Assistant U.S. Attorney Makes False Statements at Huff Appeals Hearing
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“CREATIVE” U.S. ATTORNEY CLAIMS “TEXT MESSAGES” BETWEEN HUFF AND FITZPATRICK WHICH DO NOT EXIST
by Sharon Rondeau
Assistant
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee Luke A. McLaurin
made false statements to a three-judge panel at the Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals on Thursday in the case of USA v. Huff
(Feb. 1, 2014) — On Thursday, January 31, 2014, an appeals hearing was held at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, OH on behalf of Darren Wesley Huff,
who has been incarcerated at a minimum-security federal prison in
Texarkana, TX for the last year and a half on a federal firearms
conviction.
Audio of the proceeding is available for immediate listening or download under Case #
12-5581 on the Sixth Circuit’s website. Knoxville Attorney Gerald R.
Gulley, Jr. argued for the defense, while the government was represented
by Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke McLaurin, which was verified with the court via telephone.
Gulley is a partner at Gulley & Oldham and has experience in criminal law, traffic tickets, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and matters of probate.
McLaurin spent
14 months in Iraq “acting as a legal advisor for judges, police,
attorneys, and law students as they worked to improve their criminal
justice system” working for the U.S. Justice Department. In 2008, McLaurin wrote a paper
in which he decried the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to enforce a
decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “In reaching this
conclusion, the Supreme Court held that, although ICJ judgments create
international law obligations for the United States, they do not
constitute binding domestic law enforceable in United States courts,”
McLaurin wrote.
A 2003 graduate of Notre Dame University with a Master’s Degree from the same institution the following year, McLaurin is a student of classical literature and humanities, which he said enable him to exercise “creativity” in his practice of law.
In October 2011, the trial jury
acquitted Huff on a second charge and was originally “hung” on the
first, but Judge Thomas A. Varlan instructed them to “try again” to reach a verdict.
On April 20, 2010, Huff had traveled to Madisonville, TN to attend a court hearing for CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who had been arrested on April 1 for attempting to conduct a citizen’s arrest on the longstanding grand jury foreman for violating the Tennessee statute limiting jurors to a one-year term.
In an indictment issued against both
Huff and Fitzpatrick stemming from the citizen’s arrest, the foreman was
identified as a “juror.” However, in a court brief filed in defense of
the government’s conviction of Fitzpatrick in a case arising in December
2011, the state of Tennessee now claims
that the foreman of any grand jury in Tennessee is not a juror, but
rather, a court employee appointed by the judge by an unknown vetting
process.
On April 20, 2010, Huff had intended to
observe Fitzpatrick’s brief court appearance to show support for a
fellow Navy veteran standing up against government corruption. Eastern
Tennessee is known for deep, systemic, and widespread corruption which
former World War II GIs took into their own hands in August 1946 with
“the Battle of Athens,”
where they were successful in expelling a corrupt sheriff and his
deputies who had assaulted a black man attempting to cast a vote in
McMinn County as well as rig the elections.
Huff brought his legally-owned firearms
with him that day, which he locked in his truck toolbox prior to
reaching Madisonville during a traffic stop
at which a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer said he ran a stop sign.
At least one of the judges questioned whether or not the traffic stop
was legal and if Huff’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated, thereby
raising the issue of “suppression.”
Gulley argued that Huff had not intended
to use his firearms in “commerce,” as the statute under which he was
convicted states. Gulley stated that a local official had testified at
Huff’s trial that Huff had carried a .45 in with him to the restaurant,
which is refuted by eyewitnesses and a man who spent the entire day with Huff.
Fitzpatrick resides in McMinn County
presently, although he was charged with “intimidating a juror,” “riot,”
“interrupting a public meeting,” and other transgressions.
Fitzpatrick has exposed jury-rigging, tampering with court transcripts, and murder in Monroe County, TN, which, like McMinn County, is part of the Tenth Judicial District. Fitzpatrick has made many attempts to testify
to a federal grand jury, but the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Tennessee, an Obama appointee, has blocked it, including in a letter
written in June 2013 stating that any future correspondence from
Fitzpatrick would be discarded without response.
In the audio of Thursday’s hearing,
Gulley spoke first in defense of his client, who Gulley said traveled
from his home in Georgia to Tennessee on the morning of April 20, 2010
in a matter involving Fitzpatrick, who Gulley described as “a friend or
acquaintance” of Huff’s. Gulley stated that on the evening of April 19,
Huff had received a visit from an FBI agent who asked Huff what his
intentions were in Madisonville the following day. Huff has previously
stated, and Gulley reaffirmed, that Huff had told the agent that if he
thought Huff’s trip to attend the hearing “was a bad idea,” he would not
go. However, the agent did not attempt to convince Huff to stay at
home.
On at least two occasions prior to April 20, members of The Fogbow, an Obama sycophant group, placed calls
to then-Madisonville Mayor Alan Watson claiming that violent “militia”
members planned to “take over the courthouse” on April 20, to which the
government responded by dispatching members of the FBI, TBI, local
police, sheriffs’ departments, a SWAT team and sniper team, and
bomb-sniffing dogs.
William L. Bryan, known online as “PJ Foggy,”
claimed responsibility for making the false reports, which members of
The Fogbow have affirmed. In September 2010, their group boasted a
“White House attorney” and presently contains an attorney involved in
defending the fraudulent long-form birth certificate image
released by the White House on April 27, 2011 purported to belong to
Barack Hussein Obama. A law enforcement investigation plans on
releasing “universe-shattering” information next month as a corollary to
its investigation which concluded that the birth certificate image is a
“computer-generated forgery” early in 2012.
Members of The Fogbow and their associates have watched the Huff and Fitzpatrick cases closely and disseminated propaganda about both.
Foggy and his wife are now reportedly working as Obamacare “navigators.”
On December 9, 2013, a source close to the birth certificate investigation released a video stating
that “prosecutions are coming” in regard to the forgery and possibly
other crimes. It has been speculated that officials at the Hawaii
Department of Health led by the late Loretta Fuddy are involved in
creating, copying and releasing the fraudulent document to dupe the
American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama, who
Fitzpatrick named as a traitor in March 2009, was born in Honolulu, HI on August 4, 1961.
On December 13, 2013, Fuddy died
after the plane in which she was flying on official business made a
water landing, with all other passengers and the pilot surviving.
Fuddy’s autopsy reportedly determined that she had died of cardiac arrhythmia, which her brother Lewis said she did not have.
Fitzpatrick has found
through eyewitnesses of the events of April 20, 2010 that Huff was not
located where the government said he was, as Huff and others were denied
admittance to the Monroe County courthouse for Fitzpatrick’s hearing.
Beginning at 7:10 in the audio, one of
the judges asked whether or not certain information given by Huff could
be suppressed. Gulley stated that Huff’s trial had included “testimony
of a law enforcement officer in Madisonville that he saw Mr. Huff take a
pistol…and go into the restaurant, where another law enforcement
officer said that he was providing a motivational speech to sympathetic
persons.” When one of the judges said, “…they were going to take over
the courthouse,” Gulley said that if that had been the case, a law
enforcement officer, who was present in the restaurant, should have
stepped in to prevent such an action, which did not occur.
At 10:20, Gulley stated that the statute
which Huff allegedly violated necessitates the coordination of “three
or more persons gathering in acts of violence.”
Gulley then repeated his argument against Huff’s having engaged in “commerce,” as stated in Article I, Section 8
of the U.S. Constitution. He stated that Huff’s having brought a
legally-owned handgun into another state did not constitute commercial
activity.
At 32:00 in the recording, McLaurin was
asked whether or not a “conspiracy” had existed among Huff, Fitzpatrick
and others to commit violence. McLaurin claimed that Huff “had been
planning this takeover of the courthouse for weeks, that he had gone up
to Madisonville and consulted with Fitzpatrick; he had sent text
messages back saying, ‘We’re going to do citizens’ arrests today…’ he’s
coordinating a bunch of other individuals…I think given all of that
evidence that’s in the record of this concerted activity over several
weeks, trying to put this plan together, I think…the evidence showed
that…[inaudible]…planning.”
Both Huff and Fitzpatrick have stated that there was no “plan.”
On Friday, January 31, The Post &
Email spoke with Fitzpatrick about McLaurin’s allegations. Fitzpatrick
responded that he had met Darren Huff for the first time on April 7,
2010, when he and a former Marine, William Looman, had asked to meet
with him to discuss his court-martial of 1990. Fitzpatrick had just
spent five days in jail during which he refused food and water to
protest what he saw an his unlawful arrest after attempting to carry out
the citizen’s arrest of the grand jury foreman. Although on April 6,
he had gone to a local hospital for treatment following his ordeal and
was not feeling well, he agreed to meet with Looman and Huff in
Madisonville for a brief time the following day.
Fitzpatrick stated that he had no
communication with Huff, Looman, or anyone else about the events in
Madisonville or the date of his assignment hearing scheduled for the
20th. He neither received nor sent any “text messages” with Huff, as
claimed by McLaurin.
At Huff’s trial in October 2011, no
evidence appearing on the record showed text or phone communication
between Huff and Fitzpatrick. “This is them continuing in the
perpetration of The Madisonville Hoax,”
Fitzpatrick said. The United States Attorney’s office is blocking me
from going to a federal grand jury to tell them what the U.S. attorney’s
office has been doing. It’s got to be recorded that there’s a violent
reaction from me about my name coming up again on Thursday and being
named once more contemporaneously as a ‘domestic terrorist’ in the days
leading up to the Super Bowl, when you have this alert going on
throughout the country. Buses are being stopped, trains are being
stopped and and checked, snipers are being set up in the stadium; you
have F-16s on the tarmac on an Alert 5 status ready to launch…Obama is
creating an environment which is going to be used to take over this
country by armed force. That’s what he’s doing here. He’s getting
people used to the idea. Look at what happened in Boston – at the
Tsarnaev kid; they’re going after the death penalty for him. What did
he do? He let off a bomb in Boston, MA. That’s what I’m accused of
having attempted.”
He continued:
I’m waiting right
now for federal agents to come knocking at my door at any minute. This
man named me again on Thursday in participating in a plot to blow up
buildings, to harm people, to destroy property and people. He’s named
me again as a ‘domestic terrorist’ in this environment in which we are
right now as I have described it. There are U.S. attorneys licking
their chops looking to find for a way to come and pick me up any
second. I’m still named as a ‘sovereign citizen…’ this training
campaign is still using my name and my picture in this outrageous
campaign which is as much of an invention as was the declaration that
came out of the U.S. attorney’s office yesterday.
In the meantime,
they are blocking people who know what happened that day from coming out
and reporting the truth. That’s significant. While they know that
there is a truth to be reported about what happened that day, they are
telling lies which are continuing to grow because they are blocking me
from getting in to a grand jury. Jeff Cunningham is as guilty of that
as any other person. I told Jeff Cunningham months ago, probably a year
ago, that I’m named as a domestic terrorist. He said, “Oh, pshaw.
You’re kidding.” That was in November 2012, so when I came back in
November 2013, I had a copy of the TIME Magazine article to show him. I still didn’t get in.
I’ll go back for time #6 in February if I’m not locked up by then.
In the meantime,
it’s going to be really interesting to see what the appellate court here
in Tennessee comes up with by way of their ruling because they cannot
say at this point that the jury system acted properly in how they
handled my case when the attorney general for the state of Tennessee has
publicly declared, “Walt’s right. These foremen are not jurors.” And I
don’t think the U.S. Attorney’s office got that memo. Instead, they’re
continuing the hoax. They’re continuing in a manufactured fiction.
I’m living in the twilight zone. I can’t get people in my own community to pay any attention to this. No one. I’ve tried.
This has to stop. My name has not come up as it did on Thursday ever before. Now, four years later, here we are.
Am I able to get
into a grand jury and say that this U.S. attorney lied on Thursday?
No? Why? Because the U.S. attorney’s office has expressly denied, in
writing, permission for me to appear in front of a grand jury and tell
the grand jury that these u.s. attorneys are engaged themselves in a
plot against veterans. Operation Vigilant Eagle, Sovereign Citizens.
This is part of an ongoing plot, and it does trace back to the Obama
treason complaint for sure. There has to be a reaction to what happened
on Thursday. There are people who can give yup the Madisonville Hoax
for what it was.
The Post & Email asked, “The NSA has
been collecting all phone records. Where are the phone records and
email exchanges in which you were allegedly planning something?”
There’s nothing. I
do not know what Darren Huff’s court transcript says, but there’s
nothing that leads me to believe that there is anything in Darren Huff’s
transcript which says that I was an active planning participant in
planning this event that was supposed to happen and got thwarted by the
overwhelming presence of law enforcement. It’s all rubbish.
I’m reaching out to
so many people. I get so many emails, and it’s like chickens running
around, people herding cats. OK, people: focus. FOCUS. And by the
way, the government is trying to cement this precedent in place, and
they’re using my name to do it. This has got to stop. It’s going to take a lot of people to stand up against this and say, “Stop!!”
What they said on
Thursday is a lie. If I don’t stand up against this, then it becomes
something that people believe, including law enforcement in my own
community.
Let me re-emphasize
and restate this. When Darren and Bill left in the late morning or
early afternoon of the 7th of April 2010, I had no contact with anybody
else at all. I didn’t call Bill Looman. There was a period of time
when my internet service was turned off. I don’t remember if that was
the case when I got out of jail on April 6, 2010 or not. But I didn’t
send any emails to anybody: I didn’t send any to you, to Tim, to Bill…I
was dark and quiet. I had no communication with Darren Huff and had no
idea he was coming on the 20th.
On April 20, I was
searched going into the courtroom. I was unarmed. The first question
before the search was conducted, is “Do you have business in this
courtroom today?” If the answer was no, the people who were there at
the door were sent outside into the rain. They didn’t get searched; they
weren’t let in. Another observer was searched, and there are witnesses
to that. The hoax continues.
The U.S. Attorney claimed that I was planning with Darren.
He connected me directly to Darren. The same thing happened in the
Tennessee court: Darren was connected to me: We were “planning this
together.” But there was no evidence.
There was no
communication between me and anybody between 1 April 2010, the day I was
locked up, and the 20th, the day of the hearing. Bill Looman and
Darren showed up on the 7th, as I’ve explained, to talk about the
court-martial. They came; they left, and I didn’t have any contact with
anybody else before that, when I was in jail, or after that, when I was
home.
I just showed up on
the 20th for the hearing, and there was a massive police presence. I
was as surprised as anyone else was. When I was in jail in 2011, I
found out that prisoners had set up pole cameras the day before the
hearing, but I hadn’t known that at the time. In fact, the day that
these pole cameras was set up, the 19th of April 2010, I wasn’t in jail,
so I would not have known that the Monroe County sheriff had been put
upon by the federal government to use inmates to go out and set up pole
cameras. I wasn’t in jail myself; I didn’t know this was going on.
There is no testimonial evidence that Darren was at the R. Beecher Witt government building because Darren was never there. Darren was not there; Daren was not armed. Who cares what he was thinking? He didn’t do anything that was illegal.
I can guarantee you
that had Darren been carrying a weapon with him on his person in
Madisonville, TN, he would have been stopped, he probably would have
been thrown to the ground if he hadn’t gone to the ground on his own
volition; he would have been disarmed by either state or federal agents
or both; he would have been arrested in Madisonville that day, as
anybody else carrying a gun would have been approached and disarmed.
Law enforcement officials knew Darren’s weapons had been secured.
Every time I’ve been
arrested, it’s been in support of The Madisonville Hoax. These threats
are meant to deflect attention away from what we’ve discovered by way
of government corruption in eastern Tennessee and the rest of the
state. It was brought up in a habeas corpus petition which, to this day
has not been answered, “Let Fitzpatrick go; he’s committed no crime.”
We have completely quashed any notion that any of these crimes of which I
have been accused were passed through a proper jury system that begin
with a proper grand jury. So all of these false imprisonments
are to support the Madisonville Hoax, which is continuing as recently
as Thursday. With what this U.S. attorney said, they’re trying to get
me arrested again on a federal charge. You know, as a U.S. attorney,
when you make a comment like that in public, then you’ve just let the
cat out of the bag that “We’re still working on a case against
Fitzpatrick.”
I’ve gone to them to
report crime; no one has ever come to me. In that exchange of 10 March
2010 I told FBI Agent Mike Harrell, the head of the Joint Terrorism
Task Force, that nothing happened. It was all a hoax. They have
planted in the minds of the three judges on Thursday – illegally – that a
U.S. Navy retired was actively planning with another navy veteran to
come into Madisonville, to commit acts of domestic terrorism, to commit
acts of violence to injure people if not kill them. In the meantime,
it’s the same U.S. attorney’s office that’s preventing me from walking
in to a grand jury and explaining what really happened.
Until we get a large number of people, this is going to continue. This has got to stop.
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Editor’s Note: Many in
the media have noted that the Obama regime appears hostile to
veterans. The Rutherford Institute has reported that over the last
several years, veterans have been falsely accused arrested, intimidated,
and harassed by government agents. Obama’s de facto government has
sought to block veterans seeking treatment for PTSD from owning
firearms.
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