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Cherokee Press Association
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Byrd's Illegal District Court Set Up Under Suspended Judge Tina Glory Jordon Is Highest Form Of Contempt Of Court!

Joe Byrd's announcement last March that he would only obey court orders that he thought were legal, and, would not obey court orders that he thought were illegal, is clearly contempt of court in it's highest form!

It is obvious he lived up to those words over the last 11 months aided and abetted by his BIA cohorts, certain local law enforcement officials and loyalists on the council. He has boldly and publicly defied our supreme court's orders, the highest form of contempt against our free world society's system of law and order. In spite of (4) outstanding warrants for his arrest, Byrd remains a fugitive from justice and has managed to keep himself from an appearance in any legitimate court room since shortly after the February 25, 1997 execution of a search warrant of his executive branch administrative offices as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into possible executive branch misappropriation of federal and tribal funds.

How odd, for one who cries he has done nothing wrong. If Byrd were as innocent as he proclaims he would have been demanding his day in court, and that means any "legitimate" court anywhere in the land. It doesn't mean appearing in his own personally manufactured court that he illegally set up under the roof of the executive branch of government in his administrative offices, in front of his own friendly but unfortunately "suspended" illegal judge. The Byrd/Tina Glory Jordon's court is as much a farce as the illegal kangaroo council court that attempted to impeach the entire Judicial Appeals Tribunal last summer. Jordon admitted she was operating the court illegally in a council meeting several months ago when she, Byrd, and Rex Earl Starr failed in their attempt to have the tribal council approve the pretense.

We have been down that road before and so has the media. It is doubtful this time anyone is going to believe or take seriously the illegal Tina Glory Jordan court documents that once again attempt to mislead the public into believing that Byrd's warrants have been dismissed and that he has been arraigned -- it's hogwash and they know it! As our prosecutor Diane Blalock said, "those Jordon court orders and and documents are as worthless as the paper they are written on," and, there isn't one legitimate court or attorney in the world that wouldn't back her statements up 1000 percent!

These kind of illegal actions throughout the so-called "crisis", aka "Byrd's flight from justice," have helped Byrd and cohorts create a real plausible "looking" pile of so-called legal documents that they have conveniently whipped out anytime someone questioned them or tried to hold their feet to the fire for their illegal actions. The media, the BIA and certain other federal officials, without all the facts surrounding those worthless documents, were at first blush, "taken in"!

Worthy of note is Byrd chief of staff, George Thomas's, purportedly handwritten "conspiracy" plan doodled out in the early spring of 1997. The notes cite the main goal above all else was to keep Byrd from being arrested. The record speaks for itself with regard to the lengths Byrd and cohorts have gone to subsequently carry out that plan. The law has been disregarded and we have seen the dismantling of the Cherokee Nation's constitutional government over the last eleven months apparently to accomplish just one thing - - keep Byrd out of any legitimate court in the land.

At this point Byrd and cohorts have past the point of ever being able to prove that he is innocent on all charges, since he has now passed factually into the "contempt of court" and "conspiracy to obstruct justice" category of crimes and charges. Irregardless of the excuses that Byrd and cohorts no doubt can come up with to justify Byrd's blatant defiance of court orders, those justifications will all fail in the eyes of the law and the constitution of the Cherokee Nation, the United States of America, and even in the State of Oklahoma. Byrd's contempt of our supreme court's orders are a slap in the face of everything that a democracy holds sacred -- the checks and balances required of (3) separate but equally powerful branches to maintain a democratic government. We are living in a democracy in the free world are we not?

Byrd and cohorts actions back up reports that this country is in a situation where what a man can get away with depends more on his connections than on the law. Right now it would be hard to prove to a lot of us Cherokees over here in Cherokee and Adair counties that certain judges, sheriffs, police officials, D.A.s and certain fed. officials haven't become as corrupt as other politicians.

Byrd's deadline has arrived for him to turn himself in and begin the process of proving what he says is true in a court of law. The Cherokee "vocal majority" are demanding it! Law and order demands it! No one is above the law -- not you, not me, not Byrd, and not even the President of the United States!

O.G. Baldridge
P.O. Box 1767
Tahlequah, OK 74465