An Indian Guards the OKC Bombing Cover-up
By David Yeagley
6-10-2002
On June 7, a huge 22-foot bronze statue of an American Indian was dedicated and hoisted atop the Oklahoma State capitol building’s new 157-foot dome. The sculptor himself was present at this triumphant state event: Senator Enoch Kelley Haney―a full blood Indian enrolled in the Seminole tribe. It was a proud moment for all Oklahomans.
“The Guardian,” it’s called, towers over the city’s eastern landscape. “I want people to see it as a metaphor for the strength of the Oklahoma people,” gubernatorial candidate Haney told the Washington Post (June 10). “We have faced so many obstacles―the Dust Bowl, the Oklahoma City bombing. This sculpture stands tall and proud like our people.”
Darn! If he just hadn’t mentioned that OKC bombing! The next day, June 8, news came that a Latino-American Muslim convert, José Padilla, had been arrested back on May 8 for al-Qaida associations. Known also as Abdullah al-Muhajir, his mug shot is fearfully similar to the police sketches of “John Doe,” the suspect witnesses saw accompanying Timothy McVeigh days before and on the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, 1995.
Terry Nichols, convicted of conspiring with McVeigh, also had known connections with al-Qaida, even before his connection with first WTC bombing in 1993. Nichols is now serving a life sentence in prison.
As an Oklahoma Indian, I’m ripped apart by the irony of this news. The juxtaposition of these two stories, the great Indian statue on our capitol dome and the discovery of a possible John Doe/al-Qaida suspect in the OKC bombing, seems more than a twisted coincidence. It is a fatalistic portent of our cultural conditioning, showing both our strength and our weakness at the same time.
For strength, no image is more pronounced in the American psyche than the guardian, savior Indian, who with superior survival skills “saved” the first families of Pilgrims, and whose relentless warrior skills continue, even today, to inspire the American military and American sports teams.
There’s the first irony. In the midst of a national Leftist campaign to remove all Indian images from public view, Oklahoma tops its new capitol dome with the quintessence of strength, an Indian brave. I didn’t notice any obstreperous lefties at the dedication. I didn’t hear anyone ask, “Why wasn’t it a black athlete? Why wasn’t it a single mother businesswoman?” Well, it’s just another wooden--that is, bronze--Indian. But I didn’t hear any liberal complaining that the statue limited Indians from psychological or professional development. Another irony.
But for weakness, the OKC bombing cover-up is symptomatic. Most Oklahomans have never accepted the official story of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. No conviction is stronger that government at all levels has become conspiratorial, and covers up the most outrageous crimes and abuses. Yet we the people feel powerless to affect any reform at high levels. We just absorbed in managing our own personal lives. Thus preoccupied, we let the government get by with murder. The Clinton years demonstrated all this with crystal clarity. We all have simply learned to live with government fraud, at all levels, and the Clintons knew how to take advantage of it.
OKC survivors are still around contradicting the official reports. One says the federal authorities wouldn’t allow professional building inspectors within 200 yards of the building wreckage, yet the inspectors’ guesses are considered final. The exact nature of the explosion itself has not been identified, and the truth will probably never be known to the public.
And several eye-witnesses testified that they saw a second, dark-complexioned man, accompanying McVeigh. I can remember the first television interviews with these witnesses. I even heard the accomplice is on surveillance tape, but such information has been long withdrawn and withheld from the public. The case is officially closed, or, covered-up.
Will an Indian image on our capitol guard us from government fraud? What does it symbolize that is actually true? Can American Indian patriots protect the country from white Leftist conspiracy? (I’m trying.) Can Indian warrior images guard us from Clintonian sell-outs to third world dictatorships and U.N. plots?
Feminists like California Assembly Representative Jackie Goldberg don’t even want Indian images around anymore. Leftists are desperate to remove any vestige of American strength, and symbols are an easy target. They can’t fight back.
I’m rather amazed that the Oklahoma State government wanted an Indian brave on its dome, when the state so quickly cooperated with the Left-wing federal government’s obvious cover-up of the OKC bombing case.
That’s the biggest irony.
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