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There is substantial reason to believe that the de facto government courts are themselves acting unlawfully; as well as the governments that support them. The people are, under our constitution and law as provided for by that constitution, entitled to act independently of the established de facto government to seek redress from wrongs committed by the de facto government. The United States Supreme Court has consistently affirmed that right. The People have the right to convene a grand jury with the power to subpoena witnesses, examine evidence and determine whether or not the evidence and testimony is credible and sufficient to issue a true bill, or not. Such grand juries are totally independent of the established legal industry and courts. They are also totally independent of the established government. They act in conformity with American common law. The established government has absolutely NO RIGHT to raid, interfere, harass, or intimidate a peaceful meeting, no matter WHAT its purpose is. This is a perfect example of what most in America have now wholly lost sight of. That is the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to alter or abolish a government that has become destructive of the ends for which it was established; hopefully by peaceful means. A government that consistently acts wrongfully against the interests of its creators will most certainly investigate itself and reach the conclusion that it is always right. Our constitution, and its underlying document, the Declaration of Independence affirm the natural right of the people to overcome the usurpations of a government that is acting outside of the authority granted to it by the PEOPLE. The people's grand jury is the means to that end, whether the government thinks so or not.

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Guess this is why...
There is a You Tube video

The raid was a response to legal summons sent by Republic of Texas members to a Kerr County judge and bank employee, demanding they appear in the Republic's court at the Veterans and Foreign Wars building in Bryan the day the officers stormed in. Jarnecke's group, the subject of a half-hour YouTube documentary, maintains a small working government, including official currency, congress, and courts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWcaFf9xtU

"You can't just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren't even real courts," said Kerr County sheriff Rusty Hierholzer, who led the operation.

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BRYAN – Federal agents helped serve a search warrant Saturday morning at the VFW Hall on FM 2818 in Bryan.

The FBI and US Marshal’s Office assisted deputies from Kerr County who were there in regards to a case involving members of the Republic of Texas.

According to the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, a member of the Republic of Texas lost her Kerr County home to foreclosure. That did not sit well with the m*****a group. So, the International Common Law Court for the Republic of Texas issued a subpoena to the district judge who signed the foreclosure.

The document ordered Melvin Rex Emerson, Jr, judge for 198th District Court, to appear before the court at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the VFW Hall.

The Republic of Texas does not have the legal authority to issue subpoenas. Essentially, by doing so, they fabricated court documents, which is a Class A misdemeanor. Kerr County deputies were at the VFW Hall trying to determine who created the subpoena.

No arrests were made today.

Other agencies involved in the process were the Attorney General’s Office, Texas Department of Public safety, Texas Rangers, Brazos County Sheriff’s Office and the Bryan Police Department.

Emerson, the judge who was subpoenaed, graduated from Texas A&M. He was appointed to the bench in 2009 by fellow Aggie and then Governor Rick Perry to replace a judge who unexpectedly retired. Emerson was re-elected in 2010 and again last year.

Tonight on News 3 at 6, you’ll hear reaction from the Republic of Texas.

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Texas secessionist meeting raided after members messed with a judge
By Zeke MacCormackFebruary 19, 2015

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KERRVILLE — Investigators looking into phony court summonses issued to a judge and lawyer here are examining computers, phones and other items seized from Republic of Texas “citizens” last weekend.


Local, state and federal officers interrupted a monthly meeting of about 60 adherents of the secessionist group Saturday at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Bryan, collecting the items under a search warrant.

No one was arrested and no charges have been filed. Authorities said they were investigating alleged fraud aimed at state District Judge Rex Emerson and Bill Arnold, a lawyer. Arnold defended a title company against a Republic of Texas member’s lawsuit in Emerson’s court in Kerrville.

David J. Kroupa, a chiropractor from Katy — in his claimed capacity as chief justice of the international Common Law Court for the Republic of Texas — had issued writs of “quo warranto” and “mandamus” for Emerson on Jan. 21 and a subpoena for Arnold on Jan. 23, ordering them to appear at hearings in Bryan.

“It went real well,” Kerr County Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer said of the operation that included the FBI, the Texas Attorney General’s office, Bryan police and Brazos County deputies. “There was a lot of what I would call discontent, but no physical resistance.”

The group’s president, John H. Jarnecke of Gillespie County, called the search a fishing expedition. He said officers photographed, fingerprinted and confiscated belongings of numerous members even though only two are accused of wrongdoing.

“I think they went totally overboard,” he said Thursday. “How is it that a supposedly free people can be subjected to intimidating, rough and highly intrusive search and seizure when assembling lawfully and peaceably?”

Kroupa issued the summonses in reaction to a foreclosure case involving Sue Cammack that was litigated in Kerr County, authorities said. Jarnecke said Cammack is a Republic of Texas member from Hunt, a town in Kerr County.

Emerson had granted a summary judgment last June in favor of Fidelity Abstract & Title Co., which Cammack had sued and which Arnold represented, court records show.

Neither Cammack nor Kroupa could be reached. Emerson and Arnold each declined comment.

The summons for Emerson called on him to appear at the VFW Hall with “proof of his authority for executing his claimed powers involving a foreign entity for the revenue collection of a private woman’s private funds without permission or lawful authority.”

The document sent to Arnold accuses him of using the threat of foreclosure to try to collect from Cammack on a forged contract, conspire to take her home and life savings and disrupt her peaceful way of life.

Jarnecke, 72, said he wasn’t familiar with specific details of the underlying dispute.

“I know that Susie Cammack has had some difficulties with various people in Kerr County in the past few years and they figured out they could file the quo warranto and writ of mandamus,” he said.

A sworn affidavit filed by Kerr County deputy Jeff McCoy in support of the search warrant alleges that Cammack, 53, and Kroupa, 59, committed the misdemeanor of simulating legal process.

The state penal code’s fraud section makes it a crime to recklessly cause to be delivered to another “any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, or other court process with the intent to induce payment of a claim from another person; or cause another to submit to the putative authority of the document.”

If charges are brought in the case, they could be filed in Kerr County or Brazos County, said Assistant Kerr County Attorney Ilse Bailey.

The search warrant issued Feb. 12 by state District Judge Keith Williams authorized collection of fingerprints, photos and DNA swabs from those at the VFW hall to prevent anyone from providing a false identity to authorities.

It also authorized officers to seize computers, cell phones and paper documents “relevant to, or which describe criminal conduct or suspected criminal activity.”

McCoy posed as a meeting guest before signaling other officers outside the VFW hall, which led to “a four-hour ordeal,” Jarnecke said.

“There probably will be a lot more harassment as we move forward in international court towards getting our independence back for Texas,” he said.

Hierholzer responded, “I don’t have any problem with them pursuing secession through legal channels, but they can’t just automatically create their own country and not abide by the laws of the United States and this state.”

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Really looked like an page of ONION to me. Funny and pathetic at the same time.

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Republic of Texas (RW secessionists) subpoena TX judge, get raided by law enforcement instead


I don't think the Republic of Texas expected this on Valentine's Day:

The FBI and US Marshal’s Office assisted deputies from Kerr County who were there in regards to a case involving members of the Republic of Texas.

According to the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, a member of the Republic of Texas lost her Kerr County home to foreclosure. That did not sit well with the m*****a group. So, the International Common Law Court for the Republic of Texas issued a subpoena to the district judge who signed the foreclosure.

The Republic of Texas does not have the legal authority to issue subpoenas. Essentially, by doing so, they fabricated court documents, which is a Class A misdemeanor. Kerr County deputies were at the VFW Hall trying to determine who created the subpoena.

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[quote=no propaganda please]Really looked like an page of ONION to me. Funny and pathetic at the same

Meeting of Texas Secessionist Group Raided by Local, State Federal Law Enforcement Officers




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On Valentine’s day a group of about 20 law enforcement officers from the Bryan, Texas Police Department, Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, Agents of the Texas District Attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI raided a gathering of the secessionist group Republic of Texas senators and their president.
John Jarnecke who calls himself president of the “Republic” gathered with his senators in a rented space at the Bryan VFW to discuss issues of the national currency, develop international relations and celebrate the birthday of one of their oldest members as another 50 or so other attendees looked on.
Minutes into the meeting, one of the onlookers, Jeff McCoy, a Kerr County Deputy Sheriff rose and opened the door to the meeting hall admitting the armed officers of the joint force all wearing bullet-proof vests and informing those present that a search warrant was being executed and that no one would be allowed to leave the premises.


Before being allowed to leave, all 60 attendees were searched, fingerprinted and had their cell phones confiscated.
This did not sit well with the secessionists who claim that Texas was illegally annexed by the U.S. in 1845, and that they are not bound by laws that they believe are illegally imposed by an occupation government.
“We had no idea what was going on,” said Jarnecke. “We knew of nothing that would warrant such an action.”
Kerr County sheriff Rusty Hierholzer, who led the operation disagrees. The raid was in response to “summonses” issued by the group ordering a Kerr County Judge and a bank employee involved in a foreclosure order on the Kerr County home of a member of the group to appear at the meeting to answer the charges against them.
“You can’t just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren’t even real courts,” said Hierholzer.
Hierholzer admitted that such a show of force in response to a misdemeanor was unusual but cited a 1997 incident involving the group and concern that some members might respond to service of the warrant with violence.
In 1997 Rick McLaren who led the group at that time and several members of the organization stormed a home in the Davis Mountains outside Fort Davis. taking the owners hostage and engaging in a week-long standoff with police before they surrendered. One man was k**led when he prepared to fire on a police officer rather than surrender.
McLaren remains in prison with a projected release date in 2090 and still maintains that Texas is an independent nation.

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Last week Infowars.com reported on a Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment issued earlier this month that characterizes sovereign citizen groups as an equal if not worse threat to the government than ISIS.

According to CNN the “government says these are extremists who believe that they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack in routine daily instances such as a traffic stop or being required to obey a court order.”

The assessment states that “law enforcement officers will remain the primary target of (sovereign citizen) violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations.”

In 2014 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a University of Maryland project funded by the Department of Homeland Security, designated the so-called sovereign citizen movement as the number one d******c t*******t threat in America.

In August, Infowars.com reported:

Sovereign citizens do not constitute a cohesive movement, although the government characterizes them as such. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates around 100,000 Americans were “hard-core sovereign believers” in 2010 and an additional 200,000 were “just starting out by testing sovereign techniques for resisting everything from speeding tickets to drug charges.”

The SPLC works with the DHS to formulate the terrorist threat posed by citizens allegedly belonging to the sovereign citizen movement.

According to a report by issued by START last month, “sovereign citizens were the top concern of law sovereign enforcement” and ranked ahead of neo-N**is, the KKK, the patriot movement, and other “idiosyncratic sectarians,” including survivalists, all who allegedly pose a threat to the police and the state according to a survey conducted by the Homeland Security funded organization.

Rufus Loc: Deep South

Yes it is bad. Obama the Muslim and his minions in my white house are the problem. Bless you my child. May the demons come out of you.

rolse

The sheriff lies a lot. He is part of a government now almost wholly at odds with the interests of the people, and which acts almost exclusively in support of the banks and corporations that control it for their benefit. It is in his interest to attempt to suppress any attempt by the unlawful de facto government that pays him to do the dirty work for it and its corporate banksters and cronies.

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The sheriff, and the government he represents are themselves part of an unlawful corporation. A fraud perpetrated against the people of Texas and by others elsewhere in the de facto governments against all of us.

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The republic of Texas is claiming they are not citizens of the United States,
Ate they i*****l i*******ts? And need deported? Does the Constitution not pertain to them? You can not have it both ways.
If you poke a hornets nest, you are going to get stung,
He acknowledged he used a "show of force," grouping officers from city, county state and federal law enforcement to serve a search warrant for suspicions of a misdemeanor crime. He said he had worries that some extremists in the group could become violent, citing a 1997 incident when 300 state troopers surrounded an armed Republic leader for a weeklong standoff.

RELATED: "Today in Texas History: Long live Republic of Texas! Separatist group standoff in mountains begins"

"We've had years of bad press, but we're not those people," said Jarnecke of the '97 incident. "But yes, we are still making every attempt to get independence for Texas and we're doing it in a lawful international manner."

The Republic has a lengthy list of qualms with the federal government, among them that Texas was illegally annexed in 1845. But most of their complaints have to do with the behavior of the American legislature and executive. Robert Wilson, a senator in the Republic, equated politicians in Washington D.C. to the "kings and emperors" of the past, and sees Texas independence as part of a worldwide movement for local control.

"This is the century for colonialist ambitions to be reversed," the 78-year-old pastor said. "I've watched a lot of things happen, and the people of the world are fed up. The spirit of the world right now is: make things smaller, move governments closer to home, take back self-rule."

RELATED: "Texas Nationalist group rallies for secession in Austin"

Jarnecke said he was being taxed by a foreign government that he feels doesn't represent him, and protested having to fund bank bailouts and foreign wars.

"According to the U.S. Constitution, the only place any army should be is guarding our own borders, not invading and trying to impose their will on every other country of the world," Jarnecke said.

Still, he and Wilson said their group would not resort to violence, but is working through world courts to get international recognition of an independent Texas. They said their methods are legal, but Sheriff Hierholzer contests that.

"We've had a lot of dealings with Republic of Texas members in the past here, too, flooding the court with simulated documents," he said. "I don't have any problem with them going back to the Republic of Texas but they need to do it through the proper legal channels."

The judge and banker summoned to the Republic's court had been involved in the foreclosure of a member's Kerr County house. The invalid court summon was signed by Susan Cammak, the Kerr County homeowner, and David Kroupa, a Republic of Texas judge from Harris County.

A search warrant, photographed and emailed by a Republic of Texas member before her phone was confiscated, accuses the two of "simulating legal process." It also authorizes the seizure of all computers, media storage, software, cell phones and paper documents. Hierholzer said the seized devices will be downloaded and reviewed to determine if others conspired in the creation and issuance of false court documents.

Police searched and fingerprinted each person at the meeting, but they did not perform cheek-swab DNA testing as the warrant allowed.

No arrests were made in the raid, but the case is still under investigation, Hierholzer said. The FBI and Texas Rangers would not comment.

Jarnecke acknowledged that legislation and court summons issues by the Republic have no real effect, but said the group was close to taking their case to an international court—they haven't yet selected which. He hopes that will be the first step in rallying for Texas independence.

RELATED: "Texas separatist still thinks cause will succeed"

"I'm positive we will get out independence back at some point in time," he said. "Now we're just trying to nip things in the bud ahead of time to make sure the people are the ones that have the power when it happens, not the government."