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Next Sunday will be the fourteenth anniversary of the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history. On April 19, 1995 Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring over 800. McVeigh, a former soldier, was connected with the radical right militias and soaked up many of his ideas from books, pamphlets and tracts that circulated in the militia movement: Mr. McVeigh was an avid reader, his barrack mates recalled; he devoured Soldier of Fortune and Guns & Ammo magazines, the genre of paperback novels about survivors of apocalyptic war and lone commandos that are part of the post-Vietnam culture described by Gibson and, above all, "The Turner Diaries," a venomous novel by William L. Pierce, a former physics professor and official of the American Nazi Party. " 'The Turner Diaries' was Mr. McVeigh's bible," said a person closely involved in the case.
Mr. McVeigh's reading, which he pressed on his sister, Jennifer, among others, also included Spotlight, the newsletter of the anti-semitic Liberty Lobby, Patriot Report, a far-right Christian identity newsletter that would later declare the Oklahoma bombing a plot by "the real hate groups," namely the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, to crack down on armed paramilitary groups, and a strange document titled "Operation Vampire Killer 2000."
Written by Jack McLamb, a former Phoenix police sergeant, it seeks to enlist police and military personnel against "the ongoing, elitist covert operation which has been installed in the American system with great stealth and cunning." It continues, "They, the globalists, have stated that the date of termination of the American way of life is the year 2000."
When the FBI searched the truck of McVeigh's sister Jennifer, they found the copy of Operation Vampire Killer he had sent her.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Operation Vampire Killer 2000 author Jack McLamb
embraced a panoply of conspiracy theories. He told a 1996 rally that government officials were smuggling drugs into the country in a bid to incite racial hatred.
In 1999, he asserted that Vice President Gore intended to reduce world population by 90% through some kind of end-of-the-millennium Y2K plot. He suggested that Communist-led Latinos planned to take over the Southwest.
Along with his friend, Green Beret-turned-Patriot James "Bo" Gritz, he sold plots of land in Idaho as the perfect place to survive the coming troubles.
But when the much ballyhooed "Y2K" collapse failed to materialize, McLamb began to peddle his ideas on the tax protest circuit, instructing students last fall that "Taxes are Voluntary!"
Described by the NYT as "incoherent and almost impossible to follow," Operation Vampire Killer 2000 purports to be the product of numerous law enforcement officials, or as they're repeatedly called, "our nation's protectors." It's ostensibly a recruitment tool for police officers to join the movement and resist the government. But Operation Vampire Killer 2000 lays out a sort of grand unifying theory of everything that is leading to the end of American liberty and the imposition of one world government.
In the beginning, in McLamb's telling there were the founding fathers. They created a land of liberty, in tune with the principles of the Bible. But starting somewhere in the 19th century, a threat arose, the threat of global government, or in the parlance of the early 90's, when the tract was produced, and borrowing from a phrase invoked by the administration of George HW Bush after the fall of communism, a New World Order (NWO).
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