Noting that Southern Poverty Law Center hates the Republic and anyone who talks about it, I put this in Enemies of the Republic. Aside that, these people who are threatening the government are no better.

Longtime Militiaman Drew Rayner Facing Trial for Mail Fraud

NOTE: HateWatch has learned that Drew Allen Rayner has prominent ties to the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement. In April 2010, Rayner was one several sovereign citizens who signed a letter sent to all 50 governors demanding they vacate their offices, or else. The Guardians for the free Republics (GFR), a group which included the vanguard of the sovereign citizen movement, organized the letter campaign.

Another sovereign citizen who signed the letters was James Timothy Turner, a sovereign guru who heads the Republic for the united States of America (RUSA) – one of the largest and most ambitious sovereign groups active in the United States.

A major figure in the antigovernment militia movement for the past two decades has been indicted for mail fraud in Mississippi. Prosecutors allege that Drew Allen Rayner, 72, gave a fake promissory note to the town of Poplarville to pay a court-ordered fine.

Rayner, who is set to go to trial on Oct. 3, faces up to 55 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

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Personal note:

One of the people I worked with in the past (name of Steve) was asked by the FBI to go up to Montana and assist in talking these guys down. He was sucked into the scam that Schweitzer was pulling off.

"Rayner is one of 20 people who signed an April 14, 1996, declaration delivered to the FBI regarding a then-ongoing standoff involving members of the Montana Freeman who were holed up on their armed compound, “Justus Township,” near Jordan, Mont. In 1996, FBI agents arrested Freeman head LeRoy Schweitzer for felony criminal syndicalism, precipitating what would turn out to be an 81-day standoff between agents and the Freemen that ultimately ended peacefully."