Report an Incident. This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter. Elohim City is an Identity settlement of 70 to 90 residents located on acres at the edge of a rugged and mountainous tract of land along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border in Adair County, Oklahoma.
It was founded in November by Robert G. Millar , a former Mennonite and a United States resident alien from Canada. He returned to Oklahoma in with about 18 family members to establish Elohim City, or "City of God," as a spiritual community to "honor God" while waiting for Him to establish His kingdom on earth. Nestled in the Ozarks at the end of a 6-mile gravel and red-dirt road in eastern Oklahoma about 35 miles northwest of Fort Smith, Ark.
Most of the or so residents are descendants of Robert Millar, who moved to the area in and chose the name because Elohim is Hebrew for God. But during the s, the secluded, acre enclave also was a stop-off point on what some called an underground railroad for extremists in the white supremacist movement. Numerous former short-term residents or visitors either are now in prison or have served time for committing violent acts ranging from bank robberies to murder.
Some later speculated he was looking for a place to hide out after the bombing. Snell is buried in a clearing in the dense woods on the property, and when Robert Millar died in , he was buried near Snell. A onetime suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing, Mahon is now serving 40 years in prison for mailing a pipe bomb in to a diversity office in Arizona.
Now in his mids, Ellison has been at Elohim City two decades. Four of the six men had either stayed at or had ties to Elohim City. Chevie Kehoe was later convicted of the torture-slayings of an Arkansas gun dealer and his family. They insisted McVeigh was never at Elohim City and said they had never heard of him before he was arrested. The Millars said the media were partly to blame for the trail of extremists who showed up at Elohim City.
But that creates a traffic that comes in. You could mistake the locale for middle-class suburbia. Elohim City was conceived as a spiritual city of refuge for followers of an obscure offshoot of Protestantism called Christian Identity, which teaches a racialist, Eurocentric take on Old Testament fire-and-brimstone piety.
Armageddon is not our vision. We came out here to express what we feel the Holy One, or God, is wanting to express through us.
And so our hearts are turned towards the heavenly spiritual realm. The pastor insists that his community is focused on heaven alone.
Not the government, not a race war, just peaceful communion with the Creator. Millar is polite, generous, and accommodating throughout the interview, never once taking the hardline on any issue. When Millar speaks of politics and morality, his ideas have a surprisingly Libertarian, live-and-let-live bent to them. Weekly trips to town to eat at local restaurants, visit the library or see a movie are not uncommon. The homes even have Wi-Fi.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, We think you destroy both races when you marry in. The core philosophy of Christian Identity is an uncomfortable mixture of traditional Judeo-Christian mythology and a passive form of modern white supremacy.
In other words, the true Jews, according to Millar and Identity followers, are Caucasians. So we were scrutinized sideways, every which way you could think. Millar maintains that the residents of Elohim never held a violent agenda against the government, nor any desire to participate in some apocalyptic religious battle. Furthermore, CSA had close ties to the Order of the Silent Brotherhood, a shadowy organization of bloodthirsty neo-Nazis who fashioned themselves as Aryan Warriors in the tradition of the Phineas Priesthood.
For four days, a tense cold war ensued as Ellison refused to surrender. Later, the newly militant Millar bemoaned the fact that Ellison ultimately surrendered peacefully. Snell was executed on April 19, in Ft. No connection whatsoever. In the grand jury indictment of McVeigh, the government alleged that the plotting of the bombing began in early September of , while McVeigh was staying at a motel in Vian, Oklahoma, less than an hour away from Elohim City.
McVeigh denied the existence of accomplices to his dying breath. Howe, a year-old Tulsa debutante-turned-skinhead trophy queen, was brought to Elohim City by her boyfriend, white supremacist and would-be celebrity of the militia movement, Dennis Mahon.
I agree with some of his thoughts. Not all of them, not by a long shot, but I do agree with some of his thoughts. Upon her arrival, she began reporting her findings. She claimed Millar and company were stockpiling weapons, preaching increasingly aggressive anti-government rhetoric, and, most importantly, discussing plans for an attack of some sort. When investigative reporter J. Cash broke her story in the McCurtain Daily Gazette during the Terry Nichols trial, a national media feeding frenzy ensued.
From the court transcript:. Chevie Kehoe , who would later murder an entire Oklahoma family in his own attempt to kick-start the revolution, stayed there. Even Timothy McVeigh called the compound, asking to speak to a German extremist living there, some two weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing. Millar's own plot in the Elohim City graveyard lies next to that of Richard Wayne Snell, a white supremacist admirer of Millar's executed for murdering a pawn shop broker who Snell mistakenly believed to be Jewish.
James Ellison, leader of the heavily armed s white supremacist group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, has lived on the compound for years and is married to one of Millar's granddaughters.
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