Feds Raid Texas Secessionist Meeting
[su_right_ad]The attendees were perplexed, but here’s what led to it:
“We had no idea what was going on,” said John Jarnecke, president of the Republic of Texas. “We knew of nothing that would warrant such an action.”
The raid was a response to legal summons sent by Republic of Texas members to a Kerr County judge and bank employee, demanding they appear in the Republic’s court at the Veterans and Foreign Wars building in Bryan the day the officers stormed in. Jarnecke’s group, the subject of a half-hour YouTube documentary, maintains a small working government, including official currency, congress and courts.
“You can’t just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren’t even real courts,” said Kerr County sheriff Rusty Hierholzer, who led the operation.
He acknowledged he used a “show of force,” grouping officers from city, county state and federal law enforcement to serve a search warrant for suspicions of a misdemeanor crime. He said he had worries that some extremists in the group could become violent, citing a 1997 incident when 300 state troopers surrounded an armed Republic leader for a weeklong standoff.
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Anomaly 100 March 2nd, 2015 at 9:58 am
I read about this before and still have NO idea why they raided this meeting. I’m obviously missing something. OTOH, I don’t care that much.
William March 2nd, 2015 at 10:26 am
The official charge is violation of the POAJ ordinance.
(pissing off a judge).
Anomaly 100 March 2nd, 2015 at 10:48 am
Thanks William!
mea_mark March 2nd, 2015 at 12:38 pm
Maybe it helps if you think of it as impersonating a police officer. You can’t impersonate a government and issue documents that you claim are legitimate when they’re not.
mea_mark March 2nd, 2015 at 12:38 pm
Maybe it helps if you think of it as impersonating a police officer. You can’t impersonate a government and issue documents that you claim are legitimate when they’re not.
okieggma March 3rd, 2015 at 8:34 am
Just crazy Texas MEN losing their grip. The Republic of Texas….smh….sounds like a hate group to me.
Um Cara March 2nd, 2015 at 10:46 am
If playing government is getting those kooks in trouble, maybe they should play house or doctor or duck duck goose instead.
Republicans_are_Evil March 2nd, 2015 at 10:26 pm
The Feds should lock up every one of these seditionists as traitors.
okieggma March 3rd, 2015 at 8:32 am
Texas is full of freaks. The Republic of Texas is a hate group…pure and simple.