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More white supremacist groups, more anti-government groups. David Caresh, Ruby Ridge siege, Timothy
McVey, more than 80 people dead. Bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City. Eight by an unspeakable act. There is so
little hope left. Hate. While often perceived as an inherent emotion, hate is actually a
learned behavior shaped by factors like fear, anger, and social conditioning rather than emerging
naturally. It's rooted in issues of power and control and can be fueled by negative stereotypes and dehumanization.
Hate is not instinctive or universal. It develops over time through experiences and social
influences. Hate often stems from the idea that certain groups should have power or control over others. These
ideas are often rooted in historical power dynamics and can be reinforced by societal structures. Hate is frequently
triggered by a sense of personal threat or vulnerability which can lead to the dehumanization of others. Negative
stereotypes about certain groups can contribute to the development of hate. These stereotypes can become stronger
during times of crisis leading to increased prejudice and discriminization. Hate itself is not a
crime. Hate is a feeling, an emotion, but hate very easily can and often does become criminal. A hate crime is a
traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting
statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or
in part by an offender's bias against race, religion, disability, social orientation, ethnicity, gender, or
gender identity. As part of its responsibility to uphold the civil rights of the American people, the FBI
takes a number of steps to combat hate crimes. This role increased dramatically following the passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. These days, words like Nazi or racist get probably more usage than
necessary. Overusage of words with powerful meanings diminishes the strength and importance of those words.
This presentation is a collage of several true crime stories, all that have some connective tissue and are
essentially crimes and murders that have influence over other crimes and murders.
Hate is a true crime story that spans decades. When you hear the term right-wing, do note that it is followed
by the more powerful word in the phrase, which is extremist or extremists. In this great country, we of
course have left and right politics and political views. But we are not talking about the right wing in the traditional
sense. We are talking about the very furthest of the far uber far right and very
extreme. Some of which is extreme right terrorism. terrorism that is motivated by ultraism,
neo-Naziism, anti-communism, neo-fascism, religious nationalism, anti-semitism, anti-government
sentiment, and occasionally it can be motivated by opposition to abortion and homophobia. All which is hate, pure and
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Richard Wayne Snell, who was known as Wayne to his friends and associates, was born on May 21st, 1930 in either Iowa or
Oklahoma. Sources vary on his place of birth. This is just one of several aspects of this man's life that remains
a mystery still to this day. Richard Snell's parents were Charles Edwin Snell, a pastor of the Church of
Nazarene, and Mary Jane Snell. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes that young Richard Snell underwent some
training in ministry, but never actually practiced. Instead, he became increasingly involved in various
extremist organizations. Snell was a believer in what some call Christian identity, which sounds like something
nice, but Christian identity states that the only true chosen people of God are those of Germanic or Celtic descent.
Snell became an invite separatist. Sources report that Richard and his wife Mary Joe Snell had
three children. There is little information available about the couple beyond the supposition that Mary Joe
shared her husband's extremist views and along with that she apparently supported
his activities illegal and otherwise and Richard Snell was up to a lot of activities that is for sure but of those
activities that did not seem to include having a job. He seems to have been too warped and wrapped up in his nefarious
activities to hold down a conventional 9-to-f5 job at any point in his adult life. Instead, his time was mostly
occupied by being a white supremacist and a member of several paramilitary anti-semitic extremist militia groups.
most notably the covenant, the sword and arm of the Lord, often referred to as the
CSA. Richard Snell apparently made a living by committing violent crimes, most which were carried out while
heavily armed with illegal weapons. Then there was this hobby of his. During his
time living in Arkansas, Richard Snell was involved in the filming of planes at Mina Inter Mountain Municipal Airport in
Pulk County, Arkansas, believing that the CIA was smuggling drugs into this country and using the Mina airport to
facilitate the operation. Now, you won't hear us defending this man much during our garage presentation. However, in
Richard Snell's defense, he certainly was not the only one who suspected that strange things were a foot at the Mina
airport. In fact, over the years, there have been a number of allegations about the use of Mina Inter Mountain Municipal
Airport as a CIA drop point in a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation. These theories gained
momentum in the latter part of the 1980s. Richard Snell, however, was ahead of the curve as he was very suspicious
of a potential government sanctioned drug smuggling operation years prior. These are rumors that included
allegations of not only awareness but participation and or a cover up involving prominent figures such as
Reagan administration officials, the then Governor Bill Clinton and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon. Some of
you may recognize the name Dan Harmon from our story many years back. A story that some say has shaped the garage into
what it is today. That story is Boys on the Tracks episodes 93, 94, 95, and 96. St. Lincoln County Prosecutor Dan Harmon
appeared to try to be helping the families of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, two murdered teenage boys, who someone
likely someone's plural, attempted to cover up their murders by placing the boys' bodies on the train tracks so that
the train would destroy all evidence, which sadly has worked. The murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives are still
unsolved to this day and I believe several persons are responsible for covering up those murders as well as
covering up the witnessed activities that led to the murders. Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon was later
convicted of numerous felonies including drug possession with intent to distribute racketeering, conspiracy and
extortion charges. this all in 1997. There were several investigations into these claims, but then you have to
question who is investigating these claims. Yeah, that's interesting to ponder there, Captain, because while you
have the civilians stating that we think that this is going on and these are rumored
allegations that the government, our government is involved in illegal activity, but then essentially it's
government agencies investigating themselves, which is always very dicey. So, we have
several local, state, and federal investigations that did take place in relation to these allegations. The Mina
airport topic has received some press coverage over the years, so this is not something that was kept under wraps or
that's very hush hush. An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded
that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred at Mina. The report
said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another federal agency
and that companies located at the airport had performed routine aviation related services on equipment owned by
the CIA. So they're they're openly stating yes, we did have activity there. We were active at this airport. However,
we were not doing anything illegal and we had our higherups come in to doublech checkck everything to confirm this
finding. As we said here, Captain Richard Snell was a bit ahead of the curve here on his suspicions about the
possible activities going on, illegal activities going on at the Mina airport. In the early 80s, he claimed that
powerful government figures, including the then Governor Bill Clinton, were involved in a massive cover up. So, he
is there actively filming activity at the Mina airport. And his claims don't stop there with regards to the Inter
Mountain Airport, as he also maintained to have filmed Clinton at the airport. And later he would claim that a state
trooper that was part of Clinton's security detail had beaten his wife Mary Joe in an attempt to locate and
confiscate the footage. So he's saying not only did I film activity there, right? Not only did I film the governor
present there, which it it wouldn't be uncommon for a governor to be at any airport, especially an airport within
their state, but I think what he's saying here is this is proof that there's illegal activity going on here.
And not only that, a cover up as well because they sent muscle to my house, my home, and threatened or physically
harmed my wife when she wouldn't turn over the film or the footage that he took. Right. Which would be illegal for
them to do. Exactly. But again, this is an unsubstantiated claim. He doesn't have this uh confrontation on film. He
didn't film this confrontation. But the other problem with this individual is when he has ideology that aligns with
that of Nazi, right? You go Yes. He that paints him with a certain type of brush. Yes. And
we we will get into some of his involvement and activities that suggest well not just
suggest that they outwardly state that he was someone that wanted that desire to overthrow the government. So to be
out there making claims like this that would take down certain government officials would go along with that
agenda. Right. And the look, I'm not saying that he never filmed anything at Mina. I'm not even willing to say that
there wasn't illegal activity that took place at Mina and that some of our government agencies knew about it cuz
I'm a little suspicious of that myself. However, the problem with Snell's story here is Captain that this was the early
80s. A lot of time has expired since then. He has never produced this footage to show anybody of the supposed illegal
activity that he was filming. Well, like you said, a a president or a governor or
anybody involved in the government can be seen at an airport, and that doesn't mean they're doing anything illegal.
They might just be traveling. Richard Snell was a known member of the Covenant, the Sword, and Arm of the
Lord. We have already mentioned his involvement and commitment to the CSA. But what is the Covenant, the Sword, and
Arm of the Lord or CSA? It's a paramilitary anti-semitic white supremacist group that was founded in
1971 in Missouri by James D. Ellison and had roots in hatred and racism. It was through the CSA and at Elohim City that
Richard Snell met James Ellison. Richard Snell was considered to be a regular visitor of Elohim City while James
Ellison was a resident. Elohim City is a private community in Adair County, Oklahoma.
Now, it's a large property, a large community. It's about 400 acres. is a rural retreat founded in 1973 by Robert
Milar, a Canadian immigrant former Menanite and quote one of the most important leaders end quote in America's
Christian identity movement and again that's not a good thing as it is an extremist group and a hate group. This
community was closed to the public, especially closed off to the government and any government agencies, but seemed
to welcome members of other hate and some extremist groups. So, as long as that they shared some of the same
beliefs and practices, it's almost like these individuals cloak all their beliefs under this umbrella of
Christianity to almost cover up the fact that their beliefs are so ridiculous and
so full of hate, ignorant and backwards, too. And I think what the idea is, and maybe they're just too backwards to know
this, and it's been handed down generation after generation, and so they they do what they know or they do what
they were taught. But we've seen this throughout history. We don't just see this in this country. We've seen it all
around the world for decades, nay centuries. Use the Bible to prove your point. Use the Bible to tell others, I'm
right, and you all are wrong. Yeah. or used your religion cuz it's not just Christianity obviously. Look, I I I read
the Bible on occasion. I'm I'm a believer. Truth comes out. You like Justin Bieber. But I I do want to remind
I always remind people that book was written by humans and I'm yet to meet a perfect one. And a lot of it too is left
open to interpretation. So to to to use this and to wave it high and to say and point to the Bible and say this is why
I'm right and you are wrong, I think is is is a bit backwards in itself. Well, let's move on from this because the only
thing that I hate talking about more than politics is religion. Well, it's going to be tough because we're going to
get a heavy dose of it in and out of parts of this story and as it relates to Richard Snell and it's more so to do
with some of the hate groups and extremist groups that he was in and out of and intertwined with. But this Elohim
City is really I mean we could have done multiple episodes on this community by itself. Now, we should
point out here that this community gained national attention for its ties to members of the order of a group
called the order in the 1980s. And this was a community that certain government agencies were more
than well aware of. In fact, they were attempting to infiltrate this community by sending in
people that had like-minded views and opinions, but they would sign them up to be informants to get them to turn and to
basically provide intel as to what they were what was going on within this this closed off community. But could you
imagine if you're a government official or you're in law enforcement and they tell you, "Hey, Captain, uh, we got an
assignment for you. We're going to send you in to hang out with this group on this 400 acre farm. You're going to love
it." To be perfectly frank with you here, Captain, and everyone, I am very much a live and let live kind of person.
Even if you have hate in your heart and and you are dumb and backwards and ignorant and you have these beliefs, I
don't particularly have I don't have a high opinion of you, but I also don't have a strong opinion of you at all one
way or the other. As long as you're not out there hurting anyone, go off and do your thing. Build your own little
community. As long as you aren't harming anyone or hurting anyone, go do your thing. That part of it doesn't bother
me. So, I can't stand bullies. It's really a a tricky thing here. But one thing that I always keep in mind in
regard to this, it always bothers me like the kids that are borning born into these families, right? Because and the
kids that are born into these communities like you're not born into this world feeling that way. Absolutely
not. And I think that's where it becomes different. Like you said, if you want to
have these ignorant thoughts and you want to just be alone out in the woods with your ignorant thoughts and you're
not hurting anybody, then go be an idiot out in the woods by yourself. Once a child's involved now, you're you're
actually harming an individual. And that's where, you know, whether it's your own child or somebody else's child,
I I don't think anybody should stand for that. You're controlling their thoughts
at some point. Snell also formed ties with other separatist groups such as the Aryan Nation and the group we just
mentioned, the order. Beyond all of that, Snell was incredibly distrustful of all forms of US government. He was
anti-establishment and anti-government and very pro whatever the hell he wanted to do. Richard Snell was driven by
hatred and white separatism. He was determined to commit heinous crimes. And even though he had
ties to all of these hate groups, he was considered back in his time as something
of a lone wolf in that he operated autonomously. He was he was using these groups and in and
out of these groups of course, but he considered this Elohim city as his home base. Was he like a Charles Manson type
where he thought by doing hateful actions this would start some kind of race war? I mean, did he have an agenda?
He had an agenda, but he didn't have followers and he didn't desire, I think, to have followers. He wasn't the type
that was out to want to be a leader and control a community. He wanted to get involved. And unfortunately, so he was
the type that he he desired to overthrow the government, that there would be no government, right? And as crazy as it
sounds, I've been thinking I've had to been forced to think like Richard Snell in ways all week long. And one one thing
that really opened up my eyes is him and these other types that are like him don't Yes. They s single out the US
government. So we go, "Oh man, how could they be against the US government?" And
look there, look, our government's not perfect. We know that. That's an understatement. But these are the types
that regardless of where they were born, where they were brought up, in all likelihood, they would hate
whatever government that they lived under, right? Not just our government. They hate all forms of government. And
so his agenda that you were asking about his agenda, captain, his agenda was for
no government, to overthrow the government. And while he didn't desire to be a leader and really didn't desire
to have to band together with an army full of people to to carry out his agenda, unfortunately, it was a very
uphill battle that he was facing and it would force him to have to band together
with others. Well, Richard, you can't just be playing all by yourself. You're going to have to find some evil friends.
Well, we talked about banding together with others. Let's talk about Richard Snell wouldn't go on to be the only
notorious person that that frequented or lived at Elohim City. So, here are just
some of the other air quotes wonderful residents who either stayed or lived at Elohim City. We have George Eaton, who
is the founder of Present Truth Ministries and publisher/editor of an extreme right-wing anti-semitic newsletter
called the Patriot Report. We have James Ellison, who we've already talked about.
He was a white supremist leader of the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. We have Michael
Fortier, an army buddy of Timothy McVey, domestic terrorist who eventually Michael was imprisoned for failing to
warn authorities about the Oklahoma City bombing. We have Chevy Kho, a self-proclaimed white supremacist and
convicted murderer. He and an accomplice wiped out a family in Arkansas, including killing a kid who was just 8
years old. All of this just to steal a large quantity of guns and ammunition. We have Willie Ray Lampley, a
self-proclaimed prophet, leader of the now defunct Oklahoma constitutional militia and the head of the Universal
Church of God. We have Faren Earl Loveless, convicted in a separate case of murdering a man he believed was a
federal informant. And we also have Dennis Maym, a former Imperial dragon in the Oklahoma Klux Clan and an organizer
for White Aryan Resistance. So, no shortage of losers there at Elhome City. Robert Myar, the founder of
Elim City, declared that the leader of the covenant, the sword, and the arm of the Lord, James
Ellison, was a quote prophet full of vision and quote, who would unite the attending groups of Elhim City so they
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Captain. Just to be clear, our garage is not out in the middle of nowhere in some
strange community founded by two two guys that talk true crime in a garage. We just want to throw that out there. We
are in parts unknown. Now remember Richard Snell, he just stayed there off and on and considered this to be his
home base for his anti-government, anti-establishment operations. The very basics of what he
was about. Richard Snell wanted to overthrow the government by way of force. Some who knew him would later
describe Richard Snell as a paranoid type. He and his wife Mary Joe were reclusive and kept to themselves,
preferring isolation instead of social interaction. The Snell family lived in the town of Muse, Oklahoma. They were
known as survivalists. They lived on a remote 80 acre militarystyle camp on the edge of a national force. Snell
exhibited a strong propensity for violence and was known for his stockpiling of various deadly weapons
and explosives. So where is he getting money though? I think he's getting invol his money by being involved with these
different groups, right? And they are regularly involved in illegal activities. Not just that, but I'm sure
these groups have like you just listed a bunch of people and the bad things they did or
they believe all a part of this land, right? This 400 some acres of evil basically. But I guarantee you there's a
big list of names that help fund all this. Yes, absolutely. There's probably people donating money, some sort of
fundraising efforts. But keep in mind too be if you're anti-government then your illegal activities to you they're
not illegal activities. You're just doing whatever you want. The government has no right to tell you what you can
and cannot do in the eyes of these people. Right? And a lot of what these people are doing because they are we
said a paranoid type. But if you talk to a lot of these different groups, one of
one of the things that's kind of an underlining belief within a lot of these groups is that the end is near. The end
is near. The end is coming. And it will happen during my lifetime. And and the the people that are prepared will
survive. Yeah. The families that prepare and and fortify themselves and teach themselves to live off the land, those
will be the people that survive. The the others that didn't prepare, failing to prepare is preparing to fail as as a lot
of people would say. And so those people will not survive. And so one thing that
a lot of these guys and these groups are doing, it's the it's steal basically stealing guns and weapons. And once you
steal them, then you have to fund your lifestyle, fund your group, fund staying alive, just your everyday life, your
daytoday. A lot of times they're selling these weapons illegally too, but also stockpiling at the same time. But
obviously these guys are idiots because they're not in Ponyie, Indiana. Hail Zorp. Well, and yes, and and idiots too.
Look, you want to overthrow the government or really throw a wrench in things, why not infiltrate from the
inside, right? Why not educate yourself and and put yourself in a position where
you are in the government and and work it and collapse it from the inside? In the late 70s and early 80s, Richard
Snell became increasingly radicalized, reportedly engaging in several contentious interactions with various
governmental agencies, particularly the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS. Now, we can joke here as the IRS is
not typically at the top of anyone's favorite government entities list. I don't think anybody likes the IRS unless
you work for the IRS. Yeah. True Crime Garage. We're going to come out with IRS shirts really soon. But for a man like
Richard Snell with everinccreasing hate in his heart, his heart still had plenty
of room for extra hate for the IRS. This is according to Snell because the agency
raided his home in 1983. Now 1983 is going to be a very busy year for Mr. Richard Snell. As
said, the IRS raided his home and ultimately they took his land, throwing Snell, the wife, and kids out for
various violations and infractions. Snell started staying at Elum City or City of God or God City as it was also
called. Right. He also was staying from time to time at Hayden Lake in Idaho. At
Hayden Lake, there was another wonderful group of people. This is the Aryan Nations. Please hear the sarcasm in my
voice there. Richard Snell was buddies with Richard G Butler, who was the G, old G, who was the chief of the Aryan
Nations, a neo-Nazi umbrella organization for white supremist groups based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Well, with
a name like GET, you're going to hate a lot of people. But Well, and it's it's a
shame that these people find each other so easily. Yeah, but I I'm trying to wrap my head around how they recruit,
but think about this. Hey, come out to my lakehouse, sip on some cocktails. Hey, want to get away? We got a 400 acre
retreat. And you start hanging out there and you're going, "Hey, this is pretty nice.
It's pretty nice. I feel relaxed." And then they start telling you about the government and how much they hate it.
And also, and anybody that doesn't look like us, we hate them, too. Well, then this next part you're really not going
to like. So, in late night meetings, the leaders at Hayden Lake discussed how to
topple the government using as a source book the Turner Diaries, which is an extremist novel that envisions the
government's overthrow by paramilitary groups who then systematically killed Jews and blacks. I thought it was the
INT story. Richard Snell, James Ellison, and others were working on plans to assassinate federal officials in
Arkansas, bomb federal buildings in various locations, and bomb the Dallas office of a Jewish organization. But
think about this though for a second. What if you just liked the lakehouse, right? And
now you're just pretending to believe in all this other stuff so you can go camping and hiking. And they they start
telling you uh about their deeper, darker plans and you have to just kind of pretend to go along with it so you
can uh have the family go out to the the cabin for the weekend. Yeah. Sipping drinks by the lake and then you hear
these guys start talking. It's like, man, somebody must have put something in the weed out here.
These guys are high, but not in a good way. Richard Snell and a man named Steve Scott, this is a man who we will hear
more of as we continue with our true crime story here. They asked this James Ellison, the leader of the CSA, to
design a rocket launcher that could be used to destroy federal buildings from a distance. and they did
reconnaissance. They would go on driving trips to some of the different federal buildings and go inside the building and
check the building out. And on one trip in particular, Richard Snell sent James Ellison to the federal building in
Oklahoma City to gauge what it would take to destroy this building. Great. This was the Alfred P. Mura Federal
Building. The Alfred P. Mura Federal Building was a United States Federal Government complex located at 200
Northwest 5th Street in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The building was designed by architects from Lock
Wright and Associates and constructed by JW Bateson Company using reinforced concrete at a cost of over $14
million. The building is named for federal judge Alfred P. Mura, an Oklahoma native, and the building opened
for operations in 1977. Over the years, the building would eventually contain regional offices for several government
entities, including the Social Security Administration, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the
United States Secret Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
Center, the Drug Enforcement Administration, or the DEA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, the ATF. F. Now, are these just branches of that because it correct? Right. So, it's just the branch
of that cuz I'm sure we have branches of these organizations obviously in Washington. Yes. So, like the FBI, we'll
call it field offices. If you go to any major city, there will be an FBI field office located there like St. Louis,
Columbus, Ohio, probably Oklahoma City as well. Right. This is just as you said that these are government federal
agencies. So they have to operate throughout the course of our entire country nationwide and so because of that they
need to have people in different locations and they often operate just in major cities. So this building contained
recruiting offices for the US military. It housed approximately 550 employees plus kids as it also housed a child a
children's daycare center. Snell openly expressed a desire to blow up the Alfred
P. Mura Federal Building. Snell was bitter toward the government because of the IRS, specifically agents from the
Oklahoma City office and because they had taken him to court and his property had been seized by the FBI and other
agents in a raid. After the reconnaissance trips, the extremist led by Snell made preliminary sketches and
drawings. Rocket launchers were to be placed in a trailer or a van so that it could be driven up to a given spot,
parked there, and a timed detonating device could be triggered so that the driver could walk away and leave the
vehicle set in position and he would have time to clear the area before any of the rockets were launched. They were
attempting to design something like this to fit in either a trailer or a van or even a panel truck, right? So to to
place a vehicle near the federal building and basically shoot rockets into it, shoot missiles into it to blow
up the building. So they have these detailed plans on what they think will work to help them take down the
government, but they changed their plans. Yeah. So, I want to simplify this and and maybe talk about it in a way
that people of our generation could understand because we weren't around. Well, you are the voice of a generation.
There we go. The garage generation. Think of 9/11. Okay. Thi this is not this plan that they've come up with
these these crazy white guys. This is not really very different from what the terrorists were attempting to do with
9/11. And in fact, one could suggest maybe they even got the idea from these guys. So with 9/11, the idea was, hey,
we we'll hijack these four planes. We'll fly one into the Pentagon, destroying the Pentagon and all of the higherups,
uh, the defense and and all that for this country. We'll destroy all that with the Pentagon. We'll fly a plane
into the White House, hopefully killing a whole bunch of higherups and leaders of this great free world and then we
will fly two planes into the World Trade Centers which will then buckle and collapse the financial industry of our
country. Right? So really all you're trying to do is destroy and kill higher ups. destroy buildings and high and kill
higher ups so that you send this whole country into chaos, right? And then they would be able to easily take them over
after the fact. This is as as dumb as some of their ideas sound here. Richard Snell and all the guys at Ilum City,
it's it's really serious stuff because their plan is let's let's execute let's assassinate a few uh high up officials
in in certain parts of the country in certain states. Let's blow up some of these federal buildings and then we will
we will put parts of this country into complete chaos and we can start to amass land and and gather people and create
our own army. Well, yeah. And I think the word is disruption, right? And and I think the other thing about this is if
you target target these types of buildings and these types of officials and like what we were saying
earlier, this is just a branch of these entities in with inside the government, but that would also disrupt maybe the
actions of other individuals, other authorities in other locations. it might alter how they react or act uh going
forward or maybe not act at all out of fear that they're next. Well, and you had mentioned that, you know, you'd like
to not have to hear so much about the Bible or about God in especially with stories like this, but here is where God
might have been on our side, my friend, because they decided to not go forward with their rocket launcher plans with
the federal building in Oklahoma City. Why? because they after they came up with all the plans and the drawings and
they were they were starting to construct things. They were going to put this plan into action, they were going
to go out and execute this plan. They were running practice drills on their compound on the 400 acres that they were
staying. During one of these practice drills, the rocket launcher, it uh malfunctioned. Surprise, surprise. And
there it exploded basically with the with the person trying to operate it either right next
to it or or either holding it. There's various varying degrees of this story. Mhm. However, what is stated commonly in
this story is that Snell and the others considered that to be divine intervention. That that was God telling
them that they had the wrong plan. That they were going about this the wrong way. and that whatever their plan was to
blow up this particular building wasn't going to work. God was not on their side
for this one. So, they aborted that mission. But it also shows you there's just different levels of extremism where
these individuals were like, "Hey, we're not willing to die for our cause." Where
the terrorists of 9/11, they knew they were going to die for whatever cause they had.
Exactly. Different levels of crazy, my friend. Yes, and we've certainly reviewed all all of those different
levels here in the garage. We said 1983 will be a busy year for Richard Snell, and it was in fact just that. And we're
going to circle back into 83 here in a minute, but let's go to 1984. Now, this is when a an
African-American state trooper attempted to pull Richard Snell over for a simple
traffic violation. This is in the state of Arkansas. When the trooper, the state
trooper, his name is Lewis Bryant. When he approached Snell's vehicle, Snell got
out and shot him. So, he shot him multiple times and even shot him again while the trooper was lying on the
ground. This killed officer Bryant. He drove off after this. Now there, this story is one that is not reported at
length in the news reports and it's a very tragic story. It's a very sad story. There's parts of this though that
that I mean it's truth is stranger than fiction. You can't write this stuff. Officer Bryant's wife like stumbled upon
his cruiser and his body lying there and she calls for help and they attempt to try to save this man. He he was a young
man. Um I believe he was in his mid to late 20s. So a young man with a young family is gunned down by this racist
jerk on the side of the road. But what we get here, Captain, is a trucker. there was a witness that saw this go
down and he's like, "You know what? I'm gonna follow that car. I'm gonna follow the the murderer so I can help police
catch this dude." So, this guy follows him all the way to a place called Broken Bow, Oklahoma. They they get the police
there. They know that they're looking for this car. They have the car description from the witnesses of who
shot this state trooper. They surround the vehicle in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. and Snell's not willing to surrender. He
gets in a gun battle, a gunfight with the authorities there. Now, this is one of the better parts of the story here,
my friend, because Richard Snell was shot six times during the course of this gun battle. And he was ushered off to
the hospital. He was in critical condition, but they ultimately were able to save his life. And so he was going to
face a trial now for killing this officer of the law. People that knew Snell immediately jumped to the
conclusion that this was a race matter that because the officer was black and Snell was a white supremist, white
separatist, that he chose to gun down the officer. There's certainly reason to believe that. Well, that's part of the
equation, right? That's exactly part of the equation. Really, what what very likely is the full story is in his car,
he has all kinds of stolen guns, stolen ammunition, and I believe they even recovered grenades and explosives from
his vehicle. Yeah. So, it's it's very likely because of the illegal activity and his hatred for authorities and
government, but also again like we said, it's just part of the equation. But this
officer could have been white and the same result could have happened. I believe that would be the case because
what Richard Snell and his buddies, his cronies were doing, these guys were thugs. They were just thugs. That's all
they were. They would go and they they would come in heavily armed to a location and rob the location of their
cash and their guns and they're they're collecting all these guns and weapons and again they're selling some of them
and so his car is loaded down with all kinds of stolen guns, stolen ammunition and
explosives. And so yeah, he probably would have gun. That was probably the motive to that that he couldn't have
been seen that the officer, whoever it would have been. And very tragically and very sad that it was this young officer
Bryant. But whoever the officer would have been, they would have most certainly seen all of these weapons in
this car. And so Snell would have been busted right there and then. And he wasn't going to let it play out that
way. Well, the gun that he used to kill Officer Bryant, they do some ballistic testing
on that gun and they trace it back to a murder from 1983. This is when Snell and two other
of his cronies walked into a pawn shop and decided to rob the owner of the pawn shop. They wanted to steal things like
guns, jewelry, cash, anything that this guy had on hand. But this is one of the ways that they had to fund their evil
ways. So this first murder that they connect Richard Snell to was the victim was William Stump. So he himself is
former law enforcement and now pawn shop owner. And this is a robbery that will take place in November of 1983. So
Richard Snell and two guys go into this pawn shop. This is a Tex Arcana pawn shop. Old Tex Arcana. Yeah. With nothing
but bad intent in their in their hearts. And they are loaded up with weapons themselves. They are they are fully
armed here. And this is like a incredibly cowardous move by Richard Snell. He shoots this man in the back.
They're in the process of robbing the dude. They're going to get what they want. They're going to get what they
came there for. They essentially, Captain, they're going to be successful in this mission. Yeah, but you can't
leave a eyewitness. But that's not good enough for Snell. This guy turns his back and after opening the He's not even
able to turn around after opening up the safe. He's still got his back turned while he's opening up the safe for
Snell. Snell shoots him in the back and they kill this William Stump. One of the
men there was a straightup lookout. One of the men there did enter the pawn shop
with Snell and they took off the three of them. I believe they only got away with like $90 in cash. They did get away
with some jewelry and some guns and some other items that they took from the pawn
shop as well. But as the story goes, the accompllices would later tell authorities that Snail told them that he
killed the man. He killed William Stump because he William Stump was a Jew and he deserved to die and it wasn't just
good enough to rob him. So this is his the definition of a hate crime, right? He he could have robbed this dude and
just left. But no, snails determined that this guy was Jewish and therefore he had to be killed in the commission of
this robbery. And as all the reports go, Captain, it was mistaken identity that he wasn't a Jewish man. And so that's
the story according to his accompllices. So what he's going to face is two different charges, right? He's he's
charged with murder with homicide twice, but he would be facing life for one of the charges of murder and yeah,
potential uh death penalty in the other case. We get a pretty easy conviction here because the two men that were with
him, remember we mentioned a Steve Scott earlier. This was a man that seemed to run around quite a bit with Snell and
probably helped him commit a lot of crimes. And we're going to get into another failed crime of theirs. The
other man was William Thomas. So, both of these guys were fellow members of the CSA, that hate
group, and they both turned on Snell, testifying against him at his trial. Now, this one is is a more lighthearted
story in that there are no victims here, but one of the crimes that these three idiots attempted to carry out was there
was a pipeline, a gas, a natural gas pipeline in Falton, Arkansas. And these three geniuses had the idea of, well,
let's blow up the pipeline and then the pipe will will continue to to funnel natural gas up to the explosion
point and we will have a forever burning torch. They wanted to create some kind of spectacle, right? This this eternal
torch that would burn from this pipeline that they destroyed. So this is in Fulton, Arkansas, 1983. However, the
explosives that they used, these guys didn't understand that the explosive will it essentially blows up to the
point of least resistance, right? So if you put the explosives on the outside of
this heavily fortified metal or lead or whatever it was pipeline, the least resistance is going to be everywhere
else but the pipeline, right? because it's all air. It's airspace. So, they attempted to blow a hole in this
pipeline and it did it did nothing. I mean, their their explosives they blew up successfully. They just didn't do any
damage to the pipeline. But these guys are they're arrogant. They're ignorant. They're racist. They're evil.
They're dumb as [ __ ] Yeah. Snell he in that shootout with police when he's eventually arrested as said he was shot
six times four times in the abdomen once in the knee and once in the ankle. Uh when they searched the vehicle they
discovered an arsenal of illegal weapons. This included guns which included the 22 caliber Rugal Ruger
pistol with a silencer on it. That was the gun that was proved to be the weapon used to kill William Stump. They found
additional silencers, which we've talked about in previous cases, how illegal those are, hand grenades, and other
explosive devices. You do have law enforcement on the record saying, "Look, yes, we we recognize that Richard Snell
is a racist and was involved in these groups. However, after finding what we found in his vehicle, we are certain
that that was the motive for gunning down Officer Bryant." And the other part of the story here, Captain, that is so
incredibly tragic is that with the funeral service for Trooper Bryant, so you have all
these officers. You even have uh government officials and such that were coming to attend the funeral of the
fallen officer, right? On the way to the funeral, there was a vehicle that that was filled with gentlemen that were
going to be pawbearers. These were fellow officers of Trooper Bryant that were in this vehicle that were going to
be pawbearers at his funeral service. And that vehicle was jack knifed by a large gravel
truck. Everyone in that vehicle lost their lives that day on the way to the funeral for this young officer. Did they
ever investigate that as a you know, was it just an accident or Yeah, unfortunately it was just a a a
very tragic sort of freak accident. They that they weren't the only vehicle that was
involved in the accident from my understanding. There were multiple multiple vehicles. It's a shame they
didn't kill him in the shootout so our um government didn't have to house him. But I guess in some
way I I bet he hated the idea that he was going to be in government housing aka prison. Well, and that's the thing
here. If you are if you take out an officer, which he did, surrender. It will end in a gunfight. It
almost always does. These guys, you you killed one of their own. And so I yeah, I'm there's part of me that's proud that
they ushered him off to the hospital, right? Because even even in the heat of battle, you want the good guys to do the
good thing and do the right thing. And these these good old boys, these officers could have just left him
there to die on the street, right? A good officer understands that it's it's not their job to be the jury and the
executioner. The judge, jury, and executioner. No, it's their job to make the arrest. And they made the arrest of
a very bad, very violent man. How many more people would he have killed in the commission of a robbery
or forget about that? He he was designing plans and working with others to blow up a very large federal
building. How many lives would this dude have taken out? And these guys, they got
to him, they arrested him, he goes off to court. Now, at his trial, the most damning evidence obviously is going to
be the two witnesses who were working with him in the robbery of Stump, but those guys weren't there when Snell
gunned down the officer. The other bit of evidence, too, was Snell was dumb enough to leave a watch at the pawn
shop. That was part of his ruse to disarm the pawn shop owner to get him to put his walls down a little bit and to
engage him in conversation. He went in there under the ruse of trying to sell this watch to William Stump and then
they pull guns on the guy. They rob him. Snail kills him. Snail's too dumb to collect his watch before leaving the
pawn shop. So, they did have some evidence that they were working with at the time, but they just never
connected it to Richard Snell. He left they left the watch on a um on a scale. They were they were
weighing it to determine how much how how much precious metals the watch can Yeah. Some of this might not be
ignorance as much as it could be arrogance. And to think that you're the smartest guy in the room and law
enforcement is dumb and they're never going to catch me. And it could be. Either way, the
guy's evil. Exactly. Oh [ __ ] Yeah. The trial uh one of the trials lasted three
days and the jury only deliberated for a mere 15 minutes before convicting him. and they came back with the
recommendation of death penalty for Richard Snell. Wow. The two associates, Thomas and Scott, who both testified for
the state in exchange for decreased sentences, they they plead guilty. So, they went off to serve their time after
turning on their their guy, their buddy. Richard Snell would ultimately be sent off for incarceration at Tucker Maximum
Security Unit in Jefferson County, Arkansas to await his impending execution. And despite what has been
reported as procedural errors alleged on his appeals anyway, Snell's conviction was upheld. And so
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Hate itself is not a crime. Hate is a feeling, an emotion but hate can very easily become criminal. In fact we see it everyday on the News, playing out before our eyes. Richard Wayne Snell was a white separatist and a white supremacist. His hate became criminal. He committed several hate crimes that resulted in the murders of innocent people. Unfortunately within certain groups throughout several states Richard Snell was looked at as a leader, an influencer, and a lone wolf. He was a bad man full of hate who preferred to operate alone but when his mission became overthrowing the U.S. Government it required that he work with others. He found friendship in several hate groups that operated far and wide, from Arkansas all the way out to Washington state. Richard Wayne Snell’s hate fueled more hate and that hate turned violent and deadly.

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Brief Summary

Richard Snell's violent crimes and extremist beliefs are detailed, including the murder of a state trooper and plans to attack federal buildings.

Key points

The Rise of SNHU. From a two-room business school to a major university.
Understanding Hate. Exploring hate as a learned behavior rather than an instinct.
Richard Snell's Extremism. A look into the life of Richard Snell and his extremist beliefs.
Richard Snell's Radicalization. Richard Snell's increasing hate leads him to plot against the government.
Plans for Chaos. Snell and his group plan to assassinate officials and bomb federal buildings.
Divine Intervention or Malfunction?. A malfunction during practice drills leads to a decision against a violent plan.

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