Time: Sun Aug 31 03:18:43 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA27356; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:36:06 -0700 (MST) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA12872; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:33:47 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:32:09 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: to 8 yr old boy hurt by crazy justice system [1 of 2] >Date: 30 Aug 97 23:21:07 EDT >From: "James M. Ballard" <73042.1152@CompuServe.COM> >Subject: to 8 yr old boy hurt by crazy justice system > >08/28/97 @ Thursday @ 16:55 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA > > Jim Ballard > 63 Kugler Road, > Limerick PA 19468-1411 > 610-287-8165 > August 28, 1997 > >Mr. Joshua Eckhert >c/o Lori E. Miller & Mrs. Betty Ann Gear, Director, >Foster Care Program, Montgomery County Children & > Youth Department >1880 Markley Street >Norristown PA 19401 > >Dear Mr. Joshua Eckhert: > > I hope you are safe and sound and ready to start school again. >People say you're a very good, bright student, and your mother, >Lori, is very proud of you for that. I'm 54 years old, but I'll >probably be returning to school myself, in electronics, in late >October, and I was a pretty good student too when I had time to go >to electronics school last year - my grades were 3.94 out of a >maximum possible 4.00, just a little less than perfect because I >had to miss some days of school to work for the federal courts. >Almost everyone has to go to school every few years these days to >learn about nifty new things other people have done and invented. >It's really fun. Even my parents, who are in their 80's and who are >retired, still go to school to learn how to use their computer >system better and to learn the languages of the countries they >decide to visit. > > I'd like to know what they plan to teach you in 3rd grade this >year. Please tell me. You can write or phone me collect. When I was >in 3rd grade in the early 1950s they taught us about how to read >and write better and geography and how to do multiplication and >division in arithmetic. Maybe you'll get to learn about using >computers that had barely begun to be invented. When I was eight >years old, electronic computers with even one thousandth the power >of this one took up whole big rooms. Nobody had one of their own. >I did my first of my few oil paintings when I was a 3rd grader, or >maybe that was in 4th grade. It wasn't very good, but I used bright >colors and I have a younger sister who likes it, so I gave it to >her. She likes my few artworks much more than my legal work because >the court work doesn't pay me anything and sometimes the government >has even gotten upset about it and jailed me for it without trial. > > In 3rd grade my school also made us pay attention to scary air >raid drills in case of atomic war. We had to hide in the school >basement when the sirens went off, not that any of us would have >survived if there was an actual nuclear bomb attack. We all would >have become radioactive dust within a fraction of a second. So we >didn't like the idea of nuclear war at all, and therefore, when we >grew up and came to power, we reversed the nuclear arms race, made > >08/28/97 @ Thursday @ 18:01 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 2 > >the world start taking apart all its nuclear weapons beginning in >1992. My generation really loves to stop wars. Some of the >government doesn't like that and would rather keep on making H- >bombs, but we don't let them. We don't like wars because they make >people behave thoughtlessly and stupidly, and we think that's wrong >because, basically, we like people, and we want them to be able to >be considerate and bright. I think people are really just as good >and as nifty and lovable as the rest of Nature, even as good as >baby bunny rabbits and young puppies. > > I suspect that when your generation grows up, it will force >governments to sober up and use law to just solve problems gently >instead of using law to beat people up and jail kids' moms and >dads. Do you think so? On the other hand, you and I and your mom >and Mrs. Gear might succeed in doing that in this country pretty >soon, in which case you might want to travel around the world >teaching other countries how when you become a grown-up. How about >that? Would you like to join the Foreign Service when you grow up, >maybe work for the Peace Corps or be an ambassador, teach other >countries how to do the best we've learned how to do? > > You'll have to forgive me if this letter stretches your >imagination a lot, Joshua. I don't have any children of my own, and >I live all alone in this little red brick ranch house way out here >in Limerick, and I mostly never get to entertain kids except at >Christmas gatherings of my parental family. I love kids, kids are >really bright people, but for many years now, all of my writing has >been to other grown-ups, so you'll have to pardon me if this letter >seems to treat you as a fellow grown-up. I love stories and poems >for kids too, but the only one I remember that's about a little red >house like mine, is about a woman named Belinda. All I remember of >it is the way it starts. Maybe your teacher knows the rest. It >starts out like this: > > "Belinda lived in a little red house, > With a little black cat and a little grey mouse, > And a little yellow dog, and a little red wagon, > And really, oh truely, a little pet dragon!" > >It's a really good poem about how the dragon, although he was very >timid and cowardly and always hid in his cage, finally had enough >courage to save everybody from a really mean, fierce, invading >pirate whom he gobbled up. Not that all would-be pirates are bad, >you know. Maybe you'd like to be the Pirate King in the classic >British musical, The Pirates of Penzance. He sings: > > "Oh better far, to live and die, under the brave black > flag I fly, > Than play a sanctimonious part with a Pirate head and > a Pirate heart. > Off to the cheating world go you, where pirates all are > >08/28/97 @ Thursday @ 18:51 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 3 > > well-to-do, > But I'll be true to the song I sing, and live and die > a Pi-i-i-irate King!" > >Those musical, make-believe pirates were very good pirates who >didn't die nor hurt people at all and who made British society >better by challenging its stuffiness, and then they all got married >and lived happily ever after. I sing that song sometimes in my >shower, not that I want to ever get married or be really close with >and directly responsible for a woman or anyone else since that >might be dangerous for them due to my line of legal work. > > Once Lori is released, you and she and Ron Pascucci can come >visit me out here in this little red house in Limerick, and you can >play with this computer system while we grown-ups talk about the >federal court records that are here in this house. I also have a >couple of really bright comic books you'd enjoy, that people gave >me as birthday presents and Christmas presents, including a big one >about the history of the universe and life on earth. I'll give you >that one for your next birthday on December 15th. > > Of course, you've never heard of me before, and neither had >Lori, and I didn't know anything about you and your world either >until 17 June, but I'm a friend of yours and of your mom and of Ron >Pascucci. I've been trying to help you and your mom, Lori, for the >past 2 months since I was on the panel from which a trial jury was >chosen in a silly court case that silly little county prosecutors >had started against your mom and Ron. The same people that have >jailed your mom tried to investigate the Limerick Police Department >here last year, until I stopped the investigation by announcing >that I too wanted to testify because I think our Limerick Police >are really good and bright and they've helped me and are very >friendly. > > I'm pretty unpopular with prosecutors because I'm a federal >grand juror. Trial juries answer questions that grand juries ask, >and federal prosecutors aren't allowed to ask questions without >grand jury permission, without my permission. So prosecutors don't >like grand jurors that have independent brains and consciences like >me, and grand jurors like me don't like prosecutors very much >either, although we're all very courteous and cordial towards each >other. > > That's part of what's called the "checks and balances system >of government" that we have, where different parts of the >government are supposed to independently police each other. I'm a >type of federal officer that polices the rest of the government, >especially prosecutors. You'll probably begin learning about that >in school in 7th or 8th grade. The prosecutors who've been beating >up Lori had sort of escaped from that checks and balances system, >and I'm methodically recapturing them and trying to force them to > >08/28/97 @ Thursday @ 19:43 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 4 > >free you and your mom and Ron and pay all of you some worthwhile >things for their having hurt all of you and other people. > > It's not that the prosecutors are bad people - there's really >no such thing as truely evil people. It's just that they were a >little crazy. They just sort of forgot in recent decades that, if >we're going to use law to govern ourselves, then law must help >everyone do worthwhile things, must not be used to hurt people. > > The reason you've never heard of me before is that the >lawyers, especially prosecutor lawyers, and the press think that >grand jurors should be silent and secret and should not spoil >politicians' wars and victory parades by asking embarrassing >questions. They've managed to frighten almost all other grand >jurors into being that way, although I'm not that way myself. You >can write to me and ask me questions and tell me anything you think >people should know or about what you've had fun doing and learning >and I'll write back to you, or you can phone me collect and I'll >talk with you, or even come visit your class in school if you and >your teachers want me to. I'm really a very ordinary person who >just happens to really like people and really like this little >planet of ours. > > But don't expect to ever see me on TV or in the headlines >because that's just not the way I govern. My job of helping people >find good, helpful justice, of making law really work properly is >a little too complex to squeeze down to a few minutes on TV because >people are really quite complicated creatures. You see, Josh, I'm >a really competent federal grand juror who can and does ask really >important questions that it takes really thoughtful effort for >people to answer. Questions like whether we should stop the >government from sending deadly weapons into other peoples' wars, >since that happens to be a pretty serious crime according to the >lawbooks, and probably the government shouldn't be allowed to >commit crimes, not even accidentally. Mostly, I don't even allow >stupid questions such as whether someone is "innocent or guilty," >stupid questions about whether to beat somebody up or not, >questions that don't really help anyone at all. So people who enjoy >asking such stupid questions, about your mother or anyone else, >tend to be a little frightened of me. > > The silly people who hurt you and your mom were using silly >little laws unreasonably, but it just so happens that I know about >bigger laws which forbid people from using any law to be >unreasonable, forbid being nasty to anybody. It's part of the >Pennsylvania and United States Constitutions, the supreme law of >the land, directly under the laws of Nature Itself. > > I'm sorry if it seems I've arrived on the scene far too late, >but the country and the planet is pretty big, pretty difficult to >properly take care of, and I don't always win. Sometimes it takes > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 0:46 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 5 > >quite awhile to make things work properly - I had to let them jail >me myself for 7.4 years (all pre-trial, of course) out of the past >quarter century since I began the work, just to have a chance to >make things work a little better for everyone now. It used to make >me pretty angry, but now, I almost never get angry anymore. You >see, Josh, there just weren't any schools where I could find out >what I needed to know to do my job, so I sort of had to make myself >seem like a bit of nuisance, at least on paper, so that I could get >into the jails and prisons and insane asylums in addition to >getting into the government offices, universities, laboratories, >and libraries, to learn what I had to know to do my grand jury job. >For example, it wasn't easy to make the world give up the nuclear >arms race - lots of people like me had to work on it hard for a >long time, many years, before we won. > > Also, you shouldn't feel angry that the government jailed >people like me repeatedly for awhile without any trial. They were >really pretty scared when I was angry because they know that I know >a lot of science, and that, technically, I could knock out an >entire huge metropolitan region anytime I want to (and can do it >quickly and without it directly killing anyone for a long time >afterwards, many years). You'll be able to do that too when you >grow up. Lots of people will know exactly how. It's not a secret, >and it's very scary to governments because it makes killing people >look really stupid. Naturally, I don't want to actually make >millions of people suddenly homeless that way at all. But the fact >that I could and that it's really easy to do is pretty important, >because it means nobody, including governments can really afford to >be so nasty that anyone will get really angry at them anymore. It >means everyone, including governments and courts, has to learn how >to be gentler, and kinder, and nicer to everybody now and forever >after. > > Knowledge is power, and I have some pretty powerful knowledge, >so, in some ways sometimes, I'm more powerful than the whole >government even though I'm financially quite poor. Power is >responsibility. The government has had to make sure that I'm more >responsible and trustworthy than they themselves know how to be so >far. So, in a sense, I'm just not allowed to get angry, and I have >to give everyone advance notice of almost everything I do before I >actually do it because I "occupy a position of trust" - a lot of >other people's lives are dependent on me exercising good and gentle >judgement and doing worthwhile work. There are supposed to be >about 20,000 federal grand jurors like me, but so far, there's >really only little me. Sure, I'm bigger than you, nearly six feet >tall, but that's still very, very small compared to the size of the >earth and the universe, so I have to try to be really bright, just >as we all do. At least you and your mom are safe and have food >clothing and shelter and school and medicine when you need it. Lots >of other people, far too many poor people, aren't that fortunate >just yet. > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 0:46 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 6 > > So, I know times have been really hard for you and Lori this >past year, but you must have courage, Joshua. Lori really loves you >and wants the very best for you, and I'm doing my best to make sure >it happens for you both. I'm a type of engineer, usually paid to >help invent things and ways to help other people do what they want >to do. > > The ideas of some lawyers, lawyers who like to find excuses to >hurt people whom they think did something wrong, seem pretty stupid >to me and to lots of other engineers. The lawyers' theory is that >if they identify and hurt people who make mistakes, like some of >them thought your mom and Ron did, then that will scare everybody >else and make them avoid making such mistakes. But it seems pretty >crazy to me to hurt people in order to terrorize everybody else. To >me, if you want people to avoid making certain mistakes, it's much >more reasonable to just teach them all how to do better, especially >since everyone loves to learn how to do things that work better and >make them more successful. So I tend to think a lot of lawyers are >crazy, especially prosecutor lawyers, and they tend to think people >like me are crazy. > > But I'm still sorry that I didn't find out your problems >sooner so that I could try to help you and Lori sooner. I certainly >would have helped sooner if I'd known sooner. Your mother, Lori, is >a very good, very nice, very bright, honest person, and I'm sure >you're the same way yourself. Even the police and prosecutor >lawyers mostly admit that your mother is a very honest person, is >basically a very, very good person. You're really very lucky to be >her son. > > I know she's used "drugs," and I know why, and I know that >lots of lawyers and other people think that people who use drugs >should be beaten up, so that's a problem. But the drug usage itself >is really just a very small problem compared to the problem of >people interested in finding excuses to hurt other people, which is >a really big and very serious problem. > > The only real problem with your mom is that both she and I and >mostly everyone else are very reluctant to hurt anyone even a >little bit, but sometimes we have to hurt them just a tiny bit to >save them and save other people. Sometimes people have to make some >other people a little bit uncomfortable to be able to help them. A >person 3 times older than you but less than half my own age, >overdosed on drugs in your old house in Conshohocken last year, and >a very small but important part of the reasons he died was that >your mother felt sorry for him and helped him feel more comfortable >and let him go to sleep, instead of making him uncomfortable and >forcing him to stay awake until the drugs wore off. > > Lori understands that now, and I'm helping her and me learn >how to properly do it, learn how to be strict with people when we > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 0:47 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 7 > >really should be a little more strict towards them. I have to be >very, very careful about doing that so that the government won't >collapse again as it did a few times in the past when I was clumsy >at it, but that's my problem, not yours nor your mother's. > > If I'm successful at it this time, Josh, most people will >laugh at me if and when they find out what I did and why. There's >no fame and glory in doing my kind of job properly. It's too >complex for history to notice. People who find out what I've been >doing and am doing will tend to think I'm like the village idiot >who walked around snapping his fingers all the time. When someone >asked him why he snapped his fingers all the time, he said, "It's >to keep the walruses away!" "But there are no walruses within a >thousand miles of here!" he was told. "You see," said the finger- >snapping fool, "It works, doesn't it??!!!" > > You see, if I'm successful, other people will just naturally >assume that the sort of work I do is how they themselves should do >things too, and they'll do it themselves and write books about it >and make movies about it themselves and they'll all believe they >invented it themselves. That's fine with me. I didn't take on the >work to get rich or famous, but just to do a quality control job >that needed to be done. You and I and Lori are Americans. We have >to very gently run the government ourselves like all other >Americans, because that's the best method of government that >anybody anywhere has ever discovered so far. We mostly don't do it >to get rich or famous, but just because we really should do it, and >because it's dangerous if we don't, even though, sometimes, it's >pretty difficult work to do it properly. > > Part of the reason I didn't find out about you and Lori and >Ron, until on and after 17 June, is that I don't watch much TV nor >read ordinary newspapers and magazines very much - I just haven't >had time for that very much in this decade. Most of what I read, >except for the letters from Lori and Ron, is pretty technical, >bureaucratic stuff that most people would think is really boring. >It would make you feel sleepy. It even makes me feel sleepy >sometimes too. I really like the letters from Lori and Ron and I >send them back a photocopy of everything they send me so that >they'll have a copy for their own records - I'll do the same with >you, will send you a return photocopy of anything and everything >you send me. > > I also get to visit with Lori every Wednesday afternoon, and >sometimes she phones me, and she should be able to phone you and >have visits with you too, and she might be simply freed next week, >in which case the two of you can get back together very soon, even >better than ever before. > > Lori understands what a difficult time you've had since she's >been imprisoned, wrongly imprisoned as I see it, Joshua. [I don't > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 1:16 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 8 > >believe in locking anybody up unless they're dangerous, and Lori's >not dangerous to anybody at all, but the people who've locked her >up are quite dangerous, as you know.] She understands how betrayed >and angry you often feel about it all, Joshua. And I know its the >second time you've had such hardship, that it happened once before >very briefly for several weeks in 1992 when you were very little. >She's been hurt by it herself. But she has kept writing to you to >encourage you, and, if it's still too hard for you to write back to >Lori, maybe you could write letters to me that I can share with >Lori to help you both feel better. > > If you only sent her, through Mrs. Gear or through me, a copy >of a paper you wrote for school, your mother, Lori, would feel a >lot better. She loves you so much that she really misses you and >feels hurt when she can't be with you to help you at all. You're >the main person she likes to talk about. I'm well aware how hard it >is on both you and Lori to have been dependent on rumors and >reports from other people to know how each other are doing. You >must bear in mind, Joshua, that Lori herself really hasn't yet been >allowed to talk in court except when she was on the witness stand: >that's very wrong, and it does mean that the courts have been in >really sad shape all over this country and everywhere else, and >that's part of my job to correct too, so you know I've had an awful >lot of very hard work to do to make it easier for everyone to be >gentler and kinder to each other. > > As I'm sure you realize, it's sort of silly to let lawyers >talk about other people in court, if those real people themselves >aren't allowed to talk. The lawyers are a real problem like the >cartoon character who was visiting a psychiatrist. "I have good >news and bad news," said the psychiatrist. "The good news is that >you lawyers think very highly of yourselves. The bad news is that >that means you are losing touch with reality." > > But we all learn mostly by trial and error, so I'm a lot >stronger than when I first sued the government in 1971 to stop a >really bad war, and Lori is stronger for her recent experiences, >and I'm sure you yourself are a little stronger from having had to >face the difficulties you've had to face. Lots of very good, very >bright grown-ups believe that the challenges and hardships that >Nature or society impose on them, are really just opportunities for >them to learn how to grow stronger and wiser. I believe that >myself in my own case, but I'm not sure that it's appropriate to >suggest that a 3rd grader should view the world that way, let alone >appropriate to suggest that you yourself should have to view the >world that way. I think it may be too serious a concept for kids. >On the other hand, that point of view is a real comfort to lots of >very good grown-ups including many very successful ones. > > Personally, I'd mostly just like to know what you did on your >summer vacation from school this year, especially since grown-ups > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 2:13 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 9 > >like me don't get much vacation any time, and I myself haven't had >one since 1984. When I was just a little older than you, I used to >get a week or two at Boy Scout camp during the summer, once I got >big enough to paddle a canoe. Maybe you'll get that too once you >reach 5th or 6th grade. It's not expensive and canoes are really >fun. There's a special way to paddle them called the J-stroke which >lets you paddle on just one side but without having the canoe go >around in circles. It's called the J-stroke because at the very end >of each power stroke, you turn the paddle to steer the canoe, so >that each stroke, viewed from above, looks like the letter "J". >Then you're ready to take the canoe through rapids too. Rapids are >also called "white water," and it's really exciting to go through >rapids in a canoe or kyak. It has even become an Olympic sport. > > Maybe Ron and Lori will teach you, although my parents left my >own training up to my scoutmasters and fellow scouts. But Ron and >Lori probably will be able to take you and a few of your friends >camping at spring-fed Sunfish Pond on top of a mountain near the >Delaware Water Gap - unless the New Jersey Light and Power Company >has destroyed it - there are delicious, wild blueberries there in >the summer, and it's part of the Appalachian Trail. I'm sure you'd >really like it. > > Gee, Josh, it sure has been a long time since I was in 3rd >grade, but it seems like only yesterday - time just flies by, and >then I was learning nuclear physics. The only other kid in my >childhood neighborhood that did that, studied nuclear physics, went >over to the other side, sold out. His name was Skip, Skip Kerr. >These days he runs Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico for >the government and is unhappy that I reversed the nuclear arms race >because he loved to design thermonuclear weapons, H-bombs (which I >think are stupid trash) and test them. Gee, time really flies. My >3rd grade teacher was named Mrs. Fields. She took us to the >Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Museum of Natural >History. My 4th grade teacher was an elderly lady named Miss >Haines. She retired to an insane asylum after she'd taught my >class, although I hope it wasn't because of us - we were really >quite well-behaved, but, of course, we were also very enthusiastic. > > The government used to send me myself to insane asylums >several times, and I usually had a pretty good time there, but then >too I used to have a pretty good time in prisons and jails too and >in industry and school and just about everywhere else I've ever >been. Norristown State Hospital is my "alma mater funny farm." >That's where I mostly ended up whenever the government got upset >and arrested me, and they always release me because I'm harmless. >It probably won't ever happen again because the last time, the >staff got really angry at the courts and the government and >threatened to rule that the government itself was insane. I refused >to let the staff do it, but if there's ever a "next time," I >wouldn't be able to stop them from doing it. > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 3:09 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 10 > > It's not that I was actually crazy. I wasn't. It's just that >other people didn't understand the physics which is a part of >science and has real law that always works for everybody >everywhere, the type of law behind what I was doing and they didn't >want to understand it because they thought that what I was trying >to do, such as wipe out wars and reform the justice system, was >impossible, crazy to try to do. They didn't ever think that I >myself was legally insane at all. Everybody, even the judges and >prosecutors agreed that my knowledge of right and wrong was really >great, never even wavered. They just thought that what I was trying >to do and was talking about was impossible, like trying to stop the >ocean tide with a teaspoon or moving a mountain by mental >telepathy. Basically, I was trying to make the world saner, and >they all thought they knew lots of important reasons why the world >just had to be mean and crazy and stupid instead, and why grand >jurors had to let it be that way. > > You see, just about the most famous psychiatrist of all time >that anyone knew of was named Sigmund Freud. He was an Austrian, >not an American like you and me and Lori and Ron. Freud had a lot >of bright ideas about what makes people tick, but he was a cocaine >addict, and he was a cynic, was a person who thought everyone is >basically very stupid and that humanity is doomed, and he didn't >understand physics. He thought everyone is only independent little >biological machines without any real spirit at all, that what we >can see is all we're really part of. He didn't understand that >we're all part of an immense field too, invisibly but very vitally >all interconnected with each other and with everything all the way >to infinity, even far beyond our huge local universe that's bigger >than 10 billion years across if you travel at the speed of light. >Besides, electronics based on quantum physics, which is a part of >science that knows the real score, hadn't begun to be discovered >yet when Freud lived. Almost no one believed in it because it >seemed too weird. > > I know your mother, Lori, has used cocaine too, but she's not >a cocaine addict, and she's not a cynic. She's a fellow American >like you and me who believes people are basically bright and good, >although right now she's pretty angry with some people because she > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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