Status: ASSOCIATE; GUEST SPEAKER
Networks: Christian Patriot Association,
Group Contacts:
Tim Titrud,
Tim Calvert
From the far Right of batshit insane, Springmeier is a Christian lunatic on a mission to expose the "
New World Order" by bombing adult video stores. Conspiracy fans troll
Springmeier's wiki talk page
whining about "bias" until they're told to GTFO. In their attempt to
remove anything disparaging(ei: True) about their hero, they risk
invoking the
Streisand Effect. For more info on this phenomena, scroll down to "FBI probes alleged threat to officer".
In
spite of Springmeier's colorful and racists past, both Tim Calvert and
Tim Titrud have rolled out the welcome mat for "Nitro" Fritz on not one,
but two occasions:
In 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ramBn-6Ls
Fritz Springmeir, author, political
prisoner, expert on secret societies and the occult, will discuss occult
symbolisand ties to the illuminati, and the 9/11 Attcks.
Filmed on 9.10.11 in Portland Oregon
Due
to a fan running in the room: there is a background humming noise
(sorry) - (also I seemed to have misspelled Fritz's last name, I
apologize)
And in 2012:
Portland 9/11 Truth Alliance Hosts Right-Wing Bomber Courtesy of Citybikes President, Tim Calvert
http://rosecityantifa.weebly.com/1/post/2012/09/portland-911-truth-alliance-hosts-right-wing-bomber-courtesy-of-city-bikes-president-tim-calvert.html
When called out at IMC, both Springmeier and "Joe Anybody" try
the usual spin : Antifa are bullies and where's the free speech? The
most transparent bullshit written online:
Joe Anybody's tl'dr drek:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/09/417943.shtml#405339
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/09/417943.shtml?discuss#405551
Springmeier
weighs in:
http://pentracks.com
And get's
pwned off the field:
Ha ha ha ha ha
Springmeier Stalks Cop:
FBI probes alleged threat to officer
Thomas Potter isn't the only group member who stalks cops. In 2001 the FBI considered Springmeier a person of interest
in threatening a cop:
FBI probes alleged threat to officer
Man tied to extremists reportedly sent letter in ‘97 seeking information on cop
By Jim Redden
The Portland Tribune, Apr 6, 2001
The Portland Police Bureau is investigating a
potential threat against one of its officers by a writer with links to
the extremist group Army of God.
The writer is Corbett resident Fritz Springmeier,
45. He is tied to Forrest Bateman, 29, a suspected member of the
underground movement.
Springmeier and Bateman recently were arrested
during a drug investigation conducted by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s
Office. Sheriff’s deputies seized marijuana, illegal machine guns,
explosives, timing devices and Army of God literature at Bateman’s rural
Sandy home.
No weapons or Army of God literature were found at
Springmeier’s home, but the two men knew each other, sheriff’s office
spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said.
“They are part of the same marijuana grow operation,” Blanchard said. “They’re selling drugs to supplement their income.”
On Nov. 3, 1997, Springmeier wrote to local
free-lance journalist John Stevens asking for the home address of
Portland police officer Scott Westerman. Stevens was alarmed by the
letter and had an associate tell a relative on the police bureau about
it. Westerman did not learn about the letter until just a few weeks ago,
however.
“That’s a pretty substantial threat,” Westerman said. “I wish I had been told about it at the time.”
According to Westerman, the bureau’s Criminal
Intelligence Unit is investigating why he wasn’t told of the threat
earlier. Asked about the investigation, CIU head Lt. Randy Kane said he
could not comment on it.
Cleared by grand jury
Springmeier’s alleged interest in Westerman stems
from a Dec. 14, 1996, shooting case. Corbett resident Patricia Sweany
was visiting a friend in Southeast Portland when she called 911 to say
she had been poisoned. According to police and press reports, she
refused to let paramedics examine her. When Westerman tried to take her
to the hospital, she shot a paramedic. Westerman shot and killed Sweany
in the ensuing struggle.
The paramedic, Kirk Ream, was not seriously injured.
Portland police detective sergeants Jay Drum and
Wayne Svilar investigated the incident. An autopsy conducted by
Multnomah County Medical Examiner Larry Lewman found no traces of
poison. A Multnomah County grand jury declined to indict Westerman.
Stevens had a reporting business called
International News Service when he met Springmeier in the summer of
1997. Springmeier wrote to Stevens a few months later, claiming that
Westerman murdered Sweany because she had “lots of hard evidence of
judicial corruption in Multnomah County.” The letter asked for
Westerman’s home address and sought unspecified “information” on Drum,
Svilar and Lewman.
It is unclear how Springmeier knew Sweany.
Springmeier has not returned several phone calls to his home from the
Portland Tribune.
By coincidence, one of Stevens’ former co-workers
was related to Svilar. Stevens had his associate call Svilar and tell
him about the letter. Svilar did not ask for a copy of the letter.
“I understand why he didn’t think it was important
at the time,” Westerman said. “But given what we know now, I wish I’d
known that group was out there.”
Stevens did not think about the letter again until
the news broke about the Clackamas County arrests. Bateman was arrested
Feb. 9 and is being held on drug and weapons charges. Springmeier was
arrested March 1, charged with drug crimes, and released on his own
recognizance.
The FBI was brought into the case because of the
weapons and Army of God literature. Although the local FBI office
declined to comment on its investigation, Blanchard said Bateman is
suspected of belonging to the Army of God. He was convicted of racially
intimidating a Forest Grove High School student in 1989.
Springmeier is a fundamentalist Christian who has
written several books charging that satanic forces are conspiring with
corrupt government officials to take over the world. During a radio
interview, he described his job as “exposing the New World Order
agenda.”
The Army of God “are anti-abortion religious
zealots who believe in using explosives to get their point across,” said
Gary Perlstein, a nationally recognized terrorism expert who teaches
criminal justice classes at Portland State University.
After learning that Springmeier was linked to
Bateman, Stevens took the letter to the FBI. A short time later,
Westerman received a call about it from the Criminal Intelligence Unit.
He doesn’t blame Stevens for the lack of notice.
“He did the right thing,” Westerman said.
Contact Jim Redden at jredden@portlandtribune.com.
Article archived here:
http://www.portlandtribune.net/news/story.php?story_id=2757
Bet Springmeier's buddies thought they'd sent that article down the memory hole....
BOOM!
In 1997 Springmeier blows shit up with right-wing nut militia fag Forrest Bateman; indicted in 2002:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/militia/militia56.html
Grand jury indicts two in 1997 bank robbery
The Oregonian/February 13, 2002
Stuart Tomlinson
Two men with ties to ultra-right-wing groups have been indicted in the
violent robbery of a Damascus bank in 1997. To divert attention from the
robbery, officials said, the men detonated a bomb at an adult video
store six miles away.
A federal grand jury indicted Fritz A. Springmeier, 46, and Forrest E.
Bateman, 30, on Jan. 29 on charges of armed bank robbery, use of a
firearm in a violent crime and possession of a destructive device in a
violent crime.
Springmeier, also known as Victor E. Schoof, also was indicted on
suspicion of growing marijuana in his Corbett home after a March 2001
arrest.
Detective Jim Strovink of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said the
Oct. 8, 1997, robbery of the Damascus branch of Key Bank of Oregon had a
"significant impact" on bank employees.
About 1 p.m., a man dressed in battle fatigues approached a teller and
demanded money. At one point, he tried to enter the bank's safe. He then
fired his gun once into the ceiling.
"This guy had an FBI tag duct-taped to the back of his jacket," Strovink
said. "Anytime you have someone come into a bank firing an assault
rifle . . . it's the kind of crime that catches the eye of prosecutors
and the courts. They could be looking at some very severe penalties."
About 10 minutes before the robbery, which netted the robber $6,000, a
bomb was detonated at the Fantasyland Adult Video store, 16014 S.E. 82nd
Drive, six miles to the west and about 10 minutes away by car.
Springmeier was arrested Feb. 1 and booked into the Justice Center Jail.
He was released following a Feb. 4 hearing before a federal magistrate
but was placed under house arrest and will wear an electronic monitoring
device. His arraignment is scheduled Friday in U.S. District Court.
The U.S. Marshal's Service is attempting to serve Bateman with the indictment.
The indictment doesn't say which man actually robbed the bank. FBI officials and prosecutors won't discuss the case.
Federal officials have kept both men under scrutiny for their anti-government views and actions for several years.
Springmeier is known for writing books and tracts on the beliefs of the
Christian Patriot Association, an ultra-right-wing group based in
Boring.
Last March, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies and federal agents
arrested Springmeier and his wife, Patricia Springmeier, during a raid
at their Corbett home that was part of an ongoing investigation into the
Christian Patriot Association.
Police seized marijuana-growing equipment, several weapons and white separatist literature.
Bateman appeared in 1992 on the Oregon State Police's 10-most-wanted
list on accusations of felony possession of a firearm and second-degree
assault in connection with Skinhead activities. He was convicted in 1989
of racially intimidating a Forest Grove High School student.
Police said Springmeier and Bateman met at a Christian Patriot
Association meeting several years ago and that they grew marijuana to
supplement their income.
In February 2001, Bateman was one of three people arrested at a house in
Sandy where police discovered an arsenal of explosives, machine guns
and white supremacist literature.
Police also seized ammonium nitrate and fuel oil -- the same substances
used in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building -- and
literature affiliated with the Army of God, a white supremacist group
connected to the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub
in Atlanta.
Update in 2003 at a Bible Study website lightly sprinkled with tin foil:
http://www.eaec.org/expose/FritzSpringmeier2.htm
UPDATE ON FRITZ
SPRINGMEIER
John S. Torell
September 15, 2003
On October 8, 1997 the
Damascus branch of Key Bank of Oregon was robbed. The robbers fled with
$6,000.00 in cash. One of the robbers, later identified as Forrest E. Bateman
Jr., used a gun in the robbery, when he fired one shot into the ceiling of the
bank to warn the bank clerks that he was willing to use the gun if they did not
comply with his demands. Bateman was dressed in army battle fatigues. Ten
minutes prior to the robbery, a bomb exploded at the Fantasy Adult Video Store,
located six miles west of the bank. No one was injured in the explosion but
police investigators believe that the bomb was set off as a diversionary tactic.
Bateman and another man
(which I will not identify in order to protect his family, but will give him the
fictitious name Roger), had sometime earlier been recruited by Fritz Springmeier 1,
and both of them lived on a remote property on and off for eight years which was
owned by Roger’s family. Fritz would come often and spend time with the men.
According to a family member (which I have spoken to on several occasions), they
were preparing for some kind of action against government authorities. Roger,
Bateman and Springmeier grew marijuana on the family property (which was not
known to the family), and it was sold as a source of income to fund their
activities. The family eventually became very afraid of Fritz and forbade him to
come back on the property.
Some time after the robbery
Roger was arrested and charged with having an illegal shot gun, with a barrel
that was not in compliance with the law and also for being part of the marijuana
growing. He was promised a lighter sentence if he would testify against Bateman
and Springmeier, but the deal was later reneged on by the assistant U.S.
Attorney, Frank Noonan. Roger was sentenced to a prison term of 47 months to be
served out in federal prison, and was then shipped off to a federal prison in
California.
In January 2002 Bateman and
Springmeier were indicted by a grand jury on charges of armed bank robbery, the
use of a firearm in a violent crime and possession of a destructive device in a
violent crime; but they did not go to trial until January 2003.
At this time Roger was
brought back to Oregon from the federal prison in California and held in a local
county jail. According to family members of Roger, he was very scared and feared
for his life and wanted to be returned as soon as possible to the federal prison
in California where he felt safer.
Bateman was facing up to 20
years in federal prison when he accepted a plea bargain on January 27, 2003 in
the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon and plead guilty to the charge of
bank robbery. When Batemen was sentenced on April 3, 2003, he was sentenced to
10 to 12 years.
On February 12, 2003
Springmeier was convicted in a jury trial on two counts, while a third was
thrown out. Count one charged
defendant with armed bank robbery and count two charged defendant with using and
carrying a firearm during the armed robbery. Count three which charged defendant
with using and carrying a destructive device during a bank robbery, did not go
to the jury because the court ruled that the evidence did not support that
charge.
The legal counsel for
Springmeier filed a motion to have the case thrown out in the Federal District
Court of Oregon. This motion was denied by the federal district judge James A.
Redden on March 21, 2003. Due to legal maneuvering by Springmeier, the
sentencing date was changed several times. Currently Springmeier’s sentencing is
scheduled for November 13, 2003.
After having been kept in
Oregon for some seven months, first in a county jail and later at the federal
prison in Sheridan, Oregon, Roger was shipped back to California to serve out
his prison sentence. Because Bateman confessed to the robbery and agreed to
testify against Springmeier, Roger was never used as a witness during
Springmeier’s trial.
Both Springmeier and Bateman
are currently incarcerated at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon.
Springmeier is held at the maximum security facility. According to an anonymous
source in Oregon, Fritz was involved in a fight in the prison and spent some
time in solitary confinement.
Investigator reporter John
Stevens from the Portland area in Oregon, was able to obtain copies of the
search warrants used by the police to search Springmeier and Bateman’s
residences in Multnomah and Clackamas Counties. According to Stevens here are
some of the items found and confiscated: Machine guns, a modified 20 mm cannon,
a 37 mm grenade launcher, hand grenades, part for a .50 caliber machine gun,
tri-pod mounted .30 caliber semi-automatic belt fed copy of a Browning 1919
machine gun, dynamite, binary explosives, chemicals to make C-4 explosives,
numerous hand guns, rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
COVER UP - WHY?
When I first was informed that
Fritz was under police investigation, I started to search the Portland
newspaper, The Oregonian. I was able to find at least two newspaper articles,
stating the arrest of Fritz Springmeier and a write up on the court proceedings
from January 27, published in the Oregonian on January 29, 2003. The staff
writer was Stephen Beaven. Within a few weeks, every article concerning
Springmeier vanished from the Oregonian website, and when I tried to find them,
the answer came up that there are no articles existing on Springmeier. Next I
tried to call the newspaper, and ask for photocopies, willing to pay for them.
It was impossible to find anyone working in the archives willing to do the work.
2
During the first court
proceedings, Steven Beaven attended representing The Oregonian. As the different
legal maneuvers took place in the Federal District Court, the only reporter
present for all the hearings was the private investigative reporter John Stevens 3.
When I spoke to him, he was at a total loss as to why the media in Portland had
made the decision not to inform the public what was happening or to attend the
court hearings; after all, this was an armed robbery and a very well known
person in the community was accused of having done it.
The only place my researcher
in Portland could find a copy of the denial from Judge James A. Redden, was in
the law library of the Oregon State University.
As I looked further into the
case, I was told there is a possibility that the Federal
Government is trying to use Springmeier in the upcoming trials of the alleged
abortion bomber Eric Rudolph as a witness against him (Rudolph eluded capture
for some five years). The common practice of the federal government is to be
able to have a hostile witness testify against a defendant, and to offer a
reduced sentence for the witness. While negotiations are going on, there is
usually a news media blackout. Rudolph and Springmeier are both suspected to be
members of the Army of God (AOG).
According to the items listed
in the search warrants obtained by John Stevens, the following material was
found in Bateman’s residence: Signs, banners, books, literature, computer
records and handwritten material that identified Bateman as a member of the
"Army of God." There were books describing how to make explosives, create
poisonous gases, culture diseases, as well as books on sniper training and
freedom fighting. There was also a copy of the Army of God operations manual.
Furthermore, ceramic body
armor with an Army of God (AOG) patch on the left shoulder was found along with
"Bull Run Militia" emblems, extensive military gear, fake identification, plans
and diagrams of operational plans which included the building of an underground
command center, an escape tunnel and a bunker in the woods.
Meanwhile supporters of
Springmeier are claiming that Fritz was "framed" by the Federal Government and
that he is innocent. There are some website’s claiming his innocence and some of
them are trying to raise money so that Fritz can hire attorneys and continue the
appeal process.
After talking with a number
of people who have known Fritz for some years, and particularly to the family of
Roger, I am convinced that Fritz participated and led the bank robbery, that he
is a member of the Army of God, and that this group is armed and dangerous to
anyone opposing them. Hiding behind the cloak of being Christians, they are
bringing shame to the body of Christ.
Pastor Jeff Weakley of
God’s Remnant Church (GRC) is a part of the Identity Movement
4,
which is also connected with the Christian Patriot Association (CPA). Weakley in
an interview with John Stevens in 1997 told how the Army of God (AOG) is set up,
and he specifically warned that the members are very dangerous, well armed,
committed and invisible. Weakley further revealed that Springmeier may be the
leader and brain behind Army of God cells and their activities. In a private
letter from Springmeier to John Stevens in 1997, Springmeier outlined his
activities and he ended the letter, saying "PLEASE
DESTROY THIS LETTER AFTER YOU READ IT, OUR EXISTENCE IS UNKNOWN."
1. Due
to death threats and promises of harm, we cannot name some of our sources.
2.
During the time period of March thru June 2003 there were no articles on Fritz
Springmeier available from The Oregonian newspaper.
3. For a
deeper study on the Identity Movement, see The Dove, Spring/Summer 1996, pages
20-36 (available
for $2.00 postage paid); see our article on the
Identity Movement Cult.
4.
John Stevens is an independent investigative reporter who has written some
articles used by the Oregon Spotlight.
For a complete report of Stevens’ investigation of the Springmeier case, you may
contact him at ins@qcsn.com,
call him at (503) 256-1656, or visit the Oregonian Spotlight website. http://oregonspotlight.org/news.htm
It's gotta be bad for Springmeier when fellow Bible -thumpers write him off.
Assuming it still is Springmeier...
Imposter?
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