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struggle4progress

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Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:01 PM Jun 2016

Ex-con in medicine without license case facing sex charges

By KEN RITTER -
6/17/16 10:01 PM

... Van Thiel was arrested in October after a police search of a trailer he allegedly used as a clinic. Police reported finding guns and records in the trailer suggesting that Van Thiel medically treated at least 23 people and had written agreements to treat many more ...

Van Thiel has prior felony convictions for robbery, attempted robbery, burglary and assault in 1992 in California, and attempted battery with substantial bodily harm in 2007 in Nevada ...

Police said Van Thiel bragged that he learned medicine from YouTube, books and videos. He described agreements with people he treated as private contracts over which the government and courts have no jurisdiction ...

Police say Van Thiel posted an Internet video showing himself performing cyst-removal surgery on a Las Vegas woman who was accused in 2013 of plotting with another anti-government “sovereign citizens” believer to kill Las Vegas police ...


http://www.therepublic.com/2016/06/17/nv-unlicensed-clinic-probe-indictment/

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Ex-con in medicine without license case facing sex charges (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP
No medical education or license? Whoopie! Operate on me, fellow free citizen! Warpy Jun 2016 #1

Warpy

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1. No medical education or license? Whoopie! Operate on me, fellow free citizen!
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:04 PM
Jun 2016

Honestly, just let these people go, only take their guns away from them. They're so fucking stupid they'll kill each other off and amateur surgery is one of the quickest ways.

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