ArchAngel Institute

An example of solidarity … from an office of the Church

donegal2007 — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:26:40 +0000

Having determined that the metaphorical bilge pumps were failing and that thus a metaphorical Davie Jones’ locker was close at hand for this metaphorical Titanic, I determined it best to press the Diocese for a statement that could be posted in this venue, a kind of wreath in the sea if you will.

It is presented against the hope that future ships hitting the hard ice like I did will enjoy the full and unreserved support of the Church — before the pumps give out.

Roger Waters seems highly appropriate in this late hour for the ArchAngel Institute. Dedicated to George Ulrich Klopfer and his highly placed defenders in the Indiana judiciary, that would be the governmental-abortion industry complex, aka the promoters of the culture of death ….

A petition for certiorari? An example of no solidarity

donegal2007 — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:17 +0000

Readers have likely noted this post over the past nine weeks, noted that it was password protected.

No more. All are free to read it now.

I have contacted just about every Christian Right and/or Conservative public interest firm and/or Libertarian (First Amendment) public interest firm seeking representation to take me on up to the United States Supreme Court. (I just could not bring myself to ask the ACLU … although I did send the ICLU an email asking if they wanted to discuss my case — they did not.)

None have agreed to aid the Institute in its most pressing hour. Most will not even discuss the matter with me. (Like the ICLU, only without the good reason that the Christian-disliking ICLU has.)

Most all attorneys who do speak with me agree that I have documented unconstitutional acts and Christian persecution. It just is not worth the time of the Christian public interest law firms to act upon it, for the investment is unlikely to pay off in either justice done or funds raised.

Such is the state of solidarity among the conservative movement in America. (The Left does a much better job of looking after their own.)

Now begins the post that those Christian and conservative firms were invited to review.

Brown v. Bowman, Ross, Sudrovech and Harrell, No.11-2164 (7th Cir) was denied en banc review on March 2, 2012. Thus a petition for certiorari must be filed at the SCOTUS by no later than Monday, June 4, 2012 to be timely filed.Plaintiff/Appellate Bryan Brown seeks representation on petition, the same counsel will argue the case (or designates who argues the case) if cert is granted. Brown is willing to enter into contract agreeing to the aforementioned.

The issues in the case are best perceived by reading the following, all of which are linked:

1. The Justicia blog post glossing the Seventh Circuit decision and the February 2 decision

2. Judge Theresa Spingmann’s original decision dismissing the action pursuant to the Rooker Feldman doctrine

3. Plaintiff’s Dec. 8, 2009 verified complaint

4. Appellant’s opening brief

5. Appellee’s brief

6. Appellant’s reply brief

7. Oral Argument

8. Plaintiff / Appellant’s petition for en banc review

The latter lays out the path toward the SCOTUS ala a conflict between the 14th Amendment and Rooker Feldman, as well as a conflict among the circuits as to Rooker Feldman analysis. The SCOTUS has repeated asked the lower courts to throttle down on the use of Rooker Feldman, they have not. Brown v. Bowman could be the case the High Court uses to remove the Rooker Feldman option from the lower federal courts.

My greatest disappointment in my legal travails of the past five year is the precedent that I leave behind. I fear that others with Natural Law and/or Christian activism on their transcripts (i.e. Regent or Ave Maria grads, among other markers) will now face more headwinds due to my case. The Seventh Circuit decision comes right out and says that law applicants who allege religious discrimination have no recourse to the federal courts. As my petition (#8 above) argues, this could be viewed as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and a denial of legal recourse for rights of conscience. (Not to mention that neo-Marxists are given protections not allowed Christians under Seventh Circuit precedent as it now exists.) Future Indiana bar applicants who reveal themselves to be likely Natural Law adherents (such as through college affiliations, clubs or letters of recommendation) may be asked to pledge to the government’s laws over God’s laws to gain a law license. My case can be read as stating that such a price – apostasy for a law license – is an acceptable bargain to both the Indiana Supreme Court and, in Pilate-like fashion, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court has visited Rooker Feldman three times since 2005, each time warning the lower federal courts to ramp it down. (See #4, above). Brown v. Bowman proves that the Seventh Circuit is resisting that ramping down order. It even resurrected doctrines ancillary to Rooker Feldman that Justice John Paul Stevens thought to be dead and buried. (#8 above). There is a fine argument that Rooker Feldman does not even apply to my case (#4), and a fine argument that political correctness is a form of government corruption, of which my case is a fine example. (#6 above).

Finally know that I filed a petition for cert with the SCOTUS coming out of the Indiana Supreme Court’s bad denial process two years ago. That grants the foundation to argue out of John Paul Steven’s Feldman dissent for the overturning of Feldman, and thus the end of the reign of Rooker-Feldman. (#6 and #8)

If interested in discussion the possibilities of representation please contact Bryan Brown at (260) 515-8511 or archangelinstitute@gmail.com . I am a Kansas licensed attorney, but must defer to counsel to take me to this big dance, or not go at all.

PS Any who doubt whether I faced headwinds due to my religious identity should read these excerpts: http://www.archangelinstitute.org/excerpt-from-official-indiana-inquisition/

Solidarity: An example from a fine Catholic attorney from Fort Wayne

donegal2007 — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:34:51 +0000

The ArchAngel Institute owes so many thanks to so many who have stood with us over our five year lifespan. I tendered more than 80 letters of recommendation to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners in support of my moral fitness — did not matter. Those letters were from managers, chief counsel, business associates, close friends, co-counsel, even opposing counsel! A local board certified psychiatrist who spent two hours interviewing me adjudged me more than sufficiently sane to be an attorney (and that is not saying much, given some of the crazy attorneys I have met and read about in Indiana).

Soon after the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program remanded me to a psychologist who had seemingly been told I was a religious nutcase I realized that there was a plan to “get me” emanating out of the culture of death. No surprise there, they had been trying to take me out since I stood up to the them via Operation Rescue back in 1989. And when I marched as they dehydrated Baby Doe to death in 1982 (and wrote much on that in the years following). And for attending Regent University School of Law and studying the Christian roots of our legal order. And for working as a constitutional litigator for the American Family Association for six years, taking on abortionists and the homosexual rights movement. And for being one of Phil Kline’s right hand men as he took on George Tiller (who I stood up to in Kansas a decade before that) and Planned Parenthood (who sued me more than once). And for launching the ArchAngel Institute from Susan Hill’s former abortion flagship in Indiana. And for writing things like this incident to the Institute.

Yet despite this background in religiously-driven activism I had been licensed to practice law by Kansas in 1996, with no disciplinary action ever taken against me, had been admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 2001, many other federal bars and cleared by the National Board of Law Examiners and Missouri Supreme Court the year before I attempted to join Indiana’s bar.

And then came the gang in Indianapolis. Soon after realizing that my religion was the focus of the Examiners I sought out legal counsel. I consulted one of the best in the business in Indianapolis — He told me that my case was quite unique, my skills as an attorney more than adequate and my history impressive. His advice — pay him a few thousand to represent me if I had it and could part with it, or go on my own and realize that he was not all that likely to do anything that I could not. I did not have a few thousand, and if I had, I would have been loathe to part with it given his appraisal of the situation.

I then made contact with Fort Wayne attorney Tom Blee at the recommendation of Fred Everett of the Diocese of Fort Wayne/ South Bend. Tom spent some time with me, looked over my filings, and become alarmed that the system was seeking to nail me to a cross rather than afford me due process.

Tom Blee thus sent this letter to Tim Sudrovech to warn him, and JLAP, that the Catholic Church was keeping an eye on my processing. This letter ended up in my file with the Indiana Law Examiners — they could not have cared less about the warning issued therein ….

Justice (government), Solidarity (church) and Idealism (the believer) …. a culture-healing trifecta seldom realized

donegal2007 — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:51:40 +0000

From the Church’s Magisterial catechism on social justice ….

381. Praying for rulers, which Saint Paul recommended even as he was being persecuted, implicitly indicates what political authority ought to guarantee: a calm and tranquil life led with piety and dignity (cf. 1 Tim 2:1-2). Christians must “be ready for any honest work” (Tit 3:1), showing “perfect courtesy towards all” (Tit 3:2), in the awareness that they are saved not by their own deeds but by God’s mercy. Without “the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour” (Tit 3:5-6), all people are “foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing [their] days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another” (Tit 3:3). We must not forget the miserable state of the human condition marred by sin, but redeemed by God’s love.

382. When human authority goes beyond the limits willed by God, it makes itself a deity and demands absolute submission; it becomes the Beast of the Apocalypse, an image of the power of the imperial persecutor “drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” (Rev 17:6). The Beast is served by the “false prophet” (Rev 19:20), who, with beguiling signs, induces people to adore it. This vision is a prophetic indication of the snares used by Satan to rule men, stealing his way into their spirit with lies. But Christ is the Victorious Lamb who, down the course of human history, overcomes every power that would make it absolute. Before such a power, Saint John suggests the resistance of the martyrs; in this way, believers bear witness that corrupt and satanic power is defeated, because it no longer has any authority over them.

383. The Church proclaims that Christ, the conqueror of death, reigns over the universe that he himself has redeemed. His kingdom includes even the present times and will end only when everything is handed over to the Father and human history is brought to completion in the final judgment (cf. 1 Cor 15:20-28). Christ reveals to human authority, always tempted by the desire to dominate, its authentic and complete meaning as service. God is the one Father, and Christ the one Teacher, of all mankind, and all people are brothers and sisters. Sovereignty belongs to God. The Lord, however, “has not willed to reserve to himself all exercise of power. He entrusts to every creature the functions it is capable of performing, according to the capacities of its own nature. This mode of governance ought to be followed in social life. The way God acts in governing the world, which bears witness to such great regard for human freedom, should inspire the wisdom of those who govern human communities. They should behave as ministers of divine providence”.[773]

The biblical message provides endless inspiration for Christian reflection on political power, recalling that it comes from God and is an integral part of the order that he created. This order is perceived by the human conscience and, in social life, finds its fulfilment in the truth, justice, freedom and solidarity that bring peace.[774]

SOURCE

HE IS RISEN!!!

donegal2007 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:57:20 +0000

Click on this link to read just what that means for you …. http://www.archangelinstitute.org/he-is-risen-indeed/

Auxiliary Bishop James Conley’s endorsement of the ArchAngel Institute

donegal2007 — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:52:57 +0000

Aux. Bishop James Conley has known me (Bryan) since 1991. He is one of my spiritual advisers and has been for 18 years now. He explains our shared background in this clip which he prepared for our December 8 banquet, before he knew for certain that the federal litigation would be filed. He prepared a similar — actually even more glowing — recommendation as to my good moral character and fitness and sent it to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners last June. Here it is. They ignored it.

Exactly what I told the Indiana Board of Law Examiners …

donegal2007 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:33:08 +0000

… when they directly asked me, while I was under oath. And they then used my compelled answer to deny me a law license.

Read how the above applies to my case of law license denial right here (click)

Excerpt from official Indiana inquisition

donegal2007 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:29:18 +0000

Click on pages to enlarge. Three pages from the official transcript followed by one page from the verified complaint alleging civil rights violations. Click on the final link below to read the entire civil rights complaint.

Protected: A post modern heresy trial, post 5: My Luke 21 Moment before Indiana’s “finest”

donegal2007 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:35:45 +0000

He Is Risen Indeed!

donegal2007 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:14:52 +0000

Christians, by definition, believe that the Designer of the Universe entered His creation as a man.

Stop the presses, for that statement is among the most profound written on this site. The ancient Greeks found it patently absurd. (Acts 17) Modernists have called it a fairy tale. Every consistent Christian believes it to be so true as to be worthy of building his/her entire life upon it and even surrendering their life for it.

The Incarnation (God becoming man) and the Resurrection (God-Man destroying death) are the two central tenets of the Christian faith. Anyone “Christian” who rejects either is no Christian at all, but an impostor. All true Christians affirm both.

CS Lewis, among others, noted that Jesus’ teachings leaves His student with only three viable options: He was who He claimed to be, YHWH of the Old Testament, “the Lord,” or a conman, “a Liar,” or a total wackjob, “a Lunatic.”

Post-modernists seem to lean toward lunatic. Jesus needed psycho-therapy. The boys down at the Synagogue/Mosque tend toward liar, noting that his teaching about God contradicts theirs. Hey, that is why he was crucified in the first place!

Only the most intellectually vacuous try to argue He was merely a good teacher. What good teacher gets Himself crucified for false teachings? What good teacher claims to be the self-existent One from the Exodus narratives?

As for His teachings, both Jesus’ identity and authority hang on his resurrection from the dead. He taught such Himself.

Stop the presses, for that statement is one of the most profound on this site. If Jesus is risen from the dead, then all He taught is endorsed by the Power that can reverse the bane of Life, the final frontier, the greatest scourge in the Universe.

If He was risen from the dead then Jesus is who and what He claimed to be.

If He was not risen from the dead then He was either a liar or a lunatic or a lying lunatic.

That dichotomy is nothing but applied logical thought.

Choose this day whom you will serve.

If Jesus was not risen then his body decomposed in some Judean tomb. And if in such a tomb, then the Jewish and Roman authorities, who wanted him dead and killed off many of his disciples, needed only produce that rotting body to strangle Christianity in the crib.

They did not, but they did persecute to death almost all of the disciples and entire generations during the early years of the Church. We have no record of any “cracking” and confessing to a con job. They courageously died for the proposition that Jesus lived. Their blood was the seedbed of the Church. They firmly believed that they served One who could deliver their lives back to them.

About 80 generations later I join billions in affirming that Jesus Christ truly was risen from the dead. I join them in the Church, the only institution on the planet that has proved it can withstand the ravishes of time. Our constitutional republic is pretty much done after a mere 10 generations. The longest lasting monarchical families of Europe came and went in less than 10 generations and the monarchy as a viable institution did not last much more than 20 generations. No institution known to man other than the Church has lasted 1900 years. The Church of the Risen King is still going strong despite sword, despite the black death, despite wars, revolution, economic transformation, dissent and far too many Judases within.

At the great risk of waxing subjectivist, I should also add that my personal experiences in life inform me that Jesus is risen from the dead. I approach the Divine Godhead in His Name, and have witnessed answered prayers. I have witnessed the moving of the Unseen Hand. I have “felt” His assurances as I walk through dark valleys. He comforts my soul.

Reason and experience both inform me that I am right as rain in affirming that Jesus is risen from the dead.

The “therefores” that follow this keystone historical fact are very consequential – especially on a fallen planet. Many, far too many, who claim the name minimize or ignore the therefores. That is the main reason our civilization is dying. Christians giving their Lord the kiss of Judas.

John Paul the Great had this to say about the crucial therefores:

“Christ’s Resurrection is the greatest Event in the history of salvation, and indeed, we can say in the history of humanity, since it gives definitive meaning to the world. The whole world revolves around the Cross, but only in the Resurrection does the Cross reach its full significance of salvific Event. The Cross and Resurrection constitute the one paschal mystery in which the history of the world is centered.”

Pope John Paul II, March 1, 1989. (Quoted in Rice, 50 Questions)

The Resurrection results in a world view that transcends this world.

Jesus was the Passover Lamb who taught that in seeing Him we see the Infinite One in the realms beyond this one. Jesus was the appointed Sacrifice that taught in knowing Him we know the Ground of All Being. Jesus was our redeemer who taught that He and the Father were one.

Jesus taught that your Creator is both Infinite and Personal.

And if He taught it, you would do very well to act upon it – today — for “God overlooked [ignorance of Him in the past] but now he telling everyone everywhere that they must repent because he has fixed a day when the whole world will be judged, and judged in righteousness, and he has appointed a man to be the judge. And God has publicly proved this by raising this man from the dead.”
Acts 17, Jerusalem Bible

Friends, seek the Risen Lord of History. Seek a personal experience with the Infinite-Personal. What search could be more crucial to your very existence — here and after this gig is up?

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