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Permalink Reply by SWAMP FOX on October 14, 2012 at 5:42am

The Constitution in Article I Section 10 says that "No State shall...make anything but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;"

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Permalink Reply by SWAMP FOX on October 25, 2012 at 12:17pm

Brother Magnus, I have been buying Canadian gold and silver Maples for several years. I really believe the USD is going to tank in the very near future. I also have a tactical 12GA shotgun with a few hundred rounds to dissuade foragers and looters from entering our abode.

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Permalink Reply by Chancy Yardbird on October 25, 2012 at 4:33am

Jurors decide fate of DeKalb 'sovereign citizens'

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. —

A DeKalb County jury is deciding the fate of three men indicted for racketeering, after a Channel 2 Action News investigation. Channel 2 first exposed a group of so-called "sovereign citizens" in 2010, for signing fake deeds to themselves and then moving into foreclosed homes.

"If I deprive anybody of their property or life, liberty ... I have a right to go to jail. Send me on my way," Eliyshuwa Yisrael testified Wednesday.

Yisrael is acting as his own attorney in the case, which initially included 11 other defendants. Several have already pleaded guilty and were called as witnesses.

Jermaine Gibson and Richard Jenkins are also on trial. Prosecutors allege the three remaining defendants were the ringleaders of the scheme.

Another defendant, Joseph Dion Lawler, has not been seen since the group was indicted. Prosecutors have a signed warrant for his arrest.

From the stand, Yisrael didn't deny taking the properties, including a $13 million shopping center in Buckhead, but said he didn't harm anyone in the process.

"I haven't had anyone come and testify that I have taken their property, not one human being," said Yisrael, "The indictment says there are victims, where are these victims?"

As a sovereign citizen, he tried to convince the jury the banks, which were the documented owners of the properties, should not have been allowed to own them in the first place.

"Only people can enter into a contract, not corporations, because a corporation cannot sign or give verbal instructions," Yisrael told the jury.

Prosecutors argued the group targeted bank-owned homes because they were vacant and the men could move right in. A Channel 2 Action News investigation in 2010 tied the men to 18 different properties across eight Georgia counties.

"He told me he owned the property and he was going to take possession and he told me in the same conversation that somehow he was going to make sure I lost my real estate license," testified Realtor Lynn Erdely.

"Mr. Jenkins called me and said he had seen my notes at the house and he was going to have me arrested for trespassing on his property," said Realtor Janice Morris, of Waynesboro.

Jenkins also represented himself and questioned co-defendants who had already pleaded guilty. Kenith Rey told the jury he paid Jenkins and Yisrael to help him take over a $3 million home in Sandy Springs.

"Yisrael was a friend of mine and we traded money, and you got money from me, so don't play games," Rey answered Jenkins on cross examination.

Yisrael told Rey, "I never received any money from you."

"You have received money from me, that's a lie," Rey replied.

Jermaine Gibson elected not to testify. His defense attorney, Adeline Alexander, told jurors racketeering charges were designed for mafia-style cases, and were too serious for this case.

"This case breaks my heart a little bit. These aren't the gentlemen, this isn't the crime, this isn't the offense that RICO was designed to punish," said Alexander.

The jury will resume deliberations Thursday morning.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/jurors-decide-fate-dekalb-sove... (courtroom video included)

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Permalink Reply by Chancy Yardbird on October 29, 2012 at 1:15pm

I withdrew my Thursday and Friday comments to my DeKalb 'sovereign citizens' update as I stated in an attempt to refocuss on the subject matter.

Hope it helps.

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Permalink Reply by Chancy Yardbird on October 25, 2012 at 2:25pm

3 ‘Sovereign Citizens’ acquitted in DeKalb

American concept of justice and "Juries of our peers" shines through the fog of disent as it often will.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/3-sovereign-citizens-acquitted-i...

A DeKalb County jury on Thursday acquitted three so-called “sovereign citizens” who were charged with racketeering for moving into and living in foreclosed homes.

Channel 2 Action News reported that Eliyshuwa Yisrael, Jermaine Gibson and Richard Jenkins were acquitted of all charges. They were accused of racketeering.

The defendants did not deny their actions, arguing that no crime was committed.

The three defendants acqluitted Thursday wewre among 12 people indicted by a DeKalb grand jury in connection with the thefts of 18 properties in eight counties. Several have already pleaded guilty.

JUSTICE And Liberty for ALL

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Permalink Reply by Chancy Yardbird on October 28, 2012 at 10:50pm

San Mateo County Caifornia- Peninsula explosives suspect has extremist ties, expert says

There are a number of reasons the cache of 145 pounds of explosives discovered in a Brisbane home in early October were troubling -- one of them is the background of the man police say put them there.

William Harrell, 46, has links to extreme, anti-government ideas and movements, including the infamous sovereign citizens whose adherents have killed six law enforcement officers since 2000, according to an expert on the group and Harrell's ex-girlfriend. Police, though, have declined to directly associate him with any extremist groups.

Harrell, who is due back in San Mateo County Superior Court on Nov. 8, has pleaded not guilty to possessing a stash of commercial explosives powerful enough to flatten the house they were in.

When reached by phone, Harrell's father, Walter Bruce Harrell, of Montara, said his son is not part of the group. He added the younger Harrell is guilty of nothing worse than listening to a radio program host who critics call a right-wing conspiracy theorist.

But a national expert on sovereign citizens said paperwork William Harrell lodged in 2010 is evidence he is a follower of the ideology, which declares federal, state and local governments operate illegally.

According to records, Harrell made a Uniform Commercial Code filing in Kentucky that lists him as a debtor to himself. J.J. MacNab said sovereigns make these obscure filings because they believe it allows them to lay claim to a secret government bank account that belongs to them.

MacNab said it's hokum, but added that is no indication sovereigns are dummies or wackos. She has been studying them since the 1990s and wrote a publication on sovereigns for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremists.

"Something has happened in their lives that turned off a common sense switch," said MacNab. "They are not stupid or pathetic, naïve or poor."

The FBI considers sovereigns a domestic terrorist movement because of their willingness to engage in violence. An early follower of the ideology was Terry Nichols, a convicted accomplice in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

MacNab estimated in 2010 there were at least 100,000 sovereigns across the country. The FBI says the decades-old movement is a loose network of individuals with no established leadership.

Sovereigns manifest their beliefs in a variety of ways, including making their own license plates, driver's licenses, filing frivolous lawsuits or refusing to pay taxes. When confronted on their law-breaking, some sovereigns have turned violent.

But local law enforcement authorities have said they don't have any evidence thus far that connects Harrell to the movement.

"We are aware he has filed documents with connections to this ideology," Brisbane police Cmdr. Robert Meisner said. "But that is not evidence he is part of a particular group."

Harrell's ex-girlfriend, who tipped authorities to the closet containing the explosives after an Oct. 1 fight, said he had at least begun paperwork to become a sovereign. She passed her knowledge to police the night of the terrifying discovery in the home she also shared with her two children. The ex-girlfriend, who recently obtained a restraining order against Harrell, said she had no idea the explosives were there, let alone their source or intended purpose.

Harrell's father says the worst his son has done is listen to "The Alex Jones Show" on radio. The Anti-Defamation League has called the program an anti-government outlet for conspiracy theories. The league says Jones argued the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and President Barack Obama is a "Trojan Horse" manufactured "to pacify the people."

"My son listens to him," said the elder Harrell. "That is as much as there is to those allegations. Most of what is being written is false."

Harrell added his son had the explosives for a legitimate reason but said he could not elaborate because of the ongoing criminal case.

Attempts to reach William Harrell were unsuccessful. He's out of jail on a $500,000 bail bond his mother told authorities was secured with $50,000 in proceeds from the sale of a gold bar, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

The ex-girlfriend said that not long after Harrell's arrest, his father asked her about the location of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold. She said she knew nothing about it.

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