Time: Sun Aug 31 03:18:49 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA28097; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:39:00 -0700 (MST) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13014; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:08 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:33:30 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: to 8 yr old boy hurt by crazy justice system [2 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 > >knows you're upset and that she hasn't been allowed to help you and >comfort you because they haven't let her even though the court said >this past Monday that she must be allowed to to help you and >comfort you. She knows that part of the real reason you're still >upset is that other people are violating court orders. I know who >some of the people doing it are, and I might have to jail them >federally for a little while to straighten them out. > > But anyway, your mother, Lori is not exactly a drug addict. >She doesn't use drugs to get "high," to get visions or get a make- >believe sense of power and happiness as most addicts do. She isn't >interested in that. She used drugs to stop pain, legal drugs when > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 4:10 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 11 > >she could get them, and "illegal" drugs when she couldn't. You see, >Josh, a stupid person shot her in her ankle with a stupid gun >several years before you were born, and ever since then, your >mother has needed pain-killers of one sort or another to be able to >run at all or even play baseball with you. That's probably curable >- we probably already know how to teach her to train her brain to >suppress pain without using any chemicals at all. We're pretty sure >we can really help your mom solve that problem, and we're also >pretty sure we can teach all other drug users how to get whatever >type of "high" experience they want, whenever they want it, without >any chemicals at all. So you see, the War Against Drugs was really >just another nasty, stupid war that we're going to wipe out. And >you don't have to worry much at all that you'll ever be in danger >of becoming a drug addict just because your mom used drugs for a >very few years in desperation. You'll have freedoms that never >existed before and you won't need any kind of drugs much at all. > > Maybe you should bear in mind, Joshua, that President >Clinton's dad was a pretty mean alcoholic, but President Clinton's >not an alcoholic at all, so you shouldn't fear that you might >become a drug addict just because Lori used drugs for a few years >recently. I don't think Clinton is a very good President, but I did >vote for him as the lesser of two evils because the choice we had >was, as one comedian put it, "the evil of two lessers," wasn't much >of a good choice at all. Presidents don't count much with grand >jurors - we don't expect Presidents to be able to do much good, so >we're mainly interested in having ones that will do the least harm, >and President Clinton is fairly good at that. > > Besides, once we finish wiping out the Drug War, you'll >probably have reached the age where you may want to experiment with >your body and with drugs a little bit. Lot's of people feel that >way in their late teens and early twenties when they discover that >the wide world is a lot more stubborn than they'd been led to >expect when they were in school, and they look for temporary escape >routes like drugs to comfort themselves for a little while at first >before they settle down and face the hard work it really takes to >change the world. By the time you reach that age, you'll probably >be able to go through that period of life safely with prescriptions >and counseling including with the special electronic equipment and >special counseling we've discovered that can help your mom and >other drug users learn how to do things mentally without any >chemicals. > > Currently, if you get a bad headache, you go to the school >nurse, and she gives you a Tylenol pill, but 5 years or so from >now, she'll just hook you up to a special type of computer that >will help you cure your headache all by yourself really fast >without any pill. Sigmund Freud never even dreamed people would >ever be able to do that, not even in his wildest dreams, and even >Skip Kerr, the H-bomb designer, is going to feel very foolish too. > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 5:15 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 12 > >It's really very easy to understand. Sigmund Freud's idea was to >teach people to accept their sorry fates, teach them to be happier >slaves to bad ways of doing things, teach them to accept their >doom. Skip Kerr's idea was to produce the means for the doom of the >whole human race to stupify everyone with fear. People like me >refused to accept either idea, were interested in saving the world >instead. We were told that that's impossible, but to us, that only >meant it would take a little more work, and we're winning more and >more. > > People like me aren't interested in pigeonholing people nor in >scaring them, but only in helping them do whatever it is they want >to do without them causing themselves or others any significant >harm. As strange as it may seem, the fact is that if people mainly >wanted to rob banks, quality control engineering and grand jurors - >and I'm both - would only be interested in helping them figure out >how to properly rob banks without causing any harm. Other people >have already figured out how to let banks and financiers rob other >people without causing much harm we can't fix pretty easily, so >it's not really a tough problem to figure out how everyone else can >harmlessly rob them back. Once we do that, everyone will tend to >lose interest in robbing anyone. > > I don't stop wars by organizing lots and lots people to force > them to stop. Instead of that, what I do is invent better, > less harmful ways of making war, so that the old ways look > really incompetent, really stupid. That makes people want to > avoid having anything to do with the old ways because they > know that if lots of people do learn about the better way, the > careers and success of people who were part of the inferior > way are over, gone, history. It means I don't need armies > backing me up, means that all really I have to do to make a > better world is dream it up and explain how it would work > better. > > As far as I'm concerned, people will be entirely free to kill >each other too as soon as everyone knows how to bring themselves >and others back to life if they "die." It may take us another 50 or >75 years to figure things out that completely, but it will probably >be done, even though, by then, it's very unlikely that anybody will >have even the slightest interest in killing anyone or even in >killing any other animals because everyone will be able to get >tastier, better food by other, non-lethal means. People like me >are already more interested in learning how to grow attractive, >disposable, designer fur of our own during cold weather, much more >than we're at all interested in making any enemies and beating them >up. > > Your mom should be freed no later than next Thursday or >Friday, Josh. Most of the people involved, including your mom, >can't afford to believe that something that sane can actually > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 15:20 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 13 > >happen, but if it doesn't happen, they all know that I'll probably >have to do some legal work things that might accidentally collapse >the federal government again, not to mention collapsing some >governments abroad, so your mom may actually be set free next week >even though almost everyone but me considers it very unlikely. I >know some idiots still want to pointlessly keep her imprisoned for >several more years just to show how mean they can be...but none of >them want to have to face me in court, as they're going to have to >begin to do next Thursday, and almost all of them are very >unwilling to say anything to me, especially in writing. They can >always hope that a plane accidentally drops a piano on me out of a >clear blue sky before next Thursday morning in court, but that >won't happen. > > At first, it seemed entirely accidental that I found out about >you and your mom and what had been wrongly done to both of you and >your friend Ron Pascucci. But eventually, I got around to analyzing >it mathematically. Grand jurors are expected to be interested in >something called "probable cause" which most people think only >means "whodunnit?" but which really means what all caused what to >happen how, and it's actually a mathematical concept, involves a >branch of mathematics called probability theory. So, sometimes I >use math to figure things out. It was accidental in the sense that >no human being nor any presumed deity deliberately intended for me >to find out what had happened to you and Lori nor for me to >formally intervene as United States Grand Jury to correct it, but >it wasn't by mere chance either. > > The chances against what's happened in your life this past >year actually happening, and then me finding out about it, and then >me formally trying to correct it in court, were way over 10.5 >million to one. It was all really very improbable mathematically, >but it's all happened just like clockwork, just like the sun >continuing to come up every day. I got your mom a book about >physics and people that begins to explain how such things occur, >begins to explain how the world actually works. You have to learn >a little more about how other people used to think things worked >before you'll be able to understand how the world actually works >that Dr. Sigmund Freud just didn't understand at all. The way it >actually works is really clever and much niftier and is much bigger >than anyone ever suggested to you before. > > Nature, which you're a very important part of, Joshua, is >really huge, much bigger than even your teachers imagined, and this >enormous local universe with all of us in it on our little planet >earth, isn't the only universe exactly like this one with all of us >in those other ones too and with me writing you this long letter at >what is now nearly 3 a.m. Friday morning while you're happily >snuggled in bed sound asleep. > > So you shouldn't ever feel that the world and Nature is hard > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 15:23 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 14 > >and cruel and that you're all alone. You should be courageous and >gentle and brave and honest and kind like Lori because none of us >is ever alone, not even for one trillionth of a trillionth of a >second ever, even all the way to infinity. People and all of Nature >is really, really good, when they get the chance to be good, my >little friend, even if it all seems to be a cruel and scary teacher >sometimes. Not only are we created equal, but we also all stay that >way forever, so we obviously should all help each other. > > I don't really know what will happen at Lori's hearing next >Thursday. I don't have any special powers to know the future in >advance in detail or to predict the winning lottery number, and I'm >not interested in getting any such special "powers" because it >doesn't matter what would happen next week or next year or the year >afterwards without me working to make it actually turn out better >for everyone than if I did nothing or weren't here. The future will >be whatever we work to make it be. It we all work conscientiously >and with goodwill, then the future will be really supergood for >everybody everywhere, less good if we're lazy and cowardly, even >worse if we're stupid and mean and greedy. It's not up to any >higher power. We only have freedom if we take the responsibility of >doing the job ourselves the very best we can. > > There have been times, such as in early 1994, when some very >bright and very influential people confidently predicted terrible >things, including a war in Korea that would probably have murdered >a million people including about 50,000 Americans, but I was able >to help prevent such catastrophe from happening at all, and I did >it very quickly and very decisively using this computer system >which has global reach within a few seconds if I need to use it >that way. So you shouldn't ever feel alone and lost at all nor ever >underestimate the saving power of other people's goodwill. And you >shouldn't think you have be old like me, or be rich and famous like >I'm not, to be really powerful and influential to save the world. >You can do it yourself too, even though you're "only" 8 years old >so far, just by always trying to gently do your very best. > > In my whole 54 year life so far, Mr. Eckhert, I've never >really had one single enemy anywhere even though some of the things >I've done are really unconventional and controversial and annoyed >some powerful people, so it would be a silly mistake for you to >believe that a young person such as you has any real, serious >enemies at all either. There really aren't any truely bad people, >but only a lot who are somewhat stupid because they don't know how >to do better; but people who behave stupidly don't want to be >stupid and are almost always really happy to do better if one tells >them how and convinces them it will be better for them too. > > Not many years ago, I still used to think, Joshua, that >important people would pay better attention to me if I at least >seemed to be fierce and angry and defiant. They did pay attention > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 15:39 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 15 > >to me, but gradually it dawned on me that the quality of their work >was inferior to what I could do by myself if I tried. Gradually, it >dawned on me that by just doing the best I could very gently, I >myself was sometimes more important than all the people the press >said were more important than little me. If you can learn that >lesson now, while you're much younger than I was when I finally >learned it, you'll be much more important and influential in >helping yourself and your mom and saving the whole world than I've >ever yet been and am likely to ever be while I'm still alive in >this world. > > I don't remember who said it, but someone said there is >nothing more powerful than a good idea whose time has come. That's >very true. You might bear in mind that the immense power of the >United States is not its money, not its missiles and planes and >ships, but is just our basic idea that the people must be free and >have government of the people, by the people, and for the people. >That's why we're so strong, just because of an idea, and nobody, >not the President, not any judge, not any one church, not me nor >even grown-ups generally, has any monopoly on good ideas. Your own >ideas can potentially be as important and as powerful as anybody >else's. > > Lastly, young man, let me explain why this particular stupid >grown-up, me, has written you this very long letter which might >take you several days to read if you really want to. I began to >find out what had happened to you and your mother by attending the >trial of the main accusation against your mother and Ron Pascucci >on June 18th and 19th just because I'd been part of where the jury >for that trial had come from on June 17th. That was the first full >trial I'd ever attended, never having had one myself. Giving me >myself a trial would take several months and be really expensive, >and no one's been interested in doing that since I'm personally >harmless in the first place and I'm harmless because I WANT to be >harmless and helpful, not because I have to be. People know that, >so they're not interested in accusing me of anything any more. > > My grand jury job is mostly only to design trials, not conduct >them, nor attend them, nor decide their outcome...usually. I was >really very shocked that a jury trial could be as stupid as the one >given to Lori and Ron, even though I'd known it happens that way >almost all of the time. Also I knew that no significant problem can >be understood and solved in only 2 days which we'd been told was >all the time the trial would take, so I knew the trial they gave >your mother would be really stupid. But it was still a terrific >shock to me to see something that stupid and crazy actually happen. >The federal courts haven't ever yet produced a trial that I've >designed because my designs have been really advanced, and the >courts have been too stuffy and too weak to do it. I'd promised to >write a report, so I did, explaining what was wrong with your >mother's trial, and asking for a better one for her and Ron. > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 16:09 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 16 > > It's a quite big report, about 200 pages total, but this time >I designed something that the little county court can actually do, >especially if I gently lead them and teach them as I've been doing. >After all it's my home county court, and it's never had any quarrel >with me, so I owed it the favor. Lori read the report and agreed >with it. She felt the same way I did, although she hadn't thought >anyone else in the whole world could understand, and she phoned me >to say so and thank me, and she wrote me a letter. I hadn't really >known much about you at all until I received that letter in early >July, but I got involved immediately to help you because a federal >appellate judge named Morton I. Greenberg, in 1995, had had me pay >careful attention to a federal court case involving foster child >care, and what had happened to you too was wrong in the view of >that federal appellate court, just one small step below the U.S. >Supreme Court. > > Very rapidly, I consulted with Ms. Gear, the very nice lady >who is in charge of your current care. She told me you were having >a hard time, were very upset. I reported all this to your mother, >who was very grateful and began working closely with Mrs. Gear, and >that is why you've been receiving, since about mid-July, the new >letters that Lori had been sending to you all along. Mrs. Gear had >to change the whole procedure for letters between prisoner parents >and their children in foster homes so that you could begin to again >receive the letters that Lori was writing to you and had been >sending to you all along but that hadn't been reaching you. Lori's >letters to you are now sent to Mrs. Gear, who gives them directly >to your counselor, who gives them to you, otherwise some other >people would interfere and not let you see Lori's letters to you >because they don't like Lori and want to hurt her and make you >angry with Lori to help them hurt her. > > I just found out about that and about my role in helping to >change it on Wednesday and Thursday from Lori and Betty Ann Gear. >I had also given a copy of one of my big legal "briefs" in Lori's >case to her lawyer in Philadelphia who represents her in the court >concerned with your care. That may have influenced the outcome of >the "Master's" hearing where both you and Lori were present and >testified on Monday. I should have attended that hearing, but I >didn't want to intervene unless I was really needed. That court on >Monday, after you'd been taken out of the courtroom, ordered that >you and Lori are allowed to telephone each other, and your mother >is really angry that that court order hasn't been obeyed yet. > > So, I realized Thursday after speaking with Mrs. Gear about >you and Lori, Joshua, that I've been significantly affecting your >life quite intentionally to try to help you and Lori, but that you >and I have never yet met, and that you didn't even know I exist or >know anything at all about me, and I hadn't even written you even >one little note of introduction and explanation at all > >08/29/97 @ Friday @ 18:20 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 17 > >myself. I know lots of lawyers behave that way, seriously affecting >people's lives without giving them any clue, but I think that's >wrong, and my father, who's a retired law professor, isn't like >that, and neither am I, and besides, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a >quality control engineer in advanced electronics and I'm the top >U.S. grand juror for the whole country so far. > > I think you have a perfect right to know who I am and what I'm >doing that affects you, and that it's my duty to tell you what I'm >doing, and that I have to pay very careful attention to any advice >or request you want to give me asking me to do something >differently or better if it might affect you. I have a legal >responsibility to protect all of your rights under the United >States Constitution and laws. Maybe I know a little more what your >full rights really are than you do yet, or at least I may know a >little better than you how to make judges and lawyers pay helpful >attention to your rights, but that just means that I have a >responsibility to teach you about them, and to listen very >carefully to your ideas about what's wrong in your world that you >think should be fixed. So, this past Thursday afternoon, I began to >write you this explanatory letter even before Lori phoned me, as >she'd promised she would, to find out what Mrs. Gear's office and >I are doing so that you and Lori can talk with each other and even >visit with each other, which you should have been able to do ever >since Lori was arrested last September 2nd, 1996. > > I'm sorry I didn't write to you sooner when I first intervened >in early July. Sometimes grown-ups like me just aren't as bright as >we should be and as all kids know we should be. Sometimes kids have >to tell grown-ups what to do. I should have asked you immediately. >I know it's been pretty scary to you to live without Lori, and >really scary to you that other people, stupid people, dislike her >and are still trying to hurt her and make you agree with their >doing it, and I have discussed it with Mr. Winger too. Even though >I don't have any kids of my own and even though it's been a long >time since I was a kid, I do know in considerable detail how >difficult it is for kids when they have to endure fights between >grown-ups, whether it's just a divorce dispute, or an actual >fighting war. Even though they were grown-ups themselves with >college degrees by the time the federal government and I began >battling in court in and since 1971, it frightened some of my >younger sisters so badly that they still don't like to discuss it >with me, so I know how frightening it must be to you that some >locally influential people have wanted to hurt Lori, and I know how >crazy they were too - the Montgomery County Detectives even made a >crazy "threatening" phone call to me on 7/7/97 before they found >out who I am and what I can do, and it took me about 5 minutes just >to calm the caller down enough that he stopped using bad language. >I know it can be really hard on kids when grown-up behave stupidly, >and especially when the grown-ups are really stubborn about it. > >08/30/97 @ Saturday @ 1:58 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 18 > > But you shouldn't feel bad, nor worry about it much because >it's not your fault nor Lori's fault either. It's really just that >I myself wasn't able to police all the other people grand juries >are supposed to police. There just weren't enough of me to do the >grand jury job properly. I know you may think it was pretty much >your mom's fault too, but it wasn't, although you might not be able >to understand the mathematical proof until your senior year in high >school. > > Think, Josh: Lori was only accidentally involved in one single >wrongful death which wasn't her fault at all and which she'd tried >the very best she knew how to prevent from happening. In my federal >litigation there have been literally tens of millions of wrongful >deaths, mostly of young women and born little kids, and mostly due >to errors by judges and government lawyers, but some accidentally >due to mistakes I've made myself too. You know I must be really >pretty strong to be able to admit my own mistakes like that, >especially when it's something that most lawyers and judges are >afraid to do when they make mistakes. I'm pretty sure you have that >same kind of honest strength, because your mother has that strength >too. It really does mean you and your mother and I are much >stronger than most of the other people in your world. You should >feel strong and proud of that. And of course, you should drink your >milk and eat your vegetables like me too. > > Well, I didn't think it would take me 19 pages to just begin >to introduce myself and tell you what I'm involved in and have been >doing that has come to involve you and your world. 19 pages is an >awfully big letter to send to an 8 year old. But I can remember >that when I was 8 years old, I felt I was much more important and >much smarter than when I was only 7 and that I was more important >than mere 7 year olds generally. So you probably think you're >pretty important, because everyone always feels they're really >pretty important, and you really are very important and they all >really are important, so I don't think that the 2 days it's taken >me to write you this first, huge letter, have been a waste of my >time at all. If this letter helps you and your mother and Mrs. Gear >and everyone else who cares about you, if it even helps you just a >little bit, then it's been a really good investment of my time and >energy. > > Lot's of people in court on Monday said you don't want to >visit with Lori or have anything at all to do with her anymore. But >she and I knew why they said that, and that it wasn't entirely >true, and you yourself said you do miss her and want to see her >sometimes, and that was true. And when Lori testified, what she >said was true too, even though other people tried very hard to get >her to tell a more convenient lie instead. It really counts that >people can count on you and your mother to tell the truth, young >man. First Pennsylvania and then the United States were founded by >people like you and your mother who believe in honesty. They have > >08/30/97 @ Saturday @ 2:28 EDT @ Limerick PA, USA >Ballard to Mr. Joshua Eckhert - page 19 > >a saying that has 3 meanings, all rolled into one statement, SPEAK >TRUTH TO POWER! It means you should always be honest towards people >who seem powerful (and everyone else). It also means that if you're >honest, then people will come to trust and rely upon you, and >you'll become powerful yourself. And thirdly, it means that the >goodwill search for truth is what really powers human civilization, >powers all life, the entire earth, the universe and everything >beyond forever. > > Best wishes to you. Please try your best to be brave and >gentle and honest and kind to everyone. It's OK to cry when you >want to. Even the very bravest men cry sometimes, probably much >more often than cowards cry because brave men know how hard it is >to really help people and improve the world, but they confront the >hardship and undertake the more difficult jobs nevertheless. I know >you're a very brave young man and that you never cry about silly >things, and that you only cry when you don't yet know how to have >the power to make what should happen actually happen the way you >know it should. I know you only cry when you lack the strength you >really need. That means you're already very strong. Lori is very >lucky to have a son as brave and strong as you are. She hasn't >forgotten it for a single moment. > > I hope to hear from you soon, Mr. Eckhert, regardless of what >happens when your mother and I are in court next Thursday, where >her lawyer has asked me to testify on her behalf, and I will do so >because your mother is a really good person. And if you find anyone >who knows the second stanza of the poem about Belinda and her >little red house and little pet dragon, I'd sure like to know what >it is. > > Respectfully yours, > s/James M. Ballard, > United States Grand Jury, > USCAMA M74-8075 et sequitur, > Quality Control Engineering > >cc: Ms. Lori E. Miller; > Messrs. Angus Love & Walter E. Dunsmore Jr., Esqs., Legal > Counsel to Ms. Miller; > Mrs. Betty Ann Gear; > Hon. Steve Imms, Master, Juvenile Court-Montco: #1992-283; > Hon. Maurino J. Rossenese, Family Court-Montco; > PA Common Pleas Court - Montco: Misc-500-Jul-97; A-6591-69. >****************************************** >JMB Note: I could kick myself for not having written this sooner. >The boy has been under terrific pressure to denounce his mom and >say he wants to be adopted by someone else such as his foster >parents who've witheld from him his mom's letters to him. He was >sobbing on the witness stand on Monday, and not allowed to know >to know that the court had ruled that he and his mom can have >telephone contact. Winger, the caseworker is a real scoundrel and >liar who hates his mom, and the press and PA AG have been trying >to send her to state prison because the 24 yr old who died of >a self-administered heroin overdose, from heroin he'd talked her >into helping him buy with his money, was the son of a secretary >in the District Attorney's office. Her 8 yr. old son, Joshua, >was seized by the County Child Care people and allowed no visits >no phone calls with her because she had no living relatives who >could care for him when they jailed her on absurd charges. The >youngster has probably never ever before received any letter from >anyone who thinks his mom is actually a very good person and >supports her as I do. He'll get this letter from me by certified >mail or I'll have the USPS postal inspectors jail a bunch of people >federally who withold it from the boy. - JMB 8/30/97 @ 23:09 EDT. ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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