Here's a glimpse into the kind of material that the Pittsburgh shooter was listening to, in the nether regions of the shortwave spectrum, beamed nationwide out of 100 KW transmitters from places like Nashville, TN.
GCN, Global Christian Network, which broadcasts on stations like WWCR, Worldwide Christian Radio, has been around for a long time on shortwave. The programming is nominally Christian, but veers more political, anti-semitic, apocalyptic/survivalist and conspiratorial. Oklahoma City bombers McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier were listeners.
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From eyeonhate.com:
William Cooper was an "apocalyptic, militia-inspired" talk show radio host whose short-wave radio broadcasts out of his home atop a mesa in Arizona caught McVeigh's attention according to Mark Shaffer of the Arizona Republic. McVeigh became a dedicated listener to Cooper's radio messages. According to the Republic report, McVeigh had sought out William Cooper and paid him a visit a couple of months before the bombing.
Cooper is now dead (killed in a shootout with police in 2001), but other rabble-rousers have stepped up to fill the gap.
Pittsburgh shooter Richard Poplawski listened to the Alex Jones show and most likely other GCN programming. GCN material in broad strokes appears to have changed little since the William Cooper days.
Here's are some notes I made from one recent broadcast, selected at random. I don't know if this program, Call to Decision by Pastor Butch Paul, is more or less extreme than the average programming on WWCR:
Pastor Butch Paul
Call to Decision
http://www.calltodecision.com
March 30, 2009
MP3
Notes:
* "This is war. The only question is which side are you on."
* Minuteman News Magazine
* Conference: "America: A Heritage Destroyed," Aug. 8th, Summersville, WV
* guest: Lawyer/dentist Orly Taitz, representing 150 plaintiffs in suit alleging that Obama is not a citizen
* Obama is not a natural-born citizen
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* Outrage that Supreme Court would not hear the Obama citizenship case
* Illegitimacy of the president of the US
* Both parents must be citizens, Obama not citizen because his father wasn't a citizen
* Barack Hussein Obama is the least eligible person for president in the US
* "This is the biggest scandal this country has ever known."
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* One of Taitz's plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Major General Carroll D. Childers, another is Alan Keyes
* Her blog is http://defendourfreedoms.us
* Ad: pastorbutch.tv now online, just $15.95 a month, all of Pastor Butch's teachings and seminars
* Ad: anotheruntoldstory.com [anti-semitic website] -- Snakes, vipers, sons of the Devil, these are today's so-called Judeo-Christians. What do they do in our society, in our economy? Some of them have even written in books their disgusting habits, morals and behaviors [the web site quotes Jewish texts].
* In reality we have no president
* 164-page dossier of "suspected criminal activity" [bunch of nutball stuff] http://defendourfreedoms.org/...
* Obama never had support in the military, much less than 25%
* At Obama appearances with the military, not one soldier will cheer, no one will applaud
* He is committing massive treason
* He is a Manchurian candidate, totally illegitimate, methodically ruining our national security
* "His wife has some shady skeletons in her closet too, I wish we had time to get into that."
* This case will be blown open
* People are doing citizen's grand juries
* "I did the first grand jury last Saturday with 25 citizens from Stockbridge, GA and I got the first indictment of Barack Hussein Obama for fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, voter fraud, campaign contribution fraud, you name it."
* Numerous states are lining up to have similar grand juries to indict him
* Caller: Dan in PA -- the judges who won't hear this case are corrupt to the bone
* Caller: Gary in KY -- totally incomprehensible
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* Caller: 9/11 plane didn't hit the Pentagon
* Caller: Why can't state supreme courts hear this case, then they can individually refuse to recognize Obama as president
As an example of the idiocy of this woman's argument, here's a prime exhibit from her "dossier" from the so-called citizen's grand jury, concerning Obama's draft registration:
The "dossier" states:
The above registration card and print out indicates the Selective Service Form was created in 2008 and then backdated.
The Document Location Number (DLN) on the form shows, 0897080632. This number indicates it was made in 2008. However, the printout that same number has the number 8 inserted in front, 8089 708 0632. This extra 8 in front of the DLN number lends the appearance of being created in 1980, when it was actually created in 2008. The first two digits of the DLN number represent the year the form was processed.
It's almost pathetically inane (much like her assertion that both of someone's parents must be citizens for one to be a citizen). Just crazy, specious claptrap. But the average listener to this program, judging by the callers, have low double-digit IQs and little capacity for critical thinking.
One has to resist the urge to laugh by recalling that this kind of material can feed into events like the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Pittsburgh killings.
The notion of a "citizens grand jury" has a long history with the ultra-right:
Closely linked to militias, common law courts and citizen grand juries are part of a system of parallel institutions which constitute a virtual alternative government. These institutions -- the armed militias, the Posse Comitatus, common law courts and warehouse banks along with political, lobbying and media organizations -- are intended to be the embryo of an exclusive white Christian republic. Far from being an "anti-government" movement, Christian Patriots believe in forming their own.
In the months since the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, increased public attention has been focused on private paramilitary groups calling themselves "citizen militias." The revelation that alleged bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had attended meetings of the Michigan Militia and shared many of the militias' ideas led to hearings by the US Senate and to a level of media scrutiny not directed at the far right in over a decade.
A variety of tendencies on the American far right -- white supremacists, Second Amendment extremists, anti-abortion advocates, states rights/local control groups and property rights activists -- have seized upon the idea of forming militias as a tactic and a recruiting device. These factions agree on some issues, disagree on others, and are often at odds with each other.
There is no doubt, however, that the heart and soul of the militias is a loose faction of the far right that refers to itself as "Christian Patriot" or sometimes as "Constitutionalist" or "Freeman." Associated with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, racist ideas about citizenship, selective constitutional fundamentalism, and opposition to the income tax and the Federal Reserve Bank, the Christian Patriot movement has supplied leaders for the most influential militia groups and has provided the publications most widely circulated among militias members.
Christian Patriots employ elaborate and convoluted conspiracy theories and pseudo-Constitutional arguments to justify confrontations with law enforcement, public servants and civil rights advocates. Based on racist notions about citizenship Patriot activists file "sovereignty" or "state" citizenship documents declaring themselves immune from federal authority; they create "warehouse" or "alternative" banking institutions to launder money; they form common law courts and citizen grand juries to assert legal authority; and armed militias to enforce their bogus decrees. The Jordan, Montana "Justus Township," led by Christian Identity leaders and Christian Patriots and dug in for armed conflict, is the logical outcome of common law court organizing and the fruits of the white supremacist war for a white Christian republic.
In order to better understand the function of such Christian patriot judicial institutions, and the potential threat they represent to democratic institutions, it is useful to consider the origins of such courts in the Posse Comitatus movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
from monitor.net