Jul 21, 2013

You Crazy Right Wingers Are Such A Hoot!

     From The Examiner of Independence, MO:
U.S. District Court Judge Brian C. Wimes sentenced Charles Daniel Koss, 63, of Independence to seven years in federal prison and ordered Koss to pay $212,987 in restitution to the Social Security Administration and the Department of the Treasury. ...
Koss began receiving Social Security disability payments in 1987 for myoneural disorder and hypertension. In 1994, according to court documents, Koss began operating Embassy Mortgage, a real estate business, with his wife in Blue Springs. Koss was working as a loan officer and office manager for the business.
According to the indictment, when Koss learned that he would have to repay the government, he created a false negotiable instrument – which he called a “Registered Private Money Order” – purporting to draw on a bogus trust account held by the U.S. Treasury. He allegedly utilized the false negotiable instrument as payment for his debt and mailed it to the Social Security Administration.
Koss subscribed to what is known as the redemption theory, the indictment says, which claims that a “Birthright Trust” is created with the U.S. Treasury when parents of a newborn child pledge the child’s birth certificate to the government. Redemption theory involves bogus claims that when the U.S. government abandoned the gold standard in 1933, it pledged its citizens as collateral so it could borrow money. The movement also asserts that common citizens can gain access to funds in secret accounts using obscure procedures and regulations.
According to the indictment, adherents of the redemption theory sometimes call themselves “sovereign citizens.” The sovereign citizen movement is a loosely organized collection of groups and individuals who have adopted anarchist ideology. Its adherents claim that virtually all existing government in the United States is illegitimate and they seek to “restore” an idealized, minimalist government that never actually existed.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

not really, Charles. "Sovereign citizens" are more akin to the Occupiers for their tendency toward anarchism. A true sovereign citizen would never ask for nor receive government assistance, because they would refuse to provide to the government the information necessary to obtain benefits. This guy was just a run-of-the mill crook who thought he was being oh-so-clever.

Anonymous said...

These people are far more left than right. They want something for nothing. If that ain't liberal left wing democratic thinking, than shut my mouth..

Emil said...

More left than right because they want something for nothing? You've pretty much described today's Republican party. They want all the benefits of things that taxes pay for (police, army, etc) without having to, you know, pay taxes themselves.

Anonymous said...

Do you think there are more left wing liberal people on welfare, receiving food stamps, getting subsidized housing than there are right wingers??? I betcha..

Anonymous said...

...the re-election of the worst president on earth proves that one!

Anonymous said...

More than willing to at for police, military, etc. rather not pay for other people's food, healthcare, etc.