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Sandpoint, Idaho. My computer hard disk and
its mirror crashed over the weekend, taking with them the contents of
my Outlook files. I spent most of the past couple of days retrieving
from various backups only material through mid-September 2001. Almost
four months' work...gone. Fortunately, my main list is externally
maintained at Yahoo. That is also my sole source for the essays I have
written lately. If anybody happened to save them in the format in which I
sent them, I would appreciate copies. Else, I will download the Yahoo
versions, replete with those abhorrent embedded advertisements.
This is the second time I have had a computer crash
with the hard disk fragmenting and my Outlook files being the main
victim. Don't mean to seem paranoid (more than usual, that is), but it
seems to me that both times I had just released an essay which railed
against Zionism.
The Chosen, of course, fail to see anti-Zionism as anything but anti-Semitism
(actually, anti-Jew, since Arabs are the original Semites). The
first time prompted me to erect a firewall against Internet traffic. I
should have been doing more faithful removable backups, too, it turns out.
I had my inbox down to about 150 new at the
time, most of them unread. There were a number of inquiries,
both old and new, that I had not yet addressed. All that is
gone. If yours was one, please resend it and forgive me for
appearing to ignore you.
Gee, all the little thoughts, scraps of writings and drafts
I had accumulated during the past few months are likewise gone, since I tend to
do most of my non-legal writing on line, with Outlook. Not to mention a
ton of first-rate material I culled from thousands of emails, relating to the
near-complete overthrow of the US Constitution by Bush the Second.
Guess I'll have to do some all-new original thinking. Drat. Of
course, lately the gummint is a never-ending source of fresh material.
Odds and ends while I have you on the line:
Re: Lonny Rae & the Thought Police -
As most know, we beat them at trial last
month on the thought-crime charge, but that Idaho jury inexplicably
thought Lonny guilty of assault for having called that black guy a n**** (as
you know, I am no milquetoast when it comes to language, but many of your ISPs
filter for the "N" word and reject any messages containing such -
more political correctness, of course, so I bow to reality to ensure that
everybody receives this) from a distance after his wife had been
brutalized. So off the mark of the definition of assault that it takes my
breath away, but an appeals court would not disturb that finding, I guarantee
you. Remarkable result, that, and attributable to the epidemic of
political correctness that has swept over America. Black-on-white crime
doesn't matter, but look cross-eyed at a black man and get nailed.
This has become a simple misdemeanor, so
many say to let it go. However, the principle involved is important
to Lonny Rae, his family, to me and to all patriots, everywhere. I won't
let it go. We're going up on appeal and I fully expect the judge's
ruling, whereby he added the "lesser-included" offense as a charge after
the trial was over, but before the jury was given the case to
decide, to be overturned. I'll keep you posted on this. Mark my
words: Lonny Rae will walk free, vindicated of all charges, by the time
this is over.
Thanks to those of you who donated money to pay for
court costs, exhibits, witnesses and travel costs. I even have a few
dollars left over that will probably cover the initial filing round of
appellate briefs.
Re: Brian and Ruth Christine
& Oregon's Legalized Child Theft Ring -
Brian and Ruth still sit in jail in Oregon, held on
what I consider to be exorbitantly unconstitutional bail in excess of half
million dollars each. They just keep adding to the criminal charges, thus
the statutory bail just keeps rising, due to each charge. This is what is
known as "throwing the book at them."
The criminal actions have now been deferred into
mid-2002, and are being consolidated. This is for the alleged kidnapping
(I refuse to dignify the taking of one's own children as true kidnapping) at
gunpoint. The gun is the real problem. Oregon's Measure Eleven
minimum sentencing requirements really mandate an exceptionally stiff
penalty against both parents. This is the result of so-called "tough
on crime" initiatives - they set too wide a net and ensnare those, like
Brian and Ruth, who should be dealt with in understanding and with leniency.
The termination-of-parental-rights trial (about the
three oldest girls) is set for late next month and looks bad. The only
bright spot is that Ruth's parents almost certainly will be the ones getting
the three girls. They will then take them back home to England, of course.
Brian's public defender made an unfortunate
statement to the press about cutting a deal and precipitated a flood of
vituperation from the people in Grants Pass who were advising the Christines
all along. They loudly accused all the Christine lawyers, including myself,
of selling Brian and Ruth down the river in typical lawyer fashion.
Sigh. But for those people advising this young couple, they wouldn't be
in jail today, with their children living in two different
states. They would be an intact family unit somewhere.
I agree that the legal system, especially in Oregon,
is abysmal and needs a radical overhaul. However, I am not willing to
sacrifice Brian and Ruth to that objective, particularly since it would be a
futile sacrifice. Those people in Grants Pass really need to figure out
that they are a part of the problem in some of these cases down there; an
example of creating your own opposition.
About that "deal." Brian's case is
so over-the-top that a deal seems pretty unlikely; he likely will be better off
taking his chances with a jury. Ruth is a somewhat different story, since
she did not actually wield any weapons and was not present when that happened,
though conspiracy law sees her charged with the same offenses as Brian. A
deal for her might be the best approach. Time will tell. A deal
about the termination issue, especially since that is heard by a judge without
a jury, seems the most likely and is viable only because of Ruth's parents
being likely foster parents for the girls.
I'll keep you posted on this case, too, but as I
said before: this is a really tough case to get a good result in, from
here on out. We did well in getting the two youngest girls into the
hands of Brian's mother, but that was because we were able to work within courts
in other jurisdictions (Indiana and Montana). Oregon is furious over
those two defeats and has pulled out all the stops on the remaining
Christine cases, which are all solely within its own
jurisdiction.
The contributions from many of the good people on
this list (bless you, you know who you are) enabled us to pay for attorney fees
and court costs in both Montana and Indiana, including hiring an Indiana law
firm to finish the guardianship of Abbey Rose there. We fell a little
short, but I made that up out of my own pocket and am confident that we will
still see donations that will cover everything before we are done.
Re: Kill 'em, Kill 'em All -
Once again, hard-core Christian fundamentalists have
amazed me. The last time was over Harry Potter, of all things. For
having written an essay (Kill 'em...) which
nails Zionists in general and Israel in particular (along with its enforcer,
America), I get accused of being (1) Jewish (I couldn't make something
like this up, folks), (2) anti-Christian, (3) ill-informed and (4)
incapable of reading the Bible accurately. Sigh. I don't think I
got a single negative from any Jews this time around, though they often send
such in the guise of being nominal supporters.
Indeed, I received a couple of considered and
thought-provoking replies from the Chosen, particularly the NY Jewish
Times. Most of the Chosen have resigned from my list due
to my obvious anti-Zionist agenda, coupled with the fact that I have never
allowed this forum to become two-way, so that they could step all over it and
destroy it, as they have the Peoples' Free Republic. Now they just
do their best to get my ISP to drop my account and Yahoo to delete my
essays. Of course, they have their hands full these days, because their
opposition is growing like Topsy.
I appear to have offended two types of
fundamentalists. First is the group that considers
itself offspring of the Israelites of old, with the Jews really the
descendants of the Canaanites, who God marked for genocide at the hands of the
Chosen. The second is the group that honestly believes modern-day
Jews to be God's chosen, therefore we must protect and serve them. Well,
I've never been one to mince words, and I am not going to start now.
About 50 people "unsubscribed" from this
list after the "Kill 'em" essay
and its followup, versus 30 after my Harry Potter diatribe. That's net,
after new subscribers, too. Currently, this list stands at about 2040
and is comprised of what I consider to be some of the most thoughtful
and openminded individuals on the Internet. I know it gets reposted, too,
to many other lists. I appreciate the exposure and the attention, because
it helps to get the word out about the causes we support.
The Commercial -
No, that abhorrent ad at the top of this message is
Yahoo's idea, not mine, and will be what gets me to take this list elsewhere,
just as soon as I hear of a better list manager that doesn't take the sort of
liberties that Yahoo does. Yahoo is going to lose lots of business due to
its overreaching.
This commercial is for the Patriot Civil Liberties
Union (PCLU), which I have just established and which we are now guiding
through 501(c)3 territory so that contributions eventually will be tax
deductible. Meanwhile, we really do appreciate your making nondeductible
contributions, which enables us to handle cases like Lonny Rae's and the
Christines and whatever the next one will be. Those contributions - your
contributions - make all the difference in the world, since I could not
otherwise take on these cases. I only wish I could afford to hire staff
and run these cases on more than the proverbial shoestring.
Donations may be made to PCLU , PO Box 1255,
Sagle, Idaho 83860. Credit card donations may be made by logging on to www.PayPal.com
(joining is free) and sending funds to steele@plainlawtalk.com
with "PCLU "
noted in the distribution directions. Thanks and bless you.
Forward as you wish. Cut and
paste, delete...whatever.
I don't even care if you take what I write and send it to others,
claiming that you wrote it. It's all grist for something or
other.
"I didn't say it would be
easy. I just said it would be the truth."
-
Morpheus
Write to me at steele@plainlawtalk.com