 Lampley's plans were interrupted when FBI informant, Richard Schrum alerted authorities that the homemade bomb was about to be tested at Elohim City.The FBI held that their foiling the plot "saved as many lives as what was lost in Oklahoma City".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."