This is something I have wondered about often over the years. I can understand people with violent homicidal tendencies. I have known a few myself. And I can understand people becoming radicalized extremists. But what I can't understand and never seem to find a satisfactory answer to is how can four people think they could get away with something like this? that makes no sense to me at all. In a murder like this you are bound to get caught. Often within hours or days. But sooner or later caught every time for sure. Why couldn't they realize that? Why couldn't one of more bailed on the plan and went to the cops to save themselves Why could al four of them go along and think they could get away with it?? Only to now be looking at spending the rest of their livers in prison?





'God's Misfits': Did extremism contribute to the murders of missing Kansas women?

Max Mccoy, Kansas Reflector
April 21, 2024 8:02AM ET




After two women went missing, law enforcement made four arrests in Oklahoma’s Cimarron and Texas counties (clockwise, from top left): Cole Twombly, Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum and Cora Twombly. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)




What should we make of “God’s Misfits?”

That’s the name Oklahoma authorities say a small antigovernment group who held worship services in their homes called themselves. Four of these “misfits” have been charged with the kidnapping and murder of a pair of southwest Kansas women missing since March 30.

To recap a sad story, the women — Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, both of Hugoton — were on their way to pick up Butler’s kids at a place called Four Corners in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The spot is little more than an intersection of two highways, about 50 miles southwest of Hugoton. The Saturday morning trip was part of a complicated, and what investigators would later call “problematic,” custody dispute Butler was having with the children’s paternal grandmother, Tifany Adams.

Butler’s Saturday visitations with her children were court-ordered to be supervised, according to court documents, and on that day Jilian Kelley was the approved supervisor. Butler was 27 and Kelley, 39. The women knew each other, but it’s unclear from the official accounts if they were friends. The plan was to meet Adams at 10 a.m. at Four Corners, pick up the kids, and then go on to a birthday party.

The women never made it to Four Corners.

When the women didn’t show up at the birthday party, Butler’s family began a search, and shortly after noon they found the women’s car down a dirt path just off Oklahoma Highway 95 and Road L, south of Elkhart, Kansas — but still in Texas County, Oklahoma. It was a spot Butler would likely have known well. Just down the road is the Yarbrough School, where in 2015 according to school officials Butler was the only graduating senior.

What was found at the scene was alarming.

“An examination of the vehicle and area surrounding the vehicle found evidence of a severe injury,” according to an affidavit sworn by a special agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. “Blood was found on the roadway and edge of the roadway. Butler’s glasses were also found in the roadway south of the vehicle, near a broken hammer. A pistol magazine was found inside Kelley’s purse at the scene, but no pistol was found.”

Adams, according to the investigator, told investigators she had called Butler at 9 that morning to confirm plans, but that Butler said something had come up, so the pickup was off. The children had spent the night before with a couple named Barrett and Lacy Cook. Believing that Butler had canceled the visitation, Adams said, she allowed the children to remain that morning with the Cooks.

The Cooks are identified in court documents as belonging to “God’s Misfits” and as having had religious services in their home. They are not described as suspects. Another individual identified as a “misfit” in court documents is Paul Grice. It is unclear whether authorities considered Grice a suspect.

Hunter McKee, an OSBI public information officer, referred my questions about the case and what authorities had learned about “God’s Misfits” to court records in Texas County District Court at Guymon.

Two weeks after the women went missing, a heavily armed contingent of law enforcement made four arrests in Oklahoma’s Cimarron and Texas counties. Those taken into custody were Tifany Adams, 54, the paternal grandmother of the children in the custody dispute; her boyfriend, Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; and Cora Gayle Twombly, 44. The Twomblys own a cattle company at Boise City, Oklahoma. All were members of “God’s Misfits,” according to probable cause affidavits filed in Texas County District Court at Guymon.

On April 3, according to court record, agents with the OSBI interviewed the 16-year-old daughter of Cora Twombly.

“CW stated she had overhead group conversations related to Butler not protecting her children from (alleged sexual abuse),” the affidavit said. “CW advised that she was told by Cora that Adams, Cullum, Cora, Cole, and Paul Grice were involved in the deaths” of the women. “She described (them) as being part of an anti-government group that had a religious affiliation. Through OSBI investigation it was learned that they call their group God’s Misfits. Regular meetings are held weekly at Twombly’s and the home of Barrett and Lacy Cook.”

CW said she asked Cora what happened and was told “things did not go as planned,” according to the affidavit, “but that they would not have to worry about (Butler) again. CW was told that Cora and Cole blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley and divert them to where Adams, Cullum and Grice were. CW asked about Kelley and why she had to die and was told by Cora that she wasn’t innocent either, as she had supported Butler.”

A previous attempt had been made to kill Butler, the girl said, in February, but the five misfits — Adams, Cullum, Cole, Cora and Grice — could not get Butler to leave her home. One plan, CW said, was to drop an anvil through her windshield while she was driving, making it look like an accident “because anvils regularly fall off work vehicles.”

The children’s father, Wrangler Rickman, was in a rehabilitation facility at the end of March, according to court documents. A court hearing on the custody case was scheduled for April 17, and Butler was expected to receive unsupervised visitation.

While an OSBI agent interviewed CW and her brother at Kerrick, Texas, the Twomblys arrived and attempted to intervene, according to the affidavits.

“Cora was verbally aggressive and was very upset with your affiant” and said she had not granted access to her children. “Cole exited the vehicle armed with a handgun in a holster on his belt.”

The OSBI investigation revealed that Adams had bought five stun guns at a store in Guymon on March 23. In addition, the affidavits said, she had previously bought “burner” phones for the group to use.

Investigators tracked signals from the phones on the morning after the disappearance to a property owned by Jamie Beasley, 8.5 miles away. There they discovered a hole that had been freshly dug and then filled with dirt and hay. Beasley, according to the affidavit, told investigators that Cullum had cleared some concrete and done other dirt work March 29 with a skid steer, a “Bobcat” type of small front loader. Cullum also rented the pasture for grazing cattle and had around-the-clock access.

Two bodies were recovered in rural Texas County on April 14, according to the OSBI, but the location was not released. Two days later, the Office of the Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner said the remains had been positively identified as Butler and Kelley.

On Wednesday, an Oklahoma judge denied bail for the four defendants, entered not guilty pleas on their behalf, and ordered them to be represented by public defenders. Prosecutors also alleged in a motion to deny bond that Adams had confessed to the killings.

All face two counts of murder in the first degree; two counts of kidnapping; and conspiracy to commit murder. The murder counts are punishable by death or life in prison without parole, according to the criminal complaints.

It is, of course, important to remember the defendants are innocent until proven guilty. But looking over the court filings, there is a prodigious amount of evidence against these individuals, who seem bound together by their hatred of the government and their twisted interpretation of faith.

Cole Twombly seemed to be the most outspoken, at least on social media, and his posts went right up to April 12, when he described celebrating his 50th birthday. In addition to ranch life, he posted or reposted on Facebook about Cliven Bundy and his bloody standoff with federal agents over grazing rights; passed along an Ayn Rand quote about it being impossible for innocent men to live without breaking government’s laws; and an odd and chilling post about a toy made to resemble the armored “Killdozer” that Marvin Heemeyer used to level city hall and other structures in 2004 at Granby, Colorado. There’s also a lot of hateful stuff that is anti-vax, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-liberal.

“Everyone seems to be talking about the weaponization of the FBI from the raid at Mar A Lago to the pro life activist being swatted in Pennsylvania in front of his screaming children,” Cole Twombly says in one post. “The FBI doesn’t even possess a congressional charter to exist. So why do governors have to allow them in their states.”

On Oct. 5, he thanked “the Keyes community and the Misfits” for a prayer meeting that night at a park. “Keyes is claimed for the almighty God through Jesus name !!!,” he posted. “NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING !!!”

It appears “God’s Misfits” have beliefs similar to the sovereign citizen movement, mixed with QAnon conspiracies, although I couldn’t find a coherent ideology on Cole Twombly’s page. So-called sovereign citizens believe a number of wacko things, including that they can ignore laws and court orders because they have freed themselves from an illegitimate and oppressive government.

But that didn’t stop the “Misfits” from accepting government farm subsidies. The EWG Farm Subsidy Database indicates Tifany Adams took at least $134,000 in subsidies since 2013. She took $2,828 in crop rotation payments in October 2023, according to the USDA. Last year, she even was elected chair of the Cimarron County GOP, according to state officials.

So, what to make of “God’s Misfits?”

They have been engaged in the kind of political hate-mongering and misinformation that has driven our country to the edge of political catastrophe, if Cole Twombly’s Facebook page is any indication. This does not mean that everyone who subscribes to right-wing conspiracy theory or is QAnon curious is prone to violence, but violence — especially armed resistance to authority — is fundamental to this kind of political extremism.

Whether the Misfits are guilty of murder or not, they seem to have embraced some of the Seven Deadly Sins, including Pride and Wrath, and broken more than a few commandments. This, while publicly extolling the virtues of American rural life and proclaiming their faith in God.

We should not be afraid of what the Misfits believe, but we should be concerned about their delusions and their fascination with guns and resistance. People are free to think whatever they want, but one can’t help but ponder to what extent the Misfit’s radical beliefs may have fostered violence. Did the unfounded QAnon claims about a vast pedophile ring of Satanists short-circuit their ability to reason?

I am revolted by what the Misfits are accused of having done. More than revolted, actually. The broken hammer, the abandoned car, the pools of blood. There’s not a word for what I’m feeling. It’s not hate, but it’s not far from it. All that “love your enemies” fails me here.

But not everyone.

Kelley was the wife of Heath Kelley, pastor of the Hugoton First Christian Church. On the morning the women’s bodies were found, a service was held at the Hugoton church in which the congregation was asked to pray for the Kelley and Butler families and their children.

The service was streamed on YouTube.

“This is pretty wide reaching,” said Dave Mason, who delivered a sermon on Ecclesiastes. “Obviously our community is hurting and our church is hurting.”

He said Heath Kelley had told him the day before that “one of his great concerns is that the people who have done this crime and taken his wife from him, he’s asking us to remember them in prayer. … So pray for those people. It may be hard. That’s the desire of your pastor.”

The world is watching, he said, to see how the church will react. Father, he said, forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing.

It will now be up to a court to decide if the Misfits did or not.

Kansas Reflector is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Kansas Reflector maintains editorial independence.

https://www.rawstory.com/missing-wo...rnment-extremism-contribute-to-their-murders/

 

Where was law enforcement for this? If its Jewish students going on the attack against pro Palestinian students that doesn't count.




Fox Airs Shocking Footage of Pro-Israel Protestors Violently Attacking Pro-Palestine Encampment on UCLA Campus
Colby HallMay 1st, 2024, 8:37 am


Shocking footage of a violent clash between a group of pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protestors on UCLA’s campus overnight was aired Wednesday morning on Fox & Friends.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the clash occurred when pro-Israel counter-protestors arrived on the campus to tear down the encampment:

Just before midnight, a large group of counter-demonstrators, wearing black outfits and white masks, arrived on campus and tried to tear down the barricades surrounding the encampment. Campers, some holding lumber and wearing goggles and helmets, rallied to defend the encampment’s perimeter.

Videos showed fireworks being set off and at least one being thrown into the camp. Over the next few hours, counter-demonstrators threw objects, including wood and a metal barrier, at the camp and those inside, with fights repeatedly breaking out.

The violence is the worst on campus since counter-protesters, who support Israel, set up a dueling area near where the Gaza war protesters were camping.

A group of security guards could be seen observing the clashes but did not move in to stop them.

Fox’s Jonathan Hunt joined Fox & Friends to present the stunning footage, which included violent attacks by pro-Israel protestors angry at pro-Palestinian protests following news of attacks and ostracization of students at UCLA.


Other footage was posted to X, formerly Twitter, showing the protestors attacking the encampment:


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-air...king-pro-palestine-encampment-on-ucla-campus/

 

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Forum members, judge for yourself.

But so long as HAMAS holds hostages and declares itself at war with Israel and the west, no sympathy for the pro palestinian protesters. Fuck em. Anti american assholes.

 

They don't see the irony of their actions, do they?
Or is it that they just don't care?

 

Shooters cousin is a rabid Trump supporter.
Shooters sister in law is a rabid liberal
Shooters cousin owns a very cool Stearman.
A Stearman is an open cockpit, bi wing radial engined plane used in WWII to train pilots.
Like this;


Shooters cousin offered Shooters sister in law a ride in his plane after she made some stupid remarks about trump and his wiener.
Shooters sister in law declined.
Wisely, Shooter thinks.

 

Two defendants guilty of conspiracy in groundbreaking Antifa trial in San Diego
Will Carless, USA TODAY
Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM MDT·6 min read
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A San Diego jury on Friday found two anti-fascists guilty of conspiracy to riot, in a case that became a bellwether for legal action against the political movement.

The two defendants had faced a raft of various charges related to rioting and assault during a protest in a beach neighborhood in the aftermath of the tumultuous 2020 election. In that protest, on Jan. 9, 2021, members of the Proud Boys and other supporters of then-President leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump had rallied and clashed with anti-fascists.

But only the anti-fascists had faced charges. Prosecutors set out to convince a jury that the assailants were not simply individual participants, but that they had conspired under the banner of Antifa, essentially acting as a criminal gang.

Brian Lightfoot and Jeremy White were both found guilty of conspiracy to riot at the protest.


But the decision was split, as many other charges did not lead to conviction. The jury, which deliberated for more than a week, failed to reach a verdict on most of the most serious assault charges against Lightfoot, found him not guilty of one assault, and found White innocent of the one assault he was accused of committing.

For the individual defendants, the verdicts represented a lighter possible sentence for Lightfoot, but possible prison time for White, who said he was “heartbroken.”

And attorneys for both defendants said the verdicts represent a huge blow to the anti-fascist movement and to protesters in general, at a time when a new wave of protests has sprung up on college campuses across the country in opposition to the war in Gaza.

“I think the door is wide open to now hold lawful protesters in violation of conspiracy law,” said Curtis Briggs, who represented White.

Antifa on trial
On Jan. 9, 2021, a group of assorted Trump supporters, Proud Boys and members of the extreme right in San Diego, including people with a history of violence at local protests, marched around Pacific Beach shouting slogans and calling on anti-fascists to fight with them.



A year later, the San Diego district attorney announced charges against 11 individuals — all of them antifascists.

The case drew extra attention for its overt focus on Antifa, which is generally understood as a leaderless ideology, rather than an organization. Far-right commentators and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson and conservative politicians, all the way up to Trump, have long claimed Antifa is not just a social movement but an organized, shadowy army.

All of the original defendants were charged with conspiracy to riot, and prosecutors portrayed them as an organized, malicious force that came to San Diego to pick a fight with supporters of former President Donald Trump, just three days after the Capitol insurrection.


The defense questioned the motivation of Stephan’s office and filed a motion seeking to have her dismissed from the case. The top prosecutor, a Republican who left the party to run in the nonpartisan DA election, has a history of supporting conspiracy theories about Antifa.

A former federal prosecutor told USA TODAY the decision to charge only one side of the fracas was “idiotic.”

“It’s an insult to the public's intelligence to suggest that that's a legitimate prosecution. It's not. It's selective prosecution,” said Patrick Cotter, who now works in private practice.

Last two Antifa defendants

Of the 11 original defendants, nine cut deals with prosecutors that saw some of them agree to multi-year prison sentences. Two, Los Angeles residents Lightfoot and White, decided to argue their cases before a jury. They were represented by civil rights attorneys, who told USA TODAY they took on the cases because of their potential impact on the broader anti-fascist movement.

Of the two defendants, Lightfoot was facing the most charges. He was accused of spraying pepper spray at Trump supporters and of committing assaults likely to commit great bodily injury. During closing arguments of the trial, prosecutors said he came to San Diego ready to commit violence.


“He wanted to fight,” said Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey. “They were here looking to commit violence.”

Of the 16 counts he faced, Lightfoot was found guilty of six. The jury could not make a decision and “hung” on nine of the charges, and found him not guilty of one of the charges of assault.

John Hamasaki, Lightfoot’s attorney, noted that his client was never offered a plea deal by prosecutors prior to trial. He called Friday’s verdict “a repudiation of the District Attorney’s efforts.”

“It looked like the jury really did an independent and thorough job looking at the facts and coming to a decision,” Hamasaki said.

“I feel pretty good,” Lightfoot told USA TODAY. “I was at peace with it.”

White was less upbeat.

“I was heartbroken — it felt surreal that they could find us guilty of that,” he told USA TODAY. “This is a group of prosecutors and cops who have never once prosecuted the violent white supremacists that we were counter-protesting that day.”

Briggs said the verdict doesn’t make sense, since his client was convicted of conspiracy to riot, but acquitted of actually ever committing any crime on the day.

“It’s illogical,” Briggs said, adding, about White: “He’s devastated. He’s a political activist who cares about his community who is now facing jail time.”

The San Diego District Attorney’s Office sent USA TODAY a statement thanking the jury for their service:

“This was a complex case with 11 defendants indicted and now all convicted – nine by guilty pleas and two by jury verdict. The DA team worked tirelessly on this case in order to be sure our community remains safe, and that the rule of law is followed.”

White told USA TODAY he is committed to appealing his conviction. He said he is less worried about the impact of the case on his own life, and more concerned about the future of the anti-fascist movement and the broader protest movement.

“The prosecutors did everything they could to make us look like this criminal gang or terrorist cell,” he said. “It has bad implications for protestors out there trying to fight against fascism, against police brutality and state repression.”

Hamasaki agreed.

“As we’re looking at all these protests happening around the country, I think this bodes ill for a lot of people if prosecutors are looking to file felony conspiracy charges against people who are involved in active first amendment behavior,” Hamasaki said. “It can have a chilling effect.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-defendants-guilty-conspiracy-groundbreaking-010628747.html

 

California man charged with threatening Fulton County DA Fani Willis over Trump prosecution
Jason Morris, CNN
Fri, May 3, 2024 at 2:52 PM MDT·2 min read
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A California man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis because of her prosecution of former President leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump, the Justice Department said Friday in a release.

Marc Shultz, 66, of Chula Vista, California, made his initial appearance on Thursday in federal court in San Diego. He was indicted on April 24 and will be arraigned in Atlanta in June, according to the release.

According to prosecutors, Shultz allegedly posted multiple comments to two separate YouTube videos in October that threatened Willis with violence and murder, saying she “will be killed like a dog.”


“Sending death threats to a public official is a criminal offense that will not be tolerated,” US Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in a statement. “Our office will continue to diligently coordinate with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to help protect public officials while performing their duties and who deserve to do so free from threats of harm and intimidation.”

The case against Schultz was investigated by the FBI. It was not immediately clear whether he has legal representation.

“Threats of violence against government officials, specifically, threaten the very fabric of our democracy,” said Keri Farley, special agent in charge of the FBI’s field office Atlanta.

In a statement, Willis thanked Buchanan, his staff and the FBI “for believing the life of an African American elected official has value and for their diligent efforts in ensuring the safety of myself, my staff, and our families.”

Last fall, an Alabama man was also charged by a federal grand jury in Atlanta with making threatening voicemails to Fulton County officials because of their connections to the case against Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 elections results in Georgia.

Willis has been dealing with ongoing threats since taking on the case. CNN previously reported she was assigned additional security protection near her Georgia residence.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-man-charged-threatening-fulton-205230286.html

 

Fifth 'God's Misfit' accused of murdering KS women declared extremist beliefs last year

Max Mccoy, Kansas Reflector
May 5, 2024 10:30AM ET




After two women went missing, law enforcement made four arrests in Oklahoma’s Cimarron and Texas counties (clockwise, from top left): Cole Twombly, Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum and Cora Twombly. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)




On the afternoon of July 6 last year, Paul Grice went to the county clerk’s office at the Cimarron County Courthouse at Boise City, Oklahoma, and paid $104 to file a peculiar document in an attempt, among other things, to renounce his U.S. citizenship.

You may have heard of Grice, a member of an anti-government group in the Oklahoma panhandle called “God’s Misfits,” because he was recently the fifth member of the group to be charged with the murder of a pair of Kansas women in connection with a custody battle.

But the custody dispute is only part of the story. It appears the Misfits may have embraced reckless and vengeful violence as an extension of their apocalyptic religious beliefs that children are property and that no government or other human institution can interfere in parental authority.

Grice had turned 31 a few days earlier, so maybe he was thinking about his place in this world — and perhaps the next. We don’t know exactly what was on his mind when he walked into the historic red brick courthouse at the center of town to deliver his bundle of papers, but the story told by the 35-page document is of a world vastly different from the one the rest of us inhabit.

Grice’s world was based not on reality but instead spun from poisonous conspiracy theories, half-baked legal hypotheses and religious delusion. I’m assuming he must have walked into the Cimarron County Courthouse at Boise (pronounced “Boyce”) City because he lived with his wife and three kids only 16 miles to the northeast, at Keyes, a town of just a few hundred people. There’s no indication in the documents of whether he delivered them in person, or mailed them, but I imagine he would have visited in person.

We know Grice sent copies of the “renunciation” document to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken by certified mail. The return receipt is in the filing.

“I am a creation of nature and natures God,” he declared in the courthouse document, in the curious spelling and punctuation that has become the legal patois of the sovereign citizen movement. “A people, a man, found alive and living, commonly known by my family, friends and neighbors as Paul Grice and so here I (w)ill stand.”

He had dominion over all things, he asserted. His three children were his “God-given property” and subject to none other. He lived not in Oklahoma, but in the “Oklahomat Republic,” and the United States had been under martial law since the Civil War. The 14th Amendment, which most of us understand as granting citizenship to formerly enslaved persons and guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law, had actually made slaves of us all. The Federal Reserve was illegitimate, the U.S. had become a corporation that sold its citizens as debt to foreign powers, and 1930s Pennsylvania congressman Louis T. McFadden was right when he said there was a Jewish conspiracy for world domination.

He also claimed state and federal authorities, in cooperation with judges and attorneys, were engaged in child kidnapping and trafficking.

All of it is nonsense, but it’s the kind of nonsense associated with anti-government rhetoric from the “sovereign citizen” movement, topped with QAnon conspiracy theories.

“Sovereign citizens believe they are not under the jurisdiction of the federal government and consider themselves exempt from U.S. law,” Travis McAdam, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, told me. “And that is all based on a variety of conspiracy theories and falsehoods they use to justify their beliefs and activities.”

The sovereign movement has been around for decades and has typically been linked to militias, McAdam said, but recently it has gained strength from QAnon. Although the movement has usually been seen as irksome by public officials, because of the copious court filings that are a favorite tactic of sovereigns to avoid paying taxes or confound the legal system, sovereign resistance has sometimes taken violent forms. The FBI classifies the movement as a domestic terrorism threat.

Terry Nichols, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, was part of the movement. In 1992, Nichols — like Grice — attempted to renounce his U.S. citizenship.

“I am no longer a citizen of the corrupt political corporate state of Michigan and the United States of America,” he wrote in a letter to officials.

Such attempts aren’t legally recognized. You can only renounce your citizenship, according to the State Department website, from outside the U.S., and only by following established procedure.

“We’ve seen more and more sovereign groups trying to recruit people who are involved (in disputes) with child protective services,” McAdam said. “They really try to use the idea of this is an illegitimate government, this is an illegitimate court system trying to take your kids away, and maybe we can help.”

On April 24, Grice became the fifth Misfit to be arrested.

He faces the same charges as his former prayer partners, Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum, and Cole and Cora Twombly. Adams was in a bitter custody dispute with the mother of her grandchildren and, according to court documents in the criminal case, the five were involved in a conspiracy to kidnap and kill. The plan was to ambush the children’s mother, Veronica Butler, and a court-approved supervisor when they came to pick up the children for a birthday party March 30, the day before Easter, the documents say. Both women were from Hugoton, just across the state line in Kansas.

Their car was found abandoned along a dirt lane in Texas County, Oklahoma. Smashed windows, a broken hammer, a purse with a pistol magazine and blood at the scene indicated something violent had taken place. The women were the object of an intense search for two weeks after their disappearance.

The bodies of Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, the supervisor, were located following the initial arrests. They had been mothers and church members in their hometown of Hugoton. Their remains were found in a freshly dug hole covered by dirt and hay at a rural property rented by Cullum for grazing cattle. Tifany Adams, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors, had confessed to participating in the murder of the women.

Affidavits in the case also named Grice as being involved, including helping to block the highway and divert Butler and Kelley’s car. Authorities have not said where Grice was before he was arrested. He was arraigned Wednesday at Texas County District Court at Guymon, Oklahoma. Like his co-defendants, he was denied bond.

“On April 23, 2024, Grice was interviewed and admitted that he was part of the planning and killing of both Butler and Kelley,” an affidavit supporting probable cause for his arrest said. “Grice admitted to (an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent) that he participated in the killing of Butler and Kelley and their subsequent burial.”

In his manifesto-like filing at Boise City last year, Grice cited a litany of perceived governmental abuses that are common among sovereign citizens and Christian Identity adherents. Grice recalled the April 19, 1993, siege at Waco, Texas, as the “murder ” of 86 men, women and children by agents of the federal government. Part of Timothy McVeigh’s motivation in bombing the Alfred P. Murrah federal building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City — which killed 168 people and was the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history — was the Waco siege.

“I am not anti-government, anti-military, or anti-America,” Grice claimed in the document. The eccentric capitalization that follows is his: “Quite the contrary. For Generations, My family served the united States of America in both active and inactive service all over the world.”

The sovereign citizen movement began with William Potter Gale, a World War II veteran who formed an anti-tax resistance movement called the California Rangers in the 1960s. Gale also was a key figure in Christian Identity and white supremacy and a founder of the Christian Patriots of the 1980s. At one point, he broadcast his message to radio listeners from a studio in Dodge City. He was convicted of tax crimes, sentenced to prison and died awaiting appeal in 1988.

In the document filed July in Cimarron County, Grice rails against government oversight and regulation, the genetic manipulation of food, vaccines and the United Nations. He does get two things right: The Tuskegee Experiment, in which hundreds of Black men were left untreated for syphilis so the course of the disease could be studied, and Project MK-Ultra, a CIA project in which unsuspecting individuals were given experimental drugs in an attempt at mind control.

Near the end, he references the Book of Revelation.

“I must now also leave Babylon the Great and not partake of her sins any longer lest I receive her plagues,” he writes, “for her sins have reaching unto Heaven, and God will remember her iniquities. May God have mercy on the people of the United States/UNITED STATES!”

“They spell their name and others in all caps or they use weird punctuation,” McAdam said. “They think the Treasury Department has set up these accounts when any child is born, and that somehow there is this corporate account, that exists differently (but represents) the actual child. And so you’ll see in these court filings where they’ll think that OK, if I just get the punctuation right, if I get the capitalization right, I’m going to be able to reclaim my sovereign status.”

It’s as if the sovereigns believe there is a kind of magic code to legal documents, that if only they get the weird spelling and capitalization right, all of their problems will be solved. But there doesn’t appear to be a Sovereign Citizens Stylebook, and every document looks a bit different.

Some sovereign citizens also believe that the only legitimate governmental entity is the state, but they tend to view each state as a republic. McAdam said, however, he did not know why Grice spelled Oklahoma as “Oklahomat Republic.”

Reading Grice’s manifesto left me wondering how many others out there believe what he does, or at least what he professed to. McAdam said the SPLC had not heard of God’s Misfits until news broke about the arrests. He also said the center doesn’t have a way to track actual members in a movement, but that it was pretty clear the sovereign citizens were growing.

McAdam, who works for the SPLC from his home in Montana, compared the movement to a prairie twister.

“Many of these movements are like a funnel cloud or tornado, where way up in the clouds at the big end of the funnel, you have people the get pulled in for all kinds of reasons,” McAdam said. “They kind of spin out and back in again. But then there are people who really start to go down into the funnel. And as they do that, they become steeped in these conspiracy theories and worldviews. And if you go all the way through down to the ground and pop out, well those are people like Timothy McVeigh.”

Kansas Reflector is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Kansas Reflector maintains editorial independence.

https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-misfits/

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ar-justice-department-indictment/73556997007/

Henry and his wife are charged with money laundering and bribery. Henry and his wife are despicables.

 

Sen. Mark Kelly: Kari Lake's rhetoric 'could result in people getting hurt or killed'
Alexandra Marquez
Updated Sun, May 5, 2024 at 3:34 PM MDT·2 min read
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Sen. leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Mark Kelly of Arizona on Friday blasted Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake for her recent violent rhetoric, saying on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that Lake's comment could result in people "getting hurt or killed."

Kelly, a Democrat, was asked about comments first reported by NBC News in which Lake told supporters at a campaign event last month, "They’re coming after us with lawfare. They’re going to come after us with everything. That’s why the next six months is going to be intense. And we need to strap on our — let’s see. What do we want to strap on?"

She added, “We’re going to strap on our, our seat belt. We’re going to put on our helmet or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”

Kelly admonished Lake for her rhetoric, telling moderator Kristen Welker in an interview that aired Sunday, "When you’re a candidate for the United States Senate, you need to be careful with your words. We’ve seen this throughout history. So I hope people reject that. I think they should consider their language and try to do better going forward."

The senator spoke about his experience with political violence, reflecting on the 2011 shooting that left his wife, then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, severely injured.

"She was shot in the head while meeting with her constituents. Six people died. Another 18, including her, were injured. It was a horrific act of political violence," Kelly told Welker.

"We need people in elected office that want to take this country in a better direction where we accept the outcome of elections, where we don’t use language to try to incite our supporters. We don’t need folks in the United States Senate that they’re comfortable using language like that," he added.

Lake, a former TV news anchor, is running for office in her second consecutive election cycle after she narrowly lost a bid for governor in 2022. Now, she's running for an open Senate seat against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, whom Kelly has endorsed.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-mark-kelly-kari-lakes-183534786.html