[00:00.000 --> 00:06.000]  Would you give up your ability to have children in exchange for a chance to win a blender?
[00:06.000 --> 00:09.000]  How about a TV? No? Can I tempt you with a car?
[00:09.000 --> 00:15.000]  I've got your Catherine Albrecht and I'll be back in just a moment with details on a bizarre birth control boondoggle.
[00:15.000 --> 00:21.000]  Privacy is under attack. When you give up data about yourself, you'll never get it back again.
[00:21.000 --> 00:26.000]  And once your privacy is gone, you'll find your freedoms will start to vanish too.
[00:26.000 --> 00:31.000]  So protect your rights. Say no to surveillance and keep your information to yourself.
[00:31.000 --> 00:34.000]  Privacy. It's worth hanging on to.
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[00:44.000 --> 00:50.000]  Remember all the fairy tales where someone gives up their firstborn child for something foolish like a cabbage?
[00:50.000 --> 00:54.000]  Well, in at least one state in India, couples can now do likewise.
[00:54.000 --> 01:01.000]  As part of a plan to reduce birth rates, the government is hoping couples will give up all future children for a chance to win prizes,
[01:01.000 --> 01:04.000]  like a car, a TV, or a blender.
[01:04.000 --> 01:11.000]  The program gives couples a lottery ticket in exchange for surgical sterilization and hopes to attract 30,000 couples.
[01:11.000 --> 01:18.000]  You'd think for all that it would be a great set of wheels, but alas, the first prize is the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.
[01:18.000 --> 01:21.000]  I'm guessing the blender is even worse.
[01:21.000 --> 01:26.000]  I'm Dr. Catherine Albrecht. More news and information at CatherineAlbrecht.com.
[01:33.000 --> 01:38.000]  Businesses ask you for a lot of personal information, and you may trust them to keep it safe.
[01:38.000 --> 01:43.000]  But it turns out that even the most trusted companies may be unwittingly revealing your secrets.
[01:43.000 --> 01:47.000]  I'm Dr. Catherine Albrecht, and I'll be right back with details.
[01:47.000 --> 01:52.000]  Privacy is under attack. When you give up data about yourself, you'll never get it back again.
[01:52.000 --> 01:57.000]  And once your privacy is gone, you'll find your freedoms will start to vanish too.
[01:57.000 --> 02:02.000]  So protect your rights, say no to surveillance, and keep your information to yourself.
[02:02.000 --> 02:05.000]  Privacy, it's worth hanging on to.
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[02:16.000 --> 02:23.000]  Data privacy is a big deal, so nearly every company has a policy explaining how they handle your personal information.
[02:23.000 --> 02:26.000]  But what happens if it escapes their control?
[02:26.000 --> 02:35.000]  It's not an idle question. According to a recent survey, a shocking 90% of U.S. companies admit their security was breached by hackers in the last year.
[02:35.000 --> 02:39.000]  That's one more reason you should trust your searches to StartPage.com.
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[02:43.000 --> 02:47.000]  They've never been hacked, but even if they were, there would be nothing for criminals to see.
[02:47.000 --> 02:49.000]  The cupboard would be bare.
[02:49.000 --> 02:52.000]  Too bad other companies don't treat your data the same way.
[02:52.000 --> 03:14.000]  I'm Dr. Catherine Albrecht. More news and information at CatherineAlbrecht.com.
[03:22.000 --> 03:29.000]  What's she gonna do? What's she gonna do?
[03:29.000 --> 03:36.000]  Bad boys, bad boys. What's she gonna do? What's she gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys.
[03:36.000 --> 03:40.000]  What's she gonna do? What's she gonna do when they come for you?
[03:40.000 --> 03:45.000]  When you were eight and you had bad dreams, you'd go to school and learn the golden rule.
[03:45.000 --> 03:52.000]  So why are you acting like a bloody fool? If you get hot, then you must get cool. Bad boys, bad boys.
[03:52.000 --> 03:54.000]  What's she gonna do? What's she gonna do?
[03:54.000 --> 04:00.000]  All right, if you get hot, you must get cool. Bad boys, bad boys.
[04:00.000 --> 04:07.000]  What are you going to do when we come for you here on the rule of law?
[04:07.000 --> 04:19.000]  Tonight is Thursday, May 10th, 2012, and I'm here with my very esteemed co-host, Mr. Randy Kelton.
[04:19.000 --> 04:31.000]  Eddie Craig has the night off tonight, but we have some other very special people for guests tonight who are, I have to say,
[04:31.000 --> 04:38.000]  what are you gonna do when they come for you, bad boys? And I am talking about none other than Ms. Laura Presley.
[04:38.000 --> 04:48.000]  She is our very own, Austin's very own Laura Presley. She is running for city council, and we just couldn't be more behind her campaign.
[04:48.000 --> 04:52.000]  I'm going to tell you a little bit about Laura Presley if y'all don't know about her.
[04:52.000 --> 05:00.000]  Dr. Laura Presley, that is. She has a PhD in chemistry from UT Austin. She's a wife, a mother.
[05:00.000 --> 05:07.000]  She's an entrepreneur in the organic food industry. She's the owner of Pure Rain, which is a purified rainwater.
[05:07.000 --> 05:16.000]  It's sold in Whole Foods, Central Market, People's Pharmacy. She is a 17-year semiconductor engineering professional advocate,
[05:16.000 --> 05:20.000]  and she's an advocate for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
[05:20.000 --> 05:30.000]  She's an organic gardener and anti-fluoridation activist, and I could go on and on and on. She owns several patents. She holds four U.S. patents
[05:30.000 --> 05:38.000]  and has co-authored over 20 technical papers in her field, and we are so happy that she is running for city council.
[05:38.000 --> 05:50.000]  One of the main reasons in my book is the fact that she has done so much to try to get the fluoride, this horrible toxic chemical, which is actually
[05:50.000 --> 06:01.000]  fluorosilic acid out of our water here in Austin, and she is definitely a liberty lover. She wants to cut spending in the government,
[06:01.000 --> 06:10.000]  cut waste. She's just got some wonderful items on her platform, and I want to turn the floor over to her so that she can tell you
[06:10.000 --> 06:17.000]  a little bit more about what she plans on doing once she gets in there. Folks, I'm sure she's going to be kicking some major booty
[06:17.000 --> 06:24.000]  because she wants to cut all these subsidies to these giant corporations that we are paying to come here.
[06:24.000 --> 06:31.000]  I mean, give me a break. Subsidies to developers. She wants to get rid of that. She wants to help lower property taxes.
[06:31.000 --> 06:36.000]  Laura, thank you very – or Dr. Presley, I should say, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
[06:36.000 --> 06:44.000]  Hey, Deborah and Randy. Thank you so much for having me. I love your show. I listen all the time, and you guys have done so much to help
[06:44.000 --> 06:54.000]  our campaign and the fluoride work that we've done here in Austin. You've had Dr. Paul Conant, Deborah Green. You know, you guys have supported
[06:54.000 --> 07:00.000]  Fluoride Free Austin just, you know, almost more than anybody. So, bless you, and thank you for all that work that you've done for us in the past.
[07:00.000 --> 07:01.000]  Thank you.
[07:01.000 --> 07:08.000]  Oh, well, absolutely. And I tell we support Fluoride Free Austin. Dr. Presley is also on the Steering Committee of Fluoride Free Austin,
[07:08.000 --> 07:14.000]  and she's also on the Steering Committee of Texans for Accountable Government. I just wanted to add that in there.
[07:14.000 --> 07:20.000]  And we just couldn't have a better person running for city council. I mean, I think you should be running for mayor.
[07:20.000 --> 07:28.000]  And you very well may do that. We do have another Liberty Lover running for mayor right now. That's Clay Defoe. We will be interviewing him coming up.
[07:28.000 --> 07:39.000]  But Laura, why don't you tell us what got you inspired to run for city council? Tell us a little bit about how you feel about the budget and these
[07:39.000 --> 07:48.000]  spending cuts that you want to make. I know you've talked about all the waste and that's in our government right now and, you know, all the unnecessary
[07:48.000 --> 07:54.000]  subsidies and these sorts of things. So why don't you just go over some points in your platform for our listeners here?
[07:54.000 --> 08:00.000]  Absolutely. And, you know, there's just so much going on with the city of Austin that's wrong.
[08:00.000 --> 08:07.000]  You know, I started out being, you know, like you said, I was testifying to the Austin City Council for Fluoride Free Austin.
[08:07.000 --> 08:14.000]  They recruited me as a technical chemistry expert to talk about the health effects of Fluoride. And, you know, the last five to ten years
[08:14.000 --> 08:24.000]  there's been a lot of new data that's come out, research, out of Harvard, out of, you know, all across the world actually, on the effects of
[08:24.000 --> 08:34.000]  Fluoride on babies, on boys, on women with hypothyroidism, and it affects us all. And so I testified to the city council for the last two years
[08:34.000 --> 08:41.000]  on this and, you know, I first started out with Fluoride Free Austin. I thought, you know, I'll be presenting the data to them, the technical data
[08:41.000 --> 08:47.000]  and the chemistry data, and it'll, you know, after about two weeks they'll make the right decision and I'll go back to work.
[08:47.000 --> 08:56.000]  And that's not what happened. After two years of continuous testifying, showing information, new data as it comes out, year after year,
[08:56.000 --> 09:04.000]  you know, they still don't make the right decision. And I also testified to the council on the TSA standards on the
[09:04.000 --> 09:13.000]  radiation levels that, you know, city employees and travelers are exposed to. The scanners in Austin, Texas were brought in about a year and a
[09:13.000 --> 09:22.000]  half ago. The Austin Advisory Commission recommended to the city council to not bring them in. A unanimous vote by the Austin Advisory
[09:22.000 --> 09:30.000]  Airport Commission to don't bring these scanners in. They are, we were concerned about the health effects, but the council didn't listen.
[09:30.000 --> 09:36.000]  So here I'm, you know, watching this. I'm watching this, not listening about Fluoride, not listening about the standards. And I would watch
[09:36.000 --> 09:43.000]  environmental groups come up. I would watch neighborhood groups come up, you know, minority groups come up to the city council, and they weren't
[09:43.000 --> 09:50.000]  listening to anybody. So basically I got really mad and frustrated and said, you know what, I want to make a difference. I'm sick of them
[09:50.000 --> 09:59.000]  and I'm going to run. And, you know, it was a hard decision kind of for our family. My husband, it took a while for him to agree to this,
[09:59.000 --> 10:06.000]  but after a while we just got so frustrated and we said, if I don't run, who's going to? And we have to make a difference. But that was, you
[10:06.000 --> 10:13.000]  know, kind of the introduction into the city council. And, you know, I'm running against Mike Martinez. He's an incumbent. Then there are a couple
[10:13.000 --> 10:21.000]  of terms. And basically he has done what I would say the most wrong and of all the council members. And that's why we picked running against him.
[10:21.000 --> 10:30.000]  I wanted to pick someone who, you know, I could really pick on their voting record and I could really dissect all the decisions they made and say,
[10:30.000 --> 10:40.000]  here, look at me. I'm an alternative to this. And it's been a roadman since, gosh, it started in December. And the main issues with the city council,
[10:40.000 --> 10:49.000]  if I had to boil it down, they just don't listen and they are not in it for the interest of citizens. They're in it for big developers,
[10:49.000 --> 10:57.000]  big corporations. And, you know, what's amazing is you've got a lot of groups in Austin. You have Republicans, you've got Democrats,
[10:57.000 --> 11:05.000]  you've got environmentalists, you've got East Austin minorities, you've got West Austin, Territown, and they're all frustrated with the same thing.
[11:05.000 --> 11:14.000]  They don't want these subsidies going, our tax dollars going to these large corporations, Austin just recently gave 8.6 million to Apple Corporation.
[11:14.000 --> 11:25.000]  Apple has $100 billion cash reserves. It is shocking that we're giving our tax dollars to them. It doesn't make any sense to a lot of the citizens in Austin
[11:25.000 --> 11:34.000]  and they're really angry about it. The other subsidies that have been going on, a downtown hotel, Marriott, got $4 million as a fee waiver.
[11:34.000 --> 11:44.000]  Okay? They weren't going to build here anyway. They got $4 million. And Formula One, you know, the tract is here in Austin that, you know, the Formula One tract,
[11:44.000 --> 11:54.000]  $13 million of our tax abatements are going to the Formula One. It's like, this is insane. Corporate welfare using our tax dollars,
[11:54.000 --> 12:02.000]  and I've told these groups I will not give our hard-earned tax dollars to a bunch of rich corporations. So that, you know, that's one of the main things.
[12:02.000 --> 12:09.000]  And what's happened is all of these expenses of these companies, they're incurring these expenses. Someone has to pay for this development.
[12:09.000 --> 12:17.000]  All of the subsidies were given, and it's the taxpayers. These charges and these subsidies get peanut buttered over all of our taxes,
[12:17.000 --> 12:23.000]  and that's why Austin's affordability is declining. We're developing people out.
[12:23.000 --> 12:32.000]  And I've heard it said, you know, I just hear a lot of different comments on the campaign trail. One of the most wonderful comments and clear comments that was making me
[12:32.000 --> 12:39.000]  was that these developers are coming into Austin and they're mining us for money. And we're just rolling over and giving it to them.
[12:39.000 --> 12:48.000]  And we're stuck holding the bag. They've made their profits. They leave. We're stuck holding the bag with no traffic solutions for the density increases that we're having,
[12:48.000 --> 12:55.000]  no solutions for, you know, our energy rates going up, our water rates going up, our taxes going up. And people are furious.
[12:55.000 --> 13:01.000]  And so we have a lot of backing up across the board of a lot of different groups. And we're very grateful for it.
[13:01.000 --> 13:06.000]  So that's kind of, you know, the main step of why I'm running.
[13:06.000 --> 13:23.000]  Absolutely. And Austin and I, having a voice in what goes on in our government is a big issue. And recently, our mayor and city council have imposed some limitations regarding citizen input in the city council meetings,
[13:23.000 --> 13:28.000]  and you intend to reverse that. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that as well?
[13:28.000 --> 13:44.000]  Absolutely. You know, I was there when they, you know, they ejected Ronnie Riefersied, a good man, you know, very outspoken Liberty activist, you know, very poignant, you know, he brings up issues that people don't want to hear about,
[13:44.000 --> 13:51.000]  and they should hear about it. And so he was ejected. John Bush was ejected from City Hall for, I don't know, how many months.
[13:51.000 --> 13:58.000]  And then they also limited, the city council limited them on how many items you can speak to and the time you can speak on these things.
[13:58.000 --> 14:04.000]  And it's just a tyranny at City Hall. They don't want our input. They don't want us giving feedback.
[14:04.000 --> 14:14.000]  I brought up in December of 2011, you know, last December, I started seeing a lot of our tax dollars.
[14:14.000 --> 14:24.000]  You know, the city has a budget and they have contracts to get some of the city services done. And so what I was noticing were these tax dollars were going out of Austin and out of the state,
[14:24.000 --> 14:33.000]  and there were companies in Austin that could service these city contracts. So I started bringing up the issue of the city council needs to buy local.
[14:33.000 --> 14:44.000]  All right, I'll give you an example. There's the downtown library had a $400,000 contract for artwork design, and it went to a company in Los Angeles. We have artists in Austin.
[14:44.000 --> 14:52.000]  We have local artists that could take those contracts and benefit our local economy and small businesses here in town, and they're giving our money out.
[14:52.000 --> 15:06.000]  And I started bringing this up back in December within six weeks, less than, well, about five weeks later, the city council and the city manager took off from the agendas where the money was going.
[15:06.000 --> 15:15.000]  For years on the city council agendas, you would see in the procurement section the company and the city and state where the money was going.
[15:15.000 --> 15:24.000]  Five weeks from me bringing this up at the council, they took the information off, and the transparency of where our tax dollars were going was gone.
[15:24.000 --> 15:37.000]  And I complained about that, and it was to no avail. The city just mocked us. You know, our tax dollars, we want them spent locally, and by the way, you just removed the information of where they're going.
[15:37.000 --> 15:45.000]  And so that means they're, you know, they were being, you know, they felt guilty, and they didn't like the visibility and the accountability that we were holding them to.
[15:45.000 --> 15:55.000]  No, wait a minute. They removed the information of where it was going. Are you saying that they were trying to hide or that they have somehow successfully hidden the books?
[15:55.000 --> 16:11.000]  Yes. So they, so, you know, you walk up to the city council, you know, meetings, and you get this agendas five or seven pages long, and it would list, you know, all the contracts, and we're, you know, $500,000 for this, $4 million going to, you know, Home Depot in Georgia for a contract for,
[16:11.000 --> 16:20.000]  you know, hardware or lumber or something for parks projects. And so it would say the company Home Depot and it would say Atlanta, Georgia.
[16:20.000 --> 16:31.000]  And now what they took off was the Atlanta, Georgia component of all these procurement items, probably about 50 that are on there every time there's a council meeting, and they just removed the information.
[16:31.000 --> 16:40.000]  That sounds like a violation of state law. Laura, listen, this first segment has blown by, just blown by. Can you stay with us one more segment?
[16:40.000 --> 16:41.000]  Absolutely.
[16:41.000 --> 16:56.000]  All right, excellent. All right, we've got Dr. Laura Presley running for city council here in Austin. We're also going to be interviewing Clay Defoe coming up after Laura. Folks, stay tuned, stand by, and we'll be taking your calls after our guests.
[16:56.000 --> 17:00.000]  We'll be right back. This is the rule of law.
[17:00.000 --> 17:01.000]  America is in trouble.
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[19:29.000 --> 19:32.000]  All right, folks, we are back.
[19:32.000 --> 19:35.000]  We've got one more segment with Dr. Laura Presley.
[19:35.000 --> 19:41.000]  And Dr. Presley, if you could just give folks the info on the voting.
[19:41.000 --> 19:45.000]  It's this Saturday for folks who did not get out for early voting.
[19:45.000 --> 19:46.000]  Go ahead.
[19:46.000 --> 19:47.000]  Yes.
[19:47.000 --> 19:54.000]  So yes, election day is Saturday, May 12th, and you vote at your normal precinct.
[19:54.000 --> 19:58.000]  And we have information on our website. If you don't know the precinct that you're in,
[19:58.000 --> 20:03.000]  you don't know the location, you can go on my website, presleyforaustin.com.
[20:03.000 --> 20:07.000]  And there are links on the far right side that you can go find out all that information.
[20:07.000 --> 20:11.000]  The hours are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
[20:11.000 --> 20:17.000]  And we think this is going to be a very close selection, so I need every single listener to vote
[20:17.000 --> 20:19.000]  and get your families out to vote.
[20:19.000 --> 20:24.000]  Email and Facebook and do LinkedIn of all the people you know to get this out.
[20:24.000 --> 20:27.000]  We have to get in there. We have to make a change.
[20:27.000 --> 20:31.000]  And we can't do it without people voting. We have to have it.
[20:31.000 --> 20:37.000]  Now, Dr. Presley, there's also another way that folks can help with the phone banking for making calls.
[20:37.000 --> 20:39.000]  Can you tell us a little bit about that?
[20:39.000 --> 20:40.000]  Yes.
[20:40.000 --> 20:44.000]  I know that texts for accountable government on the radio I've heard,
[20:44.000 --> 20:46.000]  because we can't coordinate with them.
[20:46.000 --> 20:51.000]  So texts for accountable government have phone banking set up.
[20:51.000 --> 20:57.000]  And I think if you could contact TAG, either Heather Fosdale or John Bush,
[20:57.000 --> 21:00.000]  or email them, they can give you all the information on that.
[21:00.000 --> 21:03.000]  But yes, there's phone banking going on, according to 90.1.
[21:03.000 --> 21:05.000]  Yes, excellent.
[21:05.000 --> 21:10.000]  And folks, do go to the textsforaccountablegovernmentwebsitetagtexas.org
[21:10.000 --> 21:18.000]  for more information on how you can help make the phone calls and get that last push out for the vote for this Saturday.
[21:18.000 --> 21:21.000]  Now, back to the whole subsidies thing.
[21:21.000 --> 21:24.000]  I wanted to get back to the fluoride issue.
[21:24.000 --> 21:30.000]  This city is spending almost a million dollars a year on this toxic waste that,
[21:30.000 --> 21:37.000]  according to EPA standards, has to be disposed of in a manner similar to nuclear waste with hazmat suits and everything.
[21:37.000 --> 21:42.000]  However, there's somehow a loophole in the federal law that once they decide to sell it,
[21:42.000 --> 21:45.000]  they can call it a product and then they can feed it to us.
[21:45.000 --> 21:55.000]  But at any rate, there seems to be an issue with federal kickbacks or federal grants that the city is getting to keep the fluoride in.
[21:55.000 --> 22:03.000]  And so apparently there's a net gain in order to keep it in, even though we're actually spending money on it.
[22:03.000 --> 22:06.000]  So can you tell us a little bit about that?
[22:06.000 --> 22:08.000]  Yes, and you said it perfectly.
[22:08.000 --> 22:13.000]  And it's going on with fluoride and with the PSA standards, and I'll kind of briefly describe it.
[22:13.000 --> 22:18.000]  So with fluoride, the CDC is the big, big pusher of fluoridation.
[22:18.000 --> 22:27.000]  And the city council gets about $7 million in grants from the CDC for smoking cessation campaigns and for obesity education campaigns.
[22:27.000 --> 22:30.000]  And, you know, we've brought this up to the council point blank.
[22:30.000 --> 22:35.000]  We have said, we know you're not getting it out because you're worried about losing grants.
[22:35.000 --> 22:38.000]  When we say this, you should see their body language.
[22:38.000 --> 22:39.000]  It is loud.
[22:39.000 --> 22:41.000]  They start being uncomfortable.
[22:41.000 --> 22:44.000]  They start, you know, putting their hands in front of their mouth, itching.
[22:44.000 --> 22:46.000]  I mean, it's just loud body language.
[22:46.000 --> 22:48.000]  It's like we've hit the nail on the head.
[22:48.000 --> 22:50.000]  They're worried about losing these grants.
[22:50.000 --> 22:53.000]  Now, honestly, they probably would not lose them if they got fluoride out.
[22:53.000 --> 22:58.000]  You know, they're just operating off of fear and then it's just wrong.
[22:58.000 --> 23:07.000]  And the other thing is for the TSA, the TSA gave the city of Austin $30 million in grants after they accepted the scanners.
[23:07.000 --> 23:08.000]  Okay?
[23:08.000 --> 23:14.000]  And I was at the airport advisory commission when the grants may have approved the grants to come in.
[23:14.000 --> 23:23.000]  And what they said in the airport advisory commission, let's change the name of the grant to, let's change it from TSA grant to Homeland Security grant.
[23:23.000 --> 23:28.000]  We knew that there was this was a conflict of interest and so they changed the name.
[23:28.000 --> 23:30.000]  Heather Foster and I were there when this occurred.
[23:30.000 --> 23:35.000]  And so, yes, to get this stuff even, to get these federal programs in here, they're giving them money.
[23:35.000 --> 23:42.000]  They're giving them grants and the big number, $7 million for the CDC and $30 million for the TSA.
[23:42.000 --> 23:46.000]  Well, this is absolutely outrageous and I knew that's the way it was.
[23:46.000 --> 23:52.000]  And I have to tell you, Laura, this is something that we've discussed on our show many times.
[23:52.000 --> 24:03.000]  We don't see anywhere in state law that authorizes an annexed municipality to accept federal grant money or federal funding for anything.
[24:03.000 --> 24:04.000]  Okay?
[24:04.000 --> 24:08.000]  Municipalities are not their own independent nation states.
[24:08.000 --> 24:18.000]  They can't just do whatever they want or enact statute or things like this or accept money from other entities without a statutory authority.
[24:18.000 --> 24:25.000]  Because, hey, if you or me or anybody else went to the city council and said, hey, if you do this or that, well, I'll give you some money.
[24:25.000 --> 24:27.000]  That would be called a bribe and that's illegal.
[24:27.000 --> 24:30.000]  And so, we intend to do something about that as well.
[24:30.000 --> 24:32.000]  That's a wonderful thing.
[24:32.000 --> 24:33.000]  Thank you.
[24:33.000 --> 24:37.000]  Yeah, I mean, these people need to go down for criminal behavior.
[24:37.000 --> 24:39.000]  It's absolutely criminal.
[24:39.000 --> 24:46.000]  Now, one thing, another thing I wanted to ask you about concerning your technical prowess.
[24:46.000 --> 25:02.000]  You are a PhD in chemistry and I see on your website that one thing you intend to bring to the city council is to your technical prowess to bridge the gap concerning, you know, explaining things,
[25:02.000 --> 25:08.000]  technically speaking and sorting out conflicting data that is presented to the city council.
[25:08.000 --> 25:10.000]  Can you tell us a little bit about that?
[25:10.000 --> 25:16.000]  You know, there's nobody on the council right now that has a technology background or even a business background.
[25:16.000 --> 25:25.000]  And all these subsidies that they give, they're not the financial benefit, you know, the return on investment calculations that they're using are flawed.
[25:25.000 --> 25:29.000]  They need someone with a business background to kind of hold them accountable and ask really hard questions.
[25:29.000 --> 25:34.000]  But with regard to the technical issues, there's a lot of technical topics that come to the city council.
[25:34.000 --> 25:41.000]  We've got a big semiconductor industry here in Austin. I spent 17 years in that industry, very highly technical.
[25:41.000 --> 25:47.000]  You know, the fluoride issues, the technical issues, the TSA standards, health effects are a technical issue.
[25:47.000 --> 25:52.000]  The solar industry is technical. The semiconductor industry is very technical.
[25:52.000 --> 26:03.000]  And so there's nobody who can ask those really hard questions and challenge this information, this misinformation and disinformation that's coming in from the staff, the bureaucracy of the city of Austin.
[26:03.000 --> 26:14.000]  We need a council member on the dais that can challenge this and educate the other council members and raise these questions and plant seeds that need to be planted.
[26:14.000 --> 26:19.000]  And that's what I can do. And there's no one else on there that can do that. And that's what I bring to the table.
[26:19.000 --> 26:21.000]  Wonderful. I love it.
[26:21.000 --> 26:35.000]  Now, are you running as an at-large candidate or are they all at-large candidates this time? Are people just in a certain area of town that can vote for you or can everyone vote for you in Austin this time?
[26:35.000 --> 26:51.000]  We're still at the at-large system so everyone can vote. And that's the beauty, you know, of the at-large system, but it's also bad because you don't have geographical representation. And, you know, hopefully we're going to move towards that.
[26:51.000 --> 27:02.000]  I will be a vote for that on the council. I think the geographical representation is a must. You need to have representatives in your neighborhood, in your area, so that you can hold them accountable.
[27:02.000 --> 27:08.000]  And, you know, that's something that's probably going to be on the ballot in November. But right now, everybody can vote.
[27:08.000 --> 27:20.000]  And we need to get people out. Like I said, email, Facebook, LinkedIn, all your friends, get the vote out on Saturday between 7 to 7 p.m. and go on our website at PressleyforAustin.com.
[27:20.000 --> 27:28.000]  And you can look up your precinct and you can look up where your voting location is. So there's no excuses, 7 to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
[27:28.000 --> 27:41.000]  Everybody needs to get out. I know it's going to be a close race. It always is for city council and for mayor here in Austin because the elections are held at a time that are not along with the other elections.
[27:41.000 --> 27:49.000]  And so people just get tired of going out to the polls and they just ignore it. But folks, we've got to get Dr. Laura Pressley in. We've got to end these subsidies.
[27:49.000 --> 28:03.000]  End these high taxes. It's wasteful. Spending in government and the fluoride and everything else. So also, there's something on your website concerning reduction of property taxes at a local level.
[28:03.000 --> 28:05.000]  Can you please tell us something about that?
[28:05.000 --> 28:19.000]  Absolutely. You know, we all get homeowners get a city, a county homestead exemption. And a lot of large cities across the country offer a city municipal homestead exemption.
[28:19.000 --> 28:26.000]  And I have been the first candidate over the last probably eight years that have run that have said we are going to champion this.
[28:26.000 --> 28:38.000]  And what this will do is help our low income families and reduce our property taxes because we're being developed out of here. All of the gentrification that's going on in East Austin where property taxes are going out the roof.
[28:38.000 --> 28:48.000]  Generations of families who've lived there cannot afford to live there. We were in the infilled area yesterday in West Austin. Families were coming up saying, I can't live here anymore.
[28:48.000 --> 28:58.000]  I'm being developed out. And that's the intent. You know, they want to bring in, you know, more wealthy people. The rest of us, the middle class is being moved out.
[28:58.000 --> 29:08.000]  And we have to say no. So that's one component we're, and we got endorsed by the Austin Neighborhood Council, which is the choice endorsement in Austin for, you know, for the people.
[29:08.000 --> 29:22.000]  And there are about 65 neighborhoods in Austin that they're the umbrella organization for. They did endorse our campaign because of this homestead exemption that's going to help our families and our low income families and new families that want to purchase homes.
[29:22.000 --> 29:24.000]  So that's the big deal.
[29:24.000 --> 29:32.000]  Excellent. Excellent. And she, folks, she also has plans to lower our utility rates here in Austin. We don't have a whole lot of time to talk about that.
[29:32.000 --> 29:44.000]  We've got exactly 25 seconds left. So Laura, closing comments. Okay, yes. We're trying to cut costs at Austin Energy instead of, you know, they need to cut costs in their own backyard before they come to us with a great increase.
[29:44.000 --> 29:56.000]  And then we're going to push for that. All right. Give us your website one more time. PressleyforAustin.com. All right. Dr. Laura Pressley for City Council here in Austin. Thank you for joining us tonight.
[29:56.000 --> 30:00.000]  Deborah Randy, thank you. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you. Okay, bye.
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[32:27.000 --> 32:56.000]  Okay, folks, we are back. This is the rule of law. We're interviewing candidates tonight for Saturday's local election here in Austin.
[32:56.000 --> 33:04.000]  We just interviewed Dr. Laura Presley running for city council, and now we're going to interview Clay Defoe.
[33:04.000 --> 33:11.000]  He is running for mayor. Hopefully, Defoe will overthrow Lee Leffingwell.
[33:11.000 --> 33:20.000]  We certainly hope so because he is the man who brought us the TSA scanners and has approved all these corporate subsidies.
[33:20.000 --> 33:29.000]  Formula One, the domain subsidies, the development is just God-awful things this man has done to us.
[33:29.000 --> 33:38.000]  So, we are behind Clay all the way. He is definitely a Liberty-loving candidate, and he has been very active in the city council meetings
[33:38.000 --> 33:43.000]  speaking out against these subsidies and other issues, interjecting free market ideas.
[33:43.000 --> 33:47.000]  So, tell us a little bit more about yourself, Clay.
[33:47.000 --> 33:55.000]  Sure. Thanks for having me on, Deborah and Randy. This is great to be able to get the message out to all your listeners here.
[33:55.000 --> 34:02.000]  I'm Clay Defoe. I'm running for mayor because I'm really fed up with how our current city hall works,
[34:02.000 --> 34:10.000]  which is basically to subsidize and give special deals to special interest developers, major corporations like Formula One and Apple,
[34:10.000 --> 34:18.000]  and that's really got to stop. As a citizen being involved in council, I've seen firsthand how our city council is trying to restrict
[34:18.000 --> 34:26.000]  citizen speech and meetings. They recently passed consent agenda rules, which really limit our ability to participate and give input.
[34:26.000 --> 34:34.000]  I'm actually advocating more open city council that actually has some meetings on Saturday so more folks can show up and attend,
[34:34.000 --> 34:40.000]  as well as establishing a monthly citizens communications day. We need this to hear from our people.
[34:40.000 --> 34:45.000]  We need more involvement in our city council. We don't need to limit people's ability to have their voice heard.
[34:45.000 --> 34:53.000]  So, I think you'll find I'm a Sean candidate for Liberty, and someone wants to restore the free market here in Austin,
[34:53.000 --> 34:56.000]  as well as protect our civil liberties.
[34:56.000 --> 35:04.000]  Excellent. Now, I suppose that you are in line with all the things that Dr. Laura Presley is on board about.
[35:04.000 --> 35:16.000]  Give us an idea here of what you can do to stop these subsidies and the fluoride and all these sorts of things and the high taxes
[35:16.000 --> 35:25.000]  and unnecessary spending. Just give us an idea about some of your plans and other issues that you feel are pertinent to Austin.
[35:25.000 --> 35:31.000]  Absolutely. Well, first I want to say I oppose all corporate subsidies and incentives.
[35:31.000 --> 35:40.000]  The council has recently discussed, as far as some of the subsidies, the bigger corporations, creating a program for small businesses, as well.
[35:40.000 --> 35:46.000]  I think giving special deals to any group is wrong. It abuses our government, and it's unfair.
[35:46.000 --> 35:53.000]  And I want to end that completely, and that will be my policy, is not to vote for any special tax breaks or subsidies to anyone.
[35:53.000 --> 35:56.000]  And I think that will go a long way in restoring the free market.
[35:56.000 --> 36:03.000]  We've also got a very serious possible electric rate increase that's coming on board.
[36:03.000 --> 36:10.000]  There's going to be a vote on this two weeks after the election on May 24th, and that's why it's so crucial.
[36:10.000 --> 36:14.000]  We get some of these incumbents out of office this Saturday, May 12th.
[36:14.000 --> 36:18.000]  Basically, Austin Energy is a public utility monopoly.
[36:18.000 --> 36:27.000]  I'd like to open up competition, but while we have this monopoly, I'd like to cut costs, and we can do that by simply eliminating these general fund transfers,
[36:27.000 --> 36:37.000]  which basically what these transfers do is take away 9% of our energy company's revenue, $105 million each year,
[36:37.000 --> 36:44.000]  and transfer it from Austin Energy to the city's general fund for things that really have nothing to do with energy.
[36:44.000 --> 36:56.000]  We look at how the money was spent, something like $90,000 for the Hispanic Futures Conference, $6,000 for the Austin and Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony,
[36:56.000 --> 37:04.000]  and also $8.5 million to the city's economic redevelopment and growth services department.
[37:04.000 --> 37:15.000]  It's a department I like to call the redevelopment department because it actually gives plans ways to give more of our taxpayer money to big developers downtown to try to incentivize these compact centers.
[37:15.000 --> 37:19.000]  They're really going to destroy the heart and soul of Austin.
[37:19.000 --> 37:22.000]  I also want to get fluoride out of the water.
[37:22.000 --> 37:27.000]  This is a huge issue that Council has no excuse that they haven't acted on it yet.
[37:27.000 --> 37:35.000]  Fluoride free Austin has done a great job of educating these members for several years now on the harmful dangers of fluoride
[37:35.000 --> 37:42.000]  and what it does to the insides of our citizens and how it damages people's thyroid, get them failed to act.
[37:42.000 --> 37:47.000]  This is one of the first things that I'd be able to push through is to eliminate it out of our water supply.
[37:47.000 --> 37:52.000]  There's no reason why we should be putting a byproduct of the fertilizer industry in our water.
[37:52.000 --> 38:00.000]  I also opposed the body scanners at ABIA. We had a group, as Laura was saying, about 30 folks go down to the advisory committee,
[38:00.000 --> 38:07.000]  and I believe it was December 2010, and we told them we do not need these privacy shredding machines in our airport.
[38:07.000 --> 38:13.000]  Not only that, but there's also various health risks that come with them with the radiation.
[38:13.000 --> 38:21.000]  I've heard a study from a University of California professor emeritus that said it literally unzips the molecules of people's DNA.
[38:21.000 --> 38:24.000]  This has got to stop, and we've got to start taking responsibility.
[38:24.000 --> 38:34.000]  We own the airport. City of Austin owns the airport, and we can end if we only have public officials that are able to stand up and oppose these harmful measures.
[38:34.000 --> 38:42.000]  Absolutely. And as we were discussing in the previous segment, the city is getting subsidies grants from the federal government
[38:42.000 --> 38:52.000]  to implement these just death-causing scanners, and from Randy's analysis and my analysis,
[38:52.000 --> 38:57.000]  it's illegal for the municipalities to accept federal grant money at all.
[38:57.000 --> 39:04.000]  It's not authorized by state statute. The municipalities are not their own independent nation states.
[39:04.000 --> 39:07.000]  They can't just do whatever they want. They are subject to state law.
[39:07.000 --> 39:15.000]  They are subject to the state legislature, and we can't find where they can just make these kinds of decisions and accept grant money just willy-nilly like that.
[39:15.000 --> 39:17.000]  How do you feel about that, Clay?
[39:17.000 --> 39:25.000]  I completely agree with you, Deborah. I think your analysis is spot-on, and we've got to return to being self-sufficient.
[39:25.000 --> 39:34.000]  You know, council is so reliant on these federal grants, and in the past year alone, the amount of them has decreased by $19 million.
[39:34.000 --> 39:38.000]  I'm glad it's decreasing, but I would like to see them eliminated altogether.
[39:38.000 --> 39:44.000]  We need to not be reliant on the federal government because when we get subsidies or grants from the federal government,
[39:44.000 --> 39:51.000]  they basically want us to support their recommendations, whether it's the CDC recommendation to have fluoride in our water
[39:51.000 --> 39:59.000]  or their programs to invade all of our rights at the airport with these scanners and these invasive pat-downs that must be ended.
[39:59.000 --> 40:05.000]  I'm opposed to federal and state grants, and I'll seek to work to make Austin more self-sufficient,
[40:05.000 --> 40:10.000]  so we're not relying on these dollars that are never wisely spent.
[40:10.000 --> 40:13.000]  And there are hours to begin with anyway.
[40:13.000 --> 40:21.000]  I see on your website, I'm looking at your platform here, you mentioned holding Austin Police Department accountable.
[40:21.000 --> 40:23.000]  This is a big deal.
[40:23.000 --> 40:31.000]  We've had a lot of interviews on this show and other shows on this network from people that have been severely abused at the hands of APD,
[40:31.000 --> 40:37.000]  so give us some tidbits here of what you intend to do about that.
[40:37.000 --> 40:44.000]  Well, first, I would move for our department to basically adopt a preservation of life standard,
[40:44.000 --> 40:55.000]  which I think would go a long way in trying to stop these shootings that keep happening. It seems almost every year now our citizens are being unfairly targeted
[40:55.000 --> 41:00.000]  and are losing their life due to our officers acting without the proper precautions.
[41:00.000 --> 41:09.000]  What a preservation of life standard does is makes it to where an officer, their main priority is to protect our citizens' lives.
[41:09.000 --> 41:11.000]  That's kind of self-explanatory.
[41:11.000 --> 41:20.000]  Basically, they'll have to use all non-lethal means of force before they even think about pulling a gun and firing at one of our citizens.
[41:20.000 --> 41:24.000]  I think this should also include tasers as well.
[41:24.000 --> 41:28.000]  I oppose the use of tasers in Austin Police Department and would like to see them phased out.
[41:28.000 --> 41:32.000]  I think these are, in some cases, very lethal.
[41:32.000 --> 41:42.000]  Their electro torture devices that I don't think any officer should have that right to be judged during the execution of our citizens, and I'd like to see them eliminated all together.
[41:42.000 --> 41:50.000]  There's been a report that came out recently that shows that in the past three years, taser use has basically tripled in our department.
[41:50.000 --> 41:55.000]  That's got to stop, and I'd be willing to put policies forward to stop that.
[41:55.000 --> 42:09.000]  In addition, there's this very specific section of our City Charter, Article II, Section 6, which actually gives every single member of the City Council the power to investigate or to inquire into the behavior of a...
[42:09.000 --> 42:11.000]  or a conduct of an officer in any department.
[42:11.000 --> 42:13.000]  That includes our police.
[42:13.000 --> 42:28.000]  I'd be willing to use that section whenever our citizens' constitutional rights are violated, and I think it would be a good task, and it would go a long way in promoting accountability in our police department.
[42:28.000 --> 42:29.000]  I love it.
[42:29.000 --> 42:30.000]  I absolutely love it.
[42:30.000 --> 42:40.000]  Now, we've only got a couple of minutes left here, about a minute and a half, so the other issues that are on your platform have to do with transportation and the environment,
[42:40.000 --> 42:47.000]  limiting the scope of government, why don't you just briefly go over those, and then we'll give out your website.
[42:47.000 --> 42:48.000]  Absolutely, Deborah.
[42:48.000 --> 42:56.000]  One thing I would like to see is the end of these ordinances that over-regulate the lives of Austin citizens.
[42:56.000 --> 43:00.000]  That includes the recent single-use grocery bag ban.
[43:00.000 --> 43:02.000]  I would like to repeal.
[43:02.000 --> 43:09.000]  I don't think the Austin City Council should be deciding what bags businesses and individuals can be handing out and using.
[43:09.000 --> 43:13.000]  It's a complete invasion of property rights, and it's got to stop.
[43:13.000 --> 43:19.000]  Garage sales, even, have now been limited to two days per year if you're in the city of Austin.
[43:19.000 --> 43:24.000]  This is a complete overreach by our city government, and these regulations have got to be repealed.
[43:24.000 --> 43:28.000]  Last year, the council attempted to ban non-FDA-approved eggs.
[43:28.000 --> 43:35.000]  I see this as an attack on our small farmers and against the urban hincrades, which is really taking Austin by storm.
[43:35.000 --> 43:39.000]  In addition, I'd like to end the taxicab permitting process altogether.
[43:39.000 --> 43:45.000]  The council has a formula, which they think adequately addresses how many taxicabs need to be on the road,
[43:45.000 --> 43:47.000]  and they've adopted the same thing for pedicabs.
[43:47.000 --> 43:55.000]  I'd like to see those thrown out and to let businesses have more of an even-level playing field to have supply and demand determine the market
[43:55.000 --> 43:57.000]  instead of elected politicians.
[43:57.000 --> 43:58.000]  All right, thank you.
[43:58.000 --> 44:05.000]  Thank you for joining us.
[44:28.000 --> 44:35.000]  Shaw, as interviewed on KSRTV, was also told by ATF agents that they had been paged to not come into work.
[44:35.000 --> 44:41.000]  The ATF initially denied these claims, and now variously claim that one of their agents was in a free-falling elevator
[44:41.000 --> 44:46.000]  which has been disproven, or that they had been in an all-night stick out, or that they had been in a golf tournament.
[44:46.000 --> 44:56.000]  As they try to sort out their lives, all we want to know is, did the ATF receive a warning, and if so, why did they not pass it on to others in memorials?
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[46:13.000 --> 46:19.000]  Okay folks, we are back, and we are holding over Clay Defoe to this segment.
[46:19.000 --> 46:28.000]  He didn't quite have a chance to finish, and we had Laura Presley on for a couple of segments, so I wanted to give Clay a few more minutes here of airtime.
[46:28.000 --> 46:34.000]  And you were talking about these ridiculous city ordinances that you want to do away with, and I want you to keep going with that.
[46:34.000 --> 46:37.000]  But before you do so, I want to interject here.
[46:37.000 --> 46:52.000]  For people, many people may not realize, you know, it's not just a matter of being invasive or cumbersome or ridiculous or a seeming overreach of big government, all these outrageous city ordinances.
[46:52.000 --> 47:04.000]  It's actually illegal because, as I mentioned before, cities, municipalities, towns, they are not their own sovereign, independent nation states.
[47:04.000 --> 47:07.000]  They can't just do whatever they want.
[47:07.000 --> 47:14.000]  They can't enact law that is binding upon the citizenry unless it is, well, they can't do it, period.
[47:14.000 --> 47:19.000]  Any ordinances that they pass have to be backed up by state law.
[47:19.000 --> 47:25.000]  The municipalities are subject to the state legislatures, period.
[47:25.000 --> 47:35.000]  And the only ordinances that municipalities can enact that are not based on state law are basically like rules of employment.
[47:35.000 --> 47:47.000]  They're applying to city employees only like, say, address code or something like that, or what color uniform you wear if you're a police officer, things like that.
[47:47.000 --> 47:57.000]  Okay, ordinances that are basically like rules of employment that apply to city employees do not have to be founded on state law.
[47:57.000 --> 48:09.000]  But any ordinance that is binding upon the public, upon the citizens in general, has to be based on state law or else they can't do it.
[48:09.000 --> 48:18.000]  Now, as far as I know, there's no state law banning plastic and paper bags in Austin.
[48:18.000 --> 48:35.000]  And so it is an illegal ordinance, and I have to say, I'm not very happy with certain entities like even HEB, for example, who are obviously on board with this and are trying to get their customers to go ahead and buy the cloth bags or whatever.
[48:35.000 --> 48:44.000]  No, those companies need to be suing Austin city government, and I'm trying to figure out how we can sue them over this.
[48:44.000 --> 48:46.000]  I mean, this is absolutely outrageous.
[48:46.000 --> 48:47.000]  It has to be stopped.
[48:47.000 --> 48:50.000]  We've got to rein in this out-of-control municipal government.
[48:50.000 --> 48:57.000]  So anyway, I just wanted to go off on a little tirade about that because I am so mad about this bag ban.
[48:57.000 --> 48:58.000]  It is just absolutely ridiculous.
[48:58.000 --> 49:01.000]  So anyway, Clay, I'm going to give you the floor for a few more minutes.
[49:01.000 --> 49:02.000]  Sorry about my rant.
[49:02.000 --> 49:10.000]  But please continue about these ordinances that you intend to do away with.
[49:10.000 --> 49:16.000]  Well, there's just so many, Deborah, and I just mentioned a few of them on the last side.
[49:16.000 --> 49:21.000]  Basically, Austin City Council is regulating our lives, and I think that's wrong.
[49:21.000 --> 49:24.000]  The limits are supposed to be on government.
[49:24.000 --> 49:26.000]  They're not supposed to be on we, the people.
[49:26.000 --> 49:31.000]  We're not supposed to have mandates saying you can only rent out your property for so long.
[49:31.000 --> 49:34.000]  That's what's happening with these new short-term rental regulations.
[49:34.000 --> 49:39.000]  They're trying to push through, actually, in this next meeting on May 24th.
[49:39.000 --> 49:44.000]  It's not supposed to be what's happening with the attempt to ban non-SDA-approved eggs.
[49:44.000 --> 49:47.000]  And it's disgusting the power they think they have.
[49:47.000 --> 49:52.000]  And as you've described, most of these ordinances are blatantly unconstitutional.
[49:52.000 --> 50:00.000]  So I think it starts because there's a lack of respect, honestly, for the Constitution down at City Hall.
[50:00.000 --> 50:05.000]  And there's a lack of respect for our own citizens who put these people in office
[50:05.000 --> 50:07.000]  and basically pay their salary.
[50:07.000 --> 50:11.000]  And we've got to have defenders of the Constitution and people that are going to stand up
[50:11.000 --> 50:15.000]  and protect our rights, protect our rights to gather at City Hall,
[50:15.000 --> 50:19.000]  instead of banning people for giving testimony on items
[50:19.000 --> 50:24.000]  or banning people from gathering through administrative city hall use policy,
[50:24.000 --> 50:28.000]  which basically lets an unelected bureaucrat, the city manager,
[50:28.000 --> 50:31.000]  set policy without as much as a council vote.
[50:31.000 --> 50:33.000]  I want to change that as mayor of Austin.
[50:33.000 --> 50:35.000]  And I really need your help in doing that.
[50:35.000 --> 50:38.000]  The elections this Saturday, May 12th.
[50:38.000 --> 50:42.000]  Everyone who's listening, if you haven't voted yet, please get out to vote.
[50:42.000 --> 50:46.000]  I have a list of polling places on my Facebook page.
[50:46.000 --> 50:47.000]  Just look up Clay Defoe.
[50:47.000 --> 50:51.000]  And I'd love to have your vote this Saturday, May 12th.
[50:51.000 --> 50:54.000]  Yes. And give out your website for us, Clay.
[50:54.000 --> 51:00.000]  It's claydefoe, C-L-A-Y-D-A-F-O-E, formayor.com.
[51:00.000 --> 51:02.000]  That's claydefoeformayor.com.
[51:02.000 --> 51:08.000]  Well, I have to say, I'm very impressed and I appreciate your position on all these matters,
[51:08.000 --> 51:12.000]  because as you were talking about the taxicab ordinances,
[51:12.000 --> 51:14.000]  you plan on rolling that back as well,
[51:14.000 --> 51:18.000]  and these ridiculous things about the garage sales,
[51:18.000 --> 51:22.000]  none of that is founded in state law.
[51:22.000 --> 51:28.000]  And not only do our current city council members and mayor
[51:28.000 --> 51:31.000]  have a blatant disregard for the Constitution,
[51:31.000 --> 51:34.000]  they have a blatant disregard for law.
[51:34.000 --> 51:37.000]  They have a blatant disregard for our state legislature,
[51:37.000 --> 51:39.000]  because they just do whatever they want,
[51:39.000 --> 51:44.000]  and they're taking nothing less than bribery money from the federal government.
[51:44.000 --> 51:49.000]  There's nothing in state law that authorizes a municipality to accept federal funding.
[51:49.000 --> 51:51.000]  Period. Nothing.
[51:51.000 --> 51:55.000]  And this is all part of Agenda 21, all of this, you know,
[51:55.000 --> 51:58.000]  suppressing the garage sales and the band bags and all this stuff.
[51:58.000 --> 52:02.000]  So why don't you give us your position on this Agenda 21,
[52:02.000 --> 52:07.000]  and what will you do to stop the implementation of Agenda 21,
[52:07.000 --> 52:11.000]  and are you going to get rid of IKLI out of our city also?
[52:11.000 --> 52:14.000]  Absolutely. I want to get Austin out of IKLI,
[52:14.000 --> 52:17.000]  and that'll be one of the first things I push for as mayor.
[52:17.000 --> 52:23.000]  One thing I haven't mentioned yet, which is really Agenda 21 in disguise
[52:23.000 --> 52:26.000]  that the council is trying to push through here in the next few months,
[52:26.000 --> 52:30.000]  is the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan.
[52:30.000 --> 52:35.000]  This is a plan basically that wants to spend over a billion dollars of your money
[52:35.000 --> 52:39.000]  building urban rail in Austin to create these corridors
[52:39.000 --> 52:43.000]  where they'll give huge incentives to density developers
[52:43.000 --> 52:45.000]  to build what they call compact centers.
[52:45.000 --> 52:48.000]  Basically, they want us all living in pods.
[52:48.000 --> 52:50.000]  So we can shop, eat, do whatever.
[52:50.000 --> 52:53.000]  All of our activity takes place in this one place,
[52:53.000 --> 52:55.000]  and we're all connected. We don't have cars.
[52:55.000 --> 52:59.000]  We're all connected by this publicly surveilled public transportation system.
[52:59.000 --> 53:03.000]  It starts with urban rail, which will bankrupt our city.
[53:03.000 --> 53:06.000]  It's going to cost $1.4 billion.
[53:06.000 --> 53:09.000]  There's really no grassroots demand for it,
[53:09.000 --> 53:12.000]  and basically it's going to spur what they want to see
[53:12.000 --> 53:16.000]  is all this density development in very limited centers.
[53:16.000 --> 53:18.000]  Now, we're not a dense city. We're not in New York.
[53:18.000 --> 53:20.000]  We're not in Chicago. We're not in Minneapolis.
[53:20.000 --> 53:22.000]  We're Austin, so we need to respect that.
[53:22.000 --> 53:25.000]  I've argued we need to improve our bus service
[53:25.000 --> 53:29.000]  instead of wasting all these untold millions on urban rail
[53:29.000 --> 53:32.000]  and pushing this plan for the Comprehensive Plan
[53:32.000 --> 53:34.000]  to change our living patterns
[53:34.000 --> 53:37.000]  and make us more dependent on the government for help.
[53:37.000 --> 53:41.000]  It's something I oppose, and I certainly won't vote for.
[53:41.000 --> 53:43.000]  I've been very vocal against it,
[53:43.000 --> 53:47.000]  and the bottom line is public bureaucrats should not be planning
[53:47.000 --> 53:50.000]  our future 25, 30 years in advance,
[53:50.000 --> 53:54.000]  and we've got to say no to these folks if we're ever going to stop it.
[53:54.000 --> 53:56.000]  Absolutely, and you make an excellent point,
[53:56.000 --> 53:59.000]  and I know that transportation, you know,
[53:59.000 --> 54:03.000]  travel is a serious issue and can be a big problem here in Austin.
[54:03.000 --> 54:07.000]  You know, there has to be something that can be done about it,
[54:07.000 --> 54:11.000]  but what you just mentioned here is not the answer,
[54:11.000 --> 54:15.000]  and cities like Chicago and New York,
[54:15.000 --> 54:19.000]  those cities were planned from the beginning,
[54:19.000 --> 54:22.000]  from the foundation before, you know,
[54:22.000 --> 54:25.000]  four, five, 10 million people lived there.
[54:25.000 --> 54:29.000]  The whole layout was set up for mass transportation like that.
[54:29.000 --> 54:31.000]  Austin was not built like that,
[54:31.000 --> 54:35.000]  so how do they think that they are going to implement this
[54:35.000 --> 54:39.000]  other than imminent domain and taking people's private property?
[54:39.000 --> 54:42.000]  And as you say, Clay, there is no grassroots demand for it.
[54:42.000 --> 54:44.000]  I mean, this is absolutely outrageous,
[54:44.000 --> 54:48.000]  and I'm sure that it's all based on federal subsidies, again.
[54:48.000 --> 54:52.000]  Absolutely, and it's this overarching plan to have us living in little quads,
[54:52.000 --> 54:56.000]  so we can't have as much high electricity use.
[54:56.000 --> 55:00.000]  We can't use our cars and different vehicles to get around.
[55:00.000 --> 55:02.000]  It's really a clampdown on our citizens
[55:02.000 --> 55:05.000]  and our ability to have a good standard of living,
[55:05.000 --> 55:07.000]  and that's why I oppose it,
[55:07.000 --> 55:09.000]  and you can really tell these people's true colors
[55:09.000 --> 55:11.000]  when you go down to these meetings,
[55:11.000 --> 55:13.000]  and they basically say,
[55:13.000 --> 55:15.000]  well, we're going to have to increase your electric rates,
[55:15.000 --> 55:17.000]  because we haven't done it in 17 years.
[55:17.000 --> 55:20.000]  That is an entirely specious argument.
[55:20.000 --> 55:22.000]  We've got to look at cutting costs.
[55:22.000 --> 55:24.000]  We've got to look at saving our people
[55:24.000 --> 55:27.000]  and do all we can to prevent a decreased standard of living in Austin
[55:27.000 --> 55:30.000]  instead of giving in to these corporate developers,
[55:30.000 --> 55:33.000]  major groups that are influencing our city government,
[55:33.000 --> 55:36.000]  and we need to restore government for the people.
[55:36.000 --> 55:41.000]  And getting everything reduced back down to the local level
[55:41.000 --> 55:43.000]  is really the way to go,
[55:43.000 --> 55:46.000]  and for folks out there who don't know what ICLEI is,
[55:46.000 --> 55:49.000]  which is all part of implementing Agenda 21,
[55:49.000 --> 55:51.000]  ICLEI stands for the International Council
[55:51.000 --> 55:54.000]  for Local Environmental Initiatives.
[55:54.000 --> 55:57.000]  It's part of the United Nations Plan of Agenda 21,
[55:57.000 --> 56:00.000]  and what do our municipalities...
[56:00.000 --> 56:02.000]  What business do they have
[56:02.000 --> 56:06.000]  being part of some international council for anyway?
[56:06.000 --> 56:09.000]  Again, like I said, they are not their own independent,
[56:09.000 --> 56:11.000]  sovereign nation-states.
[56:11.000 --> 56:13.000]  They are subject to a state legislature.
[56:13.000 --> 56:16.000]  So, I mean, I just can't say enough about this.
[56:16.000 --> 56:18.000]  Tell us more, Clay.
[56:18.000 --> 56:20.000]  What are you going to do about this?
[56:20.000 --> 56:22.000]  Well, we've got to get out of ICLEI.
[56:22.000 --> 56:24.000]  I mean, ICLEI is the same kind of group
[56:24.000 --> 56:26.000]  that supports fluoridation of the water supply,
[56:26.000 --> 56:30.000]  and I think we need to follow College Station's example.
[56:30.000 --> 56:31.000]  They've gone out of ICLEI.
[56:31.000 --> 56:33.000]  They've ended fluoridation of their water.
[56:33.000 --> 56:35.000]  We just need leadership at City Hall
[56:35.000 --> 56:39.000]  that's going to say no to joining in these sort of international groups
[56:39.000 --> 56:43.000]  that basically try to dictate policy to the city level.
[56:43.000 --> 56:45.000]  And these are the kind of things
[56:45.000 --> 56:47.000]  that come through the city bureaucracy,
[56:47.000 --> 56:50.000]  and these council members never really give a hard look at.
[56:50.000 --> 56:55.000]  So, I'll speak with autonomy as a city council member,
[56:55.000 --> 56:59.000]  and not allow the bureaucracy to run roughshot over our rights
[56:59.000 --> 57:03.000]  and the true grassroots demand for change here in Austin.
[57:03.000 --> 57:06.000]  So, I'm completely opposed to ICLEI.
[57:06.000 --> 57:09.000]  I think it's a real danger to our community
[57:09.000 --> 57:11.000]  and communities across the country
[57:11.000 --> 57:13.000]  and in other nations as well.
[57:13.000 --> 57:17.000]  So, we've got to pull out and really expose these international groups
[57:17.000 --> 57:19.000]  for the fraud that they are.
[57:19.000 --> 57:20.000]  Absolutely.
[57:20.000 --> 57:21.000]  All right.
[57:21.000 --> 57:23.000]  We've got about a minute left in this segment.
[57:23.000 --> 57:26.000]  Clay Defoe here, our very special guest,
[57:26.000 --> 57:27.000]  Clay Defoe for Mayor.
[57:27.000 --> 57:30.000]  So, why don't you go ahead and give us your website again
[57:30.000 --> 57:34.000]  and tell us how people mentioned the phone banking.
[57:34.000 --> 57:36.000]  We talked about that with Laura.
[57:36.000 --> 57:39.000]  So, why don't you tell people about the phone banking,
[57:39.000 --> 57:42.000]  how folks can support you and get you in office
[57:42.000 --> 57:46.000]  and how they can get out to the vote and all of that.
[57:46.000 --> 57:47.000]  Absolutely.
[57:47.000 --> 57:50.000]  Well, my website is claydefoeformayor.com.
[57:50.000 --> 57:54.000]  That's C-L-A-Y-D-A-F-O-E-4-Mayor.com.
[57:54.000 --> 57:56.000]  You can also visit me on Facebook.
[57:56.000 --> 57:59.000]  There's a phone banking effort going on right now,
[57:59.000 --> 58:01.000]  not organized by the campaign,
[58:01.000 --> 58:03.000]  but by Texans for Accountable Government.
[58:03.000 --> 58:05.000]  You can go to their website,
[58:05.000 --> 58:07.000]  tagtexas.org to find out more.
[58:07.000 --> 58:10.000]  Also, if you're interested in being at polling places
[58:10.000 --> 58:12.000]  on Election Day with me
[58:12.000 --> 58:14.000]  and others that are volunteers in my campaign
[58:14.000 --> 58:16.000]  to hand out some pushcards
[58:16.000 --> 58:20.000]  and just give people the hints.
[58:20.000 --> 58:22.000]  Clay Defoe's the non-establishment candidate.
[58:22.000 --> 58:23.000]  Please email me.
[58:23.000 --> 58:26.000]  My email is claydefoe2012.yahu.com.
[58:26.000 --> 58:27.000]  I'd love to have your vote.
[58:27.000 --> 58:28.000]  Please don't forget.
[58:28.000 --> 58:30.000]  It's this coming Saturday, May 12th,
[58:30.000 --> 58:32.000]  and we need your vote.
[58:32.000 --> 58:33.000]  All right, excellent.
[58:33.000 --> 58:35.000]  Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
[58:35.000 --> 58:36.000]  Thanks for having me.
[58:36.000 --> 58:37.000]  I really appreciate it.
[58:37.000 --> 58:38.000]  Of course.
[58:38.000 --> 58:39.000]  All right, folks.
[58:39.000 --> 58:41.000]  We'll be back on the second hour.
[58:41.000 --> 58:43.000]  We'll be taking your calls.
[58:43.000 --> 58:45.000]  We'll be having open topic, open phone line,
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[01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.000]  Would you spend the entire day
[01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.000]  watching store surveillance videos
[01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:07.000]  if you didn't have to?
[01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:10.000]  I didn't think so, but some people apparently would
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[01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:13.000]  I'm Dr. Catherine Albrecht
[01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:17.000]  and I'll be right back to tell you about video voyeurs.
[01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:19.000]  Privacy is under attack.
[01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.000]  When you give up data about yourself,
[01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:23.000]  you'll never get it back again.
[01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:25.000]  And once your privacy is gone,
[01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:27.000]  you'll find your freedoms will start to vanish too.
[01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:29.000]  So protect your rights.
[01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:33.000]  Say no to surveillance and keep your information to yourself.
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[01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:47.000]  Privacy is under attack.
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[01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:51.000]  you'll never get it back again.
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[01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.000]  You know that nakedizing X-ray machine at the airport?
[01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.000]  The one that strips you nude so TSA agents can scrutinize you in your birthday suit?
[01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.000]  Talk about an invasion of privacy.
[01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:29.000]  Well soon you could have that same humiliating experience voluntarily at your local mall
[01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:32.000]  if a company called Unique Solutions has its way.
[01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:38.000]  The company has licensed backscatter X-ray machines for use in clothing store fitting rooms.
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[01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:14.000]  Okay, we're back.
[01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:18.000]  We need to tell some deities that crave you on the radio.
[01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:24.000]  And I would like your opinion on those last, that last hour.
[01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:30.000]  I thought I sounded unusually articulate.
[01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:34.000]  Oh, well, just my personal opinion.
[01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:42.000]  We do have a couple of callers and we're going to go to Nicole in Florida.
[01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.000]  Nicole, we talked earlier.
[01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:46.000]  Yes.
[01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:52.000]  Kind of bring us up to speed on what is going on in your situation.
[01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:53.000]  Okay.
[01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.000]  Well, here in Charlotte County, my mother was pulled over
[01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:00.000]  for having a DOT sign on the back of her car
[01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.000]  and the cop didn't recognize it as a legitimate license plate.
[01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:08.000]  So he pulled over and decided to stop and detain her to go on a fishing trip.
[01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:11.000]  And that was May 1st, the evening of May 1st.
[01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:15.000]  And he decided that she needs to be incarcerated, I guess, to feature a lesson
[01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.000]  because he had no evidence of any injury.
[01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.000]  And he was the only complaining party.
[01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:22.000]  And still, for this date, is the only complaining party.
[01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:23.000]  Wait a minute, wait a minute.
[01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.000]  You are jumping way over stuff.
[01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:27.000]  Okay.
[01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:31.000]  We don't know what all happened, so we have to kind of give us all the details.
[01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.000]  It was a traffic stop and my mother was not drunk and not leaving
[01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:39.000]  and not violating any safety issues whatsoever.
[01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:42.000]  We were going to visit friends and assemble with them
[01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:44.000]  and do some prayer and some praising.
[01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:47.000]  And we turned up their street and pulled over
[01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:50.000]  and he came up and started asking questions.
[01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:55.000]  And my mother, instead of asking by what authority,
[01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:57.000]  he was asking her questions.
[01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:01.000]  And instead of being able to hand over a prepared sheet of a fee schedule,
[01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:04.000]  instead started to try to educate him outside of the road.
[01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.000]  And she does know better than that.
[01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:12.000]  But instead of that, she gave him some information that he felt she was against her.
[01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:15.000]  And he said, I'm familiar with the sovereignty argument.
[01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.000]  And she said, well, I wouldn't necessarily identify with that.
[01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:21.000]  And he said, well, some people call this that, right?
[01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:23.000]  And she said, well, some people do.
[01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.000]  He said, oh, okay, I know where we're going.
[01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:29.000]  And so he proceeded to charge her with two non-moving violations.
[01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:34.000]  And he told her to get out of a car and she resisted not passively.
[01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:37.000]  She just sat there in her private property.
[01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:43.000]  And he and another cop tagged her out of this in order to cover themselves
[01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:49.000]  because they had no warrant and they had no reason to assault her.
[01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.000]  They charged her with resisting an officer without violence.
[01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:57.000]  So here's a very respectable woman who's in her sixties
[01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:01.000]  who is now sitting in jail for over 10 days with no visitor privileges
[01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:07.000]  and no way of contacting the outside world because she's disallowed stamps
[01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:12.000]  unless she claims indigents and is in there for at least a week with no money on her account.
[01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:13.000]  Okay, wait a minute.
[01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:17.000]  You're still jumping over huge chasms.
[01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:21.000]  She was taken to jail while she was brought before a magistrate.
[01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:24.000]  And they decided to tow the car as well.
[01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:27.000]  They stole the plate off the back and they had...
[01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:30.000]  Stop, wait, stop, stop, stop.
[01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:31.000]  Question.
[01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:32.000]  Certainly.
[01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:36.000]  Was your mother taken before a magistrate at the jail?
[01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.000]  I don't know.
[01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:44.000]  My sister saw her the next morning in the courthouse and she appeared before a judge
[01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:48.000]  who said that he would set the arraignment for May 24th
[01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.000]  and he wouldn't be the judge that would hear her case then.
[01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:55.000]  And so he wouldn't make any decisions about anything at that time.
[01:07:55.000 --> 01:08:02.000]  And he set a bond of $2,000, which you don't have.
[01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:07.000]  Okay, if a judge set bond, then that had to be an examining trial.
[01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:10.000]  There had to be a determination of probable cause.
[01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:16.000]  So the day after the arrest bond was set.
[01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:17.000]  Yes.
[01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:18.000]  Is that correct?
[01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:23.000]  And what was the level of the accusation of resisting arrest?
[01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:27.000]  C, B, A, felony, what was it?
[01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:29.000]  It was a misdemeanor.
[01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:31.000]  I believe that was a misdemeanor.
[01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:32.000]  Okay.
[01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:37.000]  So what was the class of the misdemeanor?
[01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:39.000]  Was it punishable by imprisonment?
[01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:42.000]  I don't know.
[01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:43.000]  Okay.
[01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:45.000]  It is very important.
[01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:46.000]  Okay.
[01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:53.000]  If you are going to assert your rights, you have to know what they are.
[01:08:53.000 --> 01:09:00.000]  Now, he said she was charged with resisting arrest without violence.
[01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:01.000]  Yes.
[01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:04.000]  I have never heard of such a charge.
[01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:05.000]  Yeah.
[01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:08.000]  Apparently Gandhi is going on violence.
[01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:12.000]  What is the statute that she is charged with?
[01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:16.000]  I don't know that I can tell you that.
[01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.000]  I don't have a copy of the search.
[01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:21.000]  I do have a copy of the citation.
[01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:26.000]  Let me see if I can pull that out quickly.
[01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:29.000]  I believe I have a copy anyway.
[01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:34.000]  Just recently, the recent development has been that without a prosecutor in the case,
[01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:38.000]  we still have no word about who is actually accusing her,
[01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:43.000]  except that there is one affidavit by the officer arresting her and nothing else.
[01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:46.000]  It is written in the name of the state of Florida.
[01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:54.000]  Does the affidavit state that the officer has reason to believe that your mother committed a crime
[01:09:54.000 --> 01:10:01.000]  and then state facts in support of their beliefs?
[01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:05.000]  I don't remember that exact phrase.
[01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:09.000]  Well, an affidavit doesn't really have to have an exact phrase.
[01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:17.000]  If it just states that facts that tend to support an accusation,
[01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:24.000]  that could be used by a magistrate as a complaint.
[01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:32.000]  We do have forms for complaints, but the form is not statutorily stipulated.
[01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:34.000]  I see.
[01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:38.000]  Complaints are intended to be given by ordinary citizens,
[01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:45.000]  so they are fairly liberal about how the complaint is structured.
[01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:51.000]  If it generally makes an accusation of the commission of crime, then it is a complaint.
[01:10:51.000 --> 01:11:00.000]  And that is enough for a magistrate to have subject matter jurisdiction to hold an examining trial.
[01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:04.000]  Now, there are a lot of detailed questions we could ask,
[01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:14.000]  but in order for you to be able to ask those, you have to be somewhat familiar with Florida law.
[01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:16.000]  Okay.
[01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:24.000]  And I have on my website jurisimprudence.com a writ of habeas corpus.
[01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:30.000]  If you open jurisimprudence.com up, it's top frog on the left.
[01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:40.000]  It's a habeas corpus written for Texas, but the very first case I cite is the Florida case.
[01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:49.000]  The due process follows the model penal code.
[01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:55.000]  The federal government put out a model penal code and asked all of the states to adopt that model.
[01:11:55.000 --> 01:12:00.000]  And most of the states did, and then they made minor adjustments of their own.
[01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:14.000]  So most all of the codes are very similar, and that's so that you can go from one state to another and generally have an idea of what's legal and what's not legal.
[01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:27.000]  So I would suggest the first thing you do before you start making accusations or trying to figure out what to do for your mother.
[01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:33.000]  Just get that code out. Go to jurisimprudence.com and go through that document.
[01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:39.000]  That will tell you all of the things they were supposed to do in the order they were supposed to do them in.
[01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.000]  Then look at what they've actually done.
[01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:46.000]  Okay. Can you tell me how to spell that website?
[01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:57.000]  Yes, J-U-R-I-S, juris, I-M-P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E.com.
[01:12:57.000 --> 01:12:59.000]  Okay, got it.
[01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:01.000]  Okay.
[01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:10.000]  There are examples of criminal complaints up there. These are mostly for Texas, but it's simply enough to find a criminal complaint form.
[01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:20.000]  You can just go online and do a search for a criminal complaint in Florida, and you get copies of criminal complaints and look at the form of how they're put together.
[01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:22.000]  And that'll tell you what a complaint is.
[01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:28.000]  But mostly, get the penal code and read it.
[01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:31.000]  The codes are not as new as big as they appear.
[01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:37.000]  When you pick up the book, they look real big, but they're all in outline form, so they have a lot of white space.
[01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:45.000]  And they're broken down into pieces. They're relatively easy to go through.
[01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:50.000]  Go through it. Don't try to understand it. Just read through it.
[01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:53.000]  Then go back and read through it a second time.
[01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:55.000]  Yes.
[01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:58.000]  Okay, there's just a reason for that.
[01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:04.000]  The laws were passed whenever the issues came up.
[01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:14.000]  They were not passed in order. So if you go to the public laws, you've got a criminal code, and then you've got a civil issue, and then you've got a bonding issue.
[01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:18.000]  They're just all mixed together as the legislature got to them.
[01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:38.000]  So the legislatures hired publishing companies to go through the public laws and codify them together into sections, pull out all the criminal laws, and then take those criminal laws and organize them into a coherent structure that people can read and understand.
[01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:52.000]  So because of the structure of them, you read something in the front that doesn't make sense because it actually refers to something in the back.
[01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:59.000]  Then when you read on through it and you get toward the back and you read this one, you'll say, ah, that's what that other one referred to.
[01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:09.000]  So just read through them and you go back and do it again. Now you've read it all the way through so you know what's back there. You'll start putting all these pieces together.
[01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:16.000]  You read that twice. You know the code better than 90% of all the prosecuting attorneys.
[01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:23.000]  But you really can't evaluate your mother's situation until you've read that code.
[01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:30.000]  The penal code, the code of criminal procedure, and there's a lot of it in there that won't apply to you.
[01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:38.000]  If you're reading about terroristic threats, you know, that probably didn't seem like it applied to you, but I have filed terroristic threat against the judge.
[01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:44.000]  But there'll be things like the child molestation wire that says I don't have anything to do with that. So you jump over that.
[01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:56.000]  This won't take you as long as you think. And I have yet to meet a single policeman or prosecutor who has read that code.
[01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:01.000]  They don't have a clue as to what's in it.
[01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:07.000]  So once you've read it, then read that writ of habeas corpus.
[01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:17.000]  But thus that writ of habeas corpus walks right down it. And for the most part, the case law I use is federal case law.
[01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:21.000]  I've got case law from all over the country.
[01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:28.000]  And it's because, and it all applies to Texas, but I use case law from all over the country.
[01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:35.000]  That has been cited in Texas, and that's because the laws are very, very uniform.
[01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:44.000]  So when we come back, I'm going to talk a little bit more about your mother's condition, what we think we can do to help alleviate her condition.
[01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:52.000]  And we had Mike, I think he dropped off, hoping your call backs.
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[01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:50.000]  Okay, we're back. We're at Kelton-Depp Street in Greatville, LaRidio, and we're talking to Nicole in Florida.
[01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:59.000]  Now, if I've got this right, Nicole, your mother is still in jail because she hasn't posted a bond. Is that correct?
[01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:03.000]  And the bond has been revoked, so she couldn't post it even if we took a election up.
[01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:07.000]  Ah, okay, and the bond was revoked. Why?
[01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:16.000]  I'm not really sure. There's no record of it. The jail informed us that they'd received a court order to revoke it, but I've never seen a copy of it.
[01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:26.000]  Well, if this is a misdemeanor, their court is not allowed to hold someone without bail on a misdemeanor.
[01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:29.000]  Well, I didn't think so, but they're doing it.
[01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:32.000]  Okay, have you...
[01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:36.000]  There's no process in the case either, so I can't even work out a payment plan.
[01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:42.000]  Okay, then you might want to look at filing criminal charges against the judge.
[01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:45.000]  How do I go about doing that?
[01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:53.000]  Okay, you don't listen to our show. You need to listen to our show more. We will explain how all of that's done.
[01:20:53.000 --> 01:21:03.000]  It's too long to explain in a segment, but that's why you read through the code.
[01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:07.000]  And you have the penal code and code of criminal procedure.
[01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:13.000]  Criminal procedure will tell the judge what he's supposed to do.
[01:21:13.000 --> 01:21:18.000]  But in the penal code, you'll find a section concerning public officials.
[01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:23.000]  You'll find a statute that goes to official misconduct.
[01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:31.000]  And don't remember what it is in Florida, but you have one that reflects the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
[01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:32.000]  Okay.
[01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:44.000]  Most of us are familiar with the Ku Klux Klan Act because of the 42 U.S. Code 1983 that allows you to file it to sue an officer or a public official
[01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:51.000]  if they violate a law relating to their office and in the process to now uniform for your access to your enjoyment of right.
[01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:57.000]  What most people aren't aware of is that that is the second half of the Ku Klux Klan Act.
[01:21:57.000 --> 01:22:07.000]  The first half may be to crime for a public official to exert or purport to exert an authority he does not expressly have
[01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:17.000]  or fail to perform a duty he is required to perform if a public official does either of those.
[01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:28.000]  And in the process denies you in the form for your access to your enjoyment of right, that's a criminal act under 18 U.S. Code 242.
[01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:35.000]  And every state, so far except in Mexico, I may have it, I couldn't find it in the Mexico,
[01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:42.000]  but every other state has a statute that reflects 18 U.S. Code 242.
[01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:48.000]  In Texas, it's 39.03 official oppression.
[01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:59.000]  And it says almost exactly what the federal law says if a public official acting under the color of his authority, color meaning pretense.
[01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:10.000]  Fails to perform a duty he's required to perform or exerts or purports to exert an authority he does not expressly have
[01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:15.000]  like holding someone without bail on a misdemeanor.
[01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:25.000]  And in the process denies a citizen form for access to enjoyment right, he commits a class A misdemeanor.
[01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:29.000]  That needs to go to a grand jury.
[01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:37.000]  And let the judge explain to a grand jury why he's exerting authority he does not have.
[01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:41.000]  You can also file a judicial conduct complaint.
[01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:48.000]  Judicial conduct complaints, if you file one, the state commission will get the complaint and do nothing with it.
[01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:50.000]  Right.
[01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:53.000]  But his insurance company will do something with it.
[01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:54.000]  Oh really?
[01:23:54.000 --> 01:24:00.000]  The insurance company that carries his bond will kick up his bond rating.
[01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:09.000]  And if he gets too many of them, they'll cancel his bonds. That's the only way I've heard of to get rid of a judge.
[01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:13.000]  If he can't get bonded, he can't sit on the bench.
[01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:19.000]  So being ordinary citizens, we can do that with impunity.
[01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:23.000]  And we should do that.
[01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:27.000]  I do not worry about making the judge mad at you.
[01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:28.000]  Okay.
[01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:32.000]  He is not your friend.
[01:24:32.000 --> 01:24:37.000]  Well, yeah, that's kind of obvious.
[01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:48.000]  This judge has clearly demonstrated that he's not your friend. He's not going to be nice. He's not going to do anything but the worst he can.
[01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:52.000]  So you start kicking him in the teeth.
[01:24:52.000 --> 01:25:03.000]  His professional teeth. That gives him reasons to temper his personal passions and his personal excesses.
[01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:08.000]  That is all too much to go through on this show.
[01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:17.000]  And this is a bit complex. If you call me tomorrow, I will go over some details of what you can do to maybe help your mother.
[01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:26.000]  Maybe I'll call down to the jail and have a little fun with him and give him a reason to want to get her out of there.
[01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:36.000]  So give me a call in the morning and maybe I'll call down there and tell the jail that I do a radio show in Texas.
[01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:48.000]  I hear you're holding a 60-year-old woman in a cell naked with it freezing cold and won't let her eat or have any medications because she wouldn't do what she wanted her to.
[01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:53.000]  And now she's being held on a misdemeanor without bail.
[01:25:53.000 --> 01:26:04.000]  And I tell her, well, the last time I did this, I told them that I was sending out a camera crew because we were producing some 10-minute YouTube videos.
[01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:09.000]  And we'd like to come by and interview the sheriff.
[01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:13.000]  They got real excited.
[01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:25.000]  So give me a call in the morning and we'll see if we can't get their attention and maybe give them a reason to want your mother out of there.
[01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:31.000]  Okay, thank you for calling. Now we're going to go to Johnny in Texas.
[01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:34.000]  Hey, Randy. How are you?
[01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:41.000]  I am doing wonderful. I don't care what everybody says.
[01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:43.000]  Okay, what do you have for us tonight?
[01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:46.000]  Well, I just want to get your take on something.
[01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:55.000]  My girlfriend and I have been going through and working on a bunch of old traffic tickets that she had.
[01:26:55.000 --> 01:27:03.000]  We've gone court several times. We had the one of them, all the rest of them. We've gotten dismissed.
[01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:08.000]  But she has a couple of active warrants, old traffic warrants.
[01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:15.000]  And she's stood in front of multiple judges who have told her, you know, you have these warrants, you need to take care of them.
[01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:18.000]  Officers have told her that when they fold her over and everything else.
[01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:23.000]  But for some reason, they don't seem to want to arrest her on them.
[01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:37.000]  But just a couple of days ago, we got a letter from a law firm saying that they had been hired to represent the municipal court to collect on and dispose of basically the warrants.
[01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:45.000]  They're acting as a debt collector for the municipal court on the warrants, which we've not seen before.
[01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:47.000]  Okay, I've seen that before.
[01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:48.000]  Have you?
[01:27:48.000 --> 01:28:00.000]  If the city itself has its own people doing calls to collect, that's not a debt collector.
[01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:07.000]  But if they hire someone outside to hire a debt collector.
[01:28:07.000 --> 01:28:19.000]  Yeah, this is a letter from a debt collection attorney firm that's not, you know, they don't exclusively support the city, you know, they'll take any kind of debt collection cases.
[01:28:19.000 --> 01:28:24.000]  So send them a debt validation letter and run the Mike Meares routine on them.
[01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:26.000]  Yep, and I'm very familiar with that.
[01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:32.000]  I just thought it was interesting because, you know, we've seen debt collection letters for different types of alleged debts.
[01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:39.000]  I've never seen him try to do this on a warrant, so I didn't know if just the usual routine would apply or...
[01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:45.000]  Yes, I had this happen to me, oh, probably 15 years ago.
[01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:54.000]  And my daughter, one of the first guys she dated, owned a company that did this.
[01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:56.000]  And he made a lot of money.
[01:28:56.000 --> 01:29:10.000]  Now, I just want to interject something here concerning collections regarding government stuff, like for traffic tickets or warrants or this or that or surcharges.
[01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:31.000]  You have to look at the state statute because if it's an entity that is employed by the government statutorily under state law or somehow otherwise connected with the government directly regarding a particular issue, you cannot run the Mike Meares routine on them.
[01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:33.000]  It has to be...
[01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:35.000]  Even if there's third party.
[01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:38.000]  Then that's not third party.
[01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:45.000]  If it's statutorily connected, then you cannot run the Mike Meares routine on them.
[01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:55.000]  We can talk about that some more on the other side, but there's an entity that I'll explain on the other side specifically concerning using surcharges as an example.
[01:29:55.000 --> 01:30:00.000]  We'll be right back.
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[01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:57.000]  It's a government entity or if it is a private entity contracted by the government according to state law, according to statute.
[01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:01.000]  And I'll give surcharges as an example for traffic tickets.
[01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:08.000]  Here in Texas, once you get so many points on your driver record for traffic tickets, they start charging you surcharges.
[01:33:08.000 --> 01:33:13.000]  That's an extra fee, an additional fee on top of what you pay for the traffic tickets.
[01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:28.000]  According to statute, the Department of Transportation, the Texas Department of Transportation can contract out to a private entity the collection of the surcharges.
[01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:35.000]  That is, according to statute, you can't run the mite mirrors routine on that private entity.
[01:33:35.000 --> 01:33:41.000]  Nor can you run the mite mirrors routine on the government entity itself, the Texas Department of Transportation.
[01:33:41.000 --> 01:33:51.000]  So Debt Collections Practices Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act, it has to be strictly private entity that is not connected to the government by statute.
[01:33:51.000 --> 01:34:13.000]  Now, say, for example, this private entity that was hired directly by text dots to collect surcharges, say they decided to, say you didn't pay them and they decided to write it off and sell it to another private entity.
[01:34:13.000 --> 01:34:23.000]  That other entity would be considered a third party debt collector, you could run the mite mirrors routine on that entity, but that almost never happens.
[01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:37.000]  And the reason that you can't do that is because if it's a private entity contracted by a government entity for the purpose of collecting for the government,
[01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:48.000]  they are actually in contract with the government and they literally are collecting on behalf of the government and the funds go to the government, they're technically not a third party debt collector.
[01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:58.000]  What a third party debt collector is, is an entity that has purchased a debt that has been written off.
[01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:11.000]  And in the case of the surcharges and the private entity that is hired by text dot to collect the surcharges that is not a third party debt collector because they have not purchased a written off debt.
[01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:18.000]  They are servicing the debt that is still owned by the government.
[01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:36.000]  Okay, so if it's any government entity or if it's any entity that has been contracted to collect anything like a warrant payment on a warrant or payment of a surcharge or payment of a ticket or anything or a judgment that the government may have against you for taxes or whatever,
[01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:45.000]  if it's a private entity contracted to collect on behalf of the government, according to statute, you cannot run the mite mirrors method on them.
[01:35:45.000 --> 01:36:01.000]  You can only do it against third party debt collectors that really are third party debt collectors, which means they purchase a written off debt or against original creditors that are private entities like banks.
[01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:04.000]  Okay, so I hope that clarifies the situation.
[01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:15.000]  It does. It makes sense and it's good information. I'll definitely dig in and see if I can find a relationship between this firm and the city.
[01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:21.000]  This is not a DPS or a text dot ticket. It's a city. It's a municipality.
[01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:34.000]  This letter seems to attempt to maintain the outward appearance of being just a separate, you know, wall firm, but they do, in here, they give us the option to enter a plea with them and to...
[01:36:34.000 --> 01:36:37.000]  Enter a plea with a private entity?
[01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:45.000]  It's a two-page letter. The first page is just the generic debt collection stuff except for it's related to traffic ticket warrants.
[01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:54.000]  The second page has a couple little forms that can be filled out. I hear by enter a plea of guilty in waive appearance.
[01:36:54.000 --> 01:37:04.000]  I hear by enter a plea of no looking kinday. I hear by enter a plea of not guilty. I have previously entered a plea. So it's a debt collector. They're trying to collect on a debt and they're trying to collect a plea.
[01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:08.000]  What is... Do you want to tell us what the entity is?
[01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:09.000]  The wall firm?
[01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:10.000]  Yeah.
[01:37:10.000 --> 01:37:15.000]  It's a line barter, dog and Blair and Samson LLP.
[01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:18.000]  Okay. Are they in your credit report?
[01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:19.000]  Nope.
[01:37:19.000 --> 01:37:39.000]  Okay. You may want to look into state statute concerning payment on warrants or collection of warrants to find out if this is an entity that has been contracted by the government, by the city, according to statute.
[01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:40.000]  Okay.
[01:37:40.000 --> 01:37:59.000]  And they don't have to necessarily mention this law firm by name in the law. But if it's in the statute, if it's in state statute that the government can contract out a private entity for the purpose of collection on a warrant, then you probably can't use the Mike Mears method with them.
[01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:07.000]  But entering a plea with them, that just doesn't even make any sense at all because a plea goes to a judge.
[01:38:07.000 --> 01:38:08.000]  Right.
[01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:14.000]  I mean, Randy, what is your take on this whole plea issue?
[01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:19.000]  Sounds like impersonating a judicial officer.
[01:38:19.000 --> 01:38:20.000]  Right.
[01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:31.000]  This letter makes what I consider to be a couple of interesting admissions. I mean, it says that you're subject to a pending court matter, which on the fines are basically a punishment.
[01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:42.000]  They're basically saying they've already imposed punishment and there's been no, you know, no hearing or anything on it, which I, you know, I can think of a few ways to raise over that and have in the past.
[01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:50.000]  And failure to respond as requested will result in our recommendation that our client enforce the warrants.
[01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:52.000]  Our client?
[01:38:52.000 --> 01:38:55.000]  Yeah, which is their client is the municipal court.
[01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:56.000]  Right.
[01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:57.000]  Well,
[01:38:57.000 --> 01:39:08.000]  that would make them either a private, that's either a private attorney for the municipality or a prosecuting attorney.
[01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:15.000]  And if they're asking for a plea, they're at least impersonating the prosecuting attorney.
[01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:30.000]  Well, this letter is also dated one day after we went into another traffic case with three traffic charges and a couple of warrants and got all of that thrown out and made the judge a little bit unhappy in process.
[01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:32.000]  So the timing of this is interesting.
[01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:42.000]  Also, you know, they, they apparently sent this letter out one day after, after we made the judge hammered them.
[01:39:42.000 --> 01:39:46.000]  Well, they, they really didn't want to talk very much.
[01:39:46.000 --> 01:39:49.000]  They didn't even give a reason that it was dismissed.
[01:39:49.000 --> 01:39:57.000]  They just, you know, they kept us there, cleared out the entire courtroom, let everybody else go first and then said dismissed.
[01:39:57.000 --> 01:39:58.000]  Based on.
[01:39:58.000 --> 01:39:59.000]  That's interesting.
[01:39:59.000 --> 01:40:00.000]  Affidavit.
[01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:02.000]  Did you file some motions in the case?
[01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:09.000]  Yeah, we filed one affidavit and one motion to dismiss.
[01:40:09.000 --> 01:40:20.000]  Okay, they may, if they knew who you were, they may, may have elected to cut their losses and go find more fertile grounds to extort money.
[01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:29.000]  Well, they, they do because we've been in this, we, you know, she had a bunch of old tickets and then just in the last couple of years we've been dealing with them and most of them have been in this court.
[01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:30.000]  So they know.
[01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:39.000]  And we also did not fail to mention we filed a pretty nasty judicial misconduct complaint on the judge who took the plea.
[01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:43.000]  That may be the reason he doesn't want to get stung again.
[01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.000]  Yeah.
[01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:47.000]  You've probably bumped up his.
[01:40:47.000 --> 01:40:49.000]  Well, it was a good bond rating.
[01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:51.000]  He's not happy about it.
[01:40:51.000 --> 01:41:02.000]  The judge took the plea and the judge who presided over the trial, which wasn't even much of a trial. There was two different judges.
[01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:09.000]  Okay, well, I'm sure if you filed a judicial conduct complaint against one of them, all of them know about it.
[01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:11.000]  Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
[01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:12.000]  They know.
[01:41:12.000 --> 01:41:16.000]  They probably know our faces by now.
[01:41:16.000 --> 01:41:17.000]  Well, that's good.
[01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:18.000]  They should.
[01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:20.000]  They should be afraid of some of us.
[01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:21.000]  Yeah.
[01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:24.000]  Well, that's what keeps them in line.
[01:41:24.000 --> 01:41:26.000]  Do you have anything else for us?
[01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:27.000]  Nope.
[01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:30.000]  I just wanted to get your take on that and both of you guys have been very helpful.
[01:41:30.000 --> 01:41:31.000]  I appreciate it.
[01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:32.000]  Okay.
[01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:33.000]  Yeah.
[01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.000]  And let me explain my part in that.
[01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:37.000]  That collection is not my area.
[01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:39.000]  So I really don't know what goes on.
[01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:46.000]  Deborah is the one that is more up on that collection than me.
[01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:47.000]  Okay.
[01:41:47.000 --> 01:41:48.000]  Okay.
[01:41:48.000 --> 01:41:49.000]  Thank you.
[01:41:49.000 --> 01:41:50.000]  All right.
[01:41:50.000 --> 01:41:55.000]  Now we're going to go to Dennis in Michigan.
[01:41:55.000 --> 01:41:56.000]  Hello.
[01:41:56.000 --> 01:41:59.000]  I have a question for you, Randy.
[01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:04.000]  I went to jury selection today.
[01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:08.000]  Two years ago, I had my friend's roommate.
[01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:12.000]  Two years ago, I was attacked by two of my friends' roommates, actually.
[01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:21.000]  One of them, at least, had the nerve to press charges against me, even though both of them
[01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:29.000]  were heavily intoxicated and were the initiators of force, but they both got the stick and
[01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:33.000]  one of them, I think, probably because he was embarrassed, decided to press charges
[01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:34.000]  against me.
[01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:37.000]  And so that's what this matter is about.
[01:42:37.000 --> 01:42:38.000]  That was two years ago.
[01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:43.000]  I didn't find out that I actually had a bench worn out for my arrest up until a couple months
[01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:44.000]  ago.
[01:42:44.000 --> 01:42:47.000]  You know, they had the wrong address.
[01:42:47.000 --> 01:42:56.000]  You know, the person who accused me of assaulting him gave the detectives a made-up address.
[01:42:56.000 --> 01:42:58.000]  You know, I didn't live there.
[01:42:58.000 --> 01:43:01.000]  I've lived that same place for the last 10 years.
[01:43:01.000 --> 01:43:11.000]  But I'm at the point right now where, well, this morning, I went to jury selection.
[01:43:11.000 --> 01:43:18.000]  And instead of, and so I'm ready, you know, to pick my peers and I'm ready to, you know,
[01:43:18.000 --> 01:43:19.000]  ready to go to court.
[01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:21.000]  They're ready to go fight this.
[01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:23.000]  And there are no juries.
[01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:25.000]  I mean, there are no jurors.
[01:43:25.000 --> 01:43:33.000]  And the court would be, and I see my lawyer and I ask her what's going on.
[01:43:33.000 --> 01:43:36.000]  Hey, are you still there?
[01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:37.000]  Yeah, we're still here.
[01:43:37.000 --> 01:43:38.000]  Hang on a minute.
[01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.000]  We're about to go to break.
[01:43:40.000 --> 01:43:43.000]  We're about to go to our last segment.
[01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:47.000]  This is Randy Kelton, Debbie Stevens, Eddie Craig with our radio.
[01:43:47.000 --> 01:43:49.000]  Except Eddie's not here tonight.
[01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:53.000]  He should be back tomorrow if not, he'll be stuck with me.
[01:43:53.000 --> 01:44:00.000]  Okay, we'll be right back on the other side.
[01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:03.000]  Hey, did you hear Ron Paul has announced he's running for president in 2012?
[01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:04.000]  It is Ron Paul.
[01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:05.000]  Really?
[01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:07.000]  Okay, put down the cell phone for one minute.
[01:44:07.000 --> 01:44:10.000]  Your friends really don't care about your Twitter updates on what you had for breakfast.
[01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:13.000]  Oh, but I love to make those little smiley faces with punctuation marks.
[01:44:13.000 --> 01:44:14.000]  Of course you do.
[01:44:14.000 --> 01:44:15.000]  Now, listen closely.
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[01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:34.000]  We're back with Randy Calvin Depper, Steve and J.D. Craig with Law Radio, and we're talking to Dennis in Michigan.
[01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:39.000]  Okay, Dennis, go ahead, bring us up to speed.
[01:46:39.000 --> 01:46:42.000]  We kind of think we know what's going on here.
[01:46:42.000 --> 01:46:56.000]  I show up, I'm expecting to do jury selection. That's why I came there this morning for, and the courtroom's empty.
[01:46:56.000 --> 01:47:07.000]  My lawyer talks to me and she says that she's not sure if the prosecution is going to go through with pressing charges against me
[01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:12.000]  because the guy who pressed charges against me two years ago is nowhere to be found.
[01:47:12.000 --> 01:47:14.000]  They have no idea where this guy lives.
[01:47:14.000 --> 01:47:20.000]  They don't know how to, they can't, you know, they're not sure if they can get a hold of this guy.
[01:47:20.000 --> 01:47:23.000]  Now, what I should have said is that's their problem.
[01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:26.000]  I came here for jury selection.
[01:47:26.000 --> 01:47:31.000]  If they're not prepared, if they have no idea where this guy is, that's their responsibility.
[01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:35.000]  I'm not a morning person. I worked back in shift for a very good reason.
[01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:39.000]  The finances were not firing this morning. That's what I should have said.
[01:47:39.000 --> 01:47:46.000]  What she told me is, well, I'm going to go and talk to the prosecutor and the judge, and I'm going to come back in 15 minutes,
[01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.000]  and I'm going to tell you, you know, see what's going on here.
[01:47:49.000 --> 01:47:56.000]  So she comes back 15 minutes later, and this is what I really want to get your opinion on.
[01:47:56.000 --> 01:48:07.000]  She told me that they probably aren't going to, they're probably, it's probably going to get dismissed because they can't track this guy down.
[01:48:07.000 --> 01:48:14.000]  Now, she said what they want to do is change it from a jury trial to a bench trial,
[01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:21.000]  and she said the reason being is because they don't think this guy is going to show up or that they're going to find him,
[01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:28.000]  and they don't want to waste money and the juror's time. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
[01:48:28.000 --> 01:48:35.000]  I said to her, well, what, I said, and she said that if you go this route with a bench trial,
[01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:44.000]  then instead of a jury trial, that the judge will dismiss the case if they can't track this guy, if they can't find this guy.
[01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:50.000]  This is ridiculous. Just file a motion to dismiss based on the fact that there's no competent fact witness, period.
[01:48:50.000 --> 01:49:00.000]  File a motion to dismiss based on the fact that you were ordered to be at trial on that day at that time.
[01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:01.000]  That too.
[01:49:01.000 --> 01:49:07.000]  The prosecution had a duty to be ready for trial. You have a right to dismissal. This is due process violation.
[01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:10.000]  Well, basically I'm saying the same thing.
[01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:23.000]  Yeah. And the fact that they have no competent fact witness, you absolutely want to make a demand to be faced by your accuser.
[01:49:23.000 --> 01:49:30.000]  Make sure that is in there. Demand that your lawyer filed that, and if she gives you any guff,
[01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:37.000]  you might ought to bar grieve her for not moving to dismiss because the prosecution wasn't ready.
[01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:45.000]  You know what? Here's the funny thing, Randy. Before she went and talked to the prosecutor and judge,
[01:49:45.000 --> 01:49:51.000]  she said right before she walked away from me, she said, you know, it doesn't look like they can find this guy.
[01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:58.000]  It's probably going to be dismissed. That was her word. And then when she came back and didn't say that it was dismissed,
[01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:04.000]  and she said, here's the thing that I want you to hear, though. This is crazy to me.
[01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:13.000]  She said that the judge would dismiss. She said, you know, we can, you know, go to trial in 10 days from now.
[01:50:13.000 --> 01:50:24.000]  She said, if you choose a bench trial instead of a jury trial, then he will dismiss the case immediately if they can't find this guy in 10 days.
[01:50:24.000 --> 01:50:28.000]  Are you kidding? They will screw you, Roy.
[01:50:28.000 --> 01:50:35.000]  Here's where it really gets crazy. And I said to her, why can't we have a jury? I said, well, what's the difference?
[01:50:35.000 --> 01:50:41.000]  Why can't I have a jury trial? And if this guy doesn't show up, then it gets dismissed.
[01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:51.000]  This is the good part. She told me that they will not be able to dismiss the charges with a jury trial, only a bench trial.
[01:50:51.000 --> 01:51:02.000]  That is a lie. That is a total lie. And not only that, you shouldn't even have to wait for either trial. She should have immediately filed a motion to dismiss the case,
[01:51:02.000 --> 01:51:07.000]  based on the fact that the prosecution wasn't ready. Period.
[01:51:07.000 --> 01:51:16.000]  See, they didn't call you and say, hey, Dennis, is this a good time for you to come to court? We're going to set this thing for trial.
[01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:24.000]  Is this a good time for you? They didn't do that. They said, be here on this day at this time, ready for trial.
[01:51:24.000 --> 01:51:31.000]  And you were there on that day at that time, ready for trial. Because, because, wait a minute.
[01:51:31.000 --> 01:51:32.000]  Wait a minute.
[01:51:32.000 --> 01:51:34.000]  It was jury selection.
[01:51:34.000 --> 01:51:36.000]  Oh, today was jury selection.
[01:51:36.000 --> 01:51:40.000]  No. Today was the start of the trial.
[01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:43.000]  Is that what jury selection technically means, then?
[01:51:43.000 --> 01:51:45.000]  Yes.
[01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:49.000]  This morning, it was...
[01:51:49.000 --> 01:51:53.000]  He has to be ready.
[01:51:53.000 --> 01:52:02.000]  Look, at this nonsense of we can't dismiss, if you have a jury, you should file a bargain against your lawyer.
[01:52:02.000 --> 01:52:08.000]  Look, you tell your attorney she needs to file a motion to dismiss, based on the fact that the prosecution was not ready,
[01:52:08.000 --> 01:52:12.000]  and also based on the fact that there's no competent fact witness.
[01:52:12.000 --> 01:52:16.000]  And if she doesn't do that, you tell her, I'm going to file a bargain against you.
[01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:25.000]  You do this, and I don't want to hear any guff as Randy puts it about the case can't be dismissed if I have a jury trial.
[01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:29.000]  That is a total and utter nonsense. It's a complete lie.
[01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:32.000]  She should have already filed the motion.
[01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:41.000]  Look, before the jury selection, she should have filed the motion to dismiss based on the fact that there's no competent fact witness.
[01:52:41.000 --> 01:52:49.000]  Period. But now that the day of the jury selection has already happened, which is the beginning of the trial,
[01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:54.000]  now she needs to file a motion to dismiss based on the fact that the prosecution is ready,
[01:52:54.000 --> 01:52:59.000]  and also based on the fact that there's no competent fact witness, which she should have already done.
[01:52:59.000 --> 01:53:07.000]  Wait a minute. They knew beforehand that there would be no trial. They didn't even summon a jury.
[01:53:07.000 --> 01:53:09.000]  That's right.
[01:53:09.000 --> 01:53:16.000]  So they knew beforehand and they forced you to come in there anyway. You had a right to dismissal.
[01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:27.000]  Your lawyer lied to you. You need to tell your lawyer that this thing better go away or I will file a malpractice suit against you.
[01:53:27.000 --> 01:53:28.000]  Yes, absolutely.
[01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:30.000]  Ineffective counsel.
[01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:36.000]  Now, is that enough though? Because I actually, I didn't bring a recording this time to get her.
[01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:48.000]  Yeah, it don't matter. What you're doing here is putting the court in a position to where they have to protect your lawyer from you,
[01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:51.000]  because she tried to help the court out.
[01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:54.000]  Now, what was the reason for doing that?
[01:53:54.000 --> 01:53:58.000]  She's a fairly new lawyer then, or in just trying to brown nose the judge to get browning points?
[01:53:58.000 --> 01:53:59.000]  Exactly.
[01:53:59.000 --> 01:54:05.000]  They always do that. You cannot ever trust your attorney. They work with the prosecutor. They work with the judge.
[01:54:05.000 --> 01:54:11.000]  She already admitted that they wanted you to do this to help out the court.
[01:54:11.000 --> 01:54:15.000]  She's not supposed to be helping out the court. She's supposed to be helping you. She's supposed to be defending your rights.
[01:54:15.000 --> 01:54:25.000]  This is utter malpractice. You tell her, you file a motion to dismiss based on the fact that the prosecution was not ready and based on the fact that there's no competent fact witness.
[01:54:25.000 --> 01:54:33.000]  If you don't do that, I'm going to file a barge against you and I'm going to file a lawsuit against you for malpractice for misrepresentation, for ineffective representation.
[01:54:33.000 --> 01:54:42.000]  Period. In a story. That's how you have to treat these attorneys. Otherwise, they will completely railroad you.
[01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:46.000]  And you should file a bar grievance against her anyway.
[01:54:46.000 --> 01:54:49.000]  Absolutely. File the bar grievance. Don't threaten her.
[01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:52.000]  Threaten her with a malpractice suit. File the bar grievance.
[01:54:52.000 --> 01:55:03.000]  So her trying to talk me into a bench trial, is that just to protect her, I guess, or to stop the time?
[01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:05.000]  That's to protect the court.
[01:55:05.000 --> 01:55:09.000]  That's to earn brownie points with the prosecutor and the judge.
[01:55:09.000 --> 01:55:23.000]  So, okay, here's the situation. This lawyer has committed malpractice in order to shmooze up to the court.
[01:55:23.000 --> 01:55:27.000]  Now, you grieve her and then you threaten her with a malpractice suit.
[01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:33.000]  She's going to go to the court and say, this guy is kicking my behind because of what I did for you.
[01:55:33.000 --> 01:55:41.000]  He knew better. He knew I'd like to him. Now, he's coming after me. You guys need to make this go away.
[01:55:41.000 --> 01:55:46.000]  Everything's political.
[01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:51.000]  Now, what if, I'm not saying I did this. Now, what is the theoretical?
[01:55:51.000 --> 01:55:58.000]  What if I agreed to a bench trial 10 days from now?
[01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:06.000]  Then go in and withdraw your agreement. You only did that because of ineffective advice of counsel.
[01:56:06.000 --> 01:56:07.000]  Right.
[01:56:07.000 --> 01:56:16.000]  Withdraw that agreement. Bar grieve the counsel. Let the counsel know I'm fixing to file a malpractice suit against you.
[01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:27.000]  File a judicial conduct complaint against the judge, a bar grievance against the prosecutor, and say, okay, guys, make this go away.
[01:56:27.000 --> 01:56:30.000]  We'll do all this again.
[01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:37.000]  Now, do you sign up with traffic court? Eddie does an ounce of silver per hour or something like that.
[01:56:37.000 --> 01:56:39.000]  Now, do you do anything similar to that?
[01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:41.000]  No.
[01:56:41.000 --> 01:56:51.000]  I don't charge for criminal. I don't really take on criminal. I'll kind of give you my best idea of what to do.
[01:56:51.000 --> 01:57:02.000]  But I help people with foreclosure issues, and that's why I get paid. So I don't collect for criminal anymore, but I'll do all I can to help you.
[01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:08.000]  And here you got this one. You got it beat.
[01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:14.000]  The only rights only belong to the belligerent litigant.
[01:57:14.000 --> 01:57:18.000]  This is the time to be belligerent. You are the sovereign.
[01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:22.000]  They had a duty to do certain things, and it's your duty to make sure they do it.
[01:57:22.000 --> 01:57:30.000]  Because it sounded so bizarre to me when she said that they couldn't dismiss it if it was a jury trial.
[01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:37.000]  She didn't even say the judge would or would not. She said that the judge could not.
[01:57:37.000 --> 01:57:39.000]  That's a lie.
[01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:47.000]  She deliberately misrepresented the law to you. That's something that could get her disbarred.
[01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:52.000]  And I even answered twice about that, because it sounded so unbelievable to me.
[01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:55.000]  She looked me right behind and said that, so...
[01:57:55.000 --> 01:58:01.000]  Okay, let her know that you knew better and caught her, and tell her this better go away.
[01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:04.000]  Well, I didn't just hear for you.
[01:58:04.000 --> 01:58:08.000]  And then you put the court in a place where they have to protect you.
[01:58:08.000 --> 01:58:12.000]  I am sorry we are running clean out of time.
[01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:17.000]  Thank you for your call. If you have more questions, then just give us a call tomorrow night.
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