Posted by Michael Boldin

 Today, the Virginia legislature once again approved House Bill 1160 (HB1160), what many refer to as the NDAA Nullification Act. The support was overwhelming, again. In the House today the vote was 89-7 and the Senate concurred a few hours later, 36-1.

The bill “Prevents any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a United States citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation.”

According to an inside report, bill sponsor Delegate Bob Marshall spoke twice in support of the bill on the House floor today. Delegate Barbara Comstock (a long-time Patriot Act supporter) invoked Michael Chertoff and others as high government officials opposing HB 1160. Basically, she said state legislators have no business questioning the federal government.

Marshall responded with citations to a CRS report demonstrating the vagueness of the law, and its effort to circumvent the Treason Clause. He also noted that state legislators are to be watchdogs against the Federal Government.

In the Senate today, Senator Dick Black (R-Loudoun) and Senator Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) spoke in favor before the final vote.

THE FULL STORY

HB1160 originally passed the Virginia house in February by a vote of 96-4. It went to the Senate where opponents tried to hold it over until next year, effectively killing it. The vote was a tie- and failed. In two short days, thousands of grassroots activists contacted their Senators to support the bill and the next vote, taken quickly, was a different story – 39-1.

With minor amendments, the bill needed to go back to the House for approval. A number of parliamentary maneuvers were used to stall and kill the bill. Various votes to delay (“pass by”) actual approval were held. Eventually, the House rejected the Senate amendments and the bill was sent back to the Senate for another consideration.

Again, the grassroots got on board – and activists from groups across the political spectrum called and emailed their Senators to move the bill forward. The Senate, after a few days of jousting, “receded” from their original amendment by a vote of 37-1 in March, effectively passing the original House bill from the previous month.

HB1160 then went off to the Governor’s desk. Inside sources had been telling us at the Tenth Amendment Center that Governor Bob McDonnell did not want to sign this bill. Vetoing would certainly keep him in a good place with the establishment who supports NDAA detentions, but would also be a slap in the face of a huge portion of his own state’s population, considering the massive outpouring of support from the people there.

McDonnell had until mid April to sign or veto the bill. On the very last day, after some strong behind-the-scenes work by supporters and sponsors, the Governor announced that he recommended some minor amendments – and he would support that version of HB1160.

The bill’s sponsor, Bob Marshall, released the following statement:

Over the past few weeks, Governor McDonnell has heard from a number of Virginians regarding House Bill 1160, sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall. During the consideration of this legislation and since its passage, he has expressed both the shared concern that Virginia does not participate in the unconstitutional detention of U.S. citizens and the desire that this legislation does not impact legitimate law enforcement activities.

Preserving public safety is the foremost priority of any government. Every day, state and local law enforcement personnel work together and work with the federal government to keep Virginians safe by fighting crime, responding to emergencies, and combating terrorism. The governor believes we must encourage and promote these collaborative efforts while ensuring that core constitutional principles enjoyed by all U.S. citizens are respected. He believes these standards are expected by all Virginians and want to take appropriate steps to reaffirm that position. In the governor’s view, this legislation now accomplishes that goal.

Since the legislation’s passage, staff has worked with the patron to come up with amendments that will achieve the goal of not supporting unconstitutional detentions while preserving the ability of law enforcement and our state defense forces to carry out their responsibilities. The amendments Governor McDonnell sent down achieve those goals, and Delegate Marshall has expressed his support for them. The governor hopes the General Assembly will support them, as well.

The bill is now expected to be promptly signed by Governor McDonnell.

May the other states now follow the lead taken today by Virginia.

UPDATE – according to sponsor Bob Marshall, because the legislature passed the bill as recommended by the Governor, a signature is not required. HB1160 becomes law on July 1st.

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Thomas Woods: Nullification a Tool We All Have  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxJYbZktyQ     

Nullification: Interview with a Zombie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrcM5exDxcc     

http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/state-opposition-to-ndaa-grows/
Judge Napolitano talks about the power of the States to nullify the Fed, you will find this analysis from Judge Andrew Napalitano helpful: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tEeO-qTYo 

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For model NDAA nullification legislation at the state level, click HERE.

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Combine FBI Terrorist suspicious activity guidelines with NDAA

http://targetfreedom.com/cfr/combine-fbi-terrorist-suspicious-activity-guidelines-with-ndaa/      

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz04Ny7WbiY    What do you get when you combine the FBI Terrorist Screening Center’s suspicious activity reporting guidelines with the NDAA? This report looks into the ways our government can now deem virtually anyone a terrorist for almost any reason and how detrimental much of the new legislation in this area is to American citizens and our Constitution. It would appear the real threat to our freedom is not terrorism, but the war our government is waging on it   Could You Be a Terrorist?

FBI says paying for your morning coffee with cash a potential terrorist activity urges coffee shop owners to report cash-paying customers to authorities.

Apparently some exceptional under cover police work has discovered that terrorist trainers send new recruits out for coffee. With such valuable info as this they hope to be able to detect the whole sinister plot.

http://www.infowars.com/feds-label-bulk-buying-of-food-a-potential-terrorist-activity/

Feds Label Bulk Buying of Food a Potential Terrorist Activity

  JUST WHO DO THEY CALL CONSPIRACY NUTS?     New DHS Report: If You Love “Individual Liberty” Or If You “Believe In Conspiracy Theories” You Are A Potential Terrorist

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/according-to-a-new-dhs-report-if-you-love-individual-liberty-of-if-you-believe-in-conspiracy-theories-you-are-a-potential-terrorist   

WOULD THAT BE LIKE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT YOU ARE A TERRORIST IF YOU PAY CASH FOR COFFEE? THEY CALL THIS “INTELLIGENCE”? WE ARE SUPPOSED TO REPORT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE FOR “SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY”. IS THAT NOT A “CONSPIRACY THEORY”?   

Bankers control our federal government. Bankers control credit cards. Our federal government says not using a credit card to buy a cup of coffee means you should be reported as suspicious. Our federal government gives millions of taxpayer dollars to bankers. Our federal government says believing in a conspiracy means you should be reported as suspicious. What is wrong with this picture?   

Freedom or Slavery? Understand your choice and your duty.

IT ALL BECOMES CLEAR HERE.

http://targetfreedom.com/bills-in-congress/freedom-or-slavery-understand-your-choice-and-your-duty-it-all-becomes-clear-here/    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKb7qeIN6g&list=UUiqRq2mT_bBPMRhHap684Ig&index=1&feature=plcp   

IF YOU DO NOT CLICK AWAY YOU WILL SEE 30 VIDEOS. CLICK ON FULL SCREEN IN THE LOWER FIGHT CORNER. PEOPLE DO NOT GO EASILY INTO TYRANNY IF THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. IN JUST A FEW MINUTES OF WATCHING, YOU WILL GAIN A LIFE SAVING UNDERSTANDING OF THE REALITY THAT WE FACE TODAY. THIS IS WELL WORTH THE LITTLE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO WATCH IT.  WATCH IT IN FULL SCREEN, BY CLICKING THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER ICON.     RELATED ACTIVIST POST ARTICLE:
25 FBI Reports That Can Put You on the Terror Watch List
Activist Post

A concerted effort has been afoot for some time to merge local police with federal authorities to respond to the implementation of citizen spy “snitch” programs. This has been best illustrated by the role of threat fusion centers, which are integrating data from public and private sources alike — even universities.

The FBI has now made public their “Communities Against Terrorism” Suspicious Activity Reporting flyers.

I myself have seen documents like this as a former retail store owner.  One day, roughly 10 years ago, I received a flyer in my mailbox informing our establishment that we were to submit a “Suspicious Activity Report” for anyone paying with large amounts of cash (I believe it was $2,000 or more at the time).  I proceeded to throw it directly into the garbage where it belonged. I did inform my clients, though, rather than inform the “authorities” as I was directed. However, these SAR’s have clearly become much more widespread than my tiny retail shop, infiltrating nearly every facet of life in America.

Listed below are all 25 known flyers that should be read in their entirety if one wishes to discover just how far the United States has traveled in its attempt to replicate a level of citizen snitches not seen since the Stasi of East Germany.

I have included a very short summary of each .PDF, with an embedded link in the title,  to serve as a general guide of who is a potential terrorist suspect.

Let us never forget that this system of control needs our cooperation if it is to succeed.  We have to accept personal responsibility for how much further this slide toward tyranny is going to take us; and that starts by getting informed, and informing others of the extent of their plan.

1. Airport Service Providers — Includes on-craft providers: baggage, cleaners, cargo, catering, mechanics, ground crew, food service, cleaners, security, taxi, limos, and shuttles.
2. Beauty/Drug Suppliers — People who have burn marks, missing limbs, travel a long distance, nervous, who are picked up, make illogical requests (even of consumer-grade products).
3. Bulk Fuel Distributors — New customers not from the area, those using cash for large transactions, nervous, large purchases, having a rental vehicle.
4. Construction Sites — People with environmental slogans and/or anti-government slogans, banners or signs that threaten or imply violence.
5. Dive/Boat Shops — New customers reluctant to provide complete personal information, customer who does not have certification, using cash for expensive transactions, extended rentals, appearing uninterested in safety rules, experiencing guarded behavior.
6. Electronics Stores — Person who alters appearance from visit to visit (changing hair color, shaving, etc.), fills a “shopping list” of components while lacking knowledge about their use. Pays cash for large purchases.
7. Farm Supply Stores — New customers not from the area, nervous or impatient, suspicious inquiries regarding equipment specifications, failing to state legitimate use for supplies, rental vehicle, cash for large transactions.
8. Financial Institutions — No evidence for legitimate business activity, those with multiple accounts, banks, parties, and jurisdictions (layering).  Mixed deposits (money orders, third-party checks, and/or payroll into a business account).  Large volume of wire transfers, or repetitive patterns, shell entities, “pass through” points by foreign jurisdictions.
9. General Aviation — Taking flying lessons but appear uninterested, renting under vague reasons for doing so, requests to fly over specific locations without substantiated reason, taking pictures or videos of potentially sensitive locations, actions outside the norm, parking near the perimeter of airport, asking questions without substantiation.
10. General Public — Basically everything exhibited by those with an inquisitive nature: questions, note taking, drawing, annotating maps, inappropriate photos or videos, people in places where they do not belong.
11. Hobby Shops — Interest in remote-controlled aircraft, interest that does not seem genuine, possessing little knowledge of purchase, exhibiting unusual interest, exhibiting no interest, using cash for large transactions.
12. Home Improvement and Large Retail Stores — Large quantity of ammunition, firearms and ammunition out of season, combination of unusual items, interest in night vision and camouflage apparel, purchases of pipe fittings and supplies, rental vehicle, refusal to complete firearms paperwork, using cash for large transactions.
13. Hotels/Motels — There is an excellent discussion of this section in Michael Snyder’s recent article.
14. Internet Cafes — There is an excellent discussion of this section in Michael Snyder’s recent  article.
15. Shopping Malls — Wearing backpacks, discreet use of cameras, note-taking, or video over an extended period, several men arriving together then splitting up, continuing to communicate (dry run?), speaking to security guards, comments regarding radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings, or anti-U.S. sentiments that appear out of place and provocative.
16. Martial Arts/Paintball — Insist on paying with cash, travels long distance to participate, interest in learning offensive moves in a confined space, learning the use of hidden weapons, learning kill and restraint techniques with no occupational need, group training, uttering racist, religious, unusual, anti-US, or vague and cryptic warnings, close combat training, paintball tactics of ambush or kidnapping scenarios, operating a private facility, converting large plots of rural land to conduct these activities.
17. Mass Transportation — Altering one’s appearance, exhibiting burns, bleached body hair, concealed wires, nervous, actions suggesting use of a hidden camera, unusual comments, questioning security/facility personnel via normal means of communication, groups arriving together then splitting up and communicating via cell phone.
18. Military Surplus — Demanding identity privacy, insisting on paying with cash, suspicious comments, bulk purchases.
19. Peroxide Explosives — Unknown customer, individual requesting more information.
20. Recognizing Sleepers — Arrival from countries where violent militant Islamic groups are known to operate, long unexplained absences, fury at the West for reasons ranging from personal problems to global policies of the U.S., conspiracy theories about Westerners (e.g. the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands), accusing the West of trying to destroy Islam.
21. Rental Cars — Reluctance to provide complete personal information, using cash, unusual questions.
22. Rental Properties — Using cash for large transactions, inquiries about local sites, refusing maintenance or service over extended time, not using property for intended purpose, unusual number of package deliveries, unusual amounts of traffic, discovery of unusual items.
23. Rental Trucks — Reluctance to provide personal information, cash for large transactions, inquiries about renting a truck with a wooden floor, questions about vehicle specifications.
24. Storage Facilities — Failing to provide complete personal information, using cash to pay fees in advance, placing unusual items in storage, disposing of tools, gloves, masks, or clothing, discarding clothes or shoes in new condition, avoiding contact with rental facility personnel, accessing facility an unusual number of times, storing items that emit unusual odors or leak liquids.
25. Tattoo Shops — Demanding identity “privacy,” paying cash, altering appearance (beard, hair style, hair color, style of dress, etc.), making racist or extreme statements, suspicious comments that suggest or appear to endorse violence in support of a cause, repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos, inquiries about unusual methods of tattooing or placement which could allow the concealment of extremist symbols.

These flyers also state an additional note about how you can be a part of the solution:

• Require a valid ID of all new customers.
• Keep records of purchases.
• Talk to customers, ask questions, and listen to and observe their responses.
• Make note of suspicious statements, people and/or vehicles.
• If something seems wrong, notify law enforcement authorities.

As a former store owner in one of the categories above (and a martial arts practitioner), I suggest that you completely disregard the suggestions of these reports.  Instead, I would urge common sense, reliance upon your innate “gut instincts” that nature has provided as a tool to determine what is truly wrong beyond these catch-all guidelines.  And, lastly, realize that preventing terrorism is not a “community effort” under the direction of bloated bureaucrats and their overlords. Preventing terrorism, whether State-sponsored via false flag or legitimate, should be the role of each individual’s power of discernment. It’s more efficient, more honest, and more effective.

It is the utmost duty of individuals to speak out against unsubstantiated fear mongering and the usurpation of power based on upon exaggerated threats. These exaggerated threats are often designed to lead to a paranoid culture that can be easily swayed by manipulated emotions instead of critical thinking. Furthermore, violence, coercion, and threats of consequences for non-cooperation with State dictates are the hallmarks of historical tyranny.

Finally, let’s not forget what the mere accusation of terrorism means in today’s world: indefinite detention without a trial, torture, and the end of our unalienable rights.

Follow the above official State guidelines for reporting “potential terrorism” at your peril. WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS: A SHOPPING LIST OF EXCUSES TO ARREST INNOCENT PEOPLE. TRANSLATION – ARREST ANYONE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LIKE. THEN PICK AN EXCUSE FROM THIS IDIOTIC LIST OF JUSTIFICATIONS.

Source:
http://publicintelligence.net/fbi-suspicious-activity-reporting-flyers/

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New FBI Clampdown on Thought Crime.

http://targetfreedom.com/cfr/fbi-clampdown-on-thought-crime/  

Thought Criminals Beware! The FBI is training local police on dealing with unauthorized thoughts. Thought Crime is a very subtle thing. As hard as you try to avoid unauthorized thoughts, without warning you could wind up being a thought criminal. if you do not understand these concepts you should 

 Watch the “Nineteen Eighty-four” movie online   http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2009/08/watch-the-nineteen-eighty-four-movie-online.html   WATCH IT

HERE:

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5464625623984168940&hl=en 

OR HERE:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940#  

WHEN YOU SEE THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTY YOU ARE NO LONGER ON THE WAY TO TYRANNY. YOU ALREADY HAVE TYRANNY.  

Last Pillar of tyranny here now: Thought crime – criminalization of belief in Liberty

http://targetfreedom.com/books/last-pillar-of-tyranny-here-now-thought-crime-criminalization-of-belief-in-liberty/ http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2009/03/last-pillar-of-tyranny.htmlSTEP ONE: DEMONIZATION STEP TWO: LIQUIDATION

YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON PREVENTING DEMONIZATION. PREVENT DEMONIZATION BY POSTING THIS MESSAGE. WE SHOW HOW IDIOTIC THEY ARE AND CREATE PUBLIC OPPOSITION.

THIS IS A PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTEST: PATRIOTS WIN: LIBERTY SURVIVES. TYRANTS WIN: PATRIOTS DIE.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON!

  FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE81600V20120207?irpc=932 

By Patrick Temple-West

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.

These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.

The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.

Routine encounters with police can turn violent “at the drop of a hat,” said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

“We thought it was important to increase the visibility of the threat with state and local law enforcement,” he said.

In May 2010, two West Memphis, Arkansas, police officers were shot and killed in an argument that developed after they pulled over a “sovereign citizen” in traffic.

Last year, an extremist in Texas opened fire on a police officer during a traffic stop. The officer was not hit.

Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.

“We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters,” said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent.

FBI agents said they do not have a tally of people who consider themselves “sovereign citizens.”

J.J. MacNab, a former tax and insurance expert who is an analyst covering the sovereign movement, has estimated that it has about 100,000 members.

Sovereign members often express particular outrage at tax collection, putting Internal Revenue Service employees at risk.

Who will protect us from our Protectors?

The “Police State” Special Edition Issue of The New American magazine. (Fall/Winter 1994) http://americanistbookstore.com/books/police-state-edition-the-new-american-magazine/  

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KPDTVO?ie=UTF8&seller=A1AVPSERX4QF0E&sn=jperna12 

The cover shows an ATF agent, in camouflage, and carrying an assault rifle. He is wearing sun glasses, and has a piece of tape over his badge number.

Why is this happening?

Watch the “training” of your police, by your federal government: Feds Slander Christians, founding fathers and homeschoolers as terrorists.

Fed training video: Christian and founding fathers called terrorists The lecturer identifies George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers as “terrorists”.   OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!!!   Sit in on an actual FEMA Gestapo training class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLA29msr_ic    This video is regularly blocked. Down load it NOW Multiple URLs are provided in case they block some of them.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJZS6AeejA   

http://polidics.com/civil-liberties/fema-our-founding-fathers-were-terrorists.html   

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x99l4x_leaked-fema-training-video-domestic_news  (HAS AN ADVERT FIRST)   http://internetofcourses.us/leaked-fema-training-video-domestic-terrorism 

FBI Attempts to Make ‘Libertarians’ the Poster Children for Domestic Extremism

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/fbi-attempts-to-make-libertarians.html  

Eric Blair
As the definition of a domestic extremist continues to expand to include activists for peace, animal rights, currency, natural health, liberty and other noble causes, the FBI is ready to make an example out of one group in particular: Libertarians.

The FBI held a press conference Monday to “increase the visibility of the threat” that people who oppose taxes and regulations, government intrusions into their private property, and the desire for sound money allegedly pose to local authorities. Although the FBI vaguely attempts to label this group as “sometimes known as ‘sovereign citizens'”, the description sounds an awful lot like me, and millions of other liberty-minded people in America that don’t associate with any group.
They also sound like Ron Paul supporters.   The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope (Paperback) by Sheriff Richard Mack

http://americanistbookstore.com/books/county-sheriff-americas-last-hope/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PKCMFO?ie=UTF8&seller=A1AVPSERX4QF0E&sn=jperna12  

Sheriff Mack’s latest staplebound paperback booklet covers decades of research to prove once and for all that the sheriffs in this country are indeed the ultimate law authority in their respective jurisdictions. The sheriff absolutely has the power and responsibility to defend his citizens against all enemies, including those from our own Federal Government. History, case law, common law and common sense all show clear evidence that the sheriff is the people’s protector in all issues of injustice and is responsible for keeping the peace in all matters. He is the last line of defense for his constituents; he is America’s last hope to regain our forgotten freedom. This short but powerful staplebound paperback booklet is a must read for all citizens, sheriffs, and government officials that we may all work to return America to the constitutional republic she was meant to be. Amazing as it might be, the sheriff can make this happen!   According to Reuters:

Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.

These extremists, sometimes known as ‘sovereign citizens,’ believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.

The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.

Notice the resolute use of the word “extremists” but the vague description “sometimes known as sovereign citizens.”  Yet the description that these “extremists may refuse to pay taxes and defy government environmental regulations” sounds more like General Electric than average liberty activists who the FBI clearly seems hellbent on demonizing.

Additionally, the official mission for Sovereign Citizens is to “Protect Property Rights and American Civil Liberties.”  As fierce protectors of property rights, they take environmental damage quite seriously.  Many would argue that an environmental policy governed by property rights is far more effective than the bloated EPA which is wholly owned by corporate polluters.

“Sovereign members often express particular outrage at tax collection, putting Internal Revenue Service employees at risk,” Reuters assumes.  Yet, choosing not to pay taxes is by definition a form of non-violent civil disobedience.  And no credible threats against individual IRS agents were cited.

Opposing taxes only seems dangerous to those who wish to perpetuate this prison society.  I would even suggest that it’s far more dangerous to continue to fund an organization who wages murderous wars abroad based on lies, who builds a militarized police state at home, who removes all individual liberty in the name of safety, and who bails out criminal cartels while the innocent suffer.  The real extremists would seem to be the ones who support such a blood-thirsty organization, not the people who oppose its wicked ways.   But the FBI does their best to convince us that that sovereign citizens are dangerous extremists by warning us they can turn violent “at the drop of a hat,” as Stuart McArthur, assistant director in the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said at the press conference.

As evidence, McArthur refers to one incident where two men claiming to be Sovereign Citizens killed two Arkansas policemen after an argument.  Because this isolated and highly suspect incident is hardly worthy of labeling an entire philosophical group as violent, McArthur desperately tries to dignify the reason for the FBI’s alert with other, even more vague examples:

Last year, an extremist in Texas opened fire on a police officer during a traffic stop. The officer was not hit.

Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.

Eighteen “such extremists” convicted of white collar fraud! That’s all you can produce with an $8 billion FBI budget?  And you wonder why people think their taxes may be better spent elsewhere?

The FBI and the Reuter’s reporter must have forgotten to check the Sovereign Citizens’ own website to see their very clear statement in complete disagreement to all allegations made in this article:

We do NOT endorse non-payment of taxes or violence to achieve these changes. We do NOT endorse giving up a social security number and we do NOT endorse violence against the police or the government.

But recently, the feds somehow excused the use of a domestic drone of all things in the arrest of farmers accused of stealing a handful of cattle because the farmers were said to be Sovereign Citizens.

It appears the federal government is trying to make an enemy out of non-violent activists, especially liberty activists.  Imagine, people concerned with peace and liberty are the enemy of the FBI.  What’s the opposite of peace and liberty?  War and tyranny.  Which side are you on?   The Proper Role of Law Enforcement by  Sheriff Richard Mack
http://americanistbookstore.com/books/proper-role-of-law-enforcement/    

What every citizen should know. What every cop should believe. “To serve and protect” – This time-honored mission statement of American law enforcement is steadily giving way in police departments all across the nation to an ethos of intimidation, military-style siege, and disdain for citizens’ rights. Richard Mack – the man who as sheriff of a rural Arizona county fought the Brady Bill gun-control law all the way to the Supreme Court and won – gives us an insider’s glimpse into the pervasive forces that are relentlessly driving America towards a police state. In almost confessional style, he recounts how he came to realize, while working as a beat cop, how wrong the all-too-common orientation of police officers is when they think of their job as being “to write tickets and arrest people.” Richard Mack tells of his personal transformation from “by-the-numbers” cop to constitution-conscious defender of citizens’ rights and freedoms. This book is a wake-up call for all law-enforcement officers. It is a must-read for every man and woman wearing a badge. If you have a friend or relative in law enforcement, make sure you get a copy into their hands. You’ll be shocked to learn just how far American law enforcement has strayed from its mission.   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002NWUEBS?ie=UTF8&seller=A1AVPSERX4QF0E&sn=jperna12   http://www.naturalnews.com/034908_FBI_coffee_shops_terrorism.html 
  http://www.infowars.com/fbi-says-paying-for-your-morning-coffee-with-cash-a-potential-terrorist-activity/

FBI says paying for your morning coffee with cash a potential terrorist activity urges coffee shop owners to report cash-paying customers to authorities.

http://www.infowars.com/feds-label-bulk-buying-of-food-a-potential-terrorist-activity/

Feds Label Bulk Buying of Food a Potential Terrorist Activity

  JUST WHO DO THEY CALL CONSPIRACY NUTS?     New DHS Report: If You Love “Individual Liberty” Or If You “Believe In Conspiracy Theories” You Are A Potential Terrorist

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/according-to-a-new-dhs-report-if-you-love-individual-liberty-of-if-you-believe-in-conspiracy-theories-you-are-a-potential-terrorist   WOULD THAT BE LIKE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT YOU ARE A TERRORIST IF YOU PAY CASH FOR COFFEE?   THIS ARTICLE IS ALSO POSTED AT: http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2012/02/fbi-clampdown-on-thought-crime.html   FOLLOW UP ARTICLES:

Profiling and Criminalizing Political Dissent

http://targetfreedom.com/cfr/profiling-and-criminalizing-political-dissent/   

Last Pillar of tyranny here now: Thought crime – criminalization of belief in Liberty

http://targetfreedom.com/books/last-pillar-of-tyranny-here-now-thought-crime-criminalization-of-belief-in-liberty/ 

http://targetfreedom.com/page/6/?s=arrest   https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBR_enUS229US229&q=%22LAST+PILLAR+OF+TYRANNY%22+TARGETFREEDOM    UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM IS THE FIRST, AND MOST IMPORTANT STEP, TO BECOMING MOTIVATED TO TAKE ACTION. UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM IS ALSO ESSENTIAL NOT BEING DUPED TO SERVE THE TYRANNY. PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BEING DUPED TO SERVE THE TYRANNY, WILL DEFEAT DEMONIZATION, ALL BY ITSELF, IF IT IS DONE ON LARGE ENOUGH SCALE. BUT UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY RESULT IN SOME AMOUNT OF RECRUITMENT TO ACTION. ONE THING IS CERTAIN: THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO RECRUITMENT TO ACTION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM.   THIS ARTICLE IS ALSO POSTED AT: http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2012/04/fbi-terrorist-suspicious-activity-guidelines-with-ndaa.html