Give Me Liberty 2004
The Conference to Restore Constitutional Order
Washington, D.C. January 22-24, 2004

Dr. Gregory Mark  [Top]

Professor, Rutgers University School of Law,
Law Review author, "THE VESTIGIAL CONSTITUTION: The History and Significance of the Right to Petition."

Mark Lane  [Top]

Attorney, author, "Rush to Judgment", lead counsel, pending Right to Petition class-action lawsuit

Mark Lane joined the legal profession after the Second World War. A member of the Democratic Party, he helped establish the Reform Democratic Movement in 1959. A supporter of John F. Kennedy, he managed his presidential campaign in New York.

In 1960 Lane was elected to the New York Legislature. Over the next couple of years he campaigned to abolish capital punishment and worked closely with Mary Wagner in her attempt to deal with the city's housing problem.

After John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963, Lane founded the Citizens' Committee of Inquiry. He volunteered to defend Lee Harvey Oswald before the Warren Commission. This offer was rejected but he was retained by Oswald's mother, Marguerite Oswald. Lane also worked closely with Jim Garrison and his attempts to prove that Kennedy had been assassinated by a right-wing group that involved Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie.

Lane has written several books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This has included Rush to Judgment (1966) and A Citizen's Dissent (1968). He also wrote two screenplays on the case, Executive Action and Plausible Denial.

In 1981, E.Howard Hunt won $650,000 in a libel suit against Liberty Lobby, a right-wing organization, after it published an article accusing him of being involved in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Lane defended Liberty Lobby in a second trial in 1985, and he successfully overturned the original libel award.

After interviewing Marita Lorenz Lane became convinced that Frank Sturgis and E.Howard Hunt had both been involved in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Lane outlined his theory about the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, Plausible Denial.

Lane also took a keen interest in the murder of Martin Luther King and wrote the book, Murder in Memphis (1993).

For additional information about Mark Lane, go to http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKlaneM.htm

John Wolfgram  [Top]

attorney, Law Review author, "How the Judiciary Stole the Right to Petition" http://www.patv.8m.net/index.html
For John Wolfgram's bio, go to http://www.patv.8m.net/custom4.html

Peter Mancus  [Top]

Attorney, former deputy D.A., author of "Reflections Upon the U.S. Supreme Court's Rejection of Silveira." http://www.keepandbeararms.com/Mancus/silveira.asp

Place the constitutional collar around government's neck, held firmly on a short constitutional leash, staked immovably in constitutional bedrock.

Donald Kilmer  [Top]

Civil Rights Attorney specializing in 2nd Amendment defense issues,
Law Professor at Lincoln University Law School.

Samuel Francis  [Top]

Nationally syndicated columnist, PhD in History from UNC (Chapel Hill), editor http://www.samfrancis.net/

Larry Pratt  [Top]

author, "On the Firing Line", columnist, former executive director Gun Owners of America www.gunowners.org (25 years) over 300,000 members, nationally recognized spokesperson for gun owner rights, State House Representative in Virginia, Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Dane VonBriechenruchardt  [Top]

Washington D.C. based appellate lawyer, founder and President of the United States Bill of Rights Foundation

Angel Shamaya  [Top]

www.keepandbeararms.com

Joseph Sobran  [Top]

Nationally syndicated columnist, author, and publisher. http://www.sobran.com

Joe Sobran received his B.A. in English from Eastern Michigan University and did graduate studies in English, specializing in Shakespeare.

In 1972, he went to work for National Review Magazine, beginning what would be a 21-year stint, including 18 years as senior editor.

From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Sobran was a regular commentator on CBS Radio’s “Spectrum” series. He has been a nationally syndicated columnist since 1979, first with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, then with the Universal Press Syndicate, and now with Griffin Internet Syndicate, for which he writes two columns per week, which are later posted on this site. He also writes the weekly column “Washington Watch” for The Wanderer, a weekly Catholic newspaper.

Mr. Sobran is the author of three books. Single Issues: Essays on the Crucial Social Questions was published by The Human Life Press (New York, 1983). His book on the Shakespeare authorship question, titled Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time, was released in May 1997 by the Free Press. His most recent book is Hustler: The Clinton Legacy, a collection of essays selected and edited by Tom McPherren (with a foreword by Ann Coulter) and published in 2000 by Griffin Communications.

He is currently writing a book on the abandonment of the Constitution.

Mr. Sobran is also a lecturer and speaker who appears frequently on major talk shows and at conferences throughout the world.

In 1994, he founded SOBRAN’S, a monthly newsletter of his essays and columns. The newsletter is available by subscription and by e-mail at http://www.sobran.com or by calling toll-free number (1-800-513-5053).

G. Edward Griffin  [Top]

A writer and documentary film producer with many titles to his credit. Listed in Who's Who in America, he is well known for his unique talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in terms that all can understand. He has dealt with such diversified subjects as the Federal Reserve System, archaeology and ancient earth history, international banking, internal subversion, terrorism, the history of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the Supreme Court, the United Nations, and the science and politics of cancer. Some of his better known works include The Creature from Jekyll Island, Moles in High Places, The Discovery of Noah's Ark, The Open Gates of Troy, No Place to Hide, The Capitalist Conspiracy, More Deadly than War, The Grand Design, The Great Prison Break, and The Fearful Master.

Mr. Griffin is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. He is the recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production, a Contributing Editor for The New American magazine, and is president of American Media, a publishing and video-production company in Southern California. http://www.realityzone.com

Bill Still  [Top]

Author, "The Money Masters" http://www.themoneymasters.com

Bernard von NotHaus  [Top]

Monetary Architect, author, "The Liberty Dollar Solution To The Federal Reserve." http://www.norfed.org/ NORFED, the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code, is a supporter-based non-profit organization dedicated to restoring a honest monetary system for all Americans as described in the U.S. Constitution. It is governed by a Board of Directors and a Supporters Advisory Council. NORFED wants your support to bring change to our nation's monetary standards. All NORFED profits go towards its goal of repealing the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code.

Clay Conrad  [Top]

Attorney, Chairman, Fully Informed Jury Association http://www.fija.org/ The issue of restoration of our heritage of jury nullification—the right of the jury to judge the validity and morality of the law as well as the facts under which a defendant is being tried.

Larry Becraft  [Top]

Tax & Constitutional Attorney, author the Dixie Law Journal http://fly.hiwaay.net/~becraft/ and of counsel for the Wallace Institute http://www.devvy.com/wallaceintro.html.

Paul Chappell  [Top]

Tax Attorney, former counsel, IRS Office of Chief Counsel IRS Headquarters in Washington, DC.

James Ostrowski  [Top]

Attorney specializing in cases against government officials http://apollo3.com/~jameso, http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski-arch.html and http://jamesostrowski.com/

James Ostrowski obtained a degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980 and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1983. In law school, he was writing assistant to then Dean David G. Trager, now a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. He was also a research assistant to Associate Dean Henry Mark Holzer (now professor emeritus). He was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and an award-winning member of the International Law Moot Court Team. One of his assignments for Dean Trager was to draft a report for the Association of the Bar of City of New York in support of the individual assignment system for state courts (each case would stay with one judge till the end). That system was soon adopted throughout New York State and remains in effect today.

After graduation, he joined the Special Litigation Unit at the Manhattan firm, Bower & Gardner, at that time the leading insurance defense firm in the state. He was admitted to the New York Bar in January, 1984, and the New Jersey Bar in 1985 (resigning in good standing in 1995). His desire for professional independence led him to open his own law office in 1985, practicing in New York City, New Jersey, and his hometown of Buffalo. He moved his office to Buffalo in 1988.

He served as vice-chairman of the law reform committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (1986-88) and wrote two widely quoted reports critical of the law enforcement approach to the drug problem. He is currently chair of the human rights committee, Erie County Bar Association. He has written a number of scholarly articles on the law on subjects ranging from drug policy to the commerce clause of the constitution. His op-ed articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Buffalo News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Legislative Gazette. His policy studies have been published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Auburn University, and the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

He has lectured and debated widely on issues related to the law and appeared on a number of national television and radio programs. He has been a guest lecturer at the S.U.N.Y. Buffalo Medical School since 1991 and is an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Auburn University.

This info came from http://jamesostrowski.com/article.3.html

Arch McColl III  [Top]

http://www.mcmclaw.com/Index.html
Resume is at http://www.mcmclaw.com/Resume.html
US v. Cheek case: The http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/cheek.html

Arch C. McCOLL, III, a Dallas attorney and Partner in the law firm of McCOLL & McColloch, 2000 Thanksgiving Tower, 1601 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas, is a Past President of the Dallas County Criminal Bar Association and is listed in the criminal law field in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. For the past 25 years McCOLL has been hired for corporate investigations, preventive corporate criminal practices, federal and state criminal trials, criminal appeals and post-conviction litigation throughout the country. McCOLL is a frequent lecturer for various attorney organizations, including the State Bar of Texas’ seminars for judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers on various criminal law topics.

Arch C. McCOLL, III is the author of numerous criminal law articles on federal and state criminal law and three criminal law books, his third being What Everyone in Business Wants to Know About Law Enforcement Investigations, But is Afraid to Ask. He was voted by “D” (Dallas) Magazine as “Best Criminal Defense Lawyer.” He divides his practice evenly among defending doctors, bankers, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals in white-collar crime cases; handling the more traditional criminal cases and handling needlestick litigation. McCOLL will also occasionally take a class action or personal injury case when it involves criminal conduct by the defendant.

Mr. McCOLL appeared on the Montel Williams’ Show as an expert in criminal defense and Mr. McCOLL’s firm was co-counsel successfully representing United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison when criminal charges were brought against her in 1994. In 2001, Mr. McCOLL’s firm successfully obtained a dismissal of an accusation of criminal Medicare fraud against Electronic Data Systems (EDS). In 1993 McCOLL was invited to be a two-day guest commentator in New York for Court TV’s coverage of State of Texas v. Walker Railey, the trial conducted in San Antonio, Texas, against the former Methodist minister for attempted murder. Mr. McCOLL has represented several physicians in federal criminal prosecutions in the United States and in England and has lectured around the country on the topic of defending healthcare fraud investigations. Mr. McCOLL’s Web site is www.mcmclaw.com.ryone in Business Wants to Know About Law Enforcement Investigations, But is Afraid to Ask. He was voted by “D” (Dallas) Magazine as “Best Criminal Defense Lawyer.” He divides his practice evenly among defending doctors, bankers, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals in white-collar crime cases; handling the more traditional criminal cases and handling needlestick litigation. McCOLL will also occasionally take a class action or personal injury case when it involves criminal conduct by the defendant.

Phil Hart  [Top]

Author, "Constitutional Income: Do Yo Have Any?" http://www.constitutionalincome.com/

Phil Hart received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He makes his living as a licensed structural engineer. As an athlete, Phil qualified for the U.S. Cycling Nationals the first time he rode a 25 mile time trial, and came within 6 seconds of the American record for the 10 mile time trial. He was also the winner of two World Cup races on the masters FIS alpine ski racing series. Phil is a member of the National Committee of the Constitution Party.

Joe Banister  [Top]

CPA & former Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS http://www.freedomabovefortune.com/

Joseph R. (Joe) Banister, a former IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent who learned of serious constitutional questions relating to the federal income tax and the federal banking and monetary systems. Mr. Banister's expertise in the fields of accounting, finance, taxation, and law enforcement enabled him to not only understand these issues but realize that he could play a role in bringing the issues into the public arena for analysis and debate.

John Turner  [Top]

info.

Sherry Jackson  [Top]

CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, former IRS Audit Examiner http://stillaslave.blogspot.com/
http://www.theawaregroup.com/sherry.htm

Irwin Schiff  [Top]

Tax law researcher, author, "The Federal Mafia..." http://www.paynoincometax.com

Vernice Kuglin  [Top]

FedEx pilot acquitted of Willful Failure to File http://www.newsmax.com/archive/print.shtml?a=2003/8/9/164934

Marcy Brooks  [Top]

Jury foreperson, Whitey Harrel acquittal, (Willful Failure to File)

Tim Randolph  [Top]

highly rated professional employee one day, fired the next for asking his employer to terminate his W-4 Agreement.

Norman Council  [Top]

City councilman, Landsdowne, Pennsylvania
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue14/features/liberalismrestored.shtml

He is a behavioral healthcare administration professional, an assistant professor, elected representative in his hometown of Lansdowne Pennsylvania and a freelance writer of fiction, poetry and political commentary. His commentary pieces have been published by NPR, the Philadelphia Inquirer and several smaller periodicals.

Ron Branson  [Top]

Ron Branson, author, "Judicial Accountability Initiative Law." http://www.jail4judges.org/

Born in 1946, Ronald Branson joined the U.S. Military in 1963. He had a very strict and straight-laced view of "just doing his job." Part of his military time was spent as a Prison Chaser over prisoners at Fort Belvoir. VA. He presided over work details and regularly strip-searched the prisoners. He quickly gained the respect of his superiors, and took on the reputation as the strictest Prison Chaser within the prison compound, having disciplined more prisoners than all other Prison Chasers collectively.

Ron's legal pursuits within the courts began in 1982 when he engaged the County of Los Angeles over their refusal to give a mandatory civil service hearing to a sixteen year employee of the county holding civil service protection. Armed with the law and facts on his side, he took on the County of Los Angeles in the courts only to find that the law and the facts were irrelevant in the judicial system, and that despite mandatory duty, politics ruled the courts, not the law. He found that not only were the courts out-and-out contemptuous of the law, but also riddled with absolute facial conflicts, such as the counsel for the county being also counsel for the judges hearing the cases against the county. When he moved for change of venue due to conflict of interest, his motion was denied. When he sued the state judge in federal court, the defendant counsel in the state case would also appear representing the very state judge before which they were also were a defendant. It got so crazy that the government did not even attempt any longer to hide their conflict. It because so obvious as if they sat as judge in a case against themselves as defendant. He has even had the judge admit that he never read anything filed in his court by this plaintiff. And so it was in federal court, the federal judge also having worked for the same county which was then a defendant before him. It was an absolutely fix with no possibility of redress.

Highly motivated to create a remedy for the availability of redress of grievance, Ron, in 1995 wrote, in two days, the original initiative then called "The Judicial Reform Act of 1996." In 1997 it was renamed "The Judicial Accountability Initiative Law", J.A.I.L., in which a website was drawn out www.jail4judges.org.

With a goal of “Liberty and Justice for All” Ron's objective is to make J.A.I.L. a nationwide cause among all people that will restore the Constitution and the laws to this country as our Founding Fathers had envisioned it. People across the country are now clamoring for the hope that JAIL offers. There is no doubt in Ron's mind that JAIL will one day become the hottest, largest, and most controversial political hot potato that this nation has recently faced.

Mr. Branson’s chief characteristics is truth, ethics, and principle. He detests politics. Starting in 1996 Mr. Branson was three times elected to a two-year term as representative in the 38th Assembly District, L.A.R.C.C.C. By the year 2002 his duties within J.A.I.L. had become so demanding so as to require his full time, in which he now serves at its Five-Star National J.A.I.L. Commander-In-Chief, with a national following that currently includes 49 states and three foreign nations.

Ron Branson may be reached at:
P.O. Box 207
North Hollywood, CA. 91603
VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org

For Ron Branson's complete Bio, go to http://www.jail4judges.org/Ron's%20Bio.htm

Dr. Stephen Baskerville  [Top]

Professor of Political Science,Howard University
http://users.rcn.com/baskerville/

Dr. Jacob Roginsky PhD  [Top]

Theoretical nuclear physics, university professor, researcher, scientist for DOD, President of "A Matter of Justice" AMOJ http://www.amatterofjustice.org/amoj/00index.cfm

Joseph Farah  [Top]

Author, Taking America Back, Editor/CEO, WorldNetDaily.com, syndicated columnist, radio talk show host, "Taking America Back." www.wnd.com an Arab-American, is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the leading independent English-language Internet news site. He is also a weekly columnist for the International Edition of the Jerusalem Post. The former editor-in-chief of the Sacramento Union has written for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal and dozens of other publications. In 1996, he co-authored with Rep. Richard Pombo This Land Is Our Land for St. Martin's Press.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin  [Top]

Talk show host, author, President of Toward Tradition, http://www.towardtradition.org/, a National coalition of Jews and Christians seeking to advance the nation toward traditional, faith, based, American principles of constitutional and limited government, the rule of law, representative democracy, free markets, a strong military, and a moral public culture.
Toward Tradition, with Rabbi Daniel Lapin airs on:
  Sundays, 7 - 10 p.m. PST
  KTTH 770 AM.

Alan Keyes  [Top]

Seasoned statesman. Alan Keyes spent 11 years with the U.S. State Department. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service and on the staff of the National Security Council before becoming Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, where he represented the interests of the United States in the U.N. General Assembly (1983-85). In 1985, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations (1985-88).

Genuine conservative. Keyes was President of Citizens Against Government Waste (1989-91) and founder of National Taxpayers' Action Day. As the two-time Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Maryland, he challenged liberal Democrats Paul Sarbanes (1988) and Barbara Mikulski (1992). In the 1996 and 2000 Republican presidential campaigns, Alan Keyes eloquently elevated the national political debate as a candidate for president. With his unequivocal pro-life, pro-family message, he forced the GOP leadership to address America's moral crisis. His political views are consistently based on America's founding ideals, those in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.

Alan hosted his own syndicated radio show throughout the 1990s, America's Wake-Up Call, and a television commentary show, Alan Keyes is Making Sense, during 2002 on MSNBC. He is currently writing books and speaking publicly on America's moral crisis.

Well-educated leader. Keyes has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and wrote his dissertation on constitutional theory. He served as Interim President of Alabama A&M University in 1991. He speaks French and Spanish and a little Russian and ancient Greek, and is the author of Masters of the Dream: The Strength and Betrayal of Black America (1995); and Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny (1996).

Pro-life champion. Keyes has unashamedly and consistently raised the standard of unalienable rights--and Biblical truth--in defense of the unborn. Keyes confronts the culture of death with compelling and inspiring reasons why abortion must be banned from our land.

Dedicated family man. Keyes and his wife Jocelyn have three children: Francis, Maya, and Andrew. Alan's stated purpose in life, like that of America's Founders, is to provide a secure future for our posterity.

For more on Alan Keyes, go to http://www.renewamerica.us/keyes/whois.htm, or visit his website at http://www.renewamerica.us

Aaron Russo  [Top]

Award winning Hollywood producer (Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd), has won Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe, many gold and platinum albums, and Six Academy Award Nominations, NAACP Image Award winner, presidential candidate for Libertarian Party, http://www.russoforpresident.com/

Hutton Gibson  [Top]

An expert on the New World Order, Hutton Gibson is Mel Gibson's father. Expert on the topic of globalists' takeover.

Angela "Bay" Buchanan  [Top]

P resident of The American Cause http://www.theamericancause.org/ Launched in 1993, The American Cause is an educational organization whose mission is to advance and promote traditional American values that are rooted in the conservative principles of national sovereignty, economic patriotism, limited government, and individual freedom.
Use this page to get the bio http://www.yaf.org/speakers/bay_buchanan.html

Robert Schulz  [Top]

Bob Schulz has an engineering degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy (1963), and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University (1969). He completed most of the course work for a Ph. D. in Public Administration at the Graduate School of Public Affairs , State University of NY.

Bob has held significant positions in industry (General Electric), in government (Connecticut, New York State, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), on Wall Street (Prudential-Bache), in business (founder and CEO of a consulting firm), and on the radio as a talk-show host (with WROW in Albany, New York).

Bob received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force in 1959 and he answered his country's call by volunteering as a ship's engineer during the sea- lift to Vietnam in 1966.

However, this work and these assignments are not Bob's principal reason for being.

Although he is not an attorney, he is not unskilled in the law. For the past 22 years Bob has been occupied with an abiding concern about wrongful governmental behavior and has been carefully evaluating governmental behavior, comparing that behavior with the requirements of the State and Federal Constitutions and unhesitatingly confronting improprieties and conflicts, in the courts, professionally, intelligently and rationally. Bob has prformed the research, prepared the briefs and argued cases in the highest state and federal courts. At least one hundred fourteen (114) decisions have been rendered in cases he has brought against unconstitutional and illegal governmental behavior, often with other citizen-plaintiffs.

Be assured, Bob is not some legal crank, interested in making a reputation. The things he has been dealing with are painful to him and costly. He has done much of this on his own, but he has received the encouragement and support and participation of a growing number of people in New York State and elsewhere. List of the citations of the 99 state court decisions and 15 federal court decisions in the cases Bob has brought against governmental wrongdoing.

Bob and his wife, Judy, of 38 years live on a small farm on the east side of Lake George, NY, where they raised four children, each of whom has graduated from one of America's finest universities.