While the Republicans in the U.S. Congress and Hamas and Israel and Christendom prove Eve is dead and Adam has gone mad, and God has nothing to do with any of it

    Has America ever had a president who was a poet?

    While the Republicans in the U.S. Congress and Hamas and Israel prove Eve is dead and Adam has gone mad, and God has nothing to do with any of it, this showed up in my email feed this morning and I tossed in something from circa 2018?

Poetic Outlaws

Poem In October 

“And I rose

In rainy autumn

And walked abroad

in a shower of all

my days...”

― Dylan Thomas

It was my thirtieth year to heaven

Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood

   And the mussel pooled and the heron

           Priested shore

       The morning beckon

With water praying and call of seagull and rook

And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall

       Myself to set foot

           That second

      In the still sleeping town and set forth.

      My birthday began with the water-

Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name

   Above the farms and the white horses

           And I rose

       In rainy autumn

And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

High tide and the heron dived when I took the road

       Over the border

           And the gates

      Of the town closed as the town awoke.

      A springful of larks in a rolling

Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling

   Blackbirds and the sun of October

           Summery

       On the hill's shoulder,

Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly

Come in the morning where I wandered and listened

       To the rain wringing

           Wind blow cold

      In the wood faraway under me.

      Pale rain over the dwindling harbour

And over the sea wet church the size of a snail

   With its horns through mist and the castle

           Brown as owls

       But all the gardens

Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales

Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.

       There could I marvel

           My birthday

      Away but the weather turned around.

      It turned away from the blithe country

And down the other air and the blue altered sky

   Streamed again a wonder of summer

           With apples

       Pears and red currants

And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's

Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother

       Through the parables

           Of sun light

      And the legends of the green chapels

      And the twice told fields of infancy

That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine.

   These were the woods the river and sea

           Where a boy

       In the listening

Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy

To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide.

       And the mystery

           Sang alive

      Still in the water and singingbirds.

      And there could I marvel my birthday

Away but the weather turned around. And the true

   Joy of the long dead child sang burning

           In the sun.

       It was my thirtieth

Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon

Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.

       O may my heart's truth

           Still be sung

      On this high hill in a year's turning.

Sloan Bashinsky

writes Sloan's newsletter

"Eve's Answer"

April Fool

Vexing Truth

Life is Poetry,

Poetry is Life,

There's no more to say,

but that would 

make God

a really dull boy,

now wouldn't it,

Eve?

So, Eve,

What say you?

After all,

You have been,

still are, blamed,

for everything that went wrong with

hu - MAN - i - ty.

Well, do you really want to hear

what I gotta say?

Is this one of those

be careful what you ask for

pregnancies?

Well, is it?

Probably, but say

what you wish -

I s'pect you need

to be heard.

Heard?

Funny you mention ears.

Yes, ears.

Such important receptacles.

Yet filled with concrete, 

shit, propaganda, beliefs,

certainties, well,

let's not leave out

SUPERSTITION

and

RELIGION,

should we?

By the way,

where do ya

suppose

God came from?

Or, out of?

And, 

why do ya s'pose

I made Eve

in my own 

IMAGE?

'Cause Adam was

so bored and dull -

so ... predictable

He was BORING!!!

the shit outta me!!!

That's why.

Now

Shusssssh -

Don't go round quoting me on

any of that -

I've had quite enough of

the religious right

ta last me 

the rest of forever

Poetic Outlaws

Author

You really love to entwine "politics" in almost every response, don't you? The Adam and Eve story, if deciphered through the lens of metaphor, is a beautiful and quite telling myth that gets to the root of the human condition. As Frithjof Schuon reminded us: 

“The story of Adam and Eve may clash with a certain need for logic, but we bear it deeply within ourselves…the sacred truth is part of our soul; hence the archetypal symbol is to be found in the deepest layer of our consciousness or of our being…it is because in “fallen”—hence exteriorized—man there is a veil separating him from the inner light while nonetheless allowing a glimmer to filter through.”

Sloan Bashinsky

Writes Sloan’s Newsletter

Early 1987, in my 45th year, a couple of angels known in the Bible came one night and woke me up and told me what I had asked God for, to be used for human service, would push me to my limits, but they were going to give it to me, and then I was jolted by three bolts of spiritual lightning, which left me shaking and sweating, and they dissolved back into where they had come from. The changes came slowly, in phases. Lots of beauty, lots more ugly. Some of it so difficult, I prayed to die and sometimes plotted my suicide, or often plotted it, and something stayed my hand. After I emerged from the worst of it, 1998, which was horrible beyond imagining, I was slowly sent back into the world, mostly in my root religion, Christianity, and I spent a good while there disturbing that culture's status quo. and the Capitalism religion's status quo. I was then sent into politics, which I despised. I ended up running ten times for local office, and that was yet another baptism in human miasm, kinda rhymes with raw sewage. Along the way, lots of poems leaped out of me, which I realized, as they came, charged my life path. I seemed to be taking dictation when the verses came, and that was how much of the other writings went, also - non-fiction, fiction, stranger than fiction. 

 

Humanity's problem, other than being infiltrated by the Devil, Evil, or whatever anyone cares to call The Dark Side of the Force, is the species' feminine is fractured, and because of that, the species is devolving in the soul sense. Some people are evolving, but not the species. In the soul sense, it's every man and woman, boy and girl, for themselves. It's a wonderful playing field, but not many people play it well, because most people are so programmed, brainwashed, etc., they simply cannot play it well. I was like that for 45 years, and still would be, I imagine, or I would be dead, but for the two angels and what all they took me through. I don't attend church, and don't belong to any religion, but I know Christendom well, because that's where I grew up, and that's where I was sent back in to work for a good while. What is so important about your Poetic Outlaws is the constant theme and struggle to be who you really are, no matter what the rest of the world thinks. As people age, in the soul sense, the maturity sense, some do it quickly, others, like me, take a lot longer, they have things to offer that might help some people, but the species, in the main, is not open to such help. 

 

David

The religious left may well rise again. 

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter
I don't care for the religious left, either. They remind me of the Fukawi tribe of some lore, said to be forever getting lost and gathering in a circle and sitting down and holding hands and closing their eyes and chanting, "Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?" But they don't remind me of Adolph Hitler, which the American right and its draftdodger leader they say God sent to them, Donald The Great, do.  

 

David 

Heard. But I was thinking of some of the people I knew in my youth, who were maybe thirty years older than me, who had been involved in supporting civil rights and protesting Vietnam. My wife is in seminary to become a chaplain and lo, there are the beginnings of a resurgence there.

Also, not knowing where you are is a part of losing your way in order to find a better way, no?

 

Sloan’s Newsletter
Agreed, I think we have to get totally lost and desperate to have a chance of moving forward, but I also thknk we have to know we are lost and desperate, and we need a bit of help from what I was raised to call God to do it. I'm 81. A literal miracle saved me from the Vietnam war draft. It was another 20 years before two angels showed up and started trying to work with me. I don't know you or your wife, but I commend anyone who sees things aren't working so good (or not much at all), and they see the left and the right are complicit in it, and they sincerely wish to go down their own soul's path, instead of being part of a herd, which historically is not very tuned in. Jesus in the Gospels, and his close followers, modeled what it's like to leave the herd. It was not easy. it was dangerous. I don't think that's changed in 2000 years.

David
It’s very strange to me that so many who talk about JC all the time would be astonished to actually meet him/her in the flesh. We believe what we want to believe, regardless of truth.

Sloan Bashinsky
Writes Sloan’s Newsletter
That's how herds are.
I hitchhiked from Birmingham, Alabama to Seattle in 1999, allegedly doing reasearch for a book I might some day write, Diary of a Redneck Mystic. My last ride, from Missoula, Montana to Seattle, was a fellow moving there. He was long in AA, and we talked about that a good bit. He was rendezvousing with Episcopalian friends in Seattle, and that's where I ended up, waiting for someone I knew in Settle to pick lie up and take me to his home. I was raised Episcopalian, and I heard this man and woman talk a good bit about their faith and St. Paul, but not much mention of Jesus, whose teachings I thought then and think now were a bit more difficult than Paul's. My ride arrived just as I was explaining to them that St. Paul was gay, that was the thorn in the flesh he never spelained in his letters. A Jewish Pharisee, who had a solemn oath to marry and propagate God's chosen people, Paul wrote nothing about having a wife or children by her, but he did frown upon sex and promoted celibacy, and he placed women below their husbands in relationship to Christ. Every woman around Paul knew he was gay. The Episcopalians really didn't like hearing that. I was glad my ride had arrived, so I could leave. 

 

David 

Whiskeypalians!!

I always felt like Paul ruined Christianity…Diary of a Redneck Mystic is a great title! (I live about 30 miles west of Seattle…) 

 

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter

In 1998, when I was in what would turn out to be a 16-month black night of the soul in Birmingham, which was far worse than a 4-year black night of the soul in Boulder, I was attending my mother's Episcopal church, hoping that would help me. I visited with the rector in his office once a week. He was a well respected Episcopal theologian. I told him about a dream, in which one of the two angels told me in my sleep, "The reason you are having this experience is because you once were Judas." The rector branched, said the dream could not have come from God! I asked how he could know that for sure? He said, well, he could not know it for sure. Instead of telling him that Judas was Jesus's best friend, except for Mary Magdalene, who was Jesus's wife, and the only male disciple Jesus could trust to betray him and push along the skit the three of them were discussing privately, as the other disciples could not deal with it, and Judas killed himself because he could not bear what he had done at Jesus's behest, I asked the rector to tell me what he thought about Judas? He said everyone betrayed Jesus, and Judas' mistake was killing himself, for God would have used him mightily I thought that was a great answer, and I said, then we may never have heard of Paul? The rector looked gobsmacked. Imagine how far I get saying stuff like that to Christians in and away from their churches. 

 

Neal

Don’t mean to be rude by butting in your guys’ conversation, but a few thoughts: it may be hard to say what Judas’ mistake was as his we don’t have an exhaustive description of Judas. Where the Episcopalian theologian might’ve stumbled on is the difficult with predestination vs free will, or determinism vs free will: scholars like Sam Shamoun say that Christians will be debating over this topic for 1000 more years biblically. 

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter
Aw shucks, fee free to butt in with something intelligent. I simply shared with David what a well-respected Episcopal theologian said about Judas, after I had told him about being told in my sleep that I was in a black night of the soul because I once was Judas. Of course, that might not be literal. Perhaps, in some way in this life, or in some ways, I had betrayed Jesus. 

 

Although, I'd had quite a few not entirely of this world nudges that I had been Judas, who very much did not like the skit that would end in Jesus being crucified, as Judas already was worrying about how people were far more swooned by the miracles, than they were by what Jesus was teaching about how to live differently from the way people had lived before. Also, Judas wasn't convinced Jesus would survive the crucifixion. Yet, sweating blood in Gethsemane, Jesus laid it out - Not his will, but God's will, be done. 

Did Jesus have free will to try to dodge the crucifixion? How many angels dance on the head of a needle? I don't think that's a good answer. Jesus made a decision. He did what he thought he needed or even had to do. He knew his secret disciples Joseph of Arithmae and Nicodemus would try to rescue him, and they did by getting Pilate to let them take Jesus off the cross the evening of the day he was crucified. They salved him in 100 weight of aloes and myrrh and wrapped his body in sterile linen. Myrrh incites white blood cells fight infection, and aloe is a powerful wound healer. Jesus then had a near-death experience in the tomb. Christendom made it too magical and fantastical. And, Christendom definitely put the miracles ahead of Jesus' teaching about how to live. 

Free will is a tough nut to crack. Most people are so programmed in childhood, that the programming makes them almost like robots, which makes them easily susceptible to more programming, witness the MAGAs, the Muslim jihadists, or any extremists. The mind is much larger than the conscious mind., so how does the conscious mind really have free will? Jesus's teachings about how to live were meant to help people move beyond their programming. Yet, he said the road to life is difficult and few enter the gate; many are called but few are chosen; and the work is great and the laborers are few. 

Christianity says anyone who believes Jesus was the only begotten son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, who was tempted by the Devil, and then was crucified, dead and buried, to save them from their sins, even 2000 years later, and that he was resurrected from the dead and ascended into heaven to sit on the right and of God, from which to judge the living and the dead, will have eternal life, and everyone else dies and goes to hell - even if they lived exactly as Jesus taught people to live, but they were Jewish, or Muslims, or New Agers, or Atheists, or never heard of Jesus. The Devils' greatest trick is convincing it doesn't live in churches? 

 

David

I reject determinism, whether through theology or physics. But it makes for interesting discussions!  

Sloan BashinskyWrites Sloan’s Newsletter
I attended a private Presbyterian high school, where the school founders believed they were of the Elect. One of the co--founder Calvnists taught a New Testament class. A student asked what's wrong with sex, when there was so much talk of fornication in the Bible? The co-founder said the Bible was going to be rewritten to change things like that. Then he said, he and his wife had had sex three times in their 60 years of marriage, twice was to have children and the third time wae for pleasure, and he had regraded the third time ever since. His poor wife. 

 

He was convinced Nikia Kruschev was the Anti-Christ, and since we were a military school and were being trained to use our M-1 Garands, which I could field strip and reassemble in about a minute, we would have to defend America from the Soviet Union invasion, even though we had no bullets for the M-1s even to practice shooting. 

They had so many prayer meetings and revivals, where so many students were saved, and saved again, that I stopped participating at all. Something in me was not going another step with them. I had nothing against Jesusand God, other than I figured they didn't think I behaved as well as I should. I had a big problem with the Calvinists, which expanded to all of Christendom, as I grew older. 

God is in every religion, and beyond religions. Nobody knows what God is really up to, not even the angels know God that well. So, what person can speak intelligently about predestination? 

 

David
True…some of these stories of yours ought to be the basis of short stories or novels, in my humble opinion. (That “non-fornicating” teacher, Lord!)
Ach, I must go to job now, to keep the non-fornicating wheels of capitalism lubricated….

Sloan Bashinsky
Writes Sloan’s Newsletter
And here I was thinking for a very long time that capitalism was not even a slightly covert branch of the oldest profession :-). 

The stories I shared here, and many more, are in various books of mine, which are free reads at archive.org. 

I will put this discussion you initiated into a post at redneckmysticforpresident.blogspot.com.

 sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Change of venue to God's Universal Court, for Amendment 14, Section 3 action to disqualify Donald Trump from running for public office, including President of the United States of America

    I kept plugging away at the Amendment 14, Section 3 Complaint to disqualify Donald Trump from running for any public office, including President of the United States. Each time I felt I had finished drafting the complaint to file in the United States District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, where I live and am a registered voter, I had dreams, as did a friend, that the Complaint was not sufficient, or needed more work. After my friend's and my dreams last night along those same lines, I got up this morning and made a substantive change in the Complaint, to wit, where I should file it. I explain early in the revised Complaint below why it should be filed in God's Court, instead of a human court.

In the Universal Court of God

Sloan Young Bashinsky, Jr. Plaintiff

vs.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Defendants

Verified Complaint 

    Comes now the Plaintiff and says he is a citizen of the United States of America, born on October 7, 1942, in Birmingham, Alabama, where he lives and is a registered voter. He wanted to bring this action in the United District Court for the Northern District Court of Alabama, under: 

28 U.S. Code § 1361 - Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty

The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.

However, Plaintiff clerked for a United States District Judge in Birmingham, and then he practiced law in the state and federal courts in Birmingham, and he knows at 81 years old, he does not have the stamina, nor does he have the law firm infrastructure, to prosecute such an action, and after talking with other lawyers and lay people he respects, he is convinced that no United States District Court anywhere in America will allow anyone to bring a civil action of any sort against a sitting president, nor will Plaintiff be ruled to have standing to bring this particular action. So, Plaintiff brings this action in The Universal Court of God, where every person, including Plaintiff, stands trial and is required to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God.

Jurisdiction and Grounds for this Action

1. America’s Declaration of Independence claims to derive its authority from “Nature and Nature’s God”, and further claims that “all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness”. America’s Pledge of Allegiance claims it is “one nation, under God”. On all of America’s currency is “In God we Trust.”

2. Donald Trump and Joe Biden made an oath when they were sworn into office as President of the United States:

United States Constitution Article II, Section 1, Clause 8

Before he enters on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:–I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

     

3. That oath was made to the Constitution of the United States for the benefit of the United States and every citizen thereof. 

4. On January 6, 2021, a huge mob incited by outgoing President Donald Trump tried to stop the Congress from counting the electoral votes and outgoing Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the electoral votes, pursuant to Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Amendment 12 of the U.S. Constitution, and 3 U.S. Code § 15 ~ Counting electoral votes in Congress 3. 

5. When President Trump violated his oath office by inciting the January 6 insurrection, he disqualified himself to run for public office again, under:

U.S. Constitution Amendment 14, Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

6. Amendment 14, Section 3 was passed after the Civil War to block people, such as Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army,  from holding public office. Donald Trump did not try to secede from the United States of America and its Constitution (the Union). He incited insurrection to try to take them over. 

7. After former President Trump announced in 2021 that he would run for president again, President Biden, pursuant to his oath of office, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, should have brought an Amendment 14, Section 3 action in the United States District Court, in Washington, D.C., to disqualify Trump from running for president again.

8. After private citizens in 2023 filed Amendment 14, Section 3 actions in state courts to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president, and courts ruled they did not have standing to bring those lawsuits, President Biden still did not honor his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution by filing an Amendment 14, Section 3 action to disqualify Trump from running for president again.

 

9. Thus Plaintiff, a natural-born American citizen and resident of and registered voter in Birmingham, Alabama, asks the Court to Order President Biden to uphold his oath of office by asking this Court to enforce  Amendment 14, Section 3 and bar Donald Trump from holding public office, including President of the United States. Alternatively, Plaintiff asks the Court to rule President Biden breached his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and private U.S. citizen and registered voter Plaintiff can bring the action by default for President Biden - Cf shareholder derivative action in United States corporate law.

Detailed allegations of fact for enforcing Amendment 14, Section 3 against Donald Trump:

10. Based on many U.S. television news media reports Plaintiff watched and U.S. news articles he read and photos he saw online, this from Wikipedia sums up some of it.

The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act (3 U.S. Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes) in Congress, on January 6–7, 2021, was the final step to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election over President Donald Trump, the incumbent.

The event drew unprecedented attention because of the efforts of Trump and his allies to overturn the election results. A group of legislators from Trump's Republican Party announced they would formally object to counting Biden's votes in swing states, while Trump unsuccessfully sought to have Vice President Mike Pence use his presiding role over the count to change the outcome. The joint session adjourned twice to debate objections against the votes won by Biden in Arizona and Pennsylvania; both objections were defeated in the House and Senate, with only six Republican senators supporting the former and seven supporting the latter. Republican representatives also raised objections against votes for Biden from Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, but these objections failed because they were not co-signed by a senator.

Amid the debate on Arizona's votes, rioters stormed the Capitol building, causing the count to be temporarily halted until officials could safely return to their chambers. The counting resumed in the evening after the Capitol was secured and concluded by the following morning.

11. To which Plaintiff adds, based on what he knows and what he saw on television and read in the U.S. news media:

The Electoral College is provided for in Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which was somewhat amended by Amendment 12. 

When he was President, the Defendant Donald Trump incited hordes of people to travel to Washington, D.C. to "Stop the steal", by preventing the U.S. Congress and outgoing Vice-President Mike Pence from doing their Constitutional duty to count and certify the electoral votes, which they had sworn an oath to do when they assumed their offices. Trump revved up the insurrectionists near the Capitol and sent them to the Capitol, but he did not go with them. On television, he watched them storm through Capitol Police and break into the Capitol. Although Trump was urged by family and close associates and federal officials to ask the insurrectionists to stand down and leave, he did not do that. When Trump heard the insurrectionists chanting, "Hang Pence," he chanted it, too. Only later did Trump ask the insurrectionists to stand down and leave. Trump's lawyers told him the election was not stolen, as did his Attorney General Bill Barr. Trump continued to this day to claim the election was stolen, even though he never produced a shred of evidence that it was stolen. 

Trump never showed any remorse for the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol and the injuries and post traumatic shock suffered by Capitol police. Trump has said, if elected in 2024, he will pardon the insurrectionists and anyone prosecuted for aiding and abetting the insurrection. Trump has said, if they came for him, he would come for them. 

Before Trump ran for President in 2016, it was reported in "Vanity Fair" magazine that Ivana Trump said, when she and Donald were married, he kept a book of Adolph Hitler's speeches in a cabinet on his side of their bed, and sometimes he read it at night. After Vladimir Putin was elected President for Life of Russia, I watched President Trump say on national television that he liked that idea of president for life. When former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard David Duke endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2015, Trump did not denounce Duke and say he did not want the Klan's votes. 

Res Ipsa loquitur is evidentiary, a picture is worth a thousand words.

MAGA rally 

Charlottesville

January 6, 2021 

Media photos and videos of MAGA rallies in 2015 and since revealed scans of white people. Media photos and videos of the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia protest against removing Confederate monuments revealed oceans of white people and Confederate and Swastika flags. Media photos and videos of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol revealed oceans of white people and Confederate flags. 

When Trump kept saying before and after the 2020 election, that it was stolen, his Aryan armies knew he meant it was stolen by blacks. 

12. It is Plaintiff's personal and professional opinion that President Donald Trump violated his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution by inciting the January 6, 2021 Aryan insurrection outside and inside the national Capitol. Trump loved the Aryan insurrection. Trump is incorrigible. Trump wants to be King America. Trump is a clear and present Aryan threat to the United States Constitution and to the Nation. 

Plaintiff's professional qualifications and political background  

13. After graduating with a Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1968, Plaintiff clerked for the Honorable Clarence W. Allgood in the United District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. A few months into the clerkship, Plaintiff passed the Alabama Bar Exam. Judge Allgood's caseload included presiding over every federal prosecution in the Northern District of Alabama. Behind the scenes, Judge Allgood ran the Democratic Party in Alabama, except for the George Wallace faction. 

 

14. After clerking for Judge Allgood, Plaintiff worked for four years at his father's company, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham. Plaintiff then practiced law for twelve years in the state and federal courts in Birmingham. During that time, Plaintiff acquired a LLM in Taxation from the University of Alabama School of Law, which was taught at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Today, Plaintiff is an inactive licensed attorney in Alabama.  

15. Between 2003 and 2018, Plaintiff ran ten times for local office in Key West and the Florida Keys (Monroe County) as an Independent and was not elected. During that time frame, Plaintiff learned more about American politics than he ever cared to know, The only time he voted for a Republican or Democrat presidential candidate was in 2020, when he reluctantly voted for Joe Biden, because Biden did not remind Plaintiff of Adolph Hitler. Plaintiff is running a mock campaign for president on the Unicorn ticket, in which he addresses serious national issues and says what he would do if he were president, as is seen at The Redneck Mystic Lawyer for President on the Unicorn Ticket blog,

redneckmysticlawyerforpresident.blogspot.com, 

and several episodes of The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. If requested by the Court and/or the parties, Plaintiff will provide YouTube links to the campaign podcasts. 

 

Prayer for Relief

16. Plaintiff asks the Clerk of the Court to serve Defendant President Joe Biden at the White House,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, and Defendant Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, Palm Beach, Florida.

17. Plaintiff asks the Court to hear and consider all the evidence, and enter an Order in favor of Amendment 14, Section 3, barring Donald Trump from holding public office, including President of the United States.

Respectfully submitted,

__________________________________

Sloan Young Bashinsky, Jr. 

State of Alabama 

Jefferson County

Before me personally appeared Sloan Young Bashinsky, Jr., who after being sworn in by me, stated that he is the Plaintiff in the Verified Complaint, and the facts alleged therein about himself and President Joe Biden are true, and the facts alleged for disqualifying former President Donald J. Trump from holding public office, including President of the United States of America, are true to the best of his information, knowledge and belief.

_________________________________

      Notary Public

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com