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1 June, 1996

     Can someone please tell me how to get help?

     My name is Lonnie T. Ledbetter and I live in 
El Dorado, Ca. A few years ago I stumbled onto a crime
being committed by the Government in Yolo County, 
California. U.S. Citizens were being sent to prison
so that others could be forced to sell their property
at a greatly reduced rate and all for the sole purpose
of building a six hundred million dollar marina.
When the marina was proposed it was to be built on the
Sacramento River, which seperates Sacramento and
Yolo county.  Less than two miles from our state
capitol,and yet across the river and in another county
is the newly incorporated city of West Sacramento. For
many years, West Sacramento has been to Sacramento,
what Tijuana is to San Diego. A place where business
men, congressmen, or what ever could go for a little 
forbidden pleasure time with a hooker or what ever,
without having to worry about being detected by wives,
family, or constituants. In 1986, all of this changed
when West Sacramento Incorporated, and became an 
independant city of Yolo County.
     Looking toward the future they immediately set
out to become a part of the twentith century. One of
the suggestions, and indeed, the only important 
suggestion in regards to my posting was that a marina
be built on the Yolo county side of the Sacramento
River, to be enjoyed by both Yolo County, and 
Sacremento County residents. Not only this, it would
be located adjacent to Old Sacremento, which has
become a roaring success with the tourist industry
since it's redevelopment.
     It seemed the perfect answer except for one small
detail. Where it was to be built, in order to achieve
maximum success, would require the requisition of
private land which was occupied by many private
residences and it would become prohibative if the
government were required to pay fair market prices
for the land needed for the marina, and yet the
Constitution of the United States under the fifth
amendment, states "nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation".
     Well, this created a dilima, but not an 
insurmountable one.  The government simply reasoned
that just compensation equals the fair market value.
With this thought in mind, it was only logical, that
the fair market value must be reduced on all desired
property, thereby enabling them to acquire the
property in accordance with the constitution at what
would be considered just compensation, at which time
the government could force local resindents to sell
their property at a greatly reduced value.
     Well, we are all familiar with the phrase
"there goes the neighborhood" when an undesirable or
a person of different color or nationality moves in
and upsets the "status quo".  With this feeble thought
in mind our wonderful government decided that all
that was necessary was to classify the neighborhood
(West Sacramento) a high crime area, thereby making it
undesirable property, which would subsequently
reduce the just compensation value by as much as fifty
to seventy five percent, which would make the marina
project a feasable plan.
     With all this in mind, all that was left was to
buy the local judges and police agencies, along with
the U.S. District court, which could be done for a
fraction of the monies saved by reducing property
values. And so "let it be said, let it be done" became
the law of West Sacremento.
     With a little reasoning, it was obvious that to
classify the area a high crime area, arrests would have
to increase. No problem. Simply arrest the persons that
are constantly present on West Capitol Ave. and who 
make easy targets for arrests as it is their lifestyle
and instead of sending them to prison, simply release
them as they are the homeless and indigent, and will
surely be arrested again within a few days. This began
an endless cycle of arrest which rapidly increased the
local crime statistics, which were needed to declare
West Sacremento a high crime area. The government
immediately saw the only problem with their thusfar
sucessful project, and that was that arrest records
have to be substantuated with reasonable prison 
sentences. I personally, do not know how many prison
years will offset how many arrests in a justifiable
manner, but for now, and only for the purpose of
clarity, let's assume that every ten arrests should
reflect five years in prison sentences. If this is
true, we have a problem. If we start sending our
arrestees to prison for their crimes, it will only
be a short time till we have no one left to arrest.
We cannot send them to prison regardless of the crime
charged, as we need them to be released and re-arrested
in order to keep the crime stats continuously spirling
upward. However, those stats are no good if not offset
by prison sentences stats. And then comes the stroke
of genius... Someone figured out: If we arrest a West
Sacramento "street person", he will almost always
return to the streets of West Sacremento (his home),
and will subsequently be arrested again, which will
continue to bolster our arrest statistics. But, if we
arrest a person from another county, when he is
released he will probably return to his home county
and will be of no further value to us, other than the
one original arrest. So, why not take all out of county
residents which will have no further value to us in
terms of arrests, and sentence him/her to prison terms
that will offset the arrests of local arrestees.
     This seemed to be a great idea and for the past
ten years, persons being arrested in West Sacremento
for any reason have been given more than double and
triple the required time in prison, as persons in other
counties of the State of California.
     At this time I will take time to remind you of my
original post. I stated that I was from Sacramento
County and was arrested in Yolo County (West Sacremento)
and was offered eight years in prison in exchange for
a guilty plea. The charge was for posession of
methamphetamines (quantity was .22cc) which is less
than a useable amount. The arrest was made after the
police illegally kicked down my door, and beat me and
my seventy year old mother. 
     I was arrested on a misdemeanor and was
offered eight years in prison in exchange for a guilty 
plea. I declined their offer and for more than eight 
years have suffered atrocities and human rights
violations much too numerous to be adequately covered in
this message. I will list some of the more important 
ones and hope you might be able to tell me where to find
help.
     I was first subjected to a pre-trial hearing which
was held behind locked doors and closed to the public.
The only person's present were the judge (Donna Petre),
and my assigned public defender (Donald Lown). The 
district attorney did not even bother to show up.
     After being returned to my jail cell I filled out
a petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus. Without going in
to details it took three years for that petition to get
through the courts. It was denied at every level and was
actually held by the Circuit Court of the United States 
for the ninth circuit for more than two years. The
Supreme Court of the United States refused to issue a 
writ of Mandamus. A little more than thirty days later 
it was denied without a hearing or explanation.
     While all of that was going on I was held for 
eighteen and a half months without benefit of a jury
trial. After filing the petition for the writ, the
judge, public defender, assistant district attorney
(Robert L. Day), and court stenographer (Susan Gorsch)
falsified the transcripts from my preliminary hearing to
conform to the complaints made in the petition. Those
transcripts are filed under two different  numbers to
this day in the county recorder's office.
     I made forty seven court appearances and spent 
eighteen and a half months trying to get a jury trial. I
finally pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in exchange for 
being released with a sentence of time served.
     I have subsequently filed more than twenty five
lawsuits in the federal courts and have been under
attack by the F.B.I. who use's everything in their 
inventory to intimidate and torture me. High-Tech
equipment is used on me in my home and I am continually
harassed on the highways. All local news media is 
somehow being suppressed and my telephone is tapped 
and my U.S. Mail is confiscated if it is addressed to
anyone that might be of help.
     Of the twenty five lawsuits filed in the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of 
California, the following charges have been labeled
frivolous.
        Denial of privilege of Habeas Corpus.
        Denial of access to U.S. Courts for more than
     eight years.
        Eight Years of torture by the F.B.I. and various
     local police agencies.
        Attempted murder of U.S. Citizens, by agencys of
     the U.S. Government.
        Cruel and unusual punishment.
        Use of automatic weapons placed around my home 
     for the purpose of intimidation.
        Destruction of my home by the F.B.I.
        Mock trials and hearings behind locked doors.
        Conspiracy between my public defender, the 
     assistant district attorney, and the presiding 
     judge to falsely imprison me for eight years for 
     the sole purpose of offsetting arrest statistics 
     with appropriate prison statistics.
        Bad faith prosecutions.
        Torture of U.S. Citizens by the U.S. and State 
     of California Governments.
        False imprisonment.
        Illegal search and seizure.
        Confiscation of U.S. Mail for the purpose of 
     keeping me isolated.
        Denial of due process of law.
        Denial of the right to a speedy trial.
        Denial of the right to be represented by counsel.
        Denial of the right to a fair and impartial judge.
        Denial of the right to trial by jury in both 
     criminal and civil cases.
        Perjury by court officers.
        Perjury by court appointed professionals.
        Denial of right to call witnesses on my own
     behalf.
        Denial of the Equal protection of the law.
        False arrest.
        Police brutality.
        Falsification of court transcripts by judges,
     public defenders, assistant district attorneys,
     and court stenographers.
        Extraction of false confessions by use of false
     imprisonment.
        Mind control techniques being used on citizens 
     by the F.B.I.
        Violation of the fourteenth amendment to the
     Constitution of the United States by the President
     of the United States.
        Denial of all human and civil rights as 
     guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
        Illegal actions by a U.S. Magistrate.
        Criminal cover-up by state and federal courts.
        Falsification of court documents by court
     officials.
       
     All of the above charges were made in the District
Court of the United States for the Eastern District 
of California and were judged frivolous and dismissed 
without plaintiff ever seeing a jury or opposing counsel.
     Following is a list of those case numbers for 
verification through the court. All dismissals have been
upheld by the Circuit Court of the United States and 
labled "NOT FOR PUBLICATION". Certiorari has been denied
by the United States Supreme Court.

         CIV-S-89-1339
         CIV-S-89-1336
         CIV-S-89-1337
         CIV-S-89-1338
         CIV-S-89-1340
         CIV-S-89-1420
         CIV-S-89-0142
         CIV-S-90-0245
         CIV-S-90-0284
         CIV-S-90-0286
         CIV-S-90-1434
         CIV-S-90-1439
         CIV-S-90-1530
         CIV-S-90-0037
         CIV-S-90-0055
         CIV-S-90-0080
         CIV-S-90-0081
         CIV-S-92-0081
         MISC-95-0322

     All of the above cases have been dismissed and
judged frivolous and labled "not for publication".  
There are still three cases pending in the District
Court and one in the Court of Appeals.
     Of the cases in the District Court, one case 
(Civ S-95-1929) is against the State of California for
which the clerk has entered a default but refuses to 
issue the judgement in accordance with the Federal Rules
of Civil Procedure. It has been in default for five
months and is for $275,000,000.00. 
     Another case (Misc.-95-0278)has been filed against
the F.B.I. and has been held by the court for more than 
eight months and the clerk's office continues to refuse
to issue process in accordance with the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure. I continue to be denied access to the 
courts and continue to be tortured by the F.B.I. and 
other police agencies.
     All telephone calls I attempt to make for help are
intercepted by the F.B.I. and all of my U.S.Mail is 
confiscated. I just recently discovered the Internet and
will continue to try to get my story out by Email. I had
a home page unitl last night. When I tried to view it 
this morning I found that all of my files had
mysteriously dissappeared off my computer. When I
attempted to re-install my home page my access was
blocked and my phone connetion went dead. So if you 
receive this message, please try to acknowledge receipt
of it by Email to do...@inreach.com .  If I am successful
in getting this message to anyone, I would appreciate it
if you would pass it on to anyone and everyone that will
read it.  I'm praying for responses to be sent to the
U.S. District Court of the United States for the Eastern 
District of California, 650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, 
California 95814, United States of America. The District
Court has now labelled me a vexatious litigant in an 
attempt to keep me out of the courts. It probably would
have worked except the F.B.I. refused to stop the 
torture which leaves me with nothing to lose. The F.B.I.
has obviously decided that my death will be the only
acceptable end to this ordeal.
     The purposes of the actions by the Yolo County
Court, and the Federal Courts is to cover up the
conspiracy that was revealed to me through my eighteen
month ordeal there.
     The courts are handing out, outrageous prison 
sentences to all out of county residents arrested there,
for the purpose of offsetting an astronomical arrest
record being created by arresting local residents and
releasing them so they can be re-arrested.  The purposes
of all this is to justify the construction of a
$600,000,000.00 marina. 
     The Federal Government is contributing to this
elaborate conspiracy by donating $50,000.00 periodically 
to Yolo County for conducting so called sting operations
which add to the already astronomical arrest records.
     Due to my attempts to expose this government 
corruption I have been subjected to tortures that are
much to bizarre to even be mentioned here but can be
proven if I ever get a jury trial as guaranteed by the 
seventh amendment to the Constitution.  I am constantly
harassed on the highway by hundreds of automobiles.  I
presently live on California state highway 49 which
normally handles three or four cars per hour, but since
I moved here seven months ago the traffic has increased 
to more than one hundred cars per hour which goes night
and day through rain or shine.
     Some of the less drastic tortures include the 
artificial infestations of my home with rats, mice,
earwigs, spiders, snakes, living funguses, etc. These
have all been complained of in the U.S. District court
and have been labeled frivolous.
     On March 16,  1996, my mother died in the Hospital
when she learned that she no longer had a home to
return to. She had shared the nine years of torture and 
just could not go on. So far, I have lost my mother, my
home, my family, my friends, all of my possessions 
collected over fifty years, all of my mother's 
possessions collected over seventy five years. This 
letter only scratches the surface of what has been done
and is being done to me every day.
     Knowing how outrageous all of the above sounds, I
would like to say that all court documents are available
for fax to anyone that might be interested. I am 
interested in reaching human rights organizations that
are willing to help. If that is impossible I would like
to reach large numbers of people willing to write to
the District Court and the President of the United 
States and request that I be given and immediate jury
trial in accordance with the Constitution.
     At the present time the State of California is in
default on a $275.000.000.00 lawsuit.  The default has
been entered by the clerk but Dan Wagner of the District
Court refuses to issue the judgement in accordance with 
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The clerk's entry
of default is available by fax to any interested party.
     Any help you may be able to give me will be greatly 
appreciated. 



				Sincerely,



				Lonnie T. Ledbetter




November  5, 1996

Since my last update as seen above, District Court
Judge Garland Burrell, the judge that set aside the
$275,000,000.00 default and then dismissed the case 
has followed the lead of district Court judge David F. 
Levi and has filed an order stating that my appeal is 
in bad faith which revokes my informa pauperis status 
as with the case above. Reason given is that the case
is frivolous. And so once again a District Court judge
rules that the constitution of the United States is a 
frivolous document since this case was based on direct
violations of the constitution. District Court docket 
number is cv-95-01929. I filed an appeal on 26 Aug, 
1996 in the ninth circuit court, Docket number 
96-16619.
    I now have to file a request to proceed informa
pauperis and will post the results as soon as they 
are available. At least I was served a copy of the 
order this time so that I can file the request. When 
judge Levi filed his order I was never served with a 
copy and the circuit court supposedly reviewed my 
case and determined that I was not entitled to 
informa pauperis status before I knew anything about.
Updates will continue to be posted as they occur so 
if you continue to visit my homepage you will be able
to watch the Federal Courts as they continue to 
violate the Constitution and label it frivolous, in 
this continuing criminal cover-up.




10 November, 1996

     Since my last update above, Judge Burrell 
of the United States District Court continues to try
to outdo his continuing string of ridiculous rulings.
A few days ago I received his latest order which grants
Judge Stroud Attorney fees. In just two short months
now, Judge Burrell set aside a $275,000,000.00 default,
granted immunity to all defendants and dismissed the
case, swore an affidavit that my appeal of these 
actions was talen in bad faith which will revoke my 
informa pauperis status which will result in my having
to pay fees I am incapable of paying which will result 
in the dismissal of my case in the Court of Appeals
and will continue to deny me access to U.S.Courts and
a jury trial, plus now I am expected to pay the 
attorney fees of a defendant guilty of treason.
     Judge Burrell has stated that rulings against 
in violation of the Constitution of the United States
are within the scope of the duties of a judge. So, I
guess a judge is not only immune to suit for committing
multiple felonies, but is also required by his duties
to rule against the Constitution. What government do
these judges work for?


Lonnie T. Ledbetter
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