K I W I   R E P O R T   0 0 7
[Keeping Individuals Well Informed]

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In the Year 2193 Historians will teach the children of that time that this
man was one of the first precursor fatalities of the Second American War for
Independence (which was not "officially" acknowledged until September 17,
1997, now known in retrospect as "Judgement Day").  But the majority of
Americans living today would draw a blank if his name were mentioned in
casual conversation.

                THE UNCENSORED GORDON KAHL STORY


    In 1968, Tax Protestor Gordon Kahl stopped filing IRS 1040 Income Tax
        Returns.  For 9 years thereafter, the IRS ignored him, but in 1977
        after Gordon Kahl spoke on an evening radio talk show regarding the
        illicitness of the income tax, some 250 phone calls would come into
        the radio station over the next two days; either supporting Kahl in
        some aspect, or pledging never to file another tax return.

    And with that, the IRS came down on Kahl like a ton of bricks. They
        quickly assembled a case against him and two weeks later threw a
        criminal prosecution against him for violating Title 26, Section
        7203 ["Willful Failure to File"].  Gordon Kahl was a low-income
        farmer not even meeting minimal statutory standards for threshold
        income levels achieved before being required to file 1040s, but that
        was not about to stop the IRS, who is good at changing the facts by
        creating facts.

    Convicted and incarcerated, when out of Leavenworth Federal
        Penitentiary on parole, Kahl left the Texas judicial district he was
        confined to by claiming that some aspect of the Restriction Orders
        was defective.  He soon moved to North Dakota -- and there, he met
        his fate.  A criminal Summons issued from a Federal Court in Midland,
        Texas was served on Gordon Kahl on August 8, 1980, charging him with
        a misdemeanor.  Gordon Kahl responded by informing the Court that he
        would not be appearing, and the matter was allowed to be deferred
        until March 31, 1982, when the Justice Department obtained a Federal
        Arrest Warrant citing his parole violation.

    Then, that Warrant was held up again until July 26, 1982, some 16
        months later, when it was sent to the U.S. Marshals Office in Fargo,
        North Dakota on February 13, 1983.  The United States Marshals and
        the Federal Court in Texas knew of his whereabouts in North Dakota at
        all times.  After a two and one half year delay in the case, the fact
        that there was a "problem" controlling the prosecution of the case is
        self-evident.

    If that chronology had been published in the New York Times in the
        context of discussing some other unfortunate incident that had
        happened, it would be referred to, very defensively of the
        Government of course, as mere "bureaucratic bungling," in an attempt
        to discredit the obvious interposition of the "Lateness of the Hour"
        operating against the Government to bar the legitimacy of their
        management of the case.

    Once again Gordon Kahl had attracted the attention of the United
        States Government.  With the personality known as Ronald Reagan
        acquiescing indifferently as President, and with William French
        Smith sitting as Attorney General, the word came down the pipeline
        to GET RID OF GORDON KAHL, and the stage was set for the kind of
        confrontation the Feds wanted.

    A violent attack was planned against Gordon Kahl at his farmhouse,
        and it was going to be well publicized.  The attack would be in the
        form of a roadblock, it would be in the evening hours, and it would
        occur in a remote rural area.  The timing of the attack in February
        of 1983 was selected to coincide with the trials of other related
        criminal prosecutions then going on that would be favorably tipped
        towards the Government, as the Juries were exposed to what would be
        surfacing visibly on the news as the Gordon Kahl "incident."

    From his farm in Heaton, North Dakota, both Gordon Kahl, along with
        his neighbors, and the Chief of Police of Medina, North Dakota,
        Darrell Graff, all had received several advanced notices that the
        United States Marshals were planning a very unpleasant reception for
        Gordon Kahl, and in the case of Darrell Graff, he was told bluntly to
        stay out of it.

    Rather than meet his adversaries face-to-face to settle the grievance
        at that lower level, Gordon Kahl improvidently ignored the gathering
        storm and tossed aside the Warrant, thus giving his adversaries the
        benefit of intensifying the impending confrontation into an elevated
        status -- a level that originates out of the barrel of a gun, where
        the Feds were quite likely to prevail. Although that did not give the
        United States Marshals the right to come out first and shoot Kahl, it
        does however require that other people in difficult positions with
        juristic authorities facing contemplated extermination itself,
        should not replicate Gordon Kahl's modus operandi.

    On the 14th of February, 1983, Gordon Kahl, accompanied by his wife
        and son Yori, left a meeting in a Medina, North Dakota commercial
        district and headed home.  Gordon Kahl was under surveillance and he
        knew it. He could have been picked up at the meeting, but the Feds
        had a surprise for him and wanted the remoteness of a rural
        environment.  His son Yori detected something adverse and dangerous
        in the air, and so he took his father's jacket and cap and wore those
        on himself on the ride home that afternoon.

    Not far from his farmhouse a roadblock had been set up by U.S.Marshal
        Kenneth Muir. It was a very unusual roadblock in that it had an
        ambulance and fire truck waiting there. Yes, there was going to be
        some trouble.  The Marshal had not come to arrest, but to murder.
        Bringing neither the Arrest Warrant, nor any identification, Deputy
        Muir brought his gun and orders to terminate Gordon Kahl.

    Arriving at the roadblock, Gordon's son, Yori Kahl, fled the pickup
        truck and ran to a nearby telephone pole for cover.  Thinking that
        Yori was his dad Gordon, Marshal Muir opened the shooting by firing
        several shots at Yori.  Yori did not fall to the ground quick enough
        to satisfy the killer Marshal, so Marshal Muir kept on shooting until
        Yori fell.  After spending a while at the hospital, Yori Kahl would
        actually survive to be charged with murder, and later convicted by a
        jury in a Star Chamber that was highly pressured by the U.S. Marshals
        and had numerous other fatal irregularities that would never survive
        reversal on appeal.

    Back at the evening roadblock, after seeing his own son cut down by
        Marshal Muir, Gordon Kahl grabbed a gun and let Marshal Muir have it,
        killing him and Deputy Marshal Robert Chesire. Injured was Deputy
        Marshal James Hopson.  Staying in the background, looking at all of
        this shooting and profanity being thrown about, was Chief Darrell
        Graff of the Medina Police Department, who was told in advance that
        Kahl was going to buy the farm, and that he was to stay out of it.
        Gordon went over to the telephone pole, dragged his son Yori, white
        with blood loss and bleeding profusely, over to an unmarked police
        car, drove him to a hospital back in Medina, and then as a thick fog
        quickly settled in on the Fargo countryside, Gordon Kahl sped away
        into the night.

    Soon, a swarm of military stormtroopers descended on Fargo, in
        military clothing and using military trucks [see Time Magazine
        ["Dakota Dragnet"], page 25 (February 28, 1983)].  They were on
        search and destroy orders.  Gordon Kahl was immediately placed on the
        FBI's ten most wanted list, and was the subject of the most intensive
        fugitive search in the history of the FBI. It was a massive operation.

    A tight clampdown was put out in North Dakota, accompanied with
        extensive random stops of motor vehicles, but nothing ever turned up.
        For Gordon Kahl, thousands of armed forces were called into search the
        surrounding North Dakota countryside.  Every available private bounty
        hunter known to the FBI was hired and put on the case, but fugitive
        Gordon Kahl slipped through it all.

    In comparison to what they can do when they feel like it, it is
        worthwhile noting how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI never showed any
        such interest in capturing unknown fleeing killers when President
        Kennedy was shot in Dallas.  No roadblocks, no dragnets, no manhunts,
        no searching -- nothing but CIA agents carrying Secret Service
        credentials restraining people from approaching the grassy knoll for
        about 10 minutes.

    For the next three months, Gordon Kahl had found a home with some
        friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, and a Mr. Russell, who kept moving him
        quietly from house to house.  It was rather obvious to anyone that if
        he was ever found, he would be killed immediately.

    In time, Mr. Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson, noticed
        that her father was hiding Gordon Kahl.  Possessed with First Person
        evidence ["I saw...," "I heard..."], she in turn went to the FBI and
        spilled the beans.  She was given $25,000 and the promise of immunity
        from prosecution [see the New York Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax
        Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19, 1983)].

    The rural house where Gordon Kahl was staying was placed under FBI
        surveillance; but the results were inconclusive.  On the morning of
        June 4th, a special FBI team of animals and savage killers [which is
        no exaggeration], known as the Delta Force, left their home base in
        Washington, D.C. and flew into Lawrence County, Arkansas on a private
        FBI jet.  There, they were met by local FBI agents, other FBI agents,
        the Arkansas State Police, the Sheriff of Lawrence County, Arkansas,
        his deputies, and a confluence of United States Marshals assembled
        from across the country.  Several Marshals invited to the Kahl
        execution operation arrived too late and missed it.

    Later in the afternoon, it all began.  The quiet, isolated and remote
        house was cordoned off, roadblocks were set up, and all without
        Gordon Kahl detecting anything amiss. Soon that afternoon, Mr. Ginter
        left the house alone and he was stopped down the road. He claimed his
        wife, Norma Ginter, was in the house alone.  Now, the house where
        Gordon Kahl was living was more closely surrounded, and Sheriff Gene
        Matthews went to the front door to remove Mrs. Ginter from the scene.

    With her out of the way, the FBI started open shooting, and saturated
        the house with bullets; but the earth shelter house was made with
        concrete walls and Gordon Kahl survived through it all without a
        scratch.  The 36 year old local Sheriff, Gene Matthews, was killed
        incidental to the FBI siege on the Gordon Kahl hideout.

    After a while, as the firing stopped, the FBI cordoned off the house
        for themselves while the Delta Force animals converged on the house
        like starved panthers going for a piece of meat.  They found Gordon
        Kahl alive and well inside the home, hiding behind the refrigerator.
        He was taken to the living room, thrown on the floor, and was worked
        over with the butt end of their rifles.  While numerous bones were
        being fractured and his teeth were being smashed in, other members of
        Delta Force went on a rampage in the house, smashing pictures and the
        television set, over-turning furniture, a copier, and taking a
        fireman's axe and chopping up a bookshelf.

    While Gordon Kahl was pinned to the floor by the 6 to 8 Delta Force
        panthers, still under attack from the gun butts, the FBI agent with
        the fireman's axe turned to Gordon Kahl himself and chopped off his
        hand.  Then he went around and chopped off Gordon Kahl's other hand,
        and then both of his feet were severed. While screaming with pain and
        with blood gushing out profusely over the floor where his hands and
        feet used to be, Gordon Kahl was shot in the head at close range,
        killing him.

    A local Deputy Sheriff was given the honor of removing the bullet
        from Gordon Kahl's head [later that week, the deputy would tell a
        neighbor that he had not eaten in three days]. When local people
        viewed Gordon Kahl's dismembered body, they became nauseous and sick,
        stating that the man they just hacked apart was not Gordon Kahl, but
        Mr. William Wade, who was the owner of the land and resembled Gordon
        Kahl closely in age and appearance, and was well known to the Sheriff
        and others personally.

    There was confusion; immediately there was trouble. A massive series
        of roadblocks were erected again, and the thorough searching of all
        automobiles over a wide radius was started; it was believed that
        Gordon Kahl had slipped out once again.

    Local residents monitoring the operation on the police radio band
        heard a call made for some gasoline to be delivered to the house. Now
        that the murder of Gordon Kahl had been botched, the Feds were going
        to cover their own tracks and torch the place.  The Delta Force
        animals left the place with extensive blood stains covering their
        clothes and took the private FBI jet back to Washington.

    The roadblocks were called off when Mr. Wade, the owner of the land,
        showed up in town alive and well.  The body of Sheriff Matthews was
        taken to a local hospital, while later in the evening after the fire
        the Feds had set had died down, the charred body of Gordon Kahl was
        taken to the local coroner. The dismembered body was later identified
        as being that of Gordon Kahl.  But the bodies and the house were only
        lightly charred, since the house was fabricated from cast concrete
        walls and the fire never got that intense.  The corpse identified as
        being Gordon Kahl's was missing teeth, hands, and feet, had a bullet
        hole in the head (without a bullet), and was extensively covered with
        tissue bruises and fractured bones.  It was very shocking and
        disgusting, as people who saw photographs of Gordon Kahl's charred
        remains, taken by the coroner, reported a stark and terrified look on
        his charred face; he had died in extreme terror, screaming violently
        from the pain.  They had gotten their man.

The man who was Director of the FBI at the time that this murder operation was
being performed, was William Webster.  He personally supervised it.  And when
you get to know William Webster very well, you will become acquainted with a
great murderer.

    Gordon Kahl was later buried with military honors -- whatever that
        meant.  His wife back in North Dakota received several mean and ugly
        death threats from the Feds to keep quite or be murdered herself.
        Meanwhile, the rest of the country went on like Alice strolling
        through Wonderland; believing that all was well and that the Federal
        Government is your trusted friend, and that some little Tax Protestor
        over there got what he deserved.

    Back in Arkansas, while sifting through the smoldering ruins in the
        kitchen, a reporter for the New York Times accompanied by Ray Wade,
        the land owner's son, found Gordon Kahl's left foot that had been
        severed off by the axe.  It was taken to the local coroner Dr. Fahmy
        Malak in Little Rock, confirmed as being Gordon Kahl's sliced off
        foot.  However, this was news not fit to emphasize, and the
        reporter's story was blurred over when printed [see New York Times
        ["Gunfight Shatters Tranquility of Arkansas Hills"], page 14 (July 3,
        1983)].

    Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, who had been harboring Gordon Kahl, were charged
        not only with aiding and abetting a fugitive, but also were
        fraudulently charged with the murder of Sheriff Matthews.  At Trial,
        the only evidence introduced against them, outside of the background
        story, was first person evidence from Art Russell's daughter, Karen
        Russell Robertson, who reported to the Jury what she had seen her
        father do.  And with that eyewitness evidence, the Ginters and Art
        Russell were convicted and sentenced to protracted incarceration in a
        Federal Penitentiary [see New York Times ["Arkansans Guilty in Tax
        Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19, 1983)].

    In conclusion, note that a large volume of the continuous reporting
        that the New York Times and Time Magazine did on the story from
        February through October, was based, as usual, on the mere
        replication of whatever the FBI and wire services had told them, as
        the Government Billboards that they are -- and so their reporting is
        highly edited, inaccurate, and distorted news.  Be advised that there
        are numerous inconsistencies in those articles between what they have
        reported [as the Feds are quite good at changing the facts], and what
        is reported herein.  Until their own reporter J.C. Barden actually
        went to the torched house to dig at facts for himself on the case,
        some of the real facts never surfaced, and his reported factual
        details considerably change the character and color of the savage
        FBI animal attack on Gordon Kahl.

    Incidentally, Mr. Ray Wade, who found Gordon Kahl's foot, was also
        threatened with being killed himself if he did not remain silent, as
        were other local residents who also saw different aspects of the
        bloody reign of FBI terror that went on during that fateful day --
        as the FBI once again allowed itself to be defiled by acting
        ministerially, without and wanting jurisdiction, on behalf of those
        presiding in Washington who had handed down the extermination orders.


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