{"id":383,"date":"2006-12-16T21:59:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/16\/paper-terrorism-prisoners-and-pro-se-mi"},"modified":"2006-12-16T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T01:59:25","slug":"paper-terrorism-prisoners-and-pro-se-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/16\/paper-terrorism-prisoners-and-pro-se-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"paper terrorism, prisoners, and pro se mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in <em>Future Trends in State Courts 2006<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsconline.org\/WC\/Publications\/Trends\/2006\/AntiGovTrends2006.pdf  \">The Anti-Government Movement Today<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 (National Center for State Courts, by Charles A. Ericksen and Anne E. Skove),\u00a0has a well-footnoted discussion of\u00a0the malicious mischief being perpetrated in courts and other government bodies by the Anti-Government Movement.\u00a0 The tactics amount to &#8220;<em>paper terrorism<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0&#8220;the use of fraudulent legal documents and filings, as well as the misuse of legitimate documents and filings, in order to intimidate, harass and coerce public officials, law enforcement officers and private citizens.&#8221;\u00a0(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/learn\/ext_us\/SCM.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&amp;LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&amp;xpicked=4&amp;item=sov\">&#8220;Sovereign Citizen&#8221; Movement<\/a>, at the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s law enforcement\u00a0website; and see our post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/13\/coordinated-pro-se-tax-haters-clogging-up-courts\/\">coordinated <em>pro se<\/em> tax-haters clogging up the courts<\/a>, Oct. 13, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"46\" alt=\"bombFuseN\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/bombFuseN.gif\" width=\"45\" \/>\u00a0In the <em>Future Trends<\/em> article, Ericksen and Stove explain Redemption Scams, which are bogus\u00a0claims on money supposedly owed to\u00a0individuals by the Government.\u00a0\u00a0The Scams have become widespread, thanks to &#8220;self-help materials&#8221; being produced or used by jailed militia members in our nation&#8217;s prison&#8217;s (with &#8220;handbooks circulating\u00a0among inmates,\u00a0audiotapes and books available for purchase, seminars offered across the country, and information on the Internet&#8221;).\u00a0 Thanks to basic human greed, the Redemption procedures are being tried by &#8220;a range of people, many of whom may not have ties to anti-government groups.&#8221;\u00a0 The article also describes in detail a &#8220;Particularly troubling and difficult to stem&#8221; tide of filings with state corporation commissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Noting that prison inmates pose special challenges (especially those already serving life without parole), the authors\u00a0suggest\u00a0coordinated efforts with courts, prosecutors, state agencies, and prison staff\u00a0working\u00a0together to identify and stem frivolous filings.\u00a0 They also discuss concerns that acts of violence may again be use.\u00a0 The article ends cautioning that &#8220;those responsible for court security must keep such groups and tactics on their radar screens, and be aware of these issues when planning security measures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in Future Trends in State Courts 2006, &#8220;The Anti-Government Movement Today&#8221;\u00a0 (National Center for State Courts, by Charles A. Ericksen and Anne E. Skove),\u00a0has a well-footnoted discussion of\u00a0the malicious mischief being perpetrated in courts and other government bodies by the Anti-Government Movement.\u00a0 The tactics amount to &#8220;paper terrorism&#8221;\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0&#8220;the use of fraudulent legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies-reports","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}