Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City

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Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City

Southern Poverty Law Center. Posted August 22, 2009.

Including plots to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians and more.




The following is part of a new report, 'Return of the Militias,' released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.


At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured. Although many Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried out by domestic, right-wing terrorists.

The slaughter engineered by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, men steeped in the conspiracy theories and white-hot fury of the American radical right, marked the opening shot in a new kind of domestic political extremism — a revolutionary ideology whose practitioners do not hesitate to carry out attacks directed at entirely innocent victims, people selected essentially at random to make a political point. After Oklahoma, it was no longer sufficient for many American right-wing terrorists to strike at a target of political significance — instead, they reached for higher and higher body counts, reasoning that they had to eclipse McVeigh's attack to win attention.

What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City. These have included plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

Here are the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since 1995 — plots and violence waged against a democratic America.

July 28, 1995

Antigovernment extremist Charles Ray Polk is arrested after trying to purchase a machine gun from an undercover police officer, and is later indicted by federal grand jury for plotting to blow up the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. At the time of his arrest, Polk is trying to purchase plastic explosives to add to the already huge arsenal he's amassed. Polk is sentenced to almost 21 years in federal prison. ...........(more)

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the crazee rite must be in hyperdrive

was in the WH. Will no doubt escalate greatly now.

is, when it was revealed that McVeigh was a Limbecile, if someone had Alan Berg'd Limpballs, that would likely have changed the course of history, IMO. Now it's too late. There are so many hate mongers on Fox News and radio, openly threatening Obama and anyone else they don't like, that it would be impossible to get rid of all of them

don't consider them terrorist. Until the MSM treats them as criminals the awareness that these groups are expanding will be lost to the public.

Believe me if these were minority groups of any kind the MSM would be all over this. They are cowards who only care about the almight $$$.

"They are cowards who only care about the almight $$$."

If they were to run with this story it would be a ratings bonanza. The fact that they won't means that either

1. They're afraid
2. They're sympathetic to the terrorists.

how many of them are in my (current) state of Arizona. I also think many of them got prison sentences which where far too short.