471:. They declared (emphasis theirs) "In Accordance with the ORDER OF DESTRUCTION which was filed in the Supreme Court of the United States as the result of failure to answer or to comply with a LAWFUL PROCLAMATION AND DEMAND AT THE COMMON LAW OF GOD, the State of California is presently being destroyed and will continue to be destroyed by authority as stated in Revelation 11:3-13.... The Kingdom of God will be established on this earth beginning October 7, 1994... Please write us if you want to be a part of this end-time work." In February 1992, Lampley sent out a letter declaring that he and Trescott would start on a five-week tour of seven western states to give testimony to their leaders in warning "that The Great Tribulation had begun on March 26, 1991 and that it would last for 1,260 days". Trescott later ended his association with Lampley and Anderson Fields Jr. took his place as one of the "two witnesses".
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Oklahoma City bombing. They pointed out that Schrum had broken off his surveillance of Lampley between August and October to investigate a different militia in Eufaula – not something that would've happened "if they really thought he was going to hurt anybody". Their attorneys pointed out that Jonathan Bernstein of the Anti-Defamation League had not been warned that he was a possible target until three months after Lampley had brought him up – which was only explicable if the FBI "knew that Ray Lampley was not a threat." They held that "By the time the FBI determined that Ray Lampley wasn't a threat, the investigation already had gone too far to end it." They pointed out that the three had no previous criminal record. Lampley's lawyer also claimed that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder due to combat service in the Korean War had affected his client.
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volunteered to assist the government. By July, he had joined
Lampley's church as an informant for the FBI. He later told reporters that "I was to monitor the militia situation ... anybody that might be a potential terrorist or anything that would cause a situation like Oklahoma City. I joined some of the militias and found that most were scared, afraid of Mr. Lampley, so naturally that is where I headed. It turned - after about a six-month surveillance - it turned out to be that type of situation. … They were very determined to complete what their goals were. They are convinced that everything they say is true with the predictions of a prophet. …He was making all these prophecies and none of them were coming true. So he had to get to a point where he had to make some of them come true. You know nobody would believe him anymore. So he was kind of pressured by his own ideas in having to do something."
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because they were in rebellion to God's law. He explained that he had been trying for seven years "to warn the people either to get in harmony with God's law or the whole system is coming down…It's still the matter that, it either gets in harmony with God – well, it's too late now…" He stated that "What we have done is we have filed lawsuits in eleven states, in federal district courts, letting them know that this conspiracy to overthrow the government of God and the government…uh, they have made a determination to overthrow God in the land, and this is nothing but a conspiracy and this is about to come to an end. So basically what I'm saying is, we have filed lawsuits throughout the land to
523:, telling his friends that he was going to become a preacher. He then joined with Lampley, taking Trescott's place as one of the "Two Witnesses". They continued to send out letters including one to an Oklahoma congressman. The two also began attending local militia meetings inspiring them to create their own – the Oklahoma Constitutional militia. Members of other militias advised Lampley to keep his group small so that they "can act independently… the smaller number of people that know about what you're doing, the better off you are."
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of a crime of violence. Lampley was sentenced to imprisonment of 11 years and six months, Baird was sentenced to 120 months, Cecilia was sentenced to 51 months. Crow as part of his plea deal plead guilty to misprision (concealment of a felony by one not a participant in the crime) received probation, a six-month stay in a halfway house, and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
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The prosecution held that the entrapment defense didn't apply because the defendants were predisposed to commit the crime, and "Ray
Lampley was given opportunity after opportunity to end it, but he persisted and went forward. He was not induced by (FBI informant) Richard Schrum." The prosecution held
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On April 25, 1996, after five hours of deliberation a federal jury returned a verdict of guilty of conspiring to build an ammonium nitrate bomb on
Lampley, Cecilia, and Baird. Lampley and Baird were also convicted of carrying firearms in relation to a crime, and Lampley was convicted of solicitation
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Lampley, Cecilia, and Baird, the three defendants' lawyers' had claimed that they had been entrapped by the FBI on behalf of "an overzealous government seeking retribution against militias for the Oklahoma City bombing." The defense lawyers also protested that the timing
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Lampley's anti-government attitudes became apparent in 1989 when during a civil case he declared he owed "No
Allegiance to this God-rejecting rebellious Democracy." At the time he also declared that he was an "Ambassador of the Most High God" and that the United States was about to be devastated by
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looking for support in an attack on buildings. At the time Crow stated "We need to do four or five to create problems for the government. God won't be mad at us if we drop four or five buildings. He will probably reward us." Crow also gave
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and 11 months anyway." Schrum told reporters that "Lampley is totally convinced. He believes it beyond a doubt that he's the prophet of God, that he's going to die from all this, and in three days he will rise from the dead and inherit the earth."
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