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Candidate Charged With Felony
By Jim Burrows .
A felony charge of providing false information to an
election authority has been filed against a Neosho man
who filed for the post of associate circuit judge for
Newton county although he is not a lawyer.
The Class 1 election offense was filed Tuesday afternoon
by Prosecuting Attorney Greg Bridges against Richard J. Doyle Sr.
The charge says Doyle, 54, 420 Morrow, signed a declaration
of candidacy to be the Libertarian Party's candidate for the
associate circuit court judge's position currently held by
Judge Greg Stremel. Stremel is seeking re-election as a
Republican.
Doyle signed the affidavit March 27 in the office of Newton
County Clerk Kay Baum. And a portion of the notarized affidavit
says Doyle must be qualified to serve.
Election offenses are classified as Class 1 through Class 4,
with a Class 1 offense being the most serious election offense.
Conviction of the felony could result in a sentence of up to
five years in prison and/or a fine of not less than $2,500 but
not more than $10,000.
"Mr. Doyle was advised, before he filed, that he wasn't
qualified under the Article 5, Section 21 of the articles of
Constitution to be a judge," Bridges said.
"Despite an admonition by the county clerk, he filed anyway
and signed a notarized affidavit saying that he would qualify
if he won the election."
Doyle responded with an April 9 letter. In part that letter
reads:
Page 2 Candidate fails to withdraw from election
"As to the possible termination of my candidacy for associate
circuit judge, it is my belief that as a citizen of the United
States I meet the age and residency requirements to hold political
office. Since this office is a political office, I believe at this
time this is an internal party matter. My candidacy at the present
time is to be the Libertarian Party's candidate for associate
circuit judge, if the members of my political party decide they
wish me as their candidate for this office, it would be the will
of the people."
And Doyle's letter concludes:
"I consider your threat of prosecution to be an act of
politically motivated coercion. If I do withdraw it will be fear
of further persecution and not because I believe I have violated
the law. I am also aware that the courts consider your office,
like the judiciary, to be above the law. In addition, it would
appear that a licensed member of the Missouri Supreme Court,
under obligation to the Missouri Supreme Court, could not be
a candidate for office in either the legislative or executive
branches of government, as this would be counterproductive
to the constitutional requirements of three separate branches
of government."
Doyle had been given a 10-day deadline to withdraw his
candidacy in the prosecutor's April 2 letter.
"Now it's April 28 and we've waited long enough," Bridges
said. "We treated him just like anyone else in a case where
we believe a violation of law has occurred."
Bridges said filing the charge against Doyle will do nothing
to remove his name from the election ballot as an unqualified
candidate.
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The above article appeared on Page 1A of the Wednesday, April 29, 1998 Neosho Daily News.
Lie #1.Persecutor Bridges, a licensed lawyer, lies when he says that Mr. Doyle was advised by anybody that according to Article V, Section 21, Constitution of Missouri that he couldn't file. If Mr. Doyle was so advised, then who advised Mr. Doyle?The only person who could have possibly "advised" Mr. Doyle concerning Article V, Section 21, was myself. But I said that Article V, Section 20 in essence overruled Art. 5, Sec. 21, because Article V, Section 20 says that judges cannot practice law while they hold office. Therefore, since judges cannot practice law while holding office, what do they need a guild-member's license for?
Yet that is not the main reason why anybody who would otherwise qualify if they meet the age and residency requirements can run for any political office open to a vote of the people. The reason is that state governments must be Republican Form of Governments. This means that it is the people who choose their governing officials by means of open, free, fair elections. Monarchies and dictatorships are not republican forms of government because the ruler appoints his officials. A situation, such as what occurred in Nazi Party Germany, Communist Party Russia, or Republican Party Newton County, where an oligarchy decides by using its police and judicial apparatus the acceptable candidates for those political offices up for election is not a Republican Form of Government.
Since the State of Missouri was admitted into the Union in 1821, the terms for its charter as a valid state is that it maintain a "Republican Form of Government." Therefore, by this conduct, the State of Missouri violates its charter, and also makes the state and county offices legally null and void. Therefore, Richard Doyle had as much right to run for associate circuit court judge as anyone else who is of sufficient age and residency in Newton County.
~~~~~-----~~~~~ Lie #2. First of all, the county clerk, Kay Baum was not there. Secondly, the clerk's assistant gave no admonition. I was there and heard no such thing. I don't know if the clerk's assistant is going to lie for Greggie Bridges or not. Either way, this lie can be easily proved as such.
If the clerk's assistant had given an "admonition" because she had thought what Richard was doing was in any way illegal, then why allow Richard to sign up as a candidate? Why not just refuse to sign him up at all, and then make Richard and myself, as Chairman of the Newton County Libertarian Party sue to place Richard on the ballot? That is what happened in 1996 when Kay Baum, at the illegal instigation of Greg Bridges refused to obey RSMo 115.333(1). I sued Kay Baum and Rebecca Cook, Secretary of State of Missouri all the way to the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. That was "Plan A" when Richard Doyle and I went to the Newton County Clerk's Office on March 27, 1998. I think I heard Richard mutter something about not being a lawyer and wanting to run for judge anyway after Richard filled out the form to run for Libertarian Precinctman in Ward #2.
Lastly, by Greggie Bridges lying about how the county clerk supposedly "admonished" Richard Doyle about filing for a judgeship, Bridges damages his case. How could Richard Doyle have furnished false information or committed election fraud if the county clerk supposedly knew that Richard Doyle was unqualified to run for that judgeship? If the county clerk (who wasn't there that afternoon) or the county clerk's assistant "admonished" Richard Doyle, then they cannot later say that Richard Doyle defrauded them by means of false statements. Rather, it can be said that they gave Richard Doyle "permission" to run for judge in any case.
The county clerk's assistant did her job. She didn't admonish anybody. Instead she professionally handed Richard Doyle his documents to file, Richard filled them in, and she filed them. That was all.
After the lawsuit against Kay Baum, only won because the state and federal korts are too corrupt to go against the interests of the major parties, I can imagine that the word was put out to allow Martin Lindstedt to sign up his Libertarian candidates. Kay Baum was hung out to dry by the Republican Party Establishment and to bear the lawsuit against her the last time she took Greggie Bridges' advice to break the election laws (RSMo 115.333(1)). So she probably told her clerks to do whatever that Martin Lindstedt fellow wants. In any case, she has not kicked Richard Doyle off the ballot, because she knows that that would be illegal. But Kay Baum has no say in whether or not Greggie Bridges draws up a false complaint and maliciously prosecutes it.
~~~~~-----~~~~~ Lie #3. So Persecutor Greggie Bridges, a liar and a half, says "We treated him just like anyone else in a case where we believe a violation of law has occurred."
Is that right? So I suppose that if Richard Doyle had raped somebody at 2:00 p.m. March 27, 1998, (instead of, say, filing for judge as was his Constitutional right), would Greggie have written him a letter on April 2, 1998 giving Richard ten days to "pull-out"? Really? And then waited another 26 days, before filing a complaint because Richard hadn't "pulled-out" just yet?
(Perhaps Greggie does the same act with his kids, who according to some Neosho dopers are some of the biggest dope-pushers around. Maybe it's just that Greggie is too busy chasing down renegade political candidates to settle down and draft them letters to his kids.)
If Richard Doyle has committed a felony around 2:00 p.m. on March 27, 1998, then what is with giving him an opportunity to withdraw from the primary race for the judgeship for a full month in return for not filing felony or misdeameanor or whatever other charges Greggie Bridges wants to file? In short, isn't Greggie Bridges engaged in political extortion? Pull out of the race for judge or I'll file bogus criminal charges against you and throw you in jail until you agree to withdraw from the race?
No wonder people give up on the political process! It's worse than it was in Nazi Germany and Communist Russian in Newton County, Missouri,because at least the Nazis and Communists were more honest about who would be allowed to run for political office.
~~~~~-----~~~~~ Admission #1 Of course not. The County Clerk has no legal right to remove Richard Doyle from off the ballot. That is why the Criminal Persecutor Greggie Bridges filed a bogus complaint -- he wishes to terrorize Richard Doyle as an outside political opposition candidate who could shut the criminal regime's conviction mill down. Richard Doyle might take it into his head to allow a citizen's grand jury to convene and hear criminal complaints against Prosecutor Bridges, Judges Perigo, Stremel, Gordon and Killebrew, Sheriff Ron Doerge. These criminals could go to prison independent of the offices of Prosecutor Bridges being the only one who can choose to file bogus charges -- or refusing to file valid charges. This is why non-lawyer judges are such a threat to a corrupt criminal justice system. By actually being independent of the good-will of the criminal justice establishment, a popularly elected judge can hear the valid complaints of the people as opposed to the bogus ones brought forward by corrupt prosecutors or valid complaints covered up by corrupt prosecutors.
According to the law of Moses, those who brought forth a false complaint or who bore false witness against another and was caught was sentenced to death by stoning. Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths condemned those who committed similar offenses against civilization to be strangled to death with their own intestines. Either way, this is totally different than what happens in today's corrupt regime courts. Today, prosecutors are given "absolute and total immunity" from suit, even if this vile conduct of bringing forth bogus charges or suborning perjury leads in the death or false imprisonment of the victims of such judicial abuse.
Corrupt prosecutors, such as Greg Bridges, Scot Watson, David Dally, William McKenzie -- all of them -- know that for a fact. The only possible discipline is to have a judge who will hold them in contempt of court when caught committing such crimes against the peace and justice of the social order. This is why Greggie Bridges is so determined to disallow Richard Doyle, an outsider, from running for judge. Outsider judges, who are not lawyers subject to disbarment, are no controllable by such corrupt prosecutors.
~~~~~-----~~~~~ A Half-Truth. When a lie won't do, tell a half-truth, believes such lying scum as Greggie Bridges. The relevant statute is RSMo 115.526. However, the only one who can challenge Richard Doyle's present candidacy is another candidate. Since there is not another Libertarian running in the primary against Richard, the soonest Richard can be challenged under RSMo 115.526 is the day after the primary, August 5, 1998, and only by the only other general-election candidate, namely the current incumbent, Greggie Stremel. That would of course be another conflict of interest and would provoke a lawsuit against Stremel and the Newton County election authority.
So there is no "legal" way according to law in which Richard Doyle can be removed from the ballot as a candidate for judge before August 5, 1998, and even then it would be difficult given all the obvious conflicts of interest. This is why a desperate clique of regime criminals have no other choice other than to prefer bogus charges against Richard Doyle once he refused to withdraw his candidacy voluntarily. So like in any Third-World shithole, they have filed false charges against the political opposition. Then once these false charges are filed, they intend to imprison him until they can railroad him before one of their regime courts run by a corrupt judge. In short, Standard Operating Procedure against political prisoners.
~~~~~-----~~~~~ Inconvenient Fact #1. The reporter, Jim Burrows, is also the person who counts the votes at the County Clerk's Office on election day as a Republican election judge. While this report was relatively objective, I would point out the reporter's known committments which might by prejudicial to 'objectivity.' There is only one Democrat running for a Newton County political office, compared to two Libertarians (my girlfriend and Richard Doyle) and one USTP candidate (my brother). Newton County has de facto one-party rule.James Burrows is the Democrat Party election judge. However, his status as a member is good standing with the so-called two-party DemoPublican system should still be remembered.
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Inconvenient Fact #2.Greggie Bridges faces another lawyer in his Republican primary to be re-elected County Prosecutor. His opponent, Scott Watson, is as crooked as Greggie Bridges is, but a whole lot smarter. After four years of stupidity and corruption, the people of Newton County have had enough of Greggie Bridges. Driving across the county, one sees a whole lot of Scott Watson signs, but not too any Greggie Bridges signs. And Greggie faces another challenge. He is running against a Republican opponent in a one-party rule county, but unlike 1994, Greggie no longer has his daddy, Robert Bridges as County Clerk, to count the votes for him.
I don't imagine this matter has made Greggie Bridges look any too good.
Inconvenient Fact #3. Tomorrow, Richard Doyle shall call a press conferance before the Newton County Sheriff's office, and turn himself in if there is a warrant. If there is a warrant, and Richard Doyle is imprisoned, a civil rights lawsuit will be filed against Newton County and an order for an injunction against further false imprisonment demanded.
Richard Doyle wished to prove that the Missouri court system is absolutely corrupt and impervious to peaceful change. I think that he has accomplished exactly that.
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