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States Get Serious In Confronting Sovereign Citizen Movement

Jillian Rayfield | February 28, 2012, 6:40AM

$4 billion liens against police officers. Bankruptcy proceedings against the United States government. Claims of grammar-based conspiracies or "backwards-correct-syntaxing-modification fraud."

Sovereign citizens have found bizarre and creative ways to use court filings and liens to harass public officials throughout the country -- and legislators in Georgia have had enough.

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Topics: Alaska, Alaska Peacemakers Militia, Arkansas, B.J. Pak, Georgia, Paper Terrorism, Sovereign Citizens

Alleged Con Artist Drops Out Of AR House Race

Jillian Rayfield | November 4, 2011, 5:46PM

Payphones in Arkansas

Drew Pritt has dropped out of the campaign for House in Arkansas after what he calls "malicious gossip" on the internet regarding an investigation into whether he stole money from a fundraiser for a wounded veterans.

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Topics: Alaska, Arkansas, Drew Pritt

Arkansas House Candidate Accused Of Con Job In Alaska

Jillian Rayfield | October 31, 2011, 6:05AM

Andrew Caleb Pritt

A serial campaigner running for Congress in Arkansas is under investigation in Alaska for fraud, after allegedly pocketing money from a fundraiser for a wounded veteran.

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Topics: Alaska, Arkansas, Drew Pritt

West Memphis Three

West Memphis Three Released From Prison In Plea Deal

Jillian Rayfield | August 19, 2011, 9:21AM

Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three

Updated: August 19, 2011, 3:39PM

A judge has ordered that the "West Memphis Three", imprisoned for more than 18 years, be released following a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.

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Topics: Arkansas, Death Penalty, West Memphis Three

Steve Womack

Republican's Spending Cut Idea: Take Away Obama's Teleprompter!

Ryan J. Reilly | February 16, 2011, 3:15PM

Barack Obama and Steve Womack (R-AR)

Members of Congress are coming up with all sorts of ideas to cut the budget -- some of them which would have an actual impact on cutting spending. And then there are others that seem more about grabbing headlines. Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) -- who proposed an amendment to eliminate funding for President Barack Obama's teleprompter -- falls into the latter category.

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Topics: Arkansas, Barack Obama, Budget Cutting, National Debt, Steve Womack

Mark Krause

AR Man Accused Of Planning Pepsi Can Bomb Was A Big Liberal, Friends Say

Ryan J. Reilly | December 9, 2010, 8:52AM

Mark Krause

Friends of Mark Krause, the Arkansas man the feds say planted an IED made out of a Pepsi can at a polling place during the Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas this summer, are rallying to the 40-year-old blacksmith's defense.

"Mark's a complete liberal. He's not a Tea Party-type at all," long time friend Eugene Sergeant told TPM. "I think he almost always voted Democrat. He thought Republicans were just rich fucking assholes. But socially he was a liberal and he was definitely an odd mix - a freedom loving artist liberal who had a taste for tinkering with machines. And of course he likes to blow things up."

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Topics: 2010 Elections, Arkansas, Bomb-Making, FBI, Mark Krause

Mark Krause

Attempted Pepsi Can Bomber, Worried By Gov't, Tracked Down Via Facebook (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | December 7, 2010, 11:15AM

Self-described "patriot" Mark Krause, a 40-year-old Arkansas blacksmith whose home was foreclosed upon, was arrested in Washington state on Friday and charged with placing a bomb made out of a Pepsi can in front of a polling place during the runoff election for the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary.

It allegedly started on June 8, the day of the runoff election for the Democratic Senate primary between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter.