Army Report Says "Christians Threaten US Foreign Policy"

The following is an excellent analysis by Chuck Baldwin of this disturbing US ARMY military report accusing Christians of somehow "being a threat" by their Biblical beliefs.

Isn't it interesting how this Army major never mentions the potential threat to our foreign policies, presented by rabid ZIONISM beliefs held by Jews with dual citizenship (American AND Israeli citizenship) or the deadly Illuminati/satanism influence in the US military and THEIR corrupt world/political goals, etc.? Consider the following statement made by Israeli leaders to America:

"Every time we do something, you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

Perhaps THIS explains WHY the NOAHIDE LAWS were signed into legislation in America, and the presence of millions of modern guillotines now confirmed here, to enforce these JEWISH laws on tender American Christians necks in America's grim future!

Where is his concern over the known presence of thousands of modern military guillotines now confirmed in many of our US military bases, our military men being trained in how to operate them, and their obvious ties with the Zionist Jewish NOAHIDE LAWS legislation signed by Bush senior, dictating mass genocide of the American Christians who refuse to conform to it's dictates in the future?

Think about the obviously biased viewpoint of this disturbing report, and it's resulting blatant hypocrisy as well. It should become obvious for just WHO'S hidden NWO agenda this Major is writing!

-Pamela Schuffert
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Report Says Christians Threaten US Foreign Policy

By Chuck Baldwin

April 14, 2010

This column is temporarily archived at:http://newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin582.htm

Last Friday, I told readers of this column that I had come across a very disturbing government report and that I would be exposing that report during my Sunday address this past Sunday morning. I did exactly that, and anyone wishing to see an archived video of that address can do so by using this link (the video should be uploaded by this weekend):

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/sermonvideo.php

The report's header reads, "Strategic Implications of American Millennialism, A Monograph by MAJOR Brian L. Stuckert, U.S. Army. This monograph was defended by the degree candidate on 01 May 2008 and approved by the monograph director and reader named below.

Approved by: Timothy Challans, Ph.D., Monograph Director; Robert Taylor, COL, MI, Monograph Reader; Stefan J. Banach, COL, IN, Director, School of Advanced Military Studies; Robert F. Baumann, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Degree Programs." The School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, produced the report.

Here is the TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Why Millennialism Matters
The Role of Civil Religion and Culture
Millennial Theologies in America
Post-Millennialism and the Founding of America
Civil War, World War and the Rise of Pre-Millennialism
Israel, Nuclear War and the Last Days
Contemporary Pre-Millennialism in the American Electorate
Contemporary Pre-Millennialism and American Culture
The Holy Land and Armageddon: U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Anti-Christ, Gog, Magog, and Armies From the East
Conclusions and Recommendations
Bibliography

Remember, this is not a Christian university report or even a secular university's religion department report, but rather a report written by an active duty Army major (who is now stationed in Afghanistan, I am told) for one of America's war colleges.

Before analyzing this report, here are some questions to ponder. Whose brainchild was this report? Did the major select the topic himself or did a superior assign it to him? To whom exactly was the report distributed? How was the report used? What are the interconnections between this report and the MIAC and Department of Homeland Security reports that draw similar conclusions?

And perhaps the biggest question is, What does this report portend for government action in the future? When Major Stuckert speaks of millennialism, he is referring to the Biblical doctrine of Eschatology--specifically, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth to institute a 1,000-year (millennial) reign. He recognizes some of the nuances of this doctrine in his study, most notably post-millennialism and pre-millennialism.

His report is heavily focused on pre-millennialism, however. At this point, I feel it is necessary to make this observation: whether one is a post-millennialist or a pre-millennialist, the fact that we Christians believe in the literal return of Jesus Christ to the earth to establish His Kingdom puts us in the same boat, as far as the ramifications of Major Stuckert's report--and similar reports--are concerned.

We Christians need to recognize that, as far as the Stuckerts of this world are concerned, because we believe the Bible and we believe in the literal return of Christ, we are considered an enemy. We can disagree with one another all we want to about whether there is a Rapture (and if there is one, when it will occur),whether Christ will return before or after a millennial kingdom takes place,and scores of other theological differences, but none of that is important to the events at hand: there is a growing sense among many governmental and military leaders in America that Bible-believing Christians are an enemy that must be marginalized, warned about, watched, and even controlled.

And it does not matter to a tinker's dam to these Machiavellians whether one is a post-millennialist or a pre-millennialist. If we believe the Bible and believe that Jesus is coming again, they consider us "dangerous." And we Christians better wake up to this stark reality, stop fighting each other, and focus on working together to preserve our liberties! And one more early observation: there is an eerie and uncanny connection between the verbiage and spirit of Stuckert's report and the now-infamous MIAC and Homeland Security reports.

The timing, too, is significant. The MIAC and Homeland Security reports were produced shortly after Major Stuckert's report was produced. A coincidence? Not on your life! Here are some excerpts from Stuckert's report:

"Millennialism has great explanatory value, significant policy implications,and creates potential vulnerabilities that adversaries may exploit."(Abstract, page iii.) "These factors [results of millennial belief] can be problematic for any military leader or planner attempting to achieve U.S. Government policy objectives through strategy, operations and programs." (Abstract, page iv.)

Notice that from the very outset of this report, Stuckert asserts that Christians who believe in the Second Coming create circumstances or conditions that might be "problematic" for America's military leaders. We Christians also create "potential vulnerabilities" that America's enemies may "exploit," according to Stuckert.

Furthermore, Stuckert laments that we Christians may even interfere with "U.S. Government policy objectives." Pray tell, exactly what are those "U.S. Government policy objectives" that Christians might prove to be "problematic" for? And is Major Stuckert suggesting that those Christian military officers currently serving in the US armed forces are somehow "problematic" to "U.S. Government policy objectives"?

And do these same Christian officers make America "vulnerable"to our enemies? Is he suggesting that military officers in the US armed forces who believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ be expunged from military service, because of their beliefs?

As one will observe when reading the 61-page treatise, Major Stuckert, with a broad brush, paints millennialist Christians as being serious problems for America's foreign policy and for "U.S. Government policy objectives," and that we must be dealt with; but he offers no details on what, exactly, should be done.

Or if he did, that part of his treatise is not a matter of public record. More quotes:

"The impact of American millennial religious ideas on U.S. Government policy will add to strategic hubris, compel increasingly reckless international action, and continue to over-commit the military in ways the Nation cannot afford." (Page 1)

Again, notice that Christians who believe in Christ's return add to pride,recklessness, and war. Good grief! I suppose that we Christians are also responsible for the escalating price of gas and oil too--and maybe even global warming! Stuckert continues:

"First, millennial thought and its policy implications may create strategic transparency that affords adversaries an advantage in decision-making.Second, an understanding of American millennial thinking may provide adversaries with the means to manipulate American policy and subsequent action. Third, the enemy may exploit American millennialism to increase the fragility of and even disrupt coalitions. Fourth, adversaries may exploit American millennialism to demoralize or TERRORIZE joint forces and the American people. By recognizing these potential vulnerabilities, military leaders and planners may TAKE ACTION NOW to mitigate the effects." (Page 2.Emphasis added.)

Dear reader, is the hair standing up on the back of your neck yet? If not,it should be! According to Major Stuckert, the belief in Christ's Second Coming makes us vulnerable to America's adversaries. In fact, these adversaries (are they foreign or domestic? He doesn't specify) might even exploit this belief to"TERRORIZE . . . the American people." (Emphasis added.)

There's that "T" word again! Do you now see the connection to the MIAC and Homeland Security reports? Is it all starting to make sense now? Because we believe in the literal return of Christ to the earth, do people such as Major Stuckert consider us to be potential terrorists? And just what does Stuckert mean by the statement, "Military leaders and planners may take action now to mitigate the effects"?

Does he propose that we Christians be rounded up and put in all these FEMA camps (that don't exist)? Just how does he plan for the US military to "mitigate" the effects of us Christians? This statement is downright chilling! In this report, Major Stuckert specifically mentions the holiness and Pentecostal churches; as well as the Assemblies of God; non-denominational churches; and Independent and Southern Baptists.

Again, anyone who believes in the Second Coming of Christ is targeted in this report. According to Stuckert, "Millennialism actually refers to any system of belief or interpretation that employs a literal thousand years, in reading and applying Revelation 20:1-7." (Page 9)

Stuckert even went so far as to say that Christian "mission work, especially overseas, [has] significant implications for U.S. foreign policy." (Page 27) I bet that when you folks make that financial donation to your church's foreign missions program you have no idea that you are causing significant(negative) implications for US foreign policy. Well, Stuckert thinks you are.

Stuckert also berates Millennialists for "[driving] the U.S. further from the U.N. in the near future since many pre-millennialists have to come to view that body as a platform for the Anti-Christ." He went on to say,"American pre-millennialists will also feel increasingly threatened by the E.U. in coming years." And, "Pre-millennial interpretations of biblical prophecy that predict the emergence of a one-world government led by an anti-Christ causes distrust and even antagonism toward organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, NAFTA and OPEC." (Page 52)

In other words, folks, Stuckert is greatly chagrined that we Christians do not, and will not, accept the push toward global government being orchestrated by institutions such as the UN, the EU, et al. He feels that because we oppose NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the FTAA, and the overall NEW WORLD ORDER agenda, we are "problematic" and must be "mitigated."

Stuckert goes on to blame Christians for "problems for relations between the U.S. and Russia" (Page 53), problems in the Middle East and China (Page 56),as well as coming "global disaster." (Page 55) Major Stuckert then makes an incredible admission on page 58. He said,

"War is primarily about politics. While geography and technology play a role, in order to be successful military leaders must be able to see the political goals as clearly as possible. Because of the influence of pre-millennialism, it can be difficult for military leaders to see themselves and their government accurately and state policy goals objectively."

What did he say? "War is primarily about politics"? I thought war was about defending the people and territory of the United States. I thought war was about protecting freedom and liberty. War is about politics? So that's why our young men are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan? It's all about politics?

If so, whose politics? Major Stuckert's? Barack Obama's? George W. Bush's? The CFR's? The UN's? Exactly whose politics is sending our sons and daughters to fight and die? The good major doesn't say. But did you catch that last sentence?

"Because of the influence of pre-millennialism [and he could just as easily have said post-millennialism], it can be difficult for military leaders to see themselves and their government accurately and state policy goals objectively."

Holy cow! Belief in the Second Coming blinds military leaders? They cannot see themselves or their government accurately? What the heck does this mean? Is Stuckert saying that because a military officer believes the Bible--believes in the return of Christ to the earth--he or she cannot see themselves and cannot "see" their government properly?

Exactly what is it about his or her government that cannot be accurately seen? Maybe Stuckert means that because a Christian military officer believes in God, he or she cannot recognize government to be his or her god. Is that it, Major Stuckert? You want us all to see the US federal government as god?

On page 59, Stuckert accuses belief in millennialism of producing "pessimism and paranoia." On the same page, he accuses people who believe in millennialism of causing a "predisposition toward pessimism in world affairs and a general worsening of international relations."

Yeah! That's right, Major! You devote 61 pages (and untold hours producing them) accusing Christians of bringing "global disaster" to the world, but we are the ones who are paranoid? If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.

On page 60, Stuckert blames Christians for having a "proclivity for clear differentiations between good, evil, right, and wrong [which] do not always serve us well in foreign relations or security policy."

Oh! Really? Is Stuckert saying that there is no right and wrong in regard to America's policies with foreign nations? Is he saying that there is no such thing as right and wrong in regard to security policies? Is Stuckert saying the US government should be able to do whatever it likes, regardless of right and wrong? Is he saying that anything done in the name of "security" is right, regardless of what it is?

Is it right to lie to the American people, Mr.Stuckert? Is it right to violate the US Constitution? Is it right to murder?If there is no such thing as right and wrong, moral and immoral, in regard to the waging of war and other security matters, pray tell, what were those Nuremberg trials all about?

In researching this column, I found a World Net Daily report written by Bob Unruh on December 19, 2009. In his report, Unruh said that an Army spokesman"could not say whether any other writings ever had attacked a religious belief as Stuckert's work." That's a good point.

Where is the Army report that singles out people who embrace Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, or liberal Protestantism as being "problematic" to America's foreign policy? Why is it that only people who embrace conservative Christianity, or fundamentalism/millennialism were singled out?

Unruh's report also notes that "no study or article refuting" Stuckert's report has been discovered. Therefore, absent a counterpoint, it might be accurate to conclude that Stuckert's report has become de facto US government policy. It certainly does appear that the particulars of Stuckert's report made their way to both the MIAC and DHS reports.

See Bob Unruh's report at: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=119315

See Major Stuckert's report at: http://tinyurl.com/am-millennialism-pdf

My Sunday address exposing Major Stuckert's report will be uploaded to my web site later this week. When it is posted, it will be available to download and distribute. It will be titled, "Seeds of Christian Persecution Growing in the US." Watch for it at:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/sermonvideo.php

P.S. I am very sorry that a hacker has inflicted serious disruption to the server that hosts my web site, Chuck Baldwin Live. As a result, my site is temporarily off line. We hope to have this situation resolved within the next day or two. In the meantime, you can access a skeleton version of myweb site at:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/homebackup/

A Most Amazing Encounter In the Park

And How God Answers Our Prayers For His Glory and Purposes in Today's World

-By Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

Only God can measure the depths of pain in my heart continually, due to where I know my nation is being taken by the corrupt elements of the NWO in our government. As an intercessor, I spend countless hours grieving before the Lord over all that I have researched and know is to come to our nation. And I fully realize that ONLY GOD CAN PROVIDE THE ANSWERS WE NEED to counter the coming darkness.

My constant prayer is, "Lord Jesus, SHOW me the people you want me to reach out to, whose lives you want me to touch for YOU." I realize the the ONLY answer is found in the Person God sent into the world to bring everlasting salvation and forgiveness for sins, and changed hearts and lives: Jesus the Christ, or Anointed One.

This world is perishing all around us because of the nature of sinful and fallen mankind. Wicked men driven by greed and lust and inspired by Satan's corrupt influence, are the very ones behind the coming horrors of the "NEW WORLD ORDER" agenda. Former Satanists have confessed to me that the Satanists/Illuminati are the very backbone of the NWO, and that indeed it IS Satan's manifest kingdom on earth of Revelation 13. Sin and it's tragic fruits are all around us. There can BE only one answer: REPENT AND TURN TO THE LIVING GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST HIS SON for forgiveness and salvation!

With these thoughts in mind, I prayed Friday night to ask the Father to lead me to people He wanted me to reach out to in the local city park, Pritchard, in Asheville, NC on Saturday. Rising early that morning, I went into Asheville, sighing deeply in my heart as I quietly meditated on all that my previous investigative journalism had uncovered regarding this sinful pagan mecca of the Southeast. I prayed for God to lead me to the ones He wanted me to reach with His love and compassion and Word that day.

I found a place to sit on the concrete stairs, and prayed within for the Holy Spirit to lead that person to me. As I gazed at the people all around me, I also prayed for the salvation of the many precious souls, lost in the tragedy of satanism and paganism of every kind here.

I also looked at the buildings, and remembered the repeat words of prophecy given to many credible Christian groups and individuals over recent years, of the great impending judgment of Asheville and these mountains, in the form of calamitous EARTHQUAKES coming to judge this region for the "shedding of innocent blood" (widespread human sacrifice rituals) and the sin of rampant IDOLATRY and worship of other gods/goddesses and Satan/Lucifer himself throughout this region.

Pagan DRUM CIRCLES are held in fact in this very park every Friday night. People with African type drums come, literally summoning demons and demonic forces through the chanting and drum circles. Some people dance themselves into a frenzy as well, reminiscent of tribes in distant nations summoning demons and becoming possessed themselves through such activities.
http://www.romanticasheville.com/drumming_circle.htm

Reminiscing about all this, I carefully looked at the people around me slowly gathering on Saturday morning, and waited for the person or people God would send me to minister to.

And then, a young man crossed in front of me to get a bite of food from the "FOOD NOT BOMBS" program of feeding the homeless out of Warren Wilson college nearby. I made a remark, he responded, and we entered into a casual conversation. We discussed Asheville, and I mentioned some of my reporting on it. He immediately mentioned reading reports about Asheville, and I realized he was quoting from my reports! He then said, "You aren't Pamela Schuffert on the "EDUCATE YOURSELF' website, are you?" Rather shocked, I replied, "yes."
http://www.educate-yourself.org/ps/satanismamericatoday14jul01.shtml

This led to hours of discussion as we sat and ate in the park. This young man shared much about himself, his search for work in the area, and his various needs. He was far from home, had no parental assistance at that point, and no vehicle to use, etc. In fact, many young people pass through Asheville, NC, in search of work on a farm, a safe shelter for the night, food for the homeless, etc.

He mentioned how uncomfortable he had felt sleeping in the woods surrounding Asheville, as he kept in mind my reports he had read. Thankfully, I was able to help him obtain free campgrounds in a Christian retreat setting outside Asheville, much safer, and obtain food and contacts. I was also able to spend time talking to his parents by phone as well.

He needed food and assistance in various needs, which God enabled me to help him with. He admitted to me that he had come from a Christian home and background, but had left home to begin a wandering pilgrimage across America, and had drifted from the teachings about Jesus Christ that he had grown up with. And now, years later, he admitted to me that he had witnessed many disturbing things and encountered many lost people in his years of wandering.

I gently reminded him that God had allowed all these revealing experiences in his young life, to reinforce the eternal truth that ONLY Jesus Christ is the light of the dark world we live in, and that those who seek to live without Him can only walk in spiritual darkness and futility.

This encounter blossomed into many days spent with David, sharing from the Word of God, praying for him, and encouraging him back into a meaningful walk with God through Jesus Christ. But David is still searching for meaning in his precious young life. Please, won't you add David in Asheville to your prayers?

God is calling ALL OF US as Christians to become lights of Christian outreach and testimony to our neighborhoods and cities all around us. Please choose to do as I have done, and to seek God continually for the people He would call YOU to reach out to and witness Jesus Christ to! Together we can make a difference in America's destiny.

-Pamela Schuffert reporting from NC

A Powerful Word From "ELIJAH" in Cyprus Regarding Coming MARTIAL LAW USA

By Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

Today I was blessed to receive this insightful email from my personal friend, "Elijah," now living in Cyprus after being exiled from Israel because of his hard-hitting CALL TO REPENTANCE in Israel. This man is a very serious Believer in the Messiah, Yahshua (Jesus the Christ) and has walked a devoted walk with Him for many years now. He too is fully aware of the horrible NWO agenda not only for America, but the rest of the world as well.

He puts out excellent newsletters mailed periodically from Cyprus, filled with pertinent information (including exposing the NWO) from all over the world. You can email him to receive his newsletters:

elijahthetishbite@ymail.com

I am reposting his most recent email just received for the benefit of my readers.-Pamela Schuffert
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14 April 2010

During the great depression which started in 1929, where the corrupt government and banksters who caused this great depression, there was a mass of people of about 50,000 which set upon Washington, D.C. to force this evil corrupt government out of office. So this corrupt government sent the army to gather up these peaceful demonstrators and ship them to military camps where they murdered men, women, and children. That was in 1932.

Well, this year, 2010, we have the same type of corrupt government joined to greedy big banksters doing the same thing they did in 1932. This corrupt government joined to these evil banksters are set to send the army to gather up these peaceful demonstrators and haul them into several military camps where they will murder men, women, and children as they did in 1932. This March is to take place April 19 of this year.

This evil person in the White House, President Obama, is not an American citizen and couldn't care less how many American people die in this evil time. He is set to put America under Martial Law and send out the FEMA storm-troopers to gather all those who are on his list of resistors to the New World Order. Along with the U.N. , the so-called "peace-keepers," and military men of NORTHCOM are all ready for the enactment of Martial Law. Then all hell will break out all over America. There is no place to be safe. Only in the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ is hope and safety.

Whether we live or die physically, if we have the Holy Spirit of promise in us lit up, then the Lord's sent angels shall gather you up in a moment of time as written in Matthew 25:1-12 and John 12:35-36 to have the Holy Spirit in you quickened as written in Romans 8:9-11 +29, Matthew 24:22-24 + 41, Mark 13:20-22 + 27, and Luke 17:26-37.

So be about the Lord's business if you want to be called as a child of Almighty God, Matthew 12:50. Your soul's salvation is the most important thing, and do follow Lord Jesus as our best example in Matthew 5:17-19 and John 15:10. If we love Him, then we will obey His commandments including the keeping of His seventh Lord's day of rest, Matthew 12:8, that He gave us to keep in Genesis 2:1-3 and which was added to the rest of His Ten Commandments.

Pastor, or brethren, if you decide not to keep His commandments and say you love Him, 1 John 2:4 says you're a liar before Almighty God, and your reward is written in Revelation 21:8.

So please read His commandments and then live them in your daily life until He calls, 1st Thessalonians 4:16-18.

His Servant,

Elijah
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What "Elijah" is saying is all quite true. I will make the following comment. I met him in Israel in 1998 while lecturing during the Feast of Tabernacles. He impressed me as being a fine man and very serious about his relationship with God then, also. I will gently state that while I may not agree in every detail with things he may reprint or send (how many Christians DO?), I know his heart and where he stands with God.

We are called to LOVE ONE ANOTHER and stand in support of one another in Christ, regardless of whether or not we may AGREE with one another in every fine point or detail. IS he the anticipated "ELIJAH" or one of the actual two witnesses revealed in REVELATION for the end times? Only time will tell. But he is certainly one of God's witnesses to the truth of Jesus Christ the Son of God in our world today. His message above is quite accurate.

-Pamela Schuffert reporting from NC

Huh? Whazzat FEDERAL AGENT Doing IN MY POCKET?

A Shocking Truth That Every Concerned American Ought To Become Aware of...

By Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

Surprise, surprise. BIG BROTHER is here with a vengeance, and in many ways some would never suspect. Which works out quite nicely to "Freddy da Fed's" advantage.

IMAGINE a POLICE STATE in which every citizen is forced to wear and carry with them an item that both tracks where they are and monitors every phone call they send and receive, and can also monitor everything they are saying (and others) as well! Can you IMAGINE the public outcry in America the "land of liberty" (heh-heh) if we were forced to wear and carry around such a blatant symbol of BIG BROTHER spying on and monitoring us?

But NWO's "FREDDY THE FED" is much too smart to think he can foist something like this on the American people. Instead, the federal government has chosen to come in through the back boor. They have discovered the art of turning something like this, into something that the public is convinced is "a wonderful invention that they simply cannot live without, that makes life simpler." A privilege, if you will. Something in fact that EVERYONE WILL WANT! A status symbol, even. (The more fancy and pricey, the better.)

And so, the modern cheapo CELL PHONE was born and came into the market. Cell phones like NET TEN which offer you not ONLY a cheapo phone, but also three hundred initial free minutes as well!

People thinking "what a bargain" rushed to buy these convenient and cheap cell phones. They never realized the ULTERIOR MOTIVES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT behind expanding the cell phone industry, ever expanding through offering cheaper versions simpler to obtain.

DID YOU KNOW...that YOUR CELL PHONE can be used to MONITOR EVERYTHING YOU SAY while NOT on the phone..even when it is turned OFF??? Cases of the Federal government against even Mafia members have been won, using evidence obtained by the Feds while monitoring the discussion of Mafia planners WHILE THEIR CELL PHONES WERE TURNED OFF.

You cell phone can also be used to both LOCATE WHERE YOU ARE and track your every move!

I finally realized that I was carrying a "PET FED" around with me in my pocket, everywhere I was going!

I hope I keep him highly entertained with trivia....and remember to save all my important discussions with others for when my cell phone is disabled (pull out battery).

HERE IS WHAT I DO TO STAY RELATIVELY SAFE:

I use my cell phone, then pull the battery out, wrap all parts in a zip lock bag, and secure it in a small metal container. I also wrap in plastic and place in a small metal container all my cards that I am certain have chips in them that can be used for tracking by satellites: driver's license, ID cards, bank and related cards. I change phones frequently (toss and buy another new cheap one), especially when I hear that tell-tale "BLEEP-BLEEP" every 15 or 30 seconds or so when I talk on the phone, telling me that I am actually being tapped and recorded by whatever alphabet soup agency.

You have been warned!

-Pamela Schuffert

PROOF: My Suspicions CONFIRMED-FBI STING OP and HUTAREE

By Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

Here is an excellent article confirming my deepest suspicions regarding the HUTAREE militia and the infiltration and subsequent sting operation of the FBI.
(SEE my previous article expressing my suspicions: http://americanholocaustcoming.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html )

The following is WHY I wrote a previous article about NEITHER FORMING A MILITIA NOR JOINING A MILITIA at this time in America. ALL militias are infiltrated, used to spy on potential NWO resisters under martial law, and some are even created by government infiltrators as well. TRUST NO ONE in this hour.

Instead, do what many of the good people of Montana, for example, are doing. Knowing how widely their state has been infiltrated with government spies, especially targeting patriot groups and militias, they are not forming new or open militias. Instead, as they admitted to me while being interviewed, "...it's like every other home is now it's own personal militia...families are preparing...we don't form open militias anymore..."

They are quietly getting prepared for the coming police state, they are becoming legally armed, and purchasing their food supplies and survival supplies, and being very quiet about it and trusting NO ONE outside close family or long term trusted friends.

-Pamela Schuffert

ARTICLE:

The Manufactured Menace From Michigan, Take Two
by William Norman Griggby William Norman Grigg

When the stranger materialized a few years ago, nobody really knew much about him. He seemed like a suitably sympathetic figure and quickly ingratiated himself by offering whatever help he could. No task was too menial for him, and he had a way of finding just what the group needed right when it was required.


Most importantly, he seemed to share the group's antipathy toward the government. If anything, he was just a bit more emphatic than the rest in denouncing official corruption and endorsing violent "direct action" against the state. He seemed eager to shepherd the group in a more militant direction, eagerly out-bidding every expression of outrage and hostility. One of his favorite recurring themes was the idea that a criminal state could only be fought through the use of criminal means.


When the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) staged an armed raid to arrest several members of the group, the helpful stranger was nowhere to be found. He did leave a parting gift, however, in the form of detailed allegations recorded in a federal indictment alleging that the group he had infiltrated on behalf of the JTTF was involved in extensive criminal activity – most of which was either suggested or directly facilitated by him – and an ambitious plot to wage war against the United States Government.


In broad outline, this is what most likely happened within Michigan's Hutaree militia during the past couple of years, a period during which – as federal authorities now admit – the group was infiltrated by both an undercover FBI agent and a "cooperating witness."
One of the FBI's plants, significantly, "posed as someone who could provide the group with custom-made explosives," observes the Detroit News.


That revelation is critical, since it means that the alleged plot to manufacture of improvised explosive devices – referred to, with hysterical hyperbole typical of the Regime's pronouncements, as "weapons of mass destruction" – was quite possibly instigated by the FBI's informant/provocateur.


The "Hutaree Conspiracy" was the second installment in the FBI's ongoing Homeland Security Theater in Michigan. The Bureau's campaign against the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Dearborn followed almost exactly the same script. The final act of that earlier melodrama was an October 28, 2009 FBI raid against several of the mosque's adherents that ended with the death of its imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah.......-End (This article has been abbreviated to only post the relevant material from a much longer article.)
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This kind of activity goes on far more frequently than most Americans are ever told. And in this tense hour of final preparations to bring America down under their martial law/NWO agenda, "disaster capitalism style," we can expect many MORE such infiltration/sting operations tactics to be deployed against the concerned and wary American Patriots. You have been warned.

-Pamela Schuffert

INTERCESSORS: PRAY Against ALL "Easter" Sacrifices

AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, NUMEROUS INNOCENT VICTIMS WILL BE RUTHLESSLY SACRIFICED BY SATANISTS WORLDWIDE:

WILL YOU HELP STOP THEM?

By Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism from a Biblical Christian perspective-

At this time of the year, Christians are active glorifying and reminding people of the RESURRECTION of our Lord and Savior and only Messiah, Yahshua/Jesus. Churches throughout the world are celebrating His glorious resurrection and victory over satan and death and the grave. And because HE IS RISEN, we too shall live! In Orthodox Churches throughout the world , people greet one another with "CHRIST IS RISEN!" And they reply, "HE IS RISEN INDEED!"

But for the Illuminati, the Satanists/Craft/Brotherhood, this is a very dark time. They of satan's kingdom HATE this Jesus Christ, Who came to defeat satan and his kingdom. The Illuminati/Satanists are taught falsely that SATAN DEFEATED JESUS CHRIST when He was arrested and crucified. They "celebrate" by sacrificing abducted victims, nailing them to literal crosses to mock out the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Such hapless and terrified victims, male and female alike, are secured to crosses, tortured beyond words to describe, and them killed, all to the screams of "hail satan!"

This kind of horrific sacrifice ritual happens all over the world at this time of the year. Only heaven can number how many Christians have been abducted because they were Christians, and then nailed to crosses is such a manner, including in these very United States. AMERICA'S SOIL IS STAINED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE UNKNOWN MARTYRS.

Many of these abducted Christians will also be tempted to deny their faith and they will then LIVE to join the satanists. But IF they choose remain faithful to Jesus Christ, they will then be horribly sacrificed instead. Former satanist eye-witnesses told me personally about watching abducted Christians die true MARTYRS' DEATHS at the hands of the satanists in America, rather then deny their precious faith in Him. No, my friends, crucifixion and torture and martyrdom for faith in Jesus Christ has NEVER died out in this modern age, including in America. Just ask any satanist/Illuminati, if you dare...

And this year, at this season, your INTERCESSORY PRAYERS can make the crucial difference for these hapless victims!

I was very close friends with the ELAINE of the Rebecca Brown series of books,exposing Satanism in our nation from Elaine's experiences. After she separated from Rebecca Brown, both to go their own ways in 1990, I met with Elaine in Okeechobee, Florida, while she was under the counseling of my friend Chuck Lakin with Dunkin Memorial Camp (Christian Retreat) there.

I stayed with Elaine for a month in her home there, to interview her. She told me things that she never dared to previous put into the Rebecca Brown books, for legal and other reasons.

In the books, she denied in print that she ever participated in actual sacrifices. But when I pressed her, she admitted everything to me that she never dared to put into print. Her daughter, Claudia, being raised at one time to be just like her mother, also had later become a Christian and married a Christian man, Danny. Elaine admitted to me personally that thousands of innocent victims died on their altars in Indiana alone, in the 18 years she was the high priestess there. Plus, at least 6000 children of Christian background as well.

Claudia told me that their covens in Indiana devised brutal crosses that even separated in the middle, to tear the hapless victim into pieces after nailed to the cross. "We even used wooden nail pegs, to add more pain to the victims when we nailed them to the crosses..." she admitted to me. Satanists are taught, that the more pain they inflict on victims, the more money and power satan will give them. And they are taught that the more helpless and innocent the victims are, again, the more money and power satan will give them. Oh, what terrible "doctrines of demons" these Illuminati/satanists teach and practice!

I asked Elaine about the Christians they abducted for sacrifice. She told me that satan was demanding Christians for sacrifice, and the satanists obliged. "We stalked the ones satan wanted, and we abducted them, and they DIED LIKE ALL THE REST....Except that, in SOME cases, before we could even torture and sacrifice them, JESUS WOULD APPEAR TO THEM! We satanists could not see Jesus, but the Christians And they would start laughing and saying things like, 'Jesus...you've come for me!' And instantly their spirits were taken out of their bodies and we satanists were left with dead corpses, smiling even."

"I tell you, nothing made me MORE OF A BELIEVER IN JESUS, than watching His Christian martyrs die in our rituals...NOTHING."

I then asked her about Divine rescues. She replied that while it did not happen very often, she recalled times in which the power of God interrupted their rituals and their victim was spared.

My Christian readers, what is your level of compassion for the many victims who have been abducted and held for brutal ritual sacrifice this weekend??? "By this shall all men know that you are MY disciples, if you have LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER," declared Jesus Christ.

Our love must be more than words: it MUST be manifested in PRACTICAL ASPECTS and ways that truly touch the lives of others.

Will YOU choose this weekend and during this season to be a concerned intercessor, and pray in depth for these helpless victims of wickedness beyond belief, abducted for brutal sacrifice?

Your prayers can truly make the difference. My prayers did, when I moved in with victims of satanist attack, and I personally saw that they actually made the difference between life and death, to the glory of God alone, in every case of the endangered families I worked with in various states.

We Christians are the only group on earth, authorized and empowered and commissioned by the Living God, to combat Satan and his kingdom through the authority of His Son in our lives, Jesus the Christ. If we fail in this task, God has no other to call upon. (Small wonder that satan and his followers hate the CHRISTIANS so much, for this very reason!)

Please do not fail God, and do not fail these victims as well. Your compassionate prayers, tears and fasting will make the difference, as the Word of God teaches us. Beseech God to pour out the POWER OF THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB over your households and over the intended victims as well.

IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT- Many years ago, my father tragically participated in a grim human sacrifice ritual in Virginia Beach, VA, with his satanist "other woman, " Florence "Pat" Jennings from England. My father's former satanist high priest, Jericho, told me all about it. A 16 year old girl was horrible sacrificed that Easter weekend.

My father never had any peace in his life following being seduced into satanism and the NEW WORLD ORDER agenda. I can never forget the horrible years in our home, after he joined the NWO and satanism that accompanies it.

For you satanists/Illuminati who read my blog, you know what I mean. All the pseudo-power and empty money that satanism provides, can never give you a minute of peace with your wicked lifestyles.

I beseech you this year,to release all your victims being held for sacrifice. Instead, come to the TRUE and ONLY GOD who can give you REAL power and TRUE riches and forgiveness for your sins and PEACE AT LAST. Come out of the darkness, and come to JESUS CHRIST! Only HIS blood and grace can forgive you and set you free at last.


-Pamela Schuffert

Beware the Phony "REDEMPTION " Scheme of the Feds

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS ARTICLE AND BEWARE!

This phony REDEMPTION scheme is still going on, in Kalispell, Montana for example, and even advertised in their paper as well. I often wonder how many poor people are getting suckered into this FED scam.

I just found an excellent article exposing this REDEMPTION SCHEME, However, where the author of the article has it WRONG is, he lays the blame for the REDEMPTION SCHEME on the Patriot/Militia community. THIS IS FALSE. The federal government is sending in their covert operatives into the militia/patriot communities, to infiltrate and lure them into this, and then to arrest them and imprison them.

I had this fact confirmed by famed and persecuted Patriot and bullet mold maker VERAL SMITH, of Moyie Springs,Idaho. He told me he also was sucked into their doctrines, and then hauled into court. He told me personally overheard one Federal agent laughing and bragging to another how they set him up with this phony Redemption scheme!

And poor Veral and Judy were then put on trial, and Veral sentenced to prison as well. They soon found out it wasn't really over the REDEMPTION issues, but rather the underlying reason of his bullet mold making. The REDEMPTION SCHEME is just one of many ways the Federal government infiltrates into the Patriot communities, to target those they don't like, and then to remove them.

The Federal government hates people who are anti-NWO, and hates even more the people who facilitate NWO resistance...like bullet-mold makers who help to arm the NWO resistance in America, like Veral Smith.

You can read more about this near the end of this report, but of course it is a sanitized "official government explanation" regarding Veral's encounter with the REDEMPTION SCHEME, and does not tell the WHOLE TRUTH AS VERAL AND JUDY TOLD ME THROUGH TEARS IN THEIR HOME.

Here is the information on the Redemption Scheme from the report:

1. Introduction

...In the spring of 1999 a group of anti-government extremists created an elaborate web of pseudo-legal and pseudo-historical doctrines that brought together longstanding beliefs in the so-called “patriot” or “Constitutionalist” movement into an overarching structure. These theorists suggested, moreover, that people could manipulate this system into allowing them to discharge debts and redress grievances, all to their profit and advantage. The theorists combined longstanding “common law” ideology with tactics for achieving wealth and combating enemies. They held seminars and sold materials designed to teach people the theory and practice of this system.

[FACT-It is a government infiltration tactic, often used heavily by covert infiltrators of the Patriot movement, and designed to get the valid members of the Constitutionalist/patriot community entrapped and imprisoned. The Patriot/Consitutionalist (anti-NWO agenda) community is riddled with covert operatives of the Federal government. While it may be that some unsuspecting members of the Patriot community have bought into this unsuspectingly and are now presenting it to others, it remains a deep covert infiltration black op into the Patriot Community to this day.-Pamela Schuffert]

Report continues-

They called it “Redemption.”[1]

Within just months, this scheme spread across the country. At last count at least 26 states had reported some activity. It is probably accurate to say that almost all states have experienced activity, whether it was recognized as such or not. One problem in defining Redemption’s extent is that it involves many separate actions, involving private entities as well as federal, state, and local government agencies. But each entity sees only a portion of the whole scheme, and may not even recognize that a pattern exists.

This report has several purposes. It seeks to 1) gather such information is currently available on the Redemption scheme (as of mid-October 1999) and explain it as coherently as possible, 2) identify, to the extent possible, the activities conducted and the players involved in the scheme, and 3) to encourage law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and others to look carefully at this tactic.[2]

2. The Pitch

The Redemption scheme, at its heart, consists of the bizarre notion that a bankrupt United States converted the physical bodies of its citizens into assets against which it could sell bonds, and that knowledgeable people can “redeem” these assets and, through manipulating them and various imagined accounts, use them to their advantage. Much of the rhetoric is, as is common with “sovereign citizen”/”common law” theories, nearly incomprehensible and often laced with Biblical references used as points of law.[3] Moreover, also common with such theories, the language is often deliberately obtuse, so that the explanation is difficult to follow. The reason for this is that when people who attempt the strategies run afoul with authorities, proponents can claim that the strategy was simply not applied correctly and that correctly following the steps would certainly result in victory. This rationale was used previously by proponents of the various bogus money order schemes common in the early to mid 1990s, as well as in numerous other scams developed by patriot theorists.

The pitch is generally delivered in one of two ways. The most common way appears to be through holding seminars to teach people the process. To date, seminars are known to have been held in Oregon, Nevada and Texas, although it is a certainty that there have been others elsewhere. The second method of disseminating the scheme is through selling videotapes, audiotapes, and manuals that describe the process. Several extremist publications have been instrumental in this method of dissemination.

The real attraction of the Redemption scheme, despite its outlandish propositions, is that it carefully ties together a number of popular patriot myths and misconceptions into one large structure. Many of the people who attend such seminars already come “knowing” that their name spelled with all capital letters is somehow different from the same name spelled in upper and lower case, and “knowing” that the government went bankrupt when it went off the gold standard, even if they don’t understand exactly how. The Redemption scheme not only reiterates these myths, but cleverly links many of them together into one explanation. As a result, it is very compelling to many of the people who come across it.

The following explanation of the pitch that the Redemption scheme uses is drawn from a number of different sources, including seminar materials, articles about the scheme written in extremist publications, and documents on the World Wide Web. This explanation attempts to synthesize these various sources in order to give the reader a general idea of what the Redemption scheme is supposed to do. It should be noted that the actual materials are much more difficult to understand and in fact often are contradictory, sometimes even self-contradictory.

The heart of the Redemption scheme is one of the oldest and most dearly held of all patriot myths: the Federal Reserve conspiracy. In 1909, according to this myth, the United States could no longer pay its debts and entered into negotiations with international bankers, who gave the U.S. a 20-year moratorium on paying its debt in return for the establishment of a Federal Reserve Bank to be owned by international bankers. Two decades later, suggests the myth, the United States defaulted on this debt and went into bankruptcy, which is what really started the Depression. Four years later, in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by creating a “national emergency” and taking the country off the gold standard, ended legitimate constitutional rule.

From that point on, the government operated largely through deception (as to its unconstitutionality), deliberately mixing public, private, and martial laws, rules and practices. Redemption theories in particular reference House Joint Resolution 192 (HJR 192), passed in 1933, which they interpret as a declaration of bankruptcy.

Many patriot theories start similarly. The Redemption scheme takes a dramatic departure in arguing that because there was no longer any legal money (i.e., gold and silver) after 1933, the U.S. government had to find some other way to discharge its debt. It did this by seizing the energy of the country, in the sense of energy produced by individuals. In 1936, suggests Redemption theory, with the advent of Social Security, the U.S. government began to take birth certificates and place them with the Department of Commerce as “registered securities.”

These certificates represented all of the work and labor of each citizen, as well as everything each citizen owned or would ever own. According to one theorist, a pledge was made for each certificate in the amount of $630,000 (another pegs it at $1,000,000). Thus everybody and everything in the United States is simply collateral for the bonds issued by the U.S. government.
When you were born, the state became the recipient of your future energy output, as a “title security document,” which it converted into a bond sold on the open market to finance the government. The holder of that bond is the secured party to receive your future energy output. Does the bondholder own you?

No, not exactly, but he or she does own essentially everything you do. Each person, in fact, has a mirror entity which represents that output. This is called, we are told, the “nom de guerre” or, more commonly, the “straw man.” In essence, it is an appropriation of a somewhat older patriot myth that there is a significant meaning behind the various ways it is possible to spell one’s name.

If a patriot gets a summons addressed to JOHN DOE, he may refuse that summons because his name is not spelled with capital letters. The issue is intricate, but what is important here is that Redemption theorists appropriated this notion and enfolded it neatly into their explanation of government. Of course, JOHN DOE is different from John Doe. JOHN DOE is not you, it is the mirror entity set up to represent your energy output. Every man, woman and child has a straw man. When you sign your name to something, you are putting property into the hands of the United States and its bond owners, not into your own hands. In fact, your hands are not really your own; they are the straw man’s.

Redemption theory gives Redeemers a way to use this alleged situation to their advantage. The thing to do, they say, is to retake control of your straw man. Once you control the straw man, then you control the rights and titles of the property that the straw man acquires, and a whole lot more. Redemption theorists argue that the government has title to your straw man by presumption only, but that if you rebut its presumption, you can gain title to it. Much of the language regarding this issue parallels earlier language suggesting that you could become a “sovereign citizen” and the government would have no hold on you any more. Redemption theorists artfully reuse that language.

They also cleverly act upon the experiences of many patriots in court, where their pseudolegal arguments come to naught when confronted with the real court system. Redemption theorists claim that all of the court’s arguments are being brought to bear against your straw man, which is presumed to be identified with you. Because you did not know it, and did not rebut their claim, it was held as “truth in commerce.” Thus all patriot failures in court are explained away, because they were unfamiliar with the concept of the straw man and did not have control of theirs.

How do you take back your straw man? Well, reply Redemption theorists, one consequence of the events of 1933 is that there is now a private side and a public side to the government (the government is often called the “democracy corporation” in these writings). Currently, your birth certificate is in the public side of the government. But you want to get it over to the private side of the government, because this side is “the highest priority of recognition by the military State.” So the public side would no longer have priority.

The way to do this is through UCC-1 filings of one’s Birth Certificate with the Secretary of State of his or her state. This allows you to “redeem” yourself from the public side of the government, after which “the living soul has the right of property ownership in himself through his straw man who now belongs to the living soul.” Some redemption documents refer to this process as creating a “corporation sole.” One should not dawdle in redeeming one’s straw man, because some sources suggest the last legal date to do so is December 31, 1999.

Is controlling your straw man a good thing? It certainly is. Not only do you now own what the straw man owns, rather than the state, but you can take advantage of the fact that you are the owner of the straw man. This is because, redemption theorists say, “a name is CREDIT.” If any unauthorized person uses your name or the straw man’s name, they have violated the laws of “slander of credit.” This becomes a federal securities violation.

Once you have redeemed your straw man, you can then use commercial process to “discharge public funds with private funds and allow the straw man to spend these public funds that have been converted to private funds for goods and services in a tax exempt and levy exempt mode.” If it sounds confusing, it is. In essence, it is way of “establishing” fictitious bank accounts that can then be used to discharge various debts.

Texas Redemption theorists claim that when you become the “holder in due course” of your straw man, the governor becomes responsible for claims on your straw man. Says one theorist: “It’s very much like if the Governor co-signed on a loan for your car for you and you stopped making the payments, the bank then looks to HIM for the payments. I don’t know about you, but personally I LOVE THIS IDEA!!! Now if I get a traffic ticket, I can just let the Governor pay the fine, since he is the surety for the Straw Man and is liable for all debts/fines/judgments incurred by the Straw Man.”

The key to getting this particular goose to lay golden eggs is easy. It can begin with your paycheck. Your employer must pay in public funds (i.e., federal reserve notes, or illegitimate money), because that it all it has. It will deposit these funds into your straw man’s bank account. Redeemers are told to have their straw man “do acceptance for value of the solicitation set forth in the bank statement.” What this essentially means is that you are claiming that the bank owes you that amount in real money, not “public money.” You hold the true legal title to the property (i.e., money) the bank has offered you.

However, the bank cannot turn over true legal title of these public funds to you, because the whole public side is bankrupt and does not own anything by legal title. This is the advantage you can use, say the Redemption theorists. If the bank does not produce title within 72 hours, a “condition of dishonor” occurs and the straw man can do a “Banker’s Acceptance” to the dishonored agreement.

In essence, your straw man becomes a bank, because it is attempting to collect the security underlying the contract with the real bank. A banker has the capacity and authority to create a Bill of Exchange drawn upon the debtor, payable to the straw man. So the straw man creates a Bill of Exchange, then deposits the bill of exchange with the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury “in his private side capacity.”

The Secretary becomes a “correspondent bank” to the banking of the straw man and keeps an account balance. This balance is numbered with the number of the Certified Mailing Label on the first letter of deposit sent to the Secretary. Each account is mirrored with public funds—though why this should be so, exactly, is a little fuzzy—and this public fund mirror account, called the Treasury Direct Account, is numbered with a social security number.

Once the Secretary of the Treasury has generously established this account for you, your straw man can direct the Secretary to release the private side funds from the Treasury Direct Account. You can do this with a money order and a UCC-3 “partial release instrument” registered with the Secretary of State. There is additional paperwork you must do, including filling out an IRS Form 1040ES (instead of a 1040) in order to report the location of the public funds, so that the IRS can collect them from the bank that owes you originally.

So far it seems like a lot of work. What do you get out of it, other than the joy of filling out forms? For one thing, you get the opportunity to pay off your “public liabilities.” These could include items like traffic tickets, mortgages, or even criminal charges (at $4 million per federal criminal charge, though where this number comes from is uncertain). One does this through “sight drafts” offered to these mortgage companies, etc. Such companies would then present the sight drafts to the federal government, which would adjust the appropriate “internal accounts.”

The tactic is called “acceptance for value,” and in fact, sometimes the whole Redemption scheme is referred to by this term. Essentially, what you are told to do is to “accept for value” anything that is given to you—a traffic ticket, a court summons, etc. You can place a value on this document and adjust your internal Treasury accounts accordingly, allowing you to write more sight drafts.

Of course, the rationale allowing you to do all this is quite complicated, but that’s the practical result. Redemption theorists make extravagant claims about discharging debts, even suggesting that the IRS has acknowledged tax bills of up to $400,000 discharged by this process. Many people apparently skip to the chase and begin writing the sight drafts, often without even bothering to fill out all the UCC forms they were supposed to.

Unfortunately for Redemption theorists, not everybody in the government is inclined to agree with their interpretations of law. Often people who engage in Redemption activities find themselves stymied at one point or another.

But Redemption theorists provide methods to redress these wrongs. If one “accepts for value” a traffic ticket, for instance (at, say $1 million, which seems to be the going rate), then one can demand that the police officer fill out an IRS Form 8300, ordinarily required to be filed for currency transactions of over $10,000 (to fight money laundering). If the officer refuses—which one would presume would be the likely result—the Redemption practitioner may simply file it him or herself in the officer’s name. This has the same effect as the fake IRS 1099 forms that extremists have been filling out for years—it causes the IRS to think that the public official has received a large sum of (unreported) money. Similarly, some practitioners file Fiduciary Tax Reports with the IRS.


3. The Symptoms and Effects

Even if one cannot quite understand how Redemption is supposed to work—and there should be no blame attached for any such failure—it is possible to see the effects that Redemption has in practice. These are useful in terms of identifying the symptoms of the scheme as well as some of its adverse and criminal results.[4]

Initial UCC Filings

In order for Redemption proponents to redeem their straw man, they must follow certain steps, and the first of these involve UCC filings. These filings are an important first indicator of the extent to which this scheme may exist in an area. Proponents of Redemption tell followers to “register” the straw man using UCC-1 forms both with the Secretary of State’s office (UCC Division) and the county recorder, “or with any Secretary of State which will accept it.” Redemption proponents have discovered that some offices refuse to accept such filings, while others will accept virtually anything. So they are not very particular about who accepts it, just as long as someone does.

The fact that they file with the Secretary of State is a fortuitous happenstance, because it means that there is a centralized repository for much of these filings, whereas in many previous such schemes, filings were only done at the county level, meaning that a state that wanted to track the scheme had to contact every single county. Although it is certain that not every filing is duplicated at the state level in this scheme, the fact that many are is very useful.

The UCC-1 filings so far have varied considerably in form, but they share certain distinguishing characteristics that make them readily identifiable. One key characteristic is that on the form, the debtor and the secured party will seem to be identical, which ought to strike one as unusual, since usually one does not owe money to oneself. In the mind of the Redeemer, of course, this actually represents two people, the flesh-and-blood person and the straw man. Many times the name of the debtor (straw man) will be all capitalized, or will be provided last name first, while the name of the creditor will have upper and lower case letters and will be written last name last.

Under the blank asking for a description of the property covered by the financing statement will usually appear the person’s name and address (they are redeeming themselves). Usually they will also provide a social security number, which they may describe as an Employer Identification Number. Often they will provide a gratuitous reference to HJR 192, or UCC Article 10, Section 104. Sometimes they will sign for both the debtor and the secured party, while other times they may attempt to leave one space blank.

Sometimes the stylings on the form become quite elaborate. Some forms include a Social Security Number for the debtor, but an Employer ID number for the secured party. Frequently the phrase “Debtor is a transmitting utility” will be used, often in several blocks in the form. One property description frequently seen, which gives an idea of the sort of language used, is as follows: “Debtor is a transmitting utility.

The entry of the debtor, Doe, John, in the commercial registry and the following property: 1234 Happy Lane, Smallville, Ohio 54321, copy attached; all the property is accepted for value and is exempt from levy. Adjustment of this filing is from Public Policy HJR-192 and UCC 10-104. All proceeds, products, accounts and fixtures and the orders therefrom are released to Debtor.”[5]

Sometimes a letter is attached to the filing that identifies all the various names for the straw man that apply. For instance, the letter may read: “This filing is not limited to the straw man/dummy entity known AS SMITH, JOHN QUENTIN. This filing also applies to the strawman/dummy entities SMITH, JOHN; SMITH, JOHN Q.; SMITH, JOHNNY; SMITH, JOHN QUENTIN; SMITH, JOHNNY Q.; SMITH, JOHNNY QUENTIN; or any derivative thereof.”

Usually, Redemption proponents include a variety of other documents with the forms they attempt to file. These can include property descriptions, mortgage documents, birth certificates, Social Security cards, and drivers licenses, among others. Taken together, these documents and distinguishing characteristics make Redemption filings relatively easy to recognize.

In addition to UCC-1 filings, proponents will also file UCC-3 documents, usually as an indication of bogus Sight Drafts that they have passed or are about to pass. These documents are similar in most respects to the UCC-1 documents, in terms of debtor and secured party names, etc., but have different text.

One of the most distinguishing characteristics is that the text orders the Secretary of State to perform certain functions. One example from Ohio illustrates their nature: “DEBTOR IS A TRANSMITTING UTLITY. PARTIAL RELEASE FROM UCC-1 AP0169252 on 17 August 1999. COLLATERAL ACCOUNT: Invoice Number: Z 292 745 201, for the amount of $100,000.00 as per Money Order #Z 292 745 201 Payable to NATIONAL AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, BEVENS LAW OFFICE, WM. WRAY BEVENS, 112 N. Market Street, Waverly, OH 45690. SECRETARY OF STATE is to adjust my Account #AP0169252 Dated 17 August 1999. SECRETARY OF STATE is to forward directly to WM. WRAY BEVENS the Acknowledgement Copy hereto attached and to adjust my Account.”


Secretary of the Treasury

The Redemption scheme not only urges people to make county and state filings, but also tells them to send filings to Lawrence H. Summers, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. The overworked Mr. Summers presumably will not open all of these himself, but nevertheless his office gets them. This is essential to the scheme, as it helps to magically create the fictitious accounts that are then manipulated with sight drafts. Redeemers are urged to send a cover letter to Summers, along with a copy of the birth certificate filing and the original “Bill of Exchange.”



Acceptances

Once the straw man has been redeemed, a Redeemer will gladly “accept for value” any item such as a ticket, a warrant, court orders, or financial statement. This acceptance may be followed by a notice giving the other party 72 hours to respond. Redeemers are prompted to address these people by their “private name,” as in “John Doe, d.b.a. Judge of the United States District Court,” rather than “District Court Judge John Doe.” The notion is that once one gives them “private notice” of this acceptance, then there are no more “public” charges (as in debts or criminal charges) and any subsequent actions would be to “act under color of law by disguise upon the commercial highway.”

Acceptance for value statements usually will take the form of a “contract” laid over the initial “offer” (i.e., ticket, etc.). This document will often include a “Treasury Direct Account Number,” a “Memory of Account Number,” a “Posted Certified Account Number,” the amount of money for which the item was “accepted,” the date, an invoice number, and a signature. In some cases Redeemers will simply write all these items on the document itself.

Here is the text of one such “acceptance for value,” written on a warrant for the Redeemer’s arrest: “’Non-Negotiable’/Charge back/Lawrence Summers, Sec. Of Treasury of the United States/I accept for value all related endorsements front and back in accordance with UCC-3-419 in accord with HJR-192. Please charge my Treasury Direct Account #123-45-6789 for the registration fees and command Memory of Account #123-45-6789 charge the same to the debtor’s order, or your order/Posted Certified Account #: Z240 181 658/Value: $1,000,000,000,000.00/Invoice number: STS7777777778/E.I.N. 123-45-6789/Prepaid Preferred Stock/Property Exempt from Levy/Signature.”

Bills of Exchange

As mentioned above, once something has been accepted for value and (presumably) ignored, the Redeemer can create a Bill of Exchange by filing UCC-3 addendums with the Secretary of State. Redeemers are encouraged to notify the public officials of this fact. One of these bills will generally consist of a description of the collateral (such as, say, all the personal property of a state highway patrol officer, as well as all the property of a county government), an outrageous “value” of the Bill of Exchange, and various mentions of HJR-192, direct accounts, and the like.


Sight Draft

From a law enforcement point of view, one of the most important things about the Redemption scheme is that it generates bogus Sight Drafts which are used to pay for various items or debts. Although some extremists skip the paperwork and cut straight to creating the fictitious financial instruments, proponents of the Redemption scheme have created a process that people are supposed to follow in order to be able to use Sight Drafts. Once one has created a “Bill of Exchange,” one can then go about creating Sight Drafts in order to discharge the “public claims.”

One of the most important such aspects may be that such Sight Drafts are supposed to be registered with the UCC Division of the Secretary of State, along with a UCC-3 “partial release” form. In fact, the registration numbers are supposed to appear in the upper left-hand corner of the Sight Draft. Through monitoring such filings, it may be possible to discover some of the Sight Drafts and their creators. The Sight Drafts are also accompanied by a one or two page “letter of instruction” explaining what the Sight Drafts are and how they are to be handled, as well as a cover letter and a copy of the UCC-3 document which ostensibly justifies the Sight Draft.

In the past, fictitious financial instruments created by anti-government extremists generally came from centralized sources that created and distributed the instruments. The Redemption scheme is different in that people are encouraged to create their own Sight Drafts. Redeemers are given instructions as to what they ought to look like. Sometimes computer programs are sold which can generate the drafts; sometimes people are told to have them made at particular printing establishments.

Some of the sight drafts may be very sophisticated, including watermarks, routing numbers, and other features. However, they will typically share certain attributes. They will commonly reference HJR-192, they will be payable by the U.S. Treasury (sometimes given with an incorrect address), they will often reference Treasury Direct Account numbers or Employer ID numbers, and they may have other odd references to the UCC.

Others

Redemption proponents offer a variety of tactics to use if other people do not see eye to eye with the Redemption process. These include “acceptance for value of the offer in commerce, and process their commercial claim for the damages,” which apparently would mean a frivolous lawsuit. Other suggestions include habeas corpus filings, frivolous appellate court filings, and “resort to superior military action by filing a claim with the military commander in your area, after the civil process has broken down.”

One disturbing tactic used by Redeemers is misuse of IRS Form 8300. This form is the cash transaction report that should be filed for cash transactions of over $100,000; it is designed to help combat money laundering. Redeemers are encouraged to “report any trespassers, upon which you have done ‘acceptances,’ chargebacks and Bills of Exchange, to the IRS by way of 8300 filings and 1040ES reports on them.”

In order to fill out such 8300 filings, Redeemers will try to get the social security numbers of police officers, public officials, etc. This will sometimes result in a rash of W-9 filings, which are a request for taxpayer ID numbers. One extremist in Texas used these methods as a way to get back at a city attorney who filed a lien on his property when he did not mow it. The extremist used the W-9 forms, Bills of Exchange and other documents to suggest the attorney owed him $4.1 million, with all of the attorney’s property to be held as collateral.



4. The Practitioners

The Redemption scheme has spread far and wide in only a few months. The sight drafts alone have been spotted in at least 26 different states. It seems likely that at the very least, UCC filings have appeared in every state. For this report, the Secretary of State offices in eight states were contacted: Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Minnesota and Maine.

Ohio, a state where it was known there was considerable activity, reported such UCC filings were coming in every single week. In fact, there were one or two individuals who would bring people in and walk them through the process of making the UCC filings. Missouri, a state with considerable extremist activity, reported a moderate amount of such activity. North Carolina, also a state with considerable activity, reported a large number of such filings. Arizona officials reported there had been up to fifty such filings in recent months. Pennsylvania reported about forty such recent filings, most in two large clumps, probably indicating that seminars had just recently been held in that state.

Nebraska, a state with a low level of activity, reported a handful of such filings, while Minnesota reported somewhat more. Maine, another state with a low level of extremist activity, reported one recent filing. In most of these cases, officials had no idea what to make of such filings. About half the states contacted unfortunately accepted the filings, while the other half did not.

The Redemption scheme apparently originated in the early spring of 1999. Seminars were held in various places during the summer, and in the fall of the same year, it seems to have become very widespread. Sometimes people would travel great distances to attend the seminar; there are records, for instance, of someone from North Carolina attending a seminar in Texas.

Oregon

Exactly who came up with the Redemption scheme is not certain (although see below), but there seem to currently be at least three main groups promoting it. The first group may well be the oldest, and it is based in Oregon. The Oregon nexus seems to be centered on one Samuel Lynn Davis, who has held seminars and written articles on the subject for the extremist publication The American’s Bulletin.

Davis claims to have been the person who thought up the idea, based on an older document he read. Closely linked to Davis is Robert Kelly, publisher of the Bulletin, who allegedly helped Davis with research and certainly helped him with promotion. Another player on the Oregon scene is known only in the pages of the magazine as “Qui Tam.” Davis also acknowledges three people, “Les, Butch, and Terry,” for their research and help. The first of those three individuals is one Les Moffet, known to have helped run Redemption seminars.[6]

In recent issues of the Bulletin, the Oregon crowd started backing away somewhat from the use of sight drafts, saying that “Mr. Davis does not promote, suggest, nor advises in any way for one to use a sight draft.” The magazine suggested that people who did not understand the sight draft used it improperly, either submitting it to a bank for deposit without bothering with the UCC process, and they will likely “end up in jail.” Mr. Davis and the Bulletin, readers were informed, would not accept any responsibility for the mis-use or problems created by the use of Sight Drafts.

The Oregon group also recommends one particular printer who is willing to print the bogus Sight Drafts used in the Redemption scheme. These “custom sight drafts” designed especially for the scheme, can be purchased by The Edge Graphics. They are printed on blue check paper with a VOID pantograph, micro printing, artificial watermarks and a warning band. The price is about $1 per draft.[7]

Davis and Kelly are not the only people in Oregon promoting the Redemption scheme. A former Kelly associate, F. Hayes, who broke with Kelly and went on to publish his own newspaper, The American Voice, has also promoted Redemption materials. In the July 1999 issue, Hayes published an article titled “Commerce Game Exposed: Learn to Play; Accept It for the Value,” in which he outlined the essence of the Redemption scheme and advertised an instruction manual for $15.00. By the September issue, Hayes was enthusiastic about the response to the redemption manual so far. He also complained that there “are those out there who are taking advantage of the great interest people have in this process. They are selling the information, which they got for free (as we did), for exorbitant prices.”[8]

In fact, both Kelly and Hayes apparently did get their information from a single source, as did other promoters of the redemption scheme. Multiple sources from within the patriot movement confirm that the originator of the redemption notion was Roger Elvick (or, according to one source, Elvick and two other, unidentified people).

Roger Elvick is a veteran anti-government activist who has been associated with various right-wing extremist and white supremacist causes over the past several decades. While living in North Dakota in the early 1980s, he was apparently active in the Posse Comitatus—although he denied this at the time—and supported Gordon Kahl, the Posse activist who murdered two federal marshals near Medina, North Dakota, in 1983.

Although connected to various groups, including allegedly Aryan Nations and the Barrister’s Inn School of Common Law (reportedly Elvick later started his own Nitty Gritty School of Common Law), he came to prominence in 1984 as one of the founders and spokesmen for the Committee of the States, an offshoot of the Posse Comitatus created by Californian William Potter Gale, a prominent Posse leader and white supremacist. By then, Elvick was living in California, where he and his son had created an entity called the Common Title Bond and Trust in California.

The main purpose of Common Title was to issue various bogus financial instruments, including sight drafts, bills of exchange, and checks. By June 1987, these instruments had been reported in about thirty states and at least one Canadian province. That month the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized documents belonging to Common Title, as well as an affiliated business in Phoenix, Arizona, Pima and Associates, apparently run by John Godfrey. Elvick, Godfrey, and various associates took advantage of the serious farm crisis of the 1980s, selling the sight drafts to farmers who would ostensibly use them to pay off their farm debts, making payments to Common Title instead.

Of course, banks would not accept the sight drafts. According to Godfrey, Pima and Associates alone wrote between $50 and $70 million of those sight drafts in the summer of 1987. Similarly, in Kansas, James E. Patterson sold sight drafts for $757,000 to pay off the debts of a tire company in Wichita. He received $14,000 and a promised payment program for the drafts, which came from Common Title. Federal and state indictments were handed down in Kansas, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota, while other states filed consumer fraud suits or issued cease-and-desist orders. Convictions and judgments against individuals using such sight drafts continued through 1989.

In April 1990 a federal grand jury in North Dakota indicted Roger Elvick, and three associates. The four were charged with nineteen counts, mainly related to mailing false tax returns, as well as false IRS 1099 forms filed to harass people. They were also indicted for using sight drafts. Two months later the defendants were convicted on all 19 counts. Elvick, however, was already in jail. He had been convicted in Texas on federal charges of passing more than $1 million in bogus sight drafts. These drafts purported to be certified IRS sight drafts. The false 1099 form scheme—which was eventually used by about 400 different people issuing nearly 4,000 such forms for amounts of more than $21 billion—was basically Elvick’s idea, which he compiled into a booklet interestingly titled, “The Redemption Package.” Elvick received a sentence of nearly four years for his role in the scheme.

Thus the essential criminal elements of the Redemption scheme, including bogus sight drafts and bogus IRS forms, all had their origins over a decade earlier. The judge who sentenced Elvick aptly characterized his behavior accurately when he complained to Elvick that “I want to be courteous if I can to you, but I can’t understand the way you so easily and glibly throw around constitutional terms with no apparent logic.” The judge told Elvick and the other defendants that he had no hope that prison would rehabilitate them or deter them. Instead, he hoped the sentence would send a message to deter others from getting involved in such schemes. Judging by the subsequent success of the Redemption scheme, it would seem that the judge’s hopes were to be dashed within a few years.


Texas

Oregonians were not the only people who picked up Elvick’s message. Especially energetic in promoting the Redemption scheme were certain Texans, members of an extremist group known as the Republic of Texas. This group formed in late 1995, though within two years it had split into several competing factions, one of which was involved with an aggravated kidnapping and subsequent armed standoff in the spring of 1997.

The faction of the Republic of Texas which chanced upon the Redemption scheme was that headed by “President” Jesse Enloe, and based in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Based on the minutes of their meetings during the summer of 1999, the two members of the group most involved with formulating and promoting the Redemption scheme were Enloe and Rice McLeod. Enloe and McLeod regularly spoke on Redemption issues throughout the summer.

At the July 23 meeting, Enloe told the audience that in Idaho an automobile had been purchased using the “Acceptance for Value process.” In the ensuing case, the judge dismissed the case and an FBI agent told the defendant that there was no money in the U.S. treasury and asked the man not to do it again.

The dealer kept the car, but the man was not charged. At another meeting, the secretary recorded the words of McLeod urging people to “attend the seminars. Read the books. Study and understand the Frankenstein system that has been foisted upon us in place of the system our ancestors fought to create.” Enloe and McLeod arranged Redemption seminars that brought attendees not only from Texas but also from far away states. Other members speaking on Redemption issues included John Hunter, Lewis Daniel, and Darrell Franks. It is clear from the minutes that Redemption was indeed the single hottest topic of the summer for this group.

The Republic of Texas may not, however, be the only group in Texas promoting the Redemption scheme. One extremist publication recently had an advertisement for The Timeline Group, selling a one-hour UCC Redemption video featuring Rhett Webster Pease for $18.00. This reportedly took place at a Freedom Seminar in Austin Texas on 9/18/99.[9]

Ohio

The Buckeye state is another state where Redemption promoters are very active. This seems to be primarily due to the activity of an extremist group based in Uniontown, Ohio, known as Right Way L.A.W.[10]

This common law group is extremely active, holding seminars and meetings, not only in various towns in Ohio, but also in states across the nation. It encourages the formation of Right Way L.A.W. study groups in different areas, and such groups are known to exist as far away from Ohio as New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.

Even as far away as Kasilof, Alaska, a tax protester received a two-year prison sentence because, on the advice of Right Way L.A.W., he had decided not to file his tax returns. Significantly, prospective members of the group must sign an application form in which they must state that they are not an agent of government and will not use or cause to be used the information shared as a basis for government action against the group or its members.

Right Way L.A.W. is led primarily by four individuals: Rick Schramm, Jack Smith, Jeanne Collins, and Mary Keane. The group very actively sells its common law materials at survivalist expositions, on the Internet, and elsewhere, so it is not surprising that it would pick up on the Redemption scheme and begin holding seminars. The only seminars known for sure to have been held by Right Way L.A.W. have been in the Pacific Northwest, but the printed material handed out at such seminars always used Ohio addresses and place names as examples, so it seems reasonable to suspect that they originated in Ohio. No names appear on the materials themselves.

However, the Redemption scheme seems to have attracted the attention not only of Right Way L.A.W., but other prominent anti-government activists in the state. Chief among these are Larry Russell and Bill Elwood, two of the leaders of the common law court movement in the state. Russell, from Canal Winchester, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, is fresh from his 18-month sentence on escape charges.

In February 1996 a Columbus police sergeant unwisely tried to serve an arrest warrant for driving without a license to Russell while Russell was at a common law court meeting. Members got in the officer’s way while Russell fled all the way to Alaska, where he was arrested while trying to cross the border into Canada.

Brought back in 1997, he represented himself in court and—not surprisingly—lost, but escaped again in 1988. Apprehended three weeks later, he was finally put in jail. Bill Ellwood was the “chief justice” of the most active common law court in Ohio. According to officials at the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, Russell is a repeat visitor to the office, showing new redeemers how to make the UCC filings (presumably for a fee).

Ohio has the distinction of having one of the first arrests stemming from the Redemption process. During the summer of 1999, Cleveland-area residents Joan Susan Bowman and Richard A. Lewis attempted to use sight drafts to pay for eight Cadillacs.

They were arrested, charged with forgery. Police searching their apartments following the arrest found nearly twenty guns, unarmed grenades, and more than 6,700 rounds of ammunition, as well as various examples of extremist literature. According to court records, Lewis was linked to the Cuyahoga County Unorganized Militia.

Interestingly, they tried to title the cars under eight different names, one of which was one Sam Davis, which could very well be both the Sam Davis active in promoting the Redemption scheme as well as the person Jesse Enloe talked about in Texas.

However, Idaho prosecutors could not identify any laws that had clearly been broken, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Davis was not charged after returning the truck. Following the arrest of Bowman and Lewis, the car dealership received a packet of demands for the social security numbers and tax returns of dealership employees—presumably a preliminary step to filing a Form 8300 or other harassing maneuver. As it turns out, other car dealerships in Ohio have also been given the bogus sight drafts.

Elsewhere

The Bowman/Lewis incident in Ohio was not, however, the first arrest stemming from the Redemption scheme. That honor appears to go to Veral R. Smith of Moyie Springs, Idaho. Smith and his wife, Judy Ann Smith, were indicted in March 1999 on tax counts, but a superceding indictment issued in August 1999 included counterfeiting, resisting arrest and assault charges (against the U.S. Marshals who came to arrest him). Smith allegedly tried to use two bogus sight drafts to pay back taxes and to purchase two vehicles. Smith was convicted in October; his wife earlier pleaded guilty.

Promoters from other states are clearly active. One such is Greg Williams, a Washington resident.[11] Greg Williams has given seminars in Montana and Texas, with a cost of $125 per person, spouses free, and the entry fee generously including an edition of his book.



5. What to Do

Unless something is done to stop the spread of this scheme, it is clear that other extremists groups will jump on the bandwagon and become involved. One only has to remember how fast and far the bogus check/money order scheme of groups like Family Farm Preservation, the Montana Freemen and the Republic of Texas spread during the mid-1990s to see that schemes such as Redemption can become wildly popular among the anti-government fringe in no time at all. That result would mean more counterfeit financial instruments, more harassing paper against officials, and perhaps even the possibility of future incidents like the Montana Freeman and Republic of Texas standoffs. Clearly action needs to be taken quickly to determine the extent of this scheme, identify its leaders, and take effective legal action.

A wide variety of potential crimes are linked to this scheme. The state of Texas, whose Attorney General’s office has been very alert to extremist crimes[12] issued a preliminary report on the scheme that noted possible federal violations could include mail fraud, bank fraud, counterfeiting, attempting to interfere with the administration of Internal Revenue Laws, and making false statements to federal agencies. State violations will vary by state, of course, but could include obstruction, fabricating physical evidence, and theft, among others. People interested in the experience of Texas should contact the Office of the Texas Attorney General, P.O. Box 12548, Austin, TX 78711-2548 (512) 936-1407; fax (512) 494-8283.

On the federal level, several agencies have already issued warnings, although these warnings are limited to the sight drafts and do not explain the entire scheme. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation warned banks about the drafts in an alert that can be found on the Internet at http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/1999/fil9980.asp. It suggests that people who find such instruments alert the FBI. The source for this warning was the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which earlier issued its own, available at http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/alert/99-10.txt. It also advises informing the FBI, as well as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Enforcement & Compliance Division, 250 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20219 (202) 874-4800, fax (202) 874-5301.

Also interested in the issue is the Criminal Enforcement Section of the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; contact (202) 514-5171, fax (202) 514-0961. Other federal agencies to contact would include the IRS and the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Office.

Special efforts need to be made not only to prosecute civil and criminal violations, but also in terms of educating Secretary of State offices, county recorder offices, banks and lending institutions, car dealership, and all other entities and individuals who may come into contact with this far-reaching scheme. One of the reasons the scheme is popular is because to date the “establishment” has not really recognized or understood it, and certainly has presented no concerted action against it.



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