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Ptah

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Sun May 9, 2021, 10:44 PM May 2021

Beliefs, fear and anger': The roots of the Freemen still entrenched 25 years later


The third convicted Montana Freemen is living in Billings after spending the majority of the last 25 years of his life in prison.

Now 78, Daniel Petersen maintains the same ire against the federal government that he had in 1996, when an undercover FBI operation placed him and two other Freemen in custody, sparking a standoff in Garfield County that spanned months.

“I make no apologies,” Petersen told the Gazette. A white hat covered his head reading “#3 Montana Freemen/Where We Failed Trump Will Succeed.”

He spoke while sitting at a table next to fellow Freemen Rodney Skurdal, who thumbed through legal tomes that he’d annotated and filled with sticky notes for reference.

https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/beliefs-fear-and-anger-the-roots-of-the-freemen-still-entrenched-25-years-later/article_7d7178c1-68e8-58c4-b7b0-fb230cbbf467.html
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Beliefs, fear and anger': The roots of the Freemen still entrenched 25 years later (Original Post) Ptah May 2021 OP
The Freemen are a scourge on Montana. MontanaMama May 2021 #1
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