Christian Identity Followers include:
Weaver family (Ruby Ridge)
Notes:
The Aryans Nations connects to wider and different types
of racist organizations including both the National Alliance,
headquartered in West Virginia, and the activities in the
1980s of a group called the Order.
The National Alliance is a neo-Nazi organization that evolved
from George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party and its
founder, William Pierce, worked for George Wallace’s presidential
campaign in 1972. Pierce is a well educated (doctorate in physics)
and sophisticated racist who dispels the redneck stereotypes about
white supremacists. In 1978 Pierce published a novel,
The Turner Diaries, that has become the blueprint for the coming
race war eagerly anticipated by followers of Christian Identity
and other white supremacist, neo-Nazi groups. The book describes
an apocalyptic scenario in which a lone heroic freedom
fighter saves America in an act of desperate courage from
its takeover by agents of the Jewish conspiracy. It is
considered to be Timothy McVeigh’s inspiration for the
Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.
The Identity movement thrives on martyrs. For example, the
Order was an organization directly inspired by the
Turner Diaries that began at the Aryan Nations. The Order
was involved in a series of bombings, robberies, and attacks
on federal officers in the early 1980s including the murder of
Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg in June, 1984. It was lead
by Robert Matthews, who died in 1984 in a fire started by FBI
flares. Gordon Kahl started a group called the Posse Comitatus
based on both Identity ideas and the Turner Diaries. Much
of the Identity movement’s impetus came from the farm crises of
the 1980s. Kahl was a farmer in North Dakota. He and his son
killed two federal marshals following an attempted arrest.
Kahl fled to an Identity compound in Smithville, Arkansas. FBI
agents surrounded the compound and Kahl was incinerated
after a fire caused by an FBI smoke bomb ignited the 100,000 rounds
of ammo he had stored.
The Weaver Family’s story and the events at Ruby Ridge in 1992,
have been documented by a television movie and Congressional
testimony by Weaver. The pertinent fact that the media and
Congress both overlook is Weaver’s Christian Identity beliefs.
Thus Weaver has become a symbol for both militia groups and
Christian identity followers of the perfidy of the ZOG.
Waco is perceived to be an example of "America’s holocaust" by
extremists believers and paramilitary groups. The destruction
of David Kroesh’s Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993 has
been seen as a predictor of both the government’s duplicity and
Jewish control. It must be made clear that the Branch Davidians
are a sect, a splinter group, that broke off from Seventh Day
Adventists. They are millenarian, believing that the second
coming is imminent and that all believers will ascend to heaven
while Satan rules on earth for 1,000 years following which a second
resurrection will occur and the righteous will return to an earth
cleansed by fire to establish a Second Jerusalem. Koresh stressed
that the apocalypse would occur in America and thus his encampment
at Waco, known as Mt. Carmel, became a survivalist stronghold.
They are not white supremacists; however, Identity followers think
that the entire event is part of a Jewish conspiracy which includes
persecution of Christians, government control of disarmed citizens
(Identity and other extremists groups share with the NRA and Gun
Owners of America the fear that the government wants to take away
guns), and the establishment of a police state. (In addition,
Identity believers think 55% of Clinton’s cabinet is Jewish and
that, depending on events, he is the anti Christ and Hillary is
the Whore of Babylon predicted in Revelations.)
In their ideal America, God’s Law would prevail and the nation
would be purged of race mixers, homosexuals, abortion providers,
communists, Jews, and minorities, although some people would be
considered suitable for status as slaves.