The Joker in the Patriot Movement

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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby Hunter » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:33 pm

Well maybe that is the point, nobody with any sense takes Icke or Springmaeier seriously, might be a good place to hide a few kernals of truth, that some people may be on to, among all the other outrageous BS they peddle.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:46 pm

Hunter » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:33 pm wrote:Well maybe that is the point, nobody with any sense takes Icke or Springmaeier seriously, might be a good place to hide a few kernals of truth, that some people may be on to, among all the other outrageous BS they peddle.


Perhaps, but it's framed as an example of "Springmeier's misinfo" and if memory serves, there's actual victim testimony in that "X Dossier" material (WHICH I DO NOT RECOMMEND READING) about that location.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby Sounder » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:22 pm

His conspiracy writing and lectures have been a huge influence on David Icke. Much of Springmeier's misinfo has made it into Icke's books. For example, the Belgian castle called Chateau Amerois is referred to by both Springmeier and Icke as the "Mothers of Darkness" castle, in which the elite hold ghastly Satanic rituals and slaughter children.

Wombat wrote...
Just wanted to flag that -- in light of what we know about Belgium, I fail to see how this is far-fetched, absurd or problematic.

Bueller?


See how that works? AD does not even need to be clever to whitewash the role of the elite out of the narrative.

Just relentless re-directions to the idiocy of peripheral stooges.
All these things will continue as long as coercion remains a central element of our mentality.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue Jun 24, 2014 9:12 pm

Dutroux case and X-Dossier victim-witnesses

https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/dutroux/Bel ... nesses.htm

Chateau des Amerois claims

Note of caution: with such notorious manipulative debunkers as Verhaeghen and Alvarez involved, together with evangelical conspiracy researchers as Fritz Springmeier and the Dutch Robin de Ruiter, this story has been rendered pretty much completely useless.


PV 150.311, February 19, 1997 (Eddy Verhaeghen): "Information: Chateau Amerois. Dutchman = R. de Ruiter from Almere. He writes to say that he doesn't know anything besides that his info comes from Springmeier. The info of this person would come from elder Satanists. He mentions "the top 13 Illuminati bloodlines" that make the satanic families the most powerful on earth and "the Illuminati formula uses to create an undetectable mind controlled slave [sic]" that goes about the programming and deprogramming of the victims. Fritz Springmeier of Oregon City (USA)."
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue Jun 24, 2014 9:56 pm

Illuminati Slaves Part I: Cisco Wheeler

The story of Cisco Wheeler is unique not only because of her long-term collaboration with lay minister-cum-bank-robber Fritz Springmeier, but because she and Fritz have given the world step-by-step instructions on how to create virtual zombies with "trauma-based mind control".

Cisco Wheeler is one of several women (and a few men, like Jay Parker) who claim they were subjected to stupefyingly complex mind control programming by agents of the U.S. government as part of an MK-ULTRA sub-program they call the Monarch Project. Generally, these people have no conscious recall of their involvement with the project, and must "recover" their "repressed" memories with the aid of hypnosis, journaling, and/or deprogramming.

Monarch Project women are a whole other post. For now, I'll just say that one of the most disconcerting things about the Monarch women is that, almost without exception, they have male "handlers" who have allegedly deprogrammed them. These men accompany them on speaking tours, co-author their books, sit beside them during interviews, and in some cases even marry them.

Fritz Springmeier served this role for Cisco Wheeler. Springmeier is a Christian conspiranoid, recently released from prison after serving time for bombing a porno shop and robbing a bank (you can learn a bit more about him on a Leaving Alex Jonestown post). You may remember him from the post on John Todd (he vociferously defended Todd long after Todd had been discredited, and used a lot of Todd's make-believe family history in his book The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines).

At the time Cisco met him in the early '90s, Springmeier was a married father running some sort of ministry out of his house.

Building on earlier Monarch Project accounts and Christian Patriot conspiracy tales, Springmeier and Wheeler crafted an Illuminati mythos that has had a tremendous influence on the fringier conspiracy theorists. You can't get very far into the conspiranoia labyrinth without running into their massive self-published tome, The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, first issued in 1996.

Cisco's Story

You'd think The Illuminati Formula, being heavily based on Cisco Wheeler's "memories", would be chock-full of information about her. It isn't. In fact, so little is known of Wheeler's background that we don't even known what her real name is (it's variously given as Linda Johnson or Linda Anderson, though she maintains her maiden name is Wheeler). She was born in the late 1940s, possibly in the Western U.S. Other than that, the woman is a cipher. She rarely gives interviews, and the only available photo of her is a blurry snapshot perhaps taken at a speaking engagement.

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Cisco Wheeler, I guess.
Could also be Mickey Roarke.


Her supposed background

Cisco claims her father's uncle was "General Earl Grant Wheeler... a direct descendant of Ulysses Grant... [and] head of the American military in the Vietnam War." (1) There are some problems with this:

General Earle Gilmore Wheeler (d. 1975) was not related to Ulysses S Grant.
So far as I can determine, he did not have any siblings.

Cisco's paternal ancestors were Illuminati members, and Cisco's birth was planned according to Illuminati "rules". Her father married her mother solely because she was a virtuous Christian woman, and part of the Illuminati's New World Order scheme at that time (the late '40s) was to infiltrate and undermine Christian churches (something also described by John Todd, the first supposed Illuminati member to go public). To this end, Mr. Wheeler became an ordained Pentacostal minister. But that was not his only source of income. In the '60s, he and his uncle (General Wheeler) smuggled drugs out of Vietnam in the bodies of dead U.S. soldiers.

It has long been rumoured that heroin smugglers used soldiers' corpses or coffins to hide their shipments during 'Nam, and infamous New York-based dealer Frank Lucas even bragged about leading this so-called "Cadaver Connection". However, there's no evidence that anyone ever actually used the technique. A key member of Lucas's ring, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson, told journalist Ron Chepesiuk the entire notion was a hoax. (2)

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Protip: Sometimes, heroin traffickers lie.

The Illuminati according to Herr Springmeier

Springmeier identifies the Illuminati as a Luciferian organization, also known as Moriah or simply the Circle, headed by a Grande Druid Council. In 1996, when The Illuminati Formula first appeared, the Circle supposedly contained millions of members worldwide. Membership is usually conferred by birth, but recruitment takes place on a limited scale. Rigorous obedience to some sort of code of conduct is required of each and every member, and some degree of mind control is de rigeur. Those who do not submit are dispatched in "ritual gladiator type duels". Escape is next to impossible. "Unless God intervenes, people who are born into the Illuminati don’t escape it while alive." (3)

Like all Illuminati members, Cisco's father worshiped Satan and took part in many arcane rituals, including human sacrifice. Cisco was forced to participate in this lifestyle against her will, much as Lauren Stratford claimed to have been. She was trained up to be a Mother of Darkness, or high priestess, within the Illuminati. Just like John Todd, Edna Moses, and Bill Schnoebelen, Cisco ties homicidal Satanism firmly to Catholics (particularly Jesuits), Freemasons, and Wiccans. She claims her father was a 33rd degree Freemason.

The oldest child in her family, she was selected for trauma-based mind control programming before she was even born. In fact, she says she was first traumatized while in utero. The purpose of the abuse was to traumatize Cisco so severely she would dissociate and develop Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. This "trauma-based mind control", according to the Monarch Project survivors, is a combination of every kind of mind control technique known to man. Through the skillful use of torture, hypnosis, drugs, and conditioning, Illuminati programmers create DID in children, then program each alternate personality ("alter") to perform a specific function. For instance, one alter might be a sex slave and another an assassin. Each one would be programmed to emerge at a spoken command, carry out whatever actions a controller wished him/her to do, then disappear with another spoken command. The core personality (Cisco) and the other alters would experience a fugue state and remain completely unaware that anything unusual had occurred. Springmeier tells us the techniques were honed by the Nazis and their collaborators; prior to WWII, the Illuminati used more "primitive" methods of mind control. We are to believe that the programmers' methods were already so sophisticated by the late 1940s that they could ensure no "leakage" or co-consciousness would occur among the alters.

Cisco's programming took place in hospitals and military installations throughout California and Oregon, including China Lake Naval Base. She was also taken to Scotty's Castle in Arizona. Her primary programmers were her own father, who went by the codename "Dr. Black", and a mysterious German known as "Dr. Green". Cisco eventually realized that Dr. Green was Josef Mengele. She believes Mengele was active in every state of the union, plus Canada, and sometimes went by names other than Green ("Fairchild" was another alias). Bizarrely, he continued to wear his German uniform well into the '50s, while working at American military installations and hospitals.

According to Springmeier, Mengele had achieved the rank of Grand Master in the Illuminati, and would go on to achieve the even higher rank of Ipsissimus. ("Ipsissimus" was reportedly the title of a grade within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though that continues to be disputed, and was later adopted by Aleister Crowley for his own magickal system. It is not a term found beyond this extremely small group of occult practitioners.) As Grand Master, Springmeier explains, Mengele was skilled in Kabbalistic magic, abortions, torture, and programming children. We know Mengele was capable of torture, and he could certainly manage an abortion (he performed many back-alley procedures as a fugitive), but I find it extraordinarily unlikely that a Nazi would study Kabbala. We'll get into his alleged specialties later.

Training

In a radio interview, Cisco vividly described being kept in a cage somewhere in the desert, surrounded by other kids as young as four in their own cages. The children were deprived of food and water for hours at a time. Then Mengele would show up with a fistful of daisies and distribute them to the children one at a time, saying "I love you," or "I love you not." Whenever he said, "I love you not", that child was summarily executed just to frighten the others. Each time this happened, Cisco would be filled with gratitude for being spared, and would express love and appreciation for Mengele - classic trauma bonding. Cisco later learned she had nothing to fear at those times, though; the children who died were "expendables", while she was an Illuminati spawn, too precious to be killed. (1)

Cisco was trained as a sex slave from earliest girlhood. One of her first abusers was President Eisenhower. It is this inclusion of well-known personalities that sets Monarch Project accounts apart from the Illuminati stories of the '70s and '80s (see John Todd, Doc Marquis). Todd mentioned that David Crosby and other musicians of his acquaintance made pacts with Satan, but until the Monarch women came along, celebrities and heads of state were not usually implicated as child-molesting Satanists. Now, everyone from Kris Kristofferson to JFK has been named as part of the Illuminati mind control/Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy matrix.

Cisco says she was trained to be a programmer herself, and admits she (unwittingly) programmed other Illuminati children. Surely she would know their identities, but so far as we know she has not reported their abuse to the proper authorities.

In the previously mentioned radio interview, Cisco said she was shown records indicating that about 2 million children were programmed in the late '60s. This contradicts The Illuminati Formula, in which she and Springmeier state that the Illuminati rarely keep written records of anything.


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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby justdrew » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:35 pm

a nice project:

Let's get a tea party congress critter to introduce legislation legalizing guns in prison.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:53 pm

!!!!!

Thank you, AD -- a vivid illustration of how pernicious fake data points can be, out here in the echo chamber.

(I had a note to go back to that material and I am really grateful to be spared that.)
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:07 pm

The person who runs the Leaving Alex Jonestown website- as well as Swallowing the Camel- is a researcher who got her start after some disagreements with her spouse about some stuff he was into that she considers misguided. She is very thorough and careful about the claims she makes.

If you have a partner like this self-declared housewife from B.C, you do not want to piss them off.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:01 am

http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-pa ... y-standoff

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White, Far Right and Armed: Tea Party and Militias Mobilize to Defend Nevada County Supremacy Activist

Charles Tanner Jr 17 April 2014

From April 5 to April 12, people around the country watched as Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, backed by often armed supporters, stood in defiance of federal court orders to remove cattle he had illegally grazed on federal lands since the 1990s. Bundy supporters cast the drama a David versus Goliath clash between a Constitutionally-minded rancher and an out-of-control federal government. A closer look reveals a more complex story, offering insights in to the ability of the far right to engage in armed mobilizations on behalf of activists whose federal law violations get them into legal trouble. When the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) backed off from enforcing Bundy’s long-standing grazing violations, far-rightists claimed victory for their ideas and paramilitary tactics, threatening to embolden those would use violence to advance far right political goals.

The confrontation took place in Southern Nevada in Clark County and has its roots in a long-standing conflict between Cliven Bundy and federal agencies. In 1993 Bundy rejected the terms of a federal permit modified to protect the desert tortoise under the Endangered Species Act and quit paying required grazing fees. The BLM revoked the permit to graze cattle on some 600,000 acres (the Bunkerville allotment) managed by the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and Bureau of Reclamation. To date, Bundy has amassed some $1 million in back fees, according to the BLM. In 1998 a U.S. District Court barred Bundy from grazing livestock on these lands. Bundy continued grazing cattle illegally and federal authorities later closed the Bunkerville allotment to protect the desert tortoise. In July 2013, the court extended the initial ban beyond to the Bunkerville Allotment to Gold Butte-area lands where Bundy had also begun grazing cattle. Bundy continued to legally graze cattle on his own private land. As the court summed, “Bundy has produce no valid law or specific facts raising a genuine issue of fact regarding federal ownership or management of public lands in Nevada.”[1]

Tensions mounted in late March 2014 when the BLM issued an impound notice. The BLM announced plans to round up some 500 “trespass cattle,” restrict access to some 600,000 acres in northeast Clark County and close access to some parts of the land. The agency marked off two “First Amendment Areas” to control potential protests and Bundy issued letters declaring a “range war emergency,” demanding protection from local officials, including Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie. Bundy told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “I’ll do whatever it takes...They’re not going to get a hair of my cattle or any of my property.” Gillespie would later report telling Bundy that “These are federal lands. They can do what they want to do.”[2 ]

On Saturday April 5, the federal government launched an operation to enforce the court rulings and roundup Bundy’s cattle. Press accounts placed the number of livestock at between 400 and 900. Soon some 200 federal agents, complete with helicopters, were at the ranch. By April 7, Bundy’s supporters were gathering in protest. Across the weeklong standoff, press accounts estimated the number of people present near the ranch between several hundred and a thousand. As protestors arrived, tensions escalated, leading to confrontations with federal agents and the arrest of Bundy’s son, Dave, for refusal to disperse and resisting arrest. Bundy’s son Ammon was reported struck with a stun gun during a confrontation with federal agents, though no serious injuries were reported. Tea Party legislators, such as Arizona Representative Kelly Townsend, and groups such as Oath Keepers were reported in route to the ranch.[ 3]

Public officials and players in state resource politics positioned themselves as the situation unfolded. Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval accused the federal government of creating an “atmosphere of intimidation,” in particular criticizing the BLM’s “First Amendment Areas.” Republican U.S. Senator Dean Heller accused the BLM of “overreaching.”[4] The Nevada Cattlemen’s Association distanced itself from Bundy, stating that it is not “in our best interest to interfere in the process of adjudication in this matter.”[5]

As tensions mounted, the federal government showed signs of backing off. The BLM dismantled the “First Amendment Areas” and, by April 12, BLM operations were being halted. Sheriff Gillespie, a mediator between federal agents and Bundy, announced that the “BLM will be removing their assets here in Clark County.” BLM director Neil Kornze issued a statement that “we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public.” The Las Vegas Review-Journal further reported that about 100 head of Bundy’s cattle were released by the BLM “after angry ranchers and Tea Party members, some of them armed, descended on the pen [where they were being held] Saturday [April 12] afternoon.” CBS News relater reported that some 400 cattle had been returned to Bundy. As this article goes to press, the BLM claims that it will continue to pursue judicial and administrative solutions to the situation. [6]

Following the BLM back-down, Cliven Bundy began demanding that National Park Service employees be disarmed, while Bundy’s son Ammon told reporters, “The people have the power when they unite…The war has just begun…We sent them packing.”

Anatomy of an Armed Mobilization

The dynamics that played out in Bunkerville have been seen before. The pattern begins when an activist, animated by a far right ideology, rejects federal authority and violates federal law. The federal government moves to enforce the law and like-minded activists rush to the scene, espousing conspiracy theories and radical notions of state and county government power. While not all those expressing concern hold such views, the far right represents the most organized component of the mobilization. When the confrontation ends, the protagonists are made movement heroes whose stories are told and retold to inspire movement activists.

As the conflict unfolded, far right leaders compared the situation to the 1992 confrontation between white supremacist Randy Weaver and the 1993 Waco conflagration. Randy Weaver, after selling illegal firearms to federal agents, failing to appear in court, and refusing to help federal agents infiltrate the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, became the target of a federal operation that led to the death of his wife Vicki. In Waco, the Branch Davidian cult came under investigation for weapons violations and child sexual abuse. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents stormed the group’s compound, leading to a shootout and fire resulting in the deaths of four federal agents and more than 80 members of the cult, including many children. Both events became iconic examples of federal government tyranny among far rightists, helping to spur the growth of militias and common law courts in the mid-1990s.

Also seen before, the land use and environmental issues central to the Bundy conflict show the ability to bring together activists across the far right spectrum, bound by radical notions of state and county government power and versions of nationalism that privilege property rights over other community concerns. Bundy’s refusal to pay grazing fees, for instance, has roots in state’s rights and county supremacy arguments that have long animated the property rights movement, including its Sagebrush Rebellion, County Supremacy and Wise Use permutations. Bundy claims to have been involved in such activity for many years, stating that “I’ve been through the Catron County fight, the Nye County fight, the federal land fight…I’ve been involved a little bit in all of those.”[7]

The Catron County, New Mexico and Nye County, Nevada conflicts were key events in the development of the property rights movement in the 1990s. In 1991 Catron County, Commissioners sparked a “county supremacy movement” when they passed a land use ordinance asserting county control of some federal lands. The measures required that county land uses protect private property as well as the “custom and culture” of the area – customs and culture that rejected paying land use fees on publicly owned lands. Nye County, Nevada gained notoriety in the mid-1990s when County Commissioner Dick Carver led the passage of resolutions claiming control of public lands in the county and bulldozed open a closed National Forest Service road. Carver would ally his cause with the Christian Identity Jubilee publication, including speaking at the racist tabloid’s 1994 conference.”[8] Identity believers hold that Jews are satanic and people of color sub-human.

Cliven Bundy’s legal arguments have also echoed long-standing movement claims, including that the United States does not own the property in question, that the Disclaimer Clause in the Nevada Constitution does not apply to these lands and that federal ownership of lands in Nevada violates the Equal Footing Doctrine.[9] Disclaimer Clauses were commonly placed in the Constitutions of western states as a condition of entry into the union. Nevada’s own version states that the state’s citizens “forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States.”[10]

Sagebrush Rebels of the 1970s and 1980s argued that the “equal footing doctrine” - a legal doctrine holding that newly admitted states would enter the union on Constitutionally equal footing with existing states - precluded permanent federal ownership of property. This view stands in contrast to U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 stating that “Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.” In Sagebrush Rebellion hands, these arguments support transferring control of federal lands to state and/or county governments, an action that would undermine the ability of the federal government to enforce environmental protections and carry out its trust responsibility to Indian Nations.

Bundy has echoed state’s rights sentiments as well as ideas of government at the core of the County Supremacy Movement. Bundy told the Desert Valley Times, for instance, that “It’s not the seizure of Bundy cattle that’s important here...It’s the seizure of state sovereignty; it’s the seizure of state law; it’s the seizure of the land; it’s the seizure of the (Clark County) sheriff’s police power.”[11] Bundy declared, “For 20 years I have not paid any grazing fees and far as I’m concerned the BLM don’t exist.” Directing his words at the County Commission and County Sheriff, Bundy stated before a Wyoming audience,

You better understand that you don’t work for the federal government. You don’t work for the state government. You don’t even work for the county government except that... You work for ‘We the People’.” That’s what you do. And any time you represent some other organization, it’s like you represent a foreign nation. Like representing Russia over here. Or Mexico. Or Canada. It’s treason to the people of your county anytime you sign an MOU with a foreign agent… The county sheriff, it’s the same with you. You’re paid and your elected, you’re paid by ‘We the People’ to uphold the laws of Wyoming and the United States Constitution…When you go over that [county] line, you don’t have no jurisdiction and authority. When you’re here, you have all the Constitutional jurisdiction and authority. You have the only policing power and you have the only arresting power. Even if the FBI man comes to your county, he does not have arresting power. He might make you think he does. And the rest of you might think he does, but he does not have arresting power in this county. That man right there [sheriff] is the only man that has the power. He can delegate that power only to his deputies that you pay for. He can’t delegate that power to a… BLM ranger. No way in the world can he…Now I want to tell you something about protecting your property. I do not expect that sheriff to do one darn thing that you’re not willing to do. If you’re not willing to stand on the line and protect your life, liberty and property, don’t you dare expect your sheriff to do that!... Again, I honor you for your [sheriff] position. You can tell I’m very serious. You do have the most powerful position in this United States of America - more so than the president of the United States, more so than his army. You have that much on your shoulders. He don’t have no jurisdictional authority, neither does his army. But you do.”[12]


Ideas such have these have animated both far-right property rights activists and the Posse Comitatus.

The Movement Responds

National and regional far right groups were quick to respond. Bundy case became a cause celebre on Fox News and national Tea Party factions offered their version of events. Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation assailed the federal government response, criticizing the use of “free speech zones” and using the conflict to promote TPN’s goal of curtailing government capacity. In the process, Phillips raised issues that divided property rights advocates during the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1980s. While Sagebrush opponents of federal environmental policies tended to favor transferring federal lands to state control, some libertarian-minded activists advocated privatization. Phillips came down for privatization:

When Republicans take control of the government next year, one of the things that should be done is a complete inventory of property owned by the Federal Government. Once that inventory is done, the properties that are not needed by the Defense Department or that are not a part of the National Park Service or are not needed for a compelling reason should be sold to American citizens. Selling this property would get these properties off the government rolls. Most importantly, it would shrink the size of government.”[13]


TeaPary.org posted articles from the InfoWars site, including one describing Cliven Bundy’s call for Sheriff Doug Gillespie to arrest BLM agents.[14] The Patriot Action Network posted a video of Cliven Bundy and warned that the “dispute could turn into a Ruby Ridge-style violent standoff because Bundy has said he is prepared to become a martyr for what he perceives as a constitutional stance against tyranny.” Patriot Action Network member Larry Holland declared that “Hitler is alive and well today and proud of his fellow commie travellers (sic).”[15] The New Hampshire Tea Party implied that U.S. Senator Harry Reid was seeking to confiscate land on behalf of a Chinese company.[16] A search of the Tea Party Patriots website, however, indicated that the organization had remained silent on the Nevada conflict as of April 11.[17]

Like TPN’s Judson Phillips, libertarian leader Ron Paul used the conflict to press for eventual privatization. Paul told Fox News, “I think land should be in the states and the states should sell it to the people.”[18] Ron’s son, Rand Paul, took a middle ground, arguing that there is “definitely a philosophic debate over who should own this land…I hope it will go to a court. But if it were in a court, I would be siding and wanting to say, that look the states, and the individuals in the states, should own these lands. Eighty percent of Nevada is owned by the federal government and we need to get it back to the State of Nevada.”[19] Conversely, media personality Glenn Beck attacked some of Bundy’s supporters as the “right’s version of Occupy Wall Street,” stating that “there’s about 10 to 15 percent of the people who are talking about this online that are truly frightening. They don't care what the facts are—they just want a fight.”[20]

Militia advocate and former Graham County, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack quickly jumped into the fray. In an interview on the online NEXT News Network, Mack assailed Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval for making a statement criticizing the federal government “instead of taking some action…It’s time for doing, and Governor Sandoval needs to get people there and put an end to this.”[21] Known for boosting county supremacy ideas and courting law officers, Mack directed his most biting disparagement at Sheriff Gillespie:

“Sheriff Gillespie is absolutely not doing his job. He has promised the people of Clark County that he would protect them from all enemies both foreign and domestic, and then when somebody needs his help, when they’re being attack by the government, he says, ‘Well, you’re gonna to have to call BLM.’ Well BLM is the perpetrator. So, that’s like saying a citizen that’s being attacked by the street gangs, ‘Well call the street gangs and tell them to stop it.’.. That’s really how asinine this is and the response of Sheriff Gillespie is very disturbing.”


Queried by the NEXT News reporter about whether “Sheriff Gillespie…could put an end to this right away and tell the Feds to turn around?,” Mack responded,

“Yeah, he could go out there and just say ‘Look Feds, I’m not going to allow this.’ Just as Sheriff Demayo has done in Nye County, Nevada, told them to take a hike, and they threatened him with a SWAT Team and he said, ‘I got one too.’ So, you know, it really takes somebody who knows and understands their office, their job, and their oath of office, and Sheriff Gillespie just has no clue as to what he’s doing...The Sheriff s can stop this sort of abuse immediately and it’s really regrettable that he’s allowed this to escalate to this point. He’s not doing his job and we’re reaching out to him to, please sir, examine what you have sworn to do, and what you are doing or not doing, and get after it, protect these people from what’s going on.”


Mack announced plans to come to the ranch with members of his Constitutional Sheriffs and Police Officers Association (CSPOA). The paramilitary group Oath Keepers elaborated on these plans, stating that CSPOA and Oath Keepers “are assisting Washington State Representative Matt Shea in organizing a delegation serving Western state legislators and Sheriffs” to travel to the Bundy ranch. Matt Shea (R-Spokane) is known in Washington State for telling a Tea Party gathering to stockpile ammunition in preparation for societal collapse. The delegation, Oath Keepers continued, would travel to the state to “support a coalition of current serving Nevada legislators being organized by Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, of Las Vegas.” They aimed to prevent “another Ruby Ridge or Waco type incident” and “prompt” Sheriff Gillespie and Governor Sandoval to “honor their oaths of office by taking real action to defend the rights of the Bundy family…and the sovereignty of the State of Nevada.” Oath Keepers issued a call for “all other patriotic Americans to join the vigil at the Bundy ranch.” The group called on the Governor to “order the Nevada Highway Patrol to actively interpose and stand between the people and an out of control BLM.” In Sagebrush Rebellion form, Oath Keepers cited the equal footing doctrine as a legal basis for its actions.[22]

While Oath Keepers voiced support for a “peaceful resolution to this situation,” the group in fact promotes paramilitary organizing. With E. Stewart Rhodes and Richard Mack on its board, the group touts itself as a “non-partisan association” of former military personnel and police “who pledge to fulfill the oath…to ‘defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”[23] In October 2013 Oath Keepers called on its members to go “operational,” including plans “eventually to assist in forming and training town and county militias.” As the groups described, “We are basing this on the Special Forces model, which has a twelve man ‘A team’ of specially trained soldiers who are inserted into a community to train and lead that community in resistance to oppressive regimes.” The “Teams” are to include two “precision shooting experts…two close combat and small unit tactics experts” and all members of the “field team” are to learn “basic light infantry skills.” Each chapter is recommended to have a “Peace Officer Liaison and Sheriff/posse Team” for the purpose “making sure the local Sheriff is a ‘constitutional Sheriff,’…and making sure there is a posse to back the sheriff up.”[24]

Other pro-militia groups joined the mobilization. Based in Oak Hills, California, Pete Santilli’s Guerilla Media Network quickly began promoting Bundy’s cause. Santilli is best known for declaring that Hillary Clinton needs to be “shot in the vagina” following the attack on the Bengazi, Libya consulate. [25] Santilli is a conspiracy theorist who pledges “resistance to the latest trend of forming a ‘New World Order’ (NWO), new currency, Agenda 21, or United Nations control.” Agenda 21 refers to a far right conspiracy theory alleging that domestically-driven land use and environmental regulations are the product of a demonic United Nations plot. The NWO Santilli continues, “have control over elections, corporations, media, military’s (sic), industry, economies, and the entire banking system.” Says Santilli, “I hate LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Ron & Rand Paul and Obama – especially the drug and gun trafficking cartels that they’ve all built to keep them in power.”[26]

As the Bundy conflict developed, Santilli’s GMN posted an “urgent alert” to

“Please advise anyone and everyone in the vicinity of the Bundy Ranch in Clark County, Nevada to get in their vehicles and get there asap. Pete Santilli is geared up & enroute & will be on the ground within the next several hours. GMN will provide live updates and broadcasts. Most importantly, we need every Patriot – protestors, Constitutionalists, Militia member, Oathkeeper, etc. --- to mobilize immediately. Let’s put the Feds in a FEMA camp & throw away the key! We the people will not relent; we will stand & fight and we will not surrender to tyranny. Period.”


The Southern Nevada Militia declared a “condition red,” telling followers to “travel with 72 hour kits in your vehicles” and stating, “This is what we have trained for, for almost two years. Time to fish or cut bait.” Shortly after midnight on April 10, however, the SNM discussion moderator “Col. Paris” announced,

“AS OF THIS DATE, I AM DOWNGRADING THE READINESS LEVEL OF THIS UNIT TO CONDITION YELLOW. ALL MEMBERS MAY STAND DOWN FROM CONDITION RED, HOWEVER, PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR MOBILITY PREPARATIONS. IF YOU WISH TO GO TO THE RANCH AND JOIN THE PROTEST, PLEASE DO SO, BUT REMEMBER NOT TO ANGER THE BEARS [Capitals in original].”[27]


Despite the downgrade, Bob Diehl and Brand Thornton of the Southern Nevada Militia were reported present at the site, the latter appearing in a Reuters photo carrying what appears to be an AK-47.[28] The Guerilla Media Network shot back at the Southern Nevada Militia’s “yellow-code” downgrade, declaring on April 10:

I will repeat...if we as Americans lose our rights and sovereignty to the Feds, it’s because we lay down and let them take/steal from us. [#bundyranch is CODE RED for all patriots and militia....get here ASAP if you can, and fire your leader if they suggest ‘stand down’ orders. This IS a revolution here on the ground, and we can only win with large numbers. peacefully. Southern Nevada Militia Leader Col Paris needs to resign or be fired by their members for idiocy”[29]


Cliven Bundy appeared on the Pete Santilli show several times during the standoff, an interview early as April 8. In a show rebroadcast on April 13, Bundy echoed the movement themes that the BLM had “seized the sovereignty of the state of Nevada. They’ve seized Nevada state laws, and they’ve seized Nevada Clark County public land, by locking us out from access. And… the worse thing of all… they have seized Nevada, Clark County’s policing power.” In the course of this interview, Bundy gave directions to his ranch for potential supporters, while Santilli called on “every single militia member” to “get out to Clark County and show support” for Bundy. “And I say militia member,” Santilli continued, because “we need to show an equal and opposite, I say force, defensive force, in defense of our nation, in defense of our sovereignty.”[30] In another show, Santilli-substitute Patrick Henningsen assailed Sheriff Doug Gillespie for inaction and declared that a sheriff “can just deputize a posse, put a posse together of 100 men together in a day…That’s what a Sheriff should do.”[31]

The Guerilla Media Network provides a direct to the white nationalist movement, providing an online radio outlet for neo-Nazi David Duke.[32] Immediately after an April 10 edition of the Pete Santilli show dedicated to the Bundy conflict, the former Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader hit the airwaves to rail against “Jewish extremists” who, the rabid anti-Semite says, seek advantage over others by alleging anti-Semitism and promoting colorblindness. Duke decried the “inundation of the Holocaust” in movies that “tries to prevent Europeans from seeing and understanding Jewish supremacism” and gives Jews a “free pass” on “what they do in terms of the international banking rip-offs they do, like in the Federal Reserve.” Duke continued, that “International globalism, or Zionism, or Zio-globalism is a better way to put it, is basically something that is destructive of every people on the planet.” Duke announced that he is working on a new book titled the “Illustrated Protocols of Zion, which brings the Protocols to the 21st century.” This anti-Semitic tract was used by the Russian Czar and Russian fascists to promote pogroms against Jews, later serving as an important propaganda tool of the German Nazis.[33]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on April 9 that other militia members had begun showing up near the ranch, including militia members from Montana and Utah. Ryan Payne and Jim Lardy of the West Mountain Rangers in western Montana were reported armed and at the site. “Expect to see a band of soldiers,” Payne told the Review-Journal.[34]

The Lessons Learned

In the wake the of the BLM retreat, far right activists quickly claimed victory. The tenor of the response indicates that the BLM’s actions have encouraged those in the movement who support armed opposition to federal policies that clash with far right ideology and goals. Casting their forces as pitted against “a one-world government called the United Nations and its programs referred to generally as ‘Agenda 21,’ Oath Keepers declared, “The cowboys work the land, live on the land, love the land, and, as we clearly saw on April 12, 2014, they will stand for the land. And so will their good neighbors and militia…After all the Fedgov huff and bluff, a posses of ranchers on horses showed enough popular support and old-fashioned American manhood to stand their ground and by God they ran the damned-by-God BLM out of there. They mounted up and rode into the face of the BLM’s guns, and by their determination and courage, the cows came home…Be of good cheer. The Bundy Ranch resistance movement has planted good seed in good earth and will bear much fruit in coming times.”[35]

Tea Party Nation cast the BLM retreat as a victory for the movement’s Second Amendment ideas. TPN’s Judson Phillips wrote that the lesson to be learned is “there is a reason why our founding fathers put the 2ndAmendment in the Constitution and there is a reason why real Americans refuse to compromise on it.” Phillips continued that,

“[A] lot of real Americans showed up with their firearms to reinforce the Bundys and the other real Americans protesting the tyrannical actions of the government. When armed, real Americans showed up, the BLM changed its tune and withdrew. Not only did the BLM withdraw, but cattle the BLM had seized, which was the pretext for moving against the Bundy ranch, are being returned and the government is paying for any cattle that died in the operation. The Bundy ranch episode is a warning for real Americans and it is a warning for Washington as well. For decades the government has been waging a war against private property in the west….When American citizens take up arms against armed Federal Agents, someone should start paying attention…Washington, are you listening?”[36]
Militia advocate Larry Pratt’s Gun Owners of America did not take an official position on the issue, linking instead to an article from InfoWars declaring that,

“This represents a huge victory in the fight against big government and the federal agenda to seize public land in the name of pursuing notoriously corrupt and wasteful “green energy” projects. It serves to remind us of the power of media spotlight and grass roots activism in affecting real change….If this operation was a test on behalf of the feds of where Americans draw their line in the sand, then the outcome spells disaster for big government, which has been handed a huge defeat in the battle to restore constitutional freedoms and property rights in the face of out of control tyranny.”[37]
Showing its ability to inspire other regionally-based mobilizations, the Bundy story became fodder for far right activists promoting the so-called State of Jefferson, a campaign to create a new state out of some eleven northern California Counties. JeffersonDeclaration.net, a website set up by State of Jefferson leaders Mark Baird and Liz Bowen, posted a statement titled “Tea Party Mark (sic) Harris explains Bigger picture on BLM taking of Nevada rancher Bundy’s property.” Marc Harris is a coordinator of the Tea Party of Northern Orange County and 9-12 West . A Tea Party Patriots page promoting Harris as a member of a California Speakers Bureau describes him as an “active member of Tea Party Patriots since March 2008. He became involved after learning about Agenda 21 and the significant degree to which the UN, Marxists, and other socialist/globalist forces have infiltrated American government.” In mid-2012 Harris penned support for prominent birther Orly Taitz and accused President Obama of “obstruction of justice” and “sedition” for not releasing his birth certificate.[38]

In his piece posted on the State of Jefferson website, Harris links the Bundy standoff to recent drought-related water shutoffs in Northern California, declaring that both amount Democratic Party efforts at “lining their pockets” and selling lands to the “Chinese at pennies on the dollar.” Drawing direct lessons for California organizing, Harris wrote,

“The only way to avoid the situation from becoming like the Bundy standoff in Nevada, or worse, is to pull together NOW. When these individual farmers try to stand up alone, they are mercilessly pounced on by many agencies of the federal and state government. The only way to help ourselves is to help them. As the Bundy ranch standoff proved, there is strength in numbers.”
A second lesson from the conflict is the double standard employed by the federal government in enforcing its grazing laws. The treatment of Bundy stands in stark contrast to the human rights violations committed against Carrie and Mary Dann (Mary Dann passed in 2005) by the U.S. government. The Dann sisters, members of the Western Shoshone tribe, grazed cattle on their ancestral lands in what is now central Nevada. In contrast to the Bundy incident, where the federal government had clear jurisdiction over the lands, the Dann sisters exercised reserved rights to use the land under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley – a treaty that ceded no lands to the United States, only granting the U.S. certain access rights to lands. The Indian Claims Commission - created in 1946 to “compensate” tribes for unfairly taken lands (but not return the lands) - decided that U.S. title to Western Shoshone lands had been obtained through gradual encroachment by whites – that is, United State’s title to the land was based on simply taking it!

In 1993 the Montana-based Indian Law Resource Center filed complaints on behalf of the Danns before the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2002 the body ruled that the United States had violated the Dann’s property and due process rights and called on the U.S. to review tenets of Federal Indian Law (specifically, the so-called Discovery Doctrine) that discriminate against indigenous people.[39] Also in contrast to the Bundy conflict, BLM followed its allegations of grazing violations by confiscating the Dann’s livestock and horses, ultimately auctioning off 232 of their cattle.[40]

The take home from this comparison is clear. If you are white and far right, have no legal basis for your claims, and mobilize armed opposition, the Bureau of Land Management may allow you to continue to graze your cattle on public lands. If you are indigenous, have land rights that extend back eons, work through the legal system, and face a U.S. government willing to fabricate legal claims to your lands, you may lose your cattle and horses.

The armed wing of the far right has been emboldened by their victory at the Bundy ranch. This could affect land use struggles led by property rights, militia and Tea Party groups around the country.

NOTES:

[1]. United States District Court of Nevada. United States v. Cliven Bundy. United States Notice of Supplement Authority in Support of Motion to Enforce Injunction. July 26, 2013.

[2]. Rogers, Keith. Rancher refuses to budge in standoff with BLM. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 10, 2014. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevad ... ndoff-blm; Brean, Henry. Bunderville rancher vows to resist rederal roundup of his cattle. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevad ... is-cattle; Brean, Henry. Cattle rancher taking fight over land use to limit. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/cattl ... -use-limit.

[3]. Brean, Henry. Bundy vs. BLM: Interswt in cattle dispute widens. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 10, 2014. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevad ... te-widens;

[4]. Ragan, Tom. Feds Start rounding up Bundy's cattle in northeastern Clark County. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 5, 2014; Washington Post. The Federal Government moves some cows and Nevada's governor isn't happy about it. April 9, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/gov ... about-it/; Glionna, John M. BLM seizes cattle in range war with stubborn Nevada rancerh. Los Angeles Times. April 7 latime.com; Associated Press. Stun gun used on rancher's son in roundup. April 10, 2014. http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/04/1 ... p/7549205/.

[5]. Brean, Henry. Cattle rancher taking fight over land use to limit. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/cattl ... use-limit; Brean, Henry and Ben Botkin. Rancher's sone describes arrest in protest of federal cattle roundup. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/ranch ... e-roundup;

[6]. Brean, Henry. Bundy vs. BLM: Interst in cattle dispute widens. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 10, 2014. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevad ... te-widens; Ragan, Tom and Analise Porter. BLM to give up Bundy cattle; proctors block southbound I-15. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 12, 2014; Ragan, Tom and Analise Porter. BLM to release cattle caught in Bunkerville roundup. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 12, 2014; Ragan, Tom and Analise Porter. BLM releases Bundy cattle after protestors block southbound I-15. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 12, 2014; Ragan, Tom. BLM Stops Bundy cattle roundup due to safety concerns. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 12, 2014; Brean, Henry. ‘Good progress’ in cattle roundup to decelerate. Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 11, 2014; CBS Las Vegas. Feds Release All Cows Gathered During Nevada Roundup. April 12, 2014. http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/04/12 ... -roundup/; Griffith, Martin. BLM to pursue effort to end dispute with rancher. Spokane Spokesman Review. April 16, 2014. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors ... s-grazing/.

[7]. Cliven Bundy. Undated Presentation in Wyoming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygs0yRZRo

[8]. Poole, Gary Andrew. Hold it! This Land is My Land. Los Angeles Times. December 3, 1995. http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-03/ ... ye-county; Wrabley, Raymond B. Showdown at Catron: Cows, Wolves and the Ecology of Public Lands Policies. Natural Resources Journal. Volume 51, Spring 2011, p.119-161;

[9]. United States District Court of Nevada. United States v. Cliven Bundy. United States Notice of Supplement Authority in Support of Motion to Enforce Injunction. July 26, 2013; United States District Court of Nevada. United States v. Cliven Bundy. United States Notice of Supplement Authority in Support of Motion to Enforce Injunction

[10]. Constitution of the State of Nevada. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NvConst.html; see also Cawley, R. McGregor. 1993. Federal Lands, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion & Environmental Politics. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

[11]. Dvtonline.com. BLM Ready to Start Roundup. http://www.thespectrum.com/viewart/2014 ... rt-roundup.

[12]. Cliven Bundy. Undated Presentation in Wyoming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygs0yRZRo

[13]. Phillips, Judson. Tea Party Nation. The Empire Strikes Backi. http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/top ... the-desert

[14]. TeaParty.org. Cliven Bundy Calls on Sheriff to Start Arresting BLM Feds. http://www.teaparty.org/cliven-bundy-ca ... eds-39069/.

[15]. Patriot Action Network. Federal Snipers Train Guns on Family for Filming Cattle – Update! From Police State USSA. April 7, 2014. http://patriotaction.net/forum/topics/f ... ing-cattle.

[16]. New Hampshire Tea Party. Truth About the Bundy Standoff. April 12, 2014. http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/ ... -standoff/.

[17]. Search on Bundy on April 11, 2014 at 7:54 PST at http://www.teapartypatriots.org/?sa=Search&s=bundy.

[18]. CBS News Las Vegas. Ron Paul on Bundy Ranch: Feds Won’t Give Up Easilly, May Return with Waco-Like Force. April 15, 2014. http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15 ... ike-force/.

[19]. Mofopolitics.com. Rand Paul Defends Cliven Bundy: ‘Federal Government Shouldn’t Violate the Law.’ April 15, 2014. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... e_law.html.

[20]. Cited in Redden, Molly. Everyone on the Far Right Loves Militia-backed Rancher Cliven Bundy – Except Glen Beck. Mother Jones. April 15, 2014. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04 ... glenn-beck.

[21]. The discussion with Richard Mack is drawn from Next News Network. April 9, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... HsI3pX39IQ.

[22]. Oath Keepers. Coalition of Western State Legislators, and Veterans Stand Vigil in Support of Embattle Nevada Rancher, Cliven Bundy ‘To Prevent Another Ruby Ridge or Waco.’ April 10, 2014. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/04/10/ ... %E2%80%9D/.

[23]. Nevada Secretary of State. Oath Keepers. http://nvsos.gov/sosentitysearch/CorpDe ... 253d&nt7=0. Accessed March 12, 2014.

[24]. Oath Keepers. Oath Keepers is Going “Operational” by Forming Special “Community Preparedness” Teams Updated. October 13, 2013. Updated March 1, 2014. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2013/10/21/ ... ion-teams/.

[25]. Lavender, Paige. Pete Santilli, Radio Host: Hillary Clinton Needs to be ‘Shot in the Vagina.’ The Huffington Post. May 18, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/1 ... 99247.html.

[26]. Pete Santilli. Who is this guy Pete Santilli. Heep://petersantillie.com/about.

[27]. Southern Nevada Militia. April 10, 2014. http://snmilitia.webs.com/apps/forums/t ... -range-war. Accessed April 10, 2014.

[28]. Zuckerman, Laura. Right-Wing Militia Members Are Rallying Behind a Cattle Rancher in Nevada. Business Insider. April 11, 2014. http://www.businessinsider.com/r-militi ... r-2014-11; Reuters. A member of the Southern Nevada Militia carries a rifle while at a protest in Bunkerville, Nevada. April 11, 2014. http://www.trust.org/item/2014041121353 ... rce=search.

[29]. Guerilla Media Network. https://www.facebook.com/guerillamedia. April 10, 2014.

[30]. Guerilla Media Network. Pete Santilli Show. Rebroadcast on April 13, 2014. http://guerillamedianetwork.com/.

[31]. Guerilla Media Network. Pete Santilli Show. Rebroadcast on April 13, 2014. http://guerillamedianetwork.com/. Recorded April 10, 2014.

[32]. Guerillla Media Network. Schedule. http://guerillamedianetwork.com/schedule/.

[33]. Guerilla Media Network. https://www.facebook.com/guerillamedia. April 10, 2014.

[34]. Botkin, Ben and Henry Brean. Militias ‘mobilzing’ to support embattled Clark County rancher in clash with federal rangers. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevad ... al-rangers

[35]. Oath Keepers. Cowboys and GovThugs: The Cows Come Home. April 13, 2014. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/04/13/ ... come-home/.

[36]. Phillips, Judson. The Bundy Ranch and the War on Real Americans. Tea Party Nation. April 13, 2014. http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/top ... -americans.

[37].Watson, Joseph and Alex Jones. Feds Back Down from Bund Siege After Infowars Expose of Chinese Land Grab. Gun Owners of America. http://gunowners.org/oped4122014.htm

[38]. Harris, Marc. April 22, 2012. Taitzreport.com. http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/from-oc-tea ... -harris/.; JeffersonDeclaration.net. Tea Party Mark (sic) Harris explains Bigger picture on BLM taking of Nevada rancher Bundy’s property. April 13, 2014. http://jeffersondeclaration.net/tea-par ... property/; Tea Party Patriots. California Speakers Buruea. http://www.teapartypatriots.org/speaker ... rs-bureau/.

[39]. See Indian Law Resource Center. The Dann CAse before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: A Summary of the Commission’s Reports and its Significance for Indian Lands. http://www.msubillings.edu/cas/NAMS/tal ... ummary.pdf.

[40]. Sansani, Inbal. American Indian Land Rights in the Inter-American System: Dann v. United States. Volume 10(2). 2003. http://www.indianlaw.org/sites/default/ ... 003-01.pdf.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:43 pm

Racist, Anti-Semitic Sovereign Citizen Involved in California Shootout

Devin Burghart 18 June 2014

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Self-Proclaimed "Statutory Attorney General of the United States" Brent Douglas Cole is Accused of Shooting Law Enforcement Officers in California


Everyone agrees the 2nd American Revolution is far overdue. We have waited to [sic] long and been to [sic] timid in the defense of liberty and justice, both now gone, we witness the horror of the unfolding police state. The daily injustices only furthers our resolve to take action, the stage is being set, our rage will become a fury upon them,” wrote Brent Douglas Cole in September 2013. Less than a year later, he found himself in a gun battle with state and federal law enforcement officials.

Cole, a racist, anti-Semitic, self-described “sovereign citizen” camping in the northern California woods has been accused of shooting a California Highway Patrol officer and a Bureau of Land Management ranger during a confrontation on June 15.

The incident began when a Bureau of Land Management ranger contacted the California Highway Patrol and asked for backup on an investigation involving vehicles at a wooded campground in Nevada County, California, a remote spot near Nevada City, a few miles west of Lake Tahoe and the Nevada border.

According to The Union newspaper, at around 2:30 pm the two officers headed together down a small brush trail leading towards a remote makeshift campsite, they were confronted by 60-year-old Brent Douglas Cole.

Gunfire was exchanged. The BLM ranger was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder, and the CHP officer suffered minor injuries. The two officers were treated and released at local hospitals.

Cole was also hit several times. He remains in custody at Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Roseville, where he is listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit.

Cole has had numerous run-ins with law enforcement, including weapons-related incidents. Most recently, in late January he was arrested by Nevada County sheriff’s deputies and charged with carrying a loaded firearm on one’s person and carrying a concealed firearm in his vehicle. His trial was scheduled to start at the end of June.

In the documents filed in Nevada County Superior Court, Cole asserted that “Officers acted without warrant or any probable cause to seize my person using a swat [sic] team style assault, and then started looking for something to charge me with. I was attacked and molested, unconstitutionally arrested, unlawfully incarcerated, repeatedly intimidated and coerced to plead guilty to having committed a crime, held in secret for five days, and my property and liberty taken from me since January 26, 2014. I am being persecuted for being a gun owner, and for exercising my inherent Right by unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers inimical to the United States of America.”

Cole has described himself as “a sovereign American Citizen attempting to thwart the obvious conspiracy and subterfuges of powers inimical to the United States,” and given himself the fictitious title of “Statutory Attorney General of the United States.”

Reams of court document filings and a plethora of internet posts detail Cole’s involvement with bogus sovereign citizen legal theories. He also often posted racist items on Facebook about President Obama and his birth certificate alongside anti-Semitic rants about Jewish bankers and the New World Order. He also “liked” anti-Semitic pages including “USA is Israil’s Bitch” and “9/11’s Zionized Police State” He also “liked” far-right groups including the Tea Party group FreedomWorks, the militia backed Oath Keepers, and Gun Owners of America.

The Nevada County shootout is one of several confrontations between far-right activists and law enforcement in recent weeks. On June 6, a self-described sovereign citizen died in a gunfight with law enforcement while trying to storm a Georgia courthouse. On June 8, a pair of Tea Party followers killed two police officers and another man in Las Vegas before dying in a firefight.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:23 pm

Fritz Springmeier

http://pdx911truthalliancedramatica.blo ... meier.html

From the far Right of batshit insane, Springmeier is a Christian lunatic on a mission to expose the "New World Order" by bombing adult video stores. Conspiracy fans troll Springmeier's wiki talk page whining about "bias" until they're told to GTFO. In their attempt to remove anything disparaging(ei: True) about their hero, they risk invoking the Streisand Effect. For more info on this phenomena, scroll down to "FBI probes alleged threat to officer".


http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/0 ... uss#405455
Fritz Springmeier's response to this article is quite far from honest. While Springmeier's charge of using and carrying a destructive device was not sent to the jury following a court ruling at trial, Springmeier was nevertheless convicted of one charge of armed bank robbery as well as a charge stemming from use of a firearm during that bank robbery. The jury decided that Springmeier so closely aided and abetted the robbery plot as to be criminally liable for the actions of other robbers, such as Bateman's discharge of a firearm during the robbery, which Springmeier knew was part of the plan.

Testimony from one of Springmeier's co-conspirators heard during trial made clear that Springmeier was indeed involved in both planning and carrying out the robbery--including such aspects as the diversionary use of a destructive device at an adult video store. When one is intimately involved in a conspiracy including the setting of a bomb, it is quite right to be labeled as a bomber, whatever the status of the related criminal charge. The jury, in convicting on the other charges, made it clear that in their view Springmeier was a full part of the bank robbery plot. Springmeier now alleges that the bomb at the adult video store never exploded, despite even Springmeier's supporters such as antisemitic conspiracy theorist Henry Makow previously using the word "exploded" to describe what happened. Needless to say, press accounts of the bombing/bank robbery also describe the bomb as being "detonated". Rather strangely, Springmeier seems to think that by pointing out that the device included a propane tank, the bomb somehow becomes less of a serious matter.

Springmeier's antisemitism is not in any doubt, despite Springmeier's protest to the contrary. Springmeier's Bloodlines of the Illuminati for example writes of the Jewish people in the following way:

"One group that has been very easy for Satan to provoke against Christians is the Jews. Perhaps no group of people has hated Christians with more intensity. One of the first groups that Satan worked at controlling were the Jews."

Although Springmeier afterwards states that the world conspiracy he alleges is essentially Satanic rather than essentially Jewish, this does little to actually moderate his argument, especially as Springmeier goes on to target the "Rothschilds" as the central family of his alleged Satanic conspiracy.

Springmeier was also active in the Christian Patriots Association. I provided a link earlier in this thread about the CPA and its politics--these politics contained pronounced antisemitic and racist aspects. Springmeier's denial is therefore highly unconvincing.


Man tied to extremists reportedly sent letter in ‘97 seeking information on cop

By Jim Redden
The Portland Tribune, Apr 6, 2001


The Portland Police Bureau is investigating a potential threat against one of its officers by a writer with links to the extremist group Army of God.
The writer is Corbett resident Fritz Springmeier, 45. He is tied to Forrest Bateman, 29, a suspected member of the underground movement.

Springmeier and Bateman recently were arrested during a drug investigation conducted by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s deputies seized marijuana, illegal machine guns, explosives, timing devices and Army of God literature at Bateman’s rural Sandy home.

No weapons or Army of God literature were found at Springmeier’s home, but the two men knew each other, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said.
“They are part of the same marijuana grow operation,” Blanchard said. “They’re selling drugs to supplement their income.”

On Nov. 3, 1997, Springmeier wrote to local free-lance journalist John Stevens asking for the home address of Portland police officer Scott Westerman. Stevens was alarmed by the letter and had an associate tell a relative on the police bureau about it. Westerman did not learn about the letter until just a few weeks ago, however.

“That’s a pretty substantial threat,” Westerman said. “I wish I had been told about it at the time.”
According to Westerman, the bureau’s Criminal Intelligence Unit is investigating why he wasn’t told of the threat earlier. Asked about the investigation, CIU head Lt. Randy Kane said he could not comment on it.
Cleared by grand jury

Springmeier’s alleged interest in Westerman stems from a Dec. 14, 1996, shooting case. Corbett resident Patricia Sweany was visiting a friend in Southeast Portland when she called 911 to say she had been poisoned. According to police and press reports, she refused to let paramedics examine her. When Westerman tried to take her to the hospital, she shot a paramedic. Westerman shot and killed Sweany in the ensuing struggle.
The paramedic, Kirk Ream, was not seriously injured.

Portland police detective sergeants Jay Drum and Wayne Svilar investigated the incident. An autopsy conducted by Multnomah County Medical Examiner Larry Lewman found no traces of poison. A Multnomah County grand jury declined to indict Westerman.

Stevens had a reporting business called International News Service when he met Springmeier in the summer of 1997. Springmeier wrote to Stevens a few months later, claiming that Westerman murdered Sweany because she had “lots of hard evidence of judicial corruption in Multnomah County.” The letter asked for Westerman’s home address and sought unspecified “information” on Drum, Svilar and Lewman.

It is unclear how Springmeier knew Sweany. Springmeier has not returned several phone calls to his home from the Portland Tribune.
By coincidence, one of Stevens’ former co-workers was related to Svilar. Stevens had his associate call Svilar and tell him about the letter. Svilar did not ask for a copy of the letter.

“I understand why he didn’t think it was important at the time,” Westerman said. “But given what we know now, I wish I’d known that group was out there.”
Stevens did not think about the letter again until the news broke about the Clackamas County arrests. Bateman was arrested Feb. 9 and is being held on drug and weapons charges. Springmeier was arrested March 1, charged with drug crimes, and released on his own recognizance.

The FBI was brought into the case because of the weapons and Army of God literature. Although the local FBI office declined to comment on its investigation, Blanchard said Bateman is suspected of belonging to the Army of God. He was convicted of racially intimidating a Forest Grove High School student in 1989.

Springmeier is a fundamentalist Christian who has written several books charging that satanic forces are conspiring with corrupt government officials to take over the world. During a radio interview, he described his job as “exposing the New World Order agenda.”

The Army of God “are anti-abortion religious zealots who believe in using explosives to get their point across,” said Gary Perlstein, a nationally recognized terrorism expert who teaches criminal justice classes at Portland State University.

After learning that Springmeier was linked to Bateman, Stevens took the letter to the FBI. A short time later, Westerman received a call about it from the Criminal Intelligence Unit.
He doesn’t blame Stevens for the lack of notice.
“He did the right thing,” Westerman said.

Contact Jim Redden at jredden@portlandtribune.com.
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Grand jury indicts two in 1997 bank robbery

The Oregonian/February 13, 2002
Stuart Tomlinson

Two men with ties to ultra-right-wing groups have been indicted in the violent robbery of a Damascus bank in 1997. To divert attention from the robbery, officials said, the men detonated a bomb at an adult video store six miles away.
A federal grand jury indicted Fritz A. Springmeier, 46, and Forrest E. Bateman, 30, on Jan. 29 on charges of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm in a violent crime and possession of a destructive device in a violent crime.
Springmeier, also known as Victor E. Schoof, also was indicted on suspicion of growing marijuana in his Corbett home after a March 2001 arrest.

Detective Jim Strovink of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said the Oct. 8, 1997, robbery of the Damascus branch of Key Bank of Oregon had a "significant impact" on bank employees.

About 1 p.m., a man dressed in battle fatigues approached a teller and demanded money. At one point, he tried to enter the bank's safe. He then fired his gun once into the ceiling.

"This guy had an FBI tag duct-taped to the back of his jacket," Strovink said. "Anytime you have someone come into a bank firing an assault rifle . . . it's the kind of crime that catches the eye of prosecutors and the courts. They could be looking at some very severe penalties."

About 10 minutes before the robbery, which netted the robber $6,000, a bomb was detonated at the Fantasyland Adult Video store, 16014 S.E. 82nd Drive, six miles to the west and about 10 minutes away by car.

Springmeier was arrested Feb. 1 and booked into the Justice Center Jail. He was released following a Feb. 4 hearing before a federal magistrate but was placed under house arrest and will wear an electronic monitoring device. His arraignment is scheduled Friday in U.S. District Court.

The U.S. Marshal's Service is attempting to serve Bateman with the indictment.

The indictment doesn't say which man actually robbed the bank. FBI officials and prosecutors won't discuss the case.

Federal officials have kept both men under scrutiny for their anti-government views and actions for several years.
Springmeier is known for writing books and tracts on the beliefs of the Christian Patriot Association, an ultra-right-wing group based in Boring.

Last March, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies and federal agents arrested Springmeier and his wife, Patricia Springmeier, during a raid at their Corbett home that was part of an ongoing investigation into the Christian Patriot Association.

Police seized marijuana-growing equipment, several weapons and white separatist literature.

Bateman appeared in 1992 on the Oregon State Police's 10-most-wanted list on accusations of felony possession of a firearm and second-degree assault in connection with Skinhead activities. He was convicted in 1989 of racially intimidating a Forest Grove High School student.

Police said Springmeier and Bateman met at a Christian Patriot Association meeting several years ago and that they grew marijuana to supplement their income.

In February 2001, Bateman was one of three people arrested at a house in Sandy where police discovered an arsenal of explosives, machine guns and white supremacist literature.

Police also seized ammonium nitrate and fuel oil -- the same substances used in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building -- and literature affiliated with the Army of God, a white supremacist group connected to the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in Atlanta.


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UPDATE ON FRITZ SPRINGMEIER
John S. Torell
September 15, 2003

On October 8, 1997 the Damascus branch of Key Bank of Oregon was robbed. The robbers fled with $6,000.00 in cash. One of the robbers, later identified as Forrest E. Bateman Jr., used a gun in the robbery, when he fired one shot into the ceiling of the bank to warn the bank clerks that he was willing to use the gun if they did not comply with his demands. Bateman was dressed in army battle fatigues. Ten minutes prior to the robbery, a bomb exploded at the Fantasy Adult Video Store, located six miles west of the bank. No one was injured in the explosion but police investigators believe that the bomb was set off as a diversionary tactic.

Bateman and another man (which I will not identify in order to protect his family, but will give him the fictitious name Roger), had sometime earlier been recruited by Fritz Springmeier 1, and both of them lived on a remote property on and off for eight years which was owned by Roger’s family. Fritz would come often and spend time with the men. According to a family member (which I have spoken to on several occasions), they were preparing for some kind of action against government authorities. Roger, Bateman and Springmeier grew marijuana on the family property (which was not known to the family), and it was sold as a source of income to fund their activities. The family eventually became very afraid of Fritz and forbade him to come back on the property.

Some time after the robbery Roger was arrested and charged with having an illegal shot gun, with a barrel that was not in compliance with the law and also for being part of the marijuana growing. He was promised a lighter sentence if he would testify against Bateman and Springmeier, but the deal was later reneged on by the assistant U.S. Attorney, Frank Noonan. Roger was sentenced to a prison term of 47 months to be served out in federal prison, and was then shipped off to a federal prison in California.

In January 2002 Bateman and Springmeier were indicted by a grand jury on charges of armed bank robbery, the use of a firearm in a violent crime and possession of a destructive device in a violent crime; but they did not go to trial until January 2003.

At this time Roger was brought back to Oregon from the federal prison in California and held in a local county jail. According to family members of Roger, he was very scared and feared for his life and wanted to be returned as soon as possible to the federal prison in California where he felt safer.

Bateman was facing up to 20 years in federal prison when he accepted a plea bargain on January 27, 2003 in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon and plead guilty to the charge of bank robbery. When Batemen was sentenced on April 3, 2003, he was sentenced to 10 to 12 years.

On February 12, 2003 Springmeier was convicted in a jury trial on two counts, while a third was thrown out. Count one charged defendant with armed bank robbery and count two charged defendant with using and carrying a firearm during the armed robbery. Count three which charged defendant with using and carrying a destructive device during a bank robbery, did not go to the jury because the court ruled that the evidence did not support that charge.

The legal counsel for Springmeier filed a motion to have the case thrown out in the Federal District Court of Oregon. This motion was denied by the federal district judge James A. Redden on March 21, 2003. Due to legal maneuvering by Springmeier, the sentencing date was changed several times. Currently Springmeier’s sentencing is scheduled for November 13, 2003.

After having been kept in Oregon for some seven months, first in a county jail and later at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, Roger was shipped back to California to serve out his prison sentence. Because Bateman confessed to the robbery and agreed to testify against Springmeier, Roger was never used as a witness during Springmeier’s trial.

Both Springmeier and Bateman are currently incarcerated at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon. Springmeier is held at the maximum security facility. According to an anonymous source in Oregon, Fritz was involved in a fight in the prison and spent some time in solitary confinement.

Investigator reporter John Stevens from the Portland area in Oregon, was able to obtain copies of the search warrants used by the police to search Springmeier and Bateman’s residences in Multnomah and Clackamas Counties. According to Stevens here are some of the items found and confiscated: Machine guns, a modified 20 mm cannon, a 37 mm grenade launcher, hand grenades, part for a .50 caliber machine gun, tri-pod mounted .30 caliber semi-automatic belt fed copy of a Browning 1919 machine gun, dynamite, binary explosives, chemicals to make C-4 explosives, numerous hand guns, rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

COVER UP - WHY?
When I first was informed that Fritz was under police investigation, I started to search the Portland newspaper, The Oregonian. I was able to find at least two newspaper articles, stating the arrest of Fritz Springmeier and a write up on the court proceedings from January 27, published in the Oregonian on January 29, 2003. The staff writer was Stephen Beaven. Within a few weeks, every article concerning Springmeier vanished from the Oregonian website, and when I tried to find them, the answer came up that there are no articles existing on Springmeier. Next I tried to call the newspaper, and ask for photocopies, willing to pay for them. It was impossible to find anyone working in the archives willing to do the work. 2

During the first court proceedings, Steven Beaven attended representing The Oregonian. As the different legal maneuvers took place in the Federal District Court, the only reporter present for all the hearings was the private investigative reporter John Stevens 3. When I spoke to him, he was at a total loss as to why the media in Portland had made the decision not to inform the public what was happening or to attend the court hearings; after all, this was an armed robbery and a very well known person in the community was accused of having done it.

The only place my researcher in Portland could find a copy of the denial from Judge James A. Redden, was in the law library of the Oregon State University.

As I looked further into the case, I was told there is a possibility that the Federal Government is trying to use Springmeier in the upcoming trials of the alleged abortion bomber Eric Rudolph as a witness against him (Rudolph eluded capture for some five years). The common practice of the federal government is to be able to have a hostile witness testify against a defendant, and to offer a reduced sentence for the witness. While negotiations are going on, there is usually a news media blackout. Rudolph and Springmeier are both suspected to be members of the Army of God (AOG).

According to the items listed in the search warrants obtained by John Stevens, the following material was found in Bateman’s residence: Signs, banners, books, literature, computer records and handwritten material that identified Bateman as a member of the "Army of God." There were books describing how to make explosives, create poisonous gases, culture diseases, as well as books on sniper training and freedom fighting. There was also a copy of the Army of God operations manual.

Furthermore, ceramic body armor with an Army of God (AOG) patch on the left shoulder was found along with "Bull Run Militia" emblems, extensive military gear, fake identification, plans and diagrams of operational plans which included the building of an underground command center, an escape tunnel and a bunker in the woods.

Meanwhile supporters of Springmeier are claiming that Fritz was "framed" by the Federal Government and that he is innocent. There are some website’s claiming his innocence and some of them are trying to raise money so that Fritz can hire attorneys and continue the appeal process.

After talking with a number of people who have known Fritz for some years, and particularly to the family of Roger, I am convinced that Fritz participated and led the bank robbery, that he is a member of the Army of God, and that this group is armed and dangerous to anyone opposing them. Hiding behind the cloak of being Christians, they are bringing shame to the body of Christ.

Pastor Jeff Weakley of God’s Remnant Church (GRC) is a part of the Identity Movement 4, which is also connected with the Christian Patriot Association (CPA). Weakley in an interview with John Stevens in 1997 told how the Army of God (AOG) is set up, and he specifically warned that the members are very dangerous, well armed, committed and invisible. Weakley further revealed that Springmeier may be the leader and brain behind Army of God cells and their activities. In a private letter from Springmeier to John Stevens in 1997, Springmeier outlined his activities and he ended the letter, saying "PLEASE DESTROY THIS LETTER AFTER YOU READ IT, OUR EXISTENCE IS UNKNOWN."

For a background study on Fritz Springmeier, see our article on Fritz Springmeier - Another Human Tragedy.

1. Due to death threats and promises of harm, we cannot name some of our sources.
2. During the time period of March thru June 2003 there were no articles on Fritz Springmeier available from The Oregonian newspaper.
3. For a deeper study on the Identity Movement, see The Dove, Spring/Summer 1996, pages 20-36 (available for $2.00 postage paid); see our article on the Identity Movement Cult.
4. John Stevens is an independent investigative reporter who has written some articles used by the Oregon Spotlight. For a complete report of Stevens’ investigation of the Springmeier case, you may contact him at ins@qcsn.com, call him at (503) 256-1656, or visit the Oregonian Spotlight website. http://oregonspotlight.org/news.htm
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby 8bitagent » Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:03 pm

So many of the original 80s/90s "elites are satanic" meme writers turned out to be holocaust deniers/white nationalist linked. Or just whackadoos. Ted Gundersen wasnt a racist, and neither was William Cooper. But sometimes people just seemed off their rocker.

Only a few writers are able to articulate a mental balance of self awareness and not falling into one's own tropes when it comes to these topics. Nick Bryant, Jeff Wells and from what I hear SK Bain's new 9/11 occult book. Maybe Peter Levenda? Tho I have not read his works yet
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:09 pm

8bitagent » Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:03 pm wrote:Maybe Peter Levenda? Tho I have not read his works yet


....do so.
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Re: The Joker in the Patriot Movement

Postby American Dream » Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:23 pm

8bitagent » Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:03 pm wrote:So many of the original 80s/90s "elites are satanic" meme writers turned out to be holocaust deniers/white nationalist linked. Or just whackadoos. Ted Gundersen wasnt a racist, and neither was William Cooper. But sometimes people just seemed off their rocker.


Springmeier's Patriot buddy Eric Rudolph didn't attack jews, dark skinned people or (recent) immigrants, as far as I know. He did however bomb abortion clinics and gay bars. This kind of violence is just as reprehensible. As to conspiracy authors in league with this shit, I quote Ishmael Reed: "Writin' is fightin'".
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Postby 8bitagent » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:07 am

American Dream » Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:23 pm wrote:
8bitagent » Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:03 pm wrote:So many of the original 80s/90s "elites are satanic" meme writers turned out to be holocaust deniers/white nationalist linked. Or just whackadoos. Ted Gundersen wasnt a racist, and neither was William Cooper. But sometimes people just seemed off their rocker.


Springmeier's Patriot buddy Eric Rudolph didn't attack jews, dark skinned people or (recent) immigrants, as far as I know. He did however bomb abortion clinics and gay bars. This kind of violence is just as reprehensible. As to conspiracy authors in league with this shit, I quote Ishmael Reed: "Writin' is fightin'".


Eric Rudolph was an avowed racist too and part of the 90's neo Nazi/militia paradigm. And lest we forget "King Kill 33" Hoffman, an "authority" on holocaust revisionism.
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