Word: schweitzers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said a resolution to the standoff could come in the next few days, now that a jailed Freemen leader has approved an FBI settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME's Pat Dawson reports from Montana...
...just waiting for a grand jury in Billings to hand up federal indictments giving them legal authority to move against the fugitives, who otherwise faced only state-level charges. Whatever the reason for the long stalemate, it gave way last Monday when federal agents arrested two Freemen leaders, LeRoy Schweitzer, 57, and Daniel Petersen, 53. An undercover agent posing as a seminar attendee was said to have pulled a pistol after feigning car trouble near the Clark ranch...
...arrests came a day after a meeting at the Freemen's compound at which Schweitzer outlined a plan to kidnap local officials. It was captured on a videotape broadcast last week by abc's Prime Time Live. "We're going to have a standing order," said Schweitzer. "Anyone obstructing justice, the order is shoot to kill." The first attempt to arraign the two men at the Billings federal courthouse ended in chaos when they shouted demands for a "change of venue" to their own Justus Township court. Two days later, U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson tried again, but had to enter...
Though the common-law-courts movement is loosely organized, with no strict hierarchy, the first arrests were big ones. Schweitzer became a leader of the Freemen after a tax dispute in the late 1970s. Using ideas common to the Posse Comitatus and other rightist fringe groups, they cobbled a doctrine out of bits and pieces of the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Constitution and other sources to argue that the Federal Government represents an illegal usurpation of the common-law power of localities. The ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People...
...gone forever. ``You cannot revive Jewish culture here,'' says Russia's Gerber. ``You cannot revive something that is finished.'' Others are troubled that the youthful embrace of Judaism is only rarely a question of faith. ``A lot of them want to be Jewish without the religion,'' complains Rabbi Jozsef Schweitzer, head of Budapest's Rabbinical Seminary. ``We as rabbis want the end station of this renaissance to be synagogue Jews, not club Jews...