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Posted on 01/07/2003 11:42:52 AM PST by general_re
In the end it wasn't the bizarre language used by the defendants that was the highlight of the trial of the followers of The Truth so much as it was the appearance of "the king of Hawaii."
His adherents were convicted late Wednesday of simulating legal process for serving phony lawsuits on six area officials and police, by a jury that deliberated for two hours after two days of testimony, which included the use of a baroque language derived from a mixture of mathematics and maritime law.
Janet Kay Logan, 46, of Chatham, Ill., and Jason Zellmer, 22, of Oconomowoc, who represented themselves, were convicted of six counts of serving phony lawsuits on Dane County Circuit Judge Moria Krueger, Assistant District Attorney Lana Mades, Clerk of Courts Judith Coleman, and Madison police officers Stephen Heimsness, David Gouran and Peter Schmidt.
While jurors heard testimony from a variety of people, including the two defendants, they did not hear from the king. That would be David Wynn Miller, the head of the Unity States of the World, the group to which Logan and Zellmer belong, and the creator of the language known as The Truth.
The defendants wanted to put Miller on the witness stand, but Dane County Circuit Judge Steven Ebert first wanted to hear, outside the presence of the jury, what Miller had to say to determine if it was relevant to the trial. It wasn't relevant, but it was certainly interesting.
On his way to explaining how he invented a new form of English, Miller digressed into how Hawaii went from being our 50th state to becoming a sovereign entity of its own, with Miller as king and its constitution registered with The Hague.
It started, said Miller, with his landing in Hawaii in 1996, fulfilling a "prophecy made in 1849 that an individual would come to Hawaii and that individual would bring truth in a mathematical formula."
As Miller was explaining that, and the role of Captain Cook in conveying the story, Judge Ebert said, "I think we better skip to something about this case."
Miller ignored him and went on. Hawaii, he explained, had 52 factions that had been at war with each other since A.D. 800. But upon his arrival, he "turned Hawaii into a verb" and conducted 25 seminars that led to peace among the factions and also showed "how a preposition is needed to certify a noun."
At that point, he said, he "certified and unified all 52 factions," and the kapunas, or elders, got together and "elected me to be the third king" in the history of the islands.
The sovereign nation is now registered in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice, Miller said. But President George W. Bush, according to Miller, has said that he will not recognize that fact during his term of office.
Miller also took a stab at explaining his new language, and how the meaning of words can change depending on the words which precede them.
"These adverbs then create a condition of modification of the noun if it was placed in front of the noun. A modification is a change, a change is a motion, a motion creates an action and all action is a verb," he said, adding that the only verbs in his language are "is" and "are."
It was that language that Zellmer and Logan used to draft a phony lawsuit against the police and court officials responsible for Zellmer's arrest and conviction for resisting officers after a late-night fight in front of a campus bar last year.
But the issue for the jury was not language. It was simply whether the two had simulated the legal process. Assistant Attorney General Roy Korte argued that the case was obvious because the pair caused the phony suits to be served on six people and it had all the earmarks of a legitimate suit.
Zellmer and Logan argued at times that they were innocent because the suit was actually a lawsuit from the "DI-STRICT court of the Unity State of the World," of which Logan is a judge, and therefore was legitimate even if it could not be enforced.
At other times it was difficult to tell what the argument was. Logan noted that the court clerk and judge sat at a different level from others in the court. "When the plane is broken you're not really there," she said.
The jury, she added, was "on a different plane and in a box. So that if you are in a box you are not there. It's called the law of boxing."
After the jury's verdict, Ebert ordered a pre-sentence investigation and will hold a sentencing hearing when that report is completed.
The unblemished record of the legal theories of David Wynn Miller continues unabated...
Ah! So that's what Clinton meant in his deposition!
For extra bonus freeper points, spot the verb in the passage "a motion creates an action" ;)
FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE OF THIS TRUTH IS WITH THIS NOUN-LANAGUAGE BY THE NOUN-FACT WITH THE TRUTHFUL-LANGUAGE-FORMAT IN THE NOUN-JURISDICTION-TRUTH-LANGAUGE. FOR THESE LANGUAGE-FORMATS IN THE TRUTH ARE WITH THESE CLAIMS OF THESE CORRECTIONS THROUGH THE TEACHING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FICTION-LANGUAGE-FORMAT WITH THE ADJECTIVE AND VERB-FICTION-LANGUAGE. FOR ALL MODIFICATIONS OF THE WORLD-FLAG(~1x1.9: RED, WHITE AND BLUE) ARE AS THE FOREIGN-FLAGS IN THE FOREIGN-FICTION-CONTRACT-COURTROOM BY THE USE OF THESE FICTION-CONTRACTS WITH THE FICTION-VERB-LANGUAGE AND FICTION-VERB-JURISDICTION AGAINST ANY PARTY IN ANY CHARTER-VESSEL OR SOVEREIGN-CITIZEN OF OUR WORLD.
The only ones who can challenge Miller for downright wackiness are the Nuwaubians, and I think they stole his schtik.
Yup. Judge Winn:Miller tossed it out....
My mistake ;)
~1. FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, WITH THEIR USE OF THE LANGUAGES ARE WITH THE FRAUD BY THE LANGUAGE-TEACHERS FOR THE LACK OF THE TRUTHFUL-THINKING FOR THE VOLITION OF THE LANGUAGE-CLAIMS. FOR THE NOW-TENSE OF THE LANGUAGE IS WITH THE JURISDICTION OF THE CLAIM WITH THE AUTHORITY BY THIS AUTHOR.
FOR THE PREPOSITION OF THIS NOW-TENSE= BY, OF, IN, ON, FOR, AS, FOR, WITH, AGAINST, THROUGH.
~2. :SAY OR WRITE: 2 + 2 = 4, TO + TO = FOUR, TWO + TOO = FOR, FOR + FOUR = ATE; ATE + ATE = SIXTEEN. WITH THE POINT: [DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID; WHAT I MEANT WHAT I SAID; WHAT I SAID; WHAT I MEANT; WHAT I SAID]: FOR THE WORDS THAT WE HEAR ARE WHAT WE THINK, WHAT WE HEAR AND WHAT WE SAY OR WRITE, WITH THE CASE-LAW-FRAUD/FICTION. FOR THE ORAL-STATEMENT OF THE ASSUMPTION OR OPINION IS WITH THE CLAIM ON THE PAPER WITH THE WRITING OF THE CLAIM.
~3. FOR THE PREPOSITION AS THE CLAIM FOR THE AUTHORITY IS WITH THE ARTICLE WITH THE COMMAND OF THE NOUN OR FACT OF THE SENTENCE. FOR THE PREPOSITION AS THE ASSIGNMENT FOR THE AUTHORITY IS FOR AN 'ARTICLE' WITH THE COMMAND OF THE NOUN OR SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE.
This is the last I heard about the Nuwaubian trials. York is supposed to go on trial at the end of the month along with his "wife."
I did try to convince my hubby that a side trip to the Nuwaubian "Egypt of the West" would be in order on our trip down to the Keys in our RV, but he just looked at me and said, "You wanna go WHERE?"
I'm really going to have to work on my skills of persuasion.
3 women may go free in Nuwaubian case
By BILL OSINSKI The women -- Chandra Lampkin, Khadijah Merritt, and Isityr Cole -- were granted separate trials in a ruling Wednesday by Putnam Superior Court Judge William Prior. Prosecutors had argued that it would be practically impossible to try them separately within the time limits of the state's speedy trial laws. Prior denied a request for a separate trial for the fourth co-defendant, Kathy Johnson. Defense attorneys have referred to Johnson as York's wife, although prosecutors have said there is no documentation of a legal marriage between York and Johnson. Whatever their marital status, York and Johnson will stand trial together, beginning Jan. 28 in Covington. York was named in all 208 counts of the indictment. He is charged with repeated sexual acts with 13 victims, all children of members of his group, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The acts allegedly occurred on the Nuwaubians' rural Putnam County property, which they called "Egypt of the West." The three women who were granted separate trials were named in from one to five of the counts. Johnson was named in 11 counts, some alleging that she participated in the sexual acts or arranged them for York. Defense attorneys argued that jurors might be prejudiced against Lampkin, Merritt and Cole, if they had to stand trial with York. Johnson was released from the Putnam County jail Tuesday, after a $75,000 cash bond was posted for her. She and York had been in jail since they were arrested together last May. York has been denied bail and remains in state custody.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff WriterThree of the four female Nuwaubians indicted with sect leader Dwight York on child molestation charges may have effectively escaped further prosecution.
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