-Caveat Lector-
So this ADL is a branch of the German Masonic Bnai Brith?????
Who was this guy named Strassmeir who had connections with Oklahoma; why
was it withheld that the ADL told the FBI and BATF and one Judge to stay
home that day - while an FBI informer, a Carol Howe who wore a Nazi
Swatstika tattoo - why is it she too informed BATF and FBI of the plan
and yet they left the children in the nursery?
We know for sure now we have KGB in our FBI - we had the KGB form a KKK,
and indeed worked with the Walker spies from within; I have personal
knowledge of the Jewish Mafia in Columbus, Ohio who had neo nazi
literature (they got tripped up murdering a black doctor - pro hit man
did job, and a few years later a CFR Govenor (Richard Celeste whom
Clinton made Ambassador to India)....these men had neo nazi literature.
This Hitler stuff is getting a little old; for Russia under communist
rule murdered over 55 million people.....mostly Christian and
Moslem.....yet our FBI plays on same turf now in more ways than one,
with the KGB.
This is interesting item here - this Strassmeir - German Government
Agent of Bnai Brith ???? Masonic Order, psuedo?
Watch EU grow now - they are becoming the new Hitler only who is on
their "hit list".....after all Stalin, Hitler, Clinton, Ford, even Jesse
Ventura and Barak and Sharon - all these names, these are not their real
names? Did someone give them a new name - a stone upon which their
new name is written?
ADL took bribe money from Marc Rich; this article which follows they
bought from corrupt police files on various individuals from politicians
to what they call "racists", which means anyone with whom they
disagree.....
So what is this German connection to Oklahoma - Strassmeir - for he sure
as hell did not work for the Guestapo....and what about this time change
at Oklahoma....what was the purpose of the murder of the children left
in the nursery?
Timothy McVeigh was a real little hit and run Gideon....bible and all.
Saba
Adam Parfrey
Ken Stern of the American Jewish Committee faxes a special warning to
"members of the press, AJCers, legislators, prosecutors, attorneys
general, federal officials," regarding a possible terrorist attack that
will strike the U.S. on "April 19...the anniversary of Waco...
The Key event for the militias, and for the hard core April 20 is
Hitler's birthday." The page-long communique is received by federal
Judge Redden of Portland, Oregon on April 10, '95, a prophetic week
prior to the bombing of the Murrah building.
Judge Wayne Alley, whose office is located directly across the street
from the devastated Alfred P. Murrah building, tells a reporter that
"security officials" warned him to take "special precautions" several
days prior to the April 19 bomb blast. Reported April 20 in the Portland
Oregonian, Judge Alley's warning is never again mentioned even when it's
reported that he has been assigned the case.
Edye Smith, whose two children died in the Oklahoma City bombing, is
interviewed by CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman on May 23, '95, the day
FEMA officials bring down the ruins of the Murrah building. The
childless mother tells Tuchman she was told to "keep your mouth shut,
don't talk about it," when she asked officials why BATF agents were
"given the day off" on April 19. Although we're told that the BATF was
the primary target of the bombing, which kills and maims hundreds, no
BATF officer suffers injury in the attack.
I am an American military man, and I can tell you categorically that if
one of you militia drones or one of your crackpot units started any kind
of half-witted shooting war, that I would unhesitatingly blow all of
your asses into the netherworld. Not even one split second of
hesitation, because you're goofy, dangerous examples of twisted delayed
adolescence...."
[Post taken from the internet newsgroup "misc.activism.militia"]
Setting Minds against Terrorism
"Setting Minds Against Terrorism" was the headline of an article
relegated to the back pages of the April 24, 1995 "terrorism" issue of
Advertising Age. Though its placement would seem to indicate that news,
advertising, and public relations executives might consider its content
filler-like or possibly redundant, the article's implications are, to my
mind, startling.
In the bloodless manner of the faceless hack, author Joe Mandese reveals
how propaganda, here called "public policy," and mind control, here
called "behavioral science."1 is cooked up by high-level "policy makers"
in the National Security Council, and then passed down to the CIA and
FBI for dissemination through Madison Avenue and onwards through print
and electronic media.
Mandese's bureaucratese is designed to lull the outsider to sleep, but
translate his article into plain language and one is left with a
schematic diagram of how the media juggernaut collaborates with the
highest levels of government intelligence to decide how and where the
sheep are to be herded.
Notice that the executives Mandese interviews are not interested in
relaying or even cushioning the truth, but how to best tell a lie in
order that U.S. subjects will regard the government as a loving
benevolent entity. It's not 1995, it's 1984. This isn't the New World
Order, it's Brave New World.
"There used to be a day when Americans looked around and reported
suspicious things to the FBI, or the local police," says Bob
Dilenschneider, president of the Dilenschneider Group in the final
paragraph of Mandese's article. He continues, devoid of irony. "Of late,
[turning in suspicious characters to the FBI] has been regarded as Big
Brother is watching, and carries the overtones of a fascist state. We
have to get back to the thinking that the police are there to help us
and the FBI is there to protect us."
Despite all the hoary lies told about our "free press" and "objective
journalism," the Advertising Age article reveals how the media
"implements strategies" instead of reporting the facts. Mandese's
article asks "how shall the government be served?" rather than "how
shall citizens be served by their public servants?" Mandese suggests
that brain massage can best be accomplished by ad hoc committees
comprised of marketing experts and intelligence agencies. The Persian
Gulf War seemed like a dress rehearsal in media's lockstep goosestep
with the NSA [National Security Agency]. Oklahoma City is further proof
of capitalism's cooperative Total War against the consumerist mind. For
another precedent of media-approved or media-created foreign escapades,
see history books on the Spanish-American conflict, known as Hearst's
War.
When the Los Angeles Times building burned in 1910, killing dozens of
printers and other low-level workers, the nascent labor movement was
buried by agents provocateur from the Burns Detective Agency working
behind-the-scenes for Times' owner, General Otis. The day his building
exploded, General Otis and staff had previously fled the office. One day
earlier, General Otis made sure to raise his insurance premium. Though
workers complained of a bad gas smell, nothing was done to correct the
problem. Despite a sterling defense by Clarence Darrow and labor hero
Job Harriman, the blame fell to the McNamara brothers, declared guilty
by the best jury money could buy. Shedding crocodile tears for the
victims of the fire, General Otis had his pompous prose chiseled into a
monument purchased by insurance money, while he built himself a great
new building on the present site of the Times.2
Advertising Age's paradigm for creating the proper framing around events
is nothing new. Christopher Simpson's Science of Coercion (Oxford
University Press, 1994) tells us how private corporations, foundations,
and universities intermingle with government to create an interlocking
network in which capitalist propaganda could be disseminated.
Fifty years ago Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy established
"Psychological Warfare" as a "highly secret" branch of the War
Department. According to Simpson's book, McCloy is "probably better
known today for his later work as U.S. high commissioner in Germany,
chairman of the Chase Bank, member of the Warren Commission [my
emphasis], and related posts." Though his book stops short of John F.
Kennedy's assassination, Science of Coercion establishes beyond a shadow
of a doubt that private think tanks and University tenured social
scientists advised policy-makers and police agencies how to better
deploy Psy War propaganda.
Not only do Psy War units inhabit the Pentagon, but they also perform
important roles in the NSA, FBI, CIA and NSC, as well as the ATF, Secret
Service, U.S. Marshal Department, et al. White House Press Corps
journalist Sarah McClendon has even received official confirmation that
Psy War receives a slice of a $3 billion/year domestic anti-terrorism
program created in 1987 during the Reagan administration. Was this
expensive program ever spoken of in news media during the debate on the
1995 Anti-Terrorism Act? Not anyplace I can find.3
The Psy War payroll extends to private corporations like Wackenhut, Rand
and TRW. Private corporations are even less subject to oversight than
their brethren the FLEAs--the all-too-appropriate acronym for Federal
Law Enforcement Agencies. A contractor that "takes care of business"
without dirtying the hands of the government, Wackenhut can be seen as
the interstice between the government and the mob; such connections were
being drawn by journalist/novelist Danny Casolaro before he died under
suspicious circumstances. Air Force contractor CalSpan plays a part in
the evolving Oklahoma City bombing, about which, more later.
Non-profit foundations also field their own intelligence organizations.
The Anti-Defamation League, knuckle-rapped with a $75,000 fine for
illegal possession of police files, bribed San Francisco police officer
Tom Gerard to gain extensive and sensitive information on not only
racists, but politicians, leftists, and anti-apartheid groups.
Information on anti-racist protesters would be of intense interest to
the formerly apartheid South African Republic, which supplied Israel, a
direct ADL conduit, with nuclear weapons.4 The Southern Poverty Law
Center,5 presided over by the telegenic Morris Dees, was exposed in a
five-part Montgomery Advertiser investigation as the second wealthiest
non-profit organization in America. Its own wealth and preoccupation
with fundraising belies the SPLC's eponymous objective to battle
poverty. The Advertiser revealed that the organization's few
high-profile lawsuits have resulted in little or no compensation for the
"victims" defended in their legal crusades, but have in fact yielded
millions of dollars in fees paid to Morris Dees for television movies
and a ghostwritten autobiography that was criticized by Publishers
Weekly for its rampant self-aggrandizement.
The ADL and SPLC boast that they are the media's primary sources on
information regarding militias and patriot groups. Their information is
usually absorbed whole into establishment news stories as unimpeachable
and objective news sources. In truth, the coffers of the ADL and SPLC
bulge when constituents are led to believe they're fighting an enemy of
enormous evil and mounting strength. Despite their altruistic charters,
the ADL and SPLC profit directly off the sensationalism that acts as a
spark plug for Hollywood and the weekly tabloids. Their information
ought to be regarded with skepticism greeted a docu-drama or the
National Enquirer.
Another non-profit organization media star, Political Research
Associate's John Foster "Chip" Berlet, has become something of a
ubiquitous presence on establishment news shows and so-called
progressive magazines, as an expert on the "extreme right-wing." Berlet
stumps for the division of anti-establishment rightists and leftists at
a time when even Republicans see the "Democratic" president as "Bush
Lite." His pooh-poohing of "conspiracy theories" serves to question
government skeptics rather than the government itself. Even though he's
a prolific contributor to leftist magazines, Berlet's passionate
defenses of Janet Reno and Bill Clinton protect rather than "question
authority." Targets of Berlet's smears and criticism include Daniel
Sheehan of the Christic Institute, Daniel Brandt, whose NameBase
software is a leading resource for tracking government misdeeds, and Ace
Hayes, the prolific Portland-area researcher. Both Brandt and Hayes
insist that Berlet's past associations seem to render him a chip off of
John Foster Dulles' block. Hayes and Brandt contend that the true
division in the country is not between left and right, but between up
and down, the haves vs. the have-nots.
The wedge Berlet drives between left and right critics of the elite is
exemplified in the treatment of a book written about the Trilateral
Commission by leftist Holly Sklar. Acquiescing to Berlet's demands,
Sklar denounces all readers of her book if they do not subscribe to
crypto-Socialist theology. Berlet's ideological purification creates
divisions between individuals thoughtful enough to glean knowledge from
a book. A right-winger reading Sklar on Trilateralism might well
empathize with Third World victims of the New Order economy. Similarly,
a leftist reader of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, purchased at a
John Birch Society bookstore, might open his eyes to the many so-called
liberal politicians who uphold Eastern Establishment elitism. Reading
Quigley seems particularly urgent in light of Bill Clinton's reference
to Quigley as an ideological mentor in his presidential acceptance
speech.
A Berletian smear tactic against government critics was also taken up by
Michael Kelly in his "Road to Paranoia" article featured in the June 19,
1995 issue of The New Yorker: Kelly tells us about a dangerous new trend
that combines elements of both left and right into a variety of
conspiracy theory he calls "fusion paranoia." I can speak of this
phenomenon with some degree of depth, since Mr. Kelly includes Feral
House in his short list of publishers ratcheting up the millennial
perversity of "fusion paranoia." Kelly, like Berlet before him, implies
that it is lunatic to come to the conclusion that a powerful minority of
elitists direct the economy and other significant social trends to
expand profits and power.
Imagine, Kelly sniffs, "fusion paranoids" say that Bush started the Gulf
War for his own gain. The writer should have consulted a back issue of
The New Yorker for a Seymour Hersh investigation that revealed the many
millions of dollars received by President Bush, his sons, and cabinet
members as postwar tribute form Kuwait. He should have also examined a
transcript of pre-war conversations between U.S. Iraqi ambassador April
Glaspie and Saddam Hussein, in which Glaspie declares that the U.S.
would not involve itself in an Iraqi border dispute with Kuwait.
The roots of "fusion paranoia" are firmly planted in the Iran-Contra
affair, says Kelly, where both leftists and rightist conspiracy
theorists believed the tale peddled by "liars" that a shadow government
operated behind the scenes to negotiate a bombs-for-hostages deal with
Iran. Kelly contends "fusion paranoids" are so deluded as to believe
that George Bush personally flew to Paris to negotiate with Iranian
representatives months prior to Reagan's inauguration.
Bush's itinerary for the days he allegedly spent in Paris are still
missing from his diaries. According to the erstwhile Israeli
intelligence operative Ari Ben-Manashe, who helped set up the
Iran-Contra negotiations on behalf of Israel, Bush was directly involved
with the hostages-for-arms negotiations, a charge backed by Richard
Breneke, found innocent of charges brought against him by the U.S.
government for backing Menashe's allegations. The deal had the Iranians
holding the hostages until after Jimmy Carter lost re-election and the
Republicans assumed power. The hostages were released the very day of
Reagan's inauguration.
Will the Real Militiaman
Please Stand Up?
Militias are largely a white and middle-class movement, and though the
movement has been joined by Jews, blacks, Indians, and Asians, it is
fair to estimate that at least 60% of militias are Christian, of which a
much smaller percentage subscribe to Christian Identity beliefs, a
minority sect of racialist Christians who think Anglo-Saxons are the
original Israelites. The usurpation of Hebrew identity by the Christian
right-wing is correctly identified as a threat to Jews, since Identity
types believe Jews to be Satanic impostors. Unfortunately, the
sensationalizing of Identity groups by watchdog organizations and their
persecution by government authorities, have simply justified the
Identity Christians' own persecutorial and millennial beliefs. In my
opinion, Identity Christians are best left alone in the same way
adherents of Nation of Islam ideology are allowed to practice their own
religion without the same level of harassment. Continued friction can
only increase the likelihood of causing a volatile reaction.
Militias continue to grow as a response to the creeping
internationalization of the economy, with the passage of international
trade treaties such as GATT and NAFTA, which reward multinational
corporations at the expense of domestic wages and employment. Squeezing
the middle class with the highest per-capita tax burden while large
corporations, foreign and domestic, are granted tax breaks and corporate
welfare contributes to the perception that George Bush and Bill
Clinton's New World Order is rewarding the multinational elite while
giving the shaft to the working man.
Though it's been repeated a million times, there is no evidence that
militias were involved in the Oklahoma bombing. While Timothy McVeigh
and Terry Nichols have bene spotted at two militia functions as far
apart as Florida and Michigan, we don't know if their presence is due to
government infiltration, the use of doubles, or the result of two men's
idle curiosity. McVeigh and Nichols were said to have spouted off about
bombing buildings at a meeting of the Michigan militia, whereupon
several militia members reported the terrible two to the FBI! Either
these militia members were hip to the COINTELPRO tactic of agents
provocateur, or became so nonplused by potential violence that they
ratted out supposed ideological allies to a government agency bent on
the destruction of militia organizations.
Although the establishment media has portrayed militia men as either
paranoid gun-toting geeks or the current incarnation of nazi-like evil,
Militia membership has sustained steady growth, even after the Oklahoma
bombing. According to a militia leader who wishes to remain anonymous,
"The bad publicity justifies all the bills they're trying to pass, but
when the average American listens to what we're saying on the tube, it
doesn't sound so unreasonable. To them, we look like their next door
neighbor who helped them fix a flat. As a matter of fact, we are the
guys who helped them change their tire. That makes an impression. And
the phony politicians who come on in with their Armani suits and say
we're terrorists, it makes some people think. Next week they might be
the terrorists. TV brainwashes people, but no matter how they edit the
tape, we're still the friendly neighbor with the car jack."
Charles Schumer (D-NY) would like to ban guns. Entirely. This has made
him unpopular with gun owners, militias particularly. On July 10, 1995
Schumer held a press conference in which he put several government
workers before microphones to tell the world about the miserable and
inhuman conduct of militias. Much of the press conference consisted of
recycled news about judges threatened by Montana racists (not militia
members). A female County Tax Assessor told of being cut with a knife
and threatened with a gun. Her assailants were said to be "tax
protesters"--with apparently no connection to a militia organization.
This distinction was lost on reporters, who dutifully told of the
terrible behavior below quailing headlines ("Workers Speak Out On
Militia Brutality"). The news articles chided Republicans for failing to
attend Schumer's show, suggesting their apparent appeasement of militia
criminals.6
The FBI now claims that it has successfully infiltrated the militia
movement. Militias are, in fact, rife with slippery individuals like
Linda Thompson, who, in Spring '94 sent an "Ultimatum" to every member
of Congress, demanding elimination of the IRS, Federal Reserve, Brady
Gun law, several constitutional amendments and so on, announcing that as
"Adjutant General" of the U.S. Militias she would come marching in with
guns and lynching rope on Washington, D.C. on September 7, 1994 if
Congress did not comply with her demands.
Thompson got a lot of attention for her efforts, but negligible support
from militias themselves despite Thompson's self-adopted title of
"Adjutant General."
Frantic about Thompson's misleading stunt, militia men called up
Thompson's American Justice Federation computer bulletin board, posting
messages about the "suicidal" nature of such a march.
Thompson used the opportunity to divide the militia community, accusing
nearly all extant leaders as being government agents, and insulting and
inciting militia men who revealed they weren't thrilled with the armed
march concept. "Dickless coward" was a favorite comeback. Anyone who
logged on to Thompson's bulletin board was compelled to complete an
on-line questionnaire. How would they help the movement? With guns? Safe
houses? Training? Though Thompson boasted that the FBI constantly
monitored her board, she insisted that bulletin board users implicate
themselves with possible charges of conspiracy or worse, by simply
filling out these incriminating questionnaires.
Thompson canceled her notorious armed march after returning home in
August, '94 from the Arizona high desert, where she assisted the bizarre
William Cooper7 with a seminar on the fine arts of propaganda and
long-range rifle sniping. In a public announcement, Thompson claimed the
march was nothing more than a publicity stunt, but people should realize
that even though the march was canceled, the "war is on."
Perhaps Michael Kelly's "fusion paranoia" theorem should not be disposed
of too quickly. The phrase seems to accurately fit an individual by the
name of Craig Hulet, aka K.C. DePlace. In the late '80s, Hulet made the
rounds, speaking on radio talk shows and appearing at seminars to
disseminate information on executive orders known as "Rex '84," that
would, in time of "emergency," turn the U.S. into a virtual police state
and transform emptied military bases into concentration camps.
One leg of the "Rex '84" plan has come to fruition: the closure of
military bases. After his high-profile presence in the late '80s Hulet
dropped out of sight, particularly after articles appeared linking him
to past associations with far-right or racist organizations. Hulet has
again emerged, this time, supplying screeds to the August, 1995 issue of
Soldier of Fortune, in which he turns about-face from his former
position to insult "conspiracists" (a neologism derived from Chip
Berlet) and declaring there is no such thing as a "sinister" project
emanating from an imperial elite.
Cui Bono, Oklahoma City?
Does it really matter who blew up the building in Oklahoma City? Such
knowledge is only useful for purposes of punishment. History tells us to
pay attention to the aftermath, not to the puny distractions of trials
and culpability. What is in store for us?
At his first post-bomb press conference, Clinton swaggers to the podium,
radiating anger and confidence. Clinton's hate rant, invoking the
perpetrator's execution, is rewarded with the highest approval ratings
of his term.
For the first time in memory, Clinton drops his I-feel-for-you whine.
His righteous anger reflects Mussolini-like vitality rather than his
usual wan, comforting equivocations. Flying high in the polls, Clinton
invokes a hostile "love it or leave it" refrain when Diane Sawyer
informs him citizens are concerned about Waco. Later, in a speech at
Michigan University, Clinton throttles non-establishment views of
history as the "peddling of paranoia," a sowing of distrust in the
benevolent institutions known as federal government.
"You have the right to say what you please in this country," explains
Clinton, "but that doesn't give people the right to tear down this
country."
News programs took Clinton's bait and started to report about
"conspiracy theorists." With clear astonishment in his voice, Dateline's
Stone Philips tells us "some of the conspiracy theorists actually
believe the U.S. government was responsible for the Oklahoma City
explosion!" "Even worse," says Philips to the eye of the camera,
"millions of Americans actually believe them." To demolish these
Establishment-Deniers, Dateline interviews popularizers of three
unlikely stories.
Former FBI man Ted Gunderson says that a four pound aerially dropped
"pineapple bomb" invented by Michael Riconosciuto of Iran-Contra fame is
responsible for the blast. Another scenario features a sharp-featured
computer expert, Debra Von Trapp, who tells us Oklahoma City was Japan's
retribution for the subway gassings, which were executed by the U.S.
government as punishment for Japanese spies in the White House. The
final "kook factor" was supplied by jailbird Ron Jackson, who produced
an incoherent, typewritten document as "proof" of the government's
involvement.
By offering only the most unlikely scenarios, Dateline de-legitimizes
every alternative reading of Oklahoma City. Never mind Gunderson, Von
Trapp, and Jackson, the kookiest tale is currently being told by the
FBI, and presented to us in daily doses by the compliant corporate scabs
employed in establishment media. Why doesn't Dateline or any other news
program ask the following questions?
• If the bombing of the Murrah building was a terrorist reprisal for
Waco, why weren't ATF or FBI agents injured? How many ATF personnel took
the day off?
Why were Judge Alley and others warned by special agents about impending
violence on April 19? Who were these special agents?
• By definition, a terrorist must take credit for his violence, or
else there is no compelling reason to commit a crime. The specific
purpose of terrorism is gaining leverage on a specific political
objective through the ability of threatening future terrorist acts. No
one has claimed credit for the Oklahoma City bombing. Militia groups
produced particularly vehement public statements condemning the crime.
• Did the Murrah building warehouse documents regarding the Branch
Davidians? Are these documents missing? Will the missing papers affect
Ramsey Clark's suit against the ATF and FBI on behalf of the remaining
Branch Davidian survivors?
• Why did the director of University of Oklahoma's Geological Survey,
Dr. Charles Mankin, say that according to two different seismographic
records, there were two blasts. Dr. Mankin reports that "the news media
even reported two bomb blasts initially, but later changed their story."
• A pre-Oklahoma City bombing issue of Soldier of Fortune featured a
James Pate article on Waco with a photograph of three BATF agents. One
of the agents, the only agent unidentified, looks like the spitting
image of Timothy McVeigh. Is this merely coincidental? Or was there a
second "Timothy McVeigh" roaming the country, appearing at militia
meetings? (The use of doubles is not a James Bond fantasy but an
everyday aspect of intelligence work.)
• According to a New York Times chronology, Timothy McVeigh was said
to have worked as security for defense contractor CalSpan in Buffalo.
CalSpan, owned by the Fortune 500 company Arvin Industries, is actively
involved in the research and development of microwave technology and
telemetric devices for the Air Force. Telemetry can chart the location
of individuals implanted with a microchip, or, quite possibly, send the
telemetric device further information by satellite.
An executive for CalSpan told the New York Times that McVeigh was a
model employee, that the company was disappointed that he "dropped out
of sight," because they were planning to promote him. After McVeigh
"dropped out of sight" from his security job at CalSpan he began
complaining that the government was "controlling his mind" through a
microchip implanted in his buttocks.
• Who is John Doe #2? Why did the FBI entertain the possibility that
he was a pre-pubescent relative of Terry Nichols, and yet they profess
no interest in a John Doe #2 photographed at the crime scene, and then
rediscovered in Oklahoma City by the local television station KFOR?
• Retired Air Force Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, former
commander of the Air Force Armament Technology Laboratory, a 25-year
expert in the design and development of bombs, urged Senators and
Congressmen to delay destruction of the Murrah building crime site.
Partin disseminated information to the John Birch magazine, the New
American: "When I first saw the picture of the truck bomb's asymmetrical
damage to the federal building in Oklahoma, my immediate reaction was
that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible
without supplementary demolition charges at some of the reinforced
concrete bases inside the building--a standard demolition technique."
Partin further explained that "reinforced concrete targets in large
buildings are hard targets to blast. I know of no way possible to
reproduce the apparent building damage through simply a truck bomb
effort." General Partin's request to examine the possibility of a second
bomb in the concrete bases fell on deaf ears. The building was brought
down on May 23. Researcher Alex Constantine tells me that Partin's
information is suspect due to blaming the bomb on a peculiar coalition
of "international leftists." Perhaps more troubling was Constantine's
insistence that McVeigh's former employer, CalSpan, subcontracted the
development and construction of mind control devices for the Air Force,
where Partin was and perhaps still remains a major player.
• Why was the bomb first reported as a car bomb, then reported as a
bomb similar to the one that struck the World Trade Center (a one half
ton model)? The FBI raised their estimate of the amount of explosive to
4,800 pounds, and the truck size to the largest model rented by Ryder,
Inc.
• FBI agents were said to have tracked down McVeigh's truck rental
agency by finding a vehicle identification number (VIN) on the truck's
rear axle. This axle was found either in the bomb crater, according to
the mayor, or three blocks away, if one is to believe the FBI. But there
is another problem to the tale. No rear axle is imprinted with a VIN,
even after recent legislation forcing manufacturers to place multiple
VINs on the engine, firewall, and frame to discourage chop shops. When
queried, a spokesman for Ryder told me that it does not imprint
additional VINs on its trucks.
The only conceivable number available on a rear axle is a part number,
but a part number couldn't lead to the identification of a specific
vehicle. Where did the VIN story come from? And why?
• Did McVeigh use fake I.D. or real I.D. to rent the truck? The FBI
tells us both versions.
• If he committed such a heinous crime, why did Timothy McVeigh make
the mistake of driving 81 miles per hour without a license, and why
didn't he shoot the highway patrolman who stopped him?
• The story is told that Timothy McVeigh would have been released from
jail on the day of his capture if he had produced sufficient bail money.
Why couldn't he contact the Nichols brothers or other friends or family
members to obtain bail?
Why did he choose to stick around long enough for the sketch of John Doe
#1 to reach his small town courthouse, resulting in his arrest for the
Oklahoma City explosion?
• The FBI claims that Michael Fortier, McVeigh's friend from Kingman,
revealed that he and McVeigh snooped around the Murrah building several
days before the bombing, asking many people where BATF agents could be
found. Why, then, did McVeigh bomb the building on the opposite side
from the BATF offices?
• Why did Fortier tell CNN news on May 8 that "I do not believe Tim
McVeigh blew
up any building in Oklahoma"?
• U.S. government Technical Manual No. 9-1910 from the Departments of
the Army and Air Force titled Military Explosives, which specifies that
ANFO, the acronym for the Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil bomb said to be
used on the Murrah building, requires a greater than 99% purity of
Ammonium Nitrate, as well as a specific dryness before it can be mixed
with diesel fuel to create an explosive substance. The manual further
spells out that even under ideal conditions (not often reached, even by
experts) 4,800 pounds of ANFO explosive would create a much smaller
crater than the one left in front of the Murrah building, and its
shockwave could not possibly wield the force necessary to compromise the
building's concrete supports.
• The FBI claimed the ANFO charge was made from 50 bags of fertilizer.
Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer comes in much weaker concentrations than the
99% plus required for explosives. Creating concentrated amounts of
Ammonium Nitrate is quite complex, and would require many more than 50
bags of fertilizer.
• Accredited explosives experts who wish to remain anonymous for fear
of retribution, agree that the explosion could have only been created
with professional explosive detonators and professional explosive. Such
things are highly regulated in non-military use. The military is
supposedly even more strict about its explosive inventory.
• If the explosion is too strong to have been created by 4,800 pounds
of ANFO, if the explosive could only have been detonated by professional
materials, what sort of explosive was used, and why is the FBI supplying
public statements that do not support the government's own manuals?
An American Reichstag?
Ridicule is an everyday event for researchers who have compared the
Oklahoma City event to the burning of the Reichstag. Researcher Ace
Hayes believes the Reichstag analogy is appropriate because its burning
was the pivotal gambit that permitted the nazis to unleash the emerging
police state on political enemies prior to their total seizure of power.
The Reichstag, much more than a simple federal building in Oklahoma, was
something of a sacred national symbol--though the current regime wants
to live down its nationalist mythology by allowing the Bulgarian artist
Christo to toilet-wrap the monument under mylar for his personal profit.
The burning of the nationally symbolic site spurred on the nazis to
characterize the attack as "terrorism." The communists, early on accused
by the nazis of perpetrating the attack, produced their own conspiracy
theories, turning the nazi's accusation back on them.
A dim-witted Dutch anarchist named Marinus Van Der Lubbe became the
official "lone nut" terrorist, convicted of burning the huge building
with a gas-soaked jacket. Even the popular Ballantine histories of the
Second World War blame Van Der Lubbe for the attack, supporting neither
nazi nor communist conspiracy theories.
The U.S. government likewise blames the destruction of a federal
building on "terrorism" inspired by its most vocal opponents, the
militias. American dissidents, far fewer in number and much less active
or powerful than the nazis' communist opposition, generally believe that
those in power had more to gain by the blast.
Whoever or whatever burned down the Reichstag, the nazis seized the
moment to beat, kill or imprison their political enemies. Hitler induced
Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending German civil liberties.
The Clinton administration used the pretext of the blast to unleash SWAT
teams against militias and gun-owners in Michigan, Arizona, Montana and
elsewhere, and in the process arrest and seize assets from dozens of
anti-government dissidents for various crimes. Multi-Jurisdictional Task
Force (MJTF) attack teams terrorized communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and other states in live-fire attacks against imaginary urban dissidents
in abandoned buildings.
The most alarming comparisons of Oklahoma City to the Reichstag fire can
be found in newly-passed and newly-proposed legislation. Recent
anti-crime and anti-terrorist bills have already eliminated or
diminished portions of the first, second and fourth amendments, and has
dismantled the Posse Comitatus Act, which was supposed to prevent the
use of military forces against American citizens.
President Bush had already chipped away at Posse Comitatus by allowing
the use of military weapons for the "War on Drugs."
Soldier of Fortune correspondent James Pate discovered that the ATF lied
in telling the army that David Koresh was running a methamphetamine lab
in order to procure military training and weapons for its initial raid.
New anti-terrorist laws have loosened requirements, so that the ATF and
other federal police agencies will not have to lie to obtain military
training, personnel and materiel for their adventures.
The executive branch is now invested with the authority to declare any
group or anyone it doesn't like as "terrorist." The terrorist
designation amounts to immediate deportation if a foreign national, or
imprisonment if a U.S. citizen persists in his or her belief. Private
property can be seized at will, and there is no appeal process to the
terrorist designation.
Sound bad? You ain't heard nothin' yet.
Currently proposed before congress, the
"Domestic Insurgency Act of 1995 (HR-1544)," a bill sponsored by Gerald
Nadler (D-NY) borrows from the "sample legislation" appended to an ADL
scare report, as a legal method to snuff out the phenomenon of militias,
which the ADL claims are nothing more than "racist, extreme right-wing
hate groups." HR-1544 stipulates:
(a) Whoever knowingly participates in a paramilitary organization shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
(b) As used in this section, the term "paramilitary organization" means
two or more individuals acting together, organized in a military or
paramilitary structure, who knowingly--
(1) possess firearms, explosives, incendiary devices, or other weapons
or techniques capable of causing injury or death to individuals.
(2) provide or participate in training in the use of any such weapons or
techniques; with the intention that such weapons or techniques be used
unlawfully to oppose the authority of the United States or of any State
or for any other unlawful purpose.
Simply put, the "Domestic Insurgency Act" would clap citizens behind
bars for ten years simply for observing the constitutional guarantees of
free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to wear goofy
camouflage clothes, and the right to assembly. Unlawful intention is
left for the federal law enforcement agencies to interpret. The
definition of "paramilitary organization" is so open to interpretation
that it could be used to imprison hunters, explorer scouts, or attendees
of a church picnic, as long as two or more picnic-goers held Swiss Army
knives and discussed their unhappiness with the U.S. government.
If the ADL or Representative Nadler attempted to foist a "Domestic
Insurgency Act" on the state of Israel, citizens would likely riot in
the streets. Israeli nationals and settlers view weapons as their last
protection against violent enemies.
In light of onerous legislation and the continued militarization of
domestic police forces, the comparison of Oklahoma City to the Reichstag
fire is perhaps not quite so far-fetched. There are, however, several
important distinctions. Weimar and early National Socialist-period
communists actively expressed political distaste in street brawls,
assassinations, riots, large political assemblies, destruction of
property, even capture of German territory. By contrast, militias remain
largely defensive, chartered to protest the erosion of constitutional
rights.
The militias' paramilitary flavor is as much a statement of serious
intent as a threat to the government. Like the Black Panthers, militias
feel empowered with the ability to own and train with weapons.
The question remains: at what point will the militias use their weapons?
Militias are sure to react as the government continues to overturn the
Constitution, discarding the right to keep and bear arms, suffocating
the right to free speech, or roping off the right to public assembly. if
the rancid Domestic Insurgency Act targeting militias becomes law, the
law's already-alarmed target will surely react.
But I can only hazard a guess. Militias are unsophisticated, easily
mislead by agents provocateur scattered throughout the movement; the
militias' decentralization makes it difficult for the government to
monitor and control most or all of the groups at once.
Militias: How Large a Threat?
Researchers have failed to uncover the smoking gun that implicates any
government entity for the bomb blast. Without direct evidence, one must
proceed cautiously in assigning blame on any party.
That said, it's clear that the government continues to withhold and even
cover-up evidence: lame excuses accompany the destruction of the crime
site--the relatives of three missing civilians need a death certificate
to obtain insurance, psychiatrists say the crime scene must be destroyed
to provide "closure" to Oklahoma City residents. But like the Branch
Davidian compound, crucial evidence is forever destroyed or "lost"; in
this sense, the government bears comparison to a card sharp who
blindfolds his competition. The sighted competitor will win every hand,
but his winnings come at the expense of his credibility.
When McVeigh was fingered as the mastermind of Oklahoma City, a lynch
mob bayed for the suspect's blood as he was exposed to the public, a
standing target next to near midget-sized FBI men.
It may be advisable at this point to admit my own biases. I own two
guns, purchased for self-defense. My political beliefs combine
skepticism of authority tempered with libertarian-style economic
self-reliance. Unlike hardcore [right-wing] "libertarians," I do not
worship at the altar of a free market economy for the simple reason that
unlimited economic growth along with unchecked procreation seems
incompatible with long-term survival of the species. I am more of an
agnostic than Christian, though I appreciate much in the legacy of
Christian music, art and architecture.
Why then do I feel compelled to defend the militia man with his
Manichean conspiracies and apocalyptic dreams?
Because quite simply, the Christian militia man has become a scapegoat,
a justification for intelligence agencies' headlong rush into
technocratic dystopia, where every financial transaction is instantly
monitored by computers operated by Fortune 500 and its omnipotent police
force.
Waco and Randy Weaver are harbingers of this spin-controlled, 1984-like
world in which paramilitary goons stage theatrical assaults against
contentious targets to instill fear into dissidents, or make a televised
action picture whenever they need to pad their budget.
On the most pragmatic level, militia men and their pea shooters are no
match for electronic or subsonic "non-lethal" weaponry devised to put
down civilian uprisings. Anti-gun propaganda has become so intense that
all advocates of private gun ownership have become vulnerable to smear
campaigns by skittish elements of the left who demand government
protection from crib to coffin.
Although the militia movement is supposed to take advantage of a
Constitutional provision that states all men between the ages of 18 and
45 not belonging to an organized militia shall be considered members of
an "Unorganized Militia," the law was enacted in order to allow the
government to draft citizens in a national emergency. Furthermore, many
states have already banned private paramilitary organizations back in
the 1930s, primarily as a strategy to control the Klan's extracurricular
activities.
Alfred McCoy and others have published scholarly tomes linking U.S.
intelligence with large-scale sales of opium and cocaine in order to
fund illegal insurgent actions. While a small elite within the U.S.
military have become de facto dealers of tons of hard drugs that find
their way to the streets of America, the Executive Branch makes a big
show of eliminating the rights of citizens under the so-called War on
Drugs. Similarly, the ever-increasing hysteria regarding militias
translates into further onerous damage to the Constitution. Is it simply
a coincidence that militias are largely composed of ex-military, or do
they know things the average ignorant citizens aren't aware of?
The government and media have characterized the Murrah explosion as
unreconstructed terrorism. The word terrorist has been cultivated to
create an emotional reaction, an unreasoning fear that provokes an
instinctive reflex to provide the government with anything it asks for
to rid the citizen of his fear.
Society has consequently become frantic to do away with "suspicious"
characters without due process. Communism no longer haunts post Cold War
America; consequently the federal police and intelligence agencies have
become a bad parody of Stalin's NKVD or Honecker's Stasi.
Without an enemy, without terrorism, there would be no justification for
police, no rationale for expanded police powers, no reason whatsoever to
give in to laws providing the police legal access to one's personal
business, no possible justification for eviscerating the Posse Comitatus
Act, designed to protect citizens from governmental attack by its own
military.
Militia men, correctly distrusting the establishment line, have not
developed a nose for bad information, which once embraced, discredits
the militia's entire plank of beliefs. For this reason, it is important
for researchers to reveal the disinformation along with the good
information. Only a fanatical adherence to truth can hope to change the
face of political opportunism.
Endnotes
1. John B. Watson's turn-of-the-century attempt to turn mind control
into a science.
2. See Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles by
Paul Greenstein, Nigey Lennon and Lionel Rolfe, California Classics
Books, 1992.
3. According to armed forces spokesman Harvey Perrett III, the $3
billion/year program fields a black helicopter base in Fort Campbell,
KY. McClendon's enlightening interview fairly demolishes the canard
trumpeted by the press that black copters are the paranoid imaginings of
all those extreme right-wing militias.
4. The ADL would love to do away with militias for perceived
anti-Semitic overtones in militia conspiracy literature.
This perception is at least partially due to Jewish oversensitivity.
When a militia man talks about international bankers, the ADL believes
he is using code words to describe Jewish control of the monetary
system. If a militia man criticizes specific congressmen for attempting
to do away with the Second Amendment who also happen to be Jews, this is
again taken as anti-Semitism. The presumption of anti-Semitism in the
militia movement is overstated, especially when a number of Jewish
libertarians, including Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership,
are movers and shakers within the militia movement.
The JPFO has tried to engage the ADL in debate, to no apparent success.
The group is critical of both the ADL and gun control measures because
they believe genocide becomes practicable after the general confiscation
of firearms.
5. Director Morris Dees boasts of having files on more than 14,000
"populists."
6. Schumer apparently had no interest in the threats, dead animals, or
obscene effigies sent to conservative Congressmen, since these
activities weren't the province of militias, but DOJ-protected activists
protesting abortion rights and gay activism.
7. Linda Thompson's championing of William Cooper at the expense of
every other militia member or leader is peculiar, to say the least. In
his magnum opus, Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper reprints the hoax document
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, stipulating that readers should
change the word Jew to "Illuminati."
The End of American Innocence?
Accompanying news coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing were frequent
and peculiar statements to the effect that America had lost its
innocence. "It was an explosion of unimaginable magnitude," quailed a
CNN anchorwoman. "You expect these kinds of things to happen in New York
or Jerusalem, but Oklahoma? If this kind of thing can happen in
Oklahoma, it can happen anywhere, anytime. This is the end of American
innocence." And so on, ad nauseam....
Was America innocent of running black ops in Laos? Innocent of gifting
smallpox blankets to Indians? Innocent of selling drugs for guns?
Innocent of raking off our share of the world's misery? To quote Malcolm
X, the chickens have come home to roost.
Media coverage of the Oklahoma City incident was maudlin in the extreme,
a kind of flip-side of militia fetishism for the children killed at
Waco.
Two weeks after the bombing, a beaming President Clinton dons a yarmulke
at a meeting of the American Jewish Congress celebrating liquor tycoon
Edgar Bronfman, a vastly powerful Zionist leader with notorious mob
ties. With great media fanfare, Bronfman's son had just purchased MCA,
the Hollywood studio with long-established mob ties. Clinton lauds
Bronfman Sr., a Canadian version of the politically avaricious Joe
Kennedy, as a paragon of virtue. He then announces to the assembled
guests, with no suppressed glee, that he has just decided to punish the
"terrorist" state of Iran with economic sanctions in order to fight
terrorism both here and abroad.
Further, Clinton's domestic anti-terrorism legislation delivers the
goods for Israeli hawks. Years after the King David Hotel was bombed by
Begin's Irgun, resulting in the deaths of many British soldiers and
diplomats, the word terrorist has instead come to indicate any activist
opposed to capitalism or Zionism. According to Western news
organizations, capitalists or Zionists never commit terrorism or even
vigilantism, they are instead characterized as "preserving the peace."
The perception of terrorism emanating from the Arab community plays well
in Tel Aviv, rekindling hate vibes lying dormant since the Persian Gulf
War. It was almost a fait accompli that "swarthy, middle-Eastern types"
were initially fingered by FBI agents as responsible for the Oklahoma
City bomb. They detain a Lebanese-American at Dallas airport several
minutes before he was able to fly to London. "Forgetting" to search the
Arab-American's bags, they fly on to London. While the FBI imprisons its
Arab suspect, not allowing him access to an attorney or relatives, his
luggage arrives in London for Scotland Yard to rip open before news
cameras. Without a shred of evidence to further detain him, U.S.
officials release the Lebanese-American, who hops the red eye to London,
whereupon Scotland Yard claps handcuffs on his wrists, and chains him to
a door until another plane departs to Dallas, where the FBI barks at him
to keep close to home, and not to talk to anyone.
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