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American Free Press EXCLUSIVE: The Final Statements of an American Martyr The Final Affidavit of Gordon Kahl

INTRODUCTION At age 63, Gordon Kahl knew he was a marked man. U.S. Marshal Sgt. Yorie, his close friend who was killed in action. Kahl had vowed Bud Warren as much as told him so. After Warren stepped down, an to name his first son after him. After fathering four daughters, Kahl overzealous Ken Muir became chief marshal of the Fargo, N.D., U.S. was proud to see Joan deliver their first son in 1959. Marshals office. On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 13, 1983, Muir and Against the advice of Warren, Muir was determined to grab some Deputy Marshals Robert Cheshire, James Hopson and Carl Wiggles- headlines. He did so but never lived to enjoy them. A mile outside of worth went gunning for Kahl. Muir invited Warren to join them and Medina, N.D., around 6 p.m. the marshals attempted to ambush the was gruffly refused. Kahl family and friends with another roadblock. They had also enlisted several city and county officers to partic- According to witnesses, Gordon fired back at the marshals and ipate in the “capture” of Kahl. However, Medina Police Chief Darrell officers, killing Muir and Cheshire. He also wounded Hopson, Graf’s Graf not only refused to be involved but also angrily chased deputy Steve Schnabel and County Deputy Brad Kapp. the feds away from the first roadblock they had foolishly Kahl’s 23-year-old son, Yorie, did not escape. He set up within the city limits—right in front of a trailer was wounded and near death. After following his park. son to a nearby hospital, Kahl managed to get away. Contrary to distorted news reports and a TV But subsequent to the shootings, Yorie and friend movie, Kahl was not a violent member of an anti- Scott Faul, 29, received double life sentences for government, anti-tax group. The WWII vet and recip- the marshals’ deaths. ient of a Silver Star, four Bronze Stars, and two The following is the definitive statement written Purple Hearts was actually a mild-mannered, God- by Kahl about the tragic series of violent events. It is fearing, freedom-loving, salt-of-the-earth father of six Kahl’s affidavit, which he gave to his friend, Leonard children who eked out a living from the North Dakota soil Ginter, in May 1983. Ginter hid the papers in a waterproof until the banks began to confiscate farms in the 1980s. Allegations bag in the wall of his chicken house in Arkansas shortly before that extremists gathered to discuss means of overthrowing the gov- June 3, 1983—the terrible day when federal agents, again under the ernment were simply unfounded. The weekly meetings at Dr. guise of making an arrest, shot Kahl dead and torched the Ginter Clarence Martin’s clinic in Medina, which Kahl regularly attended, home in an attempt to destroy the evidence of a legalized murder. were about lawfully stopping the farm foreclosures spreading like a Ginter retrieved these papers nearly five years later, after his cancer throughout the Midwest. release from federal prison. This is the first time Kahl’s final affidavit Forty years earlier in WWII, Kahl had fought bravely alongside a has been published in its entirety. The text follows.

PHOTO CAPTIONS: Above, Gordon and Joan Kahl in a family photo taken just prior to the events that led to Gordon’s murder. Center, a photograph taken of a U.S. marshal’s Ramcharger at the site of the roadblock that precipitated the shootout near Medina, North Dakota. Federal authorities had no desire to take Kahl alive and the roadblock was a pretense for killing him. Right, Joan (Gordon’s widow) wipes away tears at Gordon’s funeral. Much of the evidence in the trial was conveniently lost by federal authorities and police—including Gordon’s charred body. Several law enforcement officers who were familiar with Kahl refused to participate in the legalized murder of Kahl and his companions. Inset above, the cross on Gordon’s grave emerges from the driven snow. B-2 AMERICAN FREE PRESS June 16, 2003 Text of The Final Affidavit of Gordon Kahl

FFIANT GORDON W. KAHL states under That to obey any provision of the Communist Mani- oath, that according to my knowledge festo would be giving aid and comfort to the enemies of and memory, the following statements Jesus Christ. A are true: That in April of 1969, I had informed the IRS by mail That there is a war being waged against my fellow that no longer would I give aid and comfort to the ene- Christians and myself, by Satan and his followers. mies of Jesus Christ. That many of our servants, whom we have hired by That all the threats, and persecution, which have contract (oath of office) have joined with our enemies, been carried out against me, had one purpose—to sepa- and as John Locke stated, have placed themselves in a rate me from eternal life, by coercing me into serving state of war with us, their masters. Satan. That they have done so knowingly or not is of little That I was tried on a charge of failure to file (7203) consequence, as the result is the same. which is a misdemeanor and was sentenced under in- That because I tried to bring these facts to the atten- come tax evasion, which is a felony. tion of my servants and fellow Christians, I was select- That a clerk at the Leavenworth prison told me I had ed for a target, not only to be personally silenced, but to been sentenced unlawfully, and showed me that the be used as an example, to frighten and terrorize any oth- charge I had been tried on was not even in their book. ers who might think to do the same. That when she tried to get it corrected she was told to That the IRS agents Jerry Stamps and Robert Ral- keep her nose out of things that did not concern her. ston both testified under oath that they used selective That I was detained in Springfield, Mo. at the Fed- prosecution against me even though they knew it to be eral Medical Center for two and one-half months before prohibited by law. I was sentenced, if for no other reason than to try to That Federal District Judge D.W. Suttle upheld them instill in me a guilt complex, that by being religious to in their unlawful activities. the extent that I refused to serve Satan, the god of this That U.S. Attorneys Wayne Speck, Archie Pearce, world, I was unbalanced and possibly insane. and a Mr. Geyer, whose first name I do not remember, That the terms of my probation were unlawful, in Above, the wanted poster for Kahl put out by the FBI. upheld them in their unlawful activities. that they attempted to force me to serve Satan under That the IRS upheld them in their unlawful activi- the second plank of the Communist Manifesto by coop- was rigged in such a way that when I pulled the flap ties. erating with the IRS after my release. control handle some kind of gas was released into the That the Department of Justice upheld them in their That the terms of my probation were unlawful, in cockpit, and we were both incapacitated. unlawful activities. that they forbid me from associating with Christian That we would both have been killed had it not been That the misdemeanor charge of “failure to file” patriots after my release. that my older son Yorie had flown thru a flock of black- under title 26 U.S.C. 7203 was brought against me by That I notified the probation officers that I would not birds a few days earlier, and had cracked the wind- “the United States of America” [and] is de facto proof serve Satan under the second or any other plank of the shield on my side, allowing air to come in and dilute that the U.S.A. upheld them in their unlawful activities. Communist Manifesto. the gas enough so it didn’t keep me “knocked out.” That That all the above-named people and entities knew That the warrants that were issued for my arrest I was semi-conscious to the extent that I finally got the that I was guilty of no crime. were unlawful, as they were based on a continuity of plane down but struck the edge of a road, breaking off That the “failure to file” charge was not brought be- acts that were also unlawful. the nose wheel. And although the plane was badly fore a grand jury, and I was never indicted, by such, and That to be incarcerated again would have assured me damaged, my son Frederick didn’t receive a scratch. I was brought to trial without an indictment. of certain death, as I had been brought to death’s door was hurt when the seat latch let go and I slid ahead That the above-mentioned people and entities knew twice before at the hands of Christ’s enemies, who tried into the instrument panel. that I was guilty of no crime, and claimed that I should to silence me. That my son Yorie pulled the plane home and, while have filed, knowing full well that income is taxed, not That I and W.M. Rinehart were kept in the Midland, we were all gone, a neighbor saw two men in a govern- the source of the income, and that I was not a person Tex., jail, until he was sent to Stafford, Ariz., and I was ment car go into our place. We saw that the cowling was required to file, either voluntarily or involuntarily. released on bond, while filing an appeal. That he had a removed from the plane, and whatever device they had That only government employees, or to be more cor- heart attack, from which he died, after laying for four attached to the plane was removed. The cowling was left rect, servants of we the people, can be taxed on the days, while his servants refused to help him. One week off, and we have never found out who the men were. source of their income. later I suffered a heart attack, and, a week after that, That something was attached to the engine, so that That the progressive graduated income tax was the another one. when I pulled the flap control handle, the engine almost implementation of the second plank of the Communist That my son Frederick and myself narrowly escaped stopped, and we slowed down until we were only going Manifesto. death when the airplane which belonged to our church about 20 miles per hour when we finally touched down. That we had heard many times that government agents had been seen around our place. That we had heard many reports that they were going to “get” me. That one report came from a law enforcement official who said they were going to take care of it “once and for all.” That we expected them to carry out their nefarious scheme at any time. That we were not surprised when we were ambushed on our way home from Medina where we had met to carry out the intent of the Third Continental Congress, of restoring our nation to the original Constitution, including the 10 articles of the Bill of Rights, and put- ting it under the laws of God as laid down in the scrip- tures. That the people who ambushed us intended to do us bodily harm or they would not have had an ambulance and a fire truck following them out from town. That we did not fire on them, but that two of them fired on my son Yorie. That one shot was from a shotgun loaded with buckshot and the other was from a rifle or Above, the remains of the Arkansas home of Leonard Ginter where Gordon Kahl had been hiding. (Ginter was pistol (high-powered), the bullet striking the grip on his given four years in jail for harboring Gordon.) The house was burned to the ground with Gordon inside. One .45 auto, which he had in a shoulder holster. Had he not police officer testified he was instructed by the FBI to pour fuel down the chimney and ignite it. (See FOR ‘CRIMES’ OF THE FATHER, Page B-4) June 16, 2003 AMERICAN FREE PRESS B-3 Decorated Veteran, Kahl Was a True American Hero EARLY LIFE: court, which Gordon refused to answer. • Jan. 8, 1920: Gordon Wendell Kahl born. Son of Fred • November 1980: The IRS filed a lien on 80 acres of and Edna Kahl. Oldest of five kids. Kahl’s farm. Friend Herman Widicker tried to pay it • Graduated high school in 1938. off. • Met future wife, Joan, when she was 13, in 1940. • March 30, 1981: Texas arrest warrant order issued. • Tried to enlist but flunked the physical exam. • Lost his appendix in his teens just prior to WWII. BEGINNING OF FINAL TRAGEDY: • June 15, 1981: Bud Warren replaced by Ken Muir as WORLD WAR II: North Dakota U.S. marshal. • Passed his physical the second time, right after • June 21, 1981: Ken Muir initiated road crew arrest Pearl Harbor. attempt. • Joined Army Air Corps, Feb. 1, 1942. Started pilot • July 1981: Deputy Director John Twomey of U.S. school, but couldn’t wait to get to action. Quit and Marshals directed Ken Muir not to expend any more became a tail gunner and flight engineer on B-25J time or money on misdemeanor warrant. bomber. • September 1981: Gordon was involved in mysterious • Wounded by landmine in Africa (shrapnel in hip). plane crash. Arrest attempt made at hospital. Refused to quit flying. • November 1982: The IRS made plans to sell 80 acres • Flew in three theaters of war: Africa, Europe and of Kahl’s land. IRS agents and U.S. marshals stated Indochina. they intended to serve a warrant on Gordon if he • Wounded again: shrapnel in jaw from exploding showed up for the sale. ammunition. • Gordon sought to file an injunction in U.S. district • Flew 57 bombing missions. court to stop auction, but the clerk neglected to file the • Credited with shooting down 10 enemy planes. document. A U.S. Marshal reportedly took it. • Received 19 medals: nine Battle Stars, four Bronze • Nov. 8, 1982: the IRS attempted to auction off Kahl’s Stars, a Silver Star, two Air Medals, two Purple 80 acres. No one bid. Hearts and a Presidential Unit Citation. MEDINA ROADBLOCK: POSTWAR: • Feb. 10, 1983: All points bulletin put out on Kahl Gordon Kahl was a man of great conviction. He • Married Joan on Jan. 6, 1945. Kahl reportedly gave family friend Rusty Kouba and Gordon Kahl. Scott enlisted to fight in WWII and received 19 medals Joan a 20-gauge shotgun for a wedding gift. Faul’s license plate number was listed as that of the during his time in the military. He was no coward • The couple bought 160 acres of farm from an uncle car they’re in. and was willing to die for what he believed in. near parents’ farm. • Meeting of anti-foreclosure activists at Dr. Martin’s • Gordon went to college; dropped out because a clinic. • Feb. 11, 1983: Faul turned himself in, delivering teacher was a communist. • Stutsman County Sheriff’s Deputy Bradley Kapp Gordon’s “confession.” • Had six kids: Linda, born in 1947; Lorna, born in saw Gordon’s car and called state radio, which put him • Feb. 12, 1983: Federal law enforcement searched the 1951; Lonnie, born in 1958; Yorie, born in 1959; in touch with Marshal Robert Cheshire. house. Shot the family dog. Frederick Von, born in 1960; and Loreen, born in 1963. • Cheshire calls Muir. Muir called Warren who • Yorie interrogated coming out of anesthesia. • Gordon tried government farm training program. refused to participate in Kahl “capture.” Deputy • Gordon escaped to Arkansas, where he stayed with Quit because they wanted him to go in debt, buying Marshal Carl Wigglesworth rode with Muir. Deputy Leonard Ginter. equipment and dairy barns. Marshal James Hopson traveled with Cheshire. • Yorie and Faul brought to trial rapidly. • Felt the U.S. government had changed since he went Cheshire arrived from Bismarck; Muir from Fargo. • Yorie tried to get a constitutional lawyer (Charles to war. Discovered Pearl Harbor was rigged. • Scott Faul and Yorie noticed Kapp outside clinic. O’Brien, Sr., The Constitutional Christian Law • Joined the Christian Constitutional Party with Dr. • Medina Police Chief Darrel Graf called emergency Center, Box 2181, Cheyenne, Wyo. 82001), but was Clarence Martin in 1968. crew, including ambulance, and ordered roadblock denied by judge. • Sent a letter to the IRS in 1968 saying he was no moved out of town. • Yorie and Faul refused to reveal whereabouts of longer paying federal income tax. It was after he read • Yorie and Gordon moved cars around to out-of-sight Gordon to federal authorities or Prosecutor Lynn the book The Cat in the Bag, about how “a fast one” side of clinic and changed clothes, thinking it a useful Crooks. was pulled in the 19th century and how Ohio had to be precaution. As the two cars left, someone gave them a • May 28, 1983: Yorie and Faul found guilty. specially admitted into the union in 1953 (150 years warning that they were being set up. • June 3, 1983: Gordon murdered by federal agents. after the first attempt to admit the state) and there- • Cheshire arrived as Yorie and Gordon were leaving. fore was not legally able to participate in ratifying the Kapp got into Cheshire’s Ramcharger. POST-DEATH EVENTS: income tax amendment in 1913. (Without Ohio’s vote, • Cheshire told Hopson to take off his badge. • A New York Times reporter found Gordon’s foot in the amendment could not be legally ratified.) • Ramcharger drove by Yorie and Gordon and did a u- ruins of Ginter home two weeks after incident. • In approximately 1975, Kahl joined the Posse turn to follow them. • Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, later to be U.S. presi- Comitatus in Texas. Became the state coordinator. • Gordon and Yorie saw roadblock almost a mile down dent, aids in the cover-up by barring private investi- • An FBI freedom of information suit shows the FBI the road. Yorie was watching Ramcharger rushing up gators from the Ginter house site. started investigating Gordon in 1975. behind. • Leonard Ginter received four-year sentence for har- • Yorie was arrested for changing license tags. • Gordon and Yorie were trapped in roadblock. boring Gordon. His wife Norma Ginter was released. • Gordon formed his own church. Shootout ensued. • Art Russell’s daughter Karen—who reportedly told • IRS indicted Gordon—information filed Nov. 16, of Gordon’s whereabouts—was placed in a federal wit- 1976—for failure to file for 1973 for $9,719.90 and POST-MEDINA SHOUTOUT: ness protection/relocation program. (Currently lives 1974 for $11,950.38. • Scott Faul took Yorie to Medina clinic (followed by somewhere in Virginia.) • Gordon claimed “selective prosecution.” Gordon and Joan), where Dr. Martin initially treated • Medical Examiner Fahmy Malek “lost” Gordon’s him. body. TIME IN PRISON: • Yorie was then taken to Jamestown for major sur- • Local police officer testified at harboring trial that • Gordon received guilty verdict on April 14, 1977. gery by ambulance. Lost right kidney and gall bladder. the FBI ordered him to pour Diesel fuel down chimney • Lost appeal on Nov. 16, 1978. The court would not His liver and right lung were damaged. Part of his and set it on fire. appoint an attorney, and the United Tax Protesters intestine was cut out. • Police photos of the crime scene were “lost.” Union did not pay his attorney fees as promised. • Gordon and Faul abandoned car near Kahl farm. • Police radio tapes were “lost” that may have the • Spent six months in prison, from Feb. 1 to Aug. 2, Gordon wrote “brown bag letter/confession.” Gordon message going out that they thought they’d killed local 1979. Was released on five years probation. and Scott took off for parts unknown. farmer Bill Wade (a Kahl look-alike) instead of • April 15, 1980: Gordon violated probation by not fil- • Joan was arrested at the hospital. Gordon, which would explain their incineration of the ing income tax return. • Yorie’s wife was refused access to her husband. She corpse since they evidently wanted to pass off the body • July 2, 1980: Received summons to appear in Texas was told he was dead. as that of Gordon. B-4 AMERICAN FREE PRESS June 16, 2003 For ‘Crimes’ of the Father, Son Pays Heavy Price (Continued from Page B-2) when I fired in his direction. had the .45 where it was at, he would have been killed That about this time, I glanced quickly around and instantly. saw Scotty Faul running over to where Yorie lay, and I That when the first shot was fired, Yorie cried out realized he was the one the marshal had aimed at before “I’m hit.” The man who I assume was the chief marshal I fired, causing him to duck out of sight. About this time yelled—“who fired, who fired?” He stood up and looked the marshal, who had aimed at me, tried again, and over toward the Medina police chief and where another another shot from my Mini-14, made him duck again. marshal had run over into the east ditch trying to get The driver again tried to aim at Scotty and I fired again. behind us. I believe that another car had pulled up This went on several times. As fast as I’d fire, they’d behind the police chief, but I don’t know who it was. duck and then pop up to aim again. Finally one of my That both marshals who were in their vehicle were bullets hit the marshal on the passenger side and he fully exposed and yelling, “who fired?” When the second went down. I fired quite a few times then at the driver, shot rang out, I heard Yorie yell again. When I looked without any visible effect. I soon realized my clip would around, I saw he had been knocked down and was on the be empty, and then Scotty would be dead and so would I. ground. I ran around beside their vehicle, firing as I went, to That at this time the marshal, who was on the pas- keep him down, until I got around, far enough for him to senger side of his vehicle, aimed at me and I snapped a be exposed to my fire, when I put him out of commission. quick shot at him with my Mini-14, as I knew then we Since Scotty hadn’t been firing—and unless Yorie had were all going to be killed. At this moment I saw the fired when he got hit—I knew that the marshal who had other marshal, who was the driver, aim his gun at some- run around into the ditch was still there somewhere. So thing about halfway between me and Yorie, and I I ran around between [Kahl family friend] Dave Above, a recent picture of Joan Kahl (Gordon’s snapped a quick shot at him, causing him to duck down Brower’s station wagon, and the marshal’s vehicle, just widow) and Yorie Kahl during a jailhouse reunion. out of sight behind the dash as his partner had done, in time to see the marshal who had been in the east ditch stand up and aim at Scotty’s back. Where he was took him into the clinic. Scotty drove him. I brought our standing by Yorie, he might have intended to shoot at station wagon, which my wife [Joan] had been sitting in. me, as I was nearly in his line of fire when I saw him. I saw a man in the clinic, who had blood on his face, I snapped a quick shot at him, and knew he was hit and who I recognized as a Medina city employee, who bad, from the way he fell. I went another step or two, was driving the one who set us up. I believe he drove up and at this time the Medina police chief stood up and behind the marshal’s vehicle while they were yelling, began to aim at Scotty. But when he saw me he ducked “who fired?” down behind his car, before I could shoot. I saw his feet This man started begging for mercy when he saw me, or legs under his car and fired a shot at him and heard and I recognized him as having been at our meetings. I him yell, and knew I’d hit him. didn’t shoot at him. I believe he must have been hit by I didn’t see anyone else, and ran over into the east ricochets or pieces of bullets when I was firing at the two ditch, to see what happened to the marshal I’d fired at. marshals who were trying to keep their heads down. He He saw me coming, and lifted his head up off the was almost directly behind the driver, from where I was ground, and said, “don’t shoot me again, I’m all done.” standing. I took his shotgun out of his hand and his pistol out As far as I know neither Yorie nor Scotty fired— of his holster, and threw them both up onto the edge of unless Yorie fired when he was hit. [Kahl family friend] the road, where he couldn’t reach them and shoot me in Vernon Wagner wasn’t armed, and although Dave the back. Brower had his shotgun in the car he never touched it. I then went up and looked amongst the cars to see if My wife had nothing to do with any of it other than there were any more of them hiding there. I didn’t see the fact that she went along to visit with some other the Medina police chief, so I assume he must have run ladies. Above, Yorie Kahl (left) and Scott Faul (right) in hand- and hid in some trees nearby. The ambulance was behind the [roadblock] and took cuffs as they are led from jail to court. Although Yorie It seems to me that there was another car pulled up the city employee to the clinic before I knew he had been never fired a shot, he was given a double life sen- behind the Medina police chief’s car, but I can’t remem- on the scene. tence for murder. He still awaits a retrial 20 years ber for sure and don’t remember seeing anyone else. The fire truck turned around and went back to town. later. Yorie Kahl was “made an example of.” Scotty and I put Yorie into the police chief’s car and I sent the ambulance back out as soon as we got to the clinic, as I thought the marshal who asked me not to shoot him again might still be alive. Subscribe to AMERICAN FREE PRESS Newspaper Here! 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