Molon Labe!

by Boston T. Party

  At 0902 hours an encrypted radio signal was sent by the covert team from five blocks away on 5th Street to set off the diversionary truck bomb. The triggering of the interior charges did not occur until several seconds later, probably because of a faulty ignition system. (Whether it was a timer, radio, pressure, or seismic device is unknown.) This delay sufficiently separated the explosions to be noticeable by dozens of witnesses and victims, as well as by two seismogram stations 4.34 and 16.25 miles away.

  Four of the six interior charges detonated. (For some unknown reason, the C-4 charges on columns B4 and B5 did not detonate.) Pieces of the Murrah Building were blown into the Athenian restaurant 150' across the street. The sequence of truck and then building explosions was even caught on videotape by Southwestern Bell employees. No videos from any buildings were shown at the trials, and none have been publicly aired.

  If McVeigh was an ATF informant then he would have been utterly surprised by the explosions, feeling like Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Dallas Schoolbook Depository just after John F. Kennedy had been assassinated by triangulated rifle fire. McVeigh reached his yellow Mercury Marquis at 0905, which he had parked behind a vacant house several blocks northeast. Unbeknownst to him, covert operatives had not only removed its rear license plate, but installed a GPS tracking beacon. It was a fairly simple matter to arrange for his detention and arrest ninety minutes later on northbound I-35 near Perry, Oklahoma. Though armed with a .45 Glock 21, McVeigh did not shoot OHP Trooper Hanger — possibly because he thought he was protected by his work with the ATF and would be released shortly after his arrest.

  At first, most experts — from former FBI chief Oliver "Buck" Revell to former CIA CT director Vince Cannistraro to former Israeli Defense Intelligence specialist Avi Lipkin — blamed Islamic terrorists. So did major media.

  A few hours later a Jordanian named Abraham Ahmed (observed by American Airlines staff as "acting nervous") was detained in Chicago by the FBI during his flight from Oklahoma City to Jordan. After a six-hour interrogation he was released and allowed to continue his trip. The next day the British interrogated him for five hours in London and then returned him to the U.S. His check-through luggage contained tools, electrical components, a timing device, and a photo album of weapons and missiles.

  This same Abraham Ahmed would later serve on 15 June as the interpreter of the Iraqi Hussain al-Hussaini, the man identified by several witnesses as the driver of the brown Chevy pickup. Al-Hussaini worked for a Sam Khalid, who had been investigated by the FBI for PLO ties.

  Suffice to say that there was much evidence supporting the Islamic terrorist theory. Yet, less than 48 hours later on 21 April, the FBI announced their arrest of McVeigh, an angry white guy. The public was intentionally kept waiting for two days in order to enhance the drama of the FBI arresting him just one hour before he was to be released from the Noble County Jail. Meanwhile, his yellow Mercury had been planted with "right-wing extremist" literature while it sat abandoned on the highway.

  The Islamic angle was immediately discarded and the Oklahoma City bombing was the fault of the militias and Rush Limbaugh.

  Shortly after McVeighs's arrest, FBIHQ was informed through highly discreet channels of the interior C-4 charges, which had shattered four reinforced concrete columns and caused the building's north face to collapse. The FBI were now in a quandry. They had locked themselves on McVeigh and the Patriot Movement as the perpetrators, but could not suddenly purport that he and Nichols had also placed sophisticated C-4 charges inside the building. They also could not float the theory that the Iraqis and McVeigh had colluded in the bombings, for that would raise embarrassing questions.

  So, the FBI were forced to keep increasing the size of the ANFO truck bomb to "explain" the interior devastation. First, 2,000lbs, then 4,000, then 4,800, and finally 7,000 lbs. This desperate tactic was, however, replete with problems. Government officials quickly became alarmed at the instantaneous barrage of professional and military skepticism over the alleged ANFO bomb. Demolition experts around the world, including British experts on IRA bombings, bitterly scoffed at the truck bomb story (even though nitromethane was allegedly used instead of mere diesel fuel).

  Two independent Pentagon experts concluded that the destruction was caused by five seperate bombs. In the spring of 1997, explosives experts at Eglin AFB's Wright Laboratory Armament Directorate released a 56 page report of their reproductive blast test. It said, "It must be concluded that the damage at the Murrah Federal Building is not the result of the truck-bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as locally placed charges within the building itself..." Even FEMA was forced to admit that 4,800lbs of ANFO could not have caused the crater (allegedly 30' in diameter, but which was quickly covered from public view due to its small size).

  The explosive power of ANFO does not increase in proportion to its amount, since large quantities do not ignite efficiently even with precisely controlled triggers. In fact, a 7,000lb ANFO device built along the alleged model would scatter up to nearly half its prills without having detonated at all.

  Retired US Air Force General Benton K. Partin, an engineer and weapons expert, assembled a devasting report. It thoroughly dismissed the possibility of an ANFO truck bomb having shattered four reinforced concrete pillars with only 10% of the blast pressure required to do so. The destruction of column B3, Partin explained, was the "smoking gun" of supplementing contact demolition charges placed inside the building.

  In a panic, and against a formal request by concerned Americans and members of Congress, the USG had — for alleged "health hazards" and humanitarian concerns" — the Murray Building demolished (i.e., blown up a third and final time) on 23 May, just four weeks after 19 April. The debris was trucked to a remote area and guarded until buried.

  The impossible 7,000lb ANFO bomb

  In American Terrorist (pp.214-220), McVeigh allegedly told the authors quite an amazing tale. He and Nichols supposedly drove to a public lake, mixed 108 bags of 50lb ammonium nitrate (5,400lbs total) with three 55 gal drums of liquid nitromethane (1,200lbs total), poured this into thirteen barrels (nine by funnel through bung holes), arranged the filled barrels weighing about 500lbs each, installed a dual-ignition system through the cab wall, wiped down the cab interior, washed up and changed clothes — all in the time span of under four hours inside the confines of a 20' truck.

  Assuming a full four hours with nothing to do but mix and pour the components, the two men had to process 1,350lbs of ammonium nitrate with 41 gallons of liquid every hour. Or, 22½lbs with about three quarts every minute. Every minute nonstop, without interruption, for nearly 240 minutes.

  Also, the required very thorough mixing of the ANFO should not be overlooked. Ammonium nitrate prills (1-2mm in diameter) have a coating to protect against moisture. Liquid fuel must be very evenly mixed to coat most of the prills and dissolve their external coating. Dry prills will not detonate easily, if at all. This mixing process is very tedious and time consuming. Professionals use motorized mixers. It's not something easily done by hand in the back of a 20' box truck under time pressure with witnesses just outside.

  And yet McVeigh and Nichols supposedly accomplished all this in less than four hours (69% of the barrels to be filled by funnel), plus arrange the barrels, build the ignition system, clean up, and change clothes.

  Try to fill a 55 gal barrel by funnel through the bung hole with sand sometime. It takes about 20 minutes. And that's nicely flowing sand, versus soggy, clumpy ANFO. Assuming sand, however, the funnel filling of 9 barrels would take 2.7 hours, leaving under78 minutes (i.e., 1.3 hours) for mixing, arranging, building, cleaning, etc. — and, oh, filling the other 4 barrels.

  Then, there is the matter of insufficient space within the truck. A 20' box truck would not have had the working room for the job. Go rent one sometime, cart in 108 50lb bags, three full 55 gal. drums, and 13 empty plastic 55 gal. drums. Imagine two men trying to mix and pour all of this within that very small space — much l
ess within four hours. It truly defies belief.

  An ex-rocket-scientist was asked if McVeigh's schedule were possible. He laughed, replying that even if such could have been accomplished within four hours (which was "impossible"), there were the deadly nitromethane fumes inside such a confined space. "Without breathers and a fuel-compatible pump? No way! Nitromethane is incredibly toxic. In 30 minutes they'd have been incoherent; in an hour their faces would have slid off!"

  Yet we are expected to believe that 165 gallons of nitromethane were "poured...into the five-gallon plastic buckets,weighing out the measurements on [a] bathroom scale." I suppose that we are also to believe that the deadly fuel was siphoned by sucking on a length of garden hose.

  So, the "official" story of McVeigh and Nichols building this alleged bomb within 4 hours inside a 20' Ryder truck parked at a lake, on high alert for over an hour because of people fishing 25yds away is absurd fiction.

  Why did McVeigh tell such a tale?

  Regardless of McVeigh's level of bombing guilt versus any federal collusion as an informant, he may have been offered a cruel bargain. Keep his mouth shut about what happened, parrot the ridiculous story of building a 7,000lb ANFO bomb in the confines of a 20' box truck, and his family would not be harmed. Playing the "good soldier" would guarantee their safety. Also, McVeigh might have been promised that the lethal injection would be only a deep sedative, and that he would be revived later for plastic surgery and supervised freedom abroad. (Not that McVeigh would have been allowed to live in any case, but he may have been convinced otherwise.) McVeigh, already convicted to a death sentence with no chance of reversal, had nothing to gain but his family's continued safety. An intelligent man, he'd have agreed.

  According to Clinton, the OKC bombing(s) "broke the spell" of the increasing anti-government sentiment and its "Republican Revolution" of November 1994. The growing inertia of conservative politics evaporated. Accordingly, Clinton signed his beloved Anti-Terrorism Act on 20 April 1996 (Adolf Hitler's 107th birthday), which created a 2,500 man Rapid Deployment Force under the Attorney General.

  Only the Federal Government benefitted from the OKC bombings.

  1 "Seat of Government" was J. Edgar Hoover's magisterial term for Washington, D.C.

  2 Field Office, one of 56 FBI FOs across the USA.

  3 Bureau shorthand for La Cosa Nostra — i.e., the Mafia.

  4 Resident Agency, which is much smaller than a Field Office. There are 128 RAs in the USA.

  2009

  Own a small business?

  Then what are you doing in California?

  Like to conceal-carry your defensive handgun?

  Then what are you doing in Missouri?

  Own a .308 battle rifle?

  Then what are you doing in Chicago?

  Care enough about your children to home-school them?

  Then what are you doing in Manhattan?

  Like to vote Libertarian?

  Then what are you doing in Newark?

  Believe in the Bill of Rights?

  Then what are you doing in Massachusetts?

  Tired of inner-city ghetto crime?

  Then what are you doing in Detroit?

  Really — what . . . on . . . earth . . . are . . . you . . . doing?

  You don't have to live this way any longer! You don't have to feel like some hermit, surrounded by people you've nothing in common with. Your environment won't change, so why not alter your environment? Why not join us in what is becoming the world's freest place?

  Want to start a small business without restrictive licenses and a lot of red tape? Fine — we have the state for you. Want to continue home-schooling your children but aren't that solid in chemistry? No problem, the retired professor across the street will teach them in trade for piano lessons. Want to set up a pistol range in your back yard? Marvelous —a guy down the road already makes the steel targets. Want to shoot your dad's Korean War M1 Garand off the deck every weekend?

  Excellent — your neighbor will let you shoot his G43 in exchange. Like organic vegetables and medicinal herbs, but don't have time to garden? No sweat — folks just outside town already grow them. Want to live amongst people who will help you fulfill your dreams and not envy your success? Super — they're waiting to meet you . . . in Wyoming!

  Want a local government that will leave you alone?

  Come to Wyoming!

  Want friendly neighbors who also believe in freedom?

  They're in Wyoming!

  Want to finally enjoy life without needless hassle?

  Join us in Wyoming!

  Oh, moving across the country is too inconvenient for you? Don't want to pull up roots? Fine. Stay home. Alone.

  Home-schoolers in Maryland.

  Isolated.

  Gun owners in Illinois.

  Vulnerable.

  Conservatives in California.

  Ineffective.

  Libertarians in New Jersey.

  Outnumbered.

  Constitutionalists in Massachusetts.

  Alone.

  Stay home in Occupied Territory like a fish in a barrel, while your "family" and "friends" and "neighbors" make hushed phone calls to 1-800 fink lines and report you for "suspicious" behavior.

  Stay home, waiting for the knock on the door — your door — to roundup your children from the "inadequacies" of homeschooling, to cart off your "subversive" books, to collect your "dangerous and illegal" firearms, to confiscate your home computer for evidence of "terrorist" activity, to excavate your backyard for buried "cash and contraband."

  Stay home, like a dead man waiting for the coroner. Your corpse has already been measured, your coffin has already been built, your burial plot already dug. Stay home, like a Jew in 1937 Germany, thinking they'll leave you in peace as long as you don't make trouble.

  You threaten them simply by being who you are — off-beat and independent-thinking. They'll get around to you when your cattle car is ready; they'll kick your door down on their schedule.

  And gee, all you have to do is . . . just . . . stay . . . home.

  Or . . . you can join thousands of other folks just like you and live the American dream. Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness.

  Join us and learn what freedom you've been missing! In Wyoming!

  Washington, D.C. FBIHQ

  January 2009

  The Director finishes reading the Wyoming flyer and rubs his eyes. "My God, what a bunch of nuts! How did you get a copy of this, Bleth?"

  "I salted enough libertarian chat rooms and websites, apparently. Since I haven't heard anything more from them, they may have figured out that I used an alias."

  "Where did you get this thing?"

  "It was a .pdf file emailed from a remailer. No leads on its origin."

  The Director sighs. "Well, keep on it. Try to get to the next level and be invited to move to Bear Dropping, Wyoming."

  [T]he tax-gatherer is the very man I have to deal with — for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel — and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government.

  — Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)

  After the first death, there is no other.

  — Dylan Thomas

  Montgomery County, Maryland

  February 2009

  The dawn air was frigid, and a sheet of thin ice covered the wealthy suburban neighborhood. Very little was stirring but the paperboy on his moped and a few early commuters groggily leaving their homes to get a jump on the morning Beltway traffic.

  Precisely at 5:45AM Jonathan Douglas Gray stepped onto the porch of his two-story Tudor, locked the front door behind him, and eased into a loping jog towards the park six blocks away. His morning runs were always 45 minutes. It's how he remained in such good physical condition into his late-50s even after a lifetime of government service.

  He looked back on his career as a federal district court judge with great pride. Congressional laws deserve to be upheld, and vigorously so
. The magnificent system of federalism was not as ambiguous as those "states rights" whiners claimed. Through the constitutional clauses of "interstate and foreign commerce" and "necessary and proper" and "supreme law of the land" the Congress and the President have the power to set public policy. This necessarily touched on many areas of common life thought by libertarians to be sacrosanct — not so! While on the bench, Judge Gray eagerly gave the harshest punishments to those who would dare violate federal laws controlling guns, drugs, education, and small business.

  Some defendants in court actually floated arguments that the Constitution protected some "right" to own assault weapons, or use marijuana for allegedly "medical" purposes. The very idea! As if that venerable document were written so millions of Americans could shoot up with heroin and then fire machineguns into schoolyards! To operate unlicensed and unregulated companies. To have children off the tax roles — birthed by black market midwives, no less! — and then evade public education through the sham of "home-schooling." To willfully circumvent the National ID Card, a device vital for corralling terrorists, shadow criminals, money launderers, and tax cheats.

  No, that was anarchy. Judge Gray was well served by a single, overriding premise: What is not in control is out of control. Yes, America is a free country, but freedom is not unlimited. We enjoy our liberties because of laws — every one of them part of the vast bulwark against anarchy.

  To Judge Gray there were no bad laws, only underappreciated ones.

  He upheld them all. If he did not, who would? Laws were conceived and passed for good reason by professional legislators elected to office by a citizenry generally incapable of running their own lives. Gray understood that people are unfit for self-rule. They always have been, and always will be. Gray also understood that a small, select class of men were born to wisely rule. Such had always been the case. One never has to ask if one is among the ruling class any more than a fish ever questions its innate ability to swim. People are who they should be.