28th Anniversary of OKC Bombing | Questions Not Answered Published Monday, April 17, 2023 WE ARE MEETING This Wednesday at NOON Oklahoma History Center THE FINAL REPORT Former Representative Charles Key Grand Jury Leader Ken Blood Three men were arrested and convicted for their role in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. TIMOTHY McVEIGH Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 11, 2001. TERRY NICHOLS Terry Nichols remains in maximum security at the Florence Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado serving a life sentence. MICHAEL FORTIER Michael Fortier is free. Fortier, who was a part of the planning of the bombing, turned federal witness and released into a Federal witness protection program on January 20, 2006. Kari Watkins, the President and CEO the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial and Museum, has, since the release of Michael Fortier in 2006, made private efforts to seek the cooperation of Fortier to tell more of his story regarding the details of the bombing. We would have loved to have been able to bring Fortier and his wife to our program Wednesday as we remember the 28th anniversary of the 1995 bombing, but he has chosen to say no more and remains in seclusion in the Federal Witness Protection Program. With us will be former Representative, Charles Key, a member of the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee. After the bombing, this committee spent years collecting volumes of transcripts, interviews, and engineering analysis to produce the Final Report of the trial and the multitude of unanswered questions. The book is more than 500 pages and will be available for purchase at the meeting. COME HEAR KEN BLOOD CHARLES KEY Both Ken Blood and State Representative Charles Key were responsible for the formation of the Grand Jury empaneled on June 30, 1997 and have, through their extensive research and interviews, become experts on the event. They will share the platform Wednesday as we address unanswered questions and honor the memory of the 169 people who lost their lives at 9:04 a.m. on April 19, 1995. Of those, 19 were children. Hundreds more were either maimed or otherwise injured. It was called the largest terrorist attack in United States history. Bring your family and friends this Wednesday to the Oklahoma History Center. However, do not forget to bring your pastor and offer to buy his lunch! ____________ Please bring your friends, family, church leaders, and your pastors! $5 ENTRY FEE Tax-deductible donations accepted at door. SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON ___________  WEDNESDAY LUNCH Doors open 11:00 AM $5 entry fee Tax-deductible donations accepted at door.  Optional Lunch 11:00 AM Meeting NOON to 1:15 PM  Optional Lunch: $10 Find us at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Table of Contents BOB LINN Smart Cities Robbing our Soul LAST WEEK Julianne Romanello FLASHPOINT GOP Chairman A.J.Ferate Defends Trump and Walters NEXT MONTH China: Alex Gray BOB LINN Smart Cities Robbing our Soul Last Wednesday, Dr. Julianne Romanello focused her massive post-doctoral research on elements of the emerging global government that we can and should identify and remove from Oklahoma soil. Because of her research, I became aware, for the first time, that the centerpiece of the World Economic Forum in America is a strategy to bypass America’s fifty states and to establish a direct connection between the cities of America and a global system managing (dictating) economies and human resources (people). It is the reign of the few over the many. The vision requires that virtually everything is monitored, measured, and managed by the government. People included. In a statement from the World Economic Forum, we read: “The revolutions occurring in biotechnology and AI are redefining what it means to be human and will compel us to redefine our moral and ethical boundaries.” It is a war against the human soul. When, in 1997, The Black Book of Communism was published in France, it was very quickly translated into English and, in 1999, was published by Harvard College. The introduction is an observation made by Bulgarian philosopher Tzvetan Todorov and is germane to last week’s topic of smart cities. He wrote: A citizen of a Western democracy fondly imagines that totalitarianism lies utterly beyond the pale of normal human aspirations. And yet, totalitarianism could never have survived so long had it not been able to draw so many people into its fold … Communist society strips the individual of his responsibilities. It is always “somebody else” who makes the decisions. Remember, individual responsibility can feel like a crushing burden. The attraction of a totalitarian system, which has had a powerful allure for many, has its roots in the fear of freedom and responsibility. Dr. Angelo Codevilla noted the same proclivity toward weakness in the uncultured elements of mankind in his book, Character of Nations. When describing those accustomed to life under the rule of a tyrant, he said that “When people become accustomed to obeying rules made by people they do not know, the capacity for citizenship will gradually atrophy.” Indeed, people have atrophied! When Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, he was addressing the same sickness of the human soul to which both Todorov and Codevilla referred when he said, “There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first – the Orwellian-culture becomes a prison. In the second – the Huxleyan – culture becomes a burlesque.” While we Americans have taken both paths at once, it is the Huxleyan road Michael Walsh was referring to in his The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, when he said that the culture being pressed upon us has as its goal “to reduce human beings to the level of animals.” Solzhenitsyn addressed the core of the smart city concept squarely fifty years ago (minus one year) in 1974 when he wrote to the Russian people his Live not by Lies. Solzhenitsyn said: We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants – anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We hope only not to stray from the herd, nor to set out on our own, and to risk suddenly having to make do without white bread. As for him who lacks courage to defend even his own soul, let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill. Twenty-five years later, Dr. Codevilla cast a similar spin on a people coddled by government services when he wrote: Governments that are run as providers of services train those who live under them to be subjects rather than citizens. The result is a mass of humanity simply interested in being satisfied and willing to submit to someone who can tell them where to go and what to do. In his Russia in Collapse, Solzhenitsyn asked: How can we overcome the age-old vice of ours: Sluggishness and laziness in civil life? When T.S. Eliot wrote The Idea of a Christian Society, he used his considerable literary skills to urge the church to understand their obligation to do more than save souls, but to glorify God by impacting the condition of the culture which defines the state. We Americans have by and large lost our souls. We have been led down the same pathways as our brothers and sisters in Russia, Germany, China. It is the trail of tears so many in the nations around the globe have traveled as they succumbed to heavy-handed brutes who have shoved their way onto the world stage only to disenfranchise, torture, murder, and destroy. It is time we come out of our ecclesiastical closets and assume the yoke bequeathed to us as the ideological descendants of those who built Western Civilization and who founded those first colonies on our eastern shoreline. Those were men who created a nation of states that became the beacon of freedom and the light of liberty to the nations of the world. Eliot stated that the only alternative to a progressive and insidious adaptation of totalitarian worldliness is to aim at a Christian society. Dr. Angelo Codevilla concurred. He wrote: There is not now and never has there been a better predictor of prosperity, family, and civility than the faithful practice of Christianity. Our founders did not blush at the mention of Biblical foundations of governmental theory. If we are to re-establish what they gave us, we must not blush either. A few thousand of you read this newsletter each week. I would challenge you to connect with us through our meetings, or by email and get involved in bolstering the Christian cultural foundations of Oklahoma that we may cast a light on our nation, the last bastion of freedom in the world. Christianity is the very foundation of human thought. It is the foundation of free & prosperous societies. We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations. Thank you for your activism. _________ This Wednesday's luncheon! 11:00 AM Doors open 11:00 AM Lunch Available NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting Oklahoma History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr., OKC, OK 73105 God bless! LAST WEEK THE THREAT OF SMART CITIES JULIANNE ROMANELLO Dr. Romanello touched on the international scene, the national POWER POINT IMAGES VIDEO JULIANNE ROMANELLO ONLY ENTIRE MEETING ALL MEETINGS GOD BLESS! The Oklahoma History Center FLASH POINT A.J. FERATE Oklahoma GOP Chairman defended Donald Trump and Ryan Walters on Flashpoint. Last Sunday morning, Republican GOP Chairman, A.J. Ferate defended both Donald Trump and Ryan Walters in a friendly debate with Mike Turpen on Flashpoint. Kevin Ogle moderated and posed the questions. Of course, the video clips News Four ran displayed a complete bias for the far political left and their hatred of Ryan Walters. I wonder, if there is no pornography in the Oklahoma classrooms, why are they so upset at rules which disallow pornography in Oklahoma classrooms? ALEX GRAY Former Chief of Staff White House National Security Council TOPIC: THE CHINA THREAT Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Alex Gray American Foreign Policy Council Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs Alex also serves on the OCPAC Foundation Board of Directors. STATE DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION Invites you to attend ... State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, and the State Department of Education, invite you to attend their April 27th public meeting. Your comments and presence are sought as the foundation of the future of Oklahoma's children is being established. The SDE offices are on the northeast lawn of the Oklahoma State Capitol. PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND: State Department of Education Oliver Hodge Education Building 2500 N. Lincoln Blvd, OKC, OK Thursday, April 27, 2023 8:30 a.m. Gather for fellowship and prayer. 9:00 a.m. Sign in for option to speak. 9:30 a.m. SDE meeting begins. OCPAC FOUNDATION is a 501 (c) (3). Gifts are tax-deductible. 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