Ralph talks about his new book, “Civic Self Respect” which reminds us that our civic lives have different primary roles—not only voter, but also worker, taxpayer, consumer, sometimes soldier and sometimes parent—and how each one offers special opportunities for people to organize to make change.
In Mar of 2013, Dr. PatrIck McPherron was deported--not extradited--from Pinellas County FL to Chester County PA. The FL Governor Rick Scott was not informed. FL AG Pam Bondi was not informed. Despite Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 prohibiting any state from entering into an agreement or compact with another state, Chester County Judge Thomas Gavin entered into such agreement and/or compact with Pinellas County Judge Lay. Moreover, Pinellas County Sherriff Gulati entered into agreement and/or compact with Chester County sheriff.
Also, Dr. McPherron already submitted a petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Federal District court with jurisdiction over Pinellas County under Article IV, Section II, Clause 2, because Chester County PA had no geographic jurisdiction. Additionally, whatever had been alleged in an illegal tribunal in April 2010 to a jury had taken place in CT.
Dr. McPherron submitted the petition as pro se, as is his right to do so. The clerk for the federal judge and the judge were upset that Dr. McPherron had sued Judge Thomas Gavin and other officials for $10 million under Stump v Sparkman 1978: the absence of all personal jurisdiction. So, the clerk and the federal judge sat on the petition to see if Dr. McPherron would hire a lawyer, and then the federal judge would persuade the lawyer to get McPherron to drop the civil rights suit in exchange for granting the writ of habeas corpus.
Meanwhile, a Pinellas County FL jail official met with Dr. McPherron and confessed that if McPherron didn't waive extradition, McPherron would be released. McPherron admitted that he already knew that. That resulted in Chester County Judge Thomas Gavin working a deal from an illegal waiver of extradition McPherron was coerced to sign May 2010. This occurred after again illegally requiring McPherron to come to PA, Gavin put Dr. McPherron in prison for a fake "involuntary mental exam" to force a private lawyer on the case. Judge Gavin intended to extend the scope of Indiana v Edwards (2008).
Also, once in Chester County Prison, Judge Gavin could reduce McPherron's right to liberty into just a privilege, conditional on the whims of Judge Gavin. This was the intent of incarcerating a citizen without due process, so that McPherron was not allowed to leave prison or PA until he signed a waiver of extradition, similar in effect to life in Europe under the Nazis. Yet extradition is explicit in the US Constitution, and by the 10th Amendment, no state can determine federal rights, such that no state can coerce or induce a "waiver" of a federal right.
Therefore, even though a coerced waiver of rights is not enforceable, Gavin was desperate because the judge had lied to temporarily have the civil rights suit against him dismissed, claiming to a federal court that a jury had found McPherron guilty of 31 counts of harassment, which never happened. Gavin had added that in without evidence or chance to defend, claiming McPherron was convicted so that Gavin could feign personal jurisdiction.
Having been apprised of the incidents of 2010, around midnight in mid-Mar 2013, McPherron was shackled like some animal and put into a "prisoner transport service", the motorized version of the Amistad. Packed with people who supposedly violated conditions of parole or probation. However, the only constitutionally valid violation of parole of probation is to break a statutory law, else the US degenerates into an "open air" prison, which is what has occurred.
The federal judge for Pinellas County FL ruled that McPherron was now out of his jurisdiction and so his petition was moot, and the judge ignored McPherron that he be brought back to FL for due process.
Yet that is precisely what is happening with Abrego Garcia, a non-citizen, violent wife-beater, illegal human trafficker, and (former) member of MS-13, who was given somewhat protected status because his gang was at war with another gang in El Salvador.
Why all the fuss, to include a Congressman flying down to El Salvador?
Because a lawyer argued the case.
The US doesn't operate a (financially-motivated) Star Chamber? Really?
Dr. McPherron was left in prison in PA without a violation of an illegal probation--illegal by the PA or US constitutions--until the federal court for the eastern district of PA dismissed the civil rights suit for all defendants!!!
Judge Gavin had won.
McPherron was free to go if he signed more waivers of his federal rights, and especially if he paid all the fines and fees, because the illegal prosecution without geographic jurisdiction put all officials liable for misappropriation of public funds.
McPherron can submit to the proper authorities on this issue, so Gavin needed to money to cover the expenditures from the state budget.
McPherron refused. After 3 years in prison, he left, and immediately his probation was revoked.
Again, there is not such mythical beast as supervised probation, it is intended to demean and degrade people, as though they need constant supervision to fit into society. This paints a bulls-eye on someone's back, giving corrupt officials a "paper trail" to justify abusing decent citizens.
This was done because Gavin needed constant threats against McPherron, without the threats McPherron would sue again and Gavin was now facing probable prison time for illegal deporting from FL to PA, which was kidnapping.
Gavin ignored 10th Amendment separating state jurisdiction from federal again when stopping the US State Department from issuing McPherron's passport, so that McPherron could not leave the country and declare asylum, even though that is a recognized international RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE.
In July 2016, McPherron ended up in Clinton County NY with his paperwork for asylum. He was heading toward the Canadian border when he was again unreasonably searched and seized, just as he had been back in Mar 2013 in Pinellas County. US Border agents rifled through his belongings without justification, finding 10 envelopes of identical paperwork about asylum. Because of the unreasonable search and seizure, and that Dr. McPherron insisted they would face suit, Border Patrol held him for 2 hours until they could fake that he was a fugitive from justice. They cut a deal with a corrupt Clinton County Judge and law enforcement to hold him until 3-4 AM and then have a hearing without anyone around, and the judge refused to allow McPherron to speak (unless he would hire a lawyer) and held McPherron without cause.
Federal District Court in Syracuse soon had McPherron's petition for writ of habeas corpus, just as the federal Judge in FL had, but this time the federal judge and his clerk faked they couldn't understand what McPherron wanted, even thought it was typed and they knew exactly.
McPherron argued in his petition that nothing occurred in PA, that the location of the server storing the emails determines geographic jurisdiction, and the state he accessed the internet from determines geographic jurisdiction. Nothing was damaged in the email account, nothing damaged for CT internet. So, PA would have to fake a motive for McPherron legally accessing an email account that he was co-owner of, but motive does not determine geographic jurisdiction, only the alleged acts themselves. Was to be confirmed by Ginsburg majority opinion in Microsoft Corp v US (2016) when Congress rendered case moot.
McPherron also argued that any indictment and warrant with "unlawful access" was illegal and therefore void. Only "exceeding authorization" or "unauthorized access", the former often just a misdemeanor. Confirmed by Van Buren v US (2021).
Therefore, either the federal judge in Syracuse was lying or egregiously incompetent.
This went on for several months, federal judge lying to see if McPherron would finally hire a lawyer, the court-appointed lawyer the Clinton Country judge coerced on the case did nothing because he wasn't being paid enough and thought McPherron, as a PhD, would understand that the lawyer gave preference to his paying clients. Governor Cuomo, a criminal, cut a deal to sign the illegal extradition order back to PA.
Federal Court in Syracuse ruled case moot, McPherron was now out of jurisdiction, and just like in FL, the judge said he could do nothing to order McPherron's return.
The 2nd Circuit court of appeals confirmed that nothing could be done.
So why does the 4th Circuit disagree?
Because a non-citizen criminal hired a lawyer.
Chief of Incompetence John Roberts enforces a financially-motivated Star Chamber, because he is intimidated by PhDs in Economics, and all justices should be. A law degree is not a JD, but a juris masters of arts, and the PhD in Law at Yale is a juris masters of science. There is no scientific method learned at law schools, just the heuristics of the Socratic method.
Ever since Ronald Coase published The Problem of Social Cost 1960 in the Journal of Law and Economics, for which Coase received the 1991 Nobel in Economics, to have the skills necessary to be a juris doctor one must be able to "do the math", such as using measures of social equity to assess substantive due process. Currently, SCOTUS repeats the WAGs from previous opinions or comes up with their own opinions , but that rule of case law, not rule of law.
McPherron, a PhD in Macroeconomics, was a veteran: 7 years US Navy, to include Navy Cryptologic officer at the NSA.
I think this latest book is the most important book Ralph has ever written. When you read it, you will realize that you have so much homework to do, and you will have to plan what actions you will take. I bought two copies. One for myself and one to give away.
I maybe wrong but I think it's time for the Harvard billionaire graduate alumni ( approxmarltly 100 ) to take constructive action and offer up to the Congressional and House of Reprentatives families and friends tuition free acceptance to Harvard, to include free tutoring . My understanding is the Donald holds a 9.2 billion dollar cut your funding budget stick,,, but since you hold that only 3% that apply to Harvard are accepted,,, all should be about even. Good luck America, have a great day my friends.
Good program; I know plenty of "citizens" who are as civilly disengaged as you describe in your reference to the "idiots" of ancient Athens. These are the people who trade in banter that there is nothing we can do to fight big moneyed interests, "don't make them angry" or "insult" them they say because of how it might "rock the boat" and short-circuit your prosperity and opportunities. So people become as timid as little mice, passive "citizens" afraid to stand on principle or speak out about injustices.
Why not do a retrospective on Rachel Carson and her book "Silent Spring"? See how they attacked her:
"American Cyanamid biochemist Robert White-Stevens and former Cyanamid chemist Thomas Jukes were among the most aggressive critics, especially of Carson's analysis of DDT.[45] According to White-Stevens, "If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth".[1] Others attacked Carson's personal character and scientific credentials, her training being in marine biology rather than biochemistry. White-Stevens called her "a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature".[46] According to historian Linda Lear the former US Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, asked in a letter to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?" Benson's conclusion was Carson was "probably a Communist".[47][48]
"Monsanto published 5,000 copies of a parody called "The Desolate Year" (1962) which projected a world of famine and disease caused by banning pesticides.[49]
"Many critics repeatedly said Carson was calling for the elimination of all pesticides, but she had made it clear she was not advocating this but was instead encouraging responsible and carefully managed use with an awareness of the chemicals' impact on ecosystems.[50] She concludes her section on DDT in Silent Spring with advice for spraying as little as possible to limit the development of resistance.[51] Mark Hamilton Lytle writes, Carson "quite self-consciously decided to write a book calling into question the paradigm of scientific progress that defined postwar American culture'.[26]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
San Francisco will miss me. I've moved on. Protest, evangelize the Gospel of JESHUA MESSIAH, and try not to think about the 25 years of betrayal, A human mind can only stand so much. Zionist gangs in SF way to encompassing for one man to combat
I am going to buy Ralph’s new book.. I love ya Ralph.. I will pass on this
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In Mar of 2013, Dr. PatrIck McPherron was deported--not extradited--from Pinellas County FL to Chester County PA. The FL Governor Rick Scott was not informed. FL AG Pam Bondi was not informed. Despite Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 prohibiting any state from entering into an agreement or compact with another state, Chester County Judge Thomas Gavin entered into such agreement and/or compact with Pinellas County Judge Lay. Moreover, Pinellas County Sherriff Gulati entered into agreement and/or compact with Chester County sheriff.
Also, Dr. McPherron already submitted a petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Federal District court with jurisdiction over Pinellas County under Article IV, Section II, Clause 2, because Chester County PA had no geographic jurisdiction. Additionally, whatever had been alleged in an illegal tribunal in April 2010 to a jury had taken place in CT.
Dr. McPherron submitted the petition as pro se, as is his right to do so. The clerk for the federal judge and the judge were upset that Dr. McPherron had sued Judge Thomas Gavin and other officials for $10 million under Stump v Sparkman 1978: the absence of all personal jurisdiction. So, the clerk and the federal judge sat on the petition to see if Dr. McPherron would hire a lawyer, and then the federal judge would persuade the lawyer to get McPherron to drop the civil rights suit in exchange for granting the writ of habeas corpus.
Meanwhile, a Pinellas County FL jail official met with Dr. McPherron and confessed that if McPherron didn't waive extradition, McPherron would be released. McPherron admitted that he already knew that. That resulted in Chester County Judge Thomas Gavin working a deal from an illegal waiver of extradition McPherron was coerced to sign May 2010. This occurred after again illegally requiring McPherron to come to PA, Gavin put Dr. McPherron in prison for a fake "involuntary mental exam" to force a private lawyer on the case. Judge Gavin intended to extend the scope of Indiana v Edwards (2008).
Also, once in Chester County Prison, Judge Gavin could reduce McPherron's right to liberty into just a privilege, conditional on the whims of Judge Gavin. This was the intent of incarcerating a citizen without due process, so that McPherron was not allowed to leave prison or PA until he signed a waiver of extradition, similar in effect to life in Europe under the Nazis. Yet extradition is explicit in the US Constitution, and by the 10th Amendment, no state can determine federal rights, such that no state can coerce or induce a "waiver" of a federal right.
Therefore, even though a coerced waiver of rights is not enforceable, Gavin was desperate because the judge had lied to temporarily have the civil rights suit against him dismissed, claiming to a federal court that a jury had found McPherron guilty of 31 counts of harassment, which never happened. Gavin had added that in without evidence or chance to defend, claiming McPherron was convicted so that Gavin could feign personal jurisdiction.
Having been apprised of the incidents of 2010, around midnight in mid-Mar 2013, McPherron was shackled like some animal and put into a "prisoner transport service", the motorized version of the Amistad. Packed with people who supposedly violated conditions of parole or probation. However, the only constitutionally valid violation of parole of probation is to break a statutory law, else the US degenerates into an "open air" prison, which is what has occurred.
The federal judge for Pinellas County FL ruled that McPherron was now out of his jurisdiction and so his petition was moot, and the judge ignored McPherron that he be brought back to FL for due process.
Yet that is precisely what is happening with Abrego Garcia, a non-citizen, violent wife-beater, illegal human trafficker, and (former) member of MS-13, who was given somewhat protected status because his gang was at war with another gang in El Salvador.
Why all the fuss, to include a Congressman flying down to El Salvador?
Because a lawyer argued the case.
The US doesn't operate a (financially-motivated) Star Chamber? Really?
Dr. McPherron was left in prison in PA without a violation of an illegal probation--illegal by the PA or US constitutions--until the federal court for the eastern district of PA dismissed the civil rights suit for all defendants!!!
Judge Gavin had won.
McPherron was free to go if he signed more waivers of his federal rights, and especially if he paid all the fines and fees, because the illegal prosecution without geographic jurisdiction put all officials liable for misappropriation of public funds.
McPherron can submit to the proper authorities on this issue, so Gavin needed to money to cover the expenditures from the state budget.
McPherron refused. After 3 years in prison, he left, and immediately his probation was revoked.
Again, there is not such mythical beast as supervised probation, it is intended to demean and degrade people, as though they need constant supervision to fit into society. This paints a bulls-eye on someone's back, giving corrupt officials a "paper trail" to justify abusing decent citizens.
This was done because Gavin needed constant threats against McPherron, without the threats McPherron would sue again and Gavin was now facing probable prison time for illegal deporting from FL to PA, which was kidnapping.
Gavin ignored 10th Amendment separating state jurisdiction from federal again when stopping the US State Department from issuing McPherron's passport, so that McPherron could not leave the country and declare asylum, even though that is a recognized international RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE.
In July 2016, McPherron ended up in Clinton County NY with his paperwork for asylum. He was heading toward the Canadian border when he was again unreasonably searched and seized, just as he had been back in Mar 2013 in Pinellas County. US Border agents rifled through his belongings without justification, finding 10 envelopes of identical paperwork about asylum. Because of the unreasonable search and seizure, and that Dr. McPherron insisted they would face suit, Border Patrol held him for 2 hours until they could fake that he was a fugitive from justice. They cut a deal with a corrupt Clinton County Judge and law enforcement to hold him until 3-4 AM and then have a hearing without anyone around, and the judge refused to allow McPherron to speak (unless he would hire a lawyer) and held McPherron without cause.
Federal District Court in Syracuse soon had McPherron's petition for writ of habeas corpus, just as the federal Judge in FL had, but this time the federal judge and his clerk faked they couldn't understand what McPherron wanted, even thought it was typed and they knew exactly.
McPherron argued in his petition that nothing occurred in PA, that the location of the server storing the emails determines geographic jurisdiction, and the state he accessed the internet from determines geographic jurisdiction. Nothing was damaged in the email account, nothing damaged for CT internet. So, PA would have to fake a motive for McPherron legally accessing an email account that he was co-owner of, but motive does not determine geographic jurisdiction, only the alleged acts themselves. Was to be confirmed by Ginsburg majority opinion in Microsoft Corp v US (2016) when Congress rendered case moot.
McPherron also argued that any indictment and warrant with "unlawful access" was illegal and therefore void. Only "exceeding authorization" or "unauthorized access", the former often just a misdemeanor. Confirmed by Van Buren v US (2021).
Therefore, either the federal judge in Syracuse was lying or egregiously incompetent.
This went on for several months, federal judge lying to see if McPherron would finally hire a lawyer, the court-appointed lawyer the Clinton Country judge coerced on the case did nothing because he wasn't being paid enough and thought McPherron, as a PhD, would understand that the lawyer gave preference to his paying clients. Governor Cuomo, a criminal, cut a deal to sign the illegal extradition order back to PA.
Federal Court in Syracuse ruled case moot, McPherron was now out of jurisdiction, and just like in FL, the judge said he could do nothing to order McPherron's return.
The 2nd Circuit court of appeals confirmed that nothing could be done.
So why does the 4th Circuit disagree?
Because a non-citizen criminal hired a lawyer.
Chief of Incompetence John Roberts enforces a financially-motivated Star Chamber, because he is intimidated by PhDs in Economics, and all justices should be. A law degree is not a JD, but a juris masters of arts, and the PhD in Law at Yale is a juris masters of science. There is no scientific method learned at law schools, just the heuristics of the Socratic method.
Ever since Ronald Coase published The Problem of Social Cost 1960 in the Journal of Law and Economics, for which Coase received the 1991 Nobel in Economics, to have the skills necessary to be a juris doctor one must be able to "do the math", such as using measures of social equity to assess substantive due process. Currently, SCOTUS repeats the WAGs from previous opinions or comes up with their own opinions , but that rule of case law, not rule of law.
McPherron, a PhD in Macroeconomics, was a veteran: 7 years US Navy, to include Navy Cryptologic officer at the NSA.
I think this latest book is the most important book Ralph has ever written. When you read it, you will realize that you have so much homework to do, and you will have to plan what actions you will take. I bought two copies. One for myself and one to give away.
I maybe wrong but I think it's time for the Harvard billionaire graduate alumni ( approxmarltly 100 ) to take constructive action and offer up to the Congressional and House of Reprentatives families and friends tuition free acceptance to Harvard, to include free tutoring . My understanding is the Donald holds a 9.2 billion dollar cut your funding budget stick,,, but since you hold that only 3% that apply to Harvard are accepted,,, all should be about even. Good luck America, have a great day my friends.
Good program; I know plenty of "citizens" who are as civilly disengaged as you describe in your reference to the "idiots" of ancient Athens. These are the people who trade in banter that there is nothing we can do to fight big moneyed interests, "don't make them angry" or "insult" them they say because of how it might "rock the boat" and short-circuit your prosperity and opportunities. So people become as timid as little mice, passive "citizens" afraid to stand on principle or speak out about injustices.
Why not do a retrospective on Rachel Carson and her book "Silent Spring"? See how they attacked her:
"American Cyanamid biochemist Robert White-Stevens and former Cyanamid chemist Thomas Jukes were among the most aggressive critics, especially of Carson's analysis of DDT.[45] According to White-Stevens, "If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth".[1] Others attacked Carson's personal character and scientific credentials, her training being in marine biology rather than biochemistry. White-Stevens called her "a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature".[46] According to historian Linda Lear the former US Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, asked in a letter to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?" Benson's conclusion was Carson was "probably a Communist".[47][48]
"Monsanto published 5,000 copies of a parody called "The Desolate Year" (1962) which projected a world of famine and disease caused by banning pesticides.[49]
"Many critics repeatedly said Carson was calling for the elimination of all pesticides, but she had made it clear she was not advocating this but was instead encouraging responsible and carefully managed use with an awareness of the chemicals' impact on ecosystems.[50] She concludes her section on DDT in Silent Spring with advice for spraying as little as possible to limit the development of resistance.[51] Mark Hamilton Lytle writes, Carson "quite self-consciously decided to write a book calling into question the paradigm of scientific progress that defined postwar American culture'.[26]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
San Francisco will miss me. I've moved on. Protest, evangelize the Gospel of JESHUA MESSIAH, and try not to think about the 25 years of betrayal, A human mind can only stand so much. Zionist gangs in SF way to encompassing for one man to combat
My gosh! How do I order this book? I'm looking at nader.org and don't find how to order it.
Found it.