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Thread ID: 4660 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-01-28
2003-01-28 19:18 | User Profile
Friends:
[url=http://sartre.info]BREAKING ALL THE RULES [/url]urges that you read this example of the Patriot Act at work. We hope that several of our friends, colleagues and columnists will consider and write an essay on this topic.
This is the time to bring this kind of abuse to the public.
Alex Jones is now reporting on Mr Steven Magritz, on [url=http://infowars.com/]infowars.com[/url]
How long will it be before one of us is next?
Please reply back to the group and go on the record.
SARTRE :ph34r:
[url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jan03/111509.asp]http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jan03/111509.asp[/url]
Madison - A Town of Fredonia man whom authorities have termed a "paper terrorist" was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for blitzing about three dozen Ozaukee County officials with thousands of bogus legal documents.
The case produced the first prison sentence to result from a special anti-terrorism Domestic Security Unit created by then-Attorney General Jim Doyle after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Among its other duties, the unit investigates and prosecutes anti-government activists who try to intimidate government officials, police and citizens by filing false legal documents.
In addition to the prison term, Dane County Circuit Judge C. William Foust sentenced Steven Magritz, 57, to 18 months on probation.
Foust said he was trying to tell Magritz that his actions will not be tolerated.
"I have set your probation at almost the minimum amount," Foust said to Magritz. "I don't have any great hopes you will cooperate. I think your probation will end up getting revoked. I don't see a lot of good coming out of visiting you on some poor (state probation) agent."
Magritz will get credit for the 242 days he has already served in the Dane County Jail awaiting trial, which means he will be released in the spring of 2007.
Foust also said that Magritz must show his probation agent any legal documents he plans to file before taking them to court.
Prison term 'sends a message' "I think this sentence does send a message to people like Mr. Magritz that there are going to be severe penalties if they abuse the law," said Assistant Attorney General Roy Korte, who prosecuted the case.
Magritz has every right to believe whatever he wants, Korte said. However, he crossed the line when he began harassing public officials who were only doing their job.
"The prison sentence is certainly punishment," said one Magritz victim, Ozaukee County Board Chairman Gus Wirth.
"I would have preferred that he be given additional probation. I would hope he would be kept under supervision so (that) he not do this to other people," said Wirth, who did not attend Friday's sentencing.
About a dozen Magritz supporters did attend the hearing. Afterward, one member of the group handed out fliers that called Doyle, now Wisconsin's governor, a "paper terrorist."
Another handed out a letter from a Carmel, Calif., radio program talk show host asking Foust to sentence Magritz to time served and probation. The host, Gene Forte, said in his letter that Magritz did what he did only because he was trying to get somebody to listen to his side of the foreclosure against him.
After a not-guilty plea was entered for him, Magritz was convicted Nov. 5 on seven counts of criminal slander of title because he filed bogus documents in court.
Retaliation seen as motive The charges were filed May 17 after Magritz bombarded officials by filing fake legal documents, which authorities believe was in apparent retaliation for Ozaukee County foreclosing on his 62-acre property along the Milwaukee River in the Town of Fredonia.
The county took the property in 2001 because Magritz didn't pay about $30,000 in property taxes.
Magritz filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against a number of county officials, and also filed bogus liens against each official alleging they owed him $15 million.
The bankruptcy petitions caused some officials' credit cards to be canceled, almost caused the sale of one supervisor's house to be stopped, and caused continuing credit problems for other officials.
Prosecution sought longer term Korte had asked Foust to sentence Magritz to 15 years in prison and an additional 10 to 15 years' probation. A presentence report recommended sending Magritz to prison for 12 to 15 years.
Magritz is unrepentant, Korte said in court Friday. When he was in the Dane County Jail, Magritz tried to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in federal court in Madison in which he named a number of public officials, including Foust, as creditors.
"He has continued to harass these people by seeking to depose them," Korte said. "He needs to be told this is not acceptable. He is a paper terrorist who intends to intimidate and harass people."
The judge said he did not believe that sending Magritz to prison for up to 15 years was right. He noted that not too long ago in Wisconsin, murderers often served only 15 years before being released.
"As recalcitrant as Mr. Magritz is, I cannot see sending him to prison for 15 years," Foust said. "These are paper offenses. The harm was to people's property."
Magritz said little that was easily understood during the court hearing. He seemed to be alleging that the state of Wisconsin was bankrupt, and also said several times when questioned by the judge that he "accepted for value and returned for value." He also demanded that his case be tried in federal court.
A version of this story appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Jan. 18, 2003.
2003-01-28 19:28 | User Profile
Oh Christ.
First they take his house for property taxes (to subsidize parasite blacks and Mexicans with free stuff as a reward for...what? Not killing and looting?)And THEN they take his freedom!
As everyone knows or will soon learn, "property taxes" are the back door method of bleeding you dry w/o your consent or approval - or participation!- while talking heads and politicians blather on about infintesimal tax cuts asthough they're doing you a great favor out of purest altruism. Hiding the same old money-grab behind the skirts of "national security" is par for the course.
Oh my yes, how they hate us for our 'freedom'. You're "free" to cough up the amount demanded; otherwise you're "free" to rot in jail.
If the Iraqis- or any foreigners - 'hated us for our freedom' as effectively as our elected officials do at the behest of their Jewish puppeteers, we'd've been invaded and conquered decades ago.
2003-01-30 03:54 | User Profile
Among its other duties, the unit investigates and prosecutes anti-government activists who try to intimidate government officials, police and citizens by filing false legal documents.
Who wouldn't be intimidated by bogus legal documents. Heck that is what keeps most Americans from exercising any of the freedoms they think they have. Of course I dont think the average citizen's legal documents are nearly as frightening as the government's. The government can actually send you to one of their out of control prisons where they will turn a blind eye while you are sodomized by some negro.
Frankly the fact that police are inimidated by legal documents makes me quite concerned about how brave they'll be standing up to the evil terrorists that are going to unless mayhem on our nation at any moment if we dont take on Iraq.