The Wake Up America Tour End

Tracey Kollmar-Sylvia

THE NAME OF THE TROLL THIS TIME?  TRACEY KOLLMAR-SYLVIA (it's always the ones with the hyphens, isn't it?)

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,^[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response^[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion,^[3] often for the troll's amusement.

This sense of both the noun and the verb "troll" is associated with Internet discourse, but also has been used more widely. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. For example, the mass media have used "troll" to mean "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families."^[4][5] In addition, depictions of trolling have been included in popular fictional works, such as the HBO television program The Newsroom, in which a main character encounters harassing persons online and tries to infiltrate their circles by posting negative sexual comments.

                                                                                                                                              - Wikipedia

Well kids, as soon as it started, the Wake Up America Tour is now officially ended.  Thanks to some nasty comments after posting the best way to contribute to my cause (after several people inquired), I have decided that helping others expose what has happened to them isn't what this country wants from me.  Fine.  I will continue to write about my own case, and what's going on with me...the rest, is fini.  America has spoken.  The words used after I posted were "Disgusting", and "I'm reporting this"...screw those people.

My Facebook account?  Is de-activated...permanently.  I apologize to all of those who supported and helped until now.  You are the true warriors in this country.  I applaud all that you have done to expose this evil, but it seems that not all agree with my methods.  Oh, and That1Lurker?  You continue to waste your time.  No biggie.  The delete button still works great for all that you comment.  I continue to not read what you say, and I don't care what you say.  Your efforts are most wasted.  No one but me can ever see what you write, and I don't even see it.  Blabber on.

One final round of thanks go to Theodore Booker...I love you fam.  Thank you Trina, you know what you mean to me, and I appreciate what you did.  You will be compensated.  Thanks to Ms. Winter, and thanks to Sean Que.  You are a true patriot friend, and thank you for loving your country.

I apologize to all of those who misunderstood my last post.  I was merely giving people what they asked for, and wasn't trying to ask for anything.  The Department of Human Services, those who agent for them and the corrupt officials that are trying to shut me up, and Iowa's Judiciary have totally destroyed my life, and that of my family's lives, but no one seems to get that.  Working for me is not an option at the moment, due to various complications (a nice new record of Stalking and Harassment for example, a year in jail out of my life for that sure didn't and isn't helping me, and the loss of the ability to live where I lived are all good show for putting me where I am).  Finally, those who work for those who wish to stop me in all that I do have finally won out...at least on Facebook, and on the show.  Well, that's ok.  Now I have all the time in the world to concentrate on Iowa and those who will eventually go to jail and pay up for what they've done.  You succeeded in this mini-battle, but you're about to lose the war, thanks to the time I have to fight it.

The "Minimum Wage" and Part-Time Positioning

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Well folks, it's been a while since we addressed a REAL American Deadly Sin, hasn't it?  Well say no more, because you've been duly updated on yet another subject that "grinds my gears."

Let's do this in two parts, just to make sure we don't cross wires, OK?  Let's start with my favorite, the all-American "Minimum Wage."

Now, I'm sure that the majority of America is well aware that what we're being paid, often the lowest wage possible, is by no means what the average citizen of this country needs to survive.  And they wonder why theft is such a problem these days.  Hate to tell ya, it's not because drug use and abuse is an issue...although that contributes, surely.  No, the problem is that corporate greed (one of our more deadly sins, as should be quite obvious by now) and the profit line cuts off any chance we have of making what we're worth.  Neither here nor there, the minimum wage has not only not ever been what it should be, nor, does it look like it ever will be.  I think we all know that this is because the more a business has to pay us, the less a business makes.

Lobbyists against higher minimum wages should, in this writer's opine, all be shot.  Their argument is that if the minimum wage gets raised, businesses will collapse, and jobs will be lost.  This is, of course, a half-truth.  Businesses collapse and jobs are lost every single day of the week, so tell us something we don't know, willya?

The real deal is, that businesses, especially small ones, start out with this grand scheme based on pretty much nothing, and the owners of these businesses usually have dollar signs in their eyes, thinking all they have to do is pluck profits off the money tree, not really thinking through the actual facts...that A.  They'll either have to put in countless hours into their businesses and do all the work themselves for a while to save money, or B. That they'll have to hire employees, if the business's demands for their product gets to be too much for them to handle all by themselves.  Regarding fact A, this really only works until fact B becomes an issue.  Now we have to involve employees, whether one more or many...and that's when all the fun really begins, because now we have to insure our business considering them as well, we have to pay them, we have to cater to their needs, we have to include them on our taxes, and most of all, we have to benefit them enough, to ensure that they don't leave.  The problem these days, is that no one cares if their employees leave anymore, mostly because there are 1000's of unemployed people standing right behind them, dying to take their spots.  What the pay and the benefits package is really doesn't appear to matter to most Americans anymore either, mostly because they're just so damned happy to be working again, it doesn't factor into your new job...at least for a time, anyway.

Just for example, let's talk about the minimum LIVING wage.  Now we all know that the "minimum wage" doesn't reflect today's real cost of living.  People are fighting to have the minimum raised, mostly because it just HAS to be!  No one can live on the minimum...worse yet, minimum is what most businesses PAY.  The more they pay, the less profits they make, and WHOOP, there go your chances of turning out public stock later on.  Bend over and kiss your own owner's behind, because next year, it's likely that you'll be filing to receive capital losses on your next H&R Block tax return.

The current living wage SHOULD be nearly $12.00/hour for the menial of the menial, let's not even TALK about educated executives and the like...and here we are, arguing to have the minimum raised to $9 and $10/hr.  This is ludicrous people.  Stop thinking about your own profits, and think instead about your employees and THEIR families.  More so, instead of bitching about your high turnovers, think instead that, quite possibly, you're not paying your employees enough.

My take on this is that you should think about the fact that, if you can't pay your employees enough, maybe you shouldn't be in business to begin with, because it's likely that you either A. Didn't do enough market research to see if there was actually a real demand for your services/products; B.  Don't charge enough for your services/products, or C.  Are too lazy to put the required effort into making sure your business grows...or even remains open, for that matter.  If you aren't able to pay your employees what they're worth...or even just enough to make sure they stay alive themselves, then its time you closed your doors and re-think your business strategies.

If you're still having a problem with those high dollar salary figures, maybe you should consider this instead:  Well-paid employees = less turnover.  Less turnover = lower training costs for new employees, who will probably leave too because you offer no real pay/benefits.  Moreover, well-paid/benefited employees = more productive employees, which = better business, better products and better profit lines.  BUT NOOOOOOOO.....no, we may have to lower our standards, and get an Audi instead of a Rolls Royce.  Gimme a break, will ya?

I turn to a good prime example, my former kingdom's bus service, in Des Moines, Iowa, DART.  (The Des Moines Regional Transit Authority...by the by, how does this even come close to DART for an acronym??)  Now, DART, even though it has made a couple of leaps and a couple of bounds, where paying their employees, running now on Sundays and getting new buses are concerned, has traded these new beneficial improvements off for a couple of things essential to any business...service, in general, and customer service.  For one, they still don't use printed tickets, something that every city I've been to BESIDES Des Moines, has.  Monthly bus passes are still 1st day until last day of the month, not from the printed date you first use it.  They also aren't able to offer those planning to truck all over the city on just one day of the month (mostly done by those on limited fixed incomes like disability and social security), a printed daily bus pass (where you can ride the bus unlimited on any chosen day.)  Even worse, they cover MAYBE a third of the entire metro area, where only those without cars reside.  Sure, this makes sense when you consider the price of driving buses empty through neighborhoods countless times, but does nothing for increasing the feasibility of taking the bus as opposed to every member of your family taking their own personal cars wherever they go.  And customer service, are you NUTS??  The CORNERSTONES of any business is service and customer service.  And when it comes time to raise the rates again, things will only get worse.  Customers will opt instead to go back to driving their own cars (against any logical thought, mind you), and bus service will then decrease once again, causing even less to take the bus.  Less bus service = less happy riders who will stop being riders, and...either cost some drivers their jobs, or which may cause a lowering of their pay rates, or worse yet, may cause less full-time positions, and more part-time positions.  WHICH...just happens to bridge me into the other glaring problem we Americans are facing in our work-happy environment, the discrimination against those who go "part-time, or who are only hired as such.

Now, I just gotta say this, this is probably the part of what has happened to this country's employed portion just falls apart.  Since it has been ruled (long ago) that part-time employees are, somehow, inferior to those who opt for full-time torture, employers are no longer required to cater to these lower forms of life, like they do to their more permanent fixtures.  Employees that turn in hours of 32 or less hours a week are now all deemed to be "Part-Time" employees, who often get no benefits whatsoever, or partial benefits that they often have to pay for themselves.

Worse than this, employers have now figured out (more recently) that part time staff is the way to go now.  No more full-time employees sucking at your profit lines by demanding they get raises, demanding paid for healthcare, paid for parking, etc.  No more having to compete for benefits offerings.  More so, you won't have to pay these part-timers nearly as much unemployment benefits (even though these workers paid for their own unemployment benefits...go figure.)  Finally, you won't have to pay these people like you do your full-timers.  Win-Win-Win, right?  YEAH...FOR YOU!!

What has happened now, America, is that no one wants a full-time employee anymore...meaning we all have to not only get 2 or 3 part-time jobs to survive, and we now have to pay for all of our own benefits, out of our own pockets.  Not only that, we have to juggle our already way too busy and stressful lives around these due to be absurd work schedules.  Finally, and most importantly, no one has to pay anyone anything close to what they're worth, or worry about retirement for these part-timers coming out of your profits in upcoming years.

Competition in offering benefits to employees?  PSHAW...not needed.  America's jobless and homeless populations, bogged down from getting jobs because of unrealistic background checking, let alone the massive countless unemployed out there, all looking for work, will take whatever they can get, wherever they can get it, doing whatever it is they're asked to do.

America, if these issues are not addressed, capitalism and the free market will very soon be dead...but then, maybe that's what we need...or, quite possibly, maybe this is what big business, and the government that shakes their hands and gives them bail-out money to save them is really shooting for, huh?  Check into it.  Raise the minimum wage to what it SHOULD BE.  Don't let these monsters get away with this shit, talk to your legislators, and let them know how you really feel, before you have to move again, because of the raise in the living wage.  Ask for what you deserve...and if you can't get it, TAKE IT.  :D

The State Post-Conviction Relief Case, Part II

Yup, yup, it's that time again...time for yet ANOTHER fun document filed in the post-conviction relief case, due to air April 27th, in none other than good ol' IOWAY...right where I wish I was 1000 miles away.  AND I WILL be...well, to start, anyway...then it's weave back over time, so I can kick some ass.  Better yet, I really hope I lose...more fuel for my fed case, that way.  So go ahead ya crooks...cream me.  Ram it up me kiester...I DARE YOU...Wouldn't I just love to amend that defendant's list...AGAIN.

Annnnnnnyways...here's legal doc #...oh, I've lost count.  THE MINUTES OF TESTIMONY...filed today by who else?  Yours truly...should be a wing-dingy!  So enjoy Linda Lane...enjoy Judgees.  Enjoy John P.  Can't weasel off the stand EVERY case...I'll catch yer little Italian behind somewhere, sometime, m'friend.  :D

WITNESS LIST

1. Judge Robert Blink, District 5C Judge, Polk County, Iowa

2. Judge William Kelly, District 5C Judge, Polk County, Iowa

3. Judge Carol S. Egly, District 5C Judge, Polk County, Iowa

4. Clerk of Court, Randy Osborn, Polk County, Iowa

5. Linda Lane, Asst. Polk Cty. Atty., Polk County Attorney’s Office, Polk County, Iowa

6. John P. Sarcone, Polk County Attorney’s Office, Polk County, Iowa

7. Grant Rogers, Reporter, The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa

8. Lucas Taylor, Mark R. Hinshaw Law Firm, West Des Moines, Iowa

If called by the plaintiff at trial, each witness listed above will testify as follows:  On or around January 26th, a warrant was issued for the plaintiff, christopher (bruce) the living man for the charge of Harassment in the 1st Degree, an aggravated misdemeanor, based on police reports taken by the Altoona Police Department on September 8th, 2015, and another on January 14th, 2014, and the charge of 1st Degree Harassment was then approved 12 days later by the Polk County Attorney, John P. Sarcone on January 26th, 2016.  On the same date, while the plaintiff was en route to the Polk County Jail, two more police reports were filed against the plaintiff at the Altoona Police Department, and immediately approved on the same date for Stalking, an aggravated misdemeanor, and for Threats, a class D felony.

On the date of January 26th, 2016, plaintiff Bruce was arrested by the Carroll City Police Department and held for transport.  By the time plaintiff Bruce arrived at the Polk County Jail, two more charges, Stalking and Threats had been added.  Plaintiff Bruce was held in the Polk County Jail from January 26th, 2016, until April 11th, when a trial by jury was held to determine his guilt or innocence.  Plaintiff Bruce was found guilty of the charges of Harassment in the 1st Degree, and Stalking by a jury of his peers.  The charge of Threats, a Class D felony, was discharged.  The Plaintiff, Bruce, was then allowed to bond out, pre-sentence, on a $4,000 bond ($2,000 for each of two aggravated misdemeanors).  Plaintiff Bruce then re-appeared on May 4th for sentencing.  He was given a 1 year suspended sentence, to serve two concurrent 30 day sentences for a total of 60 days, then was to report for probation for a period of two years.

Upon his release, plaintiff Bruce, before signing up for probation, decided on serving the remainder of his sentence instead, and immediately asked Judge Blink for a reconsideration.  Judge Blink then set a court date, a few days later, for the date of August 18th, to reconsider, revoke his probation, and allow plaintiff Bruce to serve the rest of his time.  Later, on or around July 25th, 2016, Judge Blink would then order a warrant be issued for plaintiff Bruce for probation violation, and plaintiff Bruce, as a result, wrote to Judge Blink, reminding him that he had not signed up for probation, and had asked to be reconsidered, and to not issue the warrant.  Judge Blink still issued the warrant, and the plaintiff, Bruce, was then arrested on that warrant and 3 more simple misdemeanors 2 days before the reconsideration hearing would take place, on August 16th, 2016.  Plaintiff Bruce did then serve the rest of his sentence, and was released on December 30th, 2016.

The witnesses noticed herein will testify to all matters contained in or referred to in the resulting criminal cases, FECR292141 and FECR292312.

Each witness will describe their relevant personal or professional background including their
education, training, experience and responsibilities. In general terms, each will testify about the
events of January 26th, 2016, throughout to the date of August 18th, 2016, including their
observations of the people, places and things relevant to the crime charged, and all events that occurred thereafter.  Each witness will testify about their impressions, conclusions and opinions reached as a result of their observations. They will explain the pertinent relationships among the people, places and things at issue. To the extent they encountered the plaintiff, each witness will describe the plaintiff’s actions, the plaintiff's statements and the plaintiff's filed paperwork. To the extent each witness recognizes the plaintiff, they will identify the plaintiff. Each witness will testify about their own actions and the reasons for those actions. They will testify about the relevant statements and actions of others. The witnesses will testify about any matters relevant to authentication, chain of custody and venue (that the events they observed took place in Polk County, Iowa).

The witnesses noticed herein will testify to all matters contained in or referred to in the resulting criminal cases, FECR292141 and FECR292312.

On or around January 26th, a warrant was issued for the plaintiff, christopher (bruce) the living man
for the charge of Harassment in the 1st Degree, an aggravated misdemeanor, based on police reports taken by the Altoona Police Department on September 8th, 2015, and another on January 14th, 2014, and the charge of 1st Degree Harassment was then approved 12 days later by the Polk County Attorney, John P. Sarcone on January 26th, 2016; even though the life of the alleged victim, Jeanne Munson, had been threatened by the plaintiff 12 days earlier.  Plaintiff Bruce called his bondsman that afternoon, and gathered that the price of the bond was $2,000 ($200 bail, as it should have been).  After the date of this alleged "crime", the plaintiff, Bruce, had no more contact with the alleged victim.  On the same date of his arrest, while the plaintiff was en route to the Polk County Jail, two more police reports were filed against the plaintiff at the Altoona Police Department, and immediately approved on the same date for Stalking, an aggravated misdemeanor, and for Threats, a class D felony.  After his arrival in Polk County, and after another call to his bondsman, Plaintiff Bruce then found that his bond was $70,000, when it should have been around $9000.

In the first month of Plaintiff Bruce’s incarceration, he opted to not have a court appointed attorney, and immediately challenged the jurisdiction of the court.  Judge Carol S. Egly will testify that plaintiff Bruce did so on the very first day of his incarceration, but denied plaintiff Bruce his right to do so on the day of his initial appearance by not answering the challenge, even after being prompted by the associate judge to do so.  Judge Egly will also be asked to testify that several cases for plaintiff Bruce were open at this time, and that later, at the request of Asst. Polk County Attorney Linda Lane, these cases were all closed and consolidated, and that a request for a jury trial in the case SMAC359086 was discarded, and that a new motion, typed up by the courts, was substituted, and that the cases that had been listed were then consolidated into just 2 cases, FECR292312, and FECR292141.  Judge Egly will then be asked to testify that this motion was NOT the defendant’s motion, but that this was substituted by the courts to show that he had NOT asked for a jury trial in the SMAC case, then altered the record of the court to show that Plaintiff Bruce has specifically asked for a NON-jury trial in that case.  Judge Carol Egly will also be asked to testify as to why she denied an initial challenge of jurisdiction, and did not address that challenge until nearly 3 weeks later.  Judge Egly will also be asked to testify as to why she ruled that the jurisdiction of the court was a “State” jurisdiction, when later Judge Blink would belie that ruling, stating the jurisdiction held over the defendant was a “Subject Matter” jurisdiction.

Witness Randy Osborn, Clerk of Polk County court, will be asked to testify concerning the motion that was designed by the court, and filed on behalf of the plaintiff, and the change in the record of the court, showing that plaintiff Bruce had “specifically asked for a NON-jury trial,”, even though the recorded record of the court will prove that defendant Bruce asked for a jury trial SEVERAL TIMES.

Later, on or around February 4th, 2016, Plaintiff Bruce submitted a demand for Pro Se rights in case FECR292312.  On or around February 29th, 2016, Judge William Kelly would issue an order denying Plaintiff Bruce his right to defend himself in his own person, and stated that he would need to obtain, at state expense, a “Stand-By Attorney,” if he wanted to file documents and do everything that he should have had a right to do on his own, such as depose witnesses, investigate his online/computer related crime, listen to prosecution’s DVD testimony, and properly prepare his defense.  Judge Kelly will be asked to testify as to why he chose to violate the plaintiff’s Constitutional right to defend himself in his own person while incarcerated.

On or around February 29th, 2016, Plaintiff Bruce was then assigned Lucas Taylor, to be a “Stand-by attorney.”  Mr. Taylor will be asked to testify as to why he did not file an appeal in case 292312, why he did not ask for a new trial due to an obvious tainting of the jury just prior to a conviction (reason for a mistrial),  and why he chose to not show up for a hearing involving the dismissal of 199 pieces of filed evidence of plaintiff Bruce’s in this case, and the quashing of the subpoenas of 29 elected officials, all asked to testify on the behalf of plaintiff Bruce, just 3 days before trial began.

On the date of April 11th, Monday, trial for the defendant, Bruce, commenced.  In attendance in the trial was Des Moines Register reporter Grant Rogers, who sat through one day of the trial, the first day.  Mr. Rogers will be asked to testify as to why he chose to only speak to the prosecution about the trial and plaintiff Bruce, and will be asked to testify as to why he never approached either the plaintiff, Bruce, or the plaintiff’s stand-by council for their part of the story.  Mr. Rogers will also be asked to testify as to the story fed him by John P. Sarcone, the County Attorney, and by Linda Lane, the Asst. County Attorney, and the FBI.

John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Linda Lane, Assistant County attorney, will be asked to testify as to why he fed a libelous story, with no factual basis, to Grant Rogers, two days before the jury was to deliberate, that lumped Plaintiff Bruce in with an alleged group of possibly murderous, lawless domestic terrorists, knowing that the story was likely to run the next day, before jury deliberations.

Linda Lane, Assistant County Attorney, will be asked as to testify as to why she has personally prosecuted against plaintiff Bruce in 3 subsequent criminal cases, assisted in denying the plaintiff, Bruce his right to defend himself in his own person while incarcerated, and as to why she ignored all attempts by plaintiff Bruce to settle his “Debt to Society”, prior to sentencing, and why she refused to answer several attempts at communication concerning this matter.  Witness Lane will also be asked to testify to why she motioned, in limine, that the defendant not use his rightful name, that he not testify to any matters concerning his juvenile cases (all relevant to the case), or refused to investigate whether he was a U.S. Citizen as he continuously claimed, a fact that has not been addressed by the district court, but has been avoided at all turns.

Also prior to conviction, the witnesses that remained from plaintiff Bruce's witness list (around 11 out of 40) all showed up to testify on the first day of trial, and were asked to leave by Lucas Taylor and by Linda Lane, because it would be another day before they could testify.  The next day, they re-appeared again, and once more, were asked to leave.  Wednesday, when the turn for the defense finally came, no witnesses for the defense returned.  The defendant, plaintiff Bruce, with little choice, rested his defense, since there was little evidence to prove his innocence remaining, and no witnesses to testify on his behalf.

Witness Judge Robert Blink will be asked to testify as to why he deemed 199 pieces of filed evidence by the plaintiff, Bruce, to be irrelevant to this case.  Plaintiff Bruce submitted a notice of why the evidence was relevant, and why the witnesses (29 elected officials) were being called to testify, but no discussion of that motion was addressed or considered.  Reasons given by plaintiff Bruce in the hearing on the relevance of 199 pieces of evidence was over-ruled, without discussion.  Witness Blink will also be asked to testify as to why he went out of his way to ensure that even MORE prominent elected/civil servant witnesses subpoenas were quashed, even though neither them nor their attorneys were present.  Witness Blink will also be asked to testify as to why he threatened plaintiff Bruce and his friend, Brent Swallers, with harassment of Linda Lane, the Assistant County Attorney prosecuting the case, because they attempted to politely contact and communicate to Linda Lane, the settlement of plaintiff Bruce's offer to pay off his “Debt to society" without unneeded incarceration.  Mostly, Judge Blink will be asked to testify as to why he allowed the quashing of the subpoenas of 29 elected officials, the Friday before the Monday of trial,  and why he chose not to address the matter a lot sooner, in order to give Plaintiff Bruce time to recover his position, and properly defend himself.  Witness Blink will also be asked to testify as to why he issued a warrant for the plaintiff’s arrest for probation violation, even though the plaintiff had clearly asked to be revoked, for probation he never completely signed up for, and had, later, asked him, in a timely manner following the request of him NOT to issue a warrant with sufficient cause, since he was scheduled to appear in court on that matter.  Witness Blink will also be asked to testify as to why he chose not to give a new trial to plaintiff Bruce, because of the obvious taint of the jury by the Des Moines Register’s libelous article, printed 1 day before the jury’s deliberation.  Judge Blink will also be asked to testify as to why the plaintiff’s bail was set so high, in an un-Consitutional manner, and was never reduced, prior to conviction.

The plaintiff hereby gives notice and reserves the right to call and/or present any testimony or information provided to the defense throughout the course of these proceedings.


/S/christopher (Bruce) the living man
christopher (Bruce) the living man
Sui Juris, All Rights Reserved
UCC1-308, formerly UCC1-207
Without Prejudice

How CPS Subverts Due Process

The State Post-Conviction Relief Case, Part I

Hey America! Whaddya say we strike a little fear into the hearts of the evil-doers? Chalk one up for the plaintiff in the upcoming Post-Conviction Relief Case, on the state level, a civil suit meant to get compensation for the wrongful arrest and conviction of our star truth-teller. This case will come to bear in April of this year (yeah, sorry, no show for the date of April 27th, 2017).

After February 20th (the date my printer/scanner comes back into my possession again), all documents posted in this case, all of my other criminal cases, and the currently filed FEDERAL cases will be scanned and placed right here where you all can follow along. IT'S TIME FOR PAYBACKS!

Here, then, is the first declaration filed in this case:

1. In the attached documents, Plaintiff’s proposed exhibits A, B and C, it states that the bond is set
high ($10,000 for each aggravated misdemeanor, and $50,000 for a class D felony) because the

defendant, Christopher Bruce, had a “significant prior criminal history.” This “significant prior history” spans the current 14 year period of just 1 year prior to this arrest, and which contained

nothing more serious than plead to convictions of 2 simple misdemeanors, and the charges of 2 more. There was no “significant prior criminal history” prior to this time either (there was a 5th degree theft, a simple misdemeanor from 2002, a Prostitution charge, a simple misdemeanor from 1986, and a possession charge, from 1982, also a simple misdemeanor).

2. The plaintiff, Bruce, was NO threat to the alleged “victim” (he lived 84 miles away, had no car, and had no idea where the “victim” lived or worked UNTIL both were listed on the police reports he received while in jail). In the previous plead to convictions of alleged “harassment” of two social workers (AGCR283733, Iowa 2015) plaintiff Bruce has never once violated his No Contact Orders, nor has he attempted to contact the alleged “victims” in those cases, now that those NCO’s have been lifted. Plaintiff Bruce has also never contacted nor attempted to contact ANY other subject of ANY other NCO, placed on him since.

3. The plaintiff, Bruce, had no history of skipping out on bails, and has always shown up for his court dates for all criminal complaints. There has never been a history of escape or attempted escapes.

4. Once the felony was dismissed, and after Plaintiff Bruce was convicted of the 2 Aggravated Misdemeanors by a jury, Judge Blink would THEN lower the pre-sentence bond of the 2 misdemeanors to their proper reasonable and constitutionally acceptable prices, $2,000 for each count.

In conclusion, this bond was set unconstitutionally high at its onset, solely for the purpose of keeping plaintiff Bruce locked away for as long as possible, not only to keep him from fighting his juvenile and criminal cases well (he did so only because he chose to represent himself), but also to shut him up about what Polk County had been doing to his family (and continues to do) for the last 3 years. The plaintiff, Bruce, claims that arraigning judges Egly and Kelly, and later, Judge Blink, violated their oaths, and placed UNREASONABLY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY high bails of $70,000 for no viable or legal purpose, and violated the Constitutional rights of Plaintiff, Bruce, per both the United States Constitution, and the Constitution of the State of Iowa (Article I, Section 8).


/S/Christopher (Bruce), The Living Man
Christopher (Bruce), The Living Man
Sui Juris, All rights reserved
UCC1-309, formerly UCC1-207
Without Prejudice
3912 S.E. 15th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50320
cbstraighteight@gmail.com


Certificate of Service

Per EDMS e-file, all interested parties have been electronically served this declaration on 2/7/2017.

/S/Christopher (Bruce), The Living Man
Christopher (Bruce), The Living Man

The Union "Gospel" Mission

701 E. 8th Street, S.F., S.D.

Hey America, and welcome back - to my own, and on-going personal Hell.

I have gotten to the point where I suppose it matters not if the criminals in my case(s) know where I am.  I'm out of state, meaning that they have no more power over me or anything I do (not that they ever did to begin with).  I don't completely rule out that they might not use this newly discovered information to once again attempt something crooked and off the books...don't think I don't imagine that the Des Moines Mafia King, Polk County Attorney John P. Sarcone, has a brother who might just be the mayor of Sioux Falls, S.D. (he already has one crook brother who runs a law firm in the Des Moines area...so it's not that inconceivable that he doesn't have more than one, or a sister someplace).  Even if he doesn't, I'm sure this wouldn't stop him from calling the local law enforcement to tell more lies to them, like he did all of the FBI offices in a 1000 mile radius, a couple years back.  I say, do your worst Johnny boy.  Add more to the pile.  The summons you'll soon be answering in federal court will already reveal more than what I need to put you away...or at least oust you from your high horse in Polk County.  They gotta find me first, right?

As to mine other enemies out there...you know who you are...in particular, the idiot "That1Lurker", who fruitlessly attempts to push my buttons (they've been pushed to their limits by a lot better'n you, and I'm still here, and ever shall be) by commenting...privately no less...on each...and every thing I post, I'm not too worried bout you either.  I've ruled out Jeanne and Mark (neither of these are too intelligent, nor could they even begin to push even a corner of even one of my buttons with any fortune), which pretty much only leaves one of 2 enemies.  I'm gonna say it's....none other than Foggy Fogbow or Jack(ie) Karlson, since these are the only two of the idiot enemies I have left standing that have no life, and nothing better to do than try to get my goat.  Neither of these people are smart enough to worry me, nor are either of them particularly close...so knowing where I am for them will do pretty much...zip.  Again...they gotta find me first.

That said, and in case you haven't figured it out for yourselves, I am in Sioux Falls South Dakota.  Which, of course, brings me up to date, as well as brings us to today's subject, a place where I was forced to lay my head for a few days when I first got here, The Union..."Gospel" mission.

Now, before I get started, I feel it's important to praise all the good places and people that I encountered FIRST...BEFORE the nightmare to follow.  Since I was forcibly chased out of the Union, I then stayed a few nights at the Bishop Dudley...I found out quickly that it wasn't as bad...in fact, tons better than I had imagined it to be, and 2 tons better than the Union.  The people who worked there were polite, kind and helpful.  They didn't preach, there was no mandatory church to attend, and you could do pretty much anything you wanted to do until lights out...Hell, after lights out too.  After lights out, if you wanted to have a middle of the night smoke, this was allowed.  Finally, showers could be taken anytime you chose.

Also worthy of my praise is a place called "The Banquet.", the local free eatery, that feeds the homeless for miles about.  The place sports a fine meal...on time, every time, for breakfast, dinner, and one weekend lunch.  After eating here, everything else offered elsewhere pales quickly.  The ambiance is homey, the people are your classic "Here...let me get the door for you" helpful, sweet, "I want to contribute to the community" types.  If it were an actual restaurant?  I'd give it 5 stars, no hesitation.

The first thing I should have figured out about the Union was that this just wasn't the place for me...but time was fleeting, and the bags I brought with me were getting heavy, and the other local place, the Bishop Dudley, made you take all you had with you every day.  The Union Gospel Mission, on the other hand, gave you a locker to put your belongings in, that you could leave.  Fair enough...and believe me, the ONLY reason anyone would reasonably select to stay, considering its other glaring red marks.

The first red mark?  You were FORCED to take a shower from 4-7 p.m.  Not forced to take a shower...that I could understand...between 4-7 p.m. was the problem.  100 men, all taking showers together at the same time, sometimes in the absence of hot water.  Smart.  Never mind that I just took one this morning...or right before I checked in...or like to take one in the morning...if I don't take a shower in this time frame?  I'm out.

2nd, because of its "Gospel" status, you were forced to endure a NIGHTLY...yes, that's 7 NIGHTLIES...chapel, where, because you wanted to eat dinner (at 8:30 p.m,) and stay here, you had to first endure a nightly parade of various religious circus acts from various churches in the area (we literally had a Christian Country Karaoke guy one night, who was evidently so old he no longer knew he didn't sing very well...no joke).  All of these guest pastors believed, evidently, that there was such a good turnout...because everyone was there by choice (one actually commented on the good turnout, obviously not knowing that everyone HAD to be there to eat and stay overnight).  At the door to the chapel, a staff member stands ready with a clipboard to make sure that all staying guests are in attendance (what's your bed number??).  After forcing the "Message of God" down the throats of those in attendance, you're finally allowed to eat.  Then?  It's off to bed young man, since bedtime is 10 p.m.

You are then FORCED to sleep until it's time for them to wake you up.  That's 5:55 a.m. Monday-Friday...and 6:55 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.  What do I mean by forced?  If you get up for any reason except to a.  Go to work, or b.  Go to the bathroom...you're out.  The average sleep time for the average American male?  5-7 hours.  Get up before that without good purpose, and you're out in the cold.

The other wonderful portion of the "Gospel" moniker will be discussed shortly, and concerns a man who deserves national attention, as the most un-Christian-like Christian ever to grace a mission door, "Deacon" Don (this is his self-given title...not anyone else's)

The guy who runs the place, Fran, is a guy I've never met as yet, so I can't say much about the man, except that I'm not, certainly, the only person who has complained about "Deacon" Don, nor, I'm sure, will I be the last...but the guy has, in a sense I suppose, "met" me, through a letter that I will soon share with you.  Leave it to me to only be here a week and start a new micro-war in another state, so soon...right?

Anyway, let's begin with Don's version of the mission of the Union Mission.  There's only three words for this mission according to Don..."To Glorify God".  Not to help the helpless...not to help people find God...just, simply, to glorify God.  That's it.

Now, from what I'm told (from Don anyway), this man is a man of God...a leader, as he says...but as we peer closer, there are things about Don that I've heard too much to ignore.  For one, he is, allegedly, a conceal and carry "Deacon" of the mission.  Strapped to the side of his hip, where no man can see, Deacon Don...carries a 9mm handgun.  Sorry?  A leader of men, a preacher, a deacon...CONCEALING AND CARRYING IN A HOMELESS MISSION??  I don't care if it is private property...Hell, I don't care if murders occur nightly, since when did this become a norm in a city the size of Sioux Falls (164,000...slightly smaller than Des Moines, where NO one in ANY kind of shelter carries a handgun), in a gospel mission???  Around women...and CHILDREN??  And the director must know this!  There's 2 points off for his character, right off the cuff!

Now, I'm not going to bore you with commentary about what this man did, then make you read it again in the letter...but I will post the letter I wrote to the director directly after my more than voluntary "eviction" from their property (probably the best thing to happen to me this entire week).  Here you go, just to show you the condition of our world today...and to show you that some con artists (this one believes that God provides him with the means to judge mankind) are better than others (keep in mind, this is BEFORE I discovered he was a Gunslinger):

"Dear Fran,

As the director of a "Gospel Mission", I feel it's important that you be made aware of what actions a certain employee of yours considers "Glorification to God" and "Ensuring that our clients are living in a safe environment."

Please try to read past this paragraph, as the rest of this letter is, indeed, quite enlightening, where this man is concerned.  I'm not sure how much you are aware of what your employees do when you're not there, but "Don" ("Hair-Trigger Don", we've recently dubbed him) is a Napoleanistic self-righteous, judgmental hypocrite who believes that God has endowed him with heavenly powers previously believed to only be in the Father's realm.

It began when I met him.  I jokingly sidled up to him and said "You must be hair-trigger Don...I've heard about you."  Now, unless I'm not aware of it, I don't believe that God has recently put a ban on good humor of late, not even the ill-times kind, but, after a moment of complete surprise, he asked "Why would you call me that?"  I told him because I'd heard that he calls the police on the clients on a hair trigger, to which he replied "I like to be sure that our clients enjoy a safe environment here", as I'm sure that you all do.

However, in the week that I stayed at your mission, Don has, on some days, called the police on clients as many as 3 times a shift, on just about every day I stayed there.  I'm certain that none other of your employees could possibly boast these kinds of numbers.  There's safe...and there's ridiculous.  There are Godly employees...and there are paranoid control freaks.

This man, then, proceeded to accost me at least 3-4 times a shift, going out of his way to point out all that he felt that I was doing wrong.  Once, I'm not kidding, he got on me for writing my name too large in my spot on the duty sheet.  On another occasion, because I had picked off a piece of a Hershey bar on the way to my seat in the chapel, he went out of his way to point out to me that there was no snacking in the chapel.  I won't bore you with any more of the hundreds of things I "did wrong"; I'll only say that this man acts like a boorish tyrant, and this is echoed in the words of not only the clients, but in the words of his fellow employees as well.

Finally, today, the man put me out of your mission.  I said the word "Ass" in his general vicinity (in a literal context, mind you).  He then drug me into the office of the mission (where he was supposed to be working), closed the door and the window to the office, and proceeded to preach to me for well over an hour.  He ignored other clients who wished to check in, or who wanted to do their duties, or wanted to ask questions, talked to me in a judgmental, narcissistic and condescending manner, and refused to let me leave until he was finished with me.  I was only allowed to speak once (for around 10 minutes), after which he was right back on me again.  Finally, after an hour of this, I asked to leave (I had things I needed to get done), and was told that I could NOT leave, until he was finished.

During this "sermon" (for this was pretty much what it was), he continuously slandered other Christians in our country, claiming that the majority of them were fakers, and not really saved.  Others, who he said did not believe as he did, were doomed to Hell.  Finally, (the one that finally caused me to walk out), "Deacon Don" told me that God himself had given him the power to judge mankind, and those who entered his realm.  This was after I challenged him on his ability to judge whether what others believed was right and good, or wrong and damning, and stating that God was the final judge of this.  That did it for me.  I walked out of his office, and gathered up my things, leaving more than willingly.  He then TOLD me to leave (I was, of course, already), then threatened to call the police on me if I continued to act unruly (I wasn't acting unruly at all).  After I had gathered my things, I was followed by Don all the way down the stairs, all the way out the door.  He then proceeded to watch me to ensure that I did, in fact, leave, like I was a child.

First sir, I am not an unintelligent man.  I am 56 years old, and I've been around the world and the block more times than I care to admit.  I was raised by a minister in a Christian home, and I've read the Bible cover to cover 4 or better times, all before I was 18.  I am 5 years college educated, and have studied 4 other religions.  I did not come to your mission to be "preached" to or taught in the ways of "Deacon Don", nor did I come to you sporting the usual homeless issue.  I am not a felon, a druggie, or an alcoholic, or any of the usual things that cause a person to be homeless (the demographic is changing, I'm sure you're noticing).  I chose to come to your mission for only one reason...because you do not charge for the use of your lockers.  That's it.  I don't need to be saved, generally, or for real (Don dared to insinuate and accuse me of not really being saved.)  I am quite saved, thank you very much.

If you could have heard what this man said to me, as he blatantly waved off all who dared interrupt his sermon to me, you would have blanched too, I'm sure.  "Deacon Don" informed me, in his sermon to me, that the purpose of the Union mission is to "glorify God."  Helping people get a leg up, he said, was "incidental"...a benefit.  Tell me, how is removing more clients from the property by calling the police on those you mean to minister to, and help find the Lord, more than all the other of your fellow employees combined, helping your clients find and glorify God?  Isn't it quite enough that you force those who stay at your mission to attend a DAILY chapel, but now they are forcibly inclined to attend the chapel of "Deacon Don" as well, whenever he deems it necessary, and for however long it is that he feels it should take for him to get out what he has to say?  Isn't the purpose of any such like mission to do God's work?  If this is God's work, then, by example, I'd say that's not the work for me.  I think you'd be surprised that the reason for your turnover is hardly because people leave by choice, but rather because they're all chased off by your "Deacon" for ridiculously unimportant reasons, to be put out in the cold for not following the God-given authority of "Deacon Don" (his words, on the authority.)

This man expects immediate and unconditional respect from his clients, yet treats everyone like children, then calls the police on those people he doesn't like, or who don't follow his God-given authority to the letter, all the while presenting himself as someone who "only ties his wagon to the children of the light (his words exactly), and refuses to acknowledge that he is connected to, directly, those who are, indeed, from the very darkness he claims he has opted to shun.  When I tried to point out to him that he was surrounded by and serving (and preaching to) those of the "darkness" as a supposed missionary, he became upset with me and made it clear that he was no longer associated with those sorts of people.  He kept claiming, that if I had been born again (of course, insinuating AGAIN that I was NOT), I would understand all that he was saying.  This man is not serving you at your mission, or anyone else, for that matter.  He can only be harming it, and others, by working there.

I wish to have nothing more to do with you, or your "mission", but I would like an apology.  Not from you.  From Lord Don.  I am going to give you 48 hours to have him do so.  After this time, if I have not heard from Lord Don, I am going to write a blog article about you, Don, and the Union "Gospel" Mission.  Is this some hobby blog, where I've had a whole 500 views from local fans?  Hardly.  My blog is nationally and internationally read, and has 30,000 views, just in the last 5 months.  After finishing this article, I will post it as the FEATURE article, and leave it there for a full year.  I will then post this article to every Sioux Falls related group on the internet, send it to the elected officials of Sioux Falls, your primary newspaper, and to every local church.  After I finish with your mission, within a year, your mission could, quite possibly, be all a distant and unpleasant memory.  This is hardly a threat...it's a promise.  You can find this blog at:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com

or you can just simply Google "America's Deadly Sins."  I come up the entire first page of results.

After I get my apology, I would like to see Lord Don removed from working at your mission...not because it would make me happy, but so that others will not have to endure his hypocrisy, and can get on with their lives, feeling truly blessed by God, as well as being truly helped by your mission.  These people, in their individual situations, don't need someone getting on them about every little silly thing they do...they need your help, don't they?  Some, even, though I realize this is hard to believe...have other more important things to worry about and to do with their lives than having to listen to "Deacon Don" blow hot air about what he only seems to believe, and force his beliefs on others, under threat of Hell.  That, my friend, should be your mission...salvation by example...not under threat of eviction into the cold, should your clients refuse to bend to Lord Don's authority.

I have a social security card coming to your address.  I have put my current address on this letter for a dual purpose, so you'll have the address I am going to be staying at from now on (and, if you do not forward this to me when it arrives to the address stated, I will sue your mission for federal mail tampering,) and 2nd, to show you that I have no fear of any reprisal you may take concerning this promise I've made to you.  The state I just came from jailed me for a year for also exercising my right to free speech, and now 24 elected officials and more are involved in a Federal civil lawsuit, sporting 16 Federal code violations against me and my family, including judges, lawyers, detectives and more.  Nothing you could do, using the police here, concerning this promise I've made you, would net me anything more than a charge of simple harassment, and would cost me no more than maybe 30 days in jail...at which time (if I have not done so already), I will continue to fulfill my promise to you anyway.  Just because I have a full-scale war going on with one state, doesn't mean I have no time to start another war in another state, so do what you feel you must.  It will only temporarily slow me down, and will not deter me from MY mission in any way.

Thank you for your time.  You can have the Lord Don reach me at XXX-XXX-XXXX, anytime.

Christopher The Living Man/The Mighty Sword"


Well, since you folks are indeed reading this, it should be obvious that "Deacon Don" did not call and apologize, the director of the Union Mission evidently does not care, or, I'm guessing, may have never received his copy of the letter (I also left a copy of it to Don, on the same day).  This concerns me not...and, as promised, the article is up, and copies are being sent to all I promised to send them to.  Oh...and Don?  If you're reading this?  Go ahead...make my day.  Make yer move...punk!  As others have done in the past, you messed with the wrong sheep.  Christopher don't play.  :D

Standardized Sheeple Syndrome (SSS)

I have posted this video before, on Facebook, but I've not, as yet, found good reason to share it here, on my blog, except that it's just freakin' cool.  Well America, t'would seem that there is finally just cause to present what could be my very favorite video on taxes, and why you don't have to, nor should you pay them.

The other day, I was tagged by a guy who was simply shouting out "Stop Paying Your Taxes!"...and that was pretty much it.  I sat and thought about that for a while.

Oh, make no mistake, I agree with the guy.  But just like women across America shouting "Death to Trump", and nothing else, I just can't leap onto such a bold statement without some pretty damn good reasons to back it up.  So please bear with me, while I give you some damn good reasons.

For one, you can't NOT pay any taxes for a number of reasons.  For one, where gas, fast food, etc. are concerned, oftentimes, the taxes are bundled in.  What are you gonna do, walk into a McD's and say "Gimme just the burger, and tell me what it is without the tax on it; that's all I'm going to pay", or gas up at the pump and just get the un-taxed gas?  Impossible.

You wanna mess up the Government, both State and Federal?  I give you two viable ways, that make a lot more sense, go a lot quicker, and that are a whole lot easier.

1.  Don't file tax returns, and

2.  Don't drive.

Let's start with number 1.  Now, Standardized Sheeple Syndrome; a debilitating disease that affects the way the majority of Americans everywhere think; dictates that if we don't file our taxes, the Government is going to swoop down on us and wipe us out and take everything we have to get the bill paid.  Trust me when I say that you have all been suffering from SSS for far too long if you believe this (see video).  This is primarily untrue for a couple of reasons.

1.  The majority of Americans do not have to pay taxes.  We file to get returns.

2.  The Government simply does not have the manpower to enforce this.  If it ever had to enforce it, let alone on EVERYONE, by the time they got to all of us, a couple of decades would have gone by.

There's a problem that a lot of you probably haven't realized about State and Federal tax returns of late.  I strongly suggest that you first peruse this article that I wrote a year or better back, about how the Government, both state and Federal, has now taken on the role of "Bill Collector" for Government RELATED debts.  On a federal level, if you owe any bill (school loans, etc) to a federally AFFILIATED function, they will remove the debt from your returns, something I don't believe they have a right to do.  On the State level, the State now takes moneys that you owe the City and County you reside in.  As if we don't pay them enough to torture us by charging us taxes on the income we bring in, sometimes as much as half of it, now they're collecting on our debts too?  Come on, what's next...our utility bills?  Credit card debt?  Don't you dare doubt it for a moment.  You can find that article here, it's a hell of a thought provoker:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/07/corruption-part-iv-collection-agency.html

When I thought about the fact that the Federal Government, who merely SPONSORS banks to loan students money for school and school supplies (the Government USED to do this, but, like everything else, decided instead to dole the privelege out to greedy private banks; like we haven't done enough for them already, right?),  but instead rips students off with unreasonably high interest loans...(you ready for this baby boomers?  5%...per month...per one hundred dollars loaned.)

Let's take a look at $10,000 in loans for just a 4 year period.  I borrowed this in the first semester alone.  Let's say you take this amount in the first semester of school, and pay for the rest.  After 4 years of non-payment, that comes out to  $500 a month...for 12 months...times 4 years...a whopping $24,000...IN INTEREST ALONE!  You think for one minute I'm going to pay that at the end of the day?  Sure they presented that on the day of signing...but what college-aged student is going to do the math?  I mean, this is FICA...they wouldn't do us like that right?  SSS at work.  Grants are the only way the Government contributes to our education these days.  The rest is a rip off.  Oh, but they'll stand behind these banks in a second, and take it out of your tax return to cover the bank's butt.  Nice.  Oh, I agree.  Stop FILING your federal taxes.  Quit supporting private banks.

On the state level, I came up with a damn good reason not to pay your state taxes, and screw them all up at the same time, the aforementioned #2 - stop driving.

Last night, I was talking to my friend Alyse Thrush, who has been through some real Hell herself, and beings it was like 5 in the morning, and I was barely awake, and answering something she had asked.  I'll bet she's sorry she asked.  I responded with quite the ordeal.  I was led from there to write this article, matter o' factly.

She asked me a rather simple question really..."Why do you walk around?"  A loaded question, of course...especially where I'm concerned.

I said it like this.  I haven't driven in Iowa since 2010.  They started suspending my license for various reasons; non-payment of Child Support (thanks again, DHS...oh, and by the way, that is ALL PAID OFF NOW), and non-payment of parking or speeding tickets...and every time, I'd have to pay them $200 to re-instate it, and test AGAIN to get it back,  Let's not even discuss the fact that half the time, I wouldn't know it was even suspended, at least not until I got pulled over.  I wonder who thought of that wonderful way of handling the non-payment of your county and city debts?  I just wanna stick hot pokers up his/her nasal cavities.

Finally, on the last suspension, I decided to take a 2 year haitus from driving in my favorite state.  They want my money?  They'd have to come to my door and try and take it from me.  In the meantime, I'll take mass transit, thank you.

Then, in 2014, after my daughter was stolen from us, I woke up to just how much money I was paying Iowa concerning my right (they call it a privilege) to drive (travel) and I swore I'd never drive again, as long as I lived there.  Then this occurred to me:

Surely, as much money as we pay the local, county and state Government to drive (buying the car initially and paying the taxes on it, even AFTER it's ours, free and clear; registrations, titles, plates, insurances, unavoidable gas taxes, license fees, driving classes, renewal fees, reinstatement fees, SR-22 insurance, driving tests, CDL testing and licensing fees, etc.), you just gotta know all that money we pay for all of this simply doesn't only go to pay the employees of the DMV.  I'm sure that part of that goes to none other than paying the state to do other things...like stealing our children, or prosecuting us incessantly.

You have to consider this:  The state is, under no circumstances, going to tell Iowa's (or any other state's) citizens that they need a million dollars so that we can pay social workers to remove children from bad...or good homes; nor are they going to tell them that they need to pay the County Attorney's office to wrongfully prosecute thousands of state citizens until they win, using your taxes.  No, they need to be a bit more subversive than that.  They'll do it anyway...but they'll just take the money from other revenues...like all the money that the State makes from us owning and driving cars.

Now THERE'S something to think about, eh? Personally?  I'm tired of paying the State and Federal Government to do crooked and corrupt things to me.  Now that's a good reason to stop paying your taxes, and to stop driving and start taking the bus if naught else, right?  :D

Legislative Proposals...the New Breed

Who knew?  The Mighty Sword now writes Legislative Proposals...but not like you politicians have been known to...not all filled with legal gobbledy-gook, boring passages and hard to read/understand language.  No, here, you'll see something that you rarely see in a congressional document...common-sense.  Will it work?  Hard to say...but I think we may see a new trend on how we, the standard sheep, deals with our government (and they with us), using good ol' fashioned street smarts and EASY TO UNDERSTAND terminology...not the other-worldly secret language Governmental Legislators use.

So...here it is, Mr. Living Man's first proposal to get rid of the law that stops us from having and taking care of our children, as God intended (TAKE THAT CRIMINALS...hehe).  Now it's time to get rid of that pesky Confidentiality dealy, and the biggy....immunity to prosecution.

Proposal for Legislation to have all Juvenile Hearings Recorded Using Modern Technology, for Accurate Records

In the current Iowa Code, Vol. III, Chapter 232, Concerning Juvenile Justice, §232.41, you’ll note that it currently states:

“232.41 Reporter required.

Stenographic notes or mechanical or electronic recordings shall be taken of all court

hearings held pursuant to this division unless waived by the parties. The child shall not be

competent to waive the reporting requirement, but waiver may be made for the child by the

child’s counsel or guardian ad litem. Matters which must be reported under the provisions

of this section shall be reported in the same manner as required in section 624.9.”

First of all, it clearly states that ALL processes are available...but in the district court (at least in MY hearings), no recordings were discussed, offered, nor mentioned. Later, when you ask for “recordings” from the clerk of court office, you’re told that recordings are NOT made in juvenile matters...only transcripts are made, and produced and entered only after the party pays the transcriber (not the court) $3.50/page.

Also provided by the Iowa Judicial Branch, there is a paper that you can fill out to get actual recordings of your hearings; including, quite obviously, juvenile, as shown below. Note that there is no misunderstanding that we are talking about actual DIGITAL RECORDINGS here:

Let it be known that, when I took this into the Polk County Clerk’s Office, Randy Osborn (The Clerk of Polk County Clerk) himself came to tell me that they don’t make recordings of juvenile hearings, only transcriptions. I then asked him to sign this paper, stating just that, and he refused to sign it, or give me the recordings...only offering the transcripts; and only if I paid $3.50 a page to the transcribers:

Mr. Osborn refused to sign this affidavit, for obvious reasons. There are most certainly recordings made of these hearings (the transcriber herself should, if nothing else, make a recording in case something happens to her machine, or there is an emergency), and shouldn’t a recording be made anyway, in case of foul play in our judiciary?

Obviously, paper transcripts of juvenile hearings (or any hearings, for that matter) are NOT an “accurate record”...of anything; for the following reasons:

1. No matter how good a court reporter may be, their training could in no way prepare them to differentiate as many as 10 different speaking voices, especially if 3 or 4 of them were talking at once. The transcriber may be familiar with the regular players of these hearings, but couldn’t possibly continually pinpoint the voices of those she does not know, such as the parents, or

others that are not regularly in attendance.

2. That there are way too many different meanings of words. How does a transcriber differentiate

between the words “There, Their and They’re” for instance, let alone its context? This is just

one of 1000’s of examples of words that could be heard incorrectly, or taken out of context.

3. I don’t care how you slice it, when given the means to do the wrong thing, some people take that road, just as sometimes when you elect an official, there is no absolute guarantee that, if given the opportunity, they won’t do wrong. If such an official (judge, county attorney, GAL, etc.) were to be involved in something untoward, and had the shroud of confidentiality (no one can look into a juvenile case until it’s over, the parental rights are ALREADY terminated, the child/children are already gone, you get the picture...isn’t more than a little convenient for those removing/adopting out the children and terminating parental rights?) to help keep the lid on things; and immunity from prosecution, isn’t it more important now than ever that ACCURATE and double assurance that the right thing is being done be in place? Let’s say this/these officials wanted to cover up what had been done in a court hearing. With no recorded version available to the public OR the parties involved, it’s not unthinkable that these officials could just toss what was transcribed into the trash and “transcribe” something more to their liking. As much as we don’t like to admit it, the law is sometimes subverted, and sometimes we put the wrong people into office.

The proposed legislation should read thusly:

“232.41 Recordings required.

Stenographic notes as well as mechanical or electronic recordings shall be taken of all court

hearings held pursuant to this division unless waived by all of the parties. The child shall not be

competent to waive the reporting requirement, but waiver may be made for the child by the

child’s counsel or guardian ad litem. Recordings of all hearings shall be made available to the involved parties for as long as 2 years, and shall cost no more than is normal for such a recording to be made.

Author’s Addendum:

I in no way intended to make this personal, (and believe me, it is NOT JUST personal...there are 1000’s of Iowa parents, over 1800 a month in Iowa, from what I gather, who go through the same thing we had to), but I will state this: If there had been recordings of what happened in our court hearings available to us, the parties, we would not only still have our child, we would have seen a judge, 1 Polk County Attorney, 2 Asst. Polk County Attorneys, some DHS employees, a CFI worker and a GAL go to jail. The things they got away with in our hearings were incorrigible, and completely covered up...by confidentiality and immunity...and by the fact that no recordings were, supposedly, made of these hearings, nor are any “available” to the parties. We, the wrongfully terminated parents, beg the house and the senate to pass this legislation as quickly as possible to protect all involved...the parents, and especially, the children.

America's DEADLIEST Sin (Greed, Revisited)

Well, America, I think my love affair with our great nation has reached a new low.  I can only keep saying "Wow", when I think about this...

What is America's favorite and most deadly sin again?  You'd think it was corruption in government, wouldn't you?  Nope.  Corruption stems from THIS original deadly sin...yes, I'm talking again about none other than good ol' fashioned American Greed, in all its lovely glory.  Please see my OTHER 2 articles about this here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/04/day-7-greed.html

and here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-original-7-deadly-sins-3-part-i.html

So, I'm sitting in a McDonalds in......no wait, I can't say that!  Almost messed up...anyway, a Mr. Paul Noyes is there, filling out an application for work, and as its just me and he in the room, he shouts this out as I'm packing up to leave McD's..."Well, at least here they don't charge you for applications, like they do in Washington State"...and I have a mini-brain-conniption.  WHAAAAAAAAAA?  ARE YOU SERIOUS??  Now they charge people to apply for jobs, $.50 to $1 per app??  Unfreakin'believable.  Every time I think we've reached the highest possible level of greed, America shocks me again.

I remember having the very same conniption when I came to understand that apartment complexes (and, because of this, house owners renting apartments as well) started charging you $25-$100 to apply to live in their apartments.  This was quite bad enough.  I mean, come on...these folks are going to be over-paid by you to live in their crappy little hovels as it is...now you're going to pay them to process an application to accept you so that you can over-pay them?  I tell the better portion of these people to kiss mah grits, and hunt down those who haven't as yet fallen into this stupidity.  Worse yet, you people are paying these fees...which, of course, not unlike most things we sheep shut up and pay, is standard brainwashed behavior.  If we would just open up our mouths and speak our minds, this would have never become the standard it is.

But no, this couldn't be enough.  Now you want us to pay you to apply to work for you TOO???   If this becomes a national standard guys, I'm giving up on America for good.  DON'T YOU DARE PAY THESE GREEDY LITTLE BASTARDS!!!!  Call your legislators, that takes up around the time it takes to pay these morons and fill out the application.  Go down to the state capitol building, and ask them to pass legislation against this crap!  Granted, I just learned you were able to do this sorta thing...but better late than never!

This is just the sorta thing that makes this country notorious for idiocy, and should NOT BE TOLERATED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

What Have We Here? - Part 1

Guess Who, America?  Yeah...it's me again.

Just wanted to fill you in on a few things.  For one, it's important to mention that I am well out of reach of the state of Iowa...so sad for them.  For two, my NCO's against the two biggie social workers in my life, Katie Gosch and Emily Nieman, are both lifted....so sad for them, as well.  For three, a big moment is coming up, as I'll be posting all the paperwork filed in ALL of my cases...both federal AND state, and will carry full commentary.  Included will be the remainder of all of the confidential paperwork in the Supreme Court Appeal to the juvenile cases, where they so OBVIOUSLY covered for all of the district level criminals, and upheld their decision to terminate our rights, even though DHS's own director cleared us of all charges, expunged our records, and removed us from the abuse registry in our Child Protective Assessment Appeal(s).  Also included will be ALL of the criminal cases that they've brought against me; since they decided that too many people were seeing (and reading about) what they were doing, and opted to jail me to shut me up, for pretty much any reason they could muster.  Here, you'll also see clearly how they CHEATED in order to win out.

Also forthcoming will be a HUGE and drawn out article concerning how the people of Iowa are continuously and wrongfully arrested for stupid little crimes, then made career criminals utilizing a money generating scheme that fully targets the homeless and the poor, and those without the where-with-all to afford attorneys.  Here we will be covering a MAJORITY of Iowa's criminal code (thank you Drake Law Library, for giving me the COMPLETE Iowa 2015 code books FREE so that I could accomplish this), and explaining how certain people are made into "Habitual Offenders", utilizing criminal code that 90% of Iowa's citizens don't know about, or had anything to do with passing.

Remember also that all things personal, concerning the ongoing and seemingly NEVER-ENDING war with the State of Iowa will be, around March 1st (the resurrection date for the podcast), going only here, on the following site:

(Blog Name):  Iowa, and More Importantly, Des Moines, Iowa

http://desmoinesandiowathevenusflytrap.blogspot.com

There is one final thing I wanted to address.  To the idiot who continues to read, then comment on my posts with completely unsubstantiated moronic drivel...(cough, cough, whoever that idiot happens to be THAT ONE LURKER), your comments are no longer read, most certainly no longer published, and simply deleted immediately on sight...so why bother?  Rest assured that you are most certainly wasting valuable kinetic energy that you could be expending elsewhere.   That you continue to comment is no skin off my neck...it only takes a mouse click or two to delete your stupid ramblings, and only CONTINUES to prove to me that you have little better to do with your life.  No matter...I'll say it again, what you comment is ineffectual to me, and certainly does nothing to or for my readers either, considering they never see what little to less than nothing of what you have to say.  To the fans out there that REALLY have something to say, keep saying it...when I see YOUR comments, they get published immediately...regardless of what you have to say.  I love you all...and at least, you have constructive and legitimate things to comment about my articles.  Someday when this mentally retarded person finally realizes the futility of trying to comment negatively, I may allow comments to be instant again.  Until then, I apologize for having to moderate.

What fun we're gonna have, eh?  Let's get this pahty ROLLIN'  :D