IRS 501C3 Tax-Exempt Religious Organization Hoax going on in Josephine County #3
In this newsletter I will tie local Liberty Watch, prolife personnel, Non-profit SOS, local elected officials together. Additional we will bring up churches supporting their need for guns, including their working with one another in a team mode.
A disturbing detail most of us are now seeing unfold concerning traditional churches in Josephine County and across the nation. The traditional churches and republican platforms are identical supporting one another’s beliefs and agendas like never before. I do fear where this behavior is leading all of us.
An Example: Republican CC Chair Holli Morton directed Indra Nicholas to recruit school board candidates to be elected and change the makeup of the school board to lean more right-winged. (See executive meeting minutes for details bullet-point 11). The JoCo Republican website on the school board news page was taking a vote on the two fired teachers after they used school time to promote the churches IResolve campaign. RV Church Pastor Mark Goens made several YouTube videos concerning school board elections, the fired teachers and the benefits of IResolve. He also spoke on these topics from the pulpit. Edge Water Church did the same thing in supporting the I RESOLVE MOVEMENT.
The point is the churches, local school board officials and republicans all worked as one group to get the teachers reinstated because these teachers reflect their religious beliefs. Reinstatement happened after an investigation producing a 300 page report supporting the teachers firing for violating school policy. Then months later the school board just decides to reinstate the two teachers? No union or court legal action was facing the school board making them reconsider their original decision. These groups of religious political people I have mentioned would not do this for any other public teachers.
Gun Logic: Local church members & some pastors will say they own gun(s) for protection. In an article from 2017 Christianity today reported “Two out of five self-identified white evangelicals own a gun, higher than any other religious group. This article is from five years ago and this practice of gun owners has only grown. Many church members believe and some pastors teach the Lord likes guns. The catholic men’s organization Knights of Columbus one of the councils had a fundraiser “2022 Gun a Week raffle”. Another local example is Jon Clement RV Saltshaker who was a River Valley Church teacher up to a few years ago was arrested for using a weapon in GP City Limits.(a daily courtier article)
Last week the Republican (religious) side of the supreme court expanded a citizen's ability to obtain a concealed weapons permit. Getting a concealed weapons permit is easy in JoCo. The traditional churches only say something against gun violence to appear neutral when there is a major shooting. Once Sunday service is over – it's all forgotten about.
The republican religious ORTL Rep. Lily Morgan who voluntarily said she visits local churches stated in 2018 to the Daily Courier & other news agencies quoting: Josephine County Commissioner Lily Morgan confirmed today that she’s under criminal investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice over whether she can carry a concealed weapon at work in the county courthouse.
Josephine County Commissioners who are all republicans proposed Sanctuary County Designation for the protection of Gun Owners and their Weapons.
I bring up Jan 6th because the political environment here and across the country is what is enabling Trump to continue what he is doing. What we have heard from Jan 6th hearings through testimony and recorded police radio traffic is there were AK-47’s in the Trump Republican rally crowd. These armed people could see the president from where they were standing. The president was not worried about being shot by anyone in the crowd. None of the republican staff feared being shot and the secret service did not rush the president away from the area because of all the guns & assault weapons. At Trump’s rally said he was going to march with them down to the capital.
Quoting the 6th hearing testimony:
Told that guns, knives, brass knuckles and other weapons were being confiscated from the security screenings, Trump didn’t care. “They’re not here to hurt me,” the president said. He wanted to take away the magnetometer stations to allow more people inside the grounds, regardless of their weaponry….“Take the effing mags away,” an agitated Trump ordered security personnel moments before taking the stage, Hutchinson recalled.
Conservative Patriots: Made up of the Josephine county church members, republicans and R-elected officials. Josephine County Liberty Watch was the JoCo militia “Oath Keepers” and then rebranded as “Citizens Patriots of Josephine County” and then rebranded as “Liberty Watch”.
Joseph Rice their leader-coordinator made a brilliant move in 2014 & 2016 and began getting his local members elected as republican PCP’s. Typically no one runs against you as a PCP candidate. PCP’s are the people who choose the JoCo central committee leadership who then recommend or help republicans get elected to office. With the political support of his Liberty Watch members and several local elected officials he was elected to the ORP Oregon Republican Party as the CD2 position chair. Liberty Watch has the same address as the Josephine County Republican headquarters at 513 NE 6th St.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reported: The group started out with Rice as a leader of the Josephine County Oath Keepers militia, and the Sugar Pine & Bundy standoff successfully called armed extremists to his side to stop the BLM from impounding his cattle. Oregon Live said Rice was on site in the staging area for six weeks. I provided a chart from HC news known as the sagebrush insurgency. After the standoff in Josephine County Rice became a hero to many people in the R-party.
In 2017 I attended approximately three months the Oath Keepers meetings. At the Oath Keeper meetings I observed Grants Pass City Mayor (councilman) Roy Lindsay one of the board members involved as outlined in a paragraph of Viken Nokhoudian notarized affidavit (see below). Liberty Watch was instrumental in elevating Roy’s status to become the Republican mayor of grants pass. Viken states Roy and his wife met him at the staging area for the stand-off. The Rural Organizing Project provides several more details concerning local elected officials' involvement with the militia group.
In Mr. Nokhoudian resignation letter he states Roy had given 10,000 for (my guess) the rescue responder or website development and that Bruce had something on Roy to keep him silent by compromising himself:
I met with one of the Board of Directors, Roy Lindsay, who informed me that there had been no Board meetings. Bruce had been lying to me to keep me working on his project. He also said he had given Bruce $10,000 that he could ill afford. Alarmed, I asked him what development work had been done. Roy informed me he had seen a Login Page. I let him know that Bruce had shown me a mock-up of a login page that had no functionality behind it. The bigger picture was beginning to form. I later learned that Bruce has personal leverage to keep Roy silent. As Bruce tried to do to me, he apparently got Roy to compromise himself, something Roy does not want certain other persons to know.
Roy Lindsay most likely became the treasurer for the Oath Keepers as other organizations state. The Oath Keepers lost in a year two treasurers (Anita White & Catherine Austin) claiming they had the title but no access to the money. Roy appears to have been investing money in the organization or some product development. It would make sense he would get involved.
This was about the time the group changed its name to Liberty Watch distancing themselves from the Oath Keeper name. Roy Lindsay spoke one day at the meeting at the fairgrounds telling the militia people they were part of the state militia government also something about the 911 patriot act . They could be quickly deputized for the sheriff’s dept. or as needed as emergency response personnel. The JoCo sheriff Gil Gilbertson was involved with Liberty Watch. Gil had only a few deputies because of budget cutbacks. He had been working the angle of having the militia people be volunteers and start a Neighborhood Watch. Sheriff Gil Gilbertson's wife Diane was the treasurer for Rice’s county commissioner campaign. Gil Gilbertson lost the Sherriff’s election to Dave Daniels and all these ideas came to a halt. In 2017 it seemed to me that was the same idea Roy Lindsay was now promoting.
Joseph Rice & State Police Deputy
One thing I noticed was Joseph Rice began taking a lot of continued verbal shots at County Commissioner Cheryl Walker during meetings. She’s a republican but leans moderate not right-winged. A few years before the Josephine County Rep. Central Committee by a unanimous vote to recall her. No one has ever been able to convince me she did anything wrong and I still believe she just was not a good old boy. Republicans were trying to remove a Republican from office.
After I had attended a few Oath Keeper meetings I was invited by Grant Pass Finance Director Jay Meredith to lunch at Wild River brewery and pizza. Jay Meredith at the time was running a non-profit organization out of his GP city office known as SOS Securing Our Safety. When I arrived for lunch and if I remember correctly GP Det Archie Lidey was there with another woman. Several of the surrounding tables had Grants Pass police officers sitting at them. Jay starts questioning me on why I am attending the Oath keepers meeting. Please remember I am a city of grants pass employee and this is our city’s finance director. It really was none of his business what I do on my own time but I told him the Oath Keepers are a known hate group and are dangerous to us locally. He did not appear like that answer. He encouraged me to stop attending the meetings and I did. I then became a member of the SOS group. See email exchange between Jay & I.
SOS was a non-profit organization seeking police funding which is important to GP City. A day or two later after meeting with Jay. I brought the matter to the City of Grants Pass HR director Diana Mejia who is a grants pass police officer's wife. She stated Jay was a manager and his time is flexible with paid hours he can take each month and it was fine for him to conduct SOS business on City time. She said he keeps it straight and the Grants Pass City is not losing anything. I found all of this very interesting.
On March 8th 2021 I was the JoCo republican central committee secretary and the chair Holli Morton appointed Joseph Rice to our committee without asking any of us. We were elected by the PCP members to our positions. Immediately Rice on the executive board begins countering most comments I make. Holli & he wanted to go another direction. They do not like that I have other opinions on issues like Jan 6th or creating a neutral church committee to include the churches they do not agree with concerning beliefs. I was given new duties that day by Holli. I was to work on the web page and do the meeting minutes. I was no longer going to be running the communication team. Joseph would rewrite my job description to reflect these duties. See executive meeting minutes for details.
The next republican meeting or two Liberty Watch personnel were always around me at meetings. I am now working with Joseph’s wife for central committee meeting setups & zoom connections. I include two of Joseph’s emails – he has no problem calling me names or a coward. This is all done for intimidation. Two years ago Liberty Watch Joseph Rice was involved in some type of altercation with the Daily Courier editor. I could see where this was going and I resigned within a month as party secretary.
Remember these are arm militia people who will hostility challenge citizens and they have no issues denying your rights if it does not suit their purpose. They think they are patriots like the colonists protecting America against an evil government. Over time what I figured out was Liberty Watch, JoCo Republican Party, Elected City/County Officials, GP Police & JoCo Sheriff personnel morphed into the same team. Many of the GP Police & deputies along with city & county officials, city & county management attend the same churches. I will go into more in the next newsletter.
See Part Two for Next Hate Group involved with churches, public officials and Republican party.
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