Legal Seminar Day 1 WOW! A Revolution has come
Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 09:29:09 PM PDT
Gene Zimmerman is teaching legal seminars and I am taking it in Ava MO. I started today at 8 am and he talked until 7 pm, unhurried, funny,brilliant and so revolutionary that I think he makes many kossacks look conservative. Just wait until I get to some of the meat. This is what we have been waiting for but didn't know it. We have lost our rights because we don't know we have them and do not have the knowledge to protect ourselves. Well, that knowledge started pouring out today and went on for eleven hours. Two short potty breaks and lunch intervened. I have not sat in a room of people so focussed for years and years, without all that silly questioning and second guessing that goes on in classrooms the world over.
This was an overview inundating us with his philosophy of active resistance to what they are doing to us in the courts. Continue for a sampling that may save you, a family or friend, your property etc if you heed it.
Do not enter a plea of guilty, not guilty or no contest. They will phrase it so you are led to believe you must choose one of the three. You do not have to choose. If you do you give your stamp of approval on everything that has happened so far. If there is any possibility of jail they cannot put you in without your having representation. You are entitled to an attorney of your choice but you don't want one.
Repeat after me:"I am in want of counsel and I cannot proceed without advice of counsel." Then they canot take it to trial. Do not answer any question. Just repeat the mantra. And that means good morning! You can lose by disobeying this advice. You act in good faith and make appointments with attorneys then say things that will make them refuse your case. Keep dates and times for reporting that you are trying very hard to find counsel.
Our wonderful Ginsburg in a case brought before the Supremes said in her opinion on it:How can one know they are forfeiting their rights unless counsel tells them? And this is the crux of that case.
Then he asked us how many of us had read Roe vs Wade. Then he asked how many of us knew anyone who had read Roe vs Wade. Then he said all people know of it is what the media has fed them. Here is his quote on Roe.
The Supreme Court said, "We do not have authority over the unborn child. If it could be shown to us that we have authority over the unborn child we would prohibit."
Gulp. And then he said that the states do prohibit.
In Burdett vs Texas (spelling?)"Counsel not of your choice can be more detrimental to your interests than no attorney."
He then proceeded to framing. Hear that Conceptual Guerilla! In the first document you present before the court you say, "All words employed in the court of this litigation shall be defined as such words are defined in Blacks Law Dictionary revised 4th edition. If the words are not found in this Black then (here choose your dictionary of choice.) Put that phrase in your first document.
This is how you control spin. Still with me?
For example shall is an imperative, but cannot be used if it causes you to give up your constitutional rights. The word require does not do that to you.
You must make truth appear as truth. Do not conceal it.
Written documents to be filed. It is much better to file documents than to talk.
Then he begins on the subject of jurisdiction which he says never goes away. Example. The FBI can make no arrest outside of federal territory. Because the federal government has no jurisdiction. So he takes the case of picketing an abortion clinic. Five went to jail for this particular case of picketing. One did not because he stood up in court and said, and only said this, Judge, you do not have jurisdiction. The clinic was private property. The other ones had lawyers and they went to jail. The one he was advising did not because he challenged on jurisdiction.
Is all this new to you? It was to me today. By this time I am gaping. Then he covered default judgements, evading summons, suing for breach of contract, ordinanance violation (that's me with my dog and garden). When the government is the plaintiff they must follow criminal codes. In a civil suit you do not go to jail, but the government has the right to jail you (if you slip up). So you say,Judge will you be following civil or criminal rules? The judge will tell you to ask your lawyer. Then you say how do I know whether to get a criminal or civil lawyer unless I know which rules you will be following. It is all designed to confuse you, lead you into the trap of giving up your rights.
He covers the types of public office:
1.Ministariel Duty (robot, no choosing)
2.Discretionary (can make judgements within certain defined boundaries
So if a ministariel official obstructs you, (like a recorder of deeds)fails or refuses ministariel duties you can ruin them. They are under bond and you let them know that you know that. They will turn pasty pale and do what you want. The bondsman will pull the bond and you can take everything they own. They have 10 days to replace the bond or they are out of office.
And there is so much more just from today. Ways to protect yourself from all sorts of litigation against you. Ways to win litigtion hands down.
Never hire a lawyer. Never.
Example again. Gene was stopped while driving. He says, "Is there a problem?"
Cop;"You have a cracked tail light."
Gene:"Yes I know but a cracked tail light is not illegal. Casting a white light is. Are all of you stopping cars tonight on this incident because I got stopped up the road for the same thing a few minutes ago."
The cop gets back in his car and goes away. He knows that Gene knows the law. They only pick on innocents.
A contract between two parties is illegal if it is being done for a criminal reason. I have a contract for you to pick me up at 9 am tomorrow at such and such because I am robbing a bank and I want you to be the getaway car. If you don't come I have no breach of contract because the contract was part of a criminal action.
Now do you know your bank has engaged in criminal violation of Title XII of US Code when you got your mortgage from them? Well a simple four page letter sent to them and they quit your mortgage down to zero. Sounds fantastic. He's done it. You can do it. Then he goes into the entire banking system and how it is cheating us every day. For me it was like a review of Marx's Das Capital and for most of the class it was a revelation, a new one, and they had trouble with their moral feelings about doing the bank in.
What I have given you is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg of this course. I shall try to diary each night even though I am falling asleep from the intense concentration. If I had kept on with my dog and garden case I could have pinned the prosecutor's ears back with cement glue. I did make a few errors in the beginning. He may still bother me as he might ot like my reordering of my back yard. He and I have gone a long way since the first day in court in August when he screamed at me that he would take my dogs and put them in the pound and put me in jail! Now he wants me to just go away. The trick for pro se is not to be in a hurry. They will win if you are as you will make a mistake. Your strategy is to outwait them. And always control the framing. Always.
Gene Zimmerman has a personal horror story that got him here. He wishes to teach people how to do what he does and has been doing for over 25 years. He told me that 12 people in each state doing this full time would start reversing our loss of freedom in about 2 years.
