Today marks the 10th anniversary of Timothy McVeigh's crime against humanity in OKC. McVeigh's name is infamous. Eric Rudolph's name (the Olympic bomber in 2000) is infamous. However, here's another domestic terrorist you never heard of: William Krar of Noonday, TX. Krar and his common-law wife and co-conspiritor, Judith Bruey, moved to the little town in East Texas near Tyler from New England. McVeign came out of upstate NY to Fort Riley, KS and then on to northeastern OK. Rudolph was the pride of Appalachian NC. These wackos are everywhere. In the early 90s, I read a book that scared hell out of me: The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt (1989). This account follows the terrorist career of Robert Matthews and the Order (known to its members as Bruders Schweigen, or the Silent Brotherhood). Beginning in the fall of 1983, the Order embarked on a series of robberies, counterfeiting schemes, armored car/bank robberies, and murder. The Order's most notorious act of violence was the murder of radio talk-show host Alan Berg in his own driveway in December 1984. Known for baiting extremists on his Denver program, Berg — a Jew — may have been a last-minute substitution for Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The murder led to a massive manhunt, ending in Matthews' death in 1984 in a Seattle suburb and the apprehension of other Order members. Robert J. Matthews and his band of wackos originated in the Pacific Northwest. The more recent arrest of William Krar and Judith Bruey was the result of a misdelivered mail package to another terrorist on the East Coast. For the best account of Krar and Bruey, go to
("Rescuing Knowledge — Freeing Information" is a Web site edited and published by Russ Kick, author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Volumes 1 and 2.)
These wackos aren't funny. Now it's the anniversary of the OKC bombing. And the anniversary of deaths of the Branch Davidians. Soon it will be Hitler's birthday. Following that, it will be the anniversay of the Columbine shootings. If this is (fair & balanced) mounting dread, so be it.
