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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT "TO DO" LIST APPLICABLE TO ALL -
CURRENT, PRIOR OR NEVER MILITARY
RULES #10 AND #11 ARE ESPECIALLY
RELEVANT TODAY!
'HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY' SEEMS A SORT OF HOLLOW SALUTATION, DOESN'T IT?
RULES FOR KICK'N ASS
Rules for the Non-Military (Make sure you read #13 twice)
Dear Civilians,
We know that the current state of affairs in our great nation has many civilians up in arms and excited to join the military.
For those of you who can't join, you can still lend a hand.
Here are a few of the areas where we would like your assistance:
1. The next time you see any adults talking (or wearing a hat) during the playing of the National Anthem - kick their ass.
2. When you witness, first hand, some one burning the American Flag in protest - kick their ass.
3. Regardless of the rank they held while they served, pay the highest amount of respect to all veterans. If you see anyone doing otherwise, quietly pull them aside and explain how these veterans fought for the very freedom they bask in every second. Enlighten them on the many sacrifices these veterans made to make this Nation great. Then hold them down while a disabled veteran kicks their ass.
4. If you were never in the military, DO NOT pretend that you were. Wearing battle dress uniforms (BDU's) or jungle fatigues, telling others that you used to be 'Special Forces'.
Collecting GI Joe memorabilia might have been okay when you were seven years old, but now it will only make you look stupid and get your ass kicked.
5. Next time you come across an Air Force member, do not ask them, 'Do you fly a jet?' Not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot. Such ignorance deserves an ass kicking (children are exempt).
6. If you witness someone calling the Coast Guard 'non-military', inform them of their mistake - and kick their ass.
7. Next time Old Glory (the US flag) prances by during a parade, get on your damn feet and pay homage to her by placing your hand over your heart.
This includes arrogant politicians who think someone may be offended.
Quietly thank the military member or veteran lucky enough to be carrying her.
Of course, failure to do either of those could earn you a severe ass-kicking.
8. 'Your mama wears combat boots' never made sense to me - stop saying it! If she did, she would most likely be a vet and therefore would kick your ass!
9. 'Flyboy' (Air Force), 'Jarhead' Marines), 'Grunt' (Army), 'Squid' (Navy), 'Puddle Jumpers' (Coast Guard), Bubble- head (sub sailor), etc., are terms of endearment we use describing each other. Unless you are a service member or vet, you have not earned the right to use them. Using them could get your ass kicked.
10. Last, but not least, whether or not you become a member of the military, support our troops and their families. Every Thanksgiving and religious holiday that you enjoy with family and friends, please remember that there are literally thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen far from home wishing they could be with their families.
Thank God for our military and the sacrifices they make every day. With out them, our country would get its ass kicked.
11. It's the Veteran, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It's the Veteran, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
It's the Veteran, not the community organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
It's the Military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
But we still need to kick their ass!
Oh, AND ONE MORE:
12. If you ever see anyone singing the national anthem in Spanish – KICK THEIR ASS.
13.ONE LAST THING: If you got this email and didn't pass it on - guess what - you deserve to get your ass kicked!
SO THE TRUMP BOYZ WANT TO MAKE SNOWDEN INTO A TRAITOR? REALLY???
This article contributed by Anonymous 2 for publication
SO WHAT DOES THAT MAKE TRUMP FOR GOING AGAINST A JUDGE'S ORDERS AND ALLOWING ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS/KELCY WARREN (HIS BUDDY AND FRIEND) TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA PIPELINE ON SOVEREIGN INDIAN PROPERTY.... ALLOWING ILLEGAL TREPASSING BY KELCY'S THUGS (MERC'S FOR HIRE) ON THE SOVEREIGN LAND BELONGING TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS ON THEIR OWN TREATY LAND.... IS THIS NOT TRUMP ALLOWING AND SUPPORTING A DESTRUCTIVE ILLEGAL, TREASONIST PROJECT ON SOVEREIGN LAND??
ASK KELCY IF HE WILL FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS HIS LEAKING PIPE LINE IS CAUSING TO THE 27 MILLION+ PEOPLE'S DRINKING WATER. WHY DID TRUMP NOT ABIDE BY THE LEGAL TREATY WITH THE INDIANS AND PROTECT THEIR TREATY AND LAND? WAS IT BECAUSE OF A CAMPAIGN CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND TRUMP'S SELLING OUT THE INDIANS AND THEIR TREATY RIGHTS DUE TO WARREN HAVING MADE A CONTRIBUTION OF OVER $100,000 TO TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN?
AND .... WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN TRUMP KEEPS ALLOWING THE CHEMTRAILS AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE...
TRUMP, AS PRESIDENT, DEFINITELY HAS THE POWER TO STOP THEM AND WAS SUPPOSED TO ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFFICE... DID TRUMP SUDDENLY HAVE A BRAIN LAPSE??? LOOK THIS UP ON YOUTUBE..... JUST LIKE "ALL" POLITICIANS, TRUMP IS NOT KEEPING HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND FOLLOWING THROUGH ON DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO....
NOW ABOUT EDWARD SNOWDEN:
SNOWDEN KNEW SOME THINGS WERE NOT 'RIGHT,' AND HE DID WHAT HE DID TO ALERT US - THE PEOPLE AND THOSE IN HIGH POSITIONS - EXPOSING THE TRUTH OF WHAT THESE EVIL, ILLEGAL, TRAITORUS BASTARDS ARE DOING TO THIS NATION AND TO THE PEOPLE SNOWDEN SHOULD BE AWARDED A 'HERO' STATUS AS WE NEED MORE LIKE SNOWDEN TO HELP CLEAN UP THE SWAMP AND ALL THE SCUMBAGS ON THIS EARTH...
PRESIDENT TRUMP - WITH ALL DUE RESPECT THE PEOPLE ADJURE YOU TO STAND BY EDWARD SNOWDEN WHO HAS DONE A FAVOR FOR YOU AND THIS NATION AND ITS PEOPLE BY EXPOSING TRAITOROUS ACTIVITES IN THE 'SWAMP' AND THUS HAS PROVIDED EVIDENCE TO SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTE TRAITORS TO THIS NATION. PLEASE WELCOME AND ACCEPT SNOWDEN BACK TO HIS NATION WITH APPRECIATION FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE AND CONSIDER PUTTING HIM TO WORK FOR YOU. SINCE OTHER PROVEN TRAITORS HAVE BEEN 'PARDONED' BY PAST ADMINISTRATIONS, PLEASE DO THE 'RIGHT' THING AND PARDON A HERO, EDWARD SNOWDEN.
This article contributed by Anonymous 2 for publication
GRAND FATHER SAID HE WILL GUARANTEE ANY MONEY TAKEN/STOLEN OUT OF HIS BANKS WILL BE PAID BACK...REALLY?? HAVE HIM SHOW YOU THE GUARANTEE.... SO YOUR EYES GET REALLY BIG AND THE GREED FACTOR SETS IN... YOU OPT FOR THE NDA. (SIMPLE VERSION) DOESN'T MATTER AS THE BANKERS HIRE A BANK HIT MAN FOR $200,000 TO SAY THEY HEARD YOU SAY THAT HE HEARD YOU SAY THIS AND THAT ABOUT YOUR EXCHANGE...TO SOMEONE .... NOW BANK HAS THE B.S. EVIDENCE IT NEEDS TO CLAW BACK ALL OF YOUR MONEY.... WHAT YA GOING TO DO??? WHO IS GOING TO STOP THEM?? CLICK HERE... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2ci9CyiwI
On Monday May 18, the government watchdog group Judicial Watch published a selection of formerly classified documents obtained from the US Department of Defense and State Department. Acquired through a lawsuit, the documents reveal that the Obama Administration knew that Al Qaeda terrorists were planning the Benghazi attack 10 days before it happened. In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth once again emphatically proves that ISIS is a creation of the west
Today news reports published an ISIS organizational chart which should cause every American to be very suspicious of why it was released.
As Pete Santilli describes in this report, the terminology in the organizational chart is almost blatantly Corporate-America-sounding. Additionally, we should ask ourselves why our military/government intelligence would want to distribute this information to the entire ISIS organization. The answer is pretty simple: Because it’s propaganda intended to keep the American public scared & willing to send money to the Pentagon in order to keep the perpetual war on terror funded. Perpetual fear funds perpetual war.
Is it conspiracy theory that ISIS is an outright manufactured terror organization created by the United States? In the below links, you will find numerous, documented false flags around the world throughout our history. Additionally, Pete researched and discovered documented proof that U.S. Government officials have openly suggested creating false flag terror organizations to commit fake terror events.
Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
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“Don’t come in or I’ll shoot,” Vince
Edwards shouted at Costilla County Undersheriff Ricky Rodriguez, who
was standing near the front door of the half-buried RV where Edwards was
holed up.
Taking Edwards at his word, Rodriguez scrambled back to his patrol
car and called for reinforcements just before 7 p.m. on September 29,
2016. While it wasn’t unusual to encounter strong-willed individuals
living off the grid in the wide-open spaces of the San Luis Valley in
southern Colorado, he wasn’t going to take any chances.
Edwards had fortified his RV with other jerry-rigged structures and
sand embankments, creating his own Mad Max bunker among the sagebrush.
Even though he was only wanted for a failure to appear in court, it
looked as though he wasn’t going to go down easy. Especially not after
Edwards called in his own backup.
According to a police report detailing what turned into an almost
three-hour standoff, one of Edwards’s neighbors, Jeremy Costley, posted
this on Facebook: “all Costilla County Colorado people in need of rapid
response to country rd. 12 and 27. The police are trying to arrest
someone unlawfully.”
Today, Edwards claims that he was unarmed during the incident and says he only threatened gunfire because he was frightened.
But as officers arrived on the scene with AR-15 rifles, they agreed
that a firefight seemed imminent. At one point, two mysterious vehicles
appeared on the top of a nearby hill, giving their occupants a strategic
vantage point overlooking the huddled group of sheriff’s deputies and
state patrol officers. In the gathering dark, one of the vehicles turned
off its lights while the other kept its brights on. For the law
enforcement agents, the effect was the same: They couldn’t see the
people inside the vehicles. But they had to believe they were armed.
Then a third vehicle suddenly appeared on a county road and approached the encircled officers, head-on.
“Stop! Get on the ground!” Rodriguez shouted as the vehicle parked and four individuals got out.
They turned out to be some of Edwards’s neighbors, responding to the
social-media call; they were unarmed. As officers moved forward to
detain them, the two mysterious vehicles on the hill disappeared as
abruptly as they’d arrived.
Finally, at 9:32 p.m., Edwards emerged from his RV, shirtless, with
his hands in the air. He’d just ended an ongoing call with a 911
dispatcher and surrendered to a state patrolman on the condition that
someone watch over his property and he not be held in Costilla County’s
jail, because he didn’t trust the deputies there.
For Undersheriff Rodriguez, it was a satisfactory ending to a
situation that could have turned bloody. But it was also a reminder of a
constant challenge that his office, and Costilla County in general, has had to contend with in recent years: off-the-grid residents who hold “sovereign” beliefs.
Zanis McDonald, an individual with sovereign beliefs, was arrested in San Luis on May 2.
Chris Walker
The sovereign movement is a catch-all label
for people who believe they are subject only to common law, and
therefore not subject to all the statutory laws of the U.S. government
at its various levels — federal, state and local. Sometimes calling
themselves “constitutionalists” or “freemen,” individuals who subscribe
to a sovereign ideology often don’t believe they are required to follow
any regulations drafted and passed by politicians — things like tax
codes or driver’s license rules — because the U.S. government has been
corrupted and sovereigns are not under contract to adhere to all of its
laws.
The FBI considers
“sovereign citizens” part of a terrorist movement, in part because
sovereigns have participated in much larger and dangerous situations
than the one involving Vince Edwards. Among the most notable are the
Bundy standoff in Nevada in 2014, when cattleman Cliven Bundy refused to let federal agents onto his ranch,
and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in Oregon in 2016,
during which armed militia, including Cliven Bundy’s son, Ammon, seized a visitors’ center for forty days in protest over control of federal public lands.
In Costilla County, sovereign ideology is most often manifested in
off-gridders like Edwards, who refuse to follow land-use regulations —
particularly the county’s requirement that all permanent residents build
a septic system and have access to electricity and fresh water, no
matter how remote their parcel of land. In the valley today, physical
threats by sovereigns against Costilla County’s code enforcers are
common, and enforcers never go out into the field without bulletproof
vests.
But the clash isn’t limited to Costilla County. Individuals with
sovereign beliefs have been at odds with elected officials across
Colorado, and evidence suggests that the movement is growing throughout
the United States.
On March 30, eight people were arrested along the Front Range for
threatening and harassing elected officials with their own versions of
subpoenas, arrest warrants and liens issued through a group called “The
People’s Grand Jury of Colorado.” The tactic, which the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center both
call “paper terrorism,” has become a common technique used by
sovereigns in all fifty states to harass public officials; the frivolous
filings not only bog down court proceedings, but, in the case of liens,
can negatively affect a victim’s credit score. Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett was among those targeted by the “People’s Grand Jury.”
“We deal with this philosophy from time to time,” he says. “These
guys call themselves ‘constitutionalists’ and essentially take the
position that any state office is illegal or not authorized under their
view of the world. A lot of these [communications] were a little odd and
concerning — particularly the arrest warrant for myself and the claim
that I owed close to a billion dollars. Much of it was actually
delivered around the cul-de-sac that I live in in Boulder, so that was
concerning to my family, that these guys knew where I live.”
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office
declined to comment on the arrests because the cases have yet to go to
trial. But Garnett says he helped the AG’s office compile evidence prior
to the indictment that was handed down on March 30, which listed dozens of offenses and other targets:
judges, county officials and district attorneys, including former
Denver DA Mitch Morrissey. The eight individuals arrested are all being
held on bonds ranging from $100,000 to $350,000.
One of the individuals arrested on March 30 has also played a role in
the off-the-grid scuffles in Costilla County: Bruce Doucette.
Doucette, who owns and runs a computer-repair store in Littleton,
considers himself a “judge” within his movement and advised Ammon Bundy
on how to set up a common-law jury during the Malheur standoff. In an April 12 post on its website,
the Southern Poverty Law Center called Doucette “the most notorious
common law ‘Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of
America.’”
“Many members of these courts are sovereign citizens who believe
their judgments supersede federal and district court decisions, and then
bring their quasi-legal activity into legitimate courts and use tactics
including intimidation and paper terrorism,” the SPLC article stated, specifically mentioning the March 30 indictment in Colorado.
Doucette took his activity to Costilla County in late 2015.
At the time, the county was trying to step up enforcement of its
land-use codes and was proposing a number of changes to its ordinances,
including clarification around camping restrictions. Off-gridders, not
used to having code-enforcement officers coming by their properties to
do inspections, demand permits and issue warnings, were not pleased with
the heightened regulation. Hundreds of residents joined a Facebook
group called “San Luis Valley Just Us” and organized opposition,
including protests at county commission meetings where changes to the
code were being considered. Many claimed they couldn’t afford
requirements like septic systems, and argued that they should be able to
camp on land they owned without any restrictions.
Chloe Everhart, one of the moderators of the SLV Just Us page,
divides the off-gridders in the San Luis Valley into three broad groups:
people interested in building sustainable and eco-based communities,
retired or poor folks who want to be left alone, and individuals with
sovereign beliefs. “The challenge was that there wasn’t a clear
consensus about whether our goal was just to not have these code changes
passed that were going to make things difficult for people who were
poor, disabled or frugal,” explains Everhart. “There were other people
who said, ‘This is our opportunity to really create this sovereign
world.’ There were a few people who were incredibly vocal about that,
and it was hard to get work done when they were around.”
Everhart did her best to bridge the divides, but the differences ran
deep. At commissioner meetings on September 9 and 15, 2015, dozens of
residents packed administrative offices in San Luis — the county seat of
Costilla County and the oldest town in Colorado — and the gatherings quickly turned ugly.
Some of the discord stemmed from the fact that Costilla County has no
public land, dating back to an 1844 Mexican land grant that consisted of
nearly a million acres along the present-day Colorado and New Mexico
border. During the past century and a half, much of that land was bought
up and subdivided by wealthy landowners, beginning with William Gilpin
(Colorado’s first territorial governor) in 1864, and later by the likes
of the Forbes family, which owned hundreds of thousands of acres in the
northern portion of the county.
San Luis’s predominantly Hispanic population has had little control
over the subdividing and development that have occurred over the years,
and while a handful of landowners accumulated vast tracts of land,
Costilla County became one of the poorest counties in the nation, with
28.2 percent of its population currently living in poverty, according to
the 2016 U.S. Census. In the 1990s, the perception of outsiders taking
over was reinforced when Zachary Taylor, a white rancher from North
Carolina, inherited a 77,500-acre tract of land from his father that
locals refer to as “La Sierra” and began logging operations on his
property — which some residents claimed threatened water sources that
irrigate the valley (“A Mountain of Trouble,” July 6, 1994).
The Taylor family closed off access to locals, who believed they were
being denied their ancestral rights to hunt, fish and graze on the land.
After the State of Colorado made a failed bid to purchase the land for
$12 million in 1997, the issue was only partially settled when a private
LLC bought the land from Taylor in 1999 and the Colorado Supreme Court
ruled in 2002 that some Hispanic heirs would be allowed access to the
property.
In the local publication La Sierra, writer Maria Martinez
charged that there was a racial element to the 2015 county commissioner
meetings: “After the September 15 meeting, opposing sides milled in
front of the meeting room. The ‘desert dwellers’ proposed talking
about…one of two code enforcement officers who appears menacing because
she never takes her hand off her gun when she goes about her job.
‘Locals,’ who were derisively called ‘Mexicans’ by the ‘desert
dwellers,’ defended [the officer’s] work and her actions. The desert
dwellers (derisively called ‘guero’) insisted that they are a part of
the local community. This claim was opposed by locals.”
Ben Doon, the county administrator for Costilla County, denies that
race played a major role at the meetings. He does, however, acknowledge
that sovereign ideology gained a small yet notable foothold in the
county because of the events in late 2015.
County Administrator Ben Doon was subjected to paper terrorism at the hands of individuals with sovereign beliefs.
Chris Walker
The most vocal opponents to the land-use code were a few
individuals associated with the “patriot” armed-militia movement. Rodger
Marsh, who described himself to neighbors as a door-kicker and a
trigger-puller, got in touch with self-appointed judge Doucette, and
invited him to the San Luis Valley to teach off-gridders how to fight
the county. In October 2015, Doucette made the trip for an event billed
on social media as “Meet the Judge.” The rendezvous point was a steel
bridge over a remote part of the Rio Grande, where Doucette explained to
the crowd why he believed that Costilla County was violating their
sovereign rights.
Marsh was arrested on a weapons charge a short time later, the SLV
Just Us group disbanded, and the county decided to drop some of its
proposed land-use changes. But the sovereign movement continued to play a
role in Costilla County politics.
In early 2016, Doon started receiving many of the same types of
“subpoenas” and harassing letters that Garnett would also get in
Boulder. Doon has kept all of the letters inside a manila envelope in a
file cabinet, some of them still unopened. The missives began arriving
shortly after he wrote a letter responding to a front-page article in
Alamosa’s daily newspaper, the Valley Courier, with the headline “‘Grand
Jury’ Indicts Costilla County Officials.” Doon found that headline
extremely misleading, he said, because the “Grand Jury” in question was
actually the “People’s Grand Jury” being co-organized by Doucette in
Denver.
Doon’s strongly worded rebuttal, which the Valley Courier
published a day after the original article, explained that the
“indictment” was a fake, and quoted from the Southern Poverty Law
Center’s description of the sovereign-citizen movement. (The complete
description on the SPLC website:
“The contemporary sovereign belief system is based on a decades-old
conspiracy theory. At some point in history, sovereigns believe, the
American government set up by the founding fathers — with a legal system
the sovereigns refer to as ‘common law’ — was secretly replaced by a
new government system based on admiralty law, the law of the sea and
international commerce. Under common law, or so they believe, the
sovereigns would be free men. Under admiralty law, they are slaves, and
secret government forces have a vested interest in keeping them that
way.”)
But Doon’s response only brought him more unwelcome attention. “From
then on, [harassment] was coming from two fronts. We had the folks off
the grid here, and then from Denver there was a bigger movement,” he
recalls. “Even if their numbers are low compared to other people who
just want to be left alone for one reason or another or don’t have the
means to comply, these folks are much more aggressive and threatening.
So one or two of them equals the headache of fifty other people.”
And Doucette soon added to that headache. Over Easter weekend in
2016, he and another “superior court judge” traveled to Costilla County
to swear in at least one “constitutional marshal” as part of the
movement, witnessing as he took the oath of office.
Jeremy Costley's Oath to become a "marshal."
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A paper copy of that oath contains a curious array of
spellings and symbolism, designed to differentiate this oath from forms
issued by the “false” shadow government that most people recognize as
the U.S. government. The particular document Doucette witnessed contains
a number of red fingerprints, which sovereigns believe is one of the
strongest forms of identification. Some law enforcement researchers
claim that sovereigns use their own blood as ink, avoiding black or blue
ink because they associate those colors with corporations.
The marshal who took the oath that day was Jeremy Costley.
He was the man who invited me to the San Luis Valley to learn more about his movement.
Jeremy Costley’s home in the San Luis Valley.
Chris Walker
On February 21, Jeremy Costley was stopped for a traffic violation in Antonito, and the stop wound up turning into a four-hour standoff, which ended peacefully after Costley negotiated his surrender.
During the stop, which Costley’s wife, Jessica, videotaped, Costley
made a call to Doucette, who advised him to remain calm even though cops
had discovered that Costilla County had put out a warrant for Costley’s
arrest on charges that he was impersonating a peace officer — Costley’s
claim to be a constitutional marshal.
I arranged to meet Costley at a motions hearing he had scheduled at
10 a.m. May 2 at the courthouse in San Luis. Arriving a few minutes
early, I immediately spotted him across the street from the courthouse.
Tall, rail-thin and sporting a scraggly goatee, Costley was wearing a
cowboy hat and a coat covered in white dog hair.
“Well, let’s do this,” he said, after we shook hands. We headed into
the courthouse, one of the principal buildings in the small town. But no
sooner had Costley gotten through security than he was placed in
handcuffs by deputies who were waiting for him inside the courtroom.
“Are you getting this?!” he yelled at me.
Flustered, Undersheriff Rodriguez brushed past me with the cuffed Costley.
I went back outside to talk to a couple of Costley’s friends. One of
them, Zanis McDonald, was sitting in the passenger seat of a black
pickup on the main road of San Luis. “This isn’t just in Colorado, this
is nationwide!” he growled through his chest-length beard. “They’re
arresting people and judges all over!”
Like Costley, McDonald is a military veteran, and he went on to
describe his sovereign beliefs, as well as the close call he’d had with
law enforcement last July when he refused to follow land-use
requirements on his rural parcel in the valley.
“The kids told me someone was coming down the road,” he recalled. “So
I stood in my doorway with my rifle on my shoulder…and [code
enforcement] went creeping by.... They finally pulled up at the end of
my drive and asked if they could talk to me. I told them no. They asked,
‘Do you have any permits?’ And I said, ‘Ain’t none of your business.
Besides, you’re planning and zoning, you should know what permits I do
and don’t have.’
“Fifteen minutes later, my neighbors are calling me telling me that
there’s a bunch of patrol cars coming,” McDonald continued. “I called a
bunch of folks to come to help protect my family.... They were going to
storm my house with sixteen motherfucking police. And at the time, I had
plenty of weapons but not much ammunition. But my cabin has no windows,
and the front door is four inches thick, so they ain’t coming through
that bitch too damn easy. I was scared for my family, but there was
going to be a fight. I may not have had ammunition at that time, but
we’ve got machetes and axes and shit. You come at me, you’re going to
have a fight. And the police down here and planning and zoning know that
I will shoot at them if they come down my road. I don’t give a fuck no
more. They’re armed, and I consider them a threat.”
As McDonald was finishing his story, we both noticed that sheriff’s
deputies were surrounding the car, which appeared to belong to a man
sitting in the driver’s seat who had not said a word in nearly twenty
minutes.
For the second time that morning, I watched an arrest occur right in
front of me, as the undersheriff took a loaded Hi-Point .45 off
McDonald, who started yelling, “GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME, YOU FILTHY IRAQI
BASTARDS!” (It was later suggested that he’d suffered a PTSD episode.)
Officer Cruz Soto checks the chamber of Zanis McDonald's sidearm to make sure it is unloaded.
Chris Walker
After both Costley and McDonald were placed in custody, I obtained copies of their arrest warrants.
McDonald had been arrested for ignoring land-use violation notices
and for threatening law-enforcement and public officials; the
arrest-warrant affidavit noted that “McDonald is a convicted felon with
Sovereign Citizen beliefs.”
Costley, on the other hand, was arrested on serious charges of
sexually abusing one or multiple children who live in his home; his bond
was set at $250,000.
When I called Costley’s wife shortly after his arrest, she insisted
that the allegations were “bogus” and said she believed the charges were
retribution from the county because her husband had considered running
for sheriff after the previous undersheriff was booted from office for
illegal poaching.
Jessica Costley did not show up at court the next day, May 3, for her
husband’s hearing regarding the sexual-abuse charges. Instead, she
elected to call in from an undisclosed “safehouse” that she later told
me was a couple of counties over. During the hearing, when a Department
of Social Services representative described a videotaped interview with
one of the children who alleged years of sexual abuse, Costley demanded
of the judge, “How do we know they didn’t threaten our children to get
these allegations?”
Costley also claimed the court didn’t have jurisdiction over him
because, as he put it, “I am not a United States citizen; I am a
natural-born American.”
After the hearing, the offices of the Costilla County Sheriff’s
Department and its Department of Planning and Zoning felt a little more
relaxed. Issues with sovereigns had been “pretty calm for a long time,”
Rodriguez said. “We didn’t have many issues except for the people we
[just] arrested.”
After a hearing on sexual-abuse charges, Jeremy Costley
is escorted from the Costilla County Courthouse by Undersheriff
Rodriguez.
Chris Walker
Rodriguez’s deputies participated in recent trainings
regarding the sovereign movement hosted by the Colorado State Patrol in
Alamosa. “During the training, they indicated that the number-one
domestic terrorists in the United States are sovereign citizens,” he
recalled.
While not revealing too much about the training because it was
“confidential,” Rodriguez said one of the things he learned was not to
debate sovereigns about constitutional rights. “Basically, they said not
to get into it and let them rant and rave about it,” he explained.
Rodriguez’s department shares information with the FBI about
sovereign activity in Costilla County, he said, declining to go into
specifics. “Safety is our main issue. We don’t know what they’re capable
of doing,” he continued. “Ninety percent of the time, they won’t talk
to us. But we keep an eye out on social media.” He estimated that the
number of sovereigns living in the San Luis Valley has fluctuated
between ten people to upwards of a hundred during the past several
years.
Besides Costley and McDonald, the people most affected by their
arrests were the two code-enforcement officers, Cruz Soto and Colleen
Romero, who are tasked with patrolling the valley each day to look for
land-use violations.
On May 3, I was approved to go on a ride-along with Romero, Soto and
their boss, Land Use Administrator T. Martinez. They had never taken a
reporter along before, and had adapted a liability form from the
sheriff’s department, which included this line: “I understand that code
enforcement activities are inherently dangerous and that even though
officers will do everything possible to keep me safe, it is not possible
to make me immune from risk of all injuries up to and including death.”
Soto and Romero never go out on patrol without bulletproof vests.
“Just wait ’til you see the bullet holes in our car,” Soto joked before
we headed out in a car that turned out to have no bullet holes.
But out on the prairie, with its flat expanses bordered on the
horizons by mountain ranges jutting to snow-bearing altitudes, I
understood just how isolated and alone Soto and Romero are during their
patrols. “What’s difficult going into these areas is that you’re a
sitting duck,” explained Soto. “The scary part is that when you look
into these sovereign individuals with their beliefs, a lot of them
legitimately believe that if you step onto their property, they can
shoot you...and if you think about it, they can see you coming from a
mile away. So you’re definitely wary and looking over your shoulder when
you’re in these areas, knowing that in the past, these individuals have
rallied the troops to respond to us.”
“So what about your backup?” I asked.
“There are other deputies in the valley, but even if they’re going
mach Jesus, it’s going to take them a good amount of time to get to us,”
he responded. “We try to avoid confrontations.... The DA even told us,
‘Out of all the individuals out there, I worry about you the most
because you are in the mix of all of these individuals and they stand by
their beliefs.’”
Land Use Administrator T. Martinez (center) worries
about code-enforcement officers Colleen Romero (left) and Cruz Soto when
they’re on patrol.
Chris Walker
As we drove farther into no-man’s-land, Martinez and his two
code-enforcement officers pointed out the kind of things they look for
during their patrols. “People show up every day that we’ve never met and
never seen on properties that were vacant yesterday,” said Martinez,
gesturing toward RVs and campers that dotted the landscape.
The issue, he explained, is that many people buy cheap property in Costilla County — some of it through websites like Landwatch.com
— without realizing that owners need to adhere to basic requirements
such as building a septic system, which costs around $7,000 when done to
code. Digging a well, the permanent solution to meeting the county’s
fresh-water requirement (as opposed to a standing water tank), costs an
additional $10,000 between drilling, casing and plumbing.
“Fifty dollars down, fifty dollars a month can sometimes get you five
acres of land, with agents [erroneously] telling you that you don’t
need permits,” said Martinez. “On a daily basis, pretty much, someone
will tell me, ‘Well, I bought this property, and the real estate person
said we don’t need permits and can live in an RV and we can do whatever
we want.’”
So rampant is the practice of subdividing and leasing that Costilla
County is the most vacant county in Colorado, with only 3,600 people
spread between 40,000 lots and nearly 1,900 miles of county roads.
Martinez estimated that around 300 individual dwellings currently fit
the description “off the grid.” He had no issue with them, he said, as
long as the owners work to comply with the county’s land-use code, which
was put into effect in 1998 to combat illegal dumping of trash and
wastewater but has only been seriously enforced since 2011.
While Costilla County has land-use regulations, it doesn’t have a
building code — so many of the off-the-grid dwellings look like what you
might find in a dystopian desert wasteland.
Edwards’s half-buried RV is one example. The code enforcers showed it
to me, tucked away in an arid part of the plains that locals refer to
as “Iraqi Flats” because of the desert-like vegetation.
We also toured property once occupied by a character that Soto,
Martinez and Romero referred to as “Dr. Love.” The dwelling was
strategically located on one side of a rise so that it was not visible
from the county road, and Martinez said he’d only found it after seeing
the structure on a satellite image.
“That’s like a doghouse, or some kind of volcanic-rock igloo — I
don’t know what it is,” said Martinez, gesturing toward an
eight-foot-tall pile of rocks that was hollow inside and had been
laboriously constructed next to a wooden shack.
Martinez said he understands that many people have trouble meeting
the financial demands of land-use requirements, and added that he feels
sympathy for those duped by real estate agents who claim that no permits
are necessary. “Unfortunately, we still have to give them a violation
notice,” he explained. “If we find them living without septic, a lot of
times we’ll say, ‘You shouldn’t be living out here. There’s a
fourteen-day camping limit. We’ll give you a couple weeks to figure
stuff out.’”
An abandoned dwelling "off the grid' in the San Luis Valley.
Chris Walker
About halfway through the ride-along, we arrived at an area
where Costley and McDonald own land and have built their residences. “If
they weren’t in custody, we probably wouldn’t be out here,” Soto
admitted.
“I even ran back to the vehicle last week because it looked like the
back trailer window [at Costley’s] was open and the curtain moved,”
Romero added, “so I thought that someone was going to shoot at us.”
The officers wondered whether any family members would still be at
the residences following the arrests. Sure enough, as we drove past
McDonald’s dwelling, two children emerged from a windowless shack and
yelled at us to go away.
“You’ve got to go! Go!” yelled a boy.
“This is a public road!” responded Soto from the driver’s seat of the SUV. “It’s not private! This is a public road.” “Well, my parents say you can’t be here right now!”
“Well, I’m not on your private property!”
Then a different voice shouted from the shack, “Get inside!,” and the two children suddenly disappeared from view.
Soto then produced a cease-and-desist notice from inside the car, and asked, “Should I just post it on the RV, boss?”
“Sounds good,” responded Martinez. “You got the Gorilla tape?”
Brian Slater, Naval Postgraduate School Thesis & Dissertation Collection
While at the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, California, Brian Slater spent fifteen months researching
sovereigns in the United States, going back through the past decade. The
movement stretches even further back than that, with roots in the Posse
Comitatus movement that emerged during the American farm crisis of the
’70s and ’80s, and branches in the Montana Freemen of the mid-’90s.
Slater’s research, released as his postgraduate thesis in September 2016,
studied court cases throughout the country related to sovereign
individuals, as evidenced by the types of filings submitted by
defendants or the crimes being prosecuted, including paper terrorism.
Slater — who notes that his research represents his own findings, not
the views of the military — says he was surprised to find that cases
related to sovereigns are growing exponentially on a J-shaped curve. “In
my research, I found that this is happening in all fifty states,” he
explains. “You would think it would be concentrated most where you had
those earlier movements, like Montana. But that wasn’t the case; where I
found it was most predominant was in Illinois, California and New
Jersey.”
Brian Slater’s research shows sovereign-centered cases increasing on a J-shaped curve.
Brian Slater. Naval Postgraduate School Thesis & Dissertation Collection
And Colorado?
“Colorado is, what I would say, medium to light as far as
concentration goes,” Slater responds. “That being said, it’s on the
rise.”
While Slater cautions that his data mostly covers the Obama years,
adding that he isn’t sure what effect the current administration will
have on the spread of sovereign ideology, he says he doesn’t think the
person occupying the White House makes much of a difference to
believers, since sovereigns appear to be focused on how the United
States has become corrupted over the past 200 years, not just recently.
As for the number of sovereigns throughout the United States, Slater
says that’s a squishy statistic because there are so many splinter
groups and ideological variations, ranging from armed militias to
relatively pacifist tax dodgers. He points out that the Southern Poverty
Law Center’s estimate — that there are between 100,000 to 300,000
sovereign individuals in the United States — is very broad.
Whatever the true number, Slater cautions against writing off
sovereigns as a bunch of crackpots, as has frequently occurred in media
reports. “The sovereign ideology itself is not crazy,” he says. “Yes,
the criminal acts are criminal. But their train of thought is not
un-American. If you were to ask a non-sovereign citizen, ‘Do you think
our government has gone off the rails?’ Or, ‘Are there illegitimate
portions of the tax code?,’ there are plenty of non-sovereign
individuals who would head-nod.... It’s not a foreign thought.” While Bruce Doucette was being held at the Denver
Downtown Detention Center, I made a request to the Denver Sheriff’s
Department that I be allowed to visit. Doucette declined to see me,
instead referring me to a spokesman named Rodger Dowdell who said he was
located “with a team” in Florida.
Dowdell reiterated many of the things I’d heard when talking to folks
like Jeremy Costley. “There is no such thing as a ‘sovereign citizen.’
When you look up the word ‘citizen,’ it means subject. And when you put a
word meaning the highest ruler — sovereign — next to a word meaning
subject, it’s an oxymoron; it doesn’t mean nothing,” Dowdell said.
“What’s happening is that people of all walks of life are waking up
to the fact that our government has been hijacked,” he continued. “A
group in Colorado discovered this and said, ‘How can we rectify it?’ The
first thing they did was simple: They went to elected and appointed
public servants and they demanded to see their oath of office and their
bond. And if there was a defect, they gave them a twenty-day notice to
get the defect fixed. If they didn’t get the defect fixed, they put
their names on a notice of fraud and publicized it.... Now judges are
trying to retaliate, and they’ve manufactured all sorts of bogus charges
against these innocent people that are just trying to clean up their
government corruption.”
As for armed standoffs like those carried out by members of the Bundy
family in Nevada and Oregon, Dowdell said, “It’s the only method that
the founders gave us, because think about it this way: If we the people
are to be free men, then you can’t have anyone on top of us. So it’s our
duty.”
Between Doucette’s arrest on March 30 and Costley’s on May 2, Costley
had requested and received permission from others in the movement to
give me access to their weekly conference call, known as the “national
assembly call.”
During the April 20 call, I’d tuned in just in time to hear an
exchange between Doucette and his wife. Despite everyone else listening,
it struck me as a rather personal moment, though Doucette’s time was
cut short when an automated voice from his jail’s phone system
interrupted and announced in a cold, metallic voice, “You have one
minute left.”
“Oh, so I have one minute left,” said Doucette, disappointed. “Well,
please remember, this is a spiritual battle, and we need to win this
one. We need to free everybody from this corrupt admiralty law and this
corrupt government. So pray, everyone, please. Blessings to all and
goodnight, and to my beautiful wife, I love you always. Bye, all.”
After Doucette left the call, the conversation became more
businesslike and mundane, with motions made to pass resolutions about
things like press releases and whether to reach out to a radio show in
Utah.
Dowdell said he’d come to know Doucette through the type of call I’d
listened to; increasingly, calls and social-media channels are acting as
the connective tissues between states.
“It’s we the people in assembly, meeting. So it’s public,” said
Dowdell. “It isn’t Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or anything
else. This is the people getting together in assembly and making
resolutions, which become the direct voice of the people to the county
commissioners, who must comply.”
Colorado was the first delegation to start doing conference calls,
which have been going on for a “few years now,” he said. “Colorado was
definitely the leading state, and Florida was probably number two behind
them. Other states involved are Oregon, Nebraska, North Carolina....
Illinois has their grand jury up and running, and Texas is moving
forward.”
I asked Dowdell about Doucette’s chances of beating the charges. “I
think it looks very good because [he] hasn’t taken on an attorney,” he
said. “I’m very optimistic. He needs to be released, and it’s just a
matter of time.” On my final day in southern Colorado, I finally got
a chance to visit Vince Edwards, who, against his wishes, had been
transferred to Costilla County’s jail. He was being kept in a separate
pod from Costley and McDonald because, as Edwards put it, “They don’t
want us exchanging notes.” (Since his original arrest, McDonald, too, had been charged with child abuse.)
Edwards said he’d been in custody since the September 29 standoff,
and even though his bond was set at $17,500, “it might as well be a
million, because I’m poor.”
While Edwards had plenty of elaborate theories about why the original
charge against him — that he’d threatened land-use administrator
Martinez in an attempt to influence him to stop requiring permits — was
unjust and immoral, he took solace in standing up to a system that he
believes is corrupt to its core.
“When we say sovereign...there’s a lot of propaganda out there about
it,” he said. “People don’t want us learning about our history in this
country because we’re not going to bow down to the quote-unquote
authorities. But the problem is, we’re the authorities. They’re the
servants.”
And where does he fit?
“Really, I’m just a guy who exercises his rights and stands on his own two feet.”
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