Underdog Militia Report

I was going to say he got away with murder however, based I what I know of the case, it is at least manslaughter.

Sometime I’m going to write and article about how prosecutors stack the jury pool until it is made up mostly of relatives of law enforcement.

“CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, New Jersey–Late Monday afternoon jurors in the case of New Jersey vs Robert Higbee found the state trooper not guilty of vehicular homicide in the deaths of Jaqueline and Christina Becker.

Robert Higbee, left, and Maria Caiafa, mother of the teenage crash victims, in court as verdict is reached
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The 3rd circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia, ruled against reading pages from a bible in class.
An article can be found on Law.com

Now here is what grabbed my attention: “Writing for the court, 3rd Circuit Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica said “parents of public school kindergarten students may reasonably expect their children will not become captive audiences to an adult’s reading of religious texts.”

When parents participate in an elementary school’s curricular activities, Scirica said, school officials have the right to require that the parents refrain from promoting specific messages in class.”
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In an earlier article I wrote about how I was charged with failure to file a local earned income tax return.
After the local District Magistrate found me guilty with no evidence I appealed to the Dauphin County Court of common pleas.

Appealing a summery offense to the Court of common pleas is a simple filing of some paperwork and paying the filing fee. The paper work is filed at the clerk of courts. You need the name of the complaining party as listed on the criminal complaint, the name of the District Magistrate and an address to send them a copy of the notice of appeal. You also need all the basic info on the case: charge, verdict, date & time of the hearing. Also make sure you ask for extra stamped copies of everything you file.

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One day in June of 2007, I received a summons from a District Magistrate in Dauphin County.

It turned out to be a private criminal complaint filed by the West Hanover Township manager, accusing me of failure to file an earned income tax return. The first thing I found interesting was the fact that I was being accused of failure to file by April 15, 2003, for the tax year 2002. Here’s the problem: I was not a resident nor worked in West Hanover Township at anytime during the year 2002. So they did not have jurisdiction.

Now the average chicken neck American craps his pants when he receives a court summons. I was laughing at the weakness of the case. They had none. Even if I did reside or work in West Hanover Township at any point in 2002, the burden of proof was on the prosecution. So I decided to do some legal research. (continue reading…)

On Tuesday May 19, 2009, the voters of York County Pennsylvania denied the incumbent District Attorney the Republican nomination.
Tom Kearney won the Republican nomination for District attorney of York County. Mr Kearney is a former assistant DA who also happened to be the last person who ran against Mr Rebert, back when Mr Rebert was first elected to the office of District attorney in 1985.

Unfortunately the republican nomination for two judges of the court of common pleas of York County went to taskmaster union endorsed candidates. Chuck Patterson (one of Rebert’s henchmen) and Harry Ness.

I’m planning on recording another Underdog Militia Report podcast at the end of the week with more detailed coverage about the election. I might also be discussing other news & events. I’m also going to tell you a story about courage and cowardice.

On Tuesday May 19, 2009 another primary election will be held in Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, State legislature and congressional delegation elections are held in even numbered years.

State Representatives: all for up for two year terms.
Half the State Senate: elected to four year terms.
Various state wide offices: Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, Governor: Up for four years terms.

Since this is an old numbered year, local and Judicial offices are up for a vote.
Local County offices: sheriffs, Treasurers, Coroners, Commissioners, District Attorneys, up for four year terms.
Local Town Councils: Various term length depending on the municipality.
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At least this parasite lost 5 million playing poker. Yahoo News
That is much better than having tax dollars being used to ship jobs out of the USA. An earlier post about GM shipping jobs overseas

Most people are blind to the reason that the economy is such trouble. A number of things are contributing to the death of the economy and liberty in general.
1. Fiat currency distorts the markets giving an incentive to decision makers in industry to lower quality. A commodity based currency would also encourage longer term planning in all levels of investment, production, and quality.

2. Regulations raise the cost to enter a given market. Most regulations are lobbied for by Corporations that already dominate their market. Example- The top tier oil Companies that dominate the oil exploration market, lobby for regulation that stops smaller independent oil exploration companies from drilling for oil, hence they keep the price of oil high. An article about peak oil scam

3. Prohibition & legal extortion. There is a gigantic parasitic industry that profits from making war on the liberty and rights of the people. First you have private prison and subcontractors lobbying lawmakers to pass new laws and to upgrade what use to be a petty or summary offense to a misdemeanor and/or felony grade with much higher incarceration time. Many things that are felonies today were either low grade fine type offenses or didn’t exist as a crime as few as 5 to 10 years ago. Then you have taskmasters (law enforcement) running and getting elected to offices so they can pass more laws and increase penalties for petty offenses and/or victimless crimes. Then you have judges taking bribes to send teenagers to private jails.
Of course they lobbied the legislatures to pass laws that exclude a significant percentage of the population from the jury pool, thereby guaranteeing a high conviction rate. All of these things take up a growing portion of government spending. Not the mention the lost productivity of formerly productive citizens who are locked up. In the past decade law enforcement & incarceration has surpassed education as a percentage of most State budgets including my home State of Pennsylvania. (continue reading…)