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V AVE UA) LAL 2etgpeee A handful of new hey caught up with Gordon Kahl, the aation’s most notorious tax evader, in a concrete bunker ofa farmbouse half buried im the scrubby ans. It was June of 1923, and the North De- kota farmer hed been on the run since federal violations four months before. Kahl, 63, a member of the paramilitary antitas group thews bulled through the doorway—and Kab! stepped out from behind a refrigerator gad shot him im the side. As Matthews, fatal- fy wounded, crawled away, his comrades raked the bunker with automatic-weapons | shots ‘ 5 baa es ‘thro naciore hills. and for almost two bours lighted the sky Wke a summer storm. Kah!'s remains were identified by dental plates. The morning of Dec. 7, 1984, all chipping on Paget Sound's i Inlet was halt- " gound sorth of Seattle. Trapped inside were spembers of a peo-Nazi goerrille group that boasted almost as many names—The Order, Brotherbood—es true believers. Brother- they surrendered—except ews, 31, the group’s founder. After 35 hours of negotiations and intermitient exchanges cf automatic-weapons fire, the agents light- Fae Pd Now 25, 1984, entitled mists disturbs the peace. physics professor. In the book an army of white-supremacist superpatriots over- and—afier a murder spree against Jews and other non-Aryans, followed by the nuclear destraction of Isracl—oshers in a “Chris- tian” ise. It is a scenario that writer Murray Kempton describes as “a few Mike FBI agents. The FBI bas found the group's footprints in more than a doz- men swinging in the rubble of fireboenbed stores. The new radical right, however, has targeted the U.S. ~ yt the end ofa long driveway. It white, Christian Jewish villainy “When the Dec- of talks sbout ‘one rubbed their faces in filth to create equality.” The of Butler's teach- ing is Identity , & Movernent organizer Wesley Swift. Its doctrines argue that Jesus Christ was an Aryan, aot a Jew, that the lost tribes of Israe] were the Anglo-Saxon and other Ary- an races, that the United States is therefore the Promised Land, and that Jews should be destroyed as the ‘children of Satan. “Identity recog- nizes that now we're Israel. We don’t have to play pansy with Jews over in which it cals the ZOG, or on its thexne. William Potter Gale, “Declaration of War.” It called for the ex- Eirist Occupational Goverameat. “The former colone! who served ender ecution of federal agents, o and Klan in the ‘20s made » mistake thinking Gen. MacArthur in the Phil- jodges and the “bebcading’ of informants— that evil resided in men who came home ippines, from his Ministry of wrong si street,” sn: one taped sermon he said, “Damn has grown a new revolutionsry arm. Hem- pewsletter. “Today we see the evil is coming you're gouna do it that way. It's about time out of the Togooutandshoota somebody i ‘ Fob tcctoe fn charpeofcrtuinal investiga: tole country. It's the traitors im On Rimrock Selds of Kootenai County just lettered sign proclaims the entry tothe W) HL dae og is telling you to get violent, making dossiers, ish. It’s not the Negro im the whitey. You better start for what's wrong names, addresses, phone numbers, car-b- Newsweek Page 23 March 4, 1985 ee