Sniped from P # 135; of the Ungodly book..
In May 1998, the county sued the Nuwaubians' property manager for repeated violations of the zoning ordinance. Putnam County commissioner Dorothy Adams asked her husband; Attorney Frank Ford, to represent the county. The Judge ruled in the county's favor and fined the property manager $100,000.00.
The Nuwaubians had published an issue of their propaganda newspaper, claiming that it was the legal organ for the county, that is, the newspaper designated for the publication of legal notices. To bolster their claim of legitimacy, the Nuwaubians copied the masthead of the local newspaper; The Eatonton Messenger, onto their phoney newspaper.
From page # 136 & page # 137 of the Ungodly book; UnGodly: A True Story of Unprecedented Evil by Bill Osinski; <BBM>
http://www.amazon.com/UnGodly-True-Story-Unprecedented-Evil/dp/1934144134
Ford said that it became clear to him that the Nuwaubians were not interested in any form of compliance. They wanted a perpetual state of conflict, to support their claims of harassment, he said. They wanted sovereignty, he said.
As the county persisted in its litigation against the Nuwaubians, their propaganda machine heated up. One Nuwaubian publication characterized Ford as "Frank Ford the forgery expert."
A Nuwaubian attorney published a list of Ford's private clients, implying that Ford's integrity was somehow besmirched by his representation of people accused of crimes. It amused Ford to be accused of being a criminal defense attorney, since that's what he was.
Another time, the Nuwaubians used their cinematic talents against Ford. A Nuwaubian official had barged into his office, and when he was told to leave, he claimed he had a right to be there. Ford then ordered him out, and poked his finger into the man's arm or chest for emphasis.
The Nuwaubian man turned this encounter into a charge of assault Ford. That evening a television station reported on the incident using video footage supplied by the Nuwaubians. However the Nuwaubians had spliced on extra scenes, showing the man stumbling and falling in the street, and then seated in a wheelchair at the hospital.
The next day there was a court hearing on the assault complaint. The judge quickly threw the case out, noting that the added scenes were an obvious attempt by the complainant to dramatize the event.
Soon after this incident, the Nuwaubians distributed a flyer with a pointed warning for Ford: "You hurt us; we are going to get you back."
The threatening payback would later become real. One night Ford stopped at a supermarket on his way home. He noted that a car pulled up next to him, parking at an odd angle.
Ford went into the store, and when he came out, he saw that the tires on his car had been slashed.
There were witnesses to the tire-slashing. Two teenagers had pulled into the supermarket lot in time to see a man get out of the oddly-parked car and slice Ford's tires. The man got back into his car and pulled off, but the teenagers followed him. They also used their cell phone to call police, who arrested the suspect.
The man convicted of the crime was a high ranking Nuwaubian.
Dorothy Adams recalled with a shiver the morning she went outside of their house and discovered the gutted carcass of a dog that had been left in the street near their driveway.
On another occasion, a rock was thrown through the window of their downtown law offices.
But for her, the worst parts of the seige were the everyday anxieties. Normally routine meetings became occasions of tension and barely-subdued rage.
Adams was given police escorts to her car, anytime she left the courthouse after dark. She regarded the precautions as necessary annoyances.
"The Nuwaubians would come en masse to the court hearings and commission meetings," she said. "To leave, you had to wade through a bunch of people who were muttering things about you."
For her birthday in 1998, Ford bought Adams a gun. He said he got tired of the intimidation tactics.
"My spine stiffened," Ford said. "They were relentless, and everything they did was to intimidate people. Their tactics may have worked with some people but they also found that we have some people with character here."
Ford said the Nuwaubians' campaign of increasing hostility turned out to be their biggest mistake. "It created a negative public reaction, " Ford said. "The more people they added to their 'hit list,' the more people started saying, "These people are nuts; they're nasty people."
The nastiest of the Nuwaubian attacks were directed at Sills. He was repeatedly called a racist in the Naubian publications. He received dozens of anonymous death threats.
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