File Name: 3161.txt Ä Area: A_THEIST: A_T ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Msg#: 83 Date: 05-23-95 21:03 From: Randy Edwards Read: Yes Replied: No To: All Mark: Subj: Re: [3 of 3] Bushwacked! ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Original Message Posted via ANEWS * Date: 22 May 95 17:17:48 * From: Randy Edwards @ 1:325/805 * To: All * Forwarded by: Christopher Baker @ 1:374/14 * Message text was not edited! @MSGID: 1:325/805 019b6c2b @SPLIT: 22 May 95 17:17:49 @325/805 02328 03/03 +++++++++++ Convention in May 1994, Dale led sessions on The Problem with Our Debt Money System and Alternatives to the Debt Money System. Dale was in the early 1980's a confidant of Posse Comitatus leader Gordon Kahl, according to the Bismarck Tribune. The Posse was an anti-tax, anti-government organization that swept the Farm Belt in the 1970's and 1980's. Gordon Kahl, killed two federal marshals in a shoot-out in Medina, North Dakota. Dale told federal marshals that he would hide Kahl, if he appeared, and threatened to fight foreclosure on his ranch by shooting as many of the sons of bitches as he could. At one USTP event, Dale sold The Revelator, a publication that rails against Anti-Christ Banksters (sic) whose basic strategy is to instigate war and finance both sides, especially if it involves Christians killing Christians. * Jeffrey Baker -- Chair, USTP of Florida, declared at the Wisconsin USTP convention, Abortionists should be put to death. They are murderers. Baker was identified as a speaker on a recent conference program, as representing, 10th Amendment Militia, Church Status. Leading theocrats called Christian Reconstructionists are also prominent in USTP. For example, R.J. Rushdoony, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement addressed the USTP's founding convention. Reconstructionists believe that the modern world should be governed by Old Testament Biblical Law. Randall Terry, for example, has been deeply influenced by Reconstructionism. USTP is also home to anti-gay organizing. A notable example is the Western States Area Chairman, Dan Hansen, and his sister, Janine Hansen Hawkins who represent Nevada on the USTP National Committee. At a July USTA meeting, Howard Phillips held up Janine Hansen's publication The Independent American, headlined: Homosexual Agenda Exposed. The Hansens, along with Lucille Lusk, head of Las Vegas Coalition for Concerned Citizens, directed Nevada's failed anti-gay ballot initiative. CONSPIRACIES R US One unifying element among the seemingly disparate factions is a strong belief in vast conspiracies taking over the country. Many are obsessed with what they call the New World Order. At USTP events, there is talk of invasions of the United States by United Nations troops, and black helicopters harassing American citizens. The black helicopters have become a unifying symbol of conspiratorial government control over the American population. Jeffrey Baker sees the plot best expressed as a star of David, where the dark forces of the Illuminati, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission have united to destroy the U.S. Baker also believes that much of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto has become law in the United States. He is not alone in such a view. Joe Slovenec for example, believes that both the Republican and Democratic parties are socialist. Whatever the USTP's electoral future, it's significance lies not so much in its current numbers, but in the new political configuration it represents, especially as the new political home to some of the most militant members of the anti-abortion movement. Sidebar: A Pro-Life IRA? Back in March, Paul Hill, the leading proponent of the murder of doctors who perform abortions, said to a reporter, I could envision a covert organization developing- something like a pro-life IRA, referring to the Irish Republican Army. Could USTP be what he had in mind? The IRA was closely linked to the above ground political party Sinn Fein. Indeed, it was the head of Sinn Fein, that recently negotiated a cease fire on behalf of the IRA. Imprisoned members of the IRA, or martyrs, had outside support networks. This has structural parallels to USTP - a legal political party, with ties to paramilitary organizations, notably USTP National Committee member Matthew Trewhella's church militia. Trewhella's, anti-abortion group Missionaries to the Pre-born also sponsors a project called Prisoners of Christ, to provide material and financial support to people convicted of anti-abortion violence, and to their families. Among the Prisoners of Christ, are Shelly Shannon, who shot Dr. George Tiller, convicted murderer Michael Griffin, and convicted arsonist John Brockhoeft. _________________________________________________________________ _FRONTLINES RESEARCH_ is published six times per year by Planned Parenthood Federation of America - Public Policy Institute Subscription Information: $35 per year ($18 low income) FLR 14th Floor 810 7th Avenue New York, New York 10019 (212) 261-4721 -- MPost/2 v1.1 @ Origin: Spartacus Lives! * Home of ANEWS * Venceremos! * (1:325/805) *PATH: 325/805 3615/50 374/1 98 14 -!- GenMsg [0002] (cbak.rights@opus.global.org) ! Origin: Rights On!-A_THEIST Echo Mod/Host-Titusville_FL_USA (1:374/14)