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Family promises armed standoff
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Family promises armed standoff
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Subject: Important Free American Shows on Monday and Tuesday
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:45:50 -0600
From: "Clayton R. Douglas" freeamerican@plateautel.net
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DEVELOPING SITUATION
This man, Lyle Barkley, will be on the Free American Hour, Monday, September
15th, at 7:00 AM Mountain Time with Clay Douglas
His Defender, Rick Stanley of the The Mutual Defense Pact - Second American
Revolution Militia, will be on the show Tuesday, September 16th.
Hear their side of the story on the Free American Hour
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Family promises armed standoff
Militia vows its support if homes are removed
By KEITH MATHENY
Record-Eagle staff writer

HORTON BAY - The peaceful, rolling farmland of Charlevoix County's Bay
Township belies the potential armed confrontation that may develop there in
a matter of days.


Record-Eagle/Keith Matheny[NL]Bay Township residents Lyle Barkley and his
daughter, Kimberly, stand near Kimberly's adjacent manufactured homes off
Camp Daggett Road. A district court judge has ordered the rear unit removed,
an order the Barkleys say they will not honor.

A county district court judge has ordered by Thursday the removal of
three manufactured homes from four acres on Camp Daggett Road. The family
who owns the property is vowing an armed confrontation with anyone who
attempts to enforce the judge's order.

"We're going to have a standoff," said Lyle Barkley, 55.

"I'm not going to let them come in here and take this stuff," he said.
"Over my dead body."

Barkley and members of his family may not be alone in their standoff.
A Denver-based organization calling itself The Mutual Defense Pact - Second
American Revolution Militia has vowed to call on 600 or more armed
individuals from across the country to defend the Barkleys' property.
"Within a few days of (Barkley) being attacked, that little township
will become the center of the universe, by force of arms," said Rick
Stanley, founder of the militia group.

Barkley has created an earthen berm on his property, and said he
planned to create trenches as well, in preparation for a standoff.

Charlevoix County Sheriff George T. Lasater said he hopes violence can
be avoided.

"I'll do everything possible to come to a peaceful resolution of this
situation, so nobody gets hurt on either side," he said. "But rest assured,
I'll do my job, and I will follow the orders of the court."

The dispute involves the placement by the Barkleys of two,
12-by-60-foot mobile homes on the property, and a 24-by-34-foot former
school portable. Barkley said two of the units are additions onto two
existing mobile homes on the property, one of which Barkley lives in with
his wife, Shirley; and another in which his daughter, Kimberly, her
boyfriend and three children live. Barkley's son, Ken, and family live in
the third - the school portable unit.

After initially receiving zoning permits from Bay Township in the
summer of 2002, the permits were revoked by township zoning administrator
Randy Frykberg that November.

Frykberg said Thursday the Barkleys had initially applied for
additions, not to add additional mobile homes. Township attorney James
Murray said no township or city in the state would allow the sandwiching of
a manufactured house on an already nonconforming structure under zoning.

"It's a very basic question - it's a health, safety and welfare
question," Murray said. "This is simply a case of abiding by zoning, and
abiding by the construction code. (Barkley) blatantly disregarded both."

Barkley, however, countered that he was willing to make any changes
necessary to bring the buildings up to code. He was never given that chance,
he said.

After Judge Richard May's ruling in April siding with the township,
Barkley said he went ahead and installed the manufactured homes on his
property over the summer.

On Aug. 28, May ruled Barkley, his wife and Kimberly Barkley were in
contempt of court. He ordered the buildings removed by Sept. 18, and ordered
the Barkleys to pay an $800 fine. The Barkleys face 26 days in jail if the
fine is not paid by Thursday.

"I won't pay it," Barkley said. "If I pay it, it's the same as saying
I'm guilty."

Stanley, of the Second American Revolution Militia, said Barkley is a
member of his militia's mutual defense pact, which he said is about four
months old.

"We basically are not going to tolerate unconstitutional acts by
governments in the future," Stanley said. "They do this kind of thing
thousands of times a day, every day, across the United States. But we've
drawn the line and said, 'Not with our pact members.' "

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