"Blowing Whistles at Hurricanes –

Marxism Meets the Big Sky Country"

by

Michael Hafter

Freelance Journalist

May 1, 2014 A.D.

All Rights Reserved

"Strong winds either propel your ship

or break your mast -- choose one."

-- Anonymous

Category One: The Gathering Storm

Some federal court cases are quickly forgotten, because
they start small and stay small. Some start big and wither.
A few start small and gather steam, like hurricanes over
warm deep waters and lightning over humid plains.

An easily forgotten criminal case was filed in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
last January, which portends more than a few legal storms before
the rain stops and calm seas return.

A pair of IRS agents have been on a steady rampage covering
several western States, apparently on orders from headquarters
to enforce the deliberate targeting of conservative groups
across the land. This scandal has been reported widely,
both on and off the Internet for months.

Google "Lois Lerner"

A Congressional committee has lately recommended DOJ
to commence a criminal investigation of IRS official Lois Lerner
for lying about the scandal during her testimony to that committee.

For Paul Andrew Mitchell, a popular court activist and Private
Attorney General since 1992, the storm clouds appeared suddenly
one day last June 2013 when these same two IRS agents presented
him with what they thought was a valid "warrant" to search his
private Seattle apartment, and seize his papers and computers.

Mitchell promptly pointed out the reasons why that "warrant"
was not valid: the visible names identified two personnel of the
U.S. District Court in Seattle who have consciously failed to
produce any credentials. One claims to be the Clerk of that Court,
and the other claims to be a Magistrate seated on that Court.

Mitchell first encountered the former as a "deputy clerk" circa 1996,
when Mitchell volunteered to search for 2,500 missing children who
had allegedly disappeared into Child Protective Services in Tucson,
Arizona. During that search, Mitchell received several warnings and

a few threats of serious bodily injury to himself and to his family;

and, in 1997 his mother died of unexplained causes. Her remains were
promptly cremated without an autopsy. He was told when she died
and where she died, but no one has been able to tell him how she died.

Mitchell walked briskly to the USDC downtown, where he was met by
the Deputy U.S. Marshall assigned to Mitchell, in his capacity as an
eyewitness to literally hundreds of missing and defective credentials
for personnel employed by the Federal Judiciary.

For private clients and for himself, Mitchell has been engaged in this
"credential investigation" at least since late August 2001, when his
complex copyright lawsuit was launched in Sacramento, California,
against 129 named defendants. One of those defendants was Mitchell's

graduate school alma mater, U.C. Irvine, where he earned his M.S. degree

in public administration in 1973.

He and the Deputy U.S. Marshal went directly to the Clerk's public
counter of the USDC in Seattle. There a counter clerk flatly admitted,
"We are not going to cooperate with you, Mr. Mitchell!"
Meanwhile, the search "warrant" was being executed on the basis of
lies told to his landlord, to his neighbors, and to two officers

of the Seattle Police Department.

In July 2013, two men parked illegally in the parking lot of
Mitchell's apartment building and confronted him as he
approached the lobby. One would not identify himself in any
manner, and proceeded to intimidate Mitchell harshly for
reporting to the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service in
Washington, D.C., the counterfeit credentials now confirmed
for the U.S. Attorney General. They would not leave even
after Mitchell pointed out they needed an appointment and
had none. They were trespassing. A neighbor witnessed
the entire confrontation.

Later that summer, Mitchell lodged two criminal complaints
against the IRS agents in their home towns -- Cheyenne, Wyoming,
and Ft. Collins, Colorado -- charging both with a variety of felony
federal offenses, such as witness intimidation, retaliation and
racketeering across State lines.

IRS is a known extortion racket, in case you didn't already know this:
their legal domicile is San Juan, Puerto Rico.

(More on this PR Connection is explained below.)

Things got much worse for Mitchell last January 2014 when a
fraudulent arrest "warrant" landed him in solitary confinement,
where he went into temporary shock. On intake, he was falsely
accused of fraud, being a "Sovereign Citizen" member (also not true),
and tortured for objecting to BOP's intake forms because
they lacked the OMB control numbers required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act ("PRA"). (Here, see 44 USC 3512 in particular.)

The underlying "indictment" had not charged fraud, but
obstruction of an "official proceeding" at the USDC in Cheyenne.
That proceeding had reportedly produced 10 "subpoenas" issued
to as many clients of Mitchell's Co-Defendant, Joseph Ruben Hill,
by a panel of federal citizens impersonating a lawfully convened
federal grand jury.

To date, however, no grand jury transcripts have yet been produced,
raising serious suspicions that no such grand jury was ever convened
in the first place, certainly not a lawful one that allows State

Citizens to serve too. There are two classes of citizenship in

America, not one.

As implied by the false charges, the "official proceeding" was
instigated by the same two IRS agents already named in Mitchell's
verified criminal complaints. This sequence of events strongly
suggested the existence of probable cause that felony retaliation
by those same two IRS agents had occurred, with criminal intent
also probable.

As further events unfolded since then, Mitchell has now been
moved a total of 28 times as of January 28, 2014, all over the
western States, making it nearly impossible for this defendant
to research and prepare his own defense.

He has been defending himself In Propria Persona, and his
"stand-by counsel" has effectively abandoned him. This left
Mitchell stranded for weeks in a remote county detention center
in Nebraska, with no email, no stamps, and no adequate law
library resources: no U.S. Code, no Code of Federal Regulations,
no law dictionaries either.

Nevertheless, and against all odds, a rather pivotal finding
has now emerged from his 15+ handwritten pleadings, which a
volunteer legal assistant scanned and uploaded to the Internet:
the Clerk's Office personnel in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have
neglected and refused to produce any credentials required of
them by the Oath of Office Clause in the U.S. Constitution
and by several Acts of Congress which have implemented that
Clause, elevating both to the status of supreme Law of the Land
throughout the USA, Wyoming included.

As revealed in Mitchell's detailed pleadings, Clerks of Federal
Courts are centrally situated to render an entire Federal Court
totally impotent. This conclusion is justified and even compelled
by a Federal law which required a Clerk's authorized signature
- and - the Court's official seal on all "process" a Federal Court
might issue -- 28 USC 1691. Even Court ORDERs!

Another Federal law designates the "court" as the legal custodian
of the same Oath of Office required of all Federal personnel:
the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Standard Form 61
APPOINTMENT AFFIDAVITS (abbreviated "SF-61").

It requires no rocket science to infer correctly that Clerk's Office
personnel cannot sign ANY Court process, insofar as no such
personnel do maintain proper legal custody of their own requisite
credentials. Here, see 5 USC 2906 and 28 USC 951 (duties).

Therefore, it came as no surprise to Mitchell's Co-Defendant
when the 10 so-called "subpoenas" -- bearing the name of one
STEPHAN HARRIS dba Clerk of Court in Cheyenne -- miserably
failed both tests: no authorized signatures or official seals
-and- no SF-61 credentials were ever produced for Harris or
for his subordinates Zachary Fisher and Tammy Hilliker.
Their second OATH required by 28 USC 951 was also

never produced either.

These were not isolated discoveries confined to the State of Wyoming,

however. The very same defects were later confirmed in the search "warrant"

issued by those two USDC personnel in Seattle:
the "clerk" and the "magistrate".

At his fourth such meeting with Deputy U.S. Marshals assigned
to that Court's judicial security department, all present agreed

that Mitchell needed to update a specific factual matter:

did the U.S. Office of Personnel Management ever formally apply
to the Office of Management and Budget for periodic review and
approval of OPM's SF-61, now published in electronic form at
OPM's Internet website? YES or NO?

Mitchell promptly received official letters from OPM and OMB,
both admitting, on government letterhead, that this
electronic version of Standard Form 61 is a counterfeit --
it violates the PRA and that violation activates the PRA's
Public Protection Clause at 44 USC 3512. Their answers were
emphatically NO!

As things stand today, nobody knows for sure just how many copies
of that counterfeit form have been downloaded from OPM's website,
nor how many copies have been executed by newly hired Federal
government officers and employees: one thousand? ten thousand?
one hundred thousand? one million? Nobody knows.

According to another Federal law at 5 USC 5507, a Federal officer
cannot even get paid unless the second of three affidavits

on each SF-61 is timely executed.

Moreover, a counterfeit credential means that superiors cannot
delegate any authorities or responsibilities to any subordinates:
the latter cannot be "authorized assistants" without lawful delegation.

Faulty delegation now hits government attorneys right between the eyes.

Such DOJ personnel are fond of claiming that their second OATH,
required by 28 USC 544, is not legally necessary when its language
is subsumed by the first affidavit on SF-61. By signing a counterfeit
SF-61, however, a reasonable inference can be made that those DOJ
attorneys have turned up without ANY valid credentials whatsoever.

Making matters much worse, according to Rule 7 of the Federal Rules
of Criminal Procedure, "attorneys for the government" must sign all
grand jury indictments. Without signatures of DOJ attorneys who
have executed valid versions of both credentials, a grand jury
indictment violates Rules 6 and 7, and must be dismissed as to all
defendants.

Such missing and defective credentials also mean that these same
attorneys cannot even step foot into a grand jury room, with or without

jurors present. In the mid-1980s, a Federal Judge in Colorado
dismissed such an indictment after a SEC lawyer attempted to conduct

a grand jury hearing without executing the second OATH for three weeks.

In his decision, Judge Matsch wisely ruled that the SEC lawyer was NOT
an assistant authorized to be present during those grand jury hearings.

Bail was released and case dismissed!

The very same counterfeit credential also means that several Cabinet
members cannot delegate any authorities or responsibilities either.
To date, the credential investigation has confirmed fatal defects
in the SF-61s executed by the Attorney General, two Treasury Secretaries,

the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

And so it goes.

It is utterly astonishing to realize these high-level executives have
been unable to devise or implement a permanent solution to minimize
or prevent any further injuries from several approaching storms being
stirred up by all missing and defective credentials.

The consequential damages resulting from false arrests and unlawful
incarcerations alone are creating enormous financial liabilities

for the United States and all of its responsible officials.

As if the Federal government did not already have enough fiscal problems.

Now this!

Before we forget, the two erstwhile IRS agents rampaging the western
States also turned up with two more counterfeit SF-61s. Those forms
are a special instance of fraud, because IRS personnel are not required

by law to execute that credential in the first place.

IRS is now what was left over of "The Untouchables" like Eliot Ness,
after alcohol Prohibition was finally repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.

At that time, a compromise was reached allowing the former Federal
Alcohol Administration to retreat to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The governments of all such Federal Territories are expressly
EXcluded from the definition of Federal "agency" at 5 USC 551.
See also the office definitions at 27 CFR 26.11, where the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is mentioned at least 3 times!

The U.S. Supreme Court has already admitted that IRS
was never created by any known Act of Congress, but
the high Court put it in a footnote, perhaps hoping that
nobody would notice. We did notice.

Hurricane watchers may remember what Katrina did
to Florida before it reached the Gulf of Mexico.
As our story now stands, Katrina is still approaching
Miami, but gusting winds are already drowning out
the whistle blowers. Please stand by for further
weather updates. Film at 11.

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