Posted on 03/18/2009 3:28:02 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen
Jesse H. Merrell, who lives on Garfield Street Northwest, tells Inside the Beltway that a pair of deputy U.S. marshals paid him a visit last Friday after he had written a letter to U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson regarding President Obama's citizenship controversy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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“Mr. Merrell now reveals: “I was visited by two U.S. marshals ... after I had written a letter to Judge Robertson for his rant threatening sanctions over lawyers who filed a suit challenging Obama’s right to be president over the ‘natural born’ citizen clause in the Constitution.
“I told them unless the First Amendment had been repealed, or they were going to arrest me, we had nothing to talk about.”
Mr. Merrell says one of the marshals cited “some obscure law which made it illegal to say anything that caused ‘emotional distress’ to a federal judge.”
In other words, Obongo sicked his thugs on this man.
We won’t give it up. NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE. NO PEACE.
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They can’t arrest us all.
However, they are usually involved with transporting prisoners and catching fugitives, people who have escaped.
The U.S. Marshals I have met often do not, reflexively, read you your rights, as they usually do not HAVE to, with the people they are used to dealing with!
Therefore, if a U.S. Marsal messes with you, play on this weakness and do not remind them of Miranda.
It might help you, down the road!
Usurper thuggery ping
I’d tell the marshalls to shove it up their butts. Better yet, to shove it up the judge’s butt.
But that might cause the judge “emotional distress” (wet his pants)
My guess he likes things there
[cues music]
I’ve got the feeling somebody’s watchin’ me
ping
I wonder how many gov’t trolls from the Obamarroid camp are monitoring FR.
Enough, I suppose.
Do we have a known troll list. Somebody freepmail me. Thanks WW
Usurper has very sensitive little girly feelings doesn’t he? We peons better just shut up or he’ll sick the federalis on us. Is this still America or is it now a dictatorship? Still America last time I checked. Zero’s epic failure will be enough to sink him, since the BC thing seems not to matter to most of the Sheeple. Oh heck, the Sheeple don’t even know about eligibility requirements, let’s face it, a few know, most don’t , therefore Zero knows he’s safe. Nothing can save him from being a huge teleprompter dependant arse though. Remember “you can’t fix stupid” -the immortal words of Ron White.
Thanks for the ping.
What about the “emotional distress” I feel every day knowing that this thing refers to himself as POTUS!
THERE IS NO LAW PERTAINING TO HOW ANY OFFICIAL “FEELS”....AND NO AMERICAN CAN EVER LOOSE THEIR RIGHTS....THINK IT OUT...
And if anyone thinks there are no Marshal Service personnel to do this, sorry...every agency has a section dedicated to this...A nice job if you can get it, actually...not running some fugitive to Arizona or guarding some judge in a high profile case.
Judge Roberts got a letter in this issue that pissed him off, and right or wrong, he turned it over to the Marshal Service and they checked it out. If they hauled no one off, then life is good, albeit a recorded visit. All in all, I would write it off, as the writer made no real threats.
Again, I am a tin foil wearing Birther...love it, live by it, but this instance is a hazard of telling a fed judge how you feel. Sounds as if it goes nowhere after that.
The man in Cleveland Park sounds as patriotic as John Hemenway himself and sounds like he too served his country and takes the Constitution seriously.
It is said in defamation law that “truth is always a defense.”
And so it is under the First Amendment, as John Peter Zenger showed so long ago, that truth is what each of us is allowed to express. Is there any doubt that Judge Robertson’s poor excuse for an opinion was accurately called a “rant” by Mr. Merrell. And I say this, believe it or not as one that has known Judge Robertson for many years, is fond of him and normally respects him, but here he is way off base—particularly for a federal judge.
This is abuse of power no matter how many regs in CFR you can point to, worse than the “red raids” of Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General.
It is incipient and dangerous fascism, incompetent, Ci-cago style, “affirmative action,” “community organizing” fascism but fascism nonetheless.
But we are missing the big point: one of Washington’s two major newspapers has taken notice in print of what, up until now, the One and his minions were able completely silence except in forae such as this. Everyone should mail a copy of this to their Congressmen and Senators and their federal judges and ask that if they too speak the truth about Judge Robinson and others like him will the marshals be sent around?
Freepers, write the Times letters to the editors and applaud them and write the Post and ask them when they too are going to have the courage and respect for this Nation’s Constitution to break the conspiracy of silence.
Most importantly, perhaps, Florida Freepers should send copies of this to Representative Posey, ask him to place it in the Congressional Record and ask his colleagues when they will have the courage to speak up. Tell him what a great American he is and ask him to put the Show of cause, both parts, by the great patriot, WWII and Cold War Vet John Hemenway, in the Congressional Record.
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I cannot find anything in the Times piece that tells me what the gentleman said to the Judge in the letter.
I will say this: If my name were Eldrin Smyth and I was tasked with keeping an eye out for Franklin, Jefferson and Washington during the several months of the First Continental Congress, and someone passed on a letter to Mr. Franklin that seemed very "Emotional", I might just pay a visit to the author of that letter...if nothing else, just to make sure his motives are emotional versus physical.
It's part of the job!
I think what you may have missed is that the letter ‘caused emotional distress’ to the JUDGE because a common citizen, a man from Cleveland Park, dared to write to him expressing his opinion about a legal Opinion he wrote.
Why can I not imagine Franklin, Jefferson or any other of the founders being ‘emotionally distressed’ by a letter, regardless of its contents. They took on the most powerful man in the world, and were willing to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor precisely so the gentleman from Cleveland Park could write to a public official of the country they founded stating his thoughts.
Unfortunately, the country they founded is rapidly ceasing to exist. Some would say has long since ceased to exist.
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