We Can’t Start “Live Swatting” Federal Judges

Here is My Response Ivan Raiklan This Morning

I recently interviewed General Mike Flynn right hand man, Ivan Raiklan, on Jeff Prather’s “Prather Point” news talk show. Raiklan has made a very big media splash lately on the Conservative talk show circuit including InfoWars and other popular conservative programs

I asked Raiklan numerous question about his recent viral video with Zoe Chase of “This American Life” that has been watched tens of millions of times, and the video deals with the controversial topic Raiklan introduced called “live swatting”.

My questions were “Would the live swatting volunteers be armed during these raids?”, and I asked if he was serious about live swatting Federal Judge Emmett Sullivan in Texas, the Judge in the Mike Flynn case.

Ivan asked me after the show what my intentions were in writing, and I provided him this response.

The interview host, Jeff Prather, is also a veteran of many years of Special Force and then DEA Special Agent for many years. Prather mentioned he had been a part of over 500 drug raids, but he stated he would not participate in a raid without a Court Order from an authorized Judge.

I remember my deceased ex-cop research partner telling me stories of going to Judge’s houses in the middle of the night for authorizations for Search Warrants.

Judge quizzed her with exacting specificity on where drugs could be found, and specifically walled off searches in an other parts of the house. This is our system of Justice with checks and balances, as flawed as it is recently with the LawFare now being conducted against an ex-President.

But we can’t invent our own system of law on the fly because we don’t like the result of one Judge in one Court. That’s what the Appeals process is for, to root out bad or capricious judgements.

We all pray for Justice for our ex-President, and we hope the Jury sees the evidence in the light of a Not Guilty verdict. But we can’t start “live swatting” Federal Judges because we don’t like their Court's decisions.

Let’s keep our cool and move to Appeal if there is a Guilty verdict.

The history of Appeal. Remember the Apostle Paul in Acts, appealing to Caesar. The idea of Appeal has a long history.

Roman civil law and courts had some appeals process but no formal process like we have now in English Law. In English civil law, the idea of a “writ of errors” was developed to correct misinterpretations of the law or omissions of fact being developed in the time of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Courts. Appealing to the King or Queen has been frequently dramatized in plays in Shakespeare.

I have written extensively about the most famous case involving a Writ of Error, the Alger Hiss frame-up by the CIA, which is used to introduce evidence that was withheld at trial. The Writ Of Error is used to introduce new evidence, like the fact the Woodstock typewriter that supposedly wrote those treasonous State Department memos didn’t exist when Hiss was accused of writing them.

We also have the concept of a Writ Of Certiorari in English Law (to be certain), a little after Shakespeare's time in the era of Oliver Cromwell.

I have prepared a Writ Of Certiorari for the US Supreme Court with the help of some Washington, DC journalists and lawyers in the Awan Spy Ring Case. Unfortunately, four or nine Supreme Court Judges must approve the Writ Of Certiorari to be heard.

Finally, we have our formal Courts of Appeal today, which were codified into the English and American systems in the late 1880s. I have also filed a few of these Appeals in the Awan Spy Case as well.

Journalist George Webb at Atlanta Court Of Appeals in one of many reports files at Courts of Appeal.

I appealed my case against CNN because I was denied the ability to file an Amended Complaint when CNN added new slanders to the case. I was later granted the right to file an Amended Complaint.

I have even filed a Writ of Certiorari to the US Supreme Court with the help of some DC attorneys and journalists in the Awan Spy Case. There are also sorts of impingements on the fundamental human rights in the Donald Trump cases.

All of these remedies are available to President Donald Trump and lie ahead on his road to Appeal. There is no need to live-swatting Federal Judges.