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- Well it's tax time people...and for those of you who
don't remember... or never heard the story...I thought I might send this
along for you to see just how enslaved we are...and what might happen if
you fail to pay homage to your master, the federal government.
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- Pete
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- THE UNCENSORED GORDON KAHL STORY
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- In 1968, Tax Protestor Gordon Kahl stopped filing IRS
1040 Income Tax Returns. For 9 years thereafter, the IRS ignored him, but
in 1977 after Gordon Kahl spoke on an evening radio talk show regarding
the illicitness of the income tax, some 250 phone calls would come into
the radio station over the next two days; either supporting Kahl in some
aspect, or pledging never to file another tax return.
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- And with that, the IRS came down on Kahl like a ton of
bricks. They quickly assembled a case against him and two weeks later threw
a criminal prosecution against him for violating Title 26, Section 7203
["Willful Failure to File"]. Gordon Kahl was a low-income farmer
not even meeting minimal statutory standards for threshold income levels
achieved before being required to file 1040s, but that was not about to
stop the IRS, who is good at changing the facts by creating facts.
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- Convicted and incarcerated, when out of Leavenworth Federal
Penitentiary on parole, Kahl left the Texas judicial district he was confined
to by claiming that some aspect of the Restriction Orders was defective.
He soon moved to North Dakota -- and there, he met his fate. A criminal
Summons issued from a Federal Court in Midland, Texas was served on Gordon
Kahl on August 8, 1980, charging him with a misdemeansor. Gordon Kahl responded
by informing the Court that he would not be appearing, and the matter was
allowed to be deferred until March 31, 1982, when the Justice Department
obtained a Federal Arrest Warrant citing his parole violation.
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- Then, that Warrant was held up again until July 26, 1982,
some 16 months later, when it was sent to the U.S. Marshals Office in Fargo,
North Dakota on February 13, 1983. The United States Marshals and the Federal
Court in Texas knew of his whereabouts in North Dakota at all times. After
a two and one half year delay in the case, the fact that there was a "problem"
controlling the prosecution of the case is self-evident.
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- If that chronology had been published in the New York
Times in the context of discussing some other unfortunate incident that
had happened, it would be referred to, very defensively of the Government
of course, as mere "bureaucratic bungling," in an attempt to
discredit the obvious interposition of the "Lateness of the Hour"
operating against the Government to bar the legitimacy of their management
of the case.
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- Once again Gordon Kahl had attracted the attention of
the United States
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- Government. With the personality known as Ronald Reagan
acquiescing indifferently as President, and with William French Smith sitting
as Attorney General, the word came down the pipeline to GET RID OF GORDON
KAHL, and the stage was set for the kind of confrontation the Feds wanted.
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- A violent attack was planned against Gordon Kahl at his
farmhouse, and it was going to be well publicized. The attack would be
in the form of a roadblock, it would be in the evening hours, and it would
occur in a remote rural area. The timing of the attack in February of 1983
was selected to coincide with the trials of other related criminal prosecutions
then going on that would be favorably tipped towards the Government, as
the Juries were exposed to what would be surfacing visibly on the news
as the Gordon Kahl "incident."
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- From his farm in Heaton, North Dakota, both Gordon Kahl,
along with his neighbors, and the Chief of Police of Medina, North Dakota,
Darrell Graff, all had received several advanced notices that the United
States Marshals were planning a very unpleasant reception for Gordon Kahl,
and in the case of Darrell Graff, he was told bluntly to stay out of it.
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- Rather than meet his adversaries face-to-face to settle
the grievance at that lower level, Gordon Kahl improvidently ignored the
gathering storm and tossed aside the Warrant, thus giving his adversaries
the benefit of intensifying the impending confrontation into an elevated
status -- a level that originates out of the barrel of a gun, where the
Feds were quite likely to prevail. Although that did not give the United
States Marshals the right to come out first and shoot Kahl, it does however
require that other people in difficult positions with juristic authorities
facing contemplated extermination itself, should not replicate Gordon Kahl's
modus operandi.
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- On the 14th of February, 1983, Gordon Kahl, accompanied
by his wife and son Yori, left a meeting in a Medina, North Dakota commercial
district and headed home. Gordon Kahl was under surveillance and he knew
it. He could have been picked up at the meeting, but the Feds had a surprise
for him and wanted the remoteness of a rural environment. His son Yori
detected something adverse and dangerous in the air, and so he took his
father's jacket and cap and wore those on himself on the ride home that
afternoon.
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- Not far from his farmhouse a roadblock had been set up
by U.S. Marshal Kenneth Muir. It was a very unusual roadblock in that it
had an ambulance and firetruck waiting there. Yes, there was going to be
some trouble. The Marshal had not come to arrest, but to murder. Bringing
neither the Arrest Warrant, nor any identification, Deputy Muir brought
his gun and orders to terminate Gordon Kahl.
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- Arriving at the roadblock, Gordon's son, Yori Kahl, fled
the pickup truck and ran to a nearby telephone pole for cover. Thinking
that Yori was his dad Gordon, Marshal Muir opened the shooting by firing
several shots at Yori.
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- Yori did not fall to the ground quick enough to satisfy
the killer Marshal, so Marshal Muir kept on shooting until Yori fell. After
spending a while at the hospital, Yori Kahl would actually survive to be
charged with murder, and later convicted by a jury in a Star Chamber that
was highly pressured by the U.S. Marshals and had numerous other fatal
irregularities that would never survive reversal on appeal.
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- Back at the evening roadblock, after seeing his own son
cut down by Marshal Muir, Gordon Kahl grabbed a gun and let Marshal Muir
have it, killing him and Deputy Marshal Robert Chesire. Injured was Deputy
Marshal James Hopson.
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- Staying in the background, looking at all of this shooting
and profanity being thrown about, was Chief Darrell Graff of the Medina
Police Department, who was told in advance that Kahl was going to buy the
farm, and that he was to stay out of it. Gordon went over to the telephone
pole, dragged his son Yori, white with blood loss and bleeding profusely,
over to an unmarked police car, drove him to a hospital back in Medina,
and then as a thick fog quickly settled in on the Fargo countryside, Gordon
Kahl sped away into the night.
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- Soon, a swarm of military stormtroopers descended on
Fargo, in military clothing and using military trucks [see Time Magazine
["Dakota Dragnet"], page 25 (February 28, 1983)]. They were on
search and destroy orders. Gordon Kahl was immediately placed on the FBI's
ten most wanted list, and was the subject of the most intensive fugitive
search in the history of the FBI. It was a massive operation.
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- A tight clampdown was put out in North Dakota, accompanied
with extensive random stops of motor vehicles, but nothing ever turned
up. For Gordon Kahl, thousands of armed forces were called into search
the surrounding North Dakota countryside. Every available private bounty
hunter known to the FBI was hired and put on the case, but fugitive Gordon
Kahl slipped through it all.
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- In comparison to what they can do when they feel like
it, it is worthwhile noting how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI never showed
any such interest in capturing unknown fleeing killers when President Kennedy
was shot in Dallas.
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- No roadblocks, no dragnets, no manhunts, no searching
-- nothing but CIA agents carrying Secret Service credentials restraining
people from approaching the grassy knoll for about 10 minutes.
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- For the next three months, Gordon Kahl had found a home
with some friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, and a Mr. Russell, who kept moving
him quietly from house to house. It was rather obvious to anyone that if
he was ever found, he would be killed immediately.
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- In time, Mr. Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson,
noticed that her father was hiding Gordon Kahl. Possessed with First Person
evidence ["I saw...," "I heard..."], she in turn went
to the FBI and spilled the beans. She was given $25,000 and the promise
of immunity from prosecution [see the New York Times ["Arkansans Guilty
in Tax Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19, 1983)].
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- The rural house where Gordon Kahl was staying was placed
under FBI surveillance; but the results were inconclusive. On the morning
of June 4th, a special FBI team of animals and savage killers [which is
no exaggeration], known as the FBI SWAT TEAM, left their home base in Washington,
D.C. and flew into Lawrence County, Arkansas on a private FBI jet. There,
they were met by local FBI agents, other FBI agents, the Arkansas State
Police, the Sheriff of Lawrence County, Arkansas, his deputies, and a confluence
of United States Marshals assembled from across the country. Several Marshals
invited to the Kahl execution operation arrived too late and missed it.
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- Later in the afternoon, it all began. The quiet, isolated
and remote house was cordoned off, roadblocks were set up, and all without
Gordon Kahl detecting anything amiss. Soon that afternoon, Mr. Ginter left
the house alone and he was stopped down the road. He claimed his wife,
Norma Ginter, was in the house alone. Now, the house where Gordon Kahl
was living was more closely surrounded, and Sheriff Gene Matthews went
to the front door to remove Mrs. Ginter from the scene.
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- With her out of the way, the FBI started open shooting,
and saturated the house with bullets; but the earth shelter house was made
with concrete walls and Gordon Kahl survived through it all without a scratch.
The 36 year old local Sheriff, Gene Matthews, was killed incidental to
the FBI siege on the Gordon Kahl hideout.
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- After a while, as the firing stopped, the FBI cordoned
off the house for themselves while the Delta Force animals converged on
the house like starved panthers going for a piece of meat. They found Gordon
Kahl alive and well inside the home, hiding behind the refrigerator. He
was taken to the living room, thrown on the floor, and was worked over
with the butt end of their rifles. While numerous bones were being fractured
and his teeth were being smashed in, other members of Delta Force went
on a rampage in the house, smashing pictures and the television set, over-turning
furniture, a copier, and taking a fireman's axe and chopping up a bookshelf.
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- While Gordon Kahl was pinned to the floor by the 6 to
8 Delta Force panthers, still under attack from the gun butts, the FBI
agent with the fireman's axe turned to Gordon Kahl himself and chopped
off his hand. Then he went around and chopped off Gordon Kahl's other hand,
and then both of his feet were severed. While screaming with pain and with
blood gushing out profusely over the floor where his hands and feet used
to be, Gordon Kahl was shot in the head at close range, killing him.
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- A local Deputy Sheriff was given the honor of removing
the bullet from Gordon Kahl's head [later that week, the deputy would tell
a neighbor that he had not eaten in three days]. When local people viewed
Gordon Kahl's dismembered body, they became nauseous and sick, stating
that the man they just hacked apart was not Gordon Kahl, but Mr. William
Wade, who was the owner of the land and resembled Gordon Kahl closely in
age and appearance, and was well known to the Sheriff and others personally.
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- There was confusion; immediately there was trouble. A
massive series of roadblocks were erected again, and the thorough searching
of all automobiles over a wide radius was started; it was believed that
Gordon Kahl had slipped out once again.
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- Local residents monitoring the operation on the police
radio band heard a call made for some gasoline to be delivered to the house.
Now that the murder of Gordon Kahl had been botched, the Feds were going
to cover their own tracks and torch the place. The Delta Force animals
left the place with extensive blood stains covering their clothes and took
the private FBI jet back to Washington.
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- The roadblocks were called off when Mr. Wade, the owner
of the land, showed up in town alive and well. The body of Sheriff Matthews
was taken to a local hospital, while later in the evening after the fire
the Feds had set had died down, the charred body of Gordon Kahl was taken
to the local coroner.
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- The dismembered body was later identified as being that
of Gordon Kahl. But the bodies and the house were only lightly charred,
since the house was fabricated from cast concrete walls and the fire never
got that intense. The corpse identified as being Gordon Kahl's was missing
teeth, hands, and feet, had a bullet hole in the head (without a bullet),
and was extensively covered with tissue bruises and fractured bones. It
was very shocking and disgusting, as people who saw photographs of Gordon
Kahl's charred remains, taken by the coroner, reported a stark and terrified
look on his charred face; he had died in extreme terror, screaming violently
from the pain. They had gotten their man.
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- The man who was Director of the FBI at the time that
this murder operation was being performed, was William Webster. He personally
supervised it. And when you get to know William Webster very well, you
will become acquainted with a great murderer.
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- Gordon Kahl was later buried with military honors --
whatever that meant.
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- His wife back in North Dakota received several mean and
ugly death threats from the Feds to keep quite or be murdered herself.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country went on like Alice strolling through
Wonderland; believing that all was well and that the Federal Government
is your trusted friend, and that some little Tax Protestor over there got
what he deserved.
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- Back in Arkansas, while shifting through the smoldering
ruins in the kitchen, a reporter for the New York Times accompanied by
Ray Wade, the land owner's son, found Gordon Kahl's left foot that had
been severed off by the axe.
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- It was taken to the local coroner Dr. Fahmy Malak in
Little Rock, confirmed as being Gordon Kahl's sliced off foot. However,
this was news not fit to emphasize, and the reporter's story was blurred
over when printed [see New York Times ["Gunfight Shatters Tranquility
of Arkansas Hills"], page 14 (July 3, 1983)].
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- Mr. and Mrs. Ginter, who had been harboring Gordon Kahl,
were charged not only with aiding and abetting a fugitive, but also were
fraudulently charged with the murder of Sheriff Matthews. At Trial, the
only evidence introduced against them, outside of the background story,
was first person evidence from Art Russell's daughter, Karen Russell Robertson,
who reported to the Jury what she had seen her father do. And with that
eyewitness evidence, the Ginters and Art Russell were convicted and sentenced
to protracted incarceration in a Federal Penitentiary [see New York Times
["Arkansans Guilty in Tax Rebel Case"], page A19 (October 19,
1983)].
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- In conclusion, note that a large volume of the continuous
reporting that the New York Times and Time Magazine did on the story from
February through October, was based, as usual, on the mere replication
of whatever the FBI and wire services had told them, as the Government
Billboards that they are -- and so their reporting is highly edited, inaccurate,
and distorted news. Be advised that there are numerous inconsistencies
in those articles between what they have reported [as the Feds are quite
good at changing the facts], and what is reported herein. Until their own
reporter J.C. Barden actually went to the torched house to dig at facts
for himself on the case, some of the real facts never surfaced, and his
reported factual details considerably change the character and color of
the savage FBI animal attack on Gordon Kahl.
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- Incidentally, Mr. Ray Wade, who found Gordon Kahl's foot,
was also threatened with being killed himself if he did not remain silent,
as were other local residents who also saw different aspects of the bloody
reign of FBI terror that went on during that fateful day -- as the FBI
once again allowed itself to be defiled by acting ministerially, without
and wanting jurisdiction, on behalf of those presiding in Washington who
had handed down the extermination orders.
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