by wmfinck » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:14 pm
I do not know any of the players, and when all of this went down in the early 1990's I was not even cognizant of Christian Identity, and knew very little about any aspect of the Christian Patriot movement.
However a brief survey of the literature describing the Aryan Republican Army and the events of that time persuades me to think it highly probable that Scott Stedford and others at Elohim City were both influenced and then led to the slaughter by agent provocateurs.
If they were agent provocateurs, as some of them were clearly in bed with the feds, then they were not traitors or brethren at all.
But whether my estimation is accurate or not is immaterial.
If ten or so men wanted to get hold of a mere $250,000 (which is what they may have netted from their alleged 22 bank robberies) to support Christian Identity and related causes, then they would have been much more successful if they had gotten jobs and tithed whatever they did not need to support themselves.
Being dead or in prison for committing senseless acts is not at all helpful to the rest of the brethren. Playing Phinehas priest for all of the wrong reasons, neither can one expect to please the God of Vengeance.
If a jew is moving his lips, he's lying. If you see a rabbi, there has already been a crime!