Helping Anne get it right (er)
I had promised commentary on my Princess Bride’s previous letter. I (Bryan) in blue, Anne in red.
Dear friends,
***
The *** bar application for Bryan [has been] unusually expensive and time consuming, but he has patiently done all *** have asked of him. Bryan actually completed all the *** required testing and interviews by the end of 2008, and hoped to take the February bar exam.
*** ACTUALLY, I have taken strong issue with some of the process, slowing down forward progress to ensure that the Indiana Constitution and considerations of due process are well respected and adequately explored. Anytime the government turns to the soft sciences and subjectivist scientists there is a great risk that politics can enter the arena. This is especially the case when political correctness is near the docket, as it ever is when government administrators are involved these days.
Did I see “these days?” I meant “these days” as to the Christian Right. The “these days” of the Marxist Left were fifty years ago. Back in that day those who were card carrying Marxists could not become licensed attorneys. They have come along way, baby! Now a card carrying Marxist could even grow up to become, say, the President of the United States.
Here is the case that turned the worm for card carrying dialectical materialists (ie marxists):
“‘Mere unorthodoxy (in the field of political and social ideas) does not as a matter of fair and logical inference, negative ‘good moral character.” Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners, 353 U.S. 232, 238-239, 77 S.Ct. 752, 755-756, 1 L.Ed.2d 796.
Mr. Schware was a card carrying communist, and due to that fact found himself outside the profession back in the 1950’s. Here is his rap sheet according to the nation’s highest court:
“The State contends that even though the use of aliases, the arrests, and the membership in the Communist Party would not justify exclusion of petitioner from the New Mexico bar if each stood alone, when all three are combined his exclusion was not unwarranted. We cannot accept this contention. In the light of petitioner’s forceful showing of good moral character, the evidence upon which the State relies-the arrests for offenses for which petitioner was neither tried nor convicted, the use of an assumed name many years ago, and membership in the Communist Party during the 1930’s-cannot be said to raise substantial doubts about his present good moral character. There is no evidence in the record which rationally justifies a finding that Schware was morally unfit to practice law.” Id, 353 U.S. at 246-47
Thus being a communist, even a law breaking communist, should not keep one from licensure.
My good people, Bryan and I are more and more convinced every day that this treatment is *** due to Bryan’s activist pro-life background and his loyal faith to the Roman Catholic Church.
*** Anne is convinced of this, as is my father. I am yet keeping an open mind. More on why later, but suffice it to say that I have not made this process easier for the Bar Examiners, and, as I have stated before, I share the blame for some of the delay. And …. I did not attend law school in Indiana. It gets worse. I am a product of Regent University School of Law … a law school that the Left hates to welcome to any party. Put my pro-life arrests alongside my previous unsettled civil litigation (search Hill on this website) alongside my controversial work at AFA, put alongside riding with PhillKline, put alongside a strong dedication to chivalry, put alongside my strong dedication to open government and the robust exercise of the First Amendment, ;put alongside the founding of the ArchAngel Institute (search Hill on this website), put alongside my relationship with well protected abortionists (search Klopfer or Tiller on this website) put alongside a now-dismissed (last August) ethical complaint filed against me by former Kansas AG Paul Morrison (who was a tool of the Left who unseated PhillKline and terminated me before resigning amidst a sex scandal himself), put alongside my firm stand for constitutional due process through the processing of my file put alongside my penchant for over analysis and one can find sufficient cause to excuse the time delay – until 2009. As I have said repeatedly, I have not made this easy for the Indiana authorities. Not by intent, but such are the cards that were dealt in this high stakes game.
More on all of this to be explained in the posts ahead of us.
While I may never be an Indiana licensed attorney at this point, the study of why is a great slice of the culture war in America in this hour. At the end of the day maybe that is all that this exercise is supposed to be, nothing more or less than a blood-stained pillar(whipping post) in an ideological desert. I have so served as a speedbump or canary in the mines in days gone by, that is for certain.
At this point that is how I view my travail. Merely a study in the application of social power. Orwell called such power “the ability to cause pain.” Mao said all such power comes out of the barrell of a gun — a mere question of who rode roughshod over who. I will use this site to document the use of such power as long as the bills on this site can be paid.
My gift to posterity — it is pretty much all that I have.
Bryan does not have a history of being a bad attorney at all, quite the opposite, in fact.
***Anne is a bit biased. In the view of Planned Parenthood I am bad by definition, and just drawing breath is, in my case, a bad act. While with the AFA I argued Saxe v. State College Area School Districtbefore a panel led by then Judge Sam Alito. Now SCOTUS Justice Alito then struck down that hate speech code with a decision that was later listed as one of his five most consequential as to the “culture wars.” This anti-religious code was the ”Vermont Model” that was triumphed at the Hates Crime Summits in the late Nineties. Rest assured that many consider me a bad person for my role in bringing down that darling of the homosexual activists.
I then saddled up as Deputy AG under the ever controversial Phill Kline. Wow was that a rough ride! Those who pledge allegiance to Reproductive Rights as the most important and fundamental of rights thus consider me bad by association. Just riding with Kline got many blacklisted and blackballed, including me and a very fine young investigator who I mentored at the AG’s office and attempted to save from a fate similar to mine in the months after.
Bad and good are terms heavy with philosophical presuppositions. My wife considers me quite good. The late George Tiller considered me quite bad, as did the Wichita Eagle, Kansas City Star and abortion profiteers at Planned Parenthood.
So am I bad or good?
That really is the bottom line question in this hour.
Mr. Schware was good. The jury is still out on me.
He does not fit the typical stereotype of attorneys.
*** Right, they usually put money first, I never have, with predictable results. They usually make money. We are nearing bankruptcy. They usually live an easy, rather predictable life. My road is one far less traveled.***
Bryan has always been thorough and diligent in his work as an attorney, and is an extremely honest person.
*** I did not pay her to say that.***
We all enjoy a good lawyer joke now an then, but they do not apply do my husband.
*** No, but I could be a great sources for a whole new line of such jokes.***
Bryan was told by an Indiana attorney he consulted that his situation is so unique because he’s not being investigated due to a drug, alcohol, sex, or gambling problem, and so the [system] just does not know what to do with him. Sadly, were he being investigated for one of the above, he would have an easier time maintaining status as an Indiana attorney in good standing.
*** True — sins of passion or excesses seem to be much easier to forgive than my sins and trespasses for chivalry. I would be better positioned were I coming to the court after arrests as a Marxist, or arrests for numerous fraudulent acts of misrepresentation to avoid arrest, or serial adultery (no known code against that in the profession) or advancing cultural pollution such as pornography, abortion, tobacco defense, unfettered access to ammunition, fast food promotion or even, shudder, coal generated electricity. (Tongue in cheek for the latter categories)
I have done none of those, but still face terrific headwinds.
Bryan has been questioned and critiqued in a manner that more than suggests his loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church and his activist pro-life background are *** [what some] find most troubling about him.
*** You will probably have to read my book to get all of the stories that will therein be told as to Anne’s point here. Some amazing discussions have been had.
Suffice it to say this — were I coming from the Left I could make very good use of this well worn quip:
In West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943) , this Court declared:‘If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.’
I think *** are afraid to license my husband because they recognize that he is someone who will fight for justice for not only the unborn, but for all Christians, and for the Constitution of the United States. These are not the groups of people that *** [some special interests] wants defended in Indiana, which is cause for grave concern.
*** My Anne is quite the fighter. Again, if only I were in Mr. Schware’s position! Then I would be golden, er make that Soviet Red, for I would be no threat to the modernist status quo. I am a threat, and that has caused me problems throughout my adult life. It just seems that some whom I meet are heck bent on helping me confess to their definition of what is “orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion” or, even at times, coerce me ”to confess by word or act their faith therein.” OR be termed mentally unstable, that is. ***
Little Jude needs my attention, so I will keep this short.
*** Little Jude is not so little anymore! Anne is raising a giant. His homebirth was documented on this website.***
Bryan and I ask you to join our family in this spiritual battle that is waging between us and ***, and that mirrors many of these types of battles to come, unless we all just decide not to fight these battles! Bryan is in a very unique place right now, and we feel it is exactly where God wants him, and we just need your continued prayers to see this battle through to the end!
*** Yes, please keep praying for us. We really, really need the prayers on our behalf. It is all that we are surviving on at the present time***
Please pray with us that Bryan will be allowed to sit for the Indiana July bar exam, and that if that is not to happen that we will be blessed and guided by our Lord Jesus Christ in pursuing justice in this matter!
*** And keeping hope alive***
We are continuing to ask for the intervention of St. Thomas More, and invite you to do the same if you feel so led.
I will keep you updated when there are further developments!
Thomas More was beheaded on July 6. Stay tuned for developments.
Love and peace, in Christ, Anne Brown
