The government that was in place in 1798 wouldn't be tolerated by citizens in 1998.
Well.... as a matter of fact, Have you ever heard of the "Freemen" ?
They are like a sick joke, EEK would probably make it as their president..... but he should preside in jail as that is where they are.
texnews.com
An excerpt:
....A Presbyterian minister in Jordan, the Rev. Helen Young, has had dealings with the Freemen and discussed their beliefs, including their use of the name "Yahweh," in a telephone interview with the Reporter-News.
Like members of the House of Yahweh, the Freemen have Old Testament-based beliefs, although the Freemen are connected with a group called "Christian Identity," Young said.
"A lot of extremist groups are reaching out and adhering to 'Christian Identity,' " she said.
She explained that the organization "has to do more about identifying the true Christian, true race of God, true people of God rather than Christian identity."
The "Christian Identity" teaches a "two-seed line theory," she said, with one "seed" being the white race and the other the Jewish race.
"They have reinterpreted the Creation stories," Young said. They teach that "Jews come from the union between Eve and Satan."
Last week the Freemen in Montana were quoted in an Associated Press story as saying that "Yahweh has placed an invisible barrier around their sanctuary that no more enemies can penetrate."
In keeping with their Old Testament beliefs, the Freemen, like members of the House of Yahweh, use the ancient Hebrew name for God, "Yahweh."
Young noted the irony of the groups' using that name.
"Even the Hebrews couldn't say it, it was so sacred, and now they have adopted it," she said.
Another Old Testament name the Freemen use is "baal," a false god, Young said. The Freemen refer to the government as "baal" and people who have dealings with the government "have sold themselves out and are prostitutes of baal," she said.
The House of Yahweh, under direction of its founder Yisrayl Hawkins, teaches that the government is a "beastly system," according to its publications.
Young said she got involved in the Montana situation when people from all over the country started coming to classes taught by the Freemen. The strangers were highly noticeable in Jordan, population 450, and the only town in a county with a population of 1,500 people, she said.
"Jordan is very suspicious of strangers like that," Young said.
As the pastor for both the Presbyterian church and the Lutheran church in Jordan, Young was asked to visit with some of the Freemen followers "to see if what I was hearing was true," she said. "It was very much true........."
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"......The Freemen have issued "warrants" for the arrest of public officials to be tried in the Freemen's own "common law court." For example, a $1 million bounty has been placed on Garfield County, Montana, prosecutor Nick Murnion. Freeman LeRoy Schweitzer has said:
We'll travel in units of about 10 outfits, four guys to the outfit, most of them with automatic weapons, whatever else we've got, shotguns, you name it. We got a warrant on the sheriff. We got one on the deputy, on the judge and on the county attorney, and on the county commissioners.
Schweitzer added that in the event that other people got in the Freemen's way, "We're going to have a standing order. Anyone obstructing justice, the order is 'shoot to kill.'"
The Freemen and others using their materials have successfully duped several retailers and other institutions into honoring their bogus checks. Those who have honored the checks or sent merchandise reportedly include, among others, the Internal Revenue Service, a mortgage unit of Fleet Bank, the Maine-based camping retailer L. L. Bean, and a Utah tractor mechanic.
In another instance, one of the Freemen used a phony "certified bankers check" in an attempt to purchase thousands of dollars' worth of men's and women's clothing and accessories by mail order from an out-of-state retail outlet. The bogus check purported to draw on liens filed in two states, including Montana. When the check was rejected by the clothing establishment, two Freemen responded with additional missives, one a request that the retailer sign a pseudolegal document admitting to having caused many millions of dollars of damage to the would-be "customer," the other a rambling protest of the check's rejection.
The danger of the Freemen movement lies not only in its alleged criminal violations but in its outright assault on the very basis of American constitutional democracy.
Dissatisfied with their government, they have taken up arms and declared themselves exempt from its laws - and, as this report demonstrates, they have attempted to influence others to do the same. Rejecting the democratic institutions upon which this country was founded, the Freemen have promoted their own brand of mob rule to imitators across the country....."
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More freemen:
seattletimes.com
Their brains are so screwed up that it ceases to be funny....
Scary isn't it.... so is EEK same bs, slightly different name and story.
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The next time you hear or read from some fundamentalist that one of the goals on their agenda is "to defeat humanism," you can remind them that the authors of our Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were all humanists. Then you can do one of three things:
1. Be embarrassed for them.
2, Feel sorry for them.
3. Or, let go with a giant, Buddha-like, belly laugh into the cosmos.
We need another Comet so these Wooolangazhuangas take the "leap of faith" and join their predecessors, the Heaven Gates Yahoolies.....
<sigh>......
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