Dear Deborah,
I hope this proves a good way to reach you, since the document I transmit here is very important and something you need to read. It is a “Motion to Dismiss” filed in a “felony stalking” case in Pitt County which involves three–no more, no less–letters sent via US Mail from the Orange County Detention Center to the Farmville Public Library. This “motion” argues that NCGS 14-277.3A, known in our State as “the stalking law”, is multiply unconstitutional.
It is material that you were in the General Assembly when this deeply problematic and oppressive law was passed circa 2008. I am prepared to say that it was an experiment whose folly has been demonstrated by my cases, where the statute has been used to arrest and “prosecute” me in New Hanover, Alamance, Orange, and Pitt Counties. It was in fact used to have me arrested by US Marshals in the District of Columbia and illegally extradited back to the State of North Carolina, and this was within a month of your first congressional election victory, when you will recall I left you a voicemail to congratulate you. Notably this was also during the “lapse” of the “Violence Against Women Act” which was not “reauthorized” until the first months of the Biden Administration. )
It was the very next morning, the morning after the election, that the Marshals kidnapped me for the first time, and they didn’t even have any “Governor’s Papers”. What does Joseph Biden have to say about this Deborah? I am someone who the president ought to be able to recognize. But that seems rather impossible, and that suits me just fine, because I have nothing but contempt for Mr. Biden, and I think the Democratic Party under his administration has drifted deeper into totalitarianism and the complete abandonment of constitutional law. My “motion” is an attempt to set things right through the classic method of a challenge in the Courts.
It is also important, as you will see, that I contend that “international law applies in North Carolina” and that the proceedings against me under the “stalking law” violate international law as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There was a time when some Democrats, or liberals even, had a fondness for such things–I quote Eleanor Roosevelt’s address to the United Nations to drive home my point–but Attorney General Joshua Stein is completely deaf and blind to any concept of “international law”.
Lastly, I conclude with a short argument about the “laws of England” which were transplanted to North Carolina at the time of its founding as a “Province”. “Stalking laws” have come into being in many jurisdictions, but the kind which have infected the “common law jurisdictions” are (to my mind) obviously incompatible with “immemorial common law” whose presumption is freedom. Keep in mind that there was a time when “witchcraft” was a statutory offense in this country. I believe that “stalking laws” will appear in the fullness of time to have been even more unjust and inhumane than than those which were used to hang “witches” in Salem. (Not coincidentally, I went to high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where they also hung witches.)
This “motion” is one of THREE I filed at the end of last week. I will send you copies of these also. Strangely enough, the plaintiff in Orange County is a woman named “Ross”, and she was in the room with me when I first spoke to you on the phone in the spring of 2013. Occult processes in the law? Who can say?
Yours truly,
Dawson Gage
Dear Mayor Saffo,
I hope you weren’t too unsettled by the correspondence I sent you from the Orange County Detention Center. I have been out for one month and in a short period have written several documents which could change the course of history, including most especially, the history our City. They are motions challenging the constitutionality of the statutes which Ben David (and other DA’s of course) have used to mercilessly persecute me over many years. Since Mr. David and his “victim-witnessses” and my other ill-wishers have maintained that I am a “schizophrenic” who does not understand the legal proceedings against him, it is important to understand that this claim was always completely false, and was nothing other than violence and character defamation. A “schizophrenic” does not know how to speak extemporaneously to the Wilmington City Council.
On 1 October 2019 I addressed the City Council and accused Mr. David, and by implication the Wilmington Police Department, of violating my rights to the freedoms of speech and press. Like Alexander Manly, I am simply “a man with a printing press in Wilmington”, and as we know from the history of our City in the year 1898, the destruction of the free press is the central aim and method of White Supremacy.
My primary website dawsongage.net, which I have used to criticize Mr. David and other judicial officials, went off the Internet in October while I was in jail. Fortunately the site was backed up on the server in Switzerland. However, I decided to start two new websites where I continue my efforts as poet & journalist, but also to publish my theses about North Carolina law. I bring these websites to your attention because it relates to the ongoing controversy concerning my house and property at 515 Orange Street.
While the City Code Enforcers and other municipal authorities have been dealing with my uncle Robert Gage and my father Bill Gage as the “owners” of 515 Orange Street, I maintain a claim to (at least) a 1/3 undivided interest in the property as tenant-in-common. Moreover, having “color of title” and having occupied the property “infamously” and “adversely” for 7 calendar years, I am in a position to take rightful ownership under the law of “adverse possession”. I would like the City of Wilmington to acknowledge that there is a dispute as to the ownership of the property, and to recognize moreover that my residence and domicile there are inseparable from my activities as author, publisher, and citizen. 513 Orange Street is the place where I have lived, worked, and struggled during these years of persecution. It is my home and my property according to the laws of North Carolina and by the common law of real property which is original to our City.
“Destruction of the Free Press” and “Suppression of Political Candidates” are, as I said, the signature features of White Supremacy in Wilmington. But so too is the “violent theft of real property”. I therefore must vehemently object to the determination by the City Code Enforcer that my house is “unfit for human habitation”. I do not disagree that the house needs extensive renovations, but I do not accept that the City has a right to deprive me of ownership for “code non-compliance”, since from my perspective, the “code enforcement officers” are sent by the same city government which sends the police to kidnap me in response to my lawful acts of free expression and political conscience.
I therefore ask that the City Council be prepared to address these matters in the coming weeks and months, with mind to the fact that I have shown respect for the Council through my five “public information addresses” since 2017; I am entitled to the dignity of a native-born resident of the City of Wilmington and the rights of a citizen of North Carolina and of the United States. Thank you for your attention and concern, and know that I am at your service.
Yours truly,
Dawson Gage
Dear Mr. Stein,
Below I transmit a copy of my “7A-66 affidavit” against District Attorney Ben David filed 23 December 2019. Just in case you overlooked this crucial document during the period when you were representing District Attorney Ben David in the matter of my “public records lawsuit”, I thought it wise to bring it to your attention. It is a matter of some interest whether your conversations about that lawsuit had any “overlap” with whatever process led to your bestowal of a “Dogwood Award” on Mr. David.
It so happens that this “7A-66 affidavit” coincided with the period when the “woke Democrat assassin/”activist”/slam-poet Timothy Joyner was visiting my residence to threaten my life. You will have heard of Mr. Joyner as the one who spray-painted a “Nazi Swastika” and the letters “BLM” on the so-called “Confederate Statue” 2 blocks west of my residence. Timothy Joyner has never been charged for the several acts of attempted murder in the first degree which were “sponsored” by your own faction of the New Hanover County Democratic Party, and by the plaintiffs who you describe in your “Dogwood Award” as “the victims of domestic violence”.
So one important question, sir, is whether you think a 50B order “trumps the First Amendment”, but it is just as important that you clarify whether you believe 50B also negates the criminal law concerning perjury, obstruction of justice, human trafficking, fornication & adultery, kidnapping, and homicide.
It would seem that you think you can get away with attempted murder and election fraud as long as you have a “protective order” in place since that means the police are your own private security force. You seem to think you can get away with these high crimes, Mr. Stein, of which you cannot claim to be ignorant or innocent. Thus my affidavit of accusation against your “favorite DA” is also an indictment of you and your record in office. That seems fair to me. Thus do I transmit this important affidavit in hopes that you will recognize that you will not, under any circumstances, be elected as the 76th Governor of North Carolina.
Regards,
Dawson Gage
Dear Elaine,
Below I transmit the “latest version” of my “motions for appropriate relief & motion to terminate probation” which (at least I’m told) are scheduled for a “preliminary” (or “initial”, or perhaps a perfunctory-formality) “hearing” today (22 January 2024). While the State’s attorneys in several counties as well as several judges have tried to say I am “delusional”, “schizophrenic”, “mentally ill”, and so on, I believe I have figured something out about North Carolina law which goes down to the bedrock of it (and even up to the heavens!)
I would like to use this opportunity of addressing you to remind you that you are 4th in the “line of succession” for the office of Governor, and that in theory there must be a way–in a moment of true crisis–for you to assert a claim to that office.
Why do I say this? Because Governor Cooper has done nothing for seven years of merciless persecution by officials and agents of the North Carolina Democratic Party. Mr. Stein is guilty, but Mark Robinson is so hopeless that he cannot be called innocent either, even though he is not officially responsible. This is to say that there is a power vacuum and a looming crisis over the “executive interregnum”. This is the culmination of all the litigation and constitutional paradox which has taken place in 21st century North Carolina. Your own perspective on this crucial period should allow you to see clearly that something is terribly wrong.
I have one demand for Governor Cooper, and it will not change: that he protect me from yet-another illegal arrest and unlawful indefinite detention. Beyond that, there is a discussion to be had about a “pardon of innocence” which would give me occasion to explain my theories about “the clemency power”.
During my most recent 15 month spell in the Orange County Detention Center, I was preparing to serve as the 76th Governor of North Carolina. If this is “mental illness”, so be it, but the officers of the Orange County Sheriff’s called me “Governor”, too. I will let you come to your own conclusions about this and other matters, and am grateful for the opportunity to make my story known, and to advocate for my radical perspective on North Carolina politics and law.
Yours truly,
Dawson Gage
