Angry Sovereigns

[Jim Johnson]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/21/national/main6507822.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.2

May 21, 2010
West Memphis Outraged Over Cop Shooting Deaths

By Cynthia Bowers

      West Memphis police shootout.  (KTHV)

(CBS)  Law enforcement in West Memphis, Ark., is still in a state of shock today after a traffic stop led to the brutal killings of two police officers.

According to CBS affiliate WREG in Memphis, police say Officer Bill Evans stopped a white van with Ohio plates along I-40 and called for his backup, Sgt. Brandon Paudert. Within minutes, reports indicate Evans had been wrestled to the ground by one of the suspects and gunfire from a "long gun" and a handgun targeted both policemen.

At 11:50 a.m. CDT a call rang out, "Officer down." Paudert was pronounced dead at the scene. Evans died at a nearby hospital.

A massive hunt ended in a nearby Wal-Mart parking lot with another shootout. It hasn't been determined who fired first, but the gunfire left two more law enforcement officers injured and resulted in the deaths of two suspects. They have been identified by friends and relatives as 45-year-old Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son Joseph Kane. They were from Springfield, Ohio, near Cincinnati, but according to family had recently relocated to Florida to live with Kane's new wife Donna Lee.

Initial reports suggested the van carried drug dealers because I-40 is a well-traveled corridor for drug runners. That was followed by reports the van was registered to a church in New Vienna, Ohio, a place called House of God's Prayer, which was once home to a white supremacy movement.

While ties to the church are still being investigated, CBS affiliate WREG has found links to something a bit less familiar, that this man and his son may have had ties to a fringe sovereignty movement. Jerry Kane and his son apparently traveled the country giving seminars with Jerry in a revivalist preacher-style white suit, offering to help people who were having trouble paying their mortgage.

But law enforcement investigators say the pitch offered by Kane and his colleagues was likely a scam, one that ended up costing frightened homeowners more than just their houses. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Kane specialized in "Redemption," a sovereign citizen "theory" that applied special formulas promising to resolve financial problems for people.

One of Kane's colleagues, Karen Taggert, has been accused in several states of pretending to do mortgage rescues while in reality doing nothing more than telling homeowners she will take care of their foreclosure and then proceeding to print a false deed which is filed under the name of a made up company or corporation.

She would then, investigators say, rent the home back to the owners or sell it to them at a reduced price. Needless to say when the bank or mortgage company catches up to the scam, Taggert and her team are, law enforcement says, long gone.

Members of these sovereignty factions encompass people from all races and all walks of life. What they have in common is a firm belief that government has no hold on them. As their own entities, members determine their own value in society. Some even file legal papers declaring their value to be millions of dollars. Since they don't believe in the government, who is there to challenge them?

The mortgage help believed to be offered by Jerry Kane and his group appears to be based on a belief that because mortgages these days are bundled and banks likely no longer have possession of your individual mortgage, they don't legally own your home any more than you do and therefore have no claim to your mortgage payments. Officials say this type of mortgage relief advice is part of a huge scam with tentacles in every state, with hundreds of operators preying on frightened homeowners.

The still unanswered question in West Memphis is, how did a man who seems to have been involved in shady business practices make the leap to killing police officers along a stretch of Arkansas interstate?

Law enforcement working the case still refuses to talk about what evidence they have turned up but officials who understand the fringe sovereignty movement say that sometimes antipathy toward government and law enforcement can lead to violence.

Whatever the cause, two police officers, Bill Evans and Brandon Paudert, are dead

[Jim Johnson]

antipathy - a dislike for something or somebody induced by previous experience.

[MaineShark]

Like I've said before, I don't think this is the best path, but it's also silly for them to act all surprised.  You put more and more pressure on everyone, and those on the edges will start to snap.  "Oops," they say, as if that will make it all better.

Joe

[KBCraig]

Kane's seminars advocated placing fraudulent liens and breaking legs.

Not a nice guy.

Jerry Kane, Shootout Suspect from Memphis, Seen Here Promoting Violence

[Lloyd Danforth]

He made up for it.

[KBCraig]

He made up for it.

Might be a wash.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Perhaps the son would have gone on to cure cancer, but that still makes 3 people the world doesn't need.
They probably aren't doing their 'alleged' drug stops on the highway today, so thousands of people get to continue to 'go their way' without being harassed.
Also, perhaps the people of Arkansas will examine the ridiculous notion that their highways are illegal drug routes and defund the program.

[Ogre]

How come it's always a "brutal killing" when policemen get shot, but an "accidental death" when police shoot others?

Never mind, don't answer that.

[Silent_Bob]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/arkansas-cop-murders-frame-up-of-the-patriot-movement.html


Arkansas Cop Murders: Frame-up of the Patriot Movement?

Posted By admin On May 22, 2010 @ 6:22 am In Commentary, Featured Stories | 75 Comments

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 22, 2010

On Thursday, two police officers were fatally shot and two wounded. "Two police officers in West Memphis, Ark., were killed at a traffic stop. The two suspects later died in a shootout with law enforcement in a Walmart parking lot. The Crittenden County sheriff and his top deputy were wounded," USA Today [1] reported yesterday afternoon. "The suspects, who have not been identified, were killed about an hour later after being spotted at the Walmart Superstore in West Memphis, across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn."
     
On the surface, the story seems like yet another instance of meaningless violence that resulted in the murder of cops and armed suspects.

Picture: 16 year old Joe Kane dead at the scene. Note the missing license plate on the vehicle.

However, there is something fishy about the story most of the corporate media is not reporting.

"The white Dodge Caravan van used by the two suspects is registered to the House Of God's Prayer in New Vienna in Clinton County," WLWT5 [2] in Cincinnati, Ohio, reports today. "Residents said the people who used the church said they were associated with the Aryan Nations and left about 10 years ago."

The white minivan, according to additional information received by Infowars.com, had a ministry license plate. In the photo above, the vehicle's license plate is missing.

MyFox Memphis [3] identifies the two dead suspects as Jerry Kane and his 16-year old son Joseph Kane.

"Jerry Kane and his beautiful son Joe (age 16) were shot to death during an alleged traffic stop by law enforcement on Thursday, May 20th, 2010," a post on the My Private Audio website [4] states. "Jerry, Joe and their two dogs, while on their way back to their home in Florida have been made out to be everything from drug smugglers to hispanics, which we all know is typical of the media spinners. The police said it was a traffic stop. But their van had more bullet holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde's."

The My Private Audio [6] website features news items and videos covering RFID chips, H1N1 vaccines, and the CFR in addition to handbooks and manuals [7] from the Department of Justice. The site offers TalkShow podcasts by the law activist Tim Turner who advocates The Restore America Plan.

The Restore America Plan [8] came to national attention in April when state governors across the country received letters from a group called Guardians of the Free Republics. According to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, the letters stated that if governors did not leave office within three days they would be removed.

In response, Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint advisory cautioning state and local officials that the group "could inspire or provoke violence from others," given that "they advocate for their views through the use, support, or facilitation of violence or illegal conduct," according to CBS News [9].

In fact, the Guardians of the Free Republics group has consistently advocated non-violence [10] and a philosophy based on the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi.

The site also offers a video class on mortgage foreclosure by the suspect Jerry Kane. Kane and his son "educated the people about the Mortgage Fraud and how to fight to keep their homes," explains the above linked memorial.

It is significant that the WLWT news story links the white minivan allegedly used by Kane and his son to the Aryan Nations.

As the case of the professional provocateur Hal Turner reveals, the FBI specializes in creating white supremacists and using them to discredit the patriot movement.

"For at least five years, and probably more, Turner was a paid informant and provocateur in the employ of the world's largest sponsor of terrorism, the Federal Government. His assignment was to bait easily influenced people with incendiary rhetoric about race and other resentments, and reel in anyone who bit a little too lustily on the bait. The Bureau credits Turner with personally bringing more than 100 "extremists" to their attention, many of whom (the Bureau won't specify how many) were arrested," writes William Norman Grigg [11].

In addition to the FBI, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been linked to white supremacist groups. In December of 2003, the McCurtain Daily Gazette [12] obtained an unclassified copy of a memorandum marked From the Director of the FBI containing an acknowledgment that the SPLC was engaged in an undercover role at the white supremacist compound at Elohim City linked to the OKC bombing and Timothy McVeigh. Elohim City was crawling with government operatives, including the known German intelligence asset Andreas Carl [13]Strassmeier [13].

In the 1970s, the Church Committee and internal FBI documents revealed that more than one quarter of all active Klan members during the 1960s were FBI agents or informants [14].

The Aryan Nations angle reported by WLWT in Cincinnati fits the FBI's modus operandi. It also dovetails with the ongoing corporate media campaign designed to portray and discredit the patriot movement as racist, an especially urgent agenda now that Tea Party activists are turning establishment politicos out of office.

It appears Kane and his son were involved in the growing anti-foreclosure movement and at least peripherally associated with the states' right and sovereignty movement. From the circumstantial evidence now coming in it looks like the government — on the heels of its failure to definitively set-up the Hutaree — are attempting to frame Kane and his son as violent white supremacists. Dead men, of course, cannot make their case in court.

The DHS report [15] on "rightwing extremism" and the MIAC report [16] attempt to establish a link between white supremacists and the constitutional and patriot movements.

So far the details emerging fit a well-established government pattern.

Does it make sense that an expert in foreclosure would engage in a shoot-out with police, especially with his teenage son and the family dogs in the vehicle? Do white supremacists usually conduct seminars in mortgages and foreclosure?

Something is rotten in Denmark and Arkansas.

Addendum

It appears Jerry Kane was opposed to Border Patrol checkpoints. The My Private Audio website contains an audio recording where he talks about New Mexico police arresting him [17] at a "Nazi checkpoint where they were demanding papers or jail."

Article printed from Prison Planet.com: http://www.prisonplanet.com

URL to article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/arkansas-cop-murders-frame-up-of-the-patriot-movement.html

URLs in this post:

[1] USA Today: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/2-officers-2-drug-suspects-dead-in-west-memphis-ark/1

[2] WLWT5: http://www.wlwt.com/news/23627791/detail.html

[3] MyFox Memphis: http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/052110-reports-suspects-identified-in-west-memphis-shootout

[4] post on the My Private Audio website: http://privateaudio.homestead.com/Jerry-and-Joe-Kane-Memorial.html

[5] Image: http://purewaterfreedom.com/

[6] My Private Audio: http://privateaudio.homestead.com/Index.html

[7] handbooks and manuals: http://privateaudio.homestead.com/Manuals.html

[8] The Restore America Plan: http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html

[9] CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001678-503544.html

[10] advocated non-violence: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0403/Guardians-of-the-free-Republics-looked-to-Gandhi-King-and-Mandela

[11] William Norman Grigg: http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w119.html

[12] McCurtain Daily Gazette: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/01-11-04/discussion.cgi.29.html

[13] Andreas Carl : http://www.apfn.org/OKC/doc.htm

[14] FBI agents or informants: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/COINTELPRO_Untold_Story.html

[15] DHS report: http://www.infowars.com/secret-dhs-doc-predicts-violence-in-response-to-new-gun-restrictions/

[16] MIAC report: http://www.constitution.org/abus/le/miac-strategic-report.pdf

[17] he talks about New Mexico police arresting him: http://media.commercialappeal.com/media/static/jerrykaneradio.mp3

[bigmike]

What is interesting about the original article is that it combines the patriot "redemption" argument with the fact that mortgage notes are not truly owned by the foreclosing party. These are separate issues and there are too many cases that have set legal precedent that prove the foreclosing party never has standing to bring legal action against a homeowner in a foreclosure, unless it is a local bank or credit union that funded the loan. 98% of home loans and refinances were securitized.

I'm not trying to suggest that there isn't an obligation owed to some party, but that party was likely screwed over by the investment company that they purchased certificates from in mortgage backed securities, while the wall street firm collects on bail out money, credit default swaps or some other derivative security insurance.

If I paid your credit card bill for you and the credit card company continued to send you a bill requesting payment...well, that's how it has worked for mortgages, student loans, auto loans and credit cards since 2001. No debt left, investors that funded the loans are screwed and the middle men are getting all the money to "fix" the problem.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I know a guy who hasn't paid his mortgage for two years. The company demanding payments can't come up with the paper proving they have standing.