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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: "Paper Terrorism" Memo from Rep. Karen Schmidt
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Good question. I would wait for confirmation
that it is authentic, before doing anything else.
Thanks for your comments.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
At 08:20 PM 9/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I started counting the inflammatory labels and instances of slanted
>rhetoric, but the number became very large quickly, and so I stopped.
>However, is this perhaps an incidence of hate speech? Is this a hate
>crime, actionable under the new laws?
>
>----------
>| From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
>| To: Recipient list suppressed
>| Subject: SLS: "Paper Terrorism" Memo from Rep. Karen Schmidt
>| Date: Monday, September 22, 1997 12:32 PM
>|
>| [This text is formatted in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
>|
>|
>| [CONSPICUOUS WARNING:]
>|
>| [The authenticity of this transcript has not been confirmed
>| as of the date of transcript preparation (9/22/97, 09:15).]
>|
>|
>| [begin transcript]
>|
>| State of Washington
>| Washington State Patrol
>| General Administration Building
>| P.O. Box 42600
>| Olympia, Washington 98504-2600
>| (360) 753-6540
>|
>| September 17, 1997
>|
>| TO: Washington State Senators
>| Washington State Representatives
>|
>| FROM: Representative Karen Schmidt, Chairman [sic]
>| Organized Crime Advisory Board
>|
>| SUBJECT: Paper Terrorism
>|
>|
>| It has been brought to my attention that anti-government
>| organizations have been utilizing a tactic called "paper
>| terrorism" to effectively disable government. Commonly, public
>| officials are personally targeted. This widespread practice is
>| accomplished by overburdening our communications, business, or
>| judicial systems with frivolous or repetitive petitions, property
>| liens, and small claims court actions.
>|
>| Enclosed is a brief explanation of this process. If you feel you
>| are a victim of "paper terrorism," I encourage you to contact the
>| Washington State Patrol, Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, in
>| Olympia at (360) 753-3277, for assistance.
>|
>| KS:csp
>| Enclosure
>|
>| PAPER TERRORISM
>|
>| Introduction
>|
>| Since the early 1990's there has been a noticeable increase in
>| the number of people across the country who have joined and
>| continue to participate in the anti-government movement. These
>| individuals view themselves as victims of a government conspiracy
>| to take away their individual rights and liberties. They do not
>| recognize most forms of county, state, and federal government and
>| therefore create their own self-styled government. National
>| speakers in the anti-government extremists or "Patriot" movement
>| conduct recruitment and information seminars across Washington
>| State, as well as the entire country. These seminars and
>| recruitment meetings fuel bizarre conspiracy theories and
>| communicate new trends within the anti-government movement.
>| Paper terrorism has grown from a trend to a full scale tactic
>| used upon businesses, private individuals, government services
>| and elected officials.
>|
>|
>| Background
>|
>| Paper terrorism is designed to clog government services with
>| meaningless requests which consume time and disrupt schedules.
>| In the private sector paper terrorism is an attempt to extort
>| money, goods or services. Some examples of paper terrorism
>| activities:
>|
>| * Bogus liens placed upon personal property of government
>| officials and private individuals.
>|
>| * Frivolous lawsuits filed in state and federal courts against
>| businesses and government entices [sic].
>|
>| * Drafting and passing counterfeit bank checks and other
>| fraudulent negotiable instruments aimed at defrauding the
>| financial community and businesses.
>|
>| * Common Law Courts that issue homemade subpoenas to citizens,
>| businesses and government officials.
>|
>| * Challenging judges in an effort to disqualify them on a
>| current case and to repeat their motions to disqualify these
>| judges from hearing future cases by referencing the prior
>| challenges.
>|
>| * Scheming to avoid paying state sales tax during a purchase
>| by declaring to be a non resident and then filing claims
>| with the state's risk management section if refused.
>|
>| * Disrupting the court system by persuading fellow jail
>| inmates to defend themselves as Patriots, thus tying up more
>| of the courts and prosecutors time.
>|
>| * Distributing the extremist Citizens Handbook to foster jury
>| nullification.
>|
>| * using the Internet to promote extremist ideas such as
>| "Assassination Politics" or predicting the date of death of
>| a law enforcement officer or government official to win a
>| cash price.
>|
>| * Filing bogus claims in small claims court.
>|
>| * Requesting information from courts, government agencies,
>| elected officials and businesses in the form of frivolous
>| questions in an effort to consume employee's time.
>|
>|
>| Tell-tale signs of Patriot extremists can often be found in their
>| conversation or written documents. Common indicators are
>| biblical passages, referring to the state as a "republic",
>| calling zip codes a "postal zone", refusing to acknowledge direct
>| questions, separating their middle and last names with a comma or
>| colon, placing a thumb print on a document, claiming the court
>| has no authority, or using the phrases: all rights reserved,
>| without prejudice, UCC 1-207, pro se, sui juris, united states,
>| Black's law.
>|
>|
>| Analysis and Trends
>|
>| These anti-government extremists and supporters are convinced
>| citizens are being systematically oppressed by an illegal,
>| totalitarian government. They believe the time for traditional
>| political reform has passed, that their freedom will only be
>| secured by resistance to the law and attacks against the
>| government in several forms.
>|
>| Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with
>| other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to
>| reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose.
>| This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize
>| their problems into blaming government, and cause members to
>| compete with each other to make stronger statements.
>|
>|
>| Trend and Incident Reporting
>|
>| If you become victimized by paper terrorism, contact the
>| Washington State Patrol Organized Crime Intelligence Unit at
>| (360) 753-3277, extension 121. All acts reaching a criminal
>| level should be referred to your local law enforcement agency or
>| prosecutor's office.
>|
>|
>| [end transcript]
>|
>|
>| # # #
>|
>
>
>
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