In Jan 2012 ABC Producer Dan Lieberman called to say he'd be in town and wanted to interview me about Sovereign Citizens. CBS Producer Clem Taylor had made a similar call in mid 2011, but never showed up with the camera. Dan did show the next week interviewing me at home, and then at a "sovereign citizen" meeting including ABC Anchor Dan Harris in the banquet room of Perkins in Dunedin FL, to which about 10 folks showed up.
Lieberman wanted me to explain why violence against government is okay. I pointed him to the language in the Declaration of Independence and Article I Section 2 of the Florida Constitution of 1838, but made the point that even though crime in government or abuse by government employees justifies violence, using it to fix problems typically gets the citizen killed or jailed. Lieberman acted disappointed because he had read an article in which I had pointed to the same references and the fact that sometimes no method other than hard physical force can succeed in excising crime and criminals from government. I guess we could look at Saddam Hussein as an example of the difficulty of removing some criminals.
I started the public meeting by explaining my mission to encourage activism and a gradient approach of use of pressure to reform or remove criminals from government while staying out of harms's way. One of the attendees stood up, denounced my leadership, and said "If they come at me with a gun, I got a gun. That's what I'm about"
Would you believe that became the centerpiece of our part in the Sovereign Citizen defamation by ABC a couple of weeks ago on Diane Sawyer's World News and the Nightline show?
ABC characterized our group as sovereign citizens, and even more so in a class of people like the Obama-liberal tax protester who flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, and Jerry and Joe Kane, the alleged sovereign citizens who allegedly murdered two cops at an I41 off-ramp in West Memphis AR, and whom a SWAT team murdered in a near-by Wall-Mart parking lot an hour and a half later.
So, ABC has lumped me and some group members whom I try to educate AWAY from ridiculous redemption nonsense, together with framed or liberal murderers. And they completely distorted my message to my flock of using lawful, peaceable means whenever possible to rein in abuses by government employees. We are PRO-government, not anti-government. We stand against crime and criminals in government, not against government itself. And in time I shall teach those who attend my meetings that people ought to abandon redemption theory nonsense, have license plates and driver license and pay their property taxes and other taxes they owe, and work as political, legal, administrative activists within the law to hold employees of government accountable for abusive behavior and flouting of loyalty oaths.
My eyes have nearly turned brown from the bullshit patriot myths I have to filter out of the pulp that comes across my desk day in and day out. I had to create a mailing list (Lawmen Google Group) to which only I post messages so patriot myth mongers would not poison the minds of subscribers with that very same bullshit I work assiduously to filter out of my communications to them. So what that I don't do it perfectly. I do it. And that makes me a Quatloosian in good standing as far as I am concerned, although I admit some embarrassment at association with government shills who see nothing wrong with the unlawful implementation of income tax in the USA. I cannot solve everyone's ignorance and bigotry at once.
I have a point in writing this. That is to say WHERE THE HELL ARE THE QUATLOOSIANS when it comes to condeming ADL, SPLC, CBS, and ABC for intentionally lying to the American public by lumping good citizens together with murderers and idiots in a public broadcast that reaches millions.
Don't worry. I'm working on a lawsuit against them. As for you silent Quatloosians, thanks for nothing.
One more thing. In case you think I'm blowing smoke, visit my blog article that shows the actual video of the meeting with ABC, and compares it to the loathsome story propounded by ABC.
http://bobhurt.blogspot.com/2012/03/abc ... atory.html
On top of this travesty of bad reportign by ABC regarding our local group of law students, consider the frameup of Jerry and Joe Kane, the man and son whom a SWAT team murdered in Arkansas on their way from giving a seminar on foreclosure defense in Las Vegas to their Clearwater home. I told Lieberman that the frameup happened and the police story was full of holes. The FedEx driver reported three hispanic men, with automatic weapons and an orange-roofed white van, murdering two policeman on exit 275 of eastbound I-41. The autopsy report shows a variety of bullets in the policemen that did not come from an AK-47, and the reenactment dash cam video showed someone resembling Joe Kane firing an assault rifle. The Kanes carried an AK-47 in their vehicle for defense and did target practice with it. Police failed to deliver all the dashcam footage, and took a month and a half to deliver the reenactment. They never released a ballistic report showing any connection between the bullets in the dead cops and the 38 pistol and AK-47 Jerry Kane owned. One cop had 9 bullet holes and the other had 18. The examiner found at least one bullet lodged in the neck. Had an AK-47 round done that, the bullet would have gone all the way through. COps said Jerry Kane never fired a gun in the incident. One of the dead cops had ball point pen writing on his hand showing an Arizona number and green card number.
Conclusion: the cops lied about the shooting. They framed Jerry and Joe Kane, and then murdered them so they couldn't talk. And they made a lot of errors in the reenactment and crime scene cleanup. And ABC, CBS, the ADL and SPLC all echo the chief of police (Paudert) story without doing any original investigation into the alleged facts.
Members of all groups associated with the lie, frameup, coverup, and connection of murders to the Florida law advocacy group students deserve severe sanction for their irresponsible and corrupt stories and their libelous character assassinations.
Will Quatloosians everywhere take them to task? I doubt it, but we'll see. I have a copy of the autopsy report if anybody wants to see it.
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