My name is Augustus Invictus, and I represent Reverend Matthew Hale as his attorney. In furtherance of assisting with Rev. Hale’s legal matters, I am issuing this call for volunteers to the right-wing community.
Rev. Hale was trained as an attorney himself, having attended law school in Illinois. His licensure was denied, however, on the basis of his political and religious beliefs in 1998, when the Illinois Bar rejected his application due to his position as Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator. Twenty years ago, many in the legal profession were up in arms about this decision. Even the ACLU filed a brief in support of Rev. Hale’s petition. But because of his religious beliefs, the Bar decided that he did not have the requisite moral character to practice law in the State of Illinois.
As an Illinois attorney myself, this case hits close to home. As a law student in Chicago, Rev. Hale’s licensure case was part of the textbook on professional ethics; and as I have noted elsewhere, my professor in this course was a Rabbi. He impressed upon us that white nationalist or anti-Semitic beliefs would not be tolerated in the legal profession; and that you can absolutely be denied a license to practice law if you espouse anything of the sort. As the ACLU spokesman said at the time of Rev. Hale’s case, “[I]t is a very dangerous precedent to use someone's speech as a vehicle to prohibit him from the practice of law." At this point, that precedent is well-established.
But this case was only the beginning of the martyrdom of Rev. Hale by the System. The year after the final denial of his licensure, certain interested parties backed some unknown Christian church, also called the Church of the Creator, in filing a trademark dispute. In the course of those proceedings, the federal courts ruled in favor of the unknown Christian church from a town in rural Oregon, declaring that the true Church of the Creator, founded by Ben Klassen in 1973, could no longer use its own name – or any name similar to it. The Church has been forced ever since to refer to itself as “The Creativity Movement.”
Not satisfied with the court-mandated destruction of the Church, the FBI targeted Rev. Hale individually, sending a paid informant to manufacture evidence against him to justify a charge of solicitation of murder of the federal judge who had ruled against the Church in the trademark dispute. While awaiting sentencing, the mother and husband of that judge were murdered – by someone completely unrelated to Rev. Hale or the Church. While this charge – even if true – would have carried a maximum sentence of twenty years, he was sentenced to forty years in the ADMAX prison in Florence, Colorado because of the terrorism enhancement under the PATRIOT Act.
Rev. Hale has now served 16 years of that sentence. As the years have passed, America has continued its decline, and the story of Matthew Hale has been largely relegated to the dark history of the early years of the PATRIOT Act being turned against American citizens. Regardless of whether one agrees with Rev. Hale or his politics or his religion, every man can and must understand that he fought against the System – and that the System attacked and crucified him unjustly because he posed a threat to their power. Rev. Hale’s political persecution is a classic case of corruption, both at the State and federal levels.
Many in the right-wing understand the martyrdom of Rev. Hale, its causes and its meaning. But many understand it as something historical, as a cause that ended years ago upon his sentencing. As a matter of fact, Rev. Hale has been fighting from behind bars this entire time. While prohibited from any participation in the Church or from even speaking with his religious brethren about his religion, Rev. Hale has been writing books and filing lawsuits, fighting as best he can under the severe restrictions imposed upon him by the Federal Government.
I have been working with Rev. Hale on certain legal matters, and as part of that effort I am issuing this call for assistance. For all concerned with the plight of Rev. Hale, for all who recognize the injustice wrought upon him by the System, for all who have wished over the years that there is something you could do to assist Rev. Hale, the opportunity now presents itself.
If you are an attorney, law student, or paralegal interested in working on Rev. Hale’s cases, please let me know.
If you are an organizer or other political operative interested in assisting with ancillary matters pertaining to Rev. Hale’s legal cases, please let me know.
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