Self-described libertarian activist Lynda Block became the first woman Alabama executed in the modern era of capital punishment for the murder of a police officer in a home center parking lot in 1993. She was born as Lynda Lyon in Orlando, Florida on February 8, 1948 to Frank and Berylene Owen Lyon. The Lyon family was an ancient and prominent one that could trace their lineage back to a baron in the service of William the Conqueror--Lynda's maternal grandparents ran a Howard Johnsons in Orlando and her father's family operated a clothing retailer. Her paternal great-great grandfather was an agent for the Treasury Department who had been stationed in Cuba after the Spanish-American War where he met her great-grandmother, the daughter of a Spanish diplomat, and was later killed in Colombia while trying to apprehend an international fugitive there. Lynda's maternal great-grandfather had been a wealthy landowner in Texas.Lynda had one sister, Denyce, four years younger than her. Frank Lyon had a weak heart from childhood rheumatic fever and in 1956 was given the opportunity to be the first patient to receive the newly-invented mechanical heart valve, but surgeons found that his heart was in too poor a condition to support the artificial valve so they called off the surgery. Frank lived two more years and died on November 28, 1958--he was only 31. Lynda was heartbroken at the demise of her father, whom she had always been very close to. She was left to be raised by her less loving mother. Berylene seems to have little patience or use for Lynda and beat and berated her on a regular basis; she was particularly annoyed at the girl's above-average intelligence and frequent questions about things.
In school, Lynda's smarts were quickly recognized and she was moved to gifted classes in 6th grade, where she would stay until graduating high school in 1966. While taking a journalism class in the 8th grade, she realized she had a knack for creative writing and she worked on school newspapers up to her graduation. Denyce meanwhile was a budding artist but Berylene did not appreciate her daughters' talents and considered them useless and a waste of time. She would destroy their writings and art when she found them, but although upset about this, Lynda persisted and simply learned to hide her work better.After high school, Lynda took classes at Orlando Junior College but dropped out in two semesters as she felt the curriculum was worthless and did nothing to help her become a journalist, but she took other night classes in creative writing, logic, and history. She had an adventurous spirit since childhood and was a fan of the TV show "Adventures in Paradise"; she often fantasized about running away to the South Pacific.Religion was always a big part of Lynda's life. Although her parents had been practicing Lutherans, she became dissatisfied with the church's doctrines by the time she entered adolescence and it was one source of conflict with her mother. She eventually became a Mormon after reading American history and becoming convinced of the truthfulness of the Church of Latter Day Saints's doctrines.
If Lynda had a serious character flaw, it was being too trusting and only wanting to see the good in people. She got married in 1967 to a man named Bill Vinson and moved to Tallahassee with him. Bill was an alcoholic but Lynda failed to catch onto this until after their son Mike arrived the following year. She left Bill for a man named Lonnie Sheffield whom she met at Tallahassee Barber College. They married in 1971 but it ended in five months when Lonnie, an abusive spouse, ended up punching her and breaking her nose. Lynda's third husband, Gary Kelly, tied the knot with her a year later. He owned a barbershop in Tallahassee and Lynda during this time owned a red Fiat Spyder which she enjoyed driving at high speeds around the back roads of Florida. Gary sold the barbershop a few months after they got married and he and Lynda bought a sailboat and spent much of the next three years cruising the waters around Florida in it. The marriage was never a match made in heaven and ended in 1975 after disputes with Gary's business partner and the admission by Gary that he did not take the Mormon faith seriously and had only joined the church to please Lynda.
Lynda stayed single until 1983 when she moved back to Orlando and met a 70 year old securities dealer and retired Navy officer named named Karl Block. Karl was certainly flattered at the interest the 35 year old Lynda was taking in him, but there was more--his son Karl Jr. had been killed seven years earlier in a car accident and he badly wanted a replacement for him. Although it would make little apparent sense for Karl to sire another child at his age, he was insistent on having a son and heir. His daughter Marie was a former high school classmate of Lynda and remembered her as a serious, scholarly girl with brown hair. Marie was surprised at Lynda's current appearance which struck her as kind of trashy--a lot of chunky jewelry, long painted nails, and her hair dyed black. She wrote Lynda off as a gold digger out to get her father's money.Karl's son Gordon arrived in April 1984 and Lynda stayed with her geriatric husband until divorcing him at the end of 1991. She married her last husband George Sibley on March 20, 1992. The two were both committed libertarians and they renounced their US citizenship, Social Security numbers, and driver's licenses.The late 1960s to early 1990s was an era of high crime rates in America and Lynda had a few close encounters with dangerous people over the years. Once in 1972, while working in her third husband's barbershop, a Federal correctional officer came in to get his hair done. The man asked Lynda for a date and was turned down. He followed her home later that day and tried to rape her, but she pulled out a revolver and he wisely reconsidered. Another time when Lynda and Gary were docked in Galveston, Texas, a man got into a fight with the latter and started choking him. Lynda pulled out her revolver and the man released Gary from his grip.
In 1987, two men tried to break into the home Lynda and Karl shared in Orlando. They threatened Karl with wooden sticks, believing the old man would be an easy target but Lynda emerged from the house with a shotgun in hand and they ran for it. Another time a large dog belonging to a neighbor came onto Lynda's property and started attacking her smaller dog. She got a gun and shot the animal. In June 1993, George and Lynda were driving through Opa-Locka when they pulled over to consult a road atlas. A gang of six men surrounded their vehicle and tried to open the passenger's side door. Both George and Lynda drew guns and the men fled.Lynda was an animal enthusiast and kept a variety of pets over the years, including dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and spiders. She was a member of the Key West Humane Society and wrote articles for local newspapers about Florida wildlife. Lynda served as a campaign assistant to a candidate running for mayor of Key West but decided politics were too corrupt and declined to get into it herself. She joined the John Birch Society and opposed the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which she felt would harm women more than it would help them. In 1991 she joined the Libertarian Party of Florida and expanded its newsletter into a full-out magazine, "Liberatus." Lynda wrote that the 14th Amendment was a ruse to expand Federal power at the expense of the states and about the machinations of the banking industry. She exposed a pedophile ring and rallied support for Native Americans in New England when Connecticut state police intended to raid them, which she believed to be unconstitutional.
>>472870536So what's your fucking point?
She urged readers to protest government tyranny by revoking their drivers' licenses and birth certificates. Lynda was deeply moved by the Federal raid on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco in April 1993. That August, with Lynda and Karl Block still arguing over the terms of their divorce, her and George went to Karl's apartment. What happened there is not exactly clear but Karl was stabbed in the chest and hospitalized with a 1" wound. Lynda and George claimed Karl attacked them and they stabbed him in self-defense. It seemed unbelievable that an 80 year old man would have been the one to initiate a confrontation with two fit 40-somethings but in any case the overworked Florida justice system was happy to just let them plead guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and allow them to take a reduced penalty.George and Lynda might have done the reasonable thing and accepted the plea deal but instead they believed themselves to be the victim of government tyranny--Lynda later said she was a victim of cruel and unusual punishment while being held in the Orange County Jail, being subjected to a "humiliating" strip search and that the jail food was nearly inedible so she refused to eat it and lived on nothing but cartons of milk during the five days she was held there.They fired their public defender and tried to assemble their own defense. Sibley believed Judge James Hauser was acting unethically and should be removed from the case. Lynda claimed that prominent people in Orange County were conspiring against her because of remarks she made about them in "Liberatus." Finally the pair dodged their sentencing hearing and barricaded themselves in Sibley's Pine Hills home with guns and ammo, daring police to raid their house. But as an Orange County detective later said, "They wanted a shootout at the OK Corral. We weren't going to give them what they wanted."
Instead the cops just kept the house under surveillance and one day a deputy knocked on the door with an arrest warrant in hand. There was no one home. Somehow George and Lynda had escaped and took off in her red '90 Mustang, which had on it a bumper sticker reading "A raped woman is a woman without a gun." In the car with them was 9 year old Gordon--due to his advanced age, Karl was unable to keep up with the boy and decided to just let Lynda have custody of him. The three drove to Georgia to stay with friends there.Next they drove to Mobile, Alabama. In Opelika they stopped to make a phone call. In the parking lot of a Wal-Mart they noticed Sgt. Roger Motley of the Mobile PD. The 39 year old Motley was the quintessential Southern good ol' boy cop--he'd begun working for the department after high school as a dispatcher and over the years served in traffic, patrol, and detective. He was a Southern gentleman who liked buying bouquets of flowers for his wife Juanita with a note reading "Just Because" attached. Once some fellow officers complained that Motley was getting on their case about their sloppy paperwork, so his supervisor transferred him to administration. He had the responsibility of overseeing the county jail and he was the only officer in the department without a bulletproof vest--there was a shortage of them so Roger offered to let a rookie patrolman have his. He'd never had to use his gun and his service record shows no infractions accumulated during two decades as a cop outside accidentally denting a police vehicle once when he struck a parked car.
On the afternoon of October 4, 1993, a Monday, Roger had just eaten lunch with his wife and was at Wal-Mart buying supplies for the county jail when a woman came up to him and said that there was a car in the parking lot with a little boy inside and she was concerned about him. The car was full of bedding and other stuff and it seemed as if the boy's family was living in their car so she just wanted to be sure he was ok. Motley pulled his patrol car up to the red Mustang. Inside was George Sibley, waiting for Lynda to finish a call on a pay phone outside the Wal-Mart.Motley asked Sibley for his driver's license. The latter replied that he didn't need one as he was a sovereign citizen. Motley, not knowing what to make of this, instinctively reached for his gun. Before he could react, Sibley yanked out his own gun. "Oh shit," Motley exclaimed as he tried to hide behind his patrol car. Sibley crouched by the bumper of the Mustang and a gunfight began. People in the parking lot were yelling and trying to run for cover. Motley did not realize Lynda coming up behind him. She had seen the commotion, dropped the pay phone, and took her 9mm Glock out of her purse. Motley turned around in bewilderment to see Linda running at him and firing. He was hit in the chest and managed to crawl to his car. Lynda thought he was trying to retrieve a gun from inside but instead Motley got on his police radio and exclaimed "Double zero!", the code for "Send help."
The stricken cop managed to put his car into gear. It slid into a parked car and stopped as Motley lost consciousness. He was taken to a hospital and died a few hours later. Sibley and Block hightailed it out of the Wal-Mart but were trapped by a police barricade between Opelika and Auburn. The cops ordered the suspects to let 9 year old Gordon go and get him into safety. They obliged and he was let out of the car. Assuming a shootout would happen, Lynda yelled "Let's not have another Waco here!" One befuddled cop replied "What's a Waco?"Charged with first degree murder, Sibley and Block were held without bail. They declared that the state of Alabama had no authority to try them as it had never been properly readmitted as a state after the Civil War. It could not be determined who fired the fatal shot, so both were charged with the shooting of Officer Motley. A jury found them guilty and sentenced them to death. Lynda's mother obtained custody of Gordon after their arrest.Lynda was executed in Alabama's electric chair on May 10, 2002 after waiving all her appeals and declined to make a final statement. George Sibley was executed August 4, 2005 via lethal injection.
>>472871266>>472871196lol the hero libertarians deserved>yeah man, we're gonna overthrow those pigs in the government by shooting one shitty small town cop that'll learn 'em>>472871019a tranny typed this post
Also no sorry claiming you're a sovereign citizen exercising your freedom to travel won't work. Go on Youtube and look up "sovereign citizen fails."
Reaching for guns and it's consequences have been a disaster.
>>472871266>Charged with first degree murder, Sibley and Block were held without bail. They declared that the state of Alabama had no authority to try them as it had never been properly readmitted as a state after the Civil War. It could not be determined who fired the fatal shot, so both were charged with the shooting of Officer Motley.Well clearly the state did have authority if it could try and execute them.
