Looks like Roger and his brother invented software that ended the cold war.
Man accuses firms of stealing software
By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News staff writer
PROVO — A self-described linguist and programmer has filed a lawsuit against Novell, the Eyring Research Institute and the founders of WordPerfect for a whopping $40 billion, claiming his software was pirated and used to create WordPerfect as well as some of Novell's first military missile programs.
Bruce Wydner of Eden, Weber County, and his brother, Roger Weidner, filed the suit last fall against Novell, Eyring Research and Bruce Bastian and Allen Ashton, formerly of WordPerfect.
Speaking to the Deseret News, Wydner claims a language translation software that he developed back in 1977 was inspired by passages within the Book of Mormon in which the Ancient Nephites were described as having the ability to decipher any human language through visual cues. In addition to alleging that his software was stolen, Wydner credits his software for ending the Cold War between the United States and Russia.
After working as a linguist at the Pentagon and translating messages for the Central Intelligence Agency, Wydner claims he was recruited by Brigham Young University to conduct research on what was to be known as his "Cost-Effective Machine Translation" software. Pointing to articles done in 1978 by the Deseret News and the Wall Street Journal, Wydner claims he was a part of a project to work on translation software.
While at the Eyring Institute, a language translation research group that had its start at Brigham Young University, Wydner said he faced ridicule for his methods by fellow researchers. "I just couldn't work there because people were making fun of me," Wydner said. He also claimed to have taught courses based on his system at BYU.
BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said in checking with those associated with the Eyring Institute, which has not been a part of BYU for the last 13 years, Jenkins said there was no recollection of Wydner working there. A search of staff and associate instructor records also yielded no proof that Wydner taught courses at BYU from 1972 to 1973.
But, according to Wydner's suit, it was around 1978 that programmers at the Eyring Institute began using his program without his knowledge. Wydner alleges that several programmers, including WordPerfect founders Bastian and Ashton, used his code to write one of the first highly popular word processing softwares of its time. In addition, programmers also allegedly used the code to devise a missile guidance system for the U.S. Air Force, those programmers would later go on, Wydner claims, to form Novell Corp.
Wydner's brother, Roger Weidner, said he is an attorney in Oregon who is helping to file the suit. Weidner said he estimated that Novell had earned about 8 billion in profits annually. Based on that estimate, Weidner said he came up with the multibillion figure for damages.
"That's basically a guesstimate of what they earned over the past couple of years," Weidner said.
But in the face of such outrageous allegations, Wydner said he is simply out to claim credit and profits that he says are rightfully his. When asked why he waited well over two decades to file his suit, Wydner said he was unaware of the alleged scheme to steal his software until December 1999 when a former Eyring programmer came forward and told him the story.
Wydner is seeking damages totaling $40 billion, for claims of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud.
Yet despite the hefty price tag on this suit, none of the defendants appear to be taking it too seriously. After nearly four months, neither Novell, nor the founders of WordPerfect have bothered to file a response to the suit.
"We have received a copy of the complaint and we believe that it's frivolous," said Novell spokesman Kevan Barney. Barney said Novell attorneys could find no direct claim in the suit against Novell and that Novell planned to seek the dismissal of the suit.
Let's hear Roger's version of the story.
Believe it or not, somebody actually wrote the following loony news article and you can actually access from here.
What the hell, I'll put the whole ridiculous news article below:
On May l3, 2003 Bruce Wydner, and his brother Roger Weidner, appeared in the Utah County Courtroom of Judge Lynn Davis, in Provo, Utah. Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were in court to be heard on the Summary Judgment Motion they had filed in the Breach of Contract, Fraud and Unjust Enrichment action they had filed against Novell, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research, Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton. Appearing in support of Bruce and Roger were 70 concerned citizens from around the country including Senator Trent Lott’s cousin Jesse Lott, Oregon newspaper publisher Larry Jackson, Sheriff Mack and Utah radio talk show host Tom Draschel.
In the complaint Bruce Wydner stated that he is the inventor of cost effective machine translation, the key technology allowing the development of the internet. The complaint charges that in l978, in violation of the non-compete, non-circumvent, non-disclosure contract Wydner had with Eyring Research and its employees the technology was pirated by Eyring Research to fulfill the contract Eyring had with the United States Air Force.
Then Bruce Bastian, an employee of Eyring, and Allen Ashton, with the consent of Eyring, but without the knowledge of Wydner, unlawfully appropriated Wydner’s intellectual property to start Word Perfect. The complaint also charges that former Eyring Research employees Mr. Fairclough, Mr. Nyberg, Mr. Christiansen and a fourth party also obtained the technology to start Novell by threatening Eyring Research President Ron Hanson. The complaint states that the four founders of Novell told Hanson that if they were denied the technology they would tell Wydner that Eyring had unlawfully permitted the technology to be turned over to Word-Perfect.
Before the hearing, outside the courtroom, Bruce Wydner’s brother, and co-complainant, Roger Weidner, the l998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor and a former attorney and public prosecutor, told the supporters assembled that he has spent the last l5 years fighting the pervasive corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger Weidner told the supporters that what he has seen repeated over and over again is innocent people having their children, their lands and other property shamelessly stolen by corrupt attorneys, bureaucrats or judges. He said no matter how blatant the theft the victims complaint is always dismissed on one pretense or another so the victim can never get their case heard by a jury of their peers as the law requires. Weidner said all of these victims are being denied fundamental "equal protection" and "due process" of law guaranteed to the citizens of Oregon under the Oregon Constitution and the Constitution of the United States.
Frances Weidner, the 93 year old mother of Roger and Bruce, was introduced to the supporters. Roger told those present that without his mother’s steadfast support over the past l5 years it would have been impossible for him to have had the success he has had in cleaning up the corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger told how his mother, weighing less than l00 pounds, had repeatedly intimidated corrupt attorneys and judges by openly confronting them about their corruption in the courtroom. Roger related one incident in l992 where he was being violently arrested, and choked to the ground, for trying to speak in court that his mother attempted to kick one of the arresting guards while her arms were being held behind her back by Deputy Multnomah County Sheriff Rita Berman. In another incident he related that in l994 his mother chased former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, Ed Petersen, out of the Multnomah County Courthouse after he ordered the arrest of Roger for insisting on speaking in court on the record.
Roger told the supporters to remain standing when they entered the courtroom until the judge came in. In the courtroom, before the judge came in, Roger told those assembled that they were the sovereign political authority in the state. He said that the judge and the guards are all public employees who, as a condition of their employment, have taken an oath of office to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of the citizens appearing as parties in court. While Roger Weidner was telling the supporters how his brothers intellectual property had been pirated by Bruce Bastian, who was sitting nearby at the counsel table, his attorney John Mullen, lost his composure and angrily said "you’re a liar" to Bruce Wydner. Mullen then in a defiant tone contemptuously asked Bruce Wydner "what is it we stole?". Bruce Wydner, without a moments hesitation responded, "automatic parshing" which is the key technoloy that allows the internet to function. Roger told the supporters that they were there to see that he and Bruce were able to make a full record of how Bruce’s intellectual property had been pirated by the defendants and used to generate billions of dollars in illicit profits for the defendants.
After Judge Davis entered the courtroom he said he was first going to hear the defendant’s Motion To Dismiss the breach of contract claim. Judge Davis, acting like an attorney for the defendants, challenged whether Roger Weidner and Bruce Wydner could bring the action since the contract was between Weidner Communications Inc., owned by their younger brother Stephen, and Eyring. Roger pointed out the contract was a third party beneficiary contract entered between Weidner Communication and Eyring Research to protect Bruce Wydner’s intellectual property.
After attorney Mullen spoke, Roger Weidner addressed the court saying his brother was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing, which is the technology that allows the internet to operate. He said Bruce Wydner had contracted with Eyring to do some technical work to perfect his ability to do automatic machine translation. He told the judge that his brother’s office at Eyring had been padlocked in l978 in order to block Bruce Wydner from removing his intellectual property. Roger told the judge that it was not until November of l999 that Bruce Wydner was told by the Harmon family, founders of Eyring Research, that the Air Force had ordered them to seize, for national security purposes, his brother’s intellectual property.
Bruce Wydner then addressed the court telling the judge that he was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing." He then turned and pointed at Bruce Bastian, who was sitting behind his attorney Mullen, and said: "In l978 I contracted with Eyring to see if they could produce cost effective machine translation. I was about to fire Eyring because none of their programmers were linguist. Eyring President Ron Hansen said his $5.00 an hour programmer Bruce Bastian could speak Italian and would that do. I told Hansen that Italian and Spanish were similar and so continued working with Eyring and Bastian. Because Eyring had signed the no-compete, non-circumvent agreement I had no idea that Bastian was training all of the rest of the programmers at Eyring how to use my technology in order to be able to collect 96 million dollars from the Air Force." Weidner said that although he had a strange reaction when he told LDS President Kimbal in l982 that he had invented "automatic parsing," it was not until l999 that he finally became aware of the fact that both Word-Perfect and Novell were created out of the technology he had invented.
As Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were condemning Bastian for his thievery he sat behind his attorney, head down and his complexion alternating between a bright red and a dull purple hue physically reflecting his obvious embarrassment and shame. Except for the momentary outburst by Mullen, before the hearing started, neither Bastian or Mullen questioned the truthfulness of the charges that both Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were leveling against Bruce Bastian, Alan Ashton, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research or Novell. After the hearing was concluded a very shaken Bruce Bastian left the courtroom under the protection of one of the Deputy Sheriffs present.
But never fear, since Roger is the head of the "cult of stupidity", let's hear what his followers have to say.
Date: 11/18/2003 15:06:57 -0800
From: "Susan Detlefsen"
To: editor@sleazereport.com
Subject: Dear Sleazer Editor
I found some of your anonymous Websites over the Internet, namely the ones you put up regarding Roger Weidner, who is one of the most courageous people I have known in Oregon. Mr. Weidner sacrificed a law career by standing up
to corruption and taking on the people's fight. I found your comments about him very cowardly.
I wonder what happened to you that has made you say these things? Mr. Weidner wonders if perhaps there has been a misunderstanding that has prompted your slanderous attacks on him.
Here is his number if you would like to speak to him: 503-232-6691. Knowing the kind of man he is, I'm sure he would welcome the opportunity to speak to you in person to discuss your opinions of him.
Susan Detlefsen
If you want to know what Roger Weidner is really like just visit this site or this site.
Roger may be playing the innocent boy, but since he was my ex-wife's divorce attorney, was later disbarred and thrown into the Oregon State Hospital's program for the criminally insane, playing innocent boy isn't going to work.
His little cult may claim he was disbarred and thrown into Oregon State's mental hospital for fighting corruption and for the rights of the "people", but I'm not falling for that line.
From the Style: The Navigator
Top prize for the Worst Use of the Web in a Political Campaign for 1998, says Gunzberger, went to the official site of Roger Weidner, the Reform Party candidate in the Oregon gubernatorial race. Weidner's home page sported a link to a 1995 newspaper article showing the candidate in handcuffs. The story explained that Weidner, a former state prosecutor, had been declared sane and was being released from the Oregon State Hospital's program for the criminally insane.
Here's a letter from Roger himself:
From: RogWeidner@aol.com 12/13/99
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.
Here's another:
WE HAVE KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT WE WERE IN A WAR BUT YOU DID NOT SEE THE TANKS ON THE STREETS - WELL THAT IS HERE NOW......
Like Roger Weidner tells people "your children will spit on your grave for what you did not do when you could have to stop this....."
pamela gaston
a voice for children
Old Roger knows what he has done, not only to me but to many others.
As for me slandering him, I don't think so because he is a public figure who has run for public office on more than one occasion and I'm only using what Roger has said, his mindless minions have said and what others have said.
In any event, I have the right to post my opinion about any public figure anywhere.
This sounds like another attempt by Roger and his white supremacist buddies to censor my website.
I wonder if there is anybody out there who can help me with this problem.
The truth of the matter is that it is Roger who has slandered a lot of people, including myself, by claiming we were homosexual satanic perverts, satanic pedophiles and other things. The following is an excerpt:
Why would a 'judge' (a man in a black dress) approve of a 10 year old
girl being repeatedly sexually molested by foster homes unless he is
involved in a ring of pedophiles and satanic sexual perverts? And why
has this girl her parents been denied a trial by jury? The courts
cannot get much more evil!
CITIZENS ARREST JUDGE IN MARION COUNTY FOR TRESPASS OF TREASON TO CONSTITUTION
Citizens Arrest Judge in Marion County
Roger Weidner arrested for the l9th time fighting judicial corruption Wilbur Gaston performs a Citizen Arrest on Judge Avera in Open Court
MARION COUNTY SHERIFF SGT. DAVE (THE THUG) McMULLEN STRIKES AGAIN, ARRESTING ROGER WEIDNER AS COURT WATCHERS LEAVE THE COURTHOUSE
October 1, l999 - Salem, Oregon On September 30, l999, in Marion County, Oregon, an outraged group of citizens placed judge Fred E. Avera under Citizens Arrest for Trespass of Treason to the Constitution and Misprison of Felony. Witnessing this arrest were court watchers from A Voice For Children, Oregon Judicial Watch, Constitutional Defenders and Grandparents Rights groups who have been actively confronting the corruption in the Oregon judicial system.
Among the court watchers were l998 Reform Party candidate Roger Weidner, candidate for Secretary of State Carlos Luceros, Director of F.A.I.R. Velma Hartwig, and Oregon Judicial Watch President Pamela Gaston, and 20 supporters.
Here's some more slander sent to the Skanner News from Pamela Gaston, one of Weidner's most ardent supporters.
I am sending this to the list - I want them to see that your paper is not protecting your low income readership by promoting these child abuse programs. We have seen your paper do articles promoting Kay Toran, and Volunteers of America, when she is a KNOWN pedophile, international black market child procurer and child abuser - this already UNDISPUTED COURT RECORDS - THAT MEANS LEGAL FACT, IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW THAT.
Over the years Roger and his mindless minions may have convinced some people, including a couple of Navy JAG officers, some of my neighbors, one stupid cop and a couple of my relatives that I'm a homosexual satanic pervert and that I'm a satanic pedophile, but the false accusations are false and what he and his mindless minions have done is real slander.
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The following are two more communications from the gang:
First of all I would like to say that your views on christian identity and the people who are CI, is very one sided and not completly accurate. Second, Christian Identity teaches all races to be seperated and not to mix the races, as well as teaching pride in yourself and your family heritage, which by the way last time I checked there were no laws on the books stating you couldnt be a separtist, as that would negate the supreme law of the land, being the constitution, which inherintly gives all who are citizens the right to their religious beliefs no matter what they are.
Although if you do some checking into the the drafts made of the origanial document to what we know now as the constitution, you will find that it was largely based on christian beliefs, mainly the ten commandments.
Third, your theory of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols is only a preception fed to the public by controlled media tactics used by the Govermnent as a tool to enforce more intrusive laws into the lives of private citizens who would rather prefer to live in this country as free men and women without somebody dictating to them what they can and cannot do, you have to understand that as long as we have freewill it is a concious decision to live by, or to break the law. Now Mcveigh may have had CI beliefs, but he was also known to run with militia, and other various patriot groups as well. And as for Nichols, to say he was Identity is plan out and out lying. Mr. Nichols was married to a non white woman, and had a baby with her which goes against any and all beliefs of the Identity movement. So I suggest that you should check into your facts more carefully before you pass judgement on anybody sir.
I must tell you Im not Identity and Im not militia, nor am I affiliated with any other patriotic group, but I have studied the belief system of these groups as well as muslim, judism, buddist, and various other religions, and being a white person myself I see nothing wrong with wanting to keep and preserve your heritage. Its ok when the black man stands up and says he is a separatist, or the hispanics, or the asians, but when a white man or woman say it, they are labeled supremeist. Maybe you should talk with Louis Farrakan or Khalihd Mohammahed before you talk any more trash on some of the kindest most generous people I have ever had the priviledge to meet.
Respectfully,
John.
Posted by: John at October 24, 2003 05:59 PM
Here was my reply to John.
The following is from Carl Worden of the Southern Oregon Militia:
Certainly, mainstream Christianity is the primary religious affiliation the vast majority of men and women adhere to who make up the American Militia movement. However, also raising its butt-ugly head is something called "Christian Identity", which is anything BUT Christian and the people embracing it don't know jack about their identity.
CI believers insist they are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and are therefore God's true "Chosen". They believe the Chosen are all lily-white, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic and they insist Jews are not descended of the biblical Israel, but are the spawn of Satan himself. People of color and especially whites who marry people of color don't have a place in Heaven, according to the CI freaks.
When it gets right down to it, CI is a religion created to justify racism and anti-Semitism. It is an ugly religion and the people who adhere to it are some of the most evil and hateful people you will ever encounter, particularly if you question their belief system with hard, indisputable facts.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL did the public a terrible disservice by classifying all these various CI groups as "Militias". In truth, they are skin-head/Aryan Nations/Neo-Nazi freaks, and the only thing a true citizen's militia will probably ever have in common with them will be a gunfight. One cannot support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and at the same time embrace racist or anti-Semitic sentiments. The two belief systems are in enmity with one another.
Nevertheless, CI is making tremendous strides among the disaffected in society who are looking for a scapegoat, and their numbers are growing alarmingly.
Further, CI adherents are quite literally the most dangerous people we have living among us here in America. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were CI.
The members of the so-called "Order" who murdered Alan Berg, the Jewish radio talk show host in Denver, were CI. That freak, Buford Furrow, who attacked the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles and then walked outside and killed a postal worker for no better reason than he wasn't white? Yep, he was CI too.
So the first challenge you'll face in this research is to determine if the people you are interviewing are actually true militia members or CI freaks labeled a militia by that con man Morris Dees of the SPLC.
I hope this information has been helpful.
Have a great day.
Here's another one from the gang.
I don't know where you get the idea that The American Family Rights Association is a white supremist group. It is not.
I can tell you from experience that they are a family rights organization.
I am proud to be associated with them. If you want to meet a real white neo nazi white supremist, Harold A. Covington is one.
He is located somewhere in the State of Washington.
You can find information on his National Socialist White People's Party
over at http://google.com
I am a family rights advocate. I do not solict money, I help anyone regardless of race, nationality, sex, religion, or disability.
I am also a trained paralegal.
Leonard Henderson is not a white supremist ok. Neither is Pamela Gaston, but both are victims of Child Protection Services.
Family Rights Advocate
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I am a proud member of the American Family Rights Association/Illinois State Coordinator.
Looks like old Roger might be breaking the law. The following is an excerpt from the Oregon Judicial Watch newsletter dated October 2003.
Next meeting will be Saturday, Nov. 8, 2 – 4 pm, at the Beaverton Public Library, 5th & Hall. Come and listen to Roger Weidner explain how successful he believes the Weidner Method is. For those who wonder what is the Weidner Method, it’s preparing and filing in court a Request for Summary Judgment; get a court hearing date, then go to court with a group of sup-porters; state the facts of your case; the opposition states their position; and the judge hands down a decision.
At the October meeting Roger faced down a dissident group asking him to resign as President of OJW. Dissidents are unhappy with his charging for helping prepare legal papers to represent themselves in court as he is a disbarred lawyer and they are unhappy also for charging to publish their story in THE OREGON OBSERVER. When does a reputable newspaper charge for a news worthy story? They ask does the Weidner Method get back our children? Our land? Our property? Keep us out of prison? No, it does not. Beautiful little Melissa Gaston has been adopted away. The legal heir of the multi-million dollar Kettleberg Estate did not receive a dime. Hartford VanDyke is in prison. Lanny Mateir is in prison. The Reussers did not prevail against Washington Mutual (Ken tells us though Roger has not charged them a dime). In these and many other court battles where the Weidner Method has been tried, including Roger’s own attempt to save his investment in a houseboat, all lost.
Can it honestly be said failure was due to a corrupt judicial system? Or can it be said that fine points of law were missed? And that judges being human beings retaliate to name calling and threats and intimidation from what appears to them to be vigilantes? The Oregon Bar doesn’t seem to care what Roger does. Why is that? Because they see him as inconsequential? Or is it because he prevents Oregon Judicial Watch from being well accepted and a moving force for constructive change?
Looks like it's time for crazy Roger to leave Oregon Judicial Watch.
Uh oh. Roger is back to arresting people again. Check out the following;
WEIDNER ARRESTS ATTORNEY CLAUDE INGRAM
Weidner arrests Ingram
On March 9, 2004 LaPine Oregon property owner Patricia Wishon appeared with 25 supporters in the Deschutes County Courtroom of Judge Thompson to be heard on the Summary Judgment Motion that she filed in the Racketeering and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Duress case she had pending against her former attorney Anthony Albertazzi, her former husband Santiago Torres and his attorney and live-in girl friend attorney Linda Hasse.
In her complaint, and in her sworn courtroom testimony, while Judge Thompson, Torres, his attorney Claude Ingram and Albertazzi's attorney Carol Gregory, Deschutes County Deputies Phillips and Byers and the 25 supporters, with silence and total attention looked on, she with passion and righteous indignation detailed how the defendants have openly, shamelessly and treacherously conspired against her to defraud her of property she had inherited from her late husband. She spoke with abject contempt for her former husband Torres for having married her for her property then having turned into a vicious wife-beater who after almost killing her and physically torturing her forced her to call the police and have him arrested and taken from her home in hand cuffs and ultimately sent to jail for 6 months.
While she spoke, Attorney Ingram, feeling the outrage of Wishon supporters, sat shamefully with his face in his hands. Both Ingram and attorney Gregory, feeling the contempt of Wishon supporters, nervously described to a very nervous appearing Judge Thompson different technical reasons why Wishon's case should be dismissed.
In the support group were Former Marion County Sheriff Jack Utterback and his wife Dixie, A Voice for Children Director Wilbur Gaston and l998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor Roger Weidner, Ecclesia Director Gregory Thomas and people from the area who came as courtwatchers and supporters including the Hempel's, Breeden's, C. Edwards, D. Peddycoast, D. Pinkley.
Before Utterback, Gaston and Weidner entered the courtroom Weidner had left word with Deschutes County Sheriff Stiles and personally informed Deputy Sheriff Phillips and Byers that he was going to be arresting Ingram after the proceedings for bribery and subpornation of perjury in the Turnbow case.
When Weidner entered the courtroom he sat next to Ingram and had Gaston sit on the other side of him and Jack and Dixie Utterback and the rest of the supporters form a hostile semi-circle around him.
When Ingram, feeling the heat from the hostile supporters, stood up and moved to counsel table Weidner stood and pointing at Ingram again publicly condemned him for being totally corrupt and for bribing and subporning perjury in the Turnbow case.
Ingram, his face becoming flush, snarled "you're a liar Weidner" while the courtroom fell silent. "It's the truth and you know it" Weidner said contemptuously to Ingram.
After the hearing Weidner had the supporters form outside the courtroom and wait for Ingram and Torres to leave. As Ingram exited the courtroom Weidner took hold of Ingram's left arm and said: "I am arresting you Claude Ingram for bribery, subornation of perjury and assault".
Ingram, looking stunned, did not respond at first and seemed distracted by the fact that his client Torres appeared to be trying to hide behind and from the hostile Wishon supporters glaring at both Ingram and Torres. Weidner told Ingram "This corruption and the stealing of innocent peoples children, lands and property by thieving, treacherous attorneys like you and a group of very corrupt judges is over".
As Weidner spoke pictures were being taken of him arresting Ingram. Ingram's only response was "it's not over yet!"
When Deputy Byers saw that pictures were being taken he attempted to grab the camera and was observed trying to reach over the top of Cher Barry and grab the camera. Cher yelled at him "you stay away from me". Weidner immediately told Byers that he wanted him to go with the group to confront Thompson about the way the supporters were being treated in the courthouse by overbearing Deputies.
Weidner and the supporters waited ten minutes in the courtroom for Judge Thompson to appear without success. While waiting for Judge Thompson to appear only a single Deschutes Deputy Sheriff stood quietly in the courtroom. It appeared to those present that Judge Thompson was not prepared to challenge the charges of judicial corruption and police-state treatment of the citizens by the government that was being spoken about by all those present.
After the appearance the supporters who helped expose the on-going corruption in the Wishon case appeared on the front steps of the Deschutes courthouse.
The following is a letter to Attorney General Ashcroft from looney Roger Weidner, who is so looney he can't even communicate intelligently with people outside his cult of the really stupid.
Attorney General John Ashcroft
United States Department of Justice
Washington D.C., 20515
September 18, 2001
Dear General Ashcroft,
I am a former attorney and public prosecutor who for the past 13 1/2 years has been waging a campaign, along with thousands of other Oregonians, against the widespread corruption in the Oregon Court systems. I was the l998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor and am currently Vice-President of Oregon Judicial Watch, a 1000 member group of concerned citizens determined to restore Constitutional government to the citizens of Oregon. Through the internet we are connected with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other like-minded citizen groups around the country, that have formed in the past 8 to 10 years to restore constitutional government to the citizens of this country
I have had the help of many, including political activist Jesse Lott, in fighting the corruption problem here in Oregon. Jesse met with you on his last trip to Washington D.C. . I am enclosing the picture of you and he together that appeared on the front page of THE OREGON OBSERVER. Also on the front page of that paper is a my picture taken in Judge Ellen Rosenblum’s courtroom on February 21, 2001. During that hearing I gave undisputed, sworn testimony, of the criminal conduct of the attorneys and judges involved in the corruption I have been fighting for the last 131/2 years. That testimony appears on the backside of the article containing our pictures. I am also enclosing an open letter, describing the corruption here in Oregon , that my mother Frances Weidner sent to President Gordon Hinckley of the Mormon Church and to Utah Senator Orin Hatch and Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, both Mormons. A copy also was sent to Michael Mossman the new U.S. Attorney for Oregon who is also a Mormon.
I am also enclosing for your review a letter I sent in December of l998 to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas describing the corruption problem. Also enclosed is a story appearing in THE SPOTLIGHT describing the abuse I have endured for exposing the judicial corruption here in Oregon . On the back page of that story is the article describing my confrontation with Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Carson, about the judicial corruption in the Oregon court system, that took place outside a hearing room in the Oregon State Capitol.
I know you are presently consumed by the tragic terrorist attacks on this county September 11, 2001. However General Ashcroft there is a domestic enemy loose in this great land, terrorizing innocent citizens, who poses a threat to the American way of life equal to if not greater than that posed by foreign enemies. That domestic enemy, the one Thomas Jefferson warned against, is the tyranny of a corrupt judiciary.
I have been the subject of numerous arrest, some violent, twice where I thought my life was going to be taken, for attempting to speak in court, on the record, about this corruption. I have been jailed a total of 290 days and subjected to forced medical examinatons while shackled hand and foot. I believe that the only reason that I am alive today, and able to write to you about this most dangerous situation, is because of the large number of people who have been supporting our fight against this corruption. This is a fight we cannot and will not lose.
I heard both you and President Bush say that you will use the full force of our government to bring those foreign terrorist to justice for the crimes they have committed against humanity and this great Nation. So also must you General Ashcroft and President Bush, to restore integrity to our judicial system and public confidence in our institutions of government, use your great offices, with the support of the tens of thousands of us in the Patriot community, to bring these domestic enemies (corrupt, tyrannical judges and public officials) to justice.
By packing the courtroom, with outraged citizens, over the past 11 years, we have finally been able to force these corrupt judges to comply with their oaths of office and sit quiet while a “public record” is made of the criminal abuse innocent people have suffered in this community. What I have repeatedly and personally witnessed, here in Oregon, is innocent people having their children, lands and other property shamelessly stripped from them by corrupt attorneys, judges and bureaucrats in sham, many times “star chamber” type proceedings devoid of constitutionally required “equal protection” or “due process” of law.
I would most appreciate a call from your office, as well as from Senators Hatch and Smith’s offices to U.S. Attorney Michael Mossman directing him to meet with me at his earliest convenience. In that meeting I can discuss the criminal evidence I have generated in my l31/2 year battle with the judicial corruption here in Oregon . Such action would be a giant first step toward restoring integrity in the judicial systems here in Oregon and also in restoring public trust in our government. Thanking you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely
Roger Weidner
cc: President Gordon Hinckley, U.S. Senators Hatch and Smith, U.S. Attorney Michael Mossman, Lou Berres Christian Coalition, Ed Snook THE OREGON OBSERVER, Larry Jackson THE PORTLAND OBSERVER, Robert Pamplin Jr. THE PORTLAND TRIBUNE, Ralph Hatley-THE OREGON SPECTATOR, Don Harkins-THE IDAHO OBSERVER, Robert Caldwell THE OREGONIAN,
I notice in Roger's looney letter that he names a couple of prominent Mormons.
Just from listening to some of Roger's looney followers who have come over to where I live to harass me, I can tell that old Roger hates Mormons with a passion.
Let's try to find out why. Well, well, it seems that Roger's nephew has let the cat out of the bag. The following is an email sent to me from Roger's hateful nephew. Y'know, it seems all Roger and his idiot followers do is hate, hate, and hate.
----- Original Message -----
From: RaWydner@aol.com
To: editor
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:01 PM
Subject: Hate mail, sorry
Roger Weidner is an ass head, given. But Bruce Wydner, my father, is a brilliant inventor responsible for Cost-effective Machine-Translation, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Parshing, and on and on. I would appreciate if you didn't poo-poo his fight to reclaim his lost property from Bastian and his corpo-thugs as "insane" as per your July 25 posting. More importantly, Bruce Wydner is a Christian--never has he claimed that "Jews are the offspring of Eve and the Serpant form of Satan," or that "non-whites have no place in heaven." The man who wrote that "insane" article in the Oregon Observer describing our lawsuit is, in fact, GASP--a black man, and he's a family friend. You're mis-informed, that's understandable. You're confused--why would a great inventor involve himself with someone as...eccentric...as Roger Weidner. One can't choose family. One can, however, choose enemies, and believe me, I'm not the kind of enemy you want to have. So never call my family Neo-nazis again.
Regards,
Ransom Leif Wydner V
He even wrote me another email.
----- Original Message -----
From: RaWydner@aol.com
To: editor
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: I'm sorry
I wrote an unkind e-mail just a second ago and, after reading your web pages, I must say that I apologize. You see, I made my verbal attacks on the assumption that you were sane. Now, I plainly see that you are incapable of forming rational thought and I apologize. Get a job and some proffesional help, asshole.
Of course, the above emails are filled with factual inaccuracies so let's do a little digging. The following is one of the reasons Roger and his family hate Mormons. They believe that Mormons and the Mormon church ripped them off. The following is an article by
Man accuses firms of stealing software
By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News staff writer
Man accuses firms of stealing software
By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News staff writer
PROVO — A self-described linguist and programmer has filed a lawsuit against Novell, the Eyring Research Institute and the founders of WordPerfect for a whopping $40 billion, claiming his software was pirated and used to create WordPerfect as well as some of Novell's first military missile programs.
Bruce Wydner of Eden, Weber County, and his brother, Roger Weidner, filed the suit last fall against Novell, Eyring Research and Bruce Bastian and Allen Ashton, formerly of WordPerfect.
Speaking to the Deseret News, Wydner claims a language translation software that he developed back in 1977 was inspired by passages within the Book of Mormon in which the Ancient Nephites were described as having the ability to decipher any human language through visual cues. In addition to alleging that his software was stolen, Wydner credits his software for ending the Cold War between the United States and Russia.
After working as a linguist at the Pentagon and translating messages for the Central Intelligence Agency, Wydner claims he was recruited by Brigham Young University to conduct research on what was to be known as his "Cost-Effective Machine Translation" software. Pointing to articles done in 1978 by the Deseret News and the Wall Street Journal, Wydner claims he was a part of a project to work on translation software.
While at the Eyring Institute, a language translation research group that had its start at Brigham Young University, Wydner said he faced ridicule for his methods by fellow researchers. "I just couldn't work there because people were making fun of me," Wydner said. He also claimed to have taught courses based on his system at BYU.
BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said in checking with those associated with the Eyring Institute, which has not been a part of BYU for the last 13 years, Jenkins said there was no recollection of Wydner working there. A search of staff and associate instructor records also yielded no proof that Wydner taught courses at BYU from 1972 to 1973.
But, according to Wydner's suit, it was around 1978 that programmers at the Eyring Institute began using his program without his knowledge. Wydner alleges that several programmers, including WordPerfect founders Bastian and Ashton, used his code to write one of the first highly popular word processing softwares of its time. In addition, programmers also allegedly used the code to devise a missile guidance system for the U.S. Air Force, those programmers would later go on, Wydner claims, to form Novell Corp.
Wydner's brother, Roger Weidner, said he is an attorney in Oregon who is helping to file the suit. Weidner said he estimated that Novell had earned about 8 billion in profits annually. Based on that estimate, Weidner said he came up with the multibillion figure for damages.
"That's basically a guesstimate of what they earned over the past couple of years," Weidner said.
But in the face of such outrageous allegations, Wydner said he is simply out to claim credit and profits that he says are rightfully his. When asked why he waited well over two decades to file his suit, Wydner said he was unaware of the alleged scheme to steal his software until December 1999 when a former Eyring programmer came forward and told him the story.
Wydner is seeking damages totaling $40 billion, for claims of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud.
Yet despite the hefty price tag on this suit, none of the defendants appear to be taking it too seriously. After nearly four months, neither Novell, nor the founders of WordPerfect have bothered to file a response to the suit.
"We have received a copy of the complaint and we believe that it's frivolous," said Novell spokesman Kevan Barney. Barney said Novell attorneys could find no direct claim in the suit against Novell and that Novell planned to seek the dismissal of the suit.
Let's hear Roger's version of the story.
Believe it or not, somebody actually wrote the following loony news article and you can actually access from here.
On May l3, 2003 Bruce Wydner, and his brother Roger Weidner, appeared in the Utah County Courtroom of Judge Lynn Davis, in Provo, Utah. Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were in court to be heard on the Summary Judgment Motion they had filed in the Breach of Contract, Fraud and Unjust Enrichment action they had filed against Novell, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research, Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton. Appearing in support of Bruce and Roger were 70 concerned citizens from around the country including Senator Trent Lott’s cousin Jesse Lott, Oregon newspaper publisher Larry Jackson, Sheriff Mack and Utah radio talk show host Tom Draschel.
In the complaint Bruce Wydner stated that he is the inventor of cost effective machine translation, the key technology allowing the development of the internet. The complaint charges that in l978, in violation of the non-compete, non-circumvent, non-disclosure contract Wydner had with Eyring Research and its employees the technology was pirated by Eyring Research to fulfill the contract Eyring had with the United States Air Force.
Then Bruce Bastian, an employee of Eyring, and Allen Ashton, with the consent of Eyring, but without the knowledge of Wydner, unlawfully appropriated Wydner’s intellectual property to start Word Perfect. The complaint also charges that former Eyring Research employees Mr. Fairclough, Mr. Nyberg, Mr. Christiansen and a fourth party also obtained the technology to start Novell by threatening Eyring Research President Ron Hanson. The complaint states that the four founders of Novell told Hanson that if they were denied the technology they would tell Wydner that Eyring had unlawfully permitted the technology to be turned over to Word-Perfect.
Before the hearing, outside the courtroom, Bruce Wydner’s brother, and co-complainant, Roger Weidner, the l998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor and a former attorney and public prosecutor, told the supporters assembled that he has spent the last l5 years fighting the pervasive corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger Weidner told the supporters that what he has seen repeated over and over again is innocent people having their children, their lands and other property shamelessly stolen by corrupt attorneys, bureaucrats or judges. He said no matter how blatant the theft the victims complaint is always dismissed on one pretense or another so the victim can never get their case heard by a jury of their peers as the law requires. Weidner said all of these victims are being denied fundamental "equal protection" and "due process" of law guaranteed to the citizens of Oregon under the Oregon Constitution and the Constitution of the United States.
Frances Weidner, the 93 year old mother of Roger and Bruce, was introduced to the supporters. Roger told those present that without his mother’s steadfast support over the past l5 years it would have been impossible for him to have had the success he has had in cleaning up the corruption in the Oregon court system. Roger told how his mother, weighing less than l00 pounds, had repeatedly intimidated corrupt attorneys and judges by openly confronting them about their corruption in the courtroom. Roger related one incident in l992 where he was being violently arrested, and choked to the ground, for trying to speak in court that his mother attempted to kick one of the arresting guards while her arms were being held behind her back by Deputy Multnomah County Sheriff Rita Berman. In another incident he related that in l994 his mother chased former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, Ed Petersen, out of the Multnomah County Courthouse after he ordered the arrest of Roger for insisting on speaking in court on the record.
Roger told the supporters to remain standing when they entered the courtroom until the judge came in. In the courtroom, before the judge came in, Roger told those assembled that they were the sovereign political authority in the state. He said that the judge and the guards are all public employees who, as a condition of their employment, have taken an oath of office to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of the citizens appearing as parties in court. While Roger Weidner was telling the supporters how his brothers intellectual property had been pirated by Bruce Bastian, who was sitting nearby at the counsel table, his attorney John Mullen, lost his composure and angrily said "you’re a liar" to Bruce Wydner. Mullen then in a defiant tone contemptuously asked Bruce Wydner "what is it we stole?". Bruce Wydner, without a moments hesitation responded, "automatic parshing" which is the key technoloy that allows the internet to function. Roger told the supporters that they were there to see that he and Bruce were able to make a full record of how Bruce’s intellectual property had been pirated by the defendants and used to generate billions of dollars in illicit profits for the defendants.
After Judge Davis entered the courtroom he said he was first going to hear the defendant’s Motion To Dismiss the breach of contract claim. Judge Davis, acting like an attorney for the defendants, challenged whether Roger Weidner and Bruce Wydner could bring the action since the contract was between Weidner Communications Inc., owned by their younger brother Stephen, and Eyring. Roger pointed out the contract was a third party beneficiary contract entered between Weidner Communication and Eyring Research to protect Bruce Wydner’s intellectual property.
After attorney Mullen spoke, Roger Weidner addressed the court saying his brother was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing, which is the technology that allows the internet to operate. He said Bruce Wydner had contracted with Eyring to do some technical work to perfect his ability to do automatic machine translation. He told the judge that his brother’s office at Eyring had been padlocked in l978 in order to block Bruce Wydner from removing his intellectual property. Roger told the judge that it was not until November of l999 that Bruce Wydner was told by the Harmon family, founders of Eyring Research, that the Air Force had ordered them to seize, for national security purposes, his brother’s intellectual property.
Bruce Wydner then addressed the court telling the judge that he was the world recognized inventor of "automatic parshing." He then turned and pointed at Bruce Bastian, who was sitting behind his attorney Mullen, and said: "In l978 I contracted with Eyring to see if they could produce cost effective machine translation. I was about to fire Eyring because none of their programmers were linguist. Eyring President Ron Hansen said his $5.00 an hour programmer Bruce Bastian could speak Italian and would that do. I told Hansen that Italian and Spanish were similar and so continued working with Eyring and Bastian. Because Eyring had signed the no-compete, non-circumvent agreement I had no idea that Bastian was training all of the rest of the programmers at Eyring how to use my technology in order to be able to collect 96 million dollars from the Air Force." Weidner said that although he had a strange reaction when he told LDS President Kimbal in l982 that he had invented "automatic parsing," it was not until l999 that he finally became aware of the fact that both Word-Perfect and Novell were created out of the technology he had invented.
As Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were condemning Bastian for his thievery he sat behind his attorney, head down and his complexion alternating between a bright red and a dull purple hue physically reflecting his obvious embarrassment and shame. Except for the momentary outburst by Mullen, before the hearing started, neither Bastian or Mullen questioned the truthfulness of the charges that both Bruce Wydner and Roger Weidner were leveling against Bruce Bastian, Alan Ashton, Word-Perfect, Eyring Research or Novell. After the hearing was concluded a very shaken Bruce Bastian left the courtroom under the protection of one of the Deputy Sheriffs present.
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