"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
23 December 2007Stuck on stupidYeah, this ought to work just fine:
Before making his ruling Tuesday, [US Magistrate Judge James] Marschewski granted requests by all three defendants to dismiss their attorneys and to allow them to represent themselves. The three attorneys had filed requests to withdraw because either their clients did not want representation or because they would not cooperate in the preparation of their defense.
Note to defendants: when your own counsel wants out, you're in deep kimchi. And it gets deeper:
[Timothy Shawn] Donavan, representing himself, told Marschewski that he and the U. S. government were an artificial entity and that the magistrate had no authority over Donavan because he was not an artificial entity.
"You have no power over me," Donavan told Marschewski. "I am a living, breathing, free man of the Earth." "Go away before someone drops a house on you!"
[Sharon Jeannette] Henningsen told Marschewski on Tuesday that he and the government owed the three defendants $5 billion for defaulting on a promissory note they signed last month and which they claimed satisfied their bail bond and the criminal case against them. "The law recognizes promissory notes and greenbacks as legal tender," she said.
The note, included in a batch of papers filed with Marschewski, said the government had three days from receipt of the note to drop the case against them or be liable for the value of the note. I am not a lawyer, but I believe this to be the procedural equivalent of "A sphincter says what?" And it just keeps on getting better:
Another document, entitled "Schedule D: Default confessions, stipulations and admissions," said the United States was a corporate body politic without geographic borders.
That paper also said the defendants were foreign to the United States and that any legal action against them by the government was the equivalent of enslaving them. Which suggests a solution: how about parachuting the three of them into the middle of the Gaza Strip? If finances are tight, they could skip the parachutes. Rita says this proves her rule:
Reading a lawbook does not qualify one to be a lawyer any more than reading the Bible qualifies one to be the Pope.
Someone want to tell this guy? Posted at 6:52 PM to Wastes of OxygenOh sure, we laugh -- but these are the kind of people who used to claim that any U.S. flag with a gold fringe on it was an "admiralty flag" and signified that any proceedings in its presence were of necessity under martial rather than civilian law. It's not all that far from this to the notion that a congressional authorization to use military force, lacking the magical words "WE DECLARE WAR," is not a declaration of war. Posted by: McGehee at 7:50 PM on 23 December 2007Come to think of it, it's the same mindset as that which claims that because the federal income tax system has the word "voluntary" in it somewhere, you don't have to pay it. Posted by: McGehee at 7:53 PM on 23 December 2007Moonbats are popping up all over. Posted by: unimpressed at 8:41 PM on 23 December 2007Used to claim? They still claim the golden fringe flag thing as far as I know. What I don't know is why, since they say they aren't citizens, why we don't just deport them? Some place interesting like....Iran? They'd be funny if they weren't so crazy scary. Posted by: rita at 7:10 AM on 24 December 2007What would we do without moonbats? The life will lose half of it taste (at least)... Merry Christmas (or, to be careful, any appropriate/non-denominational greeting)! Posted by: SnoopyTheGoon at 8:06 AM on 24 December 2007Used to claim? They still claim the golden fringe flag thing as far as I know. Well, I stopped listening to them, so... Posted by: McGehee at 5:38 PM on 25 December 2007 |