Wow, Assassination politics (as Anonymous claims) made its way into the anti-terrorism manuals... igor In misc.survivalism, Anonymous wrote:
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.
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