His law library is free to use. Any Americans that want advice about law
issues and are fed up with the law system, this guy may be of help to you.
He has a e-groups forum that he uses to answer general questions which he
charges US$40 to be part of. It's a great resource. He takes e-gold for
payment. His focus is more on what the lawyers won't tell you. In fact he
has recently taken up a court case against AOL. It's an interesting case.
Here's a letter he wrote that explains a bit more about him and what he has
to offer.
SUBJECT: The Torch of Freedom Worldwide
I have been asked recently to give, in my own words, some of the many
reasons why certain Internet resources have become rather strategic to human
survival in our modern world.
What came into focus, as I pondered many possible answers, was a
memorable experience I had as a guest speaker at a Harvard conference on
geographic information systems, in the Fall of 1977 A.D. At that time, I
was deeply involved in developing computer mapping systems on minicomputers
costing $250,000 and up. Yes, there was once a time when a color monitor
was $50,000 -- each!
The good people at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial
Analysis had taken a keen interest in my work for the regional planning
agency in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The National Science Foundation had funded the Laboratory's plans for a
conference of experts on the subject, so off we went to the beautiful fall
colors in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts -- the State of my birth on
June 21, 1948, the same day on which the U.S. Constitution had become the
supreme Law in America.
I was one of the youngest to attend this conference and, most of my
company were men and women several years, even decades, my senior.
There was one event that has remained prominent in my memory ever since
then. The people from ARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Administration -- were giving their presentation, when a number of senior
conference attendees stood up, to protest loudly. Their protest stemmed, in
part, from their expectation that ARPA technology would inevitably be used
to oppress Americans, rather than to liberate them, just as the atomic bomb
had to be used, once invented.
When I asked for more details, a whole new world opened before my eyes.
That "New World" was one in which Big Brother had immense computing power at
its disposal. This power was being used to do electronic record matching on
unprecedented scales -- a capability that was sure to evolve from the Census
Bureau's basic program to automate the 1980 U.S. Census with Geographic Base
Files.
The challenge facing the Census Bureau at that time was to create
Geographic Base Files of every county in the nation, so that census forms
could be automatically "matched" to their corresponding census blocks and
tracts, for tabulation purposes.
The conference attendees were protesting a government plan to
generalize this record-matching capability into a universal matching system
-- or UNIMATCH -- whereby electronic records could be merged and collated on
any number or type of "keys". Clearly, for anyone with a modicum of
computer programming experience, the existence of any unique "keys," or
electronic record "fields," would make such a universal matching system
entirely simple and easy to program.
Since that fateful conference experience, where my paper was well
received, I have enjoyed many years of professional experience and diligent
study; both now convince me that those conference protestors were exactly
correct. The rapid, almost miraculous evolution of computers and networking
technology are now creating such serious threats to privacy, even they could
not have anticipated such threats with any accuracy in 1977.
Happily, when I was at the peak of my computer career, as a senior
systems and database programmer at a major investment bank in San Francisco,
California, a mystical and powerful force motivated me to leave that job on
very short notice one day.
Ostensibly, I told myself I was motivated by discovering their blatant
violation of a vendor's copyrights to important software that bank was
licensed to use, on their powerful minicomputer network. Years later, I
would also fall victim to widespread Internet copyright infringement, but
that is another story, for another day.
Soon after my abrupt departure, I came to realize there were other,
more important reasons why I abandoned that high-paid position. For, I had
already begun an earnest overtime study of the U.S. Constitution, and the
pertinent statutes and court cases which have considered the federal income
tax and related questions in excruciating detail.
I wasn't long into my self-education in this complex area of law, when
I learned that privacy is the fundamental Right of all Americans, and
fundamental Rights are decidedly the most important Rights any human being
can enjoy.
One of the stated purposes of the U.S. Constitution, of course, is to ensure
the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, and privacy is one
of those essential blessings.
Now that you have come this far with me, you are likely to be one of
the many people now enduring this brave new world who fully appreciate the
following observation: governments have lately undertaken an unprecedented
assault upon our fundamental Human Right to privacy. Computer technology is
the prime technological mechanism they are using to mount this assault.
It is for this reason that we need to be armed with defense mechanisms
that are equal to the task before us. Self-defense is not only our Right,
it is also our duty -- to ourselves, to our families, and to our Creator.
This is not the place to itemize each and every method or avenue you
might pursue, to protect and defend your fundamental Right to privacy. In
fact, it would be a violation of that Right for us to expose certain
techniques which you may have already developed on your own and you are
keeping to yourself -- for good reason!
What we do want to stress here is that the power of the Internet is
like a precision machine tool with two cutting edges. In other words, the
door swings both ways.
Many of us who understand the serious magnitude of the political problems
summarized above, also happen to have an extraordinary amount of
professional experience in computer programming and database development, in
addition to proven knowledge of the real Law in America - "American Law
never repealed," as one writer once phrased it.
We have taken it upon ourselves, over the last 11 years, to press that
experience into public service (if you will), by developing one of the most
comprehensive digital law libraries America has ever known -- the Supreme
Law Library. At last count, this library stores more than 35,000 documents
that are readily available to any standard Internet browser.
It is not quantity that matters most in this business, however. The
quality of the materials we have developed for your careful study and
utilization is, by design, as consistently high as human resources are
capable.
We must, of course, give credit to the Most High and living God, for
pointing us in the right direction, and intervening on more than one
occasion to keep us safe from harm, with regular miracles. Yes! The
Supreme Law Library is a miracle of God's loving power and grace. On Him
you can rely, because His Law is eternal, and His words are always true.
It is with this lengthy introduction that we invite you to help us in
keeping the Supreme Law Library alive and well, by joining our electronic
mailing list and permanent email archive at SupremeLaw eGroups.
By assigning only US $40 to our e-gold online account, you will not only
have access to a growing archive of accurate commentaries on fundamental
Human Rights; we will also do our best to ensure that you maintain personal
contact with the one who has authored many of the most important documents
in that Library -- this writer.
Please help us to keep the flame of freedom glowing brightly, with the
fuel that comes from dedication, commitment, and superior knowledge of the
challenges directly ahead of us.
If we may leave you with any one thought, we would hope that President John
F. Kennedy's historic words -- during his only inaugural speech in January
1961 A.D. -- will move you as deeply as they have moved us, on many
occasions:
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted
the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not
shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any
of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will
light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can
truly light the world.
[President John Fitzgerald Kennedy]
[Inaugural Address, January 1961]
And to you, our fellow countrymen, we carefully entrust the torch of
freedom, that you may tender it with loving care and keep it glowing
brightly, with love without end. Amen.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Counselor at Law, Federal Witness,
Private Attorney General, Author,
Webmaster: Supreme Law Library and
Moderator: SupremeLaw eGroups:
http://www.supremelaw.org/index.htm
http://www.supremelaw.org/egroups/subscribe.htm
Authority: James 1:25 (The Perfect Law of Liberty)
Confer also at "Liberty" in Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition
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