Apartheid. USA 1988

February 22, 1988

The chief prosecution witness against 14 white supremacists testified in Fort Smith, Arkansas that the death of a tax protester, killed in a gun-fight with law enforcement officers, lead a plot to kill a Federal Judge and a Federal agent. The witness said that at a meeting of the leaders of a right-wing paramilitary group in 1983, the tax protester, Gordon W Kahl, was declared to be the first hero of ‘the Second American Revolution.’

The witness was James D Ellison (47) former leader of a white supremacist group and paramilitary training camp in Arkansas. In 1976 Mr Ellison founded a tiny religious and survivalist community near Bull Shoals Lake in Northern Arkansas. The community, which came to be called The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, or CSA, also became a paramilitary training camp for white supremacists. In April 1985 State and Federal law enforcement officers raised the 224-acre compound, finding stockpiles of weapons including submachine-guns, grenades, explosives and an anti-tank rocket. A 30-gallon drum of cyanide was also discovered. Prosecutors contend that the group intended to use the cyanide to poison public water supplies in New York City and Washington in an effort to trigger social unrest that would lead to a race war and eventually overthrow the Government.^223.

223. The New York Times, from a report by Katherine Bishop