DHS was right -- rightwing extremists ARE the threat: 75 rightwing plots broken up since Oklahoma City bombing
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Since Oklahoma City
By , Southern Poverty Law Center
Posted on August 22, 2009, Printed on August 22, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142123/
The following is part of a new report, 'Return of the Militias,'
released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed
of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed
into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much
of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children
in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured. Although many
Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it
quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried
out by domestic, right-wing terrorists.
The slaughter engineered by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, men
steeped in the conspiracy theories and white-hot fury of the American
radical right, marked the opening shot in a new kind of domestic
political extremism — a revolutionary ideology whose practitioners do
not hesitate to carry out attacks directed at entirely innocent
victims, people selected essentially at random to make a political
point. After Oklahoma, it was no longer sufficient for many American
right-wing terrorists to strike at a target of political significance
— instead, they reached for higher and higher body counts, reasoning
that they had to eclipse McVeigh's attack to win attention.
What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist
rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the
years since Oklahoma City. These have included 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.
Here are the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since
1995 — plots and violence waged against a democratic America.
July 28, 1995
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.
October 9, 1995
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.
November 9, 1995
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.
December 18, 1995
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.
January 18, 1996
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.
April 11, 1996
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.
April 12, 1996
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.
April 26, 1996
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.
July 1, 1996
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.
July 27, 1996
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.
July 29, 1996
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.
October 8, 1996
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.
October 11, 1996
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.
January 16, 1997
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.
January 22, 1997
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.
March 26, 1997
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.
April 22, 1997
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.
April 23, 1997
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.
April 27, 1997
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.
May 3, 1997
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.
July 4, 1997
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.
December 12, 1997
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.
January 29, 1998
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.
February 23, 1998
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.
March 18, 1998
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.
May 29, 1998
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.
July 1, 1998
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.
July 30, 1998
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.
October 23, 1998
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.
June 10, 1999
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.
July 1, 1999
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.
July 2, 1999
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.
August 10, 1999
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.
November 5, 1999
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.
December 5, 1999
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.
December 8, 1999
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.
March 9, 2000
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.
April 28, 2000
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.
March 1, 2001
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.
April 19, 2001
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.
October 14, 2001
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.
December 5, 2001
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.
December 11, 2001
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.
January 4, 2002
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.
February 8, 2002
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.
July 19, 2002
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.
August 22, 2002
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.
October 3, 2002
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.
January 8, 2003
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.
January 18, 2003
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.
February 13, 2003
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.
April 3, 2003
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.
April 10, 2003
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.
June 4, 2003
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.
October 10, 2003
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.
April 1, 2004
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.
May 24, 2004
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.
October 13, 2004
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.
October 25, 2004
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.
May 20, 2005
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.
June 10, 2005
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.
March 19, 2006
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.
April 26, 2007
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.
June 8, 2008
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.
August 24, 2008
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.
October 24, 2008
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.
December 9, 2008
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.
December 16, 2008
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.
January 21, 2009
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.
April 4, 2009
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.
April 25, 2009
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.
May 31, 2009
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.
June 10, 2009
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.
June 12, 2009
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.
June 25, 2009
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.
Read more of the report, 'Return of the Militias,' released by the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
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DID YOU NOTICE THAT NOT ONE OF THESE INVOLVED LEFTWING
ORGANIZATIONS???
lorad
racist
> rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the
> years since Oklahoma City. These have included 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.
Here we go again...
You -by extension- trying to make every white guy out to be some sort
of neocon defined 'terrorist' - a la Jane (the main neocon squeeze)
Harman
If 911 was an inside government job designed to impose draconian
survailance upon regular US citizens, what do you suppose Oklahoma
might have been?
The appetizer.
> DID YOU NOTICE THAT NOT ONE OF THESE INVOLVED LEFTWING
> ORGANIZATIONS???
Yeah.. they're all busy down at the border feeding foreign invaders;
leftist 'feed an' greet'..
lorad
racist
> rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the
> years since Oklahoma City. These have included 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.
Here we go again...
You -by extension- trying to make every white guy out to be some sort
of neocon defined 'terrorist' - a la Jane (the main neocon squeeze)
Harman
If 911 was an inside government job designed to impose draconian
survailance upon regular US citizens, what do you suppose Oklahoma
might have been?
The appetizer.
> DID YOU NOTICE THAT NOT ONE OF THESE INVOLVED LEFTWING
> ORGANIZATIONS???
Yeah.. they're all busy down at the border feeding foreign invaders;
Scotius
Names" <old_r...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages
>Since Oklahoma City
The trouble is that the guy who set this great "debate" off
was a radical leftist. He believed that Rush Limbaugh and others like
him were tools of "the Jews", just like the neo nazis believe, and
just like the little leftists at Berkely (Berserkely) believe when
they were the traditional Arab "jihad" headdress to pro-Palestinian
protests and write "Fuck Jews" on their lockers.
Maybe you ougtta sit back and get away from this subject, Ol'
Kickin'. What do you think?