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Subject: SLF: MEMO to Frank G. Long and John Oppedahl
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Subject: SLF: MEMO to Frank G. Long and John Oppedahl
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>
>Subject: SLS: MEMO to Frank G. Long and John Oppedahl
>
>Dear Clients,
>
>Mr. Long is an "attorney" who has demanded
>that I stop using "ARIZONA REPUBLIC" on my
>mailing envelopes and in documents which
>I publish on the Internet. They have no
>registered trademark in this name, although
>they have applied for it. If you have not
>already received a copy of my first letter
>to Mr. Oppedahl, CEO of the parent company,
>I will be happy to re-send it to you here,
>upon request.
>
>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>http://www.supremelaw.com
>
>
>
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>
>MEMO
>
>TO: Frank G. Long, Unregistered Foreign Agent
> John Oppedahl, CEO, Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
>
>FROM: Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
> Counselor at Law
>
>DATE: August 20, 1997
>
>SUBJECT: Please Turn Off the Pressure!
>
>
>Dear Frank:
>
>I have received your fax communication today. I do not agree
>with you when you say that it is "essential" that I sign your
>proposed Settlement Agreement by Friday noon. Since I have not
>even read it, I am not in any position to cite provisions which
>justify such haste. Your "deadline" is artificial and contrived,
>at best.
>
>You are wrong to conclude that I am not serious about resolving
>our "dispute" amicably. On the contrary, I have already gone way
>out of my way to explain our situation, and to take steps to
>ensure that your position is also recognized. If what you say is
>true (and it is not true), I would not have taken the initiative
>to begin editing our huge database in honor of your request.
>
>I fail to see where such excessive pressure tactics are going to
>get you what you want, unless there is, indeed, some real hidden
>agenda to your intentions.
>
>What are your true and complete intentions, Mr. Long?
>
>Is it the original Thirteenth Amendment?
>
>Is it the all important difference between the USDC and the DCUS?
>
>Are you, in fact, colluding with staff of the federal judiciary
>in Phoenix and/or Tucson, and with the Pima County Attorneys
>office in Tucson, to impede, halt, obstruct, or compromise the
>services we are obligated to deliver to our clients?
>
>If you are, then you may be putting yourself in a position of
>liability for obstructing justice. But, as a licensed attorney,
>I should not need to be telling you these things, should I?
>
>I can honestly say to you that I have already made major
>commitments to more than one client, to complete their work as
>soon as possible, and hopefully before Friday. In light of their
>paramount needs, I worked all weekend on the editing which I have
>already described to you. This good faith on my part is,
>evidently, not enough for you. This saddens me deeply.
>
>If you persist in pressuring me in the way that you have today, I
>would have to regard such pressure as an attempt by you
>deliberately to impede the delivery of essential professional
>services to clients who are facing imminent incarceration, by the
>same hostile federal judiciary with which you appear to be
>colluding and conspiring. Is this only an appearance, Mr. Long,
>or are you in fact colluding with the offices of Mr. Richard H.
>Weare in Phoenix and Tucson, and with the office of the Pima
>County Attorney in Tucson?
>
>You do not have any right to impair the obligations of my prior
>contracts, in particular because all licensed attorneys, as
>officers of the courts in which they are admitted to practice,
>must be able to demonstrate that they have taken an oath to
>support the U.S. Constitution. Have you? I have no contract
>with you or Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., verbal or written, at this
>point in time; and, furthermore, if you do not immediately begin
>to demonstrate at least a gram of professional consideration for
>my prior commitments and obligations, I will take your refusal in
>this regard as seriously as possible.
>
>My clients have a fundamental Right to counsel of their choice,
>under the Sixth Amendment, and you now given me cause to conclude
>that you are more than willing to interfere with my priorities
>and obligations to these clients. This is a violation of their
>fundamental right to effective assistance of Counsel and, as
>such, it constitutes probable cause to charge you with violating
>18 U.S.C. 242 -- deprivation of fundamental Rights under color of
>law -- and possibly also 18 U.S.C. 241 -- conspiracy to deprive
>fundamental Rights. This is a fair gentleman's warning to you,
>Mr. Long.
>
>Since you have failed to demonstrate any specific reason why your
>artificial deadline warrants a total upheaval in my crowded and
>pressing schedule, I must politely demand hereby that you
>immediately cease and desist any further pressure tactics. I
>think you know exactly what I am talking about here.
>
>If you do not understand exactly what I am talking about here,
>please advise in writing, and I will elaborate in excruciating
>detail, but only after my other pressing obligations are met, in
>a timely and professional manner.
>
>I will look forward to your immediate cooperation in this regard.
>Please fax me evidence of your oath of office, no later than noon
>on Friday next (August 22, 1997). If you do not, I will proceed
>on the basis of probable cause that you are not who you say you
>are, and that you fully intend to continue, and foster, a program
>of intentional harassment, misrepresentation, and retaliation
>against a known federal witness, in deliberate and premeditated
>violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512 and 1513. Again, you have now been
>warned.
>
>Thank you for obeying American Law never repealed.
>
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
>Counselor at Law and federal witness
>c/o 2509 N. Campbell Avenue, #1776
>Tucson 85719/tdc
>ARIZONA STATE (See USPS Publication #221.)
>
>email: pmitch@primenet.com (586/Eudora Pro 3.0.3(16):
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> available 24-hours per day or night)
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> use when fax machine is busy/no answer)
>website: http://www.supremelaw.com
>
>
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