The Turning Point: A Personal Account of the "Freemen" Standoff [Mass Market Paperback]

Scott McMahan Bowman (Author)

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Publication Date: July 4, 1998

The inside scoop on why the F.B.I. changed the rules of engagement in "alleged" hostage situations as told by the lawyer who counseled with the Nation's militia groups during the 1996 F.B.I./ Freemen standoff in Justus Township, Montana. Non-fiction account covering: surveillence satellites, stealth (Comanche) gunships, infiltrating feds/New World Order operatives, phone taps, mind control and how thirty thousand "tourists" forced the government's hand to negotiate a peaceful surrender. Includes 21 illustrations.

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Scott Bowman is a fifth-generation lawyer from Columbiana County, Ohio, honorably discharged from the US Army, who graduated from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio with a Juris Doctor degree in 1992, and has been recognized by many Who's Who organizations including Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America.

Scott Bowman returned to Montana in May of 1998 to defend the "Freeman," Daniel E. Petersen, in his Federal, criminal case, and was the only lawyer in the case not paid by the Government, or any other for that matter, to be there. Another great tale sure to follow.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Scott M. Bowman; 1 edition (July 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966378903
• ISBN-13: 978-0966378900
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,284,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars In short a supicious but sensitive, sacrifice rendered by, May 19, 1999

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[e-mail] Pastor John Stephen Brown (New Maysville, Indiana 30 miles west of Indianapolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Turning Point: A Personal Account of the "Freemen" Standoff (Mass Market Paperback)

Scott McMahan Bowman. It is an account of the 1996 F.B.I./ Freemen standoff in Justus Township, Montana that is presented in Turning Point. This book may be summed up by these words:

Suspicious, superstitious, scurrilous, scotoma, sensitive, subjective, sacrifice.

Turning Point was after all Scott Bowman's personal recollection of the Montana Freemen's (Sovereigns) standoff which would explain the high dose of subjectivity throughout the book. At great sacrifice this report was obtained. Due, however, to limited vantage point, it discolors the perspective, as scotoma would one's physical vision. Hence, the comments regarding many the people involved in the saga are painted in terms exuding his suspicions of them as being "Feds." Most likely the suspicious aspects of the militia coming forth from the pages are both his personal, as well as, the practical, assessment of that stressful deadlock with the federal government and those who had even dared to challenge it. Scott is obviously very sensitive for the cause of liberty. The downside of that sensitivity, which evidences his subjectivity, is that Scott manifest a very superstitious attitude. Seeing various turn of events as signs of either good or bad indicate that superstitious nature. At times, Scott comes off outright scurrilous in relating the events about those whom he distrusted. Whether events prior to those which are described in the book or because of them, there is a sour spirit that surfaces. In spite of everything, this medium sized volume serves one, as would field binoculars on a field of battle, to view the arena of the ongoing struggle for liberty in America. To that end it has its merit.

As Pastor of the Eternal Grace Baptist Church, I would urge you to read it.