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by WILL FOLKS
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South Carolina lawmakers have reportedly made veiled – and overt – threats to members of the S.C. supreme court following the justices’ recent rebuke of an unconstitutional legislative pay raise.
Earlier this year, state senators Shane Martin, Matt Leber and Darrell Jackson introduced a budget proviso that would have given lawmakers an additional $25,500 apiece in taxpayer-funded compensation between July 2025 and November 2026. Rubber-stamped by fiscally liberal, status quo governor Henry McMaster, these unconstitutional pay raises would have deprived taxpayers of an estimated $4.3 million in illegal legislative compensation over that time frame.
Would have… had fiscally conservative state senator Wes Climer not sued his colleagues to block the raises from taking effect.
As we reported last month, the court’s five justices unanimously sided with Climer and struck down the extra money – which expressly violated the clear language of the S.C. Constitution (Article III, Section 19). According to the Palmetto State’s founding document, “no General Assembly shall have the power to increase the per diem of its own members.”
“Notwithstanding this court’s strong and longstanding respect for the separation of powers and legislative deference, where a legislative enactment clearly contravenes our constitution, we have a duty to declare the legislative enactment unconstitutional,” chief justice John Kittredge wrote in an opinion endorsed by all four of the court’s associate justices (John Few, George C. “Buck” James Jr., Garrison Hill and Letitia Verdin).
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As we noted at the time, the court’s decision represented “a rare rebuke of the legislature by the judicial branch, which typically does the bidding of the powerful lawmakers who control the appointment, reappointment, salaries and budgets of Palmetto State justices and judges.”
Additionally, we noted state lawmakers routinely seek revenge whenever the court challenges them – as they are doing now against a justice who (correctly) called them out over their initial handling of the abortion issue. Lawmakers are currently conspiring to install one of their own – former S.C. House speaker Jay Lucas – after justice Few forced them to revisit their first bill limiting abortions in the Palmetto State.
FITSNews has criticized these machinations, arguing powerful lawyer-legislators – many of whom are profiting handsomely off of court rulings – are eroding the independence of the judicial branch by exerting improper, undue political influence over the selection of judges and, by extension, the rulings they reach.
“Unfortunately, there is no separation of powers in South Carolina… as the lawyer-legislator jihad against Few capably demonstrates,” we recently editorialized. “And no separation of powers means there are no checks – and no balances – on legislative control.”
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In recent weeks, “legislative control” has assumed a more sinister tone as at least one member of the S.C. Senate has reportedly “declared war” on the court in the aftermath of its ruling on the pay raises.
“Some senators have adopted a retaliatory posture,” a judicial branch source confirmed to FITSNews.
The source declined to name any of the senators allegedly engaged in retaliatory behavior, but the inter-branch battle was said to have included specific threats against the judiciary’s budget – and individual justices. Also, chief justice Kittredge was reportedly told he would not be invited to present his agency’s 2026-2027 budget request to the S.C. Senate this year – and at least one senator has reportedly refused to appear at events alongside Kittredge, telling organizers he would not be appearing on any panel or dais which included the chief justice.
None of our sources would identify the senator in question, however, citing a fear of retribution.
Reached for comment about the alleged threats, Climer said they were yet another reason why South Carolina must pass judicial reform that enhances constitutional separation of powers.
“I hope this isn’t true, but if it is, it would be yet another shameful example of why we need judicial reform,” Climer told FITSNews. “The legislature has too much power over the judiciary and is all too willing to abuse it.”
Meanwhile, Isle of Palms, S.C. businessman Rom Reddy, whose DOGE SC group is pushing a comprehensive judicial reform bill as part of its broader agenda – said the alleged threats were indicative of a fundamental imbalance in power between South Carolina’s ostensibly co-equal branches of government.
“Here is a perfect example of a too-powerful legislative branch,” Reddy said. “They do not like the decision of the judicial branch and they feel like they can exercise their power and intimidate those associated with a judicial ruling. Enough already. Now wonder how a citizen feels when the lawyer-legislator is on the other side intimidating the judge they appoint. Judicial reform is just the first step toward a strong citizen/weak government system that our founders fought and died for.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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Do you want to add some more information to this issue? The governor who you want to appoint judges, threatened all of the judges when they didn’t rule the way he wanted them to. But you’ve never written a single article about that. Because that involved issues you agree with. You aren’t upset about a judiciary that doesn’t do what they’re supposed to do. You’re upset about a judiciary that doesn’t do what you want them to do.
All of your positions on the judicial system are bought and paid for by whoever is buying and paying for them. If you have even a shred of integrity, why don’t you tell us where all of the money to this website comes from!?
“‘Some senators have adopted a retaliatory posture,’ a judicial branch source confirmed to FITSNews.
The source declined to name any of the senators allegedly engaged in retaliatory behavior, but the inter-branch battle was said to have included specific threats against the judiciary’s budget – and individual justices.”
“[A] judicial branch source confirmed to FITSNews”?
What business does the “judicial branch” have having its “source” talk on background to FITSNews?
Does the “judicial branch” have a secret lobbyist contacting media and spreading “the judicial branch’s” new line of victimhood?
If that “source” or those “sources” (in the plural as the title of your article says) is/are actual judges, (s)he/they should be IMPEACHED for engaging in political activity to benefit themselves.
If that “source” or those “sources” are paid staffers, they should be FIRED for engaging in lobbying, which (I assume) is not in their job description.
That decision striking the legislative pay raise down was not a heroic, principled one but a cynical pick of a low-hanging fruit.
That very SC supreme court was not so protective of public money when it received a 35% increase in its base salaries. Nor is it so protective of public money when it gives additional pay to retired judges to hold court when the judges in regular active service are sitting around gossiping among themselves instead of deciding cases.
Want true separation of powers?
Then take SC’s office of court administration from under SC’s chief justice’s control and put it under the governor’s control where it belongs and where it is all other states and in the federal government.
The judiciary’s role is to decide cases or controversies properly before it, not to play with money and set budgets. Budgeting is an executive, not judicial, role.
It is SC’s judiciary which is intruding on the other two branches, not the reverse.
Also, those abortion decisions were a two-act play. Everyone knew that, in the end, SC will have a law that neither respects the integrity of human life (which begins at fertilization) nor gives full privacy rights to people. Everyone knew that, in the end, SC will have an abortion law that is a political compromise.
Few’s decisions in that case were a power play and a waste of time. He was simply flexing his verbal muscles and making the legislature redo its homework or go to the corner of the class.
Want real judicial reform?
Then start by naming the Justices’ law clerks and the members of staff counsel and put the names of those secret lawyers who really decide the cases, specially the unpublished/unargued ones.
Heck! Do we even know how those law clerks/staff counsel are hired? Is it merit or nepotism?
Who says that Jay Lucas or Ralph Anderson, III will not make a better Justice than John Few?
This comment of mine is too good to not try again for it to be posted. So, here it is again because FITS’s “source” or “sources” in “the judicial branch” must have spoken to Will about me:
“‘Some senators have adopted a retaliatory posture,’ a judicial branch source confirmed to FITSNews.
The source declined to name any of the senators allegedly engaged in retaliatory behavior, but the inter-branch battle was said to have included specific threats against the judiciary’s budget – and individual justices.”
“[A] judicial branch source confirmed to FITSNews”?
What business does the “judicial branch” have having its “source” talk on background to FITSNews?
Does the “judicial branch” have a secret lobbyist contacting media and spreading “the judicial branch’s” new line of victimhood?
If that “source” or those “sources” (in the plural as the title of your article says) is/are actual judges, (s)he/they should be IMPEACHED for engaging in political activity to benefit themselves.
If that “source” or those “sources” are paid staffers, they should be FIRED for engaging in lobbying, which (I assume) is not in their job description.
That decision striking the legislative pay raise down was not a heroic, principled one but a cynical pick of a low-hanging fruit.
That very SC supreme court was not so protective of public money when it received a 35% increase in its base salaries. Nor is it so protective of public money when it gives additional pay to retired judges to hold court when the judges in regular active service are sitting around gossiping among themselves instead of deciding cases.
Want true separation of powers?
Then take SC’s office of court administration from under SC’s chief justice’s control and put it under the governor’s control where it belongs and where it is all other states and in the federal government.
The judiciary’s role is to decide cases or controversies properly before it, not to play with money and set budgets. Budgeting is an executive, not judicial, role.
It is SC’s judiciary which is intruding on the other two branches, not the reverse.
Also, those abortion decisions were a two-act play. Everyone knew that, in the end, SC will have a law that neither respects the integrity of human life (which begins at fertilization) nor gives full privacy rights to people. Everyone knew that, in the end, SC will have an abortion law that is a political compromise.
Few’s decisions in that case were a power play and a waste of time. He was simply flexing his verbal muscles and making the legislature redo its homework or go to the corner of the class.
Want real judicial reform?
Then start by naming the Justices’ law clerks and the members of staff counsel and put the names of those secret lawyers who really decide the cases, specially the unpublished/unargued ones.
Heck! Do we even know how those law clerks/staff counsel are hired? Is it merit or nepotism?
Who says that Jay Lucas or Ralph Anderson, III will not make a better Justice than John Few?
It sounds like subzero is a sitting state senator…
I wish. What I am is a victim of robes gone rogue.
And they expect me to be grateful to them!
Well! FITS is back at not letting my comments through. So, here is the most recent one again:
They will not have my soul though, by now, all doubt has left me that they want my body dead; and I can prove it with objective documents and transcripts.
In my soul, I still love my enemy as myself, perhaps even more. But the evil I keep discovering in those enemies makes fear the motivating factor. And I am entitled to self-protection for Jesus Christ enjoined us to be meek as doves but wise as snakes.
No doubt is left in my mind that, when given the choice between vindicating me after Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) blundered into my false 2 December 2009 arrest thinking I will knuckle under (but I did not) and contriving to have me killed in ways the law does not reach, at least Hatchet-for-Hire Heather, Jean Toal, John Kittredge, John Few, Terry Lynn Wooten, and Juliana Michelle Childs, chose the latter; and each made his/her choice for cheap personal gains.
And I am taking a big risk here because I love those enemies of mine and I want to rescue their children and grandchildren from self-harm/self-neglect which runs in their families and which can only be cured by learning to value human life.
You cannot teach your children/grandchildren to not commit suicide no matter how embarrassing a situation they fell into without you yourself giving them the example of publicly confessing your transgressions and making amends to your victims.
You cannot do that any more than you can build computers without rare earth.
And, yes, there will be figurative swords out for you if and when you publicly confess your transgressions; but there is something called forgiveness which elevates human beings above animals.
Forgiveness does not now prevent me from calling for Jean Toal and John Kittredge to be impeached and for John Few to withdraw from the race for re-election.
And, God willing and FITS permitting, I shall come back to why this state cannot move forward without impeaching Jean Toal and John Kittredge later.
This comment focusses on John Few because I am still moved by his reported comment when first elected Justice that his highest ambition in life is not be a Justice but to be a good father to his children.
Now, John Few has a young step-daughter who was apparently orphaned by her father’s suicide.
I must confess that, upon revisiting John Few’s bio, to find out if he was still on his turbulent second marriage about which FITSNews had reported so extensively a few years ago, I found out he was on his third marriage, and to a lawyer half his age.
I must confess that I thought to myself, Oh the S.o.B.: first he forces an employee to have sex with him then he destroys a young lawyer’s marriage to get her as a trophy wife!
Then I used the tools I had taught myself to uncover the realities of the false witnesses Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (Weiss) had arrayed against me in 2009 to search the public records and found out that John Few’s third wife was a widow, not a divorcee.
My epidemiology/biostatistics-primed mind knows the most likely causes of death per gender and age group. And my experience with “lawyer speak” knows that “died unexpectedly” or when no cause of death is given for a middle-age lawyer or other white collar, the real cause is suicide.
For his new step-daughter, John Few must withdraw from the race and confess how he signed on to the conspiracy to get me killed in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center by sending me there to punish me for using POLITE email to enquire why Rasputin Shearouse had mislabeled some of my filed papers and disappeared others.
Rasputin Shearouse, I later gathered, had found a 21-karat gold hand-carved charm that dropped from my chain on a visit to SC’s Supreme Court building in November 2001 and is now worn by John Kittredge’s unwed single-mother daughter in her FaceBook photos.
Yes, they had not scruples against sending me to my death (thank God, narrowly avoided) at ASGDC so Kittredge’s daughter can wear my gold and display it without fear. That is how little they value my life.
What they do not understand is that their children and grandchildren will learn to de-value their own lives and be likely to commit suicide or engage in self-destructive behavior.
To be continued, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Because I want SubZeroIQ followers to see this, I try to post it again and see what happens:
They will not have my soul though, by now, all doubt has left me that they want my body dead; and I can prove it with objective documents and transcripts.
In my soul, I still love my enemy as myself, perhaps even more. But the evil I keep discovering in those enemies makes fear the motivating factor. And I am entitled to self-protection for Jesus Christ enjoined us to be meek as doves but wise as snakes.
No doubt is left in my mind that, when given the choice between vindicating me after Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) blundered into my false 2 December 2009 arrest thinking I will knuckle under (but I did not) and contriving to have me killed in ways the law does not reach, at least Hatchet-for-Hire Heather, Jean Toal, John Kittredge, John Few, Terry Lynn Wooten, and Juliana Michelle Childs, chose the latter; and each made his/her choice for cheap personal gains.
And I am taking a big risk here because I love those enemies of mine and I want to rescue their children and grandchildren from self-harm/self-neglect which runs in their families and which can only be cured by learning to value human life.
You cannot teach your children/grandchildren to not commit suicide no matter how embarrassing a situation they fell into without you yourself giving them the example of publicly confessing your transgressions and making amends to your victims.
You cannot do that any more than you can build computers without rare earth.
And, yes, there will be figurative swords out for you if and when you publicly confess your transgressions; but there is something called forgiveness which elevates human beings above animals.
Forgiveness does not now prevent me from calling for Jean Toal and John Kittredge to be impeached and for John Few to withdraw from the race for re-election.
And, God willing and FITS permitting, I shall come back to why this state cannot move forward without impeaching Jean Toal and John Kittredge later.
This comment focusses on John Few because I am still moved by his reported comment when first elected Justice that his highest ambition in life is not be a Justice but to be a good father to his children.
Now, John Few has a young step-daughter who was apparently orphaned by her father’s suicide.
I must confess that, upon revisiting John Few’s bio, to find out if he was still on his turbulent second marriage about which FITSNews had reported so extensively a few years ago, I found out he was on his third marriage, and to a lawyer half his age.
I must confess that I thought to myself, Oh the S.o.B.: first he forces an employee to have sex with him then he destroys a young lawyer’s marriage to get her as a trophy wife!
Then I used the tools I had taught myself to uncover the realities of the false witnesses Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (Weiss) had arrayed against me in 2009 to search the public records and found out that John Few’s third wife was a widow, not a divorcee.
My epidemiology/biostatistics-primed mind knows the most likely causes of death per gender and age group. And my experience with “lawyer speak” knows that “died unexpectedly” or when no cause of death is given for a middle-age lawyer or other white collar, the real cause is suicide.
For his new step-daughter, John Few must withdraw from the race and confess how he signed on to the conspiracy to get me killed in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center by sending me there to punish me for using POLITE email to enquire why Rasputin Shearouse had mislabeled some of my filed papers and disappeared others.
Rasputin Shearouse, I later gathered, had found a 21-karat gold hand-carved charm that dropped from my chain on a visit to SC’s Supreme Court building in November 2001 and is now worn by John Kittredge’s unwed single-mother daughter in her FaceBook photos.
Yes, they had not scruples against sending me to my death (thank God, narrowly avoided) at ASGDC so Kittredge’s daughter can wear my gold and display it without fear. That is how little they value my life.
What they do not understand is that their children and grandchildren will learn to de-value their own lives and be likely to commit suicide or engage in self-destructive behavior.
To be continued, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Golda Meir reportedly said “When the Palestinians loved their children more than they hate us, we will have peace in the region.”
And paraphrasing her, if South Carolina’s judges and prosecutors loved the law more than they hate Dr. Marie Faltas, South Carolina would have been a model in scientific legislating, prosecuting, and judging, using Dr. Faltas’ ideas.
The Old Testament Joseph’s brother wanted to kill him in jealousy of his dreams and the coat of many colors Jacob made for him.
But jealousy of my intellect is not the only, or even leading, reason it is more important for them to discredit me than to benefit from my ideas.
And now that I know they have decided to literally eliminate me as King David eliminated Uriah the Hittite without physically laying a finger on him, I’ll be darned if I’ll take my knowledge of what they did to my grave.
You see, in 2007, I had orally argued my case WITHOUT A LAWYER against the City of Columbia before SC’s Court of Appeals and won a unanimous, albeit unpublished decision and SC’s supreme court denied the City’s application for certiorari, which sealed my victory. Shortly thereafter, the City conceded and dismissed the false charge against me, which it had procured with a fabricated Polaroid. The City conceded but kept against me an immense rancor, and coincidentally resumed paying Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) $70K/year in addition to her salary as then an assistant solicitor to Barney Giese.
Simultaneously, one Sharon Bonner Koon (a BFF of federal Judge Terry Wooten’s second wife, Susie Jones Wooten) saw the coming of the burst of the housing bubble and the HMAP and, with Koon’s husband, concocted a scheme to evict Mother and me from a mortgaged house she was renting to us since 2002, falsely pretend that it had been their residence all along, default on the mortgage but get the entire mortgage forgiven under the federal HMAP which is meant SOLELY for owner-occupied defaulters.
To evict us, she demanded an unjustified rent raise, and when we insisted on the contractual rent instead, she started eviction proceedings which normally take several steps and three layers of appeals. Barely into the second layer, Koon asked Susie Wooten to have Jean Toal jump the case from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court for no stated reason.
That is an extra-ordinary thing, but not for Jean Toal, who saw her position as a divine endowment to dispense favors and collect I.O.U.s.
An I.O.U. from any federal judge is a big thing but specially from Terry Wooten, who had long served in Senator Thurmond’s office and a had a role in Clarence Thomas’ confirmation. True, Strom Thurmond was dead by then; but the Washington connections and the institutional memories did not die with him. And with Obama in office, good will from a former Republican Judicial Committee staffer would come in very handy when Obama nominates a friend of Toal’s to the federal bench, as Obama did in selecting a then-only-three-year-serving state judge: Juliana Michelle Childs.
And what is the price of that valuable I.O.U.? Only an unfair ruling against Dr. Marie Faltas and her mother, both of whom have absolutely no value to Toal, to her four Associate Justices, and to her Rasputin of the Court, Clerk Shearouse.
Mortgage fraud, by pretending a rental property or a vacation home is a primary residence to get a lower interest rate is a very serious matter. When discovered, it caused the U.K.’s Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, to resign. And in the U.S. it is given as a cause to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Board of Governors, which controls interest rates.
I am objectively certain that the jumping of the case from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court was at the request of Terry Wooten and/or his wife directly to Jean Toal or via Rasputin Shearouse.
What I do not know, and am NOT alleging, is that the Wootens know of Koon’s intent to expedite the process to commit mortgage fraud.
What I do know is that when I found out the Koon had defaulted on the mortgage and FALSELY claimed the rental house as her long time primary residence, I reported it to the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and got back an initial response that they were interested in the matter in the summer of 2008. And immediately thereafter, Toal issued her enigmatic order halting all foreclosures on owner-occupied homes, which by then Koon had made the rental house from which she had evicted us and left her real unmortgaged primary residence of 30 years vacant for two years.
The federal stature of limitations my have elapsed; but there is no statute of limitations on any crime in South Carolina.
If Terry Wooten did not know of his second wife’s BFF’s fraudulent scheme, he does now; and the least he can do is ask Alan Wilson to investigate it,
So, in the meanwhile, I had to rent something else quickly and fell into one Dinah Gail Steele and her consort one Larry Wayne Mason, not knowing the criminal background of the latter, who, by now, had both his second wife and his first-born sone shot in the head two decades apart but by Larry Mason’s gun, in his home, and in his sole presence, but neither of the deaths was investigated. Mason’s second and last son is also listed dead in the middle of drug charges. It is 50-50 whether that second son’s death is real or fake because no obituary or death certificate for him appears anywhere.
Larry Mason’s lawyer is Tetterton, who has an unlimited term on the Midlands “Citizens” Committee which pre-screens judicial candidates for the Judicial Merit Selection Commission.
Tired of renting, and a dreamer of solar energy, with Mother, I bought un undeveloped parcel of land contingent to Steele’s two rental quadriplexes, the ugliest in Columbia, not knowing that Steele and the City had surreptitiously and illegally run the sewer connections to those two quadriplexes under the parcel Mother and I bought.
I made a formal and polite demand for the sewer pipes to be re-routed, which was feasible at a small expense, but Steele and Mason refused and started a war against Mother and me. No matter how small the expense of re-routing the sewer lines, it was greater than the ZERO at which they valued Mother’s life and mine, just as Jean Toal had valued our lives at ZERO when she hastened our brutal set out without regard to a risk of homelessness or exhaustion in the process.
So, I sued to stop the war and get the pipes re-routed and also joined Koon for the damages resulting from her scheme.
Oops! I had unsuspectingly joined a federal judge’s wife’s BFF and an unprosecuted wife killer in one law suit and had naively thought that, so long as my cause was just, I shall prevail.
And I was in the preliminary stages, until Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) entered the scene.
You see: when a rich company wants a rich man’s land for a company project, they raise the monetary offer.
But when an unprosecuted wife-killer wants the neighboring land of a widow and her fatherless daughter, he conspires to get the daughter falsely arrested.
They knew I do nothing wrong, not even a parking ticket. So they used South Carolina’s harassment and stalking statute which, in their interpretation, criminalizes my look out of my own window when my neighbor was causing a commotion in the common parking lot.
Really, As always there is a transcript to support what I say.
So, I promptly applied to have that stature invalidated as unconstitutional, specially under that grotesque interpretation.
What did that South Carolina Supreme Court which is claiming victimhood because it invalidated another statute of the Legislature do?
Without addressing the merits of my challenge to the stature, Jean Toal had Michelle Childs draft for her an order that I am banned from seeking writs without a lawyer. Michelle Childs’ being the ghost writer of that order came out in the New York Times when Childs was being pushed against Kantaji Brown Jackson and Jean Toal wanted to glorify Childs as working through her last day of pregnancy and promptly producing an order for Toal. (Though Toal did not specify I was the subject of the order, it was the only one issued on the Christmas Eve 2009, when Childs was pre-labor in her one and only pregnancy. Childs was then a state judge but nominated for the federal bench.
So, when that supreme court pretends, and through secret “sources” to FItSNews at that, to be “threatened” by state senators because it is so principled and pure-minded as to strike unconstitutional statutes, DO NOT BELIEVE IT.
God willing and FITS permitting, I shall next post the transcript proof that Kittredge wants to sweep under the rug what was done to me in 2009 and since.
Dead or alive, so help me God, I shall have that brutality done to me by those we are supposed to call “honerable” be shouted from the roof tops.
This is the continuation:
Golda Meir reportedly said “When the Palestinians loved their children more than they hate us, we will have peace in the region.”
And paraphrasing her, if South Carolina’s judges and prosecutors loved the law more than they hate Dr. Marie Faltas, South Carolina would have been a model in scientific legislating, prosecuting, and judging, using Dr. Faltas’ ideas.
The Old Testament Joseph’s brother wanted to kill him in jealousy of his dreams and the coat of many colors Jacob made for him.
But jealousy of my intellect is not the only, or even leading, reason it is more important for them to discredit me than to benefit from my ideas.
And now that I know they have decided to literally eliminate me as King David eliminated Uriah the Hittite without physically laying a finger on him, I’ll be darned if I’ll take my knowledge of what they did to my grave.
You see, in 2007, I had orally argued my case WITHOUT A LAWYER against the City of Columbia before SC’s Court of Appeals and won a unanimous, albeit unpublished decision and SC’s supreme court denied the City’s application for certiorari, which sealed my victory. Shortly thereafter, the City conceded and dismissed the false charge against me, which it had procured with a fabricated Polaroid. The City conceded but kept against me an immense rancor, and coincidentally resumed paying Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) $70K/year in addition to her salary as then an assistant solicitor to Barney Giese.
Simultaneously, one Sharon Bonner Koon (a BFF of federal Judge Terry Wooten’s second wife, Susie Jones Wooten) saw the coming of the burst of the housing bubble and the HMAP and, with Koon’s husband, concocted a scheme to evict Mother and me from a mortgaged house she was renting to us since 2002, falsely pretend that it had been their residence all along, default on the mortgage but get the entire mortgage forgiven under the federal HMAP which is meant SOLELY for owner-occupied defaulters.
To evict us, she demanded an unjustified rent raise, and when we insisted on the contractual rent instead, she started eviction proceedings which normally take several steps and three layers of appeals. Barely into the second layer, Koon asked Susie Wooten to have Jean Toal jump the case from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court for no stated reason.
That is an extra-ordinary thing, but not for Jean Toal, who saw her position as a divine endowment to dispense favors and collect I.O.U.s.
An I.O.U. from any federal judge is a big thing but specially from Terry Wooten, who had long served in Senator Thurmond’s office and a had a role in Clarence Thomas’ confirmation. True, Strom Thurmond was dead by then; but the Washington connections and the institutional memories did not die with him. And with Obama in office, good will from a former Republican Judicial Committee staffer would come in very handy when Obama nominates a friend of Toal’s to the federal bench, as Obama did in selecting a then-only-three-year-serving state judge: Juliana Michelle Childs.
And what is the price of that valuable I.O.U.? Only an unfair ruling against Dr. Marie Faltas and her mother, both of whom have absolutely no value to Toal, to her four Associate Justices, and to her Rasputin of the Court, Clerk Shearouse.
Mortgage fraud, by pretending a rental property or a vacation home is a primary residence to get a lower interest rate is a very serious matter. When discovered, it caused the U.K.’s Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, to resign. And in the U.S. it is given as a cause to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Board of Governors, which controls interest rates.
I am objectively certain that the jumping of the case from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court was at the request of Terry Wooten and/or his wife directly to Jean Toal or via Rasputin Shearouse.
What I do not know, and am NOT alleging, is that the Wootens know of Koon’s intent to expedite the process to commit mortgage fraud.
What I do know is that when I found out the Koon had defaulted on the mortgage and FALSELY claimed the rental house as her long time primary residence, I reported it to the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and got back an initial response that they were interested in the matter in the summer of 2008. And immediately thereafter, Toal issued her enigmatic order halting all foreclosures on owner-occupied homes, which by then Koon had made the rental house from which she had evicted us and left her real unmortgaged primary residence of 30 years vacant for two years.
The federal stature of limitations my have elapsed; but there is no statute of limitations on any crime in South Carolina.
If Terry Wooten did not know of his second wife’s BFF’s fraudulent scheme, he does now; and the least he can do is ask Alan Wilson to investigate it,
So, in the meanwhile, I had to rent something else quickly and fell into one Dinah Gail Steele and her consort one Larry Wayne Mason, not knowing the criminal background of the latter, who, by now, had both his second wife and his first-born sone shot in the head two decades apart but by Larry Mason’s gun, in his home, and in his sole presence, but neither of the deaths was investigated. Mason’s second and last son is also listed dead in the middle of drug charges. It is 50-50 whether that second son’s death is real or fake because no obituary or death certificate for him appears anywhere.
Larry Mason’s lawyer is Tetterton, who has an unlimited term on the Midlands “Citizens” Committee which pre-screens judicial candidates for the Judicial Merit Selection Commission.
Tired of renting, and a dreamer of solar energy, with Mother, I bought un undeveloped parcel of land contingent to Steele’s two rental quadriplexes, the ugliest in Columbia, not knowing that Steele and the City had surreptitiously and illegally run the sewer connections to those two quadriplexes under the parcel Mother and I bought.
I made a formal and polite demand for the sewer pipes to be re-routed, which was feasible at a small expense, but Steele and Mason refused and started a war against Mother and me. No matter how small the expense of re-routing the sewer lines, it was greater than the ZERO at which they valued Mother’s life and mine, just as Jean Toal had valued our lives at ZERO when she hastened our brutal set out without regard to a risk of homelessness or exhaustion in the process.
So, I sued to stop the war and get the pipes re-routed and also joined Koon for the damages resulting from her scheme.
Oops! I had unsuspectingly joined a federal judge’s wife’s BFF and an unprosecuted wife killer in one law suit and had naively thought that, so long as my cause was just, I shall prevail.
And I was in the preliminary stages, until Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) entered the scene.
You see: when a rich company wants a rich man’s land for a company project, they raise the monetary offer.
But when an unprosecuted wife-killer wants the neighboring land of a widow and her fatherless daughter, he conspires to get the daughter falsely arrested.
They knew I do nothing wrong, not even a parking ticket. So they used South Carolina’s harassment and stalking statute which, in their interpretation, criminalizes my look out of my own window when my neighbor was causing a commotion in the common parking lot.
Really, As always there is a transcript to support what I say.
So, I promptly applied to have that stature invalidated as unconstitutional, specially under that grotesque interpretation.
What did that South Carolina Supreme Court which is claiming victimhood because it invalidated another statute of the Legislature do?
Without addressing the merits of my challenge to the stature, Jean Toal had Michelle Childs draft for her an order that I am banned from seeking writs without a lawyer. Michelle Childs’ being the ghost writer of that order came out in the New York Times when Childs was being pushed against Kantaji Brown Jackson and Jean Toal wanted to glorify Childs as working through her last day of pregnancy and promptly producing an order for Toal. (Though Toal did not specify I was the subject of the order, it was the only one issued on the Christmas Eve 2009, when Childs was pre-labor in her one and only pregnancy. Childs was then a state judge but nominated for the federal bench.
So, when that supreme court pretends, and through secret “sources” to FItSNews at that, to be “threatened” by state senators because it is so principled and pure-minded as to strike unconstitutional statutes, DO NOT BELIEVE IT.
God willing and FITS permitting, I shall next post the transcript proof that Kittredge wants to sweep under the rug what was done to me in 2009 and since.
Dead or alive, so help me God, I shall have that brutality done to me by those we are supposed to call “honerable” be shouted from the roof tops.
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Golda Meir reportedly said “When the Palestinians loved their children more than they hate us, we will have peace in the region.”
And paraphrasing her, if South Carolina’s judges and prosecutors loved the law more than they hate Dr. Marie Faltas, South Carolina would have been a model in scientific legislating, prosecuting, and judging, using Dr. Faltas’ ideas.
The Old Testament Joseph’s brother wanted to kill him in jealousy of his dreams and the coat of many colors Jacob made for him.
But jealousy of my intellect is not the only, or even leading, reason it is more important for them to discredit me than to benefit from my ideas.
And now that I know they have decided to literally eliminate me as King David eliminated Uriah the Hittite without physically laying a finger on him, I’ll be darned if I’ll take my knowledge of what they did to my grave.
You see, in 2007, I had orally argued my case WITHOUT A LAWYER against the City of Columbia before SC’s Court of Appeals and won a unanimous, albeit unpublished decision and SC’s supreme court denied the City’s application for certiorari, which sealed my victory. Shortly thereafter, the City conceded and dismissed the false charge against me, which it had procured with a fabricated Polaroid. The City conceded but kept against me an immense rancor, and coincidentally resumed paying Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) $70K/year in addition to her salary as then an assistant solicitor to Barney Giese.
Simultaneously, one Sharon Bonner Koon (a BFF of federal Judge Terry Wooten’s second wife, Susie Jones Wooten) saw the coming of the burst of the housing bubble and the HMAP and, with Koon’s husband, concocted a scheme to evict Mother and me from a mortgaged house she was renting to us since 2002, falsely pretend that it had been their residence all along, default on the mortgage but get the entire mortgage forgiven under the federal HMAP which is meant SOLELY for owner-occupied defaulters.
To evict us, she demanded an unjustified rent raise, and when we insisted on the contractual rent instead, she started eviction proceedings which normally take several steps and three layers of appeals. Barely into the second layer, Koon asked Susie Wooten to have Jean Toal jump the case from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court for no stated reason.
That is an extra-ordinary thing, but not for Jean Toal, who saw her position as a divine endowment to dispense favors and collect I.O.U.s.
An I.O.U. from any federal judge is a big thing but specially from Terry Wooten, who had long served in Senator Thurmond’s office and a had a role in Clarence Thomas’ confirmation. True, Strom Thurmond was dead by then; but the Washington connections and the institutional memories did not die with him. And with Obama in office, good will from a former Republican Judicial Committee staffer would come in very handy when Obama nominates a friend of Toal’s to the federal bench, as Obama did in selecting a then-only-three-year-serving state judge: Juliana Michelle Childs.
And what is the price of that valuable I.O.U.? Only an unfair ruling against Dr. Marie Faltas and her mother, both of whom have absolutely no value to Toal, to her four Associate Justices, and to her Rasputin of the Court, Clerk Shearouse.
Mortgage fraud, by pretending a rental property or a vacation home is a primary residence to get a lower interest rate is a very serious matter. When discovered, it caused the U.K.’s Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, to resign. And in the U.S. it is given as a cause to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Board of Governors, which controls interest rates.
I am objectively certain that the jumping of the case from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court was at the request of Terry Wooten and/or his wife directly to Jean Toal or via Rasputin Shearouse.
What I do not know, and am NOT alleging, is that the Wootens know of Koon’s intent to expedite the process to commit mortgage fraud.
What I do know is that when I found out the Koon had defaulted on the mortgage and FALSELY claimed the rental house as her long time primary residence, I reported it to the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and got back an initial response that they were interested in the matter in the summer of 2008. And immediately thereafter, Toal issued her enigmatic order halting all foreclosures on owner-occupied homes, which by then Koon had made the rental house from which she had evicted us and left her real unmortgaged primary residence of 30 years vacant for two years.
The federal stature of limitations my have elapsed; but there is no statute of limitations on any crime in South Carolina.
If Terry Wooten did not know of his second wife’s BFF’s fraudulent scheme, he does now; and the least he can do is ask Alan Wilson to investigate it,
So, in the meanwhile, I had to rent something else quickly and fell into one Dinah Gail Steele and her consort one Larry Wayne Mason, not knowing the criminal background of the latter, who, by now, had both his second wife and his first-born sone shot in the head two decades apart but by Larry Mason’s gun, in his home, and in his sole presence, but neither of the deaths was investigated. Mason’s second and last son is also listed dead in the middle of drug charges. It is 50-50 whether that second son’s death is real or fake because no obituary or death certificate for him appears anywhere.
Larry Mason’s lawyer is Tetterton, who has an unlimited term on the Midlands “Citizens” Committee which pre-screens judicial candidates for the Judicial Merit Selection Commission.
Tired of renting, and a dreamer of solar energy, with Mother, I bought un undeveloped parcel of land contingent to Steele’s two rental quadriplexes, the ugliest in Columbia, not knowing that Steele and the City had surreptitiously and illegally run the sewer connections to those two quadriplexes under the parcel Mother and I bought.
I made a formal and polite demand for the sewer pipes to be re-routed, which was feasible at a small expense, but Steele and Mason refused and started a war against Mother and me. No matter how small the expense of re-routing the sewer lines, it was greater than the ZERO at which they valued Mother’s life and mine, just as Jean Toal had valued our lives at ZERO when she hastened our brutal set out without regard to a risk of homelessness or exhaustion in the process.
So, I sued to stop the war and get the pipes re-routed and also joined Koon for the damages resulting from her scheme.
Oops! I had unsuspectingly joined a federal judge’s wife’s BFF and an unprosecuted wife killer in one law suit and had naively thought that, so long as my cause was just, I shall prevail.
And I was in the preliminary stages, until Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) entered the scene.
You see: when a rich company wants a rich man’s land for a company project, they raise the monetary offer.
But when an unprosecuted wife-killer wants the neighboring land of a widow and her fatherless daughter, he conspires to get the daughter falsely arrested.
They knew I do nothing wrong, not even a parking ticket. So they used South Carolina’s harassment and stalking statute which, in their interpretation, criminalizes my look out of my own window when my neighbor was causing a commotion in the common parking lot.
Really, As always there is a transcript to support what I say.
So, I promptly applied to have that stature invalidated as unconstitutional, specially under that grotesque interpretation.
What did that South Carolina Supreme Court which is claiming victimhood because it invalidated another statute of the Legislature do?
Without addressing the merits of my challenge to the stature, Jean Toal had Michelle Childs draft for her an order that I am banned from seeking writs without a lawyer. Michelle Childs’ being the ghost writer of that order came out in the New York Times when Childs was being pushed against Kantaji Brown Jackson and Jean Toal wanted to glorify Childs as working through her last day of pregnancy and promptly producing an order for Toal. (Though Toal did not specify I was the subject of the order, it was the only one issued on the Christmas Eve 2009, when Childs was pre-labor in her one and only pregnancy. Childs was then a state judge but nominated for the federal bench.
So, when that supreme court pretends, and through secret “sources” to FItSNews at that, to be “threatened” by state senators because it is so principled and pure-minded as to strike unconstitutional statutes, DO NOT BELIEVE IT.
God willing and FITS permitting, I shall next post the transcript proof that Kittredge wants to sweep under the rug what was done to me in 2009 and since.
Dead or alive, so help me God, I shall have that brutality done to me by those we are supposed to call “honerable” be shouted from the roof tops.
Here are excerpts from the transcript of FOUR HOURS the entire Supreme Court of South Carolina minus then-Chief Justice Beatty plus then-Retired Court of Appeals Chief Judge Lockemy spent on 22 March 2022 pandering to the bug now-resigned SC Circuit Judge D. Craig Brown put in Kettridge’s ear to imprison me without jury trial for six months for supposed contempt of court.
The complete transcript itself is available in federal cases via PACER and for free on C-Track in a different case. But the contempt case itself, Appellate Case 2021-000815 is not on C-Track even thought original jurisdiction cases are now on C-Track.
Senators do not to “threaten” Kittredge, they only need to review the scandal of his actions in that case and decide for themselves whether it is more important to make lawful immigrant miserable or to attract investments from all over the country and the world to South Carolina.
Foreign-born talent and treasure is unsafe in South Carolina so long as Kittredge sits as its Chief Justice and with immense administrative powers which the federal constitution does not allow in a republican form of government.
The transcript excerpts shall, God willing and FITS permitting, follow.
Again, this may be a duplicate:
Here are excerpts from the transcript of FOUR HOURS the entire Supreme Court of South Carolina minus then-Chief Justice Beatty plus then-Retired Court of Appeals Chief Judge Lockemy spent on 22 March 2022 pandering to the bug now-resigned SC Circuit Judge D. Craig Brown put in Kettridge’s ear to imprison me without jury trial for six months for supposed contempt of court.
The complete transcript itself is available in federal cases via PACER and for free on C-Track in a different case. But the contempt case itself, Appellate Case 2021-000815 is not on C-Track even thought original jurisdiction cases are now on C-Track.
Senators do not to “threaten” Kittredge, they only need to review the scandal of his actions in that case and decide for themselves whether it is more important to make lawful immigrant miserable or to attract investments from all over the country and the world to South Carolina.
Foreign-born talent and treasure is unsafe in South Carolina so long as Kittredge sits as its Chief Justice and with immense administrative powers which the federal constitution does not allow in a republican form of government.
The transcript excerpts shall, God willing and FITS permitting, follow.
Here are three transcript excerpts which shall, God willing and FITS permitting. be followed by a brief analysis:
[25 to page 5, line 2] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: The objection is noted and it’s overruled. I’ll give you time to speak, ma’am, now is my time.
[3] DR. FALTAS: Thank you. May I remain seated?
[4-7] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [4-6] No, ma’am. I want to emphasize that the only evidence relevant to the contempt charge will be allowed. [7] Mr. Zelenka, is the State ready to proceed?
[8] MR. ZELENKA: The State is ready, Your Honor.
[9-15] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [9] Thank you, sir. [10-15] Ms. Faltas, you’re here representing yourself as you adamantly requested at the prior hearing. An order was issued to that effect to honor your request. [13-15] And preliminarily I’m to ask you, do you admit or deny that you made the phone calls and sent the emails as alleged in this Court’s order of January the 24th?
[16-20] DR. FALTAS: Under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution I am protected from answering this question. I also need to ask whether I am permitted to remain seated as I was last time, or does my privacy have to be violated for me to have such a simple decency?
[21 to page 6, line 14] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [21-25] Thank you, ma’am. As to the first point based on your invocation of Fifth Amendment, the Court will enter a not guilty plea on your behalf, and the State will be required to prove that you made the phone calls and sent the emails as are alleged. [Page 6, lines 1-8] As to the second point, ma’am, we moved you to the other table today from where you were at the first hearing. We accommodated you, and we’re doing so today. So you do not have to stand, you do not have to move around the courtroom, we are accommodating you. And you can even, if you choose to testify, you don’t have to, but if you choose to testify you can testify from where you’re currently seated. [9-14] Also, the witnesses who testify, ma’am, will be to your right next to the court reporter. And you will be able to see and hear those witnesses and conduct your cross-examination or direct examination of any witnesses you have from that vantage point. Are you ready to proceed, ma’am?
[15-17] DR. FALTAS: Sir, no, I’m not ready. The reason I’m not ready, or there are several reasons. Can the Court hear me and can the court reporter hear me?
[18] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: Yes, ma’am.
[Page 21, line 11] MR. ZELENKA: Thank you.
[12-13] Q: Mr. Shearouse, are you familiar with Dr. Marie Assa’ad Faltas?
[14] A: Yes, sir, I am.
[15] DR. FALTAS: Objection, overbroad.
[16] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: Overruled.
[17] Q: How did you become familiar with her?
[18-19] A: I believe the first time I met Dr. Faltas was shortly after Chief Justice Toal became chief.
[20] Q: And how did that occur?
[21-22] A: The first time I remember was out in the lobby, she was filing some pro se document I believe.
[23-24] Q: Are you familiar with the email address of Dr. Faltas?
[25 to page 22, line 1] A: Yes, sir, I am, it’s a Hotmail account that she uses routinely.
[2] Q: How did you become familiar with her email?
[3-4] A: Simply by the volume of emails that she sent using that email address.
[5] DR. FALTAS: Objection to the word volume.
[6] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: Overruled.
[3-4] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: At this point, Mr. Zelenka, we’re not going to hear any further witnesses from the State.
[6] MR. ZELENKA: Thank you.
[7-20] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: The Court has decided that you have put forth testimony allegations about discrete conduct which may constitute contempt under the 2017 order from Mr. Shearouse. We’re not, of course, dismissing the other contempt particulars, but we see no reason to go forward to allow the additional. Because if there is contempt we would never in any circumstances go beyond six months and do a consecutive sentence. So we’re going to hold those matters in abeyance after we issue a formal order in this case. So I apologize if that cuts off your presentation. But in talking to the members of the Court we see nothing practical to be gained at this point by going further with the contempt evidence.
[21] MR. ZELENKA: Understood.
[22 to page 111, line 14] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [22] Thank you, sir. [23-24] Now if you want to testify, you have a right to testify to us. You have a right to present evidence. [25 to page 111, line 14] And you’re aware of this as much as we are, Dr. Faltas, your right to remain silent. You referenced the Fifth Amendment several hours ago when we started when I asked you if you would admit or deny that you had made the phone calls or sent the emails. And you didn’t respond, and you had absolute right to invoke the Fifth Amendment. And you have a right to stand on that at this time. You don’t have to testify, you don’t have to present evidence. Because the burden is on the State to prove the elements of contempt, willful violation of a court order beyond a reasonable doubt. So I want you to know something I think you’re already familiar with, you have the right to testify and present evidence, or you have the right to decline to do so based on the Constitution. So the choice is yours, ma’am.
[15 to page 112, line 1] DR. FALTAS: Well, sir, I was trying to work with the Court and with the Court’s time and my time and my health in cutting it short. But if you want me to present my defense, that’s a different story. How about — and I’m not, I’m saying we can agree that if you want that to be resolved, fine. If you don’t, then you can reconvene and let me put a case in defense. Because there is no point in this if a higher court might say that, no, the order was invalid, or no, you should have taken into account intent and necessity and the Rule of Lenity because the order was so ambiguous that the State itself —
[2-3] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: That’s a valid point, and we hear you.
[4] DR. FALTAS: So, so —
[5-21] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [5-8] But if you choose to present a defense, it will be limited very narrowly. We are not going to hear about the 2017 order. We have ruled with finality it is a valid and legal order. [9-18] The only evidence you’ll be able to present on the issue of whether or not you are in contempt is whether or not you sent an email on October 22nd, 2020 to Mr. Shearouse; whether you sent an email to him on January 22nd, 2021; whether you sent an email to him on January 22nd, 2021 at a different time, there were two time periods on January 22nd; and an email that was sent on January 10th of 2022. He’s testified to that. We’ve received exhibits. That will be the extent of any defense. [19-21] Now if you acknowledge that you sent those emails and you want to present mitigation and invoke the Rule of Lenity, we’ll be glad to hear from you.
[22 to page 114, line 1] DR. FALTAS: [22 to page 113, line 1] And what I’m saying is I do want to put all those defenses, but after, and not only from him but I could have the right to call other witnesses and do compulsory process with them. But I don’t want to go this route if there is a possibility of conciliation. [2-8] And if, because really I was thinking that the Court was trying to make me miserable. You have convinced me that that’s not your intent. I hope I’ve convinced you that I’m not this evil, crazy person who’s going around violating orders just for the sake of it. And when people decide for resolution they don’t like say, okay, we still want to fight it. [9-19] And what I’d like to do is to say two things. From December 2009 I was not allowed to file any new civil cases. I take issue that you call PCR civil. But I wasn’t allowed to file any civil cases. Previously all four of the civil cases that I had filed pro se were resolved in my favor. So I do not understand unless, and I’m sorry, I mean unless the judges, the circuit judges, in fact, even the case that I had the pleasure of arguing or advocating before Judge Lockemy was settled. So I do not understand. Some other cases I won straight out, others were settled. [20 to page 114, line 1] So my question is do you have any other basis for thinking that cases I won were frivolous? Because if you do, please tell me, and I’ll try to explain why they were not frivolous. The other matters that I had been involved in since 2009 were criminal proceedings that were brought against me. I mean I could have never arrested myself or brought criminal proceedings.
[2-25] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: [2-6] I apologize for cutting you off, but we have an obligation to deal with only things that are relevant. At this stage the State has established a prima facie case that you violated the September 2017 order by your contacts with Mr. Shearouse. [7-13] Whether you filed meritorious cases in the past or not, what happened in 2009 or didn’t happen, has nothing to do with anything that’s before our decision of whether or not you have any defense to your contacts with Mr. Shearouse vis-à-vis the 2017 order from this Court. If you do not have a defense we are obligated by law to find you in contempt of court. [14-19] Now if we make that decision then you can speak to us about mitigation or reasons why you think of what you think would be an appropriate remedy here. One of which we’ve gone back and forth with is you want to have some specific right and opportunity, maybe a day and time periodically, to access your records here at the Court. [20-21] That doesn’t strike us as unreasonable at all. So that’s a productive way going forward to remedy this. [22-25] But right now we’ve got to back up and see what your position is regarding whether or not you contacted Mr. Shearouse. Then we can discuss what is the appropriate way forward.
[Page 115, lines 1-4] DR. FALTAS: I thought you said that you will review the basis of the orders and whether I had previously filed frivolous things. Was that my wishful thinking?
[5-14] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: That was your wishful thinking. We’re going to look at the evidence. But based on what’s presented, and we’ve spoken at the last break, we want to give you a chance to present a defense. Perhaps you did not send the emails to Mr. Shearouse. I don’t know. But you have a right to present a defense to that. But that’s the parameters of the defense. Not what happened in 2009. Not some glorious case that had merit that was filed. That is not germane, it’s not relevant to the issue of contempt. And if you want to be heard —
[15] DR. FALTAS: Did you say contempt or intent?
[16] JUSTICE KITTREDGE: Contempt.
[17] DR. FALTAS: Okay. I’m sorry.
I was not being tried for the CONTENT of the four emails I allegedly sent, but for the fact that I used email AT ALL at a time when the physical court houses were CLOSED to the public due to CoViD-19 and email was and is available to ALL litigants in South Carolina EXCEPT ME.
First, notice that Shearouse admitted first meeting me in November 2001, the day my 21-karat hand-carved nugget fell from my gold chain and I had not realized it until the end of the day.
Second, Kittredge was not asking me how I plead. He was asking me to admit or deny FACTS he viewed as incriminating.
The then-acting, now-actual Chief Justice of South Carolina should have known better than to ask a criminal defendant to incriminate herself.
That is a well known tactic of the reviled historic Star Chamber: get forced to admit incriminating facts, or deny them and get penalized for perjury.
No lawyer, had I chosen to have one appointed, would have had my presence of mind and my courage to get out of the Star Chamber dilemma by telling the Chief Justice that his question was improper.
And no one else has the moral authority to now tell the senators that Kittredge’s unabashed attempt to trick a pro se defendant disqualifies him from maintaining his law license, a fortiori from sitting on top of South Carolina’s judiciary.
Third, notice how Kittredge says what happened in 2009 has no relevance when it is THE MAIN CAUSE of his obsession with discrediting me and making me suffer: the facts that I was innocent of that for which they arrested me in 2009, they knew it in advance of that false arrest but did it anyway to give my opponents in civil litigation unfair advantages, and my persistent efforts to hold those he did it to account.
Fourth, that false promise that I could go on days certain and look at the records of my cases ran against the fact the only handicapped ramp is closed to the public and the 15 December 2022 letter from the new clerk Howard about a new ramp being build was a lie as clear as the lie about an imaginary bear that Kittredge supposedly outran. Remember the article in the South Carolina Gazette, “Meet your new Chief Justice”?
Fifth, though I told him in other parts of that transcript that sending me to Alvin S. Glenn Detention was a death sentence for me, and he responded in public that no one wants me to go there, when the cameras were figuratively off, Kittredge wrote an order sending me to ASGDC for six months suspended on the service of ten days.
And it was almost a death sentence as I was struck there struck with atrial fibrillation and did not receive medical attention for a whole day which caused permanent damage to my heart which now degenerated into Prinzmetal angina and NSTEMI the week before last.
Sixth, Kittredge’s scandalous June 2022 ORDER did not just send me to ASGDC, it invited other courts to place more restrictions on me, which the City of Columbia promptly obliged by falsifying the record of a closed case where I was a witness and summoning me to go and testify thus putting me in a new Star Chamber dilemma: be in new contempt for ignoring the false summons or appear and get rearrested for “contacting” a court of this state.
Seventh, in case it is not clear, I was NOT being tried for contempt of an order, say, of not contacting a PRIVATE victim of an alleged or proven crime of mine. I was being tried for contacting a public employee who is there tax-paid during business hours PRECISELY for the public to contact.
Eighth, even when I received belated medical attention for the life-threatening condition which struck me at ASGDC, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) and/or Kittredge sent their “sources” to tell my medical providers that I was incarcerated for threatening public officials and calling them round the clock etc., etc., which made my providers fear me.
Ninth, not one jurist in the length and breadth of South Carolina had the self-respect to question the reasoning that I was denied access to the courts because I was frivolous and would have full access if only I hired a lawyer and my lawsuit were non-frivolous. Not one had the self-respect to ask if the proposed lawsuit were genuinely frivolous, how does hiring a lawyer make it acceptable for filing? And if a proposed lawsuit were genuinely NON-frivolous, why do I need to go to the sometimes-prohibitive expense of hiring a lawyer to file it?
That stinking thinking surfaces again in people believing and proudly insisting in comments that Alex Murdaugh had paid Becky Hill to tamper with the jury so that he can get a new trial when her misdeeds are discovered, They get insulted when asked if Alex Murdaugh paid Becky Hill to influence the jury, why would he not have paid her to influence the jury to return a NOT guilty verdict in the first place and be done with it.
You see: that stinking thinking is the tool of tyrants, it started with “what happened [to me] in 2009” and culminated in the Alex Murdaugh fiasco that the whole country and parts of the world now see.
Senators, judges with any self-respect left, is discrediting Dr. Faltas and making her miserable a sufficient prize for losing your moral authority, not only over litigants before you, but over your children and grandchildren and failing to teach them the importance of courage on which they need to lean when they face life’s crisis and you no longer sit to bail them out?
Love your children more than you hate me and impeach Toal and Kittredge who set my life at ZERO, or “sub-zero.”