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</div><div>ron Johnson said recently that he wasn't scared when, on January 6, armed insurgents sacked and looted the United States Capitol. They "love this country," the Wisconsin Republican said. But "had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa [stormed the seat of government], I might have been a little concerned."</div><div>
</div><div>That statement was disturbing not only for the implicit racism it carried, but for the stunning confirmation of what's becoming clear to those of us who are paying attention. The Republican Party has a paramilitary problem, and it isn't new.</div><div>
</div><div>During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump alleged, without proof, that the electoral system was fraudulent, raising concerns about the impact that his false accusations would have in the event of his defeat. His unexpected victory opened the door to the far-right fringe and legitimized efforts that contributed to strengthening the ties between them. Many feared that this close relationship would be critical in the 2020 presidential election cycle, with rising domestic tensions and the role that paramilitaries would play in addition to Trump's false claims about the election.</div><div>
</div><div><b>It has been clear for some time now that the Republican Party had a more-than-welcoming attitude toward certain paramilitary groups.&nbsp;</b>The deadly events in Charlottesville in 2017, although fundamentally led by white supremacists called by the former president "very fine people," also had protection services provided by paramilitaries. The following year, more signs of backing for their man in the White House came from Trump-supporting paramilitary groups targeting Muslims. In Oregon, a walkout staged by Republican state senators, in 2019, gained support from paramilitary groups that made credible threats against a planned rally.</div><div>
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</div><div>For almost three decades, these paramilitaries (thought to be in the hundreds across the country) have viewed the government as the adversary. With a friend residing in the White House, however, these groups experienced an identity crisis. This need for an enemy explains the shift into targeting immigrants and religious minorities. It wasn't just to please their man. It was to embrace a cause allowing them to grow.</div><div>
</div><div>After Trump won, there was an increase in the number of paramilitary groups, but the GOP has been no stranger to them. In 2017, a local chapter of the Republican Party in Oregon passed a resolution allowing paramilitaries (the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters, for instance) to provide security at the local party events. These groups are part of the Patriot Movement, a loose far-right network affiliated with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and armed confrontations in Nevada and Oregon in 2016.</div><div>
</div><div>The Republican Party seems to be very comfortable with these groups around, as we have seen in Nevada, Oregon, Michigan, and other states. However, this is not a recent venture, since the accounts of strengthening ties can be traced back even before Trump won the election in 2016. The openness about their common interests is perhaps new, but it's not surprising. Alarms were sounded when state&nbsp;<b>Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mike Shirkey of Michigan, participated in a rally organized by paramilitaries that stormed the Michigan Capitol back in April 2020 alongside a member of a group involved in the planned kidnapping of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.</b></div><div>
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</div><div><b>Though Michigan has a history of paramilitaries, the state GOP had tied itself to them, especially since the election as party co-chair of Meshawn Maddock. She organized a protest to interrupt ballot counting in Detroit, where paramilitaries were present.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Johnson's statement is outrageous, not only for the racism, but also for the approval of white armed groups as opposed to unarmed groups as well as the acknowledgement that he didn't feel threatened by them since they were exercising their freedom. Compare that to his comments about BLM and Antifa, but that's another discussion.</div><div>
</div><div>The connections the Republican Party has with paramilitaries are not ambiguous, yet the ongoing investigation into the Capitol attack will likely provide more evidence of the extremely disturbing behavior of the formerly conservative party. Ties between not only Trump and his associates, like Roger Stone, whose security detail included members of the Oath Keepers, but the GOP at state and local levels, should bring into the discussion how one of the major parties in the country is going to stand for democracy while leading a double-life with paramilitaries bent on racial supremacy.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">These groups have gotten attention after one organization, the United Constitutional Patriots, was accused of kidnapping and holding a group of migrants while impersonating Border Patrol agents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Klippenstein uncovered an April 24 police report that recorded allegations made by Steve Brant, a member of the group. He shared his concerns about “terroristic threats” in the group and one particularly vicious and fascistic tirade from another member.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Why are we just apprehending them and not lining them up and shooting them,” one member, Armando Gonzalez, reportedly told Brant of immigrants crossing the border, according to the report. “We have to go back to Hitler days and put them all in a gas chamber.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the police report, on the night of April 24, Brant and other UCP members had been monitoring the border when they observed several people crossing. Brant told police that another member, identified as Armando Delgado Gonzalez, then handed him a handgun and ran to his vehicle and grabbed an AR-15.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brant said he gave Gonzalez back his gun and told him to put the weapons away since they were only to observe and report activity. Brant said Gonzalez then became upset and made the remarks about Hitler and gassing their detainees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Brant told police that he was going to start a new group “that followed the law.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TYT Investigates</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Put Them All in a Gas Chamber,’ Said Border Militia Member: Report</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TwitterFacebookEmailMore18.5K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By: Ken Klippenstein&nbsp; May 6, 2019&nbsp; 3 comments</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why are we just apprehending them and not lining them up and shooting them,” a border militia member in New Mexico is alleged to have said of border migrants that the group had been monitoring.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We have to go back to Hitler days and put them all in a gas chamber,” the militia member, Armando Gonzalez, is also alleged to have said. Gonzalez did not respond to multiple requests for comment by TYT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The disturbing comments appear in an April 24 police report containing allegations by a former member of the militia group. The former member, Steven Brant, contacted the Sunland Park Police Department to notify them of what he called “terroristic threats” he had witnessed by the group. The report was produced by the Sunland Park Police Department and was obtained by TYT through a public records request.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On April 18, the border militia, which calls itself the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), sparked national outrage after reportedly detaining about 200 border migrants, including several children, at gunpoint. After video surfaced appearing to show UCP impersonating Border Patrol — a federal offense — the FBI arrested UCP’s leader, Larry Mitchell Hopkins.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the police report obtained by TYT does not mention UCP by name, Daniel Carranco, Sunland Park City Clerk, confirmed to TYT that UCP is the group referenced.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The police report is an interview of a militia member named Steven Brant who told police he went by the codename “Viper.” On April 23, an article in The New York Times about UCP mentions both Gonzalez and quoting a “balaclava-clad militia member who gave his name only as Viper.” Brant did not respond to multiple requests for comment from TYT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judging from the article, Brant seemed an ardent supporter of UCP’s agenda prior to his decision to contact the Sunland Park PD.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We’re here to protect Americans from the illegals <b>violating our sovereignty,</b></span>” Brant told the Times, espousing a commong talking point among Trump supporters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“It’s my God-given right to be here,"</b> he said. "The guys in Washington say one thing about not wanting us on the ground but no one from the Border Patrol here has ever told me they don’t want our help."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, the report suggests that UCP enjoys the support of Border Patrol, stating that Brant “was a part of the group who was assisting Border Patrol with observation of subjects crossing the border illegally.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Asked to confirm the Sunland Park PD claim that UCP was assisting, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official did not respond directly. The official told TYT, “U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not endorse or condone private groups or organizations taking enforcement matters into their own hands. Interference by civilians in law enforcement matters could have public safety and legal consequences for all parties involved. Border Security operations are complex and require highly trained professionals with adequate resources to protect the country.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, the official also noted that “Border Patrol welcomes assistance from the community and encourages anyone who witnesses or suspects illegal activity to call.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So why did Brant become disillusioned?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the police report, on the night of April 24, Brant and other UCP members had been monitoring the border when they observed several people crossing. Brant told police that another member, identified as Armando Delgado Gonzalez, then handed him a handgun and ran to his vehicle and grabbed an AR-15.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An internal police report obtained by TYT includes a militia member's account of what another member said about killing undocumented immigrants.(Image: Screengrab of Sunland Park, NM, internal police report.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brant said he gave Gonzalez back his gun and told him to put the weapons away since they were only to observe and report activity. Brant said Gonzalez then became upset and made the remarks about Hitler and gassing their detainees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brant told police that he was going to start a new group “that followed the law.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although Gonzalez did not respond to TYT's requests for comment, the Times article includes several quotes from him about his motives.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If you ask me this is all about politics,” Gonzalez told the Times. “<b>The Democrats want illegal immigration because that means more votes for them.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“But I took an oath to protect my country and what’s happening on the border is an invasion threatening our people,” Gonzalez said. “These men [UCP] are patriots and I'm proud to stand alongside them.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the Times, <b>Gonzalez identified himself as an Army veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Klippenstein is a senior investigative reporter for TYT. He can be reached securely via Signal at 202-510-1268, on Twitter @kenklippenstein or via email: kenklippenstein@tytnetwork.com.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">R<a data-ga-action="Home: Story Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/23/right_wing_vigilantes_hold_migrants_hostage">ight-Wing Vigilantes Hold Migrants Hostage on U.S. Border. Did Border Patrol Give Tacit Approval?</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/19/headlines/aclu_warns_of_fascist_militia_holding_migrant_border_crossers_at_gunpoint</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Civil Liberties Union is warning that armed vigilantes are working directly with the U.S. Border Patrol to unlawfully detain hundreds of migrants at gunpoint along the U.S.-Mexico border. The ACLU cites videos posted on social media showing members of a militia group pursuing migrants in New Mexico’s desert west of El Paso, Texas, and effectively kidnapping them against their will. In one video, vigilantes armed with assault rifles are seen approaching a group of several dozen people seated on the ground, as the video’s narrator, a man named Jim Benvie, films.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Benvie: “Hey, guys. This is Jim with the United Constitutional Patriots and We Build the Wall. … As you can see, we did actually end up getting everybody wound up. It was a combination of us and some good horses over there and basically a team effort here.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a letter to New Mexico’s governor and attorney general calling for an investigation, the ACLU called the United Constitutional Patriots an “armed fascist militia organization,” adding, “The Trump administration’s vile racism has emboldened white nationalists and fascists to flagrantly violate the law.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. military intelligence analysis documents obtained by Newsweek reveal that defense officials do not believe there are terrorists or other national security threats present within the so-called “migrant caravan.” Despite this, Trump has demanded that up to 15,000 military troops be dispatched to the border, to brace for an “invasion” that doesn't exist, just before the midterm elections.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These documents show that U.S. troops are preparing for encounters not so much with the asylum seekers, but with armed white supremacist American crackpots at the U.S. border. Because they are ones with all the guns. Not the migrant caravan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Preliminary intelligence assessments are preparing for encounters with a litany of groups from unregulated militias to transcontinental criminal organizations,” reports Newsweek:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a powerpoint presentation from Saturday, the Joint Force Land Component Commander Threat Working Group prepared an intelligence assessment for Pentagon officials as they begin to carry out Operation Faithful Patriot, the interagency operation with the Department of Defense and led by the Department of Homeland Security, that started Tuesday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The presentation is marked as “UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO//LES,” meaning, the documents are for official use only and are law enforcement sensitive. Newsweek obtained the operational planning documents earlier this week from two different Defense Department sources that have direct knowledge of U.S. Northern Command's mission on the southern U.S. border.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents take a detailed look at the four-point of entry locations spread across the southwest border and assesses where the caravan might travel. Two areas of concern to U.S. intelligence officials involving points of entry and transcontinental criminal organizations is the point of entry in Brownsville, Texas, where the Rio Grande River is located between Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and the San Ysidro point of entry, separating San Diego, California from Tijuana, Mexico.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The assessment underscored news reports that combatant commanders might encounter unregulated militia members along the southern border in alleged support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Estimated 200 unregulated armed militia members currently operating along the southwest border. Reported incidents of unregulated militias stealing National Guard equipment during deployments. They operate under the guise of citizen patrols supporting CBP [Customs and Border Protection] primarily between POEs [Points of Entry],” according to the documents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents go onto highlight historical protests that support immigrants crossing the U.S. border. Those protests in some cases have shut down points of entry controlled by Customs and Border Protection, but the assessment concludes that protests are “normally peaceful unless extreme right or left groups attend.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;GOODMAN: Kierán Suckling, we are speaking to you in Portland, Oregon. In Yosemite right now, the national park, thousands of people are being evacuated because of terrible wildfires. I want to ask you about something else that happened in Oregon. Earlier this month, Donald Trump pardoned Dwight Hammond and his son Steven Hammond, two Oregon cattle ranchers who were convicted in 2012 of committing arson on federal lands. Prosecutors say the Hammonds set the fires to cover up their illegal deer poaching. Their conviction sparked armed right-wing militiamen, led by Ammon Bundy, to take over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, provoking a 41-day armed standoff in 2016. Can you comment on this and what message President Trump was sending with this, these pardons?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KIERÁN SUCKLING: This is very disturbing, because the Hammonds not only were arsonists who set fire to our public lands, threatening firefighters who were out there, but have a long history of threatening to kill federal officials. And when the Bundy militia group came up to support them when they were prosecuted, they came up there with the message of not just let’s help the Hammonds, but let’s give all of America’s public lands away to industry and state groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so, when Trump is pardoning these people, he’s really signaling—sending a signal to this right-wing base to say, “Hey, anti-government extremism, threats of violence against those you don’t like, against the government, are acceptable.” They’re encouraged. And, in fact, earlier, when he pardoned Joe Arpaio, another very controversial action, well, it turns out Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Joe, was also a supporter of this Bundy group and this radical, violent agenda. And I think it goes along with Trump gearing up this violent undercurrent in America to support him and to drive fear into others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly one year since hundreds of torch-bearing white supremacists held a deadly march and rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has reiterated Trump’s defense of the violent white supremacists, saying, “I think what’s important about that conversation is, it’s not that one side is right and one side is wrong. Anybody that is advocating violence, we need to work to mitigate.” Organizers from Unite the Right, the group that held the rally in Charlottesville, have announced they will hold a repeat rally on the anniversary of last year’s deadly event, with plans to descend on Washington, D.C.. For more on white supremacist violence in the United States, we speak with Kathleen Belew, assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. Her new book is titled “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kansas, a federal jury convicted three white male militia members Wednesday of plotting to massacre Somali immigrants at a mosque and an apartment building in Garden City. Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen were found guilty of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, after an FBI informant said they were plotting to use guns and car bombs to mass murder Somalis. The three belonged to a militia called the Crusaders. At trial, their lawyer admitted the trio referred to Muslims as “cockroaches” but argued they hadn’t meant to go through with their plot.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In&nbsp; 2008 there were 149 militia groups in the United States. In 2009, that number more than tripled to 512, and now there are nearly 600. In Right-Wing Resurgence, author Daryl Johnson offers a detailed account of the growth of right-wing extremism and militias in the United States and the ever-increasing threat they pose. The author is an acknowledged expert in this area and has been an intelligence analyst working for several federal agencies for nearly 20 years. The book is also a first-hand, insider's account of the DHS Right-Wing Extremism report from the person who wrote it. It is a truthful depiction of the facts, circumstances, and events leading up to the leak of this official intelligence assessment. The leak and its aftermath have had an adverse effect on homeland security. Because of its alleged mishandling of the situation, the Department's reputation has declined in the intelligence and law enforcement communities and the analytical integrity of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis was undermined. Most importantly, the nation's security has been compromised during a critical time when a significant domestic terrorist threat is growing. This book is replete with case studies and interviews with leaders which reveal their agendas, how they recruit, and how they operate around the country. It presents a comprehensive account of an ever-growing security concern at a time when this threat is only beginning to be realized, and is still largely ignored in many circles.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Saturday, March 3, some of the same nationalist militia groups that took part in last year's Unite the Right rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, will converge on nearby Verona, a small town where the nationwide offices of a pro-immigrant and anti-white-supremacist law firm is located. AlterNet's Steven Rosenfeld spoke to Mike Donovan, the CEO of Nexus Caridades, about the nationalist militias targeting his civil rights firm, and his plans for a counter-protest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven Rosenfeld: Your company provides services to immigrants, including those without visas. You’ve heard from state and local police that the same groups responsible for the Unite the Right riot in Charlottesville were planning to hold protests at your offices on Saturday. Tell me what you heard.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Donovan: The first we heard from the state police and the local sheriff was that they wanted a meeting with me. I was out of town at the time. We have a law firm that does civil rights work. And that law firm has sued both the local sheriff’s office and the state police, so it was a little bit of a surprise to get a request for a meeting.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When we had the meeting, I couldn't attend because I was not in Virginia at the time. And they informed us that there was a protest planned on Saturday. They anticipated that as many as 500 people might appear at that rally, according to the state police—from what they heard or what they investigated. And they told us that the county had made certain decisions. They were going to close the road, which is the only road into and out of our complex. There’s just not enough room for 500 people to be held in a grassy area. We get the sense there will be protesters across the street and funneling onto the street. I also think they were trying to limit vehicular traffic after Charlottesville. The police did seem very concerned—and I have to give them credit, I think they have done a great job so far in trying to prepare as best they can. They let us know pretty quickly. So we were able to find out about some of the individuals who are organizing this rally.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SR: Who will appear? Who is organizing this?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MD: There’s a gentleman named Larry Lewis, who’s one of the Virginia leaders of the Three Percenters. I was little surprised. I looked up the Three Percenters. I don’t want to call them a gun rights group, because I think that’s not fair. They’re more of a weapons of mass destruction group. They believe that people should be able to own assault weapons and weapons of war. They tend to protest with those weapons. Calling them a gun rights group doesn’t do enough.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They’re obviously a fringe group. They’re an anti-government group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. I hadn’t seen a lot of anti-immigration stuff that they’ve done. I’ve seen some. Certainly, they post on their social media about immigration. But when I started to look a little bit deeper into the organizer, he has a very clear white supremacist, anti-immigrant ideology. I think he believes, just perusing his social media, that immigrants present a clear and present danger to his perceived community and perceived world. The guy clearly is a bit demented. And it seems that the folks that have rallied around him share these views.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now it is important to understand that even demented people have the right to protest. I respect the First Amendment. I think that if they want to come and protest, they absolutely have the right to do that. But, I believe that there’s no place for weapons of war in protests and peaceful demonstrations. They shouldn’t bring those weapons to our campus. They should keep them away. And in the marketplace of ideas, the better ideas win. And there’s no reason to have guns at protests, in my opinion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the second thing that I would say is that we are going to stand against division and hate. And we are going to stand up for what we believe in and our vision of the world, which is a vision that affirms and promotes the inherent dignity of every single person. We believe that standing up when they come is incredibly important. I also think that bullies tend to turn away when they realize that people stand up to them. That’s why many of our team members and friend that support equality, and stand against hate and division, will be gathering Saturday in a counter rally that really is a really about hope and love—and the importance of standing up for the meekest among us. We’ll be doing that on Saturday simultaneous to the white nationalist protest at our campus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SR: This is 30 miles or so to the west of Charlottesville. Do you know why they chose your group and that location?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MD: Yeah, I think I do. They have a real issue with our organization, Nexus Caridades Attorneys Inc. What we do is we fund two law firms. One provides free pro-bono legal services for immigrants in detention and removal proceedings. They speak very candidly about their disdain for free legal services. Not that they are paying for them; that’s not the reason they are angry about that. But they speak with real disgust and hatred for the services that we provide our clients.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But also, after the Charlottesville riot and when the white supremacists traveled to other cities, we launched a national bailout fund where we offered to pay free bail for anyone who protested against white supremacy. We put out a national call that said, Look, if you’re arrested protesting white supremacists, we’ll pay your bail. And then we did pay bail for people arrested protesting white supremacists. And apparently, that bailout program really made them angry. And I think that’s what centered their attention on us.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We are in the middle of rural western Virginia. It is a little bit shocking that they would have taken aim at us. But I think they did it because we provided charitable bail services to people who protested white supremacy in the past—and also the charitable legal services that we provide immigrants in detention.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SR: Who else besides the Three Percenters are going to come? Do you have any idea?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MD: There are a couple of other groups that we have been able to identify in our research that appear to be participating. There’s a group called the Dixie Defenders. I had not previously been aware of this group, although I am told that they participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as well. Also Patriot Warriors, which is a group that I am not familiar with, but in my research they are pretty much active in that white nationalist, white supremacy movement. I don’t know if that group participated in Charlottesville. It looks like some of the participants, or people who identify with that group did.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I anticipate that if these guys do show up, I hope that our being there and standing up will call them out. I think sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think standing as witnesses against their hatred is the best thing we can do. Hopefully, they’ll capitulate and not bring their hatred to our home and our doorstep. But if they do, we’re ready to stand as witnesses against it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The one thing we know is that in the marketplace of ideas, we win because our ideas are better. The reality is that these people get way too much credibility when the president of the United States did that [endorsement of the alt-right agenda] after Charlottesville. We need to show that what these people stand for is not American values.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part of the American value is allowing people with disgusting ideas to speak and have their right to speak. Something horrible happens when as a society we begin to accept that speech as normal, or appropriate, to okay. So while they have the right to spew that vitriol, without someone standing up against it, it becomes an accepted practice. And there’s a difference between a respected constitutional right and an accepted practice. In 2018 in the United States of America, we can ill afford to allow these people and their ideas to become accepted practice in our communities. That’s why we absolutely have to stand against this.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Author's note: The militias have a permit to protest from 12-4pm on Saturday, March 3, outside the Nexus Services and Nexus Caridades Offices in Verona, Virginia, about 30 miles west of Charlottesville. For more information about Nexus Caridades' counterprotest, call 540-448-0436. They are asking counterprotesters to gather by 11am and be willing to stay until after the militia's march is over and police clear the area.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14 PEOPLE WERE arrested at an alt-right rally in Portland, Oregon, last weekend. A man named Todd Kelsay helped with one of the arrests. In videos and photographs posted online, Kelsay can be seen on his knees with a group of police officers, reaching behind one of their backs to retrieve a plastic handcuff to arrest an unidentified black-clad protester. In one video, Kelsay appears to be assisting three officers in cuffing the suspect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet Kelsay stood out. The Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service officers he was aiding wore dark blue helmets and flak jackets with “POLICE DHS” patched across the front. Kelsay, on the other hand, sported a desert camouflage helmet and ballistic vest over a black tee shirt and jeans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The discrepancy in appearance arose because Kelsay is not with the Portland police nor with the federal DHS police whom he was aiding.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelsay, who is a member of the American Freedom Keepers, a right-wing militia, was there helping to secure the free speech rally” organized by alt-right activists. (The Freedom Keepers, Kelsay said, did not officially take part in the rally.) In an interview Tuesday, Kelsay told The Intercept that he was instructed by DHS police to assist in the arrest. “I was asked, while I was on the ground, by a police officer, ‘Help me, hand me the handcuffs.’ He was looking at me. So I handed him the cuffs,” Kelsay said. But that wasn’t the only time Kelsay or other alt-righters played cops at the rally.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Members of a security detachment attend a pro-Trump Freedom Rally at Terry Schrunk plaza in downtown Portland on June 4, 2017. Photo: Diego Diaz/Icon Sportswire/AP</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the extremes of the American political spectrum squaring off nearly every week in tense rallies and counter-protests, where violence erupts not infrequently, police are drawing outside aid from only one side: the far-right. That police forces would ask for and accept help from far-right protesters might not be as surprising as it seems: In January, The Intercept revealed that right-wing infiltration of law enforcement had grown so prevalent that the FBI investigated the trend.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The relationship works both ways: Police get help, and alt-right demonstrators are seemingly put above the law in return. The result is that militia members who work security for alt-right events are carrying out policing activities with impunity under the gaze of actual police. At the June 4 Portland rally, eyewitnesses report at least two other instances in which alt-right forces apparently attacked protesters without instigation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The protester Kelsay helped detain was arrested shortly after another member of the rally’s unofficial security detachment blocked his path as police stood quietly by. A DHS officer suddenly rushed toward the protester who then fled and was nabbed by a third militiaman.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This account of Kelsay’s self-described collaboration with DHS police is drawn from three hours of phone interviews with him, as well as witness accounts, videos, and photographs obtained by The Intercept and posted to social media. Kelsay, 48, repeatedly admitted he assisted DHS police in physically securing the individual. In the videos, the officer can be seen turning toward Kelsay before the militiaman retrieves a zip-tie. By this point there are more than half-a-dozen DHS officers securing the arrest, but none appear to ask Kelsay to leave or stop handling the suspect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Portland rally had been organized by alt-right leader Joey Gibson, and attended by hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump. Thousands of counter-protesters, including immigrant, religious, labor, and left groups opposed to the event, which came as Portlanders were still reeling from the May 26 murder of two men, allegedly by a white supremacist named Jeremy Christian (Christian attended a Gibson-sponsored event in Portland in late April).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DHS police were on hand because Terry Schrunk Plaza, the site of the rally, is federal property, including the sidewalk out front. A spokesperson for DHS Federal Protective Service said 40 officers from the FPS were “on the ground to secure the safety and security of everyone in and around federal facilities.” (DHS did not respond to a detailed inquiry about alleged cooperation between militia members and DHS police.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Antifascist demonstrators confront police during a protest on June 4, 2017 in Portland, Ore. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The DHS police looked on as Kelsay and the unidentified protester he would later arrest began arguing — “aggressive,” was how Kelsay described him. A three-minute video shows the two having a civil dispute. “You’re being asked to leave,” Kelsay said at one point, extending his arm. While Kelsay and the youth talk, a Portland officer and a DHS officer observe but do not question Kelsay’s actions. The young protester in black shuffles in the other direction and is blocked by another member of the rally security team, identifiable by the uniform of military-style clothing and yellow tape. With more police looking on, DHS officer charged the young protester in black, for reasons that remain unclear, and the chase began.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They were yelling, ‘Stop, stop him,’” Kelsay recalled. He fell behind but kept up his chase: “So if the police needed the assistance I could give it.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a member of a different militia, was finally the one who stopped the protester. “I picked him up and slammed him into the ground,” Toese told The Intercept. “I was trying to help law enforcement.” As officers swarmed the scene, a fourth video appears to show Kelsay applying the zip-tie cuffs. Kelsay said the officer “put the cuffs on but I still had a hold of the tail of the cuff. He said, ‘Tighten them up.’ I don’t know if he was talking to me, but I had a hold of them, so I tightened them up. Then I helped them pick him up. I didn’t want him to get hurt.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A photo snapped seconds later by an Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter shows a mix of militiamen and police. “Officers thank Trump Free Speech Rally hired security for their help taking down a fleeing protester,” Bryan M. Vance, the reporter, tweeted along with the picture.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelsay had been boasting of his relationship with the police earlier in the day. “‘All I have to do is snap my fingers and the cops will arrest you,’” Jonathan Shields, a counter-protester, recalled Kelsay saying in an encounter before the arrests (Kelsay denied making the remark). “He was granted authority to keep the sidewalk clear by the police,” Shields added.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelsay claims he was simply following orders from the police. “We did what they told us to — crowd control,” Kelsay said. “We were supposed to keep the counter-protesters out. We were permitted to exclude people if we saw they were a possible danger.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But local police claim steps were taken to avoid protest attendees and unofficial security engaged in law enforcement activities. Sgt. Pete Simpson of the Portland Police Bureau said, “There was a conversation between the organizers of the event, the FPS and PPB that they were not to interfere in any arrests, particularly anyone acting as private security.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simpson, however, stopped short of expressing any grave alarm that the arrangement wasn’t honored. “Private citizens conducting policing functions is concerning if they are not being asked to help,” he said. Then Simpson turned his attention to mostly unconfirmed allegations made about left-wing counter-protesters: “I am more concerned about bricks, bloody tampons, and urine-filled balloons being thrown at our officers.” (The ACLU of Oregon criticized the police response to protesters.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A protester is detained by Portland police during a demonstration in Portland, Sunday, June 4, 2017.Photo: Dave Killen/The Oregonian/AP</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eyewitnesses claim there were two other instances in which police ignored alt-righters running rampant. One counter-protester, Andrew Riley, said he saw an incident in the DHS-controlled area where a person in dark clothing, who was yelling, was “picked up by someone wearing camo clothing with the yellow stripes and a ballistic vest and body slammed to the ground.” He said, “Within five seconds at least three cops moved in and immediately knelt on the person,” and as they cuffed the person the militia man “was kneeling on the protester alongside police.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a third case, Nate Gowdy, a photojournalist, claimed he and other counter-protesters were attacked by pro-Trump demonstrators while DHS police watched passively. Eyewitness accounts, photos, and a recollection on Facebook paint a picture of alt-righters with helmets and battle gear make an unprovoked attack with pepper spray and a flagpole. Close to 10 DHS police stood nearby and only intervened to let the suspected alt-right attackers to leave the scene. (A video shows a crowd looking on as the obscured fracas unfolds.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Vitale, author of “The End of Policing” and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, who reviewed footage of the arrest involving Kelsay, said the incident raises troubling questions. “It seems almost gratuitous, like this guy wants to get in on the action. A professional police force would not allow that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Given the history of corrupt cooperation between right-wing forces and political police units like riot cops, anti-terror, and intelligence, we should always be alarmed between growing cooperation between alt-right forces and police forces,” Vitale said. “It does raise the question of what type of relationships are there, what information is being shared, and what type of planning went into this between the alt-right forces and the police handling the demonstration.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Thursday, seven anti-government protesters who took over a federally owned wildlife sanctuary in Oregon last winter were acquitted of all charges. Led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy, sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who is being tried for another illegal standoff with the federal government, the group's lawyers were somehow able to persuade a jury in federal court that this was a case of government over-reach, not domestic terrorism. The acquittals on all federal conspiracy and weapons charges shocked many.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I had been telling my client you can count on being convicted,” Matthew Schindler, a lawyer for one of the men on trial for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, told the Wasington Post. “You don’t walk into a federal court and win a case like this. It just doesn’t happen.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wild West-like armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve in southeastern Oregon started as a protest against the arrests of two men who illegally started fires at the preserve, and was rooted in the rabid anti-government belief that the federal government has no right to control the lands that fall under its jurisdiction. Eleven people had already pleaded guilty in the standoff. One, who said he'd rather die than be arrested, got his wish: LaVoy Finicum was killed by authorities at the end of the standoff.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the takeover was clearly planned, ringleader Ammon Bundy argued it was a spontaneous action rooted in his religious beliefs. These beliefs apparently inspired him to put out the call to like-minded people nationwide to join his band of outlaws with their guns. One wonders if his beliefs and followers had been Muslim how that argument would have gone over.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The verdict is seen to have potentially frightening implications. John Horning, executive director of WildEarth Guardians, worried it would embolden others and endanger employees of public land-management agencies. “It is entirely possible there will be threats or intimidations from militants that believe such actions are justified by this verdict.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It could also embolden other far-right groups calling themselves "patriots," such as the Oath Keepers, who see far-ranging conspiracies like election rigging and a plot to deprive them of their Second Amendment rights. The group, which is made up of former military and law enforcement officers, and others like it, are calling for members to "take action on election day." Oath Keepers "has urged its members to 'blend in' with voters and do 'incognito intelligence gathering and crime spotting' at polling places across the country on Nov. 8," the Post reported this week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) was founded in 2011 by Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff. Mack was also a lobbyist for Gun Owners of America (GOA), and he is known for his challenge to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and his role in the organization Oath Keepers, which is led by former Ron Paul Congressional staffer Stewart Rhodes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mack formed the CSPOA to organize county sheriffs around a mission similar to Oath Keepers—that is, to refuse to enforce laws that they believe are unconstitutional. “The greatest threat we face today is not terrorists,” according to Mack. “It is our own federal government.” CSPOA’s stated mission is to train sheriffs and police, and then “local governments will issue our new Declaration to the Federal Government regarding the abuses that we will no longer tolerate or accept,” according to the CSPOA website. “Said declaration will be enforced by our Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers. In short, the CSPOA will be the army to set our nation free.” Sheriffs around the country have received letters from the organization asking where they stand on “executive orders to unlawfully derail the Second Amendment.” The letter is sent by the Liberty Group Coalition, comprised of the CSPOA, GOA, Oath Keepers, the John Birch Society (JBS), Tenth Amendment Center, and other organizations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CSPOA has grown dramatically since the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in 2012 and the subsequent rise in gun-control activism. To date, it lists by name and location nearly 500 county sheriffs and 18 state sheriff associations that have “gone on record” with the CSPOA to affirm “the constitutional second amendment rights of citizens in his or her jurisdiction.” Sheriffs who don’t cooperate may find themselves on the “Red Coat List.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Woods headlined CSPOA’s 2012 conference, co-sponsored by the JBS. Though countering gun control is the CSPOA’s major issue, sheriffs speaking at the conference also reported challenging federal agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management and the Food and Drug Administration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The May 2013 conference featured religion-infused rhetoric against “tyranny.” Speakers included the Constitution Party’s Michael Peroutka, GOA’s Larry Pratt, Joe Wolverton of the JBS, U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), and Mike Zullo.The latter is Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s chief “birther” investigator. Part of the conference was dedicated to his latest revelations in this ongoing pursuit. Conference speakers also included several county sheriffs and Tea Party leaders.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2013, Pennsylvania’s Gilberton Borough passed an ordinance “nullifying all federal, state or local acts in violation of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.” The police chief behind the ordinance, Mark Kessler, spoke at the 2013 CSPOA conference, and CSPOA created a new register on its website for police chiefs, with Kessler as the first on the list. CSPOA later distanced itself from Kessler and removed him from the list when his behavior became increasingly erratic. In a video posted online, for example, Kessler cursed “libtards” and fired city-issued weapons at a target representing Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kessler was later dismissed by the borough.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Calling them 'political prisoners,' a small crowd gathered in Boise to protest last week's FBI arrests of Bundy defenders in the wake of the Malheur standoff.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Angered by the arrests of four of their fellow antigovernment “Patriots” by the FBI last week, a collection of several dozen protesters gathered on the steps of the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on Friday to demand freedom for their comrades in arms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"3 Percenters' from around the state made their presence known. Photo by 43rd State Blues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Their signs largely voiced their message:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;“III%: We Still Believe in the Constitution”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Free Eric Parker”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was Parker, in particular, on the minds of the gathered “Patriots.” A 32-year-old electrician from Hailey, he was among the four Idahoans arrested last week in a nationwide sweep of suspects accused of crimes originating with the armed standoffs with federal agents and rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons and their defenders, first in Nevada in April 2014 and then in Oregon in January of this year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parker made a national name for himself by being photographed aiming a sniper rifle in the direction of the federal agents and other law enforcement officers who were attempting to execute a federal court order directing the Bureau of Land Management to round up Bundy’s cattle. He also appeared at one press conference with Ammon Bundy after the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge began on Jan. 2.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parker also was heavily active with “3 Percent of Idaho,” the antigovernment organization also involved in would-be federal standoffs in Oregon and Montana, as well as virulent anti-refugee protests in southern Idaho. Parker, the group’s vice president, appeared with several of the organization’s leaders at a number of its rallies and was heavily involved in its ventures into the Oregon and Montana situations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with Parker, three others -- Steve Arthur Stewart, 36, of Hailey, O. Scott Drexler, 44, of Challis and Todd Engel, 48, of Boundary County -- were arrested on charges related to the Nevada standoff. Their defenders argued that all four were being held as “political prisoners.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Small crowd in Boise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speakers at Friday’s gathering insisted that Parker was acting in self-defense when he lay prone on the asphalt behind a jersey barrier on the overpass near the Bundy Ranch and trained his high-powered rifle on the law enforcement officers gathered at the scene of the standoff – an image celebrated in T-shirts that many of them wore. Another T-shirt read: “Redneck Lives Matter.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The speakers included Brandon Curtiss, president of 3% of Idaho; B.J. Soper, president of Pacific Patriots Network, the militia organization that had been heavily involved in the Malheur standoff; and libertarian activist Ryan Davidson, who urged the crowd to change party affiliations and run for office. The others all urged the Idaho Legislature to intervene on behalf of the arrested men.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event's anonymous organizer, '1776Revolutionist' (at left) spoke, along with B.J. Soper, second from left, and Brandon Curtiss, third from left. Photo by 43rd State Blues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event’s anonymous organizer, who identifies himself as “1776Revolutionist,” spoke to the crowd as well, donned in camo green. He ardently denied that the four men under arrest were “extremists,” adding: “Let’s go ahead and call them what they are: they’re political prisoners. They are in jail for their political beliefs. They are in jail because they are willing to stand up to the federal government.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He continued: “They’re trying to shut us up. And right now, we’re gaining momentum. We’re gaining every week now in Idaho. They’re trying to shut us up. So why we’re here today is to prove they can’t shut us up. They can come arrest me, but you guys will be up here next.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He added: “They need to know -- for every one of us they arrest, a hundred more will stand up. We will be out here Saturday, we will be out here every day that we need to be.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the protesters prepared to wrap up, they heard a recording of a rewritten version of the popular hit from The Hunger Games, “The Hanging Tree,” recorded by the daughters of LaVoy Finicum, the “Patriot” martyr of the Malheur standoff:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Are you, are you</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Just going to let it be</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; The ranchers are first</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; But brother next it may be me</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; We all stand together</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Or we’ll hang separately</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Are you, are you</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Going to the tree</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the song had finished, everyone retired to the Capitol Rotunda to sing the National Anthem.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Christian’ Militia Leader NOW Networking Militias To Assassinate President Obama (Screenshots)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 19th, 2014 AATTP</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well Everest Wilhelmsen, notorious leader of the Christian American Patriots Militia, is still free to do what he does best: openly and sincerely threaten the life of Barack Hussein Obama and all who support him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Everest first showed up on the AATTP radar last November, when he claimed that we have a “Second Amendment authority” to kill the President of the United States.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why? According to Wilhelmsen–well, we shall just let him tell you:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly following his announcement that he wanted to kill the Kenyan Communist in the White House, he decided that a threat against the President’s life was too small of a game for him. Of course, he decided to do what any good, loving Christian would–he doubled down on his threat, and expanded it to anyone who has even remotely supported the President’s policies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After testing the water by expanding his threat, Everest became more brave. He moved on to crowdfunding a reward for the capture or murder of the President, as we reported in February.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, since he’s still walking free after all that–Everest has moved on to the next phase: mobilization. He is attempting to establish a network of militias in order to “take back” the country. Everest edited a February 7 post in his Christian American Patriots Militia group, notifying his followers that he was blocked from Facebook. He says that Obama “must be removed before the next election.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He urges militias to make contact with one another, to make sure they are well-supplied, to make sure they are armed, and to prepare for violent conflict.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3-18-2014 10-49-47 PM 3-18-2014 10-50-12 PM 3-18-2014 10-50-37 PMAnother member, Jan Neely, posted a membership list, to which people could add themselves. This is the list as of 3 a.m. on 3/19:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Alabama</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ronald Craft, Muscadine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; John Hassey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Marisa Durand-Grant, Luverne</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Susan O’Connor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rhonda Renee Elledge, Vandiver</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Douglas Grandy, Calera</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Gary Ritenburgh</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kyle Means</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dianne Eubanks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Alaska</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Gerald Dixon, Anchorage</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Everest Wilhelmsen (at present in Germany)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; American Samoa (US)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Arizona</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Skip Miller</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Lynne Crowley, Prescott</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Colt Egbert, Baghdad</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Annie Phillips</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jay LeDuc</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Diane Yarbrough, Northwest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Matt Higgins, Phoenix</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Don Boyd</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Clint Gray</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Lee-Ann M Kenerson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Arkansas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ed Irish Flanigan, South AK</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; California</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Stephanie Ashmore Rodriguez, Bakersfield</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cheryl Elshire, Orange Co</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Charles Edward, Garrett</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Andruch Don Centella Jodencio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Andrew Wisdom, Holtville</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Steve Sarver, San Jose 6/16 gun protest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Charles Hwang</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ernie Shaw, Antioch (Contra Costa County)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Tony Reierson, Menifee (Riverside co.) 92587</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Geoff Cole San Diego</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Brock Taylor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Randy Lovell, NorCal (Yuba County)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Colorado</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Donna M Parlow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Gwendolyn Beaman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jason Mullins</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Connecticut</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Walter Jones, New Haven</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jay LeDuc, Vernon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Brian Sandridge Simsbury</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Delaware</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; James Lyon, North Delaware</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joseph Biden, Dover</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; District of Columbia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Tank Fille</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jack Abramoff</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Florida</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Christine Camp III, East Coast</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Christopher J. Underwood, https://www.facebook.com/groups/182678858603098/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Connie McCoy Good, Mims</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ken Sellers, Orlando</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Tergliafera, Lakeland</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jason Doolin, Panama City Beach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Terry Bollea, Tampa</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Gerrick Reed Busl, Treasure Coast</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kerry Presnel, 32174</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Gamble, Brevard County, Palm Bay</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jean Thompson, Ormond Beach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; James Thompson, Ormond Beach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Deb Tyler, Okaloosa County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kricket Mager, Winter Springs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; William Hall, Wellington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Kirk, West palm beach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Davy Ashmore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cathy Ahern, Miami</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sam Walker, Jacksonille</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Zak Hughes, Tampa Bay</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Velma Saccone, Tampa</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joshua Freeland, 32137</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Georgia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Amy Wilson Staud, Athens</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Brian Joseph Stratton, Blue Ridge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Luke Stratton, Jonesboro</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Clary, Bowdon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ray Charles, Atlanta</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ex Tra, North Georgia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Patricia Olen Villa Rica GA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; James S. Lovell, Villa Rica GA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jennefer Hampton Head Vaughan, Bowdon, GA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Guam (US)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Hawaii</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Idaho</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Wixson, Idaho Falls</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sandra Hays Drachen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Illinois</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Frank Grozis, Hinckley</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; James Royster, Rockford</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Lou Schullo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Nancy West</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Gayland Baker, Sycamore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Raven Fyre Heart, Southern&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Steven Emery, Ina</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Lori Lowe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Indiana</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mitchell Dowler</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; William Flatt, HQ INDMILCORPS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Larry Bird</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Donna Walton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dwayne Schoetmer Franklin County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Iowa</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Laura Molan Labe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mike Traster</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cheri Manderscheid, Hempstead</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kansas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Vince Cillo, Butler County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Fred Phelps, Wichita</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rick Johnson, Ottawa</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kentucky</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sharon Horey, 41094</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Linda Alicea, Louisville</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; John Chicoine, Columbia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Tina Story, Hopkinsville</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sandra Mullikin, Lexington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mike West, Fort Knox Area</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Louisiana</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Clyde Barber, Breaux Bridge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bryan Spencer, Lafayette</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Claudia Neely, Covington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dan Boone, Monroe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rhonda Guedry, Gonzales</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robbie Guedry, Gonzales</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Clanson Trahan, Houma</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Maine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rick Ames</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Linda Batey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; James Stevens</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Terry Kallen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Maryland</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Charles Brent, Baltimore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Charlie Smith, Towson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Julie Ortega, Fort George G. Meade</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Massachusetts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Steven Baldassari, Boston</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Barney Frank, Cambridge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael White, West Mass.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joshua Loftin, South Mass.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michigan</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Andrew Newton, Detroit</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bryan Billiet</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michelle Drummond</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael Kulpa</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Wilhelmsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Theo Gibson, Tawas, (former SUFA Spearhead for Michigan)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Andy Tubergen G.R.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Lotridge, Lansing&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Shawn Douglass, Flint&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bonnie Sexton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Minnesota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Huffman Annandale</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Daniel Skripka, SW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mississippi</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jim Orman, Walnut</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Suzanne Daughtry Atwell, Olive Branch</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Matt Lugeanbeal, Tupelo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ed Koeder</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Chris Cammack</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Frederick Edenburn, Gulfport</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Billie Ferrell, Hattiesburg</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Missouri</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mark Kluempers, Florissant</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Darryl Reynolds, Joplin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Angela Mezvrishvli, Springfield</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sean Mullen, Verona</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wyla Anne Sewell, Lebanon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Kevin Vincent Pratt, Branson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael Inman, Rolla</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Montana</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Mick, Kalispell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cap. Rick Lovelien Company Commander MTDF, state wide (Libby)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Tracey L Culbertson Miller</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Nebraska</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dean Bergman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cheryl Siefken, 68502</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Nevada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; New Hampshie</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rosco Racicot, Rochester</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Marie Racicot</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; New Jersey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Brian Derkacz, Hillsborough NJ, Somerset County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Christian Powell, Toms River</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Lena Simeone Swedesboro NJ 08085</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; New Mexico</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; New York</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jason Boughner, SW, NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Scott Mighells, Buffalo NY area</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dob Rob, 14043 w.NY.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rich Desprey, Brooklyn NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bonnie Bennett, SW, NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joseph Galvin , Rockland County, NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Chad Glerum, Sodus, NY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; North Carolina</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; W. C. Powell, Person County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Allen l. Mitchem</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Yvonne Desiree O’Neill, Eastern, NC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Barbara Barrett Hooker</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Crystal Harrelson Harris</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jerry McClelland Humphries</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeff B. Meadows, Alamance County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Edward A. Smail, Wake County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; North Dakota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Northern Mariana Islands (US)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ohio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Mosley, Licking County</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ben Kreger, SW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Will Hostetler NE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael Taylor NW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Roy Richards, Hiram, Ohio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Gamble, Muskingum County, Fultonham</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ralph Ricketts, Bellefontaine,ohio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bonnie Belcher</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joe Tschappat</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jay Quick Hamilton, Ohio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Oklahoma</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Joshua Berger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Reva Smith</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Corie Smith</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dave Franklin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ken Keeton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dale Potter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Oregon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Vicki Thomas, southern Oregon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Dorla Patterson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Bristow, 97056</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Chloe Cray – Beaverton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Worth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeaneane Simmons, East Texas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jackie Watts, San Antonio</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Jamie Hall</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mark Anthony Montemayor, Houston</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Connie Enbey, South East Gulf Coast</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Deborah Shelton, Houston</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Barnes, Dodd City</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Bill English, Marshall</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rhonda Berning Zinn, Abilene</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Roger McCoy, Central</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Deborah Kelso, Dallas Area</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Darlene M. Balli, Alvin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mary J. Brewer, Tomball 77377</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Terri Mraw, Pasadena 77504</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Walt Enreid, Hudson&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Walt Guimbellot, Houston, 77092</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Darlene M. Welch, Alvin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Everardo Garcia, Mission ((Facebook name is zack mordred fair, dont ask, and I know my name sounds mexican but I was Born in the good ol USA))</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Utah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Vermont</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Virginia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; D. Luis Otero, Hampton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Ron C. Blevins, Southwest VA (Mountain Patriots)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Rheina And Julio No Last Name</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Mike Rutowski, Castlewood</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Brenda Short, Portsmouth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Nick Callis, Arlington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael Lowther, Virginia Beach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;John Mastbrook,&nbsp; Southwest, VA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Maureen (Mo) Hartman, Stafford VA&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Virgin Islands (US)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wake Islands (US)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Washington</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Edwin Knowles, Seattle</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; K. Earl Long, Jr.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wanda Allen, NW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; West Virginia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Robin Heilimann, Beech Bottom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Pastor Shawn Lawler, Buckhannon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Julie Maggard. Kermit</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wisconsin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Diane Johnson, Tomah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mary Schraufnagel Franklin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wyoming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Greg Flesvig, Casper</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp; Others[/box]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How long are we going to allow this man to “test the water?” He has gone from suggestion, to direct threat, to fundraising to fund an assassin, to now attempting to assemble an army. Something needs to be done.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://aattp.org/christian-militia-leader-now-networking-militias-to-assassinate-president-obama-screenshots/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.alternet.org/activism/anti-governent-groups-show-interest-montana-pond-building-case</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph David Robertson, a 77-year-old retired construction company owner who has battled the federal government for more than a decade, was convicted in April on two counts of unauthorized discharge of pollutants into U.S. waters and a third count of injury or depredation of federal property.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency agents investigated a series of illegal ponds Robertson constructed between October 2013 and October 2014 on two properties near Basin, Mont., south of Helena. His actions “resulted in the discharge of dredged and fill material into a tributary and adjacent wetlands located on those two properties, causing widespread damage to both properties,” federal prosecutors said in court filings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson is scheduled to be sentenced on July 20 in Missoula by Senior U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy. He faces fines up to $50,000 per day for illegal discharges into U.S. waters, up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for damaging federal property.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Already, a variety of far-right antigovernment groups and militias are rallying to Robertson’s defense, with one extremist radio host publicly suggesting there may need to take up arms to oppose the “federal supremacists.” The case is garnering attention from Oath Keepers, the John Birch Society, the Coalition of Western States and “Redoubt News” sites supporting an enclave of Patriots in the Northwest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson was a featured speaker last weekend at a meeting of 100 antigovernment activists – some of them reportedly from as far away as Illinois and Arizona -- who gathered in Plains, Mont.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rally organizers said it was to support “political prisoners,” including Jake Ryan, of Plains, who is one of the 26 defendants under indictment for their roles in the Oregon refuge takeover.&nbsp; Like Robertson, Ryan was accused of using heavy equipment to damage federal property.&nbsp; Organizers claimed the rally was supported by Montana gubernatorial candidate Ted Dunlap, who’s a Libertarian.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson shared the stage with Jeanette Finicum, the widow of LaVoy Finicum, who was fatally shot in January at a police road block established to arrest those extremists including Cliven Bundy’s sons, Ammon and Ryan, who had occupied Malheur National Wildlife with assorted militia groups, including members of the III Percent movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevada congressional candidate Michele Fiore, a Bundy family supporter and a vocal gun rights advocate, spoke to the group by telephone.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike what occurred in Harney County, Ore., where Ammon Bundy and others attempted to influence the local sheriff to intervene on behalf of ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, there’s no evidence yet that Robertson’s supporters are pressuring Jefferson County Sheriff Craig Doolittle. He did not return telephone messages left by Hatewatch asking for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson has been described as a “loner” known to carry a sidearm. “I think he’s kind of alienated himself from everybody. That’s my opinion of him,” one fire department official, who was once an assistant chief in Basin, Mont., said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2007, Robertson was cited by the Forest Service for destroying government property, livestock grazing without a permit and four other charges related to illegal activities on federally owned land. He refused to show up for his trial, but was found guilty in absentia of two counts of damaging federal property and allowing livestock on Forest Service land. He was fined $2,625, the Billings Gazette reported in 2007.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Robertson was again charged and convicted of misdemeanors related to violating Forest Service regulations. He avoided jail, was placed on probation and ordered to remove various structures, including a barn, fence and culvert that he had illegally constructed on federally owned land. When a Forest Service special agent went to the property to see if Robertson was complying with the court’s order, the officer discovered he had illegally constructed ponds on the land.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His first trial on those felony charges last fall resulted in a hung jury, but federal prosecutors sought a retrial which proceeded despite Robertson’s attempts to get the case dismissed.&nbsp; After his jury conviction in April, the judge denied his request for a new trial.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our government has beat us into the ground for no reason,” Robertson told Radio Free Redoubt host John Jacob Schmidt during a podcast last month. Robertson called the federal judge “biased” and said his public defender failed to introduce critical evidence at trial.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The federal government has their boot on his throat and we can’t stand for this!” Schmidt told his listeners. “It’s intolerable.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schmidt said Robertson was being targeted by an “unconstitutional agent of an unconstitutional office created by our unconstitutional government.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson described himself in the podcast as a disabled Navy veteran who has been treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. “Several years ago before I went into treatment, I would have handled this different,” he said. “But then I would have been in the news.&nbsp; My wife would probably be dead and so would I and some of those other people.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schmidt said the case is similar to what happened to the Hammonds, leading to the Malheur takeover.&nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This type of tyranny,” the radio host told Robertson and his listeners, “is what forced people to feel that there’s no other option than to do something drastic like take over a wildlife refuge or to gather militias to hold the federal supremacists back.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later, Schmidt advised Robertson to consider other option. “I’m not convinced that we are completely out of options here. We have to resort to, you know, like the 2ndAmendment-type of option.&nbsp; I know some people are on this.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson said he understand the Forest Service intends to drain the ponds he constructed.&nbsp; “I’ll have some friends up here. I don’t think I’ll allow them to do that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the afternoon of Tuesday the 26th of January, LaVoy Fincum, a rancher from Mohave County, Arizona, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers. It happened on Highway 395 in Oregon after he and other members of an armed right-wing group were subject to a police stop. They were on their way to try to spread their mission of resistance to the U.S. government to neighbouring counties.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the video released late on Thursday by the FBI, we can see the action as captured by a drone overhead. In the final moments of his life, Finicum attempts to avoid police by driving a car&nbsp; — containing three other members of the group they called Citizens for Constitutional Freedom —&nbsp; into a roadside snow drift.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He emerges from the suddenly stationary vehicle with his hands outstretched, and appears to talk to the two state police officers trying to apprehend him with their guns drawn. Then he reaches for his pocket, where he has a loaded pistol, according to law enforcement. He is immediately shot by one of the officers, and falls to the ground.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We see a 55-year-old family man, who has had ample time to think, make a conscious choice to throw his life away.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In many ways, Finicum was the philosopher of the group. He acted as a spokesman, and pushed their stark constitutional originalism in media appearances and press conferences.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conspiracy theorists in the broader patriot movement are already working on the ambiguities that the footage - any footage - makes available to the paranoid. But Finicum’s choice to die is in keeping with what he repeatedly told me and other journalists during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Time and again, he said that liberty was more important than life. That despite missing his ranch and his family, he would rather die than go to prison.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is capable of turning a grievance over grazing rights into a matter of life and death? When do political beliefs become something one is prepared to both kill and die for?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first clue is in what Finicum shared with the Bundys at the Refuge, and with their father Cliven at home in Nevada. They were all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and all from a corner of the country with a habit of departing from the respectable path the church’s hierarchy has been charting for more than a century.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The second are the pocket Constitutions the group ostentatiously carried around from the first morning of their stay. One the surface those were simply underscoring the occupiers’ claims that in their alleged persecution of Dwight and Steven Hammond - local ranchers sent back to prison for arson on federal property - and their general management of public land, the federal government was acting unconstitutionally.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Courtney Campbell, a professor of religion at Oregon State University, says that in part, “Why these protestors are carrying around the constitution is that they do feel their constitutional rights to freedom of religion and association, to due process and the law have been violated by the government.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But these are not any old constitutions. They are editions published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, founded by W. Cleon Skousen, who like the Bundy family and Finicum, was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. If you order in bulk, you can get them for as little 35 cents apiece.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Skousen’s editions pair the text of the constitution - which many Mormons believe to be divinely inspired - with highly selective quotes from the founding fathers, with the intention of persuadine readers that the republic was a Christian enterprise from the outset, and was part of a divine promise.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Skousen - who died in 2006 at the age of 92 - was a popular, prolific writer who had stints in the FBI and as Salt Lake City police chief. He was also one of the most prominent and influential ultraconservative political activists&nbsp; in mid-century America, inspiring the John Birch Society’s febrile brand of anticommunist conspiracy thinking.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He insisted - at the height of the Cold War - that various government agencies were riddled with Communist infiltrators, and that this put America in existential danger. In books like The Naked Communist, first published in 1958, Skousen gave a lurid picture of the degree to which communists were embedded in public life, their tactics and what he saw as the godless nihilism of their world view. More conciliatory foreign policy, divorce law reform and campaigns against school prayer were just some of his examples of communists working toward the subversion of American life.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Skousen was also a deeply involved Latter-Day Saint, serving for a time as a professor at Brigham Young University. Seth Payne, a former Mormon who began researching LDS conspiracy beliefs at Harvard Divinity School, explains that “when Skousen would talk to LDS audiences about these subjects he would bring in the religious element. He would describe these conspiracies as ‘secret combinations’. Secret combinations are not just criminal gangs or people looking for power. At the root of secret combinations is a Satanic influence.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was able to find support for these claims in the LDS church’s central text, the Book of Mormon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When LDS founder and prophet Joseph Smith was assembling his prophetic book in the late 1820s - supposedly as a translation of golden plates left for the purpose by the angel Moroni - he incorporated elements of all the popular enthusiasms swirling around in upstate New York, where he was then living. His testament purported to tell the story of ancient inhabitants of the Americas who were descendents of the tribes of Israel, and who were visited by the risen Christ. But in a sense it was very much a book of its time.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It reflects Protestant revivalism, Israelism (the idea, popular in the 19th century that certain peoples, or groups were descended from the lost tribes of Israel), occultism and folk religion, and then-current anti-Masonic ideas.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Payne explains that while Smith did not specifically call out Masons, he used “secret combinations” as a familiar euphemism for Masonic activity. In the Book, “secret combinations” of satanic conspirators brought about the end of the Jeredites and the Nephites, two of the civilizations the book describes.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These were working in the interests of “Satan’s plan.” In Mormon theology, the conflict between this and God’s plan goes back to the beginning of time. While Lucifer wanted humans to be compelled to be obedient to God so they would be guaranteed a return to heaven, God wanted humans to be able to freely choose, so they would benefit from their time on earth.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this way, Payne says, the Book of Mormon melds “classical Liberal thought with religious thought - the Protestant ethic and Protestant theology of the early 19th century - so tightly so that there really is no separation.” Liberal individual autonomy is a gift from God, and compelled behavior - even if it results in good deeds - is worthless for salvation, and even an artefact of the devil’s continuing effort to erode the power of human will.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-Masonic enthusiasms are long-forgotten, but the idea of secret combinations carrying out Satan’s plan is very much alive. In a paper, Payne explains that “modern LDS conservatives tend to view any government action which compels behavior — even if that behavior is moral and productive — as being a version of Satan’s original plan to force God’s children to do good.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s why many conservative Mormons, even those who would stop short at actions like those that the Bundys have taken, are bitterly opposed to welfare and other government programs that have a benevolent purpose.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Skousen’s thought, this all mapped neatly onto his anticommunist zeal. He was faced, he thought, with “secret combinations” of communist infiltrators, and socialist schemes were not just politically disagreeable, but setbacks in “a cosmic battle going on where Satan is trying to infringe on individual liberty or state sovereignty.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Except among conservative Mormons, Skousen’s influence faded long before the end of the cold war. Then Glenn Beck—another conspiratorially inclined, conservative Mormon—reintroduced it to a broader audience late last decade, managing to lift books like The 5000 Year Leap back onto the bestseller lists. Beck managed to recast Skousen’s thought to cast suspicion on the ambitions of President Obama, in particular, his plans to deliver universal health care.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Payne says, “Glenn Beck reintroduced Skousen’s ideas—his anticommunism and fears about sovereignty —to a broader community. That resonates with people who think that the president is a communist.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, other Mormon conspiracists like Joel Skousen, nephew of Cleon, continue all the while to push the idea of secret combinations in the service of Satan’s plan, which was now identified less with communism than the institution of a single world government under the control of “globalists." In one sense, this bears similarities to the conspiracy ideas of essentially secular figures like Alex Jones. There's enough common ground for Joel Skousen—also an icon of the prepper movement—to have appeared several times on Jones’ radio program.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the distinctive spiritual dimension of LDS-derived conspiracism raises the stakes for a segment of ulturaconservative Mormons. For some, like the Bundy group, such ideas are a stimulus to radical action.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disaffection with federal government agencies is widespread throughout the western interior. Whether it is the festering issue of grazing rights, and perceptions that the BLM is antagonistic toward ranchers, or the feeling that conservation of native species like wolves or the spotted owl is taking precedence over ranchers’ interests, the emerging “sagebrush rebellion” takes in a lot of actors and sympathizers who are not Mormons.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But like the vast majority of conservative Mormons, very few ranchers have shown themselves willing to carry out armed occupations of federal buildings.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The resurgent militia and sovereign citizen movements have beliefs that overlap with the more religiously inclined conspiracists, They also fear world government and federal government tyranny, espouse an eccentric form of constitutional originalism, try to reassert local and state jurisdiction over federal land, and are prepared to use tactics of harrassment and intimidation, as they’ve shown in Harney County.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even those who had been cooperating with the Bundys in organizing locals in opposition to the reimprisonment of Steven and Dwight Hammond were appalled in the early days of the occupation that the Bundy group had departed from a longer plan and involved the federal government. And in this circumstance, none have shown that they are willing to die.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In explaining Finicum’s actions, we need to take into account his particular form of radically ultraconservative Mormon belief. As Payne says, “for a believing Latter-Day Saint who takes these things seriously, they aren’t just looking at some political machinations for money and power, they’re looking at an eternal cosmic struggle that’s been going on since the beginning of time.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Bundys—and Finicum—see themselves as “soldiers in this resistance against not just political tyranny but also Satanic tyranny.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This belief may be reflected even in the names they have been given and chosen. Ammon Bundy’s first name comes from an important personage in the book of Mormon—a warrior who spreads God’s word to unbelievers. The scriptural Ammon, Campbell says, “provides a model for the sort of person who stands up to oppression and unjust governments, resists and prevails.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campbell also points out that Finicum made veiled references to “the Title of Liberty,” a story from the Book of Mormon in which Captain Moroni of the Nephites “in the face of of a government that’s become tyrannical, individuals and their communities need to stand up for their liberty, their religion, and their land.” Another of the occupiers, Dylan Anderson, used Captain Moroni as his alias when talking to reporters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other references to Mormon lore came before the occupation, such as in a video where Bundy said that the constitution was “hanging by a thread," an allusion to the so-called White Horse Prophecy, in which Joseph Smith reportedly predicted that a time would come when Mormons would have to restore constitutional government.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Payne points out that there are serious dounts as to whether Joseph Smith ever said such a thing, and that it comes from secondhand accounts of his remarks by followers. The LDS church itself felt bound to say that the prophecy “has not been substantiated by historical research” after Mormon politicians like Orrin Hatch and Rex Rammel referred to it in the early years of the Obama administration. “It’s an urban legend, a folk myth.” Nevertheless, over the years “it has taken hold in the LDS community; even in mainstream LDS you’ll hear that phrase used.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People like the Bundys and Finicum, “take that phrase and see themselves as elders of Israel who are going to save the Constitution.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is one man’s life in the face of such a cause, and such a danger?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The LDS church was quick to disown the occupation and the Bundys' actions. In 2012, sensing a growing wave of Skousenite Mormon activity, LDS Church Elder Apostle Dallin Oaks warned against “the influence of right-wing groups who mistakenly apply prophecies about the last days to promote efforts to form paramilitary or other organizations… The leaders of the church have always taught that we should observe the law and we should not try to substitute our own organizations for the political and military authorities put in place by constitutional government and processes. We counsel against joining or supporting paramilitary organizations.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No doubt this reflects the sincere disapproval of the vast majority of Mormons, even conservatives. And the Bundys represent a significant departure from the teachings of the church, according to Campbell. “They really emphasize that there needs to be obedience to the laws of the land. Even if there’s some kind of injustice that’s occurred, you don’t take over property, you don’t take over land.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actions like these also imperil the respectability Mormons have worked so hard to maintain from the beginning of the 20th century. In the 19th century, they came into open conflict with the federal government. First, in the 1850s, over their own territorial ambitions and a perception that the Utah Territory under Prophet Brigham Young was in insurrection. And later, in the 1890s, as they were forced to give up the practice of polygamy.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Payne explains that rebellions such as the Malheur occupation are embarrassing to the church hierarchy and many ordinary Mormons, since they “harken back to a period that most Mormons are embarrassed about from time to time—those days of conflict with the federal government and the American society as a whole.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Utah/Arizona/Nevada tri-state area, where the Bundys and Finicum are from, has been a reliable source of such embarrassments. Northern Arizona was the long-time locale for the polygamist holdouts of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints under Warren Jeffs. Not far away in Nevada, the Bundy ranch standoff provided the immediate precursor for the occupation just ended.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People in such areas of the American West are culturally isolated, even from the moderating influences of contemporary Mormon practice.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s certainly peculiar to areas in the western United States that are difficult to get to because they’re mountainous or arid,” Campbell says of these fundamentalist currents. “They’ve been historically bypassed by other people as they migrated to western Oregon or California. As a result there has been a tradition of anti-government anti-authoritarianism, where a person is accountable to God and not to civil authority.”&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaVoy Finicum clearly had a lot to lose: his ranch, his family, his life. But by melding his political beliefs with cosmic struggle, by embracing a tendentious reading of scripture and prophecy, by viewing those he disagreed with not just as political adversaries but as agents of the devil, Finicum turned a cause into a death wish.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last weekend, when an armed group of men in eastern Oregon occupied a building within a National Wildlife Refuge to protest the jailing of a rancher for federal crimes, we immediately went to the Anti-Environmental Archives to do some research. Lo and behold, the archives contain lots of documents about the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and lots of information on the decades-long conflict between ranchers like Dwight Hammond who want to run their cattle into protected areas and federal authorities seeking to uphold the law and protect the area from despoliation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[img]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The refuge, home to millions of migratory birds, was established in 1908 by former President Theodore Roosevelt. Starting in March, according to the Fish & Wildlife Service website, visitors will see the annual torrent of “greater sandhill cranes, tundra swans, northern pintails and white-fronted, snow, Ross’ and Canada geese … American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants, western grebes, long-billed curlews and American avocets” along with numerous songbirds. Must be something to see and hear. Meanwhile, there are a few non-migratory armed thugs in cowboy hats.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We published the Anti-Environmental Archives in April 2015, a catalog of thousands of original documents published by and about the groups involved in the Wise Use Movement. You can search the archives for yourself here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of the media coverage of the Oregon situation has been light on the long history of anti-federal government agitation in the West. Some reporters have described the “Sagebrush Rebellion,” the resistance to federal control of Western lands that originally dates back to the early 1990s and was emboldened by the Reagan Administration and Interior Secretary James Watt.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing from coverage is the mention of the pro-logging, pro-ranching, pro-mining Wise Use Movement, which escalated in the early 1990s during the Clinton Administration. These local fights eventually led to the election of such extremists as Republican of California Rep. Richard Pombo who authored the book This Land is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property in 1996. The most memorable was over the protection of the endangered Spotted Owl in western Oregon and Washington state, which restricted logging of old growth timber. But the fight with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing “rights” was at the heart of Wise Use conflict. In fact, Western ranchers are recipients of the one of the largest federal welfare programs, (approximately $500 Million in taxpayer money in 2014), getting below-market-value leases to public lands to graze their cattle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of the reporting on the armed occupation in Oregon has also failed to go very deep on rancher Dwight Hammond, the inspiration for the protest that begat the armed occupation of the refuge last weekend. Its important context that Hammond has been at war with the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and federal authorities going back to the 1970s and that he was arrested in the early 1990s for blocking a fence being built on the Refuge border. These incidents were well before the 2001 arson, for which they were convicted and for which Hammond and son are now in prison. Thus the Hammonds became hero/martyrs of the Wise Use Movement more than 20 years ago.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The right wing media is playing this like a righteous fight against the oppressive federal government. The racial hypocrisy in press coverage of this mess is not unnoticed. Will we see aRepublican candidate make anti-environmental anti-federal land ownership promises?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sagebrush Rebellion has roots that go back to the early 1900s, when the federal government first started reserving public lands and developing water for early settlements. It took off starting in the 1970s, when the environmental movement pushed Congress to pass The Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air and Water acts, and others. It appeared again during the Clinton Administration, as it took on public land grazing, mining, and logging, while creating new controversial monuments under The Antiquities Act.&nbsp; Finally, the election of President Barack Obama brought on the latest iteration, with renewed calls for public land transfers to the states and rising anti-federal sentiment, such as that exhibited by the Malheur occupation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Malheur occupation, explained (Jan. 4, 2016)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The deep history behind the Bundy brothers’ takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In eastern Oregon, a protest over imprisoned ranchers becomes an occupation of a wildlife refuge (Jan. 4, 2016)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Photos from the Burns, Oregon, protests, the latest iteration of the Sagebrush Rebellion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Modern sagebrush rebels recycle old Western fantasies (Jan. 4, 2016 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public-land transfer proponents may have violated lobbying laws (October 2015)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colorado puts the American Lands Council on "notice" for ethical missteps.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dispatch from White Hope Mine dispute in Montana (August 2015)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The constitutionalist group Oath Keepers is defending a mine that the Forest Service says is out of compliance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Counties use a ‘coordination’ clause to fight the feds (May 2015)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An obscure provision in two environmental laws is the weapon of choice in a bureaucratic Sagebrush Rebellion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oath Keepers show up for a public lands dispute in Oregon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Plus a Cliven Bundy supporter is charged and BLM emails about the Nevada standoff were released.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dispatch from Cliven Bundy's latest gathering (April 2015)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who showed up at the one-year anniversary of the BLM standoff? Most of them weren't ranchers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An update on Nevada scofflaw Cliven Bundy (March 2015)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rancher still has influence in some circles, and has seen zero repercussions for trespass cattle and unpaid fees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cliven Bundy (April 2014)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rancher vs. BLM: a 20-year standoff ends with tense roundup</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the standoff, what's next for Bundy and the BLM?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revolt that wouldn't die</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Photos of a standoff&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Armed militia members join a Nevada rancher to protest a cattle roundup from public land.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timeline: The BLM vs. Cliven Bundy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cliven Bundy needs to pay his grazing bills (Writers on the Range op-ed)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defuse the West (October 2014)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defuse the West&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reports from the front lines&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roots of rebellion: A forum&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four experts discuss threats to federal public-lands employees and where we go from here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mapping threats on public land&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidation of federal officials is widespread across the West.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The BLM fails to provide public records (op-ed)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agency's main Freedom of Information Act office appears incompetent or overworked.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Western states eye federal lands—again (October 2014)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A reluctant rebellion in the Utah desert (May 2014)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For ATVers at Recapture Canyon, realpolitik meets out-of-town zeal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho (May 2013)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One Sagebrush Rebellion flickers out -- or does it? (September 2012)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fearful of Agenda 21, an alleged U.N. plot, activists derail land-use planning(February 2012)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How Arizona's culture helped shape the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords (February 2012)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Looking past Joe Arpaio (December 2011)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah's Sagebrush Rebellion capital mellows as animal-lovers and enviros move in (January 2011)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A dark moment, a glimmer of light (January 2011)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pillaging the Past (April 2008)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rebels with a lost cause (December 2007)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sagebrush Rebels ride again -- and again (December 2007 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taking Liberties (July 2006)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The West’s Biggest Bully (September 2003)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Change comes slowly to Escalante country (April 2003)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Road warriors back on the offensive (February 2003)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Showdown on the Nevada range (August 2001)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shoveling vs. sniveling (March 2000 essay)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The last Celtic warlord lives in New Mexico (March 2000)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Forest Service sets off into uncharted territory (November 1999)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevadans drive out forest supervisor (November 1999)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevada rebellion ends with a whimper (October 1999)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Idaho stubbornly remains what America used to be (March 1998 essay)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founding father challenges his movement (March 1997 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wise-users try to whip up a recipe for their own salvation (October 1996 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah counties bulldoze the BLM, Park Service (October 1996)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Catron County's politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt (June 1996)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevada's ugly tug-of-war (October 1995)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevada's most rebellious (October 1995)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To save a Utah canyon, a BLM ranger quits and turns activist (October 1995)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">County commissioner courts bloodshed (April 1995)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Armed, crazy and lost in the Wild West (May 1995 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Waaaaaaaaaaaahh! The West refuses to be weaned (February 1995 essay)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Land-use plan is disemboweled (December 1994)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ranchers arrested at wildlife refuge (October 1994)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Wise use' plans abhor change (September 1994)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Home, home on the range ... where neo-Nazis and skinheads roam (June 1994)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Not O.K. Corral (May 1994)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landowners turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword (February 1993)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trying a "Bold" landswap (February 1982)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sagebrush Rebellion: misdirected dynamite (February 1980 op-ed)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalists, backlash, and the 'New Right' (May 1978)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sagebrush Rebellion</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public Lands</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Park Service</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ranching</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Forest Service</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defuse the West</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bureau of Land Management</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Archives</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Agriculture</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More from Sagebrush Rebellion</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;CNN law enforcement analyst Art Roderick said over the weekend that armed protesters who took over a federal building in Oregon were not being treated harshly like Black Lives Matter protesters and Muslims would be because they were “not looting anything.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Saturday, an armed group of militiamen and members of Cliven Bundy’s family seized the Malheur Wildlife Refuge headquarters to protest sentences against two ranchers who were convicted of setting wildfires.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roderick told CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday that law enforcement should not react with force to end the militia’s occupation of the federal building.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The last thing we need is some type of large confrontation because that’s when stuff goes bad,” Roderick explained. “And I think in this particular instance, if we just wait them out, see what they’ve got to say, then eventually, they’re all going to go home.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stelter pointed out that many activists had complained if the militia members were “Black Lives Matter protesters or if these were peaceful Muslim Americans [then] they would be treated very differently by law enforcement.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is a very rural area,” Roderick replied. “It is out in the middle of nowhere. What are they actually doing? They’re not destroying property, they’re not looting anything.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I mean, there’s a whole separate situation going on as to exactly why they’re there and that will be worked out through the legal process,” he continued. “But I think now that they’ve taken over this location out at the fish and wildlife, this brings in the federal side. And I know the federal government has learned over the years how to deal with these types of incidences.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative media have spent years accusing the Obama administration of lawlessness. But now they're lining up to defend a rancher who refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the federal government:http://mm4a.org/Q6GzVK Related: Media Matters Investigative Reporter Joe Strupp spoke to Nevada journalists, who told him that the rancher is clearly breaking the law:http://mm4a.org/1kye9Py</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the courageous 'Tea Party' leader and former County Sheriff who hid behind the women on the 'front lines of freedom' at the Bundy Ranch last year, is now asking the public to pay for much needed health care for both himself and his wife. Via TPM...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the "constitutional sheriff" movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses. The former sheriff and his wife do not have health insurance and started a GoFundMe campaign to solicit donations from family and friends to cover the costs of their medical care.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THU MAY 01, 2014 AT 07:29 AM PDT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE: With Hands on Gun Bundy Militia Told Us "I'm Gonna Kill You" [ACTION NEEDED]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">byTeamSarah4ChoiceFollow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp;Email 574 Comments / 574 New</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes put out a "Debriefing" video where they claim that the Bundy Militia put their hands on their guns and said "I'm gonna kill you."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At timestamp 14:32 Stewart Rhodes tells that the Bundy Militia physically assaulted two of the Oath Keepers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Timestamp 14:32]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RHODES: So after we told our guys that -- we reiterated our point to -- if you're gonna be there ya gotta be dug in and if you're not gonna be there you're gonna deploy out as Scouts-- those two things. So then what happened after that is he had -- he was assaulted.&nbsp; Tell em what happened.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STEVE: Well like I said there was quite a few people comin in ta CP in order ta get more information -- cuz we were tryin ta get em out.&nbsp; A couple of trucks drove inta the yard -- uh -- guys started jumpin out and I could see right away when they were gettin out of the truck they were very agitated.&nbsp; We had one of the men run out toward our car.&nbsp; I was standing in front of one of our cars John Bidler, the Connecticut President was standing over by the driver's door -- the gentelman came and he - uh - all of the sudden the gentleman started runnin toward me and hit me right in the chest with his forearm and -- uh -- put me down.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RHODES: That was Jack, that's one of Jerry DeLamus' guys from New Hampshire. That's who did that.&nbsp; Dropped you in the dirt right?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STEVE: He dropped me down and he immediately went to John Bidler and -- uh -- basically done the same -- he just physically threw him ta the ground.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RHODES:&nbsp; So he came and forearmed you in the chest?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At timestamp 20:49 Stewart Rhodes says that Bundy's militia put their hand on their gun and said "I'm gonna kill you."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Timestamp 20:49]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STEWART RHODES ... now when [John] Bidler was dropped on his butt-- John Bidler-- another guy -- some Mountain Man militia guy put his hand on his gun and said "I dare ya to draw -- draw Mother Fucker I'm gonna kill ya." I'm sorry to cuss but that's what he said.&nbsp; So they were being threatened.&nbsp; Guys with hands on their guns threatening them.&nbsp; That's why we told them [Steve & John] to get out of there.&nbsp; We knew the situation was this close [signals an inch] from being a gun fight, right there inside the camp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then at Timestamp 37:28 Stewart Rhodes said a different Bundy Militia dude pulled an AR on another Oath Keeper and the Oath Keeper almost had to kill him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RHODES:&nbsp; ... and this is the tip of the iceberg of the cluster out there.&nbsp; One of our guys from Montana, Rick Delap, who was there from the beginning he's been out there for 2 weeks in the dirt.&nbsp; The day of this confrontation [with Steve & John Bidler] I come to find out he [Rick Delap] had to draw on somebody.&nbsp; Two of the Mountain men guys came up to him -- were aggressing on him. Then one of them ran back to his vehicle and grabbed an AR and came back with an AR in his hand and Rick had to draw on him. And those two ran off.&nbsp; That was this close [hand signals an inch] from Rick having to shoot that ding-a-ling.&nbsp; If that guy had raised his barrel, Rick would have had no choice but to shoot him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keep in mind, the Bundy militia who are physically assaulting and drawing ARs and other weapons on the Oath Keepers are the same Bundy militia who Nevada Congressman, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), was talking about when he contacted law enforcement saying supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy have set up checkpoints for drivers’ “residency” before letting them pass.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This video shows crimes are being committed on the Bundy Ranch and those crimes need to be investigated.&nbsp; (Crime of: Assault and pointing weapons at people without being in self-defense)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I think this video should be sent to Rep. Horsford and should be preserved as evidence to be given to Law Enforcement so that Law Enforcement can investigate and so they can do what they need to do to keep the residence of Bunkerville and the surrounding areas safe from these lunatic gun-nuts.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the way: The Oath Keepers are just as dangerous as the Bundy Militia, see my UPDATE below the orange squiggle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACTION NEEDED: Contact Senator Harry Reid's office & Rep. Steven Horsford office and tell them the Title of the youtube video is: "Oath Keepers Bundy Ranch DeBrief."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Give them the timestamps of: the crime of physical assault and pulling guns on each other without being in the act of self-defense.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The more people who call, the more apt we are to get the criminal allegations in this video investigated. - thanks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CONTACT:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Harry Reid of Nevada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Washington DC: Phone: 202-224-3542</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(you'll get a recording so click 1 on your phone & then wait for a rep from Reid's office to answer)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* Las Vegas: Phone: 702-388-5020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Steven Horsford</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* Washington DC : Phone: 202-225-9894</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* North Las Vegas, NV: Phone: 702-802-4500</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oath Keepers are just as dangerous to society as the Bundy Militia.&nbsp; Right Wing Watch is reporting that Oath Keeper member, Mike Vanderboegh, who is also leader of the militia group Three Percenters gave a speech to the Bundy Militia and warned that the country is “staring a civil war in its bloody face.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VANDERBOEGH: "All over this country, we are still staring civil war in its bloody face, ... Sen. Harry Reid is promising us all civil war on a vast scale, because state-sponsored violence is they only way they can win an argument with free people, especially free people who are armed and who are willing to use those arms in defense of liberty.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right Wing Watch goes on to report:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vanderboegh then pulled out a skull and declared that he would present it to Reid as the “2014 Award for Incitement to Civil War.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He added: “Don’t poke the wolverine with a sharp stick, Harry, unless you want your balls ripped off.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296091/-Oath-Keepers-Bundy-Militia-Put-Their-Hands-On-Their-Guns-Told-Us-I-m-Gonna-Kill-you#</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not snark.&nbsp; The events in this diary actually are happening and did happen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Oath Keepers took to their website and accused Bundy's top Security crew, Booda Bear, Ryan Paine & Jerry 'somebody' of being FBI infiltrators.&nbsp; This happened roughly 24 hours after Bundy's top security crew, Booda Bear & his two underlings, Ryan & Jerry, kicked the Oath Keepers off the ranch and accused them of: "stealing' being "deserters," "traitors," committing "treason of the highest order" and learning that Ryan Paine said, on video, that the Oath Keepers were "lucky [they're] not getting shot in the back' for deserting the Bundy battlefield."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A typical FBI psy-op would plant “leaders” in every militia they could infiltrate. What those sorts of FBI agents or surrogates do is always “handled”. Some of the purported “leaders” of the militia at the ranch are doing exactly what any agent provocateur would do after having infiltrated the militia and claimed a role in leadership. Did you notice the massive ego about who is going to command who? Did you notice the drama in the tendency to speak of Oath Keepers as if we were a militia, which we are not. These militia “leaders” would judge us by battlefield standards even though there has not been a “battlefield” since April 12, 2014? They would shoot us for desertion? Really? That is amazing, and is the kind of bumbling consciousness which a conditioned and programmed special warfare officer or a federal agent would offer if he had to think on his feet of a sudden.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">~ Oath Keeper website April 29, 2014</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LMFAO ... "programmed special warfare officer or a federal agent would offer" ... the Oath Keepers are going to scare the crap out of those already paranoid militia at welfare-king Bundy's ranch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oath Keepers continued to plant their 'FBI infiltrators' seed and wrote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ll confide something with you. Let us not be deceived about the real strength and power of the true American militia. Let us examine any militia which opposes the historic role of the Constitutional militia of the several States. Yesterday I had a longish phone conversation with Mike Vanderboegh, who was wanting to think-tank some stuff with me for concurrence in what we might do next to combat the idiocy being circulated presently. All you III%ers [3%ers -- dumb name they use collectively] listen-up. As Mike and I were talking about the situation I said something to which he replied, “Well, how do we know that they are the militia of the people?” I pondered that and thanked him for bringing it up</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">... We were suggesting that the FBI (and other related groups) firmly believes in creating its own opposition for purposes of controlling it from atop and within. The model is searchable online as “COINTELPRO”.&nbsp; The fedgov infiltrates all social and cultural segments of America’s population. It is best to presume that the militias across America are all infiltrated. If you want to see the leadership of the co-opted militias currently at the Bundy ranch, you will have to search for a video put out to smear Oath Keepers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(emphasis in bold by Oath Keepers not me)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To show they will not fall under the leadership of the 'FBI infiltrators,' they tell their readers that no matter what Booda Bear says and no matter what is right in front of their eyes&nbsp; they, the Oathe Keepers are still at the Bundy ranch :</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Know this. Oath Keepers has a contingent on the ground there right now working in an Oath Keepers-directed security op. I’m told my good friend from Kalispell, Montana, Brother Paul Stramer, is down there with equipment for comms at present. And Sheriff Mack sends me this word regarding the continuing stream of Sheriffs who will come to the ranch to stand with the Bundys:&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I spoke with SR yesterday. There were no wounded. Bundys are still happy with all help. Yes, we are still sending in Sheriffs. Christopher will be there tomorrow.” - Sheriff Mack to Elias Alias [Oath Keepers] April 28 2014</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(italics by Oath Keepers but bold emphasis by me)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMG!!! Sheriff Mack wrote "There were no wounded."&nbsp; -- there were no wounded because it's a pretend war!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the way, Sheriff Mack is the chickenshit whose strategy was to use women and daughters as human shields so they could get shot first.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MACK: “It was a tactical plot ... tactically speaking, if they’re going to start killing people, I’m sorry, but to show the world how ruthless these people are, women needed to be the first ones shot ...I would have put my own wife or daughters there, and I would have been screaming bloody murder to watch them die ... But the best ploy would be to have had women at the front. Because, one, I don’t think they would have shot them. And, two, if they had, it would have been the worst thing that we could have shown to the rest of the world, that these ruthless cowards hired by the federal government will do anything.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Oath Keeper's facebook page someone asked who the guy in the video was that said Oath Keepers were lucky they weren't shot in the back. Oath Keeper replied:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That is Ryan Payne[,] who the leader of the III% movement, Mike Vanderboegh, recognized immediately as a Govt plant. Read what Mike has to say about him in the article posted further up in the comments. He tried, we tried, to warn the Bundys about this man. They are trying to drive the OK [Oath Keepers] off the ranch because we are the only thing preventing a raid on them by the Feds that is going to come from the inside, just like they did to Ed and Elaine Brown years ago when they refused to pay taxes. They posed as supporters, got inside their home, and arrested them. Right now, the OKs are what is preventing that. We are still at the ranch running patrols and security to protect the Bundys from the snakes in their midst.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(emphasis in bold is mine)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ooooooowwwww ... we don't like them "Govt plants" -- be afraid, be very afraid.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Oath Keepers, I guess, are trying to get 'welfare ranch privileges' back so they're sucking up to the criminal old man Bundy like crazy and on their website they wrote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We understand that the Bundy affair is classic and that Mr. Bundy himself is a patriarch of our American heritage and as such he is to be protected by the people at all costs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(emphasis mine)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LMFAO ... Bundy "a patriarch of our American heritage ... he is to be protected by the people at all costs."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can't make this crap up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are groups of people who are completely detached from reality and whose entire lives swirl around paranoid fantasy and fear.&nbsp; That's what allows them to completely reject the actual words of the US Constitution and proclaim that the US Government is not sovereign, states are not sovereign but we are sovereign citizens.&nbsp; And, more importantly, it is what allows them to hate real America, wage war with real America and 'love' the non-existent America that they've created in their own minds. (There's a good write-up on what it anti-American, fake patriots mean by the term 'sovereign citizen' here.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gawker has a video of Ryan Paine explaining why he's a sovereign citizen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(timestamp 4:41)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RYAN PAINE: The Supreme Court has ruled that the citizens are the sovereign in America. The state is not the sovereign, the Federal Government is not the sovereign. The citizen is the sovereign. You can't trespass on the citizen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To summarize:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One group, the militia, are telling their followers that 'Oath Keepers are not at the ranch and won't be let back on the ranch' -- while at the same time and without any photographic proof at all -- the Oath Keepers tell their followers 'don't believe your own eyes, it's those militia FBI infiltrators deceiving you, not your eyes we are still at the ranch and will stay at the ranch' and, naturally, their followers believe them. SMH.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pssst ... they're not really at the ranch.&nbsp; How do I know this?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ORIGINALLY POSTED TO TEAMSARAH4CHOICE ON WED APR 30, 2014 AT 07:03 AM PDT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALSO REPUBLISHED BY SHUT DOWN THE NRA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TAGS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Booda BearCliven BundyDear Sweet Jesus This Isn't SnarkJohn Jacob SchmidtNevadaoath keepersRecommendedRep Pete SessionsRyan PainSheriff Richard MackStewart RhodesTalibanTeapartyTeaParty Militia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Salon [1] / By Paul Rosenberg [2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'You Need to Die': Cliven Bundy and Violent Militias Still Terrorizing Utah, Nevada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 14, 2014&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Cliven Bundy decided to share with America “one more thing I know about the Negro,” most people immediately assumed his 15 minutes of fame we up—particularly when Donald Sterling quickly overshadowed him—and they were probably right.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that hardly means that nothing significant has happened around Bundy since. Quite the opposite.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The explosion of attention he garnered does not come out of nowhere, it comes out of decades of political organizing, theorizing and scheming. And what’s been happening in and around the Bundy Ranch over the past month seems sure to shape the further evolution, not just of the hard right fringes from which he and his close defenders hail, but the much wider range of rightwing political culture which sympathetically supported him, and still feels “he had a point.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the first violent fruits of that further evolution may be just around the corner, as the increased threats have already begun to fly—almost comically in internal battles between different factions at Bundy’s ranch, but also with serious menace directed against Bureau of Land Management personnel in neighboring Utah.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, most important of all, the outbreak of violence between Bundy supporters—including threats of shooting one another—dramatically illustrates the utter foolishness of the “good man with a gun” formulation.&nbsp; It’s not like this should be a stunning revelation. The American South—a classic “honor culture”—has always been bedeviled by high levels of violence in which both parties clearly saw themselves as good. Indeed they were fighting precisely to defend their good name, their reputation, their honor.&nbsp; That legacy is alive and well in the militia movement of today… and it threatens to overspill its banks and flood the rest of America, if we let it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here, then, is a quick rundown of what’s happened since the spotlight shifted:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bundy’s land claims were revealed as bogus. Even though it’s legally irrelevant to owing grazing fees, Cliven Bundy had claimed that he should be exempt, because of “”ancestral rights,” claiming that his family had worked the land since the 1870s, well before the BLM came into existence. But a report from KLAS-TV in Las Vegas [3] revealed that even this excuse was pure fabrication on Bundy’s part. His family had actually purchased the land in 1948from Raoul and Ruth Leavitt, according to Clark County property records.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Response to intimidation of the community: Late last month, Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nevada, sent a letter to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, Fox-5 Las Vegas reported [4], concerning the militia members who remained in Bunkerville at and around the Bundy ranch. Horsford cited claims that armed militia members had set up checkpoints where they required residents to prove they live in the area before being allowed to pass, and have also established a presence along highways and roads, as well as in community areas, including churches and schools. Later statements by Bundy and his supporters inadvertently buttressed these claims–in part because Bundy has no grasp of the difference between public and private land–though it’s not clear how widespread such menacing activities were. In the letter, Horsford said, “I am greatly concerned about the safety and well-being of my constituents after meeting with local community members this past week. I urge Sheriff Gillespie to investigate these reports, as this sort of intimidation cannot be tolerated.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horsford was careful to strike a balanced tone. “We must respect individual constitutional liberties, but residents of and visitors to Clark County should not be expected to live under the persistent watch of an armed militia,” he wrote. “Residents have expressed their desire to see these groups leave their community. I urge you to investigate these reports and to work with local leaders to ensure that their concerns are addressed in a manner that allows the community [to] move forward without incident.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Negative impacts were felt in nearby Mesquite, according to a report from KLAS-TV [5], where militiamen reportedly threatened people, and businesses claimed to have lost over $100,000 because of their presence, including alocal hotel forced to evacuate all of its clients one evening due to a bomb threat. The hotel also received at least nine threatening calls after it allowed BLM rangers to stay there. If they weren’t kicked out, the callers threatened, the hotel “would not be standing in the morning.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Violent internal split, with threats of shooting among Bundy supporters: Around the same time, a wild, paranoid rumor spread throughout the camp that Attorney General Eric Holder was preparing a drone strike against them. On April 30, David Neiwert, at The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog [6] described what happened next:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently, someone within one of the major factions at the camp, the Oath Keepers, relayed word of the imminent drone attack to his leaders. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes responded by pulling his people out of what they called “the kill zone” (the area the supposed drone would be striking). When the other militiamen learned that the Oath Keepers had pulled out, they were outraged.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As you can see in the video below, the angry militiamen – led by a Montana “Patriot” named Ryan Payne, who has been acting as the spokesman for the militiamen at the ranch – held an impromptu gathering at the camp to discuss the situation. They openly talk about shooting Rhodes and other Oath Keepers leaders – because in their view, the Oath Keepers’ actions constituted “desertion” and “cowardice” – and describe how “the whole thing is falling apart over there.” At the end, they vote unanimously to oust the Oath Keepers, or at least its leadership, from the Bundy Ranch camp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And on May 2, Neiwert reported further on how the two factions nearly came to a shoot-out (“Militiamen and Oath Keepers Drew Weapons, Threatened to Kill Each Other [7]”), and how some actual physical violence occurred, “when angry young men knocked two elderly veterans, including Steve Homan, to the ground.” Toward the end of his report, he noted:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We saw the same kind of macho radicalism during the April 12 confrontation [8] with Bureau of Land Management and other law-enforcement officers – though it was somewhat obscured from public view.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A remarkable retrospective piece [9] on the standoff from KLAS-TV laid this reality bare. It revealed that the situation came within a hair’s breadth of becoming an all-out gun battle which the gathered “Patriots” defending Bundy seemed determined – indeed, outright eager – to have.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investigation of illegal acts: On April 30, A KLAS-TV report, “Police say Bundy ranch protesters not off the hook [10]” gave the first clear public indication that multiple acts of lawlessness during the standoff would not go unpunished:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They’re armed, they have an agenda, and they’re committed to whatever they believe in, no backing down. One or two of them would never have done what they did–point weapons at us–but when you have 300-400 and they can be anonymous in a crowd, you get caught up in that,” Sgt. Jenkins said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lombardo confirms that Metro developed a lot of intelligence about militia members who were present. Those who aimed their guns at officers will be dealt with.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Yes, there will be consequences, definitely. That is unacceptable behavior. If we let it go, it will continue into the future,” Lombardo said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Law enforcement sources told us that federal officials are preparing to move against Cliven Bundy, but they might wait months until things die down before making their move.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, on May 8, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported [11] that the FBI had opened a criminal investigation as well, according to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threatened spread of violent confrontations: On May 7, the Salt Lake Tribune reported,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“BLM workers on alert after wrangler threatened with gun on I-15 [12].” During the incident:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The men, wearing hoods, held up a sign, apparently scrawled on a piece of paper, that read, “You need to die.” One of the men pointed what appeared to be a Glock handgun at the wrangler.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The wrangler tried to make out a license plate number, but the plate had been covered with duct tape, Reid said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The next weekend, Bundy supporters showed up elsewhere in Utah, once again challenging the BLM. The site was Utah’s Recapture Canyon, an eleven-mile stretch of federal land that is home to Native American archeological sites which the BLM has declared off-limits to ATVs since 2007, because ATVs were damaging the land and folks using them were vandalizing Native American sites. San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman, was organizing the protest, intended to include illegal riding in the prohibited area. Lyman doesn’t think the BLM has the authority to protect cultural resources, and said the goal of the ride [13] was to reassert county jurisdiction in the face of federal “overreach,” according to the Salt Lake Tribune, a goal that echoes Cliven Bundy, who suddenly endorsed the ride just days before it was scheduled. Hence, Ryan and Aamon Bundy, two of Cliven Bundy’s sons and several militiamen showed up in support. Lyman was involved in a delicate dance, trying to strike the exact same themes as Bundy, while presenting himself as more sober and restrained. Right. There was a time not so long ago when that was Bundy’s game, too.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lessons Learned?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If we can summarize what’s happened since the spotlight moved on, we see the ongoing spread of lies and violence on the one hand—which is completely unsurprising. The almost-shooting war that Bundy supporters got themselves into is precisely the reason that the Second Amendment doesn’t mean what they think it means: As John Locke’s social contract theory explained [14], civil society was created because individual force cannotguarantee peace and security—even among the supposedly like-minded. Hence, the turning of violence against one another was just as predictable as its threatened spread to Utah as well.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the other hand, we see a deliberately restrained, but methodical law enforcement process under way. Let’s hope it stays that way, because nothing damages the law as badly as those who abuse its authority, or use it recklessly. But let’s also hope they don’t take too long in beginning to bring folks to justice. Hatred, lies and violence already have too big a head start. We don’t need to let them get any farther ahead.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was the imminent drone attack that finally did it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paranoid rumors are not only common at gatherings of antigovernment “Patriots,”they’re practically the entire raison d’etre for them. So when a wild and paranoid rumor began circulating – that Attorney General Eric Holder was preparing a drone strike on the armed militiamen who gathered at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada – it unleashed a rift within the camp, which is brimming with fear, rage, testosterone and firearms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vicious infighting among those remaining at the camp – estimated at less than a hundred – broke out a little more than two weeks after heavily armed militiamen forced federal agents to back down from a planned roundup of Bundy’s illegally grazing cattle from public lands. After vowing to stay on and protect Bundy – who then stumbled on the national stage with an outpouring of racist commentary – the remaining “Patriots,” who have been raising fear levels among local residents, have begun feuding. And it has been revealing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently, someone within one of the major factions at the camp, the Oath Keepers, relayed word of the imminent drone attack to his leaders. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes responded by pulling his people out of what they called “the kill zone” (the area the supposed drone would be striking). When the other militiamen learned that the Oath Keepers had pulled out, they were outraged.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As you can see in the video above, the angry militiamen – led by a Montana “Patriot” named Ryan Payne, who has been acting as the spokesman for the militiamen at the ranch – held an impromptu gathering at the camp to discuss the situation. They openly talk about shooting Rhodes and other Oath Keepers leaders – because in their view, the Oath Keepers’ actions constituted “desertion” and “cowardice” – and describe how “the whole thing is falling apart over there.” At the end, they vote unanimously to oust the Oath Keepers, or at least its leadership, from the Bundy Ranch camp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PAYNE: We are open to gentlemanly conversation. But this man and the people that obeyed that order have violated my personal creed. You don’t fucking walk in and say, ‘I’m sorry,’ and you’re back in, brother. You can walk in and say you’re sorry, and you’re lucky that you’re not getting shot in the back. Because that’s what happens to deserters on the battlefield.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his part, Rhodes and his fellow Oath Keepers are keeping a stiff upper lip about the rejection. Rhodes himself has returned to his Montana home, reportedly for a family birthday, and his underlings say he plans to return. Oath Keepers organizer Elias Alias (aka Franklin Shook) described the incident on the group’s website as an effort “to sabotage the Bundy stand against the government,” and reported that other “Patriot” movement leaders, including militiaman Mike Vanderboegh and Sheriff Richard Mack, remain firmly within their camp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alias also tried to explain the incoming-drone rumor:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, it is true: Oath Keepers received a bizarre bit of leaked info which could not be verified but which also could not be ignored. Our contact is connected with the Department of Defense – or ‘was’. The info we received stated that Eric Holder of the Department of Justice had okayed a drone strike on the Bundy ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada, within a 48 hour period over the weekend of April 26/27, 2014.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That, fortunately, turned out to be ‘dis-info’ – a false rumor. And though it came from a trusted source, Oath Keepers could neither prove nor disprove it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the ensuing panic at the camp, “Oath Keepers advised people there to consider evacuation,” Alias said. He referred to the angry reaction of the militiamen as “backwash”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also admitted that there was a great deal of contention about how $40,000 raised on behalf of the Bundy family through the Oath Keepers was handled, since the organization wound up only writing the family a check for $12,500.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another YouTube video, which has since been removed, but transcripts of which were posted at DailyKos, revealed the depths of the militiamen’s animus towards Rhodes and his organization. One of them – the nominal “head of security” for the Bundy family, a man nicknamed “Booda Bear” – rants angrily:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My guys sleep in the dirt out here, we’re on shifts for 14 hours a day and trying to make sure that this family stays safe and secure … and just so everybody knows, as Booda, head of security for the Bundy Family I can swear on the white skin that covers my ass there will not be an Oath Keeper — there WILL NOT BE AN OATH KEEPER allowed to set foot on the internal ranch property.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alias responded to these slurs by suggesting that “Booda” and pals were actually FBI plants:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the purported “leaders” of the militia at the ranch are doing exactly what any agent provocateur would do after having infiltrated the militia and claimed a role in leadership. Did you notice the massive ego about who is going to command who? Did you notice the drama in the tendency to speak of Oath Keepers as if we were a militia, which we are not. These militia “leaders” would judge us by battlefield standards even though there has not been a “battlefield” since April 12, 2014? They would shoot us for desertion? Really? That is amazing, and is the kind of bumbling consciousness which a conditioned and programmed special warfare officer or a federal agent would offer if he had to think on his feet of a sudden.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Patriots” often talk about fighting what they see as a second Civil War in America soon. But as the militiamen at the Bundy Ranch are demonstrating, the civil wars they end up fighting are usually within their own ranks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tags: Cliven Bundy, Far Right, nevada, Patriot movement, Right-wing extremism, right-wing violence</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chuck Baldwin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Boldin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom DeWeese</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph Francis Farah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Jones</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">view all</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Associated Groups</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WorldNetDaily</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related Articles&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 'Patriot' Timeline (2001)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 'Patriot' Movement Explodes(2012)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The antigovernment “Patriot” movement has experienced a resurgence, growing quickly since 2008, when President Obama was elected to office. Factors fueling the antigovernment movement in recent years include changing demographics driven by immigration, the struggling economy and the election of the first African-American president. In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified 1,274 anti-government “Patriot” groups that were active the prior year. Of these groups, 334 were militias and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Generally, Patriot groups define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Antigovernment groups do not necessarily advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, though some have. Many warn of impending government violence or the need to prepare for a coming revolution. Many antigovernment groups are not racist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A particularly prominent conspiracy in the antigovernment movement is that the United Nations, which is usually seen as spearheading the “New World Order,” is imposing a global plan, called Agenda 21, to take away citizens’ property rights. There is a UN program with that name to develop sustainable communities across the globe. Agenda 21 was agreed to by political leaders from dozens of countries, including the first President Bush. But in typical fashion, these antigovernment activists have twisted it into a global conspiracy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other notable conspiracies found in the antigovernment movement include the idea that the government is secretly planning to round up citizens and place them in concentration camps run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Another conspiracy alleges that there are plans to merge the United States, Canada and Mexico into a single country. Fears of impending gun control or weapons confiscations, either by the government or international agencies, also run rampant in antigovernment circles. As a result, many antigovernment activists believe that being well armed is a must. The militia movement engages in paramilitary training aimed at protecting citizens from this feared impending government crackdown.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The antigovernment movement hit its previous high of 858 groups in 1996, the year after the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was motivated by extreme antigovernment beliefs then circulating in the militia movement. He was also inspired by the racist novel, The Turner Diaries, modeling his attack on a scene from the book.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The antigovernment movement of the 1990s, typified by the proliferation of militias, was fueled by a string of incidents, including the 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound, that were seen as evidence of an out-of-control government willing to attack citizens. Other factors included the struggling economy in the early 1990s, particularly in Western states, and the election of President Clinton, who was perceived by these activists as a liberal intent on seizing their weapons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A subset of the antigovernment movement—sovereign citizens—is a growing force. Sovereign citizens believe that they, not judges, juries, law enforcement or elected officials, get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore, and they don't think they should have to pay taxes. Sovereign citizen ideology is complex and bizarre and they are best known for clogging up the courts with indecipherable filings and liens targeting public officials.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When cornered, many have lashed out in rage, frustration and, in the most extreme cases, acts of deadly violence, usually directed against government officials. In May 2010, for example, a father-son team of sovereigns murdered two police officers with an assault rifle when they were pulled over on the interstate while traveling through West Memphis, Ark.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The sovereign citizens movement is rooted in racism and anti-Semitism, though most sovereigns, many of whom are African American, are unaware of their beliefs' origins. In the early 1980s, the sovereign citizens movement attracted primarily white supremacists and anti-Semites, mainly because sovereign theories originated in groups that saw Jews as working behind the scenes to manipulate financial institutions and control the government. Most early sovereigns, and some of those who are still on the scene, believed that being white was a prerequisite to becoming a sovereign citizen. They argued that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed citizenship to African Americans and everyone else born on U.S. soil, also made black Americans permanently subject to federal and state governments, unlike themselves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. Hate Groups and Antigovernment Groups on Rise across US</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups and antigovernment groups, released a report showing that 1,360 radical, antigovernment “patriot” groups and 321 militias actively operate within the United States. Released in March 2013, these statistics show an 813 percent rise in the number of such groups since 2008, with increasing numbers each year. Hate groups are most prevalent in California, with eighty-four total; Texas was second among states with sixty-two.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The SPLC counted over 1,000 hate groups in the US in 2012. By the SPLC’s standards, hate groups “have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” and their activities can include “criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the numbers of Patriot groups now much higher now than they were during the peak of the militia movement in the 1990s, the threat of domestic terror attacks is very real. After the SPLC’s report was released, the Center’s president, Richard Cohen, sent a letter to the US attorney general as well as the Homeland Security secretary requesting them to “create a new task force to ensure the government is devoting the resources needed to address domestic terrorism.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hate groups are now transitioning from racist hatred to hatred focused on the government and its representatives. The patriot and militia groups are some of the fastest growing groups, and their goals and rhetoric must be understood in order to implement successful strategies to counter their behavior if it should become violent, according to the SPLC. The SPLC also identified “sovereign citizens,” who often operate as “lone wolves,” breaking away from the group to perform the violent acts. Unfortunately, with the use of social media and the Internet, hate groups are able to recruit and spread their beliefs more readily than in the past.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate media have paid scattered attention to the SPLC report and its findings. Both the New York Times and MSNBC covered the report on the day the SPLC issued it, but otherwise, establishment media have done little to shed light on this subject.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Censored #5</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hate Groups and Antigovernment Groups on Rise across US</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brian Levin, “U.S. Hate and Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Record Says,”Huffington Post, March 8, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/hate-groups-splc_b_1331318.html.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Potok, Intelligence Report: The Year in Hate and Extremism, Southern Poverty Law Center, Spring 2013, http://www.splcenter.org/home/2013/spring/the-year-in-hate-and-extremism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaurieInQueens, “‘Patriot’ Groups At All-Time High, Hate Groups Up Again: Report,”National Memo, March 7, 2013, http://www.nationalmemo.com/patriot-groups-at-all-time-high-hate-groups-up-again-report/.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Student Researchers: Sunnie Ayers (Sonoma State University); Jackson Hand and Amanda Baron (College of Marin)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Community and Faculty Evaluators: Ben Parry (Sonoma State University); Andy Lee Roth (College of Marin)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.projectcensored.org/5-hate-groups-antigovernment-groups-rise-across-us/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">april 19 2009 lex gren concord 1st mtg of oath Keepers, (waco and Murrah Bldg) 3k active dity solhdiers, cops so,e ret, list of oders they will not obey, incl wil not enter a state, take guns, blockade city, put ppl in camps, assist any for soldier on US soil ...216</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Pv law Cte est 125 new hate gps and 350 nativist gps since 2005 217 recycled militia, but now fed gov has black face //3%ers (that's hopw many they say actually fought in revo war) rady to take up arm ~ gov; get rady for Big Bie Off, all politics is dress rehersal for civil war 219</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gov Perry spoke at TP rally, chant secede; he did not rule out 220; 8 states (OK, North D, so d, tenn, ID, LA AK)[palin signed before bailing; her husb in party 10 yrs]have passes secede resoltions (GA on april foo'ls day 2009 43 to 1 ; very senier legislators involved ; any limit on guns, so reinstate assualt ban could be trigger; GA cam jusge"how far the licentiousness of speech and the press maybe be abridged w/o lesening thewir useful freedom" 224 (passed w/o debate and even some legis knowing)// Tenthers who say any state can leave if feds do anything not explicitly allowed for in const 223</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MILITIA HIST Minuteman started "patritoic resistance" early 60's ~ ruskie invasion to take all the guns by end og 1965; fdr Roby Bolivar DePugh tried to start pol party, bustd for plot to blow up redmon wa city hall and power plants, rob banks; pals planned gas attack on UN, heavy weapons more than 1 mil rounds 226</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maj Gen Edwin Walker resigned after giving JBS lit to troops. led protest on james merdith desegr; 2 ppl kia and 6 marshalls wounded (later arrested 2x in pbblic bath for lewd)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dobson FoF at CNP: ppl ready to give their lives to "oppose the evil of liberalism" v221</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AlterNet [1] / By Steven Hsieh [2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">comments_image</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Massive Spike in Number of Paranoid 'Patriot' Groups</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 6, 2013&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The number of anti-government “Patriot” and militia groups in America hit record levels in 2012, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report released Tuesday. SPLC recorded 1,360 conspiracy-minded “patriot” groups in 2012, up 813% from 2008. These right-wing extremists typically “believe that the government is poised to take their guns,” wrote SPLC President Richard Cohen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In particular, SPLC cites the push for gun control legislation following the Newtown massacre as fuel for right wing conspiracy nuts. It notes that a previous surge in patriot and militia groups under the Clinton administration had catastrophic results. To wit, the passage of the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 assault weapons ban eventually “led to the first wave of the Patriot movement that burst into public consciousness with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.” A month prior, the SPLC wrote a letter to the federal government warning about the rise of “extremists in the militia movement.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One current group composed of former military and law enforcement, the Oath Keepers, epitomizes the paranoiac extremism that’s exploded in recent years. The Nevada-based group [3]’s Web site repeatedly peddles unfounded claims that the Obama’s gun control plan aims to confiscate people’s guns, violating the group’s number one rule to “not obey orders to disarm the American people.” Another group, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association [4] pledges to “be the army to set our nation free.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with the Obama’s push for gun control, SPLC cites other predictable reasons for increased hysteria on the right: the re-election of America’s first black president, the sluggish economy, the prospect of immigration reform, as well as extremism seeping into the mainstream conservative media. And as Obama begins to push his “agenda of gun control and immigration reform, the rage on the right is likely to intensify,” the report predicts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Considering the growth of Patriot and militia groups, far surpassing the numbers during the Oklahoma City bombing, SPLC urged the Department of Homeland Security to keep a closer eye on right wing extremists. In 2009 a DHS folded its non-Islamic terrorism unit after conservative groups attacked a report detailing the increasing threat of right wing extremism in America.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the 1990s, warnings that might have averted some of the violence from the radical right failed to stick,” writes SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok, “Now, as we face another large and growing threat from the extremists of the Patriot movement, the country needs to do better.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See more stories tagged with:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">militia [5],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">patriot [6],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Southern Poverty Law Center [7],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oklahoma city bombing [8],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">right wing [9],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">extremism [10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/massive-spike-number-paranoid-patriot-groups</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1] http://www.alternet.org</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/steven-hsieh</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[3] http://oathkeepers.org/oath/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[4] http://cspoa.org/about/message-from-mack/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[5] http://www.alternet.org/tags/militia-0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[6] http://www.alternet.org/tags/patriot-0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[7] http://www.alternet.org/tags/southern-poverty-law-center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[8] http://www.alternet.org/tags/oklahoma-city-bombing</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/right-wing-0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[10] http://www.alternet.org/tags/extremism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[11] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crazy Pro-Gun Republicans Claim Obama is Raising Private Black Army to Massacre Whites</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 1, 2013&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt appeared Tuesday on the Talk to Solomon Show alongside conservative blogger Greg W. Howard, of Twittergate fame [3], for another chance to spew anti-Obama conspiracy theories [4].</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pratt predicted that President Obama may begin confiscating guns in order to provoke a violent response [5] to justify further oppression, which host Stan Solomon feared would lead to the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of people.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pratt once again insisted that Obama is acting like King George III, a sentiment with which Solomon concurred, saying, “That will happen quickly and they will wipe those people out to set an example.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Solomon wasn’t finished: “I believe they will put together a racial force to go against an opposite race resistance, basically a black force to go against a white resistance, and then they will claim anyone resisting the black force they are doing it because they are racist.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Howard agreed: “You may be right because he has been sowing the seeds of racial hatred; we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After arguing that Obama is “not American” and not a natural born citizen, Howard maintained that Obama may begin “wiping out a few hundred people who own guns, pull a large scale Waco or a Ruby Ridge type incident” and have it “tinged it with racial overtones.” But just in case Obama goes through with his plans to “take down” the Internet, “people are setting up phone-trees all over the place” to stop Obama in his tracks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unsurprisingly, Pratt agreed with their insane ramblings: “I do agree that the Obama administration would definitely be capable of something as evil as you were suggesting.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, Pratt warned that “a lot of people resolved, ‘no more free Wacos,’” and that if Obama “starts playing the massacre game the way you did at Waco, well, you’re going to get surrounded, you won’t be able to go home safely, your family won’t be safe.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See more stories tagged with:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gun safety [6],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">massacre [7],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">racial violence [8],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">president obama [9],</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">right wing [10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/crazy-pro-gun-republicans-claim-obama-raising-private-black-army-massacre-whites</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1] http://www.Rightwingwatch.org</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/brian-tashman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[3] http://gawker.com/5659351/twittergate-how-internet-jerks-pranked-the-tea-party</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[4] http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/larry-pratt</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqxafCHrcbM&feature=youtu.be</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[6] http://www.alternet.org/tags/gun-safety</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[7] http://www.alternet.org/tags/massacre</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[8] http://www.alternet.org/tags/racial-violence</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/president-obama-0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[10] http://www.alternet.org/tags/right-wing-0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[11] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/20/naacp_report_ties_tea_party_to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than two weeks before the midterms elections, the NAACP has published a new report that exposes what it calls links between various Tea Party organizations and racist hate groups in the United States. The report, 'Tea Party Nationalism,' analyzes each of the six most active Tea Party organizations in the country and describes links between Tea Party factions and various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations and militias. We speak with Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP; and one of the authors of the report, Leonard Zeskind, the president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights&nbsp; oct 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Minutemen’s scheme had been to target drug dealers, rob them of their cash and drugs, and use the proceeds to finance a “super militia” that would both patrol the border and fight the nefarious New World Order. At one planning meeting, Forde told other Minutemen that the “drug house” they were targeting in Arivaca contained up to $3 million in cash and drugs and that the family was just a front for the drug cartels.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, the home of Junior Flores and Gina Gonzalez contained nothing more than their 9-year-old daughter; the invaders found neither drugs nor money (in fact, they missed some $3,000 in cash Gina Gonzalez had tucked inside a pocket of her purse to pay bills). Junior Flores was indeed involved in the pot-smuggling business, but he was a small-time operator known to keep those dealings well away from his home. The depth of these killer Minutemen’s ineptitude was hard to overstate: they had killed a little girl for absolutely nothing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National leaders of the Minuteman movement – particularly its cofounders, Chris Simcox of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, or MCDC, and Jim Gilchrist, leader of the Minuteman Project – hastily distanced themselves from Shawna Forde and her offshoot organization. Simcox claimed that his organization had kicked Forde out back in 2007, when she had become embroiled in allegations of lying and pretending to be a senior leader in the Washington state chapter of the Defense Corps: “We knew that Shawna Forde was not just an unsavory character but pretty unbalanced, as well,” he said. Not only that, he claimed that her earlier dismissal proved his organization did a good job of weeding out extremists from within its ranks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, Jim Gilchrist took down material from his Minuteman Web site supporting MAD, Forde’s group, and announced his “condolences to the victims,” declaring that Forde and her associates were “rogues,” and insisting that his relationship with her was never “extensive.” “They happened to use the Minuteman movement as a guise, as a mask,” he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simcox’s MCDC spokesperson, Carmen Mercer, decried the media coverage of the Forde case in a press statement. “The media continues to flame the fires of ethnic friction and faux racism through their ridiculous reporting that this is a Minuteman crime — the media is irrational and reckless in perpetrating this despicable propaganda,” she wrote. “The Arivaca home invasion had nothing to do with the Minutemen, nothing to do with race or illegal immigration, it had to do with psychopathic criminals preying on other criminals.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, an investigation of these claims and characterizations by AlterNet and the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute makes clear that they are patently false. Not only did both Simcox and Gilchrist have extensive dealings with Forde over the years, both repeatedly courted her work and her organization. Simcox didn’t chase Forde out of the MCDC: he begged Forde not to leave his fold. In the case of Gilchrist, one witness to the conversation says that, in 2008, he and Forde discussed her plan to finance the movement by ripping off drug dealers — and that he was enthusiastic about it. Forde not only was fully empowered by Minuteman movement leadership, she was enacting a violent scheme with what she believed was their tacit approval....</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also represented was Oath Keepers, whose members call themselves “guardians of the Republic.” Oath Keepers recruits military and law enforcement officials who are asked to disobey orders the group deems unconstitutional. These include orders to conduct warrantless searches, arrest Americans as unlawful enemy combatants or force civilians into “any form of detention camps.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oath Keepers, which has been recruiting at Tea Party events around the country and forging informal ties with militia groups, has an enthusiastic following in Friends for Liberty. “A lot of my people are Oath Keepers,” Mr. Stevens said. “I’m an honorary Oath Keeper myself.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By inviting Richard Mack to speak at their first event, leaders of Friends for Liberty were trying to attract militia support. They knew Mr. Mack had many militia fans, and not simply because he had helped Randy Weaver write a book about Ruby Ridge. As a sheriff in Arizona, Mr. Mack had sued the Clinton administration over the Brady gun control law, which resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that the law violated state sovereignty by requiring local officials to conduct background checks on gun buyers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Mack was selling Cadillacs in Arizona, his political career seemingly over, when Mr. Obama was elected. Disheartened by the results, he wrote a 50-page booklet branding the federal government “the greatest threat we face.” The booklet argued that only local sheriffs supported by citizen militias could save the nation from “utter despotism.” He titled his booklet “The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope,” offered it for sale on his Web site and returned to selling cars.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But last February he was invited to appear on “Infowars,” the Internet radio program hosted by Alex Jones, a well-known figure in the Patriot movement. Then Mr. Mack went on “The Power Hour,” another Internet radio program popular in the Patriot movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After those appearances, Mr. Mack said, he was inundated with invitations to speak to Tea Parties and Patriot groups. Demand was so great, he said, that he quit selling cars. Then Andrew P. Napolitano, a Fox News legal analyst, invited him to New York to appear on his podcast.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s taken over my life,” Mr. Mack said in an interview.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said he has found audiences everywhere struggling to make sense of why they were wiped out last year. These audiences, he said, are far more receptive to critiques once dismissed as paranoia. It is no longer considered all that radical, he said, to portray the Federal Reserve as a plaything of the big banks — a point the Birch Society, among others, has argued for decades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dog track opened at 5:45 p.m. for Mr. Mack’s speech, and the parking lot quickly filled. Inside, each Friends for Liberty sponsor had its own recruiting table. Several sheriffs and state legislators worked the crowd. “I came out to talk with folks and listen to Sheriff Mack,” Ozzie Knezovich, the sheriff of Spokane County, Wash., explained.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gazing out at his overwhelmingly white audience, Mr. Mack felt the need to say, “This meeting is not racist.” Nor, he said, was it a call to insurrection. What is needed, he said, is “a whole army of sheriffs” marching on Washington to deliver an unambiguous warning: “Any violation of the Constitution we will consider a criminal offense.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Mack shared his vision of the ideal sheriff. The setting was Montgomery, Ala., on the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger. Imagine the local sheriff, he said, rather than arresting Ms. Parks, escorting her home, stopping to buy her a meal at an all-white diner.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Edmund Burke said the essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws,” he said. Likewise, Mr. Mack argued, sheriffs should have ignored “stupid laws” and protected the Branch Davidians at Waco, Tex., and the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is a defiant and mocking rejoinder to last April’s intelligence assessment from the Department of Homeland Security warning that recession and the election of the nation’s first black president “present unique drivers for right wing radicalization.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Historically,” the assessment said, “domestic right wing extremists have feared, predicted and anticipated a cataclysmic economic collapse in the United States.” Those predictions, it noted, are typically rooted in “antigovernment conspiracy theories” featuring impending martial law. The assessment said extremist groups were already preparing for this scenario by stockpiling weapons and food and by resuming paramilitary exercises.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Tony Stewart, a leading civil rights activist in the inland Northwest, took careful note of the report. Almost 30 years ago, Mr. Stewart cofounded the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations in Coeur d’Alene. The task force has campaigned relentlessly to rid north Idaho of its reputation as a haven for anti-government extremists. The task force tactics brought many successes, including a $6.3 million civil judgment that effectively bankrupted Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the Tea Party uprising gathered force last spring, Mr. Stewart saw painfully familiar cultural and rhetorical overtones. Mr. Stewart viewed the questions about Mr. Obama’s birthplace as a proxy for racism, and he was bothered by the “common message of intolerance for the opposition.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In these respects there are enormous similarities between the Tokyo incident and the April 1995 car-bombing of a United States Government office building in Oklahoma City. Two men have been charged with the bombing: a 27 year old U.S. Army veteran, Timothy McVeigh, and Terry L. Nichols, a fellow veteran. McVeigh, an anti-government, right-wing extremist, reportedly engineered the attack with Nichols on the Federal office building to mark the second anniversary of the FBI's bloody assault on the Branch Davidian's Waco, Texas compound. Obsessed that the Waco raid represented the opening salvo in a U.S. government conspiracy to outlaw posession of fire-arms in the U.S. and further proscribe individual liberties, McVeigh and his alleged accomplice(s) appear to have acted from a combination of motives -- including vengeance, protest and resistance. Even more disquieting, as lunatic as such views and obsessive conspiracy theories sound, they are today held by a growing number of like-minded Americans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An estimated 100 other similarly-oriented "militias" - - with upwards of 50,000 members -- have reportedly sprung up in at least 20 other states, stretching from Pennsylvania to California and Montana to Texas. These groups in fact are but the latest iterations of a radical right-wing cum, white supremacist movement that has repeatedly re-invented itself over the past decade in a bid to attract a more diverse constituency and larger number of adherents and supporters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The aims and motivations of these extremist groups, however, span a broad spectrum of anti-federalist and seditious beliefs and religious hatred, masked by a transparent veneer of religious precepts. They are bound together by their shared hostility to any form of government above the county level, their vilification of Jews and non-whites as children of Satan; their obsession with achieving the religious and racial purification of the U.S.; their belief in a conspiracy theory of powerful Jewish interests controlling the government, banks and the media; and their advocacy of the overthrow of the U.S. government, or the ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government), disparagingly refer to it. It is particularly alarming that the white supremacists expressed raison d'etre -- racism, anti-Semitism and sedition -- is justified and legitimised on theological grounds. It is at once a political and grassroots religious movement. The leaders of the movement -- like the Michigan Militia's founder and "general", Pastor Norman Olson, the Idaho-based Aryan Nations' leader, Reverend Richard Girnt Bulter and, the Ku Klux Klan's Pastor Thom Robb -- cloak themselves with clerical titles in order to endow their organisations with a theological veneer that condones and justifies violence. Both the Tokyo incident and the Oklahoma City bombing demonstrate clearly that, contrary to popular belief, terrorism motivated by a religious imperative is not a phemonenon restricted only to Islamic groups exclusively from the Middle East, as many believed in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing for example. Rather it is a characteristic of emerging radical sects and religious movements everywhere.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following Timothy McVeigh's 1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City, the militia movement seemed to go into decline, with a number of militia groups publicly disbanding. In Klamath Falls, however, the militia movement proved itself still capable of aggressive organizing, swelling local protests by trucking in activists from neighboring states, and using the water conflict as an opportunity to indoctrinate and recruit local farmers to their cause.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon alone has five separate groups that participate in the militia movement: Emissary Publications, the Constitution Party, the Embassy of Heaven Church, the Southern Oregon Militia, and Freedom Bound International, which is based in Klamath Falls. However, militia support for the farmers came from militia groups nationwide. The Kentucky State Militia and the Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines followed the events in Klamath closely.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Montanta Human Rights Network (MHRN), which monitors the activities of the radical right, obtained copies of e-mail messages exchanged between militia members, several of which advocated the use of armed force. One message said it would be "a great honor and privilege" to "fire the first shot at the feds." Another called for opening the water gates by "those of you who have access to airplanes and explosives."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other protesters were local, such as Gavin Rajnus, a farmer who found himself drawn into civil disobedience actions when water to his farm was cut off and he received a quick indoctrination in anti-environmentalism from "a local businessman he won't identify. ... From the Good Americans, Rajnus learned about the high salaries, hyperbolic scare tactics and expensive direct-mailing campaigns of the national environmental groups," Wentz wrote. "He learned that children are being brainwashed in schools by innocent-seeming Earth Day celebrations, when www.earthday.net carries political alerts against President Bush."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Johnson, the farms around Klamath are really "encampments" in a "war" being fought against humanity itself. "The forces against us claim they are trying to save fish," he wrote. "We are trying to save humans. In our minds, the most threatened species in the Klamath Basin is man himself. This may become one of the greatest rescue and resupply operations ever--and more important than the Historic Berlin Airlift."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the MHRN issued a news release about the militia's involvement, participants in the convoy tried to downplay the militia role. Right-wing talk show host and militia supporter John Stokes of KGEZ radio was originally slated to join the convoy, bringing along a 10-foot wooden swastika, painted green. Stokes planned to burn the swastika at a rally in Klamath to dramatize his notion that "this green movement is based on Nazism." In the end, Stokes chose not to participate personally but sent along the swastika. "As far as the Network knows, it was never burned and press reports said the swastika was not allowed in a parade held in downtown Klamath," reported a MHRN advisory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Extremist rhetoric also came from Jack Redfield, a member of the Klamath Falls Police Department. Redfield, who also owns a ranch, delivered beef he had raised to a barbecue celebrating a limited release of water to farmers. Still in uniform, he donned a white cowboy hat and delivered a fiery attack on "the so-called environmentalists and our federal agencies," which he accused of "thinly disguised domestic terrorism directed at the economy of the US. ... They will not stop in the Klamath Basin. They are already up to their devious evil in other parts of Oregon and other states. ... When you expand the crisis to our 50 states over the next year or two as this madness progresses, you are looking at the destruction of the livelihoods of millions of people and businesses. ... I think the potential for extreme violence, even to the extent of civil war, is possible if action is not taken in the very near future to remedy this tragedy."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Redfield also singled out local environmental activists Andy Kerr and Wendell Wood for particular attack. "It won't take much from Andy Kerr or Wendell Wood or their like to spark an extremely violent response," he said. "I am talking about rioting, homicides, destruction of property like dams that hold the precious water from the agricultural community."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These remarks, with their implied endorsement of violence and law-breaking, led to Redfield's temporary suspension from duty. Carl F. Worden, a "liaison officer" for the Southern Oregon Militia, responded by calling him a "prophet" and proposed an even more violent strategy for defeating the evil bureaucrats at the Bureau of Land Management:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One man carrying a white flag approaches the armed BLM officer at the Head Gate, presents him with a demand that he and his cohorts leave immediately, and allows him no more than five minutes to accomplish that task. The demand further requires the BLM officer and his men surrender their weapons AND their personal identification upon evacuation of the area. They are warned not to return. It is obvious the man carrying the white flag is backed up by over fifty heavily armed citizens surrounding the Head Gates, all with their precision sniper rifles and semi-automatic weapons brought to bear on the BLM officer and his men. The BLM officer is ordered not to attempt to communicate the situation to his superiors, and if he cooperates with the citizens, he and his men will be allowed to evacuate the area with the understanding that if they ever return, no quarter will be granted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The BLM officer sees the light--or he doesn't--and he either evacuates per the demand, or he and his men die right on the spot. It really doesn't matter to the citizens at this point. All evidence and shell casing are carefully recovered, boot prints are obscured, tire tracks are obliterated, the Head Gates are opened, and the citizens go home to a quiet night with their families.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This incitement to violence is precisely the sort of thing that leads to real terrorism, but Worden must have known that he had little to fear from local law enforcement--not when "prophetic" officers like Jack Redfield are on the job.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-government activism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott Roeder had been a member of the anti-government Montana Freemen group. He was stopped in Topeka, Kansas, in April 1996 while displaying a placard reading "Sovereign Citizen" in lieu of a license plate. He had no driver's license, vehicle registration or proof of insurance. Police officers searching his car discovered explosives charges, a fuse cord, a pound of gunpowder and nine-volt batteries in the trunk. He was charged, represented by a public defender, convicted in June of all four counts and sentenced to 24 months probation. In July 1997 his probation was revoked for failure to pay taxes and provide his social security number to his employer as well as other probation violations. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison to be followed by 24 months parole supervision. He filed notice of appeal and was represented by a state-funded appellate attorney who challenged the basis of the original search that found the bomb components. The Kansas Court of Appeals overturned this conviction in March 1998, ruling that the search of Roeder's car had been illegal and remanded the case to the trial court. Roeder was released after serving eight months.[35][36][37][38][39]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Roeder belonged to a group called the Sovereign Citizen Movement, which believes that virtually all existing government in the United States is illegitimate.[citation needed] The ADL's National Director Abraham Foxman stated that "Roeder's attachment to extreme causes extended beyond anti-abortion extremism. His extremism cross-pollinated between anti-government extremism and anti-abortion activism and led to violence and murder."[40][41]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After being charged with murder, a delusional Roeder frequently called an Associated Press reporter from the county jail. He complained about being treated like a criminal and about his having been characterized in other media as having been anti-government. Roeder told the reporter, "I want people to stop and think: It is not anti-government, it is anti-corrupt-government."[42]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right Wing Strategies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leaderless Resistance is a terrorist strategy. The movement splits itself into two components: an aboveground leadership of propagandists and an underground network of terrorist action cells. Individual cells may be prosecuted, but Leaderless Resistance networks are virtually immune from law enforcement activities.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Paper terrorism" is a resistance/terrorist strategy. The name is misleading, but widely used. Properly speaking, the activity is barratry, the fraudulent simulation of a legal process. Most barratry consists of harassing lawsuits, filing frivolous documents in support of tax resistance and phony liens against public officials. Widely tolerated by prosecutors and county clerks. No significant enforcement activity has occurred, though many states' Attorneys General have drafted numerous opinions on right-wing barratry for the last two decades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tax Resistance is another name for tax fraud. Fraud is the most common form of Christian Patriot criminal activity. Cheating on taxes is widespread, but right-wingers have raised it to an elaborate art form similar to drug money-laundering operations. Rarely prosecuted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Common law is a protest/resistance/terrorist strategy. In the milder variant, it takes the form of frivolous pro se legal actions. In its most dangerous form, it consists of kangaroo "common law" courts which use militia cells to enforce their rulings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right Wing Groups and Movements</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neo-nazis and the Klan merged into a single movement in the early 1970's through the agency of Richard Butler and his Aryan Nations organization. Strongly influenced by "one-seed" Identity. Neo-nazi and Klan racism is very similar to the volk theories of Hitler's Nazis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Identity, or more properly Christian Identity, is a Bible-based but non-Christian sect. Intensely racist, Identity believes that only Anglo-Saxons (Aryans) are true "Christians" and that all other people are subhuman mongrels.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virulently anti-Semitic, Identity has split into two factions over the nature of Jewish peoples. The larger faction (one-seedline Identity) believes that Jews worship Satan. A smaller faction (two-seedline Identity) believes that Jews are the children of Cain, whose father was Satan not Adam. Two-seed Identity believers are far more violent and apt to view Adolph Hitler as a "Christian" prophet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Militias are overt or covert right-wing paramilitary organizations. John Trochmann, the leading militia figure today, preaches the Leaderless Resistance strategy of "public meetings and private cells." Most of the so-called "militia movement" is the armed wing of the Christian Patriot movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian Patriots (or often just Patriots) are a broad movement on the far right which extends from the John Birch Society to the Freemen. On the left, it stops short of the National Rifle Association and on the right, it does not include neo-nazis. When the movement began in the early 1960s, it was dominated by Identity and a few right-wing Mormons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its historical predecessors include the Ku Klux Klan, Father Coughlin's Christian Action paramilitary organization, the Silver Shirts, and the Black Legion, all American fascist organizations. The name comes from two small Identity-led paramilitary organizations which flourished in the 1960s: the Christian Defense League and the Christian-Patriot Defense league. Other early Christian Patriot groups included the Posse Comitatus, the Minutemen, the California Rangers, the Arizona Patriots, the Committee of the States, New Nation USA (NNUSA), Committee to Restore the Constitution and Willis Carto's Populist Party.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Originally part of the alliance of racist groups who participated in the Aryan Nations conferences in the early 1970s, by the 1980's the early Christian Patriot movement began to split into two distinct factions: the revolutionary neo-nazi/Klan movement and the reactionary Christian Patriot movement. Previous to the split, both factions used the name Christian Patriot.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the early 1990's, the Christian Patriot movement sought and found allies to its left -- but still well off-center -- in the militant wing of the Christian Right, particularly among violent anti-abortion activists and in the Wise Use Movement, a loose collection of anti-environmentalist organizations originally started by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Alan Gottlieb, a Washington State ultra-libertarian. The convergence of these groups, along with anti-gun control militants, led to the militia organizing drive of 1994.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian Patriot leadership continues to be dominated by "one-seed" Identity (notably John Trochmann and his Militia of Montana) and their affiliates such as Bo Gritz, Jack McLamb, Red Beckman and others. Christian Patriot racism is cultural, rather than bloodline, and sometimes described as nativism, "Afrikaaner" or "Old Settler" racism in contrast to the Nazi-style racism of the Klan. "Freemen" are mostly "two-seed" Identity and radical Mormon participants on the extreme right of the Christian Patriot movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to most Christian Patriots, only white, "Christian," property-owning males can possess "first-class" citizenship. Christian Patriot anti-Semitism is mostly coded in language about the fictional "Illuminatti," "International bankers," and the New World Order. Most Christian Patriots will simultaneously deny the Holocaust and their anti-Semitism. By Patriot lights, only neo-nazis and Klan are anti-Semites and racists -- since Patriots aren't neo-nazis, they can't be anti-Semites or racists. Their theories about property ownership, federal jurisdiction, taxation, monetary systems, and the United Nations are equally baroque and self-contradictory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Constitutionalists reject most conventional legal theory. Instead, they substitute a simplified notion a divinely inspired "organic" Constitution -- the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- combined with their interpretation of the Bible as the only "true law." Basically, most Constitutionalists don't want to pay taxes or recognize government authority.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of modern Constitutionalism comes from the writings and prophesies of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons.) The origin of the Christian Patriot term "Freemen" and the key to Constitutionalism can be found in The Book of Mormon, Alma 51: 5-6.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The foundation to Constitutionalist theory is that any alteration to the divinely inspired "organic" Constitution is contrary to God's will. This makes most American jurisprudence and case law, the abolition of slavery, income tax and votes for women, to name just a few of the things that Constitutionalists object to, not only "unconstitutional," but downright blasphemous.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">… A detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City [includes] plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since 1995 — plots and violence waged against a democratic America.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 28, 1995</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Antigovernment extremist Charles Ray Polk is arrested after trying to purchase a machine gun from an undercover police officer, and is later indicted by federal grand jury for plotting to blow up the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. At the time of his arrest, Polk is trying to purchase plastic explosives to add to the already huge arsenal he’s amassed. Polk is sentenced to almost 21 years in federal prison.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 9, 1995</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saboteurs derail an Amtrak passenger train near Hyder, Ariz., killing one person and injuring about 70 others. Several antigovernment messages, signed by the “Sons of Gestapo,” are left behind. The perpetrators remain at large.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 9, 1995</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oklahoma Constitutional Militia leader Willie Ray Lampley, his wife Cecilia and another man, John Dare Baird, are arrested as they prepare explosives to bomb numerous targets, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, gay bars and abortion clinics. The three, along with another suspect arrested later, are sentenced to terms of up to 11 years in 1996. Cecilia Lampley is released in 2000, while Baird and Willie Lampley — who wrote letters from prison urging others to violence — are freed in 2004 and 2006, respectively.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 18, 1995</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee discovers a plastic drum packed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in a parking lot behind the IRS building in Reno, Nev. The device failed to explode a day earlier when a three-foot fuse went out prematurely. Ten days later, tax protester Joseph Martin Bailie is arrested. Bailie is eventually sentenced to 36 years in federal prison, with a release date of 2027. An accomplice, Ellis Edward Hurst, is released in 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 18, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peter Kevin Langan, the pseudonymous “Commander Pedro” who leads the underground Aryan Republican Army, is arrested after a shootout with the FBI in Ohio. Along with six other suspects arrested around the same time, Langan is charged in connection with a string of 22 bank robberies in seven Midwestern states between 1994 and 1996. After pleading guilty and agreeing to testify, co-conspirator Richard Guthrie commits suicide in his cell. Two others, Kevin McCarthy and Scott Stedeford, enter plea bargains and do testify against their co-conspirators. Eventually, Mark Thomas, a leading neo-Nazi in Pennsylvania, pleads guilty for his role in helping organize the robberies and agrees to testify against Langan and other gang members. Shawn Kenny, another suspect, becomes a federal informant. Langan is sentenced to a life term in one case, plus 55 years in another. McCarthy is released from prison in 2007, while Stedeford’s release date is set in 2022. Thomas receives eight years and is released in early 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 11, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Antigovernment activist and self-described “survivalist” Ray Hamblin is charged with illegal possession of explosives after authorities find 460 pounds of the high explosive Tovex, 746 pounds of ANFO blasting agent and 15 homemade hand grenades on his property in Hood River, Ore. Hamblin is sentenced to almost four years in federal prison, and is released in March 2000.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 12, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently inspired by his reading of a neo-Nazi tract, Larry Wayne Shoemake kills one black man and wounds seven other people, including a reporter, during a racist shooting spree in a black neighborhood in Jackson, Miss. As police close in on the abandoned restaurant he is shooting from, Shoemake, who is white, sets the restaurant on fire and kills himself. A search of his home finds references to “Separation or Annihilation,” an essay on race relations by neo-Nazi National Alliance leader William Pierce, along with an arsenal of weapons that includes 17 long guns, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and countless military manuals.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 26, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two leaders of the Militia-at-Large of the Republic of Georgia, Robert Edward Starr III and William James McCranie Jr., are charged with manufacturing shrapnel-packed pipe bombs for distribution to militia members. Later in the year, they are sentenced to terms of up to eight years. Another Militia-at-Large member, Troy Allen Kayser (alias Troy Spain), is arrested two weeks later and accused of training a team to assassinate politicians. Starr is released from prison in 2003, while McCranie gets out in 2001. Kayser, convicted of conspiracy, is released in early 2002.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 1, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twelve members of an Arizona militia group called the Viper Team are arrested on federal conspiracy, weapons and explosive charges after allegedly surveilling and videotaping government buildings as potential targets. All 12 plead guilty or are convicted of various charges, drawing sentences of up to nine years in prison. The plot participants are all released in subsequent years. Gary Curds Baer, who drew the heaviest sentence after being found with 400 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a bomb component, is freed in May 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 27, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A nail-packed bomb goes off at the Atlanta Olympics, which are seen by many extremists as part of a Satanic “New World Order,” killing one person and injuring more than 100 others. Investigators will later conclude the attack is linked to 1997-1998 bombings of an Atlanta-area abortion clinic, an Atlanta gay bar and a Birmingham, Ala., abortion facility. Suspect Eric Robert Rudolph — a reclusive North Carolina man tied to the anti-Semitic Christian Identity theology — flees into the woods of his native state after he is identified in early 1998 as a suspect in the Birmingham attack, and is only captured five years later. Eventually, he pleads guilty to all of the attacks attributed to him in exchange for life without parole.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 29, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington State Militia leader John Pitner and seven others are arrested on weapons and explosives charges in connection with a plot to build pipe bombs to resist a feared invasion by the United Nations. Pitner and four others are convicted on weapons charges, while conspiracy charges against all eight end in a mistrial. Pitner is later retried on that charge, convicted and sentenced to four years in prison. He is released in 2001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 8, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three “Phineas Priests” — racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity terrorists who feel they’ve been called by God to undertake violent attacks — are charged in connection with two bank robberies and bombings at the two banks, a Spokane newspaper and a Planned Parenthood office. Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Jay Merrell are eventually convicted and sentenced to life terms. Brian Ratigan, a fourth member of the group arrested separately, draws a 55-year term; he is scheduled for release in 2045.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 11, 1996</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven members of the Mountaineer Militia are arrested in a plot to blow up the FBI’s national fingerprint records center, where 1,000 people work, in West Virginia. In 1998, leader Floyd “Ray” Looker is sentenced to 18 years in prison, with a release date of 2012. Two other defendants are sentenced on explosives charges and a third draws a year in prison for providing blueprints of the FBI facility to Looker, who then sold them to a government informant who was posing as a terrorist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 16, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two anti-personnel bombs — the second clearly designed to kill arriving law enforcement and rescue workers — explode outside an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Seven people are injured. Letters signed by the “Army of God” claim responsibility for this attack and another, a month later, at an Atlanta gay bar. Authorities later learn that these attacks, the 1998 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, were all carried out by Eric Robert Rudolph, who is captured in 2003 after five years on the run. Rudolph avoids the death penalty by pleading guilty in exchange for a life sentence, but simultaneously releases a defiant statement defending his attacks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 22, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Authorities raid the Martinton, Ill., home of former Marine Ricky Salyers, an alleged Ku Klux Klan member, discovering 35,000 rounds of heavy ammunition, armor piercing shells, smoke and tear gas grenades, live shells for grenade launchers, artillery shells and other military gear. Salyers was discharged earlier from the Marines, where he taught demolitions and sniping, after tossing a live grenade (with the pin still in) at state police officers serving him with a search warrant in 1995. Following the 1997 raid, Salyers, an alleged member of the underground Black Dawn group of extremists in the military, is sentenced to serve three years for weapons violations. He is released from prison in 2000.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 26, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Militia activist Brendon Blasz is arrested in Kalamazoo, Mich., and charged with making pipe bombs and other illegal explosives. Prosecutors say Blasz plotted to bomb the federal building in Battle Creek, the IRS building in Portage, a Kalamazoo television station and federal armories. But they recommend leniency on his explosives conviction after Blasz, a member of the Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines, renounces his antigovernment beliefs and cooperates with them. He is sentenced to more than three years in federal prison and released in late 1999.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 22, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three Ku Klux Klan members are arrested in a plot to blow up a natural gas refinery outside Fort Worth, Texas, after local Klan leader Robert Spence gets cold feet and goes to the FBI. The three, along with a fourth arrested later, expected to kill a huge number of people with the blast — authorities later say as many as 30,000 might have died — which was to serve, incredibly, as a diversion for a simultaneous armored car robbery. Among the victims would have been children at a nearby school. All four plead guilty to conspiracy charges and are sentenced to terms of up to 20 years. Spence enters the Witness Protection Program. Carl Jay Waskom Jr. is released in 2004, while Shawn and Catherine Adams, a couple, are freed in 2006. Edward Taylor Jr. is released in early 2007.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 23, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Florida police arrest Todd Vanbiber, a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance’s Tampa unit and the shadowy League of the Silent Soldier, after he accidentally sets off pipe bombs he was building, blasting shrapnel into his own face. He is accused of plotting to use the bombs on the approach to Disney World to divert attention from a planned string of bank robberies. Vanbiber pleads guilty to weapons and explosives charges and is sentenced to more than six years in federal prison. He is released in 2002. Within two years, Vanbiber is posting messages on neo-Nazi Internet sites boasting that he has built over 300 bombs successfully and only made one error, and describing mass murderer Timothy McVeigh as a hero.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 27, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After a cache of explosives stored in a tree blows up near Yuba City, Calif., police arrest Montana Freemen supporter William Robert Goehler. Investigators looking into the blast arrest two Goehler associates, one of them a militia leader, after finding 500 pounds of explosives — enough to level three city blocks — in a motor home parked outside their residence. Six others are arrested on related charges. Goehler, with previous convictions for rape, burglary and assault, is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He is later accused of stabbing his attorney with a shank and charged with attacking prison psychologists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 3, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Antigovernment extremists set fire to the IRS office in Colorado Springs, Colo., causing $2.5 million in damage and injuring a firefighter. Federal agents later arrest five men in connection with the arson, which is conceived as a protest against the tax system. Ringleader James Cleaver, former national director of the antigovernment Sons of Liberty group, is accused of threatening a witness and eventually sentenced to 33 years in prison, with a release date of 2030. Accomplice Jack Dowell receives 30 years and is scheduled to be freed in 2027. Both are ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution. Dowell’s cousin is acquitted of all charges, while two other suspects, Ronald Sherman and Thomas Shafer, plead guilty to perjury charges in connection with the case.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 4, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Militiaman Bradley Playford Glover and another heavily armed antigovernment activist are arrested before dawn near Fort Hood, in central Texas, just hours before they planned to invade the Army base and slaughter foreign troops they mistakenly believed were housed there. In the next few days, five other people are arrested in several states for their alleged roles in the plot to invade a series of military bases where the group believes United Nations forces are massing for an assault on Americans. All seven are part of a splinter group from the Third Continental Congress, a kind of militia government-in-waiting. In the end, Glover is sentenced to two years on Kansas weapons charges, to be followed by a five-year federal term in connection with the Fort Hood plot. The others draw lesser terms. Glover is released in 2003, the last of the seven to get out.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 12, 1997</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A federal grand jury in Arkansas indicts three men on racketeering charges for plotting to overthrow the government and create a whites-only Aryan People’s Republic, which they intend to grow through polygamy. Chevie Kehoe, Daniel Lee and Faron Lovelace are accused of crimes in six states, including murder, kidnapping, robbery and conspiracy. Kehoe and Lee will also face state charges of murdering an Arkansas family, including an 8-year-old girl, in 1996. Kehoe ultimately receives a life sentence on that charge, while Lee is sentenced to death. Lovelace is sentenced to death for the murder of a suspected informant, but because of court rulings is later resentenced to life without parole. Kehoe’s brother, Cheyne, is convicted of attempted murder during a 1997 Ohio shootout with police and sentenced to 24 years in prison, despite his helping authorities track down his fugitive brother in Utah after the shootout. Cheyne went to the authorities after Chevie began talking about murdering their parents and showing sexual interest in Cheyne’s wife.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 29, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An off-duty police officer is killed and a nurse terribly maimed when a nail-packed, remote-control bomb explodes outside a Birmingham, Ala., abortion facility, the New Woman All Women clinic. Letters to media outlets and officials claim responsibility in the name of the “Army of God,” the same entity that took credit for the bombings of a clinic and a gay bar in the Atlanta area. The attack also will be linked to the fatal 1996 bombing of the Atlanta Olympics. Eric Robert Rudolph, a loner from North Carolina, is first identified as a suspect when witnesses spot his pickup truck fleeing the Birmingham bombing. But he is not caught until 2003. He ultimately pleads guilty to all four attacks in exchange for a life sentence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 23, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three men with links to a Ku Klux Klan group are arrested near East St. Louis, Ill., on weapons charges. The three, along with three other men arrested later, formed a group called The New Order, patterned on a 1980s terror group called The Order (a.k.a. the Silent Brotherhood) that carried out assassinations and armored car heists. New Order members plotted to assassinate a federal judge and civil rights lawyer Morris Dees, blow up the Southern Poverty Law Center that Dees co-founded and other buildings, poison water supplies and rob banks. Wallace Weicherding, one of the men, came to a 1997 Dees speech with a concealed gun but turned back rather than pass through a metal detector. In the end, all six plead guilty or are convicted of weapons charges, drawing terms of up to seven years in federal prison. New Order leader Dennis McGiffen is released in 2004, the last of the six to regain his freedom.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 18, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three members of the North American Militia of Southwestern Michigan are arrested on firearms and other charges. Prosecutors say the men conspired to bomb federal buildings, a Kalamazoo television station and an interstate highway interchange, kill federal agents, assassinate politicians and attack aircraft at a National Guard base — attacks that were all to be funded by marijuana sales. The group’s leader, Ken Carter, is a self-described member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations. Carter pleads guilty, testifies against his former comrades, and is sentenced to five years in prison. The others, Randy Graham and Bradford Metcalf, go to trial and are ultimately handed sentences of 40 and 55 years, respectively. Carter is released from prison in 2002.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 29, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A day after stealing a water truck, three men shoot and kill a Cortez, Colo., police officer and wound two other officers as they try to stop the suspects during a road chase. After the gun battle, the three — Alan Monty Pilon, Robert Mason and Jason McVean — disappear into the canyons of the high desert. Mason is found a week later, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot. The skeletal remains of Pilon are found in 1999 and show that he, too, died of a gunshot to the head, another apparent suicide. McVean is not found, but most authorities assume he died in the desert. Many officials believe the three men intended to use the water truck in some kind of terrorist attack, but the nature of their suspected plans is never learned.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 1, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three men are charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction after threatening President Clinton and other federal officials with biological weapons. Officials say the men planned to use a cactus thorn coated with a toxin like anthrax and fired by a modified butane lighter to carry out the murders. One man is acquitted of the charges, but Jack Abbot Grebe Jr., and Johnnie Wise — a 72-year-old man who attended meetings of the separatist Republic of Texas group —are sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. The men are set for release in 2019.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 30, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South Carolina militia member Paul T. Chastain is charged with weapons, explosives and drug violations after allegedly trying to trade drugs for a machine gun and enough C-4 plastic explosive to demolish a five-room house. The next year, Chastain pleads guilty to an array of charges, including threatening to kill Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh. He is sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, with release scheduled in 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 23, 1998</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Barnett Slepian is assassinated by a sniper as he talks with his wife and children in the kitchen of their Amherst, N.Y., home. Identified as a suspect shortly after the murder, James Charles Kopp flees to Mexico, driven and disguised by friend Jennifer Rock, and goes on to hide out in Ireland and France. Two fellow anti-abortion extremists, Loretta Marra and Dennis Malvasi, make plans to help Kopp secretly return. Kopp, also suspected in the earlier sniper woundings of four physicians in Canada and upstate New York, is arrested in France as he picks up money wired by Marra and Malvasi. He eventually admits the shooting to a newspaper reporter — claiming that he only intended to wound Slepian — and is sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years. In 2003, Marra and Malvasi are sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to federal charges related to harboring a fugitive.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 10, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials arrest Alabama plumber Chris Scott Gilliam, a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, after he attempts to purchase 10 hand grenades from an undercover federal agent. Gilliam, who months earlier paraded in an extremist T-shirt in front of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s offices in Montgomery, tells agents he planned to send mail bombs to targets in Washington, D.C. Agents searching his home find bomb-making manuals, white supremacist literature and an assault rifle. Gilliam pleads guilty to federal firearms charges and is sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is released in early 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 1, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A gay couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder, are shot to death in bed at their home near Redding, Calif. Days later, after tracking purchases made on Mowder’s stolen credit card, police arrest brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams. At least one of the pair, Matthew Williams (both use their middle names), is an adherent of the anti-Semitic Christian Identity theology. Police soon learn that the brothers two weeks earlier carried out arson attacks against three synagogues and an abortion clinic in Sacramento. Both brothers, whose mother at one point refers in a conversation to her sons’ victims as “two homos,” eventually admit their guilt — in Matthew’s case, in a newspaper interview. Matthew, who at one point badly injures a guard in a surprise attack, commits suicide in 2002. Tyler, who pleads guilty to an array of charges in the case, and is given two sentences amounting to 50 years to be served consecutively.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 2, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Infuriated that neo-Nazi leader Matt Hale has just been denied his law license by Illinois officials, follower Benjamin Nathaniel Smith begins a three-day murder spree across Illinois and Indiana, shooting to death a popular black former college basketball coach and a Korean doctoral student and wounding nine other minorities. Smith kills himself as police close in during a car chase. Hale, the “Pontifex Maximus,” or leader, of the World Church of the Creator, at first claims to barely know Smith. But it quickly emerges that Hale has recently given Smith his group’s top award and, in fact, spent some 16 hours on the phone with him in the two weeks before Smith’s rampage. Conveniently, Hale receives a registered letter from Smith just days after his suicide, informing Hale that Smith is quitting the group because he now sees violence as the only answer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 10, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Buford Furrow, a former member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations who has been living with the widow of slain terrorist leader Bob Mathews, strides into a Jewish community center near Los Angeles and fires more than 70 bullets, wounding three boys, a teenage girl and a woman. He then drives into the San Fernando Valley and murders Filipino-American mailman Joseph Ileto. The next day, Furrow turns himself in, saying he intended to send “a wake-up call to America to kill Jews.” Furrow, who has a history of mental illness, eventually pleads guilty and is sentenced to two life terms without parole, plus 110 years in prison.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 5, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FBI agents arrest James Kenneth Gluck in Tampa, Fla., after he wrote a 10-page letter to judges in Jefferson County, Colo., threatening to “wage biological warfare” on a county justice center. While searching his home, police find the materials needed to make ricin, one of the deadliest poisons known. Gluck later threatens a judge, claiming that he could kill 10,000 people with the chemical. After serving time in federal prison, Gluck is released in early 2001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 5, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two California men, both members of the San Joaquin Militia, are charged with conspiracy in connection with a plot to blow up two 12-million-gallon propane tanks, a television tower and an electrical substation in hopes of provoking an insurrection. In 2001, the former militia leader, Donald Rudolph, pleads guilty to plotting to kill a federal judge and blow up the propane tanks, and testifies against his former comrades. Kevin Ray Patterson and Charles Dennis Kiles are ultimately convicted of several charges in connection with the conspiracy. They are expected to be released from federal prison in 2021 and 2018, respectively.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 8, 1999</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Beauregard, head of a militia coalition known as the Southeastern States Alliance, is charged with conspiracy, providing materials for a terrorist act and gun violations in a plot to bomb energy facilities and cause power outages in Florida and Georgia. After pleading guilty to several charges, Beauregard, who once claimed to have discovered a secret map detailing a planned UN takeover mistakenly printed on a box of Trix cereal, is sentenced to five years in federal prison. He is released in 2004, a year after accomplice James Troy Diver is freed following a similar conviction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 9, 2000</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents arrest Mark Wayne McCool, the one-time leader of the Texas Militia and Combined Action Program, as he allegedly makes plans to attack the Houston federal building. McCool, who was arrested after buying powerful C-4 plastic explosives and an automatic weapon from an undercover FBI agent, earlier plotted to attack the federal building with a member of his own group and a member of the antigovernment Republic of Texas, but those two men eventually abandoned the plot. McCool, however, remained convinced the UN had stored a cache of military materiel in the building. In the end, he pleads guilty to federal charges that bring him just six months in jail.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 28, 2000</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Immigration attorney Richard Baumhammers, himself the son of Latvian immigrants, goes on a rampage in the Pittsburgh area against non-whites, killing five people and critically wounding a sixth. Baumhammers had recently started a tiny white supremacist group, the Free Market Party, that demanded an end to non-white immigration into the United States. In the end, the unemployed attorney, who is living with parents at the time of his murder spree, is sentenced to death.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 1, 2001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of an ongoing probe into a white supremacist group, federal and local law enforcement agents raid the Corbett, Ore., home of Fritz Springmeier, seizing equipment to grow marijuana and weapons and racist literature. They also find a binder notebook entitled “Army of God, Yahweh’s Warriors” that contains what officials call a list of targets, including a local federal building and the FBI’s Oregon offices. Springmeier, an associate of the anti-Semitic Christian Patriots Association, is eventually charged with setting off a diversionary bomb at an adult video store in Damascus, Ore., in 1997 as part of a bank robbery carried out by accomplice Forrest Bateman Jr. Another 2001 raid finds small amounts of bomb materials and marijuana in Bateman’s home. Eventually, Bateman pleads guilty to bank robbery and Springmeier is convicted of the same charges. Both are sentenced to nine years, and have release dates in 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 19, 2001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White supremacists Leo Felton and girlfriend Erica Chase are arrested following a foot chase that began when a police officer spotted them trying to pass counterfeit bills at a Boston donut shop. Investigators quickly learn Felton heads up a tiny group called Aryan Unit One, and that the couple, who had already obtained a timing device, planned to blow up black and Jewish landmarks and possibly assassinate black and Jewish leaders. They also learn another amazing fact: Felton, a self-described Aryan, is secretly biracial. Felton and Chase are eventually convicted of conspiracy, weapons violations and obstruction, and Felton is also convicted of bank robbery and other charges. Felton, who previously served 11 years for assaulting a black taxi driver, is sentenced to serve more than 21 years in federal prison, while his one-time sweetheart draws a lesser sentence and is released in 2007.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 14, 2001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy pulls over Steve Anderson, a former “colonel” in the Kentucky Militia, on a routine traffic stop as he heads home to Kentucky from a white supremacist gathering in North Carolina. Anderson, who is an adherent of racist Christian Identity theology and has issued violent threats against officials for months via an illegal pirate radio station, pulls out a semi-automatic weapon and peppers the deputy’s car with bullets before driving his truck into the woods and disappearing for 13 months. Officials later find six pipe bombs in Anderson’s abandoned truck and 27 bombs and destructive devices in his home. In the end, Anderson apologizes for his actions and pleads guilty. He is sentenced on a variety of firearms charges to 15 years in federal prison.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 5, 2001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Wagner, who nine months earlier escaped from an Illinois jail while awaiting sentencing on weapons and carjacking charges, is arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wagner’s odyssey began in September 1999, when he was stopped driving a stolen camper in Illinois and told police he was headed to Seattle to murder an abortion provider. He escaped in February 2001 and, while on the lam, mailed more than 550 hoax anthrax letters to abortion clinics and posted an Internet threat warning abortion clinic workers that “if you work for the murderous abortionist, I’m going to kill you.” Wagner is eventually sentenced to 30 years on the Illinois charges. In Ohio, he is sentenced to almost 20 years more, to be served consecutively, on various weapons and car theft charges related to his time on the run. In late 2003, he also is found guilty of 51 federal terrorism charges. He is scheduled to be released in 2046.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 11, 2001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jewish Defense League chairman Irving David Rubin and a follower, Earl Leslie Krugel, are arrested in California and charged with conspiring to bomb the offices of U.S. Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) and the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City. Authorities say a confidential informant taped meetings with the two in which the bombings were discussed and Krugel said the JDL needed “to do something to one of their filthy mosques.” Rubin later commits suicide in prison, officials say, just before he is to go on trial in 2002. Krugel pleads guilty to conspiracy in both plots, and testifies that Rubin conspired with him. Krugel dies in prison in 2005.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 4, 2002</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neo-Nazi National Alliance member Michael Edward Smith is arrested after a car chase in Nashville, Tenn., that began when he was spotted sitting in a car with a semi-automatic rifle pointed at Sherith Israel Pre-School, run by a local synagogue. In Smith’s car, home and storage unit, officials find an arsenal that includes a .50-caliber rifle, 10 hand grenades, 13 pipe bombs, binary explosives, semi-automatic pistols, ammunition and an array of military manuals. They also find teenage porn on Smith’s computer and evidence that he carried out computer searches for Jewish schools and synagogues. In one of his E-mails, Smith wrote that Jews “perhaps” should be “stuffed head first into an oven.” Smith is sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, with an expected release date in 2011.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 8, 2002</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The leader of a militia-like group known as Project 7 and his girlfriend are arrested after an informant tells police the group is plotting to kill judges and law enforcement officers in order to kick off a revolution. David Burgert, who has a record for burglary and is already wanted for assaulting police officers, is found in the house of girlfriend Tracy Brockway along with an arsenal that includes pipe bombs and 25,000 rounds of ammunition. Also found are “intel sheets” with personal information about law enforcement officers, their spouses and children. Although officials are convinced the Project 7 plot was real, Burgert ultimately is convicted only of weapons charges and draws a seven-year sentence; he is to be released in 2010. Six others are also convicted of or plead guilty to weapons charges. Brockway gets a suspended sentence for harboring a fugitive, but is sent to prison for violating its terms. She is released in early 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 19, 2002</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Acting on a tip, federal and local law enforcement agents arrest North Carolina Klan leader Charles Robert Barefoot Jr. for his role in an alleged plot to blow up the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the sheriff himself and the county jail. Officers find more than two dozen weapons in Barefoot’s home. They also find bombs and bomb components in the home of Barefoot’s son, Daniel Barefoot, who is charged that same day with the arson of a school bus and an empty barn. The elder Barefoot — who broke away from the National Knights of the KKK several months earlier to form his own harder-line group, the Nation’s Knights of the KKK — is charged with weapons violations and later sentenced to more than two years. In 2003, Barefoot’s wife and three men, including Barefoot Sr., are charged with the murder of a former Klan member. In 2007, a judge rules Barefoot Sr. mentally incompetent to stand trial for murder and commits him indefinitely to a mental hospital. Sharon Barefoot was released from prison in July 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 22, 2002</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tampa area podiatrist Robert J. Goldstein is arrested after police, called by Goldstein’s wife after he allegedly threatened to kill her, find more than 15 explosive devices in their home, along with materials to make at least 30 more. Also found are homemade C-4 plastic explosives, grenades and mines, a .50-caliber rifle, semi-automatic weapons, and a list of 50 Islamic worship centers in the area. The most significant discovery is a three-page plan detailing plans to “kill all ‘rags'” at the Islamic Society of Pinellas County. Eventually, two other local men are also charged in connection with the plot, and Goldstein’s wife is arrested for possessing illegal destructive devices. Goldstein pleads guilty to plotting to blow up the Islamic Society and is sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison, with a release date in 2013. His wife was released in 2006.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 3, 2002</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials close in on long-time antigovernment extremist Larry Raugust at a rest stop in Idaho, arrest him and charge him with 16 counts of making and possessing destructive devices, including pipe bombs and pressure-detonated booby traps. He is accused of giving one explosive device to an undercover agent, and is also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot with colleagues in the Idaho Mountain Boys militia to murder a federal judge and a police officer, and to break a friend out of jail. A deadbeat dad, Raugust is also accused of helping plant land mines on property belonging to a friend whose land was seized by authorities over unpaid taxes. He eventually pleads guilty to 15 counts of making bombs and is sentenced to federal prison. Raugust was released in early 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 8, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents arrest Matt Hale, the national leader of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator (WCOTC), as he reports to a Chicago courthouse in an ongoing copyright case over the name of his group. Hale is charged with soliciting the murder of the federal judge in the case, Joan Humphrey Lefkow, who he has publicly vilified as someone bent on the destruction of his group. (Although Lefkow originally ruled in WCOTC’s favor, an appeals court found that the complaint brought by an identically named church in Oregon was legally justified, and Lefkow reversed herself accordingly.) In guarded language captured on tape recordings, Hale is heard agreeing that his security chief, an FBI informant, should kill Lefkow. Hale is found guilty and sentenced to serve 40 years in federal prison; he is not expected to be released until 2037.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 18, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James D. Brailey, a convicted felon who once was selected as “governor” of the state of Washington by the antigovernment Washington Jural Society, is arrested after a raid on his home turns up a machine gun, an assault rifle and several handguns. One informant tells the FBI that Brailey was plotting to assassinate Gov. Gary Locke, both because Locke was the state’s real governor and because he was Chinese-American. A second informant says that Brailey actually went on a “dry run” to Olympia, carrying several guns into the state Capitol building to test security. Eventually, Brailey pleads guilty to weapons charges and is sentenced to serve 15 months in prison. He is released in 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 13, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents in Pennsylvania arrest David Wayne Hull, imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and an adherent of the anti-Semitic Christian Identity theology, alleging that Hull arranged to buy hand grenades to blow up abortion clinics. The FBI says Hull also illegally instructed followers on how to build pipe bombs. Hull, who published a newsletter in which he urged readers to write Oklahoma bomber Tim McVeigh “to tell this great man goodbye,” is found guilty of weapons violations and sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. He is to be released in 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 3, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents arrest antigovernment extremist David Roland Hinkson in Idaho and charge him with trying to hire an assassin on two occasions in 2002 and 2003 to murder a federal judge, a prosecutor and an IRS agent involved in a tax case against him. Hinkson, a businessman who earned millions of dollars from his Water Oz dietary supplement company but refused to pay almost $1 million in federal taxes, is convicted in 2004 of 26 counts related to the tax case. In early 2005, a federal jury finds him guilty in the assassination plot as well. He is not expected to be released until 2040.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 10, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FBI raids the Noonday, Texas, home of William Krar and storage facilities that Krar rented in the area, discovering an arsenal that includes more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and remote-control briefcase bombs, and almost two pounds of deadly sodium cyanide. Also found are components to convert the cyanide into a bomb capable of killing thousands, along with white supremacist and antigovernment material. Investigators soon learn Krar was stopped earlier in 2003 by police in Tennessee, who found several weapons and coded documents in his car that seemed to detail a plot. But Krar refuses to cooperate, and details of that alleged plan are never learned. He pleads guilty to possession of a chemical weapon and is sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, where he dies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 4, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents in California announce that former accountant John Noster, in prison since November 2002 for car theft, is under investigation for plotting a major terrorist attack. Noster was first arrested as part of a car theft ring investigation, but officials who found incendiary devices in his stolen camper continued to probe his activities. Eventually, they find in various storage facilities three pipe bombs, six barrels of jet fuel, five assault weapons, cannon fuse, a large amount of ammunition and $188,000 in cash. Law enforcement officials, who describe Noster as an “antigovernment extremist,” allege at a press conference that he “was definitely planning” on an attack but do not elaborate. In addition to prison time in that case, Noster draws another five years in 2009, after pleading guilty to two weapons charges.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 10, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Police arrest Norman Somerville after finding a huge weapons cache on his property in northern Michigan that includes six machine guns, a powerful anti-aircraft gun, thousands of rounds of ammunition, hundreds of pounds of gunpowder, and an underground bunker. They also find two vehicles Somerville calls his “war wagons,” and on which prosecutors later say he planned to mount machine guns as part of a plan to stage an auto accident and then massacre arriving police. Officials describe Somerville as an antigovernment extremist enraged over the death of Scott Woodring, a Michigan Militia member killed by police a week after Woodring shot and killed a state trooper during a standoff. Somerville eventually pleads guilty to weapons charges and is sentenced to six years in prison. He is scheduled to be released in late 2009.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 1, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neo-Nazi Skinhead Sean Gillespie videotapes himself as he firebombs Temple B’nai Israel, an Oklahoma City synagogue, as part of a film he is preparing to inspire other racists to violent revolution. In it, Gillespie boasts that instead of merely pronouncing the white-supremacist “14 Words” slogan (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children”), he will carry out 14 violent attacks. A former member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, Gillespie is found guilty of the attack and later sentenced to 39 years in federal prison, with an expected release date of 2038.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 24, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the attempted robbery of a Tulsa bank by Wade and Christopher Lay, a father-and-son pair of political extremists, security guard Kenneth Anderson is shot to death. Both robbers are wounded, and are arrested a short time after fleeing the bank. At trial, Wade Lay testifies that he and his son acted “for the good of the American people” and in an effort to “preserve liberty.” Other evidence shows the pair hoped to get money to pay for weapons that they intended to use to kill Texas officials who they believed were responsible for the deadly 1993 standoff between the authorities and religious cultists in Waco. In the end, Wade Lay is sentenced to death for first-degree murder, while his son gets 25 years for armed robbery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 13, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ivan Duane Braden, a former National Guardsman discharged from an Iraq-bound unit after superiors noted signs of instability, is arrested after checking into a mental health facility and telling counselors about plans to blow up a synagogue and a National Guard armory in Tennessee. The FBI reports that Braden told agents that he planned to go to a synagogue wearing a trench coat stuffed with explosives and get himself “as close to children and the rabbi as possible,” a plan Braden also outlined in notes found in his home. In addition, he intended to take and kill hostages at the Lenoir City Armory, before blowing the armory up. Eventually, Braden, who also possessed neo-Nazi literature and reportedly hated blacks and Jews from an early age, pleads guilty to conspiring to blow up the armory. He is sentenced to prison, where his release is expected in 2017.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 25, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FBI agents in Tennessee arrest farmhand Demetrius “Van” Crocker after he tried to purchase ingredients for deadly sarin nerve gas and C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover agent. The FBI reports that Crocker, who local officials say was involved in a white supremacist group in the 1980s, tells the agent that he admires Hitler and hates Jews and the government. He also says “it would be a good thing if somebody could detonate some sort of weapon of mass destruction on Washington, D.C.” Crocker is convicted of trying to get explosives to destroy a building and imprisoned until an expected release in 2030.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 20, 2005</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials in New Jersey arrest two men they say asked a police informant to build them a bomb. Craig Orler, who has a history of burglary arrests, and Gabriel Carafa, said to be a leader of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator and a member of a racist Skinhead group called The Hated, are charged with illegally selling 11 guns to police informants. Carafa gave one informant 60 pounds of urea to use in building him a bomb, but never said what the bomb was for. Police say they moved in before the alleged bombing plot developed further because they were concerned about the pair’s activities. They taped Orler saying in a phone call that he was seeking people in Europe to help him go underground. Orler is sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, while Carafa draws seven.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 10, 2005</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel J. Schertz, a former member of the North Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is indicted in Chattanooga, Tenn., on federal weapons charges for allegedly making seven pipe bombs and selling them to an undercover informant with the idea that they would be used to murder Mexican and Haitian immigrant workers. The informant says Schertz demonstrated how to attach the pipe bombs to cars, then sold him bombs that Schertz expected to be used against a group of Haitians and, separately, Mexican workers on a bus headed to work in Florida. Schertz eventually pleads guilty to six charges — including teaching how to make an explosive device; making, possessing and transferring destructive devices; and possessing a pistol with armor-piercing bullets — and is sentenced to 14 years in prison. He is to be released in 2017.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 19, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Treasury agents in Utah arrest David J. D’Addabbo for allegedly threatening Internal Revenue Service employees with “death by firing squad” if they continued to try to collect taxes from him and his wife. D’Addabbo, who was reportedly carrying a Glock pistol, 40 rounds of ammunition and a switchblade knife when he was seized leaving a church service, allegedly wrote to the U.S. Tax Court that anyone attempting to collect taxes would be tried by a “jury of common people. You then could be found guilty of treason and immediately taken to a firing squad.” In August D’Addabbo pleads guilty to one charge of threatening a government agent in exchange for the dismissal of three other charges of threatening IRS agents. He is sentenced to time served and released the same year as his arrest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 26, 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Five members of the Alabama Free Militia are arrested in north Alabama in a raid by federal and state law enforcement officers that uncovers a cache of 130 homemade hand grenades, an improvised grenade launcher, a Sten Mark submachine gun, a silencer, 2,500 rounds of ammunition and almost 100 marijuana plants. Raymond Kirk Dillard, the founder and “commander” of the group, pleads guilty to criminal conspiracy, illegally making and possessing destructive devices and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Other members of the group — Bonnell “Buster” Hughes, James Ray McElroy, Adam Lynn Cunningham and Randall Garrett — also plead guilty to related charges. Although Dillard, who complained about the collapse of the American economy, terrorist attacks and Mexicans taking over the country, reportedly told his troops to open fire on federal agents if ever confronted, no shots are fired during the April raid, and the “commander” even points out booby-trap tripwires on his property to investigators. Dillard and Garrett draw the harshest sentences, with releases scheduled for 2012 and 2018, respectively.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 8, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Six people, most of them tied to the militia movement, are arrested in rural north-central Pennsylvania after officials find stockpiles of assault rifles, improvised explosives and homemade weapons, at least some of them apparently intended for terrorist attacks on U.S. officials. Agents find 16 homemade bombs during a search of the residence of Pennsylvania Citizens Militia recruiter Bradley T. Kahle, who allegedly tells authorities that he intended to shoot black people from a rooftop in Pittsburgh and also predicts civil war if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are elected president. A raid on the property of Morgan Jones results in the seizure of 73 weapons, including a homemade flame thrower, a machine that supposedly shot bolts of electricity, and an improvised cannon. Also arrested and charged with weapons violations are Marvin E. Hall, his girlfriend Melissa Huet and Perry Landis. Landis, who is to be sentenced in late 2009, allegedly tells undercover agents he wanted to kill Gov. Ed Rendell. Hall is sentenced to more than two years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 24, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White supremacists Shawn Robert Adolf, Tharin Robert Gartrell and Nathan D. Johnson are arrested in Denver during the Democratic National Convention on weapons charges and for possession of amphetamines. Although police say they talked about assassinating presidential candidate Barack Obama, they are not charged in connection with that threat because officials see their talk as drug-fueled boasting. Police report the three had high-powered, scoped rifles, wigs, camouflage clothing and a bulletproof vest, along with the crystal methamphetamine. Gartrell is released from prison in June 2009, while Johnson is to be freed in 2010. Adolf, who was already wanted on other charges, draws a longer sentence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 24, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two white supremacists, Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, are arrested in Tennessee for allegedly plotting to assassinate Barack Obama and murder more than 100 black people. Officials say Schlesselman and Cowart, a probationary member of the racist skinhead group Supreme White Alliance, planned to kill 88 people, then behead another 14. (Both numbers are significant in white supremacist circles. H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so double 8s stand for HH, or “Heil Hitler.” The number 14 represents the “14 Words,” a popular racist saying.) The pair are indicted on charges that include threatening a presidential candidate, possessing a sawed-off shotgun, taking firearms across state lines to commit crimes, planning to rob a licensed gun dealer, damaging religious property, and using a firearm during the commission of a crime.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 9, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Police responding to a shooting at a home in Belfast, Maine, find James G. Cummings dead, allegedly killed by his wife after years of domestic abuse. They also find a cache of radioactive materials, which Cummings was apparently using to try to build a radioactive “dirty bomb,” along with literature on how to build such a deadly explosive. Police also discover a membership application filled out by Cummings for the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement. Friends say that Cummings had a collection of Nazi memorabilia. The authorities say Cummings was reportedly “very upset” by the election of Barack Obama.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 16, 2008</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kody Ray Brittingham, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, is arrested with four others on attempted robbery charges. A search of his barracks room at Camp Lejeune, N.C., allegedly turns up white supremacist materials and a journal written by Brittingham containing plans to kill Barack Obama. Brittingham is indicted for threatening the president-elect of the United States, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 21, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the day after Barack Obama is inaugurated as the nation’s first black president, Keith Luke of Brockton, Mass., is arrested after allegedly shooting three black immigrants from Cape Verde, killing two of them, as part of a racially motivated killing spree. The two murders are apparently only part of Luke’s plan to kill black, Latino and Jewish people. After being captured by police, he reportedly says he planned to go to an Orthodox synagogue near his home that night and “kill as many Jews as possible.” Police say Luke, a white man who apparently had no contact with white supremacists but spent the previous six months reading racist websites, told them he was “fighting for a dying race.” Luke also says he formed his racist views in large part after watching videos on Podblanc, a racist video-sharing website run by longtime white supremacist Craig Cobb. When he later appears in court for a hearing, Luke, charged with murder, kidnapping and aggravated rape, has etched a swastika into his own forehead, apparently using a jail razor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 4, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three Pittsburgh police officers — Paul Sciullo III, Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly — are fatally shot and a fourth, Timothy McManaway, is wounded after responding to a domestic dispute at the home of Richard Andrew Poplawski, who had posted his racist and anti-Semitic views on white supremacist websites. In one post, Poplawski talks about wanting a white supremacist tattoo. He also reportedly tells a friend that America is controlled by a cabal of Jews, that U.S. troops may soon be used against American citizens, and that he fears a ban on guns is coming. Poplawski later allegedly tells investigators that he fired extra bullets into the bodies of two of the officers “just to make sure they were dead” and says he “thought I got that one, too” when told that the fourth officer survived. More law enforcement officers are killed during the incident than in any other single act of violence by a domestic political extremist since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 25, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joshua Cartwright, a Florida National Guardsman, allegedly shoots to death two Okaloosa County, Fla., sheriff’s deputies — Burt Lopez and Warren “Skip” York — at a gun range as the officers attempt to arrest Cartwright on domestic violence charges. After fleeing the scene, Cartwright is fatally shot during a gun battle with pursuing officers. Cartwright’s wife later tells investigators that her husband was “severely disturbed” that Barack Obama has been elected president. He also reportedly believed the U.S. government was conspiring against him. The sheriff tells reporters that Cartwright had been interested in joining a militia group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 31, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist who was involved with the antigovernment “freemen” movement in the 1990s, allegedly shoots to death Kansas late-term abortion provider George Tiller as the doctor is serving as an usher in his Wichita church. Adherents of “freemen” ideology claim they are “sovereign citizens” not subject to federal and other laws, and often form their own “common law” courts and issue their own license plates. It was one of those homemade plates that led Topeka police to stop Roeder in April 1996, when a search of his trunk revealed a pound of gunpowder, a 9-volt battery wired to a switch, blasting caps and ammunition. A prosecutor in that case called Roeder a “substantial threat to public safety,” citing Roeder’s refusal to acknowledge the court’s authority. But his conviction in the 1996 case is ultimately overturned. In the more recent case, Roeder is charged with murder and could face up to life in prison if convicted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 10, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eighty-eight-year-old James von Brunn, a longtime neo-Nazi, walks up to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and allegedly shoots to death security guard Stephen Johns before he is himself shot and critically wounded by other officers. Von Brunn, who earlier served six years in connection with his 1981 attempt to kidnap the members of the Federal Reserve Board at the point of a sawed-off shotgun, has been active in the white supremacist movement for more than four decades. As early as the early 1970s, he worked at the Holocaust-denying Noontide Press, and in subsequent decades, he comes to know many of the key leaders of the radical right. A search of von Brunn’s car after the museum attack turns up a list of other apparent targets, including the White House, the Capitol, the National Cathedral and The Washington Post. A note allegedly left by von Brunn in his car reads: “You want my weapons; this is how you’ll get them … the Holocaust is a lie … Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media.” He is charged with murder.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 12, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shawna Forde — the executive director of Minutemen American Defense (MAD), an anti-immigrant vigilante group that conducts “citizen patrols” on the Arizona-Mexico border — is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for her alleged role in the slayings of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter in Arivaca, Ariz. Forde allegedly orchestrated the May 30 home invasion because she believed the man was a narcotics trafficker and wanted to steal drugs and cash to fund her group. Authorities say the murders, including the killing of the child, were part of the plan. Also arrested and charged with murder are the alleged triggerman, MAD Operations Director Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, a local member of MAD. Authorities say that Bush had ties to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations in Idaho, and that Forde has spoken of recruiting its members.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 25, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Longtime white supremacist Dennis Mahon and his brother Daniel are indicted in Arizona in connection with a mail bomb sent in 2004 to a diversity office in Scottsdale that injured three people. Mahon, formerly tied to the neo-Nazi White Aryan Resistance (WAR) group, allegedly left a phone message at the office saying that “the White Aryan Resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There’s a few white people who are standing up.” In a related raid, agents search the Indiana home of Tom Metzger, founder of WAR, but he is not arrested. On the same day, white supremacist Robert Joos is arrested in rural Missouri, apparently because phone records show that Dennis Mahon’s first call after the mail bombing was to Joos’ cell phone. Joos is charged with being a felon in possession of firearms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct. 28, 2009</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luqman Ameen Abdullah, identified by authorities as a member of a black Muslim group hoping to create an Islamic state within U.S. borders, is shot dead at a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich., after he fires at FBI agents trying to arrest him on conspiracy and weapons charges. The FBI says Abdulla encouraged violence against the United States, adding that 10 other group members are being sought.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feb. 18, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph Andrew Stack, who had earlier attended meetings of radical anti-tax groups in California, sets fire to his own house and then flies his single-engine plane into an Austin, Texas, building housing IRS offices. Stack and an IRS manager are killed, and 13 others are injured. Stack leaves a long online rant about the IRS and the tax code, politicians and corporations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 25, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A man later identified as Brody James Whitaker opens fire on two Florida state troopers during a routine traffic stop on I-75 in Sumter County. Whitaker flees, crashing his vehicle and continuing on foot. He is arrested two weeks later in Connecticut, where he challenges the authority of a judge and declares himself a “sovereign,” not American, citizen. Sovereigns typically believe that police have no right to regulate road travel. Whitaker is later extradited to Florida to face charges of assaulting and fleeing from a police officer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 27-28, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nine members of the Hutaree Militia are arrested in raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction. The group, whose website said it was preparing for the imminent arrival of the anti-Christ, allegedly planned to murder a Michigan police officer, then use bombs and homemade missiles to kill other officers attending the funeral, all in a bid to set off a war with the government.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 15, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Fairfield, who is president of a local chapter of an antigovernment “Patriot” organization called the Oath Keepers, is indicted on 28 explosives charges, 25 counts of receiving stolen property and one count of possessing criminal tools. Authorities searching his home discover a napalm bomb built by Fairfield, along with a computer carrying child pornography. Fairfield later pleads guilty to explosives charges, but still faces trial on other counts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 30, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Darren Huff, an Oath Keeper from Georgia, is arrested and charged with planning the armed takeover of a Madisonville, Tenn., courthouse and “arrest” of 24 local, state and federal officials. Authorities say Duff was angry about the April 1 arrest there of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III, a leader of the far-right American Grand Jury movement that seeks to have grand juries indict President Obama for treason. Several others in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement accuse Duff of white supremacist and anti-Semitic attitudes in Internet postings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 10, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sandlin Matthew Smith detonates a pipe bomb at a rear entrance to a mosque in Jacksonville, Fla., while worshippers are inside. Armed only with a fuzzy videotape, authorities only identify Smith, based on talking to witnesses to whom he admits the attack, a year later. They track Smith, a bus driver from Julington Creek, Fla., to a campsite near Fairview, Okla., where he resists arrest with a gun and is killed. A search of Smith’s two homes turns up explosive materials.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 20, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A father and son team of “sovereign citizens” who believe police have no right to regulate road travel murder West Memphis, Ark., police officers Robert Brandon Paudert, 39, and Thomas William “Bill” Evans, 38, during a routine traffic stop on an I-40 exit ramp. The incident begins when Jerry Kane, 45, starts to argue with the officers over his bogus vehicle paperwork and then pushes Evans into a roadside ditch. Kane’s 16-year-old son then kills both officers with an AK-47 before the pair flees. Authorities catch up with them about 45 minutes later. In the ensuing shootout, two more officers are badly wounded and both Kanes are killed. The pair had been traveling the country offering seminars in bogus sovereign techniques for avoiding foreclosure and related matters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 8, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A bomb packed into a soda can is planted outside Osage Baptist Church in Carroll City, Ark., where a polling station for a Democratic Senate primary runoff between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is located. The device does not explode, although authorities say it was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. Officials later receive a tip from contractors who hired to clean out the foreclosed home of self-described “Patriot” Mark Krause, where they find bomb-making materials, manuals, and materials related to antigovernment militias. Krause, who earlier posted antigovernment messages to MySpace, eventually is arrested in Seattle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 18, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An unemployed parolee with two bank robbery convictions, apparently enraged at liberals and what he sees as the “left-wing agenda” of Congress, allegedly opens fire on California Highway Patrol troopers who pull him over in Oakland. No one is killed, but two troopers are slightly injured and Byron Williams is shot in the arms and legs. Williams allegedly later tells authorities that he was on his way to attack offices of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation, a liberal organization that, although little known to most Americans, has been repeatedly pilloried on air by Fox News host Glenn Beck.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 21, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney Todd Getgen is shot to death at a gun range in Cumberland County, Penn., and his weapon, a silenced AR-15 rifle, is stolen. Authorities arrest prison guard Raymond Peake nine days later, saying Peake was trying to accumulate weapons for an unnamed organization that intended to overthrow the government. Fellow prison guard Thomas Tuso is also arrested for allegedly helping Peake hide Getgen’s custom-built weapon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sept. 2, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A pipe bomb is thrown through the window of a closed Planned Parenthood clinic in Madera, Calif., along with a note that reads, “Murder our children? We have a ‘choice’ too.” The note is signed ANB, apparently short for the American Nationalist Brotherhood. Six months later, law enforcement officials arrest school bus driver Donny Eugene Mower, who allegedly also threatened a local Islamic Center and has the word “Peckerwood,” a reference to a white supremacist gang, tattooed on his chest. Mower reportedly confesses to the attack.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sept. 7, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FBI arrests 26-year-old Justin Carl Moose, a self-described “freedom fighter” and “Christian counterpart to Osama bin Laden,” for allegedly planning to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. After earlier receiving tips that Moose was posting threats of violence against abortion providers and information about explosives on his Facebook page, the FBI set up a sting operation to capture him. Moose later pleads guilty to distributing information on manufacturing and use of an explosive and is sentenced to 30 months in prison.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sept. 19, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An antigovernment extremist with ties to the separatist Republic of Texas organization allegedly opens fire on an oil company worker and two sheriff’s deputies who show up at White’s property in West Odessa, Texas, to access an oil well to which the company has rights. Victor White, 55, allegedly wounds all three men before they retreat, and a 22-hour standoff follows. White eventually surrenders and is charged with three counts of attempted capital murder of a peace officer, one count of attempted capital murder, and aggravated assault.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan. 14, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal agents in Arizona arrest Jeffery Harbin, a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, for allegedly building homemade grenades and pipe bombs that he apparently intended to supply to anti-immigration groups patrolling the Mexican border. A prosecutor says that Harbin constructed the devices, using model rocket engines and aluminum power, “in such a way as to maximize human carnage.” Harbin is indicted on two counts of possessing a destructive device and a third of transporting destructive devices. Jeffery Harbin is the son of Jerry Harbin, a Phoenix-area activist with past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan. 17, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bomb technicians defuse a sophisticated improvised explosive device (IED) found in a backpack along the Spokane, Wash., route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade with 1,500 marchers. Using forensic clues found in the dismantled bomb, officials about two months later identify and arrest Kevin William Harpham, a long-time neo-Nazi. Harpham had posted more than 1,000 messages to the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network since 2004, when he was a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Harpham also had contributed to the white supremacist Aryan Alternative newspaper. He is indicted on one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of possessing an IED. Later, federal hate crime charges are added.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 10, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Six members of the antigovernment Alaska Peacemakers Militia, including its leader Francis Schaeffer Cox, are arrested and charged with plotting to kill or kidnap state troopers and a Fairbanks judge. The group already has a large cache of weapons, including a .50-caliber machine gun and grenades and a grenade launcher. Cox earlier identified himself as a “sovereign citizen.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 14, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three masked men break into the Madrasah Islamiah, an Islamic center in Houston, and douse prayer rugs with gasoline in an apparent attempt to burn the center down. Images of the men are captured on surveillance cameras, but they are not identified. The fire is put out before doing major damage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 25, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A man with a long history of menacing abortion clinics is arrested on weapons charges after he accidentally shoots a pistol through the door of a Madison, Wis., motel room. Ralph Lang, 63, tells police he planned to kill a doctor and workers at a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 24, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cody Seth Crawford, 24, is arrested on federal charges accusing him of the Nov. 28, 2010, arson of the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Ore. The firebombing occurred two days after a former Oregon State University student was arrested in a plot to detonate a car bomb during Portland’s annual tree-lighting. Crawford had ranted about Muslims and described himself as a Christian warrior during previous run-ins with police.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October 5, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White supremacist ex-convict David “Joey” Pedersen, 31, and his girlfriend, Holly Ann Grigsby, 24, are arrested in California after a murderous rampage in three states. Grigsby tells police that she and Pedersen “were on their way to Sacramento to kill more Jews.” The first killed were Pedersen’s father and stepmother in Everett, Wash. Another man was killed in Lafayette, Ore., because the pair thought he was Jewish. An African-American man was found shot to death in Eureka, Calif. Pederson earlier served time for threatening to kill the federal judge who handled the Ruby Ridge case of white separatist Randy Weaver.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 1, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four members of an unnamed North Georgia militia are arrested in an alleged plot to bomb federal buildings, attack cities including Atlanta with deadly ricin, and murder law enforcement officials. The men – Frederick Thomas, 73, Samuel J. Crump, 68, Dan Roberts, 67, and Ray H. Adams, 65 – allegedly discussed dispersing ricin powder in a series of cities, “taking out” a list of officials to “make the country right again,” and scouting buildings in Atlanta to bomb. Authorities say the plot was inspired by an online novel, Absolved, written by longtime Alabama militiaman Mike Vanderboegh.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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