You can no longer sue people because they steal your land, if you do, you
are a terroist!
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jan03/111509.asp
'Paper terrorist' gets five years in prison
By JEFF COLE
Last Updated: Jan. 17, 2003
Madison - A Town of Fredonia man whom authorities have termed a "paper
terrorist" was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for blitzing about
three dozen Ozaukee County officials with thousands of bogus legal documents.
Steven Magritz is led from a Dane County courtroom Friday after being
sentenced to five years in prison. Magritz was convicted in November of
filing thousands of false legal documents against Ozaukee County officials.
The case produced the first prison sentence to result from a special
anti-terrorism Domestic Security Unit created by then-Attorney General Jim
Doyle after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Among its other duties, the unit investigates and prosecutes
anti-government activists who try to intimidate government officials,
police and citizens by filing false legal documents.
In addition to the prison term, Dane County Circuit Judge C. William Foust
sentenced Steven Magritz, 57, to 18 months on probation.
Foust said he was trying to tell Magritz that his actions will not be
tolerated.
"I have set your probation at almost the minimum amount," Foust said to
Magritz. "I don't have any great hopes you will cooperate. I think your
probation will end up getting revoked. I don't see a lot of good coming out
of visiting you on some poor (state probation) agent."
Magritz will get credit for the 242 days he has already served in the Dane
County Jail awaiting trial, which means he will be released in the spring
of 2007.
Foust also said that Magritz must show his probation agent any legal
documents he plans to file before taking them to court.
Prison term 'sends a message'
"I think this sentence does send a message to people like Mr. Magritz that
there are going to be severe penalties if they abuse the law," said
Assistant Attorney General Roy Korte, who prosecuted the case.
Magritz has every right to believe whatever he wants, Korte said. However,
he crossed the line when he began harassing public officials who were only
doing their job.
"The prison sentence is certainly punishment," said one Magritz victim,
Ozaukee County Board Chairman Gus Wirth.
"I would have preferred that he be given additional probation. I would hope
he would be kept under supervision so (that) he not do this to other
people," said Wirth, who did not attend Friday's sentencing.
About a dozen Magritz supporters did attend the hearing. Afterward, one
member of the group handed out fliers that called Doyle, now Wisconsin's
governor, a "paper terrorist."
Another handed out a letter from a Carmel, Calif., radio program talk show
host asking Foust to sentence Magritz to time served and probation. The
host, Gene Forte, said in his letter that Magritz did what he did only
because he was trying to get somebody to listen to his side of the
foreclosure against him.
After a not-guilty plea was entered for him, Magritz was convicted Nov. 5
on seven counts of criminal slander of title because he filed bogus
documents in court.
Retaliation seen as motive
The charges were filed May 17 after Magritz bombarded officials by filing
fake legal documents, which authorities believe was in apparent retaliation
for Ozaukee County foreclosing on his 62-acre property along the Milwaukee
River in the Town of Fredonia.
The county took the property in 2001 because Magritz didn't pay about
$30,000 in property taxes.
Magritz filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against a number of county
officials, and also filed bogus liens against each official alleging they
owed him $15 million.
The bankruptcy petitions caused some officials' credit cards to be
canceled, almost caused the sale of one supervisor's house to be stopped,
and caused continuing credit problems for other officials.
Prosecution sought longer term
Korte had asked Foust to sentence Magritz to 15 years in prison and an
additional 10 to 15 years' probation. A presentence report recommended
sending Magritz to prison for 12 to 15 years.
Magritz is unrepentant, Korte said in court Friday. When he was in the Dane
County Jail, Magritz tried to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in
federal court in Madison in which he named a number of public officials,
including Foust, as creditors.
"He has continued to harass these people by seeking to depose them," Korte
said. "He needs to be told this is not acceptable. He is a paper terrorist
who intends to intimidate and harass people."
The judge said he did not believe that sending Magritz to prison for up to
15 years was right. He noted that not too long ago in Wisconsin, murderers
often served only 15 years before being released.
"As recalcitrant as Mr. Magritz is, I cannot see sending him to prison for
15 years," Foust said. "These are paper offenses. The harm was to people's
property."
Magritz said little that was easily understood during the court hearing. He
seemed to be alleging that the state of Wisconsin was bankrupt, and also
said several times when questioned by the judge that he "accepted for value
and returned for value." He also demanded that his case be tried in federal
court.
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Patriot act section 802
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c107:4:./temp/~c107y5DfQp:e337830:
SEC. 802. DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
(a) DOMESTIC TERRORISM DEFINED- Section 2331 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)(B)(iii), by striking `by assassination or kidnapping'
and inserting `by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping';
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking `and';
(3) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting `;
and'; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
`(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that--
`(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the
criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
`(B) appear to be intended--
`(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
`(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;
or etc...
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=231778
Attorney Busters is helping this man! (english)
xx 10:43am Tue Jan 28 '03
comment#231792
Attorney Busters
http://www.AttorneyBusters.com/
I will post interview soon.
Evidence is false against this man!
This man had his land taken because his family was involved in a previous
case against a person in city government.
A government official fabricated stories that this man was part of some
kind militia group, then later admitted that was false in a taped interview
with Attorney Busters!
Those supposed false documents(used to convict him) and other documents,
are now missing from the court records.
The reporter is also part of the city's good old boy network hence the
spin! This man's conviction was simply revenge from corrupt officials. I
will post mp3 soon!
