City, Oklahoma April 19, 1995.
15 Scott Sandlin, “White Sands A Car Bomb Laboratory,” Albuquerque Journal, July 16, 1995, p. Al.
16 William F. Jasper, “Were There Two Explosions?” New American, June 12, 1995, p. 15-7.
17 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “Feds Try to Discount 2nd Bomb Explosion,” McCurtain Daily Gazelle, June 4, 1995, p. 1, 2.
18 Jeff Holladay and J.D. Cash, “Secondary Explosion Revealed in Murrah Blast,” McCuriain Daily Gazette, May 4, 1995, p. 1, 2.
19 William F. Jasper, “Seismic Support,” New American, August 7, 1995, p. 13- 16.
20 People interested in examining the scientific arguments in the debate can get a video for S15.00 from the Geophysical Society of Oklahoma City, P.O. Box 12163, Oklahoma City, Ok. 73157.
21 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “ATF's Explanation Disputed,” McCuriain Dally Gazette, July 30, 1995, p. 1, 12.
22 Jeff Holladay, “Bomb Probe Beginning Today May Answer Questions,” McCuriain Daily Gazette, May 5, 1995, p. 1.
23 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “Witnesses Confirm Explosives, Second Explosion,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, June 25, 1995, p. 1, 2. 24 , “Worker Helped Remove Munitions, Missle from Murrah Building,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, July 7, 1995, p. 1, 2. Notes 293 25 , “Murrah Film Provokes New Call for Investigation,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, September 10, 1995, p. 1, 2. 26 Ibid., p. 1, 2. 27 J.D. Cash, “Feds Violated Explosives Law,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, May 18, 1995, p. 1, 2.
28 Tom Morganthau, et al, “Still Holes in the Case,” Newsweek, August 21, 1995, p. 29.
29 Dave Hogan, “If He'd Been at Work...Former Portlander Says,” The Oregonian, April 20, 1995, p. A9.
30 Arnold Hamilton, “Book Plot Parallels Bombing,” Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1995, p. 46A. 31 Sherry Koonce, “Bombing Leaves Family Worried For Older Sister,” The Panola Watchman, April 23, 1995, p. A1, A6.
32 Rapopport, op. cit., Note 11, p. 66.
33 Cash, op. cit., Note 21, p. 1, 12. 34 Lawrence W. Myers, “OKC Bombing Grand Jurors Claim 'Cover-Up,'” Media Bypass, III (November, 1995), 4448 .
35 Kevin Johnson, “A 'Terrible' Turn in Bomb Case,” USA Today, October 19, 1995, p. 3A.
36 Morganthau, op. cit., Note 28, p. 29.
37 Church, op. cit., Note 10, p. 22-26.
38 Kevin Johnson, “Bombing Case Now Moves Into the Courtroom,” USA Today, August 7, 1995, p. 8A.
39 Myers, op. cit., Note 34, p. 44-48.
40 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Andrew Gimson, “Did Agents Bungle U.S. Terror Bomb?” The Sunday Telegraph, May 17, 1996, p. 26.
41 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “McVeigh, White Supremacists, German Linked by FBI Agent's Memo,” McCurtain Daily Gazette, March 21, 1996, p. 1, 2.
42 Tim Kelsey, “British Link to U.S. Bomb Massacre,” London Sunday Times, February 4, 1996, p. 1, 22.
43 J.D. Cash and Jeff Holladay, “FBI Ignored Lawman's Elohim City Information,” McCurtain Sunday Gazelle and Broken Bow News, April 14, 1996, p. 1, 12.
44 , “Is Tulsa Resident John Doe No. 2?” McCurtain Daily Gazette, February 27, 1996, p. 2, 4.
45 “Mystery Surrounds German's Link to Bombing,” McCurtain Sunday Gazette and Broken Bow News, February 4, 1996, p. 1, 12.
46 William F. Jasper, “New Charges of OKC Cover-Up,” New American, November 27, 1995, p. 6.
47 Evans-Pritchard, op. cit.. Note 40, p. 26.
48 James C. McKinley, Jr., “After the Trial, Many Questions Remain,” New York Times, October 2, 1995, p. A10; Morganthau, op. cit., Note 28, p. 29.
Chapter XVII Recent Attacks on the Militias and Patriot Movement
1 John Harwood, “Equal Hostility: Women Are Angry at Government Too,” Wall Street Journal, May 12, 1995, p. Al, A14; Katy Kelly, “Women Find Niche in Militias,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. 6D. 294 Treason The New World order
2 Bill Wallace, “A Call to Arms,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1995, p. 1, 5.
3 Alan W. Bock, “Weekend Warriors,” National Review, May 29, 1995, p. 41 .
4 Wallace, op. cit., Note 2, p. 1, 5.
5 Keith Schneider, “Fearing A Conspiracy, Some Heed a Call to Arms,” New York Times, November 14, 1994, p. A12.
6 Mike Tharp, “The Growing Militias: Thunder on the Far Right,” U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 1995, p. 36.
7 Rebecca Shelton, “The New Minutemen,” Kansas City New Times, February 22, 1995.
8 Jill Smolowe, “Enemies of the State,” Time, May 8, 1995, p. 58-64, 66, 68- 69.
9 Jesse Walker, “The Populist Rainbow,” Chronicles, (March, 1996), 25-27; Jonathan Karl, “Birds of a Feather? White Militia Bigs Like Farrakhan,” New York Post, October 19, 1995.
10 Jonathan Vankin, Conspiracies Cover-Ups and Crimes (N.Y: Dell Publishing, 1995), p. xiii.
11 These shows take place several times a year. Preparedness Shows P.O. Box 25454 Salt Lake City, Utah 84125 (801-265-8828).
12 Schneider, op. cit., Note 5, p. A12.
13 Albert R. Hunt, “Stop Encouraging the Crazies,” Wall Street Journal, April 27, 1995, p. A15.
14 Mack Tanner, “Extreme Prejudice,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 45.
15 Virginia I. Postrel, “Fighting Words,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 4, 6, 7.
16 Psychiatrists' Forum “Health Care: Air or Software?” Clinical Psychiatry News, (October, 1994), 22.
17 Mark Potok and Katy Kelly, “Militia Movement Draw: A Shared Anger, Fear,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. D16.
18 Joe Urschel, “Sentiments Not Held Only by the Fringe,” USA Today, May 16, 1995, p. Al , A2.
19 Alfred Adask, “Fed Fear,” AntiShyster, V (Spring, 1995), 3-6.
20 Richard Morin, “Anger at Washington Cools in Aftermath of Bombing,” Washington Post, May 18, 1995, p. Al , A14.
21 Charles V. Zehren, “Vitriolic Reaction to Militia Stance Shocks Lawmaker,” The Boston Globe, July 9, 1995, p. 16.
22 Noam Chomsky, “Democracy's Slow Death,” In These Times, November 28, 1994, p. 25-28.
23 David Barsamian, “Militias and Conspiracy Theories,” Z Magazine, VIII (September, 1995), 29-35. 24 David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens (San Francisco, Ca: Sierra Club, 1994), p. 364-5.
25 David Helvarg and Alexander Cockburn, “Exchange,” The Nation, August 14/21, 1995, p. 150.
26 Robert Perkinson, “Oklahoma Fallout,” Z Magazine, VIII (July/August, 1995), 8-11.
27 Erik Davis, “The Right Wing Hunkers Down on Line: Barbed Wire Net,” Village Voice, May 2, 1995, p. 28.
28 “Maine Novelist Organizes a Populist 'Militia,'” New York Times, February 19, 1996, p. A7. Notes 295
29 “Militia Roundup,” The Progressive, 59 (August, 1995), 6; “Militias-Ness,” The Nation, July 17/24, 1995, p. 74.
30 Paul Glastris, “Patriot Games,” Washington Monthly, XXVII (June, 1995), 23-26.
31 Michael Kelly, “The Road to Paranoia,” The New Yorker, June 19, 1995, p. 60-75.
32 Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, “Militia Nation,” The Progressive, 59 (June, 1995), 22-25.
33 Marc Cooper, “Camouflage Days, E-Mail Nights,” The Nation, October 23, 1995, p. 464-466.
34 Alexander Cockburn, “Beat the Devil: Who's Left? Who's Right?” The Nation, June 12, 1995, p. 820-821.
35 , “Beat the Devil: Liberals as Cops, Liberals as Bombers,” The Nation, June 26, 1995, p. 911.
36 Barbara Dority, “Is the Extremist Right Entirely Wrong?” The Humanist, 55 (November/December, 1995), p. 12-15.
37 Mack Tanner, “Extreme Prejudice,” Reason, XXVII (July, 1995), 42-50.
38 Steven Stark, “Right Wing Populism,” Atlantic Monthly, 211 (February, 1996), 19-20, 28-29.
39 Charles A. Reich, Opposing the System (N.Y: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1995), p. 52.
40 Stephen Budiansky, “One More Leap for Nuttiness,” U.S. News & World Report, October 23, 1995, p. 14-15. 41 Philip Shenon, “U.S. Army Says Rightist Militias May Be Recruiting Elite Troops,” New York Times, March 22, 1996, p. Al , 12; “Notebook,” New Republic, January, 1, 1996, p. 8.
42 Robby Trammell, “Informant Proud of Role in Arrests of Bomb-Plot Suspects,” The Daily Oklahoman, November 15, 1995, p. 1-2; Doug Ferguson, “'Prophet,' Ex-Corporate Pilot Indicted in Bombing Plot,” The Daily Oklahoman, November 16, 1995, p. 12.
43 Audrey Post, “Magistrate Delays Ruling to Examine Evidence More Closely,” The Macon Telegraph, May 7, 1996, p. A1, 10; Audrey Post, “Starr, McCranie Plead Not Guilty in Federal Court,” The Macon Telegraph, May 31, 1996, p. Bl .
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