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My apology jpachard...what you describe is the absolute heart of American paranoia. I have heard bits and pieces of that kind of rhetoric over the years. I don't have an answer for it?

I went to visit my cousins who had a cottage on Lake Huron in Port Sanilliac. They would put me up in the Bed & Breakfast, because they didn't have room in the cottage. The owners son ran the B&B and we got to be friends. He said that he heard that the Decker Bar was selling hats that said "I got bombed at the Decker Bar." I said people go to Disneyland and get tee shirts, I go to Michigan so I'll get one of those hats as a souvenir. We went out to Decker, and if you blink you miss the the place. We found the bar, which is a cinder block building. We went in and asked the Barkeeper if they had hats and she said no. She told us she was on CNN clip that was shown in N Carolina. There were a couple of guys in the bar that said that the bombing was a put up job by the Federal govt. and that they would honk their horns in the mornining to wake up the FBI agents who were parked behind a billboard. The Bartender said, "Why don't you go out to the farm, James is selling tee shirts." So we said why not, so we went out to the farm which is on 24 mile road and Van Dyke. We drove up, a couple of guys were working on a large piece of farm machinery. We asked if this was the place, and they called out, "Hey james a coupla guys are here to buy tee shirts." Before we could get into the house James N asked us 3 times "Are you Feds" We got to talking a bit, he said that the FBI manipulated evidence and that his brother was innocent, that he had to sneak down to Oklahoma to visit his brother. That the FBI spent 7K a day surveilling him, and something about Drivers Licenses were an intrusion of peoples civil liberty? He said that he was selling tee shirts to pay off his legal bills, and that he was surprised so many people in the area supported him by buying one. After we left, for 2 days I was completely paranoid, looking over my shoulder. James Nichols was in jail for 30 days while the govt investigated his involvement in the bombing, finially they had to let him go. I really believe that his house was bugged, and everybody who went there got checked out. That farm was the hottest place in America. My impression of James N was that his eyes were burning and that he was definately bent. I doubt that I would do it again simply because I don't need the agravation over something so stupid.