28 Jul
DES MOINES, Iowa — Two former employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa have pleaded guilty to illegally viewing President Barack Obama’s student loan records.
Julie Kline of Ainsworth, Iowa, pleaded guilty Friday to exceeding authorized computer access. Gary Grenell of Iowa City pleaded guilty to the charge July 12. Both face up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
They were among nine former employees of Vangent Inc. accused of viewing Obama’s student loan records between 2007 and 2009.
Three other defendants have pleaded guilty, and four are scheduled for trial.
Associated Press
The nine employees, who were fired last year, had all pleaded not guilty at their indictments in May, 2010.
27 Jul
Tars Tarkas at Politisink has a piece on Walt Fitzpatrick and his zany antics, trying to overthrow the forces of repression running the small town of Madisonville, Tennessee–practice for when he and his little gang of misfits overthrow the government of the United States.
Walter Fitzpatrick a bigwig of the American Grand Jury, which is basically Fitzpatrick and a few other guys who sit around, declare themselves a Grand Jury, and file charges against Barack Obama and basically everyone in Congress and the Supreme Court claiming they are committing fraud and treason as Barack Obama is really one Barry Soetoro, noted guy who isn’t an American.
To succeed in this plan, Fitzpatrick must get the Monroe County Tennessee officials to agree to charge Obama with treason and fraud, because just declaring yourself a Grand Jury doesn’t mean anyone will listen to you. So you would think Fitzpatrick would have a good working relationship with the local officials. Instead, Fitzpatrick becomes increasingly belligerent against the local officials, who don’t take his hand-written claims seriously, and soon Fitzpatrick declares that the Monroe County are part of the vast conspiracy.
A discovery hearing will be held on October 5 and trial is set for November 29 for both Fitzpatrick and his sidekick, Darren Huff; the Order noting that “Fitzpatrick shall not appear for trial in military uniform at any day that the matter is before a jury.” Poor Walt, he must be crushed.
Recently a Friend of Politijab was visiting Tennessee and decided to pay a call at the Monroe County Court House in Madisonville to pick up a bunch of Exhibits from Fitzpatrick’s and Huff’s arraignments on June 28, which illustrate Fitzpatrick ordering about Police Chiefs, State Supreme Court Justices, and so forth. There is also a mug shot and report of “Involvements” with the Sheriff’s Office by Fitzpatrick, in an earlier spectacle in Kitsap County, Washington State, described in Tarkas’s article above.
Update: Associated Press is reporting a trial date of January 11, 2011 for Darren Huff’s federal charges. The Order above for a November 29 trial is set in state court.
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See also:
Fitzpatrick & Huff Arraignment In Tennessee
Darren Huff Also Indicted In Tennessee
Do Not Pass Go
Justice Post-Racial
More Winger Hijinx in Tennessee
Just Another Day Wasting Taxpayer Money In Birfistan
Arrest Me, Too, Says Carl Swensson
There Are April Fools And Then There Are Birthers
Canada Free Press Just Wrong About American Grand Jury Case
Another Day, Another Birther Loss
The Fourth of July is over and Obama is still President
21 Jul
The 45-year-old Groveland man has a history of anti-government and anti-corporation behavior, and a deep-rooted hate for liberal causes, authorities said. He reportedly ranted at one point about “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items,” according to published reports. …
“We have some idea of where he was going (Saturday night) but we’re not going to put it out there,” said Oakland police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason.
Thomason continued, “We’re not sure if there may be some bigger, underlying criminal enterprise going on. I can’t get into that.”
Williams may not have been acting alone, police said.
Thomason said Oakland police are following up numerous leads, executing search warrants in other cities and looking for possible accomplices.
Police said Williams was wearing body armor and was armed with a high-powered hunting rifle, a pistol and a shotgun at the time of the stop. He had a three-ring binder, recovered from the truck he was driving by a bomb squad robot, with the word “California” scrawled across its cover. Authorities have declined to say what was in the binder.
CHP spokesman Sgt. Trent Cross said there is “no doubt” Williams was on his way to do a “very serious crime against either someone or a group of people.”
Oakland Tribune
15 Jul
Falsely portrayed as promoting teenage prostitution in the ACORN videotapes, Juan Carlos Vera is seeking damages
One of the many victims of Andrew Breitbart’s ACORN video hoax is finally striking back in court, against pseudo-pimp James O’Keefe and pseudo-ho Hannah Giles if not Breitbart himself. Former San Diego ACORN office employee Juan Carlos Vera, who was falsely portrayed in a heavily edited videotape as conspiring with O’Keefe and Giles to traffic underage girls across the Mexican border, is suing both of the right-wing filmmakers, seeking $75,000 in damages under California’s privacy statutes.
Filed last week in the U.S. District Court in San Diego, Vera’s brief complaint claims that O’Keefe, Giles and up to 20 unnamed parties violated his “reasonable expectation of privacy” by conspiring to secretly videotape him and then posting the tapes on the Internet without his consent, causing him to lose his job and other damages. Indeed, as the complaint notes, the “pimp and prostitute” explicitly asked Vera whether their conversation would be confidential. …
But as California Attorney General Jerry Brown discovered when he investigated the ACORN matter last spring, the actual meaning of the Vera tape was severely distorted by dishonest editing to suggest that he had agreed to help smuggle young girls for O’Keefe’s mythical brothel. To obtain unedited versions of the tapes from O’Keefe, Brown gave him and Giles immunity from any criminal prosecution under the state privacy statutes.
What really happened in the San Diego ACORN office, as Fox News and many other outlets neglected to report, was that immediately after O’Keefe and Giles departed, Vera called a cousin who is a detective in the National City Police Department to report the planned crime. Police detectives later confirmed Vera’s effort to local news outlets and to the California attorney general’s office. When Vera learned that O’Keefe and Giles were hoaxing him, he again called the police, who terminated their investigation.
Salon
13 Jul
In an interview with the Pee & Eee on July 7, (where have they buried John Charlton?), Walter Fitzpatrick described Judge Carroll Ross as a criminal in a “panic” who will be going “to prison for a long time.”
But in this case, on June 3, everyone in the room was tainted. Everybody in that room was prejudiced against me: everybody. And the judge knew that up front. Judge Carroll Ross was as animated and as abusive as he could be; he was a bully. At least he was trying to be a bully. That man is frantic; he is frenzied. …
And I said to the judge, “Are you mocking me now? Is that what’s going on? Are you making fun of me?” And you see, the thing is this: that’s exactly what they were doing. This was an act of war against the government. …
The judge knows he’s committing treason. He was making fun of me on Monday because he knows I’ve filed a complaint of treason and he’s trying to get people to make me look like a laughingstock so that they won’t do exactly the same thing. People are going to wake up some day and say, “You know, this guy was right.”
No, Walt, history will say you were a laughingstock.
And, yes, he was mocking you:
THE COURT: Exhibit number, the next one – -
General, this appears, what, to be some bogus citizen’s arrest warrant that’s been passed around, is that correct?
Official court transcripts provided by Friends of Politijab. Very entertaining reading and you can see for yourself if you think this judge was anywhere near in a “panic.”
STATE OF TENNESSEE v WALTER FRANCIS FITZPATRICK, III
Transcript of Arraignment Held June 28, 2010
STATE OF TENNESSEE v DARREN WESLEY HUFF
Transcript of Arraignment Held June 28, 2010
05 Jul
ROANOKE – The United States Secret Service (USSS) is investigating a man that investigators say made threats in Roanoke to kill President Barack Obama, and blow up a federal building. snip
Then on June 29th, Special Agent Pavich writes that a concerned citizen overheard Dement ask an employee of a fireworks stand near Valley View Mall if they, “sold explosives, or if they knew where he could get some.“ Pavich writes that concerned citizen asked Dement if he was serious, and Dement replies, “he was and that he intended on blowing up a Federal building.“ snip
After the second arrest booking, Pavich writes that Dement told the arresting officer when he got out, he was “going to kill someone, and there was nothing he (police officer) could do about it.“ Pavich adds that Dement also stated the he (Dement) was going straight to Washington, D.C. and someone was going to pay when he got out. Pavich also writes that Dement then spoke some racial obscenities about the President.
WSLS
Or the ear?
01 Jul
JONESBORO, AR (WMC-TV) – A prosecutor has found no indications of wrongdoing by police in West Memphis who shot and killed a father and son who were sought for the shooting deaths of two police officers.
Prosecutor Mike Walden said Jerry and Joseph Kane would have faced capital murder charges had they not been killed in a shootout with police in the parking lot of a West Memphis Walmart in May. …
The video taken from Officer Bill Evans’ police SUV dashboard begins with what appears to be a standard traffic stop. The video had no audio but shows Jerry Kane stepping outside his minivan at Evans’ request, then pointing emphatically at his Ohio license plate.
Moments later, Joseph comes out of the passenger side of the van, firing an AK-47. He fires for less than a minute, then gets back in the van with his father.
In other videos released Wednesday, first responders can be seen arriving at the shooting scene moments after the officers were killed.
Approximately 90 minutes later, video taken from dashboard and surveillance camera show the sequence of events where the Kanes became involved the a shootout in the parking lot of the West Memphis Walmart.
The videos can be watched at WMCTV.
24 Jun
So Darren Huff was indicted, along with Walter Fitzpatrick, according to the local newspaper, Advocate and Democrat:
He finally got his day in front of a Monroe County grand jury, but Walt Fitzpatrick was there as a defendant, not as someone trying to indict the president of the United States. …
Fitzpatrick is now scheduled to be in court June 28 for an arraignment on these charges. During an arraignment, a defendant enters a plea of guilty or not guilty. If the plea is not guilty, then either a status hearing or a trial date will be set. …
Indicted along with Fitzpatrick was Darren Wesley Huff, a Georgia resident who has been identified by courthouse personnel as being Fitzpatrick’s cameraman during his April entrance into the grand jury meeting.
Huff was indicted for participating in a riot, disrupting a meeting and threatening to harm a juror, but he is more well known for having been stopped by federal authorities after he allegedly threatened to “take over Monroe County” with guns in order to bring down the president.
Huff is also facing a number of charges in federal court.
Good.
21 Jun
I thought Walter Fitzpatrick had been a little too quiet since his stay in a Tennessee jail in April.
He might have gotten used to his fake grand juries accomplishing nothing and been rather surprised when a real Grand Jury socked him with two felony charges in an indictment (called a “Presentment” in a Grand Jury proceeding), handed down in Monroe County Criminal Court in Madisonville. Fitzpatrick had failed to have President Obama charged with treason there in March, 2009. He returned in April, 2010 to attempt citizens’ arrests of various local government officials, including the foreman of the 2009 Grand Jury.
According to this, (extreme crazy alert), to which Fitzpatrick links from his own site, he was arrested again on June 8.
In addition to issuing a True Bill for the original charges of rioting; disrupting a meeting; disorderly conduct; and resisting arrest, misdemeanors presented by the District Attorney, the Grand Jury panel added sua sponte: “Retaliation for Past Action” and “Civil Rights Intimidation,” both felony counts.
The arraignment is scheduled for June 28.
See also:
Justice Post-Racial
More Winger Hijinx in Tennessee
Just Another Day Wasting Taxpayer Money In Birfistan
Arrest Me, Too, Says Carl Swensson
There Are April Fools And Then There Are Birthers
The Fourth of July is over and Obama is still President
17 Jun
A woman pleaded guilty in Davenport federal court Wednesday to accessing Barack Obama’s student loan records without permission.
Mercedes Costoyas, 53, of Iowa City, is one of nine people charged with exceeding authorized computer access.
The indictments were filed last month in U.S. District Court, Davenport. Each person faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.
By pleading guilty, Costoyas still faces up to a year in prison. But her attorney, Christopher Hagenow, and prosecutor Joel Barrows said she likely faces zero to six months jail time. …
The defendants worked for a Department of Education contractor in Coralville, Iowa, and each accessed the records on different dates between July 26, 2007, and March 13, 2009, court records state.
The others charged include Andrew J. Lage, 54, Patrick E. Roan, 51, and Sandra Teague, 54, all of Iowa City; Lisa Torney, 49, and Gary N. Grenell, 58, both of Coralville; Anna C. Rhodes, 32, of Ainsworth, Iowa; Julie L. Kline, 38, of West Branch, Iowa; and John P. Phommivong, 29, for whom no hometown was listed.
The records were accessed while Obama was a candidate for president, president-elect and after he took office, documents say.
Quad-City Times
15 Jun
A gang of armed black militants plots the invasion of a small Southern town. Their purpose is to take over the town, capture a couple dozen Federal, state and local officials in citizen arrests and liberate a confederate, oh, a Black Panther, maybe, from custody. The FBI has followed along with developments in the plot, which was blabbed all over barber shops in two states, on blog talk radio, on extremist left-wing sites all over the Internet, on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, anyhow. Local law enforcement, beefed up by several Federal forces, have prepared to defend the courthouse and the town. So what happens? These African-American co-conspirators babbling about their constitutional right to bear arms would be released and put on house arrest, just like white people, right?
Yeah, right.
But that is how it works for white militants–militia, Oath Keepers, citizen grand jury, states rights, “We The People” types: Birther pleads not guilty to gun charges, released until trial
From the criminal complaint filed by the FBI against Darren Huff:
3. Your Affiant submits this Affidavit to provide the information necessary to support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a criminal complaint as described below. It is not intended to include every fact or matter observed by me or known to the government. Information provided is based on my personal knowledge and observations during the course of this investigation, information conveyed to me by other law enforcement officials, and my review of records, documents and other information obtained during this investigation. This application is submitted in support of a criminal complaint and arrest warrant charging DARREN WESLEY HUFF, with Traveling in Interstate Commerce with Intent to Incite a Riot in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 2101(a) and Transporting in Commerce a Firearm in furtherance of a Civcil Disorder, in violation of Title 18 U.S. Code, Section 231(a). From a review of the statutes, your Affiant knows that 18 U.S.C. § 231(a)(2) states that it is unlawful for any person to (i) transport in interstate commerce any firearm (ii) knowing or having reason to know or intending that the same will be used unlawfully in the furtherance of a civil disorder. The term “civil disorder” is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 232(1) as meaning any public disturbance involving acts of violance by assemblages of three or more persons, which causes an immediate danger of or results in damage or injury to the property or person of any other individual. Further, that 18 U.S.C. § 2101(a) (2) (3) & (4) states that it is unlawful for any person to (i) travel in interstate commerce with the intent to (ii) organize, promote, encourage, participate in or carry on a riot, or to (iii) aid and abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violance in furtherance of a riot. “Riot” is defined in 18 U.S.C. ,§ 2102(a) as a public disturbance involving- (1) an act or acts- of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would result in damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual
Background
4. As a background to the investigation of HUFF, Affiant has learned that WALTER FRANCIS FITZPATRICK was arrested at Madisonville, TN on April 2, 2010, while attempting to conduct a citizen’s arrest on Monroe County Grand Jury Foreman Gary Petway. FITZPATRICK was charged at the time under Tennessee law with inciting a riot, disrupting an official public meeting, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He was bonded out of jail on April 6, 2010. Prior to ApriI:2, 2010, FITZPATRICK had personally drafted and issued citizens arrest warrants for twenty-four Federal, State and lodaI officials. Due to his April 2 arrest, FITZPATRICK was scheduled’to-.appear for a court hearing on the above charges in Monroe County, .9711? on:April 20, 2010.
Factual Basis
5. On April 19, 2010, Robert Shane Longmire, Branch Manager, Chase Bank, Hiran, GA was interviewed by Agents of the FBI. Longmire stated that HUFF told him on April 15, 2010, that HUFF had learned that FITZPATRICK had been arrested in Madisonville, TN and was to be in trial on April 20, 2010. HUFF stated that he believed that FITZPATRICK had been falsely arrested. HUFF told Longmire that HUFF was in the Georgia Militia and.that he along with eight or nine other militia groups were planning to travel to Madisonville on April 20 to “take over the city.” HUFF further advised that Longmire would see his acts on television on the twelve o’clock noon news.
6. On April 19, 2010, Agents of the FBI interviewed HUFF at his residence at Dalton, GA. During the interview, HUFF told the agents that he was planning to travel to Madisonville to assist FITZPATRICK in making citizens arrests. HUFF stated that he and others were planning to assist FITZPATRICK in getting the charges against FITZPATRICK dropped. HUFF was not sure how many individuals, would be traveling to MonroeCounty to assist FITZPATR,ICKHUFF said there would be no violence unless ,they were provoked into violence. HUFF said he would be armed with his Colt 45 handgun when he traveled to Madisonville, TN and that he would also be carrying his AK-47 rifle in his truck.
7. On April 20, 2010, your Affiant was present in a Command. Post in Madisonville TN, where he was informed by law enforcement officers who were reporting that HUFF and several individuals were in the possession of openly displayed and concealed firearms and were at the time present outside the Madison County General Sessions Court located in the Beecher Witt Government Building. HUFF and numerous others had also been observed gathering at restaurants and other locations near the Madison County Courthouse. Some of these persons gathered outside the Courthouse appeared to be conducting surveillance on law enforcement officers, their vehicles and police observation posts, as well as the entrances to the court building.
8. Your Affiant knows that prior to HUFF’s arrival in Madisonville, TN , on April 20, 2010, the FBI conducted surveillance of HUFF as he departed his residence in Dalton, GA on the early morning of April 20 and crossed the state line into Tennessee at approximately 6: 5.am while driving a 2004 black GM Sierra pick up truck, GA license. IM’LIT, together with a male passenger. This vehicle.is. registered.- DARREN WESLEY HUFF, xxx, Dallas GA.
9. On April 21 and Apri.122, 2010 Our Affiant interviewed: Lieutenant (Lt) Don Williams; TN Tenth. Judicial District Drug Task Force (DTF), who participated in a traffic stop of HUFF’s vehicle at approximately 8:00 AM on April 20, 2010, along with other Agents of the DTF and State Troopers of the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP). Lt. Williams stated that HUFF was pulled over by Troopers Michael Wilson and Kelly Smith for three traffic violations, to wit, traffic control device, registration law and following too closely, on Highway 68, in Sweetwater, TN. Lt. Williams observed a pistol on HUFF’s right hip upon his exiting his vehicle. Lt. Williams removed the pistol for officer safety reasons, after which HUFF produced a GA concealed weapons permit. Also present in the vehicle was MICHAEL WILLIAM DESILVA, who was not armed.
After receiving a warning citation, HUFF was informed he was free to leave but he voluntarily engaged the officers in conversation. HUFF stated to Lt. Williams that if they had enough armed people, they were going to take over the Monroe County Courthouse. Further, they planned to conduct arrests on. persons named in the criminal complaint and arrest warrants that had been signed by FITZPATRICK, a copy of which HUFF provided to Wiljiams along with an attached business card of FITZPATRICK. There were twenty-four Federal, State and local officers listed on the complaint and arrest warrant who were charged with being declared domestic enemies of the United. States engaged in treason. HUFF further stated that all of the members of the group he planned to join in Madisonville (which he believed included members of a group known as the “Oath Keepers”) had a copy of the Complaint and arrest warrants and were going to effect a citizen’s arrest.
10. Huff further stated to Lt. Williams that they intended to make physical arrests of various individuals and then turn these officials over to the State Police to place them in jail. HUFF said that their group had their own Grand Jury and Judge. HUFF said he had the constitutional right to bear arms, that he had an AK-47 and ammunition in the tool box. of his truck and that he had the right to take it out to protect himself. HUFF emphasized that if they didn’t have enough people on April 20 to do all they planned to do that day, that they would be back in one to two weeks. HUFF said he was ready to die for his rights and what he believed in. HUFF would not consent to the officers searching his truck.
11. Your Affiant was told by Lt. Williams that when HUFF opened the door; Lt. Williams observed two blue .45 pistol magazines in a pouch, which HUFF identified as his. HUFF declined to relinquish his: weapon, but agreed to lock it in his tool box later when he approached the Courthouse. HUFF told Lt. Williams that if necessary, they would come back and have a lot more armed people to take over the Courthouse and effect all the arrests. HUFF was emphatic in saying that he would die for his cause and would take out his AK-47 to effect the necessary arrests.
12. On April 22, 2010, Lt. Williams told your affiant that he recorded a radio broadcast on April 21, 2010, in which HUFF talked about his traffic stop on April. 20, 201’0. HUFF stated in the broadcast that when he had traveled to Madisonville, TN on April 20 he had his AK-47 and ammunition with him.
Based on the information gathered jn this investigation your Affiant has probable cause to believe that HUFF had both the intent and means to immediately carry out his threats of violence to take over the Madisonville, TN courthouse and/or arrest individuals by force based on the FITZPATRICK complaint and “citizens arrest warrants.” HUFF had traveled interstate with one or more weapons to accomplish his planned takeover of a courthouse and/or arrests of persons together with more than three persons. Your Affiant knows that on April 20, 2010, there were over a dozen armed members of this loose knit group who had Assembled with the stated intent to effect the citizens arrest warrants that had been issued by FITZPATRICK and/Or take over the courthouse if it was deemed necessary.
See also:
More Winger Hijinx in Tennessee
Just Another Day Wasting Taxpayer Money In Birfistan
Arrest Me, Too, Says Carl Swensson
There Are April Fools And Then There Are Birthers
The Fourth of July is over and Obama is still President
11 Jun
More than 2,200 people have been arrested during a 22-month investigation aimed at thwarting Mexican drug cartel efforts to distribute narcotics across the U.S. and funnel guns and money back south of the border, federal authorities said Thursday.
The probe, called Project Deliverance, focused on shutting down many of the cartels’ U.S.-based cells that smuggle drugs, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana, across the U.S.-Mexico border, collect them at major distribution points like Houston and then distribute them nationwide.
Many cells also were responsible for laundering drug profits through real estate purchases and smuggling the proceeds as well as guns back into Mexico to support cartel operations, officials said. …
In Mexico, Ramon Pequeno, head of the anti-narcotics division of Mexico’s federal police, said U.S.-Mexico cooperation has been key in arresting traffickers.
Associated Press
02 Jun
CNN Political Ticker:
(CNN) – The conservative videographer who plead guilty to entering federal property under false pretenses following an attempt to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phone system says that if given the chance, he’d do it again.
“I’d do it again, I might do it differently,” James O’Keefe told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday.
“I don’t regret what I did,” O’Keefe said before adding, “Senators are corrupt, politicians are corrupt. These people have to be investigated.”
When asked by Stephanopoulos if he would intentionally break the law again, O’Keefe indicated he would alter his methods.
“I might do it a little differently,” O’Keefe said.
O’Keefe is one of four men arrested in January. Two of the group posed as telephone repair workers to get into Landrieu’s office while O’Keefe secretly videotaped the incident.
Didn’t judges used to send punks like this into the army, at least, to make men out of them?
01 Jun
When I wrote last week about the dead sovereign citizen cop-killers, Jerry Kane and his son Joseph, I didn’t think it could get more strange, but it has.
An Ohio friend of Jerry Kane’s told the Dayton Daily News:
Black said Kane had two daughters and one son, Joseph. She doesn’t know where the grown daughters are today.
“We kind of expected that about him,” Black said of the elder Kane. “Joseph just got sucked in. That poor kid never had a chance. He was denied any outside contact, they had no church affiliation. The kid only knew what Jerry told him.”
One of Kane’s daughters told police of an incident in her family in 2007, when Joseph was only 13:
The 16-year-old involved in the murder of two West Memphis police officers considered shooting law enforcement personnel in the past, according to a statement his sister gave Ohio police.
Jessica Gutierrez, Joseph Kane’s sister, said in a statement to the Troy, Ohio, Police Department in 2007 that she heard her brother ask his mother whether he should shoot police officers arresting his dad, Jerry Kane.
“Mom, should I go get the guns out of the van?” Gutierrez recounted Joseph Kane saying. “Mom, let me go out, check on the dogs, and grab a gun. Then, if dad comes out, I’ll start shooting.”
At the time, Joseph Kane could have been no older than 13.
Not only did this father of the year raise his son to be a killer, but here is one of the daughters, too, raised right: Heather Kane is serving a 13-year sentence in Arizona for plotting a murder.
One of the daughters of Jerry Kane, the 45-year-old anti-government extremist Arkansas State Police believe killed two West Memphis policeman last week, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder for a 2006 plot to kill a woman she discovered on her ex-boyfriend’s MySpace page.
Heather Michelle Kane, 26, is being held at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, Ariz., after pleading guilty in 2007 to attempted first-degree murder and attempted kidnapping. A judge sentenced her to 13 years in prison. …
A source asking not to be identified because of connections to the Kane family confirmed that Heather Kane had lived for many years in Ohio with her father, Jerry Kane, before moving to Arizona with her mother.
This is the third mother I’ve heard of. Joseph’s mother, Hope, died some years ago. Now Heather’s mother in Arizona. Then there was a recent, common law step-mother, Donna Lee Wray, who lives in Florida, who is now claiming her family were “slaughtered,” “massacred” by federal snipers, somehow witnessed by the Russians. She has released a sovereign-riddled statement, here in PDF, to that effect.
24 May
The 16-year-old kid who died in a shoot-out with police on Friday never had a chance, not with the father he had, a right wing extremist who viewed the government and its agencies as sworn enemies, a sovereign citizen and a mortgage redemption con man. The kind of person Bill Clinton was talking about around the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing or Janet Napolitano was talking about with that right wing terrorism report last year, and like the Hutaree, who were arrested to prevent them from killing cops–domestic terrorists, in other words.
In case you are not familiar with the sovereign citizens movement, this brief description is from the FBI:
Today, we look at a third threat—the “sovereign citizen” extremist movement. Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United States. As a result, they believe they don’t have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, or law enforcement.
This causes all kinds of problems—and crimes. For example, many sovereign citizens don’t pay their taxes. They hold illegal courts that issue warrants for judges and police officers. They clog up the court system with frivolous lawsuits and liens against public officials to harass them. And they use fake money orders, personal checks, and the like at government agencies, banks, and businesses.
That’s just the beginning. Not every action taken in the name of the sovereign citizen ideology is a crime, but the list of illegal actions committed by these groups, cells, and individuals is extensive (and puts them squarely on our radar). In addition to the above, sovereign citizens:
Commit murder and physical assault;
Threaten judges, law enforcement professionals, and government personnel;
Impersonate police officers and diplomats;
Use fake currency, passports, license plates, and driver’s licenses; and
Engineer various white-collar scams, including mortgage fraud and so-called “redemption” schemes.
It strikes me that if people don’t want to be citizens, maybe we can exchange them for immigrants who do want to be citizens from some lawless place in the world. Then everybody’s happy and nobody has to go to war against our government, drive around with AK47s in their cars, prepared to slaughter police, or terrorize census workers with shotguns.
Ninety minutes before the shoot-out in a Walmart parking lot in Arkansas, where father and son were killed, and a sheriff and a deputy were shot, they’d murdered two policemen on an Interstate traffic stop. Two policemen with children. Dead and gone. As sorry as I feel about the death of this young man, and I see him as a victim of abysmal parenting and extreme right wing politics, mostly, I feel a whole lot sorrier for the families of the police officers killed in the line of duty.
Jerry Kane, the father, discussed his views on violence regarding an IRS agent last year, with his young son present:
Violence doesn’t solve anything, OK. It’s not violence that we’re after. The Bible even tells us that if you’re going to go and make war against somebody, you have to have to kill their sheep and their goats and their chickens and their babies and their wives. OK? You have to kill them all. So what we’re after here is not fighting, it’s conquering. I don’t want to have to kill anybody, but if they keep messing with me, that’s what it’s going to have to come out. That’s what it’s going to come down to, is I’m going to have to kill. And if I have to kill one, then I’m not going to be able to stop, I just know it. I mean I have an addictive personality. I haven’t had a drink in 18 years because I can’t handle this shit. …
Later, the son describes his view on violence. “They drew first blood. You are self-defending.”
His father then asks of the audience: ”Can anybody tell that my son has never been to school? … He slipped though the cracks.”
Yes, we can tell your brainwashed son never went to school, you dumb dead fuck.
And here is the boy’s recent step-mother playing sovereign citizen:
I, Donna-Lee; Wray, am a titled sovereign, neutral, non-combatant, child of God, my Creator and free man upon the land of the Republic of Florida, hereby proclaims that: I am not a United States Citizen; 14th Amendment Citizen; Trustee; Beneficiary; Surety; Debtor; Corporation or other Corporate Entity and that I am a living, flesh and blood man, of legal age, competent to testify, having firsthand knowledge of the truth and facts contained herein being correct, certain and not misleading.
I, Donna-Lee; Wray, am not the Surety, Trustee, Beneficiary or Administrator of any presumed or appointed constructive trust, agreement, implied or expressed contract[s] or liability regarding, DONNA LEE WRAY; DONNA L. WRAY; DONNA WRAY, or any derivative thereof, which is a corporation, corporate fiction and entity and I deny the existence of any trust, agreement, implied or expressed contract[s] and or relationship between my living man and the above corporate fictional entity and any local, county, state or federal corporate government body, entity, agent or agency.
I, Donna-Lee; Wray, deny consent and refuse any future liability, assignment or appointment as a trustee, surety, beneficiary or administrator over any implied, presumed or constructive trust indenture relationship[s] regarding the above corporate fictional entity and or any relationship with any corporate governmental entity, agent or agency. To bring or rely upon an action in equity; the opposition must give equity to receive equity and any presumptive bill of equity has been discharged, settled and the trust executed, ad infinitum.
I, Donna-Lee; Wray, doth hereby certify that this declaration is presented [at-arms-length] and [with-clean-hands], in affidavit form to prove the truth of a matter, with all rights reserved, without prejudice or recourse, UCC 1-308 and hereto affirms that the content contained herein, to be true, correct, complete, not misleading, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The crazy was all over this family and now the step-mother is saying the FBI told her the boy was the shooter. She says the father would never have done such a thing–let’s face facts, even if that were true, the son was doing what his father taught him.
Her husband’s friend, Tim Baulky, tells it differently:
“He had claimed more than once it would be suicide by cop and he was going to take as many of them with him as he could,” Baulky said. “Everybody knew something like this would happen. It’s not that he wanted to die; he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. He wanted his name to live forever.”
Law enforcement in Ohio had known for years what was coming from Jerry Kane:
In March 2004, Kane was in traffic court again for expired tags and a seat belt violation, according to Clark County Municipal Court records.
Judge Denise Moody sentenced Kane to six days of community service, a move that triggered increased anti-establishment ire.
Linda Durst, who owns a home next to Kane’s former property at 1515 S. Limestone St., said that at about the same time, Kane erected a sign in front of his house that denigrated the judge and hung a noose from a tree in his yard.
That July, Kane, with 9-year-old son Joseph by his side, paid a visit to Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly, asking for his intervention in Kane’s issues with Moody. Kelly said he was already leery of Kane and had him searched for weapons before he agreed to sit down with him.
Joseph was carrying a toy gun and mimicked the anti-government phrases his father used, Kelly said. Kane seemed aggressive, according to the sheriff.
Instead of intervening with the judge, Kelly issued a written memo to local law enforcement in which the sheriff urged officers to approach Kane with caution.
“He is rebellious and against government and the U.S.,” Kelly wrote. “Will have problems with this subject when trying to apprehend, armed and dangerous.”
As the coming days unfold, will the right wing bloggers and media, the most conservative politicians, waste no time defending this madness, joking about it or claiming it doesn’t exist–just as they’ve done before, again and again, over the past two years?
As for the genuine crazies, they’ve got it figured out:
An interesting Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report prepared for Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today states that Obama’s top spy chief Admiral Dennis Blair [photo top left with Obama] abruptly resigned on Friday after the US President ordered the “immediate assassination” of an anti-government dissident and his 16 year old son in the US State of Arkansas.
As the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Blair controlled 16 US spy agencies (including the Homeland Security Department, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Coast Guard) and had warned the US Congress this past February that for the first time in American history Obama’s government was asserting the right to assassinate any American citizen they deemed was a terrorist. …
This SVR report, however, states that upon nearing the roadblock Kane and his son came under fire from US military snipers targeting them for assassination whereupon fire was returned from Kane’s vehicle allowing them to escape death but resulting in the other police officers deaths.
After escaping, this report continues, a “furious” Admiral Blair called the White House to “demand” an explanation of what was occurring only to be “firmly rebuffed” by Obama officials who had set up this assassination plot causing Blair to “angrily retort” he would have nothing more to do with Obama and his resignation would be on the President’s desk “as soon as I write the fucking thing up”.
Once Admiral Blair was “sidelined” by the White House, this SVR report further states, Obama officials ordered their forces to “terminate” both Kane and his son so the true facts of this assassination would never reach a court of law, and which occurred when Kane and his son were gunned down by an estimated 80 military, federal and local police personal.
14 May
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the Obama administration focused attention on fraud enforcement efforts in the health care industry.
Investigators have new tools this year to help crack down on health care fraud, with the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Department working cooperatively to police companies. The newly enacted Affordable Care Act is designed to lengthen prison sentences in criminal cases and the new law provides an additional $300 million over the next 10 years for stronger enforcement. It also gives the government new authority to step up oversight of companies participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
Under the Affordable Care Act, providers could be subject to fingerprinting, site visits and criminal background checks before they begin billing Medicare and Medicaid.
To combat fraud, the act allows Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bar providers from joining the programs and allows her to withhold payment to Medicare or Medicaid providers if an investigation is pending.
In a report being released Thursday, the Justice Department and HHS say they are putting investigative resources in areas where health care fraud is especially widespread, including south Florida; Los Angeles; Houston; Detroit; New York City’s Brooklyn borough; Baton Rouge, La.; and Tampa, Fla.
The result is a rising number of criminal prosecutions and the return of more stolen money to the government. At the same time, federal investigators are blocking unscrupulous companies from getting into government health care programs in the first place.
Associated Press
13 May
What the hell is wrong with people? I’d bet money most at least some of these shitheads will turn out to be Birthers, with a dash of PUMA.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa.
The U.S. attorney’s office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport.
All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama’s student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president. …
Arraignments are scheduled for May 24. The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
Associated Press
The Des Moines Register concludes the company is Vangent Inc.:
U.S. attorney’s office spokesman Mike Bladel declined to identify the employer or say whether additional charges were pending.
One of the accused, Julie L. Kline, 38, of West Branch was listed as a supervisor at Vangent Inc. (Pearson, NCS) in Coralville from January 2001 to June 2009 on Facebook Wednesday evening. The job information was later removed.
Vangent Inc. is a consulting firm that serves the federal government, higher education institutions and corporations. The company was known as Pearson Government Solutions until it was sold to Veritas Capital in February 2007. Vangent’s headquarters is in Arlington, Va., and the company has an office in Coralville, according to its website.
That is confirmed by Eastern Iowa News Now, who spoke with one of the employees named in the indictment:
Teague said in order to do their job, they had different ID numbers for each database they had to look up. She said they even had different ID numbers for different versions of the same database, and even on different systems. She said those ID numbers would change every 30 days.
“I had seven different numbers, and I couldn’t remember them all, all the time,” said Teague.
She said she wrote them on a sticky-note and attached that to the inside of her desk drawer.
“It was assumed that the building had better controlled access, but it turns out it wasn’t,” said Teague.
Teague said she was questioned by special agents for the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General. Teague said after that interview, the agent suggested a better place to keep her ID numbers. It was at that time Teague thought the matter was resolved.
Teague said what gave her the most relief was when that agent told her she wasn’t checked into the building when Vangent’s computers say Obama’s records were accessed.
And I am relieved you will now know enough not to put sticky notes in your desk that provide access to confidential information. Not that it’s any secret the president had student loans, like most of us. So what could the hackers possibly hope to find? KENYAINDONESIAPAKISTANAFGHANISTAN. And somebody would have paid, if my suspicions are correct, so they’d need to be found and punished along with these idiots in Iowa.
Eastern Iowa News Now also has posted a press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
05 May
Federal prosecutors today appealed a judge’s decision to release nine members of a Lenawee County Christian militia group on bond.
The appeal was filed with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati early this afternoon. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts was alerted in a one-page notice shortly after 1 p.m. that an appeal was coming.
Prosecutors want her to continue to delay the prisoner release until the appeals court decides whether to overturn her decision Monday to free the prisoners on bond.
“The solicitor general gave us permission to appeal,” Susan Plochinski, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit, said today after the paperwork was filed.
Plochinski said prosecutors later today would file a legal brief Roberts requested addressing four issues that she’ll use to decide whether to keep the Hutaree militia members locked up pending the outcome of the appeal. …
Legal experts said the appeals court likely will deal with the issue in the next couple of days since bond decisions typically are given high priority.
Detroit Free Press
05 May
Georgia man accused of traveling to Tennessee for armed takeover of courthouse
A Georgia man has been arrested in Tennessee–authorities say he headed to Madisonville, armed and prepared to take over the courthouse.
Darren Huff stands charged of traveling in interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder.
The FBI says Huff traveled to Tennessee armed with a pistol on his hip and an assault rifle in his truck, intent on carrying out citizen’s arrests of 24 federal, state, and local officials, and on seeing that another man did not face trial for trying to do the same.
On April 1, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick had tried a citizen’s arrest of Grand Jury Foreman Gary Pettway. Fitzpatrick had previously tried to get the grand jury to indict President Barack Obama on charges of treason, with no success. Fitzpatrick was charged with disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, disrupting a meeting, and resisting arrest. …
The FBI interviewed a bank manager who said Huff told him on April 15 that Fitzpatrick had been falsely arrested, that Huff was in the Georgia militia, and that 8 or 9 other militia groups were headed to Madisonville on April 20 to “take over the city.” The bank manager said Huff told him he’d see Huff’s actions on the noon news.
WBIR-Knoxville
The Georgia State Militia has now booted Darren Huff, said to be a Christian Identity minister, as its chaplain:
Our Chaplain has been removed from his position and is no longer associated with the Georgia Militia as of April 29th. Let it be known that any member that creates negative attention from law enforcement will immediately be removed from the Georgia Militia. We will not allow members to bring discredit upon this organization. – LTC Curt Redmon
One strain of Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy attaches Timothy McVeigh to the white supremacist, quasi-Christian sect, Christian Identity.
At this time, Huff is on house arrest in Georgia. Walt Fitzpatrick was due back in court in Madisonville TN yesterday.
See also:
Just Another Day Wasting Taxpayer Money In Birfistan
Arrest Me, Too, Says Carl Swensson
There Are April Fools And Then There Are Birthers
The Fourth of July is over and Obama is still President
