Time: Sun Nov 10 13:03:46 1996
To: DotHB@aol.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: HELP NEEDED NOW FOR A FALLEN PATRIOT
Cc:
Bcc:
Dot,
I think we've got him covered.
Thank you for your assistance.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 02:25 PM 11/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Mike:
>
>I am posting the two messages from you so that those who perhaps
>did not receive them will have the full background to read.
>
>I AM ASKING that if there is ANYONE out there who can help YOU -
>Mike Kemp, the co-founder of the Gadsden Minutemen, Gadsden,
>Alabama, to please come forward.
>
>Mike did not have an attorney to represent him and does need legal
>assistance as well as ANYONE who can help him get medical advice.
>
>Mike needs this help NOW since his sentencing will be held on
>November 25. I am praying fervently that he will not have to go to
>prison.
>
>Please READ the following messages from Mike Kemp - and respond
>to him directly at minutemn@pcl.net.
>
>THANKS.
>Dot Bibee
>===========================================================
>MESSAGE NO. 1
>
>Mike Kemp wrote:
>
>To All:
>
>This afternoon a jury in Gadsden Alabama spent twenty minutes to
>elect a jury foreman and convict Mike Kemp of possession of marijuana
>in the second degree, *for personal possession.* In a small favor, the
>felony charge which had been brought was not sustained, but the lesser
>included *personal possession* charge was.
>
>Sentencing will be Nov 25, and the jury nullification argument which
>I made in closing will probably earn me a year in jail (the max) and
>several thousand dollars in fines. Federal funny money, that is. I
>see another threat of contempt coming on.
>
>To all of you who have sweated and thought and prayed over this
>for and with me, goes my undying gratitude.
>
>I am a casualty. I have walked point for some time, and I know the
>fate of those in front. I gave myself up for lost the day I opened my
>mouth in public.
>
>Bob Starr, also convicted today on a MUCH heavier fall, is also a
>casualty. However, Bob Starr was absolutely innocent. At least I have
>the consolation of knowing that I knowingly, willingly, actively violated
>a statute. True, the statute was absurd, unlawful, and unconstitutional;
>however, I knew going in what I faced by playing the way I did. Bob
>Starr was simply a sacrificial lamb.
>
>Patrick Henry stirred the people of his day when he saw a casualty- a
>preacher, who failed to beg license, was convicted of violating a
>statute and punished- he was scourged to death. Patrick Henry's
>response to the casualty was *GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.*
>
>Ladies and gentlemen, it sounds cheap and corny, but I mean this
>from my very angry heart- I REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO
>GIVE...
>
>I have mentioned this before. We can expect no justice, no legitimacy
>from the courts, nor any other government institution. To do so is not
>only foolish, but highly damaging. When we act as though there is
>justice, we give legitimacy to an illegitimate institution.
>
>Which treason is worse- treason by those in the courts and govern-
>ment, or the treason WE demonstrate by allowing the usurpers to
>continue with the patina of respectability? It is a sad day for us all.
>
>My favorite cartoon of all time is a WIZARD OF ID, where the king
>and his lackey are walking down a sidewalk when they come upon
>a peasant carrying a sign: GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.
>The king turns to his lackey, and says: *Exercise his option.*
>
>I must disagree with the late, great Mr. Henry- I expect to be given
>nothing. I choose Liberty, knowing that the price is death.
>
>In Liberty, in prison or at home,
>
>Mike Kemp
>=================================================
>MESSAGE NO. 2
>
>Mike Kemp writes:
>
>I am an insulin dependent diabetic, arthritic, and suffer from gran mal
>seizures. For some twenty five years I have provided my own counsel
>on medical matters. Only in the most minimal degree have I sought the
>services of a licensed physician, only for the prescriptions for
>phenobarbital and Dilantin (phenytoin). Occasionally I have had to
>subject myself to an examination (pay for an office visit) to get the
>medication, but I have not sought nor accepted their advice.
>
>Yesterday, I was declared criminally incompetent to mangage my
>medical affairs. I suppose that, considering I was my own physician,
>and offered my services to NO one else, I was convicted of
>administering an unauthorized medicine- to myself.. There was no complaint
>from the patient, but the state has acted on its own
>volition.
>
>This being the case, I fear that the state is taking on an awesome
>and difficult burden. A ten percent overmedication with one of my
>medicines, a product of the earth and available over the counter
>(insulin), and I would be dead in a matter of some hours of insulin
>shock (hypoglycemia) were I not to have access to other products
>of the earth- carbohydrate foods.
>
>If I am undermedicated by ten percent, I will drift into diabetic
>acidosis and be seriously damaged or die in a few weeks. My eyes,
>kidneys, and my extremeties will be at risk, as a minimum.
>
>Likewise, food, carbohydrates particularly, are a problem. In my
>insulin dependent diabetic condition, food is not LIKE medicine, it
>IS medicine. I do not operate on a fixed schedule, and much of my
>food intake is on an *as-needed, when needed* basis. Should I fail
>to eat enough carbohydrates at the proper time, I will die or be brain
>damaged by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), immediately. If I am
>fed too much carbohydrate, I will drift into diabetic acidosis, with
>damage to eyes, kidneys, extremeties, etc.
>
>I have little or no knowledge of how to prevent seizures without the
>use of cannabis. :) Dilantin has serious side effects, including rashes,
>headaches, neurological disturbances, and elevated blood sugar. It is
>synthetic, and is damaging to kidneys and the liver. Use in excess
>of need is obviously hazardous, and the process of determining the
>proper amount is often discovered by trial and error- error resulting
>in gran mal seizures. Even levels needed to control severe seizures
>are toxic.
>
>Phenobarbital is another synthetic, a hypnotic, and highly addictive.
>It is toxic to liver and kidneys. Proper dosage is again a matter of
>trial and error. Excess dosage results in severe physical dependency,
>a *drugged* condition, and severe problems, including seizures, should
>the drug be removed.
>
>I cannot in good conscience lend my opinion to the state in managing
>my illnesses. After all, they have declared me criminally incompetent,
>and are soon to sentence me. If they jail me, see the above discussion.
>If they don't, they will most likely put me on supervised probation
>(piss tests). If I am in charge of my medication, I am not going, on my
>own volition, expense, and peril, to tamper with the regimen which
>prevents my seizures and maintains a proper blood sugar.
>
>Their piss tests will show this. Having failed a piss test, probation
>would be revoked, and I would go to jail. See the above discussion.
>
>Hardball, anyone? Suggestions, anyone?
>
>In Liberty,
>Mike Kemp
>==========================================================
>SO NOW, you know the story. DISTRIBUTE this message as widely
>as possible - by EMail, FAX, Snail Mail - and by word of mouth.
>We must help MIKE and ALL of our fallen patriots ASAP.
>THANKS .......DotHB@aol.com
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
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