US Extremists Plot Millennium Violence

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11/2/99

US Extremists Plot Millennium Violence.

UNITED States law enforcement officials fear extremist religious organisations are planning acts of violence to mark the new millennium.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned police departments across the US that it has discovered evidence of violent plans motivated by religious beliefs relating to the apocalypse or New World Order conspiracists convinced the United Nations plans to take over the world. In a 34-page report prepared by its domestic terrorism unit, leaked to the Washington Post, the FBI says some members of militias and racist groups, including one called Christian Identity and Odinism, are acquiring weapons.

New York City, where more than a million revellers are expected to crowd Times Square on December 31, is considered to be a prime target for the extremists.

The FBI warned law enforcement officials to monitor radical groups for behaviour such as the stock-piling weapons and food that may indicate they are preparing for violence.

"If a cult sells its property and personal effects and purchases guns and explosives, we need to be more concerned about what that cult will do on January 1," FBI spokesman Neil Gallagher told the Post.

The report says some radical groups may view any computer glitches on January 1 as a sign that the end of the world is near or as part of a larger conspiracy that they must violently oppose.

"The threat posed by extremists as a result of perceived events associated with the Year 2000 (Y2K) is very real," the FBI report says.

"The volatile mix of apocalyptic religious and (New World Order) conspiracy theories may produce violent acts aimed at precipitating the end of the world as prophesied in the Bible."

The report is the result of a nine-month intelligence-gathering effort called Project Megiddo.

The Post says some groups are acquiring weapons, storing food and clothing, raising funds, procuring safe houses, preparing compounds, surveying potential targets and recruiting converts.

Christian Identity followers, comprising loosely knit groups throughout the country, are "ardently opposed to race mixing" and believe that the "white Aryan race is God's chosen race".

Christian Identity provides the "unifying theology" for a number of right-wing groups that pose a threat in the US, the report says.

"Current intelligence from a variety of sources indicates that extreme factions of groups are preparing for a race war to close the millennium," it says.

An entire portion is devoted to Jerusalem, in Israel, where the FBI says an influx of tourists making pilgrimages and millennial cults will add to the danger.

Police will step up security at military facilities, and for the UN buildings and personnel, institutions associated with the African American and Jewish communities and other racial and religious minorities, gay men and lesbians and foreign military units residing on US bases.

By Michael Cameron. COURIER MAIL (BRISBANE) 02/11/1999

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Can you say "discrimination?" Sure, I like the way you say that. Just another beautiful day in the neighborhood of Clinton-believe.

Mr. Rodgers

-- Fred Rodgers (neighborhood@make-believe.com), November 02, 1999.


>> The Post says some groups are acquiring weapons, storing food and clothing, raising funds, procuring safe houses, preparing compounds, surveying potential targets and recruiting converts. <<

Of all those activities, how many are threatening in and of themselves?

Storing food and water? Nope. Exploding cans of food notwthstanding.

Raising funds? If that's a threat, somebody arrest George Dubya Bush right away!

Recruiting converts? Heaven forbid! I always knew those Mormons were up to no good.

Procuring safe houses and preparing compounds? Sounds vaguely ominous. Except these are essentially defensive measures, not offensive ones. Think of real criminals. Do they prepare fixed defenses? No.

Acquiring weapons? Sorry. No sale. The acquisition of a weapon implies nothing about the circumstances of its intended use. For example, police departments routinely "acquire weapons" themselves.

Surveying potential targets? Bingo! Now THAT is a bona fide threat, and the FBI is right to consider that it falls under their purview.

My question is, if none of the ancilliary activities is actually criminal, why were they featured on an equal basis with the only REAL threat in that long list?

BTW, I am not a raging conservative, but a long time left/progressive who finds many of the diatribes in here abuot the NWO to be, at best, goofy and at worst, seditious. I would hate to see some of their political ideas come to pass.

But I wasn't born yesterday. This association of law-abiding activity with criminal activity is an old trick, designed to discourage the formation of dissenting political groups of any stripe. Back in the early 70s it was the wearing of long hair, starting food cooperatives or communes and protesting the war equated with bombing attacks on banks and ROTC buildings, as if the anti-war movement were the same as the Symbionese Liberation Army or the Weathermen.

Same nasty insinuations, different targets.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), November 02, 1999.


preparing compounds..

When they (Butch Reno, the Rapist and other assorted lawbreaking thugs) decided to butcher the Davidians because of their strange beliefs and because they had the temerity to challenge the right of the government to attack them, it was first necessary to get everyone to refer to Mt Carmel at a 'compound' rather than a home, or, God forbid, a church. Yet it was a church, and a home as well.

Sounds a lot to me like they are preparing the sheeple for the possibility that the government may want to confiscate the supplies of all those 'militia-types' who laid in some preparations.



-- Tom Knepper (thomas_knepper@intuit.com), November 02, 1999.

"it has discovered evidence..."

All right, FBI, let's see that evidence! If there is evidence, there should be indictments and arrests. If not, this whole thing is a crock.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 02, 1999.


Note: there have been NO arrests, no accusations, NOTHING.

Nothing, that is, except the threats from the FBI.......now, I wonder why?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 02, 1999.



If you wear platform shoes through an airport you can get your colon examined by proctoscope for drugs, at the discretion of customs inspectors. Platform shoes "fit the profile" of a drug smuggler. Similarly, if you are stopped by police for exceeding the speed limit or having a tail-light out, and the floor of your vehicle has some fast-food wrappers on it, you and your car can be taken back to the station and turned inside-out because you "fit the profile" of a drug-dealer. This is called "profiling."

If you are storing water and food ("stockpiling"), and you have changed residences ("procured a safe house"), and you've bought a gun and some ammo ("aquired weapons"), done some burglar-proofing or home improvement ("prepared a compound"), taken a second job (raised funds), inquired about the level of awareness/concern of neighbors and friends (recruited converts) - well then, are you telling me you don't "fit the profile" of a right-wing, apocalyptic terrorist? If the above criteria make you a legitimate target of investigation, as the FBI informs us that they do, can you tell me one reason why you all shouldn't be detained and grilled like a whopper merely for preparing for Y2k? It's for our own good, isn't it? Sure, you may not BE a terrorist, but your odd behavior has put you in this position, and you have to accept that. Speak into the microphone, please...

-- Dr. Polymorph (youknowmore@thanIdo.com), November 02, 1999.


You know, its funny, when Waco happened, I was just out of college, had just started my teaching career. I lived in Dallas, then, too, and watched the whole thing on TV. I had a roommate who was a religious zealot to make an understatement. I can remember thinking at the time "Good. Serves those kooks right." Now it literally puts CHILLS up and down my spine that I even had that THOUGHT. You can imagine how it makes me feel now to think about what they actually did. Shoulda been an outrage.

BTW, Saturday night I had a terrible dream in which all these people were screaming. Couldn't tell where it was coming from. Woke up Sunday morning to hear about the Egyptair crash. I'm not one to believe in premonitions, it was just chilling.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), November 02, 1999.


The only violence I fear is the government sponsored violence this is intended to cover up.

-- goldbug (goldbug@mint.com), November 03, 1999.

Having just seen the video of "Arlington Road"....

I can't help wondering which poor slobs will be elected to be terrorists. Maybe you? Maybe me? When TPTB are looking for answers, it doesn't take 'em long to find them, even when they have to make 'em from scratch.

Makes me think of a guy I used to work for. A real Great White Hunter sort, lived for hunting season, had lots of 'trophies' mounted on the walls of his office. His pride and joy was the the head, forelegs and shoulders of a black bear, sticking out of a frame, posed in a position of ferocious attack. Reeeeaal scary looking beast, looked like it was about to rip the guy's head off.

However, the part of the bear that made the trophy was unmarred. I asked ex-boss how the taxidermist could hide or repair the wounds. I mean, I figured that ex-boss must have shot ol' Smokey in the middle of a head on attack ;). So where were the bullet holes?

"Oh", says ex-boss, "He wasn't exactly attacking when I nailed him. He was passing by my tree-stand when I got him in the side. Took 5 more shots to finish him off. Just didn't want to give up the ghost, ha, ha."

Ha, ha.

Don't look now, folks, but I think there may be some tree-stands in the building.

-- Arewyn (isitth@latealready.com), November 03, 1999.


Every time I see articles "warning" local police agencies or John Q. Public about extremist terrorists, I look for the rest of the story. This article gives one more bit of information than I've seen before: they believe New York may be a target. If there really is some sort of threat, can we get a little more specific as to at least where? Is NYC the only place threatened? And by whom? And by what sorts of methods? This is just all too vague for me, and since we cannot prepare for that which we are not told, it seems as though we're being told to just look with our suspicious beady little eyes at all of our neighbors. Especially those kooky foreign religious types.

Jeannie

-- jhollander (hollander@ij.net), November 03, 1999.



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