The Montana Freemen
"If the truth had been made public, the world would know that the Montana Freemen came closer than anyone else in the 20th Century to exposing the fraud in the Federal Reserve System." Pat Shannan
Concerning situations regarding government security, we journalists have found in recent years that there are almost always two, very opposing, stories. One is the who-what-when-where-and-why of the truth, and the other
is the government-fabricated myth - the total flip-flop reminding us of our chuckles emitted while reading the distortion of facts flowing from the Soviet Union's news agency Tass not so long ago.
Tass' mission was always to glorify the government's position and the actions of its agents while debunking truth and demonizing anyone whose position was adversarial. This is now the solitary path of the American news agencies.
Today in this country, whenever we see information suppressed for "reasons of national security," we immediately perceive this to mean reasons of government security.
In the early spring of 1996, hundreds of FBI agents surrounded the Ralph Clark ranch complex near Jordan, Montana for a total siege of 81 days. The government spin was that the nearly thirty people inside were of a radical anti-government
and racist religious sect who had written bad checks and threatened judges, among other things. About the only true claim made was that, indeed, these people were of a great threat to government security but not for the reasons portrayed.
In fact, the Montana Freemen were coming closer than anyone had in 82 years of exposing to the American people the fraud and myth of the Federal Reserve system. This is why the federal government jumped on top of them and began to stomp
with both feet. The inside secrets of those twin sisters of deception - the FED and the IRS - must be preserved at all costs.
After a total of 18 days in Montana on two separate trips - first on behalf of The People's Radio Network in May and then for Spotlight newspaper in June - I was flying back to New Orleans and began to realize that not only was I the only
reporter on earth with this full story but almost the only one who had been seeking it. Certainly, the robotons from Associated Press and the national television networks had not tried to learn the Freeman's side. I was the only journalist
to interview the Freeman in the Billings jailhouse. This was only because they had heard my radio reports and knew that I was attempting to treat them fairly, and that was all they ever wanted - fair treatment. They never got it in the courtrooms.
One of the most outrageous displays indicative of a tyrannical police state happened the week before I arrived in Jordan. Lt. Col. (ret.) James "Bo" Gritz and retired Phoenix cop Jack McLamb had attempted to negotiate a surrender for four straight
days without success. The final day before giving up, Bo Gritz emerged from the ranch house with a videotape in one hand and a 19-page document in the other. He handed the tape to an ABC newsman, as instructed by Freeman Russell Landers, and deposited
the document into the hands of the FBI Special Agent in Charge. Then he turned to the news cameras and spoke:
"Here is your chance, Janet Reno," he said, "to behave lawfully instead of forcefully this time," with an obvious reference to the Waco incident. "Review this document and show the Freeman how they are wrong, and they will come out tomorrow."
It was the high water mark of the Freeman and an offer that should have been repeated every day of the siege. Not only did Janet Reno and the Justice Department prove by their reticence that they could not face the truth, but the FBI immediately
confiscated the video from the newsman, and the contents were never aired.
I later secured a copy of that 19-page document explaining the Freemen's stand and reprinted it in the appendix. It alone is worth the price of the book. It explains much of the presumption of law by which the tyrannical District of Columbia
governs by usurpation of the constitution. The reason the Justice Department refused to respond will be obvious to the reader. The videotape, had it been aired nationally, would have been devastating to the government's propaganda machine. It showed
the very articulate Russ Landers explaining the Freeman's lawful stand in terms that anyone could understand and appreciate.
THE MONTANA FREEMEN - The Untold Story of Government Suppression and the News Media Cover-up is a story told from the other side of the fence, from inside the jailhouse, and from inside the brains of some very brilliant men.
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