UPDATE ON THE SPRINGMEIERS, THEY JOIN THE GROWING NUMBER OF LOOTED AMERICANS by Fritz Springmeier I promised people I would provide updates on how Patty and I are doing after the military assault on our property by the FBI, ATF, Sheriff, and SWAT team on March 1, 2001. What Patty and I are experiencing is really a sad story that is being repeated all across the United States. The DEA and other �law enforcement� agencies are simply out on the take looting from hapless victims. We are no longer safe to travel, or even safe in our own homes because the uncontrollable power that our government/police have delegated to themselves. It has been four and half months now, and we have never been charged with anything, and yet our possessions and money and projects that were looted from us are in government hands. The government seized personal property that in no way could have anything to do with a search warrant for marijuana. How does my reporter�s credentials have anything to do with marijuana? How do the books I was working on have anything to do with illegal drugs? And yet the government has stonewalled our attorney�s attempts to get our personal possessions back. In looting our property and then stonewalling our efforts to get our personal property back, they have clearly shown that their raid was not about drugs, but was for other reasons, which should be obvious to the casual observer. They (or someone in the raid) also pocketed money that was not recorded on the sheets they left us. Granted, it wasn�t much money, but it is just the idea that someone can come into the sanctity of your home and legally loot it for their own gain. This kind of thing is happening all over America. Even ex-policemen are becoming victims of this looting. (Maybe things have a way of coming around eventually. It would be nice if some of these policemen could wake up and realize that they and their families are not going to enjoy living in an out of control police state any more than you and I. Should anyone want, I will provide them with the titles of books they can read, with the personal stories of Nazis in Germany who came to regret the police state they themselves had created.) Beware of having cash where it can be found. A woman named Ethel Hylton had cash from an insurance settlement and from her life savings ($39,110), when she went she went through Houston TX�s Hobby Airport. Even though she could document where her money came from, and they could find no drugs on her, and never charged her with anything, the police still looted her money. This is one reason they came out with the new money with the strips, so they can electronically detect your cash and then loot it. Once her money was gone, she had nothing with which to fight back. That has been part of our situation. The raid cost us lots of time and money, and since we will have to continue legally trying to get our possessions returned it will continue to drain us. Under civil asset forfeiture, a person�s property is charged with a crime. Examples of this are �United States vs. one 1998 Mercedes Benz� and �California vs. 1711 Main St�.� Once the property is charged with a crime, the police seize it and divide the loot up with the courts. The police in some cases personally get 25%. The courts take their percentage kickback, and the police/DEA/etc. get their percentage to keep financing the looting of more sheeple. We are merely sheep to be shorn and bullied around. One case with which I can identify with took place in Montgomery, AL. Gussie Mae Gantt had been calling the police complaining about drug-dealers using her neighborhood. To protect her property she had posted no-trespassing signs. She had done all she could to stop these activities. The police response was to send in an informant who bought drugs on her property (which was videotaped), and then to seize her home. Easy money for these crooks with badges. I�ve noticed that the police have never been interested when I report my car being stolen, assaults on my physical body, or other crimes against my person. They only seem interested as far as I can detect in bullying people, and figuring out how to loot. (If this seems harsh, unfortunately it�s the only picture I�ve seen of police now days.) If they had any real interest in fighting drugs, they would be trying to stop the government from handing out cocaine (oops�they renamed it Ritalin) to half of our school children. The establishment newspapers have said that America and Russia are growing closer together�well, yes, both are run by criminals; they both have evilarcies in power, and the common people are increasingly aware of this. With over $1 billion in property being seized each year WITHOUT trial from innocent Americans, its getting harder to hide the looting, even though the looting is under reported by the establishment media, who repeatedly try to build up the image of the police. That $1 billion plus figure comes from an organization FEAR (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights) at www.fear.org. One of America�s leading asset defense attorneys Brenda Grantland has written a book Your House is Under Arrest. Copies are available from 707-726-8796, www.isil.org. So goes the news from the Springmeiers.
