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Utah Justice system just stepped in the shit by questioning Church!

As many already know, oklevueha Native American church kautantowits mecautea of the Pacific Northwest has suffered immense victimization at the hand of the postal service for attempting to get medicine sacrament to members in need across the nation last December, which ultimately resulted in an illegal theft of the parcel by postal employees and ultimately an injunction being filed by church leaders against they, the postmaster general and the United States government.

As this slowly progressed forward in the rusty wheels of the criminal justice system, legal counsel for the church was asked what alternative route should be taken to get the sacraments where needed if not by postal courier type services, to which they were told "have an elder member personally transport it, preferably a military veteran, which ultimately they did thanks to the brave volunteering of such the noble task as elder veteran member Crockett Anderson.

What was hoped to be a storybook ending was abruptly derailed by Utah state officials who stopped Anderson dead in his tracks, and in the end about literally killed him physically it would turn out as well.

Anderson, a widower with three children and baby grandson who ultimately had relocated from somerset Kentucky out to Oregon with the help and support of the church, was en route back to the ole stomping grounds, among other places along the way to provide the churches "mother medicine sacrament" to members in need but restricted from cultivation or other means of obtaining the plant medicine due to constrictive dictating state and federal laws.

Because of his police encounter in Utah and subsequent arrest for possessing the sacrament, the medicine was confiscated and ultimately members have suffered and even died since.

Religious defense has been declared as well as accepted in the case which ultimately threatens Anderson with prison if convicted, a place he has never faced before in his 60 plus years living on about all four corners of the planet and ultimately awarded him his first stay in a jail cell as well as nearly ultimately about cost him his life thereafter.

Now, the latest word regarding the case is a question as to whether or not he had a justifiable amount of sacrament medicine due legal protection or if he ultimately had too much in the state of utah's opinion to be granted exemption from prosecution.

"State is not to interfear with nor have a position to question what is governed by and within a churches function, such as the quantity needed of sacred sacraments spiritually or medicinally by the healers of our church, the Boy Scout case should easily confirm that," says sachem joy graves of ONAC km, "we are a private member organization including medicine healers."

Another member points out that Anderson only carried with him enough medicine attempt to successfully treat just over a dozen members of either cancer or seizures despite having literally hundreds of members across the nation needing and seeking such a cure. "How many members does the state of Utah think they have the right to declare as dictate that our church member be allowed to attempt to treat" sarcastically says sachem graves... "It's not for Them to decide it's for we leaders and our medicine healers to decide and also depends on member support and sacrifice such as Anderson's."

Anderson's court appointed counsel is working with the mother churches new legal oversight counsel and has also suggested obtaining and providing the court with a written statement from church leaders addressing a response to the question, stay tuned for further updates as they arose with this and other oklevueha Native American church related news.

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