FALSE MISSILE ALERT SHAKES HAWAII 'PUSHED WRONG BUTTON' 38 MINUTES OF TERROR RESIDENTS CRYING AND SCREAMING

 

Who pushed the button? Anger in Hawaii over Civil Defense bungle that told terrified islanders a MISSILE was rocketing towards them causing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and pray for their lives

• The alert was issued to residents' phones at 8.07am on Saturday morning
• It told them to seek shelter and warned of an 'inbound ballistic missile threat'   
• It took 38 minutes for a second phone alert to be issued across the state 
• By then, terrified residents had flocked to shelters and into their garages 
• Civil Defense employee accidentally hit alert, was unaware until his phone got it
• An FCC investigation into the incident is underway, officials said

Anger is spreading in Hawaii after a Civil Defense bungle on Saturday morning, when a mistaken alert warning of an inbound ballistic missile sent thousands fleeing for shelter.

The false alarm was caused by a Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee who 'pushed the wrong buttons' during an internal drill timed to coincide with a shift handover at 8.07am. The all-clear phone alert was not sent until 38 minutes later.

Incredibly, officials said the employee who made the mistake wasn't aware of it until mobile phones in the command center began displaying the alert.

'This guy feels bad, right. He's not doing this on purpose - it was a mistake on his part and he feels terrible about it,' said EMA Administrator Vern Miyagi in a press conference Saturday afternoon.

Miyagi, a retired Army major general, said the employee had been with the agency for 'a while' and that he would be 'counseled and drilled so this never happens again' - but stopped short of saying whether there would be disciplinary measures.

Hawaii Governor David Ige apologized at the press conference: 'I am sorry for the pain and confusion it caused. I, too, am extremely upset about this and am doing everything I can do to immediately improve our emergency management systems, procedures and staffing.'

Panicked Hawaiians ran for their lives and even lowered loved ones through manhole covers after receiving this alert at 8.07am local time: 'BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL'. 

A similar message flashed up on local television networks and brought live sports games to a halt. Actor Jim Carrey, like many others, said he woke up thinking he had 'ten minutes to live'. 

Residents of Hawaii are furiously asking why it took officials a whole 38 minutes to correct a missile threat warning that was sent out on Saturday morning, sparking panic across the state 

Video appears to show a family taking shelter in the sewer through a manhole cover after a false alert of an inbound ballistic missile sparked panic in Hawaii on Saturday morning

Actor Jim Carrey wrote that he woke up thinking that he had 'ten minutes to live'

Terror: People began to flee for their lives after the warning was sent that a ballistic missile was inbound to Hawaii 

On the H-3, a major highway north of Honolulu, vehicles sat empty after drivers left them to run to a nearby tunnel after the alert showed up, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. 

Fearing a nuclear attack, terrified residents and tourists including basketball legend Magic Johnson flocked to shelters and into their garages.

TIMELINE OF HAWAII BALLISTIC MISSILE ALERT ERROR

Officials have given the following timeline for the false alert on Saturday.

Approx. 8.05am: A routine internal test during a shift change was initiated. This was a test that involved the Emergency Alert System, the Wireless Emergency Alert, but no warning sirens.

8.07am: A warning was erroneously triggered statewide by an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA).

8.10am: State Adjutant Maj. Gen. Joe Logan validated with the US Pacific Command that there was no missile launch.

Honolulu Police Department notified of the false alarm by HI-EMA.

8.13am: State Warning Point issues a cancellation of the Civil Danger Warning Message. This would have prevented the initial alert from being rebroadcast to phones that may not have received it yet. For instance, if a phone was not on at 

8.07am, it would not receive the alert later on.

8.20am: HI-EMA issues public notification of cancellation via their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

8.24am: Governor Ige retweets HI-EMA’s cancellation notice.

8.30am: Governor posts cancellation notification to his Facebook page.

8.45am: After getting authorization from FEMA Integral Public Alert and Warning System, HI-EMA issued a 'Civil Emergency Message' remotely, cancelling the false alert.

Golfers in Honolulu for the US PGA Tour's Sony Open were also thrown into panic and confusion by the mistaken alert

'Under mattresses in the bathtub with my wife, baby and in laws,' tweeted American golfer John Peterson. 'Please lord let this bomb threat not be real.'

The mistake was corrected by government agencies on Twitter 12 minutes later but it took 38 minutes for another phone alert to be issued confirming to residents that it was a false alarm. Some say they never received a second phone alert at all. 

Miyagi said that there was no template in the system for an alert retraction, and so the all-clear message had to be manually entered and activated, accounting for some of the delay.

The EMA administrator said that cooling tensions between North and South Korea should have been a signal to residents that the alert was mistaken, urging Hawaiians to 'keep informed on what's going on on the tension between the two countries and monitor that.'

'I deeply apologize for the trouble and heartbreak that we caused today,' said Miyagi. 'We've spent the last few months trying to get ahead of this whole threat, so that we could provide as much notification and preparation to the public. We made a mistake.' 

Officials are suspending further drills until the incident is fully investigated. 

State emergency managers have also already implemented a two-person verification for alerts and an automated all-clear signal that can be used in the future.

When it became clear on Saturday morning that the ballistic missile alert had been a false alarm, the public's panic turned to fury.

'Imagine this for 37 agonizing minutes before it is deemed a false alarm,' said one person.  

Honolulu is seen on Saturday morning, when a false alert of an inbound ballistic missile sent residents running for shelter in terror

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The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tweeted this out, 12 minutes after the threat was issued to confirm the error. This post was made at 8.20am local time, 1.20pm EST

Officials scrambled to notify citizens that there was no inbound ballistic missile threat, but it took 38 minutes to issue an all-clear phone alert because it had to be sent manually

EMA Administrator Vern Miyagi said the employee who issued the mistaken alert did not realize what had happened until his own mobile phone began blaring

Lawmakers slammed the mistake as 'inexcusable' and said 'the whole state was terrified'.  

Another critic said the delay in phone alerts meant that only people with access to social media would have known it was a false alarm straight away.

'It took until 8.45am to state it was a false alarm. 37 minutes where anyone in Hawaii who doesn't sit on Twitter dot com all day thought their island might be incinerated.'

Governor David Ige apologized for the false alarm of an inbound ballistic missile

'Fire people. Fix it,' one outraged commentator said. 

At the same time as the phone alert, an emergency alert was broadcast across radio and television networks.  

The TV and radio alert told viewers and listeners: 'If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from windows.

'If you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter.' 

The second message, sent at 8.45am, said: 'There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. False Alarm.'  

Calls from frightened residents inundated Civil Defense immediately asking for more information or advice after the first alert was issued. 

People who say they got through to the office were then told it was a mistake that was caused by an employee who 'pushed the wrong buttons' during a drill. 

One woman called 911 in panic and said she was told by the operator that staff were performing a drill when 'someone pushed the wrong buttons'. 

'Called 911...Operator said it's a drill of Civil Defense Emergency System but someone pushed the wrong buttons..

'No missile is headed toward the State of Hawaii REPEAT....NO MISSILE IS HEADED TOWARD THE STATE OF HAWAII.'  

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A Hawaii Civil Defense official is seen above on Saturday writing instructions for dispatchers fielding calls from terrified locals

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Hawaii Civil Defense startled most many Hawaii residents early Saturday, by sending a Civil Defense alert via cellular phones that a nuclear missile was heading towards Hawaii and to take cover

FCC LAUNCHES INQUIRY INTO FALSE HAWAII MISSILE ALERT 

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Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, confirmed that an investigation will be carried out 

The US Federal Communications Commission said on Saturday it was launching a full investigation into a false emergency alert that said a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii, the chairman of the commission said.

The alerts to Hawaii cellphone users were issued at about 8.07am local time, saying 'ballistic missile threat inbound' and urging residents to seek shelter immediately. The message also appeared on Hawaii television stations, according to news reports. The alert was officially canceled about 38 minutes later.

The FCC has jurisdiction over the emergency alert system. Earlier this week, Pai said the FCC would vote at its January meeting to enhance the effectiveness of wireless emergency alerts, which have been in place since 2012.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai posted on Twitter that the FCC was launching a full investigation and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said the commission must find out what went wrong.

'Emergency alerts are meant to keep us and our families safe, not to create false panic. We must investigate and we must do better,' she wrote on Twitter.

CNN reported Hawaiian Governor David Ige told reporters the mistake was the result of human error and someone at the state emergency management agency pushed the "wrong button" during a shift change.

Wireless carriers do not prepare or write the alerts but they run simultaneously on all networks.

The FCC is working to better target alerts to impacted people and will vote this month on a proposal to "more precisely target these alerts to affected communities."

Pai is proposing that providers "deliver these alerts to match the geographic area specified by the officials sending the alert with no more overshoot than one-tenth of a mile," he said in a statement earlier this week.

Governor Ige confirmed as much when he spoke to CNN later in the morning.  

'It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button,' he said. 

The Civil Defense phone lines were consistently busy on Saturday and the Department of Defense has not responses to questions on the matter. 

It is not clear yet whether the person responsible for the error will lose their job. 

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the error.

The White House confirmed later in the day that President Trump had been briefed on the mistake. 

'The President has been briefed on the state of Hawaii's emergency management exercise.

'This was purely a state exercise,' said spokeswoman Lindsay Walters.  

Hawaii is within the range of the latest intercontinental ballistic missiles that North Korea has been testing. It, along with Alaska, are the most vulnerable states to a threat 

Kim Jong Un has test launched several intercontinental ballistic missiles in the last year, some of which have the capacity to reach Hawaii 

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tweeted 12 minutes after the first phone alert was issued to say it was a false alarm. 

The state's governor David Ige quickly retweeted the post as did other lawmakers.  

They vowed to get to the bottom of how such a colossal error was made.  

'There is nothing more important to Hawai'i than professionalizing and fool-proofing this process,' Senator Brian Schatz tweeted.

He went on: 'What happened today is totally inexcusable. 

'The whole state was terrified. There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process.' 

Terrified residents later described how they packed into their garages to take shelter and sent messages to each other to say: 'I love you'.  

Videos circulated of children being dropped into storm drains for shelter though those are unconfirmed. 

There were also unconfirmed reports of tourists being escorted into a 'bomb shelter' at Pearl Harbour. 

Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz said the mistake was caused by 'human error'. They slammed it as being 'inexcusable' given the rising tensions between the US and North Korea

How Hawaii was gripped by panic as phones and TV stations broadcast false missile warning

Panic and terror gripped residents and visitors in Hawaii on Saturday after authorities said there was an incoming ballistic missile only to later clarify that it was a false alarm.

Social media users posted videos, photos, and testimonials about residents hurriedly taking up shelter while thinking they were under attack.

 'I was sitting in the bathtub with my children, saying our prayers,' Hawaii state representative Matt LoPresti told CNN in emotional interview after false missile alert. 

One Twitter user wrote: 'My family was hiding in the garage. My mom and sister were crying. It was a false alarm, but betting a lot of people are shaken'

One Twitter user wrote: 'My family was hiding in the garage. My mom and sister were crying. It was a false alarm, but betting a lot of people are shaken.'

'Talking to loved ones in Hawaii, the reality of the situation is everyone thought they were going to die for 40-minutes,' tweeted another Twitter user. 

'Let that sink in. Extremely traumatizing and please send your love to everyone there.'

Current NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns tweeted: ‘Words cannot describe the relief my family and I feel that the alarm in Hawaii was false.

‘My girlfriend was born and raised in Hawaii and with most of her family there, the panic was real.

‘We should thank god for every day no matter the struggles and tell our family we love them.’ 

CNN host Jake Tapper tweeted: 'So sorry for all the people in Hawaii who went through that - we know someone who's there with her family.

'Crying in closet texting goodbyes to loved ones, husband shielding their baby. Sounds traumatic. Hang in there, folks.' 

Maureen McCormick tweeted: 'My family in Hawaii got a phone alert and hid in the bathroom with kids for a good 10 minutes thinking "This is going to be it."

'So terrifying.' 

Lorenza Ingram, a producer for CNN, told the network: 'We got alerts on our phone… we opened our sliding glass door to look out onto the beach, we saw probably 10 different families running, not walking, running back to their room.' 

Another CNN producer, David Shortell, told the network: 'There was a bit of running and shouting after [the alert was received]… People were nervous.' 

Shortell described 'a pretty harrowing 15 minutes' huddling in a garage with families and young children.   

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5266357/Hawaii-receives-ballistic-missile-threat-warning.html

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BREAKING: Indictment Handed Out In Russian Bribery Case Involving Uranium One, Hillary Clinton

An 11-count indictment was handed out on Friday connected to the alleged Russian bribery scheme involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and Uranium One.

The charges are against Mark Lambert, who is the "former co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad." Lambert 54, of Maryland, was charged with "one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering," the DOJ said in a statement.

The charges are connected to the alleged bribery scheme that involves "Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide, in order to secure contracts with TENEX."

TENEX is the commercial sales arm for Russia's Rosatom, which took full control of Uranium One in 2013.

A report from October revealed that federal agents started collecting evidence in 2009 about Russian officials that were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering connected to the Uranium One deal:

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.

In December, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered that prosecutors at the DOJ start "interviewing FBI agents about evidence they uncovered in a criminal investigation into a highly-controversial uranium deal that involves Bill and Hillary Clinton."

 https://www.dailywire.com/news/25828/breaking-indictment-handed-out-russian-bribery-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=011318-news&utm_campaign=position1

What did McCain know about #UraniumOne?

Feds File First Russian Uranium-Linked Indictment: Bribery, Money Laundering, Kickbacks

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The founder and owner of Frederick’s Dragon Distillery was indicted Friday for his alleged role in bribing a Russian atomic energy official to win government contracts for the company he formerly co-owned.

Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, faces 11 charges including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and wire fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement released Friday.

“We categorically reject the charges and are eager to dispute and defeat them in court,” William M. Sullivan Jr., attorney for Lambert, said in an email Friday.

Lambert, who owns Dragon Distillery in Frederick, is the former co-president, along with Daren Condrey, of a Maryland-based nuclear fuel transportation company. The company, referred to as Transportation Company A in the indictment, provided logistical support for transporting nuclear materials in the United States and to foreign clients.

In the indictment unsealed Friday, prosecutors allege that Lambert and others concealed corrupt and fraudulent payments with fake invoices, offshore bank accounts and shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland, the release states.

Authorities believe that from at least 2009 to October 2014 Lambert and other company executives conspired to bribe Vadim Mikerin, an official at the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation subsidiary JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), in order to secure contracts for transporting nuclear fuel, according to the Justice Department release.

TENEX, which supplies uranium and uranium enrichment services to international companies, wholly owned a U.S.-based company called TENAM Corporation, according to the indictment.

The case is being investigated by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Energy and FBI.

 https://truepundit.com/feds-file-first-russian-uranium-linked-indictment-bribery-money-laundering-kickbacks/

General Flynn - a True American Hero

I am here to Support General Flynn who is a True American Hero and deserves to be acknowledged by our Government. General Flynn took a heat and never betrayed his word. I believe our Government knows what I am talking about. It's time to make things right for General Flynn.   #qanonpic.twitter.com/aZtpIRKltz

Access to Republic of Texas Teleconference

From Anna Von Reitz

We had such a response-- and the Republic of Texas had such a response-- to my update on Progress that included my recap of their teleconference and new method of dealing with IRS claims, that we are publishing their next teleconference information for those interested in attending:

Public welcome.

Will have updated training to answer your questions on JurisdictionOnly.

Subjects to cover concerning Municipal Courts, JP Courts, County Courts, State district Courts, Federal Tax Courts and others called Kangaroo  courts all with or without JURISDICTION.

Please, no other subjects discussed. Our time is too valuable for so many folks that finally wish to WIN and not play the same old losing games we all have played for the last 20 years plus.

Expect to hear some success on different subjects.

Date Tuesday January 23rd, 2018

Time 7:30 PM CDT

Special Guest to be present for training.

Guest Specialty is Jurisdiction, Jurisdiction, Jurisdiction only.

Please dial for attending conference.

Dial (605) 472-5645

Access Code 583966 #

When you 1st get on the call hit *6 to mute yourself and then, when you wish to speak or ask a question hit * 6 again.

NOTICE: Any callers that ID as Anonymous. Will be disconnected.  

Call will be recorded and to get the recording after the present conference call has finished, call (605) 475-4962 Then use access code 583966 #. You may have to hit the 2nd # when requested. 

In case you cannot make the Tuesday night call but want a question answered.

Send questions prior to training to Ed Brannum reptx777@att.net

Calls or recorded so your questions will be answered on the conference call and then you can call in on the recording and hear your answer at a later date.  

I also wish to announce the Republic of Texas Congress will welcome all to this public session at venue "Lake Jackson, Texas republic, Saturday January 13th, 2018. We will be discussing Jurisdiction at this session also.

Venue is City Library.

See web site for details.

www.TheTexasRepublic.com

See our Videos: https://twitter.com/TexasRepublic4u

Nevada Bundy Prosecution Collapses: The Federal Government Spent a Quarter-Billion Dollars but Couldn’t Convict the Bundys of a Single Crime

By Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D.

January 12, 2018

In 2013 the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained federal court orders authorizing the agency to “seize and remove to impound” hundreds of Cliven Bundy’s cattle on the public ranges around Bunkerville, Nevada.   The agency interpreted these court orders broadly, and descended on the area in April 2014 with some 200 body-armor-wearing agents, semiautomatic weapons, sniper teams, undercover informants, and surveillance cameras aimed at the Bundy residence.

The BLM brought more than corralls and horse trailers.  They brought backhoes, dumptrucks and earth-moving equipment to tear up water lines and other infrastructure that had been built by Bundy and his ancestors over decades.  Defying county officials, the federal officers chose calving season—the very time when cows and newborn calves are most physically weak and vulnerable—to execute the court orders.  They orchestrated a paramilitarized roundup operation using helicopters to terrify the cattle into stampeding to the point of exhaustion in extreme heat. At least 40 cows either died from the ordeal or were shot by BLM employees and contractors.

The Feds even used the impoundment order to establish “First Amendment Zones” limiting freedom of speech in a 600,000-acre area to two small isolated parcels in the desert.  It was almost certainly the largest infringement of First Amendment rights (by area) in American history.

When Bundy’s son Dave stopped on a state highway to photograph BLM snipers on local hillsides, BLM agents threw him down, ground his face into asphalt and falsely arrested him.  And when other family members stopped a BLM dump truck to inquire if the truck was carrying dead cows, BLM agents erupted in a flurry of violence.

In response, hundreds of citizens journeyed from all over the country to protest the BLM operation.  A few were armed.  Political officials from across the west denounced the BLM’s heavy-handedness.  As a direct result of the national outcry, the BLM halted their cattle impoundment.   And on April 12, 2014, the BLM agents withdrew from the area—seemingly at the direction of the U.S.
Attorneys office.  It was apparently the plan of the Justice Department to entrap the Bundys into a criminal case by constructing a narrative that Bundy supporters “extorted” the cattle from the BLM by threats and “assaults” on federal officers.  (The corralled cattle would have died had not Bundy family members released them back onto the range.)

Federal prosecutors spent tens of millions to build an elaborate criminal case designed to imprison Bundy and his sons and supporters for life.  For two years, more than a thousand FBI agents combed through Facebook comments, posed as supporters or journalists, or surfed the internet to concoct a case against the Bundys.

Meanwhile Bundy’s sons Ammon and Ryan became active in protests against the government’s mistreatment of the Hammond family in eastern Oregon.  In January 2016 protesters occupied Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a month-long demonstration.

Again the FBI spent millions in a show of force against the “domestic terrorists.”  The entire town of Burns, Oregon—30 miles from the Refuge occupation—was fortified with razor wire, chain-link fences and concrete barriers.  Military hardware rolled through the streets and buzzed overhead.  Undercover informants dressed as rednecks in pickups harassed the populace.  At a January 26, 2016 roadblock ambush, FBI and Oregon State Police opened fire on Ryan Bundy and shot 54-year-old LaVoy Finicum in the back as he stood surrounded in a roadside snowbank.

Leftist or socialist demonstrators would likely have been charged with misdemeanors over the Refuge occupation; but government officials viewed the 2014 “armed takeover” as an affront to all that government stands for.  Federal prosecutors alleged that the protesters had launched a conspiracy to impede federal officials from performing their jobs.

In their zeal to destroy the Bundy “movement,” teams of federal prosecutors launched the most elaborate federal criminal cases in American history.  Ammon and Ryan Bundy, militia spokesman Ryan Payne, and others were flown back-and-forth between Oregon and Nevada to face hearings in two, simultaneous criminal cases.  Jurors in both jurisdictions were bussed (supposedly for their safety) from secret locations every day.  In Nevada, not one but two helicopters followed overhead while defendants were transported between prison and court daily.  In all, the federal government has likely spent a quarter of a billion dollars reacting to, imprisoning, and prosecuting the Bundys and their fellow protesters.

In October 2016, jurors in Portland acquitted the Oregon defendants in the “trial of the century.”  U.S. marshals tackled and tased Ammon Bundy’s attorney in the courtroom.   Ammon and Ryan Bundy were denied release and transported to a Nevada prison to face the Nevada indictment along with Cliven, brothers Dave and Mel and a dozen others (while a half-dozen others awaited a second trial in Oregon).

The Oregon ‘not-guilty’ verdicts gave hope to two-dozen other defendants, who mostly stuck to their guns (no pun intended) and refused to plead guilty or negotiate with prosecutors.  Courts were forced to split the Oregon case into 2 trial groups and the Nevada case into 3 trial groups.  The first Nevada trial (of “gunmen”), commenced in February 2017 with Eric Parker, Scott Drexler, Greg Burleson, Steve Stewart, Todd Engel and Rick Lovelien facing multiple serious charges.  Jurors couldn’t agree on most counts but convicted Engel and Burleson (mostly based on Facebook comments) of some accusations.  Burleson was sentenced to 68 years in prison.

Then came one of the most disgraceful “trials” in U.S. history.  Parker, Drexler, Stewart and Lovelien were retried in Las Vegas in August 2017.  The prosecution exploited every possible advantage, winning rulings from the judge which barred the defendants from even mentioning most of their possible defenses.  (They couldn’t even say that the BLM was overbearing or heavily-armed, or even that there were government snipers above them.)  Jurors were treated to a one-sided display of 2014 photos showing the men with guns while overlooking BLM officers from a bridge on Interstate 15.  BLM witnesses—either exaggerating or lying—cried in the courtroom while claiming they saw the defendants pointing rifles at them.  (Not a single photo or video corroborates this—and there were hundreds of cameras recording almost everything at the time; there were even Nevada trooper dashcams capturing 80 percent of the movements of the defendants during the period.)

The judge even ordered Eric Parker off the witness stand for saying he looked “up and to the right” during the 2014 “standoff.”  Prosecutors strenuously objected (in a sidebar hearing) that such a statement might tell jurors that there were BLM snipers on a mesa above; and thus Parker was unable to rebut the government’s claim that he aimed his rifle down-and-to-the-left at a crying BLM agent (who was photographed very-much-not-crying at the time).

Defense lawyers were so stifled by the judge’s orders that they opted not to even make closing arguments—a gutsy move almost without precedent.  It was like a cry for help to the jury.  And the jury heard it loud and clear.  On August 22, 2017, the jury fully acquitted Stewart and Lovelien, and acquitted Parker and Drexler of most counts.  (They hung on a small number of charges for the two men.)

The not-guilty verdicts sent shockwaves throughout the Judiciary and the Justice Department.  Here, in the biggest case in the country, with the prosecution spending untold millions of dollars and the judge imposing rules of evidence which almost choked the defense from speaking, the Justice Department was unable to get convictions.

When the “big trial” (involving Cliven, Ryan, Ammon, and Ryan Payne) began in October 2017, defense attorneys demanded to see evidence that had been withheld by the prosecution.  There were pictures (but no explanations) of immense piles of shredded documents left by the BLM at the scene in 2014.  And Ryan Bundy remembered surveillance cameras pointed at the Bundy house in 2014 yet Bundy had never been provided with the footage.

Prosecutors insisted they possessed no such evidence.  Even if there was a surveillance camera here or there it hadn’t recorded anything.  But such questions seemed to produce more startling disclosures.  Ultimately it was revealed that there had been an elaborate FBI surveillance operation which had been concealed from the defense.  And it seemed that prosecutors had been coaching witnesses to change their reports to censor out inconvenient facts.

By the third week of trial in November, Chief Judge Gloria Navarro—the very judge who had given prosecutors everything they wished for in the previous two trials—was visibly weary of the DOJ’s barbarous tactics.  A mistrial was declared just prior to Christmas, and all defendants except Cliven were released on conditions while lawyers argued over whether the case warranted another trial.  And on Monday, January 8, 2018, in a packed courtroom in Las Vegas, the Judge granted Ryan Payne’s motion to dismiss.  A “universal sense of justice has been violated,” proclaimed Navarro.   The judge said further that she was unaware of a more egregious case of FBI misconduct.

It should be noted that there are currently a half-dozen additional pending motions to dismiss, citing even graver prosecutorial misconduct.   It has recently come to light that lead prosecutor Steven Myhre was approached during the first Nevada trial by a government case investigator who informed the prosecutor that he was breaking the law by withholding evidence from the defense.  Myhre’s response, according to some reports, was to fire the agent and order him to keep quiet.  Even as Cliven Bundy was released from jail after serving 700 days, the case continues for others.   Stay tuned!

The Best of Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Roger Roots [send him mail] is an attorney for Cliven Bundy in two pending civil cases and has worked on both the Ryan Bundy defense team in Oregon and the Cliven Bundy defense team in Nevada. Roger is the only lawyer who observed all four Bundy trials beginning in October 2016. (He missed seeing only the second Oregon trial in February 2017 because it conflicted with the first Nevada trial.) Roger is also a founder of Lysander Spooner University, www.lysanderspooneruniversity.com and author of The Conviction Factory: The Collapse of America’s Criminal Courts.

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/roger-roots/nevada-bundy-prosecution-collapses-the-federal-government-spent-a-quarter-billion-dollars-but-couldnt-convict-the-bundys-of-a-single-crime/

Democrat Senator Bob Menendez - Pedophile?

Bombshell Undercover Video: Twitter Engineers Admit Censoring Conservatives

Uses keywords like “America” and “Trump” to silence opposing views

 

In what represents a chokeslam of an exposé, Project Veritas has released undercover video of Twitter engineers admitting that they deliberately censor conservative opinions and are implementing a way of relegating “shitty people” so their content is shadow banned.

In the video, current and former Twitter employees confirm virtually everything that conservatives have long suspected about the left-wing company silencing people on the right.

Key quotes include;

Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety, admits that Twitter is implementing software algorithms that down rank conservatives so “shitty people to not show up” on people’s timelines.

“The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content,” says former Twitter software engineer Abhinov Vadrevu. “So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.”

Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, reveals that the company’s machine learning algorithms are programmed with “five thousand keywords to describe a redneck,” which include words like Trump, America, as well as images of the U.S. flag, guns and Christian crosses and these terms are used to delete “bot” accounts as well as down rank conservatives.

Singh also revealed that the U.S. government routinely pressures Twitter to take down Julian Assange’s account and that this is the reason he isn’t verified Singh also says that governments ask Twitter to remove accounts belonging to other public figures because they don’t like their political views.

Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai admits that Twitter employees have the power to ban accounts if they merely disagree with someone’s political views, remarking, “Yeah, if they said this is: ‘Pro-Trump’ I don’t want it because it offends me, this, that. And I say I banned this whole thing, and it goes over here and they are like, ‘Oh you know what? I don’t like it too. You know what? 

Mo’s right, let’s go, let’s carry on, what’s next?”

The video represents the biggest tech/censorship story in years yet will attract little or no mainstream media coverage.

However, it will lead to an increase in calls from the right for Twitter to be regulated as a public utility to ensure that free speech rights are protected given how social media companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google have basically become monopolies.

https://www.infowars.com/bombshell-undercover-video-twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives/

Late last night at the White House…

PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEECH AT FARM BUREAU CONVENTION 1/8/2018

No inhertance tax on farms
Crop insurance
No more water rule
Broadband Internet in rural areas
100% write-offs in same year purchases of equipment made

https://youtu.be/GakP3FZlMWQ?t=6960




Gary Larrabee Comments:
https://youtu.be/hpLeTlPeTLs

Progress in Texas, the MGJA, and Everywhere Else

By Anna Von Reitz

Last night I tuned into a little ole down home teleconference sponsored by the Texas Republic.  They are extremely well-organized compared to most of the rest of the state republics and have their history firmly intact.  Many of their counties are up and operational and they hold their regular meetings at various places throughout the state to meet and greet and educate as they go.  After all the gritty hand-to-hand in places like Illinois the past few weeks, it was like balm to my soul. 

They have developed yet another ingenious and effective answer to the IRS fraud, which is simple and deadly to implement.  The essence of it is to politely inquire about the jurisdiction of two courts.  When the district level court replies that they don't have jurisdiction over the municipal corporation dba "IRS" and the "US TAX COURT" admits that it doesn't have jurisdiction over the territorial corporation dba "Internal Revenue Service" it puts the vermin in a real bind. 

If they take JOHN QUINCY DOE to US District Court, he can say, "But look here, the US District Court says it doesn't have jurisdiction over the IRS." 

If they take John Quincy Doe to the US TAX COURT, he can say, "But look here, the US TAX COURT says it doesn't have jurisdiction over the Internal Revenue Service."

[They can't complain because "John Quincy Adams" does sound exactly like "JOHN QUINCY ADAMS" only now you get to use that fact against them the same way they used it all these years against us. ]

And both statements are absolutely correct, counter-claiming, and self-cancelling.  This is because unknown to most Americans, we've been dealing with two separate governments (Territorial and Municipal) and two separate agencies (Internal Revenue Service and IRS) and two separate court systems (US District and US TAX COURT)---neither of which have anything much to do with us, except that they are supposed to be providing "essential government services" in Good Faith and aren't.

Now if you do what these Texans recommend, you can put these courts in a good old-fashioned Texas Twist-Em double-bind.  Either way they go, they are stuck having to explain to their own employees and to the public the fraud scheme they've been working, and rather than do that, they are going to let go of you faster than an average rattlesnake.

As I have explained many times these vermin have created public trusts named after you.  They stole your identity and took title to your Given Trade Name, then split the title between themselves--- with the State of State Territorial Government holding the Beneficial Ownership Title and the STATE OF STATE Municipal Government holding the Legal Title ---and you completely cut out of the picture as the "missing, presumed dead" Donor/Grantor. 

And of course, they are doing all this "for" you as a service and you ought to be grateful, right?

When it comes to working this scam vis-a-vis the federal income tax, your Name/NAME is presumed to belong to a federal citizen, either a Territorial Citizen or a Municipal CITIZEN, so either way, "they" owe the federal income tax.  You don't, but they do. 

In keeping with this cozy and grossly immoral and illegal scheme, the Municipal Agency dba "IRS" keeps the debit side of what they call your Master file and racks up all the charges and expenses against YOUR NAME, while the Territorial Agency dba "Internal Revenue Service" --- a completely different animal operating out of different offices --- keeps track of the credit side of your Master file Account, never the twain to meet. 

Even most of the IRS/Internal Revenue Service employees are blissfully ignorant and go on calling themselves by both names and can't find their butts with both hands. 

This is also why there are three (3) Commissioners of Internal Revenue---- one for every level of government--- the actual United States of America, the Territorial United States, and the Municipal United States. 

Anyway, what these fellows in Texas have worked out is an effective means to expose the fraud in such a way as to trap the rats in the same way they have trapped you, with both the Court and the COURT disqualified and unable to explain why without revealing their fraud scheme.

I love it. It really tickled me.  I sat in my chair with my eyes big as saucers and silently laughed until I cried.

Just goes to prove, you get enough Americans working on a problem, they are going to find solutions.... those little Billy Goats are going to try every way up the mountain until they find what works and then, watch out for the Goat Stampede.

I still like my old tried and true method of Revoking Election to Pay, but this new process has some decided advantages: (1)  It would work for anyone, even federal employees. (2) No need to pour over Title 42 and figure out whether or not you are a federal citizen. (3) No need to retract and get private claims and political status documents on the record before doing battle,  so it will work even for people who don't have their political status corrected and recorded and even if people have already run afoul of the IRS and are mid-stream in a court action. 

That's a lot to recommend it, and for a lot of people ---this is a godsend.   And it is simple and inexpensive enough that anyone can do it.  My hat is off.

I suggest everyone who is interested in getting your counties and states back up and running go take a look at the Texas Republic website.  They have put a lot of effort in and it shows. 

There's been a lot of new activity the past few weeks with more and more people and counties reporting in at the weekly Thursday night teleconference sponsored by the Michigan General Jural Assembly to help answer questions and provide assistance to people wanting to do something similar in their own counties and their own states. 

That's wonderfully encouraging news.  It means that more and more Americans are not only waking up and realizing The Fix we are in individually, but more are stepping forward to get the tools and advice needed to revive their own nation-states, and that is what we have to restore to save our own country and clean up this mess.

For those new to the information, I suggest they go straight to the B,C, and D Appendix part of the Michigan General Jural Assembly Handbook and get the hang of it all in the Big Picture.  Most of this country is still not politically organized--- that is, your actual nation-state and even the State created to represent your state's land jurisdiction, may exist on paper, but not in fact. 

Most of the western states are what I call "states in waiting"---- you have contracts to become states and guarantees that you will be "treated as" states in the Union and owed all the guarantees, but there hasn't been a fully functional land jurisdiction Continental Congress in place to actually enroll any new states in the Union since 1860. That presents a real problem in terms of international law and leaves an awful lot of people with their tails exposed to high winds. For yourselves and your families and friends who live west of the Mississippi---- get on up that mountainside.  Just pretend you are a bunch of spry little goats and go hop, hop hop! 

Here's the information for Michigan General Jural Assembly again:

The Michigan General Jural Assembly hosts a Thursday Night national call-in program. The call-in times and names and numbers for that and for their national hotline (open four days a week) are posted on my website: www.annavonreitz.com and here it is again: Nine o’clock Eastern Standard Time, call in number is: 1-712-770-4160. Access Code for Thursday night call is: 226823#. The Hotline is 1-989-450-5522, Monday through Thursday, 2 to 7 pm EST. They can also be reached at http://1stmichiganassembly.info.

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Where Are the Koch Brothers and T-Boone Pickens When You Need Them?

By Anna Von Reitz

Where Are the Koch Brothers and T-Boone Pickens When You Need Them?

We do indeed need some well-heeled Patriots, but unfortunately, this information is complex enough so that it doesn't commend itself to 30-second executive summaries, and for some reason conservatives like the legendary Koch Brothers don't seem aware of or interested in why, exactly, this country is so messed up.  Not knowing exactly what's wrong leads to all sorts of useless solutions to problems that are only assumed to exist.  It also means billions of dollars wasted to not-fix anything, when it would take only a few million dollars of investment to prime our pump and get freedom flowing again.

Don't look at me.  I have no answers for why someone, somewhere, doesn't make the proper connections.  You know without thinking too hard about it that there have to be a gazillion businesses limping along at half-throttle or going under because of "government" manipulation and unfair competition and one-sided or punitive regulatory enforcement and monopolies and every other business evil and bogus competitive hurdle and securities fraud you can think of.  So why aren't the businessmen and women of America smelling the java and doing something about this?  All this corruption and abuse of power by the "government" is tanking their growth and their bottom lines. 

Instead of analyzing how we got into this mess (and therefore how we get out of it), people mistakenly concentrate on "what the other guy is doing" and how to counteract the "opposing party"---- instead of focusing on their own business and what they need to do to restore and operate their own lawful government.  That is how a lot of patriots get into trouble with law enforcement officials--- tampering with the territorial or municipal "United States" governments instead of restoring and operating their own. 

Somehow, at least at the outset, restoring our actual government isn't as sexy as all the flag-waving, bunting draping, cute elephant and donkey cartoons Flim-Flam eating up the commercial media airwaves---though there is far more at stake and far more actual power involved.

Americans love a circus and the foreign political parties provide that, and you can just stay home and watch it on TV in the comfort of your living room, sacked out on your favorite Laz-Y-Boy recliner.  No wonder Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey was forced out of business. With them, you had to put up with rainy days and travel and parking lots and ticket stubs.  

Americans also like power and get-rich-quick schemes, and where else but in politics can a talent-less nobody rise to power and get a fat lifetime guaranteed job with fantastic benefits?  Just think about Nancy Pelosi for five minutes.  Maxine Waters?  All these "State of State" Legislatures and the "US" Congressional seats are akin to "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars" opportunities.  And then, too, Americans love a horse race--- and all these political parties and all these various levels of elections provide endless opportunities for horse races.  Just choose your colors--- red or blue? 

All these foreign corporate media conglomerates are strictly interested in what is "sexy" and "colorful" and "attention grabbing" and whatever makes money by the boat loads for them every election cycle. 

One happy exception is "One America News" aka  "OAN" on your cable or Wi-Fi grid connections, it's traditional and conservative and highly recommended as an antidote to 24/7 Glitz, Tits, and Politics.

The rats have us hoodwinked, bamboozled, fooled and forgetful---- we've never been taught our own history in THEIR public schools, so we are ignorant--- and that gives THEM opportunity to endlessly plunder and profit for the mere cost of keeping us entertained and distracted, just as they did in Rome, 2000 years ago.  Same thing. 

They give us political circuses while they steal the meat from our tables.  They give us gossip to swill down and churn over while they raid the treasury.  They gin up another false flag sideshow event to keep our attention diverted and jangle our emotions whenever they need an excuse to make war for profit or sneak some evil thing through the backdoor in Congress.  Nothing has changed in 2000 years and nothing will change until we all grow up and learn to as my Mother put it---- "look around the corners". 

Step back far enough to see what these goons are doing to you and to your family and your country and how they are doing it---- and you won't need to see it a second time.  A good, clear look, just once, will be enough. 

And as for those wealthy patriots, well, they are busy being wealthy, though they may also be worried about when the cows (Republicans) come home and the chickens (Democrats), too.  Somewhere in the backs of their minds they know just like the rest of us that something is wrong with this whole picture, though they may not be able to put their finger on it.   By all means, those of you who have direct connections, clue them in.  "Hey, pssst!  Marty..... did you know?"  "Hey, T-Boone, did you hear what these rats did just after the Civil War? You know that's still going on?"  "Hey, Donald--- that trouble you had with the Ninth Circuit Court?  I can explain that....and we can fix it, too."  "Hey, Koch Brothers!  Stop wasting your money! We have real bang for your buck on offer....."

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Exclusive Bannon Was Architect Of 25th Amendment Coup Against Trump

CARRYING ON BUSINESS UNDER ASSUMED OR FICTITIOUS NAME Act 101 of 1907 Michigan

CARRYING ON BUSINESS UNDER ASSUMED OR FICTITIOUS NAME
Act 101 of 1907
AN ACT to regulate the carrying on of business under an assumed or fictitious name.

History: 1907, Act 101, Eff. Sept. 28, 1907

© 2017 Legislative Council, State of Michigan

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Document	Type	Description
Section 445.1	Section	Certificate required to carry on business under assumed name; filing; form; contents; fee; execution and acknowledgment; exceptions; certification and return of duplicate; “person” and “address” defined; imposition of fee by certain charter counties.
Section 445.1a	Section	Certificate; use of assumed name authorized for 5 years; renewal certificate; filing, form, fee, and duration; notice; abandonment of assumed name; destruction of certificate.
Section 445.1b	Section	Repealed. 1968, Act 165, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968.
Section 445.2	Section	Assumed name certificates; filing period; rejection by county clerk.
Section 445.2a	Section	Assumed name; change of business location certificate, filing.
Section 445.2b	Section	Assumed name; discontinuance of operation certificate, filing.
Section 445.2c	Section	Certified copies of original or renewal certificates; request ; fee.
Section 445.3	Section	Certificates; alphabetical index; indexing and filing fee; certified copy as evidence; cost of certified copies; certificate as evidence of partnership; service of process; extension of time; jurisdiction.
Section 445.4	Section	Contents of certificate; applicability of act to corporation or limited partnership.
Section 445.5	Section	Violation of act; penalty; violation of contracts, effect.

Goodbye, England

Interesting warning !

  
I think this might give you a better understanding of the insidiousness of Hijrah; that's the takeover of a nation without going to war.  Don't think for a moment that America is not a target or that there are no American cities where Islamic and Sharia victories and takeovers have already occurred. It's time for border control, or start planning for a very big goodbye to the American way of life!

Here's what has already happened to England within a few years of opening their borders without any entry control:
  
How the British have passively succumbed to the Muslim invasion:
  
       Mayor of London ... MUSLIM
  
      Mayor of Birmingham ... MUSLIM
  
      Mayor of Leeds ... MUSLIM
  
       Mayor of Blackburn ... MUSLIM
  

       Mayor of Sheffield ... MUSLIM
  
       Mayor of Oxford .. MUSLIM
  
       Mayor of Luton .... MUSLIM
  
       Mayor of Oldham ... MUSLIM
  
       Mayor of Rochdale .... MUSLIM
  
  All the following achieved by just 4 million Muslims out of the 66 million population:
  
       Over 3,000 Muslim Mosques
  
       Over 130 Muslim Sharia Courts
  
       Over 50 Muslim Sharia Councils
  
       Muslims Only No-Go Areas Across The UK
  
       Muslim Women...78% don't work and are on FREE benefits/housing
  
       Muslim Men...63% don't work and are on FREE benefits/housing
  
       Muslim Families...6-8 children planning to go on FREE benefits/housing and now all UK schools are ONLY serving HALAL MEAT!
  
     …and we (the USA) and (CANADA) can't decide on an immigration policy???
One of the ways to combat this is to keep circulating information such as this e-mail around our United States and Canada to inform the uninformed who mainly only listen and read the left leaning US and Canadian radio/TV and newspapers. I have not seen this in the US or Canadian media…have you?

Please Pass This On!

Millions of Dead And Illegal Voters Discovered In Key Swing State

Millions of deceased and illegal voters have been discovered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an investigation the Democrats are desperately trying to cover-up. 

Pew Research suggests that 1.8 million registered voters were found to be deceased, a further 24 million had invalid voter registrations, and 2.75 million people illegally registered in more than one state.


Conservativedailypost.com reports:

While underage voting is a problem with 292 minors voting during the 2016 general election, the dead people casting ballots is more concerning.


The presidential commission uncovered 45,880 voters who cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election who were more than 115 years old, many of whom were born before 1700.

These numbers are vastly under-reported because of the commission’s inability to get states under a democratic stronghold to comply with voter information request.


In many states the voter fraud is so rampant they have more people on their voter rolls than actual eligible voters in the state. Alaska, California, Colorado, Washington D.C., Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, and Michigan all had more voters on the rolls than eligible citizens. Considering not everyone eligible to vote registers this indicates an enormous amount of fraud being perpetrated in an effort to rig elections.

Non-citizens voting in our election is also a rampant issue. Virginia is not a hotbed for immigrants, illegal or otherwise, and it still saw 7,474 non-citizens cast ballots in the state. Because Virginia is a swing state, it is especially important that their election results are not tampered with by foreign nationals in our country trying to rig elections. California did not comply with the Presidential Commission, had they done so, it is likely the number of non-citizens voting in the golden state would have been of astronomical proportions.

The commission also found that over 45,000 people voting in the 2016 presidential election cast ballots in multiple districts, voting multiple times.
People are district hoping to multiply their votes and the Democrats are unconcerned with the impact of this unscrupulous behavior and have blocked all attempts to purge the rolls of these bad actors.


Democrats often fight voter identification laws which would force citizens to provide ID before casting ballots in our elections. President Trump finds the policy of allowing people with no ID to vote to be absurd, stating in a Tweet, “As Americans, you need identification, sometimes in a very strong and accurate form, for almost everything you do…. Except when it comes to the most important thing, voting for the people that run your country, Push hard for Voter Identification.”

Democrats are fighting to keep the voting system in America virtually unregulated. While the evidence is clear that millions of ineligible voters are capable of casting ballots each year in our elections, Democrats have no interest in correcting this. They are protecting their illegal immigrant voters, their non-citizen voters, their dead voters, and their ineligible voters because they help keep the scales tilted in their favor. For Democrats winning elections is the most important thing, and if that means condoning, encouraging, and protecting criminals, so be it.

With DHS taking over the investigation, election officials will be subject to prosecution as will illegal voters. Democrats will also be unable to obstruct their efforts by filing frivolous lawsuits and blocking the release of crucial information requested. The law enforcement agency will have far more latitude on how it pursues the case moving forward, with far more resources and reach than the Presidential Commission had.

Democrats claim that voter fraud accusations are unfounded despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary. A thorough investigation into voter fraud will be carried out by DHS and the true impact of this epidemic will become clearer the deeper the department digs. Democrats stand to lose big if voter ID laws are implemented and their dead and ineligible voters become purged, so expect them to fight this investigation to the bitter end.

http://yournewswire.com/millions-illegal-voters-swing-state/

Canada is a fiction and the land awaits to be settled!

Most Canadians (fictions) or Settlors (the people) have the opportunity to settle their land! The handbook promoted by Anna Von Reitz and the Michigan General Jural Assembly can be utilized to just that! The settlors on the land north of the united states of America's northern boarder have the ability to form their nation and cancel the fictional corporation that is above the land. Form your local and state assemblies of the people in body politic. Start self governing and declare your independence from the crown. Attend the Thursday night conference calls hosted by the Michigan General Jural Assembly. Learn more and run parallel to the county and state assemblies that are resettling the land south of your boarder. Together we can all share the knowledge and build our foundations for self governing.

http://michiganassembly.info/index.php/conference-call

Michigan Demonstration Project that allows courts to ignore the rule of law.

Under Supreme Court Administrative Order Nos. 1996-5

and 1997-12, the Berrien County circuit, district, and

probate courts participated in a court consolidation

demonstration project in which the above courts fully

merged into one consolidated trial court. Because of this

project, Schmalfeldt appealed within the civil division of

the Berrien County Trial Court. See AO 1996-5 and 1997-12.

3

252 Mich App 556; 652 NW2d 683 (2002).

http://courts.mi.gov/Administration/SCAO/Resources/Documents/Publications/Statistics/2002/2002%20Michigan%20Supreme%20Court%20Annual%20Report.pdf