Archived computer bulletin board discussions posted immediately after the bombing illustrate that at least some of those on the fringe she supposedly represented viewed her OKC related antics as intentionally misleading distractions with proto-fascist undertones much like those of William Cooper. “Thompson and Bill Cooper are two peas in the same pod,” said one commentator. Still, while Cooper was depicted as McVeigh’s ideological father, Thompson was his “guiding light,” his paramilitary mother figure. Thomson herself bragged to the National Enquirer about how “The FBI told me that Timothy
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