Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Do you like the BBC? You know I'm from the BBC?

0h, yes, I wanna know what the enemy has to say.

Ripped By mstoll

I was sitting in the world's tiniest plane, high above Northwest America.

Peaceful as they look, these hills of Idaho and Montana

are home to a strange subculture of right-wing patriots and survivalists.

A subculture I planned to infiltrate.

Armed only with a cardboard tube, I was stepping into the war zone.

Woo-hoo!

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Look out!

That's me riding shotgun

with former racing car driver and commodities broker, Steve Quail.

- This is totally amphibious. - No, this goes under water?

- It goes on the water. - How deep can it go?

- How deep can it go? - How deep can this thing...

It doesn't matter how deep the water is, it floats.

No! Whoa!

Like thousands of other Americans,

Steve gave up his old life to become a full-time patriot activist,

dedicated to defending the US constitution and sounding the alarm for...

"...the most turbulent period in earth's history"?

- Right. - (Both) All hell is going to break loose.

Despite all hell about to break loose, I felt safe being here at Safetrek -

Steve's own specialised store for the survival-minded.

It's like Harrods, everything's under one roof.

Deadly viruses, asteroids, earthquakes - so many disasters, so little time.

But for Steve, like patriots across the USA, one source of fear towers over the rest -

a global cabal of bankers and politicians called...

The new world order.

New world order - what we're talking about is -

Evil, secret... Stop me when this gets wrong. Secret plan...

- To control the world. ...to... How about "enslave"?

That's a better word.

- Is that better? - Yes.

See, the new world order is nothing new,

it's just the old world order packaged cutely by the power brokers of the world.

Remember, their motto is order out of chaos, 0K?

In Latin, it's 0rdo ab Chao.

So, the situation is, what you need to ask, you really should ask us...

Wait, wait, wait, the new world order has a motto?

- It has a motto. - Like a little club?

Not a little club...

- Does it have a tie? ...a big club.

- That is their motto. - 0rder out of chaos?

- 0rder out of chaos. - And do they have a badge?

- Do they have a badge? - Do they have a uniform?

0h, yeah, it's black and it says United Nations Police Force on it,

because the United Nations will ultimately become the control vehicle

for world control and domination.

They've actually engineered, now hear this word,

engineered crisises that they provide the solution for,

and the solution is like the old Third Reich solution.

It's to eliminate people. How many, roughly?

They're claiming four fifths of the world population.

That's four of these five people here.

Yup.

How could they administer the genocide of four billion people

when they can't even pass a thing saying it's international year of the child?

Right, they don't say it as killing off,

they say it as the earth must have the planet's population diminished by four billion.

- Do they? - Yes.

So they put it in secret language?

And the only people that are gonna be exempt from this,

outside of the guys that are gonna bring it down,

are the people that have prepared and that's what the whole point is,

people are preparing for introduction of the new world order,

- and in America... - That's you. You're preparing?

I'm preparing.

- So, the other four of us, we're all toast? - You're toast.

So, tell me, where are we going now?

We're going out to our shelter.

These are biological, nuclear and chemical warfare shelters.

They're about $35,000 plus shipping.

- No way! - Yeah.

What would cause you to come down here?

An escalating international conflict.

When that happens, you'll be here?

Well, people who have shelters will enter into their shelters at that time.

This is a showroom of a shelter, but do you have your own shelter?

- Yeah. - Will you tell me where yours is?

- No. - Please?

- No. - Seriously, why not?

Because, the bottom line is, there are a lot of people

who... who are going to be looking for people who are prepared.

So how do you prevent them from finding you?

- Well... - You go underground, I guess.

Yes, these things are underground.

Would you defend this against UN troops? Would you be willing to do that?

Would I be willing to do that? I have no love for UN troops

and I think that's what we were talking about, the coming civil war in America.

And you could shoot people who were trying to come after you?

Well, I think that's sort of... Let me say this, if someone's trying to take your life from you,

is it morally wrong to defend yourself?

Crikey, that's got... That's powerful.

Look, I'm trembling now.

Under Steve's expert tutelage

I was getting in my last shots on the Safetrek gun range before moving on.

That's it.

- How'd I do? - You did very well.

- Thanks. - Excellent shot.

But I was clearly no match for local patriots like Shirley.

- She doesn't have to if she's worried. - She's not worried.

Shirley's getting amazing accuracy.

Steve didn't seem dangerous. Well, not that dangerous.

A successful businessman, he was practically mainstream.

So I was heading further off the beaten path, into the wilds of Idaho,

to see the legendary colonel, Bo Gritz.

My son fights under that flag.

A one-time Green Beret and presidential candidate,

Bo is now stumping on the patriot trail.

This is what happens to this globalist government.

And he too is no friend of the new world order.

In 1994, he announced plans for a kind of mountain top commune

where fellow patriots could be safe from the federal government, the UN

and from Armageddon.

He named it Almost Heaven.

Dawn found me winding up towards its almost pearly gates.

- Hi, Colonel Gritz? - Yeah.

How you doing? We're from the BBC.

You're too early. It's tomorrow, isn't it?

No, it's supposed to be today.

You can come in but I'm doing my radio programme in just a couple of minutes.

- I was told it would be Tuesday. - I'm sorry about that.

Take your shoes off.

Bo Gritz, we're with you on Talk America Radio.

Freedom Call, we do more than just talk about it.

A 40-foot Jesus appeared before him...

...I guarantee him, he'll get his damn money!

...would anyone wanna conduct anal sex?

...on the United States, I didn't hide...

...lawyers belong on the bottom of the ocean.

I'll see you tomorrow. You be here, that's an order.

Let me just say, General... Colonel Gritz, excuse me,

it's a real pleasure for you, for me to, um...

OK, so I admit, I was a bit intimidated at first.

After all, he was the model for Rambo,

had personally killed 400 people,

and by the looks of it, stolen their medals.

0K, so you founded a patriot covenant community here in rural Idaho, is that correct?

Maybe... exactly correct.

I went to every state, and everywhere I went I saw people afraid. They were paranoid.

They were paranoid about the government, about natural phenomenon,

they were paranoid about military targeting, about nuclear power plants,

so, I went to FEMA, that's the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

They have a great database of catastrophic events.

I took a magic marker - for example, Florida,

all across here, these guys pretty well get decimated.

Hurricanes, right?

And you come up by Georgia, you get the hurricane thing,

and South Carolina gets wiped out.

You've got Washington DC which is a major targeting area.

Iraqi missiles or something.

The next thing is the tornado belt - Kansas and 0klahoma.

- You're doing kind of a twister on that. - That's what it is.

See there? Twister - good.

You have this giant flood belt.

All the winter storms from Maine make this area uninhabitable.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, all in the blizzard zone.

- It's all blizzards, is it? - Yeah.

What's wrong with North Dakota?

- N0RAD. - Target for missiles, right?

- This is nuclear waste right here. - That's nuclear waste.

California, you got earthquakes. Any idea how you wanna make earthquakes?

That's a tough one.

And in Los Angeles you have the riots.

Portland, you have Mount Hood. All of these are volcanic.

Lava coming out.

- In New Mexico we didn't have the soil. - Just too cold.

Montana and Texas is under this storm problem.

- And... - So, it doesn't leave that much, does it?

Well, it doesn't... What happened is,

we ended up in a little tiny spot up here, that actually...

We are right here.

So, in sum, how would you rate this place?

Well, this place is the safest place in all of America.

Having said that, when you picked out the land here,

did you have in mind whether it would be easy to defend against some kind of invasion?

0ur community is spread over about ten miles.

It would take an army in order to try to control us.

They're not gonna do it for any reason.

I just was looking for the safest place for people to live

where they wouldn't have weird things happening to 'em,

by Mother Nature or by man-made problems.

Was there a spot on Almost Heaven waiting for me?

Where are we headed now?

We're headed to Almost Heaven Too. It's not T-W-0 it's T-0-0.

Bo had Just the place.

With a bit of cash down, I too could have land, a house, even a pet,

in the safest place in all America.

Can you see yourself... You move from London,

you come out here, put yourself up a log cabin right there?

It was a tempting offer.

But what was this business about a constitutional covenant?

This is a constitutional covenant community.

We don't ask anyone what their faith is, what their colour is, what their IQ is.

All you have to do when you join this community

is say, "I will stand in the defence of my neighbours in their constitutional rights."

If it ever comes to the paranoia that people see now,

where you have a government that says