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  • KGO-TV (ABC7/San Francisco) Has Video Of Americans Pledging Allegiance To ‘Shadow Government’

    This is not the American Flag; it is the flag on display at the October meeting of the purported California Assembly of the Republic for the united States of America. Source: From KGO-TV video.

    Tim Turner, the purported “President” of the “Republic for the united States of America,” is in jail — charged with trying to pay his taxes with “a fictitious $300 million bond and to have assisted others in attempting to pay their taxes with fictitious bonds purporting to be worth amounts ranging from $10 million to $100 billion,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in September.

    In October, KGO-TV (ABC7/San Francisco) took a camera to a meeting of the purported California Assembly of the Republic for the united States of America. The meeting was held in Visalia. An I-Team report by the station aired yesterday. It included video taken at the meeting and elsewhere.

    Some attendees of the Visalia meeting pledged allegiance to a flag other than the American Flag and recited an “oath of citizenship” to a country other than the United States, the station reported.

    Purported citizenship papers were symbolically stamped with a thumbprint in red ink to mimic a “blood oath,” the station reported.

    From the KGO-TV report (italics added):

    The group believes an act of Congress in 1871 made the U.S. government a private, for-profit corporation. Members say after that, Congress changed its oath of office and that means the republic can take over.

    Read the report. (The video report is below.)

  • BULLETIN: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Tim Turner Of Purported ‘Republic for the united States of America’ Charged In Alleged ‘Seminar’ Scam In Which He Taught Attendees How To File Bogus Liens Against Public Officials; Tax Crimes Also Charged, Justice Department Says

    “Turner is alleged to have attempted to pay his own taxes with a fictitious $300 million bond and to have assisted others in attempting to pay their taxes with fictitious bonds purporting to be worth amounts ranging from $10 million to $100 billion.” — U.S. Department of Justice, Sept. 18, 2012

    BULLETIN: James Timothy Turner, a purported “sovereign citizen” who claims to be “President” of the “Republic for the united States of America,” has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to pay taxes with fictitious financial instruments, attempting to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service, failing to file a 2009 federal income tax return and falsely testifying under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding, the Justice Department announced.

    Among the allegations against Turner is that he “conducted seminars at which he taught attendees how to file retaliatory liens against government officials and to defraud the IRS by preparing and submitting fictitious bonds to the United States government in payment of federal taxes,” the Justice Department said.

    “Turner is alleged to have attempted to pay his own taxes with a fictitious $300 million bond and to have assisted others in attempting to pay their taxes with fictitious bonds purporting to be worth amounts ranging from $10 million to $100 billion,” the Justice Department said.

    The IRS and the FBI led the probe, the Justice Department said.

    So-called “sovereign citizens” may have an irrational belief that laws do not apply to them.

    Purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming — a mainstay in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme story — was arrested by the FBI last year on charges he filed bogus liens against at least five public officials involved in the ASD case, including a federal judge, three federal prosecutors and a special agent of the U.S. Secret Service.

    He also is accused of uttering a bogus “bonded promissory note,” concealing fugitives wanted in a home-business caper and being a felon in possession of firearms.

    Leaming also has sought to sue President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on a theory they are imposters in office. In June, Leaming, 56, sought to sue a county sheriff in Arkansas, demanding purported damages be paid in gold and silver.

    In August, purported “sovereign citizen” Michael Chung, 52, was arrested in New York on charges that he threatened to kill two bank employees.