Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Julian Heicklen speaks for himself
If you're not familiar with jury rights activist Julian
Heicklen and the abuses he suffered at the hands of America's "Law
Enforcers" for committing the "crime" of handing pamphlets to people
on public property it's time you heard him speak for himself.
In 2011 Julian was interviewed by Brent Johnson on the
Global Freedom Report about his indictment by a grand jury for "jury
tampering" because he gave jury nullification literature to his fellow
citizens outside a federal courthouse in Manhattan and how he fought back
against America's corrupt legal system.
YouTube video: The
Global Freedom Report Starring Brent Johnson
Julian Photo from the
New York Times / Book from Amazon
You can find out how this grotesque injustice came about in
the first place and what happened to Julian in the days and weeks and months that
followed this interview by reading Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen
Chronicles.
You'll learn that America's "Law Enforcers" real job
is all about protecting their statist masters who sign their paychecks and
certainly not about protecting citizens or their Constitutional rights.
The book details Julian's nonviolent fight for justice from
the beginning of his jury rights activism to its end. Everyone concerned with
their own freedom needs to know his story.
Julian Heicklen Interview Part 1
Julian Heicklen Interview Part 2
Monday, February 22, 2016
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.
What do you say former and current Tyranny Fighters? Want to
join the conversation? Find out more about the book and how you can get a FREE pdf
by promising to read it and post your own review here: The Loose
Cannon Libertarian.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Astra sings the praises of Julian Heicklen
So who is Astra F. d'Oudney? Who is Felicity?
Here's the backstory: On September 3, 2015 someone named
Astra F. d'Oudney posted a review of the Kindle version of Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles on Amazon.co.UK. I
didn't find it until a month later. I
took a screen shot and posted it here on October 4 along with a couple of other
recently discovered reviews.
Several months later I stumbled across a review of the
paperback version on the American Amazon site written by Felicity. I began reading it and it sounded awfully
familiar. In fact, the review was identical to Astra F. d'Oudney's
review and it was also posted on September 3, 2015.
Curiosity compelled me to combobulate this discombobulation. Turned out Astra and Felicity were one in the same young lady. One email lead to another to another to another to an interview to an article to a posting on Libertarian News Examiner.
Astra Felicity
d'Oudney, English living in France, reading The Julian Heicklen Chronicles
Here's a question and answer I asked her about Julian and my
book. The whole interview with links to her music and freedom activism is here:
ME: You mentioned
"trial by jury" and you also wrote a very positive five-star review
of the book Tyranny Fighters: The Julian
Heicklen Chronicles. How did you become acquainted with the American jury
rights activist Julian Heicklen?
Astra: Some of
our campaign members are also members of FIJA [Fully Informed Jury Association]
stateside. We hear from them with newsy items. When Julian’s campaign outside
courthouses got under way we wrote to congratulate him on his stand. Julian
included us in his regular circulars which became the substance of your
Heicklen Chronicles book which we bought and endorsed on Amazon. You are to be
thanked for bringing out that book which documents tyranny, a crime at
definitive common law. This crime is routinely committed through and by the
courts. What a truly fine example Julian is to us all.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Another Tyranny Fighter reviews the Julian Heicklen Chronicles
"I knew
Heicklen: even got arrested with him in LA once!"
That re-introduction from a John R. Burton email sent the
author scurrying off into his Article Archives Folder. The original article in
Libertarian News Examiner dated April 19, 2011 described how John was
photographing Julian distributing Jury Rights pamphlets outside the Los Angeles
Municipal County Courthouse when deputies arrested and handcuffed both of them for
violating a judge's order "prohibiting the distribution of literature with
the threat of a contempt of court charge."
What happened next was ... well ... you can find out in
Chapter 61 of Tyranny Fighters: The
Julian Heicklen Chronicles and read about all of the many other illegal
Police State confrontations, harassments, assaults, arrests and abuses suffered
by Julian and many of his stalwart Tyranny Fighters like John Burton.
TOP LEFT: LA county Deputy Sheriff Sergeant Long with Julian Heicklen; TOP
Right: The Tyranny Fighters book that includes Burton's arrest; CENTER: John
Burton from the slideshow in the original article. (All photos courtesy John
Burton)
John Burton's Amazon
review:
By John Burton on January 27, 2016
In full disclosure, I
have a horse in this race because I am mentioned in the book and was a Tyranny
Fighter too. That said, this book chronicles the worthy and important struggle
that was led by Julian Heicklen, between 2009 & 2012, and which, by way of
bringing the man himself to the attention of those who have never heard of him,
and celebrating his selfless contributions, might also serve to awaken the
reader to some of the egregious abuses of our legal system (or to reinforce his
suspicions)! It might even make the reader mad. Yes, this story needed to be
told— and though Julian’s campaign, with all its implications, cries out for
fuller treatment, Garry’s account is intended only as a chronicle of events,
rather than a biography or manifesto, and in that regard it succeeds. The
forward progress takes place via a compilation of articles, or accounts,
originally appearing in the author’s own Libertarian News Examiner, at the time
the event unfolded, represented chronologically here, but introduced with
contemporary comments. For that reason much of the information is necessarily
repeated, though there is still plenty of new information to keep ones passions
hot. One suggestion I have is that in future editions I would like to see more
contrast between the introductory remarks and the reproduced articles. Perhaps merely
boldening the type-face of the introductory remarks would do it.
See Burton's book review and others here:
You can still read the original article that includes Burton's arrest and see the
slideshow on Libertarian News Examiner here: http://www.examiner.com/article/heicklen-judges-are-scamming-jury-rights-activists
And find out more about the book and its availability in
paperback, Kindle, iTunes and ePub here: The
Loose Cannon Libertarian
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Former Tyranny Fighter reviews Julian Heicklen Chronicles
In 2010 Tyranny Fighter George Donnelly was attacked by a
group of law enforcers with god complexes who bodily rode him to the ground, seized
his camera, arrested him and had him jailed and prosecuted because he was
peacefully recording Julian Heicklen distributing jury nullification brochures
on a public sidewalk.
His story, along with others victimized by the legal
establishment, is detailed in Tyranny
Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles (Chapter 14).
George Donnelly and
Julian Heicklen together in 2010 during their Tyranny Fighter days.
Today George writes "often dystopian, frequently heroic
and always engrossing" science fiction
novels. He recently took time to review my Tyranny Fighters book and post it
on my Amazon page.
This review is from: Tyranny
Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles
(Kindle Edition)
The power of one man doing something courageous and useful,
and committing to doing it not just once but over and over again. That's what
impresses me about this chronicle.
Just reading Heicklen's straight-talking accounts fills me
with the a passion to follow his example. It was that passion that motivated
myself and others in the Spring of 2010 to work with him.
Some parts of Reed's account are very absorbing. At times,
the author is quite passionate and intelligent.
There are a few inaccuracies, including the claim that the
Tyranny Fighters is an organization. It was just a mailing list for me. and 95%
of the people on the list were just spectators. They didn't participate.
I expected this to be a story-ified account, perhaps with
original content from interviews melded into a coherent story.
There were some typos. It was repetitive at time. I would
have liked it to be more fleshed out.
But the mere act of documenting these unique incidents is
quite valuable. Kudos to the author for all of his hard work.
I received a complimentary copy of the book.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Courtroom lawyer reviews Tyranny Fighters
Timothy J Taylor has been a courtroom lawyer since 1971 and
is author of the book Authority!: Implications of consciousness
and the reality of existence. Taylor also expresses his opinions on
current events in his AUTHORITY!
blog in which he emphatically states, "Conventional collectivist created
authority is a deception in consciousness. You are your own Authority!"
Taylor has repeatedly expressed his support of jury
nullification advocate Julian Heicklen over the years, most notably in his post
Julian Heicklen: My Hero.
Taylor was even quoted in the book Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles:
...courtroom lawyer Timothy J.
Taylor, writing in his "Authority" blogspot, sums up Heicklen's
"jury tampering" charges simply and rationally: "Any fair judge
would have tossed the prosecutor's case out of court long ago."
After reading Tyranny
Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles Taylor produced this book review:
Tyranny Fighters Review
by Timothy J. Taylor
Garry Reed's book, Tyranny Fighters, provides a riveting
chronological account of libertarian freedom fighter, Dr. Julian P. Heicklen's
years long freedom of speech battle with the American police state Authority to
inform prospective jurors of their legal rights. In the process of merely
exercising his First Amendment rights Dr. Heicklen was wrongly arrested
numerous times, dragged and confined to mental hospitals against his will,
jailed, bullied, tortured, and charged with bogus criminal offenses.
This gentle and humble man violated no laws. He committed no
crimes. He is innocent. He's the victim of a vicious persecution by evil
government agents of American Authority! As I predicted in my blog, a federal
judge in New York City finally ordered the dismissal of a criminal "jury
tampering" indictment against the frail octogenarian professor based on
merely passing out leaflets in a public place advocating jury nullification.
For centuries in British and American Jurisprudence, if a
jury concludes that something about a case against the accused stinks, it has
the power to disregard the evidence and/or refuse to apply the law as
instructed by the judge. Jurors may not be compelled to account for their
verdicts. Their deliberations are conducted in secret and their conclusions
need not be explained.
This is known as "jury nullification" and Dr.
Heicklen enjoyed a First Amendment right to inform prospective jurors of that
power despite the fact that the Authority doesn't want jurors to know about the
awesome powers they possess.
This excellent book tells the whole story. It explains in
copious detail exactly why Julian Heicklen is my hero. And now he's been
vindicated at last.
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