FIRST AFFIDAVIT
in re William D. Rippy
I, Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris, am
at least 18 years of age and competent to make this statement, as follows:
On or about August 30, 1999, William D. Rippy
and I had a very intense argument concerning his habit of playing two music
tracks simultaneously at high volume in the same office space we shared at 345
Estudillo Avenue, Suite 104, San Leandro, California.
William D. Rippy also had several computer
systems which he was assembling and integrating in this office. At least two of these systems included
powerful Microsoft Digital Sound Systems.
When William D. Rippy would power-up these systems,
extremely loud noises would issue from the speakers. Once, these loud noises were so extremely loud, it hurt my left
ear. I had to place my hands over both
of my ears, to muffle these extremely loud sounds and prevent further pain and
damage.
During that intense argument, I specifically
remember that William D. Rippy said:
"I
don't care." (his exact words)
During that argument, William D. Rippy gave
me a 30-day notice to vacate the premises, with a deadline of September 30,
1999.
At approximately 6:30 a.m. on the morning of
Thursday, September 2, 1999, I found a "post-it" note on my desk with
the following statement written on it:
"I have talked to John Alden The locks will be changed in three days. I will help you move if needed 9/1/99 Bill R"
This sudden change in my notice period has
placed me under great duress of mind and extraordinary pressure. I am the legal custodian of numerous
evidentiary records proving a widespread conspiracy to infringe my exclusive
copyrights in the book entitled "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of
Internal Revenue," electronic editions.
I was in the process of making arrangements
to move to a new location on or about September 30, 1999. I considered this a reasonable amount of
time within which to move myself, and all of the pertinent documents and
personal belongings.
I do regard this sudden change to a 3-day
deadline, with notice of lock-out, to be rather unreasonable.
At various times and places during the period
covering May thru August, 1999, I have heard William D. Rippy say to me that he
was expecting to return to prison, and that he was under investigation for
possible fraud by Medicare (an insurance program administered by the federal
government).
These
statements have also put me under unnecessary additional stress and pressure,
because of the possibility that my working association with William D. Rippy
could, possibly, motivate others to infer guilt by association.
In fact, during the first month of being a
guest at 345 Estudillo Avenue, Suite 104, San Leandro, California, I assisted
William D. Rippy at the San Leandro Surgery Center, by doing data entry
for him on the networked personal
computer in his business office cubicle there.
As one of the housekeeping staff was passing
that cubicle, she took it upon herself to utter the phrase "partners in
crime" [sic] in an obvious reference to me and William D. Rippy.
I specifically remember this exact phrase
because, at that time I thought it was rather odd that someone employed by the
San Leandro Surgery Center would jump to such a conclusion about me, simply
because I was doing data entry for William D. Rippy. I had never met this woman before then, and I have never seen her
again since then.
William D. Rippy has, at various times,
admitted to me that he is a convicted felon, and that he was sentenced to a
term in San Quentin State Prison.
I also wish to state here that William D.
Rippy kindly invited me to join him on two trips to his vacation cabin near
Lake Tahoe, California.
He did all the driving, up and back.
At many times, William D. Rippy was exceeding
the posted speed limit; he
"tail-gated" the car in front of us in the fast lane; and he failed to leave a minimum margin of
safe distance between his car and a large motorhome that was merging into our
lane from a transition ramp on the passenger side of the car.
I can say with great confidence that William D.
Rippy exceeded 75 miles per hour at least 6 times; he exceeded 85 miles per hour at least 3 times; and he exceeded 90 miles per hour at least 2
times, while I was a passenger in his Honda CRX car.
He also bragged to me that, during a long trip he
took with his wife and children, several years ago, he sustained a speed of 120
miles per hour while driving a Mercedes Benz station wagon, while his wife and
children were sleeping in the same car.
William D. Rippy also has a habit, which I find
extremely irritating, of leaving trash and waste paper laying around almost
every flat surface he can find. The
cargo area of his car, a small Honda CRX subcompact, is one such flat surface
which is always littered with trash and waste papers.
On three separate occasions that I can
remember, when I opened the passenger-side window for some fresh air, some of
these papers started blowing about the inside of the car, startling me and
obstructing my view, and the driver's view, out the front window.
I was placed under great duress by these
incidents of trash blowing around inside his car, because of his habit of
frequently exceeding the posted speed limit, and because I have heard stories
of drivers who have been in serious automobile accidents when a bee finds its
way inside a car, and the driver is distracted, for fear of getting stung.
Although I have never confirmed these
stories, I believe them to be true, because I have had bees work their way into
my own car, when I was operating it at normal speeds, and I know how
distracting it can be when a bee is buzzing near my head while I am trying to
operate a moving car.
Another reason for my concern about excessive
speeding by William D. Rippy was his expressed intention to purchase a entire
set of high-performance brake parts for all his vehicles.
I personally saw an itemized list of those
high-performance brake parts, in a written quotation from the supplier, addressed
to William D. Rippy.
I inferred, from my casual conversations with
William D. Rippy, that he was purchasing these high-performance brake parts
specifically to enable him to continue with his habit of exceeding the posted
speed limit by a wide margin.
This affidavit is not a complete statement of
my current serious concerns about the conduct of William D. Rippy, or his
treatment of me while sharing a business office with him at 345 Estudillo
Avenue, Suite 104, San Leandro, California.
VERIFICATION
I, Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris,
hereby verify, under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the United States of
America, without the "United States" (federal government), that the
above statement of facts is true and correct, according to the best of my
current information, knowledge, and belief, so help me God, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 1746(1).
Dated:
September 2, 1999
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Counselor at Law, Federal Witness,
and Private Attorney General
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice