On September 3, 2001, the FBI shot and killed Mr. Tom Crosslin at his private campground outside Vandelia, Michigan. On September 4, 2001, the FBI shot and killed and possibly castrated Mr. Rolland Rohm at the same location. Despite all of the misery following the 9/11 attack on America, I hope that the murders of these two Americans will not be forgotten. Vandelia deserves to be remembered alongside Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Crosslin, 47, stood for something the local authorities did not approve. He endorsed the legalization of marijuana. Moreover, he used his Rainbow Farm campground as a gathering place for like-minded people. Although there appears to be no substantial evidence that marijuana was consumed during these gatherings, he was arrested. The court told him, no more gatherings on your property. He held another gathering. The court issued a summons for him to appear. He didn't show up. The cops came to arrest him and he, holding a hunting rifle, told them to get off his property. Sound familiar?
I happened to be in southern Michigan on August 31 and I spotted the headline about the armed standoff in a local newspaper. I speculated on the question of how long it would take for the FBI killers to show up. I was wrong by a week. They not only showed up promptly, they completed their dirty business almost overnight. The outrage amongst supporters of Mr. Crosslin's cause had already sped around the planet on the Internet and plans were underway to import supporters to the site. Before any of this could happen, the FBI killed the man. End of protest.
The murder of Mr. Rohm is puzzling. After all, their principal target was already dead. The press reports imply that the two men were homosexuals, with dark undertones about their relationship to Mr. Crosslin's thirteen-year old son. This would make Mr. Rohm's murder a gratuitous hate-crime in any other set of circumstances not involving the FBI. They say he was also holding a hunting rifle and so they shot him. Sure. And maybe he castrated himself.
Today we are assured that the FBI is there to protect us from terrorists. I wonder about that. True, the FBI has some convincing assassins working for the department, at least against American citizens. Now that the Bill of Rights is in the toilet again, they can arrest and interrogate each and every one of us if they feel like it. They can torture us for fun or kill us with malice and still go home to the wife and kids with a clear conscience, if they had one, because they are protected by the law.
What the hell is terrorism anyway? Wherein is the FBI unlike the KGB or the Gestapo? When the local cops give them a call, don't they just drop in and murder the malcontents? I'll tell you what, I'm scared. I'm not scared of anthrax, or even smallpox, and I'm not scared of Muslims, I'm scared of the psychopathic personality disorders employed by the state to police ordinary citizens like myself. I'm scared of our government and its FBI. Is that not terrorism?
November 2, 2001
