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.