Re: !!New Militia Sentencing-- Stewart!!

It's been a while since I've been here, and it's interesting to see
the same trolls as always.


Joseph Pothier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Good Morning Newsgroups Readers,

: Last Friday's Arizona Republic reports on the 24 year sentence handed 
: down to militiaman Robert Stewart.

For which the "court" will pay, if not in this life, then in the next.


: This criminal was something of a 
: fixture on the radical right and in the "patriot" movement [common law 
: groups included], and had a reputation of being able to supply anyone 
: with fully automatic weapons, no questions asked or paper work-- for a 
: price, of course.

I knew nothing of him before your posting.  I like him already.


: Now Stewart has a whole quarter-of-a-century to think on who badly he
: has gone wrong!

He dared to live in a "country" in which many people consider
self-defense illegal.


: Militiamen should heed his case!

And be more careful about who they trust.  I agree at least to that extent.


: Yours,

: JP
: Happy Harpy

It must be depressing to be happy about other people's misfortunes,
especially undeserved ones.


. . .
: At a federal court sentencing Thursday, 64-year-old Robert D. Stewart of
: Mesa spoke reverently of the Bill of Rights, recited federal statutes
: from memory and begged "for justice."

He probably won't get it in this life.


: Then the constitutional scholar was sentenced to 24 years in prison for
: soliciting the murder of a U.S. District Court judge who convicted him
: previously on firearms charges.

I don't approve of murder (or solicitation of murder) but if a "judge"
put him in prison for exercising his God-given and Constitutionally
protected right to keep and bear arms, then what he is alleged to have
plotted was not murder, but justice.


: "This is a man who was bent on bringing down the entire justice system,"
: prosecutor Patrick Schneider declared before the sentence was announced.

I like him even more now.


: Earlier this year, a jury found Stewart guilty of offering fellow inmate
: August Weiss $100,000 in machine guns and cash for the political
: assassination of Judge Rosyln Silver.
: The motive: Silver had presided over Stewart's 2002 conviction on
: illegal weapons charges and had refused to accept his freeman-style
: legal arguments.

Sounds like an *entirely* acceptable motive to me.

There would have been smarter ways to accomplish justice, for sure. 
But I'm of the belief that partial justice is better than no justice
at all.


: Schneider said Stewart went into a "smoldering rage" over Silver's
: rulings because he believes the federal government has no authority over
: him.

He believes correctly.  Governments have no rightful authority except,
at the very most, what has been granted to them directly by the People
or by God.


: Once in prison, Stewart provided information designed to help a hit man
: stalk the judge.

Not terribly smart, I'd have to agree.  But not entirely unjustified
either.

Of course I'd prefer for the judge to have been indicted, tried, and
convicted according to law.

But who honestly believes that this will EVER happen?

As I've said before, vigilante justice isn't a particularly happy or
desirable state of affairs, but it sure as shit beats no justice at
all.


: Schneider said the assassin was supposed to "cut her head off and have
: it hung from a pole," sparking a wave of copycat murders targeting court
: officers who reject the hard-line militia theory of American law.

"Court officers" need not buy any "hard-line militia theory" but they
do need to respect the inalienable rights of the people over which
they pretend to preside.  If they do not, then, frankly, I won't shed
any tears if a few of them suddenly find themselves missing a head.

And, yes, I know I can go to Guantanamo for saying that.  But I don't
care.  The thugs that send me there will have to answer to God for it.
Pity them, not me.


: Stewart, a former history teacher, offered an impassioned defense,
: reeling off reasons why he should not have been convicted and should not
: spend the rest of his life behind bars.

: First, Stewart told Judge Howard McKibben that the case against him was
: "a setup" involving a jailhouse snitch who lied and a tape-recording
: that was fabricated by federal agents. He said cover-ups in the bloody
: law enforcement fiascoes at Waco and Ruby Ridge are proof that the FBI
: falsifies evidence.

Given the fairly consistent tendency of prosecutors, jailhouse
snitches, and government thugs in general (including "Harpies") to
lie, cheat, steal, enslave, kidnap, and murder, I think those are very
plausible arguments, and easily sufficient to establish the reasonable
doubt that should bar any conviction.


: Next, Stewart claimed that the federal government has authority to
: enforce only three criminal laws in the 50 states: treason,
: counterfeiting and crimes committed on the high seas.

That is an oversimplification, but basically true, IF you accept the
legitimacy of the so-called federal "government" in the first place.


: Even if federal courts had authority to hear murder cases, he argued,
: the prison he stayed in was Arizona territory, outside that
: jurisdiction.

He is correct.


: Finally, Stewart alleged that making and selling machine guns is a
: Second Amendment right and his convictions in the past were all
: "anti-constitutional."

Sounds patently obvious to me, and it is a God-damned travesty that
this point would need to even be mentioned to a "judge" that
supposedly took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and laws
of the United States.


: After McKibben rejected those arguments, and others, Stewart observed
: that judges are "not immune."

I'm sorry to say that for the time being they do appear to be pretty
much invulnerable to criminal prosecution for their crimes against
humanity.

They may not fare quite so well against the wrath of those people who
have opened their eyes, if there is ever a sufficient number of such
people to make a difference.

They also may not fare quite so well when they stand before God and
give an account of their lives.

I feel bad for Stewart and others who have been enslaved by the evil
world system.

But I feel even worse for the misguided fools who actively participate
in that system.  In the end, they will be worse off than Stewart,
unless they turn away from their wickedness and evil.


: "Is this a court of law, your honor?" he asked. "I'm not begging for
: mercy. I'm begging for justice.
: "The good Lord knows the purpose of all this. He knows the truth of
: everything."

He is correct.  We do not always understand His ways though.


: Stewart was sentenced to 232 months in prison for soliciting violence,
: plus 60 months for lying to FBI agents.

When will those scumbags be sentenced for lying in order to gain a
conviction, against someone who, even if everything they say were
true, broke NO valid law?

None, you say?

Maybe not in this life.

But this life isn't all there is.  


: The combined 24-plus years will run consecutively with a five-year term
: he is serving for illegal gun possession.
: Besides the Arizona cases, Stewart also had a 1997 machine-gun
: conviction in Utah.

Just because scum like this "judge" (and like you) have escaped
justice so far, does not mean they will escape forever.

If you truly are the "Happy Harpy" that you claim to be, then do
yourself a favor and enjoy your happiness now.

Someday, in the next life if not in this one, you will find the
justice that you and others like you are so eager to deny to others.

I don't think you'll be quite as happy then.


Joe