Cop arresting Bell holds peace as vilely abused in Bales panhandle case

Antonio Bell as seen from a police cruiser camera. (Photo Chattanooga police department) Arrest data for Antonio Bell, charged with five counts in an encounter with David Bales, a sessions judge. Police video supports the arrest of Antonio Bell in the retaliation case involving Judge David Bales, and undermines the favorable impression of Mr. Bell […]

Traffic controls rip poor, violate travelers’ rights, Hirsch says

Top photo, Jay Hirsch, the “fiddle man of Lawrenceburg” plays an uplifting tune at a funeral in Westpoint, Tenn. Bottom photo, a Tennessee Highway Patrol cruiser waits in a speed trap in Knoxville on a foggy morning. (Photos David Tulis, Gump at LCPDFR) An appeal from a criminal case out of Lawrence County, Tenn., challenges […]

Battlefield tactics: How to deny state actor’s ‘good faith’ defense

Dunlap, Tenn., city hall is embroiled in a fight to “inspect” a house apparently outside the city boundary. Dwain Land, chief executive of a municipal corporation called City of Dunlap When people hear a reference to “state actors,” they imagine for a split second a group of people all practicing grimaces, tremulous expressions of fear […]

Pinkston won’t prosecute 2 rogue officers

Rochelle Gelpin, left, sees racism in her arrest, but the real danger is police action without probable cause and with seeming malice. Her daughter, Shay, eyewitness, is at her side. (Photo David Tulis) Neal Pinkston, state prosecutor The state is refusing to prosecute two of its agents who violated the constitutional rights of two Hixson […]

Little says possible to be ‘just judge,’ says courts not machine for skinning poor

Public defender Mike Little says there is no conspiracy within the court system to oppress the working poor who run afoul of the state’s many “victimless crime” rules.(Photo 2012 David Tulis) By Esther Taj Attorney Mike Little has worked in the Hamilton County public defender’s office 1 ½ years and is a candidate for criminal […]

Great default set to push back single greatest threat to liberty

Branch Technology of Chattanooga is developing powerful 3D printers that can print houses. Decentralization and technology are wrecking the progressive dream of the total state shielded by administrative law. (Photo Branch Technologies) By David Tulis Our city and county will lose less — and perhaps even prosper — in the coming great default if people […]

Hirsch rips judge who led jury to rule against constitutional rights

Families take part in a tractor pull event in Lawrence County, Tenn., where a circuit court judge has churned up the soil of legal proprieties in mishandling a criminal case against an innocent Christian traveler. By David Tulis Arthur Jay Hirsch, 65, was convicted in December in a Lawrenceburg, Tenn., circuit court of four counts, […]

Prosecutor: Calling me ‘the government’ before jury ‘inflammatory’

By David Tulis Defense attorneys who talk about “the government” are trying to inflame jurors, who are seen as having increasing dislike of the modern state. Drew Justice, attorney So says a state prosecutor who is getting at least judges to use an awkward military term in the courtroom. The issue came up in 2013 […]

‘Fiddle man’ vows appeal after jury rejects constitutional protections

The claim and exercise of a constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime. — Miller v. U.S. 230 F 486, 489. Q What is sin? A Any thought, word or deed that breaks God’s law by omission or commission. — Questions from First Catechism, Biblical Truth for God’s Children It’s our goal to enhance […]

Swayed by envy, 12 on jury convict Hirsch of trying to live as free man

Arthur Jay Hirsch, a devout Christian in Lawrence County, Tenn., is leaving home for trial Dec. 22, 2015, in Lawrenceburg.  The “fiddle man” was convicted for operating on the presupposition that constitutional liberties can be exercised by individual Americans. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Won over by an appeal to envy, a jury convicted […]