Aryan Republican Army
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From January 1994 to December 1995 the Aryan Republican Army also known as The Midwest Bank Robbers committed a string of 22 bank robberies across the Midwestern United States (nearly matching Jesse James' string of bank, stage coach and train heists) in order to fund acts against the government. It is said that they netted somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000, although that figure might well be an underestimation, as others have estimated the figure to be closer to $500,000, nevertheless, not one penny was ever returned to ZOG. ARA (NOT to be confused with Anti Racist Action) was made out of 4 members, including Scott Stedeford from the band Day of the Sword.
Scott Stedeford's roots lie in a largely Italian-American neighborhood of modest, gray-stone-and-brick twins in Ardmore. His father, a retired quality control engineer, and mother, who stayed home to rear four children, still live there. Acquaintances describe them as kind and generous. As a teen, Stedeford immersed himself in drawing and music, friends said. He played drums in a rock band, took commercial art classes, and delighted in airbrushing images of his favorite band, Van Halen, on friend's jackets.
By the early 1990s, Stedeford had latched onto the trappings of the skinhead world. Scott's friend Pat Clinton described running into his old friend in early 1994 at the Cellblock, a Bensalem club. Stedeford was passing out leaflets from a white supremacist group, he said. "He came up and said, 'Oi!' and I didn't even recognize him," Clinton recalled. "He had his head shaved, with the combat boots and flight jacket and camouflage pants. I said, 'What? Are you into this stuff?' He said, 'I think you'd really like it. You ought to check it out.'"
In march 1995 a young man stepped in Mr. Lee's Autoland carsales place. He was checking out white 1979 Buick LeSabre. He did not testdrive it but asked the salesman Jay Helton if the car was in good condition. He paid the car in cash, 750 dollars. Something made the salesman suspicious and therefore he copied this young mans driving license. A year after this the salesman still had the copy of the driving license left when FBI paid him a visit. The driving license was a fake but the photo on it belonged to one Scott Stedeford. This was one of the reasons that finally led the FBI after this group who had been taking federal police for a ride for nearly two years. They were engaging in bank robberies for the sole purpose of financing an overthrow of the American government.
Professionally carried out robberies were committed on average, once in a month, in Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas and Kentucky. At times they dressed like construction workers, zipped in and out of the banks within five minutes. They sometimes yelled Spanish words.They'd snatch the cash themselves (so tellers couldn't rig the bags with dye bombs), then dash off in junk cars they had purchased with bogus IDs in the previous week or so. They'd also leave smoke grenades and pipe bombs, usually inert, in lunch boxes or other containers in the bank and in getaway cars to slow their pursuers.
These men mastered the art of disguise dressing as former presidents, FBI and ATF agents, Middle-Easterners, etc. In a December heist, one ARA member wore a Santa Claus suit, shouted "Ho! Ho! Ho!" to customers and left a bomb tucked in a Santa hat. No one was injured in the holdups. They took the piss out of FBI by renting cars with fake ID's which had names of retired FBI agents names. FBI didnt have a clue who they were, but they knew who was in FBI. At one point, they purchased a getaway car in the name of an FBI agent who had been hot on their trail.
Stedeford was finally arrested in suburban Philadelphia in 1996. Kevin McCarthy, a former member, pleaded guilty to three robbery related charges and agreed to testify against Stedeford and therefore Scott is now serving some 30 years sentence. Another victim of ZOG.
