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The Road to Elohim

Postby American Dream » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:13 am

The Road to Elohim Part I

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Anyone who has read even the most basic literature on paramilitary, right-wing groups has inevitably stumbled upon references to the mysterious Elohim City. Elohim City first gained national notoriety in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the largest domestic act of terrorism prior to September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but it has long been the center of an underground movement involved in acts of terrorism, bank robberies, gun trafficking, drug trafficking, and other such endeavors. Despite its long-standing ties to crime and terrorism Elohim has long avoided any type of serious scrutiny, even after its links to Timothy McVeigh became public knowledge.

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing federal authorities would seemingly go to any lengths necessary to avoid bringing Elohim into the spotlight. This in turn has fueled any number of conspiracy theories concerning the true objective of Elohim, with some dismissing it as a ploy to discredit the grassroots right while others believing that it is at the heart of an ongoing campaign being waged by America's cryptocracy. Whatever the case, Elohim and its legacy are still having an effect on the American landscape, as the recent case of serial killer Israel Keyes illustrates. What's more, with right wing extremism and terrorism once again gripping the public consciousness Elohim is especially relevant as it was at the heart of the modern incarnation of such movements.

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Keyes, a recently captured serial killer
(and shortly thereafter deceased)
with links to Elohim


This series will be an examination of both Elohim and the birth of the modern right-wing paramilitary movement. Indeed, it is impossible to truly appreciate Elohim's legacy without putting it in the context of the broader wave that it was a part of. We will first briefly consider Elohim itself and then move on to the various paramilitary groups and movements that flocked to it over the years. In the process we shall also consider the history of these groups and movements before arriving at the flowering of Elohim in the mid-90s, climaxing with Oklahoma City. So, now that the introductions and objectives are out of the way, let us begin.



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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby beeline » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:37 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_William_Brescia

I knew this guy, back in the day. When I last saw him, he was handing out neo-Nazi 'the Holocaust never happened' pamphlets on La Salle U's campus. I told him this shit was going to get him in trouble one day....it did.
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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby The Consul » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:51 pm

The rumored relationship between McV, Andreas Strassmeier and Chandra Levy is enough to keep asking questions for another 10 years.
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Death Is Unity With God

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Re: The Road to Elohim

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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby thrulookingglass » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:56 pm

A town named after the Hebrew hierarchy of God(s) involved in this shit? What are the odds?! We have truly passed the Rubicon.
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Re: The Road to Elohim

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Re: The Road to Elohim

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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby American Dream » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:37 am

The Road to Elohim Part V


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Tom Metzger

The rise of the modern Christian Identity movement at some point in the 1960s fits in nicely with the counter-counterrevolution the Cowboy faction embarked upon around this time. As noted above, there were two major features of this counter-counterrevolution in the 'Overworld': the rise of Cowboy think tanks, and thus a Cowboy intelligentsia, such as the Heritage Foundation to counter the long-standing dominance in public discourse held by Yankee counterparts such as the Council on Foreign Relations; and the emergence of a politicalized fundamentalist/evangelical Christian grassroots that could counter the trade unions and other such organizations that have formed the basis of the modern Yankee grassroots.





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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby American Dream » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:05 pm

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Pelley and his Silver Shirts

Item: It has long been alleged that the Christian Identity movement maintained ties with "former" Nazis and their fellow travelers in the post-war Fascist International. For instance, there were reports that the Silent Brotherhood (a 1980s Christian Identity paramilitary outfits involved in a series of bank robberies and other unsavory activities and closely associated with Butler's Aryan Nations compound) received funding from wealthy "German families" based out of the Southern Cone region of South America (a popular destination for former Nazis and their fellow travelers in the wake of World War II), as noted in part one of this series.

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the Silent Brotherhood banner

Item: Andreas Strassmeir, Elohim City's chief of security at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing and a man fingered by many as one of the chief architects of said bombing, was a German national who had served as a lieutenant in the German Panzer Grenadiers and who had had formal military intelligence training. What's more, Strassmeir was from a highly politically connected family and whose grandfather had incidentally (or not) been an early member of the Nazi party. Many more details on Strassmeir, his time at Elohim City and his role in the Oklaholma City bombing can be found in parts two and three of this series.

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Strassmeir

Item: Dennis Mahon, a sometime resident of Elohim City who is said to have plotted the Oklahoma City bombing with Strassmeir (as discussedin part three), and traveled extensively in the European neo-Nazi underground during the early 90s where he had made some interesting contacts.

"In September 1991, Dennis Mahon, chief of the White Knights of the KKK in Tulsa, Oklahoma, embarked upon a nine-day, twenty-five-city tour of reunified Germany...

"The crowning moment of Mahon's propaganda tour was a cross-burning ceremony in a dusky forest clearing near Berlin. Flanked by Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, and Confederate flags, sixty white-robed German youths attended the ritual. 'Forward for the Aryan race!' a Klan supporter shouted to a cheering audience as a ten-foot cross burst into flames. Wearing a green silk gown and hood, Mahon punctuated a brief speech with a boisterous 'Sieg Heil!..'

"Mahon's main contact in Germany was the Nationalistische Front (Nationalist Front), a neo-Nazi group that sponsored the cross-burning ceremony outside Berlin. Bernd Schmitt, the fascist martial-arts instructor in Solingen who two-timed as a government spy, was an important member of the Nationalist Front. In addition to directing 'battle games' at a Front conference in August 1992, he provided protection for visiting dignitaries who made the rounds of the German neo-Nazi circuit."

(The Beast Reawkens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 335-336)

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Mahon

Bernd Schmitt had some interesting contacts as well.

"Schmitt was a person of some consequence in unified Germany's neo-Nazi underground. Well-connected to several ultranationalist groups, he counted among his allies Bela Ewald Althans and other ultra-right-wing leaders. Schmitt's martial-art school supplied 'security personnel' to guard meetings with visitors such as Ernst Zundel, Althans's Toronto-based sugar daddy, lectured in Germany. Schmitt also maintained ties with a handful Third Reich veterans, including Major General Otto Ernst Remer, who was registered as an 'associate member' of the Hak Pao sports club.

"Fifty years old at the time of the Solingen bombing, Schmitt had chalked up seventeen criminal convictions (some for violent assaults) during a checkered neo-Nazi career that dated back to the late 1960s. In an effort to stay out of jail, Schmitt began supplying data on the neo-Nazi scene to the Verfassungsschutz, the German equivalent of the FBI. One of his many task was to keep his secret service handlers abreast of what the Brown brats were going in Solingen. Over the years he carried out intelligence chores for the neo-Nazis as well as for the secret service, which shared a common enemy --the radical Left. Schmitt filmed antifascist demonstrations and distributed photos of left-wing activist, which had been supplied by his secret-service contacts."
(ibid, pgs. 333-334)

Thus, two men who potentially played a significant role in the Oklahoma City bombing have possible ties to German intelligence. It's also possible that both men (Strassmeir due to his family's ties to the Nazi party, Mahon via Schmitt's Nazi contacts) were in contact with the postwar Fascist International.




Excerpted from: The Road to Elohim Part VI

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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby American Dream » Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:05 pm

The Road to Elohim Part I

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Back to Elohim City.

"Elohim City residents are notoriously secretive about their beliefs and activities and shield their racialism from outsiders. The city hosts a population that reportedly fluctuates between seventy and ninety residents. Members focus on 'pure' living, shunning the outside world and its decadence, which they claim will bring the apocalypse to cleanse the world of all impurities.

"Elohim City believes devoutly in racial separatism. Prior to his death in 2001, Millar preached separatism as a strategy to avoid conflict and strengthen bloodlines and kinship ties among 'true, pure Aryans.' Millar's son John now leads the community and continues his father's emphasis on racial separatism.

"The community includes a sawmill, trucking company, K-12 school, church, community medical service, armed patrol unit, and construction firm, which financially supports the community. Elohim City members begin each day with a Pentecostal-type church service that may last several hours. Recreational activities are exclusively community events. The entire community, including children, participates in parties, picnics, canoe trips, and even socializing."
(American Swastika, Pete Simi & Robert Futrell, pg. 103)


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Over the years Elohim would attract virtually every major figure and group in the white supremacist underground.

"... extremist groups to which Elohim City members have ties include Aryan Nations, the Aryan People's Republic, and White Aryan Resistance. Mark Thomas, former Pennsylvania minister for the Aryan Nations, who hosted meanings of neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white racist groups on his Pennsylvania farm, helped organize the Aryan Republican Army and arrange for several of its members to live at Elohim City. Cheyne and Chevie Kehoe, who found that the small but violent Aryan People's Republic, reportedly sought refuge at Elohim City. Dennis Mahone, a former imperial dragon in the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan and an organizer for White Aryan Resistance, kept a trailer at Elohim City."
(ibid, pg. 103)


Beyond these groups Elohim also maintained ties with three of the most notorious movements/groups within the Christian Identity and white supremacist underground: the Posse Comitatus; the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA); and the Order also known as die Bruder Schwigen (German for "the Silent Brotherhood").We shall now consider these three outfits and their ties to Elohim City, beginning with the Posse Comitatus.

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The Posse Comitatus, unlike the CSA and the Order, does not have a formal structure. It is a nationwide movement with various loosely connected chapters. While it is not implicitly a racialist movement it is has had close ties to the Christian Identity throughout its history.

"In the 1970s retired army colonel William Potter Gale formed a group of armed anti-tax and anti-federal government survivalists who agreed with his political philosophy that all government power should be rooted at the county, rather than the federal, level. Posse Comitatus members resist paying taxes because the federal government is controlled by Jews. Some members won't even apply for driver's licenses because to do so would be to submit to an illegal, subversive authority. The Posse soon attracted Klan members and other anti-Semites, including David Duke.

"This intermittently active, loosely organized group of antigovernment agitators and avowed followers of Christian Identity received nationwide attention in 1983 when Posse member Gordon Kahl murdered two federal marshals who had come to arrest him for a parole violation in connection with a conviction for nonpayment of taxes. Kahl became a fugitive and was later killed in a shootout with Arkansas law enforcement officers.

"In October 1987 Posse founder William Potter Gale and four associates from the California-based Committee of the States were convicted of threatening the lives of Internal Revenue Service agents and a Nevada state judge. Sentenced to federal prison in January 1988, Gale died in April that year, at age seventy-one.

"In 1991 an Identity minister and Posse leader based in Michigan, James Wickstorm, was convicted of scheming to distribute $100,000 in counterfeit bills to white supremacist at the 1988 Aryan World Congress. While he was doing time in prison, Wickstorm transferred his leadership position to Mark Thomas, an Identity preacher from Pennsylvania."
(Conspircies and Secret Societies, Brad Steiger & Sherry Steiger, pgs. 377-378)


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Gordon Kahl,
a Christian identity believer
and early Posse Comitatus member
who has become a martyr
for the movement



Keep Thomas in mind as we shall be coming back to him in just a moment. Before moving along let us briefly consider the influence the Posse Comitatus had on various right-wing grassroots groups such as the militia and sovereign citizens movements.

"Some writers have also argued that the militia movement was significantly influenced by several 1980s extremist groups, including the Posse Comitatus, the Order, and the Committee of the States. The Posse was started in California by William Potter Gale and in Oregon by Henry Beach in the early 1970s, and by the early 1980s its activities had been document in nearly twenty states. Much for its growth was tied to its leaders' exploitation of the farm crisis. One of my interviewees discuss the influence of the Posse on the militia movement:

Well, the militia movement is different from the Posse, but it comes from the Posse. The Posse as an organization died out in the mid-1980s, but the ideology stuck around. In the mid-1990s you have seen a resurgence of that ideology in two different ways. The posse had this paper terrorism and paramilitary activity. In the 1990s, you see the paper terrorism in the common-law courts and sovereign citizens, and the paramilitary activity is seen in the militia movement. It is kind of a strange thing. The common law courts and sovereign citizens are more of a direct descendent of the Posse, and the militia movement is an offshoot of the Posse, but there are some connections there.

"There are several direct connections to Posse Comitatus that clearly influenced the militia movement of the 1990s. Posse adherents believe that the only 'true form of government was a near anarchic, highly localized form of government centered on the county sheriff.' The sheriff, they argue, was the law of the land, because the Constitution provided law enforcement powers only to him. The Posse believed that the federal government was part of a great conspiracy to deprive individuals of their rights and that the country needed to return to the basic text of the Constitution. The Posse movement also was influenced by survivalist practices. Survivalist prepared for society's collapse by storing weapons, food, water, and other supplies, and practicing field maneuvers in order to defend their lives and property."
(Searching For a Demon, Steven M. Chermak, pg. 29)


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Keep all of this in mind as we shall return to it a bit later on. Anyway, returning to Mark Thomas, a Pennsylvania member of the Posse. Thomas would be instrumental in the formation of the Aryan Republican Army, also known as the Midwest Bank Robbers/Bandits, a group with ties to Elohim City. Two reputed members, Michael Brescia and Richard Lee Guthrie, were residents of Elohim for a time.

"Richard Lee Guthrie, Jr., the son of the CIA employee, discharge from the Navy for painting a swastika on the side of a ship and threatening superiors, his childhood friend Peter K. Langan, and Shawn Kenny, went on to form the nucleus of a group known as the Midwest Bank Bandits. The group stole more than $250,000 from 22 banks between January, '94 and December, '95 in a spree that led them across Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri. The four member group would often wear FBI jackets to taunt the Bureau, and create diversions to foil police, including leaving behind inert pipe-bombs to slow pursuit. The bandits even had a macabre sense of humor, wearing a Santa Claus suit during a hold up around Christmas, and an Easter basket with a gold painted pipe bomb left inside a bank in Des Moines.

"'Wid Bill' Guthrie also admitted to a West Virginia sheriff that he had helped Butler's Aryan Nations raise another quarter million dollars through fraud. Both Guthrie and Langan were regular visitors to the Hayden Lake compound...

"In November, '94, Mark Thomas, the local Aryan Nations representative, united the two with others of their kind. Thomas' farm, located rather appropriately next to a toxic waste dump, has been the site of skinhead and neo-Nazi rallies such as White Pride Day and the annual Hitler Youth Festival, where participants enjoyed such wholesome activities as pagan rituals and cross burnings.

"Thomas introduced the pair to Pennsylvania native Scott Stedeford, a rock musician and artist, and Kevin McCarthy, bassist in a white power band named 'Day of the Sword.' Thomas was instrumental in helping the men form an alliance which they would call the Aryan Republican Army (ARA)...

"The Pennsylvania Posse Comitatus leader would also introduce Stedeford and McCarthy to Michael Brescia, a Philadelphia native and rock musician who would go on to form a speed metal band with McCarthy and Stedeford called 'Cyanide.' The rock 'n roll bank robbers decided to recruit the 24-year-old La Salle University student after planning the heist of a large bank in Madison, Wisconsin, which the trio robbed on August 30, 1995.

"The three men came to know 'Grandpa Millar' at Elohim City courtesy of Thomas, and Brescia was soon engaged to Millar's granddaughter, Ester. Brescia wound up living at the reclusive compound for two years."
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pgs. 119-121)


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While there were never extensive ties between the Posse Comitatus and Elohim City there was at least a connection to one prominent member of the Posse, as the above indicates. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing it was alleged that Timothy McVeigh may also have been a member of this organization. Inevitably his connection would have been due to his ties to Elohim Cty, but more on that later. For now let us move along to the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA).

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The CSA has the most direct ties to Elohim City of the three subjects currently being considered, as we shall soon see. For now, let us consider the organization's history.

"From its formation in 1971 until its destruction in 1985, The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord was one of the most active and notorious Aryan settlements. CSA became a model for later private Aryan communities. Texas minister James Ellison founded CSA on more than 200 acres near the Missouri-Arkansas border. Their geographical isolation separated CSA families from the taint of mainstream society, and the area's isolated and rugged terrain made monitoring by authorities especially difficult. The property's location on state borders also complicated jurisdictional responsibilities...

"During the late 1970s, after Ellison claimed to have a vision of the coming race war that would engulf America, he and his followers turned to the Christian Identity principles and transformed the property into a white supremacist, paramilitary training camp. The group adopted the name The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord to reflect their increasing radicalization. Ellison began characterizing 'the CSA mission as establishing an "Ark for God's people" for the coming race war. God's people were white Christians [while] Jews, he told his followers, were not really God's chosen people, but rather a demonic an inferior race...'

"The CSA settlement build a church, a communications center, workshop, munition storage bunker, and member houses. Each family lived in their own 24 square-foot residence without electricity and running water. Reflecting their apocalyptic worldview, member strategically position their homes in three separate directions from the main settlement as defensive vantage points in case of attack. Families also prepared for attacks with underground storage and safety bunkers...

"To supplement their income, CSA members traded semiautomatic rifles, silencers, and other weapons on the gun-show circuit. Ellison prodded his followers into thievery and pawning personal goods that were not crucial to warfare and survival. Followers even pawned their own wedding rings. Such income increased the CSA stockpiles of weaponry, chemicals, explosives, food, and first aid supplies.

"Ellison and his CSA followers originally stockpiled weapons and did survivalist training as a defensive preparation for racial conflict. But in the early 1980s, CSA planned several terrorist plots. In 1983, federal marshals killed Christian Identity adherent Gordon Kahl in a shootout. after that event, CSA declared the compound 'an arms depot and paramilitary training ground for Aryan warriors.' CSA plan the assassinations of a local FBI agent and a U.S. district Judge, and plotted the poisoning of municipal water supplies, arsons, and bombings.

"The original plan to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was hatched by CSA members nearly 12 years before Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices bomded it to complete the mission. Although CSA failed to execute most of its terrorist plans, CSA members and their associates bombed a Missouri community church known to support homosexuality and a Indiana Jewish community center. CSA radicals also detonated explosives near a natural gas pipeline in Arkansas, robbed and murdered a pawnshop owner they thought was Jewish, murdered in African-American Arkansas State Trooper.

"CSA's spree of violence ended in April 1985. Ellison and other CSA followers surrendered at CSA's compound following a four-day standoff federal agents. The FBI's search of the CSA compound uncovered nearly 200 firearms, including landmines, machine guns, assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, antitank rockets, and the large supply of cyanide.

"In September 1985, CSA leaders James Ellison and Krry Noble and four other CSA activists were sentenced to federal prison on racketeering and weapons charges, which effectively destroyed the group and the settlement."
(American Swastika, Pete Simi & Robert Futrell, pgs. 100-102)


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the CSA compound

Upon being released from prison Ellison took up residence at Elohim City, along with several other followers.

"CSA founder James Ellison and his close associate Richard Wayne Snell repeatedly visited Elohim City in the early 1980s. in the FBI surrounded the CSA compound to arrest Ellison and his followers. In 1985 they requested Millar's cooperation to mediate a peaceful surrender to the armed standoff. Robert Millar was Snell's spiritual advisor, and John Millar testified as a character witness when Snell was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of an Arkansas State Trooper. On April 19, 1995, the same day as the Oklahoma City bombing, Robert Millar visited Snell just before he was executed. Millar witnessed the execution and arranged for Snell's body to be buried at Elohim City."
(ibid, pg. 103)


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James Ellison

Accounts of Millar and Snell's reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing have been mixed.

"...Snell was executed on the ever-prophetic date of April 19, 1995, the very day the Murrah Building was bombed. Snell was convicted of killing a black state trooper in 1984, and a pawnshop owner he thought was Jewish. While under arrest, Snell called himself a ' prisoner of war,' precisely what authorities claim McVeigh said.

"Before his death, Snell had time to watch scenes from the bombing on his jail room TV. Millar, who was with the 64-year-old Snell during his final hours, said he was appalled at the destruction. Yet according to Arkansas prison official Alan Ables, 'Snell chuckled and laughed as he watched television coverage of the Oklahoma City disaster.'

"Both Millar and Snell's wife contended the convicted murderer was saddened by the bombing..."
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg.117)


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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby Lord Balto » Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:53 am

The Consul » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:51 pm wrote:The rumored relationship between McV, Andreas Strassmeier and Chandra Levy is enough to keep asking questions for another 10 years.


I always assumed Chandra was murdered because she caught wind of the upcoming 9/11 inside job from Condit of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. I never did much research on this except to plot her supposed jog the day of her disappearance, which looked entirely too long even for someone in good shape, especially for someone planning on shortly flying out of Washington. There's also the police report of someone being dragged kicking and screaming from her building at 3:00 am, which wasn't followed up, including no attempt to view the security camera. Not that DC police are all that bright, but that last really does stink.
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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby 82_28 » Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:34 am

Well, this certainly explains (to a degree) where all the suburban nazis in Denver came from as far as being influenced at young ages. It was "told" that there was some compound the recruiters came from in eastern CO. I got no idea. But they would have all been networked somehow. Without the widespread use of the Internet back then, they must have been pretty active.

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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby Twyla LaSarc » Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:59 pm

82_28 » Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:34 am wrote:Well, this certainly explains (to a degree) where all the suburban nazis in Denver came from as far as being influenced at young ages. It was "told" that there was some compound the recruiters came from in eastern CO. I got no idea. But they would have all been networked somehow. Without the widespread use of the Internet back then, they must have been pretty active.

I'll never get it.


1990 thru around 93-4, my sister was gadding about thru the south and near west (east rockies) for months at a time, she put something like 30,000 miles on the family car she was given to drive in one year. It was sort of a joke at the time, but I suspect now that she was driving to compound to compound, perhaps ferrying people or messages or providing backup rather than drinking in the beauty of the Ozarks and searching for 'america'. She was a straight edge skin. She wasn't doing it for booze and binge, for sure.

She and what I know of her circle were more 'Odinist' than Xstian, I've always wondered how they all dealt with those issues. I guess the hatred of minorities and well, everyone else, superceded any religious qualms in that matter. IIRC, she and her first husband were unofficially married (sovereign citizens and all that) at a gathering in Wyoming or Montana.
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Re: The Road to Elohim

Postby American Dream » Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:17 pm

Wow- wild stories...


Present at the Berlin Wall on the night of 11/9/89 was a man named Gunter Strassmeir, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union in West Berlin. Strassmeir, whose father was an early member of the Nazi party, became the de facto chief of staff for Chancellor Helmut Kohl and played a key role in the reunification of Germany in the early 90s. At the same time as Gunter was involved in this endeavor his son, Andreas, was beginning his stint as Elohim City's chief of security.

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Andreas

Seemingly this was a rather strange career move for a man who was the son of a former Parliamentary Secretary of State, whose uncle was in the German Parliament and brother sat on the Berlin City Council, and who have been in the midst only promising military career before departing for the United States.

"Andreas served as a lieutenant in the German Panzer Grenadiers (the equivalent of our Special Forces), had formal military intelligence training, and did a stint as a liaisons officer for the Welsh Guards. He told the London Sunday Telegraph that part of his work was to detect infiltration by Warsaw Pact agents, and then feed them disinformation. 'If we caught a guy, we'd offer him amnesty. We'd turn him and use him to feed false information back to the Warsaw Pact.' While Strassmeir would not admit it, it is reported that he is an agent for the German national anti-terrorist police, the GSG-9."
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 122)


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the GSG-9,
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in a rather dramatic fashion


Accounts of when exactly Strassmeir entered the United States and under whose auspices vary. In some versions Andreas arrived here in 1989 as part of a group of Germans looking to participate in a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was amidst the Civil War reenactment crowd that Strassmeir began rubbing shoulders with members of the US intelligence community, most notably retired U.S. Air Force Col. Vincent Petruskie. This website notes:

"Once Strassmeir arrived on our shores... he quickly gravitated toward, of all things, the Civil War reenactment crowd. Why does this seemingly innocuous bit of trivia merit mention? Because historically, this group has been infiltrated by a variety of CIA splinter groups that use it as a front for illegal gun-smuggling. More importantly, though, The London Times reported that when Strassmeir first arrived in the United States, he was befriended by retired Army officers, CIA veterans, and Civil War reenactment history buffs. These men were part of a network that is very powerful in this country, and one that stretches into the Pentagon and other federal agencies.

"One of these men was Vincent Petruskie, who was a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI) from 1954-1975, and who also knew Strassmeir’s father in Berlin. Petruskie was also a foreign intelligence officer in Vietnam, a member of the 1131st U.S. Air Force Special Activities Squadron, a Special Projects Officer in the Special Activities Branch of the counter-intelligence division in Washington, D.C., and was also reactivated during the Gulf War to fulfill a ‘sensitive assignment.’

"Needless to say, Petruskie was connected to deep intelligence sources for decades, and interacted with a cabal of ex-military men and former & current CIA employees who were involved in gun running, mercenary actions, espionage, drug trafficking, blackmail & subversion, and money laundering. These were off-record, black budget operatives, and Vincent Petruskie made a career out of soliciting and deal-making with these shadowy figures.

"So, when Andreas Strassmeir arrived in America and needed a place to stay, who opened his doors to him? None other than Vincent Petruskie of Petruskie Associates in Manassas, Virginia; a man who was making at the time $1.6 million/year by working out of his house. How did Strassmeir know Petruskie? In his own words, Strassmeir described his ally as, 'a former CIA guy my father had known.' But Petruskie’s friendship didn’t end at mere lodging. In addition, he tried to get Strassmeir a job at the DEA, the Treasury Department, with INS, and also the Department of Justice."


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the murky world of the Civil War reenactment crowd

As unlikely as it may seem that a AFOSI officer would have such connections, keep in mind that the AFOSI was deeply involved in various PSYOPs involving alleged extraterrestrials in the 1980s, most notably the Bennewitz affair. I've written much more on said topic here and here.

But back to Strassmeir. At roughly the same time as, or shortly thereafter, Strassmeir was dabbling in Civil War reenactments he also became involved with a militia, known as the Texas Light Infantry. This apparently didn't work out much better than his attempt to get a job with the DEA.

"According to information obtained by the Telegraph, Strassmeir infiltrated the Texas Light Infantry militia between 1988 and 1989, and set up some illegal gun purchases. They soon suspected that Strassmeir was a ATF informant. When some members followed him to a federal building one night, they observed him entering it using the building's combination key-pad."
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 130)


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the Texas Light Infantry militia

In other accounts Strassmeir does not arrive in the United States until sometime around 1991 at the behest of his American attorney, Kirk Lyons, who also helped Strassmeir procure his job as chief of security at Elohim City.

"In 1991 Andreas Strassmeir's American attorney, the ubiquitous Kirk Lyons, visited his client's parents at their plush residence in Berlin. Lyons assured Gunter Strassmeir that his son was doing well in the United States. It was Lyons who helped arrange for Andreas to come to America in the first place. Lyons also introduced his young German friend to the folks at Elohim City."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 352-353)


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Lyons

At this point we pause in our story to consider the figure of Kirk Lyons, who is a major character in this drama. Over the years Lyons has become something along the lines of the Johnny Cochran of the radical, white supremacist right. His ties to the Christian Identity movement are deep and have had a profound effect on the development of said movement for decades.

"Kirk Lyons, an attorney from Texas who defended a rogue's gallery of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, tied the knot at the Aryan Nations encampment in September 1990. It was actually a Scottish-style double wedding, with kilts and bagpipes. Lyons and his friend Neil Payne Mary two sisters, Brenna and Beth Tate, respectively. Their brother, David Tate, was then in prison for murdering a Missouri state highway patrolman. David had been a member of 'the Order,' a terrorist offshoot of the Aryan Nations that embarked upon a spree of bank heist and killings in the United States during the early 1980s. Tate had participated in several commando raids against armored cars before the police caught up with him...

"In 1988, thirteen white supremacist, including Miles and Reverend Butler, were prosecuted for conspiringto overthrow the U.S. government. Federal authorities argued that the defendants had hatch their sinister plans while meeting at the Aryan Nations headquarters five years earlier. Miles, Butler, and a third defendant, Louis Beam, Jr., were pegged as the subversive ringleaders, the hardest of the hard-core, who secretly directed the Silent Brotherhood. Following their command, members of the Order murdered several people and stole more than $4 million, according to U.S. officials, who suspected that most of the missing cash ended up in the coffers of American neo-Nazi groups.

"Kirk Lyons, then in his early thirties, represented fellow Texan Louis Beam at the sedition trial, which was held in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A former helicopter gunner in Vietnam, Beam became the Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon of the Lone Star State. To avoid arrest on charges related to the Order, he fled to Mexico with his wife. A fugitive on the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted' list, Beam was captured after a gunfight in Guadalajara and return to the United States.... But the federal government failed in its attempt to convict Beam and the other defendants of seditious conspiracy. Lyons and his client celebrated the verdict at a Confederate memorial opposite the courthouse, where Beam proclaimed victory over the enemy...

"The Fort Smith sedition trial marked Lyons's debute as a lawyer for the white supremacist movement. He became something of a celebrity among ultrarightist for his successful defense of Beam, who, by all accounts, was one of the key players in America's neo-Nazi underground..."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 339-341)


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Beam

For Lyons this was only the beginning. By the early 90s he was the attorney of choice for the American white supremacist underground.

"At the 1988 Aryan Nations World Congress, Lyons suggested forming an ACLU of sorts for the extreme-right, and attended the annual event and Hayden Lake as Louis Beam's representative. Not that Lyons was desperate for clients. He happily defended the Confederate Hammer Skins of Dallas, the National Socialist Skinheads of Houston, the White Vikings of Chicago, and WAR leader Tom Metzger, who was accused of inciting the murder of a black student from Ethiopia. Lyons also defended Holocaust revisionist Ernst Zundel, who claimed that Nazi gas chambers were a Jewish invention, and other so-called ' prisoners of conscience.'

"Lyons was also the guest of honor at the British Nationalist Party in London, where he applauded the Party's stance on white power, and... predicted a future race war."
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 136)


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Ernst Zundel (top)
and Tom Metzger (bottom),
two other 'star' clients of Lyons


Lyons, along with his longtime associate Louis Beam, was able to make early inroads into the militia movement which was just beginning to emerge in the early 1990s. Indeed, it was Beam who first advocated the concept of a leaderless resistance which has since been adopted by much of the militia movement.

"'No more Wacos, no more Weavers!' became the rallying cry for a slew of angry right-wing extremists who shared Lyons' apathy towards the US government. While these two tragedies served as lightning rods for the growth of the militias, the actual nuts-and-bolts strategy for building up a nationwide paramilitary network was forged at a closed-doors meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, on October 23, 1992. Lyons and Beam were among 150 ultra-right-wing leaders who attended the session, which was hosted by Christian I him and Identity pastor Pete Peters. a top-thumping white supremacist who claimed that the Bible justified killing homosexuals, Peters had encourage members of the Order to embark upon their deadly crusade a decade earlier...

"During the Rocky Mountain assembly, several speakers endorsed the idea of a grassroots militia movement that would serve both as a focal point of mass opposition to gun control and as a pool from which terrorist cells could be recruited. Aryan Nations ambassador Beam emerged as a key player at this parlay. He laid out his plan for 'leaderless resistance,'which entailed the creation of small autonomous units composed of five or six dedicated individuals who were bound together by a shared ideology rather than a central commander...

"One advantage of Beam's guerrilla-warfare scenario was that it reduced the risk of infiltration or detection. By virtue of its secretive structure, the cell system would immunize leading tacticians, like himself, while affording underground components an unrestricted operational range...

"Beam's proposal would soon be adopted by much of the militia movement as part of a sophisticated two-tiered strategy that enabled White Power advocates to bury their leaderless resistance cadres inside the sprawling network of aboveground, hierarchically structured paramilitary organizations."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 347-348)



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