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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Here is part of the answer to Keely's
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:20
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] This is Old
News in Boundary County</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>This is getting traction in Arizona, too, which is rapidly
becoming the most socially and politically loony of the 50 states.
<BR><BR>I would be very interested to see how many Sovereigns there are in
Latah County, and how many are in some way affiliated with local "ministries"
that see secession as a reasonable option for the Southern states, find
sympathy for the Confederacy, believe secular government to be God's
chastening of Christian males, and counsel their followers to avoid, even
attack, public schooling, social welfare programs, and other "statist"
institutions.<BR><BR>What I'd really like -- and what I won't get -- is a
strong denunciation of this movement from this and other Christian
organizations, which I think is not only reasonable but required, given that
the overwhelming majority of Sovereign Citizens claim to be Christians, and
Christian pastors and leaders are charged with protecting the witness of the
faith. Sadly, those pastors and leaders on the Palouse have largely been
silent, and I imagine their brethren -- their male cohorts -- are just as
silent in Boundary County.<BR><BR><FONT color=#8064a2><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3><FONT
face=Verdana>Keely<BR>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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From: deco@moscow.com<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010
09:35:12 -0700<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] This is Old News in Boundary
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<DIV><FONT size=2>This has been going on in Boundary County since the late
1970s.</FONT></DIV>
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<H5 style="FLOAT: right" class=ecxdetails><FONT size=2>August 12,
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<H1><FONT size=2>Sovereign citizens spin history,
reject government</FONT></H1>
<H5 class=ecxsubhead><FONT size=2>Southern Poverty Law says 300,000 belong
to movement</FONT></H5>
<DIV class="ecxdetails ecxnested ecxgrid-8"><SPAN><FONT size=2>Andrew
Welsh-Huggins<BR>Associated Press </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV id=ecxstory-body><FONT size=2>COLUMBUS, Ohio – They call themselves
sovereign citizens, U.S. residents who declare themselves above state and
federal laws. Many don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses
or recognize the court system.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Some peddle schemes
that use fictional legal loopholes to eliminate debt and
avoid foreclosures.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>A few such believers are
violent: Two police officers in Arkansas died in a shootout in May after
stopping an Ohio sovereign citizen and his son.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>As
many as 300,000 people identify as sovereign citizens, the Southern Poverty
Law Center found in a study to be published today that was obtained by the
Associated Press. Hate group monitors say their numbers have increased thanks
to the recession, the foreclosure crisis, the growth of the Internet and the
election of Barack Obama in 2008.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Adherents expect
the current American system of government to end one way
or another.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“I’m the Patrick Henry of the 21st
century. I’m here to regain our freedom,” James McBride said in a jailhouse
interview. “I’m going to, or die trying.”</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>At the
heart of their belief system: The government creates a secret identity for
each citizen at birth, a “straw man,” that controls an account at the U.S.
Treasury used as collateral for foreign debt. File enough documents at the
right offices and the money in those accounts can be used to pay off debt or
make purchases worth thousands of dollars.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>The
movement is based on a form of “legal fundamentalism,” said Michael Barkun, a
retired Syracuse University political science professor who researches
anti-government and hate groups.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“These people
really seem to feel that filing certain kinds of legal papers that are
connected to their theories will somehow also magically have the power to
alter relationships and grant things that otherwise would be unobtainable,”
he said.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Experts say sovereign citizens are the
latest manifestation of anti-government activists going back to the Posse
Comitatus movement of the 1970s, which recognized only local governments and
no law enforcement official with more jurisdiction than a sheriff. In the
1980s, government protesters exploited the farm crisis by selling fraudulent
debt relief programs.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“In good times they focus on
tax cheating, in bad times they focus on getting out of debt,” said JJ MacNab,
an expert on tax and financial schemes and author of the
SPLC report.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Martin Smith, of Carthage, Mo., lost
$8,000 to a father-and-son company in Columbus called Liberty Resources that
pitched a method to eliminate credit card debt based on a theory that national
banks aren’t authorized to issue credit.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“We just
became convinced that each of the parts of the puzzle that Liberty Resources …
was telling us existed would work,” said Smith, 48, a
civil engineer.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Dan Wickline and his son, Chad,
pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to commit money laundering and are
serving federal prison sentences.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>In April, a
group called the Guardians of the Free Republics sent letters to governors
demanding they leave office or be removed. The group’s website calls for the
restoration of lawful government and an end to tax forms, vehicle
registrations and marriage licenses. An e-mail to the group was
not returned.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Jim Jarvis is Ohio coordinator for
the Restore America Plan, which shares similar beliefs with the Guardians
group. He maintains the country has lacked a legitimate government since
Congress failed to adjourn properly in 1861.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>The
people who are crazy, he says, are those who won’t do the research to find out
what’s really going on in the country.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>The
sovereign citizen movement has grown to about 100,000 hard-core believers, the
SPLC report estimates, and 200,000 people trying out the theories by
“resisting everything from speeding tickets to
drug charges.”</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>The report cites IRS figures that
estimated as many as 250,000 tax protesters in the mid-1990s, though not all
of those were part of the sovereign citizen movement. The 300,000 figure is
the first calculation of the movement’s numbers separate from
tax protesters.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>McBride, the jailed sovereign
citizen, came across anti-government beliefs while in federal prison in
Michigan on a 1992 cocaine importing conviction.</FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>Over the years he developed his own tenets, including a revised history
of the United States that says the country was secretly organized as a general
post office in 1789.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>He dismisses any accusation
that the programs he pitched were fraud, arguing he’s not subject to the laws
of the U.S., which he calls a corporation along the lines of a
car company.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“General Motors’ laws don’t affect me
because I’m not an employee of them,” McBride said. “Same with the state of
Ohio and the United States.”</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Today, McBride is
headed back to federal prison after prosecutors said he cashed bogus checks
and refused to cooperate with his parole officers following a 2004 bankruptcy
fraud conviction.</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>“I’m never going to have my
grandchildren say, ‘Grandpa, why didn’t you do something to protect my
rights?’ ” McBride said.</FONT><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><FONT
size=2>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
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