GORDON KAHL
Gordon Kahl was killed in a massive assault on Ginter's farmhouse in Lawrence County, Arkansas, on June 4, 1983. The events described below are from a typed statement by Kahl, probably written on the day of the described events, February 14, 1983.
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Gordon Kahl Was A Distinguished Veteran Of WWII
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 misdemeanor. 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 incidents 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 FBI
SWAT TEAM, 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.
America Is Under Siege!
Andrew Arnold for Spotlight.
A Texas congressman was outraged when Rep. Ron Paul told a national audience he was afraid the government may attack him, too.
Unlike most in Congress, Texas Republican Ron Paul came to Washington this year with a well deserved record as a straight shooter. Be it the Federal Reserve, money system or an out of control Federal government, no issue is too hot for the populist lawmaker.
Washington watchers shouldn't have been surprised when Paul said he, like many Americans, feared an out of control government might attack him.
"I fear, and there's a lot of people in this country who fear, that they may be bombed by the federal government at another Waco," Paul said on C-SPAN February 26, "I mean [the Branch Davidians] committed no crimes."
Democrates in general and Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) whose district includes Waco, were quick to label Paul a "right-wing extremist."
Edwards' comments came on the House floor. He verbally attacked Paul by name, saying his fellow Texan was guilty of "sheer lunacy, at best."
"Let me just say what the facts were," Edwards added. "The facts were that David Koresh raped a 10-year-old girl. We heard the dramatic testimony of that girl, now 14, just a few months ago in the halls of this House."
The congressman seems to have forgotten that a Clinton administration official, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, asked Rep. Bill Brewster (R-Okla.), the chairman of the House subcommittee that investigated Waco, to take it easy on the BATF.
The 14-year-old "victim" who testified, Kiri Jewell, is also suspect.
Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) brought Jewell in for the television cameras to testify, in graphic detail, how she had been sexually molested by Koresh.
But according to British reports, the girl was lying. Scribe Ambrose Evans-Pritchard discovered that Jewell was not in Texas when the alleged abuses took place.
"She was living with her mother and grandmother in California for most of the years in question," Evans-Pritchard says. "Her father, David Jewell, has been promoting her allegations on the TV talk show circuit. He is a man of questionable character."
Obviously not one to let the facts get in the way of a good story, Edwards continued his attack on Paul in particular and "right-wing extremists" in general.
"Fact: the federal officials who went into that compound found 48 illegal machine guns and illegal hand grenades. I would suggest rape, arson, and murder are a crime in the book of every American family, it is not a crime in the book of [Paul]," the Texas Democrat said.
According to Paul's spokesman, Edwards missed the forest for the trees. The real question is why was the federal government involved? "Even if the case can be made that the Branch Davidians had those weapons, that is a local issue," said Michael Sullivan, Paul's press secretary. "If there was a rape, the local police are supposed to handle it."
More than a "right-wing extremist," Paul may be what plutocrats fear most, a member of Congress who understands and believes in the Constitution.
"We don't think of ourselves as 'extremists,' but those who like big government solutions to local problems think of [Paul] as extreme," Sullivan said.
There are dozens of examples of the federal government attempting to enforce local law. Often times these examples end in disaster for Joe Citizen.
Here are a few examples:
1. One of the first cases to bring nationwide attention to the federal government, specifically the IRS, run amok was the Gordon Kahl affair.*
Kahl blamed massive interest rates for costing him his farm. He also refused to pay a tax he considered illegal to a government he considered corrupt.
Feds and local cops planned an ambush outside of Median, North Dakota 14 years ago to quiet Kahl, according to Kahl's lawyer.
When the shooting was done, a pair of federal marshalls were dead, three others were wounded along with Yorie Kahl, Gordon's son. A massive manhunt followed which ended with Kahl and Sheriff Gene Matthews being shot, then burned by federal authorities in Smithville, Arkansas.
2, On October 2, 1992 a multi-jurisdictional task force raided the historic Trail's End Ranch. Authorities claimed Donald P. Scott was raising marijuana.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies joined federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents, National Park Service rangers and California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement personnel in the raid. Even though the raid occurred in Ventura, County, the county sheriff's department wasn't invited to take part.
Scott, an eccentric millionaire, was asleep with his wife when the party heard a banging on the door. He opted not to answer. As his wife Frances Plante, prepared to open the door, authorities knocked it in and threw her against the wall.
When Scott saw what was going on, he entered the room with a revolver.
He was ordered to put the gun down. Scott lowered it in what authorities considered to be a threatening fashion. He was felled by a trio of rounds that hit him in the upper torso.
Law enforcement authorities found no marijuana on the property. Oops.
A Ventura County District Attorney's Office found that the raid was motivated by the desire of the sherriff's office to seize Scott's ranch under federal asset-forfeiture laws.
3. A few months earlier, August 25, another California man was the victim of a federal attack.
DEA agents kicked in Donald Carlson's door a few minutes after midnight. Carlson heard the noise and called 911. Next, he reached for his handgun.
DEA agents riddled him with bullets. He was in intensive care for seven months and miraculously lives. No drugs were found.
4. Last summer, officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided a couple in Fort Davis, Texas.
Terry Taylor, an entomologist, had a business which imported and exported dead bugs to universities, scientists and collectors. It seems the feds thought the Taylors might be acting in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
While the couple was at a funeral, federal agents raided their home, seizing every piece of paper, every record and the computer. A federal court then sealed the files.
The government may have thought the Taylors had bugs on the endangered species list, but all of their bugs were dead on arrival. Of course, the feds have refused to talk to the press or the Taylors about the case.
5. In 1994, Red and Erlene Beckman were thrown off their 15-acre ranch after the IRS placed a lien on the property.
Their house was bulldozed.
The American Patriot Fax Network (APEN) found the action peculiar. "Let us suppose that the IRS lien was in fact valid," APFN wrote. "If so then they would presumably want to sell the property for the most value, would they not? That would mean that they would not raze a dwelling which added value to the property."
6. Also in 1994, BATF agents raided the home of Monique Montgomery at four in the morning.
A startled Montgomery reached for a gun, was shot four times and killed. Nothing illegal was found.
7. On January 16, 1997, Maynard Campbell was murdered in the "maximum security" federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Campbell had been sentenced to 13 years for cutting lumber on federal lands. He said he had a legal right to the trees through a mining patent that he held on the land. The feds disagreed and sent him to jail where he died.
8. On December 5, 1996, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a proposal to "stop vehicles; search any person, place or vehicle without warrant or process; seize without warrant or process any piece of evidence; and make arrests without warrant or process" on private land adjacent to or water bodies upstream from BLM land.
9. The most blatant example of government abuse may be in the form of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Just recently local judges gave Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key (R) the go ahead to garner signatures to have a grand jury impaneled to hear all the evidence surrounding the bombing.
Many investigators claim the federal government has used Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols as fall guys for a failed "sting" plot the feds prepared but which got out of control. Once all the evidence is out, many suspect the government will be implicated whether directly or indirectly.
The alternative media, spearheaded by the Spotlight and Radio Free America, has been filled with expert testimony explaining why bombs must have been planted inside the Murrah building and how a primitive oil and fertilizer bomb could not have done the type of damage that happened in Oklahoma City.*
SOMEONE SHOULD TELL EDWARDS WHY AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The Spotlight is now publishes under the name of American Free Press
Code of Conduct
JB Campbell
Posted: 6-01-08
.....If
Bush attacks Iran it might trigger two other things.
The first one would be a declaration of a national emergency
and with it the arrests of political dissidents under
what FEMA calls Operation Garden Plot.
We can all imagine what our lives would become under martial law,
even for those of us who are not immediately arrested.
There would be shortages and deprivations
and great difficulty in movement, mainly due to the high cost of fuel,
but also because of military/police roadblocks.
We would have to justify our driving and even walking around,
the way Palestinians and Iraqis do now,
and to the same people – Judeo-American cops and soldiers.....