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Reno Gonzalez will be sentenced tomorrow
By JJ MacNab | September 25, 2008
Welcome back to the Red Crayons blog!
I just returned tonight to the land of a thousand Dunkin Donuts shops and minimum speed limit signs – that’s right, New Hampshire. Lots of trees, lots of granite, lots of Freestate Flakes.
Cirino “Reno” Gonzalez is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow morning at 10:00 and I’m in town to watch and comment on the proceedings.Â
For those of you who haven’t been following the day-to-day silliness that is the Brown supporter soap opera, here’s a brief synopsis.
1) Thanks to a nasty and childish rant aimed at the sentencing judge, Jason Gerhard was sent to federal prison for 20 years;
2) Despite a similar but substantially tamer outburst, Bob Wolffe received a 30-month prison sentence. With credit for time served and assuming his continued good behavior in the pokey, it looks like he’ll be home in time for Thanksgiving 2009;
3) Danny the Dogwalker Riley assaulted the court with dozens of gibberish filings, and earned himself 30 days in a mental institution / prison getting a psychiatric evaluation. The deadline for the report is mid-October so his sentencing will likely be scheduled after that date. Realistically, his sentence will exceed 40 years;
4) Bill “Ed is worth more to me dead than alive” Miller alledgedly threatened a policeman in his home town in New Hampshire and ended up spending several months in a state psychiatric ward. His brother was also arrested for apparently threatening a witness in Bill’s case;
5) Various freestater Ed Brown supporters have been dabbling in petty misdemeanors on the premise that flaking out on child support payments, driving sans license, threatening their loved ones with violence, and harassing the receptionists at IRS buildings are all really important projects that will forever change the world as we know it;
6) As if one religious guru from Hawaii wasn’t enough in the Ed Brown saga, a second member of the Body of the Lord cult showed up at the empty Brown house and made himself at home over the summer. After being found guilty of trespassing, he was sentenced to time served and went home with his mommy.
7) Ed and Elaine Brown will likely be indicted on additional charges in the near future and just the explosives counts (30 year minimum) will ensure that they will never leave the prison system again. Had Elaine accepted the deal she was offered towards the end of the tax trial, she’d be free an estimated 13 months from now.
8 ) Ed Brown webmaster Shaun Kranish pled guilty to disorderly conduct in exchange for having his Liberty Dollar and gun charges dropped. His wife had taken a similar deal months earlier;
9) Both Ed and Elaine have been transferred from relatively comfy prisons to really horrible and dangerous prisons, thanks to the efforts of their supporters. Elaine took the advice of a tax denier / lawyer wannabe in Maine and filed phony 1099′s against the District Court and IRS, and Ed allowed Shaun Kranish to record a prison call under the pretense that Shaun was his lawyer;
But back to Reno. Of all of the supporters, he’s the only one left that seems to have a small but loyal following.  His family and friends have tried quite hard to keep his name and story alive on the web. Unfortunately, his family and friends have also been working tirelessly to ensure that Reno receives the longest prison sentence possible.Â
Reno’s father Jose has been filing numerous gibberish commercial law documents with the court, signing Reno’s name to the documents, and undoubtedly pissing off the judge to no end. Reno, meanwhile, has been giving telephone interviews to a freestate videographer and the statements he’s made in those interviews will likely be played for the judge tomorrow, resulting in added years to his prison sentence. Reno has also been both ignoring and trashing his lawyer, alternating between threatening to sue him, and relying on his advice.  As of right now, Reno has decided to keep the lawyer on his team, but that could change at any moment.
Tomorrow’s obviously a big day for Reno. What a shame he doesn’t seem to understand that his actions (and those of his family and friends) will directly influence the sentence he’ll receive.
Topics: Cirino Gonzalez, Daniel Riley, Ed Brown, Elaine Brown, Jason Gerhard, Robert Wolffe, Tax Deniers | 21 Comments »
September 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
The phrase “Life imitates art” pops into mind, except if you wrote a script that mirrors what has transpired, no one would believe it.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:08 am
I’m not sure why you note #5. Besides being petty and misleading at best it has nothing to do with Reno Gonzalez.
Does the 1st Amendment not protect one’s right to petition the government for a redress of grievances? Is the IRS receptionist (who you dishonestly imply was the target) not a member of the government? What’s the problem exactly with the belief that income tax is wrong and attempting to raise awareness?
September 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Obviously the problem is that we need the income tax and how dare these people not pay their betters their fair share!
September 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Watching Reno (and his supporters and fellow travelers) is just a damn shame. Just a complete waste of a life, of someone who had potential to be a decent, productive human being. Instead, with reckless abandon, they attempt to destroy themselves and what potential they had.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Yes JJ what a shame! As if you give a damn about Reno or anyone working for liberty and freedom!
Why bother pretending you even care for his life. Keep cashing your checks and keep feeling superior than everyone who perhaps wants to change this world we live in.
Here’s an idea focus on what does work for you in your life. Focus on what inspires you, focus on the positive and the good.
All this time and energy you spend on something you think is so stupid, what a waste of time and energy.
GET A LIFE!!!!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
“Focus on what does work for you in your life”
You mean like writing books? OK.
“All this tie and energy you spend on something you think is so stupid”
Stupid makes for a good (and funny) book Last Lady…
September 26th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
#5 is on the list as an example that a number of people in “the movement” are as bright as a sack of hammers. Bile hasn’t a clue as to what it means to seek redress from the government. Here’s a hint, it does not involve haranguing some GS-3 low level secretary who was hired as a secretary and not to be the whipping boy of knuckle-dragging oafs.
And Lostlady, what are you doing for others? Volunteering much to help those less fortunate? Donating to charity? Helping a down on their luck family? If you have, great. If not, well that alone speaks volumes about you.
Have a day.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Last Lady is just frustrated because Reno was sentenced to 96 months in prison today.
#5 is absolutely appropriate considering that Ed Brown’s standoff wouldn’t have lasted two weeks if it hadn’t been for the freestate flakes doing their look-at-me media dance in front of courthouse during Ed’s trial and in front of Ed’s house during the standoff. Thanks to the freestater efforts, Ed and Elaine got the press they needed to recruits dozens and dozens of supporters online, who in turn supplied the Browns with guns and explosives. Thanks to the freestater efforts, Ed and Elaine will never be free again, and at least four supporters (so far) will do some serious time in prison as well.
And I noticed that not one of them bothered to show up for Reno’s sentencing today.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:10 am
JJ wrote, “And I noticed that not one of them bothered to show up for Reno’s sentencing today.”
Cameras aren’t permitted in federal courtrooms.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:03 am
The author seems to really hate freedom.
I wonder how many people like her supported Hitler?
September 27th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hitler comparisons. How original.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
As to the Hitler comment, I believe Lili Von Schtupp (The Teutonic Titwillow) summed it up best when she said, “…how ohdinawee.”
September 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
“My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.” Hedly Lamarr
I’ve always wanted to say that.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
“God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.” – Taggart
And I’ve always wanted to say that. Thank you for the set-up line Mrs. W.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:06 am
You know I’m laughing at that.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Freestaters are what I call closet anarchists. They don’t actually come out and say they are anarchists, but they have the attitude that government authority doesn’t apply to them and anybody who follows the law are “sheep” and “suckers”. In addition, those who push the “sovereign citizen” garbage are like snake-oil salesmen, where they offer some instant “cure-all” for all your financial and legal problems.
Freestaters all seem to be living some fantasy world, and only when reality comes barging in, do the consequences of their actions become clear to them.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
UCSPanther, you had me right up until the last sentence, after the comma. Even when reality crashes in on them, freestaters still deny the reality and try claiming the courts have no jurisdiction over them, or its an Admiralty court, or some other fantasy. For them to accept reality is for them to have to admit to themselves they are frauds.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Well, you could be right about that, ckb, and that could explain why they flip out when brought into the courtroom, mainly because they are trying to defend their insane beliefs even as they are being exposed as frauds.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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October 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
with regards to number 9, there really should be no dangerous prisons. The supreme court has said that prisoners have a constitutional right to safety. If the prison is dangerous, they should fix it or close it. It sucks when the gov’t expects us to follow the laws when they don’t.
October 12th, 2008 at 8:17 am
“there really should be no dangerous prisons.”
I agree 100%.
“If the prison is dangerous, they should fix it or close it.”
It isn’t the prison walls that make a particular prison dangerous, it’s the fellow prisoners, and in rare cases, the correction officers who don’t stop the abuses dished out by fellow prisoners.