The redemption movement consists of supporters of an American conspiracy theory.[1] Redemption theory involves claims that when the U.S. government abandoned the gold standard in 1933, it pledged its citizens as collateral so that it could borrow money. Other theories claim this happened in 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. The movement also asserts that common citizens can gain access to funds in secret accounts using obscure procedures and regulations.
According to the theory, the government created a fictitious person (or "straw man") corresponding to each newborn citizen with bank accounts initially holding $630,000. The theory further holds that through obscure procedures under the Uniform Commercial Code, a citizen can "reclaim" the straw man and write checks against its accounts.[2]
There have been many well-publicized convictions of citizens attempting to take advantage of this theory. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regards the instructors and promoters of Redemption schemes as fraudsters[3] while the Internal Revenue Service has included the "straw man" claim in its list of frivolous positions that may result in the imposition of a $5,000 penalty[4] when used as the basis for an inaccurate tax return.[5]
While the Redemption Movement existed before the 9/11 attacks, it was one of the many early platforms to push the "Truth", proving the movement's origins in the fringe radical right:
"Robert Kelly, publisher of The American's Bulletin, covers an array of antigovernment themes even as he pushes redemption in his newspaper's pages. In the last year, Kelly's paper also has been rife with attacks on the IRS (the "Illegal Regiment of Satan"), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the federal judiciary.
Alongside ubiquitous ads for redemption materials were articles asserting that the "9/11 Attack was an Inside Job" and pointing to the USA Patriot Act as further proof that the American government is at war against its own citizens."
What's the point of this scam? one might ask. No one's going to get away with it and the people pushing the scam don't appear to benefit directly financially. Turns out they're not after money; they're after recruits. Recruits radical enough to use bullets. Failing that, they tried to homebrew them:
"They all end up losing," Levitas said of the redemptionists who pursue such court battles. "But a certain percentage become highly radicalized as part of the process, and that creates a new pool of more militant people. It's a great sifting mechanism for determining who is willing to take it to the next level. ... The Patriot movement has a track record of recruiting people based on paper activism and transforming them into those who would use bullets instead."I can confirm several incidents of people trying to manipulate or coerce me into adopting or excepting extremist tactics: In one instance, after concerns about the security of an event and organizer suggested he had lots of friends who could bring guns. Overkill much? Another time, an alleged leftist (and confirmed conartist) repeatedly pushed an article calling for people to mass in the streets throwing rocks, etc. That's likely.
Unfortunately, in the Truth Movement scam sold to leftists, this appears to confirm it really is a legitimate anti-war group because we know there's a history of government sponsored provocatours in the anti war movement. So even if the mark is unusable, like me, they still have "sold" the frame: that the scam has a legitimate basis. The people attempting to dismis
But they do succeed occasionally. Captain Eric May, running a fraudulent "intelligence" group called Ghost Troop, hit pay dirt:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- To most, the evidence against alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn may seem overwhelming.Brunn is obviously a violent fool, but he was also a tool. It's doubtful by himself he would have taken these actions if he wasn't being fed a steady deliberate stream of conspiracy garbage designed to work people up. It fits the pattern described by SPLC:
Surveillance camera video.
Eyewitness accounts.
Von Brunn's red Hyundai parked outside.
Ballistics.
But to some people in Von Brunn's e-mail chain and Web circles, there's a darker truth.
They say the June 10 shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum may be a "false flag" operation. The incident could have been staged by one group, perhaps what they describe as the Jewish-controlled U.S. government, to make it appear to be the actions of another group -- in this case, von Brunn and others who believe Jews exercise too much control in the United States.
In other words, von Brunn could have been set up, they contend.
Where others see meaningless coincidence, members of "Ghost Troop," an online group of writers and investigators bent on disproving official versions of the September 11, 2001, attacks and other major events, have a penchant for seeing what they argue is meaningful evidence. Where others see the smoke of understandable and inevitable inconsistency, they see fire.
Ghost Troop members are trying to build the case that von Brunn, an ardent believer in conspiracy theories, was himself the victim of a conspiracy.
Ghost Troop's center of focus until now has been the 2001 terrorist attacks. The museum shooting has opened yet another window into the thinking of a group that believes many highly public and publicized events are rarely what they appear to be.
"It's possible that he [von Brunn] might have been enticed to the Holocaust Museum," said Ghost Troop member William Fox. Fox said that Israeli intelligence agents could have shot security officer Stephen Johns, then shot von Brunn, then planted the rifle.
"Today's shootings at the DC Holocaust Museum bear some of the classic earmarks of a false flag operation," wrote conspiracy theorist Eric May on the Web site amfirstbooks.com.
"Mind you, I'm not asserting that this is a false flag operation, but neither am I discounting the possibility. I exhort Internet researchers to look into this carefully and publish results," May wrote.
An Embassy of Israel official in Washington, informed of the Ghost Troop speculation, declined comment, saying it deserved none.
"The Patriot movement has a track record of recruiting people based on paper activism and transforming them into those who would use bullets instead."May has a history of working closely with con artists and Holocaust Deniers, and is almost certainly lying through his teeth when he stated to CNN:
In an interview Friday, May said that von Brunn corresponded with him from 2006 to 2009, and distributed May's writings to others. But von Brunn was not a Ghost Troop member, May said.Neat bit of dancing that, eh? Encourage people to "take up arms", then, when they do and get caught, pretend not to know them, and use them to promote the "false flag" conspiracy.
"I came to regard him as one of my readers and critics," May said. "I believe he was an eccentric and brilliant man. I thought he was bigoted. We shared many views, but his view [on race] is not one of them."
May said he was initially surprised by von Brunn's alleged involvement in the museum shooting, saying that von Brunn "never threatened direct action, although he sometimes commented or made allusions to how there needs to be an uprising."
Now, May said, his "theory, but not conviction [is] that this was a staged event, a contrived shooting."
Hell, Webster Tarpley did this to himself during the "Kennebunkport Hoax"; once it was clear his not so anonymous video harassment campaign by proxy wasn't having the desired effect(ie, it was not being sold as a grassroot effort, but, correctly, being traced right back to him and other high profile frauds), he claimed his video calling people duped in the Truth Movement "cointelpro" was itself a hoax. Soon after this video disappeared from the internet. (It's amazing what these frauds can do when they're motivated. Pity "Killtown" and company can't get a clue.)
Last note on May: he claims to not share Brunn's veiws on "Da Jews", but this is a lie:
Believe me, all, those of us, like Ghost Troop, who are intellectual opponents of the Jewish Zionist kulturkampf -- which we call the infowar -- are the rational opposition. I provide one stark link to our unit infowar history, from this summer, when we were involved in what we coded "Ghost Troop 9112B." It's from a most valued international infowar ally who stabbed us in the back for trying to hold true to the Constitution, when he and his cult wanted us to renounce that prudent pact to join a growing international -- and revolutionary -- movement against the Jews http://100777.com/node/1373
It's we moderates, anti-Zionists though not antisemites, who will eventually be swept away by primordial forces, after being labeled compromisers and cowards for obeying the dictates of conscience and Constitution. When that happens, who will the Jews have to blame but themselves, when the blame game turns on the Jews and the Christian Demiurge they have nurtured matures into a self-minded, cruel demon?
"O Jerusalem," Christ said in sorrow, and Jesus wept.
Captain Eric H. May, MI, USA
CO, Ghost Troop, 3/7 Cybercav+
Mission of Conscience / Patriots in Action
He claims to not be anti-Semite but blames Jews for being attacked by antisemites?
Back to Redemption...
Redemption is part of the Tax Protester movement which includes some of the battiest of Patriot bats in 9/11 "truth":
Rosalee "Webfairy" Grable's mentor Fred Smart and his antics with Ed and Elaine Brown:
Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942) and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown (born c. 1940), residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention in early 2007 for not paying the U.S. federal income tax and for refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.[1] After the conviction and sentencing, a long, armed standoff with federal law enforcement authorities at their New Hampshire residence ended with the arrest of Edward and Elaine Brown on October 4, 2007.[2][3][4] In July 2009, while serving their sentences for the tax crimes, the Browns were found guilty by a federal district court jury of additional criminal charges arising from their conduct during the standoff.
Shortly after his imprisonment, Ed Brown claimed that he has been mistreated, tasered, gassed, subjected to sensory deprivation, and isolated from other inmates.[48] In a recorded telephone call between Ed Brown in prison and a Brown supporter named Shaun Kranish, Brown and Kranish revealed that Kranish had previously introduced Brown to a man known as "Dutch" who thereby infiltrated Brown's circle of acquaintances, and that Dutch turned out to be a security consultant hired by the U.S. Marshals service (http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1491&start=45). In a radio interview with Fred Smart, Kranish said, "he said his name was Daniel Farrioli" and that "Dutch was clearly a professional, well-informed about Kranish's interests and susceptibilities, and skilled in deception." Dutch was among the group of deputies arresting Ed and Elaine Brown on October 4, 2007, ending the standoff.[48]Tax Resistor conspiracies are still used to sell the "Truth" con, now being promoted of all places at 9/11 Blogger by the webmaster Orangutan:
http://911blogger.com/news/2013-12-23/100-years-enough-time-make-fed-public-utility
100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public UtilityIt muddles along for a bit, the usual mix of fact and conspiracy, until we get to the point:
Posted by Orangutan. on Mon, 12/23/2013 - 7:42amGuest post by Ellen Brown.
- Ellen Brown
- Washington's Blog
December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?The answer depends on whose purposes we are talking about. For the banks, the Fed has served quite well. For the laboring masses whose populist movement prompted it, not much has changed in a century.
It may be time for a new populist movement, one that demands that the power to issue money be returned to the government and the people it represents; and that the Federal Reserve be made a public utility, owned by the people and serving them. The firehose of cheap credit lavished on Wall Street needs to be re-directed to Main Street.After all the abuses of Wall Street, this sounds temptingly reasonable. Unfortunately it's being pushed on a website now commited to supporting outright hoaxes and frauds, making me question Ellen's agenda. I absolutely do not trust her. True she has a profile on Huffo,
www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/
but she's also at Common Dreams and Truth Out:
truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44779
www.commondreams.org/author/ellen-brown
Her work is promoted at Global Research, (in the past a platform for Anti-Semitism):
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2013/11/ellen-brown-finance-capital-vs-public-banking
As for her "Public Banking Institute", Wikipedia has nothing:
The page "Public Banking Institute" does not exist.It smells more and more like another scam....
And sure enough, with a little digging, we're back to the Patriot/Truth/Holocaust Denier endorsed con:
The Real Deal with Jim Fetzer podcast: Ellen Brown
An Analysis of the Economic Meltdown. Posted by Total at 11:02 PM.
http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2011/09/ellen-brown.html
Friday, March 22, 2013http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2013/03/karen-hudes-ellen-brown.html
Karen Hudes / Ellen Brown
Financial whistleblowers
Keep in mind Fetzer was the first to give Grable's "theories"(most likely not her own at all, but the result of brainwashing by Smart) a wide audience.
Ellen's board members aren't reassuring either: Mike Kraus, committed to her public Banking Project, is given a voice at Truthdig and questioned by a reader:
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/can_the_fdic_protect_your_money_from_another_crash_20130831?ln
Mike Krauss, a former executive director of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, a founding director of the Public Banking Institute and chair of the Pennsylvania Project,And:
50/50 this comment is a plant by a "player" trolling to see who else finds this progressive sounding Public Bank program being pushing by a Republican an bit odd. It's still a good question.
Another board member, Ann Tulintseff, makes the asstounding statement: " "The government is in debt to private banks that pretend to have money". Her work is promoted by another "truther" website:
Online Journal Piece On Ellen Brown Book - Pilots For 9/11 Truth ...It is possible some of the people involved are themselves victims of a scam, but my experience tells me the lawyer of the group is always in on it:
pilotsfor911truth.org › ... › Study › Research › Root of all Evil?Mar 3, 2009 - 10 posts - 4 authorsBy Ann Tulintseff Online Journal Contributing Writer Mar 2, 2009, 00:20. Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How ...
Chairman and President
Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles.
Is this "Redemption" all over again? Or is it something more insidious?
While it appeals to the fringe's blaming "bankers" (Jews) for the nation's troubles, there seems to be less of a push to get people to do things that will get them arrested and violently radicalised.
This "Redemption" incarnation seems packaged to be sold to the reasonable left, not the radical right. Pity they chose a sales man from the fringe right(Fetzer), because that's the first flag Ellen Brown is probably a fraud, a person pretending to left, progressive values, while knowingly pushing a fringe right agenda.
Whatever is going on, the Public Banking Institute is not being honest about who they are and what interests they represent.
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