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RICK STANLEY FREE SPEECH/GUN RIGHTS CASE BEFORE US SUPREME COURT
 
 
Rick Stanley’s case will be presented before our nation’s Supreme Court on Friday, and I am asking everyone to get informed and pass the word. If the Supreme Court does not grant Rick ’s petition on Friday, he will have no further worldly recourse for what has been done to him and his family. Anyone who understands the law, knows why Rick is the first man in American history incarcerated for threatening to issue an arrest warrant.
 
This is about our First and Second Amendment rights. If the Court decides in Heller to restrict our gun ownership, we will have a reduced right also to protest against that decision or other government action if Rick ’s conviction is allowed to stand.
 
Rick Stanley stood up for America , and for Ed Brown, and for Ron Paul, and for our Constitution. Please, folks, stand up now for the exact same things, and stand up for Rick and Pam Stanley.
 
Some of you on this group do not trust attorneys, and I can well understand why. But I have been involved with this group for a long time because I believe in the same things, and I want to use my legal knowledge to preserve a Constitution and nation for my children. What good is money or fame when our dollar collapses and our nation soon follows? This must be how the founding fathers felt.
 
Three percent of Americans rose up against British tyranny. Where is the three percent today?
 
Please help as follows:
 
1)       View this video, and pass it on. I hope it is helpful, and spreads word about Rick ’s situation. View it more than once, or on both sites – the more people who view it, the more people who will view it! If possible, post it on other sites, and post links everywhere. We only have until Friday.
 
http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=-366180337 0138248832&pr=goog-sl
 
 
http://youtube. com/watch? v=qn3_2eIQ684
 
 
2)       Distribute the Press Release below: same idea.
3)       Contact Ron Paul or other public figures or members of the press, and alert them that Rick ’s case is up this week, and of the extraordinary facts surrounding his ordeal. I would think Dr. Paul might have heard of Rick ’s case, especially as Rick was so passionate about supporting Dr. Paul. I will try to contact Dr. Paul as Rick ’s attorney, but I’m not sure I will be able to reach such a busy man.
4)       Please pray for Pam and Rick , and for justice in our courts … even if you don’t believe anyone is listening….
 
Thank you all for your efforts, and for your passion for our country, and your willingness to try to become informed and resist enslavement.
 
 
Attorney John Klar, proudly representing Richard Eugene Stanley  
 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                       CONTACT 802-754-6075
MARCH 25th, 2008                                                                      
 
 
 
RICK STANLEY FREE SPEECH/GUN RIGHTS CASE BEFORE US SUPREME COURT
 
An important free speech case will be considered before the United States Supreme Court this Friday, March 28. The Court will decide whether to grant a writ of certiorari in the case of Rick Stanley v. State of Colorado .
 
Rick Stanley is in prison for six years for threatening to have two Colorado judges arrested for ignoring his Constitutional right to bear arms. He appears to be the only U.S. citizen ever to be imprisoned solely for threatening to issue an arrest warrant.
 
Here are several details about the case…
 
Mr. Stanley was under surveillance by the federal government’s domestic anti-terrorism task force when he was protesting against an Ashton, Colorado gun ordinance in 2002, while campaigning for the United States Senate. He was arrested for illegal gun possession.  Rick Stanley was convicted at trial, and this conviction was affirmed on appeal. Meanwhile, the Colorado legislature passed a law striking down city ordinances like the one in Ashton.
 
Mr. Stanley, at that time representing himself, filed a notice with the trial and appellate courts in which he claimed that his constitutional right to bear arms had been violated, and invoked the Colorado legislature’s recent law striking down the ordinance. The notice demanded that his conviction be reversed and his gun returned, or else an arrest warrant for treason would be issued against the judges for violating his constitutional rights under the United States and Colorado Constitutions, and under the judges’ oaths of office.
 
He was arrested and subsequently convicted of two counts of attempting to influence a public official by threat, and is currently serving a six-year prison sentence in Colorado (two maximum consecutive three-year terms). Mr. Stanley has no previous record, and is an honorably-discharge d veteran and successful Denver businessman. Now, as a convicted felon for pure political speech, he has lost his rights to vote or own a gun.
 
Attorney John Klar, who is representing Stanley before the United States Supreme Court, asserts that Mr. Stanley’s notice to the courts was clearly intended as a political protest to publicize events in Colorado . Klar is thoroughly convinced that his client’s First Amendment right to free speech was violated to silence his outspoken protests against government restrictions of gun ownership. “Should Americans who charge President Bush with treason for going into Iraq be imprisoned for threatening to kill the President?” Klar asks. “This is essentially what was done to Rick Stanley, and what can be done to any American if the Supreme Court declines to hear this case.”
 
The D.C. v. Heller case is being closely watched by Second Amendment advocates: should the Supreme Court on Friday decline to grant Rick Stanley’s writ, those who wish to publicly proclaim their right to bear arms had better not do so to judges or politicians, or they may lose their freedom, like Rick Stanley did…. as well as their votes, their voices and their guns.
 
This case has garnered national attention because it concerns the rights of American citizens to freely express their opinions about gun ownership – but also about war, abortion, religious views, etc.
 
www.stanley2002. org


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