Is there no decency or oversight left?

It appears not...

"Its time to replace fear with hope. This is the crucial message that America must begin to hear and believe in again. For hope is the mortal enemy of fear; and fear cannot succeed in the solidarity of inspired hope."

A castration implies that the actors are unwilling, and uninformed as to the goals.  A Conspiracy implies planning and coordination.

Everyone with the capacity to think sees it for what it is, in fact here's an example from the Los Angeles Times: 

Advise and Assent
The Los Angeles Times | Editorial
Sunday 19 Februay 2006

That the United States Senate has a body called the Intelligence
Committee is an irony George Orwell would have truly appreciated. In a world
without Doublespeak, the panel, chaired by GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas,
would be known by a more appropriate name - the Senate Coverup Committee.

Although the committee is officially charged with overseeing the
nation's intelligence-gathering operations, its real function in recent
years has been to prevent the public from getting hold of any meaningful
information about the Bush administration. Hence its never-ending delays of
the probe into the bogus weapons intelligence used to justify the invasion
of Iraq. And its squelching, on Thursday, of an expected investigation into
the administration's warrantless spying program.

 Okay, Okay, the righties will say that the Times isn't appropriate to use because it's a moderate Republican newspaper, and not one of their own.  Well, I'm prepared to quote what is arguably the most right wing newspaper in Kansas, in the words of it's own editor:

Posted on Sat, Feb. 18, 2006

Oversight EDITORIAL: ROBERTS' CREDIBILITY ON LINE

Many Kansans, including members of The Eagle editorial board, have long admired Sen. Pat Roberts for his plainspokenness and reputation for fair brokering of issues.

So it's troubling that Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is fast gaining the reputation in Washington, D.C., as a reliable partisan apologist for the Bush administration on intelligence and security controversies.

We hope that's not true. But Roberts' credibility is on the line.

From Abu Ghraib abuses to secret CIA detainee prisons to the Valerie Plame affair, critics say, Roberts has become a dependable shill for the White House, ever ready to shield Bush policy from criticism and ever willing to compromise Congress' legitimate oversight role.

...

 

What's bothering many, though, is that Roberts seems prepared to write the Bush team a series of blank checks to conduct the war on terror, even to the point of ignoring policy mistakes and possible violations of law.

That's not oversight -- it's looking the other way.

For the editorial board, Randy Scholfield

This is why I hold that any investigation of the Bush Administration must include investigation of Republican Congressmen!!
The conventional wisdom is that Conspiracy is a hard charge to prove, but let's face the facts.  The GOP itself has made the charge so sticky that anything it touches it will stick to.   They made it so obvious, that their rank and file supporters openly brag about it on the street and on the radio, and to cap that, they openly say they will abuse the Intelligence framework to politically harrass opponents to the policy of coverup of illegal activities, and this comes from their rank and file!  

I openly hold that there are reasons to retain some of the framework they have established, if not all of it. In the past decade, the radical right has perpetrated over 30,000 terrorist acts on US soil targeted at fellow Americans. Oklahoma City and Anthrax might come to mind for most people, but those of us that keep track of Radical Right terrorism on US soil are well aware of the rest. Ideal payback for the politically-motivated harrassment would be to undertake an active and directed effort to put an end to radical right terrorism on US soil, and that will involve many of their leaders, and even their churches. What I'm talking about won't be a witchhunt, it will be a credible investigation that will put thousands of their kind in prison on valid charges. Why do you think they openly state that they don't want us to have the powers they now have? The know that we will use it for legitimate means to put an end to domestic terrorism, and all but under 20 or so of those 30,000+ acts of terrorism on US soil over the past decade have been by right wingers against Americans, and they know this. Here's a tiny sampling of reports with the word "bomb" in them, and only from one listing I have. This is a subset:

January 4, 1994, Maryland: Charles Edward Altvater, leader of the World Church of the Creator in Baltimore, receives an addition of seven years to his 18-year prison sentence. Altvater had pled guilty to bombing a police officer's house and another officer's patrol car in 1992 after police towed his car away. At his original sentencing in August, Altvater had received a sentence less than the 25 year maximum, but now a three judge panel reviewing the case decides to impose the maximum sentence.

January 10, 1994, California: Eric Lord Jeffrey is sentenced to five years in prison for making pipe bombs. The alleged Orange County white supremacist was reportedly intending to use them against minority drug dealers. Police seized fourteen bombs.

January 21, 1994, Washington: White supremacist Mark Kowalski, head of a group called the American Front, is sentenced to 140 months in prison for a bombing of an NAACP office in Tacoma, Washington, in July 1993. Kowalski pled guilty to transporting and using explosives and for conspiring to violate the civil rights of blacks and Jews. Kowalski said that he and others plotted the violence as part of a race war to drive minorities out of the community. Kowalski, Jeremiah Knesal and Wayne Wooten, Jr., bombed the NAACP office, then drove to Portland, Oregon, with rifles and pipe bombs, hoping to bomb a Jewish Federation building there, but couldn't find it.

January 21, 1994, Connecticut: Authorities arrest four Klansmen on weapons charges following raids on several residences. Those arrested include the New England leader of the Unified Ku Klux Klan, William Dodge, as well as three other people. Police recover a pipe bomb that had been delivered to Dodge as part of a sting operation launched after Wallingford police learned that KKK members in the area were seeking explosive materials, silencers, and equipment to convert automatic weapons. Also arrested are Scott Palmer, Martin Regan, and Dean Hucal, on various weapons charges. Three more will later be arrested as well.

January 24, 1994, California: Teenager Richard Joseph Campos is charged as an adult with 12 felony counts related to a series of racially motivated firebombings in 1993. The charges include an attempt to murder a Sacramento city councilman by bombing his bedroom, as well as firebombings of an NAACP office, the office of the Japanese American Citizens League, a synagogue, and a state anti-discrimination office. An anonymous caller claimed responsibility in the name of the 'Aryan Liberation Front.'

February 10, 1994, California, Washington: Two members of the World Church of the Creator plead guilty to bombing an NAACP office and a gay bar in Washington state. Jeremiah Gordon Knesal and Wayne Paul Wooten had already pled guilty on explosives and weapons charges. Each face up to ten years in prison for these charges, but also still face other related, state charges (see January 21).

March 31, 1994, Arizona: Michael Anthony Bloom is jailed for violating the terms of his probation by communicating with known criminals and having access to guns. Bloom, a skinhead, pled guilty in 1990 to conspiracy to commit arson and misconduct involving weapons as part of a plot to bomb 37 buildings owned by minorities.

May 26, 1994, Connecticut: Klan Grand Dragon William Dodge pleads guilty to possessing a pipe bomb. Dodge was one of five Klan members arrested earlier this year on weapons and explosives charges.

May 29, 1994, California: In Huntington Beach, police arrest two skinheads caught with drugs, weapons, a homemade bomb and thousands of dollars worth of stolen property. Arrested on various charges are John Francisco Montiel and a juvenile.

June 14, 1994, West Virginia, Pennsylvania: Keith Brian McCullough, a fugitive from Pittsburgh, shoots himself in the head after police pull over the vehicle he was riding in, injuring himself critically. In the vehicle, McCullough had a live grenade, various bomb-making chemicals, and literature from Aryan Nations, among other items. McCullough had an extensive criminal history. He will die on June 17.

July 28, 1994, Connecticut: Klan leader William Dodge is sentenced to slightly over five years in prison for possessing a pipe bomb (see above).

August 29, 1994, California: Sacramento resident Richard Campos is convicted on five felony counts of possessing and igniting an explosive device, relating to two racially motivated firebombings, but the jury deadlocks on seven counts related to three other firebombings and a mistrial is declared on those counts. Campos firebombed the home of a Chinese-American and the offices of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. The jurors could not decide if he was also responsible for firebombings at three other places.

September 13, 1994, Illinois: White supremacist Randall Scott Anderson pleads guilty to civil rights conspiracy charges stemming from the bombing of a roller rink frequented by blacks, as well as vandalism of a synagogue in 1992.

September 28, 1994, Washington: Tacoma resident Wayne Paul Wooten, Jr., is sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping to bomb a Seattle gay bar in 1993, as well as for other explosives and weapons charges. Wooten, a member of the World Church of the Creator, pled guilty in February. Also arrested at the time was Jeremiah Gordon Knesal and Mark Kowalski. Kowalski was sentenced in January to nearly 12 years in prison for a bombing of an NAACP office, while Knesal was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison.

December 13, 1994, Illinois: Skinhead Randall Scott Anderson, who threw a pipe bomb into a roller rink frequented by blacks in 1992, is sentenced to nine years in prison. Two other accomplices, both juveniles who cooperated with authorities, are sentenced to a few months in jail.

December 14, 1994, California: In Sacramento, white supremacist Richard Campos is convicted on all counts, including attempted murder, for a series of firebombings against minority targets. A previous trial had resulted in jury deadlock on the most serious charges. Campos can receive up to eighteen years in prison.

March 30, 1995, Nevada: A bomb explodes outside the Carson City office of the U.S. Forest Service, while a second bomb explodes at a Humboldt National Forest campground on the other side of the state. Three days later, the headquarters office for the Toiyabe National Forest is closed after officials receive a bomb threat.

April 13, 1995, Florida: A bomb explodes in Jacksonville, Florida, in front of a tax collector's office but next to an abortion clinic; authorities are not sure which building was the target of the bombing.

February 20, Georgia: Three Georgia militia members receive stiff sentences for their roles in a conspiracy to build pipe bombs for use against the federal government. Bob Starr is given 8 years, one month; while James McCranie and Troy Spain are sentenced to six ½ years in prison each.

March 13, Washington, Idaho: FBI agents arrest a fourth suspect, Brian Ratigan, in the Spokane bombings, about the same time as the prosecution rests in the trial of three other suspects.

March 13, Oklahoma: Former Tulsa opera singer Carol Elizabeth Howe is indicted in Federal court in Tulsa, accused of willfully making a bomb threat, possession of a non-registered destructive device and conspiracy. James Dodson Viefhous, already in custody, is also indicted. The two are founders and members of the National Socialist Alliance of Oklahoma, as well as part of the Aryan Intelligence Network. They left a message on this phone network that bombs would be detonated in 15 US cities unless action was taken by December 15 by "white warriors" against the government of the U.S.

March 19, Arizona: Six members of the Arizona Viper Militia are sentenced to jail terms for conspiracy to make bombs. The longest sentence is nine years. All had pled guilty. The number eventually increases to 10 who plead guilty. Two do not and will go to trial.

March 30, Michigan: Kalamazoo, Michigan, militia member Brendon Blasz is arrested and indicted on suspicion of making pipe bombs and other illegal explosives. Blasz and his "small militia band" planned to bomb the federal building in Battle Creek, an IRS building, a television station and federal armies, according to an affidavit by an informant. The Michigan Militia claims to have expelled them in 1995.

April 2, Washington, Idaho: The jury hearing Spokane bank bandits case convicts the three defendants on illegal weapons charges and stolen vehicle charges, but deadlocks on the more serious bank robbery and bombing charges when a sole jury member, sympathetic to the right-wing extremists, refuses to convict.

April 23, Texas: The FBI arrests three men and one woman for planning a bomb attack on a gas refinery northwest of Fort Worth. The planned bombing was to divert attention from an armored car robbery that would finance their extremist activities. The suspects have Klan ties.

April 23, California: White supremacist Todd Vanbiber of Winter Park is injured while making a pipe bomb; the weapon blows up in his face. Investigating authorities find materials linking Vanbiber to the neo-Nazi National Alliance, as well as 14 unexploded pipe bombs.

May 1, New York: Bronx-area extremist blows his hand off in his apartment booby-trapped with homemade bombs. The man, John Saperstein, an unemployed construction worker, had at least five bombs in his apartment. Neighbors indicated that Saperstein talked a lot about the "Patriots of America" and the militia.

May 1, Colorado: Federal agents arrest Colorado militia leader Ron Cole (the "Colorado First Light Infantry") and two other militia members on weapons charges in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado. Authorities seize weapons and explosives materials. Ron Cole, who claims to be a militant Branch Davidian, has been one of the more vocal militia leaders in recent months. Police find six fully automatic AK-47 rifles, three land mines, 75 pounds of rocket fuel, a pipe bomb, and much ammunition.

May 2, Washington: Richard Frank Burton, who pled guilty to possessing pipe bombs and other charges in connection with the Washington militia/freemen bombmaking conspiracy, is sentenced to 46 months in prison.

May 3, Texas: Most of the remaining Republic of Texas members surrender to authorities. Richard McLaren, his wife Evelyn, and three followers (Richard Otto, Greg and Karen Paulson), walk out of their hideout after signing a "cease-fire" agreement with Texas Rangers. Two members, Richard Keys and Mike Matson, decided not to surrender and fled into the Davis Mountains. Authorities began a search with bloodhounds, helicopters, and troopers on horseback. Police find more than 60 pipe bombs at the "embassy."

May 17, Oregon: Portland, Oregon, area resident James Bell, active in militia and common law court groups, is arrested by the IRS for obstructing the IRS. Among other things, Bell devised a project called "Operation LocatIRS" to learn the home addresses of IRS employees in order to intimidate them. He is also suspected of having used a chemical called mercaptan in a March 16 stink-bombing of an IRS office. Bell is more well known for his Internet essay "Assassination Politics," which proposed a system of rewards for people who predict the deaths of government officials.

May 29, West Virginia: A "colonel" in the West Virginia Mountaineer Militia pleads guilty to making a bomb for other militia members who were plotting to bomb an FBI fingerprint facility. Edward Moore is one of seven defendants in the case; he faces up to ten years in prison.

June 2, Oklahoma, Colorado: In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted for his role in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995. He is later given the death penalty.

June 12, West Virginia: The second of seven defendants, Jack Phillips, in the Mountaineer Militia case agrees to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to make bombs.

June 24, California: Todd Vanbiber, the Orange County, California, man who blew himself up while constructing a pipe bomb (see above), pleads guilty to two federal explosives violations. Vanbiber was a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

October 14, Colorado, Kansas: Tom Newman pleads guilty to ten counts of possessing pipe bombs and his wife, Kimberly, pleads guilty to having knowledge of her husband's acts. The Wichita, Kansas, residents were part of a militia conspiracy to attack several U.S. military installations suspected of training UN troops.

October 16, Oklahoma: White supremacist James Viefhaus, Jr., receives a three year prison sentence on conspiracy and bomb-making charges in connection with a plot to bomb fifteen U.S. cities.

October 29, Washington: Verne Jay Merrell, leader of the white supremacists who committed armed robberies and bombings in the Spokane area in 1996, allegedly as Phineas Priests, receives a sentence of two consecutive life terms, plus an additional sixty-four years.

November 4, Washington: Two more of the white supremacists convicted on armed robbery and bomb charges in connection with alleged Phineas Priest actions receive life sentence terms. Charles Barbee and Robert Berry each receive two consecutive life terms.

December 2, Washington: Brian Ratigan receives a sentence of 55 years for his role in the bombing and robbery spree by a group of white supremacists alleged to be Phineas Priests. Three other men received multiple life sentences earlier; the investigation is not yet closed.

December 12, Washington: Common law court activist James Dalton Bell, who wrote an Internet essay advocating rewarding people who assassinated government officials, receives a sentence of four months in jail and a multi-year probation for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and using false Social Security numbers. He pled guilty in July, admitting that he had collected the names and home addresses of IRS employees and planted a stink bomb at an IRS office.

December 23, Colorado, Oklahoma: In a controversial decision, a jury convicts Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry Nichols of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, but finds him not guilty of the actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, or destruction by explosive. The jury also opts for manslaughter convictions rather than second-degree murder convictions relating to the death of eight federal agents.

January 8, 1998, California: Jeffrey Allen Campbell and Justin Bertone, two alleged members of the white supremacist White Criminals on Dope are arrested on suspicion of having been behind the planting of 10 fake bombs in Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, targeting minority business owners. They are reportedly linked with "Peckerwood" skinhead gangs in southern California.

January 8, 1998, Nevada: Robert Storms, a Virginia City bartender and militia member, is convicted of selling illegal guns but acquitted of six counts of making and selling pipe bombs. Robert, his brother Kevin (a reserve deputy in Storey County), and former sheriff's deputy Griffith Evan Rausch, Jr., had been arrested on various weapons and bomb-making charges. Kevin Storms had previously pleaded guilty to machine guns and pipe bomb charges.

January 23, 1998, Texas: Three Ku Klux Klan members receive lengthy sentences for their role in a 1997 conspiracy to bomb a natural gas processing plant in north Texas to act as a diversion for an armored car robbery. Edward Taylor, Jr., receives 21 years and 10 months in prison and Shawn Dee Adams receives 14 years in prison. Carl Waskom, who pled guilty to conspiracy, receives a sentence of nine years and two months. A fourth defendant, Catherine Adams, awaits sentencing.

January 29, 1998, Texas: Ku Klux Klan member Catherine Dee Adams receives a sentence of 15 years for her role in a plot to bomb a natural gas processing plant (see above) in 1997.

January 29, 1998, Alabama: The New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, which performs abortions, is bombed, resulting in the death of a police off icer and the severe wounding of a clinic worker. The prime suspect, Eric Rudolph, becomes a much sought-after fugitive. Rudolph is alleged to be a white supr emacist with connections to the militia group Northpoint Tactical Teams. Despite a massive search, law enforcement authorities cannot locate Rudolph.

February 2, 1998, West Virginia: West Virginia "Mountaineer Militia" member James Rogers is sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a plot to bomb an FBI fingerprinting facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The former firefighter who provided copies of facility blueprints to other militia members is the first person sentenced under the 1994 anti-terrorism law. Prosecutors had recommended he serve the full ten years possible, but the judge said Rogers had had an exemplary record as a public servant before his arrest.

February 10, 1998, Wisconsin: White supremacist and militia member Merlon Lingenfelter is sentenced to two years and three months for possessing two machine guns. As part of a plea bargain, federal authorities agreed to dismiss a pipe bomb possession count. Lingenfelter was part of an unnamed militia group led by Bradley Glover which plotted to attack U.S. military bases suspected of training UN troops.

February 24, 1998, Illinois: Former Ku Klux Klan leader Dennis Michael McGiffen is one of three men charged with conspiracy to receive and possess machine guns and destructive devices as part of a wide-ranging plot to bomb public buildings across the country, rob banks, poison water supplies, and even to kill a federal judge and other people. Also charged are Wallace Scott Weicherding, a former prison guard, and Ralph P. Bock. McGiffen had quit the clan several years ago because it was not radical enough to suit him. McGiffen called his group "The New Order," after a 1980s white supremacist group which made headlines for its crimes of armed robbery, counterfeiting and murder.

March 7, 1998, Illinois: Self-proclaimed Aryan Nations member Donald Young, a Springfield, Illinois, resident, is arrested after a car chase in connection with a series of telephone bomb threats. Police find two explosive devices in his car and one on a convenience store parking lot; Young admits to planting a bomb at Casey's General Store. He is charged with possessing incendiary devices, fleeing from an officer and criminal damages to property; additional charges are possible.

March 14, 1998, Idaho: White supremacist Mathew Bracken of Sandpoint, Idaho, is arrested in western Washington while sleeping in a stolen car. He is jailed on suspicion of auto theft, possessing explosives and being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm. He had recently escaped from a Bonner County jail. He has an extensive criminal history, but police are not sure what he was planning to do with the bomb-making materials they found in the car.

March 16, 1998, Illinois, Ohio: Daniel Rick becomes the fifth person arrested in connection with a plot by the white supremacist group "The New Order" to carry out a campaign of armed robberies, assassinations, bombings and other crimes. He is held on felony charges of illegally possessing a machine gun and related weapons charges.

April 22, 1998, California: Two alleged white supremacists plead no contest to drug charges and hate crimes involving bomb threats and a shooting. Jeffrey Allen Campbell agrees to a 15 year prison sentence and Justin Nicholas Bertone to a seven year sentence. The two planted fake bombs in southern California in 1997 and made other bomb threats. The two are allegedly part of a white supremacist gang called White Criminals on Dope.

April 27, 1998, Illinois: Dennis McGiffen, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan in southern Illinois, pleads guilty to federal firearms charges in an agreement in which the U.S. government stated that it would file no more charges "for crimes now known to the government." McGiffen was alleged to have been involved in a white supremacist group called the New Order that plotted to commit bombings, robberies and other acts of terror.

May 7, 1998, Florida: Three Florida white supremacists, Brian Pickett, Christopher Norris, and Deena Wanzie, are charged with various conspiracy, bank robbery, explosives and weapons charges in connection with a plot to set bombs as diversions while they committed bank robberies. The plot was exposed when a fourth member, Todd Vanbiber, injured himself when one of his bombs exploded in 1997. Two members of the group were also members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Pickett and Vanbiber are also accused of having robbed a Danbury bank in February 1997.

May 12, 1998, Michigan: Traverse City police sergeant Dennis Finch is murdered as he tries to calm down an agitated man waving an assault rifle and a pistol, claiming that Traverse City was the capital of the New World Order. After John Charles Clark kills Finch, he barricades himself in his home with more than 100 guns, grenades and pipe bombs. After a nine hour standoff he is arrested after being shot. Clark also reportedly had a fallout shelter in his basement.

May 14, 1998, Washington: Police seize an arsenal of more than 70 pipe bombs, as well as machine guns and hand grenades, from Gregory McCrea, a suspected child rapist. McCrea is suspected of having ties to militia or other extremist groups.

May 14, 1998, California: Jeffrey Allen Campbell is sentenced to 15 years and Justin Nicholas Bertone to seven years in prison for their role in planting fake bombs and other crimes to intimidate minorities (see above).

May 15, 1998, Illinois: Karl Schave, associated with members of the white supremacist group "The New Order," pleads guilty to possessing a bomb made of plastic explosives. Schave had agreed to supply other members with explosives, equipment and a safe house.

May 29, 1998, Illinois: Daniel Rick pleads guilty to three charges involving selling a machine gun to members of "the New Order," which allegedly planned a campaign of assassinations, robberies and bombings. Rick is the fourth member to plead guilty in connection with the group; a fifth entered a not guilty plea and will face trial.

May 29, 1998, Colorado, Utah: Three survivalists with ties to militia and patriot groups murder a Cortez, Colorado, police officer who discovered their attempt to steal a water truck. This murder--as well as subsequent shootings during their attempt to escape and the discovery of pipe bombs among their belongings--sparks a huge manhunt in remote southeastern Utah for the fugitives. One suspect, Robert Mason, soon kills himself as searchers close in on his location. However, the other two, Alan Pilon and James McVean, elude hundreds of searching law enforcement officers.

June 5, 1998, Colorado: Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols receives a life sentence for his role in the terrorist attack.

June 10, 1998, Mississippi: Deavours Nix, a 72 year old former Ku Klux Klan member convicted of a 1966 firebombing attack, is sent to prison. Two weeks earlier he had claimed to be too ill to be jailed for the attack, which killed one person. However, he was since spotted playing golf at a golf course.

June 10, 1998, Michigan: Redford Township resident Mark Gaydos is killed in a shootout with township police after a traffic stop confrontation. Gaydos was pulled over for not having a driver's license and told he would be arrested. He fled on foot and fired at police officers pursuing him, injuring one; they returned fire and killed him. Following the incident, police search his parents' home (where he lived) and discover an arsenal of guns, bullet-proof vests, 35,000 rounds of ammunition, a pipe bomb, an upside down flag with the words "Remember Waco" printed on it and other assorted paraphernalia. Also discovered during the search was evidence that suggested Gaydos had been the person who had harassed a state representative's reelection campaign in 1996, shooting up the official's campaign signs and placing them outside his campaign headquarters, as well as making harassing phone calls. The representative had refused to back a concealed carry law.

July 2, 1998, Alabama: A camouflaged gun man shoots at an armored car in West Blocton, Alabama, then sets off tear gas outside a bank. Authorities following the man into nearby woods discover the area is booby-trapped with four pipe bombs; they suspect the man was trying to lure authorities into the booby-trapped area. The armored car company has had three previous attacks on its cars since 1992, none solved. Local authorities suspect either a militia group or someon e with a vendetta against the armored car company. None of the cars were robbed.

July 7, 1998, Washington: White supremacists Chevie Kehoe and Danny Lee are indicted for an April 1996 pipe bombing of the Spokane City Hall, as part of their attempt to inspire a white revolution and establish an Aryan People's Republic. The indictment, expanded from an earlier one, now lists 57 separate crimes, including five murders. Faron Lovelace, on death row in Idaho, is an unindicted member of the conspiracy. Kirby Kehoe, father of Chevie, is also in the indictment. He is in prison on weapons charges. Another Kehoe son, Cheyne, and Kirby Kehoe's wife, Gloria, have cooperated with federal agents.

August 2, 1998, Indiana: A bomb-laden pickup truck is driven into the basement of a courthouse in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, but luckily does not explode. Authorities do not know who committed the bombing attempt, but suspect terrorism as a possible motive.

August 5, 1998, South Carolina: Horace King, Grand Dragon of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina apologizes for the 1995 burning of a black church (for which four Klansmen were jailed). The church had sued and in July won a judgement against King (for inciting his Klansmen to burn the church) of $15 million, and against Klan groups for an additional $23 million. King's apology is an attempt to convince the congregation not to collect damages against him.

August 11, 1998, Kentucky: White supremacist Daniel Koplitz pleads guilty to a single weapons charge (involving pipe bomb components) as part of a plea bargain in which he would avoid trial on charges of sending threats through the mail, conspiracy to violate people's civil rights and possession of an unregistered destructive device. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He and three other men were members of a white supremacist group called the White Aryan Legion, which shot at buildings and sent threatening letters to mixed-race couples.

August 18, 1998, Arizona: Carl Edward Johnson is arrested by the IRS on charges of threatening federal officials. Johnson was discovered to be the "brains" behind an Internet webpage soliciting the assassination of four federal officials. Johnson is also wanted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in connection with an attempted courthouse bombing. He holds dual citizenship. The webpage was an adaptation of a concept proposed by antigovernment extremist James Dalton Bell, in which people would be rewarded for killing public officials. Johnson claims that he is mentally ill.

August 25, 1998, Washington: Gregory L. McCrea is indicted on a federal firearms charge, being a felon in possession of a handgun, but is expected eventually to be charged with possessing machine guns, hand grenades, pipe bombs and nails dipped in a deadly chemical. State prosecutors, in a separate criminal case, seek to convict him on child rape charges. Other federal agencies are considering domestic terrorism and bomb-making charges (as well as child pornography charges). Investigators who searched his house and property in May found one of the largest seizures of illegal firearms and pipe bombs ever made in the region, taking days to haul away and dispose. Investigators say that he is a militia sympathizer and survivalist, but not a member of any particular group. The state charges alone can send him to jail for up to 598 months.

August 31, 1998, Illinois: Wallace Weicherding is convicted in federal court in East St. Louis of conspiracy to possess and make illegal firearms and destructive devices, as well as for possession of a machine gun. Weicherding is one of five members of a white supremacist group called the "New Order" arrested in connection with planned assassinations, bombings, and armed robberies. Four other men have pled guilty.

September 8, 1998, Colorado, Oklahoma: The Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, convicted in 1997 on eleven counts related to the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.

September 9, 1998, North Carolina: E. H. Hennis, a 75-year-old former Klan leader and resident of Guilford County, is jailed on contempt of court charges relating to his refusal to move 20 abandoned mobile homes from his property in a zoning dispute. Hennis had been creating a considerable stir in the county for his threatening words in connection with the confrontation. Hennis has three tons of ammonium nitrate on his farm and has made threats about making fertilizer bombs. The contempt charge comes from Hennis' refusal to show up for a court hearing regarding the dispute. Law enforcement officials later execute a search warrant on the property to find the ammonium nitrate, originally stored in a shed, but discover it has been been hidden or removed by friends of Hennis. They do discover dummy booby traps and effigies of his "enemies."

September 11, 1998, Illinois: Dennis McGiffen, head of the white supremacist group "The New Order" receives a seven year sentence on federal firearms charges in connection with his group's plans to commit assassinations, bombings and robberies (see above).

September 30, 1998, Oklahoma: Hoppy Heidelberg, a Blanchard horse breeder and conspiracy theorist who in 1996 was removed from the federal grand jury which indicted Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, on grounds that he spoke to a writer for a right-wing magazine about the case, announces he will create his own "citizen's grand jury" to meet and investigate the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The Oklahoma Attorney General's office warns Heidelberg to be aware of a new law making it a felony to act falsely in asserting authority of law. "Citizen's grand juries" were sometimes formed by Posse Comitatus groups back in the 1980s.

October 2, 1998, Illinois, Ohio: Daniel Rick of Leesburg, Ohio, is sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for selling a machine gun to a white supremacist group called the New Order, a group that plotted to commit bombings, bank robberies and terrorist acts to start a racial war.

October 2, 1998, North Carolina: Former Klan member E. H. Hennis is arrested for bringing a fake bomb to a county commission meeting and threatening commissioners that they could lose body parts in car explosions. Hennis is charged with causing a bomb hoax and a misdemeanor charge of communicating threats. Hennis, a retired demolitions engineer, had been waging a months-long battle with local authorities over zoning disputes, and had made references to blowing up buildings with the three tons of ammonium nitrate stored at his farm near Greensboro.

October 14, 1998, North Carolina, Georgia: Federal authorities file a criminal complaint against fugitive Eric Rudolph, suspected of having bombed a Birmingh am, Alabama, abortion clinic in January 1998, accusing him of also having committed the 1996 Olympic Centennial Park bombing and the 1997 bombings of an abor tion clinic and a lesbian bar, all in Atlanta, Georgia. Rudolph is believed to be hiding in his home state of North Carolina.

October 29, 1998, Florida: White supremacist Brian Donald Pickett pleads guilty to charges that he conspired to rob two Orlando banks and set off pipe bombs as diversions. Pickett, as well as two others, were implicated by the fourth member of their group, Todd Vanbiber, who had been previously arrested and convicted. Pickett and Vanbiber were members of the Neo-Nazi group The National Alliance; according to Vanbiber, they had previously committed three bank robberies in Tampa and Connecticut, then donated some of their takings to National Alliance chief William Pierce, author of the notorious novel, "The Turner Diaries."

November 5, 1998, Massachusetts: Abraham Forish of Easthampton, Massachusetts, is arrested after police respond to a report of a man firing automatic guns in his yard. Authorities discover a stockpile of weapons and ammunition, including a pipe bomb and a machine gun, and arrest him on bomb possession charges. Based on comments Forish made about Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, police conclude that he belongs to one or another extremist movements.

November 13, 1998, North Carolina: An unknown shooter fires multiple shots at the North Carolina headquarters for law enforcement officials searching for fugitive suspected bomber Eric Rudolph. The shots wound one agent slightly.

November 20, 1998, Florida: A Florida jury finds white supremacist Christopher Norris guilty on numerous charges relating to a plot to rob banks with pipe bombs for diversions. Norris is convicted of conspiring to rob a bank, making pipe bombs, possessing pipe bombs and conspiring to use and carry firearms during a planned robbery, charges that could send him to prison for life (see earlier entry for more details).

November 23, 1998, Illinois: Ralph Bock, member of a white supremacist group called The New Order which plotted a series of bombings and assassinations, receives a two-year sentence on weapons charges for his minor role in the plot.

December 1, 1998, Idaho: Federal and local police begin an investigation into a cross burning and fire bombing at the home of Lori Graves, an activist who protested against an Aryan Nations march in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, earlier in the year. Anyone convicted of the crime could face life in prison.

December 17, 1998, California: Authorities arresting Marc MacCleod, a felon from Sacramento wanted for a parole violation, discover two assault weapons and three pipe bombs in his Jeep. MacCleod is a member of a white supremacist gang known as the "Sacramento Skins."

December 30, 1998, Oklahoma: The Oklahoma County Grand Jury, investigating the Oklahoma City federal building bombing of April 19, 1995, for signs of a wider conspiracy than that involving McVeigh and Nichols, releases its report. Disappointing conspiracy buffs and anti-government activists, the report finds little evidence of a broader conspiracy.

January 10, 1999, Oklahoma: A sealed indictment from the Oklahoma grand jury investigating the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing is opened. The grand jury was created in order to explore the possibility that individuals other than Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were involved in the bombing. However, the single indictment is for David Hoffman, a right-wing journalist and conspiracy theorist, on jury tampering charges. Hoffman attempted to send copies of his book on the bombing, and explanatory material, to influence the grand jurors.

January 20, 1999, Maryland, Washington, D.C.: Walter Wilson Johnson, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, is arrested during the impeachment trial of President William Clinton by Capitol Police when an x-ray search of his bag reveals an 18-inch knife and two M-60 firecracker-like devices. Johnson's bag also reveals survivalist materials, a Soldier of Fortune magazine, and an article on the Oklahoma City bombing. Johnson is jailed without bond on charges of carrying a dangerous weapon and illegal explosives.

March 1, 1999, Arkansas: The trial of Chevie Kehoe and Danny Lee on racketeering charges related to murders and robberies committed in an attempt to set up an Aryan People's Republic begins in Little Rock, Arkansas. The complicated case, which already has seen countless hearings and related trials, is one of the most important extremist-related cases since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The trial is expected to take months.

March 13, 1999, North Carolina: An abortion clinic in Asheville, North Carolina, is bombed, creating speculation that extremist fugitive and alleged abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, believed to be in hiding in North Carolina, may have committed the crime. Authorities are initially skeptical.

March 24, 1999, New Mexico: An environmental group called the Forest Guardians receives a threatening letter from a group identifying itself as the 'Minutemen' just days after a pipe bomb was left at their office. The group had also been targeted for violence in 1998, when unknown assailants fired a shotgun at the offices.

April 14, Ohio, Kentucky: White supremacist Kale Kelly is arrested in southwest Ohio and charged with illegal possession of firearms as a convicted felon. The Aryan Nations member is suspected of having been involved in some sort of bomb plot, causing federal authorities to search the property of a Klan leader in Kentucky and to subpoena numerous members to appear before a grand jury.

May 4, 1999, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Washington, Idaho, Ohio: White supremacists Chevie Kehoe and Daniel Lee are convicted on racketeering, conspiracy and three murder charges, relating to their attempts to overthrow the federal government and set up an Aryan People's Republic in the Pacific Northwest. Their crimes included a bombing in Spokane, Washington, the murder of an Arkansas gun dealer, his wife, and their eight-year-old daughter in 1996, and two murders in Idaho. Kehoe's brother, Cheyne Kehoe, was also involved, but turned himself in and cooperated with authorities. He is serving a lengthy prison sentence.

May 7, 1999, Ohio: Aryan Nations member Kale Kelly pleads guilty to illegal possessions of firearms as a convicted felon, but backs out of a written plea agreement to cooperate with federal authorities investigating a possible bomb or assassination plot. He faces up to ten years in prison.

May 13, 1999, Colorado: Following a high-speed chase, police arrest anti-government extremist Jack Modig after authorities spotted him near the Denver-area Colorado Islamic Center. Modig had a numerous weapons and bomb-making materials in the car, leading police to suspect he was planning to destroy the Center. Modig is an active member of the common law court movement in Colorado. He is charged with possession of explosive devices, carrying concealed weapons, eluding a police vehicle and three counts of attempted vehicular assault.

May 20, 1999, Michigan: North American Militia member Kenneth Carter is sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a bombing plot. Carter had pled guilty in 1998 to conspiracy charged. His sentence is considered lenient because he cooperated with the government following his arrest.

June 10, 1999, Alabama: A plumber from Foley, Alabama, is arrested following his purchase of grenades from an undercover ATF agent. Chris Scott Gilliam, charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, told the agent he wanted to send mail bombs to Washington, D.C. Gilliam is a member of the neo-Nazi group The National Alliance.

July 8, 1999, Ohio: Sheriff's deputies from Geauga County arrest Jay Todd Webb, a white supremacist who had firebombed a school in 1992, on parole violations. Deputies find three firearms in his trailer and charge him with three felony counts of illegal possession of a firearm.

July 12, 1999, Washington: Gregory L. McCrea, a white supremacist whom authorities discovered upon his arrest had accumulated an incredibly large arsenal of machine guns, grenades, and pipe bombs, pleads guilty to firearms and child pornography charges. McCrea admitted to having had sexual conduct with as many as 1,000 children during his lifetime. The ten firearms charges and eleven child pornography charges will be added to a dozen state charges, including eleven counts of child rape, to which McCrea had already pled guilty. Under the plea bargain, he faces at least 25 years in prison.

July 19, 1999, Ohio: Daniel Justice, described by a Cincinnati newspaper as a 'survivalist,' is charged with terroristic threatening and wanton endangerment, after authorities discover a plan to blow up the Pendleton County courthouse. An informant told police that Justice, facing a court hearing for wanton endangerment after ramming a vehicle, planned to attack the courthouse and kill a judge. Authorities arrested Justice and found two pipe bombs in his sports utility vehicle. He is later also charged with criminal possession of a destructive device. Authorities claim that Justice had more than two pipe bombs, but others were hidden or destroyed by other individuals.

July 20, 1999, Arizona: A Tucson teenager is put under police guard at a hospital after blowing fingers off of his left hand when accidentally setting a bomb off in his home. Investigators found white supremacist literature and swastikas in his house. He is charged with five counts of endangerment and one count of manufacturing explosive devices.

August 30, 1999, California: The house of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jack Komar is firebombed, burning his porch. Three suspects, a 19-year-old, Victor Quintin Podbreger, and two 17-year-olds are arrested after one calls in to report the attack, claiming to be white supremacists. The alleged bombers apparently thought that Komar was Jewish. Podbreger is charged with possession of an incendiary device, manufacturing of an incendiary device, terrorism using an incendiary device against a person, attempted arson, and vandalism, with hate crime enhancements on the latter two counts. The juveniles were jailed on one count of vandalism each with hate crime enhancements, and conspiracy to commit arson.

August 31, 1999, Florida: A bomb explodes in a restroom in a Florida A&M University building, blowing a whole in the wall. In a call to a television station before the bomb goes off, a person claims responsibility, saying he wants to kill blacks. Florida A&M is that state's only historically black state university.

September 17, 1999, Nevada, Louisiana: Frank D. Alexander pleads guilty to having mailed bombs from Morgan, Louisiana, his home, to President William Clinton; to the Las Vegas office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and to San Antonio evangelist John Hagee. Two bombs exploded while in the care of the Postal Service, but no one was injured. A third was recovered at a Greyhound bus terminal. Alexander was charged with attempted murder, mailing injurious articles and use of a firearm in a crime of violence. Alexander told investigators he admired Timothy McVeigh and Theodore Kaczynski.

October 1, 1999, Florida: Lawrence Michael Lombardi of Tallahassee, Florida, is arrested on suspicion of having committed two bombings at the historically black Florida A&M University. Lombardi, who admits to FBI agents that he was the one who called in messages about the bombing filled with racial slurs, is arrested after police are tipped off by callers who recognized Lombardi buying pipes on a hardware store surveillance tape. Lombardi pleads not guilty to two charges of making an unregistered weapon; prosecutors expect to file additional charges against him.

October 6, 1999, Oklahoma, Arizona: Michael Fortier, an associate of Timothy McVeigh, is sentenced to twelve years in prison for not informing authorities of the plans to bomb the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Fortier cooperated with authorities after being arrested following the April 19, 1995 bombing.

November 2, 1999, Connecticut: In Norfolk, Connecticut, an attempt to firebomb the Congregation Beth El synagogue is prevented when someone spotted the two men attempting the deed. Two Molotov cocktails are recovered, but police are unable to make any arrests.

November 2, 1999, Arizona: In Kingman, Arizona, Wayne Eugene Brashear is arrested for possession of chemicals and equipment for manufacturing methamphetamine, and possession of weapons in a drug offense. Police searching the extremist's home as part of an ongoing drug investigation discovered two and a half pounds of C-4 explosive, a hand grenade, and other bomb-making materials, as well as a number of guns.

November 4, 1999, North Carolina: Robert David Guffey and son Anthony Ray Guffey, both of Rutherford County, are arrested after police find homemade pipe bombs, stolen property, and drugs while searching their house. Police also find a collection of Ku Klux Klan material.

December 6, 1999, Nevada: Four white supremacists are arrested in Reno, and warrants issued for two others, following a firebombing of a Jewish synagogue. Arrested are Christopher Hampton, Scott Hudson, Joshua Kudlacek and an unnamed juvenile woman. Warrants are also out for Daniel McIntosh and Carl DeAmicus. The suspects range in age from 17 to 39. The synagogue, Temple Emanu El, had been attacked twice before in 1999, although in apparently unrelated incidents.

December 8, 1999, Nevada, California: White supremacists Daniel McIntosh and Carl DeAmicis are arrested near Sacramento. They are suspected of having been among six people who firebombed a Jewish synagogue in Reno, Nevada (see above).

December 31, 1999, California: Sacramento County sheriff's deputies arrest two white supremacists following the discovery of a cache of pipe bombs. Arrested are Gary Drake and Brian Hogan. Police responding to a nuisance call found thirteen pipe bombs in the home of Drake's father. Nearly ten years ago, both men were convicted in a firebombing of a high school football stadium and a building across the street from it. Drake is reportedly a member of the Peckerwoods, a white supremacist group with prison gang ties, while Hogan is suspected of being a follower of the group.

January 3, 2000, Tennessee: Nashville tax protester Rodney Lynn Randolph receives a four-year prison sentence on weapons charges. Randolph, whose house was foreclosed on in 1998 when he stopped paying on his bank loans, resisted an order to vacate the premises. A trespassing charge was filed against him; while searching his home, police found an arsenal of weapons that included a hand grenade, bomb-making materials, and automatic weapons parts, as well as blueprints for silencers, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, and a .50-caliber "anti-tank" weapon. Randolph claimed he was not subject to U.S. laws, but eventually pled guilty.

January 5, 2000, North Carolina: Retired demolitions expert and Ku Klux Klan leader E. H. Hennis receives a suspended sentence of eight to ten months and supervised probation for three years following his conviction on charges of using a fake bomb in a hoax. Hennis, who has had a long record of confrontations with authorities, appeared at an October 1998 Guilford County commissioners meeting with a fake bomb and told commissioners that: ''My way of getting you, you won't be carried off in stretchers. And I'm not making a threat, I'm just telling you facts. Your body parts can be picked up and put in a body bag.''

January 15, 2000, Alabama: White supremacist Chris Scott Gilliam is sentenced to ten years in prison without parole. Gilliam had earlier pled guilty to federal firearms charges stemming from the purchase of ten hand grenades. Following his arrest, authorities turned up a rifle with a silencer, bomb-making instructions, and National Alliance and other white supremacist literature. Supposedly Gilliam wanted to send the grenades as mail bombs to unspecified targets in Washington, D.C.

February 9, 2000, Georgia: A Cartersville, Georgia, couple, Walter and Barbara Andersen, and their son Troy are arrested on federal charges of possession of narcotics with intent to distribute, possession of firearms during the commission of a drug crime, and possession of unregistered silencers. Following the interception of a shipment of steroids to their house, officers searched the residence and found drugs, a large number of weapons and silencers, bomb-making materials, and white supremacist literature.

March 2, 2000, North Carolina: Eddie Dewayne Carringer is arrested and charged with assault and attempted murder of a federal officer in the performance of his duties. Carringer allegedly in November 1998 fired on the Southeast Bomb Task Force command post in Andrews, North Carolina, that was searching for suspected bomber Eric Rudolph. Later indicted on the same charges is Wayne Henry Burchfield.

March 13, 2000, Nevada: A 17-year-old girl is sentenced to the Nevada juvenile correctional facility after pleading guilty to first-degree arson, manufacturing an explosive device, and using an explosive device to damage property, in connection with a November 1998 firebombing of a synagogue in Reno. Six others-five men and another female teen-have also been arrested.

March 17, 2000, California, Nevada, Idaho: Three anti-government activists are arrested in Death Valley, California, following a standoff and gunfight. Arre sted are Lloyd Burrus and Cheryl Maarteuse of Downey, Idaho, and Jeffrey Burns, of Emeryville, California. The incident began when a Nevada Highway Patrol o fficer stopped the three in their vehicle. The driver fired at the officer, then they fled. A Nye County, Nevada, sheriff's deputy tried to stop them, but was also fired upon. They then fired at a pursuing California Highway Patrol officer. Their vehicle got stuck in Death Valley National Park, so they left i t for a fortified bunker, from which they shot down a California Highway Patrol helicopter. A standoff ensued, but they surrendered just before midnight. S earching their vehicle, police find a variety of weapons and ammunition, as well as "reams of anti-government and anti-police literature." They face a varie ty of federal and state charges that include attempted murder of law enforcement officers.

March 22, 2000, Washington, D.C.: Anthony Premo is arrested at the Pentagon after claiming to be an Immigration and Naturalization Service agent at a traffic stop. Guns, black powder and books on booby traps are discovered in his car; police later search his hotel room and find more weapons, ammunition boxes, canisters of black powder, cannon fuse, fireworks, books about bombs and other items. When arrested, Premo was wearing a jacket bearing the emblem of the Hammerskins, the largest skinhead group in the United States. Ironically, Premo was going to begin work the next week as a Defense Protective Services police officer.

March 24, 2000, Nevada: An amended indictment is filed by a federal grand jury against five skinheads accused of attempting to firebomb a Reno synagogue. In addition to the bomb charges already filed against Scott Hudson, Christopher Hampton, Carl DeAmicis, Daniel McIntosh and Joshua Kudlacek, two more charges are added: conspiracy against the rights of citizens and damage to religious property.

March 30, 2000, New York: Police arrest Michael Sagginario after a search of his home in Queens turns up an assault rifle, silencers, ammunition, a bomb-making book, and a variety of white supremacist literature, including the "National Alliance Hand Book" and audio tapes of The Turner Diaries. Sagginario, a convicted felon, is charged with criminal weapons possession.

April 4, 2000, California: Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams are charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, destruction of religious property and use of fire to commit a felony in connection with the firebombing of an abortion clinic and arsons at three Sacramento synagogues in the summer of 1999. The white supremacist brothers had already been charged with killing a gay couple.

April 5, 2000, Oklahoma: John Lee Haney receives a sentence of 33 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing machine guns that he had built in order to "test the constitutionality of gun laws." At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors bring forward testimony accusing him of having participated in a plot to bomb the Oklahoma City office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. During his trial, prosecutors had also alleged that he had made threats against federal agents and federal judges. Haney denied all such charges.

April 6, 2000, South Carolina: Jimmy Kris Crawford of Bishopville, South Carolina, is charged with criminal conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allegedly masterminding attacks on black churches, including a firebombing of an African Methodist Episcopal church. According to authorities, Crawford provided encouragement and materials for the attacks, which were conducted by teenagers, including Bryan Alan Carraway, 18, and a 15-year old minor. Allegedly Crawford was trying to start a Ku Klux Klan group to be called the South Carolina Ghost Riders.

April 18, 2000, Michigan: Curt Clark, a teenage member of a white supremacist group known as the Iron Cross in Flint, Michigan, pleads guilty in a plea bargain to one charge of bombmaking. He and several high school classmates built a bomb with instructions downloaded from the Internet and placed it in their school in August 1999, but the bomb failed to detonate. Also charged are John N. Dubuis and Jason Robert Lee Montney. As part of the agreement, Clark will testify against them.

April 26, 2000, Pennsylvania: Survivalist and anti-government activist Peter Kazlouski kills himself after setting his apartment on fire hours before he was scheduled to appear at an eviction hearing. Authorities find an arsenal of rifles, handguns, and small homemade bombs in the apartment.

June 9, 2000, North Carolina: Jacob Wayne Stull receives a four and a half year sentence after pleading guilty to charges relating to a 1998 incident in which he fired at least ten shots into the mobile home of a black family in a white neighborhood. Following the shooting, police found bomb-making materials, automatic weapons and Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia in his home.

June 23, 2000, Florida: White supremacist Lawrence Lombardi is convicted in Tallahassee, Florida, of two bombings in 1999 at Florida A&M University, a historically black university. Lombardi faces up to life in prison.

I will add that what you see here are only a small subset of the right wing terrorism on US soil involving bombs, and a much smaller subset of the totality of right wing terrorism. I will also add that ALL reporting of such incidents from the Government ended in Jaunary of 2001, and most press reports as well. These people didn't have an epiphany, the Government and Press (probably under the well-known threat of being cut off from Government-related stories) were ordered to stop reporting it.

oh, and you might notice that given a lot of the few bomb incidents (and there are many more of the type) involving doctors and clinics, make it appear that the Republicans firmly believe in Terrorism, and will openly reward it

If the Republicans need this framework to catch terrorists, where is the proof that they are using it for that purpose? You will notice that when Clinton went after doemstic terrorists (above list) that reporting success was not seen as a security risk. On the other hand, we have more than ample stories of this new framework being used for solely for the political harrassment of opponents to GOP policy, and absolutely no proof otherwise.

What we have here is a Criminal Conspiracy in which the Republicans in Congress, and a few members of the DLC, are willing participants! The proof, my friends, is in the rancid pudding!

Hey, Pat! Why are you wearing that blue dress? Are you having sexual relations with George Walker Bush?

The lack of willingness to find Mr. Anthrax (the only person or group that has ever used biological warfare agents against US Citizens on US soil)?  Could it be simply because the targets were all Democrats and one moderate Republican Governor who the Right had been openly calling a "Liberal" (I and I disagree with that assessment of him)?

Who are the traditional Anthrax terrorists in the USA?

The answer is simple!  Again only a tiny subset of such incidents:

 February 28, 1995, Minnesota: Douglas Baker and Leroy Wheeler, members of the anti-government Minnesota Patriots Council, are convicted of possessing a deadly poison as a biological weapon.  The two manufactured quantities of ricin, an extremely deadly biological poison.  Other members of their group are alleged to have plotted to use the ricin against perceived enemies (Democrats, Blacks, and Jews, specifically.

February 19, 1998, Nevada: Two men, William Leavitt and white supremacist Larry Wayne Harris, are jailed on charges of possessing anthrax in a much-publicized arrest. The substance turns out to be a harmless anthrax vaccine (although Harris will be found guilty of minor probation violations).

August 18, 1998, Kansas: Two hundred people are evacuated from a state office building in Wichita after a substance claimed to be anthrax (it was not) is discovered in an envelope in a stairwell and on elevator control panels. An accompanying note claims the substance is anthrax. Later, a Wichita television station will receive a letter claiming the substance had been left by a group calling itself "The Brothers for the Freedom of Americans and the Christian Identity Movement."

November 5, 1999, Florida, Colorado: James Kenneth Gluck is arrested in Tampa, Florida, for threatening Colorado judges.  Searching his home, police find the materials needed to make ricin, one of the most deadly biological poisons known.  Gluck wrote a letter to a Colorado Court of appeals judge, threatening to wage biological warfare on a county justice center.  He is held without bail on a charge of communicating threats against court officers.

 
In the interest of bevity I limited it to just four representative samples, but keep in mind, the number of such incidents number in the thousands.  For a really nice listing, call Planned Parenthood and the IRS.