The following is the text of
a press release that I emailed to local and national media. It is written in
the third person, as such press releases customarily are.
Press Release
For Immediate Release
For Immediate Release
You are Invited to Witness a Human
Sacrifice by Sharks
A Maui writer will feed
Himself to sharks unless his demands are met by the county government.
Kurt Butler, author of the
controversial futurist novel Barbarians
in Paradise/Terror Comes to Maui, and long-time crusader for reform of the
justice system, vows to feed himself to sharks in his ultimate protest against
the illegal policies and actions of those he calls Maui government criminals.
BUTLER’S DEMANDS on County of
Maui (the county government) are simple and reasonable:
1) Agree to issue a press
release that informs the public that victims of perjury can file a complaint
with a police officer just as they would for assault or robbery, and that they
have a right to an investigation if they show probable cause and injury;
2) Agree to order the
Chief of Police to issue a memo to all police officers ordering them to
investigate and prosecute perjury the same as they do other crimes, which is
what former Chief Phillips falsely swore they already do, in 2008 in federal
court; send a similar memo to the Office of the Prosecutor; and make these
memos public;
3) Agree to change, or to
lobby the state to change, the standard TRO (Temporary Restraining
Order) Petition form. The change shall be to add the following words, in
black-box warning form, near the signature of the petitioner. [Warning: Knowingly making a false statement
in this document is perjury, a serious crime that will be prosecuted to the
maximum extent prescribed by law.] These acts would simply inform the public about what the county's policy is. The only reason to refuse would be that they have no intention of complying with the law even though the police chief swore under oath that they do.
Butler says that by agreeing
to these demands the Maui government criminals would not have to admit their
subversion of the law and obstruction of justice for the last several decades,
or apologize to people like him who have been harmed by their illegal policy; they
would not be put in legal jeopardy. But the Prison Industrial Complex would
lose one of its favorite tools for undermining due process and the rule of law.
He says, “I, for one, would forgo revenge and retribution if we could get real
reform.”
If County of Maui does not meet all three of the demands by his deadline:Noon, June 25, 2016,
Butler will begin his final,
desperate, Hail Mary protest.
Where: The beach at Kamaole Beach Park I, across
from Chevron/ABC at 2349 S. Kihei Rd, Kihei, Maui.
He will strap on a small
backpack containing several aluminum water bottles filled with fresh bovine blood.
Their plastic screw tops will be tightly closed at first. He will enter the
water and start swimming straight for the island of Lanai. See picture below.
At about 100 yards, well past the paddle boarders and others, he will open the backpack zipper and loosen the bottle lids so blood oozes and sloshes out and he leaves a trail of it as he resumes swimming. He will continue to swim until he is exhausted, at which point he will stop, open the bottles all the way, and pour their remaining contents over his head. (End of press release)
At about 100 yards, well past the paddle boarders and others, he will open the backpack zipper and loosen the bottle lids so blood oozes and sloshes out and he leaves a trail of it as he resumes swimming. He will continue to swim until he is exhausted, at which point he will stop, open the bottles all the way, and pour their remaining contents over his head. (End of press release)
For 15 years I have protested County of Maui’s policy whereby an innocent person, even a crime victim, can be arrested and jailed indefinitely on the words of a lying accuser who later, when fully exposed as a perjurer, pays no price for the crime. It is self-evident that there can be no rule of law and no integrity in the justice system when perjury and false reporting are “free crimes,” and the county insists on lying about its policy.
The result of this illegal
policy is routine violation of due process rights and arbitrary injustice. No
one knows how many people have been unjustly arrested, jailed, defamed, and burdened with
legal expenses on the basis of perjury or false reporting to police. The police
don’t log victims’ attempts to file complaints or their own refusals to
investigate, so there is no way of counting. Nor is there any way to count
those who might go to the police but don’t because they have heard the police
and prosecutors won’t do anything.
Moreover, the county has a
policy (or a bad habit, which is legally the same thing) of lying about this
policy. For example, former Police Chief Thomas Phillips lied while under oath
(committed perjury) in federal court in 2008 (Kurt Butler vs County of Maui, et al) when he swore that his
department prosecutes perjury the same as it does other crimes. Here is a copy of that sworn declaration.
Phillips swore to this even though
he knew that the county had never prosecuted a single case of perjury (and still
hasn’t); that his officers routinely told people who complained of perjury that
the county has a policy of not investigating such complaints; and that
throughout the months of those very court proceedings in which he swore that
perjury is prosecuted the same as other crimes, his department had continued to
refuse my repeated requests that they investigate my complaints about the perjury
and false reporting that had unjustly landed me in jail for a month and cost
the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
I gave them ironclad proof on
a silver platter, but they refused to prosecute. We simply cannot believe a
word these people say, even when they say it while under oath in federal court.
The chief’s brazen, cynical,
criminal lie shows how far County of Maui has strayed from the state and
federal constitutions, as well as from common sense and common decency. These
Maui government criminals heap lie upon lie, perjury upon perjury, and perjury
about perjury, thereby making the whole system a farce. They deliberately
undermine the integrity of the justice system and the rule of law while they
prosecute others for far less serious crimes.
The
de facto veto by the county
government of the anti-perjury law passed by the state legislature is patently
unconstitutional, a violation of separation of powers. The mayor, the police
chief and the prosecutor take oaths to uphold and enforce the law. They have no
right to pick and choose which laws to enforce.
For
years I have complained to county officials and council members about the
policy and the harm it does to innocent people and to the justice system itself.
I have written dozens of letters to
county officials, protested with large signs on the roadside, and posted
several blogs online about the problem. I have received no replies or comments from
county officials or council members.
I demonstrated with posters like the one below accusing the chief, the mayor, and various county attorneys and council members of heinous crimes,
trying to give the mayor and his bullies a taste of what perjury victims
endure, to show them that perjury can wreck lives. I demonstrated with signs
like this all over Wailuku for several hours a day for several weeks. The
mayor’s private goons attacked me a couple times and his cops threatened to
arrest me and tried to intimidate me into stopping, but I was not hurt or
arrested.
Unfortunately all my efforts have been for nothing. After more than a decade of failing to inspire the government to take this basic step toward the rule of law, I realized I had to do something dramatic to get their attention. So I protested by attempting self-immolation.
Later I protested by fasting
(water only plus a couple sheets of nori each day for minerals) for 28 days in
front of the courthouse in Wailuku. This is longer than Gandhi’s longest fast,
but the county still would not budge and the local media would not report it.
After losing 26 pounds, and
suffering memory, cognition, vision, muscle, bone and heart problems, and
realizing I could die, I threw in the towel. It took six months to fully
recover my health.
Again, it was all for
nothing. The mayor and his henchmen would let me die in public rather than end
the illegal policy, but local “journalists” are not the least bit curious about
why the policy is so important to them or concerned about the county’s criminal
behavior. And they’re afraid to expose the mayor and the phony, corrupt justice
system, just as the editors of Pravda are afraid to expose Putin and his cops
and courts.
So now I’m forced to try
something dramatic enough to get the attention of the national and
international press so the world will finally start learning the truth about
this corrupt little police state. Vacationers should go elsewhere until Maui
government criminals, predators and sharks are reigned in.
For more on the issues see:
also, twitter.com /
@MauiLiberty.
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Maui's future foretold: Barbarians In Paradise -- Terror Comes to Maui. This is a prophetic flash novel about a future police state and those who rebel against it. Available in paperback and ebook at Amazon.com.
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Maui's future foretold: Barbarians In Paradise -- Terror Comes to Maui. This is a prophetic flash novel about a future police state and those who rebel against it. Available in paperback and ebook at Amazon.com.
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