Willie Ray Lampley

Willie Ray Lampley rose to national attention in the United States of America as a self-proclaimed prophet, the head of the Universal Church of God (Yahweh) based in Vernon, Oklahoma which was part of the Christian Identity movement. Lampley was also the leader of a small far right paramilitary group called the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia. In November 1995, he (aged 65) and his wife Cecilia (aged 47), along with John Dare Baird (aged 53) and Larry Wayne Crow (aged 56), were arrested under charges of conspiracy to manufacture and possess a destructive device. According to the FBI, their plan was to bomb abortion clinics, gay bars, federal buildings (including welfare offices of the Department of Human Services), the office of the Anti-Defamation League in Houston, Texas, and the office of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. The FBI held that their foiling the plot "saved as many lives as what was lost in Oklahoma City".

Background Lampley's anti-government attitudes became apparent in 1989 when during a civil case he declared he owed "No Allegiance to this God-rejecting rebellious Democracy." In February 1992, Lampley sent out a letter declaring that he and Trescott would start on a five-week tour of seven western states to give testimony to their leaders in warning "that The Great Tribulation had begun on March 26, 1991 and that it would last for 1,260 days".

In June 1995, they wrote President Clinton a letter warning of an imminent foreign invasion led by United Nations' troops. At the time Crow stated "We need to do four or five to create problems for the government. God won't be mad at us if we drop four or five buildings. He will probably reward us."

Acting for the FBI, Schrum wore a microphone on November 10, 1995, and taped Lampley, Cecilia, and Baird making bombs with the same explosive as used in the Oklahoma City bombing which they intended to test at Elohim City, a white-separatist enclave in Adair County run by Lampley's friend Reverend Robert Millar. The choice of test site was protested by Baird who said "the Feds were all over that place…tryin' to spook 'em into doin' somethin' so they can jump on their shit."

The next day, November 11, 1995, the church and several trailer homes next to it were raided by the FBI. Semiautomatic rifles, handguns, ammunition, bomb making equipment, six bags of C-4, and The Anarchist's Cookbook were seized. Lampley, Cecilia, and Baird were arrested at a McDonald's parking lot by Indian Nations Turnpike near Vernon and the three were held at the Muskogee jail. Crow surrendered to U.S. Marshals at Albuquerque, New Mexico three days later. The defense lawyers also protested that the timing of the trial was terrible as it was near the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. They pointed out that Schrum had broken off his surveillance of Lampley between August and October to investigate a different militia in Eufaula – not something that would've happened "if they really thought he was going to hurt anybody". Lampley and Baird were also convicted of carrying firearms in relation to a crime, and Lampley was convicted of solicitation of a crime of violence. Lampley was sentenced to imprisonment of 11 years and six months, Baird was sentenced to 120 months, Cecilia was sentenced to 51 months. Crow as part of his plea deal plead guilty to misprision (concealment of a felony by one not a participant in the crime) received probation, a six-month stay in a halfway house, and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.