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[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The following is the complete text of the DEFENDANT\u2019S RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFF\u2019S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT\u2019S MOTION TO RECONSIDER, AND FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER for Case 2018CV003122 in Dane Country Circuit Court as Document 215 Filed 06-14-2019. It was my final brief filed prior to the Oral Hearing on the Summary Judgment Motions in this case, where you can read the transcript and review other basic documents at\u00a0The Sandy Hook \u201cPozner v. Fetzer Lawsuit: The Basic Documents<\/a>. It begins, \u201cDefendant James Fetzer, pro se and in the first person henceforth, pursuant to Wis. Stat. 804.01(2) and 885.14 respectfully asks this court to reconsider its order issued during the phone conference of May 16, 2019 compelling production of my emails, and grant a protective order establishing that the discovery cannot be had, as grounds therefor stating as follows\u201d and is republished here verbatim with the addition of three video links to make them easily accessible to readers.]<\/em><\/p>\n With the emergence of the Internet, the role of citizen-journalists has increased and grown even as the role of professional investigative journalism has waned. Operation Mockingbird, which was initiated by the CIA in the 1950s, was so successful that William Colby, then its Director, testified under oath to Congress in 1975 that the agency owned everyone of any significance in the media. Carl Bernstein followed with an article in Rolling Stone,\u00a0\u201cThe CIA and the Media\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(1977), in which high officials of the agency boasted that their greatest success has been with TIME\/Life,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>and CBS. And the situation has only grown worse over the years, where, in my talks, interviews and radio programs, I often cite three panels of 100 execs from CNN, another 100 from NBC and another 100 from\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, all of whom are dual US-Israeli citizens. A foreign power has been interfering with our elections, but it has not been Russia but Israel, as many commentators, including Paul Craig Roberts, have observed.<\/p>\n Investigative journalists undertake research of complex and controversial events, such as the assassination of JFK, the atrocities of 9\/11, the moon landing and (what has now become) many occurrences where the government may have motives for concealing the truth from the American people. Because of my background in epistemology, methodology and the philosophy of science, I have an ability to sort things out more methodically and systematically than most other students of these events, where I bring together the best experts on different aspects and publish our work, where my initial research on JFK led to my chairing or co-chairing five national conferences in Minneapolis 1999, Dallas 2000, Dallas 2001, Duluth 2003 and Santa Barbara 2013, publishing four edited volumes (the most recent in 2017) and many blogs, lectures, YouTube videos and the like to disseminate research by the best experts to undertake their study. I lay out my approach\u00a0in taking \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d from \u201ctheories\u201d in the weak sense of guesses, speculations and rumors to \u201ctheories\u201d in the strong sense of empirically-testable explanatory hypotheses in my\u00a0\u201cThinking about \u2018Conspiracy Theories\u2019: 9\/11 and JFK\u201d<\/a>, which is available on-line by its title.<\/p>\n Having been dumbfounded by the \u201ccollapse\u201d of the Twin Towers on 9\/11 (but not imaging I would ever be in the position to do anything about it), I found myself in a lengthy discussion thread of experts from diverse disciplines in December 2005, when it occurred to me that an organization that brought together experts from around the world in collaborative research on 9\/11 would be a good idea; and I founded Scholars for 9\/11 Truth, inviting the physicist Steve Jones from BYU to be my co-chair. I created a web site, (now)\u00a0911scholars.org<\/a>, to publish research, feature videos, sponsor conferences and press releases, of which I was the principal \u2018 author and which can be found archived at that site. Scholars was such a success that it took off like a rocket and had around 800 members in four different categories of membership by late 2006. When Alex Jones organized his \u201cAmerican Scholars Conference\u201d in Los Angeles, June 2006, he invited me to be the keynote speaker. When C-SPAN videotaped the panel discussion on Sunday, which was moderated by Alex Jones, all four of the panelists were from Scholars.<\/p>\n My first television interview was on \u201cHannity & Colmes\u201d, where Ollie North was stilling in for Sean Hannity. I had been informed by the producer that they wanted to learn the results of our collaborative research; but in the waiting room before the show, I watched as Alan Colmes said, \u201cYou won\u2019t believe what your students are being taught by their professors\u201d, and I knew it was a set-up. I knew they didn\u2019t know enough about my courses to have it right and was able to take control of the show from the beginning. In many ways, it may have been my most important appearance on television. I would subsequently be interviewed by Sean Hannity, Bill O\u2019Reilly and by Donnie Deutsch, all of whom were out to discredit me (with scant success). O\u2019Reilly was the most difficult to deal with, launching one\u00a0ad hominem\u00a0<\/em>after another and barely allowing me to speak. I thought it had been a complete disaster until years later, in New York for 9\/11 events, after I had spoken at Cooper Union in the Great Hall where Abraham Lincoln had presented one of his celebrated speeches, I attended an Alex Jones event and was honored to be seated with the first responders, one of whom leaned over to me and said, \u201cIt was watching you on O\u2019Reilly that convinced me 9\/11 had been an inside job\u201d, at which I felt it had been worth the effort, after all.<\/p>\n In December 2006, my wife and I were flown to Athens (all expenses paid) to appear on a TV program hosted by the leading muck-racking journalist in Greece, who had been responsible for the downfall of corrupt administrations there. They had a panel of 12 other journalists who asked question while I addressed what had happened (illustrated by sensational video clips his staff had prepared). I was told going in that only a few would ask questions, to which I replied, \u201cNot this time!\u201d And, indeed, I was right: All 12 asked questions. The program was extended from 3 to 3.5 hours and broadcast worldwide by satellite. It was met with a sensational response from the 9\/11 research community and was certainly a high-water mark for the 9\/11 Truth movement.<\/p>\n I would subsequently organize the first 9\/11 conference sponsored by Scholars in Madison in 2007 on \u201cThe Science and the Politics of 9\/11\u201d. I would be flown to Buenos Aires in 2008 to present lectures on JFK and 9\/11; and then flown back the following year to be the keynote speaker at an International Symposium on 9\/11 Truth and Justice held at The National Library of the Republic of Argentina. In 2010, I would organize a conference at Friends\u2019 House in London, \u201cDebunking the War on Terror\u201d; and in 2012, I would organize The Vancouver Hearings held in June with a dozen speakers on diverse aspects of 9\/11. I have edited and published two books on 9\/11,\u00a0The 9\/11 Conspiracy: The Scamming of America\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2007)\u2014where the conspiracy theory of the government has proven to be completely indefensible\u2014and (more recently)\u00a0America Nuked on 9\/11: Compliments of the CIA, the Neocons in the DOD, and the Mossad\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2017), revealing how it was done and by whom, a tale that illustrates how much truth can be stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n Thus, I had already become deeply involved in collaborative research on the assassination of JFK and had published three volumes of expert studies\u2014Assassination Science<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1998),\u00a0Murder in Dealey Plaza<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2000), and\u00a0The Great Zapruder Film Hoax<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2003), which Vincent Bugliosi would describe as the only exclusively scientific books ever published on the assassination\u2014it was inevitable that I would continue my investigations, which occurred with the plane crash that killed Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, three aides and two pilots on 22 October 2002, which took place in close proximity to the Evelyth-Virginia Airport, 60 miles north of my office. I would publish 10 articles about the crash in the local alternative media and subsequently publish,\u00a0American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2005) with Don \u201cFour Arrows\u201d Jacobs, a Native American scholar then at Norther Arizona University. Wellstone was then widely regarded as \u201cThe Conscience of the Senate\u201d and his death appears to have been in retaliation for his opposition to the Bush\/Cheney war with Iraq, where Iraq had nothing to do with 9\/11, as even Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged at the time. My research on Wellstone has been substantiated by witness interviews in \u201cThey Killed Wellstone\u201d, from Snowshoe Films.<\/p>\n A partial list of (what could be called) my conspiracy research appears on my curriculum vitae at\u00a0www.d.umn.edu\/~jfetzer<\/a>\u00a0which I classify as \u201cApplied Philosophical Research\u201d (here,\u00a0Exhibit A<\/a>). Having offered courses in logic, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning for 35 years, I have felt an obligation to contribute to the public welfare by investigating these events in order for the American people to have access to the truth about their own history. After\u00a0Nobody Died at Sandy Hook: It was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control\u00a0<\/em>(2015) was banned by amazon.com after selling nearly 500 copies in less than a month, we knew that we had to find a new, reliable venue for our research and founded Moon Rock Books (moonrockbooks.com<\/a>). Our list has now grown from one book to a dozen, including research on the moon landing, the Boston bombing, Orlando and Dallas, Charlottesville, Parkland and more, with several new volumes yet to be released. We also have monographs on JFK (by Larry Rivera), European \u201cfalse flags\u201d (by Nick Kollerstom, the leading expert on the London 7\/7 subway attacks) and on the threat posed to the Deep State by the emergence of the Internet as the new Gutenberg press (by Preston James). See our covers.<\/p>\n The case before the Court represents a gross abuse of process, because its underling motivation has nothing to do with defamation but with the First Amendment, our freedom of speech and freedom of the press, in the absence of which the United States Constitution is meaningless\u2014a relic of ages past, in which Americans had the right to speak their minds and to publish opinions without interference from institutions acting as surrogates of the government. Preston James has it right when he explains that the Internet has become an enormous threat to the Deep State and a source of anxiety to those whose interests are adversely affected by those who expose falsehoods and reveal truths, which has always been the motto of my websites (today, see\u00a0jamesfetzer.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n I had published 770 blogs before my earlier website (jamesfetzer.blogspot.com) was taken down, But not before I had made the transition to a new and more secure site to withstand intervention.<\/p>\n The Plaintiff, who calls himself \u201cLeonard Pozner\u201d, launched a very carefully crafted lawsuit that alleges defamation the basis of my having described the death certificate he shared with Kelley Watt as a \u201cfabrication\u201d. The true purpose, however, was not to complain about an actual case of defamation but to punish me, as a student of Sandy Hook, for exposing what happened there as a FEMA mass casualty exercise involving children, which was presented to the public as a child- shooting massacre to promote gun control. He has undertaken other lawsuits and efforts of this kind, where the recent past is littered with the debris of the destruction of the First Amendment wrought by \u201cLeonard Pozner\u201d, which includes his campaign to have tenured associate professor James Tracy, who wanted to make sure that the public was not being subjected to an elaborate scam and theft by deception, fired by Florida Atlantic University; and an ongoing assault upon Wolfgang Halbig, a retired Florida Stater Trooper, a former US Customs Agent, a past school principal and a nationally-recognized school-safety expert, who wanted to find out what had happened there in order to advise other school systems on the steps they should take to make sure something like that didn\u2019t happen to them. I know them both. They are honorable men.<\/p>\n The Plaintiff has used his \u201cHONR Network\u201d, ostensibly created to protect the parents and the relatives of children and adults from harassment by skeptics about Sandy Hook, to take down blogs, videos and web sites that present the outcomes of research. He has boasted of having been responsible for having removed \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of content items from the Internet, where a YouTube video or an Internet blog would count as only one item. He has taken down \u201ctens of thousands\u201d, where, to my astonishment, I even received three strikes against my research since this case began. What the Court needs to understand is that the Plaintiff has been very open about his objectives in bringing these lawsuits, even when he has abandoned them when directed by the Judge to sit for a video deposition, as occurred in his lawsuit against Wolfgang Halbig.\u00a0Consider<\/a>:<\/p>\n There are four motives for punishment: to\u00a0remove a threat<\/em>;\u00a0to set an example<\/em>;\u00a0retribution<\/em>; and\u00a0rehabilitation.\u00a0<\/em>By undertaking these lawsuits, the Plaintiff accomplished his goal of punishing those who dare to expose corrupt acts of the Deep State\u2014especially in relation to Sandy Hook\u2014 where, in this case, he not only succeeded in having Wolfgang take down sandyhookjustice.com, where he was publishing the results of his research, but \u201cto show other Hoaxers that they will be taken to court and it will drag on for a long time\u201d, his true motive in his own words. Mike Adams (Exhibit B<\/a>) and Sarah Westall (Exhibit C<\/a>, prefatory to \u201cPozner vs. Fetzer: Sandy Hook Case that Could Destroy Your 1st Amendment Rights\u201d,\u00a0Part 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Part 2<\/a>) are especially perceptive of the threat thereby posed.<\/p>\n The Plaintiff thereby admits that these lawsuits are improper, intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition\u2014a practice that is being defined within the context of the law as\u00a0SLAPP suits impeding free speech<\/a>:<\/p>\nBACKGROUND<\/h3>\n
SCHOLARS FOR 9\/11 TRUTH<\/h3>\n
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THE DEATH OF JFK<\/h3>\n
MOON ROCK BOOKS<\/h3>\n
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Strategic lawsuit against public participation<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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