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Fritz Artz Springmeier (born September 24, 1955) (aka Victor E. Schoff) is an American conspiracy theorist and religious right wing activist, formerly a resident of Corbett, Oregon, who has written a number of books claiming that satanic forces are behind a move toward world domination by various families and organizations. He has described his goal as "exposing the New World Order agenda."

Springmeier has been linked to a violent extremist group called the Army of God, and it was alleged that he had been growing marijuana with a member of that organization in order to supplement his income. On January 31, 2002, Springmeier was indicted on one charge of cultivation of marijuana under subsection (a), paragraph (1) of 21 U.S.C. § 841. He was arrested, together with his wife, after investigations into a white separatist group revealed evidence of marijuana cultivation. The government dropped that charge on November 13, 2003.

Also on January 31, 2002, Springmeier was indicted in connection with a bank robbery. On February 12, 2003, Springmeier was found guilty of one count of armed bank robbery under subsections (a) and (d) of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 and one count of possession of a semi-automatic rifle during a federal crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924 and 18 U.S.C. § 2. On the same day that the marijuana charge was dropped, Springmeier was sentenced to 9 years and 3 months in prison for his involvement in the robbery in Damascus, Oregon in 1997, in which he set a bomb at an adult video store as an accomplice of another right-wing militant. In October 2010, Springmeier was released from prison to go on and complete a 5 year probation program. He was also restricted from engaging in any political work. Springmeier was put back in prison in January 2011, and was again released on March 25, 2011.

Conspiracy theories

Springmeier has written and self-published a number of books based on the ideology of what's been described as an "ultra-right-wing group" called the Christian Patriot Association; this group was shut down in 2002 after convictions for tax fraud and tax evasion. He has made multiple videos and presentations. He has endorsed the plausibility of Project Monarch, a purported Central Intelligence Agency mind control project whose conjectured existence is based only on the testimony of Cathy O'Brien under hypnosis.

Springmeier's early work, The Watchtower & the Masons, focuses on the relationship between Jehovah's Witnesses and Freemasonry. In this book he describes a relationship between Charles Taze Russell and the so-called Eastern Establishment. Springmeier followed these links into Masonry and did a further examination of the Eastern establishment.

Springmeier claims to have created a general theory on who controls the world and in what way by doing elaborate studies and talking to numerous eye-witnesses. Identifying this occult group with the Illuminati, Springmeier names 13 families (called "bloodlines") which allegedly participate in this Illuminati-group and writes about their wealth and areas of private influence. Also in his writing is the description of Satanic worship. He states that these families engage in mind control.

Selected bibliography

• The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, Cisco Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, On Demand Publishing, ASIN B0006QXVU4, ISBN 1440490228
• Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula, Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, CreateSpace, 2010, ISBN 1451502699
• Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Fritz Springmeier, Ambassador House (November 1998), ISBN 0966353323

References

1. ^ "Couple tied to separatist movement face drug-trafficking charges". Eugene Register-Guard. March 3. p. 2B. Retrieved 2010-11-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
2. ^ Redden, Jim (Oct 30 2009 (update)). "FBI probes alleged threat to officer". Portland Tribune. Portland, OR. Retrieved 2010-11-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. Indictment, Jan. 31, 2002, docket entry 1, United States v. Springmeier, case no. 3:02-cr-00025-RE, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Div.).
4. Docket entry 50, Nov. 13, 2003, United States v. Springmeier, case no. 3:02-cr-00025-RE, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Div.).
5. Indictment, docket entry 1, Jan. 31, 2002, United States v. Springmeier, case no. 3:02-cr-00024-RE, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Div.).
6. Docket entries 104 and 105, Feb. 12, 2003, United States v. Springmeier, case no. 3:02-cr-00024-RE, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Div.).
7. Docket entry 144, Judgment and Commitment, Nov. 14, 2003, United States v. Springmeier, case no. 3:02-cr-00024-RE, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Div.) (sentence of 60 months in prison as to the armed bank robbery conviction and 51 months as to the weapon conviction, the sentences to run consecutively, for a total of 111 months).
8. Blejwas, Andrew; Griggs, Anthony; Potok, Mark (Summer 2005). "Almost 60 Terrorist Plots Uncovered in the U.S." Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2010-11-22 TONY HUNTINGTON--The Missing Link Conspicuously absent from the report is any mention of Tony Huntington, on whose mother's property all of the "evidence" used in KATU's report was found. Huntington and Bateman (Bateman rented a room in an out-building on the property) had been friends since childhood and lived on Huntington's mother's property. For five months after the Feds raided his place, Huntington lived with the knowledge that the illegal arsenal and 50 plant pot grow (complete with power diversion) would net him an approximately 120 year sentence. However, the courts refused key wittness who proved that moneies Springmeier receieved came from a minster in Japan. Springmeier was paid was public speaking. The minster had hard copy evidence. Eric Mason of KATU News (the local CBS affiliate) and John Stevens of International News in their KATU News report slanderized Springmeier and even reported lies, and untruths, futher damaging Springmeier.. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); line feed character in |accessdate= at position 11 (help)
9. Fritz Artz Springmeier, inmate # 65941-065, Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Dep't of Justice, at .
10. U.S. Department of Justice (June 7, 2002). "Christian Patriot Association". Tax Protestor Cases Exhibit. Quatloos.com. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
11. Barkun, Michael (2006). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 76. ISBN 0520248120.
12. Parfrey, Adam (1995). Cult Rapture. Portland, Oregon: Feral Press. p. 241. ISBN 0922915229.
13. Bloodlines of the Illuminati is an over 600 page book first published in 1999 by Fritz Springmeier. The book is an exhausting analysis of the history of 13 families believed to be involved with the Illuminati. Those 13 bloodlines are: Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dupont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Russell, Van Duyn, and theMerovingian bloodline. A revised edition was released in 2002

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