Domestic Terrorism

There exists in this country, a cabal entered into by extremist elements to incite a civil war through violence. The theoretical bible for this cabal is The Turner Diary, a fictional racist account of a decentralized terrorist campaign to incite a civil war against non-European Americans. Our country needs to respond to this cancer in our national soul by exposing and expurgating this traitorous cabal as an expression of social revulsion at the violence as well as its purpose. We also need hate crime legislation in order to criminalize the terror that these people instill by their violence. Violence from these sources has abated since 9-11, but they remain a threat.
The core of these extremists is made up of a conglomerate of violent elements that have loosely coalesced during the last couple of decades from nominally disparate movements: these movements include the pro-life movement, the paramilitary movement, extremist religious groups, combined with the KKK and Nazi’s. These ultra-right wing elements have a documented history of violence against the government, abortionists, organized religion (including Christian and non-Christian denominations), non-Europeans, and political opponents. These elements have avoided a central leadership in order to avoid infiltration and capture; they instead communicate by violent deeds-again aping ‘Turner’.

These amorphous groups abound in various forms. Phineas Priests are people who believe that they gain martyrdom by killing inter-racial couples. Christian Identity members believe that they are pleasing God by killing ‘mud people’, religious ‘deviants’, or homosexuals. Some paramilitary factions are engaged in attacks upon government officials and citizens. Extremist exile-based terrorist groups, such as the Cuban Alpha 66 and Omega 7, have a bloody history both here and abroad. My personal favorite, White Rose Banquets are held by and in honor of people who murder other people in abortion clinics to save the unborn.

The extreme right has been involved in a ubiquitous pattern of violent acts that reached a crescendo in the 80’s and has continued virtually unabated. The public is aware of many but not all of these violent acts. Many occur below the radar screen of the national media, a media that has also failed to identify the violence conceptually as a cabal. The media does report separate incidences of violence: the robbery and killing spree by the Order in the early 80’s, the 1986 Montana Freeman standoff, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma, the Illinois-Indiana killing spree, Columbine, James Byrd jr., Matthew Shepard, the September 99 murder of seven people in a Texas Baptist church, the LA synagogue killings, “pro-life” murders, the threats against both the black mayor and his homosexual opponent in a San Francisco election, the synagogue arson and death of a gay couple in the Sacramento area, and extremist elements who surrounded the Gonzalez residence in Miami. The media does so, however, without reporting evidence of the cabal that propels the violence.

Countless acts of this de-centrally-organized violence get little more than local coverage by the media. In May 99, for example, there was a rash of activity: the conviction of supremacist militia members for murder and plotting to overthrow the government in Washington, the arrest of a bomb-toting, Anti-government extremist in Denver, the conviction of Michigan paramilitary members for a plot to kill government officials, and the racially motivated attempted murder of two children in Wisconsin. Other incidents include the 1996 KKK shootings of black children in South Carolina, the October 95 murderous derailment of a passenger train in Arizona in retaliation for Ruby Ridge and Waco, the 1993 murder by a paramilitary sect of police officer Roger Motley in Alabama, or Nazi lowrider vehicular assaults.

The new millennium is sparking a new wave of threats. This threat combines biblical prophecies with race war and fear of a New World Order. Examples of this threat are people who were arrested for allegedly planing terrorist actions in Sacramento and Florida. The April 2000 Pittsburgh suburb murders may be the latest example.

Our political establishment has failed to face up to this challenge. The far right-dominated GOP has acted as little more than as apologists for extremists. They use the same rhetoric as the cabal. They criticize law enforcement efforts to combat the cabal, as they have done regarding Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the rescue of Elian, while remaining silent about the criminal behavior of the cabal. Furthermore, the recent spat of racist GOP ads is appealing to this voter block. What this GOP Congress should be doing is holding extensive public hearings in order to identify and expose these perpetrators of organized violence against our citizens and values.

There has been very little attention to these groups since 9-11. George, #43, has not mentioned this threat in more than passing since he has been in office. We have also not heard nearly as much from these elements since 9-11. That has been a good thing: unfortunately, this disease remains a silent malignancy.

The real heroes and leaders in this struggle are people like Morris Dees and others who are fighting to expose the cabal. Other heroes are members of the BATF, FBI, or others who are battling this internal national security threat without sufficient public support. For further information, see www.splcenter.org, www.militia-watchdog.org, or www.fbi.gov.