In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon

Subject: In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:45 pm

One of the first inklings Sheriff Richard Stanek had that something was wrong came with a call from the mortgage company handling his refinancing.

In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon JP-SOVEREIGN-1-articleLarge

In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon JP-SOVEREIGN-1-articleLarge

“It must be a mistake,” he said, when the loan officer told him that someone had placed liens totaling more than $25 million on his house and on other properties he owned.

But as Sheriff Stanek soon learned, the liens, legal claims on property to secure the payment of a debt, were just the earliest salvos in a war of paper, waged by a couple who had lost their home to foreclosure in 2009 — a tactic that, with the spread of an anti-government ideology known as the “sovereign citizen” movement, is being employed more frequently as a way to retaliate against perceived injustices.

Over the next three years, the couple, Thomas and Lisa Eilertson, filed more than $250 billion in liens, demands for compensatory damages and other claims against more than a dozen people, including the sheriff, county attorneys, the Hennepin County registrar of titles and other court officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/us/citizens-without-a-country-wage-battle-with-liens.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Quote :: If the purpose was to instill trepidation, it worked. Several county and state officials said in interviews that they worried that they might once again find themselves in the crosshairs. One state employee said it was scarier to engage with offenders who used sovereign citizen tactics than with murderers, given the prospect of facing lawsuits or fouled credit ratings.

Great! Let's see how they like the bureaucracy used against them!

Statist filth!

In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon

In Paper War, a Flood of Liens Is the Weapon

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