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10/10/99
This piece below which Dave posted disturbs me. It may be true that the
military helped take Kohl out, but that is not what I take issue with.
My problem is with the tone of the article which presents Kahl as some
kind of martyr/hero type. He was not. He was a white supremacist, a member
of the Posse Comitadas, and had ties to The Order who were the most violent
terrorist group at the time. Many of the folks who hid him were Christian
Identity types. He came to the Missouri/Arkansas border region because the
Ozarks had pockets of these types living in secluded communities like the CSA
compound in Arkansas where members of The Order came to train.
How do I know all this? Because I lived in the area at the time. A member of
The Order had killed a State Trooper around the same time, and others were
being sought after having been flushed from the CSA compound.
The Feds went after Kahl because of who he was. Not because he didn't pay
taxes. They did the same with Al Capone.
This is simply anti-government propaganda put out by " Patriots." In my
experience, I have found very little of their stuff to be honest or reliable.
Joshua2
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Dave wrote:
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> Dave Hartley
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> http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
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> http://www.l0pht.com/pub/blackcrwl/patriot/gordon_kahl.txt
> In the Year 2193 Historians will teach the children of that time that this
> man
> was one of the first precursor fatalities of the Second American War for
> Independence (which was not "officially" acknowledged until September 17,
> 1997,
> now known in retrospect as "Judgement Day"). But the majority of Americans
> living today would draw a blank if his name were mentioned in casual
> conversation.
>
> THE UNCENSORED GORDON KAHL STORY
> ��������������������������������
>
> In 1968, Tax Protestor Gordon Kahl stopped filing IRS 1040 Income Tax
> Returns. For 9 years thereafter, the IRS ignored him, but in 1977 after
> Gordon
> Kahl spoke on an evening radio talk show regarding the illicitness of the
> income
> tax, some 250 phone calls would come into the radio station over the next
> two
> days; either supporting Kahl in some aspect, or pledging never to file
> another
> tax return.
>
> And with that, the IRS came down on Kahl like a ton of bricks. They
> quickly assembled a case against him and two weeks later threw a criminal
> prosecution against him for violating Title 26, Section 7203 ["Willful
> Failure
> to File"]. Gordon Kahl was a low-income farmer not even meeting minimal
> statutory standards for threshold income levels achieved before being
> required
> to file 1040s, but that was not about to stop the IRS, who is good at
> changing
> the facts by creating facts.
>
> Convicted and incarcerated, when out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
> on parole, Kahl left the Texas judicial district he was confined to by
> claiming
> that some aspect of the Restriction Orders was defective. He soon moved to
> North Dakota -- and there, he met his fate. A criminal Summons issued from a
> Federal Court in Midland, Texas was served on Gordon Kahl on August 8, 1980,
> charging him with a misdemeansor. Gordon Kahl responded by informing the
> Court
> that he would not be appearing, and the matter was allowed to be deferred
> until
> March 31, 1982, when the Justice Department obtained a Federal Arrest
> Warrant
> citing his parole violation.
>
> Then, that Warrant was held up again until July 26, 1982, some 16 months
> later, when it was sent to the U.S. Marshals Office in Fargo, North Dakota
> on
> February 13, 1983. The United States Marshals and the Federal Court in Texas
> knew of his whereabouts in North Dakota at all times. After a two and one
> half
> year delay in the case, the fact that there was a "problem" controlling the
> prosecution of the case is self-evident.
>
> If that chronology had been published in the New York Times in the
> context of discussing some other unfortunate incident that had happened, it
> would be referred to, very defensively of the Government of course, as mere
> "bureaucratic bungling," in an attempt to discredit the obvious
> interposition of
> the "Lateness of the Hour" operating against the Government to bar the
> legitimacy of their management of the case.
>
> Once again Gordon Kahl had attracted the attention of the United States
> Government. With the personality known as Ronald Reagan acquiescing
> indifferently as President, and with William French Smith sitting as
> Attorney
> General, the word came down the pipeline to GET RID OF GORDON KAHL, and the
> stage was set for the kind of confrontation the Feds wanted.
>
> A violent attack was planned against Gordon Kahl at his farmhouse, and it
> was going to be well publicized. The attack would be in the form of a
> roadblock, it would be in the evening hours, and it would occur in a remote
> rural area. The timing of the attack in February of 1983 was selected to
> coincide with the trials of other related criminal prosecutions then going
> on
> that would be favorably tipped towards the Government, as the Juries were
> exposed to what would be surfacing visibly on the news as the Gordon Kahl
> "incident."
>
> From his farm in Heaton, North Dakota, both Gordon Kahl, along with his
> neighbors, and the Chief of Police of Medina, North Dakota, Darrell Graff,
> all
> had received several advanced notices that the United States Marshals were
> planning a very unpleasant reception for Gordon Kahl, and in the case of
> Darrell
> Graff, he was told bluntly to stay out of it.
>
> Rather than meet his adversaries face-to-face to settle the grievance at
> that lower level, Gordon Kahl improvidently ignored the gathering storm and
> tossed aside the Warrant, thus giving his adversaries the benefit of
> intensifying the impending confrontation into an elevated status -- a level
> that
> originates out of the barrel of a gun, where the Feds were quite likely to
> prevail. Although that did not give the United States Marshals the right to
> come out first and shoot Kahl, it does however require that other people in
> difficult positions with juristic authorities facing contemplated
> extermination
> itself, should not replicate Gordon Kahl's modus operandi.
>
> On the 14th of February, 1983, Gordon Kahl, accompanied by his wife and
> son Yori, left a meeting in a Medina, North Dakota commercial district and
> headed home. Gordon Kahl was under surveillance and he knew it. He could
> have
> been picked up at the meeting, but the Feds had a surprise for him and
> wanted
> the remoteness of a rural environment. His son Yori detected something
> adverse
> and dangerous in the air, and so he took his father's jacket and cap and
> wore
> those on himself on the ride home that afternoon.
>
> Not far from his farmhouse a roadblock had been set up by U.S. Marshal
> Kenneth Muir. It was a very unusual roadblock in that it had an ambulance
> and
> firetruck waiting there. Yes, there was going to be some trouble. The
> Marshal
> had not come to arrest, but to murder. Bringing neither the Arrest Warrant,
> nor
> any identification, Deputy Muir brought his gun and orders to terminate
> Gordon
> Kahl.
>
> Arriving at the roadblock, Gordon's son, Yori Kahl, fled the pickup truck
> and ran to a nearby telephone pole for cover. Thinking that Yori was his dad
> Gordon, Marshal Muir opened the shooting by firing several shots at Yori.
> Yori
> did not fall to the ground quick enough to satisfy the killer Marshal, so
> Marshal Muir kept on shooting until Yori fell. After spending a while at the
> hospital, Yori Kahl would actually survive to be charged with murder, and
> later
> convicted by a jury in a Star Chamber that was highly pressured by the U.S.
> Marshals and had numerous other fatal irregularities that would never
> survive
> reversal on appeal.
>
> Back at the evening roadblock, after seeing his own son cut down by
> Marshal Muir, Gordon Kahl grabbed a gun and let Marshal Muir have it,
> killing
> him and Deputy Marshal Robert Chesire. Injured was Deputy Marshal James
> Hopson.
> Staying in the background, looking at all of this shooting and profanity
> being
> thrown about, was Chief Darrell Graff of the Medina Police Department, who
> was
> told in advance that Kahl was going to buy the farm, and that he was to stay
> out
> of it. Gordon went over to the telephone pole, dragged his son Yori, white
> with
> blood loss and bleeding profusely, over to an unmarked police car, drove him
> to
> a hospital back in Medina, and then as a thick fog quickly settled in on the
> Fargo countryside, Gordon Kahl sped away into the night.
>
> Soon, a swarm of military stormtroopers descended on Fargo, in military
> clothing and using military trucks [see Time Magazine ["Dakota Dragnet"],
> page
> 25 (February 28, 1983)]. They were on search and destroy orders. Gordon Kahl
> was immediately placed on the FBI's ten most wanted list, and was the
> subject of
> the most intensive fugitive search in the history of the FBI. It was a
> massive
> operation.
>
> A tight clampdown was put out in North Dakota, accompanied with extensive
> random stops of motor vehicles, but nothing ever turned up. For Gordon Kahl,
> thousands of armed forces were called into search the surrounding North
> Dakota
> countryside. Every available private bounty hunter known to the FBI was
> hired
> and put on the case, but fugitive Gordon Kahl slipped through it all.
>
> In comparison to what they can do when they feel like it, it is
> worthwhile noting how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI never showed any such
> interest
> in capturing unknown fleeing killers when President Kennedy was shot in
> Dallas.
> No roadblocks, no dragnets, no manhunts, no searching -- nothing but CIA
> agents
> carrying Secret Service credentials restraining people from approaching the
> grassy knoll for about 10 minutes.
>
> For the next three months, Gordon Kahl had found a home with some
> friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, and a Mr. Russell, who kept moving him quietly
> from house to house. It was rather obvious to anyone that if he was ever
> found,
> he would be killed immediately.
>
> In time, Mr. Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson, noticed that
> her father was hiding Gordon Kahl. Possessed with First Person evidence ["I
> saw...," "I heard..."], she in turn went to the FBI and spilled the beans.
> She
> was given $25,000 and the promise of immunity from prosecution [see the New
> York
> Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19, 1983)].
>
> The rural house where Gordon Kahl was staying was placed under FBI
> surveillance; but the results were inconclusive. On the morning of June 4th,
> a
> special FBI team of animals and savage killers [which is no exaggeration],
> known
> as the Delta Force, left their home base in Washington, D.C. and flew into
> Lawrence County, Arkansas on a private FBI jet. There, they were met by
> local
> FBI agents, other FBI agents, the Arkansas State Police, the Sheriff of
> Lawrence
> County, Arkansas, his deputies, and a confluence of United States Marshals
> assembled from across the country. Several Marshals invited to the Kahl
> execution operation arrived too late and missed it.
>
> Later in the afternoon, it all began. The quiet, isolated and remote
> house was cordoned off, roadblocks were set up, and all without Gordon Kahl
> detecting anything amiss. Soon that afternoon, Mr. Ginter left the house
> alone
> and he was stopped down the road. He claimed his wife, Norma Ginter, was in
> the
> house alone. Now, the house where Gordon Kahl was living was more closely
> surrounded, and Sheriff Gene Matthews went to the front door to remove Mrs.
> Ginter from the scene.
>
> With her out of the way, the FBI started open shooting, and saturated the
> house with bullets; but the earth shelter house was made with concrete walls
> and
> Gordon Kahl survived through it all without a scratch. The 36 year old local
> Sheriff, Gene Matthews, was killed incidental to the FBI siege on the Gordon
> Kahl hideout.
>
> After a while, as the firing stopped, the FBI cordoned off the house for
> themselves while the Delta Force animals converged on the house like starved
> panthers going for a piece of meat. They found Gordon Kahl alive and well
> inside the home, hiding behind the refrigerator. He was taken to the living
> room, thrown on the floor, and was worked over with the butt end of their
> rifles. While numerous bones were being fractured and his teeth were being
> smashed in, other members of Delta Force went on a rampage in the house,
> smashing pictures and the television set, over-turning furniture, a copier,
> and
> taking a fireman's axe and chopping up a bookshelf.
>
> While Gordon Kahl was pinned to the floor by the 6 to 8 Delta Force
> panthers, still under attack from the gun butts, the FBI agent with the
> fireman's axe turned to Gordon Kahl himself and chopped off his hand. Then
> he
> went around and chopped off Gordon Kahl's other hand, and then both of his
> feet
> were severed. While screaming with pain and with blood gushing out profusely
> over the floor where his hands and feet used to be, Gordon Kahl was shot in
> the
> head at close range, killing him.
>
> A local Deputy Sheriff was given the honor of removing the bullet from
> Gordon Kahl's head [later that week, the deputy would tell a neighbor that
> he
> had not eaten in three days]. When local people viewed Gordon Kahl's
> dismembered body, they became nauseous and sick, stating that the man they
> just
> hacked apart was not Gordon Kahl, but Mr. William Wade, who was the owner of
> the
> land and resembled Gordon Kahl closely in age and appearance, and was well
> known
> to the Sheriff and others personally.
>
> There was confusion; immediately there was trouble. A massive series of
> roadblocks were erected again, and the thorough searching of all automobiles
> over a wide radius was started; it was believed that Gordon Kahl had slipped
> out
> once again.
>
> Local residents monitoring the operation on the police radio band heard a
> call made for some gasoline to be delivered to the house. Now that the
> murder
> of Gordon Kahl had been botched, the Feds were going to cover their own
> tracks
> and torch the place. The Delta Force animals left the place with extensive
> blood stains covering their clothes and took the private FBI jet back to
> Washington.
>
> The roadblocks were called off when Mr. Wade, the owner of the land,
> showed up in town alive and well. The body of Sheriff Matthews was taken to
> a
> local hospital, while later in the evening after the fire the Feds had set
> had
> died down, the charred body of Gordon Kahl was taken to the local coroner.
> The
> dismembered body was later identified as being that of Gordon Kahl. But the
> bodies and the house were only lightly charred, since the house was
> fabricated
> from cast concrete walls and the fire never got that intense. The corpse
> identified as being Gordon Kahl's was missing teeth, hands, and feet, had a
> bullet hole in the head (without a bullet), and was extensively covered with
> tissue bruises and fractured bones. It was very shocking and disgusting, as
> people who saw photographs of Gordon Kahl's charred remains, taken by the
> coroner, reported a stark and terrified look on his charred face; he had
> died in
> extreme terror, screaming violently from the pain. They had gotten their
> man.
>
> The man who was Director of the FBI at the time that this murder operation
> was
> being performed, was William Webster. He personally supervised it. And when
> you get to know William Webster very well, you will become acquainted with a
> great murderer.
>
> Gordon Kahl was later buried with military honors -- whatever that meant.
> His wife back in North Dakota received several mean and ugly death threats
> from
> the Feds to keep quite or be murdered herself. Meanwhile, the rest of the
> country went on like Alice strolling through Wonderland; believing that all
> was
> well and that the Federal Government is your trusted friend, and that some
> little Tax Protestor over there got what he deserved.
>
> Back in Arkansas, while shifting through the smoldering ruins in the
> kitchen, a reporter for the New York Times accompanied by Ray Wade, the land
> owner's son, found Gordon Kahl's left foot that had been severed off by the
> axe.
> It was taken to the local coroner Dr. Fahmy Malak in Little Rock, confirmed
> as
> being Gordon Kahl's sliced off foot. However, this was news not fit to
> emphasize, and the reporter's story was blurred over when printed [see New
> York
> Times ["Gunfight Shatters Tranquility of Arkansas Hills"], page 14 (July 3,
> 1983)].
>
> Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, who had been harboring Gordon Kahl, were charged not
> only with aiding and abetting a fugitive, but also were fraudulently charged
> with the murder of Sheriff Matthews. At Trial, the only evidence introduced
> against them, outside of the background story, was first person evidence
> from
> Art Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson, who reported to the Jury
> what
> she had seen her father do. And with that eyewitness evidence, the Ginters
> and
> Art Russell were convicted and sentenced to protracted incarceration in a
> Federal Penitentiary [see New York Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax Rebel
> Case"],
> page A19 (October 19, 1983)].
>
> In conclusion, note that a large volume of the continuous reporting that
> the New York Times and Time Magazine did on the story from February through
> October, was based, as usual, on the mere replication of whatever the FBI
> and
> wire services had told them, as the Government Billboards that they are --
> and
> so their reporting is highly edited, inaccurate, and distorted news. Be
> advised
> that there are numerous inconsistencies in those articles between what they
> have
> reported [as the Feds are quite good at changing the facts], and what is
> reported herein. Until their own reporter J.C. Barden actually went to the
> torched house to dig at facts for himself on the case, some of the real
> facts
> never surfaced, and his reported factual details considerably change the
> character and color of the savage FBI animal attack on Gordon Kahl.
>
> Incidentally, Mr. Ray Wade, who found Gordon Kahl's foot, was also
> threatened with being killed himself if he did not remain silent, as were
> other
> local residents who also saw different aspects of the bloody reign of FBI
> terror
> that went on during that fateful day -- as the FBI once again allowed itself
> to
> be defiled by acting ministerially, without and wanting jurisdiction, on
> behalf
> of those presiding in Washington who had handed down the extermination
> orders.
>
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> (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the
> Patriot FTP site by S.P.I.R.A.L., the Society for the Protection of
> Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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