Losing faith in government
Published 2/7/2011 in Local News
By JEROME P. CURRY
jcurry@gctelegram.com
Enthusiastic men and women, who gathered in Garden City Friday and Saturday, are preparing to save the people when financially-stricken state and federal governments go bankrupt, splinter and fall.
Brad Nading/Telegram Bruce Dietler, Whitewater, talks about restoring constitutional government Saturday during a meeting of the Kansas Republic at the Clarion Inn.
It will happen, they believe, sooner than later, no more than a few years, and they will be waiting to restore the antebellum U.S. Constitution.
All of those men and women are citizens of the Kansas Free State, a part of the Republic for the united States of America. Many of them carry picture identity cards to prove it. The Kansas Free State and the Republic for the united States of America do not mean the generally accepted state of Kansas or the United States. These citizens are neither Republican nor Democrat, neither socialist nor Tea Party. They plan, they emphasized, no insurrections, but a safety net for the people when mounting fiscal problems bring down what they term the "de facto" and "corporate" governments now in place in the United States.
A local Kansas Free State meeting was held Saturday in the central banquet room at the Clarion Inn in Garden City.
Kansas Free State citizens applauded when speakers said the nation and several states must return to a pure republic in which the people actually rule — not, they said, appointed federal bureaucracies. They applauded when speakers said the nation became a corporate state in 1861, when President Abraham Lincoln declared martial law at the start of the Civil War. They applauded when speakers demanded states rights and deplored a federal government with authority over the states. They applauded when speakers noted that all citizens of the "de facto corporate" U.S. government were slaves. They applauded when speakers derided Federal Reserve notes. They applauded when speakers said government must be based on the "Constitution of 1860, the Magna Carta and the Holy Bible."
"The War Between the States was over states rights, not slavery!" said Bruce Dietler of Whitewater.
"The collapse of the dollar is imminent," Dietler said. "China is going to call our debt ... The United States is printing federal reserve notes at a horrendous task," he said.
Roger Evans of Scranton stood before the assembly.
"I got a hundred dollar bill," he said as he waved it in the air.
"I have a silver dollar," Evans said, showing it in the palm of his hand and noting it was dated 1926.
"Which would you rather have?" he asked.
And the crowd yelled for silver. A 1926 silver dollar is worth about $450 on eBay today. The silver content alone is worth between $28.98 and $29.22 an ounce so far this February on the bullion markets.
"Folks, this is money," Evans said as he brandished the silver dollar.
Ricky Lynn Schmidt of Burlington, the provisional governor of the Kansas Free State, and Gordon Reeves of Colorado Springs, Colo., the interim governor of the Free State of Colorado, were there. Reeves said he uses the title interim governor because they have not yet been able to hold a Colorado wide election.
Both used the terms "de facto" and "corporate" to refer to the sitting governments in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals.
"The current de facto Kansas governor (Sam Brownback) and I have a few things in common," Schmidt said. "I grew up on a farm. I was in the U.S. Navy. I was in 4-H and FFA."
Schmidt also said he was a licensed nuclear reactor operator who graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering.
"I believe if God is not in this movement, it will not be successful," the Kansas Free State governor said.
The Kansas Free State and the Republic for the United States of America already has citizen members in all 50 states and is expanding, according to its website and the movement's officials.
Why were the people there in the Clarion Inn?
"I want a representative government of 'We the People.' That's something we don't have now," said Leonard Franz of Garden City. "What we have now is called a corporation government. I want us to be sovereign citizens of a sovereign state."
Franz is retired. He once owned a small business, Franz Carburetor and Electric. He said he initially learned about the Kansas Free State from the Internet.
"Leonard got me interested when it first started about a year ago," said Howard Solley, also of Garden City. "I liked what I heard. I can see the corporate government is going to financially fail. I want to know if there is somebody who can pick up the pieces when it does fail. This group looks like it can."
Jerry Ewy, a Kansas Free State representative from Overland Park, said of the movement: "We're building. We're growing."
"I am the first lawfully elected governor of Kansas in 140 years," Schmidt said.
He and others emphasized they were not advocates of any contemporary political party or movement, including the Tea Parties on the Republican right.
"We're totally peaceful and wish no ill will to anyone," Schmidt said. "We have no ethnic or racial barriers for our citizens. Our principles are based on the Constitution of 1860 and the Holy Bible."
Danny Alexander, a farmer from Satanta, said: "We need to get back to the Constitution (of 1860). We need the people to set the rules not the legislatures, not the judiciary. We don't want to end up like Egypt."
Said Ewy: "We're not going to take anybody down. They'll do it themselves. They're going down because they're broke."
One Free State document says that in 2010: "The Republic for the united States of America quietly, peacefully and behind the scenes, reinhabited the original de jure Republic. The de facto United States of America is bankrupt and will soon fall on its own. The lawful de jure government will run side-by-side it until the Corporation can no longer sustain itself. The Republic is funded and ready to pick up the pieces when the Corporation crumbles and the economy collapses."
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