Mike,
I missed this Steven Anderson somehow but I was inactive for a few years or
at least I didn't tune the bands as much as I do now as a retiree, haha.
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 6:16 PM
Subject: Variations on the Patriots' Net
> Those domestic terrorist nets are pretty scary sometimes, and sometimes
> they can be rather amusing. the scariest thing about them is how
> seriously they take themselves.
>
> My first encounter with that type of group occurred at about the time
> the two individuals who were convicted in the Oklahoma City bombing
> case were to be executed. They ranted for days about what their group
> would do if "that government kills those boys.."
>
> One of the primary ranters, who, as Phil described, had a signal which
> was disproportionately louder than everybody else, took to the air one
> evening and declared that since the FCC had challenged his license, he
> had told them exactly where they could put that license, and that he
> would keep right on operating without one.
>
> He did it too. Initially on the ham bands, later on various pirate
> radio hang outs and other frequencies that he simply claimed for his own
> use.
>
> Does anyone else here admit to remembering the name Steve Anderson?
> That is the person I am writing about. He would open his rantcast each
> night with the song "From My Cold Dead Hand," and close it with
> Tennessee Ernie Ford's recording of "Onward Christian Soldiers." He
> would regularly read the contact information for patriot militia groups
> in each state. I was told by someone who I felt knew what they were
> talking about, that most of the militia groups had tried to distance
> themselves from him.
>
> His propaganda career ended one day when he took some shots at a county
> sheriff, and said sheriff returned the fire.
>
> Anderson was not killed, but managed to escape the pursuit for a
> surprisingly long time. Eventually he was caught, and was sent to a
> federal prison somewhere. Atlanta, I think.
>
> --
> Mike Duke, K5XU
>
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