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PRESS RELEASE - for Immediate Release
23 April 2007
Contact: Daniel New, Project Manager
254-796-2173
ddnew@mikenew.com
Michael New Action Fund
Michael New Legal Defense Fund
P.O. Box 100
Iredell, Texas 76649
Former Army Specialist Michael New's
petition to the US Supreme Court, asking them to
review his case, and the lack of due process and the
sudden change in the legal "standard of review"
applied to it, has been denied. Thus ends a legal
battle that began in August of 1995.
What does this ruling mean to Americans?
If you are in the military, it means that you and
your attorneys have no right to present evidence in
your defense in courts-martial, for evidence has
suddenly become "discretionary element" of the
prosecution. This means that, if the judge and the
prosecutor want the jury to see your evidence, they
will allow it, and if they don't, they will deny it.
And the bottom line on this issue is that no member
of the Armed Forces can mount an effective legal
defense. They will be denied due process, and the
"standard of review" that has been recognized by all
Appellate Courts for over 40 years has just been
shredded. Lawyers will understand the legal chaos
and confusion that has just been upheld.
If you are in the military, or considering
enlisting, it also means that the Executive Branch
now will feel completely at liberty to ignore the US
Constitution, and place you in a United Nations
uniform, under the command authority of a foreign
officer, to pursue a military policy that is
distinct from the legal and official policies of the
United States of America. In effect, you may be
turned into a mercenary at the discretion of the
President. You are for sale, rent, hire, or loan, as
determined by the political party of the moment, and
you, or your children, may be ordered to fight,
bleed and possibly die for the United Nations,
without due process.
If you are a Member of Congress, or are represented
there, it means that the Executive Branch may now
send our soldiers into war, (under the UN), without
bothering with little inconveniences like getting a
Congressional Declaration of War. This, thanks to
Presidential Decision Directive #25, which was
touted as the legal basis of the order to send
Michael New under the UN, in apparent contradiction
of existing law and precedent. The balance of power
between the branches of government, as intended by
the Founding Fathers, has just been destroyed.
If you are a tinhorn petty dictator, posing no real
threat to the United States, it means you no longer
have to threaten the USA with words or action - that
the President can send troops to invade you without
a formal declaration of war.
There is more, but that's enough to demonstrate that
the USA has just experienced a figurative shifting
of the tectonic plates of our very existence, and
the USA is not what we have all been led to believe
it is - our Constitutional Republic is no longer
simply sick - it appears to be dead. If the
President can force Americans to fight, without a
declaration of war, under foreign powers, then the
Republic no longer exists.
Other than that, it's just another day. The grass
will continue to grow, and the sun will continue to
shine.
And what do we do now?
We're thinking about that, and considering many
options. This would be a very good time to give us
your own thinking on the subject.
Thank you all, so much, for your support over the
past decade.
Daniel New
Project Manager
Real Americans don't wear U.N. blue!
www.MikeNew.com
This is a U.N.-free Zone
www.UN-freeZone.org
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