The Oklahoma City bombing has proven to be the opening shot in a new phase of right-wing terror in this country. In the three years since the attack, the radical right's antigovernment movement has spawned an escalating number of terrorist crimes and plots.
Hate group expert Daniel Levitas spent eight years in the Midwest researching and developing community responses to the Posse Comitatus, the Christian Identity movement and other hate groups.
Read profiles of the most prominent Christian Identity leaders.
The increasing extreme racism and antigovernment posturing of the Christian Identity faith accompanies a rise in Identity believers.
From President Bush's 1990 mention of a "New World Order" to the arrest of a would-be cop-killer this spring, the history of a movement is briefly recounted.
In gatherings over the summer, antigovernment 'Patriots' discussed their enemies in violent terms
So-called "sovereign citizens" are notorious for engaging in a variety of schemes involving money, false identification documents and the courts — scams that land them in criminal trouble with remarkable regularity.
David Kanz, imprisoned for 'paper terrorism,' describes how he got into — and out of — the 'sovereign citizens' movement.
Read a chronological list of arrests and other legal actions against the radical right from 2002 and the first two months of 2003.
