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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
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
Subject: Indicting The Department of Justice

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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

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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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UNFRIENDLY SKIES

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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
Subject: * Slay The Messengers!

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Slay The Messengers!

Questions raised after 2 jailed for contempt
posted 09/28/01

By MICHAEL WERNER
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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

-Ron Branson

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Date: Sat Oct 13, 2001 8:42 pm
Subject: ** A New Twist Against Judges

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A New Twist Against Judges

Convicted Killer Wins Appeal Over Judge's Drug Use

Los Angeles Times

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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Date: Mon Oct 15, 2001 2:18 am
Subject: The King Midas Touch In Reverse

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Los Angeles, California October 14, 2001

Federalizing National Security
The King Midas touch in reverse.
by Tom Adkins

"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
Subject: Order From Chaos

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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.

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Date: Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:19 am
Subject: ** The Very Name: 'JAIL4Judges'

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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

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Date: Mon Nov 5, 2001 1:06 am
Subject: * Judge Orders Website Shut Down

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On February 12, 2000 J.A.I.L. was first contacted by a David Palmer who 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 "

Then on September 2, 2001 David Palmer, of Ohio wrote, "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 with that, David Palmer joined Ohio JAIL4Judges under Don Jaynes, our Ohio JAILer-In-Chief.

Just two days ago, David Palmer wrote National J.A.I.L., sending us the below story, with a preface, "I will be filing a federal action here in Columbus, Ohio early next week. What's next, an order prohibiting speech re: Osama Bin Lauden?" Here is the published story about David Palmer.

Judge takes bite out of ex-Maumee man’s judicial watchdog site

By JAMES DREW
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS - A California judge has shut down the web site of a former Toledo area resident who runs a one-man group called The Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and Judges.

Ruling in a lawsuit filed by former Santa Ana, Calif., attorney Ronald E. Lais, Judge Francisco Firmat of Orange County Superior Court prohibited self-described "judicial watchdog" David Palmer from publishing any information about Mr. Lais on his web site.

The judge ordered that the web site, amoralethics.com, be "disassociated and disconnected from all Internet search engines, indexes, and providers." Mr. Palmer, a former Maumee resident who lives in Powell, Ohio, said the web site was shut down Monday.

Mr. Lais said Mr. Palmer posted "false, misleading, disparaging statements" about his handling of a child support case in which he represented a California woman. "Mr. Palmer has chosen to trash me all over the Internet," Mr. Lais said. Mr. Palmer rejected the charge, saying what he wrote is protected by First Amendment rights.

In Ohio, the Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel has accused Mr. Palmer of practicing law without a license by operating a web site that proclaims "now offering free legal advice." A final decision rests with the high court. State attorneys want the Supreme Court to require Mr. Palmer to remove material that was on his web site under headings that included: "The Truth About Free Legal Advice."

Mr. Palmer said he posted information on his web site about the California Bar last year suspending Mr. Lais for two years after he was accused of pursuing a frivolous case, filing another case in bad faith, and failing to report a $10,000 sanction order.

Mr. Lais resigned with other charges pending in March. He has a firm that provides "strategic and tactical input" to clients and attorneys involved in child custody and visitation issues.

"How can I defame someone who doesn’t have a [law] license?" Mr. Palmer said.

Mr. Palmer yesterday said the firm that maintained his web site is based in California and he will try to find another one.

Mr. Palmer also said he may take legal action in federal court, alleging an infringement on his First Amendment rights.

Mr. Lais said those rights have a limit and the use of them are a "developing area of freedom of speech."

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2001111020039

Perhaps David Palmer's exposes are having an profound effect on the system. These type of stories have a tendancy to expand and disseminate like one who is being asked what he has in his hand behind his back.

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Date: Mon Nov 5, 2001 3:32 am
Subject: * Warfare Between FL. Judicial Comm. & Legislature

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Warfare Between Florida Judicial Commission & Legislature

Judges' impeachment probe opens
By William R. Levesque and David Karp
� St. Petersburg Times, published October 13, 2001

A state House panel will recommend by January whether two embattled circuit judges should be impeached. The speaker of the Florida House on Friday launched an impeachment inquiry of Hillsborough Circuit Judge Robert Bonanno and Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Charles Cope, marking the first time in a quarter century lawmakers have unleashed the process against a Florida judge.

Speaker Tom Feeney directed the House's Judicial Oversight Committee to recommend to the full House by mid January whether it should consider drafting articles of impeachment against the embattled judges.

"The speaker is questioning their ability to hear cases impartially and fairly," said state Rep. Larry Crow, R-Dunedin, who chairs the committee. "We're not on a witch hunt. We're on a fact-finding mission. This is not an attempt by a branch of government to have a chilling effect on the judiciary."

If the House voted by a two-thirds majority to impeach, the judges would face suspension pending trial in the Senate, where it would also take a two-thirds vote to convict and remove them from office. They would also lose their state pensions.

Crow said Feeney, who did not return calls for comment, was frustrated by the inability of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, a watchdog group that regulates judges, to quickly and effectively deal with allegations of misconduct by the judges.

"There's a general sense in the House leadership that the JQC doesn't have enough power to expeditiously remove bad judges," Crow said.

The JQC last month recommended to the Florida Supreme Court that Bonanno be publicly reprimanded for a "serious lapse in judgment" for entering the office of another judge after hours. The judge awaits a final decision from the Supreme Court.

State Attorney Jerry Hill of Polk County, who oversaw a grand jury that investigated Bonanno, sharply criticized the deal between Bonanno and the JQC calling for just a reprimand, saying the JQC "missed the mark."

The grand jury in a non-binding report released this year concluded that Bonanno is "unfit" to be a judge and should be removed.

[Judge] Cope, meanwhile, awaits a Nov. 26 criminal trial in California on five misdemeanor charges stemming from allegations by two women that he stole their room key and tried to enter their hotel room as they slept.

The JQC also is conducting an investigation of Cope, who is on an indefinite, paid leave of absence.

The decision to open an impeachment inquiry complicates pending misconduct cases against both judges and stuns attorneys representing them, who defend their clients as able, ethical judges. ....

The JQC was created more than 30 years ago, in part, to take the cumbersome job of impeachment away from the Legislature. With Florida growing rapidly, the Legislature did not have the time or political will to discipline judges who misbehaved. ....

The chairman of the JQC, Judge James Wolf of the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, also defended how the JQC had carried out its role under the state Constitution. "I believe the JQC is doing a good job with its constitutional responsibilities," Wolf said.

The impeachment process "is not only cumbersome, but it is pretty expensive -- much more so than the JQC process," said attorney Frederick Karl, a former Supreme Court justice.

Karl participated in two impeachments as a state representative in the 1950s and served as special counsel to a House committee that began impeachment proceedings against three Supreme Court justices in the mid 1970s.

The entire state Senate acts as the jury of a trial, with the chief justice of the Supreme Court presiding as judge. A group of House managers serve as prosecutors. It takes a two-thirds vote of present senators to convict.
There really are no fixed standards about how an impeachment or trial runs, Karl said. "It's political, and it's not perfect," Karl said. "But it is better than no process at all."

If impeached and convicted, the judges also would lose their pensions. When the JQC removes a judge, the pension is not lost. "They get their pension and everybody goes away happy," Crow said. "Impeachment is much more severe. There's a real hammer there."

http://www.sptimes.com/News/101301/State/Judges__impeachment_p.shtml

The following is comment made by Susan McMillan, wife of former Judge Matt McMillan, who sent the above article.

Dear Ron,

What doesn't really come across in this story is that even the FL. Legislature is frustrated with the malfeasance of the JQC. They refuse to properly discipline judges who are their buddies, so the Legislature is stepping in in two prominent misconduct cases, in essence taking over the job of the JQC, since the JQC just isn't doing it.

Of course, I don't think the legislature is aware of the flip side of the JQC process: The JQC removes judges who are not their buddies, particularly judges who run successful campaigns against incumbents, while it ignores the very serious misconduct of the other, good ole boy/appointed judges.

The truth of the matter is that the problem will never be resolved by a system rife with political motivations. It is for this reason that we have, as here, a resounding cry for the judicial accountability proposed by J.A.I.L. Nothing will ever change until the Special Grand Juries instilled by J.A.I.L. are in place throughout this country.

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Date: Sun Nov 11, 2001 5:48 am
Subject: Judge Keeps Illegal Child Pornography

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O.C. Judge Is Charged With Possession of Child Porn

Los Angeles Times, 11/10/01

Courts: Ronald C. Kline is placed under house detention. ...

By Monte Morin and Jack Leonard

Times Staff Writers

An Orange County Superior Court Judge was charged Friday with possession of child pornography and placed under house detention at the urging of federal prosecutors, who said he poses a threat to the public.

Judge Ronald C. Kline, who is seeking reelection next year, surrendered to authorities and was ordered by a federal judge to wear an electronic monitoring device.

Investigators allege in court papers that Kline kept a diary in which he wrote about his sexual attraction to teenage boys and his visits to shopping malls, Little League games and the shower area of an athletic club. ....

Kline's surrender follows a search of his Irvine home Tuesday. Investigators said they uncovered five images on computer diskettes of young boys engaging in sexual acts. ....

According to court documents, Kline admitted that he sometimes views illegal images on his computer at home. ....

In arguing that Kline's contact with the public should be kept at a minimum, assistant U.S. Atty. Deidre Elliot referred to the diary, which investigator found at his home. A customs investigator described the diary in court papers, claiming that Kline wrote about "seeking contact" with boys. ....

The above report reminds me of a report a number of years ago where a San Diego judge plead guilty to three counts of child molestation with three different boys and was fined $150 per count. The single offense rate was less than you would now pay for running a red light at a photo intersection in Los Angeles, which is $270. He even got to keep his position on the bench.

Perhaps, now the alleged offense here is taken a little more seriously as criminal conduct and unbecoming of a judge. Are they now raising the standard for judges because of more public attention on the judiciary?

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Subject: Follow The Dots - You Heard it First at J4J

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(You heard it first at JAIL4Judges)

Ex-Officer's Trial Could Taint Police

Court: Defendant accuses former Huntington Park colleagues of evidence tampering, on-duty sex.

By RICHARD MAROSI
TIMES STAFF WRITER

October 9, 2001

A former Huntington Park police officer will soon face off against his onetime colleagues in a court case so strange it inspired a judge to give some of the law enforcement participants a nickname.

He called the Huntington Park officers a "liars club."

In a case involving two jurisdictions, John Maley of Fountain Valley is facing one count of possessing illegal ammunition in Orange County. But he says Huntington Park officers framed him because they feared he would expose wrongdoing, including alleged on-duty sex with prostitutes. The long-running case is more than just a sordid tale of feuding cops and sexual misadventures. The Huntington Park Police Department, already under investigation for alleged civil rights violations, could face huge liability costs and another blow to its reputation and credibility.

Though a judge has scoffed at many of Maley's claims, he has ruled that some photographs confiscated from Maley's Fountain Valley home disappeared and were possibly destroyed by panicked Huntington Park officers.

"They are a bunch of people running scared, for their jobs, from the City Council, from the press, from investigations by perhaps the FBI, the [Internal Revenue Service]," said Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Borris last year.

In his ruling, the judge refused to drop the charge against Maley but said the defense could argue at trial that Huntington Park police had destroyed evidence.

Prosecutors are reviewing the case for any evidence of police-related misconduct. Defense attorneys say old cases could be reopened in a Rampart-like review if officers were found to have lied or tampered with evidence.

"It is really outrageous what they did," said Romero Jacinto of the public integrity assurance section of the Los Angeles County public defender's office. "We're going to see if any of their conduct has impacted our cases."

The case against Maley began in April 1998, when Fountain Valley police, concerned that Maley was "paranoid," raided the modest tract home that he shares with his wife and two children.

Fountain Valley officers said they confiscated two shotguns, 11 rifles and 11 handguns, most of them fully loaded, as well as alleged destructive ingredients and espionage literature. Also present at the raid were officers from Huntington Park, a blue-collar city in southeast Los Angeles County.

Maley, who had retired from the Huntington Park police six years earlier, was originally charged with 10 felonies. Most of those counts were either dismissed by judges, citing insufficient evidence, or dropped by prosecutors. It is not clear why Orange County prosecutors dropped other charges.

Maley has tried to get the remaining count--possession of four tracer rounds--dismissed by saying Fountain Valley officers improperly gave Huntington Park police four albums of photographs. Maley says some of the photos disappeared.

Some photos allegedly showed an officer having sex with a woman near a police car and officers cavorting with a scantily clad woman. Another one allegedly showed numerous gun-toting, beer-drinking officers, in a line, exposing themselves while on duty.

Judge Borris agreed that Fountain Valley police improperly gave the evidence to their fellow agency. He said some of the photos--a "powder keg" of embarrassing evidence--were then probably destroyed.

"If this isn't the poster boy for bad faith, I don't know what is," he said. "I am appalled. . . . I cannot express the distaste of what has happened here by means of that Police Department."

But Borris did not dismiss the charge against Maley, mainly because he believed that the officers were trying to protect themselves, not harm his case.

Maley's attorney, Derek Bercher, however, plans to revisit the issue at the trial, scheduled to start this week. Though several photographs disappeared, others remain, and Bercher hopes to undermine the department's credibility.

Some photographs show dancing drag queens and gruesome crime and accident scenes. In one, a murder victim on a gurney--his chest slashed open by a knife--has a sign wedged into his hand saying, "Ventilated Hood."

Another photograph shows officers allegedly mimicking gang behavior by posing in front of a graffiti-covered wall.

Maley, who left the force in 1992, said that he took some of the Polaroid photographs but that others were given to him by officers. Maley, a British-born former Royal Marine and Drug Enforcement Administration agent, portrays himself as a chronicler of misdeeds.

"You always have a few clowns in any department, but once I discovered that these guys are crooks and corrupt, I decided to keep a collection that would be evidence of proof of their improprieties," he said.

Others doubt anything Maley says, calling him a disgruntled ex-cop trying to deflect attention from his own alleged crimes. The judge said the photographs amount to just a strange souvenir collection.

Speaking of Maley and his former colleagues, Borris said: "His credibility is one of the lowest. . . . He is part of the boys in the liars club, Orange County chapter, of the Huntington Park Police Department."

Borris also harshly criticized several Huntington Park officers, right up to Chief Randy E. Narramore, who was questioned about the photographs at last year's hearing.

Narramore, the judge said, gave contradictory answers that were "all over the map." Borris likened the chief to a bumbling TV character.

"He basically says, 'I know nothing,' comparable to . . . Sgt. Klink on 'Hogan's Heroes,' " said the judge, misnaming the television character, Sgt. Schultz, in the 1960s series about a World War II prison camp.

Narramore, in an interview, said that he couldn't comment on the judge's ruling, but that Maley possesses a "demented imagination" that has caused many people "undue heartache."

Narramore is expected to testify at the trial, which attorneys say could last one to two weeks at the courthouse in Westminster.

The case has split the City Council in Huntington Park, where the FBI is still investigating the 72-member department over allegations of police abuse of minorities.

Councilwoman Linda Luz Guevara often mentions the case during meetings in an effort to expose alleged wrongdoing. But Mayor Ric Loya stands by Narramore.

"At this point in time, we're leaning with our chief," he said. "We're all watching it carefully. We feel confident enough that when the whole thing is done, we'll be OK."

City Councilwoman Linda Guevara was one of the speakers at JAIL4Judges' November 11, 2000 fundraiser (last year) in Reseda, CA., in which she spoke of this police corruption in her city prior to it being exposed to the public via the news. You heard it first at JAIL4Judges.

-Ron Branson

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J.A.I.L. National

Commander-In-Chief

To Be Speaker At

Libertarian State Convention

Ronald Branson, the author/founder and National J.A.I.L. Commander-In-Chief, has been invited to be one of the speakers at the California Libertarian State Convention taking place Feb. 15-18, 2002 in Santa Maria, California. It will not only be his golden opportunity to address the California Libertarian Party leaders, but also the first step in convincing the entire National Libertarian Party to get involved in the passage of J.A.I.L. legislation nationwide.

Mr. Branson will present to the Libertarian Party a fresh new approach to accomplishing getting government out of their lives, a message so appreciated by Libertarians nationwide. He expects to recruit a number of new converts to JAIL4Judges, the extended title of his organization which draws its name from their website, www.jail4judges.org. (J.A.I.L. actually stands for "Judicial Accountability Initiative Law")

Mr. Branson is careful to explain that J.A.I.L., because of its neutrality stance to all political parties, cannot align or play favorites with any party. While J.A.I.L. already has the unanimous endorsement of the San Bernardino County Libertarian Party, and the Ohio State J.A.I.L. Chapter is run by Libertarian leader Don Jaynes, J.A.I.L., which now covers forty-seven states, has representatives from nearly every political party.

That's the beautiful thing about J.A.I.L., Mr. Branson says, is that J.A.I.L.'s single-focused goal of judicial accountability of the judiciary is offensive to no party. "After all," he says, "who does not want the judges accountable to the Constitution of this land, and the laws made in pursuance thereof?" Mr. Branson's theory is that truth, honesty, integrity, the Constitution, and the laws of this land made in pursuance thereof, are neither Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, or Reform, and that once J.A.I.L. becomes law, all politicians, regardless of party, shall be held to the very same standard: the Constitution they have sworn to uphold and defend.

Mr. Branson argues that once the judiciary is held accountable to the oversight of Citizens' Special Grand Juries across this nation, and the judges are no longer able to escape personal accountability through their judge-made doctrine of judicial immunity, all governments will have to toe the line to the Constitution, from the least unto the greatest.

The Libertarian State Convention will be held at the Santa Maria Inn. It is projected that the Convention will be fully booked by mid-December. If you would like to be a guest at this convention, you may make your arrangements through www.sblp.org/convention.html. If you have questions about the convention, you may write bjwagener@....

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I shed tears of joy for this new hope. J.A.I.L. has been the answer to
fasting and prayer. God Bless each and every endeavor of each worker for J.A.I.L.

Like the Psalmist said, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me with each passage of J.A.I.L. through out this land.

I am overjoyed that the work is moving forward .... J.A.I.L. gives all renewed courage for complete justice to return to our Nation. God has heard our cry for Justice and has given J.A.I.L. His blessings.

Come ye JAILers, let us shout, for the long dark days of injustice will
soon be over. We shall have another Knight willing to carry the bright light for justice into one of the countries strong holds of injustice, with God, courage, and JAIL4Judges for his armor.

The mighty State of Oregon will know real Justice once more. What joy this march toward justice will bring to so many waiting helpless for this hope.

I am so overjoyed sitting here trembling and crying for joy. I am very humbled, Ron, by you're direct and fair actions. ... This is a Giant Leap for mankind and Justice will burst forth. .... The reward for you're labors will bring such happiness to millions. The United States Of America will once again become a Nation with Liberty and Justice for All. ....

J4J Family,

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Military Takeover Of Airports

As we all now know, military presence is to dominate all airports throughout the country "for our safety and security," or at least that is what we are told.

Below is an account of the result of military occupation of at the airport. We need to point out that J.A.I.L. neither supports or opposes any political party. This account is one of a Green Party leader. We ask that you read this account for its practical lesson of military occupation, and not as a promotional of the party of the writer. -Ron Branson

My Day At the Airport
By Nancy Oden

On Thursday, November 1, 2001, I left my farmhouse on the North Coast of Maine, where I'm an organic grower, and headed for the Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine. I was dressed conservatively in a
long, brown skirt with a matching jacket and turtleneck sweater, no jewelry, no buttons or other political indications attached, looking very like other women my age in this part of the world.

I am a relatively well known environmental, social, and political activist who has run for public office. It should be noted that, while I've been an activist for over thirty years, I've never been arrested, nor has there been anything in my life that would signal I meant harm to anyone.

Also, this was the third time this year I had traveled out of (or attempted to, in this case) Bangor Airport on American Airlines using an e-ticket purchased from Priceline.com bought weeks before with my own credit
card. They had no reason for profiling and singling me out. It had to have been because of my political views which, of course, is not a good reason (see U.S. Constitution's first Ten Amendments, otherwise known as the Bill of Rights).

I was headed for Chicago for a Green Party USA National Coordinating
Committee meeting, where I was to speak the next night ....

I arrived at the Bangor Airport the now-requisite two hours ahead of the flight and walked in to the airport to the sight of a couple of dozen
National Guard troops carrying machine guns in their hands wandering around the lobby. I walked down to the American Airlines ticket counter, where there were no other passengers, and told the airlines ticket agent my name. I was holding out my picture ID and the printed itinerary they told us to bring, but he barely glanced at them. I remember thinking, "Does he have a picture of me under that counter? Why didn't he look at my ID?" ....

The ticket agent spent an inordinate amount of time on his computer,
then finally produced a boarding pass with a large "S" written on it. I asked him what that meant, and he said I had been picked to have my bags searched. Well, one expects that now, so I said, "Oh, that's okay." But I had a feeling there was more. .... Then to the x-ray for my bags and me. .... Neither my bags nor I set off any beeps in the machinery so we walked right through to the boarding area. Here I sat down with the other
passengers. There was one National Guard soldier in the boarding area; he was a short man with a black eye wearing camo gear and carrying a machine gun.

Soon after I sat down, the National Guardsman looked at the dozen or so passengers, his eyes stopping at me and he yelled, "Bring those bags over here!" Since he didn't call my name, how did he know which person was me, since I did not look appreciably different from the others?

When I didn't move fast enough, he yelled again, "Hurry up! Move! Bring those bags up here!" This did not make me move faster. By now people were beginning to stare at me as if I might possibly be someone bent on doing something wrong.

I set my two smallish bags on the table where two women were waiting to search my bags. As one of them had trouble with a zipper on my older bag, I said, "Oh, that zipper is not right, here, let me open it for you," and I reached over the table to undo the zipper. Immediately, the soldier yelled out, "Get your hands away from there!" By now the other passengers were getting nervous, of course.

He was standing at the end of the table with the women on one side looking in my bags and me standing on the other side of the table. I turned to face him, which put my back towards everyone else, and he grabbed my left arm and began loudly spouting pro-war nonsense into my face. "Don't you understand we have to get them before they get us? Don't you understand what happened September 11?" and so on.

I immediately pulled my arm away from him and said, "Do not touch me.
You cannot do that," and stepped back a foot or so, saying that I didn't want to hear his views on why he thought we should kill starving, helpless people in Afghanistan.

He grabbed for me again. I stepped back further stating emphatically, "Do Not Touch Me," and further emphasizing that I did not want to listen to his views on the war. He was about to leave his position and come after me again, but I saw the senior security man who is usually there shake his head "No" at the soldier, who then backed off, but he was angry that I would not submit to his holding me while he forced his views on me.

I turned and there just a couple of inches away was the man with the
metal-detecting wand. I stepped back a foot or two so he wasn't right up
against me, and he did the wand thing. I was the only one whose bags were searched. For a woman of a certain age such as myself to stand there with arms outstretched while a man skimmed my body with a device was very embarrassing and demeaning. .... While he was doing the wand thing, I heard the soldier, who was behind me, say, "Don't let her on the plane." I thought he was talking to himself.

Then they were done with the searching, and I walked the three feet to
the boarding gate. The American Airlines agent said, "You can't get on the plane." I asked why. He replied, "Because he [indicating the soldier] says you didn't cooperate with the search." I said, "But you were standing here the whole time. Didn't you see him grab my arm and talk loudly into my face?" He said he couldn't see that because my back was to the people, that he only saw me back off.

I then told the American Airlines agent that I needed to get to Chicago
and stated what I had to do there. The American Airlines agent then said,
rather softly, probably so the guardsman soldier couldn't hear, "We'll put
you on the four o'clock plane; that's the last one out today that you can go through Boston and still get to Chicago tonight." I replied, "Fine, let's
just do this. I don't care if I'm late so long as I get there."

Unfortunately, the Guardsman overheard, and he wasn't done with me.
Clearly, this non-subservient female had to be punished for not being
sufficiently obsequious. He saw me picking up my bags to go out into the lobby and wait for the 4 o'clock plane, and yelled (that seemed to be his
only means of communication), "Come With Me!" I asked, "Why? Where are we going?" He replied, louder, "Come With Me!"

A few people to whom I've told this insist the government/military is
trying to "criminalize" me and other political activists who don't have
criminal records. .... If they then get convicted of a felony, they've go to prison and probably a few years of parole when one's rights are mostly non-existent, and draconian restrictions are put upon one's activities. Convicted felons lose a lot of rights in this country: their travel is henceforth limited, in some states they can't vote, own a gun, and various other limitations.

Under the circumstances, and because I had a few hours until four
o'clock anyway, it seemed best to go with the guardsman. The circumstances being that each individual soldier/national guardsman seems to be The Law unto themselves. Each of them makes it up as they go along, punishing people who don't hop to. ....

He took me to the entrance area, apart from anyone else. Then he ordered, loudly, "Sit Down!" I gave him a look and then sat. The soldier
found the airport policeman and told him to stay with me. Upon reflection, I probably wasn't free to leave, but I thought I was waiting for the next plane so just stayed there.

The Airport policeman was a pleasant local man and we talked about what had just happened as well as people we knew, etc. Within minutes I looked up to see 5-6 National Guardsmen in their camo gear all carrying machine guns marching in a sort of formation towards me. I was sitting down quietly talking with the policeman. The situation looked like a bad movie.

It occurred to me that this is how people get "disappeared," which has
happened to over 1,200 Americans so far since September 11. We used to hear about this only in repressive military regimes in other places (usually bolstered by our tax dollars). I'm sure they were ready to arrest me for allegedly "not cooperating with a security search," with which I had, indeed, cooperated.

All of a sudden the ludicrousness of the situation struck me. There I am, sitting down with my bags, a woman clearly not a physical threat, and
this phalanx of soldiers in formation descends upon me ready to arrest me for something I did not do. I gave a little laugh and said to the lead man, "What, all this, just for me?" Then, I asked, "What's this really about? What's going on here?"

He replied, "We understand you didn't cooperate with a security search." I said, "That's ridiculous. They searched my bags and they did the wand search. The only problem was your man here [I indicated the short guy with the black eye] grabbing my arm and spouting pro-war views loudly in my face." The lead soldier (I don't know his rank) said, astonishingly, "He told me he only hit your arm."

I looked at the lead soldier wide-eyed with a few unbidden (certainly
unwanted when I'm trying to look fierce) tears in my eyes, and asked, "Even if that's all he had done, would that be okay?" I think he then realized the guardsman had been way out of line and said, "Wait here." They left, and the policeman stayed with me. I don't really think I was free to go, although I had not been arrested.

I found out later they had gone upstairs and told the Bangor Airport
manager to tell all airlines in the Airport not to allow me to fly out of
Bangor that day, and possibly more than just that one day. Since the military are in charge of our airports and they can override civilians in charge, this was made to happen.

I was to be punished for the crime of questioning their authority,
especially for the guardsman to hold my arm and force me to listen to his
brain-washed rantings.

Every airline in the Bangor Airport was given my name and told that I did not cooperate with a security search. Not cooperating with a security
search at an airport is a federal crime. If, indeed, I had not cooperated,
they would have arrested me right then and there. But I had been searched so they couldn't say that.

However, now I have to wonder if every airline in the world doesn't have me in their computer as a person who didn't cooperate with the security
search, which means they can deny me passage in their airplanes. We will find out as time goes on.

They told the policeman this news and had him tell me that I wouldn't
be allowed to fly out of Bangor that day. So I said I had to go American
Airlines and get my money back. The policeman came with me.

The same AA clerk was at the counter. He stepped outside the counter to converse with the policeman and me. He confirmed that they had been told not to allow me to fly out of Bangor that day. I asked him about the next day and he said he didn't know. This is not a small matter for me since the Bangor Airport is 100 miles from where I live.

The AA clerk then suggested I drive to Boston (5-1/2 hour drive) and
fly out of there. There were several problems with that, I told him. First,
my old car barely made it the 100 miles to the Bangor Airport and might not make it to Boston or back again. Then there were the parking fees in Boston as well as the fact that I might not be allowed to fly out of there or might not be able to get a seat once I got there. Also, if they would not honor my now-expired ticket, I'd have to pay full fare, which I couldn't afford. Not a serious option.

I then asked the American Airlines clerk for my money back so I might
consider some alternative means of transport. He said he couldn't refund my money. I asked him why and he said, "It's a non-refundable ticket." ....

Then the policeman, half apologetically, told me I'd been banned from
the Airport for that day, and that he had to escort me out. I told him I
understood that he was under the military's rule, and that I would call it
walking me to the door, rather than escorting me out of the Airport. We
walked to the exit. I thanked him for being kind and considerate, which he had been, and left with the sinking feeling that something bad is happening to our country. And this is how it begins. ....

Nancy Oden is an organic farmer and Green Party organizer. She lives in
Jonesboro, Maine. She can be contacted at: cleanearth@... http://www.counterpunch.org/oden5.html

What is interesting here is that Constitutionally, military power must be subject to civil powers. Our Founding Fathers purposed this to avert a military takeover of civil government.

J.A.I.L. has repeatedly emphasized that a military police state is impossible in the presence of an accountable judiciary, for its promotion can only advance by the judiciary either endorsing the such conduct, or by turning their head the other direction.

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Date: Wed Nov 21, 2001 2:37 am
Subject: ** Judges Hiding The Truth!

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I have often said that no judicial disciplinary body in this nation is concerned in ethics or misconduct of their judges. That they are rather concerned about embarrassment, i.e., that one of their own would get caught with their pants down, reflecting poorly on the whole of the judiciary. I have said that it is only this sense of embarrassment that forces them to take "bold" disciplinary action, or at least show some concern for public appearances, lease they all sink together.

I have seen miscreant judges who generate multiple complaints, shuffled around from pillar to post in an attempt to keep them away from the public they have riled. These commissions wish to hide their tract record from catching up with them. The below published report supports my theory set forth in the above paragraph that the entire judiciary is motivated only by embarrassment, and nothing else.

Judges Hiding The Truth!

Public in dark on judge change

� St. Petersburg Times,
published November 18, 2001

You seldom see a whole system changed -- especially within government -- to satisfy the complaints of one unhappy customer.

But apparently that's what defense attorney Jim Cummins has done to Citrus County's judiciary.

Cummins had a run-in with Circuit Court Judge Barbara Gurrola on Oct. 26. Gurrola questioned a bill Cummins had submitted to the court, which he took as an attempt to impugn his integrity. Cummins then asked Gurrola to disqualify herself from about 30 criminal cases he was handling, claiming his clients could no longer get impartial treatment. Gurrola denied that request.

Cummins then vowed to file legal motions to question her involvement in all his cases, and threatened to complain to the state Judicial Qualifications Commission about Gurrola's allegedly derogatory comments.

Twelve days later, all members of Citrus County's judiciary -- Circuit judges Patricia Thomas, Richard Howard, Gurrola and County Judge Mark Yerman -- held a psuedo-press conference to announce they were rearranging their duties. The circuit judges rotate every two years between the criminal, civil and family benches. But this change was taking place more than a year sooner than scheduled.

The judges were tight-lipped about their action, and refused to directly answer questions about whether their decision was prompted by Cummins' protests. By declining to explain their motives, they have fueled speculation that reflect poorly on Gurrola's competence and the entire court system.

Whether real or perceived, the impression the judges leave with defense attorneys who are unhappy with a particular judge is that they need only make a few threats to get their way.

More damaging, perhaps, is the perception the public is left with that Cummins' may have a legitimate concern, and that Gurrola was removed from the criminal bench to protect a mistake, or simply to deflect criticism.

Gurrola flatly refused to discuss the issue, other than to say doing so would violate judicial canons. While we acknowledge it might be improper for her to comment about Cummins, his cases or his threat to discredit her, we are less clear about why neither she nor Thomas, the administrative judge, will explain the shift in duties.

Seizing the ethical high ground from an attorney is more than understandable, it is commendable. But denying the public's right to know if they have reason to question the behavior of a judge, or a decision about how the courts are run, is not a matter of ethics; it is an issue of accountability.

Thomas should find some way to explain the situation. If nothing else, she should assure the public what this issue is not about.

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Date: Thu Nov 22, 2001 1:34 am
Subject: * Damn Those Ethics

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Damn Those Ethics

Government Unable To Operate Ethically

Fox News & Associated Press

Thursday November 15, 2001

Ethics Rules 'Nearly Halt' Large-Scale Federal Criminal Probes ....

The Aug. 17, 2000 ruling extended ordinary rules forbidding deceit on the part of attorneys in court cases to all activities involving lawyers — with the effect that federal undercover operations, which under Justice Department guidelines must be supervised by federal prosecutors, simply can't continue in Oregon, the papers say.

The Justice Department, arguing that the restrictions are unconstitutional and "act as a massive roadblock" to federal law-enforcement activities, has filed a suit against the Oregon State Bar. U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan of Eugene will hear arguments next Tuesday.

The state Supreme Court is also considering changing the ethics code to allow government lawyers to give advice about or supervise undercover investigations that use misrepresentations "or other subterfuge."

The "truth ruling," which sent shock waves through the state's legal community, came during a case involving Dan Gatti, a private lawyer who the court said violated ethics rules when he posed as a doctor in phone calls to an insurance company he was preparing to sue.

The court, which has the final word on ethics breaches, strictly interpreted state bar rules against attorneys engaging in "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation" and declared that the rules cover all attorneys — including those working for the government.

A 1998 federal law requires federal attorneys to comply with ethics rules adopted by the states where they operate. Violations of state bar rules, enforced by the state Supreme Court, can result in loss of an attorney's license to practice law in Oregon.

Authorities say the ruling has stymied major criminal probes because prosecutors can no longer give advice or oversee such tactics as eavesdropping by telephone or concealed microphones, which require undercover operatives to misrepresent their identities and the purposes of conversations.

....

Justice Department lawyers argue that the ethics rules unconstitutionally interfere with federal officials' ability to perform their duties.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Date: Sat Nov 24, 2001 3:21 am
Subject: In Search of a Great J.A.I.L. Artist

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To All JAILers:

Do we have any talented artists out here that can find on the internet the famous picture of the U.S. Marines raising the U.S. flag on Ewe Jeama (Sp?), that can also, in fine detail, convert it to a team of JAILers in appropriate apparel raising a Navy Blue JAIL4Judges flag blowing in the wind? (An action flag would be best, if possible.)

We would like to use such a photo quality picture on one of our JAIL4Judges homepage, as well as an unshrouded photo within our website. (On the home page we plan to have a series of Dynamic fade-in, fade-out J.A.I.L. messages in the foreground with this picture in the background. The first time around leaves you sitting on the edge of your chair in anticipation for what it's going to say next. A great attention-grabber for J.A.I.L.)

I think we may also adopt this theme as a central photo message of JAIL4Judges which will appear everywhere.

Let me hear from that talented person.

-Ron-

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Date: Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:37 am
Subject: ** America's Last Altar Call

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Los Angeles, California November 27, 2001

America's Last Altar Call

Conceived in strife and born in war;
This nation's bloody start.
God gave her life, and so much more.
He then dwelt in her heart.

-God was in America's heart.

Strong she grew and great within
Giving refuge to all who cried;

For the world knew that in every way
God was at her side.

-God and America were allied.

Her power and strength in the shadow of God
Made her the greatest nation on earth.
But power brought pride and caused her to turn
From the One who gave her birth.

-She turned from the God of her birth.

Her iniquity grew and God's blessing she spurned
And her power ebbed slowly away
She cared not at all, but continued to turn
Farther from God she strayed.

-America from God has strayed.

Her land now raged with bitterness and strife
Division and conflict within.
For Lady America was losing her life;
She was slowly dying of sin.

-America is dying of sin.

And God the Great Physician still cried,
"Oh, won't you please on my mercy fall?"
"Repent and return, let Me heal your land,"
"But I won't continue to call."

-This is America's last altar call.

But foolishly she endured the terrible pain
And denied that she suffered at all.
"Leave me alone! I don't need your help,"
"And on me don't bother to call."

-She has rejected God's last altar call.

Then God turned and walked slowly away
And from His eyes tears started to fall.
"As my people did so many times in the past,"
"You too have rejected my call. And soon my judgment must fall."

-"Yes, now my judgment must fall."

by Norman Olson, Pastor, Freedom Church

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Date: Fri Nov 30, 2001 8:28 am
Subject: Intercession for a JAILer jailed.

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Dear JAILers:

I have just been informed in a yesterday's email that Dr. Rebecca Carley will be "put into jail tomorrow," i.e. today. The reason is "contempt" because she asked the judge not to yell at her.

I have had the opportunity of seeing Dr. Carley in action via video. She is sponsoring a cable TV program, as I remembered, called, "Ask Dr. Carley," or "Dr. Carley Speaks." I was very extremely impressed with her right on point issues about J.A.I.L. being absolutely necessary. She shows real leadership qualities, and is currently serving as a Nassau County Warden for New York J.A.I.L. She is a such a great asset to J.A.I.L., and I would not hesitate, if asked, to recommend her for any promotion. She is sharp.

I am told that her overall situation involves is the taking of her son from her to silence her from exposing their evil deeds.

What can we do for her JAILers? We can start with those who believe in prayer, raising up supplications to God on her behalf. Others can write her letters of encouragement at nassauwarden@.... Even if your emails are not immediately accessible to her, she will get them in due time. Normally, jailing for contempt lasts from 3 to 5 days, although judges have been known to go for something like 30 days. Too much power is concentrated in the hands of judges, and that is why J.A.I.L. is a growing body of resistance by lawful means.

Thirdly, if we have any J.A.I.L. legal eagles out there who wish to take up advocacy for her on your personal volition, and not on behalf of J.A.I.L., go for it. Believe me, I have been behind enemy walls of two feet thick concrete, and it is comforting just to know that someone is outside that concrete wall, or who is in that courtroom standing up for you. I remember thinking that my friends could be only two feet away leaning on the same concrete wall I was leaning on, but may as well be a thousand miles away.

When I was brought out in chains as if I were a murder, only to be greeted by a commissioner whose first words out of her mouth was, "I hear you gave the police a hard time." Ah, yes, I asserted the Constitution, and it was a threat to them. Every time I mentioned, "I stand on my Constitutional rights," they turned on the electricity to torture me. When they got through with having their fun, they took me to the hospital to have the doctor remove the probes they fired into my body. I still have the pictures of the wounds in my body that was taken by a nurse. If that is giving the police a "hard time," then yes, I gave the police a hard time. The police told me emphatically, "You have no Constitutional rights." I said, "This is still America, isn't it, or am I in some foreign country?"

Then a detail of police came down to my cell with night sticks and tazer guns asking me to cut a deal with them. The deal was that they would not break my fingers, shoot me again with their tazer guns, or knock me unconscious if I would surrender my personal property without a warrant, or due process. I entered a bargain with them under duress, saying I would give them what they wanted provided they would sign the very same paper they wanted to place my finger prints on, saying "Taken by force, without a warrant, or process, and obtained under duress." They agreed, and so I surrender my property on that condition, and they signed it. Believe me, I know what terrorism is about! My suit against the police on this lasted eight years at a defense cost to them of millions which them hiring big time lawyers. Of course, the courts all the way up, both state and federal, covered up for everything the police did. But out of it, after years of litigation and courts, those particular police officers learned to respect me greatly, knowing they had no criminal element they were dealing with. Even their lawyer respected me. I told her, "I like you! I just think you are on the wrong side of this issue." In the initial event one of the officers sitting beside me in the back said, "Go ahead and sue me, I've been sued before, but I have never had to pay any money." Responding on that statement years later, my opposing attorney said in court, "One thing never to say to Mr. Branson is, "Go ahead and sue me." Yes, the officer was right, he did not have to shell out any money, but the taxpayers did, and that royally.

Let's let Dr. Rebecca Carley know she is not alone. Rebecca, please consider this my personal sentiments to you.

-Ron-

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Date: Sun Dec 2, 2001 7:35 am
Subject: * A Justice Corole

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Los Angeles, California December 1, 2001

A Justice Carole

Twas the night before Christmas

And in the courthouse

The Defendant sat squirming

Like a trapped little mouse

He'd appeared as was told

In his hand he did hold

A ticket he got

In a parking lot

The cop said he did a most hideous thing

Dropped a cigarette butt from his window wing

When the Defendant asked what he had done wrong

The cop replied as he chewed on his chew

It is Ok for me, but not for you.

The Judge strutted in while a scowl on his face

He sat at the bench and his eyes scanned the place

The Defendant said innocent, His head he held bent

Down came the gavel with a helluva crash

One thousand Dollars and pay it in cash

"But," the Defendant did say,

SILENCE, the Judge screamed, or a year and a day

I have no money to pay

Then lock him away

So the defendant he sat in a jail cell so cold

Till he coughed up the money, as he was told

As the Judge called the next case, And scanned every face.

The fear he created, Was all through the place

It's money or jail

or your family for bail

Or a warrant for arrest

You'll get in the mail

So pay the fine

And you won't do time

For something the cop,

called a hideous crime

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Date: Thu Dec 6, 2001 4:05 am
Subject: * Making Up the Law as They Go

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Los Angeles, California December 5, 2001
Brad Goodspeed, WA. JAILer-In-Chief, has approximately 3 dozen original JAIL4Judges T-Shirts of various sizes he would like to move. Open a bargaining deal by writing him at baronboy@...

Making up the law as they go along
By Vin Suprynowicz 12.03.01

If the courts won't enforce the written law -- if they simply make up whatever's necessary to protect the state's power and its revenues -- why should the rest of us act as though there's any law that binds us? Aren't we then equally free to just make up whatever's convenient, as well? ....

Local pipefitter Mike Mead, 53, gainfully employed, a father of three and a grandfather, was driving along a four-lane road "behind the K-Mart, east of Boulder Highway" at Racetrack and Newport roads in Henderson [Nevada] at 2:30 on the sunny afternoon of June 26, 2000, when one Officer Roy of the Henderson police department pulled him over and wrote him up for going 47 miles an hour in a 35 mph zone. ....

Mead ended up paying the municipality a total of $95, "I believe it was $45 for the fine and $50 for court fees..."

He could have gotten off a lot cheaper if he hadn't fought the ticket, of course -- the folks in charge of our courts these days apparently think "justice" is best served by offering cash rebates for paying up and not rocking the boat....

...Mead had heard of a case won by Mr. Dornsife up in Reno, by pointing out to the court that Nevada is bound by both state and federal law to show a written engineering study justifying any posted speed limit. And "There's absolutely no way there'd been a study done there and justified 35 miles an hour," Mr. Mead figured.

So he called and wrote the Henderson city Traffic Engineer, John Bartels, asking whether there was an engineering study for that stretch of road. And indeed, he was told -- first orally and then in writing -- there's no engineering study backing up any speed limit sign in Henderson.

"He told me, 'We just design the road for 45 miles and hour, and then set the speed limit 10 miles an hour below the design speed,' which allows them to write their tickets and raise their revenue."

The letter submitted into evidence (as Exhibit Number One) upon appeal of Mead's conviction to the District Court of Judge Joseph Bonaventure is from John Bartels, city traffic engineer of the Henderson Public Works Department, and clearly affirms no study was conducted.

"In your faxed letter, you inquired as to whether or not a speed limit study was ever conducted on Racetrack Road between Boulder Highway and Warm Springs Road," wrote Bartels. "The City of Henderson has not, to my knowledge, conducted a speed limit study on this section of highway."

Nevada Revised Statute 484.781, titled "Adoption of manual and specifications for devices for control of traffic by department of transportation," covers all such devices in Nevada including the speed limit signs themselves, and (in compliance with a separate federal law which requires any state accepting federal highway funds to adopt this statute, by the way), stipulates:

"2. All devices used by local authorities or by the department of transportation shall conform with the manual and specifications adopted by the department." The manual mentioned (the state had no choice - it's the manual they're required to adopt if they want the federal highway moneys) is the national Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), published by the Federal Highway Administration. ...

Yet on Nov. 14, putting the continued cash flow of the traffic fine system ahead of such arcane notions as enforcing the law as it's written, District Court Judge Joseph Bonaventure ruled in the case of Mike Mead traveling 47 miles per hour, even after admitting into evidence the unrebutted letter from the city admitting there was no engineering study, as follows:

"Having read the briefs and the record below and having heard oral arguments of the parties, the Court finds that an engineering and traffic study was performed by the City and that the numeric speed limit of thirty-five miles per hours (35 mph) was reasonable and not arbitrarily set." "There was no study done there and the judge said 'My ruling is that there was a study done.' The city said, 'We didn't do one,' " laughs an amazed Mike Mead....

"I'm amazed now that there may be thousands of cases where the city has not done an engineering study. ... I asked him, how many studies can you show me around town, and he told me on the telephone, 'None; we haven't done any.' " ....

But why would Judge Bonaventure -- who didn't return my calls last week -- have blatantly lied and said there was a written study done if there really isn't one? "Because if Nevada followed the law it would be a threat to the paychecks of the very judges, district attorneys, city officials, traffic officers, and all the rest that depend on these fines for their very subsistence," Dornsife responds.

"And it's a clear conflict with another tenet of our laws that the trier of fact, the prosecution and state witnesses should not have a financial interest in the outcome of a case. But contrary to this basic tenet, here they literally live off and are virtually wholly dependent on the fines collected. ....

"We do not have a rule of law. What's happened in Nevada and it's happened in every state is that the courts are wholly dependent on this damned traffic money. ... It's a farm system for the theft of public funds; it's just like this judge out here in Mina (Nevada) who bought the radar for the local cops to use to improve the income for his court. ....

"There's just too much money involved; you'd be goring too many sacred cows; the courts are too dependent on all these dollars ...

"I think it would be good for people to find out just how corrupt the courts are," Dornsife pleads. "This case in Las Vegas just put me over the edge. ... How can you go to court with such clear, decisive evidence and just have them throw it out? The primary duty of the Nevada Highway Patrol now is writing speeding tickets and every court in the state lives off that; it's a whole infrastructure now based on not safety, but revenue. I haven't seen a single court in Nevada where you can get a fair trial (in a traffic case.)"

The state Supreme Court tells him "this is not an issue that's of interest to them," Dornsife says; Assistant Attorney General Brian Hutchins "told me their job is to protect the DMV, not the public.

"So if we can't get relief in the courts and the courts are going to rule nonsensically, where do you go? It's clear that the court is not following the law. ... Henderson acknowledges there is no study; yet the courts rule there has been an engineering study, so you can't get there from here."

Indeed: If the courts won't enforce the written law - if they simply make up whatever's necessary to protect the state's power and its revenues - why should the rest of us act as though there's any law that binds us? Why aren't we equally free to just make up whatever's convenient as we go along, as well?

Mike Mead's appeal was case C176390; Chad Dornsife can be reached at 775-851-7950 or via e-mail at chad@.... Judge Joseph Bonaventure did not return my calls.

Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/dec/03/vin.htm

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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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"..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

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Date: Thu Dec 6, 2001 8:44 pm
Subject: * Federal Judge Winmill To Be Praised

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Los Angeles, California December 6, 2001

Valuable Door Opens In Idaho

For State Initiatives

Just this Friday, November 29th, 2001 Federal Judge Lynn Winmill overturned Idaho's 1997 State law that effectively closed down the state's initiative process from the citizens. This judicial decision will now make the advancement of the JAIL4Judges Initiative in Idaho so much easier. -Ron Branson

Federal judge overturns ballot initiative statute

Judge: Law puts rural voters at unfair advantage
By Chuck Oxley
Associated Press

BOISE -- A federal judge struck down as unconstitutional an Idaho law that restricts the gathering of signatures for ballot initiatives. U.S. District
Judge Lynn Winmill issued a 17-page decision Friday and granted a motion for summary judgment brought by the Idaho Coalition United for Bears and other political groups.

Initiatives qualify for the ballot through petitions signed by registered
voters. An Idaho law passed in 1997 requires anyone trying to qualify an
initiative for the ballot to gather the signatures of 6 percent of the
registered votes in each of 22 counties. That was the key fault, according
to Winmill�s finding.

"Because over 60 percent of Idaho�s population resides in just 9 of the
state�s 44 counties, it easy to envision a situation where three-fourths of
Idaho�s voters sign a petition but fail to get it on the ballot because they
could not collect 6 percent of the vote in rural counties," Winmill wrote.
"This scheme effectively gives rural voters preferential treatment..."
Deputy Attorney General Kirsten Wallace had argued for the state that the
multi-county distribution law encourages the statewide discussion of an
issue, since a portion of each county must sign petitions. Before 1997,
signatures could be gathered anywhere in the state, allowing initiative
groups to collect thousands at big events such as fairs in Idaho�s
most-populated counties. Since the law passed, no initiatives have
qualified for the Idaho ballot, though several groups began unsuccessful
signature drives. Three individuals and two organizations brought the
lawsuit against the state: term limits advocate Don Morgan; Kootenai County Commissioner Ron Rankin; the Idaho Coalition for Bears and its leader, Lynn Fritchman; and the Initiative and Referendum Institute. Voters in 1996 defeated the coalition�s initiative to ban hunters from bear-baiting.

Winmill also found unconstitutional a related section of law that makes it a crime for anyone to "willfully or knowingly" lie to obtain signatures on a
petition. Winmill said the provision was vague and could allow a prosecutor to charge a circulator for "willfully circulating a petition containing a false statement, even though the circulator did know about the false statement."

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@...
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"..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

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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Dec 8, 2001 9:03 am
Subject: * JAIL4Judges Is Coming To Town

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Ron:

We'll be caroling at the courthouse in Sonoma and Monterey [California] and giving out candy canes to all who come near!

Terri Lynn Day

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Associate JAILer-In-Chief, California

JAIL4Judges Is Coming To Town

Hey Judges,
You better watch out,
You better not shout,
You better not lie,
I'm telling you why..
JAIL4Judges is coming to your town!!!

WE see you when you're sleeping on the bench,
WE know when you're on the take,
JAILers know if you've been bad or good....
Obey the law for goodness sake!!

Oh....Judges,
You better watch out,
You better not shout,
You better not lie,
I'm telling you why....
JAIL4Judges is coming to your town!!!

A Merry Christmas Caroler,

Terri Lynn Day

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From: "jail4judges" <jail4judges@...>
Date: Sat Dec 15, 2001 8:46 am
Subject: Judicial Bad Behavior

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Los Angeles, California December 14, 2001

Judicial Bad Behavior

An exposition by Michael Stephen Chacon

"To refuse to assist when the Constitution is not being upheld, is to give aid and comfort to the treasonous enemies of our State and Nation."

Michael Stephen Chacon godliveddevildog@...

(By Mr. Chacon):

The following letter was written to the California Lawyer Magazine as a submission to a column they publish called "In Pro Per."

To the editor,

My name is Michael Stephen Chacon. I have opportunity to read the California Lawyer Magazine regularly. I look forward to it.

Out of sheer necessity I am currently a perceding in a case attorney pro per. Recently I have had my share of trials and tribulations in the Los Angeles Superior Court arena and have discovered a number of unlawful practices being used by one judge in particular.

The problem manifested itself in an obvious and vindictive bias originating from a judge who got caught deliberately trying to cheat someone he could not control with the threat of license suspension or revocation, including:

Unlawful forced appointment of a hostile public defender against my will;
Refusal to relieve unlawfully appointed counsel until a waiver of right was signed;
Documents forged by the court;
Denied the right to a speedy trial as defined by the California Penal Code;
Transcripts changed to cover unlawful activities of the judge!

To willfully fail to uphold and support the Constitution is a flagrant act of treason in addition to a breach of the oath of office.

It should be noted that all of the above, and much more, comes on the heels of a minor traffic citation contest in which I faced the same judge six months previously. In that previous case, a police officer was caught perjuring himself, and the judge asserted himself to attempting to smooth over the incident at my expense. The policeman's perjury arose out of an issue that was impossible for me to have anticipated. Although I had a credible witness whose testimony was in complete solidarity with mine, the judge still found me guilty of the offense!

I appealed based on the testimony, penal code and constitutional law and was eventually able to get the verdict overturned; however this judge refused to overturn the verdict on any merit of my appeal. Instead he claimed to have reread the violation charge and had determined that I was not guilty of that particular offense! Where the hell was he during the trial?

During that incident, a minor traffic citation fineable at $104.00 rose to an outrageous $5000.00 before I was vindicated. Tremendous pressure was coercively placed on me to just pay the rising fines and penalties of an offense of which I was innocent. Now I come before this same judge on a different charge, and he's made up his mind! He's going to get even!

I had gone into all of this assuming that the law was fair, all judges were honorable, and that our U. S. American System of Justice works! So far I am feeling just a little naive.

I have found the local courts are using highly unethical and flatly abhorrent procedures and techniques amounting to little more than deception and trickery to achieve their own municipal income ends. Our Constitution is thought to contain absolute inalienable rights. Yet judges everyday make mockery of constitutional truths by allowing unproven "case precedence" formulas to prevail in courtrooms across this nation, rather than relying on the Constitution.

Here is an old truth that gets uglier and more repulsive as time goes on. Trickery and deceit, fostered by the Judas Judges, are a boon to courts and law enforcement agencies who share in the spoils of their booty. Soon no amount of coercion will be able to recapture what was lost to greed and arrogance.

It has become painfully clear that few judges are actually willing to maintain their sworn oaths to support the Constitution.

It is this attorney pro per's legal opinion that because the rebellious members of the judiciary in BAD BEHAVIOR have set to knowingly and willfully enforce its unlawful and unconstitutional decisions with the aid of armed "peace officers," the judiciary has implemented a treasonous violent overthrow of our government.

Perhaps with the influence "California Lawyer," you might consider an editorial based on the perspective contained herein. Enough is enough!

Thank you,

Michael Stephen Chacon

Indigent Attorney Pro-per

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Date: Tue Dec 18, 2001 2:30 am
Subject: * Legal Plunder

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Legal Plunder

Critics target drug raid seizures

Police often keep property even absent a conviction

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Thursday, December 13, 2001

By SAM SKOLNIK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Before dawn, heavily armed officers stormed Shane Hendrickson's Tacoma home. They busted open the front door, grabbed the self-employed painter and hauled him off to the police station.

There, they grilled him, accusing him of participating in a major pot-growing operation. Hendrickson steadfastly denied it, and hours later, detectives had enough doubts to cut him loose.

By the time he returned home that day, Oct. 4, Hendrickson's baby-blue 1984 Chevy van -- with Dialed-in Paint Co. stenciled on the sides -- was gone. So were his business papers, including bids for upcoming jobs. And his girlfriend's new computer and all her disks.

In the blink of an eye, Hendrickson, 27, was out of work.

"It just kind of shut me down for a while," he said. "These people think they're above God."

Hendrickson, though, was more fortunate than most. He hasn't been charged with a crime, and, after a month or so, the last of his property was returned -- albeit with a lawyer's help.

In the past decade, drug-related property seizures have skyrocketed in Washington, with annual proceeds raised from auctions statewide jumping from $1.2 million to a record $6.7 million in 2000. That doesn't count forfeitures made by federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration or the FBI.

In King County last year, .... [o]ne out of five people whose property was seized were never charged with a crime. When people were charged, the cases were dropped about 23 percent of the time, according to records obtained from the state Treasurer's Office and a search of computerized court documents. ....

Fears of overzealous law enforcement have spurred a drive to revamp the law -- toughening the legal standard for forfeiture and barring police from taking a person's property until he or she is convicted of a crime.

Backers of Initiative 256, which include the American Civil Liberties Union, must collect 197,734 valid signatures by Jan. 4 in order to put the measure before the 2002 Legislature. Lawmakers can pass I-256 outright or put it on the ballot next November.

Forfeiture money helps fund drug enforcement efforts, which critics call a blatant conflict, driving authorities to seize as much as they can from suspects -- even when there's insufficient evidence to support criminal charges. ....

The P-I examined 236 King County cases involving property seizures last year and found that 50 suspects, or 21 percent, were never charged. Of the 186 cases that were prosecuted, 42 (23 percent) dissolved into acquittals or dismissed charges, court records show. There has been no resolution in 19 other cases.

Thus, at least 39 percent of the 236 cases never resulted in convictions, a fact law enforcement officials say isn't surprising. ....

Even though the criminal cases often crumble, property seizures usually stand up. In the vast majority of cases, people who have property seized never get it back, according to defense attorneys, prosecutors and police. ....

The move to change Washington's law comes in the midst of efforts to reform property-seizure standards nationwide.

After years of failed efforts, Congress last year passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., that toughens the standard for federal forfeitures. And voters in Oregon and Utah passed initiatives last year to change their own laws.

In July, unsatisfied with the legislation passed in Olympia, a coalition of activists -- on the left and the right of the political spectrum -- took matters into their own hands by pushing a citizens initiative. ....

"There was a purpose in the Bill of Rights," said Erne Lewis, a Libertarian Party activist who is spearheading the initiative effort. "It was to protect individuals and their property. Forfeiture is a weapon, and this is what they'll tell you. 'We use this to get guilty pleas,' they say. Well, so does torture."

Under Washington's law, the agency that seizes the goods gets to keep 90 percent of the proceeds, after a public auction. ...

It took 2 1/2 years after concerns were first raised internally for the King County Sheriff's Office to stop allowing employees to use vehicles seized in drug cases. At one point, 21 detectives and officials -- including the budget and accounting director, the legal adviser, a volunteer chaplain and the Asian community liaison -- were driving the cars. ...

In March 1997, a drug unit sergeant, Dawn Grout, raised the issue in a letter to Frank Adamson, chief of the Criminal Investigations Division, apparently to little effect.

The following February, she sent another memo identifying 16 drug-seized vehicles that she said were still "assigned to non-drug enforcement personnel in direct violation of state law."

The issue was still unresolved in September 1999, when the Auditor's Office concluded after a brief investigation that "some vehicles are not being appropriately used" at the sheriff's office. A short time later, the last of the seized cars were returned to the drug unit.

Sheriff Dave Reichert, who was appointed in March 1997, about four weeks before Grout sent her first memo, said that "when the problem rose to my level, I took care of it. I took the cars away."

Not everyone, including long-time budget and accounting chief Jon McCracken, was happy about losing the cars, Reichert said.

McCracken, who had been driving a 1991 beige Buick Park Avenue sedan, referred calls seeking his comment to sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart.

Urquhart said part of McCracken's job is to handle the accounting of large amounts of money involved in drug seizures and undercover buys.

"We thought it was a legitimate use of a vehicle," Urquhart said, defending McCracken's prior use of the vehicle. "Where do you draw the line? If 25 percent of the activity is drug investigation-related, is that enough?"

When Puyallup police arrested Lance Gloor on a drug charge in December 1999, they practically stripped his house bare. Hundreds of items were seized, ranging from two cars and stereo gear to the 22-year-old maintenance worker's collection of music CDs.

"They cleaned me out," he said. .... When he went to the police station to press his case, Gloor said, he saw his big-screen TV in the break room. His $2,000 stereo speakers, he was told, were in the office of one of the detectives who made the bust. Neither the detective, Wayne Spencer, nor Police Chief Rodger Cool returned calls for comment.

For the most part, Gloor prevailed. Craig Adams, legal adviser for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, recommended returning much of Gloor's property, concluding that police went too far.

"I looked at the case, and I didn't think it was a very good one, in terms of search-and-seizure and the like," Adams said. "I said (to police), 'What proof do you have that this is proceeds of drug money?' I don't think there was a whole lot of evidence, quite honestly. ....

The Gloor case, however, illustrates how easy it is to cart off a person's belongings and how difficult it can be to get them back.

� 1998-2001 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Date: Tue Dec 18, 2001 6:12 am
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Judge Julian Files False Police Report

(No Charges Brought Against Her)

Published Saturday, December 15, 2001

Police: Judge's tale of assault untrue

Witnesses: Julian drunk and bawdy

BY BETH REINHARD AND CAROLINE KEOUGH
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Broward Circuit Judge Joyce Julian's allegation that she was drugged and attacked at an Amelia Island resort two weeks ago was unfounded, the Nassau County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

Julian, 44, made the claim after she was arrested for disorderly intoxication at 3:40 a.m. Dec. 1. Deputies were called to the Amelia Island Plantation after a hotel security guard found the judge lying down in a hallway wearing only underpants and a top.

In the statement that cast the most doubt on Julian's claim, hotel maintenance worker John H. Dunn Jr. said she took off her pants in the hallway at 2:45 a.m.

``I noticed this person stand up fully clothed and remove a pair of dark pants and sit back down,'' Dunn wrote.

Nassau County Assistant State Attorney Granville Burgess said he does not expect Julian to be charged with filing a false report. He added that the misdemeanor disorderly intoxication charge will probably be dropped if she
completes a 28-day, in-patient substance abuse program. Elected in 1996, Julian asked for a leave of absence Monday and checked into a clinic.

Witnesses saw Julian drinking heavily the night of her arrest, and her recollection of what happened changed in the hours afterward.

In an unsigned statement to sheriff's deputies after she was taken to headquarters, Julian wrote: ``I was on the third floor balcony, a man in a black, long coat -- leather -- came and attacked me.''

She also wrote that police ``knew when they found my clothes that I had been assaulted, but they did not have any compassion for being a victim. This was one of the worst experiences in my life.''

But hours later, after she posted bond and was released from jail, she told Detective Gregory Foster that she did not know if she had been sexually assaulted and that she had ``blacked out'' at some point.

``The victim reported that the statement was false and that she would not sign it because it was a lie,'' according to Foster's report. ``The victim further stated that she wrote the statement because the deputies told her to.''

Julian's account changed again three days later when her attorney, Michael Dutko, told police she was drugged before she was sexually assaulted. He then released a statement saying that an unknown assailant had ``apparently'' slipped something into her drink.

On Friday, Dutko said Julian's fear that she may have been sexually assaulted was reasonable since sheriff's deputies told her that she was found without any underwear. In fact, reports reflect that she was wearing underwear.

``That was the single greatest factor that led her to fear that she might have been assaulted,'' Dutko said. ``That led her to ask the sheriff's department to look into the matter.''

Foster interviewed 16 hotel employees and two guests. He concluded ``there was no information that an incident occurred. . .This case is deemed cleared as unfounded.''

Here's what witnesses say happened, according to statements released Friday:

Julian arrived at 6:34 p.m. with Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner. She could not find a parking space and yelled at the valet to park her car. She also yelled at a bellman about the lack of parking spaces and asked if there were any nearby bars.

About 7 p.m., Julian tried to enter a Sysco company party in the nearby conference center. She told Sysco employee Cheryl Thibodeau, who gave her a glass of wine, that she was in the lobby ``to pick up a cowboy.''

A half hour later, she arrived at the nearby Veranda restaurant. Manager Mike Smith and bartender Edwin Nettles described her as ``intoxicated, loud and abusive.'' She ate dinner, drank a glass of wine and flirted with Smith.

Julian left the restaurant and returned with an unidentified man. She had another glass of wine and an Irish coffee. She left alone.

Around 9 p.m., a valet and a bellman saw her squatting in front of the hotel. She appeared drunk and had to be told several times how to exit the area.

Then Julian entered the lounge where she joined a group of four men. She had a few glasses of wine. Lounge singer Gary Ross said she was so drunk that she fell down on the dance floor.

Thibodeau saw Julian sitting on one of the men's laps. Julian told her, ``This is the one that I'm taking home.'' She was also seen ``rubbing'' on one of the men, while the others made sexual remarks.

She socialized with some other men from the Sysco party but left the lounge alone around 1 a.m.

Nearly two hours later, Dunn saw Julian lying on the hallway of the third floor of the hotel. He said she stood up and pulled her pants off.

Dunn contacted two other employees. Julian tried to hide behind an ice machine before running down the stairs into the hotel parking lot, leaving her pants and shoes in the hallway and repeatedly screaming, ``How dare you!''

Security guard Bill Jones caught up with her and put her in the back seat of his jeep. She crawled into the front seat and tried to drive the car away.

Sheriff's deputies arrived and arrested her for being ``extremely intoxicated and verbally combative.''

After she posted bond and was released from jail, she refused to go to a sexual assault treatment center. She said she just wanted to go back to the hotel. Judge Gardiner picked her up.

Dutko said he expects that Julian may have to answer questions before the Judicial Qualifying Commission about the sexual assault allegation. The commission does not disclose whether it is investigating until it files charges with the Florida Supreme Court.

``When she has a chance to explain the situation and the fears she was facing, ... she will give a very reasonable explanation,'' Dutko said.

As for Julian's allegation that she must have been drugged, Dutko said she remembers nothing.

``She blacked out,'' he said. ``But the report speaks for itself.''

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/broward/digdocs/005534.htm

You can believe that if Julian was not a judge, she would have been prosecuted for filing a false police report. Prosecutors are zealous to prosecute such charges because if they were lenient, people would use false stories to cover up for true facts. But here we have a judge. Government is slack to prosecute judges because government depends upon the judges to cover for their corruption, a "scratch-my-back, and I'll scratch yours" situation. Both get away with crimes while the public is quickly prosecuted.

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Date: Thu Dec 20, 2001 9:19 am
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This editor and publisher has had the personal experience of coming to know Constance Flaum, the mother of Michael Arnold, who lives not far from the operations of JAIL4Judges. We have had any number of telephone conversations together. Sorry to say, she has nearly given up all hope of life itself, and is in bad physical health, grieving night and day.

Although we have reported on her son's incident before, we deemed the following to be worthy of placing out to our readership for two reasons. This is a report from a fresh perspective, and it also serves as a reminder of this incident, let we forget. The author of this article is John Morgan Duty, a Washington State JAILer whom I have personally met, know and trust. - Ron Branson, J.A.I.L. Author / Founder.

Lest We Forget Michael Arnold

By John Morgan Duty

Come with me and travel a road 30 years long. Arrive in the POLICE STATE you thought couldn't happen.

Over the last thirty years I have witnessed a disturbing trend in policing. Sadly, the days of calling officer O"Malley to come get your cat out of the tree are lost and gone forever. In officer O"Malley"s place, we know have paramilitary ninjas armed with automatic weapons, gasses, and electroshock restraining devices. When I was just a young lad of fifteen years, I was a member of a rock band who played for fraternities, sororities, and birthday parties. One October night in Birmingham, our band had concluded a pleasant evening at the Travel Lodge, where we played for a group of college frats that were having their annual Halloween Bash.

We loaded up our gear, collected our pay and headed for the car, eager to get home. There we met a police officer that took exception to the jacket I was wearing. It seemed he thought a long hair shouldn't wear a United States flag sewed to the back of a blue jean jacket. He demanded that I remove the flag and when I asked why, he began to slap me around. The beating lasted for two or three minutes before we escaped, looking back to see the officer laughing heartily. At that time, I thought I had witnessed police brutality at its" worst.

A few years later, I was hitch hiking to Texas to spend spring break with a very nice young lady whom I met at college. It was windy and a bit chilly so I was happy when a DPS otherwise known as a highway patrol in most states, stopped to offer me a ride. I hopped in and he asked me where I was going. I told him I was a college student and I was going to see a friend for spring break. All was going quite well, or so I thought until he abruptly turned off onto a dirt side road.

When I asked what he was doing, he pulled his gun on me and took me to a
remote location where he proceeded to beat my brains out and left me there
unconscious. When I awakened, I didn't know where I was, and it was almost
dark, indicating I had been unconscious for a long time. To make a long story short, I survived, and found my way to the highway where a friendly truck driver took me to the hospital. I spent the spring break recovering from a concussion. I had done nothing to this so-called peacekeeper and was certain that I had now witnesses the meanest cop in the world. As time has passed, it seems I continue to see and hear things that couldn't possibly be happening in the United States.

I saw the police attack the MOVE house in Philadelphia, burning its" residents to death, as well as an additional 65 homes in the neighborhood. Then I was astonished to see the police attack a house full of sleeping Black Panthers, killing them as they slept in their beds. ....

I was horrified to hear of how the police raped and beat Abner Lewema after
he was in custody and inside the police precinct. Next Patrick Dorismond was
massacred, as he stood on the vestibule of his own home and doing absolutely
nothing illegal or suspicious. Likewise, Tyisha Miller of Riverside California was shot 27 times as she slept in her car. Each time, the police seemed to be more brutal, forceful, and more militaristic. Each time I grew angrier and more sickened. Each time I though it couldn't possibly get worse.

But then I met Constance Flaum. My entire standard of comparison was about
to be changed in a most profound way. What little respect I had left for the police was to evaporate. On March 27th, 1998, 22 officers of the Lenox Sheriffs" office and Highway Patrol committed the singularly most heinous crime, of which I am aware.

In the wee hours of that fateful morning, about 3:05am, 22 psychopathic, frenzied, armored, sheriffs and highway patrolmen opened fire with 9mm pistols, shotguns, and at least one AR-15 assault riffle, loosing 250 rounds of ammunition in a sleeping community. Rounds of ammo found their way into
several homes in the community, one coming to rest in the pillow that was under the head of a sleeping child. With any deviation at all, the bullet would have come to rest in the little boys" brain. For twenty-seven endless seconds, blue fire leapt from the barrels of the assassin's weaponry. When the siege was over, 150 bullets had screamed through the neighborhood, 165 bullets had taken down one unarmed man, 62 bullets grazed him, 106 projectiles penetrated Mikes body and 55 were "kill shots."?

When the military style assault was over, the police went door to door demanding the citizens tell them what they had seen and heard. They instructed the citizenry to stay in the house, away from the windows and remain there until the scene was secured. Then the police searched the dead mans new white Lincoln Towncar to find out who they had just killed only to discover they had made one of their famous mistakes. It seems they had just massacred a young, highly successful, local businessman known for his genteel nature and philanthropy. Mike Arnold was so kindhearted he was known as that guy who carried around his blind pooch in his arms and collected stuffed animals. He never owned a gun in his life.

He did, however, keep an air pistol or two because he managed property and
occasionally had to scare away a rodent or snake. Realizing what they had
just done, the adrenaline pumped cops huddled and came up with a quick but
feeble plan. One of the cops got into the car and moved it down the street nearly to the corner and a couple of the other cops retrieved a high-pressure hose from the meat packing company across the street.

They rinsed the torn flesh and blood into the gutter down. They then moved the car back to its" original position placing it between the dead mans body and the street. They opened the trunk and upon finding the air pistol, they placed it in the mutilated hand of the victim in an attempt to make the man look as if he were armed when they shot him. Interestingly, the hand in which they placed the gun had been shot three times.

Two shots went completely through the hand and the third severed the tendons
making it impossible for the victim to have held anything. The other interesting point of consideration was that the gun had not one scratch on it so how did the bullet pass through the hand and not the handle of the pistol? At this point I am asking myself what kind of explanation did the police try to offer to cover up their crime? It went something like this according to the story in the newspaper. "Unidentified suicidal freeway sniper killed in shootout with police."?

Apparently the news reporter didn't bother to investigate or interview anyone on the scene or he would have found out that when the police stopped Mike, they ordered him out of the car. With hands in the air as commanded, they told him to keep his hands up and to step backwards toward them. He was in complete compliance with the police especially since everybody knows how deadly the California Highway Patrol can be. His fatal mistake was to turn ever so slightly to the left to get a look at who was barking orders when one of the psychopaths ripped off a shot that tore Mikes face off.

The rest is bloody brutal history.

Statements the police spokesman made on TV alleged that, "Michael Arnold had been armed with two handguns from which he fired multiple rounds at the
police endangering the community.

THE FACTS

1) ONLY one gun was produced into evidence -- a BB-Gun

2) The make and model of BB gun placed in Michael's hand was not capable of
firing "multiple rounds"? nor was it possible for an air pistol to leave the
gunpowder residue found on Michael's hands. This proves that the shooters
moved him.

3) The very first shot blew Michael's brains out thus rendering him incapable of holding anything.

4) Three bullets passed completely through his hand shattering his arm and
shoulder bones, and severed tendons required for gripping.

5) Though bloody, the BB pistol didn't have a single scratch on it according
to the coroner.

6) Trajectory experts concluded the "kill zone"? was in the middle of the street and not on the sidewalk where the coroner examined the body some 7 hours after the murder took place.

7) All 165 bullets entered Michael's body front to back and left to right putting the car directly between them. Though an excess of 250 rounds were fired, only one bullet hit the car. Unlikely or impossible?

8) When the car was moved to the corner of the street to allow the police to
rinse down the scene they backed over the gutter down. As the blood and flesh was hosed down the drain, DNA and blood was splattered into the wheel wells and undercarriage of the car. Undeniable proof of evidence tampering.

9) Experts, eyewitnesses, and incontestable forensic evidence corroborated
all offering of facts.

All of the facts and evidence was either refused or ignored by:

1) The LA County Sheriff

2) LA County Board of Supervisors

3) The California State Attorney

4) Governor Gray Davis

5) EVERY Senator and Congressperson from the state of California

6) The United States Senate and House of Reps

7) The FBI

8) The US Attorney General

9) The US Dept. of Justice

10) President of the United States.

On March 27th, 2000, the police involved in the shooting were charged with
first-degree murder in an unprecedented Citizens Arrest. Each and every
attempt to remedy this injustice has been met with indifference, or ignored
completely. ....

I am sick and hurt to the core of my existence that this could happen to a United States Citizen, on US soil, and financed with my tax dollars. In some strange way I feel we are all to blame. How did we let things get this crazy? Moreover, why aren't we stopping this fascist, militaristic takeover by the jackbooted thugs calling themselves "Officers of the Law"? for clearly there is no law, only tyranny and pain?

The mainstream media has ignored this story, so I am asking that everyone who reads this to copy the story and send it to anyone you estimate has a conscience. Then write to all the parties mentioned to let them know that
you know the truth about this massacre and you are spreading the word until
someone takes action to right this wrong. Lastly, I would ask that you keep
Arnold and Flaum families in you meditations and prayers. Never forget
Michael "Buzz" Arnold, and never forget this story. I know I won't.

John Morgan Duty II
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Date: Thu Dec 20, 2001 11:05 pm
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Courts Authorize

Greater Police Powers

N.Y. police win more latitude in traffic stops

By Yancey Roy
RochesterNews

Democrat and Chronicle

ALBANY (Wednesday, December 19, 2001) -- In a landmark ruling, New York's top court yesterday gave police wide latitude to stop vehicles for traffic violations and then search for evidence of serious crimes.

The Court of Appeals said in a 4-3 decision that New York should follow the less stringent federal guidelines for making such stops.

The court said that when police have probable cause to believe the driver of a vehicle has violated laws, a stop-and-search doesn't violate New York's constitutional guarantee against illegal searches.

Defense lawyers said the ruling would allow officers to use more than 3,000 traffic law provisions to stop someone.

"This greatly expands their ability to use traffic stops to investigate unrelated behavior -- and I believe it won't stop there," said Rochester lawyer Thomas A. Corletta, who represented Patrick Reynolds, one of three defendants in the case that the top court reviewed.

Prosecutors cheered the ruling because it removes a subjective standard -- an officer's motivation -- for judging validity of a stop.

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How many times have we stated in our J.A.I.L. articles that the rise of Nazi-like police powers shall continue unabated in this country until judges are held accountable by the citizens through the passage of J.A.I.L.? It was Frederick Douglass, Aug. 4, 1857, who said "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."

So, J.A.I.L. challenges you to answer these two questions. How much police oppression will you submit to, and how low will you go before you decide to take a stand? Your answer please! Oh, what's that? You are unable to respond? Well take this challenge then. J.A.I.L. is the ONLY answer! When are you going to join the rising team of JAILers throughout this country? You have no other choice! VictoryUSA@....

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