KAMIAH A public meeting featuring Gerald (Jack) McLamb, a former Arizona police officer and an associate of James G. (Bo) Gritz, will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Kamiah school multi-purpose room.
A flyer distributed throughout the area announcing the meeting says, "Officer McLamb will speak on how he and his fellow American police and soldiers have been fighting the globalists' plan to use them to disarm fellow Americans and enslave them under the Anti-God United Nations Socialist one world government."
The flyer claims McLamb is the "most decorated police officer in Arizona," the publisher of the "Aid and Abet" newsletter, which deals with constitutional issues for lawmen, the executive director of American Citizens and Lawmen Association, the author of "Operation Vampire Killer 2000," and host of a national daily radio program, "The Officer Jack McLamb Program."
According to Mike Torres, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department, McLamb has been retired from the department for a number of years. At one time McLamb was fired from his job for mixing politics with police work, Torres said, but was reinstated.
Torres said there is no way to verify McLamb's claim to be the most decorated police officer in Arizona.
McLamb is a co-investor with Gritz in the Almost Heaven and Shenandoah properties seven miles north of Kamiah. He and Gritz gained national attention in 1992, when they helped negotiate the end of an 11-day standoff between federal fugitive Randy Weaver and state and federal law officers in northern Idaho.
Since then, popular support for McLamb has grown, especially around the Coeur d'Alene area, where he addressed groups of Christian patriots last summer.
According to a report by the Coalition for Human Dignity, a Portland-based human rights research group, McLamb is a former chemical salesman from California and the "self-appointed ambassador and evangelist from the Christian Patriot movement to the law enforcement community."
McLamb is a large man who wears his police uniform at public appearances, according to the coalition.
"His consistent theme is both simple and disturbing: If police officers refuse to enforce the law, then the government a cabal of demonic elitists in the Christian Patriot view is rendered impotent," the report says.
In his newsletter, Aid and Abet, McLamb has written: "Who is dispossessing the American people of their land, homes, businesses, trucks, cars and personal freedoms??? Is it the TRAITORS and THIEVES in government leadership? No!!! Is it those treacherous demonic Elitists who own the Federal Reserve? NO! ... Your local POLICE OFFICERS do the actual deed. (Yes, of course, we are only following the dictates of those that I just mentioned.)
"First, we must know that if we are to BUY TIME to continue our non-violent fight ... we must do something "significant" to hurt their program! ... We have to plant spies ... but how will we do this? Where are those officers who are not misled and misguided by those in power? Men we can depend on and send among their ranks to re-educate these dedicated men and women?" McLamb said.
McLamb then writes there are no such ready-made officer spies.
"So what do we do without spies to send among their forces? We do the same thing that they did to us. ... We make them! They made socialists out of Americans; we make "Informed Patriots."
Some Idaho County residents have speculated that, once here, McLamb may try to unseat Idaho County Sheriff R.E. (Gene) Meinen. Gritz also has left open the possibility that McLamb might be interested in such a position, and praised McLamb's abilities as a law enforcement officer.
In a May 1994 interview with the Lewiston Tribune, Gritz said, "Jack McLamb is a tremendous law officer. He is moving in also ... so we're not running anybody for sheriff, but we have good people that are moving in with law enforcement careers. I can't speak for them."
