
In the Year 2193 Historians will teach the children of that time that this man
was one of the first precursor fatalities of the Second American War for
Independence (which was not "officially" acknowledged until September 17, 1997,
now known in retrospect as "Judgement Day"). But the majority of Americans
living today would draw a blank if his name were mentioned in casual
conversation.

                THE UNCENSORED GORDON KAHL STORY
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	In 1968, Tax Protestor Gordon Kahl stopped filing IRS 1040 Income Tax
Returns. For 9 years thereafter, the IRS ignored him, but in 1977 after Gordon
Kahl spoke on an evening radio talk show regarding the illicitness of the income
tax, some 250 phone calls would come into the radio station over the next two
days; either supporting Kahl in some aspect, or pledging never to file another
tax return.

	And with that, the IRS came down on Kahl like a ton of bricks. They
quickly assembled a case against him and two weeks later threw a criminal
prosecution against him for violating Title 26, Section 7203 ["Willful Failure
to File"]. Gordon Kahl was a low-income farmer not even meeting minimal
statutory standards for threshold income levels achieved before being required
to file 1040s, but that was not about to stop the IRS, who is good at changing
the facts by creating facts.

	Convicted and incarcerated, when out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
on parole, Kahl left the Texas judicial district he was confined to by claiming
that some aspect of the Restriction Orders was defective. He soon moved to
North Dakota -- and there, he met his fate. A criminal Summons issued from a
Federal Court in Midland, Texas was served on Gordon Kahl on August 8, 1980,
charging him with a misdemeansor. Gordon Kahl responded by informing the Court
that he would not be appearing, and the matter was allowed to be deferred until
March 31, 1982, when the Justice Department obtained a Federal Arrest Warrant
citing his parole violation.

	Then, that Warrant was held up again until July 26, 1982, some 16 months
later, when it was sent to the U.S. Marshals Office in Fargo, North Dakota on
February 13, 1983. The United States Marshals and the Federal Court in Texas
knew of his whereabouts in North Dakota at all times. After a two and one half
year delay in the case, the fact that there was a "problem" controlling the
prosecution of the case is self-evident.

	If that chronology had been published in the New York Times in the
context of discussing some other unfortunate incident that had happened, it
would be referred to, very defensively of the Government of course, as mere
"bureaucratic bungling," in an attempt to discredit the obvious interposition of
the "Lateness of the Hour" operating against the Government to bar the
legitimacy of their management of the case.

	Once again Gordon Kahl had attracted the attention of the United States
Government. With the personality known as Ronald Reagan acquiescing
indifferently as President, and with William French Smith sitting as Attorney
General, the word came down the pipeline to GET RID OF GORDON KAHL, and the
stage was set for the kind of confrontation the Feds wanted.

	A violent attack was planned against Gordon Kahl at his farmhouse, and it
was going to be well publicized. The attack would be in the form of a
roadblock, it would be in the evening hours, and it would occur in a remote
rural area. The timing of the attack in February of 1983 was selected to
coincide with the trials of other related criminal prosecutions then going on
that would be favorably tipped towards the Government, as the Juries were
exposed to what would be surfacing visibly on the news as the Gordon Kahl
"incident."

	From his farm in Heaton, North Dakota, both Gordon Kahl, along with his
neighbors, and the Chief of Police of Medina, North Dakota, Darrell Graff, all
had received several advanced notices that the United States Marshals were
planning a very unpleasant reception for Gordon Kahl, and in the case of Darrell
Graff, he was told bluntly to stay out of it.

	Rather than meet his adversaries face-to-face to settle the grievance at
that lower level, Gordon Kahl improvidently ignored the gathering storm and
tossed aside the Warrant, thus giving his adversaries the benefit of
intensifying the impending confrontation into an elevated status -- a level that
originates out of the barrel of a gun, where the Feds were quite likely to
prevail. Although that did not give the United States Marshals the right to
come out first and shoot Kahl, it does however require that other people in
difficult positions with juristic authorities facing contemplated extermination
itself, should not replicate Gordon Kahl's modus operandi.

	On the 14th of February, 1983, Gordon Kahl, accompanied by his wife and
son Yori, left a meeting in a Medina, North Dakota commercial district and
headed home. Gordon Kahl was under surveillance and he knew it. He could have
been picked up at the meeting, but the Feds had a surprise for him and wanted
the remoteness of a rural environment. His son Yori detected something adverse
and dangerous in the air, and so he took his father's jacket and cap and wore
those on himself on the ride home that afternoon.

	Not far from his farmhouse a roadblock had been set up by U.S. Marshal
Kenneth Muir. It was a very unusual roadblock in that it had an ambulance and
firetruck waiting there. Yes, there was going to be some trouble. The Marshal
had not come to arrest, but to murder. Bringing neither the Arrest Warrant, nor
any identification, Deputy Muir brought his gun and orders to terminate Gordon
Kahl.

	Arriving at the roadblock, Gordon's son, Yori Kahl, fled the pickup truck
and ran to a nearby telephone pole for cover. Thinking that Yori was his dad
Gordon, Marshal Muir opened the shooting by firing several shots at Yori. Yori
did not fall to the ground quick enough to satisfy the killer Marshal, so
Marshal Muir kept on shooting until Yori fell. After spending a while at the
hospital, Yori Kahl would actually survive to be charged with murder, and later
convicted by a jury in a Star Chamber that was highly pressured by the U.S.
Marshals and had numerous other fatal irregularities that would never survive
reversal on appeal.

	Back at the evening roadblock, after seeing his own son cut down by
Marshal Muir, Gordon Kahl grabbed a gun and let Marshal Muir have it, killing
him and Deputy Marshal Robert Chesire. Injured was Deputy Marshal James Hopson.
Staying in the background, looking at all of this shooting and profanity being
thrown about, was Chief Darrell Graff of the Medina Police Department, who was
told in advance that Kahl was going to buy the farm, and that he was to stay out
of it. Gordon went over to the telephone pole, dragged his son Yori, white with
blood loss and bleeding profusely, over to an unmarked police car, drove him to
a hospital back in Medina, and then as a thick fog quickly settled in on the
Fargo countryside, Gordon Kahl sped away into the night.

	Soon, a swarm of military stormtroopers descended on Fargo, in military
clothing and using military trucks [see Time Magazine ["Dakota Dragnet"], page
25 (February 28, 1983)]. They were on search and destroy orders. Gordon Kahl
was immediately placed on the FBI's ten most wanted list, and was the subject of
the most intensive fugitive search in the history of the FBI. It was a massive
operation.

	A tight clampdown was put out in North Dakota, accompanied with extensive
random stops of motor vehicles, but nothing ever turned up. For Gordon Kahl,
thousands of armed forces were called into search the surrounding North Dakota
countryside. Every available private bounty hunter known to the FBI was hired
and put on the case, but fugitive Gordon Kahl slipped through it all.

	In comparison to what they can do when they feel like it, it is
worthwhile noting how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI never showed any such interest
in capturing unknown fleeing killers when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
No roadblocks, no dragnets, no manhunts, no searching -- nothing but CIA agents
carrying Secret Service credentials restraining people from approaching the
grassy knoll for about 10 minutes.

	For the next three months, Gordon Kahl had found a home with some
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, and a Mr. Russell, who kept moving him quietly
from house to house. It was rather obvious to anyone that if he was ever found,
he would be killed immediately.

	In time, Mr. Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson, noticed that
her father was hiding Gordon Kahl. Possessed with First Person evidence ["I
saw...," "I heard..."], she in turn went to the FBI and spilled the beans. She
was given $25,000 and the promise of immunity from prosecution [see the New York
Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19, 1983)].

	The rural house where Gordon Kahl was staying was placed under FBI
surveillance; but the results were inconclusive. On the morning of June 4th, a
special FBI team of animals and savage killers [which is no exaggeration], known
as the Delta Force, left their home base in Washington, D.C. and flew into
Lawrence County, Arkansas on a private FBI jet. There, they were met by local
FBI agents, other FBI agents, the Arkansas State Police, the Sheriff of Lawrence
County, Arkansas, his deputies, and a confluence of United States Marshals
assembled from across the country. Several Marshals invited to the Kahl
execution operation arrived too late and missed it.

	Later in the afternoon, it all began. The quiet, isolated and remote
house was cordoned off, roadblocks were set up, and all without Gordon Kahl
detecting anything amiss. Soon that afternoon, Mr. Ginter left the house alone
and he was stopped down the road. He claimed his wife, Norma Ginter, was in the
house alone. Now, the house where Gordon Kahl was living was more closely
surrounded, and Sheriff Gene Matthews went to the front door to remove Mrs.
Ginter from the scene.

	With her out of the way, the FBI started open shooting, and saturated the
house with bullets; but the earth shelter house was made with concrete walls and
Gordon Kahl survived through it all without a scratch. The 36 year old local
Sheriff, Gene Matthews, was killed incidental to the FBI siege on the Gordon
Kahl hideout.

	After a while, as the firing stopped, the FBI cordoned off the house for
themselves while the Delta Force animals converged on the house like starved
panthers going for a piece of meat. They found Gordon Kahl alive and well
inside the home, hiding behind the refrigerator. He was taken to the living
room, thrown on the floor, and was worked over with the butt end of their
rifles. While numerous bones were being fractured and his teeth were being
smashed in, other members of Delta Force went on a rampage in the house,
smashing pictures and the television set, over-turning furniture, a copier, and
taking a fireman's axe and chopping up a bookshelf.

	While Gordon Kahl was pinned to the floor by the 6 to 8 Delta Force
panthers, still under attack from the gun butts, the FBI agent with the
fireman's axe turned to Gordon Kahl himself and chopped off his hand. Then he
went around and chopped off Gordon Kahl's other hand, and then both of his feet
were severed. While screaming with pain and with blood gushing out profusely
over the floor where his hands and feet used to be, Gordon Kahl was shot in the
head at close range, killing him.

	A local Deputy Sheriff was given the honor of removing the bullet from
Gordon Kahl's head [later that week, the deputy would tell a neighbor that he
had not eaten in three days]. When local people viewed Gordon Kahl's
dismembered body, they became nauseous and sick, stating that the man they just
hacked apart was not Gordon Kahl, but Mr. William Wade, who was the owner of the
land and resembled Gordon Kahl closely in age and appearance, and was well known
to the Sheriff and others personally.

	There was confusion; immediately there was trouble. A massive series of
roadblocks were erected again, and the thorough searching of all automobiles
over a wide radius was started; it was believed that Gordon Kahl had slipped out
once again.

	Local residents monitoring the operation on the police radio band heard a
call made for some gasoline to be delivered to the house. Now that the murder
of Gordon Kahl had been botched, the Feds were going to cover their own tracks
and torch the place. The Delta Force animals left the place with extensive
blood stains covering their clothes and took the private FBI jet back to
Washington.

	The roadblocks were called off when Mr. Wade, the owner of the land,
showed up in town alive and well. The body of Sheriff Matthews was taken to a
local hospital, while later in the evening after the fire the Feds had set had
died down, the charred body of Gordon Kahl was taken to the local coroner. The
dismembered body was later identified as being that of Gordon Kahl. But the
bodies and the house were only lightly charred, since the house was fabricated
from cast concrete walls and the fire never got that intense. The corpse
identified as being Gordon Kahl's was missing teeth, hands, and feet, had a
bullet hole in the head (without a bullet), and was extensively covered with
tissue bruises and fractured bones. It was very shocking and disgusting, as
people who saw photographs of Gordon Kahl's charred remains, taken by the
coroner, reported a stark and terrified look on his charred face; he had died in
extreme terror, screaming violently from the pain. They had gotten their man.

The man who was Director of the FBI at the time that this murder operation was
being performed, was William Webster. He personally supervised it. And when
you get to know William Webster very well, you will become acquainted with a
great murderer.

	Gordon Kahl was later buried with military honors -- whatever that meant.
His wife back in North Dakota received several mean and ugly death threats from
the Feds to keep quite or be murdered herself. Meanwhile, the rest of the
country went on like Alice strolling through Wonderland; believing that all was
well and that the Federal Government is your trusted friend, and that some
little Tax Protestor over there got what he deserved.

	Back in Arkansas, while shifting through the smoldering ruins in the
kitchen, a reporter for the New York Times accompanied by Ray Wade, the land
owner's son, found Gordon Kahl's left foot that had been severed off by the axe.
It was taken to the local coroner Dr. Fahmy Malak in Little Rock, confirmed as
being Gordon Kahl's sliced off foot. However, this was news not fit to
emphasize, and the reporter's story was blurred over when printed [see New York
Times ["Gunfight Shatters Tranquility of Arkansas Hills"], page 14 (July 3,
1983)].

	Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, who had been harboring Gordon Kahl, were charged not
only with aiding and abetting a fugitive, but also were fraudulently charged
with the murder of Sheriff Matthews. At Trial, the only evidence introduced
against them, outside of the background story, was first person evidence from
Art Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson, who reported to the Jury what
she had seen her father do. And with that eyewitness evidence, the Ginters and
Art Russell were convicted and sentenced to protracted incarceration in a
Federal Penitentiary [see New York Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax Rebel Case"],
page A19 (October 19, 1983)].

	In conclusion, note that a large volume of the continuous reporting that
the New York Times and Time Magazine did on the story from February through
October, was based, as usual, on the mere replication of whatever the FBI and
wire services had told them, as the Government Billboards that they are -- and
so their reporting is highly edited, inaccurate, and distorted news. Be advised
that there are numerous inconsistencies in those articles between what they have
reported [as the Feds are quite good at changing the facts], and what is
reported herein. Until their own reporter J.C. Barden actually went to the
torched house to dig at facts for himself on the case, some of the real facts
never surfaced, and his reported factual details considerably change the
character and color of the savage FBI animal attack on Gordon Kahl.

	Incidentally, Mr. Ray Wade, who found Gordon Kahl's foot, was also
threatened with being killed himself if he did not remain silent, as were other
local residents who also saw different aspects of the bloody reign of FBI terror
that went on during that fateful day -- as the FBI once again allowed itself to
be defiled by acting ministerially, without and wanting jurisdiction, on behalf
of those presiding in Washington who had handed down the extermination orders.

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