I doubt there is any part of the US where you can hope to avoid the crushing grip of the government, should it take an interest in you. It’s possible one could play hard-to-get, perhaps in some desert regions, but that renders you equally ineffective in reaching others who need to be aware of the dangers.
The danger here in OKC is alive and well. Surely you remember that thing called the “Murrah Building Bombing”? I was in one of the suburbs that day, high on a hill, heard the bomb, knew what it was, and saw the smoke. That has nothing to do with being an authority on the subject. I even volunteered to help with the clean-up of the building, and ended up working to clean and restore office furniture from a building across the street. That was the first time I ever saw tiny shards of glass embedded in steel (a desk panel). That does not make me any kind of authority, either.
But knowing the whole thing was 100% charade forces you to reject authority. Even I can recall vividly the two or three times the rescuers had to evacuate again because more ordinance was found. Then — poof! — everyone denied it happened.
At any rate, someone who did have their hands directly on hard evidence of how much of a lie this all was, was Terrance Yeakey, a true hero of that day. That link deserves full attention.
At the other end of the scale is the man who surely ordered Yeakey’s death, Bob Ricks. This latter fellow made sure the true nature of the bombing was covered up, as he did with the Waco Massacre, as a senior agent in the FBI. Then he was hired for the Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating’s staff, eventually in charge of the OK Department of Public Safety — essentially head of the State Troopers and associated agencies. This man came on board about just after Keating was forced, for whatever reason, to deny he said there was unexploded ordinance found in the ruins.
Here in Oklahoma, the controversy has gone quiet, but those who saw the lies, and knew they were lies, are either dead — like Yeakey — or saving it up for another day. We saw it again in the cover-up of Kenneth Trentadue’s murder at the US Marshal’s detention center, connected by a causeway to the Will Rogers International Airport. Ironic, isn’t it? Will Rogers would have been the first to peel back the layers of cover-up and expose the corruption of our “leaders.”
Some of those involved in the cover-ups are still at work here in Oklahoma, “serving” in positions of authority. I’ll be surprised if this post does not insure my place on the watch list of dangerous “domestic terrorists” somewhere in the state bureaucracy. But then, I’d be surprised if I wasn’t there already.
