Phony “writs” from “The People’s Bureau of Investigation”
Buckle up. This QAnon conspiracy tale from nearby Haywood County, NC dials up to 11 (via Blue Ridge Public Radio and Smoky Mountain News politics editor Cory Vaillancourt):
In August, local elected officials and community members began reporting receiving “writs,” which demanded the recipients surrender to a tribunal. The fraudulent writs offered bounties of $10,000 to $20,000 to anyone who could deliver officials that refused to comply with the terms of the writs.
“Elected officials began talking to me and some of them felt very threatened by this and they immediately brought these writs of execution to the Haywood County Sheriff,” said Vaillancourt.
Some of the documents included the words, “Wanted Dead or Alive” and pictures of those who were served, Vaillancourt explained.
Elected officials, city council members, the sheriff, chief deputy, school board and others were just some of the people who were targeted.
A listing of everyone who’s been “served” appears on a self-reporting database hosted by a group called “The People’s Bureau of Investigation.”
These “writs” stated they were issued by a court called “The U.S. Environmental District Court” which does not exist.
Darris Moody, the source of the writs, was arrested by the FBI on Sept. 7 on several federal charges of making threats after Vaillancourt’ published an interview with Moody. She has been confined to home detention for now.
“The writs appeared to have been faxed anonymously, although one of them was signed, ‘ThankQ’,” Vaillancourt reported:
The website also contains a self-reporting database of who’s been served. As of Aug. 16, almost 1,000 writs had been sent to public servants of all political persuasions in 41 states and the District of Columbia.
Only residents of three states, California, Florida and Oregon, had been targeted more often than residents of North Carolina, according to the database.
Name the official, they’ve been served, including mayors in surrounding counties, “several state supreme court justices and a number of current or former judges in and around Mecklenburg County” (Charlotte area).
Vaillancourt tracked down Moody. She was willing to discuss the writs, although, she said, “these are coming from ‘the people,’ and I’m just one of the people.”
Moody lives in a world of red pills and blue pills — not actual pills, but rather internet parlance for truth and ignorance, respectively. During a 50-minute phone conversation, she checked off nearly every single box on a long list of QAnon-style conspiracy theories.
She’s concerned about socialism, communism, chemtrails, weather modification and satanic pedophile cults that traffic children for their organs.
She believes that COVID-19 is a psy-op, that the vaccine is a bioweapon and that masks are a tactic of the deep state, worn to obscure the very image of God.
She bandies about faerie-tale talking points from self-proclaimed “sovereign citizens.”
She claims that upon birth Americans are transformed or absorbed into a corporate entity and then are bonded, insured and controlled by the New World Order.
She espouses support for Christian nationalism, maritime admiralty law and the so-called constitutional sheriffs movement.
She promotes the idea that actor Tom Hanks is somehow part of it all, and that President Joe Biden isn’t “the real Biden” but has instead been replaced by a body double.
“Anybody can go look at pictures of him,” Moody said. “It ain’t the real one.”
Of course, she learned all this on the internet.
Moody and her husband have spent hundreds of dollars (or more) filing these things.
One of them informs the Tennessee County of Sevier that her marriage license is void because the state “is in breach of contract for not guaranteeing a republic form of government.” Another informs U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that she’s no longer a citizen of the United States. Yet another informs U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that she won’t be paying taxes anymore.
Sometime after the 2020 election, Moody (registered Unaffiliated) and her husband (Republican) requested removal from the voter rolls, the only two to do so on record in Haywood County.*
* NC has the most open access to voter information in the country that I’ve seen. You should be so lucky.
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