Jerry Kane

Man Who Killed Arkansas Police Was Failed Pitchman For Bizarre Anti-Debt Scheme (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | May 24, 2010, 4:03PM

Jerry Kane, the man who with his son shot and killed two police officers after being pulled over in Arkansas last week, was a largely unsuccessful traveling pitchman for an esoteric anti-government theory known as "Redemption," telling desperate homeowners facing foreclosure that they did not have to pay off their mortgages because bank loans are fundamentally illegitimate, according to JJ MacNab, a Maryland insurance analyst who tracks anti-tax and anti-debt schemes.

"He was one of the followers of the Redemption method, the idea being because the bank loaned you money from someone else's checking account, it's committing fraud. Therefore, you don't have to pay your loan," says MacNab, who first encountered Kane about four years ago when, she says, he began posting on a now-defunct Web forum called SuiJuris.net.

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Topics: Jerry Kane, Joe Kane, Redemption Theory, Right-wing extremism, Sovereign Citizens

Jerry Kane

Man Who Killed Arkansas Police Officers Had Anti-Government Views (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | May 24, 2010, 12:08PM

On Thursday, two police officers pulled over a white van in West Memphis, Arkansas, for a traffic stop, and the driver opened fire with an AK-47, killing the officers, according to police.

The driver of the van was Jerry Kane, who traveled the country giving a debt-elimination seminar and had recently spoken of killing IRS agents and being stopped at a "Nazi checkpoint" in New Mexico. Kane and his 16-year-old son were killed shortly after in a shootout with police in a Walmart parking lot. Two other police were wounded in the second shootout.

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Topics: IRS, Jerry Kane, Right-wing extremism