On Feb. 4, two ambassadors of the Free Land Holder Committee met with a judge and U.S. attorneys in Denver in a private meeting.
The United States first filed a lawsuit on Nov. 26 in response to the group fencing off and claiming 1,460 acres outside Mancos, near Chicken Creek.
A month later, on Jan. 2, the Free Land Holders submitted a 50-page response to the lawsuit on the final day they were able to. It was mostly handwritten on 8-by-16-inch paper.
Patrick Pipkin and Bryan Hammon were the two ambassadors named in the suit, and the two who appeared in court on Tuesday.
They said the meeting was private, and not a formal court hearing or anything of the sort.
They also said what they filed back in January was a notice, not a response, and that they worked hard to perfect the language, outside of the public eye, for their lawful defense.
From the start, the group has said they are “working in exclusive equity and jurisprudence,” and that sentiment remains.
They also hold that they are bound to laws that are rooted in the Geneva Bible of 1560, and not the King James Bible, which citizens of the United States are bound to.
The most recent meeting was for the judge and attorneys to understand “who we are,” Pipikin said. It’s an ongoing meeting, and the date for the next one is “pending.”
An article published by the Courthouse News Service on Feb. 4 said that Pipkin left silver to pay for the counterclaim and that he and Hammon asked the judge to call them, “the man Patrick” or “the man Bryan” since their birth certificates have never been completed and are fraudulent.
They said they are the body and spirit showing up as a living man and living woman.
As far as the silver goes, they said it is “important,” and that it’s not a barter.
The silver’s importance goes back to the original Articles of Confederation, in 1777.
“We’re not asking for a remedy from the court,” they said.
Instead, the Free Land Holders create their own remedy. What’s more, they said, the silver is “tendered to the original contract and construct of the Articles of Confederation, and that’s who the land is deeded to.”
The pair told The Journal a lot of what’s going on is still private.
