21-07-2010, 04:14 AM
TO: Austin Kelley
YOU WROTE:
"I'm not really up on everything that goes on inside the conspiracy research community, but I've heard concerns about the ties that Cheri Seymour enjoys to far-right "Patriot" elements in the United States, including "Christian Identity"-linked William Potter Gale who was significant in the development of the Militia Movement. If anyone has further perspectives on all of this, please feel free to share ---"
MY COMMENT:
If you go to my website: www.ark-roundtable.com and click on "Author," you will notice in the very last paragraph that it says: "She [Seymour] is currently completing a non-fiction book entitled, 'The Coup' about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995."
In answer to your question (above) about my relationship with the far-right, patriots, Militia groups, et al, basically I am accepted within those groups as a professional "writer" that tells the truth, whether good or bad, it's the truth. Just prior to the OKC bombing, I was extensively interviewing Militia leaders in Idaho, Montana, California, Oregon, etc. for a TIME magazine piece on the Rise of the Militias (in collaboration with a former San Francisco Chronicle staff reporter).
In the middle of that research, the Alfred P. Murrah building was blown up. I immediately switched over to investigating the OKC bombing, traveled 11,500 miles across the U.S. interviewing McVeigh's associates (and co-conspirators) and ultimately wrote a book about what I learned. I really hope someone asks what I learned, but if you don't, I'll tell you anyway.
I learned that Dennis Mahon, a former KKK leader in OKC, tried to recruit certain individuals to blow up the Murrah building in 1993. I learned from Stephen Jones' (McVeigh's attorney) investigator that Jones was disallowed by Judge Matsch from subpoenaing Dennis Mahon to court because he allegedly worked as a C.I. for the government. When I interviewed Mahon myself, he basically suggested the same thing, adding (Quote) "If they subpoena me to court, I'll take down the entire BATF."
So I worked on my book, "The Coup," as time permitted, then one day in June 2009, I read on the Internet that Dennis Mahon had been arrested in connection with an Arizona bombing of a black postal worker: http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2009/06/26/news_state/188state35bombing.txt
EXCERPT from above article: "--- Dennis Mahon also is accused of teaching others how to blow up a vehicle and a house, how to build a package pipe bomb using a 9-volt battery, black powder, and an electric match, and how to avoid detection by law enforcement, according to the indictment ---"
Mahon reportedly did the same thing with Timothy McVeigh. Mahon's trial is supposed to be taking place in Arizona in the Fall. I'll be there.
YOU WROTE:
"I'm not really up on everything that goes on inside the conspiracy research community, but I've heard concerns about the ties that Cheri Seymour enjoys to far-right "Patriot" elements in the United States, including "Christian Identity"-linked William Potter Gale who was significant in the development of the Militia Movement. If anyone has further perspectives on all of this, please feel free to share ---"
MY COMMENT:
If you go to my website: www.ark-roundtable.com and click on "Author," you will notice in the very last paragraph that it says: "She [Seymour] is currently completing a non-fiction book entitled, 'The Coup' about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995."
In answer to your question (above) about my relationship with the far-right, patriots, Militia groups, et al, basically I am accepted within those groups as a professional "writer" that tells the truth, whether good or bad, it's the truth. Just prior to the OKC bombing, I was extensively interviewing Militia leaders in Idaho, Montana, California, Oregon, etc. for a TIME magazine piece on the Rise of the Militias (in collaboration with a former San Francisco Chronicle staff reporter).
In the middle of that research, the Alfred P. Murrah building was blown up. I immediately switched over to investigating the OKC bombing, traveled 11,500 miles across the U.S. interviewing McVeigh's associates (and co-conspirators) and ultimately wrote a book about what I learned. I really hope someone asks what I learned, but if you don't, I'll tell you anyway.
I learned that Dennis Mahon, a former KKK leader in OKC, tried to recruit certain individuals to blow up the Murrah building in 1993. I learned from Stephen Jones' (McVeigh's attorney) investigator that Jones was disallowed by Judge Matsch from subpoenaing Dennis Mahon to court because he allegedly worked as a C.I. for the government. When I interviewed Mahon myself, he basically suggested the same thing, adding (Quote) "If they subpoena me to court, I'll take down the entire BATF."
So I worked on my book, "The Coup," as time permitted, then one day in June 2009, I read on the Internet that Dennis Mahon had been arrested in connection with an Arizona bombing of a black postal worker: http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2009/06/26/news_state/188state35bombing.txt
EXCERPT from above article: "--- Dennis Mahon also is accused of teaching others how to blow up a vehicle and a house, how to build a package pipe bomb using a 9-volt battery, black powder, and an electric match, and how to avoid detection by law enforcement, according to the indictment ---"
Mahon reportedly did the same thing with Timothy McVeigh. Mahon's trial is supposed to be taking place in Arizona in the Fall. I'll be there.