Militias: On the brink of doom
Created 6-30-95 by Dave Stroble, stroble@nr.infi.net
Posted 7-1-95 by Dave Stroble
By SUSAN LADD and STAN SWOFFORD
News & Record Staff Writers
   A hawk soars on an updraft in the hollow and the rush of a 
small mountain stream is cool and inviting in the warm 
afternoon sun. Nord Davis Jr. is driving by roadside signs that 
advertise mountain honey and trout ponds and he's talking about 
the coming apocalypse.
   In less than a year, he says, this will all be gone.
   "Your children are not going to live like we did," he 
says. "It's already over. There's no choice now not to go into 
a New World Order dictatorship. What you've been seeing in 
Bosnia for the past three years, you'll be seeing here."
   From his home in the mountains of Cherokee County, Davis has 
been trying to warn people, sending out newsletters from the 
tiny Andrews post office to a mailing list that numbers more 
than 25,000.
   His best seller, he says, with 300,000 copies in 
circulation, is "Desert Shield and the New World Order." In 
it, Davis names Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller as the 
two co-chairmen of the New World Order, which has secretly been 
controlling the world since 1989. They are, he writes, the two 
parts of the modern Babylon as foretold in the New Testament 
Book of Revelation.
   "My philosophy and theology run together," says Davis, 63. 
"Most people read the Bible only on the surface. I get into 
the deeper levels."
   What lies beneath his Bible today is a .45 caliber 
semiautomatic pistol. The gun is nestled inside a black Cordura 
case; his Bible fits in an outside pocket. A tall man wearing a 
western shirt and a bolo tie with an eagle over snakeskin, 
Davis has piercing blue-gray eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses.
   Davis is vague about the Northpoint Teams that he has 
organized and leads but he says its missions over the years 
have included stopping the Vietnam War, intervening in the 
Persian Gulf War, and running guns to the Contras in Nicaragua. 
Davis says Northpoint Teams consists of five-member teams 
located across the country. Each has various specialities.
   "Some are good in the woods," he says. "Some are good 
with guns. Some are good medical units."
   He has a close relationship with former Green Beret Bo 
Gritz, who often visits the Andrews area to hold S.P.I.K.E. 
training. Specially Prepared Individuals for Key Events 
training includes survival and paramilitary exercises. Davis 
provides Gritz with security and a place for arms training. 
When Gritz ran for president on the Populist Party ticket in 
1992, he tapped Davis as the man he'd want for his secretary of 
defense.
   Though he has dabbled in politics, Davis considers himself a 
prophet. Among the deeper meanings he gleans from the Bible: 
that the commandment regarding adultery refers to interracial 
marriage, and that "Thou shalt not kill" only refers to the 
murder of innocents.
   "If you are an enemy of God, I am obliged to kill you," 
Davis says.
   He's talking about FBI agent Lon Horiuchi, one of the agents 
involved in the Randy Weaver shootout in Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 
1992. The incident, in which Weaver's wife and son were killed, 
has been a rallying point for the Patriot movement.
   "I have his address," Davis says with a smile. "He's in 
Virginia. I've told a couple of people. He won't live to see 
the New World Order."
   Davis believes he won't live to see it, either: "I'm on a 
list of 160 people to be picked up and put in concentration 
camps that are already being set up across the country. But 
they won't get me unless they find me out on the road without a 
gun."
   And that, he says, is unlikely. If they come to get him on 
his property, Davis is prepared for a siege. His 130-acre home 
near Andrews doesn't look that different on the surface from 
any other mountain retreat. Rhododendron drapes the banks of a 
small stream flowing down the hill, and wild turkeys wander 
around a pond.
   But there's a gate and there's a guardhouse and beyond those 
-- tucked away on the hillside -- there's a 1,000-square foot 
underground living area. The buildings behind his home contain 
gasoline storage and a gravity-fed water system. A short-wave 
radio antenna reaches above the treetops.
   In addition to the fax machine, copy machine, postal meter 
and computers, there are seven guns in the four-room office 
area of his home. There's a shotgun by his secretary's door, 
and two more rifles mounted on the wall. A pair of shotguns are 
mounted outside his office door. One -- short-barreled, 
stockless, with a pistol grip -- is meant for close quarters. A 
.45 hangs from a holster. And behind the large desk lined with 
computers in Davis' paneled office, there is a .370 Mauser 
rifle with a scope mounted beside his office window.
   Getting people to understand the coming New World Order is 
difficult, Davis says, because most have rejected the true word 
of God. America, he says, has gotten off track and will come 
under judgment because Christian people did not force a 
righteous government.
   "Look at Revelation -- it speaks of a lady in the sea but 
out of the sea, with horns on her head. That's the Statue of 
Liberty -- she brings huddled masses, not independent 
hard-working people. Now some people act like I want to kill 
all the Jews and niggers. That's not true. Let's leave them 
where they are. Five to 8 percent of my readers are Negroes who 
love what I say."
   In one pamphlet called "Star Wars," he writes:
   Today, we have become an Esau-Zionist controlled nation 
where interracial marriages are not only permitted but 
encouraged. American soldiers are sent into heathen lands and 
encouraged to bring back heathen wives and their half-breed 
children to live among us, thus altering our national 
Thought-theology along the planned lines of the Brotherhood of 
Man theme.
   "Men were created to live among themselves after their own 
kind," Davis says. "The commandment doesn't refer to taking 
Susie in the back seat after a date. Adultery is mixing the 
races. We're not allowed to do that. The true Biblical meaning 
of fornication is interracial marriage."
   Davis subscribes to the Christian Identity doctrine, which 
holds that Caucasians are the 12th lost tribe of Israel. 
Manifest destiny, he says, is built around white people -- the 
teachers, preachers and builders.
   "We are God's special people," Davis says. "We're called 
to be the leaders."
   The difference between his scholarship and others, Davis 
says, it that he understands the ancient idioms: "I happen to 
believe that America is the chosen land, not the sands of 
ancient Israel. Christ was an innocent man, murdered by the 
government, and after that the land went downhill because it 
was defiled. When blood of an innocent is spilled, the land can 
only be purified by spilling the blood of the murderers."
   Now the same thing has happened in America, Davis says.
"The first time in this country that the government killed 
people in a Christian church was Waco," Davis says. "And look 
at what's happened since then -- floods, hurricanes, 
earthquakes. This has never happened before. He won't come back 
here until we clear it up. The murderers at Waco have to be 
tried and executed to purify the land."
   The murderers at Waco, he says, include Attorney General 
Janet Reno and 10 other people. Though earnest, he is genial 
until he begins to talk about Reno. Spittle flies from his lips 
and his eyes blaze as he uses a sexual epithet to describe 
Reno, probably the most vilified public official among Patriots 
because of her role in Waco.
   Davis, who says he has many contacts within the federal 
government, believes Timothy McVeigh was a dupe, like Oswald, 
put up by the FBI and BATF to blow up the federal building in 
Oklahoma City. Davis calls himself a student of conspiratorial 
political science.
   "I've been in private intelligence work for 31 years, and 
the government will one day wipe me out," Davis says.
   Davis was born in Ames, Iowa, and grew up in Massachusetts. 
His father, who held degrees in landscape architecture and city 
planning, worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority. His mother 
was a graduate of the New England School of Fine Arts, but 
devoted herself to taking care of three sons.
   Davis says a two-story fall he suffered when he was a baby 
shaped his life. He went through a window screen and fell, 
landing on his head. Doctors said he would never be quite 
right. Consequently, the bulk of his parents' attention, 
including material things, were lavished on his brothers, Erik 
and Jonathan, Davis said. Davis said he had to work and earn 
money in order to buy a bicycle while his brothers were given 
bikes.
   "They were better treated," Davis said. "I thought I was 
second-rate."
   Davis credits this treatment, though painful, with making 
him self-sufficient and independent. He says he served in the 
Navy during the Korean War and worked at IBM, where he was a 
systems analyst and "think tank guy." He says he left IBM in 
1966 to expose their sales of computer equipment to the Soviet 
Union. He wrote his first pamphlet, "Dallas Conspiracy," soon 
afterward, an expose of the Kennedy assassination.
   In 1970, he was nominated as the American Independent Party 
candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. During a 
debate, one opponent described the number of casualties in 
Vietnam as an acceptable business loss. It was a watershed 
moment for Davis. The next year, he founded Northpoint Teams 
with the aim of stopping the Vietnam War.
   Davis makes a lot of fantastic claims about Northpoint 
Teams. He says the U.S. government blockaded Haiphong Harbor, 
bringing an end to the Vietnam War, only because he threatened 
to bomb the dredge that kept it open.
   Davis also says Northpoint teams ran guns to the Contras to 
prevent Nicaragua from becoming another Vietnam, and claims 
that he is responsible for the relatively low number of 
American casualties in the Persian Gulf. Davis displays photos 
of Jordan's King Hussein in his office, which he says are 
mementos of "Project Sheba."
   Davis claims the King of Jordan served as a go-between with 
Saddam Hussein, passing along Davis' theory that a large loss 
of American life in the Gulf War would only play into the hands 
of Zionists in the United States and Israel, who wanted to 
inflame the American public into an all-out war in the Middle 
East by which they could regain all the land that once belonged 
to King David.
   Davis says financing for these operations comes partly from 
donations. Financial team members contribute $20 per month, and 
his publications sell for $1 to $7 apiece. Financing also comes 
from Davis' own personal wealth, which he says he accrued 
through shrewd investments in gold and silver.
   "Going to junk coins was part of the New World Order, and I 
capitalized on it," he said. Like many involved in the Patriot 
movement, he believes he isn't required to file income tax and 
he says he hasn't done so since 1969.
   Today, his primary task is spreading the word about the 
coming New World Order.
   "We've got to educate the public about what's happening," 
Davis says. "I like to have people in their late 60s and 70s 
with cancer -- they've got nothing to lose."
   It's harder, he says, to reach the younger generation: 
"They didn't grow up with the same kind of patriotism that we 
did. They don't want to give up their BMWs."
   He believes the press and all the presidents have supported 
the formation of the New World Order, from Reagan and Bush all 
the way back to Woodrow Wilson. And time is running out.
   "They are steam rolling right now," Davis says. "Within 
one year, you won't recognize this country. In Ohio, they're 
already blocking off towns, kicking down doors, robbing houses. 
After Waco, some people I know advocated choosing 83 federal 
agents and executing them. But I wouldn't do that, even if 
that's the righteous thing to do. It's not time for that yet. 
It will be one day."
   Davis does not seem fearful, though he believes that agents 
of the federal government will be coming for him eventually.
   Stones set along the hillside below his home will all be 
memorials. There's already a memorial for several Revolutionary 
War heroes. He jokes that a rock beside the road is the "tomb 
of the unknown FBI agent."
   "There's never been a country like this before," Davis 
says. "God put these blessings on us. He gave us the right 
people. The right technology. My love for America comes from 
that. They are not going to take it away. They may kill me but 
they won't take it from me, even if I'm the last man 
standing."

From Patriot Aims/The Militias, published June 25-27, 1995,
by the News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.
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