Chron – by Dylan BaddourIt seemed like a typical congressional meeting for the Republic of Texas. Senators and the president gathered in the center of a Bryan, Texas, meeting hall, surrounded by public onlookers, to debate issues of the national currency, develop international relations and celebrate the birthday of one of their oldest members.
But this wasn’t 1836, and this would be no ordinary legislative conference. Minutes into the meeting a man among the onlookers stood and moved to open the hall door, letting in an armed and armored force of the Bryan Police Department, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, Agents of the Texas District Attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI.
In the end, at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment in a Valentine’s Day 2015 raid on the Texas separatist group.
“We had no idea what was going on,” said John Jarnecke, president of the Republic of Texas. “We knew of nothing that would warrant such an action.”
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.
“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.
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.
“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.”
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.
“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.”
“The invalid court summon was signed by Susan Cammak, the Kerr County homeowner, and David Kroupa, a Republic of Texas judge from Harris County.”
and now you know who the infiltrators are who got the place raided.
“But this wasn’t 1836, and this would be no ordinary legislative conference. Minutes into the meeting a man among the onlookers stood and moved to open the hall door, letting in an armed and armored force of the Bryan Police Department, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, Agents of the Texas District Attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI.”
Absolutely ridiculous. A clear over-reach of everything. Nothing more than a government invasion against We the people.
““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.”
Why? Barry and Eric Holder do it all the time.
“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.”
What legal channels? We don’t have legal channels because we don’t have a government. We have anarchy.
“”Police searched and fingerprinted each person at the meeting, but they did not perform cheek-swab DNA testing as the warrant allowed.”
So no arrests were made, yet the bastards forced the people to give them their fingerprints. Absolutely illegal like everything else that they do.
They brought their voices as their weapons to the meeting. That time has long passed and perhaps they will eventually realize it.
Exactly.
Of course the guardians of the CORPORATION declare the instruments to be invalid….. The Republic of Texas documents (assuming there are no defects in the instruments themselves) are valid, lawful instruments outside the admiralty jurisdiction of the CORPORATION, but cannot be “seen” from within the fictitious realm of “legality” the admiralty system perpetuates. There IS a private process which can be utilized outside of the admiralty jurisdiction, but one needs to recognize exactly what it means to be a free soul on the land and to conduct one’s affairs from the private commercial perspective, and not attempt to mix the private commercial “common” jurisdiction with the public admiralty fiction. That is where the fiction will challenge the summons’ validity. If these folks would gain the knowledge necessary to privately contract outside the venue of the CORPORATE “business” they would either find success, or would at least be able to demonstrate the criminality under which the CORPORATION operates. Remember: operating in a fraudulent and deceptive manner to deny living souls their God-given rights and exercising bureaucratic dominance under color of law are both crimes which the people have the authority to judge. Given, that the CORPORATION has by fraud and deception usurped the Republic of the United States and fictionalized every level of lawful office, jurisdiction and living soul in our land; The creatures who maintain and perpetuate that fraud and deception are the real and true criminals, not the living souls on the land who are the real and true masters of the Republic.
No king but King Jesus!
Death to the New World Order
Ceasar is scared . When Ceasar gets scared , times get dangerous .
What amazes me is the status quo brainwashed that support violating their oath of office ?
I don’t understand how Kerr County deputies could EVEN be involved in such a raid?
And there is only one WORD the feds understand. FORCE.
Until we bring that into play, NOTHING will change. They have NO RESPECT for our WORDS.
meanwhile next door a group of illegal invaders is being put up by the “legitimate government”?
Talk till your blue in the face dumb a$$es. Eventually you will need more persuasive methods.
Yep. The people still don’t get it. We don’t have a government anymore and the only way to change things is by the barrel of a gun. Otherwise, they can talk all the want as Barry and his Zionist cohorts will continue to escort more illegal immigrants across our Southern border.
Wake up, people!
#1 and I have joined forces. TPTB are screwed. lol
lol
Attempting to make changes to this nation through talking and working “legally” is nothing more than naivety on the part of the silly, child-like, though well meaning, participants. This nation was forged at the tip of a spear and only at the tip of a spear will it be restored. Exposing oneself via a show of “civil disobedience” only serves to allow the enemy to catalog enemy combatants. Only military force will restore the republic.
That’s correct. Government only understands force.
So, speak the language they understand.
-flek
My first reaction: the raid was miscarried; you can nail them on technicalities. They failed to present the search warrant, making it invalid.
Then the judge’s use of corporate-state powers for a private common law matter is a violation of his oath.
I bet he has more than one oath. Texas is the world capitol of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Find how many LEOs and judges are Freemasons. Then file conspiracy and terror charges against their lodges.
You won’t win under a Freemason judge, but may get publicity, which is the whole PR gimmick of this raid. They could have just served papers, yes? All the drugs and illegals running around Texas, but they send locked-and-loaded, multi-jurisdiction, paramilitary at feeble seniors in a VFW hall?
You may at least get the sheriff unelected and back baking doughnuts at 4 AM where he belongs. I have never heard of such a ridiculous, made-up term as ‘simulated legal documents’ – does it exist in any body of law?
There’s truth regarding corporation America. The sheriff is the only LEO who can enforce the lawful Constitution. The other gun-happy thugs are corporate enforcers. Too bad the sheriff is clueless.
Meetings should have live streaming from multiple angles so these paramilitary assaults on self-governing people (America famously claims) are seen as the needlessly violent, claptrap agitprop they are. The real way to win against LEO goons is embarassment. If an arrest is bad PR they won’t ever do it. Show the media that all these LEOs belong to lodges and you’ll get a dismissal in the court of public opinion and the judge may have to step down.