A SPECIAL REPORT FROM AMERICAN FREE PRESS 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.