Time: Mon Nov 11 23:18:43 1996
To: richard@caprica.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Russell Landers
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>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:57:15 -0600 (CST)
>From: "G. Carroll" <gcarroll@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>Subject: TRIAL OF THE "IOWA 11" STARTS NOV. 11 (fwd)
>
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>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:26:02 -0600 (CST)
>From: G. Carroll <gcarroll@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
>To: Nancy Lord <defense@macon.mindspring.com>
>Cc: MACON.COURT.LIST@mindspring.com
>Subject: TRIAL OF THE "IOWA 11" STARTS NOV. 11
>
>
>Eleven former members of the "We the People" group go on trial starting
>Nov. 11, 1996, in the Federal Building on 3rd St., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
>
>The "Iowa 11" include Scott E. Hildebrand, Sandra K. Hildebrand, Quentin
>E. Hildebrand, Joseph A. Mentlick, Donald W. Borgmann, David I.
>Gardemann, Kenneth L. Kraklio, Allen K. Zurcher, Mervin D. Hague, Larry
>A. Webb and Joan M. Webb.
>
>The "Iowa 11" are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit
>mail fraud, two counts of mail fraud, 43 counts of conspiracy to launder
>money, and 44 counts of criminal forfeiture.
>
>The charges stem from the group's filing of "claims" and the charging of
>$300 "claims fees" relating to a 1991 executive order by President Bush
>granting allegedly granting people the right to file claims against the
>federal government. The federal indictment against the "Iowa 11" stated that
>Bush's order and an alleged class-action lawsuit "supposedly authorized
>millions of dollars to be paid any person who filled out one of the
>defendants' claim forms and paid the defendants a $300 fee." However, the
>indictment states that none of these "claims" have any value whatsoever
>and that the 6,832 people who filed such "claims" were simply ripped off
>of their $300 fees.
>
>The "We the People" organization sprung from the activities of a man
>named Roy Schwasinger, who is now serving a prison term in Colorado on
>related charges. Schwasinger claims that, among other things, he is a
>former Bush administration insider who has pushed this "farm claims
>program" because he feels he can prove the United States banking and
>judicial systems are monstrous frauds, and that they owe victimized
>Americans hefty settlements dating back to 1933 when the U.S. "went off
>the gold standard" and started running the economy with "fiat currency"
>based on debt instead of the gold standard.
>
>Some people associated with "We the People," including a former Iowa man
>named Russell Landers, are also connected with the so-called Montana
>Justus Freemen who held off federal agents for some 81 days before
>surrendering last June. Landers is currently one of the Freemen in
>custody in Montana, but he is listed in the indictment as having some
>contact with "We the People" and the Iowa 11.
>
>Concerned Americans are invited to this trial, which looms as one of the
>more critical trials in many years with reference to the so-called
>"common law courts" and "militia" movements.
>
>People interested in further information are asked to phone (319)
>386-0988 (fax number 319-391-8416).
>
>This case has been featured on ABC World News Tonight, but the defendants
>involved have been tarred with "antigovernment" labels and "scam artists"
>without any of the charges yet presented in court with appropriate evidence.
>
>The trial is expected to last between one and two months.
>
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