Conspiracy Everywhere

"You may not have seen one of these before, but it is an implantable microchip," booms the voice of Mike Treis of Minnesota. He displays a tiny cylinder, almost a half-inch long, and a wicked looking razor-tipped tube used to implant it.

These microchips are being used by veterinarians to track lost dogs and livestock, but Treis claims that the federal government is paying Indian women on reservations in the Dakotas and Minnesota to implant them in their babies. It's the same chip that Tim McVeigh claimed to have inserted in his buttocks while in the army.

Later, Treis claims that the OK Bombing was the result of a "nuclear grenade" developed by the U.S. military 12 years ago. "They've found the nuclear fingerprint," he says. "Our constitution is being used as toilet paper," he says. "Our treasonous congressmen and senators no longer listen to the will of the people. "We want to put control back into the hands of We the People, under the guidance of the God of Jacob, Moses, Abraham, and David -- Yahweh."

He explains that many members of the Patriot Movement in Texas are busy with another project -- recreating the Republic of Texas, a separate country which existed in the early 1800s.

Vallaster says he became an Internet activist for the militia cause after viewing Linda Thompson's video The Big Lie, about the siege at Waco. "I saw what looked to be a tank using a flamethrower in the video," he says, disputing the FBI's contention that the tank spewed tear gas.

"There was also a government man on the roof (of the Koresh compound) wearing a fire suit, and it looked like there was another man using a portable flamethrower with a sweeping motion on a body."

Vallaster then produces a stomach-turning document he has pieced together on the Internet which claims that the CIA routinely tortures and murders American children and uses them for ritual abuse, slavery and pornography.

His document also describes a Project Monarch, which claims that the CIA is using satanic rituals to create multiple personalities in mind control experiments, based on the work of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.

Like many at the Congress, Vallaster believes that the U.S. government is itself controlled by a "Shadow Government" of the CIA, which, in turn, is controlled by sinister forces bent on a One World Government. These forces are commonly ascribed to a few families of Jewish bankers, justifying anti-Semitism in the movement. One delegate claims that our last independent president was Dwight Eisenhower, and that John F. Kennedy was killed for trying to buck the CIA. Unfortunately, this reporter forgets to ask why the CIA would be interested in abusing children or turning out kiddie porn films. Or why the richest families in the world would want the headache of trying to govern the entire planet under a mad scheme of slavery.

Yet another conspiracy theory holds that New Jersey has created a law designed to take automobiles away from citizens under the rationale that they are a source of pollution. A pamphleteer warns that eventually, the automobiles of every U.S. citizen could be taken away for the benefit of giant corporations. He fails to explain how corporations would benefit from all of their employees being unable to drive to work.

There's even a conspiracy tale circulating among members of the national press covering the militia movement, which may be investigated more during the OK Bombing trial of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The story goes that McVeigh and Nichols may have been carrying out a death sentence imposed on agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whose office was in the Murrah Building. This sentence was handed down by a secret common law court of the Christian Identity movement in retribution for the Waco massacre, which took place exactly two years before on the day of the bombing. The theory claims that McVeigh and Nichols were followers, not leaders, and probably wouldn't have initiated the bombing on their own. But again, that's just a theory until someone proves otherwise.