tHEN I GUESS THEY’RE NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY LUNATIC INDIVIDUAL AND NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANY MASS MOVEMENT, THEY JUST HAPPENED TO BELONG TO ONE?
Sorry, caplock, too lazy to correct. :)
McVeigh was involved with and had contacts in many "patriot" and militia circles, most prominently the separatists of Elohim City.
Rudolph did as well - he was on the run for years and was likely assisted by associates of groups that he had contact with in the past.
Kahl was one of the organizers of the Posse Comitatus/Township Sovereignty movement that counted thousands of members in the 1980s. When he was killed in his final shootout he was staying with the leader of a Neo-Confederate separatist militia known as the "Covenant Sword And Arm Of The Lord" (CSA). Kahl was also a member of the Christian Identity/British Israelite movement.
Robert Matthews was a longtime member of the John Birch Society before he started the Bruder Schweigen group of the Aryan Nations separatists. Like Kahl he was also a member of the Christian Identity movement.
It is dishonest to pretend that these individuals are completely sui generis without any connections to the seedier, stupider side of the Constitutionalist/patriot movement.
As dishonest as it is for leftists and Muslims to pretend that they have nothing to do with the New Black Panther Party or Al-Qaeda.
This is why it is essential for authentic patriots and supporters of the Constitution to disassociate themselves from, criticize and reject idiots like these "sovereignty" cultists.