June 30, 2003
OUCH - This Is A Disciplinary Action Waiting to Happen
The link below will take you to a story about what not to do if you have a law firm and somebody in the law firm screws up big time.
My Shingle | OUCH - This Is A Disciplinary Action Waiting to Happen
Also, I forgot to mention a useful link that I was asked to mention and it is DAILY WHIRL - RSS Feeds From Legal News and Info Sites.
I have it over on the left among my links. Of course, once I put it over on my links nobody reads it. Not even my four readers that are usually passed out in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin islands. I heard they were going to the Cayman Islands so they could meet the famous Instapundit but after toasting the pilot who would take them to the Cayman Islands, they passed out again.
Looks Like the Associated Press has engaged in "EXTREME SLEAZE"
The following link will take you to a story that, if true, shows the Associated Press to be pompous, self-serving, miserly and...........(I have to say it because, after all, this is the "Sleaze Report").........sleazy.
sunspot.net - tv & media -
I like this - Bloggers Gain Libel Protection
Wired News: Bloggers Gain Libel Protection
The DesertLight Journal Blog has a new URL
desertlightjournal.blog-city.com
This is just a reminder about what is happening in Uganda and Rwanda
Info about the Uganda Civil War and the Rwanda Civil War.
For those who want to help there is an organization called The International Rescue Committee - is a non-profit, non-sectarian, voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world.
The International Rescue Committee was founded at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Hitler. The IRC helps people fleeing racial, religious and ethnic persecution, as well as those uprooted by war and violence.
As usual, I recommend that anybody giving to a non-profit organization do a little investigating.
There's going to be a picnic at Shute Park located in Hillsboro. (Southeast 10th Avenue and Maple Street.)
Speaking of the Libertarian Party of Oregon, the Libertarian Party of Washington County is hosting its first annual summer picnic in Shute Park located in Hillsboro. (Southeast 10th Avenue and Maple Street.)
The picnic will be on Saturday, July 19, 2003 from 3:30 till 7:00PM. There is a suggested donation of $5.00 per person. Which will buy you a raffle ticket, food and a soft drink. There will not be any alcohol available due to park regulations.
We hope that you can make it and please bring a friend. Please RSVP to chair@lpwc.org
More on Western Muslims' despair of the Muslim world
The Reverend Donald Sensing has an interesting post about what some American Muslims think about some of the extemists targeting Americans and citizens from countries that are perceived as being America's friends.
One Hand Clapping
Happy birthday to XRLQ
Happy birthday to XRLQ.
The state where I was born, California, has managed to get itself into a huge financial mess. It also seems to have gotten itself into an energy mess.
There is a recall effort going on and XRLQ has some pretty good opinions at the link below about what's going on in California.
damnum absque injuria: Three For The Price of One?
Update: I've just been watching a Fox Special Report and the anchor person said tonight at midnight California needs to come up with a budget AND that CA is about 38 billion (that's right - 38 billion) in the hole.
Tim Blair has two cool posts
The posts are here and here.
Borrell Report Says Internet Presence Lures New Advertisers to Local TV
Who says there's not money to be made from the Internet. Now all I gotta do is figure out a way to own a news station.
TelevisionWeek -- Media and Television Technology - TV stations as a whole generated about $72 million in online advertising revenue in 2002, about 4 percent of the total $1.65 billion pie spent in local Internet advertising, according to Gordon Borrell, president of Borrell Associates (borrellassociates.com) in Portsmouth, Va.
About one-quarter of the 157 stations surveyed were using their Internet sites specifically to lure new-to-TV advertisers, such as real estate and employment recruiting, said Mr. Borrell.
State Rankings from the Statistical Abstract of the United States
The following state rankings are from the US Census Bureau. Washington County, Oregon has the highest percentage of loonies running around.
State Rankings--Statistical Abstract of the United States
The weather is sorta nice today, so that means it's time to plug Oregon wineries
If you click on the link below you will be taken to a list of Oregon wineries. If you're not in Oregon, the link below will take you to a list of wineries in your state, if you have any wineries in your state.
Oregon Wineries
Parents and Children for Equality (PACE) has an interest in some legislation in Ohio
To view the proposed legislation in either HTML or PDF format, click on the link below.
New Custody Legislation
It's nice to start out the day with a Shakespeare sonnet
LII.
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
June 29, 2003
Cato the Youngest and the Stars and Stripes
I agree with Cato the Youngest but I guess my opinion has been overruled.
Cato the Youngest: Old and in the Way - Thanks to such critics, millions of us have now come to the conclusion that after a half century of American support, thousands of American dead, and billions of dollars in aid, it is perhaps time to let the rich South Koreans protect themselves and be weaned from the American military. We gave them their country; now on the 50-year anniversary of the armistice, let them keep — or lose — it. Yes, let them, not 20-year-old young men and women from Des Moines and Missoula, find out whether their own Sunshine Policy really works. Having us defend them in perpetuity from a bankrupt third-world country would be somewhat like asking them to come over here to defend our own porous border with Mexico.
There are no plans to reduce the 37,000 U.S. servicemembers stationed in South Korea, contrary to Korean newspaper reports, a U.S. Forces Korea official said Friday.
DB's Medical Rants -whether you agree with the rants or not - they still make you think
DB's Medical Rants has fielded 9 questions and has managed some answers. Some of the questions are good, but I would have asked a few different ones. But, hey, I'm not Donald. Here's the first question Donald asks -
1. Do you agree hospitalists improve the quality of patient care and reduce costs?
Now, I'm not DB Rants, but I would have answered the question this way, "When you sober up, then will you ask a question that makes sense?"
Heh, heh, I cheated on the answer I gave up above. I belong to several email lists made up of all sorts of medical specialists (they let me on their email lists because I told them I wish to learn from them and they said, "OK") and the consensus was that the question by Donald was really stupid.
DB's Medical Rants: 9 questions - and answers
Lambert is posting a lot of posts over at Eschaton
Lambert is posting a lot of posts over at Eschaton.
I disagree with almost all of Lambert's posts, but they are so interesting that I think you should read Lambert's posts.
Jack has a couple of cool posts
His first post is one of those great posts about a really cool person you know and you get to rant and rave about how cool that person is and it is
Jack Bog's Blog - Happy birthday, Judge Goodwin and the other post is about how he was one of the first to blog about certain political shenanigans.
Newsflash from Loon Central
Newsflash from Loon Central.
I have been told to quit being a Scientologist because Scientologists are evil.
That shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish since I've never been a Scientologist.
For some idiot reason, the Roger Weidner gang became convinced over twenty years ago that I was a scientologist, a homosexual Satanist, an eater of corpses, and on and on. Now they are intent on surviving the "pulse attack" from Russia and China.
Anyway, the Roger Weidner gang imparted the information about me being a Scientologist, a homosexual, a corpse eater, etc., to a fiance I had at Rota, Spain in 1984 which caused my fiance, Cathy Winters, AND her mother to spend weeks trying to convince me to quit being a Scientologist, a Satanist, a homosexual and on and on.
Cathy Winters was the proud owner of a switchblade knife. When she was drunk, which was almost every night, she would show off her expertise with that switchblade. This caused her to stab innocent bystanding things like tables, walls, doors, the bed, some of my clothes, etc.
Strange girl. Whenever she got too drunk and too violent I just split into town and partied with the natives, or the Italian or German or English vacationers.
Man, I really liked Rota, Spain. Too bad I spent most of my time there being on light duty because of a silly assault and knife attack that happened to me shortly after I got there.
I suppose preaching keeps a body out of the strip joints
Three Teens Compete for Preaching Prize.
I wonder which contestant God is rooting for.
Three Teens Compete for Preaching Prize
Updated 7:42 PM ET June 27, 2003
- They came from across the country, arriving on a college campus during an April rain to do what young Americans do every year - compete for a national championship. But these contestants were not vying for a sports trophy or a debate badge, they were after a higher goal.
"It would be nice to end my senior year in high school with getting a first place in nationals," said Ben Shuler, 18, of Columbus, Ga.
Shuler was one of 2,400 students who made the trip to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. They were competing in 75 different categories that all had one thing in common — God.
"Evangelistic preaching is very important, because that's what it's all about," Shuler said. "There's only two things that will ever last, and that's the word of God, and the souls of men."
Shuler was competing in the category of Evangelistic Bible Preaching — one of the bigger crowd pleasers, demonstrating Bible knowledge seasoned with a requisite salvation message. He was one of 14 contestants, winners in their home states, who were given 10 to 15 minutes each to preach before a classroom audience and panel of three judges. Six advanced to the finals.
The contest, the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) National Competition, is geared to evangelicals. In a recent ABCNEWS poll, 34 percent of Americans identified themselves as such.
Evangelicals emphasize one's individual relationship with God. Each accepts Jesus Christ as a personal savior. They may seek to convert others, spreading the Gospel, or the "good news" of redemption, through missionary work and other forms of evangelism known as "witnessing." One bears witness to his own conversion experience so that others may be inspired to follow; in this, preaching is a key tool.
‘Witnessing’ With Ben Shuler
Weeks before the Greenville competition, Shuler stood on a rundown Georgia street, praying with a young woman over a chain-link fence that rims her dusty front yard. "Forgive me of my sins, come into my heart," she repeated after him in a near-whisper. "I am trusting you and you alone to take me to heaven when I die," she said.
A small crowd had gathered by the time Shuler was done. Youth pastor Robert Rodriguez invited the group to dinner; but none showed up that night. Still, Shuler pressed on. "Do you guys go to church anywhere?" he asked a group of small boys on bicycles. "What we're doing is just going around inviting people to church."
"I'm different than a lot of people," Shuler said. "Outside of my school, I don't really have any friends," but, he said, "I don't have a lack of fun in my life, because there is nothing more fun than doing what's right, and serving the Lord."
Gary Shuler, Ben's father, said he and his wife tried to control what their children watch on television. They didn't want them listening to rock music. "To tell you the truth, Ben does a good job of policing his own life," he said.
"Truly, what scares me is that I would never want to be unfaithful to the Lord," Ben Shuler, the youngest child of four, explained. "I never want to do something that would ruin my testimony, that would cause me to have to leave the ministry, and that I would not be an effective witness for the Lord in doing so."
As Shuler preached his winning message before state judges at the wood-paneled front of a small stone church, his mother, Carol, filmed him on home video from her pew.
The Competition: Isaiah Lewis
Across the country, in New Hampshire, Isaiah Lewis, 16, won that state's Evangelistic Bible Preaching competition, his adolescent voice breaking even as his hands cut the air with the authority of a seasoned preacher.
"I totally recognize that God has given me an ability to speak, and that's not something I need to be proud about," Lewis said. "To preach the word of God is the most incredible feeling in the world … and winning is just really a bonus on the end of it."
Seated in an immaculately ordered bedroom, a row of colorful preaching prize ribbons tacked to the wall and a group of boxes stacked into a makeshift practice pulpit at the foot of the bed, Lewis explained his passion.
"I believe there are many young people, that if they would truly examine their heart, and truly listen to what God is telling them, they would find that God is calling them to share his word," he said. "It's a duty, but it's a privilege, to give myself to God and say 'use me.'"
Lewis' mother Debbie, visibly moved by her son's accomplishments, said she was convinced people would be saved by her son's preaching. "It's a very humbling thing, that the Lord could use your child to preach the gospel. It just makes me cry."
The Competition: Eric Stanley
Eric Stanley, 18, pitches for the Crusaders, his high school baseball team in Odessa, Mo. Before they take the field, his coach prays with them; but before Stanley takes the pulpit, it is his pastor who acts as coach.
"At first, I do feel nervous, and the jitters take over. But once I start preaching, a peace comes over you, and you get to share the truths of God's word with others," Stanley said. "The qualities of a good preacher are not necessarily his boldness and the way he presents. It's his heart."
Stanley's father, Rick, said he and his wife wanted to bring up their children differently than they had been. "His mother and I both grew up not living godly lives, and not having Christ as our personal savior, and we both knew what that meant to us."
Now, at Bob Jones, Stanley called his father with news that would spark a 15-hour drive across the country to see his son preach. The list of first-round winners had been posted at the National Competition: "I made it to the finals, so you can go ahead and come on down," Stanley told his dad.
The Finals: Paradox and Pressure
The paradox of a preaching competition is lost on neither organizer nor participant; many competing students are conflicted over preaching to win, rather than to glorify God.
"We try to help the preachers understand that they are not really competing against one another," said preaching judge Randy Leedy. "The opponent that they face … is the devil."
But particulars matter when even that timeless struggle against Satan is adapted to the competition's 10- to 15-minute format. "We are very interested in the content of what the man has to say in his sermon, and we are interested in how he says it," Leedy said. "We want to see a naturalness, a spontaneity. Does he engage the audience?"
The purpose of the competition is "to produce a generation of people that will make a difference in the world in which we live," AACS president Carl Herbster said. "We're developing some real soldiers for the Lord Jesus Christ."
But all the pressure to smoothly save souls got to Shuler. After preaching in the finals, he broke down in tears, huddled in a hall doorway with Lewis and another contestant, shaking.
"Ben has a very passionate heart for God," Lewis later offered. "He was just pouring out his soul before God. 'Lord, save these men,' he kept saying, over and over. 'Use these words that I have spoken, save these men.'"
"I was crying because of the souls of men; my heart is to see souls saved," Shuler explained. "Some people think hell is a fairy tale, but it is not. Hell is a reality."
"It just upset him so much to think that someone might die and go to hell, and it just broke his heart," said Shuler's mother, Carol. "Preaching is not an easy calling."
Prize in the Sky
Gathered in Bob Jones' plush central auditorium, winners heard their names announced. This year, Lewis claimed first prize, and Shuler landed third. Stanley failed to place; while disappointed, he vows he is undeterred from his calling to preach.
"It's an awesome feeling," said Shuler, thrilled to have been named third in the nation. "I don't deserve to be here. I don't deserve to preach the word of God."
"I just talked to Ben Shuler and Eric Stanley," Lewis said after the ceremony, "and we just kind of looked at each other and said, 'Who cares?' …The word of God was preached by six individuals in that room who love God."
This report was written from a two-part Nightline presentation that aired June 19 and 20. George Griffin and Matt Kauffman provided the reporting for the story.
Do you really think winning a "preaching prize" is gonna get you into heaven? Personally, I don't know so asked a Sikh and he spent a lot of time expaining a lot of stuff to me. Unfortunately, his was talking in a language I didn't understand, but his body language told me that what he was saying was really important.....at least to him. Hmmm, come to think of it, he sounded like Republicans sound because I can't figure out what they say, either.
Which brings up this story.
Falwell apologizes to gays, feminists, lesbians
September 14, 2001 Posted: 2:55 AM EDT (0655 GMT)
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell said late Thursday he did not mean to blame feminists, gays or lesbians for bringing on the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington this week, in remarks on a television program earlier in the day.
On the broadcast of the Christian television program "The 700 Club," Falwell made the following statement:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."
But in a phone call to CNN, Falwell said that only the hijackers and terrorists were responsible for the deadly attacks.
"I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says 'living by God's principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame,'" he said.
Falwell said he believes the ACLU and other organizations "which have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded."
"I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812," he said.
Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club program, seemed to agree with Falwell's earlier statements in a prayer during the program.
"We have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we've stuck our finger in your eye," said Robertson. "The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America."
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Lorri L. Jean bristled at the idea that gays and lesbians had anything to do with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that may have left thousands dead, and demanded an apology from Falwell.
"The terrible tragedy that has befallen our nation, and indeed the entire global community, is the sad byproduct of fanaticism. It has its roots in the same fanaticism that enables people like Jerry Falwell to preach hate against those who do not think, live, or love in the exact same way he does," she said.
"The tragedies that have occurred this week did not occur because someone made God mad, as Mr. Falwell asserts. They occurred because of hate, pure and simple. It is time to move beyond a place of hate and to a place of healing. We hope that Mr. Falwell will apologize to the U.S. and world communities."
Falwell told CNN: "I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize."
Everything I used to do is now socially unacceptable
Man, I don't understand this. I used to like to take peyote and then go to Willie Nelson and Led Zeppelin concerts in Tucson, Arizona and now I find out that that's not conducive to Republican inspired attempts to control Americans through strange, bizarre Calvinistic religious edicts.
Well, maybe I can make up for my transgressions by reading something by Hunter S. Thompson.
Jim Karlock has something to say
Here in Oregon we have one of the biggest sewers you can possibly imagine. It is called the Willamette River. Periodically the local news folk tell us to NOT go swimming in the river, to NOT go fishing in the river because the fish are contaminated and to NOT let pets go swimming in the river.
And now in honor of the Portland City Council's efforts to take from the poor and give to the rich, we bring you Jim Karlock and his opinion.
PortlandTribune.com | Tax break rankles in tight times
Update on Washington County's preparations for the "particle beam" attack from Russia and China
Well, it's time to update the world about what is happening in Washington County, Oregon right now. We're seeking info from bureaucracies and others, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in association with everybody for the "beam particle" attack by Russia and China. Fortunately, the brilliant leaders of the Hillsboro, Oregon Chamber of Commerce have contacted SAMHSA.
SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Remember, don't forget the toilet paper. According to experts, the "particle beam" weapons won't interfere with toilets, unless you live in Portland, Oregon, where the Portland Water Bureau does interfere with toilets.
That great chef of Chinese food, Victor Oekerman, and his brilliant legal advisor, Roger Weidner, have offered to cook Chinese food in anticipation of the efforts of Russia and China to "pulse" America. According to Victor and Roger, "everybody but them damn furriners" are welcome.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Todd S. Elwyn, M.D., J.D. has written an article and has been chosen by the Laughlin Fellowship Committee for praise
Todd S. Elwyn, M.D., J.D of the University of Hawaii is now, officially, a Laughlin Fellow. He has also written an interesting article - eMedicine - Factitious Disorder : Article by Todd S Elwyn, MD.
Many of the females, including my sister (Chris Andrea Hays), in the psycho Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang suffer from "Munchausen syndrome by proxy". In other words, they either deliberately make their kids sick so they can show what great mothers they are by healing the "sick" kids, or they pretend their kids are sick, thereby gaining sympathy from other members of the cult.
Between seeking sympathy and preparing for WW III and bugging me and my two daughters and the mother of my two daughters, I don't see how members of the cult have the time to relax and read a book.
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There seems to be a controversy about the importance of
Doctoral versus Masters' Degrees in Clinical Psychology - There are large and important differences between the doctoral (Ph.D. and Psy.D.) and masters (M.S. or M.A.) degrees in clinical psychology. This page describes both general differences between the degrees, but some important differences regarding the Department of Psychology's programs.
Tell you what, Marquette certainly has me convinced....... of something, I'm not sure what. Oh, I remember, when drinking orange juice, always kill any possible germs in the juice by adding vodka.
Now let's turn our attention to another controversy - Psychology vs Psychiatry.
All right. Now that we've studied a couple of controversies, it's time to go swimming.
Authors I recommend
I've actually been asked to name a few good authors. This is a pleasant diversion from being accused of all sorts of things, including being a part of the Russian/Chinese conspiracy to "pulse" attack America with "beam particle" weaponry.
At the moment I'm reading "London: the Novel" by Edward Rutherford and "The Bear and the Dragon" by Tom Clancy.
There is also The Online Literature Library, where you can read some classics that are in the public domain. (Yes, you can even copy what's at the The Online Literature Library legally.)
The following not-widely-read authors I recommend:
Read all the books from the above mentioned authors for your enjoyment, not for testing purposes. I swear, sometimes I think literature classes teach people to hate reading more than the classes teach people how to enjoy reading.
Hacktivismo is getting some press
I've written about Hacktivismo before. I'm glad word is getting out about Hacktivismo. Findlaw even has an article about Hacktivismo so click on the link below.
FindLaw's Writ - Sprigman: Hacking for Free Speech
Vodka Pundit has a plan to end racism
Vodka Pundit's plan to end racism makes sense to me. Vodka Pundit also brings up a very important question, "Why should only Mexicans be able to get real Mexican food?" It's not fair.
Marcus Cole writes an important reply
In a post by Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy, there is a reply by Marcus Cole to a posting by Eugene Volokh entitled "JUDGING CLARENCE THOMAS".
Because I think this letter from Marcus Cole is important, I'm going to put Randy Barnett's complete post below.
Reply to Volokh's MSNBC Blog on Justice Thomas: Stanford Law School professor (and good friend) Marcus Cole has written the following moving reply to Eugene's guest blog on MSNBC entitled Judging Clarence Thomas:
Dear Eugene,
I appreciate the logical fire to which you put Maureen Dowd's feet. I'm afraid, however, that you have missed an opportunity to challenge the racist premise that is central to her argument, a premise shared by many of those on the left.
In order to make her argument, Maureen Dowd assumes that Clarence Thomas, and all successful African Americans, owe their success to Affirmative Action as the but-for cause of their success. No African American, according to this premise, is capable of making it without a helping hand from omniscient social architects. Clarence Thomas must be an ingrate for refusing to acknowledge that very decent white people on the left made it possible for him to be where he is today. I'm sorry, but I am sick of this arrogant and utterly racist mind-set, and I refuse to tolerate it any longer.
In the current Affirmative Action environment, blessed by our Supreme Court this past Monday, there is nothing that any American of African descent can do that can separate himself or herself from the unspoken accusation that he or she is the beneficiary of more than they deserve.
Let me illustrate my point. I am willing to bet that I am the only member of this list who feels compelled to put his standardized test scores and National Merit award on his CV. Why do I do this? For those of you who do not know me personally, it is not a matter of braggadocio. Every September I have to deal with nearly 60 prima donna first year law students whose first and only (initial) reaction to my skin color is that they have been cheated out of a "real" Contracts professor, and are stuck with an "Affirmative Action" instructor. Many of them come around when, as some "gunners" often do, they look up my CV and find that I have outscored virtually every single one of them on the test around which they have centered their lives, the LSAT. Others usually come around by mid semester when they have had an opportunity to compare my teaching to that of their other instructors. If numbers (standardized test scores and teaching evaluations) could obscure my skin color, my life would be heavenly.
I am not complaining. I live a truly blessed life. But to insinuate that my life is nothing more than an Affirmative Action storyline is the insult that I endure year in, year out. I have done everything I can do to distinguish myself. I've worked hard (scrubbed toilets as a janitor to put myself through college at Cornell, among other things). Yet nothing I do is enough to satisfy anyone on the left that I am their equal without need of their help, or anyone on the right that I am not where I am because of affirmative action.
If I recall correctly, Justice Thomas entered Holy Cross in 1968. I was seven years old at the time, and I do not think of 1968 as the heyday of Affirmative Action. I don't recall it being widespread in 1972 when (I think) he entered Yale Law School. Why assume that Dowd and the other racists on the left are correct? Why assume that he is pulling up a ladder upon which he ascended? Are we at a point where it is inconceivable that an African American can do anything in this world that can make him or her worthy of respect as a free and EQUAL man or woman to any other man or woman in this society?
Justice Thomas is a favorite target of the left, and is likely to remain a target. But those on the left need to know that real people, ordinary people, suffer from the "good" that they would impose upon us. The Supreme Court, by validating race-conscious government, has likely ensured that tens of thousands of Black orphaned children will go unadopted simply because government adoption agencies refuse to allow them to be raised by loving parents of a different race. They also ensured that the filthy, bookless, crime-ridden cesspools that pass for public schools in our inner cities will never be confronted, since the virtually illiterate "graduates" will be guaranteed admission to colleges that cannot possibly provide the remedial help necessary to give them a descent education.
I recently told a "pro-affirmative action" friend who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania that my dream for my two sons is different than most other Americans. While most other Americans dream of sending their children off to Harvard, Yale or Stanford, I dream of my two sons attending the University of California at Berkeley, a school to which only the objective accouterments of their abilities will gain them access. I am very pessimistic that this society will ever see past their skin color to actually value and enjoy them for the talents with which God endowed them, and the character with which I hope to leave them. Instead, I fear that they, like me, will engage in a year-in, year-out, day-in, day-out, relentless pursuit of personal liberty, and the respect necessary to exercise it.
June 28, 2003
Here in Washington County, we're preparing for WWW III - are you?
Here in Washington County, Oregon, (Loon Central), we're preparing for WWW III. Are you?
You've gotta read the following crap just to realize that, apparently, there's all kinds of reality for Roger Weidner and his crazy buddies. What's really crazy is that there are many people in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon who believe the following nonsense, including my relatives' (John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays and Chris Andrea Hays) church.
These are the same crazy people who convinced Dr. Ron Turco to diagnose me as a homosexual Satanic ritualist who hangs out in cemeteries sacrificing the neighbors' kids and pets and eating the neighbors' kids and pets.
Can you guess how many people associated with America's looniest Chamber of Commerce or America's looniest American Legion Post (American Legion Post 104 in Aloha, Oregon) are preparing for Russia and China to "pulse" us out of existence with "particle beam" weaponry? You'd be surprised considering Loon Central's bizarre employment practices.
The following is from Pamela Gaston, Roger Weidner's noble assistant.
IS AMERICA ABOUT TO BE "PULSED"?" IS COLUMBIA A WARNING OF THINGS TO COME?
IS RUSSIA AND CHINA PLANNING ON DESINTEGRATING UNITED STATES ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ON FEBRUARY 7-8 - TO HEAD OFF A HIT ON IRAQ PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY 15th????
IS A PULSE BEAM WEAPON ATTACK PLANNED IN A WEEK????
A voice for children rarely send out information from "confidential sources", but the credibility of the authority who communicated this to us makes it impossible not to share so that everyone is one up on these unthinkable potential plans being discussed in 'inner circles".
WE PRAY THIS IS NOT TRUE AND THAT BOTH SIDES ARE CONFUSED IN THEIR SCHEMES.
The statement to us is that Russia and China are going to "pulse" the United States with a Particle Beam Weapon that will shut down all technology, internet and render the current administration incapable to attack Iraq on February 15th, the date reported to be planned for the Bush administrations show of "awe and full force (nuclear)" to begin.
Those countries will be HEROES, thought of as saving the world from WWIII in doing so. Our confidential advisor told us dearly to have food supplies and gasoline, a week or so worth of water and basic necessities as the chaos would be unimaginable if this comes to pass.
This information was relayed to us last night, and this morning the Columbia disaster with a particle beam on the radar at the same is amazing, and makes the question more urgent if this is a sign of something much bigger.
The following link is to the radar map at the time the shuttle was breaking up, and clearly are seen moving laser like beams shooting across the path. We see an explosion at Dallas/Ft Worth on the radar and at the begining the beam is present across texas and the path of the incoming shuttle, then we see the explosion grow and the beam stays present the whole time.
We, along with others on the web, have been following these radar anomalies for a few years now, and NEVER an explanation given for what we are seeing. We have seen them on the weather and they pop up and the announcer does not ever acknowledge seeing it....
Today this radar image has been on the television all day long, full public viewing..... Will we finally get an answer on what we are seeing with these laser like beams that cover three states and huge weather manipulating circles and pulses that are clearly seen every day all over the world now?
WAKE UP AMERICA - REPENT MEANS TO TURN AROUND
We cannot stand before the world and support the unconstitutional regime that is acting as an enemy combatant to the world in the name of the corporate state. It is RIGHT and TIME for the People to restore our lawful Authority along with a standard of morals and truth, by demanding full disclosure and prosecution of crimes equally without statutory immunities. God does not give anyone immunity to commit any criminal act against his brother.
Our Rights come from God, not the Bush administration and congress. WE are THEIR BOSS. THEY are OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS with an OATH to uphold the Law.
Take this information as you will, we are thankful to God for all things He sets on our table and believe the Truth ultimately prevails.
We do not have anymore information than what we have presented here.
pamela gaston
US Military issues
For those interested in US military issues, Porphyrogenitus and Steven Den Beste have some thoughts on the US military.
I think instead of building a new prototype of bomber, we should start building B-52's again and equip them with the latest gadgetry. The B-52 seems to be one of those classic designs that should be kept.
Also, Col. Hackworth has various articles on his website.
June 27, 2003
Why are the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang allowed to give legal advice?
Despite the beliefs of a crazy cop who goes to my relatives' church, my relatives, and some other members of the loony, homophobic, racist Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang here in loony Washington County, Oregon that Roger and the gang are brilliant legal scholars, there are people in Oregon and elsewhere who believe that Roger and his gang giving legal advice is bad for the people receiving legal advice, Oregonians, and American citizens elsewhere.
One of the people who believes that Roger and his gang shouldn't be allowed to give out extremely stupid legal advice is Edgar J. Steele. The following post explains what he and many others believe.
A Voice for Incoherence
by Edgar J. Steele
July 3, 2002
"See the happy moron -
He doesn't give a damn..."
----Ogden Nash
"The world is full of morons," I intoned solemnly as my son turned fourteen this year. "That's the Fourth Immutable Law of the Universe, and don't you forget it."
I've been doling out these universal truths, one at a time, as a part of preparing him for life. Admittedly, I haven't made any of them up, but I am responsible for assembling them in this form. I always stay one or two ahead of him and will provide the last, number ten, just as he is ready to graduate from high school, less than four years from now.
Here's where I am so far:
Men are right.
Women are slow.
Mom is never wrong.
The world is full of morons.
The old ways are the best ways.
Pigs get fat – hogs get slaughtered.
Do the right thing; not the smart thing.
Yes, I know - please don't email me about what an insufferable male chauvinist pig I am.
Years ago, a vice president of the company for which I then worked had a plaque in his office which read: "There is no defense against stupidity." I recall being annoyed with his outright arrogance - and that plaque was the least of it. That his name was Goldberg will be no surprise to many. Time and again, however, the world has shown me the inherent wisdom of that homily, though I would never dream of giving it such a place of prominence in my life.
There are some truths better left alone. Such as, "The world is full of morons." That doesn't make them any less true.
My last, No Justice for the Politically Incorrect , recounted the latest stopover in the Christine case, wherein I bemoaned the injustice of the legal system and the manner with which it deals with the politically incorrect.
I have said it before, but it bears repetition: the legal system is irretrievably broken. And, there is no fixing it, most particularly not by using the system's own mechanisms in the attempt.
Once in the system, one can only hope to exit by using the rules of the system itself, however unfair they may be. Best, by far, is staying out of the system altogether, particularly if you are the type that it inherently dislikes. Today, aside from true criminals, that means the politically incorrect.
However, there is another aspect to the legal system that bears examination, particularly by the politically incorrect, and it played a key role in the Christine case. There is a cottage industry that has grown up around the legal system, an industry that the Internet, more than anything else, has made possible. It has no real name as yet, though its denizens go by a host of labels, some self applied and some applied to them by others. "Constitutionalist" is the one that I hear most often, spoken proudly by those within this faction and derisively by those outside.
The irony is that there is nothing Constitutional about most of these people; Thomas Jefferson would have shot them dead on the front lawn of the White House (didn't know that he actually did that once, did you?).
The members of this legal "black market" espouse all manner of tricks and tactics purporting to allow one to elude the consequences of one's own actions (as in the liens employed by those people in Montana, you know, the "Just Us" guys) or to foil the evil members of the formal legal system. They are particularly taken with the UCC system, for some unfathomable reason (it applies to products in commerce only, by the way).
One of my favorites is the suggestion that so often is thrown at me, encouraging me to get my clients to "opt out" of American society by becoming something called "sovereign citizens." Supposedly, then they cannot be touched by the authorities. Right. Problem is, nobody told the authorities.
Another problem is that many people, once they run afoul of the system in some manner, actually listen to these self-styled "Constitutional Counselors," or whatever they might pretend to be. This is particularly true of the politically incorrect, who have a well-justified distrust of anything formally associated with or a part of the legal system.
Brian and Ruth Christine fell for this swill when their children were first taken from them. For six months, they listened to various members of this pseudo-legal jungle in and around Grants Pass, Oregon. For six months, while within the system, they did all the wrong things, as a result.
The Christines were just kids, themselves. They deserved better. The worst Public Defender in town could have gotten their children back for them in six months. Due to the "guidance" they received from their "advisers," however, they were receptive to the help of a real lawyer only after they were in jail, having been arrested and charged with a litany of heavy-duty felonies, including Kidnapping and Robbery. Only after their situation had become essentially hopeless, in other words. That was when I entered their case.
They had public defenders for a brief interlude, who conned them into signing off on a termination of their parental rights to their three oldest girls. Frankly, that very likely would have happened by court edict, anyway, but was not something I could have recommended they accept without a fight and a formal trial.
I did take them through their kidnapping trial on a variety of felony charges, some lesser and some major. My standard for a win was defeating the major felonies. There really was no hope that they would walk free on everything. They got tagged only with Robbery I, a so-called "Measure 11" felony, which we have now appealed. I think we have a pretty good chance of overturning this conviction in the appellate courts. That would shorten their current sentences by years.
Until yesterday, the Christines were faced with another trial, this time in Grants Pass, in two weeks' time. Offered a deal by the district attorney handling those charges (again, a blizzard of felonies and misdemeanors), which involved pleading out to one felony each, with Brian pleading to another related to a traffic stop, they decided they would rather not endure another trial.
Pleading out was their decision alone, but I believe it was the correct one. I made no recommendation, one way or the other. The time prescribed by the sentencing judge runs concurrent with their present sentences; in other words, there is no additional penalty other than the sting of those who incorrectly say they have now admitted they did wrong to begin with.
So, I didn't make a silk purse out of the sow's ear of a case that I was handed, but I did make a pretty nifty pigskin wallet! All in all, not bad, particularly considering I've been working for free. And that made me feel pretty good about things. Until today, when one of the Grants Pass legal illiterati so responsible for Brian and Ruth losing their kids and being in prison actually had the effrontery to accuse me of selling the Christines out.
Meet Pamela Gaston, who maintains a web site and sends out a daily flurry of often-incoherent emails, all under the title, "A Voice for Children." Her husband, Will, sat directly behind me throughout the Christine trial (if you watch it on CourtTV in two weeks, he is the burly fellow with the shock of white hair and bushy beard to match).
Will Gaston repeatedly told me, both during the trial and after, that he had never seen a better job than the one I did. Now, if you believe his wife, Pamela, he really thought that I was key in constructing a legal abomination. Either he was lying then, or he is lying now...or Pamela is lying about what Will thinks. I suspect the latter, frankly, since she seems to be the real voice for incoherence behind their web site.
Until now, Brian and Ruth Christine's directive that I leave the Grants Pass courthouse crazies alone is all that has kept me from taking them on, both directly via the Internet and indirectly, via the local District Attorney. Pamela Gaston's recent assault upon my legal honor has released me from that restriction.
The Gastons filed a petition of some sort with the judge during the Christine trial. It was genuinely laughable, reflective of what unschooled children might imagine legal documents should be. At my urging, the judge decided not to embarrass them by ruling it to be the sort of pseudo-legal tripe that it was. They apparently now are filing it with other courts.
Also, during this trial, another of the crazies endeavored to challenge the judge's jurisdiction, claiming that the oath he took when initially sworn in as a judge was lacking a word or two. This "defective oath" business is a favorite of this crowd in Oregon just now, particularly Pamela Gaston. It is, in a word, irrelevant and totally without merit. The Gastons now seize upon this poppycock to claim that I was part and parcel of a conspiracy against the Christines.
Because of advice like this, given by Pamela Gaston and a few others in the Grants Pass area, the Christines are a permanently broken family and Brian and Ruth will spend several years in prison.
Because of you, Pamela Gaston....because of you.
There is no defense against stupidity, as the sign said. And, don't forget, the world is full of morons. Perhaps it is Pamela's sense of guilt that causes her now to turn on me and blame me for all that has befallen the Christines. Remember that I entered after everything had already happened, Pamela, whereas you were there from the start, whispering in their ear.
Regardless of how Brian and Ruth might feel about it, I am filing a formal request with the DAs of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas Counties, as well as the Oregon State Bar Association, that Pamela Gaston (and others, if indicated) be criminally prosecuted for the Unauthorized Practice of Law. There is such a crime and it is rarely prosecuted. If ever there was a case that cried out for it, this is it. A borderline lunatic like Gaston staggers around, mouthing enough nonsense to persuade the naive that she actually knows something, then gets them to do something really stupid, which redounds to their extreme detriment.
There are important lessons to be gleaned from this tragedy. I assume you already realize there is no justice to be gotten from the legal system, of course. Today's lesson, and it is especially for the politically incorrect, a great many of whom subscribe to this list: stay away from pseudo lawyers.
While there is some good advice out there, given by nonlawyers, it is impossible for any but practicing lawyers to separate the wheat from the chaff. And illegal, when profferred to others, whether for a fee or not. And the chaff can get you into serious trouble...just look at Brian and Ruth Christine. Best to stay away from it all. In particular, stay away from Pamela Gaston and the extensive bad advice she offers via her website and her emails. She will get you into trouble, just as she has the Christines.
Ask a lawyer, instead. It will be the best advice you ever bought.
Stay out of the system if at all possible, and at all costs. If you find yourself in the system, resolve to play by the rules toward the quickest exit possible. That requires a competent lawyer or equal measures of self-taught real law and pure luck. There is no short cut. All other approaches will end in disappointment, if not prison.
Of course, a great many lawyers are morons, too. And there may well be no defense against stupidity. Be accountable. If they can't explain it to you in words that you understand or it doesn't make sense in the tradition of "there's no such thing as a free lunch," then go elsewhere.
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth."
- Morpheus
Copyright © Edgar J. Steele, 2002
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The following is a letter from the psycho Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang attacking Edgar J. Steele.
-----Original Message-----
From: A Voice For Children Attorneys in Christine Case Selling Them Out to Protect the STATE ........
NO Bar member protects anyone from state paid abusers or systemic corruption
Letter to Edgar Steele follows........
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Kidnap suspects will plea bargain
The Associated Press
December 21
GRANTS PASS The lawyer defending Ruth and Brian Christine on criminal charges alleging they kidnapped their children at gunpoint from state social workers expects to negotiate a plea bargain that would avoid a trial.
"We’re talking an omnibus deal," Leeon Aller, Brian Christine’s attorney, said Wednesday. "I expect we’ll be able to resolve these cases."
Ruth Christine, 28, and Brian Christine, 29, face criminal charges in Douglas County stemming from the gunpoint kidnapping of their children in August.
In Josephine County, they face criminal mistreatment charges stemming from a year earlier, when state social workers took the three girls into custody because they had allegedly been starved as a disciplinary measure.
Brian Christine also faces an assault charge for allegedly hitting one of the girls for wetting the bed.
Aller said the negotiations were about what would be done with the couple’s children. Besides the three girls taken into state custody, they have two girls born afterward who are living with Brian Christine’s mother in Noblesville, Ind.
The Douglas County case is set for trial March 19, but Aller said any plea bargain could be announced at the next court appearance Jan. 7.
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Dear Edgar Steele
It was our understanding that you were representing the Christines in their upcoming trial. We have watched as you have taken risks to defend certain cases that touch on bigger issues, such as first amendment rights and systemic corruption in the court processes. You have been the ONLY bar member we have seen actually speak out about the corrupt systemic abuse.
Now we see the Christine case is going to be compromised, as we expected it would. We have worked with Brian and Ruth for a long time, since their children were removed two years ago, and in order for them to confront the aggressions of the STATE against them there has to be a counterclaim filed. When a person goes in to court and has not filed a counter claim, they have NO voice, or standing in the courtroom, and no facts come in of the abuse by the state agent against them, say for false arrest or perjured malicious prosecutions. Of course, no attorney will does this for anyone, nor have you.
Just like the trial you just defended in Idaho, the man who abused the defendant - the REAL criminal who assaulted the victim, WALKED, was not prosecuted, because there was no counterclaim filed. In your article on that case, you made the point of the ABSURDITY and CRIMINALITY of the judge "making up" his own "new charges" that were not even included in the charging instruments. Of course, we all know "THEY CANNOT DO THAT" but as we tell people every day, they DO what ever they want to.
You mentioned in your article that as an attorney, you dare not anger the judge. We have heard this referred to as "bar members must not irritate the court". This is the problem across the board why these systemic abuses are not being stopped. In every courtroom in America, every day, people are wrongly convicted on the lies of the agents of the STATE, and even if a defendant wins their case, NO ONE IS PROSECUTED.
Further, as you know in Oregon, there is NEVER a jury trial in the taking of children from their families. This case, WITH a jury, COULD have opened up the FRAUD of the Child Services, in front of the jury, as we have done with counter complaints. The problem without the jury is there is no "jury nullification" which, if you were in a constitutional court, the JURY would assess these FRAUDS being committed by the state and would NULLIFY ALL OF THESE NON CONSTITUTIONAL STATUTES for the FRAUD that they are, but the Bar, withouit exception, ALLOWS THIS STATUTORY CORRUPTION to prevail, and NEVER confronts it for the people,. instead always covering up the state crimes, and selling out the people for their own profit and profit (in the "interest"/money) of the STATE who WROTE these statutes being used to destroy the children and famliies.
We were hoping that Ruth and Brian's case would open up the COMPLETE FRAUD of the Oregon Child Services Agency and their complete control of the courts against the families, without Law, and without Evidence. Now, NONE of this will come out !
We KNEW they were going to do this and I wrote to you months ago telling you NOT to let the STATE and courts consolidate the juvenile case into the "criminal" case, and this is exactly what has happened now. It is UNBELIEVABLE that this is happening when their case could be the catalyst for EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA THAT HAS HAD THEIR CHILDREN KIDNAPPED WITHOUT LAW, EVIDENCE,, FACTS, DUE PROCESS - NOTHING ......
But, now, the STATE, as ALWAYS, will protect itself with their whore attorneys, and the world will NEVER know, the Record will not be made of the crimes of the caseworkers and the because of the children and the rights violations against Ruth and Brian and the court will not address ANY of the corruption of the STATE.
The STATE KNOWS it is the GUILTY party in this, and that the STATE is the one who KIDNAPPED the children in the first place. More than a year passed and NO trial ever took place on the "allegations" about why they took these children. The media continue to print as fact these false and unproven allegations, "convicting" the people without a trial in the public.
This is ALL about protecting the STATE who do NOT want a trial, afraid that any of these facts against them will come out. So people will be given the impression that this "plea bargain" will "deal" with the situation in some agreeable way. We hear people say this alot, just "get me out of it" and "it will go away" and the STATE is protected to rape and plunder the next family.
This is SYSTEMIC, and the same FRAUD for profit is used in every case. Not only in children services cases, but in all the courts, THERE IS NO STANDARD OF EVIDENCE AND NO BURDEN OF PROOF AT ALL ON THE STATE. EVER.
It is up to the attorneys or the defendants to file the counterclaims for prosecution and FORCE the FACTS to be made on the Record in order to hold the abusers - the STATE agents, ACCOUNTABLE and to move for prosecution. We have paid a severe price, been in jail without crime over and over in order to make these Records over the "objections" of corrupt judges and bar member prostitutes/prosecutors.
We were told that in Oregon last year there were more than 20 million $$$ "settlements" in claims paid out to abused foster children in Oregon. The people will NEVER hear about these payoffs, nor will the people ever know the facts in these cases, and the crimes of the STATE go unprosecuted again. Bar attorneys work out a "deal" , the state "bleeds" a little money to the abused, no one on the state side loses a dime, in fact the attorneys only care about billable hours, and do not care who gets a settlement, as long as they get some of it and the state and courts remain protected - THIS IS THEIR REAL JOB. "ATTORN" means to "turn over the property to the King/STATE and that is what they do ....... it is the PEOPLE who are deceived thinking that a Bar agent will defend them.......
We BELIEVED that you would not allow the court to play these games in this case ! But, as I wrote in the letter months ago, we KNOW that in order to properly defend the families, you have to confront the LIES of the caseworkers, and the unconstitutional FRAUD of the court. When you said in the Idaho case that you could not "offend" the judge by confronting his unbelievable contempt for the Law and towards your defendant, I realized that you are not going to fight for the people against this unlawful systemic, NON constitutional system.
You KNOW the problems, as you have written about it, that the peoples rights are desecrated across the board, yet playing the "game" in the courtroom is EXACTLY how it got this way and how it is protected. EVERY TIME in a courtroom a defendants rights are violated and the court gets away with it and none of them are prosecuted. WHEN DOES THIS END???
We have told people for some time that you are the only attorney we have seen who has spoken out against the Nazi regime in place, and we thought you would have the balls to stand up to this openly and honestly, and in Brian and Ruth's case - TO GO INTO THAT COURT AND CALL THE STATE WHAT IT IS - TELL THE COURT HOW DARE THEY CALL RESCUING YOUR OWN CHILDREN KIDNAPPING - HOW DARE THEY TAKE CHILDREN ON LIES AND NOT ALLOW A TRIAL, HOW DARE THEY LIE IN COURT AND NOT BEAR THE BURDEN OF PROOF WHATSOEVER, JUST TAKE THE CHILDREN ........ ON AND ON IT GOES.....
Now, Brian and Ruth will "admit" to some part of the charges, others "charges" will be dropped (were they legitimate in the first place when they can be dropped? OF COURSE NOT !!! BUT NO ONE MAKES THE POINT IN COURT !!!! They will not likely get their children back, or maybe they will if they take all the services and compelled contracts that SLAVES do when the MASTER holds their lives in his evil hand. The agency is only about money, and they couldn't care less about abusing children as THEY DO IT EVERY DAY AND ARE PROTECTED - JUST LIKE THIS CASE NOW !!!
So, this one will go by the way, the media will continue to spin this story biased against the parents, without facts ...... notice that in the article they are bringing the "charges" from the originating removal into the "charges" of the current case ....... this is FRAUD ...... these original "charges" were what was supposed to have been heard in a "timely trial" a LONG time ago, and if there were an attorney who actually defended anybody, this FAMILY WOULD HAVE BEEN REUNITED A YEAR AGO. LIKE 99% OF THE OTHER CASES. but BECAUSE THE ATTORNEYS DO NOT DEFEND ANYONE BUT THE STATE, THE WHOLE OPERATION STAYS PROTECTED.
This plea bargain will SILENCE the Record from being made, just like the many cases where the STATE is GUILTY, pays a huge settlement, and NO FACTS are public about the crimes of the STATE. WE ARE BREAKING THIS PATTERN.
This is why my husband and I have been fighting this battle for more than four years now, and it rages at this time, here in Oregon, without attorneys. We are teaching people what Sui Juris means, how to file their own Complaints and how to use an AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE to get the FACTS into the RECORD about the judicial and state abuse they are enduring. We have EXPOSED this CRIMINALITY at the highest levels, and the cover up and FRAUD.
I hope the people SEE now that even an attorney like yourself, who admits and knows that the courts are corrupted and seems to care about the rights of the people as well as your own children's future, WILL NOT DEFEND THEM.
In a sense, this is GOOD that they see it ! We are working night and day to help them understand that the attorneys work for the STATE, and are compromised to the whore judge, and you just proved it !!!! There is NO WAY the judge in Idaho could do what he did, but we see them do things every day they "CANNOT" DO - THEY ARE CRIMINALS !!!!
Hopefully now, the People will see that until "bar members" are willing to risk their "careers" for the TRUTH to come out, there is not ONE who will defend anybody in a court.
Brian and Ruth are EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY and what Brian did was what EVERY FATHER should do to protect his wife and children, and the Law is ON HIS SIDE WITH THIS. The LAW says that you can SHOOT anyone who is falsely arresting you for no crime, or is attacking your family, or is on your property without lawful warrant or reason to be there. WHO IS PROTECTING THE PEOPLE AND NOT THE COURTS????
WAKE UP AMERICA - WE HAVE TO DO THIS ON OUR OWN. THE BAR IS THE ARMY AGAINST US ........ EVERYTHING TAKEN FROM YOU HAPPENS IN FRONT OF A JUDGE ULTIMATELY WHETHER YOU ARE A PAUPER OR A PRESIDENT. YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR LAND, YOUR RIGHTS, YOUR MONEY, YOUR PROPERTY, YOUR FREEDOM AND YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES ARE ALL STRIPPED IN A COURTROOM BY BAR MEMBER ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES AND YOUR OWN "ATTORNEY" AS WELL.
WE ARE EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU WOULD ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. MY HUSBAND AND I SHALL STAY ON THE CASE FOR OURSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN OREGON EVEN IF IN THE END WE ARE ALONE IN NOT SELLING OUT TO THIS UNCONSCIONABLE FRAUD.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS GENOCIDE OF AMERICAN FAMILIES TO CONTINUE AND WE ARE MOVING FOR PROSECUTION AND WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THESE CRIMINAL CHILD ABUSERS AND TRAITORS ARE IMPRISONED. NOW THAT RUTH AND BRIAN'S CASE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED WE ARE BACK TO BEING THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE CONFRONTING THIS SYSTEMIC ABUSE IN OREGON IN A COURTROOM..
PEOPLE - PLEASE UNDERSTAND - YOU HAVE TO DO THIS FOR YOURSELVES. EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THE SUI JURIS BOOK WE HAVE WRITTEN SO THAT YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW TO GET THE BAR PARASITE OFF YOUR CASE AND GO AFTER THEM IN A COURTROOM....... Please go to www.avoiceforchildren.com and look under "our books", and you can get this book...... it is very low priced so everyone can get it, and learn who the REAL ENEMY is that is destroying you - it is our own courts and our own government, and they are getting away with it because we do not understand what a court is supposed to be and we are not holding these criminals accountable.
I will write next about some of these CRITICAL issues, working hard for your GREATER UNDERSTANDING......... this is all about TRUTH and SACRED LAW on which all TRUE LAW is based and on which the Bill of Rights is based. PLEASE LET THIS CASE SHATTER THE PARADIGM SO MANY HAVE THAT ANY BAR MEMBER WILL PROTECT ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES, THEIR PROFIT, AND THE SYSTEM THAT EMPOWERS THEM TO DESTROY YOU.
pamela gaston, a voice for children, fifth amendment coalition
Of course, one crazy person alone won't do it, so we have a letter from another crazy member of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman "common law court" gang.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Stewart
Date: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: Edgar Steel Wants an Apology for the Truth; Re: Compromised -
Pleading Guilty in a Court of Lies
Thanks for passing this on to me & others Pam.
Mr. Steel,
You are a part of a Terrorist & Treasonous Criminal Conspiracy. Your Bar-Association/Lawyer Strangle-Hold Monopoly on our great State's Judicial System; has Coerced/Terrorized the Christines into Abandoning their Rights under Constitutional "Due Process of Law".
Ms Gaston is Absolutely Correct that it is Totally "Off Point" for you to argue to anyone that the Christines would have lost anyway. Maybe they would have, & maybe not.
It is "Not the Point".
The "Point is" that "the Lawyer-Bar/Monopoly System" is a "Terrorist System".
And the Christines were probably were facing an up-hill battle, Only because:
YOUR BAR/MONOPOLY SYSTEM is a Human Meat-Grinder from the Pit of Hell, & it Has NOTHING to do with Constitutionally Guaranteed "JUSTICE", Nor with "Due Process of Law".
And You are "Lubricating Oil" for that Evil Military Machinery, "Sergeant At Law" Steel.
With mamby-pamby marshmallow Bar/Monopoly Lawyers like your-self being shoved upon the Christines, it is quite understandable that they become bamboozled & confused. If Ms Gaston could have been their Constitutionally Guaranteed "Assistance of Council" I'm Sure they would have stood a Very Good Chanced of Winning the Case. But NNNNNOOOOOO !!!
Convenient for Your Pay Check, & for the Federal Matching Funds that the DA gets, YOU Convinced the Christines to "Roll-Over & Play Dead".
So much for their Heroic Effort when they made their first Public Statement about the Total Evil & Injustice of the Fraudulently Labeled "Social Services System" by Courageously Taking Back from the True "Kidnappers", THEIR CHILDREN !!!
Bar/Monopoly Lawyers like you are Limited by Your Privilege/Franschize/License to Only Offer Defensive Pleadings which Do NOT Seriously Argue the Underlying Fundamental Concern of conscionable & Substantive "JUSTICE".
You would loose your bar-license.
You know it & we know it.
The Christines were just "Terrorized" by you & your bar-palls into forgetting that for the moment.
Pamela is Absolutely Correct in Publicly Condemning You & Your Bar-Monopoly/Mob Palls for the Part You have Played in this Rail-Road Job of Terrorism & Treason against the Christines & also against All of the Good People of this Constitutional "State of Oregon.
Your Mob Pals are Not Going to be able to Continue your "Pillage & Plunder" of the Good People of Oregon Fore-Ever.
You surely realize this. Yes?
Charles Bruce, Stewart
Sandy Oregon
What kind of drugs are Roger Weidner and his white supremacist buddies on?
You've gotta read the following crap just to realize that, apparently, there's all kinds of reality for Roger Weidner and his crazy buddies. What's really crazy is that there are many people in loony, homophobic, racist, Washington County, Oregon who believe the following nonsense, including my relatives' (John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays and Chris Andrea Hays) and some members of their church.
These are the same crazy people who convinced Dr. Ron Turco to diagnose me as a homosexual Satanic ritualist who hangs out in cemeteries sacrificing the neighbors' kids and pets and eating the neighbors' kids and pets.
The following is from Pamela Gaston, Roger Weidner's noble assistant.
IS AMERICA ABOUT TO BE "PULSED"?" IS COLUMBIA A WARNING OF THINGS TO COME?
IS RUSSIA AND CHINA PLANNING ON DESINTEGRATING UNITED STATES ELECTRICAL AND
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ON FEBRUARY 7-8 - TO HEAD OFF A HIT ON IRAQ PLANNED FOR
FEBRUARY 15th????
IS A PULSE BEAM WEAPON ATTACK PLANNED IN A WEEK????
A voice for children rarely send out information from "confidential sources",
but the credibility of the authority who communicated this to us makes it
impossible not to share so that everyone is one up on these unthinkable
potential plans being discussed in 'inner circles".
WE PRAY THIS IS NOT TRUE AND THAT BOTH SIDES ARE CONFUSED IN THEIR SCHEMES.
The statement to us is that Russia and China are going to "pulse" the United
States with a Particle Beam Weapon that will shut down all technology, internet
and render the current administration incapable to attack Iraq on February
15th, the date reported to be planned for the Bush administrations show of "awe
and full force (nuclear)" to begin.
Those countries will be HEROES, thought of as saving the world from WWIII in
doing so. Our confidential advisor told us dearly to have food supplies and
gasoline, a week or so worth of water and basic necessities as the chaos would
be unimaginable if this comes to pass.
This information was relayed to us last night, and this morning the Columbia
disaster with a particle beam on the radar at the same is amazing, and makes
the question more urgent if this is a sign of something much bigger.
The following link is to the radar map at the time the shuttle was breaking up,
and clearly are seen moving laser like beams shooting across the path. We see
an explosion at Dallas/Ft Worth on the radar and at the begining the beam is
present across texas and the path of the incoming shuttle, then we see the
explosion grow and the beam stays present the whole time.
We, along with others on the web, have been following these radar anomalies
for a few years now, and NEVER an explanation given for what we are seeing. We
have seen them on the weather and they pop up and the announcer does not ever
acknowledge seeing it....
Today this radar image has been on the television all day long, full public
viewing..... Will we finally get an answer on what we are seeing with these
laser like beams that cover three states and huge weather manipulating circles
and pulses that are clearly seen every day all over the world now?
WAKE UP AMERICA - REPENT MEANS TO TURN AROUND
We cannot stand before the world and support the unconstitutional regime that
is acting as an enemy combatant to the world in the name of the corporate
state. It is RIGHT and TIME for the People to restore our lawful Authority
along with a standard of morals and truth, by demanding full disclosure and
prosecution of crimes equally without statutory immunities. God does not give
anyone immunity to commit any criminal act against his brother. Our Rights
come from God, not the Bush administration and congress. WE are THEIR BOSS.
THEY are OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS with an OATH to uphold the Law.
Take this information as you will, we are thankful to God for all things He
sets on our table and believe the Truth ultimately prevails.
We do not have anymore information than what we have presented here.
pamela gaston
I guess Roger showed some people his brilliant legal skills.
SUI JURIS PROCESS IS ORIGINAL JURISDICTION FOR THE PEOPLE
YOU, SPEAKING THE TRUTH ON THE RECORD, BRINGING FORTH REMEDY WHEN THERE IS LEGITIMATE CLAIM, AND PROSECUTION WHEN THERE IS EVIDENCE OF CRIME
THE COURT IS SIMPLY A PLACE TO MAKE A PUBLIC RECORD.
In October l997, my husband had one question everywhere we went - HOW DO I GET OUT OF JUVENILE COURT???? We knew by that time that the courts and agencies were not accountable, and that no lawful process was being enforced in bringing his child home from confessed state abusers.
We met a former prosecutor at that time named Roger Weidner who kept telling us "YOU HAVE TO CHARGE THEM WITH RACKETEERING IN THE CIRCUIT COURT". In January, l998, we filed a Racketeering Complaint into the Marion County Circuit Court, Case #98C10062.
The first important thing was to learn we HAD THE RIGHT to do things in the court that we thought we did, that made sense and were reasonable. Then the first trial after filing the Racketeering Complaint, a miracle happened and a senior judge Duane Ertsgaard allowed us a "court of credible evidence" in which he ALLOWED all the rights that Weidner said we had. So we learned them and then we excercised them then we WON..... and for us the process was blocked with retaliation ever since.
We learned from Weidner that this whole corrupt system would not change over night and that we had to keep going no matter what they did to us.... he has done that and so have we, and others as well in Oregon. It is changing everything. In 2000 the BAR came to Oregon for national Citizens Justice Conference meetings. At one of these, Rep. Max Williams, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee right now, said this to the crowd of about two hundred BAR members assembled. We were sitting in the front row, along with Roger Weidner, when Williams said "these people in the front row with the narrow interests are changing the system - we can be part of that change or not but it is changing"..... we stood and took exception that they would refer our demands for judicial due process to be a "narrow interest".......
The process we learned from this prosecuting attorney was the process he had used for thirty years in court, the same process used by all BAR members in the courts in Oregon according to their rules of evidence (at least this WAS true until a few years ago ..... now there is no semblance anymore of any process at all - just blatant arbitrary judges and DA's doing what ever they want with extreme contempt).
The difference is that we are not BAR members, and came into the court Sui Juris, "In My Own Personal Jurisdiction", NOT "pro se" which is a represented status in their courts..... the term Sui Juris in their courts means the flesh and blood human standing there, without disability and without wavering Inherent Rights, moving or defending your own case in the court.
We learned that for the most part only attorneys and representatives went into courts, people (including us) did not know how to proceed on their own, and no people understood the language in the paperwork used by attorneys. We saw that attorneys sell out the people more than anyone, and that they prevent the people from speaking in a choreographed script with BAR judges that YOU dont know you are part of an act and they are all actors making profit from all the chaos they can create in your life.
This prosecuting attorney explains the court very simply. This from being a BAR member, now disbarred for confronting the FRAUD as he discovered it in the courtroom by fellow BAR judges and attorneys. Weidner started the confrontation in Oregon in the courts in l994 when he defended a woman whose inheritance was stolen from her by other thieving attorneys. Weidner has been arrested 20 + times now over the years, and until the last few years never got more than into the courtroom before he was attacked and arrested and shut down, time after time, with a room filled with courtwatchers, sometimes with snipers on the roof and teams of police hiding off side corridors in the court room who would swoop in and attack him to the floor on the order of insane judges..... This set the stage for our case when we met him in l997, to take this record of fraud INTO the record and discredit the systemic abuse. That is what we have done ever since. We WON our racketeering Complaint in April l998, but no prosecution has yet occurred to any criminal judges or public officers....
Weidner tells everyone who will listen - the court is simply a place to make a public record. A defendant, a plaintiff, a neutral judge. A Record being made, the facts come out. "Have you said what you need to say, and then to the other side "have you said what you need to say" and nothing held back. A vigorous search for the Truth.
He says it is really about who runs who out of the courtroom first....... the goal is to impeach the other side and whoever is lying is exposed..... then there is remedy for the victim, and prosecution for the abusers......
Based on the evidence - CREDIBLE - as in hard evidence and witnesses with eyes and ears personal knowledge of the events - NOT hearsay and denial .....
He told us "you have the absolute right to make the Record, and to make an "offer of proof" for an appeal. And you have the absolute right to appeal anything they do to you. He explained how the only thing that goes up to the higher courts or appeals is the record, and if the people have not made the oral and written record in their cases, they are NOT THERE in the record. HE TELLS PEOPLE EVERY DAY UNLESS YOU HAVE FILED SOMETHING IN WHICH YOU ARE THE MOVING PARTY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO STAND ON AND NO VOICE IN THAT RECORD.
If the record is not made by both sides, the higher courts do not see any confrontation to their fraud in there, so no one can bring forth remedy. The courts close the case without any off the abuses in the record, then that becomes "official" court records.
This is a real issue with the families who go to Senators and officials to help them. They are asked to give a waiver to the official to look at their case files. But the people do not know what is in their case files and discovery. So what happens is the Senator or someone goes and gets these records, and in there are volumes of slander and hearsay on the families - usually in our experience absolute LIES and COVER UP for state criminals, evidence of perjury and cooking the books.
The official looking at this does not know he is being deceived by "the appearance of a casefile" and is offended by what he reads, is immediately prejudiced against the people, and will not help them after that in fact sometimes works more aggressively against the parents...... ALL A FACADE AND A LIE .... this is also how all the citizens rights panels, legislators, etc are so thoroughly deceived..... all the state has to do is accuse someone and the court takes it from there that person is a criminal from then on......
Then you get into "court" and all this is upheld, blatant Alice in Wonderland courts.
So, the process is their own that we are using. It really does not matter WHAT "process" you use !!! The main thing is the RECORD and the FACTS.
They will do everything to divert you from that ..... they intimidate people and make them emotional and then you lose focus on making the record..... I hear people all the time make excuses for why they did not speak and make the record anyway - ALL IS EXCUSES...... IF THE RECORD IS NOT MADE YOU ARE NOT THERE AT ALL AND YOU ARE NOT DEFENDING YOURSELF AND YOU ARE NOT CONFRONTING ANYTHING - THEY LAUGH AT US EXCEPT ONCE WE REALLY LEARN THE CONCEPT OF INHERENT RIGHTS.
The prosecutor tells everyone to follow this procedure to make the Record of your cases. He told us in the beginning that the court and agencies are like a hermetically sealed system. That when you discredit one judge, it is ALL judges..... you discredit one caseworker or cop, it is ALL caseworkers and cops....
He says you discredit one system, you discredit all false systems..... they are all agreements about TRUST and once that TRUST is broken, the agreement is breached. Then, as now, we have to ABOLISH all that has created that breach, and bring forward again the standard of TRUTH on which TRUST is based.
This is about HUMAN RIGHTS that have been supplanted by the GREED FACTOR ..... a corporate standard instead of human rights standard.
Weidner is also a historian, and sees the patterns we are in having their inception in the ancient trade commerce and how this global corporate structure was built. He says when the Constitution was created, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, this system of Republics, Freemen and Protected Inherent Rights was the PROCESS set in place. But in truth, the money priests are the only ones who were in courts - the poor did not own anything to be in court about for the most part. As he puts it "the poor knew they were owned by the rich". The founders were those same "corporate interests", plantation owners, wealthy .... and England never let go of their "interest" to this Day, running the revenue machine. Greenspan recently said "we are at the end of a three hundred year old money system".....
The slaves have found out now the nature of the "voluntary servitude" we are "ordered" to "comply" with. The OPPORTUNITY is here for the first time EVER to REALLY EXERCISE the PROCESS as it was intended, as set forth, and as only the elitists have been exercising the original lawful courts.
So when we look to see the progress in turning this whole fraud around, see the changes that have happened in the last five years. The people fling Sui Juris lawsuits, learning what our rights are and demanding them, and making the record of the facts of their criminality and fraud IS DISCREDITING THE COUNTERFEIT REALITY OF THE MIND MADE WORLD. This has been building for centuries.....
Time now, as the indigenous people in this land say, to make a choice of destruction or purification, according to our intent collectively. Inherent Rights, the People, endowed by their Creator with this birthright, to be protected by the Bill of Rights process. NOT the amended frauds later created as the system became global and the processes of the corporate management perfected. We have watched this unfold in Oregon, and still, they are writing more unconstitutional ex post facto bills of attainder daily to criminalize more and more people and further lock the people out of the process.....
What IS a LAWFUL PROCESS has become a RENDERING PROCESS LIKE HUMAN SAUSAGE...... liquidated to the managers for sustainability to their system...... we have been betrayed, sold out, compromised but we have done it to ourselves..... now it is time to UN DO what we have let take over and drive the demons from the village.......
pamela gaston
note - you can learn all about this and more at www.avoiceforchildren.com, and the Sui Juris book lays out the whole process outlined here. The book came from every day meeting new people in the same nightmare we are living, and starting from nothing, like we were. We found ourselves saying the exact same things to everyone about what was happening, what their rights are, and how to proceed without attorneys and go after their abusers and systemic fraud. We had looked for books and only "pro se" handbooks were available that I could not use or make sense out of at all, everything I found was too confusing to really be useful. We finally put all this information we had discovered in a book, simple enough for a sixth grade reader...... we found we can't rewrite it all three times a day .... The basic information is all in there to establish a foundation for lay people and we encourage them to go on from there and learn all they can, making their own best informed decisions for themselves, not according to what someone tells them or forms someone gives them or some process they try to use but do not understand.....YOU ARE EATEN ALIVE IF YOU TRY TO DO THAT IN A COURT......
All of these different "schemes" are not relevant at all anymore...... the FACTS in the RECORD that they have to dispute is what is changing it - once on the Record and they don't answer their silence is their guilt and for all to see !!!! That is what they have tried to prevent the most all along, too late now.... the magic tricks Weidner let out of the bag about the FRAUD they all engage in, has let the light in now.
Weidner says it is like thieves in a store at night looting the store, and all of a sudden a big light comes on - they keep going through the motions of what they were doing, and then try to run, knocking everything over leaving a trail as they go....
He also has another image relevant to this discussion. He says the system right now is shattered. That it is like a big building they are blowing up, and the dynamite goes off, and for a moment, the whole structure sits there looking like nothing has happened, when in fact it is shattered through completely, only a facade of strength is there. Then of course it implodes with great chaos and fallout..... THAT is where the system is right now, shattered, falling, and the robots know the fallout is at the door.....
THE SIMPLE TRUTH AS GOOD PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE LAW TO BE. YOU KNOW, EVEN CHILDREN KNOW, WHEN YOUR INHERENT RIGHTS ARE UNJUSTLY VIOLATED...
TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH AND FULL DISCLOSURE..... DO NOT COMPROMISE YOUR SOUL TO THE FEAR .....
I guess some of Roger's mindless minions had a fight
In response to a PRESS RELEASE former Chairperson, Pamela Gaston sent
out announcing her resignation as OJW's Chair, and falsely accusing
OJW's other 2 officers, Roger Weidner and Helen Solem, of secretly
carrying out schemes without her knowledge, treacherously undermining
OJW goals, Roger Weidner has written her the following letter.
To Pamela Gaston,
I read with disbelief, in your January 14, 2001 press release, your
absolutely false and vicious personal attacks on me and others over the
manner in which the January 13, 2001 monthly meeting of OJW was
conducted. Contrary to what you said in your press release I had no
discussion with anyone other than you prior to the meeting, as to how we
might best reconcile the split between you and Jesse Lott over the
Mannix matter. Jesse told me before the meeting that he was not going
to have anything more to do with you because of the e-mail attacks you
were making on Mannix. I told you the night before the meeting that I
was going to propose at the meeting that you and Jesse have a public
discussion airing your different positions on Mannix. I had no
discussions, prior to the meeting, with either Helen Solem, or Leroy
Arnett or Jesse or anyone else how the meeting was to be conducted
because I had no intention or thought of conducting the meeting.
In fact, I had no idea that I would lead the meeting until approximately
1:30 pm, a half hour after the meeting was scheduled to convene, when it
became apparent to all, that you and Will were for some reason or other
not able to attend. I, then as Vice-Chair, at the urging of those
present, called the meeting to order. We said the pledge of allegiance
to the flag and Helen gave the Treasurer's report. Helen had prepared
an agenda for the meeting and I was simply following that agenda when
you and Will arrived at approximately 1:45 pm.
In the past I have served as a President of a fraternity, have been an
active member of a Fireman's Union, have served as a board member of
small corporations and have also served as Commodore of the Portland
Rowing Club. Every meeting that I have ever conducted has been to the
best of my ability according to Robert's Rules of Order. The reason I
follow those rules is to insure that everyone has an opportunity to
speak, IN ORDER, about any issue they wish to address.
Since the meeting had been called to order by me, at the request of
those present, I was in charge until I relinquished control. And I
could not relinquish control while there was a motion pending on the
floor. That's why I told you that YOUR WERE OUT OF ORDER, and you were,
to demand that I immediately turn control of the meeting over to you
while the motion was still pending. As soon as the pending motion was
concluded I was intending on making a motion that the meeting be turned
over to you. You stunned all present, including me, when you became
instantly indignant, then enraged, because I would not immediately turn
the meeting over to you, stating you were resigning and wanted your name
removed from the membership rolls, then stormed out of the meeting with
Will. All this happened in less than 2 or 3 minutes after you arrived.
I related to the stunned members present that I considered you a friend
and admired you as a fearless corruption fighter. I stated on your
behalf, to the group, your strong objection to Kevin Mannix. Jesse
stood and stated to the group the reason he was supporting Mannix. He
said he had asked you and Will many times to give him the name of
someone you could support for U.S. Attorney and neither of you supplied
him with a name. Jesse said he wasn't in love with any politician but
was in position to insure that if Mannix were named U.S. Attorney both
your case and the Kettleberg case would be investigated.
The nomination of Norman Stewart was a surprise to me. I told you
before the meeting that I was intending on supporting you for President
if you were a candidate. However, as it turned out neither you or I
were nominated. The group obviously wanted new leadership and although
Steward was not present I was impressed by his resume and the
endorsement that he received from Mark Luedtke, a very influential
member of the community. However, even though I told you days before
the meeting, in your living room, that I was intending on supporting
you, my support for you certainly wasn't absolute. All thoughts of
support for you vanished instantly when you verbally attacked me in
front of the group for rightfully performing my duty as chair of the
meeting.
At the conclusion of the meeting there was 100 percent support from the
group for having Stewart and Lucero along with Solem as OJW's leaders as
we enter the new century. Their new leadership will certainly attract a
lot more people to the organization which will increase the size and
clout of OJW.
I told you and Will when you both first came to me four years ago,
desperate for help in recovering Will's daughter, that I could help you
only if you were filling to fight. You have certainly demonstrated, in
spades, that you are a fighter. Accordingly, without ever receiving a
nickel from either you or Will I have spent an enormous amount of time
in underwriting your fight, TO RECOVER MELISSA, by personally involving
myself in your case. I have also strongly encouraged a large group of
others, including, Lott, Sutton, Arnet, Harper, Ellis, The OREGON
OBSERVER, Solem, and many others to join in your fight. Not only have
you and Will received thousands of hours of support from that group but
those same people have also donated thousands of dollars to your cause.
I tell people that ask that Pamela Gaston has the fighting instincts of
a barbarian. She charges like a drunken and blindfolded samurai
warrior, in a rage cutting down anyone, including friends who, though
sharing the same goals (clean government) see, through their
experiences, a better and more expedient way of bringing about that
goal. While you deserve A+'s as a fighter, you get D-'s and F's when it
comes to setting goals "collectively," and carrying out those goals in a
coordinated way, by relying on, and respecting, the ideas of other
people more knowledgeable and experienced than yourself (essential
attributes of any successful leader).
And, of course, you get F- when it comes to gratitude. After the years
I have spent in supporting you in court, in schooling you in successful
courtroom tactics, and donating several thousand dollars to your cause,
it was shocking to me how you could possibly refer to me, maliciously
and falsely, in your January 14th press release as "contemptuous,
treacherous, tyranical, devious and untrustworthy. One of a few
individuals intent on undermining the goals of OJW." Such a public
declaration by you on the worldwide internet not only demonstrates the
height of ingratitude but also constitutes actionable libel.
Accordingly unless you publicly retract your slanderous accusations
against me on the worldwide internet, with a copy of this letter
attached, I will be forced to name you in a libel action seeking as
damages compensation for all the time that I and others have volunteered
in helping you and Will fight your battle. Of course the most important
part of the suit will be to clear my good name (my most important
asset), on the worldwide internet where you maligned it, from every
false, slanderous and malicious accusation you made against me in your
January 14th press release.
If I have not heard from you by January 25, 2001 I will accordingly
prepare and file the libel suit against you. I will also mail a copy of
this letter to THE OREGON OBSERVER if I have not heard from you by
January 25, 2001.
It will be interesting to see how well you will be able to defend, on
the witness stand in court, the truthfulness of the false charges you
have seen fit to publicly make against me.
s/ Roger Weidner
c: Helen Solem
Jesse Lott
Leroy Arnett
20 January 2001
OREGON JUDICIAL WATCH concurs with Roger Weidner's statements above.
s/ Carlos Lucero, Vice Chairperson & Helen Solem, Sec'y-Treas.
I can't quite figure out what the following is about, but I know it's deep.
AMERICA -- Let There Be Light!!
Posted by Raymond Karczewski (63.164.175.18) on 21:58:50 04/06/03
AMERICA -- Let There Be Light!!
Patricia B. wrote:
Raymond Karczewski (arkent@arkenterprises.com) wrote:
Patricia (may I call you "Pat"?),
Thank you for your email. You are quite correct in your findings. That is the ESSENCE of my case -- JURISDICTION.
Not only am I a "stranger in a strange land" (a simple man of truth, a Christ, living in a land ruled by hypocrisy and deception), I am a sovereign (a son of GOD) living in a land of subjects (Intellectually-driven, slave-minded Satanicly ruled minions). Of course, through years of mind control, the masses of Satanically mind controlled minions are not even aware of it. They term their spiritual and psychological enslavement as NORMAL while they remain in their dithered state of UNAWARENESS.
You see, Pat, I recaptured my sovereignty by legally changing my Status from debtor to creditor when I realized the massive fraud which was perpetrated upon the American People via the "seemingly innocuous (but freedom destroying) procedure of "BIRTH CERTIFICATION."
Yes, Pat, our innocent and well-psychologically conditioned mothers turned their children over to the STATE (as obedient minions are apt to do) when they "REGISTERED" the birth of their offspring at the hospital. Read up on the legal ramifications of REGISTRATION.
It is then that souls are sold into slavery, and the newly born human being becomes property of the state and is regarded as a ward of the State. They are magickly transformed (as only legal deceivers, i.e, lawyers can do) into a human resource and/or chattel (personal property of the State) whose future labor may exploited, traded and pledge in the Commercial arena as a Security Instrument. How else do you think they get minions to take on the bogus NATIONAL DEBT and WAGE WAR against other nations, and pay for it with debt instruments (Federal Reserve Notes, funny money, worthless paper)?
Yes, Pat, you are correct when you state that Americans are currently living under the thrall of Administrative Law, Maritime Law, the law of contracts. Laws administered by judges and lawyers who owe their primary allegiance to the "Crown" of England ("B.A.R." Association = BRITISH ACCREDITED REGISTRY) and not the U.S. Constitution. Go ahead, next time you find yourself standing before the court, bring up the issue of primary allegiance as per their "Oath of Office." Try to get a straight answer out of them. Lotsa luck!! Americans are surrounded by organized traitorous Servants who dream they are Masters. It is time, is it not, to get rid of lawyers via the conflict of interest they have in swearing an oath to support the Constitution while holding public office all the while owing primary allegiance to a foreign power?
Wisdom dictates that one should not resist evil.
The ESSENCE of Supreme Intelligence offers instead, the nonresistance of BOYCOTT.
Have you not heard that LOVE conquers ALL?
Modern day Americans have sold their heritage for a "mess of pottage", for the indolent comfort of codependent security, welfare, etc. They have ignorantly *contracted* away their Unalienable Rights through the simple act of waiver.
Pat, I have not waived any of my rights in this issue. I stand adamantly, as a Sovereign common man unyielding in his challenge to the Maritime/Administrative Court to prove its limited JURISDICTION over one who has not entered into a contract with the Agents of the corporation known as GOVERNMENT. They are unable to prove such JURISDICTION.
That, Pat, is the crux of the issue in my voluminous writing on this JURISDICTION matter wherein they have refused to answer questions presented them in court registered documents demanding they prove in writing their claim against a sovereign (as present case law compels), and/or show proof of liability to the Corporate Statutes which ruled the lives of unenlightened minions, i.e., the average voter.
As to your comment on how my website is being used, I must admit the recent turn of events have caused a departure from the original momentum of my site. Pat, my offerings are directed toward the spiritual, not the political needs of my Brothers and Sisters. It is toward the Holistic and not the energized fragmented energies of the spiritually blind who have made a mess of their lives and of their/our world, refusing to acknowledge even a scintilla of personal contribution for the world they have created for themselves.. How else do you think hypocrite servants are allowed to rule on and off the bench as though they were Master.
Pat, I have only one word which fits the Satanic Ruled world of man -- BASSACKWARDS!!
LIVE IT OR DON'T -- That is the only message I bring to others in my writings.
See for yourself, the HELL THAT IT HAS RAISED!
See: http://www.arkenterprises.com and http://www.arkenterprises.com/dialchst.htm
Raymond Karczewski
At 02:31 PM 4/6/03 -0700, you wrote:
Dear Raymond:
I have been following your emails very carefully since your release from incarceration. I am also awaiting whatever those administrative "judges" plan next.
In my researching rulings from the Supreme Court in the early days and up to now, I ran across some very interesting words from the SC judges. So I began to review the US Codes Annotated, and some of the email from Pamela Gaston. The word has moved from email to email that we have administrative "law". There are treatise by folks which give citations. So, I go after these citations.
Yes, we are under administrative law. Corporate administrative law. Private, rules that is. I read up on this about six years ago and just could not believe it. It is difficult to find that which has no direction, but people just talk and do nothing. These citations of "law" are complicated by overlay of other rules, regulations, and bureaucratic clerks (like the DMV). The constitution gives no authority for congress to delegate its authority, except where explicitly stated. Congress gives not a hoot and continues to delegate its authority by "house resolutions" and by making a treaty with some obscure little dinky country that gives congress (they believe) the authority to run over every state in the union's sovereignty. They forget Marburough v Maddison which was clearly stated any law repugnant to the Constitution is invalid. I keep hearing from even our young folks, gee those were old laws. As long as congress has these old goats who continually raise their salaries and perks yearly, give our "social security funds" to 17 countries and now Mexico, tax us beyond reasonableness, give our businesses to other countries by moving entire plants and machinery to our not so pleasant "partners" and charge it to the taxpayer, we are doomed.
The reasoning congress lives with and enjoys? is their absolute understanding of ADMINISTRATIVE RULES, REGULATIONS and the implementation thereof. The IRS, CIA, FBI and all the alphabets are ADMINISTRATIVE. It is only when there is a constitutional subject, can the Supreme Court act. And, it's administrative, too. We are back to the days of olde merry England.
We have no constitutional courts. Except maybe the possible finding of the one hidden in the Court of International Trade? Hawaii on entrance to the union asked for and got an Article III court. But congress did not appoint any constitutional judges. They are ADMINISTRATIVE. Dumb Hawaii people? Congress knows exactly what they are doing. From stem to stern.
I am also working on the "tribunals" in the Constitution. Has congress misappropriated that term? Looks like it. Those are our present courts today. Oregon has the tribunals. I got involved in it, too. Forget the statutes on the books. It's whatever the administrative judge declares, especially to his friends.
We have a better chance at our own legislature than congress. Even though Oregon has continued to remain within the democrat conclave, it is because there is no difference between democrat and republican. Democrats hi-jacked republican party by moving over and calling themselves republicans to get elected. Those people are called RHINO's (republican in name only). But their political philosophy can NEVER change. Remember Reagan moved over and got elected. But there was still underlying philosophical differences which showed up in the State Department. We have the same thing with Bush.
We do have Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, moving to recapture their sovereign authority. Maybe New Mexico, too, but their work is made more difficult so close to Mexico with the overwhelming immigrants.
I would hope that your web site would be used also for acting on specific subjects for Oregonians to write their legislators. Rallying the troops to notify their legislators on what "laws" would deprive us of our constitutional rights; US and state. People need to be motivated to DO for themselves and others. Too few of us carry the burden of the many. People ask me "what can I do". Write a letter. What do I say? It just has to be placed in front of them until they have learned the art of motivation. I go to many meetings. There are always letters pre-typed to mix and match with addresses of the intended recipient.
And, a reminder. One is always guilty under ADMINISTRATIVE "law".
Best wishes and God bless,
Patricia
Cave Junctiion, Oregon 97523
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Let man not Fall for a New World Order.
Let mankind Rise to a New World Consciousness!
Raymond Karczewski http://www.arkenterprises.com
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Despite the beliefs of my relatives, and some other members of the loony, homophobic, racist Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang here in loony Washington County, Oregon that Roger and the gang are brilliant legal scholars, there are people in Oregon and elsewhere who believe that Roger and his gang giving legal advice is bad for the people receiving legal advice, Oregonians, and American citizens elsewhere.
One of the people who believes that Roger and his gang shouldn't be allowed to give out extremely stupid legal advice is Edgar J. Steele. The following post explains his personal views from having personal contact with the loonies.
June 26, 2003
The Portland Water Billing fiasco continues on its merry ways
As many people in the Portland area are aware, the Portland Water Bureau has been having difficulties over the last few years or so with consultants, software, spending money on useless computer programs, and getting water bills somewhat correct (at least within a few thousand dollars of the correct amount). The One True b!X's PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE | Water Bureau Billing Mess Continues To Stir Controversy has some info on the continuing fiasco caused by extreme incompetence on the part of the water bureau bureaucracy.
There is a comment by a person who knows what's going on and I believe everybody should read the comment.
Where I live we have the Tualatin Valley Water District. It is run competently, in fact, better than competently. Probably because everybody on the board of commissioners knows what they are doing and if they don't, they go out and get the answers. The board has an excellent staff and the board keeps the staff on its toes, which is probably why staff is excellent.
There is also another excellent government entity known as the Tualitan Valley Fire and Rescue.
I don't know exactly why the Portland Water Bureau is run so incompetently but I have an idea that it is because nobody in the Water Bureau wants to admit they don't know what the hell is going on, and they sure as hell aren't going to go out and get any information. So as long as they buy software that causes them to hire even more people to do the bills by hand, the water bureau will continue to be the butt of jokes. In fact, I was going to put a Portland Water Bureau joke on this posting, but its too nice a day........ok......what's the difference between the Portland Water Bureau and the hog farms in North Carolina?
Answer: You mean there's a difference?
Answer: I give up
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SCOTUS has decided "Lawrence v. Texas"
Since I'm not a lawyer and since I'm a homosexual, Satanic pedophile who eats corpses right down to the bone (I'm really not), and since I believe marriage should be a contract between two individuals (this means I think gay marriages are ok), any opinion I have about the decision of Lawrence v. Texas is probably not valid.
But....but.....but, I am an American citizen entitled to have an opinion, or so I'm told. Of course, since I live in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon, this means if I give an opinion, I'm in a load of trouble. So instead of me giving my opinion, let's let Lawrence Solum provide us with many opinions at his Legal Theory Blog.
Ok, ok. My opinion is that SCOTUS came to the right decision.
Wow, my four readers who are usually passed out in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands have sent me their opinions. I'll paraphrase the gist of their
emails. "!!!???XXXX***&&&%%%@@@###%%%%%." Hmmmm....maybe I should disable my censoring software so I can figure out what the hell they're trying to tell me. Then again, who cares what they say if they ain't buying me a drink.
Oh no, a group of concerned citizens has come to me filled with entreaties and one of the entreaties is that I quit doing homosexual Satanic sacrificial rituals in the local cemeteries because I'm just Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places. .
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Gosh, for me? Another hate email....oh... you really shouldn't have
Newsflash - This just in from Loon Central. It seems some people are taking umbrage at my suggestion that people give something to a particular non-profit organization (Centro Cultural of Washington County).
So they sent me an email and the email says, "Who the hell do you think you are, you sleazy punk? If you keep telling people to give to a bunch of damn furriners, then we're gonna kick your ass, you unnerstan, you sleazy punk!!!"
I've been thinking about that email for about five seconds and here's my reply. "Are they talking about furriers or foreigners or foreign furriers?"
Only in loony, homophobic, racist, politically correct Washinton County, Oregon
Some news from loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon
It seems that for many months the court system here has not been running at full strength. It seems that the court system has run into a few little technical legal issues, like money and a silly, little old pesky constitutional requirement about some sort of pernicious need for defense attorneys.
But never fear. Some enterprising patriots have put together an ingenious little alternative to constitutional impediments for achieving "Swift and Sure White Folk's Justice" called "common law courts". Since Washington County and the US Navy don't recognize divorce decrees unless the decrees are issued by "common law courts", it's vitally important that "common law courts" exist so that the courts can issue divorce decrees. Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Well, of course, the crazy Marxist didn't like this because they didn't get to punish their own enemies, so they set up their own court system called Comrades’ Courts and Citizens’ Assemblies. The following crimes are crimes that the "Comrades' Courts and Citizens' Assemblies" address:
Breaches of labour discipline, including absence from work without a valid reason; coming late to work or leaving work before the end of the working day; coming to work in an intoxicated condition; slipshod work or turning out spoiled goods, or causing idle time as a result of a careless attitude on the worker’s part towards his duties; failure to abide by instructions and safety engineering rules, and a careless attitude towards state or public property.
Shirking socially useful work and living as a parasite. Minor cases of poaching, minor breaches of forestry regulations. damage to crops or plantations by animals ...
Petty profiteering, petty misappropriation of state or public property, minor acts of hooliganism committed for the first time, drunkenness, bad language ...
Comrades’ Courts may adopt the following measures:
Raise with the head of the industrial enterprise, office or other organisation, or the board of the collective farm or producers’ co-operative the question of transferring the guilty person to a lower-paid job for a period of not more than three months, or to work not involving the control or storage of material values, or raise the question of demoting or dismissing him. [11]
This law too contradicts the New Principles of December 1958, as the latter expressly stated that “punishment is applied only on the sentence of the court of law.” [12]
In addition to the Comrades’ Courts a similar body, called the General Assembly of Citizens, was created. This is concerned with refusals to do socially useful work and the leading of a “parasitic existence”. Between 1951 and 1959 the Supreme Soviets of a number of Union Republics passed a law On Intensifying the Drive against Anti-Social Parasitic Elements, by which a general assembly of citizens of a dwelling house with not less than a hundred adults, or a street, area, settlement or village was to be convened so that “Adult able-bodied citizens who lead an antisocial, parasitic life and persistently shun socially useful work, as well as those living on unearned incomes, may be subjected to measures of public action in the form of expulsion, by a public verdict, to another part of the country for a term of from two to five years with compulsory enlistment in work at the place to which they have been expelled.” [13]
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon
Looks like New Hampshire just did away with the first amendment
What the hell is going on in the People's Republic of New Hampshire? Since I asked the the question, I might as well hazard an answer. It's looks like New Hampshire would rather follow Political Correctness rather than the US Constitution.
Next thing you know New Hampshire will outlaw all of its comedy clubs. Oh, wait, there are no comedy clubs in New Hampshire because humor and satire might unnecessarily upset the easily offended citizens.
I figure it's almost time to outlaw newspapers in New Hampshire because, after all, we wouldn't want to subject the tender citizens of New Hampshire to any kind of news that might upset their fragile egos.
Maybe it's time for New Hampshire to change its motto from "Live Free or Die" to "Free Ear Plugs Available to All Visitors - Please Don't Offend Our Sensibilities".
Eugene Volokh on Speech Codes on National Review Online
Information about the death penalty
As I've written before, I'm not against the death penalty for philosophical reasons, such as "it is wrong for the state to put someone to death for this or that reason". I'm against the death penalty because if one innocent person is put to death by the state, then the state has effectively shown that it cannot act responsibly with this particular venue of punishment. Besides, it has been shown over and over that the criminal justice system has deteriorated so much that many innocent people are being found guilty of not only crimes they didn't commit, but crimes that are physically impossible to do. This shows the state can not act responsibly in its use of the death penalty, and I believe the state should thereby forfeit its right to have a death penalty.
NACDL Death Penalty Defense Resources & Assistance
Stupid quote of the day
Collected Male Bashing Quotes
"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..." -- Sheila Jeffrys
This in from Trudy Schuett
Trudy has posted a some new posts on her blog. One is from Dr. Mike Adams. Dr. Mike Adams has some thoughts on the antics of crazy feminists on campus.
Mike S. Adams: The Men's Resource Center - In the Fall of 2000, another incident gave me insight into the possible benefit of having an MRC. The incident involved a student of mine who was trying to get out of her third consecutive test in my criminal justice class. There are only three tests altogether and she had already been denied by me twice. After I denied her the third time, she concocted a story about her sister being raped, beaten, and hospitalized in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And, of course, no one in her family was available to visit her sister on her deathbed. Because I didn't believe her, she went to the Office of the Dean of Students claiming that I was, among other things, insensitive to women.
June 25, 2003
From the Consumer Health Digest - Weekly Update of News and Reviews
There's some pretty interesting news about some sleaziness in the area of medicine and herbal supplements.
Consumer Health Digest, June 24, 2003
The incompetence and dishonesty of prosecutors in Passaic County is more than egregious
The following link will take you to a story about some county prosecutors that should not only be immediately fired, but charged with crimes.
There should be no such thing as "secret" evidence or "secret" trials because time and time again it has been proven that some prosecutors will abuse any and all authority they have.
N.J. Judge Unseals Transcript In Controversial Terror Case (washingtonpost.com)
Maybe it's a uniform thing
Man, Pennsylvania must be hot, hot, hot...or sleazy, sleazy, sleazy.
Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/25/2003 | Pa. state police reveal firings - In all, 79 state police employees - 75 troopers, two liquor control agents, and two civilian employees - were disciplined for sexual misconduct, the source said.
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At least a dozen teenagers assigned to work with police departments as part of the Boy Scouts' Law Enforcement Explorers program have allegedly been sexually abused by officers during the past year. In the past five years, such molestations number at least 25, according to criminologists' research being released Wednesday.
Maybe an insurance investigator should investigate the arson that happened in Washington County, OR
Today I'm going to tell the true story of how a crazy cop committed arson with a female informant in order to make one of his targets look bad. This happened many years ago in Washington County, Oregon.
One of the best ways to deliberately or accidently start a fire in a kitchen is by popping popcorn in a pan filled with cooking oil.
This is how the scheme went. The female informant went over to the target's apartment. While there the female informant suggested that she and the target watch a movie. She then suggested she pop some popcorn. While the target was elsewhere in the apartment she deliberately started the kitchen fire. She then ran to the target and told the target the kitchen was on fire. The target evacuated the apartment and called the fire department. The fire department came out and put out the fire.
In the meantime the crazy cop was waiting nearby in another apartment and burst forth on the scene to "save the day". The cop and the female informant concocted a story blaming the target that was so ridiculous not even the fire department personnel believed it.
You might ask why the cop had targeted the target in the first place and what crime or crimes the target was suspected of committing. This is the answer: The target committed no crimes but was targeted as a favor to a family member who was mad at the target.
The crazy cop also likes to play childish, immature psychological games. He had the female informant slice up all the target's nice clothes once. When the target went out and bought new clothes, the cop had somebody slice up those clothes. Afterwards the crazy cop had people go to the target and insult him about wearing older clothes and never having nice clothes. Only in Washington County, Oregon could this sort of nonsense go on for so long.
I really like those reality TV shows
I've been watching a lot of those reality TV shows lately and I really like them. You know, the shows where the guys are drinking beer and there's always a lot of beautiful women around.
Those shows have even made me decide to run for office right here in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
I've even decided to hire a campaign consultant. In fact, she's due here any minute. I think that's her knocking on the door. I'll be right back.
Ok, that was her. Right now she's looking over my shoulder as I type this. In fact, I'll type the conversation I'm about to have with her.
"I see you're writing about reality TV shows," she said.
I responded, "Yeah, that's right. I'm watching one right now as I talk to you and type on my blog."
She looked at the TV and then she looked back at me. "So, you're calling what you're watching right now a reality TV show?", she asked.
I nodded.
She became angry, "You idiot!!!" she screamed, "That's not a reality TV show, that's a beer commercial!!!"
"A beer commercial???" I was a bit perplexed. "You mean it's not a reality TV show???? But it seems real to me," I said. "Well, since you're up, can you get me a beer?"
"No. Now, let's get down to business," she said as she sat down and popped open a beer. It seems she got herself a beer but not one for me. Man.
"Ok, what office are you running for?" she asked in a business-like tone of voice while she picked at her feet.
"Um, I thought I would run for "Barkeep of the County," I responded.
"I see," she said in a thoughtful manner.
She chugged her beer, wiped her mouth, was quiet for a little while, and then said, "You idiot, there is no office called 'Barkeep of the County". I'm outta here. You're more than an idiot. You're....you're......exasperating."
With that last remark she got up, went to the refrigerator, grabbed all the beer, and walked out the door.
I'm telling you, I'm really depressed now. Even the reality TV show I was watching became the O'reilly Factor and there's some guy screaming at another guy about the devastating impact Chinese vodka commercials are having on the North Korean people and how it's causing Kim, the head boss, to want nukes so he can bug the Japanese even more than he's bugging them now.
My dream of having my very own campaign blog has dissipated into the ethereal mists of sobriety because..........SHE TOOK ALL THE BEER WITH HER AS SHE WALKED OUT THE DOOR.
Oh well, at least I have my bandwidth.
June 24, 2003
Why the Virgin Islands are called the Virgin Islands
The other day I was walking down the street with my Marxist social advisor when someone came up to us, took a swig off a bottle of cheap, sleazy French wine, belched, and asked, "Why do the space aliens only abduct crazy people?"
My Marxist social advisor answered, "Because, for the same reason the bees are always trying to oppress and victimize the birds."
The drunk with the cheap, sleazy bottle of French wine nodded and said, "Yeah, that's what I thought, too." Then he ambled away and fell into the ditch by the side of the road.
We walked to where he was and as I was bending down to help him out of the ditch my Marxist social advisor said, "Ooohhh, how can you touch him? I mean, he's a man. That's icky."
By this time the drunk was snoring so I figured I might as well let him slumber.
We walked a little further down the road when we spied a person running for office. I asked, "Where are you going in such a hurry?"
He said, "To the office, I've got to go to the bathroom real bad. So vote for me."
We continued walking and my Marxist social advisor asked me, "Haven't you ever wondered why the Virgin Islands are called the Virgin Islands?"
I replied, "Y'know, that's all I've been thinking about since the LA Lakers let somebody else win the championship this year and Dick Gephardt decided to start an imperial dynasty and give orders."
She said, "Since you're a hopeless conspirator in the patriarchal conspiracy to keep opium and booze away from oppressed women, I'll enlighten you."
"How can you say that?" I asked. "I've always dreamed of owning a bar and having 'ladies' night', just like they do in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands when everybody's not passed out."
"It's easy," she said. "Now shut up before I smack you and let me tell you how the Virgin Islands became the Virgin Islands."
The following is the tale of the reason the Virgin Islands are called the Virgin Islands. I'll even put the tale in between "blockquotes" so the tale will be green, sort of.......???.....I gotta quit watching "Amphibian World" every night.
It all started thousands of years ago when the world was flat. There was a pirate sailing hither and thither and even yonder trying to find opium and booze for the queen because the queen suffered from menopause, but it wasn't called menopause back then, it was called "one of the symptoms of the patriarchal conspiracy to make women suffer because they are women".
Now when this pirate called Captain came upon a land mass he called the land mass "that's a whole lotta dirt and we'll stick the flag in the dirt and call it the queen's dirt".
A follower of that brilliant geographer called Karl Marx came up to Captain one day and said, "In the name of material dialectical discussion, let's call that dirt an "island" because you see, when you land you can always say, "I land" and we'll throw in a silent "s" because it sounds sophisticated and French.
As Captain and his crew of oppressed slaves sailed past the island they came upon another island. A follower of that brilliant language professor, Karl Marx, came up to Captain and said, "Let's put an "s" after "island" because there's more than one and that's enough for the revolution."
Captain said, "Do whatever you want. I'm getting a glass of vodka."
The follower of that great vodka maker, Karl Marx, said, "Get the Soviet vodka because it's better than the Russian vodka."
The follower of that great oceanographer, Karl Marx, freed the slaves on the ship and they all got drunk on Mexican tequila instead of Soviet vodka because as everybody exclaimed when they drank of bit of the Soviet vodka, "Man, this stuff tastes like crap. Let's drink the tequila instead."
As everybody was getting drunk, a follower of that great name giver, Karl Marx, said, "Just for the hell of it, let's give names to these mounds of dirt in the sea."
They came up with a variety of names like, "Bowzer", "Hey, man, this is some cool dirt" until they came up with "Wilhelmina".
A follower of that great warrior for people's rights, Karl Marx, organized a three man party and they told the crew to vote for the name "Wilhelmina" and that's how the Wilhelmina Islands became the Wilhelmina Islands.
I looked at my Marxist social advisor in a puzzled manner and said, "But...but...but...why do people say 'Virgin Islands'?"
She looked at me and said, "The only people who call the Wilhelmina Islands the Virgin Islands are you bourgeoise, capitalist, imperialistic pigs. Everybody else, including French women of the middle class, call the Virgin Islands the Wilhelmina Islands in honor of that great philanthropist, Karl Marx."
Now that I think about it, Dick Gephardt becoming Emperor and giving orders makes sense.
Hooray, yeeeeehaaaa...I got 25482 hits today
Yeeeehaaaaaaa!!!!! I got 25482 hits today. I never got even four before, but that's because my readers are passed out most of the time in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands.
Man, 25482 hits. I better check my counter one more time...........hmmmmmm.......I wonder why two of the digits are brown and three are green. They're all supposed to be green.
I better get the magnifying glass......Oh yeah, the neighborhood kids took it so they could roast marshmellows. I told them to put it on the table when they were done.
I think I'll go check the table outside.
Ok, I found it. Now let's see those numbers again.........GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!!!!!!
TWO OF THE NUMBERS ARE..........NO, IT CAN'T BE.............IT IS!!!!!!!!!!! TWO OF THE NUMBERS ARE FLY POOT!!!!!!!!!! ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
ARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! MY 25482 HITS ARE FLY POOT!!!!!!!
WHERE ARE THOSE DAMN FLIES... THEY MUST DIE...........ALL FLIES WHO POOT ON MY MONITOR MUST DIE............
OK, YOU DAMN SPIDERS, YOU'RE FIRED. GET OUT AND TAKE YOUR WEBS WITH YOU....
INCOMPETENT STUPID SPIDERS CAN'T EVEN GET A FEW MEASLY FLIES!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THE ANIMAL WORLD COMING TO......
FLY POOT ON THE MONITOR AND INCOMPETENT WATCH SPIDERS.....
Oh, well, at least I still have my bandwidth.
Even Gephardt's aides make asinine remarks
Gephardt made some weird statements concerning using presidential executive orders to undo certain SCOTUS decisions, which I found sort of ridiculous and good for a laugh. I mean, Dick "Fear not, I know what to order" (maybe a few stiff drinks would help him out) Gephardt has a right to make ridiculous remarks. After all, he's running for office.
However, his remarks provoked some comments in the blogosphere, including some remarks from Eugene Volokh (that great conspirator), Glenn Reynolds (the pundit that's swifter than swift because he's INSTA), Jack Balkin (the great Balkinizer) and Daniel Drezner (untenured but working mighty hard for it). They are all prolific and people enjoy their views on not only on their chosen subject area, but other subjects as well. BUT NOT DICK GEPHARDT'S AIDES!!!!
So, in order to explain what it was that Gephardt was really saying, an aide or more responded by stating, "The fact that this question comes from libertarian law professors should speak for itself."
What does that mean?????? Is it one of those Zen koan things?..... My philosophy is more Taoist than anything else, although I did study Zen (Chan) for about ten years, and what this means is that I ponder. Well, I've pondered the phrase, "The fact that this question comes from libertarian law professors should speak for itself." All I can say about the whole thing is, "Man, that's deep, REAL DEEP!"
"What the hell is he talking about?????"..........hahahahahahaha.
I think we can safely say that it is possible the phrase "libertarian law professors" was aimed at Eugene and Glenn.
If this is the case, I guess we can assume that all questions from "libertarian law professors" will be dissed. I was under the impression that running for office was to try and get as many votes as possible and, also, to try and not alienate as many people as possible. I guess this is one of the reasons why I haven't been a flaming liberal Democrat for about twenty years.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed like a good question to me. What's next? Dissing questions from libertarian reporters, and then libertarian voters. Where will it all end? Hahahahaha.
Hubert Humphrey, where are you when we need you?
For a more extended explanation of Dick Gephardt's views and his aides' explanations of his views, visit this post at Instapundit.com.
More on the deterioration of the US justice system
TalkLeft has a post about a federal judge retiring because of the deteriorating justice system in America.
My own opinion is that many in Congress have been pandering to crazy zealots for years. Because many people in Congress or those running for office are under the misconception that the majority of Americans are mindless, crazy zealots, this pandering for votes has caused the Congress to pass draconian laws that are slowly turning America into the world's biggest prison.
TalkLeft: Federal Judge to Quit: Sentencing System Has Become Unjust
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A place for people to find out about Portland, Oregon
Want to learn about Portland, Oregon? Then Get Connected To Portland.
Oliver Willis has a post about the white supremacists
I have relatives (most of them are dead now) who fought in WW II against the Nazi's. Just from talking to WW II veterans who are members of the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, I got and still get the impression they don't like Nazi's, neo-Nazi's or white supremacists. I believe most Americans agree with the veterans.
There is always an exception, like here in Aloha, Oregon. I was a member of both groups once until I got harassed out of the Aloha, Oregon American Legion Post 104 by the Roger Weidner/Victorman gang for being genetically inferior and being a homosexual. I may be genetically inferior, but I'm definitely not gay. Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Anyway, visit the following link.
Our Own Al Qaeda @ Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite to Stupid
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Who are Howard Dean and Zoe Lofgren?
Who are Howard Dean and Zoe Lofgren and why do they want Howard Dean to be president? If you want to know go to Blog for America.
Hmmm......I wonder if Howard Dean would overturn SCOTUS rulings with executive orders like Dick Gephardt would.
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Barter Fair Wins Day In Court
Man, I guess in Jackson County, Oregon, instead of telling members of the lunatic fringe to bug off, they elect at least one of them sheriff. By the way, Robert Kennedy has retired. Maybe he'll study law while he's retired. It's obvious he didn't know what the law was when he was sheriff.
Rogue Independent Media Center | Barter Fair Wins Day In Court
Apparently, there are others who agree with me.
"unbillable hours" just had a birthday
Congratulations to unbillable hours.
Focus sharpens on crime labs' work
The following link to a story highlights incompetence, bureaucratic bungling, and just plain sleaziness and dishonesty in crime labs across the country. You might think running a crime lab correctly might be a good thing, but I guess the justice system has deteriorated so badly that nobody seems to care.
Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/23/2003 | Focus sharpens on crime labs' work - Mistakes made by a lab scientist in Bethlehem could call into question evidence in 615 criminal cases in 27 counties across Pennsylvania, state police said last week.
The case focuses attention once again on the nation's approximately 400 crime labs, which process evidence in thousands of cases each year but which remain largely unregulated.
Senator Gordon Smith and Senator Ron Wyden are introducing new legislation
YourCongress.com - Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to provide the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of the Interior, with limited off-site mitigation authority in the Columbia River Basin. This legislation, if enacted, would enhance Reclamation's ability to comply with the provisions of the December 2000 biological opinion for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System.
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By Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Smith): S. 1308. A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to pursue and complete actions related to the implementation of a U.S . District of a U.S. District Court Consent Decree; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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More info on S. 1308 - Mr. Wyden. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Savage Rapids Dam Act of 2003, for myself and my friend and colleague from Oregon, Senator Gordon Smith.
This legislation is another good example of the Oregon way: bringing together varied interests to get win-win results for all stakeholders. Born out of controversy concerning the detrimental effects of the Savage Rapids Dam on fish passage and survival, this legislation is now supported by the Grants Pass Irrigation District, Waterwatch, Oregon's Governor, Trout Unlimited, and various Oregon river guide and sport fishing concerns.
This legislation simply authorizes the Secretary of Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Secretary of Commerce, acting through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, to undertake activities identified for Federal implementation, including construction, in accordance with U.S. District Court Consent Decree ``United States, et al., v. Grants Pass Irrigation District, Civil No. 983034HO'', August 27, 2001.
This legislation has been years in the making. Senator Smith and I introduced a related measure in the 106th Congress. As we return to this legislation in the 108th Congress, I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate and the stakeholders at home to make this legislation and this process work for the Grants Pass Irrigation District and the environment.
I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. -->
There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
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Steven Chapman is tech blogging
Steven Chapman brings up some interesting points about placing cultural or political jive on whether or not one prefers open source software or Microsoft products or Apple products.
Almost everything on my site I installed myself and almost all of it is open source programs. That way I can tinker with it. I like to tinker with the basic design of the various programs, like my MT setup. I tinkered a little with one of the CSS syles and a couple of the templates. I have a Microsoft operating system on my home computer, but I also have the latest edition of Open Office, which is, of course, open source software. On the other hand, I bought Microsoft Word for my two daughters to use for their school projects or whatever.
But I don't use Microsoft products or open source products for philosophical, political, or cultural reasons. I use these various products because I like to tinker with some, and others I don't, so I pick whichever is convenient for me at the time.
Deep philosophical questions
Sometimes people come up to me and ask deep philosophical questions like, "Hey, what's so good about chewing cud?"
All I can say is, "If you haven't tried it, don't knock it."
If it's Dear Abby, it must be Belgium
This just in from Dr. Richard Weiss.
Dear Abby ...
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning. When I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse is everyone knows he cheats on me. It is so humiliating!
Also, since he lost his job two years ago, he hasn't even looked for a new one. All he does is sit around the living room in his underwear and watch TV while I work to pay the bills. And since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to like me.
He keeps calling me a lesbian. What should I do?
Signed,
Clueless
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Dear Clueless:
Dump him. You're a New York Senator now. You don't need him anymore.
Dr. Weiss is also a member of the National Congress for Fathers & Children.
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Looks like the People's Republic of Quebec has gone bonkers
I don't know about you, but I think all those politically correct French speakers should go back to Latin because the French language is just a bastardized version of Latin and, as we all know, Latin is the language of dead people and the French speaking, politically correct folks seem to be brain dead.
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June 22, 2003
Medical Rants has a good post about sleaziness in the pharmaceutical industry
Ralph Nader and DB Medical Rants both have opinions on the shenanigans of pharmaceutical companies.
I agree with them but just for the heck of it, let's see what Corporate Watch has to say. Yep, you gotta watch these pharmaceutical companies like a hawk lest they exceed their millenium sleaze quotient in a half a second.
Two interesting stories from Cyber Atlas
Even though government websites weren't all that hot, they beat e-commerce sites.
Applications: Errors Rampant on Gov't Sites
The Mail Tribune in Medford, Oregon is an example of an excellent local news website.
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Victory in Tulia, But Not in Drug War
Looks like living while black in Tulia, Texas is against the law.
AlterNet: Victory in Tulia, But Not in Drug War
Questions on a lazy Sunday afternoon
As many people know, there is a crooked cop in Washington County, Oregon who has been a secret member of the loony, homophobic, white supremacist Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang.
It seems a few of their compatriots in the white supremacist movement, Jeff Weakly, Forrest Bateman and Fritz Springmeier have been convicted of doing illegal activities in order to further the goal of their agenda.
Now for the questions:
If a cop in a position of authority is also a secret member of a violent, white supremacist, anti-government hate group, can this cop also be expected to enforce the law fairly and constitutionally?
Is this cop selling out his fellow cops?
If this cop gives his racist group information about other cops, does this put the other cops in danger?
If this cop doesn't really accept the jurisdiction of local, state and federal governments, is this cop likely to ignore the law and commit crimes?
Would this cop order his snitches to break the law and then threaten his snitches if they decided to go to the FBI or the ATF and tell what they know?
Do his snitches have the makings of a good lawsuit against Washington County, Oregon for civil rights violations and constitutional violations perpetrated against them by this cop and his buddies, some of whom may be employed by the county?
This leads to some more questions and those questions are here.
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June 21, 2003
"A Few Good Men" and "An Officer and a Gentleman"
Right now I'm watching the movie "A Few Good Men" with Tom Cruise and Jack (LA Lakers's Jack) and an excellent cast. I've watched this movie many times and I never tire of watching it again.
One of my favorite movies of all times is "An Officer and a Gentleman". I've seen "An Officer and a Gentleman" more times than any other movie, and I still cry at the ending. I wonder what an honest psychiatrist or psychologist would say about that.
I recommend the above mentioned movies to anyone who hasn't seen them.
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Maureen Dowd and the links of the blogosphere
Today we're going to follow some links from Tim Blair. The first link is Tim Blair: MISSING THE MARK.
From there we go to Hit and Run - Don’t Let the Door Hit You, Mo.
This leads us to an article in the LufkinDailyNews.com that says
5/30/03 Maureen Dowd not wanted here
By MARC R. MASFERRER
The New York Times' considerable credibility problem is now our problem, as well.
But unlike the Times, which has been engaged in a torturous exercise of naval gazing and self-flagellation, with its accustomed arrogance, since it was revealed that one of its younger reporters had committed all sorts of journalistic sins, we are doing something about it, and fast.
Until she explains to our satisfaction her own ethical transgression — an apparently deliberate distortion of a comment by President Bush — you will not find the work of Times columnist Maureen Dowd on this page.
Since publishing a mea culpa on the Jayson Blair fiasco, the ethical woes have only continued at the Times. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg resigned this week after it was revealed he had passed as his own, work reported by interns and freelance writers. Not even his friendship with the Times' top editor could save him.
The storm clouds have now moved over Dowd, also a Pulitzer Prize winner whose work has appeared here and other newspapers across the country — and coincidentally, like me, a graduate of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. A Times spokeswoman said the newspaper is "looking into" a column, which we did not publish, in which Dowd apparently twisted to fit her point of view Bush's assessment of the danger posed by al-Qaida terrorists just days before a terror attack in Saudi Arabia.
Dowd, it seems, may have taken the title of her column — "Liberties" — way too far.
Here's what Dowd wrote in the column in question:
“‘Al-Qaida is on the run,' President Bush said last week. 'That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated ... they're not a problem anymore.'"
Here's what Bush actually said:
"Al-Qaida is on the run. That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. Right now, about half of all the top al-Qaida operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they're not a problem anymore."
New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets offered a perfect criticism of what Dowd did.
"The words in italics were replaced in Dowd's column by three little dots. Those dots say to the reader: Trust me, I'm abbreviating here, but what I'm leaving out doesn't change the meaning.
"But the dots did change the meaning," Chafets wrote. "In fact, they turned it upside down. Far from declaring al-Qaida 'spent,' Bush was warning the country against complacency. The only terrorists the president declared 'no longer a problem' were the ones already jailed or dead."
Dowd quietly "corrected" herself by including the full quote in a subsequent column that appeared in The Lufkin Daily News on Thursday.
That's not good enough, and until Dowd, and her newspaper, fully account for her infraction, her column will not appear on this page.
Critics of the Times, who are everywhere, are watching with glee as Dowd, one of the more clever columnists around, tries to write herself out of this one. Here in Lufkin, at least one reader thinks she has dragged The Lufkin Daily News into the muck with her, noting that we frequently publish her work.
"That does not say a whole lot for The Lufkin Daily News editorial page," one Sound Off caller said Thursday.
Hopefully, our decision to suspend Dowd from these pages will help restore our credibility with the caller and other readers.
Dowd violated one of the cardinal tents of the newspaper business: Don't mislead your readers, because your credibility is your only currency. Lose it, and the reader won't care how good a writer you are.
How we can best serve you, the reader, is a daily challenge here at The Lufkin Daily News, for our credibility is the only thing that those of us in the newsroom have to sell. We may not always get it right, and you may not always like what you read, but we will always do our best to make this newspaper, your newspaper, a place where the likes of Jayson Blair, Rick Bragg and Maureen Dowd will never feel at home.
The New York Time has now not only let down readers, other newspapers and their readers; but now all New York Times columnists appear suspect in the minds of many Americans. It seems to me that the venerable New York Times will rebound, but it will take a long time to regain the trust it once had.
I don't mean that the New York Times should give up it's weird editorial slant, but, come on, don't fabricate stuff. Just be honest with the news part and admit that the bosses and some columnists are biased this way or that way, but don't falsify info as an excuse to have this or that opinion.
It is my opinion that most Americans are bright enough to know about the particular bias of a news outlet in any medium; and most Americans don't really mind the bias (some agree with the bias and some don't) but most Americans get a teensy-weensy upset about deliberate fabrications of any kind.
For example, if a politician screws up and readily admits it and asks the American people to forgive, usually the American people do. Then they will go on either supporting or not supporting that particular politician for his perceived stance on this or that issue.
However, if that poliltician deliberately prevaricates, not only does his/her political enemies have ammunition to attack that politician's character, but the politician's supporters respond, many times, with anger, unsupportive behavior, and, sometimes, with unconcealed attempts to distance themselves from that politician.
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June 20, 2003
Justice Denied at the Source: Considered Guilty Until Proved Innocent
Lately Howard Bashman has posted some posts that I find extremely amusing, however, the link below will take to you a post that is important. Once the government is able to violate the law, or even come perilously close, then certain assumptions must be reevaluated.
How Appealing - Justice Denied at the Source: Considered Guilty Until Proved Innocent
The Columbia River Dredging controversy
Here in the Northwest there is something of a controversy over the Army Corps of Engineer's plan to dredge the Columbia River up to the Port of Vancouver and the Port of Portland in order to make the river capable of accommodating larger sea-going vessels. The plan is to make the river about three feet deeper.
Considering all the input from the various groups who have an interest in this project and especially considering the input of those who study vocanos and the aftermath of eruptions, I believe dredging the Columbia River is a necessary thing to do. Despite the well placed concerns of those worried about the ecological damage the dredging will cause, I believe that the damage will be minimal and I also believe that the Columbia River will recover in short order. There's more info at the link below.
Columbia River Dredging Project Digs Up Concerns
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Somebody is fact checking the Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Good for the South Dakota Politics blog.
South Dakota Politics
Links via Instapundit and Hobbs Online.
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The United Farm Workers has new news and new issues
United Farm Workers
It's nice to see at least one story that's more than just a soundbite
The Christian Science Monitor has an indepth story about the recent riots in Michigan. It's worth reading.
Michigan riots: Tales of two cities and the gulf between | csmonitor.com
Looks like at least one police agency is awake
The following link is to a memorandum from a chief of police in Silicon Valley to his personnel concerning a threat analysis about violent, homophobic, racist anti-government groups. Sort of like the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang here in Washington County, Oregon.
I have no idea why people in Washington County, Oregon pretend that we don't have a problem here with loony, homophobic, racist nuts running around harassing and attacking innocent people. Maybe it's just easier to ignore the problem and pretend it doesn't exist.
Personally, I'm getting damn sick of those morons bugging me, my two daughters, and the mother of my two daughters.
M E M O R A N D U M-
Police Department
M E M O R A N D U M
Police Department
To: All Personnel
From: Larry J. Todd
Subject: Growth of Anti-Government Militia: Local Threat Analysis
Date: May 1, 1996
Several recent events have lead the Police Department to conduct a local threat analysis of potential militia activity in Santa Clara County and specifically in Los Gatos. There are four known organized militia units in the greater Santa Clara County area which includes the mountain regions between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz.
The members of these militia units, also known as the Patriot movement, are a mixture of the American far Right, from members of the Christian Coalition to the Ku Klux Klan -- people united by their hatred of the government. These individuals come from all walks of life. Among them are real estate agents, preachers, ranchers, electricians, computer technicians and retired military officers. They include tax protesters, millenialists, survivalists, populists, freemen, constitutionalists, militant abortion foes, radical anti-environmentalists and gun enthusiasts.
They all share a few common characteristics: they are overwhelmingly white, almost exclusively Christian and predominantly male. And they are bitterly disappointed in what they view America has become. While many Americans believe that government is cumbersome and inefficient, those in the Patriot movement are convinced that government is evil. As a result, any government agency, particularly local government which has the highest level of contact with citizens, is a potential target of Patriot attacks. The recent pipe bombing of the Tacoma, Washington, City Hall complex is an example of the extreme measures members of these groups will take.
The ongoing events involving the Freemen Militia group in Montana, combined with the Oklahoma City bombing and the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents, have heightened the fears of the paranoid individuals who belong to these various groups and increased the possibility that additional attacks will occur. Of particular concern is the Patriots re-interpretation of the Second Amendment fueled by the high profile efforts of the NRA to over-turn the assault weapons ban and the Brady Bill. This has been further reinforced by Pat Buchanan during his effort to win nomination as Republican candidate for President. His pledge to repeal the assault ban and his repeated call for his supporters to "lock and load" has added more fuel to the Patriots belief that armed confrontation is justified. Not only do Patriots ignore the original intent of the Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings, they ignore numerous state laws that forbid ownership of these weapons and the formation of private armies.
The Militia of Montana Field Manual, which has been widely circulated, recommends that Patriots purchase weapons with cash and never give their real names. Among the assault weapons recommended are the IN9 .45-caliber, "the ideal machine gun for urban guerrilla warfare against the police and public officials." The Militia of Montana also likes the Rugar Mini-14 because, "It uses the .223-caliber cartridge which packs a high muzzle velocity of over 3,000 feet per second and is therefore capable of penetrating most Kevlar body armor." The manual also gives step-by-step instructions on how to wage urban guerrilla warfare against the police and public officials.
Many Patriots live outside the law, openly evading income taxes, driving without licenses, refusing to register their vehicles, failing to appear in court and opening a vigilante "justice" system that only recognize the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which they believed to be God-given, not man-made. Under this common law theory, a citizen must declare himself "sovereign" to exercise his God-given rights. Women and minorities are excluded from full participation in the democratic process and are excluded from voting or holding office.
One of the primary tactics wielded by common law reactionaries is their version of the commercial lien. Patriots are increasingly filing fake liens against law enforcement officers, elected officials, district attorneys, city attorneys and judges. They will also file against anyone they perceive to be interfering with their common law rights or any other perceived injustice, according to their religious or political beliefs.
The target of such action usually has no idea that a lien has been filed against him. Although the liens have no legal affect, they often sit in court records and credit bureau files like a time bomb waiting to go off. Government officials across the country have been surprised to find such a lien against them on their credit report when they applied for a mortgage or a car loan. Although these liens have no legal standing, it can be a nightmare to have them removed and a credit record cleared.
Since "sovereign citizen" Patriots believe they are not required to pay taxes, obtain driver's licenses, or register their vehicles, they place themselves on a direct track for head-on collision with law enforcement. These patriots believe that if a police officer or some other government official should try to enforce a law in violation of their perceived rights under the common law, they have a right to defend themselves. This includes the use of deadly force.
Scores of local, state and federal officials have been indicted by "common law" grand juries. While most of these indictments remain little more than curious documents of protest, some of the more extreme common law courts take them seriously and have implemented the means for their enforcement. In a number of states, including California, militia units and other parliamentary Patriots have been empowered to "arrest" indicted officials and bring them before the common law court.
While the Police Department periodically receives letters, faxes and phone calls from individuals expressing rather bizarre beliefs, there has been a marked increase particularly regarding firearms and tax issues. Many of these communications expresses high levels of anger and are threatening in tone. Although no formal link has been made to any known militia groups, if these individuals are angry enough to communicate their feelings, those associated with the local militia groups may be equally as angry. Given the history of militia groups to convert their anger into action, it is reasonable to take these threats seriously.
Therefore, all employees should take reasonable precautions and be alert to possible threats. Appropriate caution should be exercised when packages or unusual-looking letters are received. If in doubt, leave it alone and notify the on-duty Sergeant. Document all threats. If someone claims to be a "freeman" or renounces the need to possess a drivers license, etc., make every effort to properly identify the individual. This includes making a right thumb print on a citation or FI card and taking a photograph of the individual.
There is no need to be overly concerned. The information is being provided to simply raise awareness of an evolving problem facing our society. On the other hand, it would be even more foolish to ignore this problem and adopt an attitude that these kind of activities could never happen in Los Gatos. The vast majority of militia activities have targeted officials in smaller communities in, or adjacent to, rural areas. We fit that profile perfectly.
Attached for further information is a recent bulletin from the FBI which provides the text of a memoranda from the Constitutional Militias of the United States. In addition, an overview of a recent publication by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klan Watch Project entitled "False Patriots: The Threat of Anti-Government Extremists" is provided.
Larry J. Todd
Chief of Police
If anybody has any new info about the loony, homophobic, racist, "common law court" Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang, you can post it in the "The latest info about the gang" forum.
June 19, 2003
Chief Moose and the morons
Chief Moose was police chief here in Portland, Oregon and from what I understand he was a pretty good police chief. He was definitely NOT CORRUPT.
As Porphyrogenitus points out, "this was the result of some very petty people, acting small".
"Free to Die for Their Country" is a book everyone should read
I've only read the first chapter of Eric Muller's book entitled Free to Die for their Country, but from what I've read so far this book recounts an extremely shameful part of our history. I've also checked out some other research on this.
This shameful part of our history must be exposed and studied so we can make sure it never happens again.
And we don't need people like Coble trying to rationalize this issue away.
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Rantavation has some really good posts
Rantavation has one particularly interesting post but I can't get the permalink to work properly. The permalink keeps sending me all over the place. So I'm going to post the whole post here.
"Doh, a deer, a female deer..."
I was going to spend most of today talking about Oregon--mainly because I've been spending most of the last (few) months ignoring it. I wanted to talk about something I overhead at a coffee shop not named 'Starbucks' about someone arguing that business pays "the lion's share" of taxes in this state. I wanted to talk about the Army catching Saddam's secretary, and how maybe Saddam isn't trying to flee the country, he's just biding his time, hoping we'll go away soon, and can re-invest himself in prime Iraquois real estate. I also wanted to talk about the idea that giving more money to the wealthy is a better economic stimulous than giving more money to the poor.
So I thought I would start from the bottom, and work my way up.
I think, if anyone (and you economist people out there, I expect you to flame away, so...) were designing the model for the perfect economy, or at least the perfect "free-market" economy, would design it in the way I'm about to describe. It seems to me, that if you want to have the most thriving and wealth-creating economy, you would want to have as little poverty as humanly possible. You would want to have a "middle class" that would encompass, well, everyone. What I mean is that you wouldn't want to have the lowest income level to fall below subsistance + n, where n is the ability to purchase goods not associated with mere survival (food, shelter, basic transportation, and clothing). At the same time, you wouldn't want to have an extreme income gap between the first 1% of income and the next 99%.
The theory being that over the long term, the more "disposable" income people have, the more that income gets spread around to multiple goods and services. Considering our economy is no longer based on scarcity, but on the scarcity of "More," we want as many people to buy Playstation2s, vacation homes, designer dresses, barbies(tm), "grande white chocolate mochas" and Pottery Barn(tm) loveseats, as possible. This is the "long-term" version of a thriving economy. People have money, they spend money, they create (or continue) jobs because they're purchasing goods and services. Henry Ford, who surely wasn't a socialist, knew that the best way to ensure a growing market for his company was making sure he had workers that could afford his products. The more money you put in at the bottom of the pyramid, the more money filters it's way upwards.
Somewhere around 1978 or so, though, a group of folks at the top of that pyramid decided that they should convince us that that model was backwards. That if we put all the money at the top of the pyramid, it would "trickle down" to the rest of us. They started convincing us (or at least those of us that were in a position to make these decisions) that they would use this money to build factories, to employ people, that putting money in their pockets would encourage them to invest, and that increase in investment would cause companies to expand, offer jobs, give money to the people farther down the pyramid.
It seems, 25 years later, that we've bought into this theory. That "if you pay someone to invest in widget makers, they will make more widgets. If there are more widgets, people will want to buy widgets." There's only about ten problems with that theory, the first being that you cannot force demand by simply increasing the supply (unless, I guess, what you're supplying is addictive). The second is that putting money at the top to "trickle down" to the bottom that the top is going to build factories and create as many jobs as they can. That's a double assumption--that investments are going to be made in areas that would create jobs, and if so, that those investments are going to create as many jobs as possible.
This seems to run counter to every law of business out there. If I'm building widgets, or cars, I want to produce the most for the least amount possible--that means limiting my capital investments to whatever the least amount it could possible take to do the job. Nobody is going to make money (the whole point of capitalism) by spending as much money as they possibly can producing a product (hmmm...dotcom, anyone?)
The point is, that making the poor richer raises the entire economy--because more people can purchase more goods and services, exponentially, and, in the long term that $5 Ford gave to workers, made it right back into his pockets...multiplied by everyone else that saw a piece of it on the way up. Doing so, increased the demand for his products, causing him to need to hire more people to fill more factories, causing the other auto industries to pay their workers better so they wouldn't wander off to work for Ford's new factories, putting more money into the economy, etc.
Of course, those workers all put their savings into banks and investments that were feeding an uncontrolled and unregulated stock market and a world economy shackled to the cost and reparations of a World War, and a farm economy driven into ruin by drought and over-efficiency...
Which brings us back to Doh! a deer...
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Many Divorced Fathers Struggle Desperately to Remain in Their Children's Lives
It's a damn shame this is allowed to happen in America. I should know, it's been happening to me. In my case there are a lot of variables interacting with each other to keep me from seeing my two daughters.
glennsacks.com | Many Divorced Fathers Struggle Desperately to Remain in Their Children's Lives
Jim, a Michigan technology consultant, can't even remember what his daughter looks like.
"I haven't been allowed to see my little Caroline for over three years," he says. "The last picture I have of her was taken four years ago, when she was eight years old. The only contact I'm allowed with her is a short phone call every Sunday, and often even that is blocked."
Jim, a Commander in the Naval Reserve, has fought the toughest battle of his life to remain in his daughter's life. Twelve years ago his ex-wife left their home in Michigan and moved with their baby to Louisiana. Time and again Jim says he has paid the $600 round trip fare to go to Louisiana to see his daughter only to have his visitation blocked, even when he has come to visit his daughter on her birthday.
Jim has appealed to the courts on numerous occasions to enforce his visitation rights, to no avail. At the same time, he has paid enormous legal fees (as well as child support) and has almost been forced into bankruptcy. He says:
"I sometimes wonder if that picture of Caroline is the last one I'll ever see."
Jim and hundreds of thousands like him are part of a new generation of heroic fathers who fight a long, hard, and often desperate struggle to remain a part of their children's lives.
Three-quarters of divorced fathers surveyed maintain that their ex-wives have substantially interfered with their visitation rights. A nationwide study of children of divorce confirmed these sentiments, and as many as 40% of mothers surveyed have admitted they have interfered with visitation and that their motives were punitive and not due to safety considerations.
Some fathers have even been denied all contact with their children because courts have accepted false and/or uncorroborated accusations of domestic violence or child sexual abuse. Forensic consultant Dean Tong, author of Elusive Innocence, believes that in the context of a custody battle, between 60% and 80% of domestic violence accusations are false. According to a study conducted in New York state, 75% of child sexual abuse accusations made during custody battles were shown to be unfounded or unsubstantiated.
Other fathers have suffered at the hands of "move-away moms" who permit or even use geography to drive fathers out of their children's lives. And some fathers have watched helplessly as their own children have been taught to hate them.
Fathers with horror stories are not hard to find. Like Daniel Lee, the founder of the Tennessee shared parenting group Child's Best Interest, who has flown nearly half a million miles over the last five years so that he can see his son, who was taken to live 2,000 miles away. Or Edgar P., a Los Angeles father who risked a one year jail sentence for a domestic violence charge because he knew that pleading guilty in a plea bargain would destroy his chances of obtaining visitation rights with his young daughter. He was acquitted of the charge last year but is still only allowed to see his child a few hours a week.
Some distraught fathers find the situation so painful that they destroy themselves. Following an adverse family court decision last year, 20-year Navy veteran Derrick Miller walked up to court personnel at the entrance to a San Diego courthouse, waved his court documents, said "You did this to me," and shot himself in the head. Nationwide divorced fathers are ten times as likely to commit suicide as divorced mothers, and more than twice as likely to commit suicide as married fathers.
Other fathers simply give up and drop out of their children's lives.
Increasingly, fathers like Lee and Jim, a member of a Michigan shared parenting group, are turning to political activism. Jim says:
"I want to change the system so that no father ever again has to go through what I've been through. The problem is not my ex. The problem is a family court system which allows her to do this."
A lesson on what not to do when confronted with a problem
Asia Business Intelligence - SARS in a Wilderness of Mirrors
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You gotta hand it to Senator Biden, because if you don't he'll just take it
Talk Left has a post about another idiotic bill being foisted upon an unsuspecting public by Senator Biden, future candidate for president who will be running with the motto, "What, us???!!! We're not fascists and if you don't agree with us, it's off to the gulag with you".
TalkLeft: Biden Introduces New Law Enforcement Bill
Me????? A disgusting European sex pervert
According to Tim Blair, Mahatir Mohamad is jabbering like an idiot.
Mahatir Mohamad must be afflicted with the dreaded "Orrin Hatch and Bill O'Reilly foot in mouth" disease.
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Another scheme to fleece the taxpayers of Portland, OR
I've thought for a long time that the real job of the city council of Portland was to take from the poor and give to the rich, but the scheme Jack talks about on his blog is even sleazier than the usual schemes and shenanigans of the Portland City Council.
Jack Bog's Blog - Working on the railroad(ing):
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Virulent white supremacists have infiltrated the following organizations
Roger Weidner and his loony, homophobic, white supremacist gang here in Oregon have infiltrated the following organizations.
The Center for Children's Justice, Pennsylvania Chapter
Citizens for Judicial Accountability
Apostles of Christ Church - "Church Without Walls". This group is infiltrating email lists for private investigators and associated disciplines.
If you have any news updates on this gang you can post them in the forum.
Remember, americanfamilyrightsassociation.com is a front for virulent, loony, homophobic, white supremacists.
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New Update on the loony, homophobic, white supremacist gang that has been stalking me for twenty years
Well, I found out that about twenty years ago (in 1980) the loony, "common law court" gang went to some officials in the US Navy and told them I had lied to get into the Navy. They told certain unknown, but really stupid, Navy officials I was still married to Faye Marie Oekerman.
We were divorced in 1980 in Judge Lennon's court in Multnomah County, Oregon, however, the loony gang doesn't acknowledge the divorce because the divorce wasn't obtained in a common law court. The following is information about "common law courts".
Common Law Courts
(Information about Northwest militia-type groups)
By Amy Minervini
University of Idaho journalism student
Vigilante justice is not just a pastime of cowboys in the Old West. Modern-day patriots are using their own court systems to threaten, harass, and even murder their opponents.
Militia members in more than 30 states use these alternative courts to further their itineraries. Common law courts, also known as citizen grand juries, operate outside of the judicial court system. They are self-elected members of a community who serve as officers, jurors and court clerks.
The committee hears cases and uses the court to propel paper attacks on local and federal officials.
"When these sovereign citizens bring a charge, the court claims power of investigation and calls accused parties to appear," said Devin Burghart and Robert Crawford, investigative journalists on militias.
"If they refuse, the court generally finds them guilty in absentia and issues punishment liens and threats of arrest, jailing or death to be enforced by the militia or constable."
According to their article "Vigilante Justice: Common Law Courts" in the Covert Action Quarterly, common law courts have issued numerous death threats to judges and jurors in the Northwest.
The Montana Freeman have been instrumental in developing this court system. "In the year that the Freeman remained fugitives, they became an inspiration to common law court groups nationwide," the writers stated.
In Southwest Oregon, a recent scuffle erupted between a civilian and a deputy sheriff. The civilian, Ted Davis, was shot and killed in the shoot-out, and friends of the deceased formed a militia in Davis' memory. "The Ted Davis Brigade would monitor the activities of the police, as in a civilian review board and serve as a kind of well-armed neighborhood watch," said a spokesman for the Brigade. "We don't expect any help from anyone except ourselves to solve and resolve law enforcement problems in Curry [County]. We want security and our rights. One comes with the other."
According to research by Burghart and Crawford, common law courts are deep-seated in the white supremacist movement. Their article shows some common law activists as having bigoted and racist agendas. "These courts are, at their core, a tool for furthering the supremacists struggle to construct a white, Christian republic on US soil. They weave conspiracy theories that scapegoat Jews and promote racist notions of citizenship."
Instead of common law courts and militias being antigovernment organizations, these journalists believe their primary goal is "replacing existing governing institutions with their own."
This same idea is echoed by Western States Center Researcher Jonn Lunsford who has noticed the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing resulted in militias in Oregon going underground. "Militias have metamorphosed into common law courts. You can think of the militia as the Department of Defense and the common law courts being the judicial system," said Lunsford. "The militia enforce the decisions of the common law courts."
The common law courts use liens, or stake legal claims, on local and federal public officials. The liens are issues of punishment and may even come in the form of death threats. According to Burghart and Crawford, activists in California face felony charges for veiled death threats to judges and jurors. Also, judges and prosecutors in Idaho and Montana have been issued arrest warrants by these courts.
With militia groups in the wary public eye, vigilante justice seems to have gotten the attention of lay and law enforcement alike. They call themselves Patriots, but will their system prevail? And if not, who will bring them down? These are questions only patience and awareness can answer.
These idiots actually managed to convince these unknown, but really stupid, Navy officials that I was still married to the ex-wife. This has led to my ex-wife and her gang being able to manipulate some Navy JAG officers, Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents, and others into doing some really strange things. Some of the strange things include slandering me, trying to frame me, and investigating me for years at a time.
This loony gang has also managed to convince some people here in Washington County, Oregon that many of their delusional claims are true. This gang has even managed to get people here to engage in all sorts of illegal activities. Many of these illegal activities are directed against me.
Again, recently, some of the gang members have come over to remind me I'm still married to Faye Marie Oekerman and that I should repent and come back to the "family" because I abandoned her. Of course, they also insult me and threaten me, etc. They also come up with a lot of strange and illegal schemes to get me to take down this website.
They have managed to convince my two daughters and their mother that these delusional claims and false accusations are true.
Remember, many of these loonies tried me in a "common law court" in 1980 (unbeknownst to me) and sentenced me to death in absentia.
Many years ago, with the help of some of my relatives (John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays, and Chris Andrea Hays) this gang even stole my identity. This is still causing me a lot of problems.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
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BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
Instapundit has a post about the Indian Trust Fund
This post from Instapundit.com: brings up the subject of the Indian Trust Fund.
For the last couple of years I have been receiving some updates, especially from the people who have this website. Information at the Bureau of Indian affairs website was taken down a couple of years back.
The United States Government has either lost or stolen billions of dollars from Native Americans.
This outrageous conduct on the part of the United States government has been going on for a ridiculous number of years and IT'S TIME TO STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS. Do we want the United States Government acting honestly and properly or do we want the United States Government to continue acting like lying, thieving thugs?
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Talk Left has an interesting take on the arrest of Andrew Luster
I agree with one of the comments. This whole sleazy affair would make an interesting movie.
TalkLeft: The Andrew Luster Capture
The US Navy has a new policy out concerning divorces
The US Navy has a new policy of not recognizing divorces unless the divorce occurs in a "common law court" presided over by a loony, homophobic, racist crazy person.
So for all you people who got divorces in county courts, it's now time to seek out a "common law court" and redo the divorce.
The thugs in charge of Burma MUST GO
The Asian Age - Rangoon, June 18: Burma’s military government has denied a request by the International Committee of the Red Cross to see detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an official from the agency said on Wednesday.
The ICRC’s representative in the country, Mr Michel Ducreaux, said home minister had allowed access to all other leaders of Ms Suu Kyi’s Opposition party detained last month after a clash between her supporters and a pro-government group. "We are given complete access to the persons who have been detained in connection with the event on May 30. But Suu Kyi is the only exception," he said.
Mr Ducreaux did not disclose the whereabouts of the detained leaders of Ms Suu Kyi’s NLD who include the party’s vice-chairman, Tin Oo. "We will have to visit many places, and we will visit wherever they are. We will keep trying to have access to Ms Suu Kyi."
Why Alberto R. Gonzales should never be a supreme court judge
Leah has an interesting post over at Eschaton about Alberto R. Gonzales—now the White House counsel, and widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee.
The post deals with a story in the Atlantic Online.
Since I can't seem to get the permalink to work correctly I'm going to put the whole post below:
From an amazing article in The Atlantic online:
As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales—now the White House counsel, and widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee—prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review. Never before discussed publicly, the memoranda suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand
Chris Matthews thinks he's playing "Hardball?"
Here's how Alan Berlow, a freelance journalist who writes frequently about criminal-justice issues plays it:
On the morning of May 6, 1997, Governor George W. Bush signed his name to a confidential three-page memorandum from his legal counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, and placed a bold black check mark next to a single word: DENY. It was the twenty-ninth time a death-row inmate's plea for clemency had been denied in the twenty-eight months since Bush had been sworn in. In this case Bush's signature led, shortly after 6:00 P.M. on the very same day, to the execution of Terry Washington, a mentally retarded thirty-three-year-old man with the communication skills of a seven-year-old.
Washington's death was barely noted by the media, and the governor's office issued no statement about it. But the execution and the three-page memo that sealed Washington's fate—along with dozens of similar memoranda prepared for Bush—speak volumes about the way the clemency process was approached both by Bush and by Gonzales, the man most often mentioned as the President's choice for the next available seat on the Supreme Court.
During Bush's six years as governor 150 men and two women were executed in Texas—a record unmatched by any other governor in modern American history. Each time a person was sentenced to death, Bush received from his legal counsel a document summarizing the facts of the case, usually on the morning of the day scheduled for the execution, and was then briefed on those facts by his counsel; based on this information Bush allowed the execution to proceed in all cases but one. The first fifty-seven of these summaries were prepared by Gonzales, a Harvard-educated lawyer who went on to become the Texas secretary of state and a justice on the Texas supreme court. He is now the White House counsel.
Gonzales never intended his summaries to be made public. Almost all are marked CONFIDENTIAL and state, "The privileges claimed include, but are not limited to, claims of Attorney-Client Privilege, Attorney Work-Product Privilege, and the Internal Memorandum exception to the Texas Public Information Act." I obtained the summaries and related documents, which have never been published, after the Texas attorney general ruled that they were not exempt from the disclosure requirements of the Public Information Act.
Gonzales's summaries were Bush's primary source of information in deciding whether someone would live or die. Each is only three to seven pages long and generally consists of little more than a brief description of the crime, a paragraph or two on the defendant's personal background, and a condensed legal history. Although the summaries rarely make a recommendation for or against execution, many have a clear prosecutorial bias, and all seem to assume that if an appeals court rejected one or another of a defendant's claims, there is no conceivable rationale for the governor to revisit that claim. This assumption ignores one of the most basic reasons for clemency: the fact that the justice system makes mistakes.
A close examination of the Gonzales memoranda suggests that Governor Bush frequently approved executions based on only the most cursory briefings on the issues in dispute. In fact, in these documents Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence.
The rest of the article provides that "close examination."
I'm betting you won't be hearing anything about this on Matthew's "Hardball."
If nothing else this material is going to put a crimp or two in a Gonzales' Supreme Court nomination.
You can email the link on the Atlantic website. Maybe we should send it to Democrats on the Judiciary Committee?
-Leah, 10:17 AM
Looks like the European Union doesn't believe in free speech on the internet
Read Porphyrogenitus: June 15, 2003 - June 21, 2003 Archives
USS Clueless has an opinion about free speech that everyone should read
It seems I'm on a free speech kick so read what Steven Den Beste has to say. By the way, Orrin Hatch sure says some stupid things about computers, doesn't he?
USS Clueless - The First Amendment and the Web
Public Citizen is fighting for internet free speech
Public Citizen has filed an amicus brief in a Pennsylvania case where a corporation sought the identities of some people who posted to a couple of boards.
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Zero tolerance was a knee jerk reaction leading to idiotic results. The below link will take you to some horror stories resulting from zero tolerance policies.
The Heartland Institute
Trudy W. Schuett now has a blog - check it out
The DesertLight Journal Blog
June 17, 2003
Bill O'Reilly makes an ass of himself
You've got to read The Volokh Conspiracy - Books -- a menace and a cesspool: and then read Instapundit - BILL O'REILLY'S SCREECHY SCREED AGAINST THE INTERNET.
When I get through laughing I swear I'll try to post something sarcastic about the whole thing.... if I feel like it.
Wendy McElroy has highlighted the anti-male bias at the New York Times
Hooray for Wendy!!!! I wonder what bloggers will say about this.
editorial rel="nofollow"> The Anti-Male New York Times" href='http://sleazereport.com/redirect.php?url=www.ifeminists.net%2Fintroduction%2Feditorials%2F2003%2F0610.html' target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ifeminists.com > editorial > The Anti-Male New York Times
Once I post this I know I'm going to be getting some hate email. I wonder if there's a way I can detour the hate email to Instapundit or The Volokh Conspiracy. I'm sure they can handle the hate email better than I can......because......heh...heh... they have to deal with......goodness gracious......nefarious college students. Plus, they probably have more bandwidth than I have.
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Maybe this law will mean less pedestrian deaths in Oregon
I stumbled onto The One True b!X's PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE and since it seems like an interesting blog I'm adding it to my blogroll. I would also like to recommend this blog to my four readers passed out in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands.
While Joe's Saloon isn't as fancy as the bar where The Gweilo Diaries hangs out, it's still a good bar to pass out in.
The One True b!X's PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE | A Very, Very Pedestrian Law
Still no word on who killed Lorenzo Okaruru, a.k.a., Loni Kai
I'm not a detective, but I would think that members of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang would be at the top of the list of suspects.
Then again, this is loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon and this county has a lot of crazy, homophobic, racist, "common law court" people running around. I know, because they are constantly insulting me and threatening me.
The Hays Report - the murder of Lorenzo Okaruru, a.k.a., Loni Kai
I know, let's call the following police departments and ask them if they have an idea of who killed
Lorenzo Okaruru, a.k.a., Loni Kai.
The Tigard, Oregon Police Department
The Beaverton, Oregon Police Department
The Sherwood, Oregon Police Department - By the way, Sherwood is a hotbed of "common law court" gang activities.
The Tualatin, Oregon Police Department
The Hillsboro, Oregon Police Department - Hillsboro, Oregon is a major activity area of the white supremacist, "common law court" gang.
I didn't mention the The Washington County, Oregon Sheriff's Department because it's possible the Sheriff's Department and the Washington County Community Corrections have been infiltrated by the white supremacist, "common law court" fanatics.
As for the Oregon State Police, they are rumored to have a department that deals with domestic terrorism:
OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY & SECURITY
This new addition to the Oregon State Police was formed in October of 2001 by Superintendent Ronald C. Ruecker, and directly resulted from the terrorist events of September 11, 2001.
The activities of personnel assigned to this office include active investigations of international and domestic terrorism, coordination of similar federal and local investigations, involvement in domestic preparedness issues and intelligence matters.
Supervisors and Detectives assigned to this office must qualify for and receive appropriate national security clearance authorization.
The office provides support and coordination to assist the Superintendent in his role as the Oregon point of contact for Governor Ridge's National Office of Homeland Security. Office personnel provide accurate, timely briefings to the Superintendent and to the Governor's Office and staff. The office is represented on the Governor's Security Council and Oregon Emergency Management Domestic Preparedness Steering Committee.
The office is commanded by Captain John Salle. He can be reached by phone or by email as provided below:
Captain John Salle
(503) 378-6517 ext. 270
Any information provided regarding suspected terrorism activities will be treated confidentially.
But y'know what? It could just be a public relations ploy.......or........it could just be a department that exists only on paper for bureaucratic reasons.
Maybe the people who killed Lorenzo Okaruru, a.k.a., Loni Kai are the same people who committed an assault on a woman. Maybe these are the same people who have broken into my various residences over the years.
It's possible that the murder of Lorenzo Okaruru, a.k.a., Loni Kai was actually an act of domestic terrorism or one of a series of seemingly unrelated acts of domestic terrorism. Maybe a couple of agents from the FBI Office in Portland, Oregon will start investigating that possibility.
Since this is loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon, maybe we'll never find the answers.
Maybe an enterprising investigative reporter or two from one of the local newspapers or local television news departments will nose around and uncover something.
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Oliver Willis has an opinion about the first amendment
He also mentions Bill O'Reilly, but since I'm not Bill O'Reilly's publicity agent, I figured I might as well not mention his name.
Bill O'Reilly: I Hate The First Amendment @ Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite to Stupid
Howling Point has written something everybody should read
Whether or not you think Martha Stewart is guilty, or even if she is but..."hey...she's not as bad as the others, so they should go easy on her", you should still read what Howling Point has to say.
I can't believe it, I'm watching PBS news, watching an old classic movie on AMC and reading some of my blogs AND IT'S NOT RAINING. I wonder what's wrong. Oh, I know. I haven't read my hate email. I think I'll put that off for awhile.
Howling Point Archive | Terror, posted June 04, 2003
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Primary care fiscal problems
I agree with DB's Medical Rants. This is an important issue that needs to be addressed. The greed of the HMO's and the insurance companies is not good for health care in America. Treating doctors like assembly line workers is also stupid.....oh wait....... this is the Sleaze Report so I better get the word "sleazy" in here somewhere.......it's sleazy to assume patients are like cars where a physician is allotted a predetermined amount of time for treating the patient.
Of course, there are a few idiots in the profession, like the doctor at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Portland, Oregon who came up with a brilliant way to find out if a person is a homosexual or not, and then performed the procedure on me without my permission.
And then there's Dr. Ron Turco of Washington County, Oregon who seems to diagnose many of his patients as homosexual Satanic pedophiles. Of course, since his consultant seems to be Roger Weidner, what else would you expect.
DB's Medical Rants: Primary care fiscal problems
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The puritans and the control freaks are making fun illegal in America
AlterNet: The Right to Party
Spaceweather.com now has archives
The Spaceweather Archive
UC to launch open-access journals
Gosh, maybe I'll be able to access all those academic journals nobody reads with DSpace.
The Scientist :: UC to launch open-access journals
Critics call biothreat analysis at new Homeland Security department dysfunctional
Maybe having a Department of Homeland Security is more of a threat to the security of America than not having a Department of Homeland Security.
The Scientist :: Microbiologists wanting
In Washington County, Oregon we do things differently than all you normal white folk
We solve our crimes the Washington County way. Whenever a crime is committed we find the nearest Californian, beat the hell out of him until he confesses to going out with Monica Lewinsky, then we hand him over to the feds. Then the feds beat the hell out of him until he confesses he never went out with Monica Lewinsky. Then the feds hand him back to us and the crimefighting cycle starts again.
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Here in Washington County we care deeply about appearances. Like if you drink two six packs of beer then I'll drink three six packs of beer.
If you get in one car accident then I'll get in two car accidents.
If you have an ugly wife, then I'll get an even uglier wife.
If you go to church in cutoffs and a tank top, then I'll go to church naked.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
More info on Roger Weidner's white supremacist, "common law court" buddies.
The following is more info on Roger Weidner's white supremacist, "common law court" buddies.
Jewish man who has attended gatherings of group says, "These guys are very smart"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/March 5, 2000
By Carolyn Tuft And Joe Holleman
Ten years ago, a middle-aged Jewish man walked down the driveway of his house near Springfield, Mo., to get his mail. Among the bills, he found a troubling pamphlet.
It was from Gordon Winrod, a Christian Identity preacher from Gainesville, Mo. Winrod is one of the most radical of the white-supremacist Identity leaders. He is the son of the late Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kan., a pro-Hitler propagandist so notorious in the 1940s that he earned the nickname "Jayhawk Nazi."
Winrod's pamphlet told of how Jews were the devil's offspring, out to kill white Christians and drink their blood.
"I couldn't believe it," said the Springfield man, whose name has been withheld at his request.
He spoke to the Anti-Defamation League and began researching the Christian Identity's racist, anti-Semitic beliefs.
At first, the man said, he thought the Identity movement was a tiny group of racist malcontents who had no intention of acting on their beliefs.
But then came the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were linked to the militia movement, which has many members who follow the Identity doctrine.
"I said, 'Hey, these people have a plan, and they've already started working on it,'" the man said.
Increasingly troubled, he infiltrated the Identity "Superconference" last spring in Springfield. To the man, a Marine who served 2 1/2 years in Vietnam, the thought of entering a world where he was considered the offspring of the devil was not overly frightening.
"I figured these guys were goofs," he said. "But these guys are very smart. I found them offensive and dangerous."
At the conference, the man talked with Identity followers and heard diatribes about blacks, homosexuals, mixed races and -- most of all -- Jews.
"I just schmoozed them to find out whether they were planning to shoot someone or blow something up," he said. "They laid out an apocalyptic plan to get rid of all the minorities and Jews."
He also heard of a plan to make the Bible Belt of Missouri the Identity's promised land.
Last weekend, he tried to get into the "Songs for His People" conference at the Lodge of the Ozarks in Branson. He said he was quickly surrounded by organizer Norm Farnum and other Identity members.
"They'd been waiting for me," he said. "Norm said I was with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) in St. Louis and told me, 'You're not welcome here.' "
At that time, the man said, he felt threatened and left.
David Waren, director of the ADL's St. Louis office, said the league did not ask the man to attend the meeting. The man agreed he had attended the conference on his own.
He said he doesn't know if he'll go to another but adds that someone must watch the movement. "They look for the disenfranchised, those white people who have a grievance with the world," he said.
"Then they just pick, pick, pick at the sore until they have them hooked into Identity."
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The following from the Southern Poverty Law Center mentions Oregonian Robert Wangrudon, who is quoted often by Leonard Henderson of americanfamilyrightsassociation.com and Roger Weidner. Roger Weidner and Leonard Henderson communicate with each other a lot and share the same "common law court" jive philosophy.
White Nation
Basis of Freemen’s philosophy is racism
By Leonard Zeskind
A nasty white swirl twists through the barrels of ink that Freemen have spilled while threatening their neighbors and conning the banks. Behind the mountain of documents filed with county courts and computer-generated bank drafts lies an attempt to reverse a fundamental constitutional precept: all Americans are equal before the law.
Just below the surface of the distinction that Freemen draw between "American nationals" (or "organic sovereigns") and "U.S. citizens" is the Freemen’s oft-stated contention that the United States is peopled by two nations, not one. For themselves and their Aryan kin, there is a republic where whites enjoy rights superior to those held by people of color and Jews. The latter are the unfortunate denizens of a "corporation" headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The attack on the Fourteenth Amendment is more fundamental to the Montana Freemen’s ideology than all their specious reasoning about the "handwritten constitution" and changes in state seals, complaints about capitalization and leader LeRoy Schweitzer’s rants about the Uniform Commercial Code. If it all sounds like gobbledy-gook, remember that the Freemen’s assertion of a constitutional distinction between white people and "Fourteenth Amendment citizens" is the latest in a long series of attempts to roll back constitutional protections.
After the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery was adopted in 1865, the Fourteenth Amendment went on to enshrine the notion that "all persons born or naturalized" were U.S. citizens whose rights "could not be abridged." But following the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment went largely unenforced until the modern civil rights movement.
Dred Scott and common law
Since then it has come under attack again. Much of the current anti-immigrant fervor is aimed at abrogating Fourteenth Amendment protections for American-born children of immigrants. And many neo-Confederates and other ultraconservatives still contend the Fourteenth Amendment was passed unconstitutionally.
On the radical right, similar attacks came from the earliest incarnations of the Posse Comitatus, a violently anti-Semitic and anti-tax organization that raged through the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Like the later Montana Freemen, the Posse claimed that farmers could escape their bank debts because they were "organic sovereigns," not ordinary citizens. The neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, in one of its more literate moments, argued in its newsletter for resurrection of Dred Scott, the notorious pre-Civil War Supreme Court decision that held that slaves had no constitutional rights. And in the late 1980s, a Los Angeles attorney, Daniel Johnson, created the League of Pace Amendment Advocates to push for repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment. Unlike the Freemen, Pace Amendment ideologues were unencumbered by the bizarre and racist theology of Christian Identity, and their view was embraced for a time by white supremacists of all stripes.
Since Johnson let the Pace League fade, Oregonian Robert Wangrud, long an advocate of "white law," has been the principal proponent of abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment and implementing "common law." Like Wangrud, most of the radical right today sees that kind of legalized racism as flowing from the "organic Constitution" -- the Constitution and Bill of Rights, minus all succeeding amendments.
In the case of the Freemen, Schweitzer agreed, telling his followers to ignore later amendments. That, he said, was the "Biblically correct" interpretation of God’s law. "The law didn’t change," he argued, "[only] the minds of the people changed."
Legal scholars and historians trace an ever-expanding tradition of individual liberties from the Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, a path leading from the divine right of kings to representative democracy. But the Freemen see things differently. For them, this trajectory is less that of developing institutions than of an unchanging racial lineage. The Biblical tribes of Israel, the Anglo-Saxons of medieval England and American whites today -- they are all of a piece, a single, holy gene pool. The Book of Deutoronomy, the Magna Carta and the Constitution are all seen as God’s law, written only for God’s people: whites.
‘The Aryan, the battle axe’
The ultimate conclusion, according to Freemen followers, comes to this: LeRoy Schweitzer is not a thief with computer talent, but a high priest revealing the Word to Yahweh’s lost sheep.
"This is in the family," Schweitzer instructed his students, "Israel, the lost sheep, the select, the elect, the peculiar treasure, the royal priesthood, the Aryan, the battle axe." These were the white men who would people his common-law courts.
Schweitzer’s ideology is based on the white supremacist Christian Identity religion just as surely, then, as Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations and Thom Robb’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His importance lay in his particular mix of racism, the Constitution, religion and common law.
"The connection between the Bible and the Constitution is the common law," one Freemen apologist wrote. "The common law is Biblical law applied."
The Freemen’s commercial liens, their phony checks, the threats against local officials all derived from this cosmology, and particularly its distinction between two types of citizens, one blessed with God-given superiority over the other.
"The Freemen’s antigovernment rhetoric was not a case of supporting local control over federal," explains Ken Toole, director of the Montana Human Rights Network. "It was their white racial nation against all others."
Leonard Zeskind is president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, based in Kansas City, Mo., and author of a forthcoming book on white nationalism.
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But hey, why stop. Let's go back to 1995 and let the white supremacist, "common law court" guys tell us in their own words.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY -
The Militia Movement--in Their Own Words and Deeds
For example, Robert Wangrud of an Oregon Christian Patriot group, Republic v. Democracy Redress, told a newspaper reporter, "There is only one race that founded this country and that is the White Race. The Constitution recognizes this and clearly states that only white people can be citizens of this country. The 14th Amendment changed all that, but we feel it became law illegally and as such is not binding...." In the same interview, Wangrud also said, "Blacks really wouldn't care if they lost their rights. I mean look at the L.A. riots. Now can you really say that those people that burned the city down are capable of governing themselves? If the blacks don't like it here they should leave." (Clackamas County Review, May 28-June 3, 1992).
In his newsletter, Wangrud stated "We need to begin taking care of our own. People should also take a Christian oath of allegiance before taking any office. That would eliminate the religious cults like Hindus and Jews from taking power..." (BEHOLD! March 1987, p. 9). Wangrud's book, Martial Law Rule, is sold by the Militia of Montana.
Other militia members are also blunt in their bigotry. Richard Flowers of the Boring, Oregon Christian Patriot Association told a newspaper reporter that "blacks in general have a lower I.Q. than whites, and most want to just come in and take over without establishing anything for themselves." (Clackamas County Review May 28-June 3, 1992)
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Since I was sentenced to death in absentia by a "common law court", here is some info from the Washington State Police that I find interesting
Since I was sentenced to death in absentia by one of Roger Weidner's and Victor Oekerman's white supremacist "common law courts", I find the following notice from the Washington State Patrol to be even more relevant today that it was when it came out.
Of course, if you live in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon then don't even bother calling the local authorities because they won't do anything. I mean, after all, Washington County is one of the major areas of activity for Roger Weidner's and his buddies' loony, homophobic, white supremacist "common law court" activities.
State of Washington
Washington State Patrol
General Administration Building
P.O. Box 42600
Olympia, Washington 98504-2600
(360) 753-6540
September 17, 1997
TO: Washington State Senators
Washington State Representatives
FROM: Representative Karen Schmidt, Chairman [sic]
Organized Crime Advisory Board
SUBJECT: Paper Terrorism
It has been brought to my attention that anti-government
organizations have been utilizing a tactic called "paper
terrorism" to effectively disable government. Commonly, public
officials are personally targeted. This widespread practice is
accomplished by overburdening our communications, business, or
judicial systems with frivolous or repetitive petitions, property
liens, and small claims court actions.
Enclosed is a brief explanation of this process. If you feel you
are a victim of "paper terrorism," I encourage you to contact the
Washington State Patrol, Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, in
Olympia at (360) 753-3277, for assistance.
PAPER TERRORISM
Introduction
Since the early 1990's there has been a noticeable increase in
the number of people across the country who have joined and
continue to participate in the anti-government movement. These
individuals view themselves as victims of a government conspiracy
to take away their individual rights and liberties. They do not
recognize most forms of county, state, and federal government and
therefore create their own self-styled government. National
speakers in the anti-government extremists or "Patriot" movement
conduct recruitment and information seminars across Washington
State, as well as the entire country. These seminars and
recruitment meetings fuel bizarre conspiracy theories and
communicate new trends within the anti-government movement.
Paper terrorism has grown from a trend to a full scale tactic
used upon businesses, private individuals, government services
and elected officials.
Background
Paper terrorism is designed to clog government services with
meaningless requests which consume time and disrupt schedules.
In the private sector paper terrorism is an attempt to extort
money, goods or services. Some examples of paper terrorism
activities:
* Bogus liens placed upon personal property of government
officials and private individuals.
* Frivolous lawsuits filed in state and federal courts against
businesses and government entices [sic].
* Drafting and passing counterfeit bank checks and other
fraudulent negotiable instruments aimed at defrauding the
financial community and businesses.
* Common Law Courts that issue homemade subpoenas to citizens,
businesses and government officials.
* Challenging judges in an effort to disqualify them on a
current case and to repeat their motions to disqualify these
judges from hearing future cases by referencing the prior
challenges.
* Scheming to avoid paying state sales tax during a purchase
by declaring to be a non resident and then filing claims
with the state's risk management section if refused.
* Disrupting the court system by persuading fellow jail
inmates to defend themselves as Patriots, thus tying up more
of the courts and prosecutors time.
* Distributing the extremist Citizens Handbook to foster jury
nullification.
* using the Internet to promote extremist ideas such as
"Assassination Politics" or predicting the date of death of
a law enforcement officer or government official to win a
cash price.
* Filing bogus claims in small claims court.
* Requesting information from courts, government agencies,
elected officials and businesses in the form of frivolous
questions in an effort to consume employee's time.
Tell-tale signs of Patriot extremists can often be found in their
conversation or written documents. Common indicators are
biblical passages, referring to the state as a "republic",
calling zip codes a "postal zone", refusing to acknowledge direct
questions, separating their middle and last names with a comma or
colon, placing a thumb print on a document, claiming the court
has no authority, or using the phrases: all rights reserved,
without prejudice, UCC 1-207, pro se, sui juris, united states,
Black's law.
Analysis and Trends
These anti-government extremists and supporters are convinced
citizens are being systematically oppressed by an illegal,
totalitarian government. They believe the time for traditional
political reform has passed, that their freedom will only be
secured by resistance to the law and attacks against the
government in several forms.
Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with
other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to
reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose.
This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize
their problems into blaming government, and cause members to
compete with each other to make stronger statements.
Trend and Incident Reporting
If you become victimized by paper terrorism, contact the
Washington State Patrol Organized Crime Intelligence Unit at
(360) 753-3277, extension 121. All acts reaching a criminal
level should be referred to your local law enforcement agency or
prosecutor's office.
The following, which deserves to be copied again, certainly explains some of the angry outbursts and ridiculous accusations some of my relatives, John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays, and Chris Andrea Hays have directed towards me since I came back from active duty in 1984.
It also explains some of the idiotic accusations against me about being evil, a homosexual Satanic pedophile, etc., and their weird statements that I have to be destroyed for this or that reason, most of which I could never figure out.
It's absolutely amazing to me that for about twenty years (that's how long they've been secret members of the white supremacist movement) they've been spying on me for Roger Weidner's and Victor Oekerman's white supremacist group AND helping them carry out the vendetta against me.
Roger Weidner, the Victor Oekerman clan, and their buddies were, with the help of some of my relatives and some of the world's stupidest Navy JAG officers and various white supremacist contacts in Florida, able to stalk me even while I was on active duty from 1980 to 1984. This would explain some of the mysterious assaults I suffered in Florida and Rota, Spain.
Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with
other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to
reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose.
This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize
their problems into blaming government, and cause members to
compete with each other to make stronger statements.
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Critical Mass posts that the academic humanities stink, ethically speaking
I agree. The silliest, most Marxist views on the planet are often parroted the most in the various humanities departments in the various institutions of higher learning. It's also my opinion that the least amount of actual scholarship occurs in the humanities departments.
Critical Mass: Academic plantation system
Cato the Youngest brings up that view that the best air forces come from free cultures
In this post it is also brought up that the majority of successful 3rd world coup attempts are launched from inside the air force.
I think many of the points brought up in this post are probably true.
Cato the Youngest: The Myth of Chinese Air Power
XRLQ and the Shark Blog are taking the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to task
It looks like we have a newspaper that is rewriting the constitution. It would seem to me (and I'm not a lawyer) that if you can get enough politicians in Washington, DC and the President of the U.S. to agree to go to war for any reason, it would be constitutional.
damnum absque injuria: Clear and Present Prevarication
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Fake cop busted when he tries to stop a real one
I'm just not quite sure what to think about this story. Link via How Appealing who got it from http://www.obscurestore.com/.
Kansas City Star | 06/12/2003 | Fake cop busted when he tries to stop a real one
June 13, 2003
I was sentenced to death in absentia
I'm probably the only blogger out there who has been sentenced to death in absentia by a white supremacist "common law court".
More lunacy from crazy, racist Roger Weidner and his followers. This time they have a crazy plan to assassinate government workers. One of the craziest is Jim Bell, author of "Assassination Politics".
They commit all sorts of crimes and get away with it. Many of the crimes they commit are violent. They even have a Praetorian Guard that protects them while they are committing their crimes.
These idiots join email lists they know I'm on and then send private emails to the list members falsely accusing me of all sorts of evil stuff. They also send slanderous emails to anybody I link to. Sort of reminds me of "internet terrorism" at its sleaziest.
There seems to be a lot of white supremacist sympathizers in the neighborhood around where I live.
Jim Bell is the author of Assassination Politics, a lonely cry for help in a world gone mad. Bell's plan is where people bet on the date of the death of a public official, giving assassins a motive to make the kill.
Bell sat on the King's Bench, presided over by Chief Justice Charles Stewart of the Multnomah County Common Law Court (MCCLC), with such luminaries of the common law as Roger Weidner, the deputy district attorney for fraud, the man who discovered it in the system and went mad, forcibly interred at the state hospital for the insane by Judge Dorothy Baker, of the Multnomah County District Court, who, 13 years ago was in the same office Bell is suspected of bombing.
And on the other side of Bell, on the King's bench, sits Lunch, Dick Lancial, who the editor met in the back of a donut shop, magnificent guy, clerk for the MCCLC, charged with simulating court process, rousted from bed in his underwear and his computer seized by Portland city police the same moments the Feds were kicking in the door of Bell's elderly parents in their sweet Vancouver, Washington home to seize his computer.
A document found on Bell's computer reportedly bragged about bombing the
editor's office 13 years ago.
Twelve angry men. Some quiet, reserved, others open and talkative. Some
with grievances. Some with quieter agendas.
All of them white men. Calvinist Jeff Weakly, pastor for the court, who
the editor met in a bookshop, standing behind a counter expounding on the
true lost tribes of Israel.
After I divorced the psycho ex-wife, Faye Marie Oekerman, in 1980, her divorce lawyer (Roger Weidner), Victor Oekerman and some other psychos had a "common law court" and found me guilty of homosexuality, Satanism, pedophilia, the practice of Black Magic, and some other nonsense and sentenced me to death in absentia.
Of course, the particular "common law court" that found me guilty in absentia never notified me of the super secret proceedings because the people involved were and are cowards, liars, thieves, bigots, dangerously mentally insane, and just plain morons.
Over the years, since 1980, this group of morons have tried to carry out the sentence. They've even bribed people (including bribing women to become my friend and then lover) to carry out the sentence.
Click here for more info on common law courts.
The following is more information about "common law courts".
Common Law Courts
(Information about Northwest militia-type groups)
By Amy Minervini
University of Idaho journalism student
Vigilante justice is not just a pastime of cowboys in the Old West. Modern-day patriots are using their own court systems to threaten, harass, and even murder their opponents.
Militia members in more than 30 states use these alternative courts to further their itineraries. Common law courts, also known as citizen grand juries, operate outside of the judicial court system. They are self-elected members of a community who serve as officers, jurors and court clerks.
The committee hears cases and uses the court to propel paper attacks on local and federal officials.
"When these sovereign citizens bring a charge, the court claims power of investigation and calls accused parties to appear," said Devin Burghart and Robert Crawford, investigative journalists on militias.
"If they refuse, the court generally finds them guilty in absentia and issues punishment liens and threats of arrest, jailing or death to be enforced by the militia or constable."
According to their article "Vigilante Justice: Common Law Courts" in the Covert Action Quarterly, common law courts have issued numerous death threats to judges and jurors in the Northwest.
The Montana Freeman have been instrumental in developing this court system. "In the year that the Freeman remained fugitives, they became an inspiration to common law court groups nationwide," the writers stated.
In Southwest Oregon, a recent scuffle erupted between a civilian and a deputy sheriff. The civilian, Ted Davis, was shot and killed in the shoot-out, and friends of the deceased formed a militia in Davis' memory. "The Ted Davis Brigade would monitor the activities of the police, as in a civilian review board and serve as a kind of well-armed neighborhood watch," said a spokesman for the Brigade. "We don't expect any help from anyone except ourselves to solve and resolve law enforcement problems in Curry [County]. We want security and our rights. One comes with the other."
According to research by Burghart and Crawford, common law courts are deep-seated in the white supremacist movement. Their article shows some common law activists as having bigoted and racist agendas. "These courts are, at their core, a tool for furthering the supremacists struggle to construct a white, Christian republic on US soil. They weave conspiracy theories that scapegoat Jews and promote racist notions of citizenship."
Instead of common law courts and militias being antigovernment organizations, these journalists believe their primary goal is "replacing existing governing institutions with their own."
This same idea is echoed by Western States Center Researcher Jonn Lunsford who has noticed the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing resulted in militias in Oregon going underground. "Militias have metamorphosed into common law courts. You can think of the militia as the Department of Defense and the common law courts being the judicial system," said Lunsford. "The militia enforce the decisions of the common law courts."
The common law courts use liens, or stake legal claims, on local and federal public officials. The liens are issues of punishment and may even come in the form of death threats. According to Burghart and Crawford, activists in California face felony charges for veiled death threats to judges and jurors. Also, judges and prosecutors in Idaho and Montana have been issued arrest warrants by these courts.
With militia groups in the wary public eye, vigilante justice seems to have gotten the attention of lay and law enforcement alike. They call themselves Patriots, but will their system prevail? And if not, who will bring them down? These are questions only patience and awareness can answer.
Some of my relatives, John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays, and Chris Andrea Hays and some members of their church thought the white supremacist movement was so cool they decided to join...secretly, of course. How low can you get?
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There's more of this nonsense.
EX MULTNOMAH COUNTY PROSECUTOR CLAIMS WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION
from the Oregon Observer, Nov. 1994 (re-published with permission)
The Oregon Observer is printing this story as presented by
Roger Weidner, an ex-prosecutor with the Multnomah County District
Attorney's office.
Investigators with the Oregon Observer have searched for denials
from the principals in this case to no avail. We would urge any of
the parties involved to come forward with any evidence that disputes
the validity of the claims in this story.
As a hard-hitting investigative newspaper, the Oregon Ob-
server wishes to expose the truth, unconver the facts, and present
them to the People of the entire State of Oregon. It is with this
mission in mind that this story appears in our pages.
To lend some credibility to the claims which Roger Weidner has
made in many courts, on the record, we add the following quote
from Martha Hicks, a prominent attorney at the offices of the
Oregon State Bar:
"I am prosecuting Milton Brown and have been for quite some time."
This quote was made to investigative reporter Ed Snook with
the Oregon Observer from her office on October 25, 1994.
CLAIMS OF CORRUPTION ON A GRAND SCALE
Exposed in the Oregon Supreme Court by Roger Weidner, Governor Barbara
Roberts, Attorney General Ted Kulongowski, Multnomah County District
Attorney Micheal Schrunk and other Federal, State and local officials
subpoenaed to appear before a special Grand Jury convened by Roger
Weidner on October 14, 1994 to inquire into the cirminal conduct of
attorneys and judges covering up the alleged murder of attorney Don
Kettleberg by his business partner, attorney Milton Brown and Dr.
Charles Hahn, and the conversion by Brown and Hahn of $35 million in
Kettleberg estate assets. None of the above appeared before the Grand
Jury.
Roger Weidner, an attorney on inactive status with the Oregon
State Bar and while serving on jury duty in Multnomah County on
October 14, 1994, subpoenaed not only the public officials
mentioned above but also the following:
* All justices of the Oregon Supreme Court
* All Judges of the Oregon Court of Appeals
* The entire Oregon congressional delegation
* Portland Mayor Vera Katz
* City Attorney Jeff Rogers
* All City Commissioners
* Clackamas County Commissioners and Counsel
* Mr. Teitsworth with the FBI
* Caroline Leonard, Director of the local IRS office
* Ray Taylor with the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS
* Robert Skipper, Multnomah County Sheriff
* James O'Leary, Clackamas County District Attorney
* Charles Moose, Portland Police Chief
They were all to appear to show cause why Roger Weidner,
as a member of the Multnomah County Juror Panel, should not
convene a special Grand Jury to investigate the alleged ongoing
criminal conduct of attorneys and judges in Multnomah
and Clackamas County Oregon.
The ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE and the SUBPOENA sent to those public
officials appears at the end of this article.
Weidner appeared before the Oregon Supreme Court with 40
of his supporters including Dal Ferry, editorial writer with the
Oregon Observer.
The attentive and courteous Justices sat in stunned silence as
an animated Weidner described in detail his allegations that:
1. Portland Attorney Milton Brown and Dr. Charles Hahn
murdered their business partner Don Kettleberg by writing "do
not resuscitate" on his hospital records to cause his death before
Janette Kent, Kettleberg's fiancee, returned to Portland.
Weidner contends it was necessary Kettleberg be dead when Kent returned
so Brown and Hahn could execute their forged buy-sell agreements.
2. How Brown placed his secretary Caroline Brune in as personal
representative of the Kettleberg estate while she was still on
Brown's payroll and had her prepare an estate inventory
showing the $21 million estate assets worth only $1.6 million.
3. How Brown and Hahn, with the aid of Brune and her
attorney Michael Gentry, through a series of sham transactions.
4. How Weidner has been repeatedly ordered arrested in the
presence of 40-50 supporters, when he has appeared in the
courts of Judges Lee Johnson, Don Londer, Philip Abraham,
James Ellis, Joseph Ceniceros, Gregory Milner and Steven
Mauer to make a record of the scandalous criminal conduct of
attorneys and judges in stealing all the Kettleberg estate assets
and $1.5 million in preperty belonging to New World Ministries.
5. How Weidner was violently arrested on orders of
Judge Philip Abraham when he attempted to appear in
Multnomah County Presiding Court and make a record of the
fact that he had been subpoenaed into that court by Milton
Brown and believed that a trap was being set to take his life.
6. How Weidner has been arrested 6 times in Multnomah
County Circuit Courts and 3 times in Clackamas County Circuit
Courts and incarcerated a total of 112 days on the orders
of Judges Lee Johnson, Donald Londer, James Ellis, Phillip
Abraham, Joseph Ceniceros, Steven Mauer and Gregory
Milnes when he has attempted to appear in their court and
make a record of their criminal behavior in aiding and abetting
attorneys Brown, Schmit and others in looting the Kettleberg
estate and New Wine Ministries.
7. How real estate salesman Linn Springer with the aid of
Lake Oswego attorney Ken Schmit and Kathy and George
Mason enticed pastors Helen and Chet Jones to purchase a
farm in Beavercreek, Oregon on which the debt exceeded the
value of the property.
8. How Clackamas County Judge Alan Jack ordered the
pastors off the property after they had made over $200 thousand
dollars in improvements.
9. How Clackamas County Sheriff Sergeant Terrence
Schaeffer ordered the pastors off the property at gun point and
refused to allow them to remove over $1 million in store fixtures
and inventory stored on the property. How all property
belonging to New Wine Ministries, valued in excess of $1.5 million,
was looted by Kathy Mason, Ken Schmit and others.
10. How Don Calkins, former husband of Kathy Mason and
the true owner of the property, sold his interest in the property
to Weidner in an attempt to block Schmit and others' attempt
to steal the property.
11. How Weidner was arrested by Sgt. Schaeffer when
he walked on the property, was tried and convicted of criminal
trespass by Judge Mauer and sentenced to 10 days in jail and
two years of probation.
12. How Weidner was forcibly arrested in front of 40 supporters
by Captain Sherwood Stillman and 6 armed deputies when he attempted
to appear before Judge Gregory Milnes to set aside the order
dismissing the complaint he had filed against Judges Alan Jack,
Patrick Gilroy, Sid Brockley, John Lowe, and Ken Schmit, Linn
Springer, Kathy Mason, George Mason, Capt. Stillman, Sgt.
Schaeffer, Clackamas County counsel Miles Ward and Martha
Hicks with the Oregon State Bar for racketeering.
13. How Captain Stillman locked the courtroom doors and
shuttered the windows on the doors to seal Weidner and his
supporters in the courtroom prior to forcibly arresting
Weidner.
Jane Angus was prosecuting Weidner for the Oregon State
Bar. During her 5 minute presentation tot he court, she did
not refute the truthfulness of the charges being leveled against the
attorneys and Judges named above. Nor did any of the Justices
hearing the charges question Weidner about the charges
he was making.
"It is simply intolerable that this condition in our courts and
government be allowed to continue," states Weidner. "As the
state director of the Constitutional Defenders I am asking that each person
reading this paper make it available to at least one other person.
I am also asking that each person reading this paper make a
demand on Senators Hatfield and Packwood, as well as the newly
elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Oregon to compel a congressional investigation of this massive
corruption in our courts."
Our children and posterity will surely and rightfully condemn
each of us if we let it be said, that we were born free but
because of our apathy, timidity or indifference we let our Rights
protected by the Bill of Rights, that our fore-fathers fought so
hard to secure, to be taken from us without a fight.
We must all act immediately to restore adherence to the state
and U.S. Constitutions!
The Oregon Observer
15033 SE McLoughlin, Box 312
Milwaukie OR 97267-2800
(503) 786-3849
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And there's more
PORTLAND - In a ninety minute stand off, Oregon activist Lon Mabon and his wife Bonnie confronted Multnomah County "judge" RONALD CINNIGER about the fact that Cinniger has not sworn the same oath as mandated in the Oregon Constitution in order to be a lawful judge or to proceed
against Mabons.
An overflow crowd of supporters were kept in the hallway, as a packed
courtroom watched Cinniger and Mabons discuss the challenges before the
court. The following is from personal notes taken at the trial today.
The thirteen or more media representatives were seated in the jury box
in the crowded courtroom. In the crowd were Lons father Myron Mabon,
supporters Lou Beres, with the Oregon Christian Coalition; Bob
Eckstrom, director of the Constitution Party of Oregon; Paul DeParrie,
long time advocate and Right to Life spokesman; Milt Mitcheck,
Constitutional Researcher and Court Advocate; William Mayhar,
Constitutional Scholar and advocate; Roger Weidner, Republican Governor
candidate, Republican Party; Jesse Lott, political advocate and
courtwatcher; Michael Marsh, Salem TV producer; Yvonne Heinrichs,
peoples rights advocate, and many more.
Upon entering the courtroom, Cinniger ordered that all beepers be shut
down and that if anyone spoke in the courtroom besides the parties they
would be removed. Cinniger announced the case, "Stauffer v OCA, Scott
Lively, OCA Educational Foundation, and OCA, Inc. Plaintiff CATHERINE
STAUFFER and representative BRENT FOSTER were present at the table, and
Cinniger acknowledged that Lon and Bonnie Mabon were present for the
Record.
Mabons stayed behind the bar in the court, appearing by "special
appearance" Sui Juris, retaining their own Rights and without
representation and told the court on the Record that they were
challenging the jurisdiction of the court, and did not want to enter
into a false or fictitious jurisdiction. Lon tried to speak but
Cinninger talked over him. Lon stated that he expected the judge to
uphold his rights in the courtroom, and Cinniger told Mabons that they
would not be recognized unless they came into the bar.
Bonnie Mabon stated that they were insisting on a court that
"guarantees my rights", and was ignored by Cinniger.
Attorney Foster stated that they had been trying to collect a judgement
for nine years, that on November 14 there had been a judgement debtor
hearing, and again on November 26, and that Mabons did not appear in
either of those hearings. The attorney described how a judge Ellis had
ordered a December hearing for contempt for the failure to appear at
the previous hearing.
Foster stated that on the December 12 court date the case had been
moved to federal court ( and was remanded the same day!). The attorney
stated that the hearing was rescheduled for February 7, 2002, that
there had been an error in time and then was rescheduled for today.
Cinniger asked Lon and Bonnie repeatedly to cross the bar to "respond"
to the court, which Mabons refused to do. Cinniger had Governor
candidate Roger Weidner removed when Weidner tried to suggest to Mabon
to cross the bar and make the Record against the judge for violating
Mabons rights.
Lon Mabon again told the court that he would be glad to participate if
Cinniger would sign a simple contract that stated that Mabons rights
would be upheld in the courtroom and that Cinniger in fact was a lawful
judge. Cinniger replied "I TAKE IT YOU WILL NOT PARTICIPATE", ignoring
Mabons responses.
Cinniger turned to attorney Foster, and stated "they have challenged
the jurisdiction of the court. What is your response to this?" The
attorney stated "we think they are frivolous, this has been ruled on by
you...."; Cinniger interrupted the attorney and said " NO I HAVE NOT
RULED ON THIS OATH CHALLENGE. I ASKED YOU TO RESPOND WHY THE NAMED
DEFENDANTS SHOULD BE HELD IN CONTEMPT - THEY HAVE CHALLENGED THE
JURISDICTION".
Attorney Foster stated "that the court has ample jurisdiction under
Oregon Revised Statutes 33.015, 33.025, to issue contempt is clear".
The attorney stated "the challenge to the oath is not an issue that has
merit".
Mabon stated "your intent to uphold my rights faithfully and
impartially". Mabon asked again "did you take an oath?" Cinniger kept
ignoring Mabon.
Cinniger asked the bar representative "are you aware that the oath is
missing some words?" The attorney said "the court feels the oath is
appropriate. Cinniger said "it is appropriate for a litigant to
challenge the jurisdiction or authority of an individual acting as a
judge.... I think it is NOT frivolous.... it IS an issue. Comparing the
oaths, I found another way to look at it."
Mabon kept trying to say CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CINNIGER, CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW !!!, but Cinniger kept ignoring Mabons accurate responses.
Cinniger said "if it even applies".
Mabon said "Taswell v Smith states ALL circuit judges MUST take the
original Constitutional oath. Cinniger stated that he had decided that
the false oath was OK, and told the bar representative "I believe Ms
Stauffer that the challenge is to be denied", and continued to proceed
against Mabons, refusing to allow any redress on the merits or the
lawfulness of his acts.
Lon Mabon said "twelve different times we have challenged this
jurisdiction. As you even stated, a legitimate challenge. Mabon said
"the court has to appreciate our reluctance to proceed without a
contract. I want you to sign my contract before these people and the
press".
Again Cinniger said "I take that to be you refuse to cooperate".
Cinniger said "the law provides for a way for disputes to be resolved"
..... "when a decision is made" ......(Lon said "IF THEY ARE A
QUALIFIED JUDGE" WITH A CONSTITUTIONAL OATH") Cinniger continued
"requires the representatives to come to court (Lon stated "WHEN YOU
ARE UNDER OATH I WILL")...
Cinniger said that the court has the power of contempt to force people
to "remedy the situation" (even though civil judgements are not
jailable offenses and jail cannot be a penalty in a civil case !)
Cinniger stated "in this case the Plaintiff is asking the court to hold
two citizens in contempt as directors of the corporation to apear at a
judgement debtor hearing. The Corporation could have appeared by other
persons. Plaintiff has made a showing that the corporate entitities and
two individuals did not appear. A remedy includes confinement. Before
we get to that, this hearing is to show why they should not be held in
contempt. Plaintiff's attorneys have asked for jail as punishment or to
induce payment to comply - until Mabons agree to participate or up to 6
months."
Cinnniger then told Mabons about their right to an attorney since they
were "unrepresented". Mabons are Sui Juris before the court and do not
waiver their rights over to any bar member "representative", but claim
their Inherent rights, demanding a constitutional court.
Lon stated "MY RIGHTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED IN THIS COURT".
Cinniger asked attorney Foster "what remedy is the Plaintiff seeking?
Foster replied "all is designed to encourage and require Mabons to pay
the judgement. We are seeking confinement until they submit to a
judgement debtor hearing. $500.00 $$ a day sanctions against each of
them, as well in the courts power. Lon as director, Bonnie as
Secretary/Treasurer, control both of the (corporate) entities. They are
high managerial agents. ORS 33.025 (3), 33.025 (d). They have failed to
recognize the jurisdiction of the court. Hold them jointly and
severally liable for attorney fees and time specific order to pay - we
have no belief they intend to pay. Original judgement 30,000, now with
interest and attorneys fees federal and state, more than $40,000.00."
Attorney Foster continued "We want a $500.00 sanction on every pleading
or motion filed by Mabons and found to be frivolous. We want the court
to strike all future motions and to strike all answers filed and that
are frivolous in this case".
Lon spoke "you are acting under an amended Article VII, NOT the lawful
constitutional Article VII, original, the lawful jurisdiction I have
claimed".
Cinniger stated "there are two kinds of persons. Here today we have a
Plaintiff, two citizens, corporate entity, and the citizens not created
by law, but as individuals. It is appropriate for the court to consider
when the corporate citizen is created, the offices have responsibility
to the corporation. Like you can't create children without
responsibility to them. A fiduciary interest. Corporate interest is
inconsistent to individual interest. A citizen who represents a
corporate body has a responsbility."
Bonnie Mabon stated "How can you say the issues are an issue but not in
this court' .... but I ruled against it' ...I don't think the issues
are frivolous." Mabon stated "if they have merit don't you have to
abide by your oath?"
An unidentified attorney appeared before the court Amicus Curiae, and
asked for time to brief the case. Cinniger denied the attorney request,
saying it was "untimely".
Cinniger proceeded to state that he found Mabons to be in contempt
"beyond a reasonable doubt", that they had not appeared nor had the
corporate entities appeared. Attorney Foster reminded Cinniger that the
Mabons "willfully" refused to comply, and Cinniger used the word
"willfully" in his finding.
Cinniger stated that he did not believe that Mabons would comply with a
disposition (compelled contract and admission of guilt), and so ordered
Mabons to jail, Lon immediately from the courtroom, Bonnie ten days
from now (March 1, 2002). Cinniger ordered the sanctions of $500.00 a
day each, on one corporate name until the amount of the original debt
is paid. Then Cinniger stated that on the second corporate name the
sanctions would be in place until double the original amount was paid.
Mabon told Cinniger that that particular corporate entity had been
closed for ten years. It was unclear to observers exactly whether
Cinniger changed that order or not. Cinniger told attorney Foster that
"all other sanctions I am denying," except attorney fees.
Cinniger stated "I find no alternative Mrs Mabon, also in contempt, and
impose six month sentence in jail, suspended for ten days.
The front row of the courtroom was cleared and Lon Mabon was led from
the courtroom in handcuffs before a crowded roomfull of angry
courtwatchers.
As Cinniger was moving to arrest Lon in the courtroom, courtwatcher
William Mayhar rose and left the room, stating loudly on the Record to
the court "I am not going to sit here and watch any more of this
treason" and left the room.
As Mayhar left, the judge ordered the sheriffs to remove Milt Mitcheck,
researcher and advocate, who affirmed that the judge had no oath to
proceed, and had stated so.
After Mitcheck was "escorted" out, Wilbur Gaston, founder of A Voice
For Children, rose and on the Record to the judge stated "I charge YOU
with treason and misprison of felony" for your acts.* Gaston was
assaulted in the hallway by Sheriffs McHenny and Greathouse, as he was
leaving, who told Gaston he had to leave the building and was being
"evicted". The sheriffs attempted to force Gaston to allow his picture
to be taken, yet said he was "not" arrested. Gaston told the sheriffs
in no uncertain terms that if they were going to take his picture they
were going to arrest him or he was leaving now. And Gaston left without
the Sheriffs following on their threats.
Courtwatchers reported that the sheriffs were confronted after Gaston
charged the judge, to arrest Cinniger. The courtwatchers asked the
Sheriffs how they were protecting a man who refused to take his lawful
oath, and that the sheriffs had just seen this confirmed for
themselves. The Sheriffs told the courtwatchers that they were unsure
what to do and said possibly after the hearing they would be arresting
Cinniger. (The paperwork to arrest Cinniger had been served on Sheriff
Dan Noelle by process server yesterday to arrest Cinniger for treason;
additional paperwork moving for prosecution and sanctions is being
filed at this time.)
In the courtroom, after Mabon was led away, courtwatchers told the
press DID YOU SEE THAT THE JUDGE REFUSED TO TAKE HIS OATH? YOU SAW IT
FOR YOURSELF NOW - THIS IS TREASON AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL."
The sheriff directing the courtroom security said "pretty soon what you
are doing will be criminal" When asked who was "we" and what he meant,
he replied "your common law courts". The courtwatchers assured him that
when he is on trial for committing unlawfull acts against the citizens,
and that it is NOT "just doing my job", and accountability is reached,
and SOMEONE HAS TO ANSWER, then he will enjoy the same kind of court, a
rendering, where he will have no rights and no lawful judge and no
court will go to the lawfulness of the court, the bar member judges and
attorneys or the violations of lawful process.
The courtwatchers assured the sheriffs that their families are as
vulnerable as the rest of the "people" to these rights violations,
fraud, extortion and racketeering being openly operated now in Oregon.
The STATE OF OREGON corporate entity, bar representative had no defense
today in court on the Record that the judges in Oregon have NO OATH -
NO BOND - NO CONTRACT with the constitutionally sovereign Oregonians.
NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER.
When Cinniger told Attorney Foster "I want you to respond to this" in
court that means RESPONSE ..... as in - GIVE ME THE SUPPORTING
ARGUMENTS FOR THIS NOW TO DEFEND MYSELF WHILE I AM HANGING OUT HERE AND
EVERYONE KNOWS THE OATH I AM UNDER IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.
AND, JUST AS IN THE SENATE HEARINGS LAST YEAR ON THE FRAUD OF THE
AMENDED VII COURTS, THE COURT/BAR/STATE HAD NO DEFENSE. The attorney
and Cinniger discussed that this issue DOES have merit, IS important,
is NOT FRIVOLOUS, and did not allow the "vexatious litigant" filing
against Mabons to stop them from ever defending themselves again in any
court in America, federally and state.
The false oath issue has been openly reported and admitted by Oregon
Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Carson, new information at this
time revealing more knowlege of the false oaths and that the courts
have known for twenty years that they were taking color of law "oaths",
not binding to the constitutional rights of the sovereign people. That
is how they violate every Inherent Right provided in the Bill of
Rights, and as in todays hearing, the attorney said they were
"upholding the law" and making the Mabons "follow the law".
The truth is, as is so clearly revealed in this case and in our own,
that the legislature are the perpetrators of the extreme process
violations in the non constitutional courts. This is the justice 2020,
the new rules where the bar members are ALLOWED to conduct malicious
prosecutions and lie, cheat and steal (just passed last month !) But
you go to jail. Like Lon and Bonnie. And Will and I next week, next
Thursday, if the STATE has its way with us again (sixth sham jury trial
in more than five years now !!!)
So everyone sees the REAL PICTURE is they willl NOT go to the
lawfulness of what they are doing.... it is always "that has been heard
before, we are not going to talk about what happened before, and deny
all evidence of injury or state liability. They are creating a class
immune from prosecution, are doing this NOW, where these pervert
profiteers are exploiting the people and our children by force, and NO
ONE WILL ANSWER. The governor has been subpoaened to our trial, and
once again will not appear, even though he IS the "STATE" of Oregon
face.
There is no human so far who is accountable. The feds are moving in
Oregon now and no one is stopping them. The prostitutes to the
corporate state act in the interest of the corporate state.
You heard it yourself in this article Cinniger trying to compare a
corporation to having a child, and fiduciary interest. They are NOT
acting in your "interest" and "interest" only means how much money they
make. Enron is a "department" of this fraud, the whole government is
the "criminal enterprise for profit", the banks, title companies
insurance, etc are all the same money going aroung and around (or
illusion of money !) OPERATING THROUGH THE COURTS WHO ARE PROTECTING
THE FRAUD......
SYSTEMIC colluding and conducting FRAUD against the people no level of
law or court at any level .... the federal takeover and global agenda
..... in Oregon the Pioneer police State...... Enron broke open in
Oregon after being exposed in the Western Electric grab, stealing the
Klamath property, among other exploitations..... watch Capitol
Investments in Oregon next and in Washington and New York.... they are
liquidating all their assets now, our children, our homes, our
lives..... we are slaves in their new non constitutional world .....
only "sustainable" according to what we "contribute" to the "system",
in the "interest"/money for the corporate socialist state.
PANDORAS BOX HAS BEEN OPENED and the corruption is systemic. Mabons are
standing firm in the TRUTH, have never committed any crime against
anyone, and are even "charged" and in jail for an "unarrestable"
offence. We PRAY that people see how YOU ARE NEXT as this "outreach"
claw grasps our freedom - it already proceeds as though it owns our
children and property, and as Mabons are so clearly exemplifying, we
have at this time only TYRANNY and NO REDRESS at any level of court,
and in fact NO lawful court, outside of the sovereign court we held in
Marion County on June 20, 2001, a court of Law and credible evidence.
THIS IS SERIOUS FOLKS ..... EVERYONE BETTER PAY ATTENTION AND TELL EACH
OTHER WHAT IS GOING ON AND DO IT FAST ...... THE FEDS ARE MOVING AT
THIS TIME IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS AS WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM, THE
COLLUSION LIKE RABID DOGS, MULTI JUDICIAL SCHEMES AT EVERY LEVEL, COVER
UP AND FRAUD.
IT WILL ALL END WHEN WE CAN GET ONE ANSWER, PROSECUTION AND
ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COURTS WITH LAWFUL OATHS TO PROTECT US.
THESE SAME UNLAWFUL OATHS APPLY TO LEGISLATORS, WHOSE OATHS ARE
NOTARIZED BY OTHER FALSE OATH JUDGES, AND GOVERNOR KITZHABER SIGNED HIS
FALSE OATH ON THE TALMUD, THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN SLAVE CHATTEL CODE,
NOW CALLED THE U.C.C., THE "BIBLE" OF THE CULT OF THE NEW CORPORATE
SOCIALIST STATE, WITH WHOM WE HAVE SLAVE STATUS AS "US CITIZENS" WHICH
WE ARE NOT. WE ARE SOVEREIGN STATE CITIZENS IN A REPUBLIC, NOT A
DEMOCRACY. GUARANTEED THESE RIGHTS UN A LIEN ABLE.
Mabons excercised their birthright, Inherent Constitutionally protected
Rights today in the courtroom. Tonight it is seen widely on the news
that the court did NOT ANSWER THE PEOPLE.
WE ASK - WOULD NOT A JUDGE OF INTEGRITY BE PROUD TO STAND AND SAY YES -
OF COURSE I HAVE TAKEN MY CONSTITUTIONAL OATH, AS I AM BONDED AND
SWORN", but in fact, they have been playing another game in there for a
long time. Chief Justice Wallace Carson told a group of courtwatchers
in private one day "yes - I am a public servant and proud of it", yet,
the courts recently taken "new" oaths are as big a fraud as
before.....still not the right words, not to say of all the VOID
decisions that have to be dealt with, and the people injured and in
jail who have committed no crime ..... like Mabons and ourselves and
you next........ NO judge is yet under the lawful oath in Oregon.
TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN OREGON TODAY.
Pamela Gaston, A Voice For Children, Fifth Amendment Coalition
*(Gaston and the Citizens in Marion County arrested "judge" Fred Avera
on September 30, l999, for Treason and Misprison of Felony for the
criminal acts comitted by Avera and others against Gastons minor child.
She has been severally abused by the state and being held now more than
six years as a political prisoner while the courts protect each other
in blatant collusion. This ongoing retaliation is continuing next
Thursday, attack after attack for Gastons whistleblowing on black
market child and pornography being operated and protected in the Oregon
child services, as well as systemic fraud and racketeering. The
articles on this and the text are on our website
www.avoiceforchildren.com)
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And there's still even more of this nonsense.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron
To: www.jail4judges.org
Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: Persecutorial Delusion of Corrupt Judges
"PERSECUTORIAL DELUSION"
OF CORRUPT JUDGES
From: RogWeidner@aol.com 12/13/99
To: sussmanbern@hotmail.com
Subject: Court corruption
Mr. Sussman--I am an historian and former attorney and public
prosecutor who has been fighting the
pervasive corruption in the Oregon court system for the past l2 years.
For attempting to speak, in court on
the record, about the criminal conduct of attorney and judges involved
in covering up the murder of attorney
Don Kettleberg and the theft of his 80-l00 million dollar estate
I have been repeatedly arrested and to date jailed a total of 290 days.
Seventy of those days I spent in the maximum security unit of the
Oregon Insane Asylum on orders of Judge
Dorothy Baker. Judge Baker, before she ran out of the court, said I
could not aid and assist in my own defense
because I had a persecutorial delusion. The delusion was that I thought
that many of the judges in Multnomah
County were corrupt. Ed Snook with THE OREGON OBSERVER said that at
least l0,000 other people in
Oregon had the same delusion.
Until a month ago the only time I could speak in court, on the
record, was when I was being tried on
groundless criminal charges for contempt of court. Not one of the
charges I have made against the thieving
attorneys or corrupt judges, in open court, about their involvement in
stealing the Kettleberg estate, has been
denied or otherwise refuted. What I have come to realize is that the
court system in Oregon is completely
corrupted. What the Gastons and I and hundreds of other citizens around
the state are doing is what Art. I
Sec. I of the Oregon Constitution gives us an absolute right to do,
namely reform the corrupt government to
force observance of the
citizens rights to equal protection of the law and due process of law.
I don't know if you have enough backbone
to identify yourself and hear personally the horror stories about the
corruption in our courts here in Oregon. If
you do please contact me at l-503-232-669l or write me at 3526 SE
Franklin St. Portland, Ore. 97202.
Roger Weidner.
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Our hat is off to Roger for being a soldier in the pit for all of
us. This problem, of course, is not limited to
the State of Oregon, but is nationwide. Another reason why we need JAIL
all over this country.
Ron Branson / Subscribe @=> ron1@access1.net
www.jail4judges.org - America's last & ONLY hope!
JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE LAW.
JAIL crosses all political party lines & will
become this nation's hottest issue - bar none!
Support JAIL @ P.O. Box 207, N. Hwd., CA 91603
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Since I was
sentenced to death in absentia by one of Roger Weidner's and Victor Oekerman's white supremacist "common law courts", I find the following notice from the
Washington State Patrol to be even more relevant today that it was when it came out.
Of course, if you live in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon then don't even bother calling the local authorities because they won't do anything. I mean, after all, Washington County is one of the major areas of activity for Roger Weidner's and his buddies' loony, homophobic, white supremacist "common law court" activities.
State of Washington
Washington State Patrol
General Administration Building
P.O. Box 42600
Olympia, Washington 98504-2600
(360) 753-6540
September 17, 1997
TO: Washington State Senators
Washington State Representatives
FROM: Representative Karen Schmidt, Chairman [sic]
Organized Crime Advisory Board
SUBJECT: Paper Terrorism
It has been brought to my attention that anti-government
organizations have been utilizing a tactic called "paper
terrorism" to effectively disable government. Commonly, public
officials are personally targeted. This widespread practice is
accomplished by overburdening our communications, business, or
judicial systems with frivolous or repetitive petitions, property
liens, and small claims court actions.
Enclosed is a brief explanation of this process. If you feel you
are a victim of "paper terrorism," I encourage you to contact the
Washington State Patrol, Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, in
Olympia at (360) 753-3277, for assistance.
PAPER TERRORISM
Introduction
Since the early 1990's there has been a noticeable increase in
the number of people across the country who have joined and
continue to participate in the anti-government movement. These
individuals view themselves as victims of a government conspiracy
to take away their individual rights and liberties. They do not
recognize most forms of county, state, and federal government and
therefore create their own self-styled government. National
speakers in the anti-government extremists or "Patriot" movement
conduct recruitment and information seminars across Washington
State, as well as the entire country. These seminars and
recruitment meetings fuel bizarre conspiracy theories and
communicate new trends within the anti-government movement.
Paper terrorism has grown from a trend to a full scale tactic
used upon businesses, private individuals, government services
and elected officials.
Background
Paper terrorism is designed to clog government services with
meaningless requests which consume time and disrupt schedules.
In the private sector paper terrorism is an attempt to extort
money, goods or services. Some examples of paper terrorism
activities:
* Bogus liens placed upon personal property of government
officials and private individuals.
* Frivolous lawsuits filed in state and federal courts against
businesses and government entices [sic].
* Drafting and passing counterfeit bank checks and other
fraudulent negotiable instruments aimed at defrauding the
financial community and businesses.
* Common Law Courts that issue homemade subpoenas to citizens,
businesses and government officials.
* Challenging judges in an effort to disqualify them on a
current case and to repeat their motions to disqualify these
judges from hearing future cases by referencing the prior
challenges.
* Scheming to avoid paying state sales tax during a purchase
by declaring to be a non resident and then filing claims
with the state's risk management section if refused.
* Disrupting the court system by persuading fellow jail
inmates to defend themselves as Patriots, thus tying up more
of the courts and prosecutors time.
* Distributing the extremist Citizens Handbook to foster jury
nullification.
* using the Internet to promote extremist ideas such as
"Assassination Politics" or predicting the date of death of
a law enforcement officer or government official to win a
cash price.
* Filing bogus claims in small claims court.
* Requesting information from courts, government agencies,
elected officials and businesses in the form of frivolous
questions in an effort to consume employee's time.
Tell-tale signs of Patriot extremists can often be found in their
conversation or written documents. Common indicators are
biblical passages, referring to the state as a "republic",
calling zip codes a "postal zone", refusing to acknowledge direct
questions, separating their middle and last names with a comma or
colon, placing a thumb print on a document, claiming the court
has no authority, or using the phrases: all rights reserved,
without prejudice, UCC 1-207, pro se, sui juris, united states,
Black's law.
Analysis and Trends
These anti-government extremists and supporters are convinced
citizens are being systematically oppressed by an illegal,
totalitarian government. They believe the time for traditional
political reform has passed, that their freedom will only be
secured by resistance to the law and attacks against the
government in several forms.
Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with
other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to
reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose.
This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize
their problems into blaming government, and cause members to
compete with each other to make stronger statements.
Trend and Incident Reporting
If you become victimized by paper terrorism, contact the
Washington State Patrol Organized Crime Intelligence Unit at
(360) 753-3277, extension 121. All acts reaching a criminal
level should be referred to your local law enforcement agency or
prosecutor's office.
The following, which deserves to be copied again, certainly explains some of the angry outbursts and ridiculous accusations some of my relatives, John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays, and Chris Andrea Hays have directed towards me since I came back from active duty in 1984.
It also explains some of the idiotic accusations against me about being evil, a homosexual Satanic pedophile, etc., and their weird statements that I have to be destroyed for this or that reason, most of which I could never figure out.
It's absolutely amazing to me that for about twenty years (that's how long they've been secret members of the white supremacist movement) they've been spying on me for Roger Weidner's and Victor Oekerman's white supremacist group AND helping them carry out the vendetta against me.
Roger Weidner, the Victor Oekerman clan, and their buddies were, with the help of some of my relatives and some of the world's stupidest Navy JAG officers and various white supremacist contacts in Florida, able to stalk me even while I was on active duty from 1980 to 1984. This would explain some of the mysterious assaults I suffered in Florida and Rota, Spain.
Members of these groups bond to one another and lose contact with
other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to
reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose.
This new purpose may take ordinary ideas to extremes, rationalize
their problems into blaming government, and cause members to
compete with each other to make stronger statements.
The following link is to a memorandum from a chief of police in Silicon Valley to his personnel concerning a threat analysis about violent, homophobic, racist anti-government groups.
M E M O R A N D U M-
Police Department
M E M O R A N D U M
Police Department
To: All Personnel
From: Larry J. Todd
Subject: Growth of Anti-Government Militia: Local Threat Analysis
Date: May 1, 1996
Several recent events have lead the Police Department to conduct a local threat analysis of potential militia activity in Santa Clara County and specifically in Los Gatos. There are four known organized militia units in the greater Santa Clara County area which includes the mountain regions between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz.
The members of these militia units, also known as the Patriot movement, are a mixture of the American far Right, from members of the Christian Coalition to the Ku Klux Klan -- people united by their hatred of the government. These individuals come from all walks of life. Among them are real estate agents, preachers, ranchers, electricians, computer technicians and retired military officers. They include tax protesters, millenialists, survivalists, populists, freemen, constitutionalists, militant abortion foes, radical anti-environmentalists and gun enthusiasts.
They all share a few common characteristics: they are overwhelmingly white, almost exclusively Christian and predominantly male. And they are bitterly disappointed in what they view America has become. While many Americans believe that government is cumbersome and inefficient, those in the Patriot movement are convinced that government is evil. As a result, any government agency, particularly local government which has the highest level of contact with citizens, is a potential target of Patriot attacks. The recent pipe bombing of the Tacoma, Washington, City Hall complex is an example of the extreme measures members of these groups will take.
The ongoing events involving the Freemen Militia group in Montana, combined with the Oklahoma City bombing and the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents, have heightened the fears of the paranoid individuals who belong to these various groups and increased the possibility that additional attacks will occur. Of particular concern is the Patriots re-interpretation of the Second Amendment fueled by the high profile efforts of the NRA to over-turn the assault weapons ban and the Brady Bill. This has been further reinforced by Pat Buchanan during his effort to win nomination as Republican candidate for President. His pledge to repeal the assault ban and his repeated call for his supporters to "lock and load" has added more fuel to the Patriots belief that armed confrontation is justified. Not only do Patriots ignore the original intent of the Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings, they ignore numerous state laws that forbid ownership of these weapons and the formation of private armies.
The Militia of Montana Field Manual, which has been widely circulated, recommends that Patriots purchase weapons with cash and never give their real names. Among the assault weapons recommended are the IN9 .45-caliber, "the ideal machine gun for urban guerrilla warfare against the police and public officials." The Militia of Montana also likes the Rugar Mini-14 because, "It uses the .223-caliber cartridge which packs a high muzzle velocity of over 3,000 feet per second and is therefore capable of penetrating most Kevlar body armor." The manual also gives step-by-step instructions on how to wage urban guerrilla warfare against the police and public officials.
Many Patriots live outside the law, openly evading income taxes, driving without licenses, refusing to register their vehicles, failing to appear in court and opening a vigilante "justice" system that only recognize the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which they believed to be God-given, not man-made. Under this common law theory, a citizen must declare himself "sovereign" to exercise his God-given rights. Women and minorities are excluded from full participation in the democratic process and are excluded from voting or holding office.
One of the primary tactics wielded by common law reactionaries is their version of the commercial lien. Patriots are increasingly filing fake liens against law enforcement officers, elected officials, district attorneys, city attorneys and judges. They will also file against anyone they perceive to be interfering with their common law rights or any other perceived injustice, according to their religious or political beliefs.
The target of such action usually has no idea that a lien has been filed against him. Although the liens have no legal affect, they often sit in court records and credit bureau files like a time bomb waiting to go off. Government officials across the country have been surprised to find such a lien against them on their credit report when they applied for a mortgage or a car loan. Although these liens have no legal standing, it can be a nightmare to have them removed and a credit record cleared.
Since "sovereign citizen" Patriots believe they are not required to pay taxes, obtain driver's licenses, or register their vehicles, they place themselves on a direct track for head-on collision with law enforcement. These patriots believe that if a police officer or some other government official should try to enforce a law in violation of their perceived rights under the common law, they have a right to defend themselves. This includes the use of deadly force.
Scores of local, state and federal officials have been indicted by "common law" grand juries. While most of these indictments remain little more than curious documents of protest, some of the more extreme common law courts take them seriously and have implemented the means for their enforcement. In a number of states, including California, militia units and other parliamentary Patriots have been empowered to "arrest" indicted officials and bring them before the common law court.
While the Police Department periodically receives letters, faxes and phone calls from individuals expressing rather bizarre beliefs, there has been a marked increase particularly regarding firearms and tax issues. Many of these communications expresses high levels of anger and are threatening in tone. Although no formal link has been made to any known militia groups, if these individuals are angry enough to communicate their feelings, those associated with the local militia groups may be equally as angry. Given the history of militia groups to convert their anger into action, it is reasonable to take these threats seriously.
Therefore, all employees should take reasonable precautions and be alert to possible threats. Appropriate caution should be exercised when packages or unusual-looking letters are received. If in doubt, leave it alone and notify the on-duty Sergeant. Document all threats. If someone claims to be a "freeman" or renounces the need to possess a drivers license, etc., make every effort to properly identify the individual. This includes making a right thumb print on a citation or FI card and taking a photograph of the individual.
There is no need to be overly concerned. The information is being provided to simply raise awareness of an evolving problem facing our society. On the other hand, it would be even more foolish to ignore this problem and adopt an attitude that these kind of activities could never happen in Los Gatos. The vast majority of militia activities have targeted officials in smaller communities in, or adjacent to, rural areas. We fit that profile perfectly.
Attached for further information is a recent bulletin from the FBI which provides the text of a memoranda from the Constitutional Militias of the United States. In addition, an overview of a recent publication by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klan Watch Project entitled "False Patriots: The Threat of Anti-Government Extremists" is provided.
Larry J. Todd
Chief of Police
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The following is more info on
Roger Weidner's white supremacist, "common law court" buddies.
Jewish man who has attended gatherings of group says, "These guys are very smart"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/March 5, 2000
By Carolyn Tuft And Joe Holleman
Ten years ago, a middle-aged Jewish man walked down the driveway of his house near Springfield, Mo., to get his mail. Among the bills, he found a troubling pamphlet.
It was from Gordon Winrod, a Christian Identity preacher from Gainesville, Mo. Winrod is one of the most radical of the white-supremacist Identity leaders. He is the son of the late Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kan., a pro-Hitler propagandist so notorious in the 1940s that he earned the nickname "Jayhawk Nazi."
Winrod's pamphlet told of how Jews were the devil's offspring, out to kill white Christians and drink their blood.
"I couldn't believe it," said the Springfield man, whose name has been withheld at his request.
He spoke to the Anti-Defamation League and began researching the Christian Identity's racist, anti-Semitic beliefs.
At first, the man said, he thought the Identity movement was a tiny group of racist malcontents who had no intention of acting on their beliefs.
But then came the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were linked to the militia movement, which has many members who follow the Identity doctrine.
"I said, 'Hey, these people have a plan, and they've already started working on it,'" the man said.
Increasingly troubled, he infiltrated the Identity "Superconference" last spring in Springfield. To the man, a Marine who served 2 1/2 years in Vietnam, the thought of entering a world where he was considered the offspring of the devil was not overly frightening.
"I figured these guys were goofs," he said. "But these guys are very smart. I found them offensive and dangerous."
At the conference, the man talked with Identity followers and heard diatribes about blacks, homosexuals, mixed races and -- most of all -- Jews.
"I just schmoozed them to find out whether they were planning to shoot someone or blow something up," he said. "They laid out an apocalyptic plan to get rid of all the minorities and Jews."
He also heard of a plan to make the Bible Belt of Missouri the Identity's promised land.
Last weekend, he tried to get into the "Songs for His People" conference at the Lodge of the Ozarks in Branson. He said he was quickly surrounded by organizer Norm Farnum and other Identity members.
"They'd been waiting for me," he said. "Norm said I was with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) in St. Louis and told me, 'You're not welcome here.' "
At that time, the man said, he felt threatened and left.
David Waren, director of the ADL's St. Louis office, said the league did not ask the man to attend the meeting. The man agreed he had attended the conference on his own.
He said he doesn't know if he'll go to another but adds that someone must watch the movement. "They look for the disenfranchised, those white people who have a grievance with the world," he said.
"Then they just pick, pick, pick at the sore until they have them hooked into Identity."
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The following from the Southern Poverty Law Center mentions Oregonian Robert Wangrudon, who is quoted often by Leonard Henderson of americanfamilyrightsassociation.com and Roger Weidner. Roger Weidner and Leonard Henderson communicate with each other a lot and share the same "common law court" jive philosophy.
White Nation
Basis of Freemen’s philosophy is racism
By Leonard Zeskind
"This is in the family," Schweitzer instructed his students, "Israel, the lost sheep, the select, the elect, the peculiar treasure, the royal priesthood, the Aryan, the battle axe." These were the white men who would people his common-law courts.
Schweitzer’s ideology is based on the white supremacist Christian Identity religion just as surely, then, as Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations and Thom Robb’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His importance lay in his particular mix of racism, the Constitution, religion and common law.
"The connection between the Bible and the Constitution is the common law," one Freemen apologist wrote. "The common law is Biblical law applied."
The Freemen’s commercial liens, their phony checks, the threats against local officials all derived from this cosmology, and particularly its distinction between two types of citizens, one blessed with God-given superiority over the other.
June 10, 2003
An Oregon History
I've read a few histories of Oregon. The Oregonian had a good series about some diaries of some people on the Oregon trail, but I can't seem to find it online and the newspapers I used to save for reference purposes have disappeared.
I'm posting this link to another history and it is well worth the read. It is called Oregon History Online I.
June 09, 2003
More strange email
I recently received an email that basically said, and I'm paraphrasing, "It's all a lie. Don't you know that, you idiot??!!"
My reply is, "Yeah, sooooo?????"
Heh...heh... I know it's all a lie because I read the New York Times.
Ok, now that I've had my little email amusement, now it's time for something really important, news from KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
Imagine that, blogging from Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon
And if you don't believe me, then check out Mac-a-ro-nies - Reflections on returning to the scene.
Making "clean" URLs with Apache and PHP
Evolt has an interesting post entitled Making "clean" URLs with Apache and PHP : evolt.org, Backend. I found this link from Microdoc News.
June 08, 2003
Why do I get all the psycho email
The following email was sent to an email list I've belonged to for a couple of years. Every once in awhile we receive emails from crazy white supremacists like the familyrightsassociation.com and Marxist manhating women's organizations.
To: Fathers_are_Parents_too@yahoogroups.com
From: sospapa@sospapa.es
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:47:24 +0800
Subject: Re: [Fathers_are_Parents_too] Important Fatherless stats
That's funny. Now, tell me something about the dictator-murder-terrorist Mr. Bush and his father. Do you really think Bush is better than Saddam?. Ask those thosands of children murdered by USA/UK soldiers.
Obviously this is not a well thought out email.
I'd like to be able to say I make this stuff up, but even I'm not that good
AP Wire | 06/04/2003 | LA police sergeant suspended for allegedly tapping computers for personal use
Posted on Wed, Jun. 04, 2003
LA police sergeant suspended for allegedly tapping computers for personal use
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A police sergeant was suspended for allegedly accessing confidential databases on behalf of a Hollywood private investigator who is facing felony weapon charges, authorities said
Sgt. Mark Arneson, a 29-year veteran of the force, was placed on inactive duty but will continue to receive a paycheck unless he is charged criminally or administratively, police Chief William Bratton said. Arneson's gun, badge and police identification also have been seized.
Authorities said Arneson is the focus of a joint investigation by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department. Search warrants served on Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano found financial records that led to Arneson. The documents showed Arneson was receiving money in addition to his LAPD salary, sources told the Los Angeles Times.
Police logs monitoring computer databases show a pattern of connections between people Pellicano was investigating and Arneson, law enforcement sources said. Federal and state law allow officers to use the computers only for official business. Failure to do so can result in criminal prosecution.
The logs indicated that Arneson had accessed personal information about Anita Busch, a Los Angeles Times reporter who was investigating actor Steven Seagal and his ties to an alleged Mafia associate. The records Arneson had access to included Busch's driver's license, car registration and driving record, police sources said.
Pellicano, 59, has been under investigation for alleged involvement in an effort to threaten Busch. He faces two felony weapon charges and one misdemeanor count of unlawfully storing C-4 explosives. If convicted, he faces up to 21 years in prison. He is free on $400,000 bail.
Pellicano was arrested in November as part of a probe into an alleged threat against Busch. An ex-convict, Alexander Proctor, has been charged with threatening Busch through such actions as planting a dead fish, a rose and a sign reading "Stop" on her car.
Proctor allegedly told an FBI informant he had been hired by Pellicano to carry out the threat on behalf of Seagal. Pellicano and Seagal have denied involvement, and neither has been charged with trying to threaten the reporter.
Chávez, Totalitarianism, and the fecklessness of the opposition
It's such a beautiful country that this should not be happening.
Here in Washington County we have people from various countries, including countries in South and Central America. What happens in those countries is important to them, and, because I'm curious about a lot of things, to me.
At first I hesitated to post anything on this but I received an email that included an opinion that I agree with. Since I don't have the complete picture of what's really happening, I'm offering the following link to a blog that has more information.
While I make fun of the globalization of economics of multinational corporations, I believe that if each nation puts in environmental and social laws that protect a nation's citizens from the excesses of multinational corporations (and man, just like governments, you gotta watch multinational corporations all the time so they don't become too sleazy) then a nation's citizens will benefit from a somewhat free market system.
The thing is, once an industry becomes powerful enough to influence local politics, many times that industry will try to effect monopolistic policies instead of free market policies and shut out all competition, either real or imagined.
In any event, here's the link.
Caracas Chronicles - Chávez, Totalitarianism, and the fecklessness of the opposition.
These days, it seems to happen alarmingly often. And it makes me shudder each time. It's a poor substitute for a proper argument, but it's murderously easy to do, so it seems to be happening more and more often. Totalitarian. Antichavistas keep describing the Chávez government as a totalitarian regime. Like nazism or Stalinism, or Pol Pot's Cambodia.
But do they stop to think about what that actually means?
To my mind, it's a charge that lays bare the incredible, fantastic level of laziness that reigns over political debate in Venezuela these days. I hear Carlos Ortega speak in these terms and I don't know whether to laugh or cry. These people wouldn't know totalitarianism if it bit them in the arse.
For all you people who think you know tax law
I hope the following permalink works because Jack is at his sarcastic best with this posting.
Jack Bog's Blog
For all you potential bloggers out there, Senor USS Clueless has a few words of wisdom
USS Clueless - Ahead of the wave
And now for the question of this post: What idiot would send somebody to where I live, all the way from Hillsboro, Oregon, to tell me that the Victor Oekerman clan is a fine upstanding white, Christian family?
What this really means, of course, is that the sleazy, delusional, mentally ill, homophobic, racist Victor Oekerman family were justified in stealing my son and my assets while I was away on active duty from 1980 to 1984.
June 07, 2003
I guess some people in New Zealand are upset about being labeled a hate group
From: Hal LEGERE [mailto:hallegere@shaw.ca]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:55 AM
To: epoc_c@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [EPOC_C] Parents Coalition of BC response to Mad SOW
Attached is a letter sent this date. FYI
PARENTS' COALITION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
- A B.C. Registered Society
4 June, 2003
Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C., M.P.
Secretary of State
Status of Women Canada
MacDonald Building
123 Slater Street, 10th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1H9
WITH PREJUDICE
Dear Madam;
We note on the website of the Status of Women Canada, at the following
URL http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662882857/200303_0662882857_20_e.html,
that our organization is listed as a "Men's Organization".
We note also that this mention of our Society is contained within a
report referring to "Masculinist Discourse". A masculinist is a person who
believes and promotes superiority of the male gender. This report is defamatory to our Society.
Our organization very specifically promotes equality. We enclose a copy
of
our brochure for your perusal. If there is in fact some information
there
which is objectionable, we kindly request that you inform us of the
particular content.
It appears from the above noted report on your website that there is
consideration being given to provide taxpayer dollars to certain
organizations to allow them to monitor the websites of the listed
organizations under the heading "Men's organizations". Can you kindly
inform
us as to whether such funding is under consideration and the department
responsible for processing such application?
We also note that there is mention of the potential of taking legal
action
against the listed organizations pursuant to Criminal Code legislation.
There is reference to the "hate crimes" provisions of the Criminal
Code.
Appended below in italics is a particularly disturbing passage from the
report, in the recommendations section, which is clearly indicative of
the
mysandric and defamatory tone of the entire report.
8. Along the same lines, studies should be carried out to put together
files
concerning section 319 of the Criminal Code. Mechanisms must also be
developed to ensure the safety of those who publicly denounce hate
messages
against women, specifically action against electronic mail harassment
practices, defamation and infringement of privacy through Internet
sites.
Since such action is limited to protecting an identifiable group within
the
meaning of section 318 of the Criminal Code ("'identifiable group'
means any
section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion or ethnic
origin"), and this section does not provide for the fact that a group
distinguished by gender, such as women, may be subject to hate
propaganda,
we recommend that section 318 be amended to include women among the
segments
of the public distinguished by sex in the definition of "identifiable
group."
9. We also suggest that a strategy be established to develop and
support the
dissemination by women's groups of positive, egalitarian messages on
the
Internet to balance the messaging. Although groups such as NetWomen or
Par-L
act as forums for information exchange, women's groups do not
spontaneously
create Internet sites to disseminate their goals and lobby for social
and
political action.
We find it totally unacceptable that a government department would
provide
a forum for the dissemination of the mysandric, and defamatory
information
provided in this report. We find it very interesting that in one
paragraph
of the above recommendation the authors have the audacity to use the
term
"egalitarian" when their clear recommendations are to provide a
"special
status" in law for one gender in juxtaposition to the other. As to
their
recommendation # 9 above. It is paradoxical to describe a group as a
"women's group" a gender exclusive term, while at the same time
referring to
"egalitarian messages".
We would support ammendments to Sec 318 of the Criminal code to include
the
term "gender" in the "distinguished by" definition.
Please be informed that we are taking legal advice at this time
regarding
possible legal action due to your department's complicity in the
misrepresentation and resultant defamation or our organization. It is
our
present position that in light of the fact that this report was
reviewed and
accepted for publication on your website that there is a complicity by
the
crown in this defamatory publication.
We hereby formally demand that you remove this entire report, which is
defamatory to our Society, from your website, and any other government
website, within 7 days. We also hereby demand that the text at the
URL's
presently containing this report be replaced with a statement that the
content has been removed as it was found to be defamatory to PCBC
Parent's
Coalition of British Columbia, a Registered Society pursuant to the
Society
Act (RSBC). We further demand that this statement remain at the noted
URL
for a period of 30 days.
Full compliance with the above demand will preclude naming Her Majesty
in
the Right of the Dominion of Canada as a Defendant in any legal action,
concerning this report, taken by PCBC Parent's Coalition of British
Columbia, a Registered Society pursuant to the Society Act (RSBC). This
does
not preclude any legal action against the authors of the noted report,
nor
any other person and or organization complicit in the production and
dissemination of the noted report.
Thank you for your kind attention to these matters.
Hal LEGERE, President
Cc Professor Pierrette Bouchard
Université Laval
Québec
Canada
G1K 7P4
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From: "Nick Kovats"
Reply-To: freedomforkids-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:46:05 -0400
To: "ffky"
Cc: "PATRIARCHY" , "PCAC"
, "FIA \(Fathers In Action\)"
, "FACT \(Fathers Are Capable Too\)"
, "EPOC_NEWS"
, "MESA List"
Subject: [freedomforkids] B.C.: KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK: "Local groups on
federal
'hate list' And Two (2) Letters to Honourable Jean Augustine, Secretary
of
State, Status of Women Canada.
-----Original Message-----
From: T Eckert [mailto:toadster@telus.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:26 AM
To: EPOC_C@yahoogroups.com
Cc: mark Hansel; Ken Wiebe
Subject: [EPOC_C] Kamloops This Week "Local groups on federal 'hate
list'"
http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?cat=23&paper=15&id=68450
Kamloops This Week
June 06, 2003Story
"Local groups on federal 'hate list'"
Mickey MacMillan shakes his head in disbelief.
His name and the organization he founded in Kamloops - Parents of
Broken
Families - is on what he calls a "hit list" of men's groups, groups
which
are accused of promoting hatred against women.
MacMillan's name is not the only one on the list attached to the end of
a
federally-funded report which claims "masculinists" (or male activists
in
men's groups) are organizing a campaign against feminism and blaming
women
for oppressing and discriminating men.
There are five from B.C., including another Kamloops resident, Todd
Eckert,
president of the Parents Coalition of B.C.
MP Betty Hinton calls it a "hate watch list" and raised the issue in
Parliament Thursday during question period.
"Why did the minister spend $75,000 on a project which is a poorly
disguised
attack on men and families?"
She argued the report, School Success by Gender: A Catalyst for the
Masculinist Discourse, is filled with hate and inflammatory language
which
does nothing to raise the status of women but everything to denigrate
men,
families and parent organizations.
Hinton has attended two Parents of Broken Families meetings and insists
they
're not anti-women.
"These are fathers and mothers and children and grandchildren who are
being
denied access to their parents, their kids, their grandparents."
The report recommends the establishment of a Hate Watch group to
monitor men
's groups on the Internet, adding the incitement of hatred on the basis
of
gender as a hate crime, and the organization of women's groups to
counter
the masculinists' views.
MacMillan says he hasn't committed a crime and doesn't like his name
being
smeared on a government-funded report.
"They're doing this to me just because I want a fair shake for fathers
and
children."
That fair shake, he says, is in equal access or shared parenting in
child
custody cases.
MP Hinton, meanwhile, has written a letter to the secretary of state
for the
Status of Women urging the names of the two Kamloops-based
organizations be
dropped from the list contained in the federally funded report.
© Copyright 2003 Kamloops This Week
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Ward [mailto:taliesin@paradise.net.nz]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:51 AM
To: ffk@sympatico.ca
Subject: Canadian Blacklist
Dear Friends
In the words of a famous NZ politician, I've been thinking....
There has been much discussion over the past few days about the Status
of
Women Canada "blacklist" of men's groups for supposedly being
perpetrators
of "hate crime". This is the sort of frightening activity you would not
expect in a free democracy, and must not go unchecked.
To see their blacklist if you have not already seen it, go here:
http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662882857/200303_0662882857_20_e.html
I decided to write a tongue-in-cheek response to Hon. Jean Augustine,
their
"secretary of state" (as she styles herself) lamenting that a group I
am
involved with is not on their list. (see end of this post.... and
please
accept my apologies if you have already seen this).
Her e-mail address is augustinej@swc-cfc.gc.ca
But this gave me an idea.
No, I am NOT suggesting a flame war. We are above that.
If EVERYONE who cares about men and fathers were to write to her and
thank
her for providing such directory of men's and fathers' resources, it
would
certainly have an impact.
They would certainly think twice against blacklisting us in the future,
not
just in Canada, but throughout the world.
Groups that are listed could thank her for the publicity.
Groups that are not listed could complain like I did, (alhough if I had
had
this idea earlier I maybe would have left out the paragraph referring
to
nazism!)
Think of the impact if thousands of men from around the world thank her
for
helping the cause!
PLEASE spread this message far and wide amongst friendly circles!
And PLEASE write to Jean Augustine.
Kind regards
Darryl Ward
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*********
Dear Jean Augustine
I have read your list of "men's organisations", and I am very
disappointed
that our group is not listed.
Families Apart Require Equality (FARE) is a New Zealand group of women
and
men that strives to achieve gender equality in family law and other
areas.
We are opposed to the nazi-like strategies of organisations that seek
to
demonise men and make them the scapegoat for all that is wrong in
society,
in a chillingly identical to the way that the Jews were similarly made
scapegoats in 1930's Germany.
We seek an end to all forms of gender discrimination.
Accordingly, we would be very proud to be on your blacklist.
Yours sincerely
Darryl Ward
Media Spokesperson
Families Apart Require Equality (FARE)
NEW ZEALAND
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Man, I voted for Nader but I disagree with the Greens...
Liberal Democrats remind me of Republicans, only they're more dishonest when it comes to their support of globalization of economics.
Dead Center @ Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite to Stupid
Atrios has some interesting posts with permalinks to expain some stuff
Guess what. I can't access a lot of his permalink links. I might as well go swimming. which I will.
Eschaton
Looks like XRLQ has a new server and MT
damnum absque injuria
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Following the links
First you hit Instapundit who links to Tim Blair who then links to Right Thinking who then links to ......................... and on and on.
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June 06, 2003
A Right to Privacy
It seems to me that a person and that person's mate have a fundamental right to privacy about what they they do in their bedroom.
It's amazing to me that the person who pretended to be my mate allowed certain morons in Washington County, Oregon to place little bitty video cameras in the bedroom to record what we did.
It's even more amazing that these morons then passed around these videos to other morons.
It's also amazing to me that certain members of the Church of Christ in Aloha, Oregon would think this sleaziness is ok.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Jail inmate claims county corruption
The following story shows that the U.S. needs Judicial Watch.
McKinney Messenger - John Paul Deltuva, 45, an inmate of the Collin County minimum security prison in McKinney, charges that Plano attorney Myra Kirkland personally stopped subpoenas in an effort to "fix" his divorce decree, granting his ex-wife sole custody of his three children.
"They slant things to help fix cases the way they want," Deltuva said. "They do this by subpoenas, not serving them; or filing them too late, after the hearing has taken place."
He charges Kirkland fixed the divorce decree to help her cronies in the legal profession win cases.
June 05, 2003
There's no way I can answer all the Excel questions so here's some links that might teach you something.
Excel Tutorial
Microsoft Office Assistance Center
Me...a hacker!!!!??? Don't be ridiculous
HEADLINE: License To Chill -- Hackers Hamstring Rights Violators
SUMMARY: International hacker organization issues software license that allows the group or its licensees to take human rights violators to court.
CROSSHAIRS: This story is important for anyone interested in hacking, human rights, information security, open-source software, Internet censorship, international law, international politics, or technology transfer.
LUBBOCK, TX, November 25 -- Hacktivismo, an international group of hackers
and human rights activists, today issued the Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source
Software License Agreement (HESSLA). The license offers open-source
transparency, enhanced by legal remedies both for Hacktivismo, as
licensor, and for end-users.
"The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement marks the
first time technology transfer has been linked to protecting human
rights," said Oxblood Ruffin, founder of Hacktivismo. "Our clients and
end-users aren't building the firewalls to keep democracy out. They're
locked inside trying to break free."
In contrast with more-traditional "free" or "open-source" software
licenses, The HESSLA contains some novel terms unique to the history of
information technology. These enhanced terms are designed to promote a
broad range of human rights worldwide, as well as to empower end-users to
seek new and additional remedies against human-rights violations by
governments and governmental officials.
"Hacktivismo has sought to preserve, to the maximum degree, the primary
advantages of 'free' and 'open-source' software," said Eric Grimm, an
attorney with CyberBrief, PLC, who assisted Hacktivismo with drafting the
license. "These advantages include ease of customization, the ability of
any end-user to redistribute the software to friends and colleagues
without paying any license fees, transparency, and enabling collaboration
among volunteer and commercial developers worldwide."
The license enables both Hacktivismo and its end-users to go to court if
someone tries to use the software in a malicious manner, or to introduce
harmful changes into the software. It also contains more robust language
than has previously been used to maximize enforcement against governments
around the world. The HESSLA explicitly prohibits anybody from introducing
"spy-ware, surveillance technology, or other undesirable code into
modified versions of HESSLA-licensed programs. Additionally, the license
prohibits any use of the software by any government that has any policy or
practice of violating human rights.
The most novel innovation in the license distributes enforcement power
instead of concentrating it in Hacktivismo's hands. If a private citizen
happens to violate the license, then Hacktivismo is in charge of
enforcement. But the situation is different if the violation is by a
government or a governmental official. When Governments subvert human
rights, and try to use Hactivismo-licensed software as part of any aspect
of such a project, then the license empowers end-users act as enforcers
too.
It is not unusual for victims of torture and other human rights abuses in
other countries, to seek a remedy for violations of international law in
U.S. court. But there's a difference between suing Slobodan
Milosevic, and suing Republica Srpska for the official policies and abuses
of the Milosevic regime. When victims have tried to name foreign
governments as defendants, they have run into a brick wall called
sovereign immunity. The Hacktivismo license makes it clear that the act
of voluntarily using Hacktivismo software, if it is used by a government
as a part of any project that has the effect of violating human rights,
explicitly constitutes a waiver by that government of its sovereign
immunity in the courts of other countries.
In other words, if Myanmar or China want to keep violating human rights --
then they have no choice but to steer clear from using Hacktivismo's
software in connection with any of their wrongful projects. If not, then
this software license just may be the victims' long-needed ticket into
court; their pathway over the obstacle to justice previously presented by
sovereign immunity.
Full text of the Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement is
available at: http://www.hacktivismo.com/hessla.html
PRESS CONTACT
Krass Katt
krasskatt@hacktivismo.com
ABOUT HACKTIVISMO
Hacktivismo is a group of international hackers, human rights workers,
artists and others who seek to further the goals of human rights through
technology. They operate under the aegis of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW
(cDc). Hacktivismo is committed to developing technologies in support of
the highest standards of human rights. For more information, please visit
http://hacktivismo.com/.
ABOUT THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW
Based in Lubbock, Texas, the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) is the most
influential hacking group in the world. The cDc alumni reads like a Who1s
Who of hacking and includes a former Presidential advisor on Internet
security, among others. The group is further distinguished by publishing
the longest running e-zine on the Internet [est. 1984], stretching the
limits of the First Amendment, and fighting anyone or any government that
aspires to limit free speech. For more information, please visit
http://cultdeadcow.com/.
ABOUT THE CYBERBRIEF, PLC
Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, CyberBrief, PLC is a law firm specializing
in cutting-edge issues at the intersection of law and information
technology. CyberBrief, PLC, has represented clients in high-tech cases in
federal courthouses all over the United States, and provides legal
representation to clients from all over the world. CyberBrief's hallmark
and greatest source of pride is its generous and resolute commitment to
donate time and resources to public-interest projects and representations
involving issues that matter.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Hacktivismo would like to express its gratitude to Eric
Grimm for his tireless work and personal generosity in drafting the
Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement. Eric was a model
calm and reason throughout the entire project, and we shall forever be in
his debt.
Stalkers, Talkers and Support Groups
Roger Weidner is so stupid he wants people to go to the Erwin Rommel School of Law website to learn about law.
If you read The Roger Weidner Story - THE WEIDNER METHOD - A Summary of Techniques and Tactics you will see this nut case give the following brilliant legal advice, " Bring binoculars or opera glasses into the courtroom and aim them at the officers of the court for closer scrutiny. It intimidates them."
Crazy old Roger is also a stalker. He stalks people who've beaten him in a courtroom and he stalks judges who won't let him steal from people. He and his allies, including my ex-wife and her crazy family, have been stalking me for over twenty years. He's part of my ex-wife's support group. This support group has been helping her, her crazy family, and her allies in their stalking of me for over twenty years. They help her spy on me, they send people over to where I live to constantly remind me of how stupid I am and how genetically inferior I am and so on. They make phone calls to the local authorities saying I am committing mass quantities of crimes.
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June 04, 2003
They're such good little Nazi rodents
My relatives here in Washington County, John McClelland Hays, Neta Hays and Chris Andrea Hays are such good little, well trained, cult-like Nazi rodents that if you transported them back through time to 1940, put them in Germany, and told them to murder Jewish kids, they would do so willingly AND then ask for Tillamook ice cream for dessert and a pat on the head by Victor Oekerman.
I guess it's easier to be a well trained, little, Nazi rodent than it is to have to learn to think for oneself.
Some people, like my sister, need emotional crutches so badly that they can't go to the bathroom without a support group.
June 03, 2003
Forensics.....???? You mean it exists????
If those morons employed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service knew anything about forensics, they would have found out that the knife used to stab me in 1984 in Spain was the same switchblade knife owned by Cathy Winters. She always carried it around and when she was drunk she would whip that baby out and show her expertise. Of course, since she showed her expertise with the knife when she was drunk, she sometimes stabbed innocent, bystanding things like doors, tables, beds, etc.
AAArrrgggghhh!!! I lost my 10 BASE-T Network Interface Card (Ethernet NIC)
I thought for sure I had put the little guy into my computer, but.....man.......damn leprechauns.
Cultural Marxism Watch
Today was such a nice day and it wasn't raining so I thought to myself, "Man, today would be a great day to insult all ethnic groups."
When I broached this revolutionary idea to my Marxist social advisor, she said, "You're nothing but a lowlife lying, thieving Gypsy and, to make matters worse, you're also a drunken Irish scum with homosexual tendencies."
I said, "Yeah.....sooooo..... today still seems a good day to insult all ethnic groups. I mean, it's not raining."
Then she said, "Read Howard Zinn and learn about the TRUTH.....you understand, you stupid simpleton."
Man, I didn't quite know what to do, so I cancelled her subscription to the magazine "Masterbation and Me, A Meaningful Dialogue" and decided to read the following:
Porphyrogenitus: June 01, 2003 - June 07, 2003 Archives - Here's an article on the distortions and lies of one of the more popular historians out there, Marxist historian Howard Zinn:
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Recent Legal News in the workplace arena
Employee Held to be Supervisor in Harassment Case
- By Rita Risser
If an individual contributor harasses a co-worker, in many cases an employer will not be held liable. But if a supervisor harasses a subordinate, the company can be held liable, even if the company did not know the harassment was occurring. Thus, whether an employee is a supervisor or not is critical in harassment cases. And, of course, the courts often have a different definition of supervisor than employers.
Two courts recently have adopted an expansive definition of supervisor. In one case, the victim was an employee in IT who was working on a temporary project headed by a "team leader." The team leader was not from her department, had no authority to hire, fire or promote her, did not select her for the project, had no "significant" input into personnel decisions, and did not control her day-to-day working environment.
On the other hand, he did assign her projects and tasks, tell her what to do and how to do it. She was told he would be doing her performance review, although he didn't actually do it. And the team leader frequently told her he was her boss, and could get her thrown off the team.
The court held that, given these facts, the team leader was her supervisor. The court said, "The decision turn[s] on whether the power the offending employee possessed was reasonably perceived by the victim, accurately or not, as giving that employee the power to adversely affect the victim's working life."
Another case involved Otis elevator mechanics who were permanently assigned to a remote location. The lead mechanic at the location assigned and scheduled work, directed the other mechanics, assured the quality and efficiency of their work, and enforced safety practices and procedures.
The court noted, "He was the senior employee on the work site. He therefore possessed a special dominance over other on-site employees arising out of their remoteness from others with authority to exercise power on behalf of Otis. There was no one superior to [the lead mechanic] at [the job site] whose continuing presence might have acted as a check on [his] coercive misbehavior toward other Otis employees there."
The court held that whether the lead mechanic was a supervisor "depends on whether the power - economic or otherwise, of the harassing employee over the subordinate victim given by the employer to the harasser - enabled the harasser, or materially augmented his or her ability, to create or maintain the hostile work environment." In this case, the court said that the lead mechanic did have such power.
What this means to you: Employers often reserve training on harassment prevention to managers and designated supervisors. If there are employees who are "team leaders," "leads" or who have other quasi-supervisory functions, they also should receive training, and be reminded of their responsibilities to enforce your anti-harassment policy.
Entrot v. BASF (New Jersey Ct App 04/07/2003)
Mack v. Otis Elevator (2nd Cir 04/11/2003)
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The drug test results were false, and I was fired - can I sue?
Our company has a random drug testing requirement. My number was up so I went to the hospital for the drug test. When I turned in my sample they did not put my name on the tube right away. I waited for them to do it but finally had to go back to work before they labeled it. Lo and behold, a week later I get a notice that I failed the test for cocaine. I've never done cocaine in my life! I told my employer and they asked the hospital and the hospital said they did everything right, so I was fired. Can I sue for this?
Rita Risser replies:
In many states, you do not have the right to sue your employer for negligent drug testing. But in some states, the courts have held that an employee in this situation can sue the hospital for negligence. You would have to prove that the hospital did not maintain the proper chain of custody controls. Since you observed them fail to label your sample, you may be able to prove this. Here is a case similar to the one you describe:
Sharpe v. St. Luke's Hospital (Pennsylvania 04/25/2003)
Unfortunately, although there are federal laws requiring certain standards be met during drug testing, the courts have held that employees do not have a right to enforce those standards.
To see if you have a case under your state's law, contact a local attorney for help. Good luck!
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===================== Ask the Lawyers #2 ======================
Is it legal to fire me for what I put in my blog?
I have a personal blog [web log] where I've been ranting about my employer and co-workers (and men, and dogs, and drugs, and shots, and...). I didn't identify the company or people by name, but if you know who's who you know who the moron is, who the f-ing a-hole is, etc. Some anonymous pussy sent an email to every vice president at the company alerting them to my blog and I was fired. What are my rights?
Rita Risser replies:
In most states, generally it is illegal for an employer to use your private life against you in your job. That's a violation of your right to privacy. However, if you bring the company into disrepute with your postings, then you have crossed the line and your behavior is not protected. If you were the CEO or other high-ranking person, then even though you didn't name the company everyone would know what you were talking about. But if you are a lowly employee, presumably you did not harm the company's reputation because few people know what company you work for.
As a practical matter, it may be difficult to get a lawyer, a judge or a jury to have much sympathy for you getting fired - after all, apparently you didn't like your job! On the other hand, freedom of speech is an essential right. If you want to pursue it, you should contact a local attorney.
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Would it still be just cause, if information was found out after termination?
Ann Kiernan replies:
In a 1995 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said no. Fearing that her employer would fire her because she was 62, a worker gained access to and copied several of the employer's confidential documents. When she was fired as part of a claimed reduction in force, she sued for age discrimination. During pre-trial discovery, the employer learned that she had copied its confidential records, so it sent her another termination letter, stating that she was discharged for misconduct. The Supreme Court ruled that the so-called "after-acquired evidence" of wrongdoing, which would have resulted in discharge if discovered earlier, did not bar the worker from relief. The law, after all, was intended to eliminate discrimination in the workplace. If age was the basis for her discharge, said the Court, she was entitled to damages that included back pay up to the time the employer learned of her misconduct. McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co., 513 U.S. 352 (1995) Thus, the after-acquired evidence rule may prevent a wrongfully-discharged worker from recovering much in damages, but does not prevent a lawsuit.
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For my two and one half readers on the East Coast
The half reader is a damn kid pretending to be a midget who keeps sending me email trying to get me to start spying on the US government for the hedonists of Iceland. Hahaha, fat chance, you water wallopers.
In any case, I've actually managed to download the following Oregon blogs for the first time in about a week and a half.
Jack Bog's Blog
Rantavation
The Oregon Blog
Jury Story Brings Award For Pittsburgh Journalist
The American Judicature Society has honored reporter Mark Houser of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for an investigative story headlined, "A jury of peers? County system under represents mostly black neighborhoods." The newspaper used computerized mapping and statistical analysis of 45,000 jurors to show that in Allegheny County, Pa., blacks and whites do not have a reasonably equal chance of being called to jury duty, as the U.S. Supreme Court requires.
Houser's four-month investigation showed that each year, 30,000 jury qualifying questionnaires, a third of the total, never come back, and the county never follows up on non-responses. The newspaper encouraged more public participation by publishing a clip-out coupon that blacks could mail to volunteer for jury service. The Pennsylvania Senate wants a statewide jury study modeled on the newspaper's analysis.
Houser won the Toni House Journalism Award, named for the late public information officer of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Congratulations are in order for the following persons
The Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council
The CDITC is very honored to announce that the following criminal defense
investigators have met the academic and experience qualifications to be awarded
the designation of BOARD CERTIFIED CRIMINAL DEFENSE INVESTIGATOR. They now
join the ranks of the CDITC Praetorian Guard as the nations elite corps of
professional criminal defense investigators.
This list of professional colleagues is most impressive. Congratulations!
1. Goerge Semertsidis, CCDI
Chief Investigator
Death Penalty Trial Assistance Division
State of Illinois, Chicago Illinois
2. Donna Preuss, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
3. Colin R. Smith, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
4. Dixon Leo Negron, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
5. Kimberly J. Miller, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
6. Judith LaGiglio, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
7. John A. Jenkins, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
8. Tyrone Williams, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
9. Deborah Hansen, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
10. Cassandra King, CCDI
Public Defender Investigator
Cook County Public Defender
Chicago Illinois
11. Marco Marconi, CCDI
Licensed Private Investigator
Investigative Support Specialist, Inc.
Stuart, Florida
12. Dana A. Speaks, CCDI
Private Investigator
Professional Investigations
Fort Morgon, CO
For Oregon Residents - S.B. 761 Homeschool Freedom Bill
I've been asked to pass this along. The only thing I have against homeschooling is that it gives certain hate groups free reign to teach their kids how to hate. Then again, I suppose crazy hate groups have a right to raise their kids a certain way.
S.B. 761 Homeschool Freedom Bill
Senate Bill 761 places home education on par with other private education by removing most mandatory notification and testing requirements.
Under this bill, notification will only be required to withdraw a student from public school, and testing will only be required for participation in interscholastic activities through the public school system.
This bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support, was amended in the House Education Committee to address habitual truancy, and passed the House. It is now heading back to the Senate for concurrence with the amendments, and then to Governor Kulongoski for signature or veto. We expect that it will be on the governor’s desk within a week or two.
Governor Kulongoski has expressed his opposition to this bill. We believe the governor may change his mind if 2,000 Oregon citizens let him know of their strong support for the bill.
Action: Please write to Governor Kulongoski and ask him to sign Senate Bill 761 into law.
Send a postcard or note with a short, positive note.
Mention S.B. 761, ask for his support, and include
your name and address (or at least city)
Encourage your children to write a letter or send a drawing asking for his support of S.B. 761, and send this in a separate envelope.
Ask your spouse, relatives, neighbors and friends
who support homeschooling to do the same.
Bring postcards and envelopes to distribute at park days, support groups and other gatherings.
June 02, 2003
Letter from Trudy W. Schuett to the editor of WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily: E-mail to the Editor
Why is it that feminist groups insist on putting out reports that are half-researched, poorly executed and the conclusions often far wide of the mark where they were aiming?
Just as in the CANOW Family Court Report 2002, which depended for its "truths" on a survey of a relative handful of angry women who lost in the divorce courts, and the word of a known anti-male hate group for its "proof," this current nonsensical piece by Canadian feminists only shows they haven’t done their homework.
Many of the groups and individuals on their hit list aren’t even Canadian. In addition to some Canadian groups, they list American, French and Australian groups. One group is listed twice, once as the “Coalition of Free Men” in New York and then again as the “National Coalition of Free Men.” (Had they referred to a Canadian publication called Everyman, they would have found a near-encyclopedic reference of Canadian-specific organizations and resources for men.)
In some cases they refer to organizations which are not organizations at all, but only websites run by individuals. While this is a common mistake made by the general public, it would seem to me that if you’re producing a report for the national government of any country, it is best if you at least understand the definition of the terms you use.
As an activist for men’s rights since 1999, it has become quite clear to me that feminist groups neither have any understanding of the men’s rights movement, nor are they willing to put forth any effort in their scholarship. When they produce documents accusing the movement and/or individuals of ambiguous wrongdoing, there should be something behind it beyond the opinions of some women. Some concrete evidence, for instance would be refreshing!
Just because a feminist says something is so does not equate to proof in anything. This may work in Women's Studies classes, but not in the real world.
Trudy W. Schuett
Publisher, The DesertLight Journal
On a personal note, here in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County there is a manhating, Marxist psychologist who keeps sending her mindless minions over to where I live, not only to insult me about everything, but lately to tell me I have an "addictive personality" and this is why I'm addicted to experimenting with programs and new languages on the computer, this is why I am addicted to yardwork, this is why I'm addicted to watching news show, especially on the Fox network (I actually watch all the news networks but it pisses off these people that I also watch the Fox network), this is why I'm addicted to cleaning the pool, etc.
All I can say to that nonsense is, "At least I'm not addicted to heroin or cocaine, like some of the mindless minions, SO QUIT BUGGING ME. Also, I'm not addicted to mindless, foolish, Marxist platitudes or making mindless, foolish Marxist diatribes!!!!!!"
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Another way for crime families to make a fortune, and bribe even more people
USATODAY.com - Feds: Mob behind massive Internet fraud
North Korea's School for Hackers
North Korea - what a sleazeball dictatorship. Why on earth do the manhating Marxists like these kinds of governments and hate personal freedom so much???!!!
Wired News: North Korea's School for Hackers
Questions and Comments from readers
Question: Who do you consider the top five suspects who attacked that woman?
Answer: Kim Andersen because she was giving him information concerning what I was doing and Kim had motive and opportunity. Faye Marie Oekerman because she has been known to attack women I talked to or Faye thought I was going out with, so she had motive and opportunity. Chris Andrea Hays as an accomplice of Faye because of her friendship with Faye and her absolute hatred of me for various delusional reasons.
Q: Why would john McClelland Hays coverup the crime against that woman? What kind of a crazy church thinks it's ok to attack a woman because she's going out with a married man?
A: I was actually divorced from Faye in 1980, however, the church John McClelland Hays goes to doesn't recognize divorce. As for why members of that church believe it's ok to attack those they percieve as adulteresses, who knows? They aren't talking, which is a typical cult reaction to any kind of expose.
Q: Most church members and people in Washington County are not crazy demogogues, or racists, or paranoid about minorities or want to overthrow the government, so why do you persist in saying that Washington County is homophobic and racist?
A: I don't want anybody going through what I did since I came back from active duty in 1984. I realize the harassment and stalking of me was done by a relatively few people, but it seemed like they could get away with anything they wanted to do, and it turns out they could. I believe this small group of fanatics were able to get away with all their illegal actions because of the apathy, and maybe ignorance, of the general populace. Bringing attention to the crazy hatefilled fanatics is my way of saying, "Hey, this is wrong and we shouldn't allow these fanatics to do just anything they want!!!" This also goes for churches that have become havens for crazy, violent, hatemongers.
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Andrew Sullivan has a good posting about one aspect of agricultural subsidies
www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish -
The Taxpayers for Common Sense has been following agriculture subsidies for a couple of years and has produced some interesting reports.
I would like to remind people that the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has a blog
Behind the Homefront
I was just watching a news show where one of the pundits said that blogs and the internet are just "blips on the horizon". I wonder if that's true.
Clayton Cramer has discovered the feared Al-Gebra Movement
Clayton Cramer's BLOG
June 01, 2003
The cultural wars continue in Washington County, Oregon
Here in Washington County there are a few groups waging war against America and ordinary American citizens.
One group is made up of manhating Marxists who like and want to emulate the governments of Cuba, North Korea and the former government of Iraq under Saddam. This group pretends that its members are "anger management experts" and they blame anger on various delusional conspiracies like the International Patriarchal Conspiracy, the International Satanic Ritual Abuse Conspiracy, the Intergalactic Space Alien Abductions of Earthlings Conspiracy and the International Zionist Conspiracy.
A second group is the white supremacists. They want to emulate the kind of government that Germany had under the Nazi's. The white supremacists also believe in and hate the International Zionist Conspiracy, as well as hating all non-pure white folks. Some of their delusional beliefs include blaming pernicious minorities for all the ills of the world and the belief that a few of the strong should rule and "others" should be killed because some of the "others" dilute the gene pool. The white supremacists have developed a belief in a delusional conspiracy to destroy the white race called "The International Homosexual Satanic Pedophile Conspiracy".
Both groups are secretive, filled with hate against their perceived enemies, violent, and determined to stifle any and all dissent. Both groups try to recruit members by spreading delusional conspiracy theories that are intended to make future recruits believe they are victims of these delusional conspiracy theories. Victimhood is a big thing in the pitch for new members.
Both groups portray their perceived enemies as evil, criminals, degenerates, and generally make false and slanderous accusations against their perceived enemies. Both groups try to maintain a high degree of paranoia among the members so the members are blinded to reality and will stay with their respective groups.
Both groups of America-hating fanatics try to indoctrinate young people into their respective groups.
Both groups believe it is ok to use children as weapons in the pursuit of their agendas and don't believe children have any inherent right to be children.
Both groups have a smaller group of individuals who control almost absolute power over the other members of the groups.
Both groups believe it is ok to lie, cheat, steal, and murder in order to further their respective agendas.
Both groups send people over to where I live to harass me, threaten me, try to coerce me into joining their groups, sometimes assault me, and always insult me.
There is another group of fanatical America-haters here in Washington County, Oregon and this third group seems to have taken some ideas from each of the aforementioned groups, mixed these ideas together, and come up with a hodge-podge of delusional beliefs that include fearing and hating the International Zionist Conspiracy and the International Homosexual Satanic Pedophile Conspiracy.
This third group also seems to believe in an International Black Magic Conspiracy and an International Pornography and Homosexual Conspiracy designed to turn everyone into homosexuals.
This third group is also secretive, filled with hate towards its perceived enemies, filled with paranoid delusions, violent, and dedicated to getting members and keeping its members under strict control.
This third group has a really weird intrepretation of Biblical history and its intrepretations of what God has commanded can be said to be very bizarre. Members of this group do not really follow conventional Christian dogma but nevertheless consider themselves to be God's chosen people.
This third group also sends people over to coerce me into joining their group and convince me not to be a homosexual Satanic pedophile who is part of an international child pornography ring and to be saved by their peculiar brand of Christianity.
I've tried to convince members of this third group that I'm not gay, I'm not involved in an international child pornography ring, I'm not a pedophile, I don't practice black magic, and I'm not a satanist, all to no avail.
Some of my relatives are members of this third group and because of their belief that I'm evil, they have decided I'm expendable. Members of this group have also convinced my two daughters that I'm evil.
Many of the members of the three aforementioned groups suffer from a mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
People suffering from BPD need allies in order to punish whoever they feel needs to be punished for delusional feelings of abandonment or rejection. Many people with BPD become stalkers. Because many people with BPD need allies they try to join as many groups as possible seeking allies. This is one reason why many people are members of two or more of the previous mentioned groups of America-haters.
Many members of the aforementioned groups also seek to manipulate various government entities, including law enforcement entities, into furthering the respective goals of the aforementioned groups.
On a personal note, an ex-wife who suffers from BPD and her family have become members of two or more of the aforementioned groups in order punish me for their delusional belief that I abandoned the ex-wife. The ex-wife, who I divorced in 1980, and her family have utilized two or more of the above groups to deny me the right to live alone in peace, own a vehicle, enter into contracts with people, earn a living, have a relationship with someone other than the ex-wife, get an education, and be a parent.
The psycho ex-wife and her family have also utilized two or more of the aforementioned groups to harass me, steal from me and assault me over a period of twenty years or so. The ex-wife and her family have utilized two or more of the aforementioned groups to alienate my relatives and kids from me.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
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