Alleged Montana 'house theft' may have been inspired by extremist websites

[Newsjock]

Source: Missoulian

A California woman who allegedly moved into an unoccupied Lolo home earlier this month and claimed the digs as her own may have been influenced by websites promoting the extremist "sovereign citizens" movement.

Jackiya Dionea Ford, 37, allegedly moved into a Lolo home while it was for sale, then changed the locks and filed a fraudulent lawsuit against the home's builder and rightful owner, Bob Paffhausen.

... Ford filed suit against Paffhausen, the builder, who told authorities that the woman showed up to view his house as a prospective buyer. After their initial meeting, Ford delivered paperwork claiming ownership of the house and all the land in a 20-mile radius around it. She offered to drop the lawsuit if Paffhausen paid her $900,000 in pure silver and gold.

On April 14, as the builder worked with Brownlow to remedy the situation, he received a call from NorthWestern Energy saying someone had reported a natural gas leak at the house. Paffhausen went to the house, where he found the locks and garage door codes had been changed and the windows covered up with paper.

Various notices were also posted on the doors saying no one should enter the house without consent of the "authority of our Lord and Savior Yahushua," who had given the house to Ford as a believer.

Read more: http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_235a317a-51bd-11df-9822-001cc4c002e0.html

[PDJane]

1. amazing..............

[LiberalLoner]

2. Why do all the crazy people want to move to Montana? rop

I'm from Missoula originally and I HATE the fact that so many nutcases from elsewhere seem to think Montana would be a great place to move to. White supremecists, etc. Sickens me. :( I guess the crazies need to live somewhere but...not in my backyard, LOL!

[HopeHoops]

3. Maybe she planned on starting a dental floss farm.

:shrug:

[LiberalLoner]

5. Bwah ha ha no the dental floss farms are EAST of the mountains :)

[derby378]

4. And by "Yahushua," she means her dog

:rofl:

[notesdev]

6. People will believe anything

if it justifies taking something they didn't earn

[me b zola]

7. Mentally ill or a RWer. You decide

Reminds me of the skit from Funny or Die, Blue-tooth or Batshit Crazy.

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[TheOther95Percent]

12. Not a dime's worth of difference in this instance.

Batshit crazy or true believer. Same coin. Different sides.

[fishwax]

9. what a weird story

On one level, I'm a bit in awe of the chutzpah. But of course assuming what she's accused of is true I'm glad she was arrested and hope she is convicted--and what a hassle for the builder.

She claimed all the land in a 20-mile radius--I'm not getting the sense that this is a house in the middle of nowhere, so I wonder if she was planning on charging her neighbors tribute. :crazy:

[MilesColtrane]

10. I suggest copious amounts of tear gas.

[glitch]

11. Reminds me of the movie "Pacific Heights" nt

:scared:

[ellenfl]

13. i thought rwers believed in earning their way? on the bright side,

it looks like she'll have a place to live, after all. i hope she's happy with 3 hots and a cot.

ellen fl

[cayanne]

14. This happened to us, sorta

We sold our house in Bonner county because my husband had taken a job in another county. The loan fell through and when we drove up to talk to the prospective buyers we found that they had been living in our house along with a relative. All their furniture was in it, the cabinets and refrigerator were all stocked and the people were no where to be found. When they came back we confronted them and found it was difficult to get them out. So we tried charging them rent of which they paid one month out of three. We finally got them to move out by showing up with a lot of men and women to help us throw all their stuff out on the property and having the sheriff there. They finally moved out. 3 weeks later, and into another place they were trying to buy without telling the real estate lady they were doing so. The loan went through on that one before they could be evicted but this shows the length free loaders will go to not have to pay rent.

[spanone]

15. nuttier than a fruitcake

[Soylent Brice]

16. religious fervor and all around whackadoodlery.

:popcorn:

[Odin2005]

17. These "sovereign citizens" nuts are out of their mind.

[arcadian]

18. She used an obscure loophole in Federal law known as "the carny code"

[Heywood J]

19. I hope she gets a serious mental evaluation, and then the

time she so seriously deserves for grand theft and extortion. Check out the Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_movement) for this group, it's full of interesting weirdness.

According to Elvick, the government creates a fictitious person (straw man) corresponding to each newborn citizen with bank accounts initially holding $630,000. The theory further holds that through obscure procedures under the Uniform Commercial Code, a citizen can "reclaim" the straw man and write checks against its accounts.

Purveyors of the myth claim that debts can be eliminated by filing a UCC-1 financing statement through the Uniform Commercial Code. They hold that an inalienable right is an "in-a-lien-able" right, having some relation to liens. They claim that birth certificates are negotiable instruments, behind which is a $1,000,000 bond that is pre-paid financing on any activity of the straw man, and that the man or woman, by means of his or her first lien, has first claim on that money and can use it to pay off home or commercial mortgages, bank or student loans, tax liens, credit card debt, etc. Birth certificates are said to be a contract by which the parents sign over all title to their child, releasing it to the state; the state then assumes commercial control over the contract and processes it as if it were articles of incorporation.

Classes are often set up to teach the intricacies of the theory, and books have been published about it in the underground press. Canaanite law is held to be an important source of law and The Wizard of Oz (presumably because of the scarecrow character, i.e. the "straw man") and The Matrix trilogy are held to have important symbolisms in reference to this theory, and there is also said to be some connection to the New World Order.

Sounds like this whole thing is just chock full of fail and she's just the latest headcase to be lured in.