On April 17 , the group wrote a document entitled " Declaration of War — Formal Introduction of Lords of Chaos " , which they planned to mail to the Lee County Clerk/Traffic Violations Bureau but ultimately did not . The manifesto warned : In the early morning hours of April 20 , 1996 , the group escalated their terror campaign by destroying a historic two-story brick Coca-Cola bottling plant in Fort Myers . Foster 's original plan had been to destroy the building on April 19 to emulate the Oklahoma City bombing , which had occurred on that date the year before . Like Timothy McVeigh , he saw his actions as a retaliation against the government for the Waco Siege , which had occurred on April 19 , 1993
Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing
Lords of Chaos (criminal group)