Five years after the executions, Samuel Sewall stood up in his church and bowed his head as his minister read his apology. Sewall wished to accept "the blame and the shame of it."

http://seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071230/ENTERTAIN/712300312/-1/ENTERTAIN08

Giles Corey refused to give testimony at the 1692 Witch Trials. He would neither confess nor deny the charges brought upon him. So, in order to obtain a statement, he was taken outside, a board placed across his body, and heavy stones piled on top. It is said that his only words before he was crushed to death were; "More weight!"

Sewell's diary states, under date of Monday, September 19, 1692:
About noon at Salem, Giles Cory was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Captain Gardner of Nantucket who had been of his acquaintance, but all in vain.

In the whole history of English law very few people had the fortitude to "stand mute" and endure a penalty expressly designed to discourage such obstinacy. This is the only instance in the history of New England where this law was applied. The execution of Giles Cory by this process had nothing to do with witchcraft. If he had refused to plead to a charge of burglary, the penalty would have been the same.

Except in the cases of treason, conviction could not be obtained on a prisoner who stood mute. With out conviction his property could not be confiscated by the crown or provincial government. Many of Corey's friends believed he remained silent in court because his conviction for the came would have meant the forfeiture of his estate. Otherwise, the Sheriff would confiscate it. But the fact is that he had executed a deed before this to his sons-in-law. Civil and criminal charges had followed him most of his life. http://www.coryfamsoc.com/resources/articles/witch.htm

Pressure was put on the children to tell who afflicted them and they began to name various people: Goody Good, Goody Osburn, and the old Indian woman Tituba, and warrants were obtained for their arrest. They were arrested on February 28, 1692

Paul Hiatt, an embattled rural property owner out of Gig Harbor, WA is certainly not "standing mute" but has most certainly been framed and is being "pressed" to death over the last 4 years.

He is asking for amicus curiae briefs supporting several petitions he is filing.
You may address him directly via the cc email above.

I am forwarding this per Paul's request to those land use attorneys and CAPR Board members who may be able to help.

This nonsense started by a neighbor from hell who turned Paul in for clearing a ditch and burning some slash on his property.

A Pierce County District Court Judge Kenworthy and their Prosecuting Attorney Rose, also from hell, have joined the green government four year witch hunt to press another rural property owner to death. Nothing has changed since the witch trials 315 years ago.

Paul has already served 60 days for a maximum fine of $1000, lost his job, they leaned his property out of Gig Harbor, (Pierce County), WA and now they want 90 more days. They had the bail up to $100,000.

There seems to be an apparent green agenda in the Puget Sound coming from the highest offices in the State including but not limited to the executive office, legislature, judicial branch and green extreme groups pushing this unconstitutional nonsense to crush rural property owners to set public examples.

Paul has an over whelming volume of data showing corruption and collision as well as selective memory/ignorance of basic state and constitutional law.

This is green terror, that has been legislated, administrated and judicated in defiance to the most basic laws of the land that it takes little intelligence to see the color of justice in Puget Sound Washington. This is why in part we have no unalienable rights and no natural rights. Common law and natural law have been swept under the rug of socialism and communism in this State. Not only is the Supreme Law of the Land gone, but the very foundation it used to sit upon, has been turned to sawdust.

The court has replaced the laws of the land with a fraudulent green agenda. Now we not only have political junk science but political junk law. The shocking truth is far worse that this. Not only are the prior high court precedent rulings being ignored but the foundation of natural law, common law, natural rights and unalienable rights, which the Supreme Law of our Land rest upon, have been systemically removed.

"We must all hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately" applies as much today as it did when Benjamin Franklin
made this statement at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. While we won the battle for our freedom we have quickly lost the war.


Jack

Pray to God, but
hammer away.
Spanish Proverb
John R. Venrick

Hi fellows. This is to ask each and all of you to recruit any possible legal help on what I am about to file in the attempt to expose and reverse this travesty and stay out of jail in as little as one week, when the thirty day window from denial of my appeal and collateral attack in the Superior court December 19 runs, and they may send this back to Kenworthy for enforcement of sentence in violation of the rules and despite my attempts to be heard further up.

Excepting for any trusted attorneys you review this with, this information is for your eyes only until I get these next Petitions filed, because I cannot afford to telegraph punches.

What I desperately need from all of you is for you to personally contact any and all even possibly interested legal resources and foundations, including but not limited to your member attorneys you named previously, and attempt to recruit them pro bono to file amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in support of my several Petitions about to be filed. It is literally now or never, if you can be of any help.

I have had an interesting development as of January 3, when the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, after my repeated written protests to their having unlawfully dead-ended my case, finally issued an Order Recalling Certificate of Finality for "clerical error" permitting Motion For Discretionary Review to the State Supreme Court.

Attached is that incomplete Petition For Discretionary Review to the State Supreme Court on the remaining two counts of contempt, (the portion describing those decisions for which I am requesting review), which has the potential to expose and reverse this whole can of worms, for the egregioius violations of rights and law. These decisions accurately described there are so outrageous to be more than sufficient to gain any interested attorney's attention, and convince them this thing is rotten to the core, so please urge whoever you might contact to review on a strictly legally privileged and confidential basis, this document. If they are interested I will be glad to provide the rest as soon as it is completed, including the evidence, or they can simply download it as soon as it is filed and scanned. A friend of the court brief in this or the other Petitions would be a godsend, for obvious reasons promoting my odds of some hearing.

In your sole discretion, you might offer them a hefty percentage of a USC Title 42 ss 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 federal civil rights case for the deed to Pierce County and the several actor's posessions if they are interested in helping me prevail and pursue redress of grievance, but only if you are personally certain they are trustworthy.

By this coming thirty day deadline, I have to have filed, (in the presence of a witness, with the rule requiring the Superior Court Clerk NOT to remand this for sentencing until the Court of Appeals accepts or denies review of my Motion For Discretionary Review on the appeal which was just denied. I am then supposed to have 2 weeks to file the actual motion past filing notice, but I have no reason to suppose they will obey their own rules at this point, so I must have it ready in case they throw me back in jail.

Also, of course, I must have the attached petition/motion to the State Supreme Court filed before then, and no way will I have the resources available to file subsequently due briefs from jail, which is a problem I haven't figured out yet.

The third absolute necessity in the next week, (while I work to try to earn the necessary filing fees and not leave my wife destitute if I am thrown back in jail), is to Petition for an Extraordinary Writ requiring Superior Court to obey the law on the jurisdictional issues in my Motion For Relief From Judgment (statutory collateral attack), which was unlawfully and deliberately deep-sixed with the recent appeal, in a maze of procedural violations, without the required findings on the law for appeal. That Petition will clear the way for application for direct review to SCOTUS if the state supremes deny review or shoot it down on review, especially on the state constitutional Art. IV ss 6 want of jurisdiction of the district courts over title and possession of our real property at law, which decidely is a case of first impression I still can't believe none of the interested property rights foundations are behind me on.

So do what you can if you can, fellows, and let me know if I can provide anything further within reason. Obviously, I am swamped enough that I cannot drop what I am doing to meet urgent deadlines to organize and provide reams of material, but the Superior Court appeal case pleadings, at least, are electronic record for review, and the rest is public record, and; I will have completed pleadings for filing here shortly which boil it down further than anything to date.

Will one of you please also make sure Preston Drew and Jeff Wright and Steve Hammond get a copy of this with attachment? My server won't take it with pgdrew@centurytel.net on the address line, and I don't have Jeff's or Hammond's addresses. Thanks

Thanks and God bless you for your desire to help, and your help to date. Time is of the essence, and if I don't respond you will know what happened and can always get hold of my brother Dave.

Yours for Freedom,

Paul