Minuteman Project

“This website is operated by the real Minuteman Project under its founder and president, Jim Gilchrist.

The purpose of this site is to counter an identical web site fraudulently created by Marvin Stewart and Deborah Peterson (alias Courtney), two of the hijackers who launched an illegal, and failed, attempt to seize and plunder Jim Gilchrist’s original Minuteman Project several months ago through fraud, manipulation and propaganda.

Thank you for your support of the Minuteman Project.”

By Perry Emerson - Minuteman Express News

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LITIGATION BETWEEN THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT, INC. AND ITS FORMER VOLUNTEERS (HIJACKERS)

1. Why did Jim Gilchrist bring lawsuit(s) against the former volunteers?

When Jim terminated defendants Marvin Stewart, Deborah Peterson (alias Deborah Courtney), and Barbara Coe on February 2, 2007 from their volunteer advisory positions he expected they would simply act as mature adults and move on to something else to further the cause of the immigration law advocacy movement.

Instead, they filed a fraudulent document with the Delaware Secretary of State’s office falsely claiming to be the board of directors of Minuteman Project, Inc. (MMP). They then went to MMP’s bank with a copy of that fraudulent document, and phony corporate minutes they created that illegally claimed they had signatory rights on the Minuteman bank account.

With the approval of a naive Washington Mutual Bank clerk, they illegally took over the bank accounts. They withdrew most of the Minuteman Project’s money, while being filmed by a bank surveillance camera, causing all of Minuteman’s outstanding checks to bounce. Jim honored the thousands of dollars of bounced checks with his personal funds.

They also used the fraudulent documents to trick the ISP that hosted Jim’s Minuteman Project web site into letting them seize and take control of Jim’s web site. Shortly thereafter, MMP lawyers, citing the fraud, convinced the ISP to return the web site to Jim’s control.

Concurrently, using the Minuteman Project’s confidential email list that they covertly downloaded from MMP computer systems, the defendants launched a national email and media propaganda campaign of blatant lies apparently designed to severely and irreparably damage the reputation of Jim Gilchrist, his wife, his consultants, and the Minuteman Project membership in an apparent attempt to destroy the MMP and cripple the national movement it had spawned across the nation.

The defendants recruited the help of Robert Vasquez, Republican – Idaho, to write and broadcast propaganda emails loaded with every lie one could spin.

Barbara Coe is the leader of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) in Huntington Beach, Ca. She was invited into the Minuteman Project by Jim Gilchrist only to provide confidential advice, not to participate in an apparent plan of betrayal to illegally try to take it over.

To stop this unlawful conduct, Minuteman Project, Inc. immediately filed lawsuits for fraud, conversion (theft), and interference with the contracts between Minuteman and third parties, and for malicious defamation.

Minuteman Project, Inc. also sued the perpetrators for injunctive relief (an order to stop), which was granted by the court.

Hanging The Innocent

Participation of local newspaper’s “dirty” journalist in the
takeover attempt of Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project:

The hijacker-defendants partnered up with pro-illegal alien invasion columnist Frank Mickadeit, of the Orange County (Ca.) Register newspaper, to publish in his newspaper commentaries outright defamatory lies, innuendos, and distortions proffered by the defendants.

Frank Mickadeit purposely neglected to query Gilchrist, the MMP staff, or MMP attorneys, for any rebuttals to the maliciously defaming claims written in his newspaper articles.

It was not known by Minuteman Project associates that the hijacker-defendants were apparently close friends or acquaintances of a biased, “dirty” newspaper reporter harboring obsessive hostilities toward the Minuteman Project and similar immigration law enforcement advocacy organizations.

The attorney initially representing and speaking on behalf of the hijackers, James V. Lacy, is a career Republican and a councilman for the city of Dana Point, Ca. After discovering the sinister motives of the hijackers it appears that he disassociated himself from his hijacker-clients.

Lacy refused to appear on their behalf at a final court hearing on June 6, 2007 in which the judge dismissed the pleadings of the hijackers as “frivolous and without any merit”. Apparently, Mr. Lacy was never paid by the hijackers for his hundreds of hours of services to defend them against the criminal and civil claims brought against them by the Minuteman Project.

When MMP attorneys put the Orange County (Ca.) Register newspaper on notice for malicious defamation and interference with legal proceedings, pro-illegal alien invasion columnist Frank Mickadeit put away his venom-pen rather than risk him and his newspaper to any further exposure to a pending law suit for intentional and malicious libel and defamation.

Professional canons of journalism generally expect a reporter to verify spurious accusations, as in the case of the libelous and slanderous accusations made by the hijackers about the Minuteman Project.

Many members of the media routinely ignore professional protocol and frequently engage in malicious defamation, purposely distorting the truth to present unsubstantiated and severely injurious claims in their writings.

Such journalists are referred to as “dirty” journalists. They live in the delusional world of an anarchist, void of conscience or accountability, and sorely lacking in credibility.

Claiming the grossly over-rated title of journalist should not entitle one to engage in deceitful practices while falsely pursuing one’s selfish agenda under the deceptive mask of objectivity, fairness, and balance in news reporting.

The most alarming revelation of all was Barbara Coe’s affiliation with the hijackers. As an ardent advocate of immigration law enforcement, with a history of activism dating back two decades, the Minuteman Project was shocked and dismayed by Barbara Coe’s new alliance with a pro-illegal alien invasion journalist and fellow hijackers that she barely knew.

What prompted Coe, the leader of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR), and a co-author of California’s original Proposition 187, to align herself with persons of less character and integrity than the chaotic anti-rule-of-law adversaries the Minuteman Project has been fighting against for the past two and one-half years?

Was it jealousy over the fact that the Minuteman Project has brought more national awareness to the illegal alien invasion crisis in two years, with only $400,000, than the dozen or so other long-established immigration law enforcement advocacy organizations have been able to do in 20 years with over $20 million in aggregate donations?

Or, was it naiveté in trusting the lies and fantasies concocted by Deborah Peterson (alias Deborah Courtney), and her boy friend, Paul Sielski, the fugitive with a felony warrant recently arrested by Orange County (Ca.) Sheriff’s deputies?

Perhaps it was the hypocritical rhetoric of the delusional, self-acclaimed minister Marvin Stewart, who claims Jesus tells him what to do.

Apparently, those instructions from God include orders to steal the Minuteman Project, Inc. and engaging in racist, anti-Mexican bashing against the MMP spokesman Ray Herrera, a Mexican-American and personal friend of Jim Gilchrist. More than once Jim had to reprimand Marvin Stewart for his condescending and hostile treatment of Ray Herrera.

Or, was it Coe’s association with Scott Powelson, the self-acclaimed illegal gun-runner who bragged to Deborah Courtney and Paul Sielski of how he covertly brought illegal assault rifles into California.

While visiting the home shared by Deborah Peterson (Courtney) and Paul Sielski in Tustin, Ca., Powelson boldly displayed and passed around what he boasted was an illegal assault rifle that he allegedly smuggled into California from a Nevada gun show in November of 2006, according to Tim Bueler, a 19-year-old MMP member living at the Peterson (Courtney) household at the time.

Bueler immediately moved out of Peterson’s residence after that incident, saying “They are crazy to be messing around with those kinds of guns.” Bueler brought this incident to Jim’s attention in late February, 2007, over three months after it occurred. Jim notified appropriate federal and state law enforcement agencies of this matter.

Except for her long-time friendship with Powelson, the people that Coe apparently dearly trusted were known to her on a very casual and infrequent basis for only a couple months.

Barbara Coe has yet to issue an apology to the Minuteman Project for her involvement in the attempted hijacking, their frauds, and the malicious defamation that accompanied those sinister actions. Nor has she issued a statement to her membership, and the general public, retracting her affiliation with the hijackers and their fabricated claims of “criminal activity” by Jim Gilchrist, his wife, Sandy, and close MMP associates.

Never once did the hijackers ever bring forth any evidence of any improprieties within the Minuteman Project. Such accusations were part of a well-planned ploy to apparently disrupt and seize the Project. This is what terrorists do…lie, disrupt, destroy, seize, and then plunder the assets.

2. Were the former volunteers ever voting members of the board of directors?

No. They served in a volunteer advisory capacity only. They were entitled to offer only their opinions and advice to help plan events and to help move the momentum of the mission. They knew, and were repeatedly reminded, that they were strictly volunteers who had no governing power whatsoever, regardless of what illusory titles they may have granted themselves.

Initially, Jim and his wife were the two directors, when Jim incorporated the MMP in Delaware shortly after he returned from the original Minuteman Project event he launched in Arizona in April 2005.

On June 6, 2005 Jim became the sole voting director and subsequently filed the proper corporate amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State’s office. Although they voted on the seven member volunteer advisory board, their votes were innocuous and each member knew that Jim’s vote was the only vote that counted.

3. On what basis could defendants claim they control the board of directors?

Delusions? Jealousy? Greed? It’s hard to get into the mind of anyone, much less those with delusions of grandeur. The three defendants, in a private meeting, claim they voted 3-0 to vote off the other 4 members of their so-called “board”, including Jim. Then they voted to fire Jim, and two other members of Jim’s staff, from the very organization that Jim had created. Finally, the trio declared Marvin Stewart as president and leader of Jim’s Minuteman Project.

The defendants then filed fake corporate documents with the Secretary of State in Delaware to begin their fraudulent attempt to take over Jim’s Minuteman Project.

If it were not so costly to the movement in a time of great danger to our country, the defendants’ actions would be as comical as an episode of The Three Stooges.

Even if they were right that the seven member non-voting, non-governing, volunteer advisory board was somehow, as a rare and obscure matter of law or fantasy, a governing board of directors, their minority vote of 3-0 was meaningless.

Furthermore, the defendants did not have a quorum at their private meeting of their “fictitious” board, as opined by specialist counsel of Delaware corporate law. The secret meeting was at a location undisclosed to Jim or his staff (a local fish restaurant). No required notice of that meeting was given to the four other members of the advisory board, as required by law. Under Delaware law, without a quorum, the so-called “vote” had no effect and was null and void.

The sole intent of the hijackers was to seize what was not theirs by any means necessary.

These maliciously defaming claims are being made by persons who spent no time in the MMP office, have never run a business, and have no accounting or legal background. Never have any of them provided any proof whatsoever to support their false claims.

Jim Gilchrist and his wife, Sandy have devoted about 7,000 hours and 2,000 hours, respectively, without any compensation, over the past three years to the Minuteman Project. Jim and Sandy have also borrowed almost $70,000 on their home to help finance programs for the MMP during times of lean donations. And they have had a continuous open policy to all law enforcement organizations and tax authorities.

4. What did the court rule?

After hearing all the evidence on the MMP’s motion for a preliminary injunction on March 21, the court ruled that MMP had proven that it was “most likely to succeed” at trial.

The court enjoined (an order to stop) defendants from spending, diverting, dissipating or otherwise directing any Minuteman funds or property. Despite the court order, defendant Marvin Stewart attempted to seize the Minuteman Project bank accounts again, apparently in contempt of the judge's order. Counsel for Washington Mutual Bank refused Stewart and his attorney any access to the account and informed MMProject attorney's of this contemptuous act.

The defendants also were ordered by the court not to use Minuteman Project letterhead and stationery, which they had covertly taken shortly before the fraudulent corporate documents were filed in Delaware.

Despite the court’s injunctive orders of March 21, defendant Marvin Stewart, in yet another apparent contempt of the court’s orders, subsequently filed a fraudulent change of address form on April 3 with the post office in an attempt to divert Jim Gilchrist’s personal mail and MMProject donations from the MMP P.O. Box to Stewart’s own postal address in Long Beach, Ca.

An alert mail clerk foiled that attempt and advised the MMP to refer the incident to both local and federal law enforcement. Criminal complaints were filed with the Orange County Sheriff’s fraud division and the U.S. Postal Service against Marvin Stewart. Also, because Marvin Stewart is a federal employee, who works for the Dept. of Veteran's Affairs, with access to private information on tens of millions of veterans, it was deemed appropriate to file notices of complaint with four separate security departments at the Dept. of Veteran's Affairs Headquarters.

5. Why did The Minuteman Project dismiss its legal actions against the defendants?

The court’s ruling on March 21 was powerful and decimated the defendants’ pretenses.

Jim Gilchrist faced a choice: expend MMP energy and resources on lawyers and chasing hijacking bandits, or focus on the MMP’s primary mission to stop the chaotic neglect of U.S. immigration laws and reverse illegal immigration.

Our nation’s existence is in mortal danger due to the reckless disregard of its immigration laws by our political governors at all levels of government. Jim’s choice was for the greater good: to focus on preserving our nation’s sovereignty, independence, security, domestic tranquility, and encouraging the resolute enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

6. What does the Minuteman Project, Inc. expect to happen now that the defendants have been defeated?

Jim wanted to end any ambiguity created by the defendants’ outrageous and fraudulent claims. He wanted to distinguish MMP from the nearly 1500 other organizations using “Minuteman” in their name. By using Jim Gilchrist’s name in the corporate name, there now is no doubt it is, and always has been, controlled by Jim.

Any one attempting to use the Minuteman Project name, or officer’s title, does so illegally and becomes subject to the perils of the court.

While the defendants squeal in defiance of the reasonable rule of law…laws undeniably in favor of Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project he created, they have essentially been “left out in the cold.” Whether they end up in jail as a result of any criminal prosecution will be left to the decision of law enforcement agencies and the Orange County District Attorney.

7. Can Jim or the Minuteman Project file another lawsuit(s) against the defendants?

Yes. We can re-file our previous lawsuits for each cause of action at any time. When the auditor’s report is complete, the Minuteman Project expects to re-open its malicious defamation suit against several defendants, including the Orange County Register newspaper.

Despite warnings by the court, Marvin Stewart and Deborah Peterson (Courtney) have already established a fraudulent Minuteman Project web site, literally stealing the old MMP home page, the MMP logos, and other property of Jim’s Minuteman Project. It appears that the goal of the hijackers is unchanged: pretend they are the Minuteman Project and solicit the public out of as much donations as possible before they are shut down and charged with criminal activity.

The hijackers will be held accountable for this continued fraud and it is unlikely the Superior Court judge will be tolerant of their reckless disregard for the court’s orders. It appears that the hijackers have every intention of violating the law regardless of the court’s orders.

Hijacker goes to jail!

Paul Sielski, one of the defendants’ accomplices in the attempt to illegally commandeer the Minuteman Project, was arrested by the efficient work of an Orange County Sheriff’s Department Fugitive Task Force. He is expected to be extradited to Maryland soon for trial on a felony warrant. He faces up to 20 years in a Maryland prison if convicted for his alleged crimes. See Record of Orange County (Ca.) Jail: Inmate - - Santa Ana, Ca. posted below at the end of this writing.

Sielski claims to be a co-owner of a Maryland company named AACompSec with a long-time friend, Karl J. Vesterling. AACompSec apparently is providing the computer server and IT assistance for the latest fraudulent MMP web site, according to a “WHO IS” internet search. The last known address of AACompSec was in Bowie, Md. The Minuteman Project paid Paul Sielski’s AACompSec company over $3,500 for supposed “computer security” services shortly before the hijackers launched their attack.

It appears that those sub-contracted services gave Sielski and Vesterling unrestricted access to the MMP computer systems, its IDs, passwords, information databases, and other critical information necessary to seize and plunder the MMP computer systems and fraudulently allow the hijackers to pose as officers and/or owners of the MMP.

All IDs and passwords were stolen by the hijackers when they launched their attack in February and were used to access and seize the MMP web site. They were used also in several attempts to heist the MMP internet monetary gateways that processed donations made over the internet. It is not known how much cash, if any, the hijackers may have stolen through this ruse.

Relatives of Paul Sielski claim that Vesterling and Sielski are professional computer hackers with a history of hacking into business and personal computer systems. One relative allegedly claims he caught them red-handed hacking into his company's business computer systems in an attempt to divert corporate bank account funds to a secret offshore account by using a Miami, Florida criminal enterprise as a transferee of those funds. The Miami middle-man for this alleged activity has not yet been identified.

A trusting Jim Gilchrist also caught the duo last September tampering with his computer system’s sensitive areas that gave them access to all top-secret IDs and passwords. When Jim queried them as to why they were doing “that” they assured him that they were “just testing the system to prevent hackers from getting entry to the MMP systems. We are trying to protect you and the MMP, Jim,” they said.

Deborah Peterson (alias Courtney) and her boy friend, Paul Sielski, had already received at least $80,000 in payments from the Minuteman Project for alleged promotional and computer services allegedly rendered in the prior eight months. They also were provided thousands of dollars of travel and lodging perks to carry out their so-called “promotional plans” for the Minuteman Project.

Marvin Stewart demanded compensation for his driving expenses to and from all rallies or speaking engagements he attended. He is the only “volunteer” of the MMP to ever receive compensation for attending public rallies.

In aggregate, Jim paid Stewart about $1,500 to appease his demands, including about $600 for a PA system that Stewart kept as his personal property, refusing to put it into the property inventory of the Minuteman Project.

When Jim Gilchrist discovered that their performances were vague and unproductive he felt as if he had been “scammed”. He notified Peterson(Courtney) that she would no longer be needed by the Project, whereupon she went into an emotional meltdown in front of several MMP consultants, claiming she could no longer get her manicures, pedicures, hair styling, and other strictly personal wants. Peterson (Courtney) had previously claimed that she received alimony, and compensation from a real estate loan processing business, and that she did not need the Minuteman Project as a source of income to live on.

Gilchrist queried her about “just exactly what do you do for the MMP mission that costs us $10,000 a month and provides ‘no’ results?” She did not answer. Two weeks later the attempt to hijack the Minuteman Project began.

It is not known at this time the depth of involvement, if any, that Karl Vesterling and AACompSec, Inc. may have had in the attempt to steal cash and property from the Minuteman Project during the original hijacking attempt last February.

Jim continues to work with law enforcement officials from Maryland, California, Delaware, New York, Virginia, and Florida to piece together any possible conspiracy of fraud or offshore money laundering by the alleged computer hacking duo.

8. What will the MMP do if the defendants continue to pose as officers of Jim’s Minuteman Project, or continue broadcasting the dozens of defamatory emails with all those lies about Jim, his wife, Sandy, and other members of the MMP membership?

Jim will seek redress again and file suit against them in the applicable state and federal courts.

Currently, the Minuteman Project, Inc. is undergoing an audit by a certified public accounting firm, pursuant to a request by Jim Gilchrist and MMP legal counsel. The result of that audit will establish the integrity of Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project and is expected to expose the defendants and their accomplices for engaging in what may appear to be a conspiracy of betrayal, theft, identity fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, document fraud, and intentional malicious defamation for the purpose of carrying out those frauds. Criminal actions may follow. Civil suits by the MMP are imminent and may include the Orange County (Ca.) Register newspaper and its columnist, Frank Mickadeit.

9. Hijacker Update (June 6, 2007)

The hijackers Lose Again

Jim Gilchrist, the President and Founder of the Minuteman Project, scored a significant win in Superior Court recently when the hijackers, who attempted to steal the Minuteman Project, brought spurious claims to court in their continued efforts to destroy Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project. The Honorable Randell L. Wilkinson handed down a concise and thorough decision on June 6th against Marvin Stewart, Deborah Ann Peterson, (alias Deborah Ann Courtney), Barbara Coe and Scott Powelson.

The judge ruled the following:

Scott Powelson’s motion for a prejudicial dismissal – Motion denied.

Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

Scott Powelson’s motion to release bond money, put up by the MMP, to opposing counsel for the benefit of the hijackers - Motion denied.

Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

The hijacker’s motion to send the Minuteman Project into receivership – Motion denied. Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

The hijacker’s motion to receive the remaining funds in the Minuteman Project corporate account, which Jim Gilchrist ordered the bank to freeze when he discovered actions by the hijackers that appeared to be bank fraud. – Motion denied. Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

The hijacker’s motion to release bond money for the benefit of the hijackers – Motion denied. Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

Stewart, Peterson and Coe motion for joinder - Motion denied.

Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

The court viewed the actions of the hijackers as frivolous, untimely, and without merits. Minuteman Project and its president, Jim Gilchrist, won.

The Superior Court transcript of this hearing will be available by free download within the next few days. Please download the transcripts at: www.MinutemanProject.com OR www.JimGilchrist.com

Watch for the hijackers’ next desperate tricks

1. The hijackers will continue to fraudulently claim that they are the Minuteman Project.

2. The hijackers will claim that they have been damaged and will troll for a sympathetic audience.

3. The hijackers will probably claim fraud and a number of other spurious claims against Jim Gilchrist and his staff of consultants.

4. The hijackers will try to make this a media event to continue their charade of distortions in a desperate attempt to gain public sympathy.

5. The hijackers will try to fraudulently raise money in the name of the Minuteman Project. Fraudulent use of the Minuteman Project identity appears to be their primary motive for attempting to hijack Jim’s Minuteman Project …an attempt that was defeated, albeit not without much damage inflicted upon the MMP and the minuteman/woman movement nationally.

6. The hijackers will try to recruit other organizations to build their sympathy base, and in the opinion of the Minuteman Project, to use as their next victim for attempted seizure.

The hijackers will do nothing to save America, but will enviously and selfishly waste their resources trying to destroy the only man who stood up to Congress and brought national awareness to the illegal alien invasion crisis!

Whose payroll are these unscrupulous hijackers on? All of their actions are designed to stall the tireless work of immigration law enforcement advocacy groups across the nation.

The hijackers have already created at least one fraudulent Minuteman Project web site using both Jim’s likeness and the trademarked MMP logos to deceive the public in an apparent effort to simultaneously draw financial donations and destroy the reputation of Jim, the Minuteman Project, and the Project’s participants.

This is what hijackers and sinister corporate raiders do….lie, disrupt, destroy, seize, and plunder a company’s assets for their own personal gain. Jim Gilchrist was not about to let that happen.

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Hijacker update: July 17, 2007
Accomplice of MMP attempted hijackers held without bail.

Record of Orange County (Ca.) Jail: Inmate - - Santa Ana, Ca.
Inmate Name: Sielski, Paul Edmund Held Without Bail

Date of Birth: 11-16-1966
Sex: Male Race: White
Height: 6' 03 Weight: 230 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Hazel
Occupation: POLITICAL
Next Appearance Date:
Next Appearance Court:
Housing Location: Central Men’s Jail – Santa Ana, Ca.
Custody Status: In Custody Held without bail
Bail Amount: Ineligible
Arrested on: 07-16-2007 at 12:00

Update: August 1, 2007:

Paul Sielski is currently being held in a Maryland jail under the custody of Maryland state troopers. He continues to be held on a “No Bail” warrant.

Auditor’s Report issued June 30, 2007: The Minuteman Project, Inc. received a clean bill of health for the year 2006 from its independent auditing firm, Milaney and Co., CPA, after completion of a two-month-long audit of the Project’s financial transactions and activities.

The auditor’s opinion issued for the Minuteman Project is the highest opinion that can be given in the U.S. by an auditing firm. The report establishes the integrity of Jim Gilchrist and his Minuteman Project.

Update: August 9, 2007:

Marvin Stewart commits identity theft? Tries to grab a $9,000 MMP legal settlement; MMP lawyers stop him.

Minuteman Project lawyers succeeded in pulling Marvin Stewart's fraudulent venue out from under him that was scheduled for Compton College Saturday, August 11.

Boasting in print that he is “the President of the Minuteman Project, Inc.”, Stewart set him self up for a claim of fraud and misrepresentation that allowed MMP attorneys to stop his delusional actions.

Using the email facilities of Barbara Coe and her CCIR group, Marvin Stewart broadcast his announcement of a town hall meeting for August 11 at Compton College, which included about 20 bureaucrats and political candidates, to discuss the consequences of illegal immigration on the City of Compton.

Marvin Stewart again filed fraudulent documents with the state of Delaware last week, claiming (illegally) that he controls Jim’s Minuteman Project. He also delusionally claims that he, Deborah Courtney, and possibly Barbara Coe, are the "board of directors" of the Minuteman Project, Inc.

The MMP, under the direction of Jim Gilchrist, launched a lawsuit against Compton College last January for suppression of free speech against the MMP and Mr. Marvin Stewart.

Jim Gilchrist signed the attorney's engagement letter and paid the initial $750 retainer fee. Apparently, Marvin Stewart secretly met with Dick Ackerman and Mike Sands (of the Temecula, Ca. law firm of Ackerman, Lively and Cowles), who were supposedly representing Gilchrist and the MMP.

With the fake corporate documents he apparently convinced (by outright lies) the naïve attorneys that Jim Gilchrist, his wife, Sandy and other associates of the MMP were embezzlers and thieves and that Marvin and "his" board had to forcefully remove Jim Gilchrist from the organization he had created.

Of course, Marvin apparently insisted that all of this must remain secret so that the public would not know of this information. After all, he apparently claimed to attorneys Ackerman and Sands that he and his fictitious board "loved Jim and wanted to protect him”.

(Yeah, right! J What a desperate “con”).

Consequently, it appears that attorneys Ackerman and Sands avoided any conversation or correspondence about these matters with Jim Gilchrist.

Wouldn’t any reasonable lawyer seek a rebuttal from Jim Gilchrist about such horrific claims made about him before that lawyer arbitrarily, and covertly, stopped representing the original client (Gilchrist’s MMP)?

Meanwhile, Jim Gilchrist went about his daily business thinking all the while that he is in the hands of honest, trustworthy legal counsel who were working quietly on the Minuteman Project law suit against Compton College.

On August 3, after discovering what might seem to be a mutual fraud conducted by Marvin Stewart, his fictitious board of directors, and the law firm of Ackerman, Cowles and Lindsley, Gilchrist notified Dick Ackerman and Mike Sands that he would be reporting them to the California Bar Association for investigation and that he would pursue a malpractice suit against them immediately. MMP counsel is preparing the malpractice law suit right now.

Ackerman foolishly believed everything he was told by an imposter and he accepted fake documents as valid, without so much as a phone call to Jim Gilchrist to follow up on the validity of Stewart’s apparent charade. Apparently, Ackerman is the very first attorney in history who believes anything he hears without challenge.

Gilchrist, as president of the Minuteman Project, officially “fired” Ackerman’s law firm on the spot last week and warned them not to attempt to represent the Minuteman Project, Inc. in any way.

A formal, written complaint to the California Bar was made by gilchrist against Richard Ackerman and his associate, Michael Sands, on Friday, August 10, 2007. The complaint should be available for public viewing.

The settlement to be paid by Compton College is at least $9,000 cash. Marvin Stewart, Deborah Courtney (aka Peterson), and any other people they illegally named to their fictitious board of directors apparently were to share in this cash bonus, with perhaps Marvin probably taking the bulk of it.

Also, Ackerman’s law firm would be paid for their “so-called” legal services of perhaps $5,000, or more.

There certainly appears to be a dark and conspiratorial financial scheme behind Marvin Stewart’s latest attempt to steal the identity of the Minuteman Project.

Maybe it’s time to call out all the Minutemen/women to start hammering the O.C. District Attorney to indict these hijackers who continue to defy the rule of law with impunity. Fortunately, one of them is already in jail. But, there are more of them out there freely wreaking havoc throughout the entire minuteman movement.

A nation governed by the rule of law means that the rule of law is applied universally to everyone, not just illegal aliens. And that universal application of the law applies equally to disgruntled former members of The Minuteman Project who have devoted every wakened hour to the demise of Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project he created three years ago.

We should be tired of these charades by Stewart, Courtney, Coe and their accomplices, and we should not take it anymore.

Perry Emerson, for Minuteman Express News

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