Where does he come up with this stuff?

BRILLIANT! Absolutely BRILLIANT!

This guy, the "Rev" Jim Sutter, he comes up with the greatest tales. I wait with great anticipation to see what he will come up with next! Much of it is so priceless!

In a recent article "You'd Be Amazed Who's Reading this Blog" Sutter eludes to the possibility that people he is investigating (i.e. Foehammer, Robert Spencer, Lady Predator and Cristy Li) are going to be extradited to The Hague and charged with either "war crimes", "crimes against humanity" or both. Yeah, I know, this guy is a laugh riot! He could write for NBC and bring back "Must See TV" on Thursdays if he would put his imagination and talent into making stories for TV instead of trying to pass them off as fact for those that are gullible enough to fall for his fiction.

If you don't want to waste time reading his post, here is the Cliff Notes version:
Sutter is notified (by whom is a complete mystery) to expect contact from an investigator from the United Nations' International Criminal Court.
He spends two hours being interviewed by the ICC investigators.
He will not say who is being investigated or for what.
He gives all kinds of links which he says show that ordinary American citizens are subject to the ICC.

The implication is that if an American exercises their right to free speech (as the folks listed above do on a regular basis), then they can be extradited to The Hague and tried.

This is completely false. The only things Americans can be tried in the ICC for are war crimes and crimes against humanity. And only if those are 1) committed on foreign soil (i.e. not committed in the USA) and 2) the country in which the crimes were committed choose not to prosecute the individual.

Let us amuse ourselves a little and pretend that expressing one's First Amendment right is considered a "war crime" or a "crime against humanity" in some other country. It isn't, and we all know it isn't, but let's travel to Sutter's little land of Make Believe, and pretend it is. The ICC would still not have jurisdiction because they are doing their dastardly deeds in the USA. They reside in the USA, they have blogs on servers in the USA. And we have seen where Canadian bloggers are flocking to servers hosted in the USA to avoid Canadian restrictions on their so-called right to free speech.

We have also seen where the US Court of Appeals has held that an American's rights, as far as publishing goes, does not stop at the border.

I am completely certain that Mr. Sutter would like nothing more than for his fantasies of being interviewed by ICC investigators targeting American citizens, and that there is a grand clandestine cabal of people who are fervently working behind the scenes to take him down, to be true. But sadly, it is just isn't. None of it.

=Bigsibling


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When does credit card fraud become a “religious counseling session?"

Once more, on Mr. Sutter's "Just the Facts" [See update.] blog, he has reinvented himself. What he *now* says about his time in prison.

I was jailed for contempt of court when a judge ordered me to reveal the contents of a religious counseling session I had with an inmate. There are two Ohio laws that protect these conversations, I showed both to the judge, plus I explained professional ethics, but he didn’t care, so he found me guilty of contempt of court, and ordered me locked up until the trial was over.

What Sutter posted about his time in prison on alt.prisons

"I was a minister -before- I gave in to greed and went to prison."

And

"I spent time in FMC Lexington. As a matter of fact, I'll offer it now. My BOP number was 33692-060. Anyone can call BOP, I guess a good place to start is wit their Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, at (301) 317-3211. And I'm still on Supervised Release, until 4/15/97, if someone doubts that, I can give them the name and number of my PO

and again here

"I recently did a short stint in a federal prison for misuse of a credit card."

This pretty much matches up with what I found on the Federal Bureau of Prisons InmateFinder. He was sentenced to FMC Lexington, (Kentucky) Jan 8, 1996, and was ordered to surrender to BOP by reporting to FMC, Lexington, KY. He did not surrender to BOP as ordered, and a warrant for his arrest was issued. Judge Sam H. Bell gave Mr. Sutter a break, and again ordered him to surrender himself, but again he ignored the order. Mr. Sutter was finally arrested on 1/18/96, and delivered to FMC, Lexington.

On a pathetic note, while Mr. Sutter was avoiding reporting to prison, he was posting on the Usenet about his impending demise. On Jan 13,1996, five days after he was ordered to report to FMC, Lexington, he posted:

"Seems before I could even leave for the transplant, I had another heart attack, and was taken by ambulance to the local hopistal. I spent about 3 days in CCU, and they reasonably stabilized me. They also ran new tests, and found that my ejection fraction (the efficiency of one's heart) is down to 8%, which disqualifies me for ny transplant.

To make a long story short, my doctor agreed to let me come home to die. He says it's probably a matter of days at this point, that a body simply cannot function on 8%.

Once I'm gone, I will try to watch over my friends from Heaven..."

And again on Jan 15,1996:

"Dear Friends: I expect that tonite will be my last posting on this or any other board. I can no longer breathe on my own and can hardly move without my heart setting off the alarms. It has been great knowing you all, and I will do whatever God allows me to from Heaven, to forward the cause of equal access for all persons, able-bodied, disabled or otherwise. Please pray for my wife, son, family and friends to have the emotional strength to realize that this should not be a period of grief, it should be celebration - I will be in Heaven, with no more physical and emotional pain. It has been great knowing all of you, and I hope you can carry on for equal rights."

One has to wonder what kind of sick person would pretend he is dying in a Usenet group?

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