POSTINGS FROM THE SWEETWATER LIBRARY
(FOURTH IN A SERIES)
(Third, Second, First)

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances."

-Supreme Court Justice David Davis

Ex parte Milligan - 1866

JAG HUNTER HERE:

Former Navy Hospital Corpsman Tom Overton, III remarked Wednesday during our phone conversation that "we (military members) all know we give up our constitutional rights (he should have said constitutional protections) when when we join the military." Mr. Overton and I were discussing former and recent criminal acts committed another Sweetwater resident, U.S. Ranger, Staff Sergeant Raymond L. Girouard.

I encounter this a lot and am more deeply dismayed at each instance America's demise is evidenced once more.

Tom Overton--today--publishes Sweetwater's local newspaper, The Monroe County Advocate & Democrat.

Irony o-o-z-e-s...The Advocate & Democrat!

I told Publisher Overton he was wrong and challenged him on the point. I'm happy for Mr. Overton, or any one else, to correct me by supplying the citation--with particulars--regarding the convention amending the Constitution whereupon American servicemen were stripped of their constitutional protections.

Just at that moment Overton's beeper alerted an incoming call (so he said), and whoops...gotta go...Publisher Overton was gone.

Mr. Tommy Millsaps and I had a similar phone conversation earlier in the same week. Mr. Millsaps is a reporter for The Advocate & Democrat (feel the o-o-z-e!).

Explaining to Reporter Millsaps--again--that Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard and Marine Corps Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins are protected by the Constitution I read Supreme Court Justice David Davis' majority ruling on point (Ex parte Milligan - 1866):

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than
that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government...Martial law cannot arise for a threatened invasion. The necessity must be actual and present; the invasion [or emergency] real, such as effectively closes the courts...Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It's also confined to the locality of the actual war."

In fairness to Publisher Overton, Reporter Millsaps, and Editor Mia Rhodarmer (who I also spoke with), nearly every media worker I've encountered believes the DURABLE MYTH that military personnel forfeit their constitutional protections when they pledge their lives in sacrifice promising to defend you and me...and oh yeah...the Constitution.

Think about it!

Think hard!

So...with the phrase invincible ignorance ringing in my ears it's appropriate and helpful to obediently accept that "there is...a time for war and a time for peace (Ecclesiastes 3:8)." There are brief and infrequent moments when the state of society is in a state of emergency. Moments that catastrophically alter human laws and human punishments and that must--as matters of necessity--transcend constitutional boundaries.

Courts-martial are desperate measures to be tolerated operative only in desperate times. Restating what's obvious Sir Matthew Hale correctly commented:

"Martial Law, which is built upon no settled principles, but is entirely arbitrary in its decisions is, in truth and reality no law, but something indulged in rather than allowed as law. The necessity of order and discipline...is the only thing which can give it countenance."

Self-preservation is also a core determiner in assessing whether it's necessary to invoke martial law and the courts-martial scheme.

The Constitution must be operative at all times excepting during those infrequent and brief instances--in times of invasion or other extraordinary emergencies that close courts--when the Constitution can't work.

As brief, as infrequent, as extraordinary a moment as would be our plight as lifeboat survivors with a bad actor among us. (See Alfred Hitchcock's film LIFEBOAT on DVD).

After all, Abe Lincoln is attributed in the observation that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

I can't cure the invincibly ignorant.

For media professionals who persist in "holding their tongues" while watching in plain view senior military commanders perpetrate crimes against Ray Girouard, Larry Hutchins, and other innocent American citizens, self-censorship is more corrosive, more acid, more dangerous than forced censorship. You might just as well "make tooth picks of your pens." (Aurora General Advertiser Editor Benjamin Franklin Bache commenting on the Sedition Act of 1798--as quoted in Ian Toll's history: Six Frigates)

For the rest, your duty is a clear and plain as can be: Proverbs 31:8.

My constitutional challenge to Publisher Overton, by the way, is unanswerable. No federal army or navy existed from 1787 to mid-1789 and brief references to those institutions were written in the future tense. There is nothing--repeat--NOTHING in the Constitution as amemded that drops the its shield of protection for military personnel. Supreme Court Justice Davis' words are as appropriate and relevant and enforceable as law today as they were in 1866.

For Veterans who've not yet joined this fight...shame.

Here endth the lesson (for the moment).

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!

©Copyright 2008 The JAG HUNTER

POSTINGS FROM THE SWEETWATER LIBRARY

(Third in a series)

(SECOND)

(FIRST)

On the subject of torture it's been said...

"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Publilus Syrus

(1st century BC)

Roman writer of mimes

JAG HUNTER HERE:

Army Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard and Marine Sergeant Larry Hutchins were forced under extreme duress to speak against themselves. The same is so for uncounted other military personnel abducted and locked away in Defense Department dungeons. Forced confessions and the subornation of evidence and testimony is a routine and regular occurance institutionalized within the defense establishment's system of discipline.

Civilian criminal convictions in our time are consistent with our understanding of the human condition that even when seated a jury does not guarantee a defendant--falsely accused--safe refuge or full protection.

Author/attorney John Grisham arouses deep concern (in his non-fiction work, THE INNOCENT MAN) that the combination of lying accusers, and politically motivated prosecutors/politicians are not trustworthy arbiters when evidence is easily manufactured, contradictory, defective, defecient, or altogether lacking.

Juries are hoodwinked all the time.

The scheme of "JUDICIAL REVIEW" through an appeals process is intended as a corrective when jury manipulation or other prosecutorial mischief is uncovered.

McMinn County, Tennessee Assistant District Attorney James Stutts (also known as "Mr. Mayor" here in Sweetwater) would agree that the easiest way to solve and prosecute a crime is to get a confession.

Former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General ("TJAG") Samuel T. Ansell expressed the concept more forcefully repeating that, "there is no better witness against a man than himself." (Writing in the November 1919 Cornell Law Quarterly)

Army TJAG Ansell warned Americans four-score and eight years ago that the prosecutorial mischief and tyrannous interrogation methods Grisham condemns in civilian practice today (as should we all) have been and continue to be aggressively practiced as standard operating procedures in America's defense establishment throughout--unconstitutionally--U.S. history!

Ansell writes: "While the military mind is intolerant of protective principles and of rules governing a [civilian] trial, it is particularly so to the rules of evidence. The professional officers of our [military] in great numbers believed...'that the business of courts-martial is not be discuss law, but to get at the truth by all the means in its power...We...want to get at the fact (no matter how) for the sake of discipline. There is no better witness against a man than himself. That statement is axiomatic among professional officers. They [the admirals or generals...America's "Flag officers"] will hear of no qualifications nor can they see evil consequences of the generous application of what is so good. It is the basis of military third-degree methods.' "

Describing those third-degree methods, we discover special agents from each of the service dective agencies conduct themselves in the most eggregious and oppressive manner: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) for the Navy and Marine Corps; Criminal Investigative Service (CID) in the Army, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), and Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), and then the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).

"Confessions" are obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of those accused depriving them of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. Statements are extracted from witnesses and those accused by any sort of threat or violence or promise however slight. Coercion is mental as well as physical. Special agents from the federal goon squads named above extract statements as SOP usining psychological coercion tactics that feature the length of the interrogations, the time of day (night or day or just after coming in from an extended, gruelling battlefield patrol foot patrol), and playing on the psychological makeup and military training of the person under scrutiny.

And military dectives are not obliged to honor the request of an accused for an attorney. In many instances, such as in the situations of field interrogations carried out in combat theaters overseas, an advocate for the accused just isn't available. No worries...none is required.

Language just used in describing NCIS/CID/CGIS/DCIS/AFOSI third-degree tactics has to be setting off alarms for most attorneys (memo to Sweetwater Mayor Stutts) inasmuch as it's taken from a body of Supreme Court rulings condemning those precise interrogation methods.

Defense Department goon squad agents remain unconcerned regarding any legal constraints otherwise describing them as outlaws. Interrogations are neither audio or video recorded. And even if they were these renegade agents could still (and do) operate freely. No other federal law enforcement agency will effect an arrest of a DOD detective even with their criminal conduct in plain view.

And once in the discipline hearing rooms, courts-martial are not subject of judicial review of any type or kind. Rogue JAGs don't concern themselves with the case they have to present to a JURY, because there are no juries. Moreover, JAGs find themselves as unconstrained in their criminal conduct as do the rogue DOD goon squad dectectives. There exists no such animal as an "APPEAL" for servicemen (or their families) to seek remedy or relief. And JAGs are not subject to discipline from their respective state bar associations (remember: courts-martial are not courts).

Noteworthy now to point out that in nearly every circumstance made public in the conduct of a courts-martial--just as in the cases of Sergeants Girouard and Hutchins--the government would have no case would it not be through the submissions of forced statements and confessions. These cases are void physical evidence. In the situations accusing homicide there are no bodies to be identified. There are no credible (if any) civilian witnesses. And there's no accuser with standing.

Motives behind inventing a case against an airman, marine, soldier, or sailor runs a very long list we'll discusss later in this series. For the moment it serves to paraphrase a comment made by Admiralty Lawyer/Maritime Author William James, so far as the character of any courts-martial is concerned...

It may suit "The Flags (admirals and generals)" to invent any
falsehood, no matter how barefaced, to foist a valiant character on themselves
or on their respective service.

(See Ian Toll's history masterpiece: SIX
FRIGATES, p. 461)

Here endth the lesson (for the moment).

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!

©Copyright 2008 The JAG HUNTER

Tim King (Salem News) reports:

On Sergeant Larry Hutchins and on the release of the Haditha Marines. Of interest is that all of the remaining Camp Pendleton Eight Marines are released as of yesterday by Lt. General James Mattis.

The CP8 serires of courts-martial (a nightmare and fiasco) were nothing but show-trials, political theatre.

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

Wednesday, 8 August 2007

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

Attorney General Gonzales:

Military commanders and their confederates are engaged in the widespread criminal offense of Attainder overarching command racketeering unbounded in scope and time. My criminal complaint of military outlawry demands that you, as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, arrest this illicit business and its perpetrators instantly.

Fully aware you’ll do nothing unless the forcing function of public outrage increases pressure, my purpose here is as much to incite fury and rage as it is to demand arrests and prosecutions. I’m confident in my ability to inform my fellow citizens that military governors, contumacious commanders—generals, admirals, senators, and representatives—have with treachery and intent seized the power of the citizen jury.

Attainment of Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins, III and Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard supplies oxygen to the tinder-dry imaginations of a weary populace that I—with fellow military personnel, their families and communities—intend to ignite with the suddenness of a thunderstorm lightening strike in dry prairie-grass.

This wildfire burst will occur as the imaginings of ordinary citizens and stand-up Marines are transformed into reality watching, shocked and astonished, while their innocent sons and comrades are locked up in military dungeons by dishonored leaders acting directly against the Constitution and our young servicemen without a jury’s permission.

Military marshals and federal legislators are strictly forbidden by constitutional command from seizing jury power, replacing it with Attainder power. Lieutenant Generals Michael D. Maples and Tom Turner, Major General Jeffrey Schloesser (all Army) and James Mattis (USMC), for instance, are proscribed from directly disciplining Americans for criminal conduct (real or perceived) unless a civilian, citizen jury first gives its permission. Federal legislators such as Representatives Bill Delahunt, Norm Dicks, John Shadegg, and John Duncan aid and abet this ubiquitous and clear crime of Attainder.

Do not dismiss or diminish this criminal complaint as novitiate work product. Do not ignore this writing or regard it in diminution. The polemic is not a new one. It’s a debate running the nation’s entire history, aggressively complained about alike in literature and professional writings. Summary martial murder is Herman Melville’s 19^th century tale in the novella Billy Budd (based upon factual reports regarding the “Strange Affair of the Warship Somers”) with additional examination of military discipline in a longer narrative, White Jacket. James Fenimore Cooper joined Melville in railing publicly against the 1842 execution-murder aboard USS Somers.

Army Judge Advocate General (or TJAG) Samuel Ansell (post World War I, 1917 – 1920) raised constitutional challenges against Attainder but was simply pushed aside, nowadays reduced to an ancient historical footnote. Reaction and revulsion to the draconian outrages visited upon citizen-soldiers-sailors and Marines during World War II resulted in renaming the Article of War as the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Murder at the hands of military leaders was William Branford’s topic in his 1954 tome, The Execution of Private Slovik (later a made for T.V. movie (1974)). Abuses visited upon American citizens during WWII supply prominent subtexts to novels of James Jones’ (From Here to Eternity) and Anton Myrer’s (Once An Eagle).

Little else besides a name changed with enactment of the UCMJ. Military commanders betrayed the trust vested in them by continuing terrible treatment they’d been caught before in the abuse of regular folks called into military service. Attainder and command racketeering were retained as Defense Department fixtures throughout the Korean and Vietnam conflicts while members of Congress turned blind eyes.

After Vietnam (1975 - 1980), Albert Fletcher, Jr. sitting on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals (or COMA) worked aggressively to “civilianize” the military discipline system in revulsion to one he (but very few Congressman) recognized as still not reconciled with the Constitution. Fletcher lost his federal position as a result. Meanwhile the service TJAGs, with full backing from DoD officials, very nearly disestablished Fletcher’s outfit altogether so as to prevent the possibility of any future “COMA revolts.”

And yet, for all of this, Military royalty is more powerful today, due to its criminal ingenuity, than British military governors during our pre-Revolution history. “The United States military…has its own [court-martial] system, its own trial procedures, its own judges, its own [command review process], even its own prisons and police.” Martial government has evolved into an illicit, corrosive, government within our constitutional government; the enemy within—an alien!

M. Night Shyamalan conjures a frightening visual image of our military’s specialized, secret society and unconstitutional government in his stylized movie drama, The Village. In the real world, America’s tight-knit Mafia-like command controlled community lives in mortal fear of oppressive evil manifested by the beast lurking and hovering just outside the compound fence (think Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Army Criminal Investigative Division, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Coast Guard Investigative Service, and the DoD Criminal Investigation Service). As frightening is NCIS’ insinuation into local civilian community law enforcement. (Note: Begun as the Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, the organization has been renamed twice since its origination. First to Naval Investigative Service, then, after the tail hook scandal, to the NCIS)

Professional, internal condemnations, such as the finding of the 2001 Cox Commission, are as profound as they are disturbing if for no other reason than their full exposure of disinterested and disconnected federal legislators. Representatives and senators who’ve abrogated oversight duties to command racketeers and village beasts (NCIS, Army CID, AFOSI, CGIS, and DCIS) regarding the scope and operation of military discipline.

In assigning failing grades in its performance audit, the Cox Commission envisioned precisely the contemporaneous NCIS crime spree battle raging before our very eyes regarding the NCIS vs. our U.S. Marines. Congressmen, ignoring the Cox Commission importunity, have turned instead against our Marines (and soldiers and sailors). With laser-beam focus I point directly to federal lawmakers like John Murtha, Bill Delahunt, John Shadegg, John Duncan, Dave Reichert, Jay Inslee, and Norm Dicks.

This is not the place to rehash the litany of criminal offenses military leaders and federal legislators are committing (have committed) against our young men and women subsumed beneath the overarching crime of Attainder. My personal experiences and extensive criminal complaints (numbering in the thousands over nearly twenty-years) are well known to various federal law enforcement agencies to include the FBI. Those complaints, each and every one, are extended and renewed here again.

For the “CP8 families,” Kathi & Larry Hutchins, Aunt Betty, Glenda Ewing, Sarah Leonard, Edward Richmond, Darryl Sharratt, Bonnie & Alan Cleveland, Pastor Orr, Tim & Mary Harrington, Ilario & Merry Pantano, and to the folks in communities like Plymouth, MA, Sweetwater, TN, Granger, IN, and Canonsburg, PA; to these people and all others, it was never meant, nor should it be allowed to continue that military leaders wield such extraordinary, extra-constitutional war power while federal and state courts are open and accessible. Remedy and relief must be afforded instantly to those so far trampled asunder while reform and reconciliation with the Constitution is begun.

So, town-hall meetings are completely appropriate and necessary. Criminal complaints filed with the FBI are as appropriate given the background and context of crimes committed by NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly in the Camp Pendleton Eight series of courts-martial (all cases void).

The same is appropriate regarding the nearly two-decade old Navy-NCIS crime spree and illicit conduct of Navy Rear Admiral John Bitoff, Captain of Marines “Andy” Anderson, and Navy Commander Tim Zeller (in the forgery of my name), and JAG Zeller’s recent admission that military court-martial ceremonies are rigged as a matter of standard operating procedure.

The same is appropriate regarding the recent outrages stemming from SSgt. Ray Girouard’s court-martial, and companion military ceremonies (all void). Neither Lt. Gen. Tom Turner nor Maj. Gen. Jeff Schloesser are allowed to directly punish U.S. citizens (acting under unconstitutional specialized, secret military government) replacing their “judgment” in substitution for the permission of a constitutionally recognized and formed, independent civilian citizen jury.

I’m confident other criminal complaints (and political activism) follow from agitated family members holding standing in those abuses now widely reported and those about to be reported.

Alexander Hamilton is quoted: “If it be asked, what is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws—the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”

Your duty, Mr. Attorney General Gonzales is clear.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man,

/s/Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

Cc: FBI Special Agents Robert Clifford, Andy Farabow, Danny Barclay, Patrick Gann, Stephanie P. Gleason, FBI offices in Boston, MA, Seattle WA, Charlotte, NC, Oklahoma City, OK, Chicago, IL, Knoxville, TN, Phoenix, AZ. To: Messrs. Edward T. Pound, and Seymour Hersh, wide press distribution, and widely distributed to families, friends, and Marines!

JAG HUNTER HERE: JAMES H. CONNOLLY, NCIS AGENT AND FRAUD, made up the HAMDANIA events. CONNOLLY and his team of NCIS thugs are all liars!! As has been drummed into my head for months by those trained in criminal investigations: NO BODY, NO DNA, NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, NO CRIME!!

In the Camp Pendleton Eight cases there hasn't been a single article of physical evidence shown the panels. All that's left are INCOMPETENT CONFESSIONS FORCED BY NCIS agent JAMES CONNOLLY and his team of henchmen.

By the way, lest you've missed it, repeating here, hoping it takes: THERE ARE NO JURIES IN MILITARY DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS. GET THAT? NO JURIES!! COURTS-MARTIAL, ALL OF 'EM, ARE ACTS OF ATTAINDER. PUNISHMENT WITHOUT LAW!!

Exculpatory evidence that did exist was suppressed or destroyed (CONNOLLY'S collection of DNA samples, chain-of-custody paper trails, forensic laboratory and autopsy reports, Lt. Nathan Phan's extensive computer records, and unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) camera footage). The UAV film is publicly reported to completely clear the Camp Pendleton Eight.

Should any reader discover a news report that speaks to the problem of physical evidence in the CP8 series of courts-martial, please send it to: THE JAGHUNTER

Meanwhile, this garbage is regularly trotted out by reporters the likes of Rick Rogers, Steve Liewer, Tom Watkins, Mark Walker, and Teri Figueroa and fed to hungry flies.

NEED AN EXAMPLE?

HERE ENDTH THE LESSON!!

BEWARE THE FURY OF THE PATIENT MAN!!


Copyright© The JAG HUNTER 2007

PANEL ACQUITS MAGINCALDA OF ALL MURDER CHARGES!

CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT UPDATE

BREAKING and BUILDING

MARINE CORPORAL FOUND BLAMEWORTHY FOR LARCENY!

NCIS AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY'S CASE A FRAUD!

SERGEANT HUTCHINS' PANEL STILL DELIBERATING.

BREAKING!!!

CLOSING ARGUMENT IN SGT. HUTCHINS COURT-MARTIAL

JIM CONNOLLY A CRIMINAL!!

NCIS AGENT CONNOLLY
MADE UP THE ENTIRE CASE AGAINST THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT!!

NCIS A ROUGE OUTLAW OUTFIT!!

ALL EIGHT COURTS-MARTIAL CALLED INTO QUESTION!!

NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE!! NO EVIDENCE AT ALL!!

SEE THE POSTING DIRECTLY BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service vs. the United States Marine Corps

ARTICLE 32: A Documentary film

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III
P.O. Box 4003
Silverdale, Washington 98383-4003

The JAG Hunter

Email: walt@silverlink.net

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Sergeant Lawrence G. Hutchins, III, USMC
Box 555226
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton, California

92055

Dear Sergeant Hutchins,

Now hear this Marine!

Rich Brannon, your civilian lead defense counsel, is actively obstructing your participation in your own defense.

Brannon leads a flying wedge of defense lawyers, coached by Harvard Professor/Counselor Alan Dershowitz, running blockers to knock down people such as myself holding the key proving your innocence and offering you freedom.

I’m certain, as in the case of Army Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard, that sub rosa (secret) discussions are cobbling together and crafting a back-room deal between Rich Brannon, Alan Dershowitz, and government functionaries the purpose of which is to keep you in a Defense Department dungeon for a good part of the rest of your life.

You’ve already been found guilty.

Brannon is on the record (reported under the advice and counsel of Alan Dershowitz) declaring your criminal conduct the act of a sick man (that would be you Sergeant). All that’s left to determine is how long you’ll be kept in the military catacombs.

Brannon (aided by criminal companions like Dershowitz) is picking the pockets of anyone paying him.

All of this is going on while there exists a dispositive document record you and your defense team have reviewed in relevant part, laying down the template for the criminal operation of modern-day military ceremonies we know as “courts-martial.”

Elements of that pattern incorporate declarative written conclusions of guilt by accusers then free to assemble their own personal hearings—populating the hearing by their own hand—to examine their own invented and false accusations. The design allows for criminalizing non-crimes, naming innocent acts as somehow violations of military virtue. It allows for incompetent confessions that may be coerced or created (by criminal impersonation—forgery).

The courts-martial system embraces and encourages introduction of impostor or “ghost,” personages used to witness fictionalized episodes. More, JAGs routinely suborn perjury of real people (procured or induced) to witness in support of their military fantasies.

And advocates to the admirals and generals (JAGs) willfully destroy any written or electronic record that reports the truth. Destruction of real, tangible physical evidence is required in the world of make believe.

Criminals in high-command, convening authorities like Lt.Gen. Mattis in your general court-martial (agents deputized by the commander-in-chief), are perfectly positioned to operate corrupt and corrupted military ceremonies (courts-martial) that give life to government mendacity while simultaneously taking or destroying your life (along with the lives of family and friends).

Mattis, for instance, willfully relies upon the incompetent and infected investigative work product of JAMES H. CONNOLLY and ERNEST A. SIMON. These men—CONNOLLY and SIMON—are known and reported federal felons and extant participants in a long-running criminal enterprise reported widely, publicly, and separately. SIMON and CONNOLLY are then—as recognized and reported crooked cops—completely undone and impeached in their duties regarding their investigation of your case.

CONNOLLY and SIMON, along with other Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents, are named as federal criminals this day in reports filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the NCIS among other police organizations. The NCIS is reported, as an organization, a group of henchmen working for contumacious flag officers —our admirals and generals—recently recognized a military mafia (quoting Army Major General Taguba from his contemporary The New Yorker magazine interview).

You are being punished without law in a system wherein these criminals in command are themselves immune from consequence.

You, Rich Brannon, Alan Dershowitz, and other members of your defense team are advised on these matters previously and aggressively in the belief that this information, conjoined with allied Navy-Marine Corps documents, stands as the strongest column in your defense.

My immediate understanding is you’ve directed Rich Brannon that these writings and my personal testimony are to be used in your defense to free you from incarceration.

Brannon and his team of merry men have ignored your directives. One month out from the commencement of you military ceremony, there are no subpoenas issued summoning document production or my appearance. There has been no trial preparation of any type or kind.

More than that, outside observers—I among them—are convinced your defense team holds you cloistered, forcing your silence by keeping you out of sight and out of mind. It’s believed Brannon, Dershowitz, and cohorts are determined to foreclose upon what’s commonly considered one of your chief opportunities for freedom.

Your mom and dad have been overpowered, and are overwhelmed. They can’t help you. Besides that, they’re not rich enough to buy you out of your troubles, as for example, our more senior military commanders are able to buy their way out of their travails (think of Colonel Steele, for instance, paying Professor Dershowitz as discussed anon).

Speaking for myself, I’m particularly troubled by reports of Harvard Professor /Attorney Alan Dershowitz’s unsolicited insinuation into your case.

Dershowitz is retained civilian defense counsel to Army Colonel Michael Steele involving Army Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard (and others—the IRON TRIANGLE case). Your situation is nearly identical to that of Ray’s.

Ray Girouard’s GCM was the work product of Army JAGs who created a fiction born of coerced testimony used to punish Ray without the benefit of law. Army JAGs forced and suborned perjured testimony in an act of attainder while Ray’s defense team sat on their hands and studied their shoes. Now, Ray Girouard finds himself behind bars at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth.

Ray Girouard demanded that Colonel Steele testify so as to support Ray’s going free as an innocent man. Army JAGs, Alan Dershowitz, and others successfully blocked Ray’s desperate efforts at self-defense by blocking Steele from undergoing public scrutiny and examination.

I’m being blocked now by your defense attorneys from testifying on your behalf regarding the criminal conduct of NCIS Agents CONNOLLY and SIMON (and others). My personal experience with the corrupt and corrupted courts-martial system is also being silenced.

Alan Dershowitz’s immediate participation in your court-martial is no coincidence. Dershowitz’s involvement in your case, due to active solicitation by your federal representative—Congressman William Delahunt, while contemporaneously defending Colonel Michael Steele sounds a blaring alarm siren.

All of this is observed in an atmosphere whereupon you’ve already been found guilty, as publicly voiced by a staff attorney to Congressman William Delahunt, to your parents and others. Delahunt’s mouthpiece further observed all that remains to be determined is how long you’ll be Ray Girouard’s neighbor. And again, know this; Brannon’s advance of a PTSD defense admits your guilt while offering an excuse for your criminal conduct.

Then this question to you Sergeant Hutchins: How much time do you think you’re going to do?

No attempt is being made, so far as I or anyone watching closely can tell, to protest your innocence by way of aggressive defense. Rich Brannon, working hand-to-glove with Dershowitz, has become your greatest threat.

Meanwhile, no one can get to you to sound the alarm. More than that, Rich Brannon—after declaring your guilt in advance and in public—has gone to ground.

I must testify on your behalf on those matters profiled here and elsewhere. I can do that for the price of cab-fare to the nearest video teleconference site anywhere inside the Kitsap Naval Base complex footprint surrounding my residence. If Lt.Gen. Mattis persists in advancing your GCM after reading this letter, and refuses to respond to efforts to defend yourself, this letter must be read aloud during your GCM and a copy introduced into the written record.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man,

/s/

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

United States Navy, Retired – Surface Warfare (command-at-sea qualified), Naval Parachutist
Still serving – John 15:13
B.S. United States Naval Academy (with military honors), Class of 1975
MBA Technology Management, UOP 2002
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