It is perfectly timed to feed into the current campaign by the government and corporate media to demonize the patriot movement and portray militias around the country as domestic terrorists — MSNBC’s “The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist” will run on April 19.
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| The real McVeigh story conflicts with the official mythology of violent patriot and militia groups. | |
“In the documentary, viewers will be able to hear McVeigh’s confession for the first time in his own words — the planning and carrying out of the attack,” reports KTUL in Oklahoma.
On March 31, Aitan Goelman, a member of the Department of Justice team that helped win convictions against McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma case, said that the great risk of America’s growing militia movement is not necessarily in the militias themselves, but rather their capacity to spark rogue actors like Mr. McVeigh, according to the Christain Science Monitor.
“On the edges” of political discourse today, Goelman told the newspaper, “you have rhetoric that carries over to extreme factions.”Goelman made his comment two days after the FBI raided the Hutaree group in Michigan and several days before the Guardians of the free Republics sent letters to state governors around the country suggesting they resign.
“Anytime you have group-think and this churning of ridiculous ideas back and forth, eventually you’ll get someone like McVeigh who’s going to say ‘I’m going to take the mantle of leadership and fire the shot heard around the world and start the second American revolution,’” said Goelman.
The FBI said last week that while they considered the Guardians of the free Republics non-violent — the group is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. — they believe other groups or individuals will use the call for state government officials to step down as a pretext to engage in violence...
