Brigham Young had a body guard organization (Danites) who stole Native American artifacts, especially items containing gold and other precious metals all during his dynasty in the Territory of Deseret/Utah.  This same organization operates today under the control of the Mormon President Thomas S. Monson.  They justify everything (trespass private property, federal and state lands, native american lands) because these loyalists have consecrated everything to the "Church" (Masonic Temple Ritual, commenced 1844 after Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered because he was repenting from this secret society blood-oath requirements).  See 7/30/2009 Affdavit after this letter

 

ATLAS CITIES OF COMMERCE

Aerospace, Engineering, Private Investigator/RN, LMT, Health Specialist

Steven & Karen Davis, non-profit Trustees

412 South Williams St., Moberly, Missouri 660-263-5776

http://www.citiesofpeace.com

 

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

 

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

 

For many generations Mormons have been brainwashed to believe that they are “gods” and above everyone else.  So when Biblical Scholar Mormons stands up and tells the world that Old Testament and New Testament men of God knew all about the evils and Babylonian life-style in Salt Lake City by 2000, as prophesy, they try to discredit the “messenger” who tells them that all other Christians are closer to heaven because Mormons deny the Holy Ghost (Perdition candidates).  This was the clear message from the team of Dr. H. Clyde Davis Family and Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson for decades, 1940s-1994.

 

In 2009 ATLAS Cities of Commerce (“ATLAS”) has been in touch will leaders of many American religious leaders about information it exclusively and respectfully owns about the Hopewell Civilization and King Solomon Temple treasures, brought, deposited, and hidden on land located in Central United States of America by relatives and partners of the Old Testament Prophet Jeremiah just before Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian Empire over 2,500 years ago.  This information was submitted by ATLAS to key Catholic, Protestants (Pentecostals, Baptists, Methodist, Luthern), Mormon leaders and many others (Muslims, Jewish, Buddism and other organizations and part of this information is presently under review on the website: 

http://www.mormon.citymax.com

 

Because of the international respect of Dr. H. Clyde Davis PhD in ancient American geologies and histories, in June, 2008 Duane Erickson, Evanston, Wyoming asked ATLAS to work directly with Mormon Banker Bob Green to connect all Americans to the Hopewell Civilization in his six year financial project where earlier this year the Federal Reserve issued at least $200 Billion to fund various projects, including the Humanitarian Division.  Dr. Davis convinced many professionals and associates commencing back in the 1950s about the Notre Dame University ancient artifacts collection (Michigan discoveries, 1850-1906) which was donated to the Mormon Church nearly forty years ago.  When the Mormon Church publically disowned this collection a few years ago and returned only a portion of the collection (many items stolen by members of the Mormon Church leadership), Dr. Davis supplied all his information to ATLAS and authorized the release of the information to the general public, commencing in 2003. 

 

Bob Green, Bountiful, Utah is a typical bank executive.  When he invests into small business developments for his client investors his company secures and controls the majority ownership of the intellectual properties and assets of the business.  He doesn’t care about the years of time and money invested, he requires at least 51% ownership.  This was the written requirement he did on Duane Erickson’s proven intellectual properties back in 2008 when ATLAS got involved with him.  Mr. Erickson said no, like ATLAS said.  Then Bob Green agreed to finance everything through Humanitarian Funds, out of the same project and presented this to his international bankers for educational and resource interests.

 

ATLAS became a partner with Duane in 2005 to assist him in his fast food business.  Every form of information publically released by ATLAS about the Hopewell Civilization being the history of the Mulekite Nation (King Zedekiah of Judah and the Prophet Jeremiah evidence and information are solely owned by thousands of Kanco Stockholders since it became a public company in 1984, the first year Russell Burrows commenced to sell stolen artifacts from Southern Illinois private property containing these Jerusalem treasures.  Duane has many other partners, like Wayne May and Russell Burrows.  It was Duane Erickson who got Wayne May to form an illegal and fraudulent Utah Corporation Sole to avoid taxes in all criminal matters dealing with the Burrows Cave in Southern Illinois.  On May 3, 2008 Wayne and Kris May agreed and signed an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service for paying back taxes owed since 2000.

 

Russell Burrows, Wayne May, Duane Erickson have delivered nothing to ATLAS.  Bob Green used the name of Clyde Davis to Academy Award Movie Producer Kieth Merrill concerning the production of movies.  All ATLAS documents came from Dr. H. Clyde Davis and Kanco Stockholders.  These three individuals and all others directly involved with the 1993 Ancient American Magazine program in Wisconsin in marketing stolen artifacts are partners in violating local, state, national and international criminal and civil laws.  The only criminal complaint filed in this matter came from an ATLAS trustee.  There has never been any proof of ownership in the rights to legally own and sell any of thousands of ancient artifacts.  Their own printed stories prove their own confessions to this deliberate thief for financial gain.  The original property owners agreed to sell the private property back in 1999-2002.

 

ATLAS recommends anyone with personal knowledge needs to volunteer this information to their local IRS-CI Division of the US Department of Treasury.  Following the money-trail by the FBI/IRS is the best form of connecting all the participants in this crime since it commenced in 1982.

 

ATLAS Cities of Commerce

 

P.S.  Utah attorney John Preston Creer, Nielsen & Senior, was caught attempting to bribe the Utah Public Service Commission with $60,000 to increase the utility rates to all Utah citizens with Utah Power and Light Company.  The key major stockholder of the company was the Mormon Church.  Millions of dollars worth of stock had been purchased through tithing funds.  To cover-up this direct participation by Gordon B. Hinckley, 3^rd Counselor to the Mormon First Presidency, Senator Orrin Hatch convinced the newly elected President Ronald Reagan to appoint Brent D. Ward, a member of this law firm at the new US Attorney for Utah.  Democrats found out about this bribery and resignation of Hinckley from the UP&L Board and cause the confirmation process to drag out for nine months before he was confirmed by the Senate.  All during the 1980s US Attorneys for Utah Brent Ward and Dee Benson controlled the cover-up illegal gold transactions with the Burrows Cave and the Salt Lake Johnson-Matthey Gold Refinery (1^st in the USA, 1982).  A lot of CIA gold has been processed at this facility under the association of Dr. H. Clyde Davis.

 

 

Current Illinois US Senator Roland W. Burris was the State Comptroller back in 1984 when Richland County established a Museum to contain ancient artifacts discovered by Olney resident Russell Burrows.  By law, the Comptroller is the state's Chief Fiscal Control Officer, responsible for the legal, efficient, and effective operations of state government.  This burial site cavern discovered in 1982 was worth Billions of Dollars for the economy of Illinois and Burris wanted to be a part of the economic developments.  But there were no state laws protecting the site, except a 1979 Federal Law dealing with Native American Looting.  Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich just released a book detailing why he picked Roland Burris to replace Senator Barack Obama as the Senator.  AP stated: “….Blagojevich writes that he eventually appointed Roland Burris, in part because of Burris' famously big ego.  No one else but Burris would accept the appointment and fight to be seated under the circumstances, Blagojevich says……He decided to fill the Senate vacancy by appointing Burris, the former state comptroller and attorney general and the first black man to hold a major statewide office in Illinois. Blagojevich said Burris was qualified and had the self-confidence to accept the appointment despite the scandal. "It was that self-esteem that I was counting on to be able to withstand the storm of protest that was inevitably going to come," he said.”

Ex. Ill. Gov. Blagojevich set to release new book

CHICAGO (AP, 08/31/2009) — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.

Blagojevich writes in "The Governor" that Emanuel spoke with him about whether it was possible to appoint a "placeholder" to the congressional seat Emanuel was giving up so that he could win back the seat in 2010 and continue his efforts to become speaker some day.

 "As we have done for many months, we will continue to decline comment," Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said in an e-mail Monday.

 Blagojevich also admits that he wanted something in exchange for appointing President Barack

Obama's replacement in the Senate, but it wasn't the deal described in federal corruption charges against him.

The Chicago Democrat says that the night before his arrest in December, he had launched a plan to appoint Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the Senate seat because he hoped to cut a deal on pet projects with her father, powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

That plan was ruined by his arrest. Blagojevich writes that he eventually appointed Roland Burris, in part because of Burris' famously big ego.  No one else but Burris would accept the appointment and fight to be seated under the circumstances, Blagojevich says.

The ex-governor's 264-page book, published by Phoenix, comes out Sept. 8. It offers a benign picture of events surrounding Blagojevich's arrest in a corruption scandal that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said would make Abraham Lincoln "roll over in his grave."

The scandal cost Blagojevich his job when lawmakers impeached and threw him out of office in January. The once-rising political star is scheduled to stand trial next year. Blagojevich, who has pleaded not guilty, repeatedly asserts his innocence in the book.

He says his discussions about Obama's possible successors amounted to "ordinary and routine politicking."

But federal authorities cast it in a much different light, alleging Blagojevich was caught on FBI wiretaps discussing what he could get in exchange for the seat, from jobs to campaign contributions.

Blagojevich says that story is "upside down" and that he never asked for, or raised the subject of, campaign contributions in exchange for the Senate seat.

Others approached his administration with offers of campaign money, he says in "The Governor" without naming names. "If anyone should have been charged with a crime for this, it should have been them and not me," he writes.

When Blagojevich talked to Emanuel after the election about the Senate pick, Obama's right-hand man "did not lobby for anyone in particular," according to the book.

Blagojevich says Emanuel was interested in his own career because he had to give up his congressional seat to work in Obama's White House. Blagojevich writes that Emanuel dreamed of being speaker of the U.S. House and wanted to know if Blagojevich would work with him to name a successor to "hold" his seat until he wanted it back.

Blagojevich says he told Emanuel he didn't think he could do that and the House vacancy would have to be filled by special election. But Emanuel reportedly told him "his lawyers thought there was a way."

Blagojevich writes that he struggled with the idea of appointing Lisa Madigan to the Senate. The prospect "repulsed" him because of bad blood with her father.

But in the end, Blagojevich saw it as a way to entice Michael Madigan to support legislation he wanted, including a long-stalled statewide construction program that he said would create jobs and expand health care access for families.

Blagojevich says he told his chief of staff, John Harris, to begin working on a deal to appoint Lisa Madigan. The deal was halted when both Blagojevich and Harris were arrested the next day, Dec. 9, 2008.

"Mr. Fitzgerald didn't stop a crime spree. He stopped me from doing a lot of good for a lot of people," Blagojevich writes.

Harris has since agreed to testify against Blagojevich after pleading guilty and admitting that he repeatedly talked to the then-governor about ways he could profit from his authority to appoint Obama's successor.

It's unclear if the Madigans were aware of Blagojevich's intentions. Lisa Madigan said last November she thought there was a "less than zero" chance Blagojevich would appoint her.

Madigan's spokeswomen, Robyn Ziegler, said the attorney general hasn't read the book and doesn't intend to.

Madigan was widely seen as a potent challenge to Blagojevich if he ran for a third term in 2010. After he was arrested, Blagojevich writes, he was a "political leper."

He decided to fill the Senate vacancy by appointing Burris, the former state comptroller and attorney general and the first black man to hold a major statewide office in Illinois. Blagojevich said Burris was qualified and had the self-confidence to accept the appointment despite the scandal.

"It was that self-esteem that I was counting on to be able to withstand the storm of protest that was inevitably going to come," he said.

 

 

FINALLY JUSTICE IS COMING TO AMERICANS INVESTIGATING PEOPLE WHO STEAL ARCHEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS FOR PROFIT, LIKE RUSSELL BURROWS (Military Special Ops expert, trespassed private property 1982-1989), WAYNE MAY (Ancient American Magazine con-artist), RICHARD KNUDSON (retired pilot, Murray, UT $20,000 investment), ARN UFFORD (CIA Agent, partner to Russ Burrows since 1982, Vernal, Utah), GARY TAYLOR (Ogden, Utah, large collection from Russ Burrows and Special Agent for Mormon President Thomas S. Monson, personal friend for years), and many investors whose names have been submitted to the IRS-CI and FBI.  

 

“THEORY OF PUBLIC TRUST”

               “PUBLIC POWER”

The US Supreme Court has upheld against taking, marketing of destroying historic structures

Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, 438 US 104 (1978)    This was a historic preservation law.

The courts have exhibited a remarkable receptiveness to public efforts to protect cultural property, even when those efforts have conflicted with private property rights.

States and localities have case law to prevent the destruction of historic structures.  This is the ability of government to protect other cultural property (archeological sites and Native American Burial grounds)

Hunziber v. State, 519 NW 2d 367 (1994)

People v. Van Horn, 267 Cal Reptr 804 (1990)

                             

The recent collapse of the global American money-changer operation was accomplished because the American general public woke up to reality and said, “No more, we want accountability”.  Americans have corrected and become more conservative in their daily life-style and all leaders are being held accountable through disclosure.  President Obama’s reign will be short-lived because the Americans will terminate his excessive trespassing into their private lives through false promises that the government is the answer.  The Lord’s treasures have been preserved for this time and no one can touch them except by those who are willing to not tamper with them.  Americans want to learn about the Law of Consecration and these treasures in their homeland (D&C 104).

 

Russell Burrows, John A. Ward and Norman Cullen set up three Swiss Bank accounts back in the 1980s for money laundering converted gold treasures into cash through theft in an Ancient Cavern with thousands of artifacts.  Mormon CIA Agents were involved.

U.S., Swiss ask for delay in UBS secrecy case

(AP) The U.S. and Swiss governments and banking giant UBS AG indicated Sunday they were seeking a settlement and asked a federal judge to delay high-stakes hearings on the Internal Revenue Service's effort to identify thousands of suspected American tax evaders.

The one-page motion, filed in Miami less than 24 hours before the hearings were to begin Monday, said postponement is needed "to allow the two governments to continue their discussions seeking a resolution of this matter."

Unless a deal is reached beforehand, the filing asks that the hearing be rescheduled for Aug. 3.

U.S. District Judge Alan S. Gold did not immediately rule on the request, but judges routinely allow parties in civil cases extra time to settle out of court. Such a deal would likely include a large penalty against UBS and possibly require the bank to reveal at least some names, tax experts say.

The case seeking the identities of some 52,000 wealthy American clients suspected of hiding $15 billion at UBS has already sent shock waves through the international banking system.

Bankers fear a ruling against UBS would disrupt cross-border commerce, force people to withdraw huge sums of money from financial entities with offshore offices and play havoc with international tax treaties. Experts say some other foreign banks are asking American clients to close out accounts for fear they may be targeted next.

"The precedent this case may set is of immediate relevance to all financial institutions with global operations," the Institute of International Bankers and other financial organizations said in a recent court filing.

The UBS case has persuaded hundreds of taxpayers with offshore accounts to come clean with the IRS under a voluntary disclosure program. The program allows most people to pay a fine and back taxes without facing criminal prosecution, said tax attorney Robert McKenzie with the Arnstein & Lehr firm.

"The IRS would like to continue the specter of fear that this UBS case has created," McKenzie said. "This strategy is working. The level of calls I'm receiving is picking up, not going down."

UBS, which previously admitted wrongdoing in a more limited U.S. tax case, is resisting turning over the names that have been protected by centuries-old Swiss bank secrecy laws.

"Honoring the IRS summons would require UBS to violate Swiss criminal law, and we simply cannot comply," said Oswald Gruebel, UBS chief executive officer, in a letter to bank offices worldwide. "This matter should be resolved between governments according to established frameworks."

The Swiss government escalated the dispute last week by threatening to block release of the UBS account names if Gold rules for the IRS.

One of Europe's biggest banks, UBS has about 34,000 permanent and contract employees at 381 locations in the U.S., according to the company.

The IRS in February filed what are called a "John Doe summonses" seeking U.S. taxpayer identities from UBS, shortly after the Zurich-based bank reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department over its tax evasion practices. UBS agreed then to identify 300 people — some of whom are now facing criminal charges — and admitted it wrongly used sham offshore entities, false paperwork and questionable client recruitment.

UBS also paid a $780 million penalty.

"Until its activities were discovered, UBS — on U.S. soil — regularly violated U.S. law, and actively helped its customers violate U.S. law," said Justice Department tax attorney Stuart Gibson, the lead U.S. lawyer on the case.

The 300 names were released under an exception to Swiss banking secrecy law when clients deliberately defrauded tax authorities, as opposed to failing to declare all assets.

Abusive tax shelters and hidden offshore accounts cost the U.S. government an estimated $100 billion a year in lost tax revenue, according to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The Justice Department has brought several other UBS-related tax cases in South Florida, including a November 2008 indictment charging former bank executive Raoul Weil with conspiring to defraud the government. Weil, who ran UBS cross-border and private banking operations, is a fugitive living in Switzerland, and his lawyer has insisted he is innocent.

In June 2008 former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to a similar charge — he helped a California billionaire evade taxes — and has been cooperating extensively with federal prosecutors and the IRS. He has not yet been sentenced.

Russell Burrows had greed and fear for seven years (1982-1989).  He had partners (local Indiana museum, his local school teacher brother-in-law; local antique shop; CIA Agent hired by him to spelunk; currently a Minnesota geologist) but his arrogance in 1989 drove him to profit through deliberate lies in books, lectures, cover-up homicides, and a promise that Looting was OK.  In 1993 he agreed to have an agent, Wayne N. May (Ancient American Magazine, Wisconsin), direct his sales of thousands of artifacts and half-truth stories.

 

Currently Russ Burrows is like Dr. James Redd MD of Blanding, Utah, waiting to be charged in violating federal laws.  For over two years while the feds were investigating federal artifact violations in Utah, Kanco Stockholder whistle-blowers were investigating, one on one, agents and partners of Russ Burrows through vast files of Provo, Utah geologist Dr. H. Clyde Davis PhD.

Empathy and arrogance in the desert

By Peg Mcentee, Salt Lake Tribune columnist, 07/10/2009

That man's decision after finding a grave a decade ago launched an investigation into an infant's cultural identity that culminated in May with the repatriation of the remains with the Southern Paiutes.

What a contrast, then, to the rapacious artifact looters of San Juan County, who traded or sold beads and bone and sandals, then reacted with shock and denial when federal agents raided their tight-knit operation in June.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12811901

The hunter cared that time had exposed the beads, and tiny bones, that would be found to be a child, a willow mat and the cup and plate that someone, probably its father and mother, left to help its spirit move on. The pot looters cared for nothing but profit.

Alerted by Millard County, archaeologists with the Utah State History's Antiquities Section had hoped to leave the child's remains as they were, but erosion and grazing cattle threatened to destroy what was left. So they collected the skeleton -- buried on its back, head positioned toward the southeast -- and began their investigation.

The beads were produced in Venice, Italy, sometime between 1851 and 1869, and were known to have been used in African slave trading. The cup and plate were likely made of tin in the mid-1800s.

And in the waves of westward immigration, it stands to reason that beads and dishware might have been traded or sold, just as Native Americans had done time out of mind.

Apologists will say that settlers and their descendants considered the relics theirs for the taking, that it was only human nature to collect pots and arrowheads and desiccated leather goods for home decoration or personal gain.

But what about state and federal laws that protect such antiquities? And the fact that a lot of people have been busted for such crimes?

The first guilty pleas in the case were entered Monday in federal court by Jeanne Redd -- whose husband, James Redd, committed suicide after being indicted -- and her daughter, Jericca Redd. Both admitted to stealing and selling artifacts taken from BLM land and the Navajo reservation, respectively.

It wasn't the first time for Jeanne Redd. She and her husband were charged with robbing an Indian grave in 1996, and seven years later paid $10,000 to settle a $250,000 lawsuit filed by the state. Charges against James Redd were dropped; Jeanne Redd pleaded no contest to a reduced charge.

So what is it? Greed? Arrogance? Addiction to the thrill of the find, and an extra jolt when the money comes in?

According to the charges filed in June, three men, one of them a federal undercover operative, dug into an ancient Puebloan mound on public land in San Juan County last September, only to see a skull pop out.

Defendant Vern Crites, according to court documents, said he "wished that fella had still been intact, the skeleton, I mean."

Ten years ago, the hunter knew there was something to be saved.

It turned out to be glass beads, a cup, plate and pieces of metal that covered the tiny body to protect it from animals. Someone had borne and loved and grieved for that child.

And that's the difference between humanity and thoughtless greed.

pegmcentee@sltrib.com  (recent return as a reporter) 

Back in 1967 when I (Steve Davis) was seventeen years old I entered a Yaqui Indian Reservation cave, near the Yaqui River, Sonora, Mexico and brought out thousands of artifacts deposited there by these fearsome people.  This cave had not been entered into for many decades because anyone who entered, died.   I was invited because these people respected my father because what he did during World War II (over the Navajo Windwalkers). They tied a rope around my waist and the rest is history.  That collection was donated to educate the youth of Mexico.  This year a much more massive collection needs to do the same for the youth of America.  “…The Spanish, invading Mexico in search of treasure in 1517, conquered the Aztecs in 1521 and in 1533 finally reached Rio Yaqui. Following their first incursion into Yaqui territory, battle-hardened Spanish soldiers retreated. They claimed the Yaquis were the fiercest warriors and best battle tacticians they had faced in New Spain. The Yaqui were the only peoples the Apaches feared…. A special relationship with the Spanish eventually developed. However, even into the 20th Century, the Yaquis, who did not consider themselves a conquered people, fought unwanted intrusions into their lives and territory, first against the Spanish and then the Mexican and U.S. governments. Because of the fierceness of the Yaqui, government military forces only periodically overwhelmed Yaqui communities, separating families and sending Yaqui men to distant parts of Mexico to live in forced labor conditions. Mexican military occupation of Yaqui territory continued into the 1970s….” (Mike Webster)

 

Since I moved to Missouri back in 2003 from San Diego, California I have connected with thousands of individuals who care about stopping looting and preserving America ancient histories and artifacts.  Law Enforcements are very ignorant about their duties to protect ancient burial sites.  In 1979 the ARPA was passed, punishing looters with two years in prison and a $250,000 fine to protect objects.  Back in the 1980s there was a Museum in Vincennes, Indiana which displayed hundreds of artifacts from a 3000 foot cavern within 25 miles.  I have identified you four as ones who will make history in the next few years concerning the discovery of nearly 100,000 artifacts remaining in this cave as independent witnesses.  I have been indirectly connected to each of you because of my respect for what you’re doing in participating for a better educated world about the Hopewell Economic Society operation (200 BC – 500 AD) that is centered in and around Indiana.  Eleven years ago CIA Agent Arn Ufford told me he was the first person in this cave back in 1982 and described solid gold burial crypts.  My father, Dr. H. Clyde Davis PhD, geologist for the US since 1953-2006 (4/15 death), told me in 2003 that large amounts of ancient gold objects were smelted at the Johnson-Matthey refinery in Salt Lake City between 1983-1989.

http://www.goldbarsworldwide.com/PDF/RB_4_JohnsonMatthey.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_culture

 

Dr. Davis and I examined the nearly 4,000 objects sent to Notre Dame University by Catholic Priest, Father Soper, years ago. My father was directly involved in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.  My father sent me back to Missouri to expose corruption after the Associated Press ran an article that only 797 objects were returned to the Michigan Historical Museum.  Looting even in a Utah Museum of nearly 2,000 objects.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon127.html

 

Time Crime:  protecting the past in the United States

Robert Hicks

Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement Services

Commonwealth of Virginia 

http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/projects/iarc/culturewithoutcontext/issue9/hicks.htm  

Slack Farm in rural Union County, Kentucky, was known to contain beneath its ploughed soil an important Native American village, a community of wattle and daub houses that, between 1300 and 500 years ago at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio rivers, supported acres of maize, beans, and squash throughout the floodplain. Although relic hunters visited the site, the Slack family, who had owned the farm for generations, prohibited relic hunting.

But succeeding owners did allow it. In the late 1980s, several men paid the new landowner $10,000 (about £6500) to lease digging rights between planting seasons. The men sought Native American artefacts attractive enough to sell profitably and to obtain them they bulldozed the site. Their digging pushed aside centuries of a people’s history — their tools, potsherds, hearths, and houses — while leaving modern debris, particularly soda and beer cans, among the artefacts. Significantly, the men disturbed or destroyed around 600 graves.[1] Aerial views of the bulldozed site, which aired on national television, showed a pockmarked landscape described by many as resembling a World War I battlefield.

Kentuckians were most disturbed by the desecration of graves but they were also disturbed by the inability of Kentucky law to cope with the damage and theft. The men could only be charged under state law with ‘desecration of a venerated object’, a misdemeanour. Federal law, owing to the Archeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), managed felony indictments through its interstate commerce provision (discussed below). This incident triggered a legislative change: as a result of Slack Farm, state law was amended to recognize grave desecration as a felony, a crime punishable by imprisonment in a state penitentiary. Each state has its own criminal laws which vary across the United States in the degree to which they protect the past. In recent years, however, the United States government has created laws that for the first time offer enforcement teeth to heritage protection.

Who are the looters?

Relic-hunting has been and continues to be a vigorous pastime for some and a commercial enterprise for others. Interest in popular history has soared in the United States. Local history has become a do-it-yourself industry: people untrained in academic history search through local records to construct their genealogies. They collect rock albums, Victorian mourning jewellery, and salt and pepper shakers, thus creating a multi-million-dollar market for objects variously described as historic, antique, or merely nostalgic. The high prices attached to some artefacts on the commercial market inevitably invite criminality.

People who illegally hunt relics — the looters — display a range of motivations but a new class of entrepreneur has appeared, the investor. The investor has no particular interest in history but sees artefacts solely as commodities that can be bought and sold for a profit (Table 1). Law-enforcement authorities maintain that collecting and investing interests outside the United States, notably in Germany and Japan, have fuelled looting particularly for Native American artefacts. Germans and Japanese buy approximately $20 million (£13 million) in Native American artefacts yearly; Civil War belt buckles fetch over $10,000; a Native American pot from the southwest United States sells for $400,000 (£270,000). ‘If it’s old, it can be sold.’[2] Internet auctions pose a new threat: millions of artefacts, some advertised as illegally obtained, sell daily, attesting to a burgeoning market. The local looter can sell to a world-wide audience.

Table 1: 

Monetary value of artefacts. The American Civil War figures compare the highest prices paid for the excavated artefacts in the listed categories for 1988 and 1995. (Source: various editions of Nancy Dearing Rossbacher (ed.), The Civil War Collector’s Price Guide, Virginia, Orange.) The prices given for Native American artefacts represent the highest prices known to have been paid for the listed items. (Source: federal law-enforcement officials.)

In the United States, looting has afflicted all federal properties, particularly national parks and forests. Federal law enforcers, though, are handicapped in that they are spread thin. One officer in the national parks may patrol millions of acres. As a result, much looting goes undetected and unpunished. A recent handbook on criminal investigation states:

Archeological resources are nonrenewable: when they are looted or vandalized, the information they contain is lost forever. The looting of archeological sites in the United States is happening on a vast scale. Stated bluntly, part of our history has been, and continues to be, stolen.[3]

The nature of looting in the United States resembles that of many other countries. In some places, looting is an accepted multigenerational problem, a part of local culture. In other cases hobbyists, ignorant of the law, may trespass and loot unwittingly (Fig. 1). Professional looters, though, adopt countermeasures to avoid detection. They carefully plan their illegal excavations, studying archival or library materials and topographical maps. If the sites are remote, looters may reach them by horseback, all-terrain vehicles, or by foot.

Looters observe law enforcement patrol behaviour and may appear on sites when law enforcement presence is low or hampered: at night (with the full moon to illuminate digging), during inclement weather, or on holidays. To further avoid detection, looters may post lookouts or use watchdogs, employing radio scanners to track nearby law enforcers. They wear camouflage clothes and may camouflage their equipment by painting shovels or metal detectors black. More sophisticated looters carry with them not only shovels and metal detectors but also probing rods (to locate graves or artefacts by detecting changes in soil density) and sifting screens. Enforcement officers have caught some looters bearing false identification or forged permits or even wearing fake park ranger uniforms. Near or on the looted site, the thief may store tools, supplies, or contraband artefacts for later retrieval.

Once the looter finds artefacts, he or she may sell the items directly, through a dealer, or through an investor who has only a few clients. Importantly, though, law enforcement officers cannot presume that looters, by virtue of the kind of crime they commit, are benign hobbyists. Sometimes looters are armed and may fire at an officer.

Applicable laws

Recent federal laws and a concomitant enforcement effort — taught to law enforcers, prosecutors, and archaeologists through the Archeological Resources Protection Program conducted by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Georgia — have spurred investigations and prosecutions. Both the laws and the course recognize that officers, in protecting life and property, must protect our past as well.

While federal law has incriminated looting from federal or Native American properties almost since the beginning of the century, virtually no law enforcement took place until ARPA became law in 1979, later amended in 1988 to include sharper enforcement teeth due to obstacles encountered during prosecutions. The chief 1988 amendment for law enforcers was the reduction in the threshold commercial value ascribed to the artefacts plus the cost of site restoration and repair to enable a felony prosecution (as determined by a damage assessment conducted by an archaeologist). The 1988 amendments include the criminalization of attempts to destroy, damage, or remove protected resources, thus relieving officers of having to conduct surveillance while looters destroy a protected resource.[4] A general-intent law (meaning that the prosecution is not required to argue a specific intent to loot), ARPA prohibits people from excavating, damaging, defacing, altering, or removing (or attempting these acts) archaeological resources from public or Native American lands without a permit.[5]

To be a protected resource under ARPA, looted objects must constitute evidence of past human existence, possess archaeological interest (not archaeological significance), and be over 100 years old. Objects, or resources, are broadly defined to include not only relics such as pottery, tools, or shipwrecks, but also rock art, skeletal remains, features of houses or other constructions, even vegetal remains or organic waste. Of particular interest to state and local law enforcement, however, is ARPA’s commercial provision: no one may sell, purchase, exchange, transport (or offer to do the same) resources in violation of ARPA, any other federal law, or any state or local law. Looters who illegally dig up artefacts on private property without permission and cross state lines to traffic in them have therefore violated ARPA, thus transforming a local case into a federal one.

A recent case affirmed ARPA’s jurisdiction over interstate trafficking in antiquities stolen in violation of state law, ARPA’s most versatile provision. The defendants had collected relics on private property and then engaged in interstate commerce; the court decreed that ‘there is no right to go upon another person’s land, without his permission, to look for valuable objects buried in the land and take them if you find them’.[6]

ARPA contains other features attractive to law enforcers. Apart from criminal proceedings, ARPA permits a civil recourse through an administrative law judge.[7] Also, ARPA investigations yield forfeiture of assets: vehicles, equipment or tools, contraband, and clothing. Arizona judge Sherry Hutt has observed that as a result of almost a decade of prosecutions, ARPA ‘is well ensconced in the legal landscape’.[8]

Another recent, significant federal law that bears on past resources is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. Importantly for museums, holdings of Native American human remains must be inventoried and surveyed, in some cases the skeletons being repatriated to descendant Native Americans for reburial according to tribal custom. The same law, though, criminalizes illegal trafficking in Native American human remains or any cultural items.[9]

Investigative methods

The nature of looting presents enforcement difficulties. Once unearthed, artefacts are very difficult to link to a looted site. Many protected resources, whether visible remains or underground and hidden, are found away from public view, some within thousands of acres of national forests or parks. The best enforcement opportunity involves catching looters in the act. Short of apprehension in flagrante delicto, officers cultivate informants or obtain confessions. Informants may indeed play a key role in developing intelligence. Nearby farmers, hikers or campers, even hunters may witness looting. If officers discover fresh digging or site damage, surveillance may be possible.

No law enforcement officer can afford to devote dozens of hours to tracking looters. Fortunately, officers are most likely to encounter offences when pursuing other violations. In one case, police officers searching a suspect’s residence pursuant to a narcotics warrant photographed a collection of Native American relics later described as ‘the most impressive collection of Indian artefacts in northern California’. A sheriff’s deputy who had been an archaeologist saw the photos, recognized the significance of the relics, and further intelligence brought another warrant to seize the artefacts. The suspect had been convicted previously under ARPA and the court had ordered the suspect’s return of looted artefacts. The photographed stash consisted of the best items from years of looting, hidden to prevent seizure by federal anthorities.[10]

Officers must be able to identify and describe tools and equipment used by looters. Many tools, and the camouflaged clothing that some looters wear, are innocuous by themselves, but taken in context create a suspicion of criminality. ‘It is from the totality of the circumstances that reasonable suspicion may rise to the level of probable cause,’ the standard for arrest.[11]

Under ARPA protocol, officers process a looting scene as they would any other crime scene, although looting cases involve some unique procedures. First of all, officers must carefully document, measure, and photograph the scene. Second, officers should attend to soil samples as a laboratory analysis might reveal pieces of pottery or bone or even pollen which particularly matches the evidence at the crime scene and perhaps to individual suspects (through analysis of dirt on their confiscated clothing). Third, officers should take casts of footprints and shovel impressions.

Analysis of impressions, coupled with the soil evidence, links both suspects and artefacts to a particular site. Federal cases require an archaeologist to assist by contributing a damage assessment, determining the costs significant to ARPA, and providing an exact description of what has been lost, recovered, damaged, or displaced. The case file should contain a statement from the appropriate issuing authority that no state or federal permit existed to allow the suspect to excavate, remove, displace, or destroy protected resources.

Federal, state, and local cooperation

Despite federal successes, parallel anti-looting efforts at the state and local level have been irregular. States’ laws protecting historic or archaeological resources vary and sometimes are not parallel to ARPA.[12] Nevertheless, many state initiatives have shown promise. In Florida, for instance, the state legislature mandated a two-hour curriculum in basic law enforcement academy classes on archaeological resources protection. In the spirit of ARPA, recently the Supreme Court of Indiana affirmed a lower court decision that applied Indiana’s archaeological protection law to private property, where a man wished to dig Native American artefacts on his own property although the state required him to seek a permit to do so.[13]

In Virginia, for example, most historic or archaeological protection laws have specific applications not always comparable to federal interests. Virginia protects human burials wherever they are found on pain of a felony penalty. Misdemeanour penalties attach to other heritage laws. State permission, however, must be obtained for excavations on state-controlled property or on submerged resources in Virginia’s waterways (Fig. 2). While Virginia law defines ‘objects of antiquity’ similar to ARPA’s definition of archaeological resources, there are differences: objects of antiquity do not have to meet an age criterion (such as 100 years) to be protected and archaeologists are not required to help investigate crimes.

To all prosecutors and law enforcement officers, however, anti-looting efforts mean more than skillful investigations: the public must be educated (Figs. 4 & 5). In many places, looting supplements income or serves people’s hobbies. Two Arizona attorneys observed that in order to present their case they first had to justify the crime of looting.[14] One reformed looter understood the message: ‘Don’t dig — you destroy history when you do. And don’t buy the stuff either ... Those bones down there — they’re everybody’s ancestors. I say let ’em rest in peace.’[15]

1. Harvey Arden, 1989. Who owns our past? National Geographic 175(3), 376–93. Also, see Brian Fagan, 1988. Black day at Slack Farm. Archaeology 41(4), 15–16, 73.

2. Tom Dunkel, 1992. A nation’s heritage at risk. Insight February 17, 14.

3. Charles R. Swanson, Neil C. Chamelin & Leonard Territo, 1992. Criminal Investigation. 5th edition. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill, 60

4. ARPA was carefully drawn to exclude hobbyists or collectors in that surface finds of arrowheads or coins, say, from protected federal or Indian lands are allowable without a permit.

5. ARPA it defined under 16 United States Code §470aa-470ll. The legislative history of the law and its current application are amply described in Sherry Hutt, Elwood W. Jones & Martin E. McAllister, 1992. Archeological Resource Protection. Washington (DC): The Preservation Press.

6. United States v. Gerber 999 F.2d 1112 (7th Cir. 1993).

7. For further details of the ARPA civil procedure, see Sherry Hutt, 1994. The civil prosecution process of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Technical Brief No. 16, U.S. Department of the Interior, February.

8. Sherry Hutt, 1995. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act. The Federal Lawyer October, 34.

9. 535 USC §3001.

10. 1996. Common Ground 1(1), 8. (This journal was formerly Federal Archeology magazine.)

11. Swanson, Chamelin & Territo, 1992. Criminal Investigation, 67.

12. For a compendium of state statutes, see Carol L. Carnett, A Survey of State Statutes Protecting Archeological Resources, a special report of the Preservation Law Reporter, Archeological Assistance Study no. 3, August 1995 (published jointly by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the U.S. Department of the Interior). To aid federal prosecutors — and state ones — the General Litigation and Legal Advice Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice published the Archeological Resources Protection Federal Prosecution Sourcebook, a compendium of case law, statutes, briefs, and related material on ARPA cases.

13. Indiana’s Historic Preservation and Archeology Act prevailed in Whitacre v. State, 629 N.E.2d (1994), affirmed 619 N.E.2d 605 (Ind. App. 1993).

 

 

 Since the time of King Solomon to the current global satanic practices associated to the Freemasonry practices of corrupt secret societies (Church of England York shrines, LDS temples, Oriental martial art temples, Catholic shrines, African Satanism, etc) the citizens of the United States of America will overcome their destruction through the Tribe of Joseph’s teachings, including the Tribe of Judah/Muslim Old Testament disclosures, through the internet and discovery of ancient artifacts from King Solomon’s Temple found in many Mulekite/Nephite caverns in the Great Lakes/Ohio/Mississippi River basin and the restoration of a society using full disclosure and return to Jesus Christ is Heavenly Father (One God), as taught in the Original Book of Mormon.  Over one million US Pentecostals (4 million global) already believe this.  They are based in St. Louis, Missouri. 

 

The IRS-CI and FBI need to interview Russell Burrows about his relationship with the US Senator Roland Burris about their secret and cover-up dealings with Billions of Dollars worth of ancient artifacts stolen on Illinois private property for seven years (1982-1989), plus potential homicides of Burrows’ partners in 1991 in Vincennes, Indiana.   Former Govenor Rod Blagojevich was their partner.   Roland Burris was elected the Illinois Attorney General back in 1990 after serving as the first Black elected in Illinois’ history.  He was the Comptroller between 1979 to his election and grew up in Southern Illinois and knew all about the Burrows Cave in Richland County, Illinois.  He only served one term (January, 1991 – January, 1995)

 Judge approves release of Burris conversation

CHICAGO (AP, 5/26/2009) – A federal judge said Tuesday he would allow the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee to have a federal wiretap of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother having a phone conversation with U.S. Sen. Roland Burris.

The conversation between Burris and the former governor's brother occurred while Blagojevich was still governor and before he named Burris to President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat.

Burris has been under intense scrutiny because of the circumstances of his appointment by the disgraced former governor and for changing his story multiple times about whether he promised anything in exchange for the appointment.

The Senate Ethics Committee has begun a preliminary investigation. The Sangamon County State's Attorney is determining whether perjury charges are warranted.

U.S. District Chief Judge James F. Holderman on Tuesday unsealed a government motion requesting permission to release to the ethics committee wiretap material gathered in the Blagojevich investigation.

The material consists of a conversation between Burris and the impeached governor's brother, businessman Robert Blagojevich, who headed the Friends of Rod Blagojevich campaign fund.

Rod Blagojevich is charged with scheming to trade or sell the seat and using the political muscle of his office to squeeze people for campaign money. Robert Blagojevich is under indictment along with his brother and a number of other members of the ousted governor's inner circle. Both brothers deny wrongdoing.

Holderman told attorneys for Robert Blagojevich, Burris and the government that "the material will be released to the Senate shortly."

Robert Blagojevich attorney Michael Ettinger and Burris attorney Timothy Wright did not object to the government's motion.

"I think that the senator has told the truth every time," Wright said. He acknowledged that his client had told the impeachment committee that he didn't volunteer to raise money for Blagojevich in exchange for the seat.

"And we think he has been perfectly consistent," Wright said.

Burris spokesman Jim O'Connor said the senator would cooperate and "welcomes this as a chance for more transparency and the opportunity for the full truth to come out."

The Sangamon County state's attorney's office said it had no comment on the status of its review of possible perjury charges against Burris.

Burris testified before the House Committee that impeached Blagojevich in January that he didn't promise anything in exchange for the Senate seat.

Blagojevich appointed Burris just before being kicked out of office.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., agreed to seat Burris if he gave a full accounting of his Blagojevich contacts to the Illinois House committee that was considering impeachment of the governor.

Burris gave the committee an affidavit denying any discussion with Blagojevich's aides before being offered the seat. But when he testified, Burris acknowledged talking to one of Blagojevich's friends and informal advisers about it.

Burris did not admit talking to anyone else and said he could not recall any other contacts.

Then, after he was sworn in, Burris released another affidavit acknowledging he had talked to several Blagojevich advisers about his interest in the seat. Soon after, talking to reporters, he said he had been asked to help raise campaign money for the governor and that he tried to find people willing to donate but failed.

Then he stopped answering questions, letting others speak on his behalf.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

 

Russell E Burrows     

117 Chestnut Street

Windsor, Colorado 80550

 

US Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.

Washington DC

 

Russell Burrows and Eric Holder,

 

The FBI has a massive set of files on me since I introduced myself to their offices in Las Vegas, Nevada back in the early 1990s after I hired former US Attorney for Nevada, Lamond Mills.  Lamond Mills taught me how corrupt FBI agents are in Nevada and what to do about this fact.  I had just made a trip to Vincennes, Indiana and met with the attorney of Jack Ward, Bob McCormick.  Russ, I appreciate the below email and your comments and thoughts about a potential homicide death of Jack Ward back on June 19, 1991.  His death was reported by his wife, Mildred, who hadn’t lived with Jack for years.  Mildred Ward divorced Jack years earlier and married two others, who also mysteriously died, and then came back and remarried Jack.  Mildred lived in Illinois and had a prenuptial agreement to own everything in their second marriage, disowning the only daughter, June Elkin from any inheritance in 1985 when Jack Ward became your financial partner.  Jack Ward owned a Museum only thirty miles from the Burrows Cave.  You got Jack and Norman Cullen, both of Vincennes, Indiana (different state) to be your cover while you stole thousands of artifacts and ancient gold relics.  Both Norman and Jack mysteriously died only one month between their death certificates in June and July, 1991.  Why would Don and Sue Boughan want to do anything with you and/or your partners (Glenn Kimball, Scott Wolter, Wayne May, Arn Ufford, Gary Taylor, etc…..) after this email? 

http://www.robertghostwolf.com/Kimball_Exposed.htm

http://www.robertghostwolf.com/kimball.htm

 

Oh that’s right.  Don Boughan has been a silent partner of yours since 1999.  Back in 1999 when you got $5,000 from Ralph Wollick (California funds, non-LDS source) you called Don Boughan and told him that Wayne May was illegally on his dad’s property.  This phone call bonded Wayne with Don and they immediately became partners with you.  What a smooth move.  You kept the $5,000 and all of a sudden you were in business with Leroy Boughan’s son!  You even like and respect Don’s attorney, Tom L. Weber.  Don and Tom worked very close in deeding all the property to Don and Sue Boughan back in 2006.

 

You and Fred Rydholm were with Jack Ward (until 3:00 AM in his underwear on June 19, 1991) for hours after your trip to Georgia at his home in Vincennes, Indiana.  Superior Heartland, Inc. of Marquette, Michigan published your and Fred's book, THE MYSERY CAVE OF MANY FACES.  All the editing, cover design, computer illustration, pre-press and design and printing under the direction of various entities in Michigan.  You had manufactured a false story and published it with Fred to cause dis-information from the Leroy and Lenora Boughan property cave you had been secretly entering and stealing for seven years in Richland County, Illinois.  This book put Fred Rydholm on the map with fame and wealth.  He is currently dying after eighteen years as your partner in this ridiculous and deliberate criminal actions.   (Picture of Fred, Harry Hubbard and others)

http://www.philipcoppens.com/sofa.html

 

You pulled a gun on Harry Hubbard after he teamed up with June Elkin and Tom Elkin and threatened his life at gun point.  This action alone warrants the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to interview Harry Hubbard.  He is currently living within a hours drive to the Olney, Illinois.  He made public all the information about you, Jack Ward and Norman Cullen with lots of information on various gold seeker websites.

http://www.flavinscorner.com/falling.htm

http://www.illinoiscaves.com/calmrefl.htm

http://www.illinoiscaves.com/mystcave.htm

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/burrowscave/burrows.shtml

http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2006/08/burrows-cave-in-illinois_26.html

http://www.ancientamerican.com/cave1.htm

 

During this same time (1989-1991) you also teamed up with Wisconsin Professor (LDS) Dr. James Scherz PhD for his publication about the Burrows Cave.

http://www.chapmanresearch.org/PDF/The%20Saga%20of%20Burrows%20Cave.pdf

 

The witness for the FBI, IRS and other law enforcement agencies is a former bowling opponent of yours.  You have already admitted to me that you didn’t know that now retired Olney, Illinois policeman Tim Dunahee (28 years an honest cop) was a Mormon convert.  You bowled against his LDS bowling team while you lived in Olney and was stealing and possibly murdering intruders who came too close to the Leroy and Lenora Boughan property between 1982-89, with your brother-in-law, Sam Eyer, an Olney school teacher (Sam Eyer, 705 Hutchinson Street, Olney, Illinois 62450, (618) 395-7588).

 

Before me, nobody has gotten you to talk about your many partners and their deliberate criminal and cover-up activities like I have.  How many silent partners (like Don Boughan for ten years) do you have in the Illinois and Indiana crime scenes?  No wonder I had asked the IRS to investigate you and asked them to follow your money-trail.  Who at the FBI is your partner?  Who at the Illinois law enforcement agencies are your partners?  Who at the Illinois state museum operation are your partners?  I am in no great hurry to find out, but I will never let you go until every penny is located from your actions since 1982.

 

Sincerely, Steven C. Davis

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Russell Burrows

To: Wolter, Scott

Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1.56PM

Subject: Re: Agreement

 

Steve, I have always been suspicious concerning Jack Wards' death. We must remember however, that he had a very bad heart and had suffered several heart attacks. If anyone murdered him, it was Mildred, his wife just as his grandson thinks.

 

As for the "swiss accounts". They don'r exist. THat was a fabrication by Jack in order to entice investors in his get rich plans. I learned of this when I received a call from one of his investors looking to get his money back. How anyone could have been stupid enough to do something like this is beyond me. When Jack passed on, he owed me over $60,000.00. His family had nothing to do with Jacks schemes so I didn't think it was right for me to attack them. They had nothing to do with it. I do have signed recipts from Jack on this.

 

Now, Steve. I want to ask you a personal question and I don't want to insult you or hurt your feelings so, don't take it as such. Are you bi-polar? I ask that because I notice severe mood swings in you. Please! Don't take that the wrong way my friend.

Yes, I have come to like you.

 

As for co-operating with the IRS: I will co-operate with any law enforcment agency. I myself have nothing to hide. I am open and honest with everyone I have dealing with or meet.

 

Russ

----- Original Message -----

From: Wolter, Scott

To: 'Russell Burrows'

Cc: 'Andy Awes'

Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12.11PM

Subject: Agreement

 

Russ, I think it’s ready to go!  Take a look and let me know what you think. Call me if you have any questions.

Scott F. Wolter P.G., Geologist/Petrographer/President, Minnesota License #30024, American Petrographic Services Inc., 550 Cleveland Ave N., St. Paul, MN 55114   651-659-1345  (Cell) 612-875-7871

 

 

 

 

Utah State University in Logan, Utah is the headquarters for the Blue Beam Project Laser technology in creating holograms all over the world.  Professor Joseph Tainter announced a new “fear factor agenda” upon the general public, using various celebrities in politics and motion picture zombies in constantly creating doomsday messages of hopelessness fate.  God protects the United States of America in a special way because this land is sacred and available for all nations and people to come and live with many freedoms not allowed anywhere else in the world.

 

This weekend (May 24th) Russell Burrows promised that no one is going to know where the Burrows cave is located.  We firmly believe the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division will follow the money-trail of all the partners of Burrows (1982 to present) and pin point exactly where the first of many public disclosure caverns will be open to the general public.

 

Their source of dis-information is the Mormon Church public relations department because they are the best global mind control operation for causing people to live with fear, causing people to want to be saved by another.  The Deseret News published his findings over the weekend.

 

Professor at USU says U.S. society may collapse

If the past few months have felt like America's institutions and maybe society itself are falling completely apart, it could be because that's exactly what's happening.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705306337/USU-prof-US-society-may-collapse.html?pg=2

History says so. So does anthropology. An expert in both disciplines says human civilizations provide a template for those societies that have come together, become steadily more complex, then head almost inexorably toward collapse.

Even the society that has risen up here between the shining seas is well down the same path, according to a widely cited and published historical anthropologist.

Joseph Tainter, who heads the department of environment and society at Utah State University, told the newspaper that the current course of the economy and what some believe is a desperate effort to shore up the complex and almost inscrutable financial sector of the economy are manifestations of at least a partial collapse that invariably follows a society's boom.

Tainter and his research are included in "Earth 2100," the ABC News assessment of how life might be 100 years from now. He is also a source in "The 11th Hour," actor Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary that connects the dots of how our doing ultimately leads to our undoing. Tainter's original research is published in the book "The Collapse of Complex Societies."

Tainter is not a doomsdayer, but his research amounts to a chilling prognostication that the very nature of civilization means that ours, like all the others, is destined to collapse.

"For the past 10,000 years, problem-solving has produced increasing complexity in human societies," Tainter said, noting that for every extra layer of organization imposed, it takes extra energy of the society to maintain. "And the more complex a society becomes, the more energy it takes to maintain it and the more it produces diminishing returns."

To keep growing, societies must keep solving problems as they arise. Yet success generates a larger population, more specialists, more resources to manage and more information to handle that ultimately provides less bang per buck.

Tainter sees diminishing returns as the underlying reason for the collapse of all ancient civilizations. Western industrial civilization has become bigger and more complex than any before it by exploiting new sources of energy, notably coal and oil, but these are limited, and constant innovation is needed.

The threat of a coming pandemic that would wipe out everyone rose again and seemed to quickly void, although briefly, the belief that our society has achieved a scale, a complexity and level of innovation that make it immune from collapse.

In fact, the opposite is true, Tainter said. "Possibilities range from little effect to a mild recession to a major depression to a collapse."

Looking at a previous society, the Roman Empire, he said as agricultural output slowly declined and population increased, per-capita energy availability dropped. The Romans "solved" this problem by conquering their neighbors to appropriate their energy surpluses (metals, grain, slaves, etc.).

However, as the empire grew, the cost of maintaining communications, garrisons and civil government grew with it. Eventually, this cost grew so great that any new challenges such as invasions and crop failures could not be solved by the acquisition of more territory. At that point, the empire fragmented into smaller units.

"When some new input to an economic system is brought on line, whether a technical innovation or an energy subsidy, it will often have the potential at least temporarily to raise marginal productivity," he said. "Eventually, barring continual conquest of your neighbors — which is always subject to diminishing returns — innovation that increases productivity is in the long run the only way out of the dismal science dilemma of declining marginal returns on added investments in complexity."

Tainter avoids conclusions and recommendations, but he believes in replacing the one thing that has allowed the United States to boom — oil — with the one thing that will forestall its collapse — renewable energy.

The complexity/collapse model also would explain the increase in the complexity of the American financial markets, their collapse, and the fragmenting of the banks and the auto industry.

 

 

 

"They are people who know what they are doing," he said. "There's a network."

 

FBI charges 24 in federal artifact looting case

Southern Utah » The American Indian antiques were stolen from the Four Corners area.

For two years, someone close to a large network of archaeological looters in southeastern Utah was wired with an audio-visual recorder when he bought ancient baby blankets, stone pipes, seed jars, digging sticks, pots, even a pre-Columbian menstrual pad.

See Affidavit: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12561194

This "Source," as he or she is identified in a search warrant affidavit unsealed Wednesday, is an insider who worked with U.S. Bureau of Land Management and FBI special agents to nab two dozen suspects in the theft and sale of more than 250 American Indian artifacts from the Four Corners area.

Most of the suspects come from San Juan County, and some familiar names have emerged, including Blanding residents James and Jeanne Redd, who previously were prosecuted for stealing and dealing artifacts that lie scattered across remote public lands. The list also includes a 78-year-old man recently inducted into the Utah Tourism Hall of Fame.

The undercover purchases cost $335,685, U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman announced Wednesday. But new Bureau of Indian Affairs head Larry EchoHawk, a former Brigham Young University law professor, said the artifacts were worth much, much more.

"These articles are really priceless," EchoHawk said during a news conference in Salt Lake City. "You can't put a dollar figure on them."

But that's what 55-year-old San Juan High teacher David Lacy of Blanding did, according to a search warrant that federal authorities said was representative of affidavits filed in cases against him and 23 others.

The investigation began in November 2006. Then, in March 2007, the Source signed on to help the feds. On Dec. 11, 2007, the informant and Lacy met at Lacy's home, according to the search warrant, where the tipster paid $1,500 for a blanket woven with yucca fiber twisted with turkey feathers.

This informant also paid $900 for an atlatl weight, an artifact that may have been used in weaponry, and a knife for $2,800. Although the relics were from public lands, Lacy allegedly provided the Source with phony papers about where he found them.

The two huddled again in January 2008 at Lacy's storage shed. There, the court papers say, the informant paid $1,500 for a menstrual-pad loincloth and a basket fragment Lacy said he had taken from Bullet Canyon near the Grand Gulch wilderness area.

The Source also shelled out $1,700 for two sandals Lacy said he dug up from the Baby Mummy Cave burial site in Cottonwood Wash, the affidavit says. The sites are on public land, but Lacy allegedly signed a letter saying the artifacts were from private land.

Also charged were Loran St. Claire, 47, Monticello; Rulon Kody Sommerville, 47, Monticello; Kevin W. Shumway, 55, Blanding; Sharon Evette Shumway, 41, Blanding; Aubry Patterson, 55, Blanding; Dale J. Lyman, 73, Blanding; Raymond J. Lyman, 70, Blanding; Vern Crites, 74, Durango, Colo.; Marie Crites, 68, Durango; Steven Shrader, Durango; Tammy Shumway, 39, Blanding; Joseph Smith, 31, Blanding; Meredith Smith, 34, Blanding; Harold Lyman, 78, Blanding; Reese Laws, 27, Blanding; Nick Laws, 30, Blanding; Brandon Laws, 38, Blanding; Tad Kreth, 30, Blanding; Brent Bullock, 61, Moab; David Waite, 61, Albuquerque, N.M.; and Richard Raymond Bourret, 59, Durango.

The list -- totaling more than 115 felony counts and a handful of misdemeanors -- includes people prominent in their communities. Harold Lyman, for example, works at the Blanding Visitors Center,

Aubry J. Patterson has been inducted into the Utah Tourism Hall of Fame and helped establish the "Trail of the Ancients," a scenic byway taking motorists past American Indian sites in Utah and Colorado. Lyman did not return a call seeking comment.

Officials haven't yet issued an arrest warrant for Lyman, but he will get a summons to appear in federal court for arraignment.

Michael Wingert, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service in Utah, said the 23 defendants arrested Wednesday were detained at the Grand County Jail before appearing in front of U.S. Magistrate Samuel Alba. All but two, Aubry Patterson and Tammy Shumway, were free by day's end. The defendants had to guarantee they would stay away from federal or tribal lands and protect Tammy Shumway any artifacts they still possess.

News of the arrests caused a stir around Blanding. Holly Shumway, whose in-laws were among those charged, said most of the defendants are nice people.

"They are your everyday average neighbor," she said.

"Some of the men arrested who are in their 70s, that is what they used to do as kids," Shumway added. "It wasn't illegal. It's just something everyone does in Blanding. There are artifacts everywhere. You can walk out into some people's backyards after a good rain and find arrowheads."

Shumway said authorities should check their priorities. "There are gangsters and drug dealers out there and people actually causing harm to their communities," she said, "and this is what the feds spend their time on -- ransacking people's houses who aren't hardened criminals."

But Winston Hurst, a Blanding archaeologist who has helped document cultural sites near Bluff and Blanding, said he welcomes the crackdown to preserve what's left of "a fragile and severely damaged record of 13,000 years of human experience that left no written history." If the defendants are guilty, Hurst wrote in an e-mail, they deserve the consequences.

"It is no longer acceptable to plead ignorance or innocence of the importance of the archaeological record, our need to preserve it or the laws that our society has passed to protect it," he wrote. "Anyone who doesn't get it is inexcusably clueless. Having said that, I don't think most of these people are stupid, and expect to find that there are some very nuanced back stories, and that some of the charges are based on misinformation."

FBI Special Agent in Charge Timothy Fuhrman of the Salt Lake City field office said the illegal trade is a multimillion-dollar industry. "They are people who know what they are doing," he said. "There's a network."

Tolman vowed such buying and selling of history would stop. "Those who remove or damage artifacts from public lands take something from all of us," he said. "They take something that can never be replaced."

"You look at the people involved," Tolman added, "and it has been pervasive."

Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, applauded the indictments. "This law enforcement action," he said, "is a clear indication of the seriousness with which the Obama administration treats its responsibility as steward of our public lands."

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at the news conference that the administration has put protecting cultural and archaeological resources "front and center" and assured tribes that the BLM and FBI would take proper care of the items they confiscated.

A 2008 BLM report says the agency began several looting investigations last year and is continuing work begun at least nine years ago that discovered a connection between artifact thefts and methamphetamine trade in the West.

Tolman declined to say whether the Utah probe showed drug links, but said more charges and additional defendants could be found during what is an ongoing investigation.

The 2008 report also noted that someone chiseled a petroglyph known as the "one-legged man" off varnished rock near Colorado City, Ariz., in the Cottonwood Point wilderness area. That investigation is ongoing.

Utah has a history of agents chasing down looters, too.

Blanding doctor James Redd and his wife, Jeanne, in 1996 were accused in state court of desecrating the grave of an ancient Indian while pot hunting in Cottonwood Wash near Bluff. An appeals court struck down the felony charges because, under Utah law, prosecutors had to prove the body was intentionally buried at the site -- and they couldn't.

In 1995, Moab resident Earl Shumway was found guilty of stealing sandals, a sleeping mat and an infant's burial blanket from the Dop-Ki Cave in Canyonlands National Park and the Manti-LaSal National Forest. He was sentenced to 5½ years in prison.

Shumway also was arrested 10 years earlier, accused of stealing 34 prehistoric baskets. He was placed on probation with the promise he would help agents investigate other thefts. Unashamed of being a professional looter, Shumway claimed he was able to make $5,000 a day from his activities, which he described as a "way of life."

It was unclear whether he was related to the three Shumways indicted Wednesday.

 

Feds nab dozens in Indian artifacts looting probe

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (SLTribune, 6/10/2009)

An ongoing federal investigation of archaeological-site looting in the West has moved into Utah, where federal authorities are expected to visit later today to announce a slew of criminal charges.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12561194

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Bureau of Indian Affairs boss Larry EchoHawk, U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman and officials from the FBI and Justice Department plan an afternoon news conference in Salt Lake City to detail the charges netted after a two-year undercover probe in southeastern Utah.

The charges stem from the theft of cultural and historical artifacts from American Indian lands and federal tracts in the Four Corners area, according to the Interior Department.

Those charged are Loran St. Claire, 47, Monticello; Rulon Kody Sommerville, 47, Monticello; Kevin W. Shumway, 55, Blanding; Sharon Evette Shumway, 41, Blanding; David A. Lacy, 55, Blanding; Aubry Patterson, 55, Blanding; Dale J. Lyman, 73, Blanding; Jeanne Redd, 59, Blanding; James D. Redd, 60, Blanding; Raymond J. Lyman, 70, Blanding; Vern Crites, 74, Durango, Colo.; Marie Crites, 68, Durango, Colo.; Steven Shrader, Durango, Colo.; Tammy Shumway, 39, Blanding; Joseph Smith, 31, Blanding; Meredith Smith, 34, Blanding; Harold Lyman, 78, Blanding; Reese Laws, 27, Blanding; Nick Laws, 30, Blanding; Brandon Laws, 38, Blanding; Tad Kreth, 30, Blanding; Brent Bullock, 61, Moab; David Waite; and Richard Raymond Bourret.

In the past decade, investigating and prosecuting antiquity looting has increasingly become a prime target of federal law enforcement.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management began several new investigations last year and is continuing work begun at least nine years ago that has discovered a web of crime related to methamphetamine addicts who sell the artifacts to support their habits.

A BLM law enforcement report says that on Sept. 8, 2005, a Bend, Ore., woman was charged with and pleaded guilty to violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Patricia C. Doyle, 58, was part of a criminal conspiracy with seven others in acts of "systematic looting" in central and eastern Oregon.

A long-term BLM undercover probe called Operation Bring 'Em Back involved the U.S. Forest Service , U. S. Attorney's Office, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Some of the artifacts stolen in Oregon dated back 35 million to 40 million years, the BLM report says.

The lands that pre-Columbian societies once inhabited are vast. Researchers have estimated at least 100,000 people lived in the Four Corners area alone.

In September, someone chiseled out of varnished rock near Colorado City, Ariz., a petroglyph known as the "one-legged man." The looting occurred in the Cottonwood Point Wilderness Area on BLM land. That investigation is ongoing, the report says.

Utah has a history of federal agents chasing down looters, too. In 1995, Earl Shumway of Moab was found guilty of stealing sandals, a sleeping mat and an infant's burial blanket from the Dop-Ki Cave in Canyonlands National Park and the Manti-LaSal National Forest. Shumway, who enlisted a helicopter mechanic in a Utah bar to help him reach remote sites, scattered the infant's bones when he grabbed the blanket. He was sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison.

Shumway also had been arrested 10 years earlier, accused of stealing 34 prehistoric baskets. He was placed on probation with the promise he would help agents investigate other thefts. Unashamed of being a professional looter, Shumway claimed he was able to make $5,000 a day from his activities, which he described as a "way of life."

In 1996, Blanding physician James Redd and his wife, Jeanne Redd, desecrated Anasazi graves while pot-hunting Cottonwood Wash near Bluff. After they were convicted, their case bogged down when an appeals court ruled federal law required prosecutors had to show ancient remains had been intentionally buried before they could convict people of grave-robbing. The charges were dismissed in 1998.

 

Artifact thefts targeted by federal officials

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705309695/Artifact-thefts-targeted-by-feds.html

 

How did the investigation work?

The FBI and the BLM, concerned about looting on public and American Indian lands, developed a relationship with a major dealer in archaeological artifacts. For months, this dealer --identified only as the "Source" -- bought artifacts from the Four Corners area while wearing a recording device. The undercover investigation was dubbed Cerberus Action, after the multi-headed dog of mythology who guards the realm of the dead.

 

What kinds of artifacts were swiped?

The 256 relics include ceramic figurines, a mug, bowls, seed jars, a clovis point, stone pipes, stone metate, ancient sandals, a hafted ax, a gourd necklace, a shell necklace, beads, an effigy bird pendant, a copper bracelet, a turkey feather blanket, knives and polishing stones.

 

How valuable are they?

The dealer bought them for $335,685. But scientists and law-enforcement officials say they are priceless cultural treasures.

 

Were any of the artifacts damaged?

Experts say the mere act of improperly excavating an archaeological site leads to the loss of significant historical information. Authorities have promised to take proper care of the recovered relics.

 

What's next?

Prosecutors have asked that all but one of the 24 defendants be released pending trial. A hearing on a request that Aubry Patterson be detained is scheduled for this morning. The defendants have been ordered to make reasonable efforts to protect artifacts in their possession from damage until their cases are resolved. 

 

Federal Historic Preservation Case Law, 1966-2000

Table of Authorities Cited in Case Summaries

http://www.achp.gov/book/AUTHORTY1.html

Statutes

Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 551-59, 701-706 (1994)

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 3101-3233

(1980)

American Indian Religious Freedom Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1996-1996a (1994)

Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, 16 U.S.C. §§ 470aa-470ll (1994)

Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 460xx-460zz-11 (1994)

Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2011-2286i (1994)

Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1994)

Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401-7671q (1990)

Communications Amendments Act of 1982, 47 U.S.C. § 402 (1994)

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-60 (1994) (as amended)

Declaration of Taking Act, 40 U.S.C. § 258a (1994)

Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-02 (1994)

Department of Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C.§ 303 (1994)

District of Columbia Self Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, Pub. L. No. 93-198, 87 Stat. 774 (1973) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 40 U.S.C.)

Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412 (1994)

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, 5 U.S.C. app. §§ 1-15 (1994)

Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966, 23 U.S.C. § 138 (1994)

Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C. §§ 1811-1831u (1994)

Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1701-84 (1994)

Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. § 803 (1994)

Federal Tort Claims Act, ch. 753, 60 Stat. 842 (1946) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 28 U.S.C.)

Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 1387 (1994) (as amended)

Foreign Missions Act, 22 U.S.C. §§ 4301-16 (1994)

Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552b (1994)

Historical and Archeological Data Preservation Act of 1974, 16 U.S.C. §§ 469-469c (1994)

Historic Sites Act of 1935, 16 U.S.C. §§ 461-467 (1994)

Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1437-1437aaa-8 (1994)

Housing Act of 1949, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1441-1490r (1994)

Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5301-5317 (1994) (as amended)

Interstate Commerce Act, ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379 (1887) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 49 U.S.C.)

Library Services and Construction Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 351-355e-4 (1994

National Capital Planning Act of 1952, 40 U.S.C. §§ 71a-71i (1994)

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4347 (1994)

National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 16 U.S.C. §§ 470-470w-6 (1994)

National Park Service Organic Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, 3, 4 (1994)

National Trail System Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1241-51 (1994)

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. §§ 3001-13 (1994)

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3711-3750, 3751-3797 (1994)

Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972, 40 U.S.C. §§ 871-885 (1994)

Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94-541, 90 Stat. 2505 (1976) (codified at 40 U.S.C. §§ 490, 601a, 606, 611, 612a (1994)) Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 U.S.C. §§ 2601-45 (1994)

Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, 45 U.S.C. §§ 801 38 (1994)

Rails to Trails Act of 1990, 16 U.S.C. § 1247(d) (1995)

Refugee Education Assistance Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1522 note (1994)

Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb (1994)

Rivers and Harbors Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 401, 403 (1994)

Staggers Rail Act of 1980, Pub. L. No. 96-448, 94 Stat. 1895 (1980) (codified in scattered sections of 49 U.S.C.)

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 30 U.S.C. §§ 1201-1328 (1994)

Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4601-4602, 4604 4655 (1994)

Executive Orders:  Exec. Order No. 11593, 3 C.F.R. 154 (1971), reprinted in 16 U.S.C. § 470, note (1982)

Regulations:  Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, "Protection of Historic and Cultural Properties," 36 C.F.R. pt. 800 (2000)

 

In the past two years a very wealthy division of the Mormon Church has lost $600 million – 2007 to 2009, ever since Mormon President Gordon B. Hinckley discovered he was dying (1/2007).  No wonder Gary Taylor, Arn Ufford and Wayne May arrived at the Boughan Property (Burrows Cave) in the summer, 2007 and attempted to open up the cave.

 

ATLAS CITIES OF COMMERCE

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http://www.citiesofpeace.com

 

Saturday, June 27, 2009

 

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

 

Yesterday we notified many departments of the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, thanking them (under the direction of Secretary Kenneth Lee Salazar and BIA Director Larry Echohawk) for caring for the preservation of Native American burial sites, everywhere.  The following message was given:

 

Native American Artifacts

Washington DC  FAX  (202) 208-5196

 

Office of Justice Services

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Washington, DC 20240  Fax: (202) 208-6170

 

Special Agents, BIA Law Enforcement

Albuquerque, New Mexico FAX (505) 563-3801

 

Dear Federal Agents who care for the preservation of Native American Artifacts, especially burial sites:

 

We have located Native American burial sites here in the Mid-West which needs you attention.  Because of corrupt public officials in Illinois dealing with the theft of thousands of artifacts at a burial site I conversed with Tom Woolworth, BIA Chief of Training, a few weeks ago and asked for his advise in getting local, state and federal law enforcement agents trained in dealing with Looting.  I had a nice quick conversation with Pat Ragsdale this week.  A Native American burial site painting was published in a 2006 book, Michigan Copper, The Untold Story by C. Fred Rydholm; after first being published in the January/February, 1994 (Embarras River Burial Tomb Site).  A formal complaint was filed in December, 1999 with the local office of the Illinois State Attorney General; but former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris (now US Senator) lead the cover-up of this burial site cave since the late 1980s.  He recruited special associates who were associated with former Illinois Governor Robert Blagojevich in taking over it back in 2007.  I exposed this cover-up in January, 2009 and notified the FBI and IRS-CI.  All the law enforcement agencies are very ignorant in opening up a Native American burial site.

 

It has taken many decades for Americans, and especially local law enforcement officers and public representatives, to realize that it is criminal to Loot Native American burial sites located on private property.  My father was directly involved in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was passed to wake up Americans about the importance of protecting the Past for Future Generations.  Law Enforcements are very ignorant about their duties to protect ancient burial sites.  In 1979 the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) was passed, punishing looters with two years in prison and a $250,000 fine to protect objects.  Back in the 1980s there was a Museum in Vincennes, Indiana which displayed hundreds of artifacts from a 3000 foot cavern within 25 miles.  Dr. Robert D. Hicks PhD, law enforcement specialist of Virginia's Department of Criminal Justice Services trained FBI Agents back in 1997 for exposing Looters on private property.  Through Dr. Hicks we are arranging Bureau of Indian Affairs specialists to train officers in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere to stop professionals from Looting because there are excellent case laws allowing law enforcement investigations on private property.  The very nature of looting presents enforcement difficulties. Once unearthed, artifacts are difficult to link to a looted site. Many protected resources, whether above or underground, are hidden from public view. As a result, much looting goes undetected and unpunished. Professional looters take steps to avoid detection. They carefully plan their illegal excavations, studying archival or library materials and topographical maps, like what Russell Burrows and Arn Ufford did at a Native American burial site containing tens of thousands of artifacts. 

LOOTING METHODS AND INVESTIGATIVE COUNTERMEASURES

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/1997/july971.htm

“THEORY OF PUBLIC TRUST”  “PUBLIC POWER”  (special case in Indiana on looting)

The US Supreme Court has upheld against taking, marketing of destroying historic structures and items.  Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, 438 US 104 (1978)    This was a historic preservation law.  The courts have exhibited a remarkable receptiveness to public efforts to protect cultural property, even when those efforts have conflicted with private property rights.  States and localities have case law to prevent the destruction of historic structures.  This is the ability of government to protect other cultural property (archeological sites and Native American Burial grounds)

Hunziber v. State, 519 NW 2d 367 (1994)

People v. Van Horn, 267 Cal Reptr 804 (1990)

 

I just stopped at the Moberly City Police and dropped off additional information about the importance of investigating different crime scenes and evidence locations dealing with homicides for cover-up purposes.  My wife, Karen, a Missouri RN, is part Cherokee.  On October 8, 2008 someone unexpectedly came to Moberly, Missouri and showed us some ancient stones with man-made relics on them.  I paid the person $1,000.00.  That day I became a victim of purchasing stolen ancient American artifacts by a professional looter.  After verification, I filed a local police report.  We found out that he and his wife were caught by the IRS for failing to report income since 2000 and he needed cash to survive.  They are now being connected to hundreds of Looters, preying on the general public.  Associates are public employees, attorneys and many professionals who have operated since 1982 off of one cave.  This has to stop.  The public needs to know about it.  

Since I moved to Missouri back in 2003 from San Diego, California I have connected with thousands of individuals who care about stopping looting and preserving America ancient histories and artifacts.  This is why we contacted your office and allow your own evaluation to the evidence and facts presented dealing with your jurisdiction.  Back in 1967 when I was seventeen years old I entered a Yaqui Indian Reservation cave, near the Yaqui River, Sonora, Mexico and brought out thousands of artifacts deposited there by these fearsome people.  This cave had not been entered into for many decades because anyone who entered died.   I was invited because these people respected my father because what he did during World War II (over the Navajo Windwalkers). They tied a rope around my waist and the rest is history.  That collection was donated to educate the youth of Mexico.  This year a much more massive collection needs to do the same for the youth of America.  “…The Spanish, invading Mexico in search of treasure in 1517, conquered the Aztecs in 1521 and in 1533 finally reached Rio Yaqui. Following their first incursion into Yaqui territory, battle-hardened Spanish soldiers retreated. They claimed the Yaquis were the fiercest warriors and best battle tacticians they had faced in New Spain. The Yaqui were the only peoples the Apaches feared…. A special relationship with the Spanish eventually developed. However, even into the 20th Century, the Yaquis, who did not consider themselves a conquered people, fought unwanted intrusions into their lives and territory, first against the Spanish and then the Mexican and U.S. governments. Because of the fierceness of the Yaqui, government military forces only periodically overwhelmed Yaqui communities, separating families and sending Yaqui men to distant parts of Mexico to live in forced labor conditions. Mexican military occupation of Yaqui territory continued into the 1970s….” (Legends of the Lemon and Limes, Michael V. Webster 

http://www.lagunajournal.com/redroad.htm

 

Sincerely,

Steven C. Davis

 

Ancient artifacts slowly gaining protection - -- and it's about time

History » Raiding ancient cultures no longer acceptable.

By Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 06/26/2009

In 1802, Lord Elgin began stripping a good chunk of Greece's cultural heritage to decorate his Scottish estate.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12699498

Two hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire embraced the Middle East and southeastern Europe, including Greece. As British ambassador to the Sublime Porte (the Ottoman seat of the Sultan in Istanbul), Elgin admired the ancient statuary and friezes that adorned the Acropolis in Athens. He liked them so much he prevailed on the Turks to let him have them (the proper palms being greased along the way, of course).

Some of the bigger pieces couldn't be hauled away, and so were sawn apart to facilitate shipping. In all, about half of the Acropolis decoration and statuary ended up in the British Museum.

All perfectly legal.

When the Greeks won their independence, they wanted their stuff back. The British to this day have declined, arguing they came by them fair and square and have the paperwork to prove it.

As a child visiting from California, I thought my Utah cousins were exotic. Besides snow and speaking with an accent, they also dug up buried treasure. Mostly this consisted of broken bottles retrieved from pioneer midden pits (before trash pick-up, every home used to have its own trash dump out back).

I also remember the Indian artifacts. There were the potsherds and arrowheads and dried ears of corn. But even as a 6-year-old, there were some things that I recognized as extraordinary. And slightly creepy. Something about burial mounds.

On those trips to Utah in the early 1960s, the family would visit the pioneer museum on Temple Square. The building has since been torn down, the site currently occupied by the gleaming visitor's center in the southeast corner.

I remember two things from the old museum. One was a clever device, carved out of wood, that counted the rotations of a wagon wheel. (Orson Pratt's early odometer turned out to be pretty accurate.)

The other was an Indian mummy in a glass case.

Of the two, the mummy won, hands down. I remember elbowing other sweaty kids out of the way to get a good look.

I didn't register any moral queasiness at the time. Cultural norms were different back then -- unless your culture happened to be native American and that fella under glass was great-grandpa, no one seemed to think anything of it.

Over time, we have rethought things. You could say we've become empathetic.

You don't need to put Brigham Young on display in the Smithsonian's Native American museum in Washington, D.C., to realize that one ought to be sensitive to other people's stuff.

In time the LDS Church turned over the Indian remains, my cousins wouldn't dream of poaching items on federal land, and I'll return that fingernail-sized piece of pottery that I picked up in Southern Utah the next chance I get.

Now if only the British would get the message.

 

 

Re: You look at the list of Motives

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:28 PM

From: "Russell Burrows" <burrows@greeleynet.com>

To: "Steven Davis" <citiesofcommerce@yahoo.com>

Interesting. my thoughts as well.

 

Russ

----- Original Message -----

From: Steven Davis

To: Russell Burrows

Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8.15PM

Subject: You look at the list of Motives

 

Russ,   As a private investigator back in 1992 when I met with Bob McCormick in Vincennes and saw his actions, his denials, his excuses, his patterns and those he surrounded himself with, plus he became very nervous when I saw a collection of your artifacts; he became the number one suspect.  I stayed a few days gathering information about the deaths and who knew anything about Jack or Norman in Vincennes - conversing with my father several times about the mess.    Clyde asked many questions about the pattern connection with the two deaths of your partners and the death of Clyde's business partner since 1956 in Florida, Hubert B. Layne (who mysteriously died on December 24, 1985 through a heart attack/poisoning).  His Florida Estate was still in Probate Court in 1992.  The next year, one of the largest CPA firms in the world (Ernst and Young) certified to the State of Florida that the Estate was worthless.  This same CPA firm represented St. Joe Gold (of Tucson, Arizona) a wholley-own subsidiary of Fluor Corporation (second largest Engineering firm in the world).  Using Ernst and Young (same office building in New York) Australian Billionaire Alan Bond was directly involved with Zions Bank in Salt Lake, and put up $400 Million in 1988 and circumvented Clyde and my/Kanco's claim to the federal mining claims I had purchased from Clyde and Hubert B. Layne in 1983.  Kanco re-opened the Layne Estate and obtained lots of valuable evidence.  The Florida Probate Judge died during our litigation.  Three months after the Judge died my law firm (one of the largest in Miami) all over sudden dissolved and closed it's doors.   Back to other suspects: Mildred Ward had been married to Jack, then divorced.  She had married two other men and they both died in their sleep, like Jack did.  Back when you partnered up with Jack she shows up and renews her relationship with Jack right when Jack and you are getting the museum into action.  Jack mortgaged and borrowed and financially supported you.  She was jealous of your relationship with Jack because he had a new life in his blood because of your exciting venture of value artifacts of unknown origin.    Did Bob and Mildred conspire, independently or collectively?  They both took charge after Jack was dead with the estate, knocking out Jack's daughter.  It was in probate for thirteen years and nothing connected during those years about Swiss bank accounts or anything else as hidden income.  Were they and you fronts to the true murders? Hmmm   Norman Cullen's short lived life after Jack's death comes into the formula.  He was not healthy, especially after Jack's death.  Because of the prenuptial agreement marriage between Mildred and Jack, friction happened between the Ward child, an only daughter; her children; and the Cullen family.  I don't know how much you were involved with them between 1991-1994 but I knew there was serious distrust and questions between everyone involved with various: 1.  Business associates 2.  Relatives 3.  Indiana Residents and various relations with them and Bob McCormick, etc. 4.  Your books with Dr. James Scherz and Fred Rhyholm in 1991 5.  Your dealings with Wayne May's new Ancient American Magazine project in 1993 6.  Other outside entities and people who started investigating (like Harry Hubbard, etc)   We know Arn Ufford was involved in the poisoning of Hubert B. Layne.  Clyde and I were suing the Estate of Hubert B. Layne in Utah Federal Courts in 1991 for the theft by Zions bank and Alan Bond.  In 1988, Bond went public (NYSE) and raised $310 Million in an underwriting and hired Fluor Corporation to build the Mill and Smelter on the gold mine I had purchased from Clyde.  Clyde was threatened his life and lied, under oath, in a deposition in 1993.  Later that year, Clyde signed a Quit-Claim Deed of the mining claims to Kanco because the FBI was about to arrest him from Las Vegas.  My Nevada attorney was Lamond Mills, former US Attorney for Nevada by President Ronald Reagan.  Clyde told me in 1995 that Arn Ufford was directly involved in my Nevada gold mine and the Burrows Cave.   From 1995 I visited Arn Ufford many times in Vernal, Utah.  He became a Kanco Stockholder in 1999 and boasted, many times up to that date, of being hired by you back in 1982 to go into the cave.   The above information has been in the hands of the IRS-CI, FBI and other law enforcement entities with evidence, names and Kanco corporate resolutions (Wayne May signed one in January, 2009 turning all his rights to Kanco stockholders) supporting what we have done (at a distance) on the Burrows Cave.   For the past five months I have gotten very close to people in Illinois and connections from everywhere since 1982.  I am now ready to bring in my friends with the US Department of Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs) and get lots of stuff connected.   My conclusion to date is that Mildred was a hired agent for Arn Ufford to go back and marry Jack Ward.  I am sure Bob McCormick was involved; but after my trip to Vincennes in 1992, he was dumped from anymore inside info from the true murderers.  The death of Mildred's second husband was in Arizona.  Arizona is very corrupt in Looting and mining operations for corrupt bankers.  Back in 1994 I was with Senator John McCain in Tucson and showed him a mountain of evidence against those of Zions First National Bank and covert operations in his state.  I got an excellent letter from him in 1994, certifying our meeting.   You were also a suspect, but you have been a thorn in the side of everybody!  That means you are keeping in place what you, and only you, know in the whole senerio.   Just a few open thoughts, bringing you up to speed.   Steve   P.S.  This is a confidential email   NOTICE:  This communication is private, confidential and between the parties. It is not public disclosure. This material is for information purposes. It contains information which may be proprietary and privileged, and does not constitute a legal agreement. This electronic communication constitutes an electronic communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 OSCAR 2510. --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Russell Burrows <burrows@greeleynet.com> wrote: From: Russell Burrows <burrows@greeleynet.com> Subject: Ward To: "Steven Davis" <citiesofcommerce@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 6:51 PM So.........Who do you think killed Ward?   Russ