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#428 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Wed Aug 22, 2001 8:09 am
Subject: Judge McMillan Joins J.A.I.L. - Part II
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J.A.I.L. News Journal
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Los Angeles, California                                           August 21, 2001 
 
Judge McMillan Joins J.A.I.L.
(Part II)
 
In Part I of this three Part series we told you that JAIL4Judges received a simple request that said, "I'd like to subscribe and my husband (a lone, honest judge) and I would like to become members. How do we sign up?  Susan McMillan   Sssswm@..."
 
We informed you in Part I that in Part II we were going to report on some shocking facts that would defy all that we are taught to believe  about our fair and open elective processes that the best man wins, and the man with the greatest votes prevails. Here we shall show you that the hub of our political process is run more by a mafia type mentality of threats, intimidation, and criminal acts of terrorism than by the ballot box.
 
As a foundation, we would like to pose some questions to our readers. Let's suppose you received a personal visit from a candidate chairman who disagreed with your political views and threatened you and told you not to go to the polls on election day? And let's suppose that nonetheless this threat, you went to the polls anyway to vote. But when you arrived,  you found guards who further threaten and intimidated you to not even try to vote because you are a non-supporter of their political candidate? And let's suppose you insisted, despite their "admonition" and got past them and voted for the candidate of your choice.
 
Now let's suppose your candidate won the election, and because your candidate won, you were again visited in the middle of the night the night after the election with bricks thrown through your windows, your tires  flattened, and other frightening terrorist acts committed upon you.  Would you not say that this was an tolerable felonious criminal act of the most heinous nature that undermines the integrity of our entire elective process? Yes! We would all agree. Proof of this conduct would be the outrage of this nation.
 
Now we have only one more "suppose" to make this reality to what you are about to read. Suppose this candidate you wanted to vote for was yourself, and you wanted to place your vote for your candidate who was challenging a long established incumbent judge who orchestrated this type of behavior. Would the same criminal conduct outrage apply?
 
Now here is the story of Judge Matt McMillan, the judge of Manatee County Florida for the past three years, and his life of hell for daring to run his candidacy and win against the previous sitting judge of Manatee County, Judge George Brown.
 
Our Judicial Horror Story (from the wife's point of view) as edited by Ron Branson.

Our life has been a nightmare since my husband decided to run for judge in our town where no lawyer had challenged an incumbent judge in over 30 years. He had no life-long aspirations of being a judge, but saw a system that was broken and thought he could help fix it. 
 
He challenged Judge George Brown for his seat by a common sense legal
reform platform. As the political campaign picked up steam, The Good Old Boy Club of Manatee County (a real club with an official membership consisting of local judges and politicians) sent a "messenger" to threaten my husband. That messenger was Paul Sharff,  president of the Manatee County Republican Executive Committee, Jeb Bush's Campaign organizer.
 
On that visit Sharff informed McMillan that his life would be ruined if he broke the "unwritten rule" that you don't run against a sitting judge. He told us that the entire political forces would rally behind Judge Brown and use their positions to insure Brown stayed in office. We were informed up front that we were not just running against Judge George Brown, but against every judge in town because sitting judges must be assured their jobs for life. He explained that they would not allow Matt to start a trend of judicial elections, and that they would destroy both of us if he did not withdraw.
 
He told us that The Good Old Boy Club and Judge George Brown  would call in every political favor, pressure people, politicians, and businessmen, including the sheriff and law enforcements, to ensure  Brown's campaign victory and our defeat. He told us it would be "down and dirty" and that they would stop at nothing, including drugs planted on us, our phones tapped, and both our businesses ruined. He told us  that they would use their contacts with the newspapers to discredit us, and that truth would be irrelevant. We would never work in Manatee County again.
 
He suggested an alternative, that we might get the Good Old Boy's
Club's support if we chose another position, such as county  commissioner, or waited for a judicial appointment. But running against a
sitting judge was totally out of the question. 
 
Silly naive kids that we were, we ignored his advice and chose to knock on doors, (5,600 in all). Our opposition did everything to get us to quit
except to burn a cross on our front lawn. Spray painting obscenities on our front door, pelting eggs at our vehicles, middle of the night threatening phone calls, slashing our supporters' tires, a brick through our office windows twice, frivolous bar grievances, and local media smears  like you wouldn't believe. 
 
Just as Sharff stated, truth became irrelevant. We were permitted no interviews, no media coverage and Judge George Brown received the endorsement of every organization, every politician, every newspaper, and every organization, including the Fraternal Order of Police and the PBA. We were not even interviewed before the endorsements were granted, violating many of the organization's written by-laws. We neither solicited nor raised a dime from attorneys, while the Judge George Brown made his phone calls and raked in the legal community's bucks.  The only supporters we had were the common people.

The day of the election, the incumbent and his supporters in the Good Old Boy Club and the Bar Assoc. spent the day blowing up balloons for his victory party. To their shock and amazement, Matt we won the election. They were beside themselves, as The Good Old Boys had never lost control of an election. As the election results were coming in, witnesses overheard them vowing "We'll see to it that McMillan never takes the bench."

Yes, and they got to work right away. They filed grievances with the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) and the State Bar the day after the election and even before taking the bench, and have never ceased. 
 
With the help and assistance of all the local judges, my husband has been accused of everything in the book, namely using "deceitful campaign rhetoric that has impugned the integrity of the judiciary and eroded the public's confidence in the judiciary." That he is "beyond rehabilitation and unfit to hold office."

Never mind that in the three years he has been on the bench, he implemented all of the legal reforms he promised, and that the public has been absolutely thrilled with his conduct on the bench, and that he has received unprecedented praise from courtwatchers, Crimestoppers, homeowners associations, prosecutors, defense attorneys, victims, defendants, their families, and a variety of citizens groups. All that was irrelevant.

They set up a star chamber kangaroo court like no other. (There is no jury in a Judicial Qualification Commission proceedings). The charges
bore little resemblance to the actual campaign literature they relied upon.
The leaps of logic and twisting of words has to be seen to be believed. 
The courtroom citizen observers were stunned at the guilty-on-almost-all-charges verdict with recommendation for removal from the bench in spite of no evidence whatsoever of unfitness to serve, and the overwhelming  evidence to the contrary. 
 
Matt presented a stream of lawyers who regularly practiced in front of him which testified what an outstanding judge he has been and that they
have never had reason to question his impartiality or fairness. The
prosecution could produce not a single witness to testify that he was unfit.

Chief Judge Tom Gallen, also a member of the Good Old Boy Club,  who also had threatened my husband and I, admitted he had never observed my husband in Court, was the Judicial Qualification Commission's only witness as to his "lack of fitness."
Talk about corrupt. When the Rule of Sequestration was invoked and Chief Judge Gallen was excluded from the courtroom during the trial as a witness, he ordered a county telecommunications worker to run secret microphone and video wires directly from the courtroom to his chambers so he could observe the trial before his testimony. The county worker who did the job came forward in the midst of the trial and testified of his orders by Chief Judge Gallen to run the wires to Gallen's office.
But did that stop the Judicial Qualification Commission from relying on this justice-obstructing Good Old Boy member as their only witness to McMillan's "lack of fitness?" Of course not. Even after Judge Gallen was impeached on almost every statement he made, perjury and all, he remained their star witness. Truth and justice had no relevance, their minds were made up to railroad Matt. It was a "What need we of further witnesses" proceeding.
 
If anyone compared the record and trial transcripts with the findings,
conclusions and recommendations of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, they would sit in utter amazement, and their mouth wide open.
 
Of course, if you had been following the newspapers' version, whose editors also belong to the Good Old Boy Club, you wouldn't be the least bit surprised. They portrayed Matt McMillan worse than Timothy McVeigh, Ted Bundy, and Danny Rollins all rolled into one for trying to clean up the legal profession and our impeccable judiciary.
Did I forget to mention that we later discovered that the threats delivered by the Good Old Boy messenger early in the campaign were actually accidentally caught on audio tape because my husband had been practicing a campaign speech into a tape recorder when Paul Sharff, the messenger, unexpectedly arrived at our office to deliver his message? 
 
After the campaign, when we found the tape and gave it to the US Attorney's Office. The entire threat was on the tape, and an investigation into Manatee County public corruption is ongoing.

Paul Sharff has taken the fifth amendment to every question asked,  except name and address.
 
 Thus far, over 1000 citizens have filed amicus briefs with the Florida Supreme Court demanding that they allow Matt to retain his judicial seat and condemning the corruption of the local judiciary. These briefs decry the illogical and unfair findings and tactics used by the Judicial Qualifications Commission, which has ignored all other sorts of judicial misconduct, no matter how egregious, showing a double standard and a political agenda against Matt. You won't find mention of this unprecedented public outcry in the media and the newspapers. Only editorials like "McMillan should go." "The High Court must Restore dignity to the bench." "Unfit to Serve." "Good Bye McMillan."

The Florida Supreme Court has never once disagreed with the Judicial Qualifications Commission. We know they are not about to start now, even though a group of citizens calling themselves Florida Supreme Courtwatchers drove the 8 hours to Tallahassee and sat in the courtroom wearing "Keep Judge McMillan" tags the day of his oral arguments.

We should get a ruling any day. After he is disrobed, then the disbarment
proceedings will begin. The story just wouldn't be complete unless they
ended his legal career entirely for daring to run against a sitting judge.

These are only the highlights. If I gave you the details, you wouldn't
believe it. We have the tape, photographs, answering machine tapes, and the trial transcripts to document everything, lest people say "No. Not in America. This couldn't happen here."
 
It is the Judicial Qualification Commission, that is designed to be a check against judicial corruption, that allows the corruption to continue. As long as they are in power, serving as the lapdog for powerful judges, whose misconduct they ignore, they will remove any political challenger who ever is naive or foolhardy enough to run against an incumbent judge and upset their cozy little Judge Club fraternity in the future. The Judicial Qualifications Commission has unchecked power, unlimited resources, and no obligation to be even remotely truthful or reasonable. Their secrecy enables them to get away with their corruption.
 
Having read this expose about our so-called "elective processes" that claims to afford equal opportunity to all, we ask you to join the nationwide demand for a criminal investigation and a publicity blitz that will never quit. JAIL4Judges has been called upon to spearhead this publicity, and Judge McMillan is now advancing JAIL4Judges. He is publicly demanding a trial before a citizens' jury after the order advocated by J.A.I.L. for publicity, instead of the insider judges of the Good Old Boy network. He fully expects the establishment media to deride him publicly for demanding this. The more he is derided, the more publicity he expects to receive on behalf of JAIL4Judges. If you are an independent newspaper source, give Judge Matt McMillan a call. Everyone, report on this travesty. Schedule him on your radio shows, get him on your cable network shows. Let's keep this fire hot! Let his voice be heard! May he shake the foundations of our entire political system! (Stay tuned for Part III of "Judge McMillan Joins J.A.I.L.)
 
Judge McMillan may be contacted for interview at (941) 751-0475, or by email at Sssswm@....


J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  add-remove-jail@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 
 

#429 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Aug 27, 2001 10:14 pm
Subject: Barbecue By The Sea - A J.A.I.L. Benefit
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 Barbecue
By The Sea

A  J.A.I.L.  Benefit

(Judicial Accountability Initiative Law)

www.jail4judges.org   -   jail4judges@...

Tahitian Terrace
 
16001 Pacific Coast Highway
(Aloha Lane Clubhouse inside private mobile home park)
      Pacific Palisades, CA. (Thomas Guide 630 J-6)
 
Saturday, September 22, 2001
Social hour 10 - 11 a.m., Program begins at 11
Admission: $15 in advance, or $20 at the door

 

Come and Enjoy Yourself With The JAILers

·       Good food

·       Great speakers

·       Participate in raffle

·       J.A.I.L. T-Shirts available

·       Opportunity to dance and swim

·       Auction of items & services benefiting J.A.I.L.

 The Tahitian Terrace
is donating their facilities to J.A.I.L. for this event.

Tahitian Terrace is one of the highest grade luxury mobilehome retirement resorts within Los Angeles, having an exercise room, billiard tables, Jacuzzi, shower rooms, huge built-in barbecue pit, all in a garden-like atmosphere with an average temperature of 65 degrees, being approximately 150 ft. over the ocean. Santa Catalina Island is just 26 miles off-shore. Plan your vacation within the area.

Send your $15 pre-registration (post-marked by Sept. 15th) to:

J.A.I.L.
P.O. Box 207
N. Hollywood, CA. 91603
 

Have a product or service you would like to donate to J.A.I.L. for this auction event? We will be glad to accept your donation and promote your business. If it be a service, you must submit a certificate setting forth specifically what it is you are making available to the buyer. Thank you.

For questions regarding donations, call (818) 895-1239.

(Arrange A Carpool And Come Be With Us)

Printable flyer in Word is attached for reproduction and distribution.

Mark your calendar and make your plans to attend.



J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  add-remove-jail@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 

#430 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 6:57 am
Subject: ** To The Slammer, Your Honor!
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J.A.I.L. News Journal
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Los Angeles, California                                           August 27, 2001 
The following is a report on JAIL4Judges from a liberal newspaper's point of view. We reproduce the article in full as written by Kate Silver, and will answer some questions raised by her. We shall also make some observations following her article. By and large, the Las Vegas Weekly newspaper and Kate Silver are to be commended for choosing to taking on the challenge of reporting on J.A.I.L. rather than fleeing the issue as most publications would do. 
- Ron Branson, author/founder of J.A.I.L.
 
Las Vegas Weekly
July 26 – August 1, 2001
 
To the slammer, your honor!
New initiative aims to punish judges
By Kate Silver (silver@...)
 

It’s time to throw the gavel at “black collar” crime. At least, that’s what the backers of Jail4judges (Jail is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law), are saying. Its members are supporting a proposed amendment to the Nevada Constitution that aims to crack down on judicial misconduct.

“I want good, honest judges in there,” says Christopher Hansen, chairman, or “jailer-in-chief” as he calls himself, of the Nevada “cell” or chapter (www.nevadajail4judges.org), a group claiming itself nonpartisan but whose rigmarole reeks of right-wing, conspiracy obsession. Hansen is founder of The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty, he’s been involved with the Independent American Party and is an active worker in the Protection of Marriage initiative – that hate-filled initiative that took money from homophobic conservatives and made liberals livid. (Not that we’re biased here.)

Hansen started pushing the Jail4judges initiative seven months ago in Las Vegas. If passed, it will establish a “check and balance” system investigating complaints against our judges – though we already have one.

“(We want) to establish a grand jury to sit over all the judges in Nevada so complaints can be filed with the grand jury only after all other legal recourse has been taken,” he says.

THROW THE BOOK AT ‘EM

Jail4judges originated in California six years ago. Presently, there are branches pushing to get the initiative passed in 41 states. Hansen thinks that, with the heavy influence of the Independent American Party, Nevada has a great shot at being one of the first.

The group’s main premise is to abolish the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, which currently oversees judges, and to create a 25-member “Special Grand Jury,” made up of common folks who would have the power to sanction judges by levying fines and forfeitures, and remove them from the bench. Hansen beams at the enthusiastic reception he’s gotten so far.

“We’ve already had 70 people sign up; everyone from libertarians to Black Panthers to Reform Party members, from the far right, to the far left, and all over the middle, everyone has a story about a judge,” he says.

And the corruption’s nothing new.

“This has been going on for a long time,” he says. “There have been tremendous complaints about the judiciary for over 200 years. Thomas Jefferson said the one big mistake they made in the Constitution was the way they set up the judiciary. (It’s time to) fix the judiciary, and that is up to We the People. The people are the ones that are supposed to be in charge. Not lawyers, not judges.”

Hansen thinks judges have too much power. It’s to the point that they’re making law, he says, rather than ruling on it. His group thinks money and politics sway judges more than the Constitution. He says this initiative is the solution.

“The judges, because of the good-old-boy syndrome, are afraid to discipline their own. This removes sovereign immunity off the judges,” he says, never elaborating on just how this Special Grand Jury will be selected, or how it will, itself, avoid corruption. “The jury can determine if judges have acted in violation of the Constitution.”

CLOSE THE BOOK ON ‘EM

Though he’d not heard of the initiative before speaking with Las Vegas Weekly, Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, says the initiative sounds unnecessary and unconstitutional.

“The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline is a mechanism with guidelines that are already designed for that. Certainly (the notion that) there’s something in the constitution that would allow a group of citizens to decide whatever judges are doing (the) right or wrong thing is a romantic idea,” he says. “It does strike me as something that would not be constitutional. Some sort of self-style group that’s going to make determinations would be really problematic and would require extensive alteration of the Nevada Constitution and the way that the government is structured under the Constitution.”

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline is our primary state agency for screening, investigating and disciplining judges. While they refuse to comment on the initiative, Executive Director Alan Rabkin explained how the current system works: “The procedure is that anybody, whether it’s a judge, attorney or member of the public, would file a complaint of misconduct to the office in Carson City. Once it’s received we check to make sure that a Nevada judge is involved, and schedule that complaint before the commission, which meets four times a year. At that meeting they decide either to dismiss that complaint because it’s not in our jurisdiction, or proceed to investigate the complaint or file formal or informal charges against the judge.”

Rabkin says the commission has removed many judges in the 25 years it’s been in place, and has disciplined “scores.”

The Administration Office of the Courts, the Nevada Judges Association, the American Judges Association, the national Judicial College in Reno and the state Supreme Court would not comment on the initiative. Apparently, judges are a pretty close-robed group.

Maybe they do have something to hide?


Lessons may be learned from this Las Vegas Weekly article, and for that reason we are thankful. I have repeatedly stated that the number one defense the corrupt system will use against the passage of J.A.I.L. in all fifty states will be appealing to the various state judicial commissions on the basis that J.A.I.L. will be redundant and unnecessary. Of course, this is not so.
 
We are told, "The group’s main premise is to abolish the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, which currently oversees judges..." This is an unsupportable statement as the J.A.I.L. Initiative purposely makes no mention in any state of its judicial commissions.
 
As a point of history, the first state judicial commission began here in California around 1961, which was then called "The Commission on Judicial Qualifications." In its beginning, it did its job quite effectively in going after judges until the California Supreme Court placed a curb on their zealous aggression. It soon became a lap dog of the Supreme Court and then the entire judicial system. It is currently now called the Commission on Judicial Performance, and receives near 1,400 complaints a year. Their own published record shows that in the last ten years they have removed near three judges at a cost of several millions of dollars in operational costs accomplishing that feat.
 
Let's here draw the distinction between the state judicial commissions and the objective of J.A.I.L.  If a judge, for instance, smokes on the bench, uses the "F" word and makes sexy innuendos while under the influence of liquor, such indiscretion is not within the scope of J.A.I.L., but the judicial commission. J.A.I.L. clearly deals with willful violations of established law, not indiscretions of a judge's conduct. Of course, if there were a law on the books that said, "Thou shalt not smoke on the bench, use the "F" word, or tell sexual jokes or be under the influence while on the bench," the case would be different. The state commissions are needed to deal with judicial indiscretions where J.A.I.L. does not presume to involve itself.
 
One must learn the rules of the game. Here is how it goes currently  without J.A.I.L. (I know, I've been through it all.) You file a criminal affidavit against a judge with the Grand Jury or the District Attorney. You then receive a letter that says, "We do not have jurisdiction against the judge of which you complain about. You are advised to direct your complaint to the Commission on Judicial Performance." After you follow their advice, you will receive a letter stamped inside and out "Confidential." It will say within, "Regarding your complaint again a [your state's name] judge, at our [month] meeting, your complaint was brought up, and after a discussion and a vote, it was determined that there is no stated cause for which this commission should take action. We have therefore closed the file on this matter."  When pressed, you may get them to admit, as they did in my case, that they have no jurisdiction over direct violations of state law, they not being a law enforcement body, that that jurisdiction rests with the State Attorney General. Indeed, the California Constitution says, Art. V, Sec. 13, "Subject to the powers and duties of the Governor, the Attorney General shall be the chief law officer of the State. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to see that the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced."
 
So, I took my complaint, on advice of the CJP to the Attorney General's Office. Indeed Mr. Virgil Chapman, in charge of public relations, stated that the CJP had sent me to the proper place, and it was their duty to see that the laws of the state were enforced. (That's what he said for purposes of public consumption.) However, when I could not get action from the A.G.'s Office, I was then told by another A.G. Deputy, "Mr. Branson, you are asking us to go after the judges in this state. We just cannot do that. We are their attorneys. When they are sued, we defend them. When we, as the A.G. bring actions on our own behalf into the courts, we want the judges to rule in our favor. Now you are asking us to do what is against our interests, and we just cannot do that.
 
So you must learn the merry-go-round of finger pointing that is hidden from the inexperienced. From the Grand Jury (or D.A.) to the state commission, then on to the A.G., and then into a state of limbo for conflict of interest.
 
J.A.I.L. is needed for where the commission admits to having no jurisdiction because of not being a law enforcement body, and vise versa, let the commissions go after smoking, drinking, bad demeanor, abusive language, and bias where J.A.I.L. has no jurisdiction.
 
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  add-remove-jail@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 

#431 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Sep 1, 2001 2:10 am
Subject: * "Strength To Keep Going"
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J.A.I.L. News Journal
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Los Angeles, California                                           August 31, 2001 
 
News Journals from J.A.I.L.
has saved my sanity
 
 
"Strength to keep going"

Dear Comrades:

I have been on J.A.I.L's News Journal mailing list for over two years now, and I have stacks of the News Journals in my closet.  Each time I'd receive my newsletter, I keep telling myself that I'm not going to print it off -- I'm just going to read it. But there is always something that's so important to me personally; something that keeps me going on my own personal quest for change ....
 
There are times I feel as if I've taken on the entire State of Alaska system including government agencies, unions and government officials all the way to the U.S. Senate single-handedly.  Each time I inch forward shedding light on the fraud, corruption and conspiracy, and think this time I'll get support from media, newspapers, or even friends, I get a rude awakening because there is no support in Alaska.  The corruption and fraud in Alaska is locked down tightly and there is not one public official who will stand up and blow the whistle on that fact. "Mafia government" in Alaska is so blatant that it's begging to be acknowledged. Almost like an acting out child who will get attention either way: By good or bad behavior, either way will give them
attention.

June 20, 2001 I released a book called, "Alaska Exposed: The Union
Conspiracy."  It's a whistle-blowing book, political expose' exposing how the unions conspire with employers and NOT employees and how
[T]hey are taking away our constitutional rights by the unions operating practices. The government agencies (NLRB), the State, big business, lawyers and courts are all in on the fraud and conspiracy against unsuspecting citizens. "Alaska Exposed" blows the doors wide open on the corruption ....
 
I've been in some pretty low and deep places in my life throughout this five year process of investigating and writing about corruption in Alaska, and it's left me penniless at the beckoning of the system, but I fought back and got another job just in time to save my faith.  It has to be the grace of God that keeps me going because there is nothing else before me.  What I see and experience in everyday life wouldn't give me a spark of hope.  I pretend each day that what I'm doing will make a difference. ...
There are days that when I log on, seeing there is a News Journal from J.A.I.L. has saved my sanity and reminded me that what I'm experiencing is crazy -- I'm not crazy.
Sharon Lee Shields
 
Alaska Exposed


J.A.I.L. has even received letters from suicidal persons who have canceled their plans and have determined to jump in behind the cause of J.A.I.L.  It is apparent by letters coming in to J.A.I.L. that the cause of J.A.I.L. has become the hope of the hopeless, a light out of darkness, providing sight to the blind. We receive letters like "I'm also of the belief that your approach to the universal problem of corruption in the courts is the straw that can, and will break the back of these fools. .... Again, thank you, and I am glad you are out there for us. - KEN."
 
Now, "There are days that when I log on, seeing there is a News Journal from J.A.I.L. has saved my sanity and reminded me that what I'm experiencing is crazy -- I'm not crazy." - Sharon Shields
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><



#432 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Sep 1, 2001 9:14 am
Subject: ** So Much For Judicial Oversight Commissions
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So Much For Judicial Oversight Commissions
 
(All 50 states have judicial commissions patterned after California. Below is a common example of how these commissions function in reality.)
 
Linda Terry writes ---
 
I wrote to the Commission on Judicial Performance, 455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 14400, San Francisco, Ca. 94102-3660 about Judge Gene Huesman having four drunk driving charges and sitting on the bench with an arrest bracelet on his ankle for drunk driving. Their reply was that they determined there were no grounds for proceeding further. 
 
He is due to retire soon with full honors when he should be disbarred in disgrace. How can anything be done when everyone covers up for these disgraceful judges? We have a real problem with the good old boy system in Lompoc.
 
Sincerely, 
Linda Terry,
1010 W. Apricot Ave.,
Lompoc, Ca. 93436  
(805) 735-4314
 

Ron's Comment:
I ask you, what would happen to the common man if he were arrested four times for DUI? Just this past week I was in conversation with a man sitting in a watch shop while getting my watch battery replaced, who, when I told him about JAIL4Judges, retorted about how the book was thrown at him for a first and only DUI, which happen to be .08 borderline legal/illegal in California. He was not only arrested, but further socked for $7,500.00 profit into the government coffers by the judge.
 
Now how about a judge continuing to receive his $150,000.00 a year salary from the taxpayers after four DUIs? One wonders if this judge  handles DUIs cases while wearing his DUI arrest anklet? So much for judicial oversight commissions.
 

#433 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Sep 3, 2001 5:20 pm
Subject: Judicial Watchdog Joins J.A.I.L.
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Another Judicial Watchdog Org.
Joins J.A.I.L.
 
 
Dear JAILers:
 
We have just added to J.A.I.L. "The Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorney and Judges." This committee is headed by David Palmer. We advise everyone to please visit their website at www.amoralethics.com. It is chucked full of good information.
 
David Palmer is very dedicated and persistent about the cause of judicial ethics. The inclusion of this committee to J.A.I.L. will provide a wonderful addition to our overall cause. He will be sharing the workload with Don Jaynes gypsydr@..., our Ohio JAILer-In-Chief.
 
Below are the words that Palmer has shared with us. Let's all welcome David Palmer and the Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and Judges to J.A.I.L.
 
-Ron-
 

David Palmer wrote ---
 
It doesn't surprise me in the least that judges are in the forefront of assisting dishonest attorneys in raping the estates of persons in probate court with the acquiescence of the unethical judges.  In fact, probate court is a fertile ground for lawyers to unjustly enrich themselves and of course they have a fellow lawyer who just happens to be wearing a black robe. However, when appropriate some judges are more than happy to wear white robes.
I am now involved in exposing a bunch of crooked retired judges here in Ohio that are engaged in double and/or triple dipping, which means they are billing two counties for one day's work or less on the same day while collecting retirement benefits.  This means that they are earning about $1200 per day, which is three times what a full time elected judge earns.
In addition, some of these retired judges are billing two counties for lodging and meals on the same day.  Unless science has been elevated to the point where it can now clone dishonest judges, it would be impossible for someone to be in two places at one time. 
 
On the 15th of March I testified before the Ohio House on this matter and it appears that the law will be changed to outlaw this type of crooked behavior.  In addition, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper wrote two stories about my efforts on the 15th and 16th of March and it appears that they will be doing some follow up stories shortly. When I get done with the crooked retired judges in Ohio I intend to go after the rest of them in Michigan, Texas, California and any other state that allows them to return to the bench without the voters consent and then engage
in outright fraud.
 
David Palmer, Executive Director, Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and Judges, Columbus, Ohio  www.amoralethics.com  (3/18/01)
372 W. Powell Rd. 
Powell, Ohio 43065 
(614) 841-7747
 
(9/2/01): I would be happy to join with your group in an effort to take the "Legal Industry" and "Judicial Aristocracy" down a notch or two and to make sure that the word "justice" actually means what it was intended to mean.

David Palmer
Executive Director
Committee to Expose Dishonest
and Incompetent Attorney and Judges 
 

#434 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Sep 3, 2001 8:24 pm
Subject: ** Land Rights Everywhere Under Threat!
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Land Rights Everywhere
Under Threat!
 
 
The Green Triad: Dispatch From the Battlefield
9/1/2001
by J. Zane Walley

My wife Sara is packing our car to head for Alabama as I scribble this article. Since I started writing about federal and environmental
private property takings in 1996, the battlefield for our property rights has exploded from the Western U.S. to every state in America.
 
In Alabama, I will be speaking with local farmers who are under full attack from the greens and the usual alphabet soup mix of agencies trying to grab their water and land by a mishmash of regulatory takings.

The attacks on rural America have become so commonplace that we know the green triad formula well. Government agencies like the EPA and foundations such as Turner and Pew, provide green groups with bottomless pools of funds.
The attack arm of the greens (1) file lawsuits based on impossible federal regulations and trespass about looking for new species to add to the endangered list. Meanwhile, the warm and fuzzy enviros (2) form lobbies to coerce politicos to their cause and show local governmental agencies
how much taxpayer money they can rake in by cooperating in the land grab scams. The function of 1 and 2 is to create "willing" sellers.

Working quietly behind the more apparent conspirators, are land trust groups (3). Their role is to contact landowners that are under attack from problems created by groups 1 and 2. They offer to "help" the harried property owners with their problems by placing a conservation easement on the beleaguered property or by buying it outright with cleverly
laundered money that can be traced back to federal agencies and the mega-foundations.

It is the classic "bad cop, good cop" con, and because landowners are not aware of the squeeze tactics and how to fight back, the greens
generally get the land or whatever else they want.  ....

A map from the Center for Biological Diversity indicates that well over one-half of the landmass in Mississippi and Louisiana will be designated
as critical habitat for the Mississippi gopher frog. About 10 percent of Alabama will be so designated including, all that state's land on the Gulf of Mexico. Major portions of the Mississippi River watershed in several Midwestern and northern states will become a sanctuary for the Scaleshell mussel.

The entire Southern half of Florida will be encumbered as habitat for the Miami Blue butterfly and the Big Cypress fox squirrel. Most all of the watershed in Western Utah, falls to the Bonneville cutthroat trout and California will lose even more ground to a yellow-legged frog.
 
Large portions of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho will fall under the
green triad jackboot of endangered plants, rabbits, and fish--likewise, in New Mexico, Arizona and West Texas. Least impacted is the Eastern
U.S. with one plant listing in Virginia.

Not only has the Bush administration ignored its rural constituency and their desperate plight, but even the bastion of American freedom, the
National Rifle Association, has joined the greens in their feeding frenzy on rural America by supporting U.S. House Resolution 701--the so called Conservation and Reinvestment Act. (Popularly known in rural America as the Condemnation and Relocation Act.)

H.R. 701 will provide tens of billion of dollars to take private land and water rights from unwilling sellers and fuel the furnace to reintroduce
even more wolves, grizzly bears, and other predators.

So, what is going on here? An endless stream of Klamath Falls-like land grabs today faces rural America. The green triad, aided and abetted
by the current administration, is now set to force even more landowners from their properties.
 
The federal government, supported by the largest and most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill--the NRA, is demanding a bill to condemn and take untold amounts of private properties. In short, agrarian America is being cleansed. ....  For more information on land grabs and how to defend your property call Paragon at 1-877-847-3443 or visit the Paragon website at http://www.paragonpowerhouse.org/mission.htm

Article found on http://www.lewisnews.com/article.asp?ID=29509
Brought to our attention by WGEN  idzrus@...

Why is government running wild in swallowing up land across America? We will give you one clue. The fault lies with the Constitutional Branch  charged with holding all other governments in check from running wild. Now, what might that branch be?
 
As we have repeatedly stated, without the judicial branch being subject to a citizens' oversight, you can only expect runaway government! This shall continue until all land rights, all privacy, and all traces of liberty be  consumed, and America becomes an abhorrence. It will not stop, folks, believe me!
 
The ONLY answer to a runaway government is the passage of J.A.I.L.! Nothing else will do! When will the public wake up? Let's all get together and change the direction America is going before all of us lose the vestige of everything we have!

J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  add-remove-jail@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 

#435 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Tue Sep 4, 2001 2:26 am
Subject: * Sniff, Sniff - Does Anyone $mell A Rat?
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Sniff, Sniff -
Does Anyone $mell A Rat?

Is there an investigative reporter in the house looking for a hot story on the L.A. County Courts? This story has all the trappings of a major fraud in action. You know - "just follow the money." Sniff, Sniff.  The author of the below article, Gary Thompson, writes: 

"Ron, we are exposing some clever schemes in LA that allow for much corruption to take place in the courts. We have a Judge working also as President of a Corporation that is building Courthouses; there are secret bonds issued to ???; a Corporation handling $632 million dollars for the next 50 years yet has no employees; a non-profit corporation offering up to 6% tax free return on your investment; millions of dollars in payments  by the County, but no accounting for you or me.  Much, much more!"

*  *  *

Public Benefit Corporations
- Supported by Taxpayers

Los Angeles County Courthouse Corporation and others. e.g. Los Angeles County Law Enforcement-Public Facilities Corporation and (too many to name or to discover). The Crusaders think that there are over a dozen of these 'Public Benefit' Corporations hiding in LA County. If you are aware of any of the others, drop us a line.

These companies are established as Tax exempt 'charitable trusts' under the Federal Statute - 501(c)(4). They direct millions of dollars but are basically unaudited. The Los Angeles County Courthouse Corporation (LACCC), for example, controls projects for $632 million, but as yet has not registered with the California Department of Corporations even though they have issued outstanding securities for this amount.

They have established trust agreements with banks, lease and leaseback agreements with developers, securities agreements with underwriters, legal assistance from high powered law firms, yet they have no employees. All work is done 'outside' on authorization from an officer of the Company. e.g. bills are paid, rents are collected, legal services are performed by outsiders through agreements. As an example, O'Melveny & Myers pays the fees for this Corporation.

Is this a donation? Somehow, I think O'Melveny & Myers are not providing legal services for free.

The company has offices in the LA County facilities, claims no employees, but has all of its utilities, telephone, rent, etc. paid by the County.

Who answers the phone? A county employee, doing 'part time' work but receiving no pay. At least the Corporation claims to have no employees.

How are bills paid? We have a letter to Henry P. Eng, an auditor, who is told that he will receive a check for $4,730 and a like amount will be charged to the rent due to the corporation in order to balance the books. You see, the Corporation has issued bonds (Certificates of Participation) recently for $115 Million to build the Antelope Valley Courthouse. The Banc of America and four other underwriters have guaranteed the purchase of all of these certificates.

Who gets to purchase these 'tax free' bonds? Well, we'll probably never know because they were all registered to Cede & Co. who is the registrar and holds a confidential list of the purchasers.

How do the bonds get paid? Curious - the bonds are paid through rents paid by LA County for use of the Courthouse. Never mind that the Courthouse has already been purchased by the County or did we mean the Courthouse Corporation? The $115 million in development costs for the Antelope Valley Courthouse will be paid off in 2034 when the entire cost to the taxpayer will total $251 million, which is just base rent and does not include operating costs.

The Scheme

Most of the land for these projects is acquired through eminent domain. Then the County hires a developer to build. It pays the developer to build it and then - amazing! - gives the developer the right to charge rent to the County for the next 50 years. But, it immediately assigns these rental rights to the LACCC which then directs its trustee (the bank) to collect rent from the County which then pays the LACCC which then directs its trustee to send the rent money to the secret bondholders. (Prospectus for Certificates of Participation).

Where does the money come from? Well it comes from courthouse operations, you know - fines and sanctions and such.

Why does the County do this? We expect that it gets around the law that requires the voters to approve all new taxes.

Is this a tax? Heck no. Here is a charitable trust that is merely passing millions of bucks to its bondholders and showing that its net income is zero - every year - regular as clockwork.

Are the taxpayers getting their moneys worth? Good question. One that can only be answered if we knew how much money was coming in and going out. Since there are no expenses and no income, it is pretty tough to audit. The Crusaders are very concerned that these corporations are shoveling money to outsiders and bondholders with no ability for the taxpayer to see what is going on. One thing we do know - if you count the discounts given to underwriters and costs paid to law firms, like O'Melveny & Myers, the cost to the County was 2.4% of the $115 Million just to set up the Antelope Valley Courthouse deal. This is an exorbitant fee for such transactions.

We do know that Judge Michael J. Farrell is the President of the LACCC. He is a Superior Court Judge at the Van Nuys Courthouse when he is not acting as President of the LACCC. By the way, Judge Farrell was also working for the LACCC when it built the Van Nuys Courthouse. Nice to have a judge controlling what's going on there. The Judge's Corporation quit claimed (page1, page2) the Courthouse back to the County in 1997.

Funny though, Judge Farrell has never mentioned that he holds the position as Director of the Los Angeles County Courthouse Corporation. His form 700 (page1, page 2) shows no other positions other than judge. Judges are required by law to declare their other affiliations. But I guess since the Judge knew this was courthouse related, that there couldn't be a conflict here. Or could it? What if the judge is running short of rent payments this month? He could add a few thou onto his fines and easily make his quota. What a system - a Judge determines the fines that go to pay rent to his Corporation. The Judge is appointed by Supervisor Antonovich, who clearly separated himself from this conflict of interest by having Farrell sign a No Conflict of Interest form.

The articles of Incorporation for LACCC (page1, page2) authorize the Corporation to acquire property, issue bonds, collect rent, etc. but not pay taxes.

Is this a tax free corporation? We don't question the need to build courthouses or the need to raise money for such endeavors, but why go to all the trouble of setting up a Corporation that has to hide behind no employees, no pay, no income and stretch the laws that ordinary nonprofit corporations have to live under. This is a ridiculous state of affairs and it leads to massive corruption since the money is flowing freely and to whom.

http://www.johnnypumphandle.com/cc/LACCC/LACCC.htm


As we all know, the Los Angeles County Courts are already suffering a publicity crisis regarding what has become known as the private judges slush fund with its many years of income tax evasion by secretly using  the County's EIN number to get around taxes. Of course, Presiding Judge James Bascue has now called for an "investigation" of this matter. We wonder what his findings will be and how many L.A. County judges are going to go down on income tax evasion charges? We can't wait.
 
With the evidence trail leading again back into the Los Angeles County Courts, could it be said that the mafia is alive and well in Los Angeles County, only this time, instead of wearing black three piece suits, wide rimmed hats, carrying machine guns and speeding through the streets, this mafia apparent wears black robes, has a gavel, and is called "your honor." 
 
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  add-remove-jail@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 

#436 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Wed Sep 5, 2001 1:53 am
Subject: Welcoming Shauna Wilson - Wyoming JIC
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Closing The Gap!
 
 
Dear Shauna Wilson becausejailbail@...:
 
You are the winner of the prize of adding a new state to J.A.I.L. Wyoming is one of the six states yet lacking to close the gap of all fifty states.
 
(I believe it was just yesterday we had an inquiry from Iowa asking what it takes to become a JAILer. That is another state at large. Upon his affirmance, we will have taken in two more in as many days, leaving only four left.)
 
I have read your letter below, and it appears you are bursting with zeal to get going. I have reviewed the information regarding your state, and it appears the people only have the initiative process as it relates to laws, but not to Constitutional Amendments. (I ask, how did the people let this happen?) Anyway, it looks as though you are going to have to lead in directing your efforts at Legislative sponsorship of the J.A.I.L. which I will be sending you.
 
Seeing as you are the first to call for a Wyoming J.A.I.L., that makes you the Wyoming JIC, to wit, the JAILer-In-Chief. It already looks as though you know how to come out of the gates running, so start recruiting your subordinate JAILers under you and assign them leadership positions and duties. (I will also send you the National J.A.I.L. Constitution and By-Laws that will advise you on this.)
 
You will be flooded starting this evening and continuing for the next day of two with email from other JAILers around the nation who will want to congratulate you and make their acquaintance with you. We want our new-comers, particularly our new JAILers-In-Chief, to get a feel of national support, that there is a crowd of likeminded people surrounding them, and that they are not alone.
 
Always feel free to interchange with them and with me. My responsibility rests first with our JAILers-In-Chief, so you should maintain an open communication with me. You are welcome to share with all the JAILers about you Bail Business as I am sure they will want to know more about you. God bless you, Shauna, and Wyoming as our 45th state.
 
-Ron Branson-
 
Okay, JAILers, I don't have to tell you what to do.
 

 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: JAIL- The "Equality" State

I would like to know how I can become a VERY ACTIVE party for jail4judges in the State of Wyoming?
 
I have the number 1 bail bond company in this state and there is nothing "Equal" about it...
 
Judges owning their own private drug/alcohol rehabs and sentencing people to them....  Leaving people in "jail" for over 250 days and never giving them a surety bail bond or an arraignment hearing...
 
Judges getting two and three DUI's and never having to "bond" out...or even step down from the bench?....  It never hits the newspapers and no one wants to talk about it...
 
You can't complain to the Attorney General's office.  You can't complain to the Judicial Commission.  I have a special name for them, "Rudy"
They are all "Rudy's!" They work for and with each other regardless of the Wyoming State Constitution...the U.S. Constitution...and beyond...
 
In a state that only has 493,500 people, 36,000 were arrested last year! That is 8 percent of the population!!! There is something terribly wrong!
You said it right... When tyranny comes knocking at your door, it wears a uniform, not a robe...or does it???
 
Please let me know what I can do.
 
Sincerely,
 
Shauna L. Wilson
Because Jail Sucks, Inc.
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#437 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Sep 8, 2001 7:45 am
Subject: Fw: [Fwd: [Fwd: I NEED YOUR HELP]]
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Help needed-
 

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Subject:  [Fwd: I NEED YOUR HELP]
Date:  Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:24:04 -0500
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Reply-To:  katyloupum@...
To:  Catherine Derendinger <katyloupum@...>

 
 

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:  I NEED YOUR HELP
Date:  Mon., 03 Sept. 2001 14:38:37 -0500
From:  margaret Bruegging and catherine Derendinger <catmag@...>
Reply-To:  katyloupum@...
To:  napas@...
BCC:  catmag@...

I REALLY NEED SOME SUGGESTIONS ON WHERE TO TURN. I AM DISABLED, INITIALLY FROM LYME DISEASE BUT I HAVE HAD SEVERAL COMPLICATIONS ARISE. SOME HAVE TO DO WITH BAD GENES. APPARENTLY WE HAVE SOME GLITCH ON A GENE THAT CAUSES IMMUNE SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION AND IT HAS AFFECTED SEVERAL OF MY SIBLINGS ALSO. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, OUT OF 7   KIDS 4 OF US ARE DISABLED. ONE SISTER, BEV HAS LUPUS AND ONE OF MY BROTHERS, JON HAS RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. THIS LAST YEAR MY 14 Y/O HAS ALSO BECOME ILL WITH SOME OF THE SAME. WE DID PIN POINT THIS GENE DOWN TO MY MOTHER THRU GENETIC TESTING. I GUESS THIS IS ALSO THE GENE THAT CAUSES MS.

FOUR YEARS AGO MY OLDEST SISTERS HUSBAND BROUGHT HER TO STAY WITH ME FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND HE WENT AND FILED FOR DIVORCE AFTER 37 YEAR MARRIAGE, THIS PARTICULAR SISTER HAS A LONG HISTORY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS STARTING WITH A HEART ATTACK AT 27. SHE IS NOW 57. HER HEALTH HAS DECLINED OVER THE YEARS AND SHE HAS HAD NUMEROUS SURGERIES, INCLUDING SEVERAL HEART SURGERIES. SO IN SHORT HER MENTAL CAPACITY HAS DETERIORATED OVER THE YEARS AND SHE HAS DEVELOPED SOME BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS. I SAY IT THAT WAY BECAUSE IN ESSENCE ITS LIKE DEALING WITH A 12 YEAR OLD AT TIMES. THIS PARTICULAR SISTER AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE. MATTER OF FACT HER HEALTH PROBLEMS INSPIRED ME TO BE A REGISTERED NURSE SO I COULD CARE FOR HER AND MY PARENTS IF THEY EVER NEEDED IT. NURSING IS ALL I HAVE EVER DONE IN SOME CAPICITY.... NURSE AIDE, LPN AND THEN ADN. I GUESS MY SISTER BECAME VERY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH AND  THAT IS WHY HER HUSBAND BROUGHT HER TO ME. I WISH HE WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH THE WHOLE THING DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE SHE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE SENSE OF IT.

 MY SISTERS BEV WHO IS ALSO DISABLED AND I WERE GOING TO SHARE GUARDIAN / CONSERVATORSHIP WHICH WE HAD TO DO TO DEAL WITH HER DIVORCE. THE DAY OF GUARDIANSHIP MY SISTER WITHDREW. I HAVE NO CLUE AS WHY SHE DID THAT OTHER THAN SHE GOT MARRIED AND HER HUSBAND WAS TAKING ALL HER TIME. I WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE SHE HAD PROMISED TO DO THIS WITH ME. I KNEW I COULDN'T DO THIS ALONE. SHE WAS GOOD AT THE PAPERWORK END OF THINGS AND I AT THE HEALTH ISSUES. THE ONLY DIFFERENCES WE HAD WAS OVER WEATHER CHAR WOULD STAY WITH ME WHICH IS WHAT I WANTED.  BEV WANTED TO CHECK OUT SOME NURSING FACILITIES FOR HER. TO ME THAT WASN'T A OPTION......

CHAR WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY DEALING WITH THE DIVORCE AND SHE DISPLAYED IT IN ANGER.  SHE HAD SEVERAL VERY AGITATED AND COMBATIVE OUTBURST. I WAS SEEING A PSYCHIATRIST FOR MY DEPRESSION OVER LOSING MY CAREER AND DEALING WITH BEING SICK. I ALSO NEED TO MENTION THAT THE LYME DISEASE AFFECTED MY NEURO-COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND THAT WAS ANOTHER REASON BEV WAS GOING TO BE THE CONSERVATOR. BESIDES HAVING SEVERE PAIN IN THE LEFT SIDE OF MY HEAD I WAS DEALING WITH MEMORY LOSS AND BRAIN FOG. I WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY READING AT THE TIME, MY ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE WAS AFFECTED. BEV HAD BEEN SICK FOR SEVERAL YEARS AT THIS TIME AND HAD A BETTER GRIP ON THINGS THAN I DID PLUS SHE HAS ALWAYS HAD A KNACK AT BUSINESS DEALINGS.
MY COUSIN MAGGIE AND I LIVE TOGETHER WITH OUR 3 GIRLS. TWO ARE MINE AND ONE IS HERS. MAGGIE, HAD JUST LOSS HER 18 MONTH OLD 3 YEARS BEFORE AND HER MARRIAGE DIDN'T SURVIVE THE DEATH OF HER DAUGHTER. I TOOK LOA FROM WORK WHEN CATHERINE GOT SICK AND STAYED WITH MAGGIE AT THE HOSPITAL. AFTER CATHERINE DIED WE CONTINUED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME TOGETHER AND DECIDED TO LIVE TOGETHER. SOON AFTER, I STARTED GETTING SICK. APPARENTLY I HAD BEEN BIT BY A TICK WHEN I WAS DOING YARD WORK AT MY HOUSE GETTING IT READY TO SELL. I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD BEEN BITTEN AND MY DOC AT THE TIME GOT TIRED OF ME COMPLAINING AND TOLD ME IT WAS ALL IN MY HEAD. I WAS FINALLY REFEREED TO MY CURRENT DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE, AND IT DIDN'T TAKE HIM LONG TO FIGURE OUT IT WAS LYME DISEASE.

WHEN CHAR CAME TO US I WAS SOMEWHAT BETTER. MY DOCTOR WAS TREATING ME WITH A COUPLE IV ANTIBIOTICS. THE LYME HAD PROGRESSED TO A CHRONIC STATE IN THE YEAR I WAS MISDIAGNOSED SO I WAS DEALING WITH SEVERE PAIN AND DEBILITATING FATIGUE.
REGARDLESS OF MY CONDITION I FIGURED WITH MAGGIE AND THE GIRLS WE COULD CARE FOR CHAR. IT WAS VERY HARD THE FIRST YEAR AND I HAD TO HAVE CHAR ADMITTED 3 TIMES TO THE MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF HER COMBATIVE BEHAVIOR BUT THE THIRD ADMISSION THE MY PSYCHIATRIST  PUT HER ON A MEDICATION CALLED RESPERIDOL AND ITS BEEN A MIRACLE DRUG. ITS BEEN THREE YEARS AND WE HAVEN'T HAD AN OUTBURST SINCE OR ANOTHER ADMISSION TO THE MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL
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THERE WAS ONE COMPLICATION THAT CAME UP THE FIRST YEAR .. CHAR CAME TO US ON 9/28/98 AND THAT FOLLOWING DECEMBER SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD HER SCHEDULED FOR A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. SHE HAD A NEUROGENIC BLADDER AND WAS INCONTINENT OF URINE. SHE WANTED THIS DONE BECAUSE WITH HER HAVING CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE , RETAINING FLUID, AND HAVING TO TAKE DIURETICS SHE WAS WET ALL THE TIME. SHE DIDN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE MUCH.  NEEDLESS TO SAY IT AFFECTED HER QUALITY OF LIFE. SO WE HAD THE SURGERY DONE ( ILLEO CONDUIT TO DRAINAGE). THE FOLLOWING YEAR WAS TOUCH AND GO. DUE TO HER COMPLICATED HEALTH THIS SURGERY CAUSED A ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE. SHE DEVELOPED AN EXCESSIVE LOSS OF SODIUM BICARB. THIS IS ONE OF THE CRITICAL ELECTROLYTES IN THE BLOOD THAT JUST A SLIGHT INCREASE OR DECREASE CAUSES REAL PROBLEMS. WELL FOR CHAR IT CAUSED A WHOLE CHAIN OF EVENTS CAUSING HER TO BE HOSPITALIZED 27+ TIMES THAT YEAR. APPROXIMATELY EVERY 2 WEEKS SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL. WE WERE ON FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THE PARAMEDICS FROM FREQUENT VISITS.  SHE ALSO HAS A SEIZURE DISORDER AND THIS ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE  CAUSED FREQUENT UNCONTROLLABLE SEIZURES  IT ALSO CAUSED HER TO HAVE CONSTANT DIARRHEA AND THAT MADE THE ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE WORSE. THERE WERE THREE TIMES WE WERE NOT SURE IF SHE WAS GOING TO MAKE IT.  IT HAD AFFECTED HER HEART. SHE WAS ALSO IN A COUPLE TIMES FOR PNEUMONIA BECAUSE WITH CONGESTED HEART FAILURE THERE IS FLUID IN THE LUNG AND A COUPLE ADMISSIONS FOR URINARY INFECTIONS WHICH IS A  COMMON COMPLICATION OF A UROSTOMY. AFTER SEVERAL TRIPS TO THE HOSPITAL IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT FLUID REPLACEMENT WAS THE SOLUTION. WE WOULD TAKE HER IN AND THEY WOULD GIVE HER SOME IV FLUID AND WITHIN 12 HOURS OR LESS SHE WOULD BE UP WALKING WITH ASSIST. I TALKED WITH HER DOCTOR AT THE TIME ABOUT PUTTING IN A IV CATHETER FOR LONG TERM USE AND LET ME GIVE HER IV FLUIDS AT HOME. THIS WAS NO LIFE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL EVERY TWO WEEKS. CHAR HATED HOSPITALS, SHE HAD SPENT SO MUCH TIME IN THEM. SHE HATED BEING STUCK WITH NEEDLES EVEN WORSE AND SHE WAS A VERY DIFFICULT STICK. ON AVERAGE IT TOOK AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE BEFORE ONE WOULD HIT A VEIN. HAVING A IV CATHETER WOULD SOLVE THAT PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY COULD DRAW BLOOD FROM THE CATHETER. THIS DOCTOR DIDN'T WANT TO DO THIS. I BEGGED AND EXPLAINED THAT I HAD A CATHETER AND DID MY OWN MEDS AND I WAS MORE THAN QUALIFIED BECAUSE OF MY EXPERIENCE IN ONCOLOGY. I PROMISED I WOULD KEEP HIM INFORMED DAILY IF HE WISHED. THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS GOING TO AGREE. SO WE KEPT PAYING FREQUENT VISITS TO HIS OFFICE AND THE HOSPITAL. CHAR WAS PROGRESSIVELY GETTING WORSE. OVERTIME SHE HAD A EPISODE IT WAS HARDER FOR HER TO GET BACK UP AND IN FACT SHE NEVER DID RECOVER TO PREVIOUS STATE.

I NEEDED TO MOVE HER TO A DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL THAT WAS CLOSER TO MY HOME SINCE THIS WAS A FREQUENT OCCURRENCE. I GOT HER IN TO SEE MY INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOCTOR AND AFTER HE REVIEWED HER RECORDS AND A COMPLETE EXAM BY ALL THE OTHER DOCTORS (NEUROLOGIST, PSYCHIATRIST, INTERNIST, ORTHOPEDIST, UROLOGIST AND SURGEON) HE DECIDED WE COULD PUT A CATHETER IN HER AND TREAT HER AT HOME. WE HAD HOME HEALTH NURSES IN AT FIRST JUST TO HELP ME GET HER SET UP.
I AM PROUD TO SAY WE HAVE CUT DOWN ON HER HOSPITALIZATIONS. I THINK SHE HAS BEEN IN TWICE IN THE PAST YEAR. SHE HAS REALLY TURNED THE CORNER IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS. WE HAVE HAD NO SEIZURES AND I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET HER OFF OF ALMOST ALL HER SEIZURE MEDS. SHE IS STILL UNABLE TO WALK ON HER OWN AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL BUT HER QUALITY OF LIFE IS MUCH BETTER. WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL OUTINGS WITH HER AND SHE HAS DONE GREAT. THE YEAR SHE WAS SO SICK WE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE HER OUT OF THE HOUSE IN HER WHEELCHAIR AND OVERTIME WE GOT WHERE WE WERE GOING SHE WOULD HAVE A SEIZURE FROM THE EXCITEMENT. SO TO BE ABLE TO WALK HER OUT OF THE HOUSE TO THE VAN AND GET TO OUR DESTINATION AND HOME WITHOUT A SEIZURE HAS BEEN ONE OF GODS GREATEST MIRACLES!

I AM SORRY THIS IS SO LENGTHY BUT I FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET THE WHOLE PICTURE AND  WHAT I AM ABOUT TO INFORM YOU OF IS WHY I AM SEEKING ADVICE. I TOOK GUARDIAN / CONSERVATORSHIP ON MY OWN. I WAS DEALING WITH ONE LAWYER IN KANSAS FOR HER DIVORCE AND ONE IN MISSOURI FOR GUARDIANSHIP. THIS WAS EARLY ON WHEN WE WERE DEALING WITH AGITATED DEPRESSION SO THIS HAD TO BE DONE THRU PROBATE. THE DAY MY SISTER BEV WITHDREW, THE DAY OF COURT, I QUESTIONED THE LAWYER ABOUT ME DOING THIS BY MYSELF SINCE I WAS DISABLED. I HAD EXPLAINED TO HIM MY ILLNESS AND ITS AFFECTS ON ME AND I STRESSES THE NEURO-COGNITIVE PROBLEMS. HE SEEMED TO THINK I COULD  AND THERE WAS PRESSURES TO GET THIS DONE SO THE ESTATE COULD BE DEALT WITH. CHARS HUSBAND AND HIS LAWYER DIDN'T THINK SHE WAS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING AND THOUGHT SINCE SHE WAS ILL SHE SHOULD GO ON STATE AIDE. THE JUDGE IN KANSAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT AFTER 37 YEARS SHE WAS ENTITLED TO HALF OF EVERYTHING. THE DIVORCE ENDED UP GOING INTO DISCOVERY BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WOULD REVEAL THE REQUESTED INFORMATION. THIS TOOK FROM OCT.98 TO AUG. 99 AND COST OVER $7000 FOR THE DIVORCE ATTORNEY. THE PROBATE ATTORNEY WAS ANOTHER $4000.  HER REAL ESTATE SOLD IN AUG. 99 AND PRIOR TO THAT TIME MAGGIE AND I FUNDED HER EXPENSES. WHEN SHE FIRST CAME HERE HER HUSBAND KEPT HER DISABILITY CHECKS EXCEPT FOR $100. NOV.98 WE FINALLY HAD MAINTENANCE SET UP FOR HER. SHE HAD $340 SSD AND $359 TEMP ALIMONY. THE DIVORCE WAS FINAL JULY 99 SO HER INSURANCE COVERAGE CEASED. ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR IS IS THAT WHEN SHE CAME TO US HER AND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN FREQUENTLY GAMBLING. THEY HAD $6000 ON A DISCOVER CARD. APPARENTLY HER HUSBAND WOULD TAKE HER TO THE CASINO AND SET HER UP ON A SLOT MACHINE WITH THE DISCOVER CARD.  ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THE PSYCHIATRIST DID WAS PUT HER ON PAXIL FOR A GAMBLING ADDICTION. THAT WAS ANOTHER ISSUE WHEN IT CAME TO HER OUTBURST WAS SHE WOULD GET VERY ANGRY BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T TAKE HER TO THE BOAT. THIS ADDICTION ALSO FLOWED OVER INTO HER SPENDING. SHE WAS OUT OF CONTROL. MAGGIE AND I WOULD TAKE HER OUT AND SHE WOULD SPEND HER MONEY AND MINE AND IF I TRIED TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SHE WOULD CAUSE A SCENE. I WOULD PAY FOR THE STUFF THEN TAKE IT BACK FOR A REFUND A COUPLE DAYS LATER. CHAR IS VERY FORGETFUL SO I WOULD PUT THINGS AWAY AND SHE WOULD FORGET. MANY TIMES SHE ALREADY HAD ONE  OR MORE OF THAT VERY SAME ITEM. SHE WAS SO DEPRESSED OVER THE DIVORCE AND THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA SEEM TO GET SO MUCH WORSE. THIS WAS SOME OF WHAT HER HUSBAND WAS DEALING WITH AND BECAUSE OF CHARS MENTAL HEALTH STATE NONE OF MY OTHER SIBLINGS HAD MUCH TO DO WITH HER. A COUPLE DID FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME BUT THAT'S ALL. TO THIS DAY NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE EVER COME FORWARD TO HELP IN ANYWAY. MY PARENTS ARE IN THERE 80S AND MY MOTHER HAD A STROKE 3 YEARS AGO WHICH THANK GOD SHE HAS RECOVERED FROM. WHEN ALL THIS CAME ABOUT I DID THIS BECAUSE OF MY LOVE FOR MY SISTER AND MY PARENTS. MY PARENTS WILL TELL YOU CHAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH AND WHEN SHE HAD THE HEART ATTACK AT 27 A HEART SPECIALIST TOLD THEM THAT MANY PEOPLE WITH HEART VALVE DISEASE DEVELOP PERSONALITY DISORDERS. CHAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMEWHAT PARANOID AND VERY DEPRESSED. ON A DAILY BASIS I DEALT WITH THINGS LIKE SHE WOULDN'T EAT UNLESS IT WAS SOME SORT OF FAST FOOD. I WOULD OCCASIONALLY GET HER TO MAKE A LIST OF GROCERIES FOR HERSELF AND OCCASIONAL SHE WOULD EAT IT BUT SHE STILL WANTED FAST FOOD. I CANT DESCRIBE THE ANGER SHE WOULD HAVE AND IT WAS DO IT OR SHE WOULDN'T EAT.  I WOULD TAKE HER OUT TO EAT WHEN WE HAD TO MAKE A TRIP TO THE LAWYERS OR DOCTORS AND SHE WOULD ORDER 2 MEALS. SHE WOULD TELL THE WAITER THAT ONE WAS TO GO AND THEN WHEN THEY WOULD BRING THE OTHER TO THE TABLE SHE WOULD ASK THEM TO BOX IT UP TO GO HOME. AGAIN SHE WOULD GET ANGRY AND CAUSE A SCENE IF I SAID ANYTHING. MOST OF THESE INCIDENTS ARE BEFORE SHE HAD BEEN PUT ON THE RESPERIDOL. BEST TO MY RECOLLECTION SHE WAS STARTED ON THAT IN APRIL 99. ALSO AT THIS TIME IT WAS AFTER THE SURGERY AND HER HEALTH WAS FAILING. SHE WAS DEALING WITH MORE THAN ANYONE SHOULD HAVE TO. ALL THIS IS IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROBATE ISSUES I AM ABOUT TO TELL YOU ABOUT.
THE PROBATE ATTORNEY APPARENTLY MISREPRESENTED ME .....SEVERELY. I CALLED HIM ON MANY ISSUES REGARDS MEDICAL AND LIVING EXPENSES. HER PRESCRIPTION COST WAS $1000 A MONTH AND HAVING NO INSURANCE SHE WAS PAYING THE 20% MEDICARE DIDN'T PAY. BOTH LAWYERS SAID WITH HER MEDICAL COST HER MONEY WOULDN'T LAST LONG AND EVENTUALLY SHED BE ON A MEDICAID SPEND DOWN. WITH HER DECLINING HEALTH AND SOILING CLOTHES AND BEDDING I STOCKED UP ON SUPPLIES NOT TO MENTION SKIN CARE PRODUCTS. WHEN SHE GOT HER MONEY IN AUG. 99 . MAGGIE AND I HAD EXHAUSTED OUR FUNDS BY THIS TIME,  INCLUDING MAGGIE'S RETIREMENT FUNDS FROM HER DIVORCE, WE RE DID OUR SECOND MORTGAGE AND BOUGHT A USED VAN FOR HAULING CHAR AND HER WHEELCHAIR. THERE WAS NOW 6 OF US SO WE TRADED MAGGIE'S CAR FOR THE VAN. I HAD CALLED THE PROBATE ATTORNEY MANY MANY TIMES AND SPOKE WITH HIM ON RE CAPTURING OUR FUNDS AND I WAS TOLD WE HAD TO HAVE A COURT ORDER FOR ANYTHING OVER $999.00 AND THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAY SOME ACTUAL HOUSEHOLD BILLS . SO I DID.
COME TO FIND OUT THE PROBATE COURT HAS A SET OF GUIDELINES  WHICH I FINALLY RECEIVED IN SEPT. 2000. IN MAY 2000 I WAS REMOVED AS CONSERVATOR AND LEFT ON AS GUARDIAN. THE LAWYER TOLD THE JUDGE I NEVER SUPPLIED REQUESTED INFO FOR THE YEARLY SETTLEMENT. I HAD ASKED FOR A COUPLE EXTENSIONS ON FILING BECAUSE OF MY ILLNESS WHICH HAD GOTTEN WORSE FROM ALL THE AFFAIRS I WAS HAVING TO DEAL WITH. I WAS EXHAUSTED. I SAVED EVERY RECEIPT AND BANK STATEMENT AND I DID GIVE THIS TO THE LAWYER AND HE HAD MADE A DRAFT SETTLEMENT. HE WITHDREW FROM REPRESENTING ME AND I ATTEMPTED TO SETTLE THIS ON MY OWN AND THRU DEALING WITH THE PROBATE OFFICE IS HOW I FOUND OUT THEY HAD A STANDARD SET PROCEDURE THAT I HAD NEVER BEEN TOLD ABOUT. THE DAY I WENT TO COURT FOR THE LAWYER TO WITHDRAW I ASKED HIM WHY ALL THIS HAPPENED . NOT REALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS GOING ON. HE SAID THAT DAY THAT BEING CHARS SISTER THE JUDGE NEVER PUT ANY RESTRICTIONS ON HER MONEY . THE OTHER ISSUE I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT WAS THE JUDGE ORDERED TO HAVE THE BOND WHICH HE HAD PUT AT $5000 RAISED. NOW MIND YOU WITH HER MEDICAL AND LEGAL FEES THERE WASN'T MUCH OF THE 45,000 LEFT. I WANTED TO KNOW WHY IN AUG. 99 WHEN HER ESTATE WAS SETTLED AND IT WAS ALL PUT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE WHY DIDN'T HE RAISE THE BOND THEN. HIS REPLY WAS IT WASN'T HIS JOB TO TELL THE JUDGE HOW TO DO HIS JOB. THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG...... IN MAY 2000 I WAS REMOVED AND I ATTEMPTED TO FILE A SETTLEMENT TWICE WHICH WERE REJECTED SO I WENT TO HER DIVORCE LAWYER TO HELP ME. HE IS AN EXTREMELY HONEST MAN. HE SAID BASICALLY I HAVE BEEN SCREWED. THE PROBATE ATTORNEY DID NOT DO HIS JOB AND WHEN SOMETHING WASN'T ORDERED BY THE JUDGE WHICH I UNDERSTAND IS JUST THE NORMAL PROCEDURE HE DIDN'T ASK THE JUDGE ABOUT IT. SO HERE I AM A YEAR LATER AND $7000 IN ATTORNEY FEES AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE THIS SETTLED. I GUESS NOW THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR HAS HIRED AN ATTORNEY TO SUE ME FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS.... $34,000 OF FUNDS. IF SHE HAD 45,000 AND ALMOST 11,000 WENT TO LAWYERS AND 17,000 TO MEDICAL...... AND IT GOES ON AND ON!!!!!!!

MY ISSUES ARE FIRST OFF THAT I ASKED THE PROBATE LAWYER IF MY BEING SICK AND DISABLED MATTERED AND I CLEARLY STATED I DIDN'T THINK I COULD DO IT. HE SAID NO I WOULD BE ABLE TO . SECONDLY HE NEVER GAVE ME ALL THE INFO I NEEDED SUCH AS GUIDELINES. THEN HE DESERTED ME. NOT TO MENTION FEELING DESERTED BY MY FAMILY. I HAVE DOCUMENTS FROM A NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST THAT DID TESTING ON ME FOR DISABILITY THAT STATES MY COGNITIVE DEFICITS. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN FOR JUSTICE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD I SHOULD FILE MALPRACTICE AGAINST THE PROBATE LAWYER BUT I HAVE NO FUNDS AND I GUESS TO FIND A LAWYER THAT WILL GO AFTER ANOTHER IS DIFFICULT. MY HEALTH HAS DETERORIATED... MY  LEVEL OF DEPRESSION IS SO BAD AND MY LEVEL OF CONCENTRATION ......WELL IT DOESN'T EXISTS. IT HAS TAKEN ME DAYS TO DO THIS. AS FOR MY SISTER I HAVE EVERY INTENTION OF TAKING CARE OF HER TO THE END AND FINANCIALLY MAGGIE AND I ARE STILL FUNDING HER. MONEY WASN'T AN ISSUE WHEN WE DECIDED TO KEEP HER HERE AND ITS STILL NOT AN ISSUE FOR US. THIS IS SO UNFAIR....... UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCE I DID THE BEST I COULD AND I CONSULTED WITH MY PARENTS ON EVERYTHING THAT WAS DONE. THEY ARE BEHIND ME 100%. BUT I NEED HELP IN DEALING WITH THE COURT ISSUES AT HAND.......... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

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#438 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sun Sep 9, 2001 12:14 am
Subject: * * * Government Is Not Reason
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Government Is Not Reason
by Ron Branson
 
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force..."
                                                                        George Washington
 
What you are about read will be thought provoking and controversial,  however, that is always the basic nature of truth. Oftentimes as I sit here answering email, I am called upon to come up with some complex answers in confidential communications that inspire me to write articles which need to be made public. This is one such occasion.
 
Most all of us are posed from time to time with an offer to come to "The latest and greatest seminar where truth will be dispensed." By using their  law courses and training, you can make their argument before government agency A.A.A. through Z.Z.Z., or the courts, and win. Most of these seminars come at a handsome price, usually ranging from $125 to as much as a $1000-plus. You are always promised an invaluable syllabus to take home with you. I have come to call these programs "Silver Bullet Seminars."
 
There is a basic nature in man that says, "Tell me what I want to hear," and it's just these "Silver Bullet Seminars" that fill the bill. Their promotionals always carry some form of the two words, "and win." People who are disgusted and at their wits' end with nowhere else to turn, are hungry to hear how they can make an argument "and win." "If I can win, or even hope to win, then it's worth my thousand dollars," they say.
 
People will stand in line with their thousand dollars in hand anxious to hand it over to the person just inside the door. They have then purchased themselves a seat in a big hall among hundreds of others just as anxious  to know how they too can "win." "Win" is the key. In many cases, it is not the material taught at these seminars that I find offensive, but the words, "and win." Like Las Vegas, it is a "win-driven" enterprise. Every win is pumped to the hilt and exploited to its fullest. (Yes, even the courts need to have someone hit the jackpot from time to time to keep them  afloat.)
 
I was once approached and told that I could make a lot of money since I knew law if I would teach in their seminars. My response was, "Yes, but after I have taught them the law, and then I conclude by telling them the truth that they could fully anticipate these law arguments be ignored, the attendees, who paid handsome money to hear me, would say they want their money back; and they would not come back to the next seminar, no matter how correct I was on the law. Everyone would shun me because I told them what they did not what to hear - truth."
 
The reality is that people would rather believe a lie rather than deal with the truth. Consequently, by practice, they are saying, "I'll pay you to lie to me. Tell me what I want to hear. Tell me I can make an argument and win, or that I can make a fortune." This, of course, leaves them vulnerable to any cunning person who is willing to accommodate them and relieve them of their cash. All they have to do is sponsor a "Silver Bullet Seminar," and tell them just what they want to hear. And the good thing about it is, you can name your own price.
 
Oh, yes, and if they later come back to you with their wings clipped, you can always tell them, "You didn't do it right," or "We've found some new information on these filings." I suggest the latter because you can then promote your next seminar. Call it the "Updated Seminar," and be sure to hit them up good for your invaluable updates, as they really want to be lied to so long as you tell them they can win.
 
Folks, you may be laughing, but this process is repeated over and over again. These are people that are ever learning but never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth. They seek teachers having itching ears --teachers that will speak unto them smooth things, things that are palatable to their ears. As I have said, people are just itching to pay you to lie to them.
 
Now why have I belabored this issue? It is because J.A.I.L. desires to see people end their search for that "Silver Bullet." Even one of my own personal friends who has spent a fortune on these seminars said to me, "But Ron, we've got to try everything," to which I responded, "Yes, everything but J.A.I.L." What was it that P.T. Barnum said? "There's a sucker born every minute."
 
Not long ago, J.A.I.L. received an email that asked us the question, "When are you going to become a Separate Part of the Whole rather than a Separate Whole Part?" This sounds like a neat, well-balanced, logical question. I now respond to it. The answer turns on whether one believes what George Washington stated, "Government is not reason."
 
It is true that J.A.I.L. is seldom included on the platforms of other political or patriotic groups or coalitions on which the public would expect J.A.I.L. to appear. Now why is this? Is it because J.A.I.L. is stand-offish? No! But because it is seldom asked to appear. (True, J.A.I.L. will not compromise its sole objective of seeking judicial accountability.)
 
I couldn't tell you how many times I've wondered why J.A.I.L. was not included on various platforms over the years. The hosts and the speakers know me and distinctly know what J.A.I.L. is about. It has became apparent over the passage of years that this was not just an incidental overpass; and it was not just that it was not my time. Now, pray tell, why was this? I've given much thought to this issue. 
 
Every organization or coalition, whether political, non-political, left- or right-wing as it relates to changes in government, has an "Argument" as to what and how government should be changed to meet their standard  of good government. With "Argument" meaning "Reason," let's illustrate below.
 
Four organizations are invited to speak on the platform of a coalition,  one being J.A.I.L. It opens with Organization #1 making its "Argument," followed by Organization #2, and #3 each making their "Argument." The last to speak is Organization #4 aka "J.A.I.L." which steps up and makes its discourse, "There is no possible 'Argument' which can be made to 'Reason.' " What has just happened? J.A.I.L., by its message that "Government is not reason," has automatically undermined and assailed all the previous organizations which say there is an "Argument" to "Reason."
 
While George Washington said over two hundred years ago,  "Government is not reason," organizations today are saying, "While government is disappointing, it can be reasoned with." Therefore, every organization is posed with one of three options. 1) Reason with government, 2) join the militia, or 3) join J.A.I.L., or both the latter two. While the militia and J.A.I.L. equally believe "Government is not reason," they differ on the approach to curing that problem
 
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force; and, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master!
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Date: Tue Sep 11, 2001 9:26 pm
Subject: * Hail to "America's Most Wanted!"
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Hail To "America's Most Wanted!"
 

Imagine coming home one Saturday night after being at an evening concert performance, slipping some fish and chips in the oven, and sitting down relaxing when a terrorist military type of government thugs with badges wearing helmets and night-vision goggles suddenly burst into your home with military assault weapons, pointing them at your head, handcuffing you, pushing you around, demanding you answer questions while others ransacked your home.

You say, "Nay, this is America, not Beirut, Lebanon where such terrorist tactics are common." Welcome to Cobb County, Georgia where this happened Saturday night - Sunday morning September 2, 2001, to John Bailey, a computer programmer.

What Mr. Bailey was unaware of that evening there had played an episode of "America's Most Wanted," a nationwide program that  displays faces of the ten most wanted persons by the FBI, and that someone had called in and stated that they had thought he looked like the picture they had seen on their nationwide TV. show. The only problem was, he wasn't the man.

Notwithstanding this fact, one of the SWAT Team member's finger got a little heavy on the trigger causing his gun to discharge sending a stray bullet through the walls, traveling into his bathroom and putting a hole through his deodorant stick and causing it to land into the bathtub.

Now some of us have seen those billboards which say, "Oh, no, not one more child," showing bullet holes peppering the billboard implying all gun owners were out to shoot every child in sight. We are told, "If banning guns will save just one life, it's worth it." Apply the same logic to the police in this story. Imagine if a child had been struck while sleeping on the other side of the wall where the polices' stray bullet passed through, or the bullet went through a window headed for a neighbor's house across the street, but instead, it hit and killed a person who was just driving by. Would we still say, if banning police's guns will save just one life, it's worth it, or is there a different standard?

While admitting they had the wrong man, the FBI says through their spokesman Richard Kolco that these type raids are common and that the Cobb Police action here was appropriate.

Now consider the fearful ramifications of this. A TV show, "America's Most Wanted," displays several faces to an audience of tens of millions of viewers across the nation. Do any of them look like you?

But here we are not even talking about whether one matches you, but whether any one of these tens of millions of viewers may think that you might look like one they say on "America's Most Wanted." This means that everyone's face is in a rolling barrel. When will your face be drawn? Just how many of us look like someone else, or remind someone of someone else? Has America not come down to breaking into anyone's home just because someone thought you looked like a picture they saw on "America's Most Wanted?"

John Bailey has now retained the legal services of Atlanta, Georgia Attorney Stephen Berne over this issue.

Finally, I present this final thought. Does this not prove how lax our judicial system has become in cooperating with police as to issue them an instant warrant for that address based on such flimsy "evidence" as someone calling in saying that they thought someone's face looked like someone they say on TV with no other cohobating evidence?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Fourth Amendment - U.S. Constitution. How could any magistrate perceive the above meets such a Constitutional standard? America, Oh America, when will you see the light? It's time for J.A.I.L. before we sink into a terrorist country!

The facts of this story was carried in the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, September 6, 2001.



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#440 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Fri Sep 14, 2001 7:59 am
Subject: Judge McMillan Joins J.A.I.L., PT III
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Judge McMillan Joins J.A.I.L., Pt. III
 
From the publication of Pt. I and Pt. II, J.A.I.L. has been asked by Mrs. McMillan to publish a couple of retractions. They are as follows:
 
There are some things you said in your editing that aren't true and have to be corrected.  We don't want to be accused of acting the way the newspapers have acted, playing fast and loose with the truth.  The Chief Judge, Gallen, is an admitted member of the Good Old Boy Club, BUT he never threatened either of us.  Did a lot of unseemly, things, but never threatened us.

Also the county worker who was ordered to run the wires only said he received
orders from "Court Administration" to run the wires to Gallen's hearing room.
He didn't say the orders came directly from Gallen, although Gallen is the
top guy at Court administration and obviously ordered it.  
 
Please accept our apologies for these incorrect statements. 
 
To update our J.A.I.L. News Journal readers about the corruption in politics in Florida, in Pt. II of our expose we told of the threat Judge Matt McMillan received upon deciding to run for judge of Manatee County, against a sitting judge, Judge George Brown, a long time incumbent.
 
The 6/23/01 article in the NewsCoast recaps it well in its article, "Power brokers or social club?" by Eric Alan Barton.
 
Bradenton- Working in his yard one night about a decade ago, Joe McClash was puzzled why a couple dozen of Manatee County's most influential men were pulling up to his neighbor's home.
 
A new county commissioner at the time, McClash nosed around and found out that the sheriff and a few judges and big-time, businessmen had stopped by the home of R.B. "Chips Shore, the clerk of courts, for a private meeting of the Manatee Social Club.
 
Better know as "The Good Ol' Boys Club," the invite-only group of about 25 men, who include several of the county's top politicians and powerful businessmen, meet behind closed doors eight times a year for dinner and cocktails.
 
Despite his high place in local politics, McClash, now the Manatee County Commission chairman, says that was the only time he heard of the club - exactly the anonymity its members want.
 
Then in 1998, a candidate for Manatee County judge claimed that Paul Sharff, a man who appeared to be representing the Manatee Social Club, warned him against running with the club's support and painted it as a political machine that secretly controls the county.
 
After that candidate won and later got embroiled in an ethics complaint, Sheriff Charlie Wells and Chief Judge Thomas Gallen admitted in testimony that a group dubbed the "Good Ol' Boys" exists and that they are members. Yet they disagreed with the perception that the club is a political machine. ....
 
The club's members adamantly insist they don't conspire to control the county's politics or use their influence to bully political newcomers, as Judge Matt McMillan, now suspended from office, alleged. ....
 
When McMillan was considering running for county judge in 1998, he got a visit from Sharff, a real estate property manager who is now chairman of the Manatee County Republican Executive Committee.
 
Sharff warned McMillan that the candidate and his wife, Susan, would "pay for it" if he challenged incumbent George K. Brown. ....
 
"There is a group in this town that runs this county, and they call themselves the Good Ol' Boys, and they're a real club with real meetings and an official membership, and you have to be invited to go," Sharff told the McMillans, according to Susan McMillan's testimony about the discussion.
 
Sharff initially denied the comments. When he heard that the McMillans had recorded the conversation, he admitted that he made the statements but said he was mistaken about the club. ....
 
The Manatee Social Club has representatives from every arm of government. from the legal branch are Sheriff Wells, State Attorney Earl Moreland, Florida Highway Patrol Maj. Ron Getman, Clerk of Courts Shore and Chief Circuit Judge Thomas Gallen. Members in politics include Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority member McClure, Mayor Poston and former mayor Evers. ....Hilliard and others declined to give a list of the members...
 
Moving on, we thought it appropriate to present to you the below publication of the August 28, 2001 Bradenton Herald in its entirety where Judge Matt McMillan, now a part of the J.A.I.L. movement spreading across the county, demands a jury hearing after the order of that proposed by J.A.I.L.
 
 

  
   
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Judge fighting removal from bench

By IRINA SLUTSKY BRADENTON - Despite the Florida Supreme Court's order last week that Manatee County Judge Matt McMillan be removed from the bench, he is not willing to give up his job.Filing a 41-page brief Monday, McMillan made an unorthodox request to the state Supreme Court to grant him "a trial by an impartial jury of citizens" or "an independent review of the record by an impartial panel of citizens who are not political appointees and have no
connections with the judiciary or the Florida Bar."

McMillan is not asking for a rehearing in front of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, as is the normal procedure. McMillan said the JQC is not impartial in its recommendation to the Supreme Court to remove him from office."The JQC is a biased organization," McMillan said in a telephone  interview with the Herald. "I'll take an unbiased anyone to look at the evidence in my case.

"McMillan promises in his motion that he "will abide by the findings and
recommendations of such an impartial jury or panel without further appeal."

Brooke Kennerly, an attorney with the JQC, said she could not comment on the
motion until she had been officially served with the document. Kennerly said
the JQC would have 20 days to decide if a response to McMillan's motion is
necessary.

McMillan, who already has cleaned out his office at the Manatee County
courthouse, said he changed his mind about continuing his fight to remain a
judge after "hundreds and hundreds" of supporters contacted him, urging him
not to give up.

Susan McMillan said she and her husband were aware that their request for a
trial in front of a panel of citizens was unusual. If the state Supreme Court does not grant McMillan's request, "We are not interested" in a rehearing before the JQC, she said.

As to whether he wants to be back on the bench, McMillan, on paid leave since
Jan. 24, defers to God."I honestly don't care," McMillan said. "I'm open to
whatever God tells me to do."

McMillan, who was voted into office in 1998 and became a judge in January
1999, had been on the bench only six months when the JQC filed charges that
he violated judicial ethics during his winning campaign against incumbent
Judge George Brown. The Supreme Court upheld the JQC's findings and on Aug. 16 ordered McMillan removed from office.

"I thought it was over already," said Mark Lipinski, a local attorney who authored the 1998 complaint against McMillan for election campaign violations that officially began the investigation into McMillan. "After all is said and done, I find it sad that Judge McMillan could not end his judgeship with a little class and dignity," Lipinski said.

McMillan supporter Joseph Mammina said he was happy McMillan is still
fighting."There was a total injustice here," Mammina said. "He should absolutely get an impartial jury to review his case, but he won't get an impartial jury in this county."

McMillan had 15 days after Aug. 16 to ask for a rehearing. In his motion,  McMillan dissects the Supreme Court's 27-page order line by line."The court
has failed to conduct an independent examination of the record," McMillan
wrote. "The court ignores evidence of pressure, intimidation, and threats. .
. . The court relied upon evidence demonstrated to be false."McMillan finds
the JQC unable to make a fair judgment regarding his fitness for office."The
current system is unfair to both the judges that are accused and to the citizens," McMillan said.

The charges against McMillan stemmed from his win over Brown and from his
actions as judge after the campaign. One principal charge was that McMillan
violated judicial ethics by presiding over a drunken-driving case in which he
was a witness.

Brown, accused by McMillan as being part of a good-ol'-boy system, said
Monday he did not want to comment on pending litigation.In the Supreme
Court's conclusion, the seven justices concurred McMillan did not have the "cold neutrality of an impartial judge" and created a case "where the personal political aspirations and subsequent vindictiveness of an individual judge have been allowed to tarnish the robes of justice."

McMillan disagreed."Prestige, power, and money mean nothing to me," McMillan said, adding he wants nothing but to be judged by people who have no stake in whether he remains a judge or leaves the office.

He writes in his conclusion of the motion, "Should the voters determine me unfit, let them vote me out during the next election."But for now, McMillan's fate once again rests in the hands of the Florida Supreme Court.


 
Then it is interesting how that Judge McMillan sets history by being the first judge ever in Florida to be removed off the bench for his campaign speech.

By CRAIG PITTMAN
© St. Petersburg Times, published August 17, 2001. The decision marks the first time a Florida judge has been kicked off the bench for verbally
attacking an incumbent. Three years after Manatee County's voters elected Matt McMillan a judge, the Florida Supreme Court booted him from the bench...
 
The truth of the matter is that if Judge McMillan were to again run for the office of judge, he would probably be elected by the people again. We ask, how widespread is this type of control of local politics throughout the country? We are lead to believe that the election process is fair and open to all who wish to run, and may the best man win, but it is? Judge McMillan challenges such assumption, and if he is correct, we are here witnessing a very serious felony in progress.
 
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#441 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Sep 15, 2001 11:20 pm
Subject: Terrorist Kills Eleven-Year-Old Child
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Terrorist Kills Eleven-Year-Old Child
 
It was only four days ago, September 11th J.A.I.L. reported on the government terrorist invasion of Computer Programmer John Bailey's  home. He was suddenly overtaken by machine gun toting thugs in his home who held guns to his head. The cause - someone called in as a result of watching "America's Most Wanted" saying they thought he might look like the person on T.V. 
 
In that case one of the terrorists accidentally fired his gun sending a bullet passing through the walls of Bailey's home and ending up in his bathroom. We said in that article, "Imagine if a child had been struck while sleeping on the other side of the wall where the police's stray bullet passed through." Well, that was just a caveat. And, of course, we all know, had someone actually been killed, the police would have gotten off by saying "It was just an accident."
 
In that story of terrorism in America we said, "Welcome to Cobb County, Georgia." Well, now we cover terrorism in America again two weeks later, Modesto California style. Only here, this terrorist's accidental shooting does involve a child - an eleven-year-old child.
 
*   *   *

Officer Kills Boy,
Police Call Shooting An Accident
By TY PHILLIPS
BEE STAFF WRITER      
(September 14, 2000)

An 11-year-old Modesto boy was fatally shot early Wednesday morning when police SWAT team officers on a federal narcotics sweep raided his parents' home.

Police said the shooting was an accident.

Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh-grader at Prescott Senior Elementary School, was pronounced dead in his home at 2524 McAdoo Ave., just east of Highway 99 in the north Modesto neighborhood commonly known as Highway Village. He died from one shotgun round to the back, Police Chief Roy Wasden said.
Wasden would not give any other details of the shooting or raid, not even where in the small house the shooting took place. He said details will not be available until investigations have been completed.
"Our entire department is in shock," Wasden said. "And our heartfelt
sympathy goes out to the family of the child, and the officers who were
involved in this tragic incident."
The shot came from officer David Hawn, whose weapon accidentally
discharged during the raid, Wasden said. Hawn, a 21-year department
veteran, has served on the SWAT team for 18 1/2 years. Following department policy, Hawn was placed on paid leave. ....
 
Officers knocked on the door at 6:16 a.m. Five minutes later, a call
went out for an ambulance and Fire Department personnel. Police swarmed in and out of the house all day, and Stanislaus County coroner's deputies did not remove the boy's body until after 2 p.m. ....
As some officers worked inside the house, others stood grim-faced outside, talking in small groups. Neighbors stood in front of their homes, wondering what had happened on their street. ....
 
Wednesday night, neighbors stood at the edge of driveways and lawns, swapping stories of concern, shock and grief. "I didn't ever think anything like this could happen at that house, to that family," former next-door neighbor Nadia Chuca, 23, said. "He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time; it's just sad that this happened to an 11-year-old. ... I saw him grow up." The Sepulveda family has lived at the McAdoo Avenue home for about five years. Fourteen-year-old Melissa Gold lived across the street until recently.   She said Alberto taught bicycle tricks to her 9-year-old brother, Brian.
"My little brother, he's been sad all day. He tried to ask me why the
cop shot him. I didn't know how to say it in sign language," she said. "My brother's deaf." Sam Climber walked his 9-year-old son, Sam Jr., in front of the Sepulveda house to try to make sense of Wednesday's shooting. His son, he said, played daily with Alberto.
"We would play hide-and-go-seek, ride our bikes and have water balloon
fights," the young Climber said. "I sort of could not believe it; I didn't
think kids could get shot."
Counseling services will be provided today for students at Chrysler and
Prescott schools, said Judy French, a secretary in the Stanislaus Union
School District. Alberto attended Chrysler last year. .... SWAT teams  called upon for Wednesday's operation were from the Sacramento and San Francisco offices of the FBI, the DEA, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department and the Lodi Police Department.   
 
Bee staff writer Ty Phillips
can be reached at 578-2331.
Bee staff writer Crystal Carreon contributed to this report. She can be
reached at 578-2347.

Today we are being told that we are starting a new war. It is called "War On Terrorism." But we are asking the question of what they mean by "Terrorists." I am looking at my dictionary on "terrorize" and it defines it as an act or process of terrorizing, to fill with terror, to coerce by threat or violence. Can a better definition fit these acts of government around the country, just bursting into homes in the name of "War." Maybe we should properly call it "War On People," and in this War we have the casualty of one dead little eleven-year-old boy. However, his parents can take solace in the fact that he is dead by mistake.
 
Stay tuned folks, J.A.I.L.'s going to have another horrific story of American terrorism in action coming your way soon, brought to you by your favorite public servants, aka, government.
 
In the name of "War On Terrorism," we are now being told that we are going to have to give up some of our rights, but let's not forget, those who surrender their liberties for security will have neither. Only J.A.I.L. will curb these government abuses.
 
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JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
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#442 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sun Sep 16, 2001 3:11 am
Subject: Can J.A.I.L. Become A Political 3rd Party?
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Should J.A.I.L. Become
A Political Reform Party?
By Tom Fields
 
[John Wolfgram's response is below]
 
J4J is interesting because of its focus on the courts.

However, I don't believe that J4J or J.A.I.L. can be effective without
addressing the many related deficiencies in the law. Of course, to do so
would be a huge undertaking, but that is what is needed.

Can J4J evolve into a Legal Reform Party?  To do so, J4J's leadership must want to, and it must create a platform that includes much more than
J.A.I.L.

I hope that J4J evolves into a Legal Reform Party.  If it does, then perhaps it can win the support of many individuals who are looking for a third party to address their concerns.  Doing so could benefit many diverse interests.

Sincerely,
Tom Fields
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Response
By Att. John Wolfgram
----- Original Message -----
From: Wolfgram
 
    J4J is based on a single idea and a single purpose:  Judicial immunity
is the basic cause of all government corruption.  The judiciary is targeted because it is the branch of government that both created its own immunity with which it protects government corruption generally.
    Its purpose is to annul that corrupt function of immunity that protects itself and therefore all of government from accountability. That is a very potent idea and purpose that has many implications.
    You can found a party on those implications and what you learn about them through J.A.I.L. and other sources, and thus support and expand on J.A.I.L.'s purpose through that party, ... but J.A.I.L.'s purpose is singular. That's the way Ron wants it, and I think he is right.
John Wolfgram
 
Comment by Ron:
 
I am thoroughly convinced that once J.A.I.L. has successfully accomplished it goals state by state, and in Congress, it will be the mightiest political force every imagined. Rest assured that there is no intention of pulling up stakes and folding up the tents upon the complete fulfillment of our fondest dreams of accomplishing judicial accountability. We shall look to further horizons.
 
I say further, it is worthy of a discussion that whenever a certain state has indeed accomplished the passage of J.A.I.L. in their state and the challenging dust settles, and if it can be done without forsaking the National J.A.I.L. support and agenda for all other states, that state may consider other legislative objectives in the name of J.A.I.L.. The main factor is that none of us rest day or night until all shall win in every state, and that we leave no state forsaken or unturned. My thanks to John Wolfgram, who will doubtless speculate on this last paragraph.
 

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JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
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#443 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Tue Sep 18, 2001 3:06 am
Subject: Barbecue By The Sea Agenda
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Barbecue By The Sea
 
A J.A.I.L. Presentation & Fundraiser
 
Program Agenda
&
Detailed Directions
 
(Times and order may be flexible)
 
Date:         This Saturday, September 22nd.
 
Social Hour:                                     10 am - 11 am
 
Attorney Gary Zerman - Master of Ceremonies
 
Introductory Remarks -                   11 - 11:15 am
 
Henry Nichol -                                  11:15 - 11:55 pm
 
Terri Lynn Day -                              12:05 - 12:45 pm
 
Wiley Drake -                                   12:55 - 1:35 pm
 
Barbecue Food Break -                    1:35 - 2:10 pm
(& introductory of distinguished guests)
 
Clarence Malcolm -                          2:15 - 2:55 pm
 
Ron Branson -                                   3:00 - 3:40 pm
 
Closing statements -                          3:45 - 4:00 pm
 
Dancing, music & swimming            4:00 pm - ff.
 
 
Synopsis of speakers and participants -
 
Attorney Gary Zerman is the number two man in J.A.I.L. known as the J.A.I.L. Lt. Commander-In-Chief over the nationwide J.A.I.L. movement. He is very principled and thoroughly disgusted with what he has personally witnessed in his law practice, and is entirely dedicated to J.A.I.L.
 
Henry Nichol is the J.A.I.L. Warden over Ventura County, California. He has a very keen understanding of what J.A.I.L. seeks to accomplish through its initiative, and has written a very fine treatise on it. He also has a very good business head.
 
Terri Lynn Day is the Warden of Monterey County, California, and is an experienced speaker and activist. She brings her skills to our podium.
 
Wiley Drake is the famous bulldog Baptist pastor who has fought with the Buena Park City Council over his church's homeless ministry. He has given the City of Buena Park a big public black eye. The media  has  covered his numerous run-ins with the City Council. Wiley has forced the City Council to back off. He has proudly accepted the position with J.A.I.L. as Warden of Orange County, and loves his title Warden Wiley!
 
Clarence Malcolm is a vociferous speaker that pulls no punches. He openly defies the powers that be, exposing their hypocrisy. Being a furniture and sign-maker, he has used his talent by such things as huge signs mounted on top of vehicles that no one could miss. Everything is out in the open with Malcolm.
 
Ron Branson is the founder and J.A.I.L. Commander-In-Chief. The one who brings to you the J.A.I.L. News Journals whom one heretofore unknown judge properly identified from the bench as, "There are thousands of these emails of this Association that is going out across this nation, but let the record reflect, I don't read any of them!"
 
 
Detailed Directions
 
In beautiful Pacific Palisades, you are going to the Clubhouse located at #1 Aloha Drive, which is the fifth street on the right as you proceed up the steep incline, all of which is inside the Tahitian Terrace. The entrance is 16001 Pacific Coast Highway. This entrance is approximately 200 feet north of Temescal Canyon Road off the east side of Pacific Coast Highway. (There is a special lane along the bluff. Do not leave this special lane as you will be turning right at the end of this lane.) In your Thomas Guide, you will find this at 630 j-6.
 
Coming from the 10 Freeway through Santa Monica, drive through the underpass and proceed north up the coastline until you pass Temescal Canyon Road.
 
Parking:  There are two considerations of parking. Once you climb the hill to the Clubhouse, turn around and face down hill and park as near to the right-hand side as you can tightened up behind the car parked in front of you. Overflow will have to park on Temescal Canyon Road in the same fashion, and either walk up or wait for a shuttle.
 
If you have items you would like to donate to the auction, please bring them. If you have any questions, call Doug Johnson, (818) 895-1239. Thank you for helping make this "Barbecue By The Sea" wonderful  success.
 
-Ron Branson-
 

#444 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Tue Sep 18, 2001 9:27 pm
Subject: *The Crime Growth Industry Is Prospering!
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Crime Pays
Build More Prisons and Fill'em Up
The Crime Growth Industry Is Prospering!
 
Below are the official government statistics regarding the growth of the prison industry. Business is good, although expanding at a slower rate. The U.S. Prison Growth Industry is second only to General Motors among U.S. businesses. No other country in the world even comes close to competing with the U.S. in the percentage of its population behind bars.

Record Numbers in Corrections System

WASHINGTON (AP) --  The number of adults behind bars, on parole or on probation reached a record 6.47 million in 2000 -- or one in 32 American adults, the government reported Sunday. ....

Over the past two decades, the number of adults in the corrections system has tripled, so they now make up 3.1 percent of the country's adult population, compared with 1 percent in 1980, said Allen J. Beck, a chief researcher with the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. ....

During the 1990s, the corrections population increased 49 percent. By the end of last year, there were 2.1 million more adults in the system than there were in 1990.

The rate of growth was 2 percent between 1999 and 2000, compared with an average of 4 percent during the 1990s. ....
 
The percentage of women in the prison population, as well as their
percentages among probationers and parolees, rose.

The states with the largest percentage of their adult population in the
corrections system were Georgia, 6.8 percent, and Texas, 5 percent. At the other end were West Virginia, New Hampshire and North Dakota, each with 0.9 percent.

Bureau of Justice Statistics:  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs

AP-NY-08-26-01 2130 EDT Copyright 2001


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#445 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Tue Sep 25, 2001 5:44 am
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From: Ray Hickman [xraycommd@...]
To: Dudley Brown
Tribune
 
Sledgehammer Justice
Tribune, Thursday, September 20, 2001
 
Recently my 19-year-old son was fined $3,000 and sentenced to 21
months in federal prison. I would like to describe his "crime" to see if
anyone else thinks this situation is as ludicrous as I do:
He found an old .22-caliber rifle in his grandmother's basement which his grandfather had modified over 30 years ago. Needing some quick cash
and having absolutely no idea that a .22 with a shortened barrel was an
illegal firearm, he took it to the pawn shop. The owners, employees and a Provo City police officer who was in the store at the time looked at the gun and they also did not recognize it as illegal (I have since learned that
the laws regulating modified firearms are very nebulous).
Twenty days later, the pawn shop arranged with my son a time he was
to pick up the gun. After he paid for the .22 and turned to leave, he was
shocked to find several federal agents waiting for him. He had been set
up.
He was arrested and spent the next 105 days in jail and a halfway house
awaiting his final court date. I was positive that three and a half months
of lost freedom was a fair consequence for his error, but the federal
mandatory sentencing guidelines required my son to serve 21 months in
prison (a convicted rapist typically serves less than a year).
 
There was no discussion in the courtroom of what my son intended to do with the gun; that it had been shortened before it was illegal to do so; that he was ignorant of the law. The only fact considered before my son's freedom was taken was that he had possession of an illegal firearm.
Incidentally, his grandmother also had possession of the gun as did the pawn shop, but my son is the only one being treated like a criminal.
It is a crying shame that a young man will now spend almost two years
of his life in prison just because he needed a little money and innocently
took the wrong item to the pawn shop. As a citizen, I am outraged at this
injustice. As a mother, I am devastated and desperate for help.
 
If I thought my son was deserving of a federal prison term, I would be the first one to say so, and he knows it. The fact is, he is not a criminal nor is he a danger to society. This whole situation is absolutely  ridiculous, and I want it changed.
 
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Ron's Comment:   Here we have another statistic of the fact that our American Prisons are bulgging to overflow with "criminals" with far more citizens per capita in American prisons than in any tyrannical communistic and terrorist nation in the world. If the definition of terrorist is those who use force to terrorize people, then I can find no greater terrorist nation than America.
 
Now that the U.S. has officially declared war on terrorism worldwide, it has opened the door for so many opportunities to expose the U.S. as the greatest supporter nation of terrorism in the world by spreading U.S. tax dollars all around the globe in support of every terrorist organization under the sun. Now the chickens are come home to roost. (How about that $43 million U.S. tax dollars sent to CIA trained Ben Laden just this year for terrorism. But that terrorism wasn't suppose to come home to U.S. was it? Or was it? You've got me wondering. Hmmm.)
 
No wonder U.S. is among the most hated and disrespected nation in the world. We're good for a hand-out to every cause, particularly evil ones. Name one enemy nation of this country that U.S. tax dollars has not financed big time! Yes, let's clean out terrorist, starting with the U.S. government. Having accomplished that feat, we will have gone a long way to asuring the return of liberty and prosperty in America.


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Date: Thu Sep 27, 2001 12:02 am
Subject: Crime In The Name Of The Law
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Crime, in the name of the law

Federal court testimony reveals corruption in the Delta squad, an elite undercover drug team at the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

By ALICIA CALDWELL
St. Petersburg Times,
June 18, 2000


BRADENTON -- They prowled the streets of Manatee County, looking for the perfect victims -- poor, troubled people no one would believe.

Then, they robbed them. Beat them. And even bragged about it. When it began to come apart, they hung together and conspired to keep quiet. They saw themselves as above the law. After all, they were the law.

The crimes committed by the Delta squad, an elite drug interdiction team at the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, have trickled out in shocking detail in federal court during the past eight months.

It's a tale of rogue cops who routinely lied on police reports and carried their own stash of crack cocaine to plant if they couldn't find any on the people they wanted to bust.

"They developed their own set of rules and mind-sets about how things should be," said Mark Lipinski, a Bradenton lawyer who represents several Delta squad victims. "They preyed upon people who were basically defenseless."

So far, the toll is jarring: Four Delta squad agents have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges and await sentencing. More than 100 charges have been dropped against 67 defendants in cases made by Delta officers. And the federal investigation, according to the lead prosecutor on the case, is continuing.

Among the transgressions detailed in federal plea agreements:

Delta agents got a bogus search warrant for a Manatee County duplex and planted crack cocaine there. A woman visiting the home was arrested. As a result of her felony conviction, she lost custody of her child. Before her encounter with the Delta squad, she had no criminal record. Eventually, her conviction was overturned and her child was returned.

Delta officers conducted an illegal search of a Bradenton motel room and stole $9,000 from a man, who filed a complaint with the Sheriff's Office. Later, deputies planted crack cocaine in the man's car as retaliation for the complaint. ....

The officers brought crack with them on busts. If they didn't find any in the homes or pockets of the people they were trying to arrest, they would plant it. Fabricating cases wasn't the only aim. The agents wanted to use seizure laws to take cars and other property from their victims.

Sometimes the agents would give crack cocaine to people who were helpful to their investigations. ....

"This way of doing things seemed to be a fairly entrenched, okay way of doing things," said Jeffrey Del Fuoco, lead prosecutor on the case from the U.S. Attorney's Office. "It just seems to me that this kind of a network doesn't spring up overnight." ....

Blake Melhuish, a Bradenton lawyer who has represented a Delta victim in criminal matters, said the federal plea agreements are so detailed that they are virtual blueprints for civil lawsuits. ....

"From beginning to end, it's unbelievable," Melhuish said. "I grew up believing the cops were the good guys. We're finding that sometimes they're not."

Del Fuoco said he expects further charges. It's unclear, he said, how far up the chain of command the improprieties go.

"We go where the evidence goes," Del Fuoco said. "The investigation definitely continues."


It is because the judicial system has such a high propensity to cover for all police activity, and that both the judicial system and the police benefit financially from the bootie, that it opens fertile grounds for lawless law enforcement such as above. After all, the aspiration of grasping  expensive and fancy cars, homes and property is too much for them to resist. In fact, the best place for thieves to work is on the police force, for they can be on the payroll while conducting their crimes, enjoy  badge protection, and have a lot of associates.
 
In Hollywood, California a lot of business were being burglarized. It was later discovered that it was the police conducting the burglaries. The story became the subject of establishment cartoons. One newspaper cartoon showed masked burglars peaking around the corner watching police loading stereos and TVs into their squad cars from a business. The caption read, "Oh, shucks, the police beat us to it."
 
Yes, if I were a thief, I'd join the police force. It's time for judicial accountability to break this propensity of encouraging bands of thieves  using uniforms and badges to do their dirty work. I have thousands of news articles of police crimes, some even working as hit men on the side.

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Date: Mon Oct 1, 2001 2:22 am
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Stealing Children For Profit
-Courtesy Of The Federal Gov.'t & U.S. Taxpayers

A State Agency With the Power to 'Kidnap With Impunity'

Tuesday, July 31, 2001
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For Heidi and Neil Howard, giving birth to a terminally ill baby seemed punishment enough. But that was before the Massachusetts Department of Social Services stepped into their lives.

The department came knocking at the door to their home in the form of a "home visitor" sent by the hospital when the Howards' first baby girl was born with terminal health problems.

According to the Massachusetts News, the "home visitor" was a social worker who found the home in disorder. The kitchen was in the process of being remodeled. Over Heidi's objections and without identifying the true purpose of the call, the "home visitor" opened closets and quizzed her about her marriage. Then, she filed a report about the messy home and "stress" in the family stress undoubtedly caused by having a dying child.

Their situation was complicated by a restraining order that Heidi says she was blackmailed into filing: the DSS allegedly threatened to remove their two boys, 10-year-old Christopher and five-year-old Ethan, if Heidi did not register a complaint against her husband even though she insisted no abuse had occurred. With a restraining order on file, the DSS seized the boys in November 1999.

In February 2001, another daughter, Jessica, was seized from her nursing mother on the grounds that the other children were already in DSS custody. No court hearing has been held on the two boys. Chester Darling, an attorney for the Howards, has called the DSS "an agency ... that can kidnap children almost with impunity."

The Howards' case is not unique. Cases like theirs are occurring more frequently because state agencies now have a financial incentive to separate children from their parents and put them up for adoption.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 is explicit about the rewards. Under a section called "Adoption Incentive Payment," the act says a state can receive as much as $4,000 for adopting-out a child. There is even a provision offering technical assistance "through grants or contracts ... to assist States and local communities to reach their targets for increased numbers of adoptions and, to the extent that adoption is not possible, alternative permanent placements, for children in foster care."

The money from incentives, grants, and contracts goes directly into the coffers of child protection agencies when they adopt-out children.

Who benefits? "Social workers, diagnosticians, attorneys, foster homes and group homes, to name a few," says Susan Jackson of CPS Watch, a watchdog organization that monitors Child Protective Services. "These folks are fed by a child abuse industry to the tune of well over $12 billion."

Collectively, they form the Child Abuse Industry.

CPS Watch has been carefully monitoring child abuse investigations since 1998, the year after passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Alaska, it found, reported 15,703 child maltreatment referrals from a child population of 192,261 – or one report for every twelve children – that year.

In 1998, according to a federal Department of Health and Human Services report, Kansas removed 1,872 children from their homes. But only 1,104 of the investigations substantiated the charges of abuse. The report states that 272 children were removed from families for reasons "unknown" in Ohio the same year.

In a recent issue of Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Leslie Doty Hollingsworth cautioned her colleagues about the ethical line they may be crossing.

"Because there are strong financial incentives to increase adoptions, practitioners may be compromised ethically if required to work for reunification and adoptive placement simultaneously," writes Hollingsworth, who teaches at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.

Some organizations believe that the threat to families is severe enough to warrant active non-cooperation with government agencies. For example, the Home School Legal Defense Association – which believes home schoolers are being particularly targeted – tells members of their community to contact them immediately for legal assistance if approached by a social worker.

But the warning came too late for the Howards.

The DSS wanted to put baby Jessica up for adoption, but on July 16th, Judge Robert Belmonte of the Framingham Juvenile Court ordered the baby returned to her parents. At last report, the DSS maintains that the two boys should be adopted out but seems willing to let an aunt and uncle become the adoptive parents.

That way, at least, the DSS would still receive its "adoption incentive payment."

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Our hats are off to Judge Robert Belmonte for doing what was right. Too often, however, the judges across America side with the government rather than the victims of government. Upon the passage of J.A.I.L. we will see a complete turn around of the judiciary to join the likes of Judge Robert Belmonte. -Ron Branson
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HOW MUCH LOSS OF LIBERTY CAN YOU TAKE?
The below was sent to us at J.A.I.L. through one of our JAILers in the State of Vermont. All we can say is that when the people have had enough, they can change it all. But first, they have to have their belly filled with their own desires. Well was it stated by Frederick Douglass a hundred and fifty years ago:
 
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
                                            - Frederick Douglass, Aug. 4, 1857
 
.... The Vermont Legislature ... chose to delete that portion of the Vermont Constitution that allowed the people to throw out their government peacefully by binding referendum. Most recognize that Vermont has replaced its Constitutional Republic with a Socialist Republic.  It has taken control of the use of land, buildings, businesses, jobs, and the economy.  You are still allowed to own property but it's use is controlled by the state through Vermont Statues and rule making by state agencies. 
 
Small businesses are slaves of the state and costs are mandated upon landowners and business owners using statues and rule making. The most recent radical example is the shutting down of a car dealer in Barre using highway barriers for not install separations on his existing Grandfathered parking lot.  Since that case the Vt. Department of
Transportation has mandated cost of these Islands on the state right of
way to business all over the state.  There should be, after all, a right for
a business not to have to pay for upgrades to the highway system from
their own pocket. Examples are in Barre, Vergennes, and Johnson.  Our free market economy has been replaced by a Socialist Market Economy with unreasonable operating cost dictated by the Aristocrats in
Montpelier. 

Title 10, the Billboard Law eliminated billboards and through Rule Making, State Agencies eliminated practically all signs in Vermont.  Many towns like Colchester have moved through regulation to limit the use of camps and cottages to seasonal use only, prohibiting property owners from renting or fully utilizing their property. .... 
 
Republicans suspended the rights of developers using Act 250, Democrats suspended of the rights of citizens under Act 200. The state is collectively planning of the use of land and the establishment of businesses through it's 12 Regional Commissions and the state's current growth control doctrine.  Business hours of operation, and their number of employees, and there very existence, is controlled using Zoning Ordinances, Town Plans, and Town By Laws. 
 
They recently suspended Constitutional rights and enacted a Kangaroo Municipal Ordinance Court similar to the Administrative Traffic Court in which the right to counsel, the right to trial by jury, the right to discovery are all severally limited. Violations of Municipal Ordinances are now cited and violators must appear before the Board of Adjustment and then appeal to the Administrative like Municipal Ordinance Court.
 
The adoption of Historic Preservation Districts, Design Control Districts, Commercial District, Industrial Parks, Growth Centers, along with the multitude of designations such as open space, historic site, scenic vista etc can result in endless violations.  Under Act 200's designations we have evolved into a Socialist Republic.  Some towns have moved to  regulate of the number of bedrooms, the number of building permits,
and have shut down building for a year in violation of the U. S.
Constitution. They have created housing for Seniors only, low income
only, a private transportation system for Seniors and those with limited Income and veterans, Meals on Wheels, subsidized rent for Seniors and Low Income persons. Free meals at Senior Housing, at Senior's Homes,  the distribution of surplus foods have all evolved us into a Socialist Republic. 
Act 60, the Statewide Commercial Property Tax transferred the cost of
education to business, exempting and/or severally limiting education taxes on low income persons and seniors. 
 
Act 15 took the crops of tree farmers by forcing them to get permits, buy expensive forest plans, leave significant parts of their crop on the woodlot. Intimidation, blackmail, extortion and theft of property occur
regularly to permit applicants. 
 
Applicants are intimidated into meeting town plans and zoning.  Permit applicants are also required to give up rights and land for bike paths, parks and other amenities at the cost of the landowner or business owners as a condition for granting permits. Blackmail occurs when
land and business owners are forced to accept the regulation of the
number of employees, the hours of operation, and meet unusual
conditions for the granting of permits such as those found in criteria 8,
Aesthetic of Act 250. ....
Extortion actually occurs when permit applicants for large
projects are forced to give up their property, such as the 166 acres
farm in Williston. Others were been required to accept the designation of
80 acres of their land as "deer habitat" and a process of seeking permission from the state to cut wood on one's private property.  Others were required to shut down businesses and lodging using the new Municipal Court.
Towns retroactively adopted "Industrial Zoning" to ongoing operations and issue notice of violations, "lodging in an industrial area."  Still
others are persecuted by Town Listers, Town Planners, the Department of Evaluation and Review, Department of Labor and Industry, the Natural
Resources Agency and the Health Department. 
 
Vermont mandates upgrades to the Metropolitan 1997 Life Safety Code on existing ongoing grandfathered small businesses, shutting down their
operation. ....
All these things and a multitude of others have resulted in an evolution to a socialist republic under the control of aristocrats in Montpelier through state agencies. Only the ... financial secure can get through the permit process simply by buying their way through the process, with the costs passed on to the people.
 
Tom Morse



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Date: Thu Oct 4, 2001 6:02 am
Subject: It's All About Oil
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It's all about the "O" word!

From Judicial Watch
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October 1, 2001

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Bush Sr. in business with bin Laden family conglomerate through Carlyle Group.

Washington, DC --   Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall Street Journal report of yesterday that George
H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice.

(Other top Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly been “disowned” by his family, which runs a
multi-billion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush’s firm.
 
Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business’s bank records.
 
Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush’s father’s association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a “conflict of interest (which) could cause problems for America’s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia.”

Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from the firm then. “This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President’s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a
company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible.
 
President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out
of the Carlyle Group,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. “This has the potential of making 'Billygate’  (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s dealings with Libya) look like small
potatoes,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
It's all about the "O" word!
 
The brother of Osama bin Laden, Salem bin Laden was killed mysteriously in 1988 after his plane, an BAC 1-11, crashed in Texas soon after a meeting concerning an "oil deal" with George Bush. It is time for the American people to wake up and demand the truth.

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Date: Tue Oct 9, 2001 5:02 am
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Indicting The Department of Justice
 
Below is a letter from Rodney Stich to Attorney General John Ashcroft regarding the September 11 hijacking. Allow me to say that I personally know Rodney Stich who is a supporter of J.A.I.L. He was our keynote speaker along with State Senator Don Rogers at J.A.I.L's first fundraiser held at the AirTel Hotel in Van Nuys, CA. His credentials are impeccable, and he is indeed an authority wherein he speaks.
 
What you will find below is an indictment upon the Department of Justice covered up by the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. The government has done everything it could to silence Rodney, who has shown himself to be a staunch patriot.  -Ron Branson
 
*   *   *

LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT

By: RODNEY STICH 
From the desk of Rodney Stich 
P.O. Box 5, Alamo, CA 94507;

Phone: 925-944-1930;
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DRUGGING AMERICA, &
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October 2, 2001

John Ashcroft 
U.S. Attorney General 
U.S. Department of Justice 
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 
Washington, DC 20530 Certified mail: 7000 1670 0012 2751 8650

Reference: Response to your request for information related to September 11, 2001 terrorist activities

To Mr. Ashcroft:

As a former federal air safety inspector-investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration and a confidant to many present and former federal agents, I have acquired a great amount of knowledge and evidence relating to the September 11 deadly hijackings and related matters.

For the purpose of this letter, reference is to the terrorist threat and how a culture within certain federal agencies aided and abetted and insured the success of the hijackers on September 11, 2001, and future terrorist attacks.

For credibility, I am a former federal inspector-investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration; a former airline pilot with significant piloting experience in the Middle East, carrying Muslim and Arab passengers to Mecca and Medina from various parts of the Middle East; years of contacts with federal agents who conveyed considerable information to me-including agents of the FBI, DEA, Customs, and CIA, including former heads of secret CIA airlines and CIA financial operations who had information relating to terrorists.

The success of the hijackers on September 11th, and many prior fatal hijackings, would not have occurred if the corruption that I documented did not exist. These conditions still exist and will undoubtedly play a key role in future terrorist attacks and other adverse actions against the people of the United States. This letter provides highlights of this misconduct and makes a record that you and your office have been informed of these matters. ....

While I was an FAA air safety inspector-investigator, holding federal air safety responsibilities for the most senior program at United Airlines, during a period of numerous airline crashes, I documented a pattern of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, and corruption within the Federal Aviation Administration.

Among the areas of FAA misconduct were pressure and threats against federal air safety inspectors not to report or act upon major air safety and even criminal activities, despite the repeated occurrence of fatal airline crashes due to these problems; refusal to act upon reports requiring changes to prevent hijackings that I and other federal air safety inspectors made, and many other areas of major air safety violations for which the FAA had a legal duty to take corrective action.

Compounding this misconduct, inspectors making these reports were harassed and threatened, their official reports destroyed, and their lives and careers adversely affected. This is the deadly culture that resulted in many fatal airline crashes, including the prior airline crash into New York City, by United Airlines, that was the world’s worst air disaster at that time.

The cover-up of the corruption within the FAA made possible the continuation of the federal offenses and the associated fatalities. The September 11, 2001, tragedies with over 6,000 deaths were simply another consequence of the internal FAA problems and the cover-up of 
these problems by Justice Department personnel.

I documented these FAA offenses while I was an FAA inspector, and proved their relationship to several specific airline crashes, which included the earlier United Airlines crash into New York City. The hard-core corrupt and criminal misconduct within the FAA, going into the FAA administrator’s office, can be associated with years of specific airline crashes, and constitutes substantial evidence showing how it insured the success of the September 11, 2001, air tragedies.

Throughout this period of fraud-related air tragedies, Justice Department personnel repeatedly blocked efforts to expose these serious federal 
offenses, thereby aiding and abetting the FAA misconduct, which in turn insured the success of the hijacking terrorists. The available evidence supports this relationship. And now, the same Justice Department is covering up for the wrongdoings that in this latest instance took the lives of 6,000 people!

Highlights Of FAA Corruption Making Possible Major Air Disasters

In my role as a federal air safety inspector, assisted by many years of experience as an airline captain, navy flight instructor, and navy patrol plane commander in World War II, I made numerous reports and the required corrective actions addressing air safety and criminal violations affecting air safety. Many of these reports required prompt corrective actions for which the FAA had responsibility to act. In almost every case, the reports that I and other inspectors made were ignored, despite the pattern of resulting fatal airline crashes.

Nonfeasance Compounded By Tragedy-Related Criminal Misconduct

The reaction to these official reports included (1) warnings not to submit such reports as the office would look bad when airline accidents resulted from the problems; (2) felony destruction of the official reports which were often followed by resulting fatal airline crashes; (3) threats, harassment, and retaliatory actions against federal air safety inspectors when the officially required reports continued to be made. ....

The actions I took, which started initially in addressing the corruption blocking the federal government from meeting its air safety responsibilities, included the following:

     · I acted as an independent prosecutor, conducting a four-month-long FAA hearing during which I obtained testimony and considerable evidence showing this culture of malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, corruption, and during the hearing, perjury and subornation of perjury. Two fatal crashes occurred in my area of responsibilities during that hearing that were caused by the very same air safety problems and criminal activities that I documented. Transcripts and documentation is 
available to show this relationship.

     · I reported these federal offenses to the National Transportation Safety Board (Bureau of air safety in the CAB at that time), to the FBI, to several U.S. attorneys, and then to the Department of Justice in Washington. Possibly because of the gravity of the criminal activities and the direct relationship to many fatal airline crashes, the response was a cover-up and obstruction of justice.

     · This response made possible the continuation of the air safety and criminal violations, and as expected, a continuation of the resulting crashes and deaths. (These matters are detailed and documented in the third edition of Unfriendly Skies.)

     · Seeking to circumvent the obstruction of justice, I appeared before a federal grand jury in Denver. Although individual jurors admitted the gravity of what I was stating, the blockage by the U.S. attorney kept the jury from taking any action.

     · As a federal agent, I filed formal complaints with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and encountered a pattern of cover-ups and false statements. ....

     · Refusing to be a part of the criminal activities in the FAA, I resigned from the FAA. As the air disasters continued to occur from the FAA culture, I exercised other federal remedies. I filed the first of several lawsuits in Ninth Circuit federal courts seeking to report the criminal activities to a federal judge under the federal crime reporting statute and under a citizen’s right to seek a court order forcing federal officials to perform their legal duties and to halt their unlawful conduct. District and 
appellate judges admitted the gravity of the allegations made in the lawsuit, but after U.S. attorneys filed motions to block the lawsuits, they were dismissed. These dismissals were followed by even worse air disasters due to the same FAA culture.

     · Seeking to circumvent the massive cover-ups and obstruction of justice, I used my considerable assets to make the public aware of this pattern of corruption by people in key government positions. I authored and published the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, (which is now in its third edition). I also started appearing as a guest and expert on hundreds of radio and television shows. These activities were funded by my real estate investments and threatened to expose people in key positions in 
the three branches of the federal government. 

Discovering Other Areas Of Corruption In Government

As my books and radio and television appearances became known, other government agents provided me information and documentation on still other areas of corruption in government that could be expected on the basis of the corruption that I discovered as a federal inspector.

The gravity of the additional information and documentation caused me to again exercise the responsibilities under the federal crime reporting statute (Title 18 U.S.C. § 4) to report these matters to federal judges, who had the mandatory responsibility to receive the information and evidence. Their reaction would eventually insure the success of the September 11, 2001, hijackers:

     · Federal judges repeatedly refused to receive the data and evidence that I and my group of other former and present federal agents sought to report. These federal offenses included the documented corruption in the FAA and by people in other key government positions. These corrupt and criminal activities and the standard obstruction of justice offenses are described in three books: Unfriendly Skies, Defrauding America, and Drugging America.

     · Federal judges issued unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring me, for the remainder of my life, from access to the district and appellate courts. These orders (1) blocked the reporting of these criminal activities, and (2) blocked me from defending against judicial acts that corruptly seized the $10 million in real estate that funded my exposure of the criminal and corrupt activities. (Further information about the actions taken to block my exposure of the criminal activities and the involvement of federal judges can be found in a pending federal lawsuit at the Internet site:

     http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lawsuit_reno.html.

     · When I discovered other criminal activities from government agents and sought to report these matters, as required under the federal crime reporting statute, Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges charged me with criminal contempt of court (on the basis that I had been barred for the remainder of my life from federal court access). From 1986 to 1995, these two groups had me charged me with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report these criminal activities. This retaliation, for reporting matters that made the World Trade Center 1993 bombing and September 11, 2001, hijackings possible reflects the role of Justice Department personnel and federal judges in the corruption that made possible the death of 6,000 people on September 11, and made possible other crimes against the American people by persons acting under cover of government positions.

Justice Department Corruption Aided Funding Of Terrorist Cells

Justice Department misconduct aided and abetted various terrorist cells located in the New Jersey and New York areas which were later implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the September 11, 2001, hijackings. Details of these activities, as provided to me by government agents, are found in the book I wrote, Drugging America. The book describes how Justice Department personnel blocked federal agents from arresting people whose drug activities funded terrorist cells, some of which subsequently bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and the cells who planned to place bombs on 11 U.S. airliners departing from Far East locations.

Evidence indicates that some of these same terrorist cells, protected by Justice Department personnel, were responsible for the September 11, 2001, hijackings. Further aid to the hijackers was the corrupt culture in the FAA that had been covered-up by Justice Department personnel for decades, as proven by my letters and judicial records.

In addition to blocking the drug-related funding of the terrorists, Justice Department personnel falsely charged, prosecuted, and brought about the imprisonment of the head of a federal drug task force who was targeting the drug activities that funded the terrorist cells. My attempt to report these activities under the federal crime reporting statute was blocked by federal judges and Justice Department personnel, who then retaliated against me for seeking to make these reports.

(Details in my three books and on the web sites: http://www.defraudingamerica.com; http://www.unfriendlyskies.com; and http://www.druggingamerica.com.)

FBI and CIA Personnel Making SAM Missiles Available to Afghan Terrorists

Another of the many areas of misconduct involving Justice Department personnel-which provided further aid to the terrorist groups-occurred in 1995. General Rashid Dostum, head of one of the groups constituting the Afghanistan Northern Alliance, who was fighting Osama bin Laden and fighting to keep the Taliban from taking control of Afghanistan, offered to provide the United States with several dozen surface-to-air missiles and possibly as many as 100. Negotiations arising out of this offer      occurred in Los Angeles and involved CIA and FBI personnel, and a friend of mine who was at one time the titular head of a secret CIA financial operation based in Hawaii. It was also known that Afghan terrorists were bidding on these missiles, which could be expected to be used against U.S. airliners.

These contacts with a key fighting group in northern Afghanistan provided the United States an excellent opportunity to obtain their cooperation to fight the Afghan terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, and prevent the Taliban group from taking control of Afghanistan.

FBI and CIA personnel involved in the Los Angeles negotiations refused to accept the surface-to-air missiles and refused to cooperate with General Dostum. This CIA and FBI conduct caused my CIA source great concern for subsequent missile attacks upon U.S. airliners from surface to air missiles that would be obtained by Afghan terrorists, including the Osama bin Laden al Quida group. ....

Withholding this information from the public keeps the same culture, the same people, the same adversaries, in the decision-making process as the United States seeks to prevent more terrorist activities!

Withholding this information protects those whose corrupt acts played a key role in the 6,000 recent deaths and the incalculable financial and other harm inflicted upon the United States. The people perpetrating these acts that insured the success of the hijackers are also adversaries to America and its people.

Protecting them subverts the process necessary by America to defend against the terrorist threat. Based upon the 40 years of documented Justice Department misconduct, the same cover-up can be expected to continue, which will insure further harm to the American people.

Sincerely,

Rodney Stich
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Date: Tue Oct 9, 2001 11:44 pm
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Questions raised after 2 jailed for contempt
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SARASOTA COUNTY -- Kathie Lockhart sobbed while guards led her 17-year-old son Mike, bound in shackles and handcuffs, into court.

In a nearby room, John Rhoads waited anxiously for the proceedings in 12th Circuit Court Judge Robert McDonald's courtroom to begin.

Rhoads, 19, reflected on the night before, spent locked in a jail cell with men accused of rape, drug dealing and other crimes, and shuddered.

Twenty-four hours earlier, he and his friend Mike testified in McDonald's courtroom as witnesses. This day, Sept. 7, they would stand before the judge to fight for their freedom and question a judicial system that sent them to jail for telling their side of the story.

Some attorneys also question whether the surprising turn of events for these young men from North Port could impact the court system itself. They question a judge's ability to lock up witnesses he believes to have lied, when no proof exists, and many are troubled that the young men were not allowed an extended proceeding with representatives to argue their side.

Some attorneys wonder whether the judge's decision could deter other witnesses from testifying. According to court documents, on the day McDonald held Lockhart and Rhoads in contempt, two other juveniles entered pleas in their cases because their witnesses were apprehensive about telling their version of the story.

Holding an individual in contempt of court is not uncommon. Holding a witness in contempt of court for perjury, without any evidence and without the benefit of a proceeding, is rare. ....

McDonald ... brought Lockhart and Rhoads back into the courtroom. According to court records, he accused the two of perjury and asked if either could show any reason why they should not be held in contempt of court.

Neither did, so McDonald sentenced Rhoads to 30 days in jail. Lockhart, a juvenile, received five days in a juvenile detention center. Vowell got probation.

If judges can hold witnesses in contempt for perjury without evidence, testimony will be affected, said Lockhart's attorney, Brett McIntosh.

"It's a scary proposition to know that if you testify about what you saw, you could be yanked away and sent to jail," McIntosh said. "If this begins to happen on a regular basis, witnesses could be reluctant to testify."

McIntosh and Rhoads' attorney, Cassandra Gorton, is appealing the judge's order to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. A ruling was not imminent. Until the court hears their appeal, McDonald has stayed the pair's sentences.

"These boys went to court as witnesses," Gorton said. "They didn't have lawyers; there was no one to speak up on their behalf. ....

McDonald was not required to grant Lockhart and Rhoads a jury trial because their sentences ran for fewer than six months. However, other Florida courts have required extended court proceedings for witnesses found in contempt for perjury. ....

"I think about it every day, and it scares me," Rhoads said. "Those two days were the worst experience of my life. I never want to go back there again."

Rhoads and Lockhart both question the logic of the judge's decision, to send them to jail and give Vowell probation.

 

Comments: "No person shall...be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;" Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution.
 
Here, Lockhart and Rhoads were subpoenaed by the court to testify. They had no counsel to advise or to defend them. They were accused as witnesses of perjury and sentenced without due process or evidence establishing their guilt, and now face jail time.
 
We are told, "McDonald was not required to grant Lockhart and Rhoads a jury trial because their sentences ran for fewer than six months." Is jail a deprivation of one's liberty? You better believe it.
 
No jury trial? "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury..." Sixth Amendment, U.S. Constitution.
 
Tell me, pray tell, what does "all" mean in the context of "In all criminal prosecutions?" Does it mean except those sentenced less than six months? How much is six months out of your life worth? Am I crazy, or am I somehow misunderstanding the word "ALL" in the Constitution? I make no claim to be an English Professor, but I thought I understood the word "all." Somehow, the courts do not have the same understanding of "all" that I have.
 
It is my opinion that when the word "all" is at issue before the Special Grand Juries created by J.A.I.L., those citizens will have a different understanding of "all" than these judges hold. Even a man accused of a seat belt violation, no insurance, or jay-walking is entitled to a jury trial. Isn't that what "all" means, and what our Founding Fathers intended? 
 
"He [King George III] has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution ... For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:"       Declaration of Independence
 
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Date: Sat Oct 13, 2001 8:42 pm
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A New Twist Against Judges
 
 
Convicted Killer Wins Appeal Over Judge's Drug Use
 
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October 13, 2001  pg. A18
by Henry Weinstein,
Times Legal Affairs Writer
 
A man who has spent nearly 20 years on death row in Arizona is entitled to have his sentence reconsidered because the judge who imposed it was addicted to marijuana at the time, a sharply divided federal appeals court ruled Friday.
 
"The experts tell us that we can tolerate a certain number of insignificant parts of arsenic in our drinking water and a certain irreducible number of insect parts in our edible grain supplies," U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen S. Trott wrote in the 2-to-1 decision. "But we need not, and we should not, similarly tolerate a single drug-addicted jurist whose judgment is impaired, especially in a case involving life-and-death decisions.
 
"If it is against the law to drive a vehicle under the influence of marijuana, surely it must be at least equally offensive to allow a judge in a similar condition to preside over a capital trial," added Trott, a former prosecutor who was appointed by President Reagan.
 
Judge Alex Kozinski issued a sharp dissent, maintaining that his colleagues had taken "a giant leap into the unknown by ordering discovery and a hearing on whether Judge [Philip] Marquardt's marijuana addiction affected his rulings."
...
In Arizona, a state trial judge has the sole power to determine whether a defendant convicted of first-degree murder receives a death sentence. That differs from most states where jurors are asked to make a recommendation.
...
The Arizona attorney's general's office conceded that Marquardt's use of the drug was in full bloom at the time of the trial....
 
Marquardt's marijuana problem emerged several years after the trial. In 1991, he pleaded guilty to a felony involving a conspiracy to possess marijuana and "admitted to suffering from an addiction to the drug," Trott wrote. This was Marquardt's second conviction involving the use of marijuana.
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"The majority's opinion will open the floodgates to similar claims by --quite literally-- tens of thousands of state and federal prisoners within this circuit," Kozinski wrote.
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Trott, joined by Circuit Judge Sidney R. Thomas, scoffed at Kozinski's prediction of dire consequences. "We seriously doubt the inflated assertion that thousands of state and federal judges will somehow fall within the ultra violet rays cast by our holding," Trott wrote.
 
On the other hand, "if Judge Kozinski's speculation about the vulnerable state of the judiciary should surprisingly turn out to be correct and that our benches are indeed occupied by judges against whom similar cases involving illegal drug usage and addiction can be made, this would seem to be an argument in favor of an inquiry, not a reason to look the other way," Trott wrote.
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Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet, an expert on judicial behavior, said Trott's reasoning seemed unassailable but added that he understood Kozinski's concerns about a large number of investigations based on similar claims. "This case exposes the raw intersection of judicial decision making and administrative imperatives," Lubet said.
 
*   *   *

Judge Steve Trott and I have known each other on a friendly basis for the past twenty years. Every time one of my cases came before Trott in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Trott made known his knowledge of me to the other side and excused himself from the case.
 
Prior to his appointment to U.S. Attorney by President Ronald Reagan for the County of Los Angeles and six other California Counties, and then to the Ninth Circuit, Trott and I sat down and had a serious discussion on Constitutional issues and intents of our Founding Fathers.  I was at the right place at the right time.             - Ron Branson

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Federalizing National Security
The King Midas touch in reverse.
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"How many union workers does it take to change a light bulb? Thirty-seven. You gotta problem wit dat, pal?"

After tragic events on September 11th, Congress is huffing over airport security with typical myopic pomp. ... trying to sneak something dangerous under our own domestic radar screen. More frightening than
bombs, potentially more deadly than Anthrax, Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle is calling for a "federalization" of the security staffers who run our Swiss-cheese security system.
 
That's right, folks. Remember the gang that brought you welfare, midnight basketball and the $687 hammer? Now, they want to be America's baggage inspectors. Feel safer?

Let's consider the typical government employee. You've probably met one. Maybe it was half-blind Marge at the Department of Motor Vehicles, who went to lunch just before your turn to take the driver's test. Or that local zoning officer who fined you $50 for your azalea bush growing 5 inches over the sidewalk, but took 14 weeks to issue a building permit for your deck. It might have been that tax form you requested eight months ago to satisfy the request the IRS made ten months ago that they told you
wasn't needed five months ago, even though you keep getting a monthly letter demanding you send in that form. Or the phone call you made to some long forgotten department that kept ringing and ringing and ringing.

Sure, Senator Daschle. Half-blind Marge just transferred in from the DMV. Let's have her work the X-ray machine.

Just the thought of a federalized safety employee should scare anyone into driving the family sedan. Government bureaucracies create amazing incompetence, wasting gargantuan slabs of money while hardly able to keep track of themselves.
 
The Department of Defense spent an impressive 200 billion bucks on obsolete four-year-old computers, which were used to buy 30 billion of
unnecessary spare parts. The DOD even lost a few billion dollars worth of airplanes. You know, those big things with wings? You may have seen them plowing into the World Trade Center a few weeks back. They aren't really sure how many planes vanished, or where they are. But with 161 separate accounting systems at DOD. How could anyone know?
 
The Pentagon is but a microcosm of the entire bloated federal bureaucracy, which safely stands guilty of creating more mess and
mayhem than it ever fixes.

So why is Daschle all excited about "federalizing" baggage inspectors?
Simple: Unions. Today, there are 2 million federal employees, at a combined annual salary of $170,000,000,000. Most are unionized. That's a lot of union dues. ....

So why is that frightening? Because most unions have mutated from collectively representing the working man into a collective refuge for lazy, leeching dolts, driving the union workplace into bovine mediocrity. Painters unions often outlaw rollers. Teachers unions fight to maintain
frightening incompetence in our schools. Philadelphia's convention center is so rooted in union turf battles, hours of heated debates result over make-work rules, often providing entertaining fistfights while jobs are sorted out. And union corruption is legendary.

At least the private sector forces unions and management into a healthy dead wood elimination battle. That doesn't exist anywhere in the federal bureaucracy. Hooray! We get the worst of both worlds. Government
employees are virtually impossible to fire, fully protected from anything short of a direct atomic blast. Once aboard the government gravy train, you have a job as long as your breath faintly fogs a mirror.

Comforting to think of a unionized government employee in charge of weeding terrorists from tourists, eh?

Certainly, government workers know who butters their bread. .... No
wonder Tom Daschle is almost slobbering at the thought of thousands of new union members.

I gotta hand it to Daschle. In the middle of a national crisis, he's sharp enough to exploit a political crack. ... That's how we got into our current war in the first place. We must seriously question the wisdom of staffing our nation's security apparatus with typical government employees [who] ... defend their right of mediocrity in exchange for money, bribes and election votes.
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Date: Sat Oct 20, 2001 7:56 am
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 Order from Chaos

By Jack McLamb (ex-soldier, retired law enforcement officer)
 
October 12, 2001 -- Most Americans don't understand that FEAR from crime and terrorist attacks is used by evil men in high places to move America toward the World Government system promoted by both Republican and Democratic Socialists in power.

Sadly, dear countrymen, we watch as good, but gullible fellow Americans now unwittingly swoon with tears of joy in their eyes, at the thought of our foreign "friends" in NATO uniforms flying over this nation helping to protect us, just as they will when more planned terrorist attacks in the U.S. (in the future) cause them to not "ask", but DEMAND, their leaders send foreign "friends" in United Nations uniforms into our nation with their guns and equipment to protect us. It is so simple when the people are uninformed.

Some of us with a military background know that NATO is the step child of the U.N. and completely under control of that Marxist lead organization, but few non-military countrymen understand this. Therefore, it is the anti-American, Marxist leadership of the United Nations who are flying over America and within whom we are trusting our air security.

Of course, World Government promoter, and pro-United Nations "Christian" president Bush, knows, as did his daddy, that vast amounts of FEAR (as in terrorism) is vital to his being allowed to condition all Americans to seeing and praising NATO and United Nations troops in the air and on U.S. streets, for providing our internal security, as ultimately, we Americans can't be the only nation in his papa's "utopian" New World Order that is not under the direct control of global government U.N. forces.

As our dear president's "saintly" father George Bush the First stated in June 1988, "Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge." And Feb. 1, 1992 at the United Nations: "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." - Pres. George Bush. And one of his mentors Leventria Beria, head of the KGB in Russia in 1933, while speaking to students at Lenin University, stated: "By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. to produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, economic depression and scientific turmoil."

Why chaos (FEAR, etc.)?

As our nation's Masonic Lodge members tell us "Order ab Chao". (High 33 degree Masons wear a Medalian with this motto on it.) Which means..."out of chaos comes ORDER...a new world order." Our founding fathers and others of that time in history, knew of the treasonist programs which evil men would use to cause fear and chaos at such a level that the people would allow them to protect them by "blessing" them with draconian measures which enslaved the people for their own protection.

And our forefathers warned us to be vigilant of such men and their despotic machinations. Thomas Jefferson said " Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper #8 warned us of men with such dialectical programs: "The continual alarm on a state of continual danger will compel the people most attached to liberty to resort for security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they (the People) become willing to risk their freedoms."

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Jack McLamb is a good friend of J.A.I.L.'s author. J.A.I.L. would like to add the predictive words of Henry Kissinger, "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful."  Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991.
 
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 

#455 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:19 am
Subject: ** The Very Name: 'JAIL4Judges'
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J.A.I.L. News Journal
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Los Angeles, California                                          October 20, 2001 
 
The Very Name: 'JAIL4Judges'
 
 
Let us understand some things.  Everything we do is done out in the open for all to see in contradistinction to the way government operates.  Most of what government does is based upon assumption, presumption and deceit.  And when government does do something out in the open, it is covered with a mask of abuse of the use of language in an obfuscating manner by sophists of the First Order. 
 
The primary difference between these modern day Masked Men and their counterparts of yesteryear is their first attack is done with a briefcase and a license in a courtroom instead of with a gun on horseback at the stagecoach.  Instead of robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, they rob from the poor, keep part, and give the rest to rich. That IS the source of the power they exercise over us, and they know it.
 
The very name JAIL4Judges inflicts terror in their hearts long before they understand the meaning and provisions of J.A.I.L.  When they finally do understand J.A.I.L., they know it will return the reins of power and the Reign of Power to We, the Posterity.  If you think for one minute they will ever say "Yes, JAILers.. you are right", you are living in the Ideasphere of Innocence.  The larger we grow, the more powerful we become, the more public attention we receive, the more pressure they will exert upon us.  Therefore, it behooves us all to accept this fact and do whatever we can to protect ourselves, our families, and our property from attack.  Their attacks will come evermore frequently, evermore severe, and in evermore unlawful, strange, and unexpected times and ways.  Let us use the intellect we have been given as a Gift from Nature to guard against those attacks.
 
Think about this.  For almost 20 years civil government has adapted military training processes and procedures to train and condition its civilian law enforcement people.  Military training is designed to protect the lives of soldiers from the hands of the enemy in a hostile land at time of war.  It has no proper place in the enforcement of civil law in a peaceful free society.  Those Security Guards at government buildings, those metal detection devices which we must pass through, are all part of the result of a siege mentality.  They aren't there because of JAIL4Judges.  They are there because government knows it has abused the people so deep and long that even the most peaceful citizens have cause to storm the castle with pitchforks and sickle in hand. 
 
How many times can you remember seeing a judge or a cop out of uniform mingling with the people at social or business events in your community?  Said another way, how many times can you remember seeing one of them behaving like an ordinary citizen?  Why are they afraid to do so?  Isn't it because they know they have cause to fear the people?  And JAIL4Judges is basically an assembly of abused people with their backs to the wall, who won't accept any more abuse.  And from that perspective, we are dangerous to them. The very name JAIL4Judges inflicts terror in their hearts.
 
Ron Loeber
Lt. JAILer-In-Chief
New York J.A.I.L.

On this day, October 20th, 2001, JAIL4Judges took on its 47th state, Minnesota.  J.A.I.L. shall grow and grow with frustrated citizens of every walk and shade until it shall dominate the political scene and it's name be upon everyone's lips.     -Ron Branson
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  AddRemove@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 

#456 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Thu Oct 25, 2001 6:58 am
Subject: The First Amendment Warfare In Biddeford, Maine
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What you are about to read is both humorous and serious. There is a saying that if you are not having fun, you're not doing it right, and these folks are "doing it right!"
 
The below incident provoked a Maine newspaper reporter to write an  article centering on the First Amendment, presenting a picture of a City Council getting their butt's kicked and now licking their wounds.
 
The newspaper, however, printed an error in stating 'Wednesday evening's "Maine Forum" featured two guys from New York who founded "Jail4Judges," a small but vocal bunch...'  J.A.I.L. may ask the newspaper to print a correctional statement regarding the founder that will also afford J.A.I.L. the opportunity to set forth that J.A.I.L. is not a 'small but local bunch.'  Now enjoy the humor.
 
The First Amendment Warfare in Biddeford, Maine
 
We had been in contact for some time with two JAILers, Dottie LaFortune and Phil Castora, up in Biddeford, Maine.  You may remember that Dottie has her own Public access TV show called Maine Forum and Bill Gage [NY JAILer-In-Chief] was a guest on the show a couple of months ago.  It turns out that Phil is retired and was a detective for 30 years (see www.www.geocities.com/maineforum, click on  "Government Corruption." Also, you can see more info under "Archives.") AND... a City Councilman in Biddeford.
 
It seems that Dottie has been creating quite a stir since she started Maine Forum on local Public Access TV in April.  Back in July she aired a tape produced by Phil about local politics, local banks, and local corruption.  As a result, the Mayor of the City of Biddeford requested the Public Access Committee to review the tape for improper content, slander, and violations of law.  The report from The Committee that the tape complied with the provisions of the public access television laws simply was not acceptable to the Mayor.  Using what the Mayor defined as her discretionary power as "Chief Magistrate" of the City of Biddeford, she ordered Dottie not to again air the Castora "tape as previously shown."   Dottie aired a small portion of it and hell broke lose.  The Mayor issued an Order banning Dottie from Public Access TV and warned that she be arrested is she steps a foot in the TV station.
 
Dottie, being a Red-Blooded American Patriot who was facing the Guillotine of local politics, was not about to back down.  Dottie and her lawyer had filed a First Amendment Complaint against the City in United States District Court in Portland and also asked for a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) against the City.
 
When the Mayor found out the federal Judge refused to grant the TRO on the basis that Dottie had not yet been damaged, the city considered it a victory.  A vote of the City Council upholding the Mayor's Order against Dottie was placed on the agenda of the Counsel meeting on Tuesday, October the 16th. 
 
Tuesday evening Bill Gage and Ron Loeber attended the Biddeford City Council meeting along with Dottie, her lawyer, and many friends and other concerned citizens. What we witnessed was a disgrace to the people of Biddeford, Maine and confirmed what Dottie and Phil had already told us.  As we watched the Mayor preside over this public meeting, we realized that she was running the meeting like a dictatorial tyrant in a despotic court proceeding the likes of which caused our ancestors to take up arms against the Crown. Even though the Council policy allowed the public to comment on the orders (Resolutions) in front of them, the Mayor slammed down the gavel if SHE thought the public was not precisely on point.
 
Everyone was allowed to speak and ask questions for exactly 5 minutes.  After exactly 4.5 minutes, the Mayor would interrupt with, "you have 30 seconds left, sir."  Interestingly, the Council never answered a single question.  Bill Gage and Ron Loeber, wearing the Key to J.A.I.L. as a medallion, spoke at the City Council meeting as a"Friend of the Council" much like one would appear in court as a "Friend of the Court".  Among other things, Bill and Ron told the Mayor that since Ditto's lawyer just informed the Council of the many violations of law in the City's actions against Dottie, we believed we had a duty, as a "Friend of the Council", to warn them.  We believed, because they now have knowledge of serious questions of law, any further actions on the part of the City would be deemed "willful"... resulting in the piercing of the corporate Veil of Immunity and leaving the Mayor and Council members personally liable as well.  It was like a Sprint Commercial.  You could hear a pin drop. 
 
One of the Council Members gave a long and passionate speech against the actions of the Mayor.  At the end of his speech, all the people observing the meeting applauded and the Mayor's gavel came crashing down again... several times.  The Mayor warned all at the meeting that if another such "outburst" occurred, we would be removed from the meeting by the authorities.  Ron Loeber was unable to contain himself.  Standing up and addressing the Mayor, Ron said that if the citizens are prohibited from the Natural Expression of their appreciation for the eloquent and impassioned words of a Red-Blooded American Patriot who is a member of government, he doesn't have to be removed from the meeting because he was voluntarily leaving... and did so with flair.
 
A vote was taken.  One of the council members had already left.  The outcome was a tie vote of 4 to 4, giving the Mayor the opportunity to cast the deciding vote.  Bolstered by her "win" in United States District Court the previous day, we don't have to tell you how she voted.
 
At 3 PM the next afternoon (Wednesday), Dottie and her lawyer were back in United States District Court on a renewed motion for the TRO.  Bill Gage and Ron Loeber we there... quietly sitting in the back of the courtroom, finely dressed in their NYJAIL4Judges T-shirts and both wearing their Key to J.A.I.L. again. 
 
The District Court Judge listened to the oral arguments of Dottie's lawyer and Biddeford's lawyer and interrogated both of them.  This time it was different.  When the judge was satisfied, he told the lawyers that long before the court resolved any questions pertaining to the 1st Amendment, there were serious violations of state law which should be decided first.  He actually questioned the validity and authority of the Biddeford City Council in this whole matter of Biddeford Public Access TV. 
 
He asked the two lawyers if they would like the court to take a five minute recess BEFORE he made his Decision to see if they couldn't work out an agreement. The City's lawyer disappeared to find a pay phone.  Five minutes later court reconvened and the judge immediately reminded the City's lawyer that he was in federal court and asked if he had the "authority to bind his client."  It was agreed that the City of Biddeford would NOT enforce the Mayor's order or the 5 to 4 Resolution of the City Council while Dottie's 1st Amendment Civil Rights Complaint went forward.  The Maine Forum was back on the air.  And we have received word that Dottie's Civil Rights Trial is scheduled for June of  2002. Stay tuned.
 
It is proper we give positive comment about the Hon. D. Brock Hornby, US District Court. It is our opinion that the people of Maine are fortunate to have a federal judge who demonstrated wisdom and skill on that day. He could have signed the TRO and given the City the opportunity to spend countless public dollars on endless appeals which Dottie would have been incapable of defending for lack of funds.
 
At seven PM on Wednesday, The Maine Forum ran a special live two hour call-in talk show with Bill Gage and Ron Loeber as guests.  The phone line rang constantly.  Bill was in rare form... even referring to the Mayor as acting like "Hitler's goose-stepping niece."  Most people called in to congratulate Dottie on her 1st Amendment victory. But a couple of callers were vindictive.  One caller suggested that the rights of a citizen were based on paying taxes.  Bill actually lost his cool on that one.  He flew into orbit like we have never seen him do before. 
 
After the show he attempted to apologize to the Director of Public Access TV.  His attempted apology was refused with, "...we need more guys like you on Public Access.  When are you coming back?"  After the show, supporters showed up at Dottie's home for a celebration.  Even the local state representative came.  Everyone seemed to appreciate Bill's outrage.
 
It was announced on the show that Dottie, Bill and Ron would be having breakfast at the Golden Rooster at 10 AM on Thursday and anyone who wanted to talk about forming a MEJAIL4Judges was invited. This even is recounted in the newspaper article below. MEJAIL4Judges will hold its first organizing meeting on January 12, 2002.  Stay tuned for location and details.
 
Several questions have come to mind as a result of the proceedings in federal court.  We wonder from whom the City's lawyer garnered this authority to reverse a legislative action of the City Council.  Could it perhaps be that lawyers in Maine share in the Divine Right of Kings with the judges?  Did the Mayor, during the five minute recess of the federal court, convene a special meeting of the City council and take another vote... without public notice?  Or did the Mayor exercise Emergency Powers and override the vote of the City Council?  If so, did the Mayor declare a State of Emergency?  Doesn't the pile just seem to get deeper and deeper?

Bill GAGE,
NYJAILer-IN-Chief, Associate Commander-In-Chief J.A.I.L.
Ron Loeber, Lt. NYJAILer-In-Chief
 
Below is the newspaper story by the reporter from the PRESS HERALD who joined us at the Golden Rooster on Thursday morning. 
 

PRESS HERALD ~ Friday, October 19, 2001 ~ COLUMN: Bill Nemitz
Free speech gets workout in Biddeford
Copyright © 2001 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
 
They filled the back of the Golden Rooster Restaurant in Saco on Thursday morning, feasting on bacon, eggs and a healthy slice of the First Amendment.

They spoke of how across the river in Biddeford, the local government "incinerates" public records, how there would have been no Sept. 11 if it weren't for corrupt judges, how people who consider it their civic duty to pay taxes must be, to put it kindly, from another planet.

Then the gathering grew quiet and Dorothy LaFortune, the woman of the hour, put down her steaming coffee and spoke.

"If the citizens do not vote these people out of office, Barnum & Bailey stays in town," LaFortune proclaimed, kicking off a wave of head-nodding from one booth to the next. "I mean it! If these people don't go, Barnum & Bailey stays!"

OK, so it wasn't exactly Lincoln-Douglass rhetoric. Nor was LaFortune's the only murky metaphor that made this freewheeling breakfast hard to digest without a side order of skepticism. But if you find it hard to listen to those who take their politics with a dash of paranoia, consider the alternative.

Try shutting them up.

"This is not censorship!" insisted Biddeford Mayor Donna Dion when asked later in the day if she's had enough in her ill-fated quest to keep LaFortune & Co. off the city's public-access channel. "Maybe the court will find that our rule should not have been in existence. But right now it is in existence and it is the rule!"

And this, of course, is Biddeford - where freedom of speech (coherent or not) is more than just a lofty ideal perched high atop the Bill of Rights. Around here, speaking your mind is considered a blood sport.

The latest war of words pits LaFortune, who hosts a weekly public-access gabfest known as "Maine Forum," against Dion and a gang of four city councilors who tried and failed this week to boot LaFortune off the local cable channel.

The complicated chronology boils down to this: Last July, LaFortune's show aired allegations that city and local bank officials had illegally conspired to foreclose on her mother's house. Fast forward to Tuesday, when Dion and the council ruled that LaFortune had failed to obtain a "release" from a local auctioneer named in the show, failed to stop re-running the program even after they told her to put a lid on it, and was therefore banned from Channel 2 for not following the rules.

The gavel had barely fallen on that landmark decision when, less than 24 hours later, U.S. District Court Judge Brock Hornby persuaded the city to stand down while he weighed its all-but-transparent public-access rule book against the much heftier U.S. Constitution.

In other words, for now and most likely for as long as she wants, LaFortune's show will go on. Wednesday evening's "Maine Forum" featured two guys from New York who founded "Jail4Judges," a small but vocal bunch who think judges (except for Hornby) are all tyrants who "willfully violate their oaths of office."

"We're hoping to start a chapter in Maine," said Bill Gage, who wears a big brass key around his neck, has a business card identifying him as "JAILer-in-Chief" and came to the Golden Rooster on Thursday morning trolling for recruits. He even had T-shirts.

Go ahead and chuckle . . . or groan. But then take a moment to reflect on what's really going on here: Biddeford, as usual, is full of people making noise. And lo and behold, the harder city officials try to quiet things down, the louder that noise seems to get.

"But this isn't about censorship!" protested Dion, who doesn't even get cable, for the umpteenth time when told of the rumble down at the Golden Rooster. Rule-breaking aside, Dion claimed, she has no problem at all with LaFortune's show.

"It's food for thought!" Dion said. "It plants seeds! God bless her!"

Amen, Madam Mayor.

And, if He can get a word in edgewise, God bless Biddeford.

Columnist Bill Nemitz can be contacted at [207]791-6323 or at: bnemitz@...


Dottie may be reached at pcastora@..., Bill Gage at gageserve@..., and Ron Loeber at valortoo@.... Let's give these fine folks our letters of encouragement.     -Ron Branson
 
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  AddRemove@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 
 

#457 From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Mon Oct 29, 2001 7:46 am
Subject: * Investigating The Commission on Judicial Performance
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Conflict Charge
Problematic For Watchdog Panel
 
Ethics: Legal experts say the state Commission on Judicial Performance must protect its own integrity in a probe of allegations against its top lawyer.
 
Bu Steve Berry
Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles Times 10/28/01
 
With its longtime top lawyer under fire for an alleged breach of ethics, the integrity of California's judicial watchdog agency could be tarnished if the group's handing of the controversy is not beyond reproach, legal experts said.
 
The 11-member Commission on Judicial Performance, which disciplines unethical judges, said last week that it plans to seek an independent examiner to investigate the charges against Victoria Henley, the commission's chief counsel and top administrator.
....
The commission, as the state's guardian against unethical, corrupt and incompetent judges, plays a critical role in maintaining the integrity and credibility of the judiciary.
 
If the allegations prove true, "then you have a situation where the righteous are being unrighteous," said Robert Fellmeth, director of the Center for Public Interest at the San Diego University School of Law. "Here's a body that is supposed to be imposing ethical standards on judges, and they have their own ethical problems."
 
Already the case has caught the attention of the state's top judge.
 
"In view of the seriousness of the allegations, I hope they will be resolved expeditiously," California Chief Justice Ronald M. George said Friday. "It is particularly important that it be resolved in a manner that does not impugn the critical role played by the commission ... in ensuring integrity among judicial officers."
 
The charges have been especially shocking in the legal community * because they have been directed at the 48-year-old Henley, whose integrity had never been publicly questioned during her 10 years at the commission's helm.
 
"She's always been a straight-arrow person and a paragon of integrity, said Peter Keane, dean of the Golden State University Law School....
 
Henley's job is to direct the entire staff, including the lawyers who investigate misconduct by judges, and to make recommendations to the commission. The commission has the power to privately or publicly reprimand judges or remove them from the bench.
....
Henley refused to comment last week and did not return calls Friday.
 
If the charges against her are found to be true, the commission will have to move swiftly and forcefully to protect its credibility, said Fellmeth of the Center for Public Interest. "This case raises the hypocrisy angle," he said.
 
Fellmeth said the conflict-of-interest charge is more than just an abstract allegation. "She has a duty to be neutral, and that person should not be financially inter-twined with the subject of her investigation."
 
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* Oh do people have short memories. This article says, The charges have been especially shocking in the legal community because they have been directed at the 48-year-old Henley, whose integrity had never been publicly questioned during her 10 years at the commission's helm. Is this writer kidding us, or doesn't he remember Victory Hensley being right in the middle of a dispute over Attorney John Plotts, who became a whistle-blower from the inside of the California Commission on Judicial Performance. 
 
John Plotts was one of their very own investigators who exposed the Commission as corrupt, and Victoria Henley threaten to and indeed did fire him because he would not shut up. She accused him of impugning the integrity of the Commission on Judicial Performance, and making it look bad, and this matter hit the newspapers all over, and became a heated controversy over whether one could or should be fired because they spoke up about internal corruption. Henley argued that matters of the Commission were and are to be kept secret, and they Plotts had breached the Commission's secrecy by speaking out. 
 
I propose we either create another ethics watchdog commission to investigate this ethics watchdog commission, or we set up a Citizen's rotating Special Grand Jury created by J.A.I.L. I vote for the latter.
- Ron Branson
J.A.I.L. is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country.
J.A.I.L. is an acronym for Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org
JAIL proposes a unique new addition to our form of government.
JAIL is powerful! JAIL is dynamic! JAIL is America's ONLY hope!
JAIL is spreading across America like a fast moving wildfire!
JAIL is making inroads into Congress for federal accountability!
JAIL may be supported at P.O. Box 207, N. Hollywood, CA 91603
To subscribe or be removed:  AddRemove@...
E-Groups may sign on at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jail4judges/join
Open forum to make your voice heard JAIL-SoundOff@egroups.com
 
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
 
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root."                         -- Henry David Thoreau    <><
 

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