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Anti-government Fourth festival set
Josey1
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Anti-government Fourth festival set
By GINGER SHIRAS July 02, 2002
DRY FORK - It sounds a bit like an oxymoron - an anti-government Fourth of July celebration - but the organizer would disagree.
"We're not an anti-government group. We just concerned that our freedoms are going down the toilet," organizer Wayne Hicks of Osage says. "We're concerned that our rights are being ripped away from us by a government no longer constrained by the Constitution."
"We're not a bunch of gun-toting militia anti-government nuts," he said. "We're just having a big Fourth of July party. I am probably fairly well known to the government as the man who is trying to keep everything peaceful."
His organization, the Fourth Branch Clubs of America, believes that when the administrative, legislative and judicial branches of government won't protect individual rights, a fourth branch - the people - needs to rise up. But, he says on his web site, "Don't grab that deer rifle yet." He told the Harrison Daily Times that the group is devoted to educating people to turn the government around to "where it ought to be."
His five-day south Carroll County Freedomfest, which includes "a lot of music and a big flea market," starts at 4 p.m. Tuesday with a speech by Curt Frazier, a Missouri physician who was the 2000 vice presidential nominee for the Constitution Party.
Tickets are $25 for all five days.
Camping without utilities will be provided at the site, which Hicks describes as "a big valley owned by a friend of mine." To get there from Harrison, take U. S. Highway 412 through Alpena, Osage and Dry Fork. Pass the Dry Fork Store, cross two bridges and take the second left turn, he said. Signs will mark the turn off of the highway, he said. The turn is a quarter mile past Dry Fork and the site is a mile south of that, he said.
Fourth of July events Thursday will include a 1 p.m. concert by Poker Face, which Hicks said was a "nationally known patriotic rock band - the kids love them."
At 3 p.m. Thursday, Idaho lawyer Edgar J. Steele will speak.
Hicks said Steele defended a Washington couple who, "after over a year of getting absolutely nowhere, took their children back by force with a gun in the face of a child protective worker."
Steele will be followed by Kathryn Graham, a private investigator and Texas director of Armed Females of America, and Nick Landholt of Texas, director of Patriots Assuring Clean Elections. Hicks said he will give the audience evidence that the income tax "is in fact illegal and no U. S. citizen is required to pay it."
Fireworks are planned for dark Thursday and the speakers will speak again on Friday, starting at 4 p.m., he said.
Hicks said he moved south to a warmer climate two years ago from his native Illinois because of his wife's health. He moved to Osage from DeQueen last November and found "quite a few" kindred spirits.
"I was actually fairly well known around the area before I got here. I covered Janie Ward a year ago for the Sierra Times," he said, referring to the controversial death of a Searcy County teenager. "I moved to Osage and two people said boy your name is familiar."
He said he was drawn to the "freedom movement to restore the Constitution" when he was "railroaded by the justice system."
He said he was operating a tire recycling business in Ohio and "the local county commissioner I guess thought I had too many tires. He shut me down and look my land, he tried to imprison me on a misdemeanor for four years. I spent eight and a half months in state prison."
Information about the Fourth Branch Clubs and some information on Freedomfest can be found at www.4thbranch.com. More Freedomfest information is available at 870-553-2468.
cHarrison Daily Times 2002
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4625479&BRD=1815&PAG=461&dept_id=59849&rfi=6
Edited by - Josey1 on 07/03/2002 06:15:29
By GINGER SHIRAS July 02, 2002
DRY FORK - It sounds a bit like an oxymoron - an anti-government Fourth of July celebration - but the organizer would disagree.
"We're not an anti-government group. We just concerned that our freedoms are going down the toilet," organizer Wayne Hicks of Osage says. "We're concerned that our rights are being ripped away from us by a government no longer constrained by the Constitution."
"We're not a bunch of gun-toting militia anti-government nuts," he said. "We're just having a big Fourth of July party. I am probably fairly well known to the government as the man who is trying to keep everything peaceful."
His organization, the Fourth Branch Clubs of America, believes that when the administrative, legislative and judicial branches of government won't protect individual rights, a fourth branch - the people - needs to rise up. But, he says on his web site, "Don't grab that deer rifle yet." He told the Harrison Daily Times that the group is devoted to educating people to turn the government around to "where it ought to be."
His five-day south Carroll County Freedomfest, which includes "a lot of music and a big flea market," starts at 4 p.m. Tuesday with a speech by Curt Frazier, a Missouri physician who was the 2000 vice presidential nominee for the Constitution Party.
Tickets are $25 for all five days.
Camping without utilities will be provided at the site, which Hicks describes as "a big valley owned by a friend of mine." To get there from Harrison, take U. S. Highway 412 through Alpena, Osage and Dry Fork. Pass the Dry Fork Store, cross two bridges and take the second left turn, he said. Signs will mark the turn off of the highway, he said. The turn is a quarter mile past Dry Fork and the site is a mile south of that, he said.
Fourth of July events Thursday will include a 1 p.m. concert by Poker Face, which Hicks said was a "nationally known patriotic rock band - the kids love them."
At 3 p.m. Thursday, Idaho lawyer Edgar J. Steele will speak.
Hicks said Steele defended a Washington couple who, "after over a year of getting absolutely nowhere, took their children back by force with a gun in the face of a child protective worker."
Steele will be followed by Kathryn Graham, a private investigator and Texas director of Armed Females of America, and Nick Landholt of Texas, director of Patriots Assuring Clean Elections. Hicks said he will give the audience evidence that the income tax "is in fact illegal and no U. S. citizen is required to pay it."
Fireworks are planned for dark Thursday and the speakers will speak again on Friday, starting at 4 p.m., he said.
Hicks said he moved south to a warmer climate two years ago from his native Illinois because of his wife's health. He moved to Osage from DeQueen last November and found "quite a few" kindred spirits.
"I was actually fairly well known around the area before I got here. I covered Janie Ward a year ago for the Sierra Times," he said, referring to the controversial death of a Searcy County teenager. "I moved to Osage and two people said boy your name is familiar."
He said he was drawn to the "freedom movement to restore the Constitution" when he was "railroaded by the justice system."
He said he was operating a tire recycling business in Ohio and "the local county commissioner I guess thought I had too many tires. He shut me down and look my land, he tried to imprison me on a misdemeanor for four years. I spent eight and a half months in state prison."
Information about the Fourth Branch Clubs and some information on Freedomfest can be found at www.4thbranch.com. More Freedomfest information is available at 870-553-2468.
cHarrison Daily Times 2002
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4625479&BRD=1815&PAG=461&dept_id=59849&rfi=6
Edited by - Josey1 on 07/03/2002 06:15:29