Former Tyranny Fighter John Burton remembers

I published an Amazon review of Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles written by fellow Tyranny Fighter John R. Burton earlier this month. Midway through reading my book John emailed me to say he was having "lots of bittersweet memories resurfacing."

It was 2011 and John was photographing Julian as he distributed his flyers in Los Angeles where John Lives. They were both briefly arrested and handcuffed until a Deputy Sheriff, in Julian's words, "yelled at the other deputy sheriffs to uncuff us and leave us alone." 

John then told me, "I thought I'd share with you a couple letters I wrote years ago, to important players in this drama: one each to Judges Belvin Perry and Henry Perkins (both unanswered), and an amicus curiae to Kimba Wood (to which I did get a response!)"

John R. Burton "stands by" Julian Heicklen

Belvin Perry was the Florida judge who unilaterally declared that nobody could hand out jury nullification information outside of HIS Orange County courthouse and had both Julian Heicklen and Mark Schmidter dragged into his courtroom and then thrown in jail for defying his edict.

Henry Perkins was the judge who stripped George Donnelly of his civil rights after siding with a pack of law enforcers who jumped him, forced him to the ground and stole his camera for committing the "crime" of photographing on public property.

Kimba Wood was the judge who presided over Julian's hearing after he was charged with "jury tampering" for having committed the peaceful act of giving brochures explaining the legal process of jury nullification to passersby who voluntarily accepted them.

Burton also sent a letter challenging the judge in the John Kurtz case to "examine the depths of your soul" and to use his powers to serve justice and civil liberty rather than be a rubber stamp for the prosecution. In 2011 Orlando CopWatch founder John Kurtz was prosecuted, fined and jailed for nothing more than photographing police officers carrying out their official duties in public.

So John, thanks very much for sharing your letters to the judges on behalf of our tyranny fighting activists.

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