Before the Bomb


It was 1994 and I had learned that things were not right in our country. For the previous few years I had watched our public education system become nothing more than an experiment in social engineering to control the masses and the next generation. I learned how politicians lie to the people and seduce them with deceit to forward their agenda. Still believing things could be changed and this evil stopped by the people in the voting booth, I became involved politically for the first time in my life, other than showing up to vote.

My involvement in pro-life activities that year led to my meeting with a group of patriots known as The Oklahoma Freedom Network. This group of citizens from all walks of life had about 100 members in the area of Lawton, OK and were actively involved in politics involving the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. They invited us to protest publicly then-Congressman McCurdy and work to keep him out of office. This group asked us for help because they despised McCurdy for his anti-gun stance, and we despised him for his pro-death stance on the abortion issue. They felt that keeping McCurdy out of office was a common goal for us, one which we accomplished. The Congressman had resigned his 4th district seat for Oklahoma and was running for the U.S. Senate seat David Boren had resigned. We saw to it that he never won that seat, and it is largely due to the activities of these and other groups that Senator Inhofe, a conservative Republican, was elected to that seat.

The Oklahoma Freedom Network was just one group within Oklahoma that saw an agenda being played out at federal and international levels to take away our freedom. There were at that time many other patriot and militia groups here, including strong militia activity in the Oklahoma City area. These groups worked with our state legislators to pass House Resolution 1047 in 1994. This resolution directed that the U.S. Congress be informed that they must cease and desist from all activities involving the use of U.S. military forces by the United Nations, and funding for the U.N., the New World Order, or any form of global government, as these activities are in contradiction to the Constitution.

Soon after the passing of House Resolution 1047, Frank Keating returned from Washington, D.C. to run for Governor of Oklahoma. While in Washington, D.C., Keating served in various capacities, such as a federal prosecutor, chairman of all 94 United States Attorneys, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (think IRS and BATF here), and later served as Associate Attorney General. In those last two capacities, Keating was responsible for oversight of the U. S. Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U. S. Marshals Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and America's role in Interpol. In 1990, he joined Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp as General Counsel and Acting Deputy HUD Secretary, where he supervised the cleanup of that troubled agency. It seems to me that recent developments show that there were problems in those offices, too! Frank Keating's biographical information can be found on the Governor's website,
http://www.governmentguide.com/govsite/aol/http://www.state.ok.us

Then, after Oklahoma passed Resolution 1047, Keating left his high office in Washington and returned "home" where he had not lived for so many years, to run for governor. It was a given at the time that the incumbent Democrat David Walters would not be re-elected. He had committed felonies which were admitted to and, of course, forgiven with some restitution; but the people remembered, and it was too fresh in our minds at the time of the 1994 gubernatorial campaign. Those people who control things with money and the power it breeds knew that David Walters would not keep his seat as governor, just as they knew that this time Oklahoma would not elect a Democrat to the office again. Frank Keating came back from Washington to run, although there were some other very good Republican candidates.

One of these candidates was State Senator Jerry Pierce of Bartlesville, OK. I first heard him speak at an outdoor picnic hosted by the Republican women's group in Lawton, OK. He struck me as a conservative man who shared most, if not all of my moral and political views. And so I volunteered to help with his campaign. Little did I know that there were insidious people in power who would never allow him to be elected as Oklahoma's governor. They needed someone who was one of them . . . someone who shared their agenda. That someone was Frank Keating.

During the primary campaign the Republican County Chairman for Comanche County told me I should work for Frank Keating and that he would be the next governor. This was unethical during a primary campaign, if not illegal for him to say, because of his position within the party. He was not supposed to tell anyone who to vote for when acting as county chairman. After the primary, when campaigning in the general election, that would of course be allowed. But taking sides publicly for one Republican over another was wrong. I was taken aback, but had not seen it all yet! We then received reports that Keating's campaign was receiving large sums of money from Washington, D.C., not from Oklahomans. Even more surprising was that the money was coming from Democrats! I wondered why Democrats in Washington were so concerned about this state's gubernatorial campaign, particularly the Republican primary! Sometimes, hindsight is better than foresight, and I wish with all my heart I had never learned this lesson.

Frank Keating won the primary and went on to win the general election. In January 1995 he became Governor of Oklahoma. On April 19th, less than three months later, the Oklahoma City Bombing took place. The Murrah building was destroyed. Adults died. Children died. Citizens feared and wept. Federal law enforcement took over so fast no one else had a chance to investigate, and Frank Keating was there to meet them and see to it they had all they needed to make sure Oklahomans never knew the whole truth.

Patriot and militia groups disbanded or went underground because of propaganda perpetrated by a corrupt government and media. The Oklahoma Freedom Network seemed to disappear. They were not violent by any means and carried no arms. They did go often to the state capitol, working to ensure our freedom. That is only dangerous to those who would take our freedom from us.

This past week I have been hearing a commercial on the local radio station by a group asking money for the latest memorial to the victims of this tragedy. It begins, "We were citizens of Oklahoma, and then we became citizens of the world." Then it goes on to say how we "became human beings" after the bombing when we pulled together to help the suffering. I have always been a human being and I am not a citizen of the world unless there is a world government. If that has happened, then freedom is gone and our Constitution has been set aside, as stated by Oklahoma's Representatives in House Resolution 1047 of 1994. Nothing has been said by them about the U.N., New World Order, or global government since Frank Keating became governor, and since the bombing. Is it any wonder? I understand now the answer to my why's when I saw strange things during the campaign. I wish I didn't know why those babies died in that building. I wish I didn't know why those people died at Waco. I wish I didn't know why a mother died with her baby in arms at Ruby Ridge. I wish I didn't know where this is going . . . but I do.
God help us, Katie Libertas


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