Antigovernment
UN’s Agenda 21 is Seen as Trojan Horse for ‘New World Order’
0In the last several years, an obscure United Nations accord called Agenda 21 has emerged as something of a unified field theory for the antigovernment movement. On its face, Agenda 21 does nothing but provide countries and communities with a set of principals to grow smartly –– a plan, in short, to fight overpopulation, pollution, [...]
Mistrial in Child Rape Case of Antigovernment Activist
0DUNCAN, Okla. — The second trial of self-described Oath Keeper Charles Dyer, who is accused of raping his 7-year-old daughter in 2010, came to an abrupt end on Tuesday when a judge declared a mistrial after discovering the district attorney’s office had improper conduct with jurors.
District Attorney James Walters had not yet finished examining his [...]
Neo-Confederate League of the South Espouses Posse Comitatus Ideology
0Affirming his group’s embrace of antigovernment “Patriot” ideology, League of the South (LOS) President Michael Hill on Monday sent members an E-Mail declaring the federal government an “organized criminal enterprise” led by “domestic terrorists” and telling his followers to prepare for a fight.
“I discourage the formation of private militias except as a last resort,” he [...]
Coming Full Circle: FEMA Camp Theory Gains Traction on Far Left
0If you Google the phrase “FEMA camps,” the first several links that come up will be websites like far-right conspiracist Alex Jones’ InfoWars (“Because there is a war on for your mind”) and the United American Freedom Foundation (“Providing International News From An Extreme Right Viewpoint”). Click around a bit and you’ll find a bevy [...]
Dead Washington Extremist was to be Arrested on Child Rape Charges
0A man with an antigovernment past was going to be arrested on multiple counts of child rape and child molestation a day after he killed two women and turned his southwestern Washington home into a bullet-sprayed inferno.
Steven Douglas Stanbary had been told by his attorney to surrender on Dec. 8 to detectives with the Washougal [...]
White House Shooter Fan of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
0The 21-year-old Idaho man who shot at the White House earlier this month was a fan of antigovernment conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, The New York Times reports today.
Oscar Ortega, the Mexican-American waiter from Idaho Falls who on Nov. 11 fired a semiautomatic rifle out of his car window while driving by the president’s residence, allegedly [...]
Alaska Militia Supporter Arrested at Canadian Border
0A fifth person – a 53-year-old woman who appears enthralled with the antigovernment sovereign citizen movement – has been arrested in the ongoing investigation of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia.
Mary Ann Morgan, a resident of Kenai, Alaska, was arrested as she attempted to enter Canada at Beaver Creek in Yukon Territory with a firearm in her [...]
‘Nullification’ Conference Attracts Far-Right Extremists
0On the eve of a Nullification Now! conference in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, the Tenth Amendment Center issued a warning: The Southern Poverty Law Center was sending someone to report that “those of us who want political decentralization as the Constitution requires [are] ‘dangerous.’” Then, when the conference began, every speaker repeated the warning. Someone [...]
Montana White Supremacist Threatens Human Rights Organization
0A former “staff leader” of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations is threatening to indict members of the Montana Human Rights Network by convening a “citizen grand jury.”
The e-mail threat came from Karl Gharst, a white supremacist who was convicted and sent to prison in 2004 for threatening to kill a child protective services worker in Montana. [...]
Montana Freeman Leader Dies in Prison
0LeRoy M. Schweitzer, the one-time leader of the Montana Freeman and a dean in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, has died of apparent natural causes in the federal “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colo. The 73-year-old Schweitzer was serving a 22-year federal prison sentence related to crimes prosecuted after the longest police-standoff siege in U.S. history.
In 1996, [...]