Time: Sun Nov 10 15:39:43 1996 To: oneazman@juno.com (Alfred R Martin) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: HELP NEEDED NOW FOR A FALLEN PATRIOT Cc: Bcc: Alfred, We've got him covered. Thanks for the help. /s/ Paul Mitchell At 01:22 PM 11/10/96 PST, you wrote: >--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- >From: DotHB@aol.com >To: minutemn@pcl.net >Cc: DotHB@aol.com >Subject: HELP NEEDED NOW FOR A FALLEN PATRIOT >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 14:25:24 -0500 >Message-ID: <961110142523_1881807239@emout11.mail.aol.com> > >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 >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > >--------- End forwarded message ---------- > >
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