April Long Celebrated as the Holy Week for Domestic American Terrorist Movement
By Nate Thayer
Who was responsible for the carnage against innocents and children in Boston?
I have no idea who orchestrated the terror in Boston that blew the legs off of little children, but I do know this.
This week in April has long been the American domestic terrorist movement’s Holy Week.
There is a long documented history of American far -right wing religious and political terrorists celebrating this week in April by blowing up babies and innocents.
While it has been widely speculated that the Boston terrorist attack was related to Islamic or Arab terrorists, where is the evidence?
The U.S. federal and local Boston authorities say they had no prior intelligence that suggested a terrorist attack was going to happen. Fox News and the New York Post reported on Monday that a 20-year-old Saudi man was a “person of interest” in the attacks, and Fox said “it was still unclear to authorities as to whether the man was a victim or perpetrator.” The man suffered severe burns and was hospitalized as law enforcement analyzed surveillance video of someone with two backpacks near the race finish line said to be him. The hunt for the terrorists focused Tuesday on a Boston suburb where police seized bags at the home of the Saudi and interrogated his Arab roommate.
But by Tuesday it was being reported that the Saudi man “questioned in Boston Marathon bombing is a witness not a suspect” and that law enforcement had “scoured Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi’s apartment after the attack.” His “roommates and friends say he’s shy and quiet.”
Why, since we are invoking Him here in His many incarnations, in God’s name aren’t we seeing these truths blaring from the headlines and our television sets in the wake of this despicable carnage?
Here is a suggestion: Let’s look at the clues staring us right in the face, here in our own backyard, at least equally, before fanning the already white-hot embers of racial, foreign, and religious conflict, which is, regarding the Boston massacre, so far, void of corroborating evidence.
The back story only fortifies why there is no excuse not to take a close hard look at our own homegrown terrorists.
These American right-wing religious and political armed extremists, who practice the theology of Christian Identity, are all on the high-profile terrorism watch list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Here are a couple useful markers of historical relevance:
This week in April is the 238th anniversary of the “shot heard around the world” that sparked the American revolution against Britain, a high-profile date observed by the far right U.S. domestic, religious extremist Christian armed terrorist movement.
The Monday blast that killed three and injured 176 occurred on the Massachusetts holiday, “Patriots’ Day.
It was, as well, the dreaded day of which all American’s must submit their taxes annually to the U.S. federal government, another high-octane issue among the far right political and extremist terrorist movement of white Americans.
And, perhaps most importantly, it is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. federal government massacre of Christian cult extremists in Waco, Texas.
That botched disaster, in which the U.S. government killed 76 religious extremists, including dozens of children, has been a rallying cry for U.S. based homegrown terrorists ever since.
The Waco massacre was the primary motivation for another terrorist attack, which occurred 18 years ago this week, on April 19, 1995.
Timothy McVeigh, a white American decorated army veteran placed a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 children under 6, and injured more than 600.
This makes this week the anniversary of the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, convicted in the Oklahoma bombings, were both fanatical members of the American far right violent terrorist movement, supporters of anti-government armed militias and Christian Identity religious extremists, and testified they carried out the bombing in retaliation for the government organized carnage at Waco and the government murders of another poster child of the right-wing militia supporters at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
McVeigh testified that he chose the date in April to commemorate the second anniversary of Waco.
McVeigh was photographed by the FBI at Waco during the siege and selling anti-U.S. government propaganda literature at the courthouse during the subsequent trial.
And what else happened in the annals of domestic bred U.S. terrorism this week in history?
Also on April 19, 1995, Richard Wayne Snell was executed by the U.S. federal government on the same day as both the Oklahoma bombing and the anniversary of the Waco Massacre.
The execution of Snell was intentionally designated to take place on the anniversary of Waco two years prior in 1993.
Earlier that same day, Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City.
This week in April is also the anniversary of the date of the start of the 1985 federal government siege on the Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas in 1985.
The federal government assault on CSAL is another high-profile date commemorated by the fringe far right Christian Identity movement in the United States.
These domestic terrorists believe that a religious and political doomsday is both imminent and necessary.
They believe in white supremacy, are virulently anti-Semitic, believe the United States Government, which they refer to as ZOG, Zionist Occupied Government, should be overthrown by armed force, and have a proven track record of violent domestic terrorism.
Why, since we are invoking Him here in His many incarnations, in God’s name aren’t we seeing these truths blaring from the headlines and our television sets in the wake of this despicable carnage?
Whether these dates are meaningful to the vast majority of the population is irrelevant.
They are, like Christmas and the fourth of July is to other Americans, the beacons of the dates of martyrdom that are recognized by those in America’s heartland who have vowed, and demonstrated their ability and intent, to violently confront the existing political system.
Who was Richard Snell? Snell had plotted a similar attack on the Oklahoma federal building in 1983 in a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.
And, also in 1983, Snell and several other CSA members attempted to bomb a natural gas pipeline near Fulton, Arkansas. One CSA member was later convicted of that crime.
And in 1984, Snell murdered a Oklahoma pawn shop owner he mistakenly thought was Jewish. He later killed a black Arkansas State Trooper.
This exact week in April 1985, the federal government Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms sent 300 federal agents in Elijah, Arkansas dressed as fishermen, booked into various motels undercover on a fishing expedition.
On April 19, 1985, they surrounded the CSA compound, arresting the movement’s leaders. Six leaders of the Aryan Nations were subsequently arrested on charges of sedition.
The CSA attracted the hard focus of federal law enforcement in 1981, when the Rev. Richard Wayne Snell was arrested for killing a black police officer with a gun later tied to the murder of a Jewish gun store owner in 1981.
After Snell’s arrest, the FBI focused on the CSA compound in Arkansas.
CSA took its confrontation of the federal government too far when it plotted to assassinate FBI special agent Jack Knox, the lead agent assigned to investigate the group, as well as the federal prosecutor, Asa Hutchinson, and the federal judge who presided over the trial.
Kahl, like McVeigh, was a combat trained U.S. soldier, awarded the Silver Star during the Korean War. McVeigh was given a Bronze Star for his service during the 1991 Desert Storm Gulf War.
In 1987, Snell and six other leaders of the Christian Identity domestic terrorist movement were indicted and charged with plotting the armed overthrow of the United States government. They were acquitted.
But Snell was sentenced to death for the killing of the non-Jewish store owner.
And Snell was executed on April 19, 1995–the same day that Timothy McVeigh carried out the Oklahoma City bombing.
Which, along with the rest of the above trail of high-octane dates in the biblical political calendar of the white supremacist, Christian Identity, armed extremist U.S. nurtured and bred terrorist movement which has percolated barely below the surface in America, had its anniversary this week.
Mr. Snell appeared the week before at an Arkansas clemency board and quoted Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, demanding to be either executed or set free.
Timothy McVeigh and Richard Snell knew each another.
Snell’s last words before execution, which he made to the governor of Arkansas, were: “Governor Tucker, look over your shoulder; justice is coming. I wouldn’t trade places with you or any of your cronies. Hail His Victory. I am at peace.”
On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m., bombs blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil, killing168 people and injured hundreds.
About 90 minutes later, Timothy McVeigh was arrested on firearms charges. Mr. Snell, 64, was pronounced dead at 9:16 P.M. by the Lincoln County, Arkansas coroner.\
April 19, 1775, had sparked the American Revolution. That day in April 1993, the massacre at Waco took place. Two years later that same day Oklahoma City was bombed and Snell was executed.
After his execution, Snell’s body was taken by the Christian Identity movement to their headquarters in Elohim City and was honored with a three day open casket. His headstone reads: “Rev Richard Wayne Snell. Patriot.”
Eight years to the day after the Federal government assault on the Christian Identity movement headquarters, on April 19 1993, the FBI launched its final attack on Waco, based on that earlier CSA standoff.
Two years later, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, chose the date to bomb the Federal building in Oklahoma City.
The day of the Boston marathon bombing, April 15, is the day all Americans must file their taxes to the federal government, and is marked as a day of protest by the U.S. armed militia movement.
April 19 is also the 238th anniversary of “the shot heard round the world” which sparked the American Revolutionary War, and is a revered holiday amongst the right-wing Christian U.S. terrorist movement.
This week in April has long been the American domestic terrorist movement’s holy week.
CSAL was a radical Christian Identity organization formed in 1971.
It is always easier to try to process an unacceptable, inexplicable tragedy through a prism of being the work of people who are different, who are others, who can be dehumanized, who can help us keep a comfortable distance between evil and our loved ones and our homes.
But, regardless of who blew up the children and innocents in Boston, evil equally lurks here at home as it does outside our political boundaries. The dirty little secret is evil lurks in the heart of man.
Ignoring the tumor of religious and racial and ethnic intolerance at home not only doesn’t make it go away, it gives the cancer comfort and nourishment to metastasize and ravage the body politic.
We need to take as hard an uncomfortable look at Waco and Oklahoma City as we do focusing solely our lazy, and ultimately, ineffectual harsh glare on Islamabad and Saudi Arabia.
We tried that bromide with Iraq after September 2011, and it didn’t go so well.
Let’s try to look inward after Boston April 2013 to see whether we can be serious about stopping this unspeakable strategy which pits one part of humanity against another to solve the problems common to all of God’s children.
