1. The Devil’s Advocate
Time Stamp: 9:28
- Offering Soul Is Not A Supreme Sacrifice!
- Letters From the Devil Article
- Carolyn S from Pueblo Co. is 17 years old and wants a beautiful body and to use black magic in return for her soul and any childrens souls she has in the future.
- She met Satan through her friend Carla and saw Loki in herself.
- She was told she had to wait for power but is unhappy and tired of waiting so shes reaching out to LaVey for help.
- LaVey states that her offer is as sound as J. Wellington Wimpy’s promise of Mowing your lawn next Tuesday for a hamburger Today
- If she has to resort to such tactics to obtain something as simple as she asks, it doesnt say much for he potential to be a witch.
- Lesson One: Never ask the Powers of Darkness to bestow that which you are capable of obtaining without their assistance.
- Dont rely on middle men
- Predict your own future
- Lesson Two: If standing on your own merits, you must objectively know your resources.
- Buy eyelash extensions, wear a girdle, and Pad your bra
- Dont propose deals using things that don’t belong to you
- Think seriously about what you offer
- Believe in yourself and shun self-deceit
- Satan hates quitters
2. Infernal Informant
Time Stamp: 22:08
- 11 heavily armed men on their way to Maine arrested after standoff with Mass. police on I-95
- https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/03/news/new-england/heavily-armed-men-on-their-way-to-maine-standing-off-with-mass-police-on-i-95/
- An hourslong standoff with a group of heavily armed men that partially shut down Interstate 95 ended Saturday with 11 suspects in custody, Massachusetts state police said.
- Police initially reported nine suspects were taken into custody, but two more were taken into custody in their vehicle later Saturday morning
- Two suspects were hospitalized, but police said it was for preexisting conditions that had nothing to do with the standoff.
- Mass State Police Col. Christopher Mason said the suspects surrendered after police tactical teams used armored vehicles to tighten the perimeter around them.
- The standoff shut down a portion of I-95 for much of the morning, causing major traffic problems during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Authorities said the interstate is now reopened and the shelter-in-place orders for Wakefield and Reading were lifted.
- In Massachusetts, Interstate 95 runs from the Rhode Island line, around Boston to the New Hampshire line. Wakefield is just east of where Interstate 95 and 93 meet north of Boston.
- The standoff began around 2 a.m. when police noticed two cars pulled over on I-95 with hazard lights on after they had apparently run out of fuel, authorities said at a Saturday press briefing.
- At least some of the suspects were clad in military-style gear with long guns and pistols, Mason said. He added that they were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.”
- “You can imagine 11 armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an interstate highway at 2 in the morning certainly raises concerns and is not consistent with the firearms laws that we have in Massachusetts,” Mason said.
- He said he understood the suspects, who did not have firearms licenses, have a different perspective on the law.
- “I appreciate that perspective,” he said “I disagree with that perspective at the end of the day, but I recognize that it’s there.”
- The men refused to put down their weapons or comply with authorities’ orders, claiming to be from a group “that does not recognize our laws” before taking off into a wooded area, police said.
- Police and prosecutors are working to determine what charges the members of the group will face.
- The suspects were expected to appear in court in Woburn on Tuesday, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
- Mason said the “self-professed leader” of the group wanted it to be known that they are not antigovernment.
- “I think the investigation that follows from this interaction will provide us more insight into what their motivation, what their ideology is,” Mason said.
- In a video posted to social media Saturday morning, a man who did not give his name, but said he was from a group called Rise of the Moors, broadcast from Interstate 95 in Wakefield near exit 57.
- “We are not antigovernment. We are not anti-police, we are not sovereign citizens, we’re not Black identity extremists,” said the man who appeared to be wearing military-style equipment. “As specified multiple times to the police that we are abiding by the peaceful journey laws of the United States.”
- The website for the group says they are “Moorish Americans dedicated to educating new Moors and influencing our Elders.”
- Mason said he had no knowledge of the group, but it was not unusual for the state police to encounter people who have “sovereign citizen ideology,” although he did not know if the people involved in the Wakefield standoff were a part of that.
- Sovereign citizens movement
- https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement
- based on a decades-old conspiracy theory. At some point in history, sovereigns believe, the American government set up by the founding fathers — with a legal system the sovereigns refer to as “common law” — was secretly replaced by a new government system based on admiralty law, the law of the sea and international commerce.
- Under common law, or so they believe, the sovereigns would be free men.
- Under admiralty law, they are slaves, and secret government forces have a vested interest in keeping them that way.
- Some sovereigns believe this perfidious change occurred during the Civil War, while others blame the events of 1933 when the U.S. abandoned the gold standard. Either way, they stake their lives and livelihoods on the idea that judges around the country know all about this hidden government takeover but are denying the sovereigns’ motions and filings out of treasonous loyalty to hidden and malevolent government forces.
- Since 1933, the U.S. dollar has been backed not by gold, but by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government (in fact, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended private ownership of gold in large amounts in 1933; governments could still sell gold for dollars to the U.S. Treasury for a fixed amount after that, until that practice was ended by President Richard Nixon in 1971).
- According to sovereign “researchers,” this means that the government has pledged its citizenry as collateral, by selling their future earning capabilities to foreign investors, effectively enslaving all Americans.
- This sale, they claim, takes place at birth. When a baby is born in the U.S., a birth certificate is issued, and the hospital usually requires that the parents apply for a Social Security number at that time.
- Sovereigns say that the government then uses that birth certificate to set up a kind of corporate trust in the baby’s name — a secret Treasury account — which it funds with an amount ranging from $600,000 to $20 million, depending on the particular variant of the sovereign belief system. By setting up this account, every newborn’s rights are cleverly split between those held by the flesh-and-blood baby and the ones assigned to his or her corporate shell account.
- The sovereigns believe the evidence for their theory is found on the birth certificate itself. Since most certificates use all capital letters to spell out a baby’s name, JOHN DOE, for example, is actually the name of the corporate shell identity, or “straw man,” while John Doe is the baby’s “real,” flesh-and-blood name.
- As the child grows older, most of his legal documents will utilize capital letters, which means that his state-issued driver’s license, his marriage license, his car registration, his criminal court records, his cable TV bill and correspondence from the IRS all will pertain to his corporate shell identity, not his real, sovereign identity.
- The process sovereigns have devised to split the straw man from the flesh-and-blood man is called “redemption,” and its purpose is two-fold.
- Once separated from the corporate shell, the newly freed man is now outside of the jurisdiction of all admiralty laws.
- More importantly, by filing a series of complex, legal-sounding documents, the sovereign can tap into that secret Treasury account for his own purposes.
- Over the past 30 years, hundreds of sovereigns have attempted to perfect the process by packaging and promoting different combinations of forms and paperwork. While no one has ever succeeded, for the obvious reason that these theories are not true, sovereigns are nonetheless convinced with the religious certainty of a true cult believing that they’re close. All it will take, say the promoters of the redemption scam, is the right combination of words.
- a reasonable estimate of hard-core sovereign believers in early 2011 would be 100,000, with another 200,000 just starting out by testing sovereign techniques for resisting everything from speeding tickets to drug charges, for an estimated total of 300,000.
- The weapon of choice for sovereign citizens is paper. A simple traffic violation or pet-licensing case can end up provoking dozens of court filings containing hundreds of pages of pseudo-legal nonsense.
- For example, a sovereign was involved in 2010 in a protracted legal battle over having to pay a dog-licensing fee. She filed 10 sovereign documents in court over a two-month period and then declared victory when the harried prosecutor decided to drop the case. The battle was fought over a three-year dog license that in Pinellas County, Fla., where the sovereign lives, costs just $20.
- Tax cases are even worse. Sovereign filings in such legal battles can quickly exceed a thousand pages. While a normal criminal case docket might have 60 or 70 entries, many involving sovereigns have as many as 1,200. The courts are struggling to keep up, and judges, prosecutors and public defenders are being swamped.
- The size of the documents is an issue, but so is the nonsensical language the documents are written in. They have a kind of special sovereign code language that judges, lawyers and other court staff simply can’t understand (nor can most non-sovereigns). Sovereigns believe that if they can find just the right combination of words, punctuation, paper, ink color and timing, they can have anything they want — freedom from taxes, unlimited wealth, and life without licenses, fees or laws, are all just a few strangely worded documents away. It’s the modern-day equivalent of “abracadabra.”
- most new recruits to the sovereign citizens movement are people who have found themselves in a desperate situation, often due to the economy or foreclosures, and are searching for a quick fix. Others are intrigued by the notions of easy money and living a lawless life, free from unpleasant consequences.
- Many self-identified sovereigns today are black and apparently completely unaware of the racist origins of their ideology. When they experience some small success at using redemption techniques to battle minor traffic offenses or local licensing issues, they’re hooked. For many, it’s a political issue. They don’t like taxes, traffic laws, child support obligations or banking practices, but they are too impatient to try to change what they dislike through traditional, political means.
3. Creature Feature
Time Stamp: 51:19
- MageStones Game
- https://boardgamegeek.com/image/6151138/magestones
- Released in 1990 by TSR
- 2-6 Players
- 10 minutes per game
- Very vaguely themed to the AD&D Dragonlance campaign background. The board is a grid 7 x 9, with columns numbered 3-9, columns representing planes of reality, rows representing schools of magic, though this has no effect on gameplay. The board “wraps” top to bottom, but not for the purposes of diagonal capture.
- Players roll 3d3 (six sided dice numbered 1-3 twice), and place their coloured tokens on a space in the column matching the dice total. The exception to this is where the three dice are all different, where the player misses a turn “distracted by events in the prime material plane.” When a player rolls all three dice the same, they get another turn after placing their stone.
- Capture of opposition stones is in the style of Othello/Reversi, but captured stones are removed from the board and returned to their owner. First player to place all their stones wins.