PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES NOW A FELONY

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Fitzpatrick Sentencing Set for August 19th

Retired Naval Lieutenant Colonel Walt Fitzpatrick

In March 2009, Naval LtC (ret.) Walt Fitzpatrick was one of the first to challenge the legality of Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) to sit as an American president. Shortly after filing criminal charges at the Knoxville, Tennessee Federal Courthouse, he got his first dose of “good ol’ boy” justice — instead of proceeding with the case, U. S. Attorney Russell Dedrick trashed the papers and called in the Secret Service to visit this “dangerous” patriot that believed in the U. S. Constitution. It was only the beginning of much frustration for a man exercising his First Amendment-protected (apparently former) right to challenge a misbehaving government. Fitzpatrick, at left, wore his uniform to every public court hearing that involved his case in Monroe County, 2010-2012.

U.S. Attorney Russell Dedrick

Thwarted at the federal level, Walt tried next at the local grand jury system in Monroe County but found he was roadblocked again. Then, after discovering that the grand jury foreman had been sitting for more 27 years when the state statute required an annual re-shuffling, he attempted to have him removed by the courts but got no cooperation. Next, he filed a criminal report with the local police, but they refused to arrest the foreman. So Walt attempted a citizen’s arrest and got jailed himself — charged with “riot,” “disorderly conduct,” “disturbing a public meeting or procession,” and “resisting arrest.” He was later convicted of some this ridiculousness and served a few months in county jail. Before going, he discovered that while the law requires that all grand jury personnel be drawn from the pool, the foreman had been court-appointed for decades — giving the prosecutors all kinds of unfair leverage in obtaining whatever indictments whenever needed.

Jeffrey Cunningham

Next, he brought a complaint about election fraud to the McMinn County grand jury, which was then headed by Jeffrey Cunningham, CEO and President of Athens Federal Community Bank. Cunningham, an obvious government lackey, later warned Fitzpatrick not to attempt to file anything more with the courts, and if he did, he would have him arrested. (Where does a grand jury foreman get this power without an indictment?) Which he did.  But later, during pre-trial testimony, even the bankster Cunningham was honorable enough under oath to retract his “accuser” status, stating that he never filed a  police report stating any of the charges. NOTHING, therefore, could have been more blatant testimony to stop the trial before it started — nothing except a corrupt judge and system targeting anyone jeopardizing their privileged positions. Indeed, it was a trial that should never even have happened.

Prior to that, loyal and dedicated OathKeeper, Darren Huff of Georgia, was not only slapped with a four-year federal sentence on trumped-up federal charges for trying to help Fitzpatrick, but found that Stewart Rhodes, founder and head of the OathKeepers, refused to aid him in any manner and even denounced Huff as a member. Did Rhodes wilt to some quiet pressure from the FBI? His recent behavior at the Nevada Bundy ranch has made him more suspect.

After his release, the Fitzpatrick moved up the road a few miles to McMinn County in early 2012, but did not cease in his quest for honest government. He called Tennessee’s State Bureau of Investigation, and they hung up on him (we have the tape recording, it’s a fact), so he tried the FBI next. He told them of the evidence he had re. corruption within the Monroe County  judiciary, they said, “Bring us the smoking gun.” (Yes, we are too busy protecting the current administration’s latest baloney to tend to such trivialities as real criminal investigation. Why don’t you, private citizen, do our investigative work for us?)

So he brought them the “smoking gun,” and their response was, “Well, that’s just Tennessee. Get used to it.”

In the June railroading trial, the McMinn County prosecutor, A. Wayne Carter — a retired Army Colonel who should know better — deceived the jury with, “How dare he wear his [Naval officer’s] uniform to court!” Fitzpatrick had already shown the court in the past the federal statute that preserves the right of a honorably discharged officer to wear his uniform in public. But such fact is hidden in a corrupt system. Accordingly, Carter has asked the court for an “enhanced sentence” because of Fitzpatrick’s recalcitrance.

Last month’s trial resulted in a couple of felony convictions — one for a crime that is not even on the books.

On August 19th, a truth-seeking American will face the court for sentencing that will almost certainly place him in state prison for his non-criminal action, unless some kind of legal intervention takes place beforehand. But what sleeping Americans must worry about is, Am I next? What is this absurd word freedom that I am celebrating on July 4th really mean? Have we been captured and not even know it?