Out of jail, out of hell. I've died and gone to heaven!

Note: The following email and story are true.

May 10, 2012

Out of jail, out of hell. I've died and gone to heaven!

by

Ted Burnett

Mom,

I was released from the Monroe Co. (Georgia) Jail, on Wednesday, following my appearance in Superior Court. I plead "guilty with mental illness" to felony obstruction (whatever that means) instead of the original felony charge of Aggravated Assault Upon a Law Enforcement Officer which carries a 12-18 year prison sentence. No one goes home from court a free man after facing this particular charge against an officer in Georgia, but I did only after the charge got reduced. In order to achieve my goal of freedom and to maintain my way of life as a philosopher and writer, I had to fire two lawyers, both, my uncle (who practices commercial law back in Louisiana and knows nothing about criminal law which showed) and Laura D. Hogue of Macon (she was never hired to represent me only to gather information for my uncle, way back in February) due to his incompetence (or whatever) and a deliberate lack of timeliness in handling my case I had to write a series of letters to GA Governor Nathan Deal among others, endure jail life and eat a lot of bad food accompanied by some not so really bad people all while living behind bars in two dirty jails, since early December.

Frustrated with my uncle's inaction, I finally wrote to Attorney Karen Martin whose name kept coming up in conversations with inmates in my cell block as someone who has a great reputation with the DA and the district's judges. (Yesterday in court, she admitted to me that her late husband, Harold, trained most of the county's judges and lawyers.) So, Karen, whose straightforward, has a lot of pull.) Unfortunately, most of these same inmates are too poor to afford her services (so they think) or any other paid lawyer and thus they must accept a court appointed one who gets paid by the state and not by their client.

In some cases, this arrangement works out just fine for the inmate, but for others it doesn't do them justice. Most of these boys and men charged with a felony(s) accept one of the state's three pleas which usually sends them "down the road" to do some time. My inheritance, which I (at the age of 41) still have no control over and little knowledge to its actual value, afforded me the luxury to hire someone, to hire Karen (dumb luck, as it turned out to be). I found myself, alone, in a foreign land among strangers and I was saved by angels. I got SAVED!!

I met with Karen, who has been practicing in Monroe Co. for 33 years, for the first time, last Wednesday when she came to the jail with the DA's first plea offer of felony obstruction, 150 days in jail -- time served, banishment from the state of Georgia except in Fulton and Clayton Counties, 5 years on probation, but no fines. I had only days to consider and accept their offer and to get into court before my case went in front of a grand jury, on 5/14, and this first offer would be rescinded based on the grand jury's indictment.

Karen couldn't understand why I had been sitting in jail for so long. Powerless over you, Jimmy and Laura, I wrote three consecutive letters (dated March 22, April 9 and April 21) to GA Governor Nathan Deal crying for his help while copying GA Attorney General Sam Olens, Senator Jeff Sessions (AL-R), Representative Jo Bonner (AL-R), ACLU of Georgia, The Southern Center for Human Rights, State Bar of Georgia and The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Cynthia Tucker which finally had an impact on the Monroe County District Attorney's Office and their handling of my case. However, all were slow to get involved due to the serious nature of this frivolous charge.

Jo Bonner wrote to me twice. The first time, he stated that he couldn't help due to the separation of constitutional powers between the states and the federal government. But, later in his second letter, Jo said that he had forwarded one of my letters to the "appropriate officials in Georgia". That was very encouraging news. Jeff, Jo, Cynthia have all been in my audience for many years. It pays to write to your representatives in Washington. After meeting with Karen and tentatively agreeing to the state's plea offer, I then wrote to Ted Turner seeking his help in getting me a pardon from Governor Deal (Ted Turner is also in my audience.).

My writing campaign along with my decision to fire Jimmy and Laura and to hire Karen Martin has kept me from going to prison over bumping into the back of a state trooper vehicle while he was setting me up for the "Pit Maneuver" technique during a "Slow Speed Chase". State's test results showed that I was clean and sober at the time of the arrest (and I have been for the past 23 years). Any other outcome and Obama wouldn't have been able to get me out of this fender bender. There was no damage to his patrol car or any injury to the officer. I think he got mad at me for not stopping upon his arrival and flashing lights at 9 pm on the interstate. It was a complete miscommunication.

Aggravated Assault upon a Law Enforcement officer is in the same sentencing classification as Attempted Murder, Car Hijacking, Statutory Rape... There's only one class higher than this level 8 category known as the Seven Deadly Sins --- murder, rape, armed robbery... which comes with a life sentence. In my case, the punishment didn't come anywhere close to the "crime" and cooler heads came to see this in my letters and from watching the actual footage from a trailing law enforcement cruiser according to Karen Martin. She saw it -- there was nothing to it just like I told the governor in my letters. Inmates call getting into this type of trouble and going to jail or prison -- "dumb shit" or "stupid shit" that forever ruins lives, destroys families and communities. Even the judge thought the situation was funny as the DA read the two counts of Aggravated Assault and Attempting to Flee and Elude the Police at 42 mph on "a slow speed chase". Everyone in my cell block repeatedly laughed at this "dumb shit" that got me thrown into jail and bought me a ticket to prison. But, I escaped.

If you don't believe that there is a God, I don't know what other proof that I can offer up. I worked my ass off in jail to be able to freely type out this email to you from the comforts of a hotel, they don't have email in jails or in prisons.

I do appreciate you sending to me the addresses of Jeff Sessions, Jo Bonner, GA Governor Nathan Deal, GA Attorney General Sam Olens and the Christmas check came four months late, but why not send AJC's Cynthia Tucker and Press-Register's Frances Coleman contact info. What you didn't want me to go to the press with this story of injustice or did someone else feed you a line of bullshit about my case like my uncle, James A. Burnett. He's after my money. "Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear unless you read it in the morning newspaper." You never paid me a visit to see for yourself. Now, that's some dumb shit. I am very disappointed in you. Oh well, you're forgiven.

Overall, this experience was incredible for me, a ride of a lifetime. I got to see who really cares about me and was looking out for my interest while I was locked up in Georgia -- it surely wasn't my own family. My opinion of them and many old friends ranks pretty low. I got little or no mail. It was the efforts of strangers, honest men and women who stepped up after reading my stories and made phone calls and wrote letters to these top Georgia officials asking them to step in and save me from this lifeless and soulless criminal justice system, from getting railroaded into prison due to a bullshit felony charge, on I-75 North, near Macon, GA, stemming from my mental illness and a misunderstanding between me and the trooper, on the night of December 10, 2011. Without their efforts, I would be a goner.

Jesus had his moment at Calvary and now I had mine at a small country jail in central Georgia. In my five months of incarceration, I was crucified, died, buried and now I've been resurrected. Christ was betrayed by his family and friends and so was I. We were both "out of our minds". Boy, do I have some stories to tell. I went on a safari, I went on a roller coaster ride at 42 mph and I almost got killed for it, for the state's sake because I bumped into one of the Governor's boys -- a state trooper. Sorry! It's scary stuff having to repeatedly stare death in the face for all these months, but I survived it. I am a professional escape artist. I am a real Harry Houdini along with my many other labels including a new one -- felon. Oh well, I stopped voting some time ago. It's really no great loss.

So many of my fellow inmates are going to prison for, both, petty and serious charges for many years and in some cases too many. Repeatedly telling my story, telling the truth (as I have tried to do for 23 years) via the U.S. Postal Service to a short list of just nine contacts, working in, both, Atlanta and Washington, spared my life. I have no doubts. I could not have accomplished this task alone. Somebody was listening and they took action. I need to thank some or all of them for their time, energy and their belief in me and in my cause -- my return to the "free world". As of now, I don't even know the whole story behind the politics of my prosecution and the decision made to drop the Aggravated Assault charge, which carries a minimum of 5 years in prison, down to a felony Obstruction charge which doesn't require any. I got "credit" for time served in the county jail. I didn't go looking for trouble, it found me.

My story has the makings of a good book and movie. It's time to get writing, but only after a nice vacation. I've earned it!

"Someone saved my life tonight" -- Elton John.

This country is in a mess, that's what I told Governor Deal and others in my last letter. You already know it.

Yesterday, I checked into a resort on the beach for some badly needed R&R. I am feeling better.

More to come.

Enjoy, Ted Burnett 500 Lincoln St. B-105 Daphne, AL 36526 USA C: 251-709-3726 Email: tebjr1@yahoo.com My blog: www.toxicnation.blogspot.com My bio: www.tedburnettresume.blogspot.com Question everything.

What's a carpetbagger? Who are the carpetbaggers that COME down on the South from the NORTH?

September 19, 2007


The Contented Fisherman by Father Anthony de Mello, SJ


The rich industrialist from the North was horrified to find the Southern fisherman lying lazily beside his boat, smoking a pipe.
"Why aren't you out fishing?" said the industrialist.
"Because I have caught enough fish for the day," said the fisherman.
"Why don't you catch some more?"
"What would I do with it?"
"You could earn more money" was the reply. "With that you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish.
"Then you would make enough to buy nylon nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would have enough money to own two boats . . . maybe even a fleet of boats. The you would be a rich man like me."
"What would I do then?"
"The you could really enjoy life."
"What do you think I am doing right now?"

Which would you rather have: a fortune or a capacity for enjoyment?

Where in the hell is your soul?

Where in the hell is your soul or Seoul, Korea? I say it's in your gentle areas!!!

Have fun by feeling yourself up, get off and then relax. Don't you feel better?

My take on -- Healthcare is Broken - We have a Solutions and Need your Help

Note: The following is an email to George Bickerstaff, Investor and Philanthropist, Chairman of The Global Leaders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/bickerstaff , gbickerstaff@tgleaders.com, www.tgleaders.com. The details of his health care conference follows, see below.

George,

If you need another speaker with a new and interesting idea on the medical industrial complex, "the death industry", for your health care conference in San Francisco, on January 10th, (see below) you might want to hire me on the cheap. The medical industrial complex, which is a large segment, but not necessary all of America's health care system, is what's breaking the health care system, the budgets of individuals, families, businesses, the government and this society, in general. The complex is made up of all products and services offered on the "free market" that intentionally or unintentionally maim and kill people, through Godlessness, arrogance, insanity triggering the need for unnecessary medical interventions that lead to wrong diagnoses, surgeries, treatments, to the heavy use of drugs and medications, bad insurance products, over-billing by hospitals and doctor's offices and to one's ultimate death.

Health care, in general, treats symptoms to the many of man's underlining spiritual and emotional problems (all the many taboo subjects and stigmatizing illnesses and diseases that society rejects in great shame) that go untreated manifesting themselves into mental health and/or physical health problems. Just name your favorite illness, injury or disease. "The doctors practice on their patients" and "if you stay in the hospital long enough they will kill you." That's what the wise repeatedly tell me.

Name any industry and it has it share of corporations profiting from their insane ideology of profits before lives, before people instead people before profits. Our government is heavy engaged in supporting this complex, along with their support of the military industrial complex. This insanity is what's driving our healthcare cost through the roof. This is the basic idea that I came away with after recently adding the Harvard Medical School, Penn Medical School and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to my audience.

The Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School have roughly two or three hundred business and law professors, respectively, but the Harvard Medical School has over 8,100 physicians, professors and researchers teaching and working at the university and at 22-affiliated hospitals in the Boston-area. They get a lot of research money to invent new medical problems or patient symptoms and devices that Medicare (and thus the health insurance industry) recognizes and pays for leading to expensive and often unnecessary medical interventions for "extending" life or for killing life "while they take you to the cleaners".

We need to identify these insane corporations and their dangerous products and undermine them or counter their efforts. We need to get this message out. We need wake people up including all those working at these companies and industries or, at least, have an general understanding of the true problem, sit back, do nothing and watch the insanity of our ancient society march onward. The wise know when to act, when to do their dance and when not to. Within every individual, family, institution and organization, government and society there is embedded, both, the good and the bad, the "Force" and the "Dark Side", heaven and hell. Which side are you on? Do you live in heaven or hell?

Many of us have all experienced the above to our determent, hopefully the journey has led us to the truth or, at least, the process is underway. We were all born free, but sold into slavery, out of great fear, by our well-meaning parents and family, our well-meaning religions, our well-meaning schools, our well-meaning governments, our well-meaning military, our well-meaning economic system, our well-meaning society and by America's not so "free and friendly markets".

So, is this human nature, I don't really know. Freedom, democracy and the efficient allocation of resources seems to work better in the animal kingdom where they operate on instinct rather than on hard data, logic and reasoning while man ignores his gut instincts. They see the truth and evolve with their changing environment while other species go extinct. They know life and death, we know neither. They know when and how much to eat, rest, sleep, mate and when to defend their turf. It's the bare essentials to living a full life, this is something that's been lost by most in our hectic society who are trying to get somewhere while forgetting their roots.

Let me know.

Ted

Enjoy,
Ted Burnett
500 Lincoln St. B-105
Daphne, AL 36526 USA
C: 251-709-3726
Email: tebjr1@yahoo.com
My blog: www.toxicnation.blogspot.com
My bio: www.tedburnettresume.blogspot.com

Question everything.


Announcement from George Bickerstaff's Network
We have over 150 CEO and mega investors, who control over one TRILLION in revenue and resources, joining us on January 10th in San Francisco to help solve the healthcare crisis.

I would like you and your company to be a part of this because bad healthcare kills everyone always. We owe good, affordable healthcare to everyone, everywhere.

You can learn more by watching the attached video (http://videos.sorensonmedia.com/Corp+Shorts/TGL+Healthcare+Conf+2011_rev/1b947d6485eeac40cf089c7S978de79101a9), or going to our web site (www.tgleaders-healthcare.blogspot.com), or filling out a question for our CEOs, or nominating yourself or a high potential friend to be a TGL Fellow where you can get free entrance and become part of the CEO team at (http://www.tgleaders.blogspot.com/p/future-global-leaders-past-award.html).

You can register to attend the January 10th San Francisco at http://tglhealthcaresymposium.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount

We are connecting the most powerful people in the world, with the most money in the world, with the best ideas in the world to first help fix the healthcare crisis, and then the rest.

Please join us.

Sincerely,

George Bickerstaff
Investor and Philanthropist
Chairman of The Global Leaders
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bickerstaff
gbickerstaff@tgleaders.com
www.tgleaders.com

Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

Enjoy!

Ted

Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech -- June 5 2008

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech -- June 5 2008

Enjoy!

Ted

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 1

J.K.Rowling speaking at Harvard Speech Part 2

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 2

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3

JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3

Denzel Washington: Commencement Address at Penn -- May 16, 2011

Denzel Washington -- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania -- May 16, 2011

Enjoy!

Ted

Denzel Washington -- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania 2011

Netflix -- If you don't have an account, get one. Disregard all the bad press.

For only $8/month, you can get unlimited access to most of Netflix's library on demand without the guilt of not using Netflix for a month or two. This is better than a gym membership, you get to use it from the comforts of your own home, 24-hours a day, while dressed or undressed, at the local coffeehouse, public library or anywhere you can find a hotspot.

Here's some of my favorite documentaries and films that I've enjoyed watching instantly on my computer and learning some new truths about what's really happening in America and around the world. Expand your mind, expand your world. Open your mind, open your heart to new ideas and people.

Make your world the size of our actual world (27,000 miles in circumference) with its seven billion inhabitants living on seven continents and swimming in our five oceans. Remember that our turning planet orbits the sun daily in our ever-expanding universe. Live life to the fullest, start living in the NOW!!

Here are of my personal favorites that I recommend you watching...

Enjoy!

Ted

1.) The Corporation

2.) A Man Named Pearl

3.) Philadelphia

4.) Panama Deception

5.) Blue Gold World Water Wars

6.) Fuel

7.) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

8.) Collapse

9.) The Last Word

10.) Exit Through the Gift Shop

11.) Van Gogh: Brush with Genius

12.) For the Bible Tells Me So

13.) Everything's Cool

14.) 911: In Plane Site

15.) The Party's Over

16.) The War on Democracy

17.) No End in Sight

18.) Independent Intervention

19.) GasHole

20.) Fidel

21.) National Geographic Talibanistan

22.) American Beauty

23.) Forrest Gump

24.) Star Wars (There's truly a "Force" and a "Dark Side" that's weaved through all of life and the universe. This is true at all levels -- among individuals, families, institutions and organizations, governments and societies. Which side are you on?)

What is a Witness Tree?

This is worth knowing...

What is a Witness Tree?

"Global Warming" by Artist Nall Hollis

May this artist's take on Global Warming warm your heart and make you think positive thoughts.

Global Warming by Artist Nall Hollis

NOTE: After "CLICK"-ing on this above link, "click" on the image, or icon, to enjoy the full effect.

Enjoy!

Ted

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