SPECIAL REPORT: ‘CLOUDS OVER AMERICA’

CHRISTIAN IDENTITY, THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT, AND SALLY KERN

PART ONE 

A Gossip Boy team recently went undercover to infiltrate the Reclaim Oklahoma organization and its most recent gathering ‘Clouds Over America’.  The group wants Christians to arm themselves to the teeth and ready for a violent confrontation, as they work each other into a frenzy over homosexuality, a new world order, Muslims, and President Barack Obama. Figures like Paul Blair, Charles Key, Sally Kern, and national John Birch Society leaders have declared war on present day America and have launched plans to reshape the country into a version more fitting their militant, Old Testament views.  – Full Story –

Ultimately, their success is unlikely, but the release of their paranoia-fueled hatred appears forthcoming.

After an in-depth investigation into the lives and beliefs of the people leading this faction of the Patriot Movement, Gossip Boy is making a public declaration that Reclaim Oklahoma is a Christian Identity hate group with intentions to incite others into violent and deadly attacks on gays and non-whites and to conduct sedition activities against the federal government. They are heavily armed, even boasting of their personal armories, and preparing for a perceived war.  Not only are they preparing for it, they want it to occur – indeed their own words express a lust for it.

The organization is spreading across Oklahoma telling susceptible minds that homosexuals are indoctrinating their young children into turning away from God and introducing them to deviant sex practices. They are warning people that the only way to protect their children is to stop the homosexuals. Added to that, they are intent on spreading religious and racial dissension and anti-Obama propaganda, while promoting paramilitary guerilla training for a future battle waged against what they are calling “soulless niggers, ragheads, and queers”.

Unfortunately, Oklahoma is full of susceptible minds and has no shortage of people willing to hurt someone different than themselves.

It is our opinion that they are willfully inciting violent acts against, if not the outright murder of, gays and lesbians in the state of Oklahoma.   

A mixture of racial bigotry, religious fundamentalism, paranoia, a propensity for violence, and current issues like an African-American as president and fears that non-whites and non-heterosexuals will achieve civil equality has created the perfect brew to send what were obviously already disturbed minds into a realm where they are fully prepared to take their rhetoric into an aggressive action phase.

Also, huge questions are coming forward over Stephen and Sally Kern and the real reasons they came to Oklahoma and after several months of digging we’re ready to present those.

This is going to be a very lengthy report, so we will be portioning it out over the coming weeks.

So let’s begin…

IDAHO 1992

In August 1992, United States Marshalls and agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation swarmed the isolated Idaho home of suspected white supremacists Randy and Vicki Weaver. Randy Weaver had federal warrants alleging weapons violations and agents were sent in to make an arrest. Events would occur that saw a several-day siege of the Weaver compound resulting in actions that would later be described as negligent on the part of the feds. In a controversial action, a sniper shot and killed Vicki Weaver as she held her infant daughter.  

Randy and Vicki Weaver were close friends to fellow Idahoans James and Barbara Brandon. The Weavers had befriended the Brandons at a chapter meeting of the ‘11th Hour Remnant Messenger’, which is an anti-Semitic white supremacy group that has built chapters and a few militias throughout the Northwestern United States. The two families lived in different areas of Idaho, but stayed connected through their 11^th Hour-born friendship. It appears Weaver lost interest in the 11^th Hour after two meetings and never again affiliated with the group, but some of the friendships he made continued.

The “11^th Hour Remnant Messenger” is closely connected to the Aryan Nations and has seen substantial growth in northwestern Idaho since the Ruby Ridge incident.   

In November 2008, a Gossip Boy reporter conducted a telephone interview with Barbara Brandon, who said, “The brutal murder of Vicki Weaver has gone unpunished. The Jews control the government and the courts. They assassinated Vicki, shot her boy, and that Jew judge let [Lon] Horiuchi go.”

Brandon continued, “It was a set up from the start. Randy wasn’t even with the Aryans, like they were saying. He didn’t like groups. He just sold those guns for some extra money, not to start a war or anything.”

Horiuchi was the FBI sniper that killed Vicki Weaver during the Ruby Ridge standoff. The FBI Hostage Rescue Team agent also wounded Randy Weaver and associate Kevin Harris during the siege. Additionally, Horuchi was assigned to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas.

At the time of the Ruby Ridge incident, Barbara Brandon’s Bar-B Realty Company in Boise, Idaho, employed Sally Kern as a secretary. The Brandons had quickly befriended the Kerns upon their arrival from Texas and became members of the Calvary Baptist Church where Steve Kern was head pastor.

Asked about Sally Kern, she stated, “Sally is a wonderful person. [She’s] devoted, loyal, and a good patriotic Christian woman. She is strong willed and I knew her being positioned in Oklahoma would work out.”

When asked to explain “positioned”, Brandon would not elaborate. (It should be noted, Brandon is quite elderly – age 71 – and this reporter chose not to use more intense questioning methods on her.)

The Brandons currently direct a church and what they call the “Idaho Baptist College” out of a small building in Boise. Like the Kerns, they previously resided in Texas.

OKLAHOMA 1995 TO PRESENT

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. He would later announce the terrorist act was in retaliation for the government’s actions at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas and the siege on the Randy and Vicky Weaver family at Ruby Ridge.

For five months after the Waco incident, McVeigh worked at gun shows where he passed out cards with the name and address of FBI sniper Lon Horuchi. During questioning by his attorney Stephen Jones at his trial, McVeigh testified that he had also sent Horuchi hate mail and had handed out the cards “in the hope that somebody in the Patriot Movement would assassinate the sharpshooter".    

Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key and the John Birch Society instantly went to the defense of militias and claimed that the Clinton Administration and the United States government were involved in a cover up. Key began pointing fingers at Arabs, the ATF, the FBI, even the Oklahoma City Police Dept. Bomb Squad – everyone but any individual or group involved with the Patriot Movement.

Key was joined by national representatives of the John Birch Society, who were looking for a new cause célèbre after the Soviet collapse had seen their anti-communist membership base dwindle to near non-existence. A paranoid vision of a new world order where the U.S. government was the new enemy was a natural progression and the white supremacists, tax dodgers, armed militias, and rightwing paramilitary Christian groups were ripe for exploitation. Thus the union began a campaign to lessen suspicions against McVeigh and Patriot groups and turn a questioning eye on the United States government.   

Key brought in ally Oklahoma State Rep. Bill Graves to serve as his legal counsel, as he conducted an independent investigation into the terror attack and questions were raised over his fundraising conduct.  Graves, who now serves as an Oklahoma County District Judge, had been a representative for District 84 from 1978 to 1986 and then regained his legislative seat in 1986. An Oklahoma columnist has referred to Graves as, “Oklahoma's answer to the Taliban's Mullah Omar in that he appears to believe that governance is conducted by divine right and that all law should be derived from religious law.”   

During Graves’ tenure as a Oklahoma lawmaker he introduced bills that would force the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms and courthouses, make same-sex marriage and/or civil unions and recognition of such illegal, bar gays and lesbians from adopting children, making any parent involved in homosexually unfit to be a parent, and attempted to make breastfeeding in public a criminal act that would make nursing mothers sex offenders. Last year it was Graves who publicly condemned the American Bar Association for including sexual orientation protections into their bylaws.

As Key, Graves, and the JBS were working on their bombing conspiracy, Sally and Steve Kern mysteriously came to town. In an unusual train of events, the Kerns would end up buying Bill Graves’ home; Sally would take his seat as District 84 representative; and she would take up his anti-gay and Christian Patriot crusades.   

After leaving his lawmaker post, Graves decided to run for district judge in Oklahoma County. Two men stepped forward to help him achieve that goal: Tim Pope and Stephen Jones, who was Timothy McVeigh’s attorney.

Tim Pope is currently awaiting trial along with Brent Rinehart, another well-known anti-gay figure, over a number of criminal filings regarding the operation of Rinehart’s campaign. His attorney is…Stephen Jones.

During the judgeship contest, complaints became public that Enid attorney Jones was funneling in large sums of money into Graves’ campaign coffers using his family members and employees at his law firm. Questions arose as to why so many people from outside of Oklahoma County were interested in a local race. Then it came out Graves had started receiving huge sums from people connected to Gene Phillips in Texas. 

The federal building bomber’s attorney was, also, representing Gene Phillips in several interests he had with the insurance industry in Oklahoma. Phillips is a controversial figure, who has been implicated in a variety of schemes involving Oklahoma Republican officials. One of those officials was Carroll Fisher, who sits in prison now for perjury. Fisher has been accused of receiving substantial bribes from Gene Phillips.

Republican lawmakers at the State Capitol have been ridiculed as “tap dancers whenever Stephen Jones shows up with an envelope of cash from the Phillips family.”  

Phillips, who earlier this decade successfully escaped a guilty finding after being indicted for racketeering along with Gambino Crime Family members in New York, hosted a group of Oklahoma legislators for a Mike Huckabee fundraiser at his Dallas estate in 2007.  That scandal saw the lawmakers claiming they did not know where they were going, when Stephen Jones pulled up to their driveways and told them to “hop in”. However, they could not explain why they chose to remain at the home of a man, who was being targeted for bribing Oklahoma officials. Among the small group was Rep. Gus Blackwell.

As previously reported in Gossip Boy, Blackwell has been suspected of doing political favors for David Nichols’ Hand Up Ministries, an organization of over 100 convicted sex offenders in South OKC, who were exposed by us as having purchased an Oklahoma City daycare center and who were supported in part by Olivet Baptist Church, which is ran by Steve Kern.    

Stephen Douglas Kern, age 62, has what appears to be a mysterious past. Nothing is known of him until starting about thirty years ago, when a man in his early-30’s showed up without a history and began taking psychology and sociology courses at the Palm Beach Atlantic College in Florida.

Sally Kern has conducted a widely publicized campaign against LGBTs, since becoming a state legislator. Early last year, the Fairview Baptist Church of Edmond’s pastor, Paul Blair, joined Kern in her homosexual agenda crusade. Blair is founder and director of Reclaim Oklahoma.

Shortly after making a recorded statement where she accused homosexuals of being worse than terrorists, Kern, as a member of an Oklahoma delegation visiting Washington DC, failed a Secret Service background check and was refused entry into the White House. An informant that attended that function has stated that Kern’s close ties to what are described as domestic terror and hate groups was the reason. Obviously, a person that is possibly involved in anti-government groups suspected of sedition and paramilitary operations would pose a threat to the President and security personnel would be justified in keeping such a person away from the White House.  

Sally Kern, Charles Key, and the John Birch Society were prominent at Paul Blair’s ‘Clouds Over America’ conference in January 2009 that revolved around the homosexual agenda, anti-government sentiments, and pro-gun and pro-militia topics.

Blair uses Reclaim Oklahoma and its conferences like ‘Clouds Over America’ to promote anti-gay incitements and teach a revisionist history of America’s founding fathers in an attempt to convince others that the founders intent was America be ruled by the commands of a Christian God. None with the movement, however, are able to explain that if this were true then why the founders gave us a Constitution in 1787 instead of what they claim should be the law.

The novel interpretations of American Revolution history and law by the Christian Patriots and Blair are based on the teachings of Christian Identity minister William P. Gale, who helped to found the militia movements. Gale has been one of the leading proponents of racial, national, and Christian identity groups in modern times. Those teachings include that non-whites have no souls and that white Europeans are the original Israelites. Gale, who died in 1988, introduced his Christian Identity teachings to Richard Butler, the founder of the Aryan Nations. Butler later set up shop in Idaho.

Those aligning with fundamentalist Christian Identity groups can be somewhat diverse in their religious beliefs, but all tend to be paramilitary, anti-government bands that believe a Holy War is forthcoming. 

PART TWO

Note: This is a very in-depth investigation and there is a lot to read. To lessen the article’s length, we are providing links in the body of this story to some articles written by us and others that will provide even more information and which we highly recommend you digest.

This part of our ‘Clouds Over America’ story is to introduce you to the cast of characters we feel are a threat to the LGBT community. Therefore, besides just naming them, we’re going to show you what they’ve been doing and saying and how they all tie in to each other. Most importantly, we encourage you to start researching each of them yourselves, as you’ll learn much more about them than we can offer here.  

Gossip Boy has conducted a months-long careful study and investigation to expose a group of what we are comfortable in calling white supremacists with the Christian Patriot Movement, who have infiltrated Oklahoma state government, and how they are trying to change laws in the state to reflect the conspiracies and Biblical code they have grasped. Those laws and their individual actions are threats to the LGBT Community. Why did Sally Kern give her infamous speech? What is happening with all these anti-gay figures popping up out of nowhere in recent years? Just who were those lawmakers that voted against Rev. Jones? The answers lie within a small group of Oklahomans that have joined together in an atmosphere of New World Order paranoia mixed with a radical religious belief that homosexuals are preventing their entrance into Heaven. 

Gossip Boy was the first news outlet to report on the gathering of these extremists. Since then other media outlets have reported some on what went on at that conference. We’re taking it deeper. We’re bringing into the light exactly who these people are and where they come from…and what they want to do to you.

The John Birch Society is about political extremes, so it is little surprise that our investigation has resulted in the discovery that the two JBS groups in Oklahoma are also Christian extremists. These extremists have adopted a white Christian Identity belief that sees non-whites as inferior races and they follow the dominionist theory of their religion that calls for the overthrow of the American government and its replacement with theocratical rule. They want their ranking members in control where they can replace the United States Constitution with their version of Old Testament Biblical Code, which, among other things, calls for the public execution of homosexuals and the opening of re-education camps to force the world to accept Christianity in order to hearken in the return of Jesus through Armadageddon. 

The dominionists believe that Jesus will not return and take them to Heaven, while homosexuality remains a sin. Thus, in order for them to obtain their exalted place in Heaven, followers must stop homosexuality via re-education, torture, and public stonings.

In December 2008, Dr. Stephen Kern, pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church in Oklahoma City and husband of state representative Sally Kern, stated to an undercover Gossip Boy reporter, who had brought up the subject of gays, “We have to get rid of that and start curing those sinners. It’s past time that this nation stopped placating sin and start putting them in education programs. Courts can force drug offenders into treatment centers and violent people into anger management. There’s no reason our courts can’t do that with homos.”     

Dominionism, also known as reconstructionalism or theonomy, is considered one of the most extreme forms of Christian fundamentalism. Some seek a peaceful overthrow of the government if possible, while others within the movement, such as Joel's Army, prepare for a violent Holy War.  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center,  "Despite their overt militancy, there's no evidence Joel's Army followers have committed any acts of violence. But critics warn that actual bloodletting may only be a matter of time for a movement that casts itself as God's avenging army." 

The SPLC further reports, "The pitch and intensity of the military rhetoric of this branch of the global Dominionist movement has substantially increased since the beginning of 2008," writes The Discernment Research Group, a Christian watchdog group that tracks what they call heresies or cults within Christianity. "One can only wonder how long before this transforms into real warfare with actual warriors." 

Dominionism is not a denomination within Christianity, but draws its theological believers from such groups as the Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, and Southern Baptists. The reconstructionalists often remain in their own denomination in order to turn their fellow church members towards the more radical beliefs. Paul Blair of the Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Dr. Steve Kern of the Olivet Baptist Church, and Tom Vineyard of the Windsor Hills Baptist Church are prime examples of dominionists teaching their militant beliefs to often unaware congregations. 

Joel's Army recruits are those born after the United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision and are charged with being the enforcers of a five-fold ministry. In dominionist practice younger members are incited to become the warriors. Therefore older dominionists conduct training camps that are used to flame young passions into hating certain groups of people and then teaching them how to use weapons and conduct guerrilla-style missions. A good example of this is the Windsor Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, who conducts a summer youth program that involves gun training mixed with teaching hatred against Jews, Catholics, and gays and sees the bestowal of a semi-automatic assault weapon as a prize.  

According to the website Religious Tolerance (Visit http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm) were dominionists successful in their endeavor to gain control of the United States government, the following would occur:

·          The use of the death penalty would be greatly expanded, when the Hebrew Scriptures' laws are reapplied. People will be executed for adultery, blasphemy, heresy, homosexual behavior, idolatry, prostitution, evil sorcery (some translations say witchcraft), etc. The Bible requires those found guilty of these "crimes" to be either stoned to death or burned alive.

·          A church or congregation which does not accept the Mosaic Law has another god before them, and is thus guilty of idolatry. That would be punishable by death. That would include all non-Christian religious organizations.

·          It would be logical to assume that the institution of slavery would be reintroduced, and regulated according to Biblical laws. 
 

·          Reconstructionists generally believe in marriage between one man and one woman only. Any other sexual expression would be a capital crime. Those found guilty of engaging in same-sex, pre-marital or extra-marital sex would be executed.

·          Governments would all have balanced budgets.

·          Income taxes would be eliminated.

·          Legal abortions would be banished; those found to be responsible for abortions would be charged with murder and executed.

The anti-United States government John Birch Society believes in a New World Order conspiracy that claims powerful Jews run America.  The JBS dominionists believe white Europeans are the true Children of Israel and Hebrews and any dark race are not completely human. As the JBS claim Jews control the World Bank and United Nations as part of the imaginary New World Order they fear, they want to inter them as well in a fashion adopted by Nazi Germany during the 20^th Century, which saw the mass extermination of over six million Jews.

During a monitored dinner conversation at the ‘Clouds Over America’ event, Paul Blair told a person we have identified as Richard Engle, “Our country should have heeded Lindberg and sided with the Germans. Ethnic cleansing is based in tradition and ordained by the word of God. The Lord empowered our fledgling country with Manifest Destiny that enabled America to become a world power and He meant that our Christian ways were to spread beyond this nation and overtake the world.”