Sovereign Citizens

Sovereign Citizen's Widow Sues Police For Gold Over Husband's Shootout Death

Jillian Rayfield | April 26, 2011, 8:40AM

A Florida woman is suing the police department in West Memphis, Arkansas for the deaths of her husband and stepson, who were killed in a shootout after opening fire on two police officers last year.

Donna Lee Wray-Kane filed a lawsuit in Florida District Court over what she calls "torture killings and civil rights violations," and is asking for damages of at least $75,000 each for the deaths of her husband and stepson -- to be paid in gold "at $38 per troy ounce," according to the complaint.

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Topics: Gold, Jerry Kane, Joe Kane, Sovereign Citizens

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