Man accuses firms of stealing software
By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News staff writer


PROVO — A self-described linguist and programmer has filed a lawsuit against Novell, the Eyring Research Institute and the founders of WordPerfect for a whopping $40 billion, claiming his software was pirated and used to create WordPerfect as well as some of Novell's first military missile programs.

Bruce Wydner of Eden, Weber County, and his brother, Roger Weidner, filed the suit last fall against Novell, Eyring Research and Bruce Bastian and Allen Ashton, formerly of WordPerfect.

Speaking to the Deseret News, Wydner claims a language translation software that he developed back in 1977 was inspired by passages within the Book of Mormon in which the Ancient Nephites were described as having the ability to decipher any human language through visual cues. In addition to alleging that his software was stolen, Wydner credits his software for ending the Cold War between the United States and Russia.

After working as a linguist at the Pentagon and translating messages for the Central Intelligence Agency, Wydner claims he was recruited by Brigham Young University to conduct research on what was to be known as his "Cost-Effective Machine Translation" software. Pointing to articles done in 1978 by the Deseret News and the Wall Street Journal, Wydner claims he was a part of a project to work on translation software. While at the Eyring Institute, a language translation research group that had its start at Brigham Young University, Wydner said he faced ridicule for his methods by fellow researchers. "I just couldn't work there because people were making fun of me," Wydner said. He also claimed to have taught courses based on his system at BYU.

BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said in checking with those associated with the Eyring Institute, which has not been a part of BYU for the last 13 years, Jenkins said there was no recollection of Wydner working there. A search of staff and associate instructor records also yielded no proof that Wydner taught courses at BYU from 1972 to 1973.

But, according to Wydner's suit, it was around 1978 that programmers at the Eyring Institute began using his program without his knowledge. Wydner alleges that several programmers, including WordPerfect founders Bastian and Ashton, used his code to write one of the first highly popular word processing softwares of its time. In addition, programmers also allegedly used the code to devise a missile guidance system for the U.S. Air Force, those programmers would later go on, Wydner claims, to form Novell Corp.

Wydner's brother, Roger Weidner, said he is an attorney in Oregon who is helping to file the suit. Weidner said he estimated that Novell had earned about 8 billion in profits annually. Based on that estimate, Weidner said he came up with the multibillion figure for damages.

"That's basically a guesstimate of what they earned over the past couple of years," Weidner said.

But in the face of such outrageous allegations, Wydner said he is simply out to claim credit and profits that he says are rightfully his. When asked why he waited well over two decades to file his suit, Wydner said he was unaware of the alleged scheme to steal his software until December 1999 when a former Eyring programmer came forward and told him the story.

Wydner is seeking damages totaling $40 billion, for claims of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud.

Yet despite the hefty price tag on this suit, none of the defendants appear to be taking it too seriously. After nearly four months, neither Novell, nor the founders of WordPerfect have bothered to file a response to the suit.

"We have received a copy of the complaint and we believe that it's frivolous," said Novell spokesman Kevan Barney. Barney said Novell attorneys could find no direct claim in the suit against Novell and that Novell planned to seek the dismissal of the suit.

While Roger Weidner was telling the supporters how his brothers intellectual property had been pirated by Bruce Bastian, who was sitting nearby at the counsel table, his attorney John Mullen, lost his composure and angrily said "you’re a liar" to Bruce Wydner. Mullen then in a defiant tone contemptuously asked Bruce Wydner "what is it we stole?". Bruce Wydner, without a moments hesitation responded, "automatic parshing" which is the key technoloy that allows the internet to function.

On May l3, 2003 Bruce Wydner, and his brother Roger Weidner, appeared in the Utah County Courtroom of Judge Lynn Davis, in Provo, Utah. Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were in court to be heard on the Summary Judgment Motion they had filed in the Breach of Contract, Fraud and Unjust Enrichment action they had filed against Novell, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research, Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton. Appearing in support of Bruce and Roger were 70 concerned citizens from around the country including Senator Trent Lott’s cousin Jesse Lott, Oregon newspaper publisher Larry Jackson, Sheriff Mack and Utah radio talk show host Tom Draschel.

In the complaint Bruce Wydner stated that he is the inventor of cost effective machine translation, the key technology allowing the development of the internet. The complaint charges that in l978, in violation of the non-compete, non-circumvent, non-disclosure contract Wydner had with Eyring Research and its employees the technology was pirated by Eyring Research to fulfill the contract Eyring had with the United States Air Force.

Then Bruce Bastian, an employee of Eyring, and Allen Ashton, with the consent of Eyring, but without the knowledge of Wydner, unlawfully appropriated Wydner’s intellectual property to start Word Perfect. The complaint also charges that former Eyring Research employees Mr. Fairclough, Mr. Nyberg, Mr. Christiansen and a fourth party also obtained the technology to start Novell by threatening Eyring Research President Ron Hanson. The complaint states that the four founders of Novell told Hanson that if they were denied the technology they would tell Wydner that Eyring had unlawfully permitted the technology to be turned over to Word-Perfect.

Before the hearing, outside the courtroom, Bruce Wydner’s brother, and co-complainant, Roger Weidner, the l998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor and a former attorney and public prosecutor, told the supporters assembled that he has spent the last l5 years fighting the pervasive corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger Weidner told the supporters that what he has seen repeated over and over again is innocent people having their children, their lands and other property shamelessly stolen by corrupt attorneys, bureaucrats or judges. He said no matter how blatant the theft the victims complaint is always dismissed on one pretense or another so the victim can never get their case heard by a jury of their peers as the law requires. Weidner said all of these victims are being denied fundamental "equal protection" and "due process" of law guaranteed to the citizens of Oregon under the Oregon Constitution and the Constitution of the United States.

Frances Weidner, the 93 year old mother of Roger and Bruce, was introduced to the supporters. Roger told those present that without his mother’s steadfast support over the past l5 years it would have been impossible for him to have had the success he has had in cleaning up the corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger told how his mother, weighing less than l00 pounds, had repeatedly intimidated corrupt attorneys and judges by openly confronting them about their corruption in the courtroom. Roger related one incident in l992 where he was being violently arrested, and choked to the ground, for trying to speak in court that his mother attempted to kick one of the arresting guards while her arms were being held behind her back by Deputy Multnomah County Sheriff Rita Berman. In another incident he related that in l994 his mother chased former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, Ed Petersen, out of the Multnomah County Courthouse after he ordered the arrest of Roger for insisting on speaking in court on the record.

Roger told the supporters to remain standing when they entered the courtroom until the judge came in. In the courtroom, before the judge came in, Roger told those assembled that they were the sovereign political authority in the state. He said that the judge and the guards are all public employees who, as a condition of their employment, have taken an oath of office to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of the citizens appearing as parties in court. While Roger Weidner was telling the supporters how his brothers intellectual property had been pirated by Bruce Bastian, who was sitting nearby at the counsel table, his attorney John Mullen, lost his composure and angrily said "you’re a liar" to Bruce Wydner. Mullen then in a defiant tone contemptuously asked Bruce Wydner "what is it we stole?". Bruce Wydner, without a moments hesitation responded, "automatic parshing" which is the key technoloy that allows the internet to function. Roger told the supporters that they were there to see that he and Bruce were able to make a full record of how Bruce’s intellectual property had been pirated by the defendants and used to generate billions of dollars in illicit profits for the defendants.

After Judge Davis entered the courtroom he said he was first going to hear the defendant’s Motion To Dismiss the breach of contract claim. Judge Davis, acting like an attorney for the defendants, challenged whether Roger Weidner and Bruce Wydner could bring the action since the contract was between Weidner Communications Inc., owned by their younger brother Stephen, and Eyring. Roger pointed out the contract was a third party beneficiary contract entered between Weidner Communication and Eyring Research to protect Bruce Wydner’s intellectual property.

After attorney Mullen spoke, Roger Weidner addressed the court saying his brother was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing, which is the technology that allows the internet to operate. He said Bruce Wydner had contracted with Eyring to do some technical work to perfect his ability to do automatic machine translation. He told the judge that his brother’s office at Eyring had been padlocked in l978 in order to block Bruce Wydner from removing his intellectual property. Roger told the judge that it was not until November of l999 that Bruce Wydner was told by the Harmon family, founders of Eyring Research, that the Air Force had ordered them to seize, for national security purposes, his brother’s intellectual property.

Bruce Wydner then addressed the court telling the judge that he was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing." He then turned and pointed at Bruce Bastian, who was sitting behind his attorney Mullen, and said: "In l978 I contracted with Eyring to see if they could produce cost effective machine translation. I was about to fire Eyring because none of their programmers were linguist. Eyring President Ron Hansen said his $5.00 an hour programmer Bruce Bastian could speak Italian and would that do. I told Hansen that Italian and Spanish were similar and so continued working with Eyring and Bastian. Because Eyring had signed the no-compete, non-circumvent agreement I had no idea that Bastian was training all of the rest of the programmers at Eyring how to use my technology in order to be able to collect 96 million dollars from the Air Force." Weidner said that although he had a strange reaction when he told LDS President Kimbal in l982 that he had invented "automatic parsing," it was not until l999 that he finally became aware of the fact that both Word-Perfect and Novell were created out of the technology he had invented.

As Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were condemning Bastian for his thievery he sat behind his attorney, head down and his complexion alternating between a bright red and a dull purple hue physically reflecting his obvious embarrassment and shame. Except for the momentary outburst by Mullen, before the hearing started, neither Bastian or Mullen questioned the truthfulness of the charges that both Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were leveling against Bruce Bastian, Alan Ashton, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research or Novell. After the hearing was concluded a very shaken Bruce Bastian left the courtroom under the protection of one of the Deputy Sheriffs present.

More lunacy from crazy, racist Roger Weidner and his followers. This time they have a crazy plan to assassinate goverment workers. One of the craziest is Jim Bell, author of "Assassination Politics".

There's a gang of white women in Hillsboro, Oregon who believe all this nonsense and support the efforts of Roger and his buddies to overthrow the government. Bonnie Oekerman (now deceased), Faye Marie Oekerman, Neta Hays and Chris Andrea Hays are just a few of the women who belong to this gang.

They commit all sorts of crimes and get away with it. Many of the crimes they commit are violent. They even have a Praetorian Guard that protects them while they are committing their crimes.

These idiots join email lists they know I'm on and then send private emails to the list members falsely accusing me of all sorts of evil stuff. They also send slanderous emails to anybody I link to. Sort of reminds me of "internet terrorism" at its sleaziest.

There seems to be a lot of white supremacist sympathizers in the neighborhood around where I live.

Jim Bell is the author of Assassination Politics, a lonely cry for help in a world gone mad. Bell's plan is where people bet on the date of the death of a public official, giving assassins a motive to make the kill.

Bell sat on the King's Bench, presided over by Chief Justice Charles Stewart of the Multnomah County Common Law Court (MCCLC), with such luminaries of the common law as Roger Weidner, the deputy district attorney for fraud, the man who discovered it in the system and went mad, forcibly interred at the state hospital for the insane by Judge Dorothy Baker, of the Multnomah County District Court, who, 13 years ago was in the same office Bell is suspected of bombing.

And on the other side of Bell, on the King's bench, sits Lunch, Dick Lancial, who the editor met in the back of a donut shop, magnificent guy, clerk for the MCCLC, charged with simulating court process, rousted from bed in his underwear and his computer seized by Portland city police the same moments the Feds were kicking in the door of Bell's elderly parents in their sweet Vancouver, Washington home to seize his computer.

A document found on Bell's computer reportedly bragged about bombing the
editor's office 13 years ago.

Twelve angry men. Some quiet, reserved, others open and talkative. Some
with grievances. Some with quieter agendas.

All of them white men. Calvinist Jeff Weakly, pastor for the court, who
the editor met in a bookshop, standing behind a counter expounding on the
true lost tribes of Israel.

After I divorced the psycho ex-wife, Faye Marie Oekerman, in 1980, her divorce lawyer (Roger Weidner), Victor Oekerman and some other psychos had a "common law court" and found me guilty of homosexuality, Satanism, pedophilia, the practice of Black Magic, and some other nonsense and sentenced me to death in absentia.

Of course, the particular "common law court" that found me guilty in absentia never notified me of the super secret proceedings because the people involved were and are cowards, liars, thieves, bigots, dangerously mentally insane, and just plain morons.

Over the years, since 1980, this group of morons have tried to carry out the sentence. They've even bribed people (including bribing women to become my friend and then lover) to carry out the sentence.

Click here for more info on common law courts.

The following is more information about "common law courts".

Common Law Courts
(Information about Northwest militia-type groups)
By Amy Minervini
University of Idaho journalism student

Vigilante justice is not just a pastime of cowboys in the Old West. Modern-day patriots are using their own court systems to threaten, harass, and even murder their opponents.

Militia members in more than 30 states use these alternative courts to further their itineraries. Common law courts, also known as citizen grand juries, operate outside of the judicial court system. They are self-elected members of a community who serve as officers, jurors and court clerks.

The committee hears cases and uses the court to propel paper attacks on local and federal officials.

"When these sovereign citizens bring a charge, the court claims power of investigation and calls accused parties to appear," said Devin Burghart and Robert Crawford, investigative journalists on militias.

"If they refuse, the court generally finds them guilty in absentia and issues punishment liens and threats of arrest, jailing or death to be enforced by the militia or constable."

According to their article "Vigilante Justice: Common Law Courts" in the Covert Action Quarterly, common law courts have issued numerous death threats to judges and jurors in the Northwest.

The Montana Freeman have been instrumental in developing this court system. "In the year that the Freeman remained fugitives, they became an inspiration to common law court groups nationwide," the writers stated.

In Southwest Oregon, a recent scuffle erupted between a civilian and a deputy sheriff. The civilian, Ted Davis, was shot and killed in the shoot-out, and friends of the deceased formed a militia in Davis' memory. "The Ted Davis Brigade would monitor the activities of the police, as in a civilian review board and serve as a kind of well-armed neighborhood watch," said a spokesman for the Brigade. "We don't expect any help from anyone except ourselves to solve and resolve law enforcement problems in Curry [County]. We want security and our rights. One comes with the other."

According to research by Burghart and Crawford, common law courts are deep-seated in the white supremacist movement. Their article shows some common law activists as having bigoted and racist agendas. "These courts are, at their core, a tool for furthering the supremacists struggle to construct a white, Christian republic on US soil. They weave conspiracy theories that scapegoat Jews and promote racist notions of citizenship."

Instead of common law courts and militias being antigovernment organizations, these journalists believe their primary goal is "replacing existing governing institutions with their own."

This same idea is echoed by Western States Center Researcher Jonn Lunsford who has noticed the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing resulted in militias in Oregon going underground. "Militias have metamorphosed into common law courts. You can think of the militia as the Department of Defense and the common law courts being the judicial system," said Lunsford. "The militia enforce the decisions of the common law courts."

The common law courts use liens, or stake legal claims, on local and federal public officials. The liens are issues of punishment and may even come in the form of death threats. According to Burghart and Crawford, activists in California face felony charges for veiled death threats to judges and jurors. Also, judges and prosecutors in Idaho and Montana have been issued arrest warrants by these courts.

With militia groups in the wary public eye, vigilante justice seems to have gotten the attention of lay and law enforcement alike. They call themselves Patriots, but will their system prevail? And if not, who will bring them down? These are questions only patience and awareness can answer.

Some of my relatives, John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays, and Chris Andrea Hays and some members of their church thought the white supremacist movement was so cool they decided to join...secretly, of course. How low can you get?

There's more of this nonsense.

EX MULTNOMAH COUNTY PROSECUTOR CLAIMS WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION

from the Oregon Observer, Nov. 1994 (re-published with permission)

The Oregon Observer is printing this story as presented by Roger Weidner, an ex-prosecutor with the Multnomah County District Attorney's office.

Investigators with the Oregon Observer have searched for denials from the principals in this case to no avail. We would urge any of the parties involved to come forward with any evidence that disputes the validity of the claims in this story.

As a hard-hitting investigative newspaper, the Oregon Ob- server wishes to expose the truth, unconver the facts, and present them to the People of the entire State of Oregon. It is with this mission in mind that this story appears in our pages.

To lend some credibility to the claims which Roger Weidner has made in many courts, on the record, we add the following quote from Martha Hicks, a prominent attorney at the offices of the Oregon State Bar:

"I am prosecuting Milton Brown and have been for quite some time."

This quote was made to investigative reporter Ed Snook with the Oregon Observer from her office on October 25, 1994.

CLAIMS OF CORRUPTION ON A GRAND SCALE
Exposed in the Oregon Supreme Court by Roger Weidner, Governor Barbara Roberts, Attorney General Ted Kulongowski, Multnomah County District Attorney Micheal Schrunk and other Federal, State and local officials subpoenaed to appear before a special Grand Jury convened by Roger Weidner on October 14, 1994 to inquire into the cirminal conduct of attorneys and judges covering up the alleged murder of attorney Don Kettleberg by his business partner, attorney Milton Brown and Dr. Charles Hahn, and the conversion by Brown and Hahn of $35 million in Kettleberg estate assets. None of the above appeared before the Grand Jury.

Roger Weidner, an attorney on inactive status with the Oregon
State Bar and while serving on jury duty in Multnomah County on
October 14, 1994, subpoenaed not only the public officials
mentioned above but also the following:

* All justices of the Oregon Supreme Court
* All Judges of the Oregon Court of Appeals
* The entire Oregon congressional delegation
* Portland Mayor Vera Katz
* City Attorney Jeff Rogers
* All City Commissioners
* Clackamas County Commissioners and Counsel
* Mr. Teitsworth with the FBI
* Caroline Leonard, Director of the local IRS office
* Ray Taylor with the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS
* Robert Skipper, Multnomah County Sheriff
* James O'Leary, Clackamas County District Attorney
* Charles Moose, Portland Police Chief

They were all to appear to show cause why Roger Weidner, as a member of the Multnomah County Juror Panel, should not convene a special Grand Jury to investigate the alleged ongoing criminal conduct of attorneys and judges in Multnomah and Clackamas County Oregon.

The ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE and the SUBPOENA sent to those public officials appears at the end of this article.

Weidner appeared before the Oregon Supreme Court with 40 of his supporters including Dal Ferry, editorial writer with the Oregon Observer.

The attentive and courteous Justices sat in stunned silence as an animated Weidner described in detail his allegations that:

1. Portland Attorney Milton Brown abd Dr. Charles Hahn murdered their business partner Don Kettleberg by writing "do not resuscitate" on his hospital records to cause his death before Janette Kent, Kettleberg's fiancee, returned to Portland. Weidner contends it was necessary Kettleberg be dead when Kent returned so Brown and Hahn could execute their forged buy-sell agreements.

2. How Brown placed his secretary Caroline Brune in as personal representative of the Kettleberg estate while she was still on Brown's payroll and had her prepare an estate inventory showing the $21 million estate assets worth only $1.6 million.

3. How Brown and Hahn, with the aid of Brune and her attorney Michael Gentry, through a series of sham transactions.

4. How Weidner has been repeatedly ordered arrested in the presence of 40-50 supporters, when he has appeared in the courts of Judges Lee Johnson, Don Londer, Philip Abraham, James Ellis, Joseph Ceniceros, Gregory Milner and Steven Mauer to make a record of the scandalous criminal conduct of attorneys and judges in stealing all the Kettleberg estate assets and $1.5 million in preperty belonging to New World Ministries.

5. How Weidner was violently arrested on orders of Judge Philip Abraham when he attempted to appear in Multnomah County Presiding Court and make a record of the fact that he had been subpoenaed into that court by Milton Brown and believed that a trap was being set to take his life.

6. How Weidner has been arrested 6 times in Multnomah County Circuit Courts and 3 times in Clackamas County Circuit Courts and incarcerated a total of 112 days on the orders of Judges Lee Johnson, Donald Londer, James Ellis, Phillip Abraham, Joseph Ceniceros, Steven Mauer and Gregory Milnes when he has attempted to appear in their court and make a record of their criminal behavior in aiding and abetting attorneys Brown, Schmit and others in looting the Kettleberg estate and New Wine Ministries.

7. How real estate salesman Linn Springer with the aid of Lake Oswego attorney Ken Schmit and Kathy and George Mason enticed pastors Helen and Chet Jones to purchase a farm in Beavercreek, Oregon on which the debt exceeded the value of the property.

8. How Clackamas County Judge Alan Jack ordered the pastors off the property after they had made over $200 thousand dollars in improvements.

9. How Clackamas County Sheriff Sergeant Terrence Schaeffer ordered the pastors off the property at gun point and refused to allow them to remove over $1 million in store fixtures and inventory stored on the property. How all property belonging to New Wine Ministries, valued in excess of $1.5 million, was looted by Kathy Mason, Ken Schmit and others.

10. How Don Calkins, former husband of Kathy Mason and the true owner of the property, sold his interest in the property to Weidner in an attempt to block Schmit and others' attempt to steal the property.

11. How Weidner was arrested by Sgt. Schaeffer when he walked on the property, was tried and convicted of criminal trespass by Judge Mauer and sentenced to 10 days in jail and two years of probation.

12. How Weidner was forcibly arrested in front of 40 supporters by Captain Sherwood Stillman and 6 armed deputies when he attempted to appear before Judge Gregory Milnes to set aside the order dismissing the complaint he had filed against Judges Alan Jack, Patrick Gilroy, Sid Brockley, John Lowe, and Ken Schmit, Linn Springer, Kathy Mason, George Mason, Capt. Stillman, Sgt. Schaeffer, Clackamas County counsel Miles Ward and Martha Hicks with the Oregon State Bar for racketeering.

13. How Captain Stillman locked the courtroom doors and shuttered the windows on the doors to seal Weidner and his supporters in the courtroom prior to forcibly arresting Weidner.

Jane Angus was prosecuting Weidner for the Oregon State Bar. During her 5 minute presentation tot he court, she did not refute the truthfulness of the charges being leveled against the attorneys and Judges named above. Nor did any of the Justices hearing the charges question Weidner about the charges he was making.

"It is simply intolerable that this condition in our courts and government be allowed to continue," states Weidner. "As the state director of the Constitutional Defenders I am asking that each person reading this paper make it available to at least one other person. I am also asking that each person reading this paper make a demand on Senators Hatfield and Packwood, as well as the newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon to compel a congressional investigation of this massive corruption in our courts."

Our children and posterity will surely and rightfully condemn each of us if we let it be said, that we were born free but because of our apathy, timidity or indifference we let our Rights protected by the Bill of Rights, that our fore-fathers fought so hard to secure, to be taken from us without a fight.

We must all act immediately to restore adherence to the state and U.S. Constitutions!

The Oregon Observer
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And there's more

PORTLAND - In a ninety minute stand off, Oregon activist Lon Mabon and his wife Bonnie confronted Multnomah County "judge" RONALD CINNIGER about the fact that Cinniger has not sworn the same oath as mandated in the Oregon Constitution in order to be a lawful judge or to proceed
against Mabons.

An overflow crowd of supporters were kept in the hallway, as a packed
courtroom watched Cinniger and Mabons discuss the challenges before the
court. The following is from personal notes taken at the trial today.

The thirteen or more media representatives were seated in the jury box
in the crowded courtroom. In the crowd were Lons father Myron Mabon,
supporters Lou Beres, with the Oregon Christian Coalition; Bob
Eckstrom, director of the Constitution Party of Oregon; Paul DeParrie,
long time advocate and Right to Life spokesman; Milt Mitcheck,
Constitutional Researcher and Court Advocate; William Mayhar,
Constitutional Scholar and advocate; Roger Weidner, Republican Governor
candidate, Republican Party; Jesse Lott, political advocate and
courtwatcher; Michael Marsh, Salem TV producer; Yvonne Heinrichs,
peoples rights advocate, and many more.

Upon entering the courtroom, Cinniger ordered that all beepers be shut
down and that if anyone spoke in the courtroom besides the parties they
would be removed. Cinniger announced the case, "Stauffer v OCA, Scott
Lively, OCA Educational Foundation, and OCA, Inc. Plaintiff CATHERINE
STAUFFER and representative BRENT FOSTER were present at the table, and
Cinniger acknowledged that Lon and Bonnie Mabon were present for the
Record.

Mabons stayed behind the bar in the court, appearing by "special
appearance" Sui Juris, retaining their own Rights and without
representation and told the court on the Record that they were
challenging the jurisdiction of the court, and did not want to enter
into a false or fictitious jurisdiction. Lon tried to speak but
Cinninger talked over him. Lon stated that he expected the judge to
uphold his rights in the courtroom, and Cinniger told Mabons that they
would not be recognized unless they came into the bar.

Bonnie Mabon stated that they were insisting on a court that
"guarantees my rights", and was ignored by Cinniger.

Attorney Foster stated that they had been trying to collect a judgement
for nine years, that on November 14 there had been a judgement debtor
hearing, and again on November 26, and that Mabons did not appear in
either of those hearings. The attorney described how a judge Ellis had
ordered a December hearing for contempt for the failure to appear at
the previous hearing.

Foster stated that on the December 12 court date the case had been
moved to federal court ( and was remanded the same day!). The attorney
stated that the hearing was rescheduled for February 7, 2002, that
there had been an error in time and then was rescheduled for today.

Cinniger asked Lon and Bonnie repeatedly to cross the bar to "respond"
to the court, which Mabons refused to do. Cinniger had Governor
candidate Roger Weidner removed when Weidner tried to suggest to Mabon
to cross the bar and make the Record against the judge for violating
Mabons rights.

Lon Mabon again told the court that he would be glad to participate if
Cinniger would sign a simple contract that stated that Mabons rights
would be upheld in the courtroom and that Cinniger in fact was a lawful
judge. Cinniger replied "I TAKE IT YOU WILL NOT PARTICIPATE", ignoring
Mabons responses.

Cinniger turned to attorney Foster, and stated "they have challenged
the jurisdiction of the court. What is your response to this?" The
attorney stated "we think they are frivolous, this has been ruled on by
you...."; Cinniger interrupted the attorney and said " NO I HAVE NOT
RULED ON THIS OATH CHALLENGE. I ASKED YOU TO RESPOND WHY THE NAMED
DEFENDANTS SHOULD BE HELD IN CONTEMPT - THEY HAVE CHALLENGED THE
JURISDICTION".

Attorney Foster stated "that the court has ample jurisdiction under
Oregon Revised Statutes 33.015, 33.025, to issue contempt is clear".
The attorney stated "the challenge to the oath is not an issue that has
merit".

Mabon stated "your intent to uphold my rights faithfully and
impartially". Mabon asked again "did you take an oath?" Cinniger kept
ignoring Mabon.

Cinniger asked the bar representative "are you aware that the oath is
missing some words?" The attorney said "the court feels the oath is
appropriate. Cinniger said "it is appropriate for a litigant to
challenge the jurisdiction or authority of an individual acting as a
judge.... I think it is NOT frivolous.... it IS an issue. Comparing the
oaths, I found another way to look at it."

Mabon kept trying to say CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CINNIGER, CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW !!!, but Cinniger kept ignoring Mabons accurate responses.

Cinniger said "if it even applies".

Mabon said "Taswell v Smith states ALL circuit judges MUST take the
original Constitutional oath. Cinniger stated that he had decided that
the false oath was OK, and told the bar representative "I believe Ms
Stauffer that the challenge is to be denied", and continued to proceed
against Mabons, refusing to allow any redress on the merits or the
lawfulness of his acts.

Lon Mabon said "twelve different times we have challenged this
jurisdiction. As you even stated, a legitimate challenge. Mabon said
"the court has to appreciate our reluctance to proceed without a
contract. I want you to sign my contract before these people and the
press".

Again Cinniger said "I take that to be you refuse to cooperate".
Cinniger said "the law provides for a way for disputes to be resolved"
..... "when a decision is made" ......(Lon said "IF THEY ARE A
QUALIFIED JUDGE" WITH A CONSTITUTIONAL OATH") Cinniger continued
"requires the representatives to come to court (Lon stated "WHEN YOU
ARE UNDER OATH I WILL")...

Cinniger said that the court has the power of contempt to force people
to "remedy the situation" (even though civil judgements are not
jailable offenses and jail cannot be a penalty in a civil case !)

Cinniger stated "in this case the Plaintiff is asking the court to hold
two citizens in contempt as directors of the corporation to apear at a
judgement debtor hearing. The Corporation could have appeared by other
persons. Plaintiff has made a showing that the corporate entitities and
two individuals did not appear. A remedy includes confinement. Before
we get to that, this hearing is to show why they should not be held in
contempt. Plaintiff's attorneys have asked for jail as punishment or to
induce payment to comply - until Mabons agree to participate or up to 6
months."

Cinnniger then told Mabons about their right to an attorney since they
were "unrepresented". Mabons are Sui Juris before the court and do not
waiver their rights over to any bar member "representative", but claim
their Inherent rights, demanding a constitutional court.

Lon stated "MY RIGHTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED IN THIS COURT".

Cinniger asked attorney Foster "what remedy is the Plaintiff seeking?
Foster replied "all is designed to encourage and require Mabons to pay
the judgement. We are seeking confinement until they submit to a
judgement debtor hearing. $500.00 $$ a day sanctions against each of
them, as well in the courts power. Lon as director, Bonnie as
Secretary/Treasurer, control both of the (corporate) entities. They are
high managerial agents. ORS 33.025 (3), 33.025 (d). They have failed to
recognize the jurisdiction of the court. Hold them jointly and
severally liable for attorney fees and time specific order to pay - we
have no belief they intend to pay. Original judgement 30,000, now with
interest and attorneys fees federal and state, more than $40,000.00."

Attorney Foster continued "We want a $500.00 sanction on every pleading
or motion filed by Mabons and found to be frivolous. We want the court
to strike all future motions and to strike all answers filed and that
are frivolous in this case".

Lon spoke "you are acting under an amended Article VII, NOT the lawful
constitutional Article VII, original, the lawful jurisdiction I have
claimed".

Cinniger stated "there are two kinds of persons. Here today we have a
Plaintiff, two citizens, corporate entity, and the citizens not created
by law, but as individuals. It is appropriate for the court to consider
when the corporate citizen is created, the offices have responsibility
to the corporation. Like you can't create children without
responsibility to them. A fiduciary interest. Corporate interest is
inconsistent to individual interest. A citizen who represents a
corporate body has a responsbility."

Bonnie Mabon stated "How can you say the issues are an issue but not in
this court' .... but I ruled against it' ...I don't think the issues
are frivolous." Mabon stated "if they have merit don't you have to
abide by your oath?"

An unidentified attorney appeared before the court Amicus Curiae, and
asked for time to brief the case. Cinniger denied the attorney request,
saying it was "untimely".

Cinniger proceeded to state that he found Mabons to be in contempt
"beyond a reasonable doubt", that they had not appeared nor had the
corporate entities appeared. Attorney Foster reminded Cinniger that the
Mabons "willfully" refused to comply, and Cinniger used the word
"willfully" in his finding.

Cinniger stated that he did not believe that Mabons would comply with a
disposition (compelled contract and admission of guilt), and so ordered
Mabons to jail, Lon immediately from the courtroom, Bonnie ten days
from now (March 1, 2002). Cinniger ordered the sanctions of $500.00 a
day each, on one corporate name until the amount of the original debt
is paid. Then Cinniger stated that on the second corporate name the
sanctions would be in place until double the original amount was paid.
Mabon told Cinniger that that particular corporate entity had been
closed for ten years. It was unclear to observers exactly whether
Cinniger changed that order or not. Cinniger told attorney Foster that
"all other sanctions I am denying," except attorney fees.

Cinniger stated "I find no alternative Mrs Mabon, also in contempt, and
impose six month sentence in jail, suspended for ten days.

The front row of the courtroom was cleared and Lon Mabon was led from
the courtroom in handcuffs before a crowded roomfull of angry
courtwatchers.

As Cinniger was moving to arrest Lon in the courtroom, courtwatcher
William Mayhar rose and left the room, stating loudly on the Record to
the court "I am not going to sit here and watch any more of this
treason" and left the room.

As Mayhar left, the judge ordered the sheriffs to remove Milt Mitcheck,
researcher and advocate, who affirmed that the judge had no oath to
proceed, and had stated so.

After Mitcheck was "escorted" out, Wilbur Gaston, founder of A Voice
For Children, rose and on the Record to the judge stated "I charge YOU
with treason and misprison of felony" for your acts.* Gaston was
assaulted in the hallway by Sheriffs McHenny and Greathouse, as he was
leaving, who told Gaston he had to leave the building and was being
"evicted". The sheriffs attempted to force Gaston to allow his picture
to be taken, yet said he was "not" arrested. Gaston told the sheriffs
in no uncertain terms that if they were going to take his picture they
were going to arrest him or he was leaving now. And Gaston left without
the Sheriffs following on their threats.

Courtwatchers reported that the sheriffs were confronted after Gaston
charged the judge, to arrest Cinniger. The courtwatchers asked the
Sheriffs how they were protecting a man who refused to take his lawful
oath, and that the sheriffs had just seen this confirmed for
themselves. The Sheriffs told the courtwatchers that they were unsure
what to do and said possibly after the hearing they would be arresting
Cinniger. (The paperwork to arrest Cinniger had been served on Sheriff
Dan Noelle by process server yesterday to arrest Cinniger for treason;
additional paperwork moving for prosecution and sanctions is being
filed at this time.)

In the courtroom, after Mabon was led away, courtwatchers told the
press DID YOU SEE THAT THE JUDGE REFUSED TO TAKE HIS OATH? YOU SAW IT
FOR YOURSELF NOW - THIS IS TREASON AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL."

The sheriff directing the courtroom security said "pretty soon what you
are doing will be criminal" When asked who was "we" and what he meant,
he replied "your common law courts". The courtwatchers assured him that
when he is on trial for committing unlawfull acts against the citizens,
and that it is NOT "just doing my job", and accountability is reached,
and SOMEONE HAS TO ANSWER, then he will enjoy the same kind of court, a
rendering, where he will have no rights and no lawful judge and no
court will go to the lawfulness of the court, the bar member judges and
attorneys or the violations of lawful process.

The courtwatchers assured the sheriffs that their families are as
vulnerable as the rest of the "people" to these rights violations,
fraud, extortion and racketeering being openly operated now in Oregon.

The STATE OF OREGON corporate entity, bar representative had no defense
today in court on the Record that the judges in Oregon have NO OATH -
NO BOND - NO CONTRACT with the constitutionally sovereign Oregonians.
NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER.

When Cinniger told Attorney Foster "I want you to respond to this" in
court that means RESPONSE ..... as in - GIVE ME THE SUPPORTING
ARGUMENTS FOR THIS NOW TO DEFEND MYSELF WHILE I AM HANGING OUT HERE AND
EVERYONE KNOWS THE OATH I AM UNDER IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.

AND, JUST AS IN THE SENATE HEARINGS LAST YEAR ON THE FRAUD OF THE
AMENDED VII COURTS, THE COURT/BAR/STATE HAD NO DEFENSE. The attorney
and Cinniger discussed that this issue DOES have merit, IS important,
is NOT FRIVOLOUS, and did not allow the "vexatious litigant" filing
against Mabons to stop them from ever defending themselves again in any
court in America, federally and state.

The false oath issue has been openly reported and admitted by Oregon
Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Carson, new information at this
time revealing more knowlege of the false oaths and that the courts
have known for twenty years that they were taking color of law "oaths",
not binding to the constitutional rights of the sovereign people. That
is how they violate every Inherent Right provided in the Bill of
Rights, and as in todays hearing, the attorney said they were
"upholding the law" and making the Mabons "follow the law".

The truth is, as is so clearly revealed in this case and in our own,
that the legislature are the perpetrators of the extreme process
violations in the non constitutional courts. This is the justice 2020,
the new rules where the bar members are ALLOWED to conduct malicious
prosecutions and lie, cheat and steal (just passed last month !) But
you go to jail. Like Lon and Bonnie. And Will and I next week, next
Thursday, if the STATE has its way with us again (sixth sham jury trial
in more than five years now !!!)

So everyone sees the REAL PICTURE is they willl NOT go to the
lawfulness of what they are doing.... it is always "that has been heard
before, we are not going to talk about what happened before, and deny
all evidence of injury or state liability. They are creating a class
immune from prosecution, are doing this NOW, where these pervert
profiteers are exploiting the people and our children by force, and NO
ONE WILL ANSWER. The governor has been subpoaened to our trial, and
once again will not appear, even though he IS the "STATE" of Oregon
face.

There is no human so far who is accountable. The feds are moving in
Oregon now and no one is stopping them. The prostitutes to the
corporate state act in the interest of the corporate state.

You heard it yourself in this article Cinniger trying to compare a
corporation to having a child, and fiduciary interest. They are NOT
acting in your "interest" and "interest" only means how much money they
make. Enron is a "department" of this fraud, the whole government is
the "criminal enterprise for profit", the banks, title companies
insurance, etc are all the same money going aroung and around (or
illusion of money !) OPERATING THROUGH THE COURTS WHO ARE PROTECTING
THE FRAUD......

SYSTEMIC colluding and conducting FRAUD against the people no level of
law or court at any level .... the federal takeover and global agenda
..... in Oregon the Pioneer police State...... Enron broke open in
Oregon after being exposed in the Western Electric grab, stealing the
Klamath property, among other exploitations..... watch Capitol
Investments in Oregon next and in Washington and New York.... they are
liquidating all their assets now, our children, our homes, our
lives..... we are slaves in their new non constitutional world .....
only "sustainable" according to what we "contribute" to the "system",
in the "interest"/money for the corporate socialist state.

PANDORAS BOX HAS BEEN OPENED and the corruption is systemic. Mabons are
standing firm in the TRUTH, have never committed any crime against
anyone, and are even "charged" and in jail for an "unarrestable"
offence. We PRAY that people see how YOU ARE NEXT as this "outreach"
claw grasps our freedom - it already proceeds as though it owns our
children and property, and as Mabons are so clearly exemplifying, we
have at this time only TYRANNY and NO REDRESS at any level of court,
and in fact NO lawful court, outside of the sovereign court we held in
Marion County on June 20, 2001, a court of Law and credible evidence.

THIS IS SERIOUS FOLKS ..... EVERYONE BETTER PAY ATTENTION AND TELL EACH
OTHER WHAT IS GOING ON AND DO IT FAST ...... THE FEDS ARE MOVING AT
THIS TIME IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS AS WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM, THE
COLLUSION LIKE RABID DOGS, MULTI JUDICIAL SCHEMES AT EVERY LEVEL, COVER
UP AND FRAUD.

IT WILL ALL END WHEN WE CAN GET ONE ANSWER, PROSECUTION AND
ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COURTS WITH LAWFUL OATHS TO PROTECT US.

THESE SAME UNLAWFUL OATHS APPLY TO LEGISLATORS, WHOSE OATHS ARE
NOTARIZED BY OTHER FALSE OATH JUDGES, AND GOVERNOR KITZHABER SIGNED HIS
FALSE OATH ON THE TALMUD, THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN SLAVE CHATTEL CODE,
NOW CALLED THE U.C.C., THE "BIBLE" OF THE CULT OF THE NEW CORPORATE
SOCIALIST STATE, WITH WHOM WE HAVE SLAVE STATUS AS "US CITIZENS" WHICH
WE ARE NOT. WE ARE SOVEREIGN STATE CITIZENS IN A REPUBLIC, NOT A
DEMOCRACY. GUARANTEED THESE RIGHTS UN A LIEN ABLE.

Mabons excercised their birthright, Inherent Constitutionally protected
Rights today in the courtroom. Tonight it is seen widely on the news
that the court did NOT ANSWER THE PEOPLE.

WE ASK - WOULD NOT A JUDGE OF INTEGRITY BE PROUD TO STAND AND SAY YES -
OF COURSE I HAVE TAKEN MY CONSTITUTIONAL OATH, AS I AM BONDED AND
SWORN", but in fact, they have been playing another game in there for a
long time. Chief Justice Wallace Carson told a group of courtwatchers
in private one day "yes - I am a public servant and proud of it", yet,
the courts recently taken "new" oaths are as big a fraud as
before.....still not the right words, not to say of all the VOID
decisions that have to be dealt with, and the people injured and in
jail who have committed no crime ..... like Mabons and ourselves and
you next........ NO judge is yet under the lawful oath in Oregon.

TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN OREGON TODAY.

Pamela Gaston, A Voice For Children, Fifth Amendment Coalition

*(Gaston and the Citizens in Marion County arrested "judge" Fred Avera
on September 30, l999, for Treason and Misprison of Felony for the
criminal acts comitted by Avera and others against Gastons minor child.
She has been severally abused by the state and being held now more than
six years as a political prisoner while the courts protect each other
in blatant collusion. This ongoing retaliation is continuing next
Thursday, attack after attack for Gastons whistleblowing on black
market child and pornography being operated and protected in the Oregon
child services, as well as systemic fraud and racketeering. The
articles on this and the text are on our website
www.avoiceforchildren.com)

And there's still even more of this nonsense.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron
To: www.jail4judges.org
Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: Persecutorial Delusion of Corrupt Judges

"PERSECUTORIAL DELUSION"
OF CORRUPT JUDGES

From: RogWeidner@aol.com 12/13/99
To: sussmanbern@hotmail.com

Subject: Court corruption

Mr. Sussman--I am an historian and former attorney and public
prosecutor who has been fighting the
pervasive corruption in the Oregon court system for the past l2 years.
For attempting to speak, in court on
the record, about the criminal conduct of attorney and judges involved
in covering up the murder of attorney
Don Kettleberg and the theft of his 80-l00 million dollar estate
I have been repeatedly arrested and to date jailed a total of 290 days.
Seventy of those days I spent in the maximum security unit of the
Oregon Insane Asylum on orders of Judge
Dorothy Baker. Judge Baker, before she ran out of the court, said I
could not aid and assist in my own defense
because I had a persecutorial delusion. The delusion was that I thought
that many of the judges in Multnomah
County were corrupt. Ed Snook with THE OREGON OBSERVER said that at
least l0,000 other people in
Oregon had the same delusion.
Until a month ago the only time I could speak in court, on the
record, was when I was being tried on
groundless criminal charges for contempt of court. Not one of the
charges I have made against the thieving
attorneys or corrupt judges, in open court, about their involvement in
stealing the Kettleberg estate, has been
denied or otherwise refuted. What I have come to realize is that the
court system in Oregon is completely
corrupted. What the Gastons and I and hundreds of other citizens around
the state are doing is what Art. I
Sec. I of the Oregon Constitution gives us an absolute right to do,
namely reform the corrupt government to
force observance of the
citizens rights to equal protection of the law and due process of law.
I don't know if you have enough backbone
to identify yourself and hear personally the horror stories about the
corruption in our courts here in Oregon. If
you do please contact me at l-503-232-669l or write me at 3526 SE
Franklin St. Portland, Ore. 97202.
Roger Weidner.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our hat is off to Roger for being a soldier in the pit for all of
us. This problem, of course, is not limited to
the State of Oregon, but is nationwide. Another reason why we need JAIL
all over this country.

Ron Branson / Subscribe @=> ron1@access1.net
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State of Washington
Washington State Patrol
General Administration Building
P.O. Box 42600
Olympia, Washington 98504-2600
(360) 753-6540


September 17, 1997

TO: Washington State Senators
Washington State Representatives


FROM: Representative Karen Schmidt, Chairman [sic]
Organized Crime Advisory Board


SUBJECT: Paper Terrorism

It has been brought to my attention that anti-government organizations have been utilizing a tactic called "paper terrorism" to effectively disable government. Commonly, public officials are personally targeted. This widespread practice is accomplished by overburdening our communications, business, or judicial systems with frivolous or repetitive petitions, property liens, and small claims court actions.

Enclosed is a brief explanation of this process. If you feel you are a victim of "paper terrorism," I encourage you to contact the Washington State Patrol, Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, in Olympia at (360) 753-3277, for assistance.

PAPER TERRORISM

Introduction

Since the early 1990's there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people across the country who have joined and continue to participate in the anti-government movement. These individuals view themselves as victims of a government conspiracy to take away their individual rights and liberties. They do not recognize most forms of county, state, and federal government and therefore create their own self-styled government. National speakers in the anti-government extremists or "Patriot" movement conduct recruitment and information seminars across Washington State, as well as the entire country. These seminars and recruitment meetings fuel bizarre conspiracy theories and communicate new trends within the anti-government movement. Paper terrorism has grown from a trend to a full scale tactic used upon businesses, private individuals, government services and elected officials.

Background

Paper terrorism is designed to clog government services with meaningless requests which consume time and disrupt schedules. In the private sector paper terrorism is an attempt to extort money, goods or services. Some examples of paper terrorism activities:

* Bogus liens placed upon personal property of government officials and private individuals.

* Frivolous lawsuits filed in state and federal courts against businesses and government entices [sic].

* Drafting and passing counterfeit bank checks and other fraudulent negotiable instruments aimed at defrauding the financial community and businesses.

* Common Law Courts that issue homemade subpoenas to citizens, businesses and government officials.

* Challenging judges in an effort to disqualify them on a current case and to repeat their motions to disqualify these judges from hearing future cases by referencing the prior challenges.

* Scheming to avoid paying state sales tax during a purchase by declaring to be a non resident and then filing claims with the state's risk management section if refused.

* Disrupting the court system by persuading fellow jail inmates to defend themselves as Patriots, thus tying up more of the courts and prosecutors time.

* Distributing the extremist Citizens Handbook to foster jury nullification.

* using the Internet to promote extremist ideas such as "Assassination Politics" or predicting the date of death of a law enforcement officer or government official to win a cash price.

* Filing bogus claims in small claims court. * Requesting information from courts, government agencies, elected officials and businesses in the form of frivolous questions in an effort to consume employee's time.

Tell-tale signs of Patriot extremists can often be found in their conversation or written documents. Common indicators are biblical passages, referring to the state as a "republic", calling zip codes a "postal zone", refusing to acknowledge direct questions, separating their middle and last names with a comma or colon, placing a thumb print on a document, claiming the court has no authority, or using the phrases: all rights reserved, without prejudice, UCC 1-207, pro se, sui juris, united states, Black's law.

Analysis and Trends

These anti-government extremists and supporters are convinced citizens are being systematically oppressed by an illegal, totalitarian government. They believe the time for traditional political reform has passed, that their freedom will only be secured by resistance to the law and attacks against the government in several forms.

Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose. This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize their problems into blaming government, and cause members to compete with each other to make stronger statements.

Trend and Incident Reporting

If you become victimized by paper terrorism, contact the Washington State Patrol Organized Crime Intelligence Unit at (360) 753-3277, extension 121. All acts reaching a criminal level should be referred to your local law enforcement agency or prosecutor's office.

Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose. This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize their problems into blaming government, and cause members to compete with each other to make stronger statements.

Jewish man who has attended gatherings of group says, "These guys are very smart"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/March 5, 2000
By Carolyn Tuft And Joe Holleman

Ten years ago, a middle-aged Jewish man walked down the driveway of his house near Springfield, Mo., to get his mail. Among the bills, he found a troubling pamphlet.

It was from Gordon Winrod, a Christian Identity preacher from Gainesville, Mo. Winrod is one of the most radical of the white-supremacist Identity leaders. He is the son of the late Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kan., a pro-Hitler propagandist so notorious in the 1940s that he earned the nickname "Jayhawk Nazi."

Winrod's pamphlet told of how Jews were the devil's offspring, out to kill white Christians and drink their blood.

"I couldn't believe it," said the Springfield man, whose name has been withheld at his request.

He spoke to the Anti-Defamation League and began researching the Christian Identity's racist, anti-Semitic beliefs.

At first, the man said, he thought the Identity movement was a tiny group of racist malcontents who had no intention of acting on their beliefs.

But then came the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were linked to the militia movement, which has many members who follow the Identity doctrine.

"I said, 'Hey, these people have a plan, and they've already started working on it,'" the man said.

Increasingly troubled, he infiltrated the Identity "Superconference" last spring in Springfield. To the man, a Marine who served 2 1/2 years in Vietnam, the thought of entering a world where he was considered the offspring of the devil was not overly frightening.

"I figured these guys were goofs," he said. "But these guys are very smart. I found them offensive and dangerous."

At the conference, the man talked with Identity followers and heard diatribes about blacks, homosexuals, mixed races and -- most of all -- Jews.

"I just schmoozed them to find out whether they were planning to shoot someone or blow something up," he said. "They laid out an apocalyptic plan to get rid of all the minorities and Jews."

He also heard of a plan to make the Bible Belt of Missouri the Identity's promised land.

Last weekend, he tried to get into the "Songs for His People" conference at the Lodge of the Ozarks in Branson. He said he was quickly surrounded by organizer Norm Farnum and other Identity members.

"They'd been waiting for me," he said. "Norm said I was with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) in St. Louis and told me, 'You're not welcome here.' "

At that time, the man said, he felt threatened and left.

David Waren, director of the ADL's St. Louis office, said the league did not ask the man to attend the meeting. The man agreed he had attended the conference on his own.

He said he doesn't know if he'll go to another but adds that someone must watch the movement. "They look for the disenfranchised, those white people who have a grievance with the world," he said.

"Then they just pick, pick, pick at the sore until they have them hooked into Identity."

White Nation - Basis of Freemen’s philosophy is racism

By Leonard Zeskind

A nasty white swirl twists through the barrels of ink that Freemen have spilled while threatening their neighbors and conning the banks. Behind the mountain of documents filed with county courts and computer-generated bank drafts lies an attempt to reverse a fundamental constitutional precept: all Americans are equal before the law.

Just below the surface of the distinction that Freemen draw between "American nationals" (or "organic sovereigns") and "U.S. citizens" is the Freemen’s oft-stated contention that the United States is peopled by two nations, not one. For themselves and their Aryan kin, there is a republic where whites enjoy rights superior to those held by people of color and Jews. The latter are the unfortunate denizens of a "corporation" headquartered in Washington, D.C.

The attack on the Fourteenth Amendment is more fundamental to the Montana Freemen’s ideology than all their specious reasoning about the "handwritten constitution" and changes in state seals, complaints about capitalization and leader LeRoy Schweitzer’s rants about the Uniform Commercial Code. If it all sounds like gobbledy-gook, remember that the Freemen’s assertion of a constitutional distinction between white people and "Fourteenth Amendment citizens" is the latest in a long series of attempts to roll back constitutional protections.

After the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery was adopted in 1865, the Fourteenth Amendment went on to enshrine the notion that "all persons born or naturalized" were U.S. citizens whose rights "could not be abridged." But following the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment went largely unenforced until the modern civil rights movement.

Dred Scott and common law

Since then it has come under attack again. Much of the current anti-immigrant fervor is aimed at abrogating Fourteenth Amendment protections for American-born children of immigrants. And many neo-Confederates and other ultraconservatives still contend the Fourteenth Amendment was passed unconstitutionally.

On the radical right, similar attacks came from the earliest incarnations of the Posse Comitatus, a violently anti-Semitic and anti-tax organization that raged through the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Like the later Montana Freemen, the Posse claimed that farmers could escape their bank debts because they were "organic sovereigns," not ordinary citizens. The neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, in one of its more literate moments, argued in its newsletter for resurrection of Dred Scott, the notorious pre-Civil War Supreme Court decision that held that slaves had no constitutional rights. And in the late 1980s, a Los Angeles attorney, Daniel Johnson, created the League of Pace Amendment Advocates to push for repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment. Unlike the Freemen, Pace Amendment ideologues were unencumbered by the bizarre and racist theology of Christian Identity, and their view was embraced for a time by white supremacists of all stripes.

Since Johnson let the Pace League fade, Oregonian Robert Wangrud, long an advocate of "white law," has been the principal proponent of abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment and implementing "common law." Like Wangrud, most of the radical right today sees that kind of legalized racism as flowing from the "organic Constitution" -- the Constitution and Bill of Rights, minus all succeeding amendments.

In the case of the Freemen, Schweitzer agreed, telling his followers to ignore later amendments. That, he said, was the "Biblically correct" interpretation of God’s law. "The law didn’t change," he argued, "[only] the minds of the people changed."

Legal scholars and historians trace an ever-expanding tradition of individual liberties from the Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, a path leading from the divine right of kings to representative democracy. But the Freemen see things differently. For them, this trajectory is less that of developing institutions than of an unchanging racial lineage. The Biblical tribes of Israel, the Anglo-Saxons of medieval England and American whites today -- they are all of a piece, a single, holy gene pool. The Book of Deutoronomy, the Magna Carta and the Constitution are all seen as God’s law, written only for God’s people: whites.

‘The Aryan, the battle axe’

The ultimate conclusion, according to Freemen followers, comes to this: LeRoy Schweitzer is not a thief with computer talent, but a high priest revealing the Word to Yahweh’s lost sheep.

"This is in the family," Schweitzer instructed his students, "Israel, the lost sheep, the select, the elect, the peculiar treasure, the royal priesthood, the Aryan, the battle axe." These were the white men who would people his common-law courts.

Schweitzer’s ideology is based on the white supremacist Christian Identity religion just as surely, then, as Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations and Thom Robb’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His importance lay in his particular mix of racism, the Constitution, religion and common law.

"The connection between the Bible and the Constitution is the common law," one Freemen apologist wrote. "The common law is Biblical law applied."

The Freemen’s commercial liens, their phony checks, the threats against local officials all derived from this cosmology, and particularly its distinction between two types of citizens, one blessed with God-given superiority over the other.

"The Freemen’s antigovernment rhetoric was not a case of supporting local control over federal," explains Ken Toole, director of the Montana Human Rights Network. "It was their white racial nation against all others."

Leonard Zeskind is president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, based in Kansas City, Mo., and author of a forthcoming book on white nationalism.

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY -
The Militia Movement--in Their Own Words and Deeds

For example, Robert Wangrud of an Oregon Christian Patriot group, Republic v. Democracy Redress, told a newspaper reporter, "There is only one race that founded this country and that is the White Race. The Constitution recognizes this and clearly states that only white people can be citizens of this country. The 14th Amendment changed all that, but we feel it became law illegally and as such is not binding...." In the same interview, Wangrud also said, "Blacks really wouldn't care if they lost their rights. I mean look at the L.A. riots. Now can you really say that those people that burned the city down are capable of governing themselves? If the blacks don't like it here they should leave." (Clackamas County Review, May 28-June 3, 1992).

In his newsletter, Wangrud stated "We need to begin taking care of our own. People should also take a Christian oath of allegiance before taking any office. That would eliminate the religious cults like Hindus and Jews from taking power..." (BEHOLD! March 1987, p. 9). Wangrud's book, Martial Law Rule, is sold by the Militia of Montana.

Other militia members are also blunt in their bigotry. Richard Flowers of the Boring, Oregon Christian Patriot Association told a newspaper reporter that "blacks in general have a lower I.Q. than whites, and most want to just come in and take over without establishing anything for themselves." (Clackamas County Review May 28-June 3, 1992)