
Gritz' offerings included a pre-packaged one-year supply of food, wilderness tools and important reading for dark times: the U.S. As the specter of "Y2K" loomed large for the skittish far right (many of whose denizens thought computers would crash worldwide on Jan, 1, 2000), Gritz also developed a line of preparedness products that he marketed to the fearful. Along with the on-site training, Gritz offered a dozen "do-it-yourself" videos at $72 each. He also vigorously hawked his S.P.I.K.E ("Specially Prepared Individuals for Key Events") training, a program developed by Gritz that offered his Special Forces skills to paying participants, leaving them trained in the art of war and ready to spring into action in case of emergency. Through his Sandy Valley, Nev.-based Center For Action, Gritz pontificated on the dangers of "f-," feminists and the omnipresent Jew. Gritz briefly became a hero to those who had supported Weaver.Īfter gaining acclaim at Ruby Ridge, Gritz attempted several other similar "interventions," over the course of the 1990s, including a failed 1996 mission to negotiate with the antigovernment Montana Freemen, then engaged in their own 80-day standoff with federal agents, and a fruitless 1998 foray into the Smoky Mountains in search of elusive abortion-clinic bomber Eric Rudolph.ĭuring the same period, Gritz also devoted himself to getting the word out about pernicious federal activities and God's call to citizen action. marshal and Weaver's wife and young son were killed during the hostilities, but Gritz, after convincing authorities to let him approach the Weaver cabin to negotiate, managed to talk Weaver and his companions into surrendering, ending the 11-day confrontation. The same year he ran for president, Gritz won national publicity for his role in the 1992 standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, between white supremacist Randy Weaver, who was wanted on gun charges, and federal agents.

While Gritz dropped out of the campaign shortly after learning that his running mate was to be former Klansman David Duke, he ran again on the same ticket in 1992, this time for the presidential slot, garnering 0.1% of the vote with his "God, Guns and Gritz" platform, which opposed everything from the federal income tax to the "New World Order." Gritz' military demeanor and his far-fetched claims made him friends among the conspiracy-minded right, including Willis Carto, founder of the Holocaust-denial organization Institute for Historical Review and the now defunct Liberty Lobby, who encouraged him to run as the vice presidential candidate on the Populist Party ticket in 1988. Ross Perot and even managing to get called to testify before a congressional hearing. No POWs ever materialized, but Gritz (rhymes with "fights") made a name for himself, obtaining the support of individuals such as millionaire H. And indeed, even after leaving Vietnam, the highly decorated officer and former Green Beret couldn't seem to give up his passion for covert operations, conducting his own commando-style missions into Southeast Asia in the 1980s to search for POWs who had allegedly been left behind by the retreating American forces. James "Bo" Gritz's 1991 autobiography, Called to Serve, is dedicated to his then-wife Claudia and to his "mistress," the Special Forces. ho in the world is promoting abortion, pornography, pedophilia, Godless laws, adultery, New Age international banking, entertainment industry and world publishing? Wherever you find perversion of God's laws you will find the worshippers of Baal with their roots still in Babylonian mysticism." Are you willing to submit and join this seedline of Satan? … Look to those who are openly antichrist…. "Do you see the sign, the scent, stain and mark of the beast on America today?. 2000 bulletin issued during the presidential race

… Runaway abortion, anti-Christ/God and globalism are certain."
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"Jews, feminists, sodomites and other liberal activists may install Gore over an apathetic moral majority. 2000 Fellowship of Eternal Warriors recruitment letter … If God does call me into the Phineas Priesthood … my defense will be the truth as inspired by the messiah." I would then do all within my power to accomplish what I felt he required of me. "I can assure you that if I was ever convinced that it was God's Will for me to commit an act of violence against the laws of our land, I would hesitate only long enough to, like Gideon, be certain. Gritz has warned repeatedly of coming hard times, intermittently bashed Jews and "f-," and, most recently, adopted the virulently anti-Semitic Christian Identity theology.
