Time: Sun Apr 20 05:49:55 1997
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 05:19:02 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Itstime.doc

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>
>At 11:14 PM 4/20/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi Paul,
>>The attachment for Constructive Notice on the History, 
>>Itstime.Doc will not convert to write for viewing or printing. 
>>Just a bunch of squares. Could you resend or try it yourself 
>>to see if it works.
>>thanks, Keep up the good work,
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>
>I will do.  The "Charles C. Miller" mentioned
>in that file is the same "Charley" who is discussed
>in Point 7 below.  These guys handed me an almost
>illegible and mostly nonsensical pleading, which 
>they wanted me to "fix up."  It was most condescending
>of them.  I also have a lot of other problems with
>them, which I won't discuss with you here.  I would
>not be surprised if Miller is an accessory to the
>decision by Randy Parsons to stiff me for $10,000
>in professional services which I performed for
>the Freedom Center and the Schweitzer co-defendants.
>
>Things are just not as they appear on the surface,
>not from what I can tell.
>
>I'll fix up the document, and send it to you in
>WRITE format for Windows 3.11 (the one I use).
>
>Later.
>
>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>
>
>MEMO
>
>TO:       Randy Parsons
>
>FROM:     Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
>          Counselor at Law
>
>DATE:     October 15, 1996
>
>SUBJECT:  Plans
>
>
>I hope  you will  not mind  if I  am very direct with you in this
>memo.   I wish to discuss some matters which require an executive
>decision by you, and I don't want to waste words or time.
>
>1.   There has  been a  lack of  communication between me, Keven,
>     and you  with respect  to my  pay.   When Keven requested my
>     help at  The Freedom  Center, I  quoted to  him my  retainer
>     ($500) and  my hourly rate ($75).  You may already know that
>     this is  the going  rate for attorneys in the federal Public
>     Defender's Office,  and about  one-half the rates of private
>     attorneys.   Because Keven  did not refuse or counter, I had
>     to go on the presumption that these terms were acceptable to
>     him, and  to The Freedom Center, because he was speaking for
>     it, like  it or  not.   I also  did not  think I  needed  to
>     confirm his  authority to approve a legal services contract.
>     Evidently,  that   authority   is   yours   and   not   his,
>     notwithstanding his affirmations to the contrary.
>
>2.   I have  had several  discussions with  colleagues  here,  in
>     California, and  in other  states  on  this  subject.    The
>     unanimous consensus is that I should minimize my presence in
>     Billings, or  stay  in  Arizona  entirely  and  support  The
>     Freedom Center  via email,  U.S. Mail,  and  the  telephone.
>     Much of  that consensus  derives from my attempt objectively
>     to describe  the living  and working  conditions in the bunk
>     house.  People winced when I told them how much cleaning and
>     organizing I needed to do, just to feel comfortable, and how
>     I was  being forced  to live  on three  and a  half hours of
>     sleep per  night.   I should have listened to Al, but now Al
>     is persona non grata for reasons that are not entirely known
>     to me.   I  know that  I am  not the most courteous and kind
>     person in  the world,  but I cannot be a man for all seasons
>     when  the  odds  are  stacked  so  heavily,  and  my  living
>     conditions are way below standard.  Nor is it right to shoot
>     the one who brings the message about these conditions.
>
>3.   I am  concerned about  the wisdom of having me do carpentry,
>     HVAC, electrical,  sheet rocking,  plumbing  and  carpentry,
>     just to  have a  room for  sleep and privacy.  That tells me
>     that The  Freedom Center  does not  have command  of  enough
>     resources either  to pay  for lodging,  or construct it, nor
>     did The  Freedom Center  adequately anticipate  what  should
>     have been  obvious to any human being inviting another human
>     being to  live in.   Also,  I do not think that construction
>     work is  a good  use of  my time.  If I were to begin such a
>
>
>       Memo 10/15/96 by Paul Andrew Mitchell:  Page 1 of 4
>
>     project, I would want to finish it, so that I would not have
>     to walk  bare-footed on  dusty concrete  floors, or suffer a
>     cold winter  without heating  and insulation.   I  know that
>     Rudy must  be delighted  to have  such work done "for free",
>     but is  it really  "for free"  when the litigation work must
>     suffer directly?  I think not.  The bottom line here is that
>     I do  not think either Rudy, or The Freedom Center, have the
>     resources available to create a basement bedroom at least as
>     good as  a basic  motel room,  using the Building Code as an
>     objective standard.   Please  correct me if I am wrong about
>     this.   I hope I am, because it goes to your ability to keep
>     this entire project alive.
>
>4.   I am  also very  concerned about Keven's level of commitment
>     and ability to learn what he must learn to oversee FREEMAIL,
>     the Intervention  of Right,  and any other programs we might
>     develop to  involve Americans in the Schweitzer case.  There
>     is something  gnawing at me, way down deep, as I glance over
>     at a  man who  is horribly  overweight, and  stares  at  his
>     terminal for  hours on end without a shirt and with piles of
>     mess surrounding  him.   That does  not bode  well  for  The
>     Freedom Center and for what it wishes to accomplish.  Do you
>     expect the  Pentagon to be impressed, if and when we need to
>     meet them  behind closed doors?  Ask any office manager, and
>     they will tell you that Keven might last all of 4 hours, the
>     first day  on any  new job.   I know that your heart reaches
>     out to  him, because  his parents  are in jail, but you must
>     understand that  dead wood is not going to produce wins in a
>     hotly contested  courtroom.   To me,  Keven also  seems very
>     resentful of  my skills,  but he  is blaming  the  messenger
>     here, and  that only aggravates the situation.  I appreciate
>     the willingness by both of you to stop smoking, but that has
>     had no  effect on  Morley.   One cigarette  in my  immediate
>     environment is one cigarette too many.
>
>5.   I am also extremely concerned that Keven failed to inform me
>     that The  Freedom Center  would be  unable to  pay me for my
>     professional services, in a timely manner, if that is indeed
>     the case.  Is it?  The Freedom Center is placing itself in a
>     very precarious  position  to  preach  the  common  law  and
>     biblical principles,  on the  one hand, and then to invite a
>     legal expert  to help develop a comprehensive legal strategy
>     for 20  criminal defendants,  on the other hand, but without
>     being up-front  with him  about their  inability to  pay him
>     what he  is worth.   If  you will take the time to study the
>     definition of  "fraud" in  Black's Law  Dictionary, you will
>     find that it applies as well to any failure to disclose what
>     should have  been disclosed.   If  you select  a man for his
>     talent, and  then engage  his professional  services to  the
>     point of  buying a  plane ticket so he can work on location,
>     and of  setting him  up with  a desk,  computer,  telephone,
>     filing cabinets, fax machine, and so on, wouldn't it be fair
>     for him  to expect  to be paid for the time he spent working
>     on your  behalf,  particularly  when  he  works  double-time
>     without a weekend off and only bills you for half as much?
>
>
>
>
>       Memo 10/15/96 by Paul Andrew Mitchell:  Page 2 of 4
>
>6.   Another concern of mine is that I was informed, only after I
>     arrived, that  I would  be responsible for raising the funds
>     necessary to  pay for  my services.   This is another matter
>     which should  have been disclosed to me while I had a chance
>     to accept, or reject, any offer package you had in mind.  As
>     you may already know, developing a sound legal strategy, and
>     following the  paperwork to  its final fruition, both take a
>     great  deal   of  concentration,  privacy,  and  insulation.
>     Raising funds involves public relations, ringing telephones,
>     outreach, advertising,  and a  solid Internet  presence,  to
>     mention a  few things, most of which are a total distraction
>     from the  intense focus required to develop and prevail with
>     compelling legal  arguments to  a hostile federal judiciary.
>     From experience, I can tell you that I have what it takes to
>     do both  of these  jobs, but not within the same 8-hour day.
>     As it  is, I  have worked  almost 16 hours on each and every
>     day I  was there.   This  is excessive,  and it  begs for an
>     emotional, physical, mental or medical breakdown.  Moreover,
>     requiring this  kind of  "contribution" will, for sure, make
>     stamina and  endurance impossible at a time when these goals
>     should be  foremost in your planning and resource allocation
>     decisions.
>
>7.   I am  also concerned  about the  lack  of  management  which
>     occurred when  Dick and  Charley showed  up.   Was  I  being
>     tested for  some unspecified  future role, like "paralegal"?
>     I hope  you know  by now that I will not be their secretary,
>     their spelling  coach, their  grammar instructor,  and their
>     procedural mentor.  This story about all the money they will
>     "soon" bestow  on The  Freedom Center  sounds like a trap, a
>     Trojan Horse,  and a  wedge to  achieve one  of  their  main
>     objectives:   control of  the strategy.   I almost broke out
>     laughing as  Charley kept  backing up on his last day there,
>     to the point of falling down the stairs with his back to the
>     basement.   But, the reality of the whole situation was just
>     too painful  for me  to laugh,  so I  almost cried.  Did you
>     notice?   Charley miscalculated  in a  big way;  he does not
>     know how,  when, or  where I choose to be a warrior, and his
>     defeat only  dawned on  him too  late, as  I drove my points
>     into his chest.  "How about the Queen of England?" he asked.
>     Charley, you  cannot stay on point;  this is all too obvious
>     to us now, after you wasted 4 days of our previous time with
>     your ego, your greed, and your self-centered preoccupations.
>     Can you  really blame  me for getting personal, particularly
>     after he  orders me  to take  a hike,  with no authority for
>     same?   Now, that's  real teamwork.   Evidently,  he did not
>     know any  of the  events which had led up to my being there,
>     such as  the plans  which I had written and published on the
>     Internet, the  briefs which  I had  mailed to  you at my own
>     expense, and the tentative commitment The Freedom Center had
>     made to those plans.  These two guys are from the dark ages,
>     as far  as I can tell.  Did anyone offer to reimburse me for
>     the time I spent and the Express Mail postage I bought?  No.
>
>8.   The final  thing I  want to  share with  you is  that Keven,
>     evidently, failed  to inform  you that,  before agreeing  to
>     work for  The Freedom  Center, I  had already made a serious
>
>
>       Memo 10/15/96 by Paul Andrew Mitchell:  Page 3 of 4
>
>     long-term  commitment  to  tour  the  country  with  Richard
>     McDonald, to  conduct Supreme  Law Seminars  in every  Union
>     state over the next two years.  This commitment amounts to 4
>     days of  intense work on location, every month, plus another
>     4 days  of travel  (1  day  there,  1  day  back,  for  each
>     seminar).   When you add at least one day off each week, for
>     rest and  relaxation, you  will find  that I  simply  cannot
>     devote 18  hours per  day, 7  days per  week, to the various
>     cause(s) of  The Freedom  Center.  I want you to know that I
>     strongly disagree with some "Patriots" who feel that we will
>     win this  battle only by working our brains into mush, while
>     our bodies  and souls  are screaming  for rest,  relaxation,
>     recharge,  love,  friendship,  privacy,  and  entertainment.
>     People will say, "Get a life," and they will be right.
>
>So, I  want to end this with the following proposal:  If you will
>pay my  first invoice  in full  immediately, I will drive back to
>Billings for  a maximum  of four  weeks, but  you must  also make
>arrangements to  complete the  bedroom, with  carpeting,  painted
>sheet rock,  light and  heat, before  I return there.  I will not
>sleep, or  work, in  a construction  zone;   I've been there, and
>done that.  Once is enough.  I hereby reserve the right to return
>to Arizona on my own schedule after those four weeks have passed,
>and to provide The Freedom Center with professional services from
>the comfort of my own place.
>
>If you cannot pay my first invoice, now that it has been faxed to
>you, or  if you  and Rudy cannot finish the basement bedroom with
>outside contractors,  there is  no reason  in this  world  why  I
>should drive up there, except to fight for the compensation which
>The Freedom Center owes me for all the work I have done to date.
>
>Please don't get me wrong here, Randy:  I like you very much, and
>I am  philosophically and  intellectually  behind  LeRoy  Michael
>Schweitzer, but  I cannot  and will  not work  pro bono,  or on a
>contingency basis,  for him  or any  of his  many co-respondents,
>certainly not  after Broderick  stiffs me  for  $10,000,  Wallens
>stiffs me  for $3,000,  and Crawford  stiffs me  for  $1,000  and
>threatens me criminally over a dozen times.  Enough is enough.  I
>have a  right, and  a duty,  to defend  my own life, liberty, and
>property, and  this Memo is how I do that.  Let us first begin by
>walking our own talk.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>/s/ Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
>
>Counselor at Law
>c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776
>Tucson, Arizona state
>
>email: pmitch@primenet.com
>tel:  (520) 320-1514 (no answering machine)
>fax:  (520) 320-1513 (call 1514 first)
>
>copies:   Red Beckman, Billings, Montana state
>
>
>       Memo 10/15/96 by Paul Andrew Mitchell:  Page 4 of 4
>
>
>                             #  #  #

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