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heart." He's an educated man, and has graduated from law school. So why didn't he know that a contract requires my 1 voluntary consent? Having waived my rights for me (which is an impossibility), he now tells me that I am going to appear 2 for trial on the date he chose for me, and that I am going to sign a promise to appear. I told him, "NO! I am not going to 3 sign such a contract agreement!" He became very wroth, and I was immediately arrested, chained to thieves, con artists, and 4 extortionists and thrown into jail for not agreeing to sign. 5 At least one of the sheriff's deputies handling me expressed disbelief at what she was hearing that I was arrested for not 6 agreeing to sign on to the commissioner's offer. Here they were digging through my pockets and relieving me of all my 7 possessions, and my crime is failing to accept an offer. This could only be a civil charge at best, but refusing to contract is 8 not a violation of a contract. I had not even agreed to the deprivation of a magistrate to appear before this commissioner. 9 No sooner had they illegally processed me into the Los Angeles County jail system, that they wanted to get rid of me. 10 Under California statute, no person can be jailed on an alleged infraction, but here I was in jail. The fact is, neither the 11 courts nor the administrative boards know how to deal with the rare individual who sensibly raises questions about the 12 existence of a contract, so they just bully forward with police power enforcement, and address nothing. 13 The deputies told me they were putting me out of jail, but that I must come back to court on the date specified by the 14 commissioner. I told them "No! I did not agree to appear." They told me that if I did not appear, I would be arrested. I 15 said that I was already under arrest, so just keep me in jail until you are finished with me. They said, we can't do that, we 16 don't have the money to keep you here. I said, "I'm not here to save you money. If you want me, just keep me here. If you 17 don't want me, put me out." So they threw me out of jail to get rid of me, and I never showed up later. In the meantime, I 18 commenced suit against the commissioner for kidnapping, holding me hostage and demanding ransom for my release. (His 19 ransom was my signature, for he said when I gave him my signature, I would be free to go. Of course, that was why I was 20 in jail because I did not agree to that.) 21 In my civil suit against the commissioner, I had him totally defenseless, and the trial judge hearing the case knew it. There 22 was absolutely no way the commissioner could lawfully wiggle off, but since when do judges do things lawfully? The trial 23 judge knew the commissioner was naked, and had no jurisdiction whatsoever for what he did to me. He slammed his hands 24 down on the bench and said, "Mr. Branson, in all my twenty years' career on the bench, I have never met a person like you." 25 He then quoted the words found in my complaint, "Just keep me in jail until you are finished with me." 26 This judge could see the potential chaotic conditions if every person which was stopped by the cops stated "Just keep me in 27 jail until you are finished with me." I was supposed to fear losing my job, my reputation and companionship and capitulate. 28 He knew that if everybody did what I was doing, the entire system would fall apart. I was suddenly costing government 29 mucho money to the tune of thousands upon thousands of dollars when the whole idea was to make some money from me. 30 This lawsuit continued for years all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, yet not one judge would address the issues of 31 my contract case. 32 I now refer to a humorous situation that sounds like make-believe. An acquaintance of mine was called into court by one of 33 the ABC "public service" administrative agencies to be cross-examined to discover information from him to be used against 34 him. He was asked to take the witness stand. They asked him to raise his right hand after which the clerk of the court said, 35 "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" He responded, "No, 36 I do not!" Everyone in the court gasped. (Remember, the right to say "Yes" also includes the right to say "No!") The judge 37 instructed the clerk to re-read the swearing-in again, supposing that he just did not understand the question. He responded 38 the second time, 39

"I heard you the first time, and my answer is, No, I do not!"

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"The Bible says, 'Let God be true, but every man a liar,' " (referring to Rom. 3:4), and "I am a man, and a liar."

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"Judge, you asked me a straight-forward question requiring either a yes, or a no answer. I gave you a straight- forward answer to your question, and that was No, I do not. You can't say I did not answer your question, for I did answer it, but you just don't like my answer. If you didn't want to hear my answer, then don't ask me the

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