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This page is designed for long lost friends. An easy way to bring you up-to-date on my life since you last saw me.

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but in my last years of high school I became a religious fanatic. I was an ordinary secular guy before that. Sure, I went to church and stuff. But in 1974 or so I became an "extremist." I went to USC pre-law, then law school, then passed the California Bar Exam, but the California State Bar wouldn't give me a license to practice. I cannot serve on a jury. It may well be that you would be barred from serving on a jury if the judge knew the facts about YOU. I'd like to think so.

Let me give you an example:

Suppose our President's newly-created "Office of Homeland Security" issued an edict proclaiming that all Muslims were "a threat to our national security," and must leave the country within 30 days. After that, any Muslim could be shot on sight, and all non-Muslim Americans were legally obligated to kill any Muslim they see within our borders. 

I know, I know: "That's ridiculous." Hang with me for a minute.

I actually know an Afghani man who fought against the Soviets in the early 1980's, was imprisoned by the Communists, and is something of a hero in Afghanistan. He now lives in Orange County. His wife has fixed me the most delicious Afghani cuisine. I would never obey any government order to infringe on his life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.

Now suppose I have been arrested for failure to shoot a friend of mine, who happened to be Muslim. You have been called for jury duty, and you are being interviewed as a prospective juror in my case. 

Would you send me to prison for failing to kill my Muslim friend? 

What if you knew my friend as well as I did, and you knew him to be a person who loved the U.S. Constitution and America, who despised Osama bin Laden, who grieved deeply over the events of 9-11, and you wouldn't have killed him either, even if the law required you to do so? What if you as a juror believed this is an unjust law, and your conscience would not allow you to vote "guilty" in my case, regardless of the requirements of the law and the "facts" indicating that I had violated that law?

If you were to tell the judge that you are philosophically predisposed to voting "not guilty" despite the law and despite the facts in this case, and that you would put your conscience ahead of the law and the facts, the judge would most likely exclude you from serving on the jury.

This despite the fact that every single person who signed the Constitution believed that the jury was the last defense against tyrannical laws, and that every juror was morally bound to "nullify" unjust laws by refusing to convict anyone of violating them. More on "jury nullification" here.

I hope this little illustration makes my "fanaticism" a little more palatable for you. I assume you too would put your conscience ahead of the State.

I'm a Christian, and from what I've read, every single person who signed the Constitution would -- if they were to be transported through time into the 21st century -- join me in being a "religious fanatic." I formed a non-profit publishing organization in 1980 called "Vine & Fig Tree." America's Founding Fathers wanted America to be the land of "Vine & Fig Tree." Find out what they meant here.

"Vine & Fig Tree" has consumed my life. I have never been married. "Get a life" is something I am frequently told.

From 1987-1997 I was involved with a handful of like-minded fanatics. We rented a 12-bedroom house in Santa Ana and allowed hundreds of homeless people to stay there while we helped them get off drugs, get jobs, and maybe even become "extremists" like us. In 1998 my father was diagnosed with lung cancer and my parents asked me to leave that wacked-out Christian commune and help them through this difficult time. My father died in 2000, and I still live with my mother while my best friends -- a +10,000-volume library -- are housed a couple of miles away. 

Someday I hope to publish a book or two. In the meantime, everything I've written is on the Internet. You can read it all by starting here.

And I sure hope you'll drop me a line. Even if you vehemently disagree with my views.


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