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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:19:58 -0700
To: haze11@prodigy.net
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Supreme Law School: is it too much money?
References: <3.0.3.16.19970725154746.34f7f42c@pop.primenet.com>
We need money here, because we have lots
of recurring bills, and still more
non-recurring bills. I would love to
work with you, but I have made a commitment
to give priority to clients of the Supreme
Law School. For example, even if it has
to do with jury selection challenges,
I cannot justify doing any more pro bono
work for anyone, even if we are dividing
the labor, because these projects are
extremely time-consuming, and pro bono
efforts threaten me with the loss of my
apartment, inability to buy gas, disconnect
notices from the telephone company and
power company, and other such terrible
distractions from the critical path.
So, not to over simplify, but if someone
is not willing to put up some money to
help me with the overhead here, then I
usually move on. You must understand that
I left a very high paying job with an
investment bank in California to do this
work; I have liquidated a house which I
built with my own hands. Over 7 years,
I would have made at least $840,000,
not counting raises (flat $60 per hour).
That is the financial contribution which
I have made.
So, you can appreciate how I might
get a little bit discouraged when people
nickle and dime me to death, by complaining
about the "high cost" of the Supreme Law School.
I am not saying you have done that, but others
have, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
So, if you were assuming that I would be willing
to provide professional contributions to you,
all the while I would have to look elsewhere
for money to pay my landlord, phone company,
food market, power company, then that is a
losing proposition, because I need an office
to house the huge investment (and contribution)
I have made in computer hardware, software,
and database development. There is no hidden
account under my rug somewhere, which I am not
telling people about; in fact, we are boycotting
the banks entirely, so we have no bank accounts
whatsoever.
So, having donated 7 full YEARS of my
professinal life, working 12 hours per day,
to this effort, I cannot give my best to this
nationwide jury selection challenge, all the while
I am struggling (and of course, distracted), by
the need to find money for essentials. This is
exactly what the government wants me to spend my
time doing, and I can't, because it is frankly
an impossible task. I can't help you for free,
and I can't even "cooperate" with you for free,
because I am forced into billing for as much of
my time as I can right now. What we are bluntly
telling people who fail to understand even
one-tenth of what I have told you here, is this:
"If they cannot afford $10 to enroll in the
Supreme Law School, then I cannot afford the
10 minutes it would take to answer their
question. So, we cannot afford each other!"
It is interesting that clients have commented
about the huge volume of excellent materials they
are receiving from the School. Try getting this
much research, in printed form, from a University
law school. You might be able to buy at most one-half
case of blank paper for $10, to say nothing of
the energy which goes into orchestrating the
ink into meaningful printed characters. We pay
$20 plus tax for a ream of xerographic paper at
Office Depot, then we pay $125 for an HP toner
cartridge for a LaserJet Model 4 laser printer.
You can see where the emphasis is here, economically.
Quite honestly, I continue to be terribly discouraged
by those who just assume that I am so motivated, that
I gladly continue to contribute everything I have ever
had to this movement. Well, what I was able to contribute
has already been contributed, and that WELL is now dry.
See "Omar's Well" which I wrote last week, for my
latest feelings about this whole situation.
So, if you ask me to send you another file from
my large database, please don't be insulted if I
do not do so until and unless you can help with the
overhead here, as so many others have done without
my needing to ask for donations from them.
Thank you.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
p.s. Also, I simply do not like the telephone,
because I have this feeling that it is tapped,
without a court order. What I write here I can
always defend; what I say on the telephone can
get twisted and misinterpreted so easily. So,
I stay off the telephone as much as possible.
At 06:11 PM 7/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>I hope this makes sense to you:
>
>> Hi Brooks,
>>
>> It would help both of us if you
>> would enroll in the Supreme Law School,
>> to help us defray our huge overhead costs.
>> The registration form is at URL:
>
>I read your subscriber agreement and even though I don't feel
>it'sunreasonable, I would prefer to send you money for your efforts
>without being bound to any rules. I am not trying to cause you
>difficulty.
>I would like to help. Let me know how and if I can.
>
>> As a rule also, we prefer to stay off
>> the telephone, particularly when we
>> have so many contacts spread around
>> the entire nation. Long-distance calls
>> always add up to a huge crisis every
>> month, without fail. That is the main
>> reason why we do so much work on the
>> Internet, which is a free local call,
>> no matter how long we stay on the phone.
>
>I don't mind paying for the calls.
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for understanding. The truth
>> is that we have had all our money taken
>> from us, in one way or another, so we
>> have nothing left with which to subsidize
>> any pro bono efforts. I wish it were not
>> that way, but it is. There were five days
>> last month when I did not eat any food
>> whatsoever. Despite their rhetoric,
>> "Patriots" exhibit a terrible double
>> standard when it comes to compensating
>> professionals for their time. That is
>> the main reason why I will never call
>> myself a "Patriot," because I believe in
>> paying a man what he is worth, and maybe
>> even a little more, so he doesn't go to
>> work for someone else! :)
>
>I have no problem paying a man what he is worth. Based on
>ourconversation yesterday I was under the impression that I would be
>assisting you in your endeavors and you would be assisting me in mine.
>If that was the wrong impression, then forgive me.
>
>Regards,
>
>Brooks Martin
>
>
>
>
>
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