The governor of Kentucky is one of this countries biggest coal owners, and to be sure, he is not anxious to see his dirty, acid rain forming, polluting, coal mining industry replaced by industry that produces clean magnetic generators.

The Attorney Generals of several states have attempted to hinder our progress.  The 2001 Tour was very successful and well received everywhere it went, and government officials were hands-off in the overwhelming majority of states, but no state went as far as Kentucky did when on October 5th, 2001, they put Dennis Lee in jail before he even did a show!

On what basis might a government official arrest and jail a man for PLANNING to do a show? - Notwithstanding what might have been said at the show he never did? Would that official essentially be acting like “The Thought Police”?

Mike, UCSA Director of Products, subsequently started to do the show that Dennis was arrested for, and even though he had no intention of selling anything to anyone, but planned to simply show the technologies as Dennis had planned since they had paid such a price to bring to Kentucky, he was told that he would be arrested, and that anyone who got up on stage after he, would also be arrested.

Mike then told the "thought police" that he guessed he would be going to jail then, since he wasn’t going to give up his right to free speech, and he started to do the show, but at that point the criminal official acting for the attorney general, said that he was considering impounding all of the equipment, so Mike – understanding that the whole tour would be over if the hardware was impounded - relented and packed in the show.

You can’t abuse people, trample on their rights, and think they will just go away.  Our associates did indeed bring a show to Kentucky successfully on the 28th of December, 2001. This is OUR Republic - yours and mine, and these mere government servants will not be granted ruler-ship over “WE The People” they are sworn to serve.

Kentucky is the only state to go so far as to falsely accuse Mr. Dennis Lee of *criminal* acts. Dennis decided, rather than risking having the the court keep the outrageous $50,000 bond if he did the show himself, instead a UCSA Dealer - R.J. Pirrone & Associates put on the show.

At The Show:
People who came saw A tornado engine that runs on water, and another that runs on biomass - meaning corn or birdseed. They saw a unit that transmutates the nucleus of an atom proving that Nuclear Waste can be neutralized, and that the alchemists were right! They saw R-Gas made from water, cutting a piece of steel perfectly.  R-Gas (water-gas) replaces oxyacetylene or any other gas for cutting. And they saw the Sundance Generator, operating at approximately 100% efficiency. You can also watch significant excerpts of the show in "The Case for Free Electricity"  Click Here or better yet - Click Here and help us send these technology suppressing cretins back to the holes from whence they came.

The Story

Mid-way through the 2001 Tour, in Colorado, Dennis Lee received a letter from the Attorney General’s Office in Kentucky. It said something to the effect of: “Dear Sir, We are concerned that you would be violating our Business Opportunities Act by doing the show that you’re doing nationwide, and so we are asking you please to by-pass the state of Kentucky and volunteer not to do a show here.”

The reply from Dennis Lee was something like “I plan to exercise my Free Speech right but I don’t want to violate any of the laws in Kentucky, so Please inform me of any pertinent laws that you are concerned I might violate.”

They wrote back saying they thought Dennis might violate their Business Opportunities Act if he did a show there, and that they also have a law that relates to discount buying clubs.  They faxed a copy of the laws and Dennis reviewed them to see if he would be violating any of that.

He reviewed everything they sent him and he didn’t see one law of which we would be in violation.  Nothing we do relating to NASDAC could be considered a business opportunity because nobody pays us any money to be a recruiter. Then he looked at the law on discount buying clubs and the only thing that would relate to us had to do with putting a notice of the member’s right to cancel on the contract in bold print.

Dennis instructed one of our volunteers on the road to copy the entire statute relating to the law on discount buying clubs (five pages) and we stapled it to every contract. We were not violating any of their laws.

So why would Dennis voluntarily - not do a show?  On the day of the show Dennis was sitting in his hotel room at around 5:30pm, with a show to begin at 7pm, when two detectives and a cop came to the door.  He was expecting them to serve me papers, as happened in other states, and I started to walk away.

The following is a paraphrase of the conversation Dennis had with the detective from Dennis’s point of view.  One detective said, “Stop, this is my badge, I’m a detective.  I want you to step out into the hallway here.” “Okay,” as I stepped out into the hallway barefooted.

“Are you Dennis Lee?” he asked. “Yes I am.” “United Community Services?” he asked. “Yes.” “I see some people downstairs with a big truck loading stuff onto a stage,” he continued, “I assume then that you have an intention of doing a show tonight.” “Yes, I intend to do a show.” I said. “I have been ordered by the Attorney General’s Office to come down here and if you are doing a show tonight, to arrest you.  If you are planning on doing a show, and you’ve just told me you are, to arrest you.  Because you are not doing a show in the state of Kentucky.” “Wait a minute,” I said, “I’m not violating any of your laws.  I got the laws and I’ve read them.” “The Attorney General sent you a letter asking you to voluntarily decide not to do a show in Kentucky.  You’ve chosen to ignore that,” he said. “No I didn’t, I responded to it.  I read your law, and I know that I will not be violating your law tonight in any way.  You’re more than welcome to come and see the whole show, and the minute I violate any statute in the state of Kentucky, walk right up on stage, stop the show and arrest me. But how are you going to arrest me for doing a show you haven’t seen, and I haven’t done?  You don’t even know if I’m going to violate your law.” He replied, “We know that your show is a violation of our statutes, and you are not going to do your show here.  We won’t allow you to do the show in the state of Kentucky.”  And he threw the handcuffs on and arrested me.   They took me down to the lobby of the hotel where the manager could make sure the hotel got the “splash”.

He said, “Now I’m going to explain this to you.  We’re not letting you do a show; you don’t have a right to do a show.” “Excuse me,” I said, “I have a First Amendment Right to Free Speech.  You don’t know what I’m going to do.  Maybe I’m going to do a tap dance routine or talk about what a bad President Bill Clinton was.  How can you stop me from doing any kind of a show?” “Well, it looks to me like you’re stopped from doing a show.  You’re arrested.  You’re going to jail right now.  I’m explaining to you why.  You’re going because you’re not willing to not do a show here tonight.  You’re not going to do a show,” he said.

I told someone to call Mike.  When he came down, I told him that he was going to have to do the show in my place.  Mike started to leave the room to get ready and the detective stared getting frisky with him. Mike said, “Why are you doing that to me?  I haven’t done anything.  I’m just standing here.”  Mike left and they took me off to jail, making sure the handcuffs were so tight they gave me black and blue marks.  (They wanted to make sure it was a really bad experience… and, it was). After they had booked me in, they went back to the show.

By the time they got back to the show, the audience had arrived.  Mike was on stage, getting ready to start the show and the detective came in and interrupted, “Just a minute, you,” pointing to Mike, “come right over here right now.” They had six cops there now.

Mike walked back to where the detective was.  We had the video camera running so it was taping what was happening.  The detective said,  “You are not doing a show tonight.”   Mike replied, “Sir, we’re not selling anything, we have no business opportunity, we’re just merely showing people demonstrations of products and exercising our First Amendment Right to Free Speech and our Right to Assemble.

The cop said, “You are not doing any kind of a show tonight.  No show is occurring in the state of Kentucky on this or any other stage.” When Mike started to respond, he said, “Look, I will arrest you if you don’t get off of that stage and close this show down”.

Mike responded, “Well, I guess you’re going to have to arrest me then.”  He started to do the show and the cop said,  “Well, I haven’t decided yet if we’re going to have to confiscate all of this equipment, but I think we may have to impound all of the machines and the equipment here.”

And Mike said, “Okay, you got me.  We won’t do a show here tonight.” The crowd was so upset they started yelling at the cops.  But Mike shut the show down and put the equipment back on the truck.  It was a wise decision.  If they had impounded everything it could have taken us months to get it back and the rest of the tour might have been sacrificed.

So, the crew went on to West Virginia so they could set up to do the show there. In the meantime, I was in jail.  But I was in jail without having violated any law in the state of Kentucky.  So, what did they charge me with?  They charged me with selling business opportunities without a license in the state of Kentucky, without even having done a show.

It is amazing though that we actually got the cop on tape announcing that they were just not going to let us do a show. I intend to file a Writ of Mandamus and bring this into federal district court.

I will bring the videotape showing these guys telling us we have no right to exercise our First Amendment Free Speech Right in the state of Kentucky.

When I prove that in federal court, I am intending to go back to Kentucky with federal marshals, if necessary, to do the show they stopped us from doing. (Follow up note - Alison did return to Kentucky and they did have a show in Kentucky)

The First Amendment right is about as strong as any right a human being has got in the United States of America. Talk about good ol’ boy politics.  Those guys have got it sewn up.  It’s all about money in Kentucky.

When you go to jail there you don’t even get socks or underwear. You have to buy them. If you’re in jail it takes about a week to get money put on your books, so you just go without socks or underwear for a week.  A very interesting thing about the system in Kentucky is that they don’t allow bail bondsmen.  You have to work directly with the penal system.

Normally you get a bail bondsman, post the collateral with him, give him 10% and he posts the bail bond.  I was expecting to be able to have someone post some collateral for the bond and be out of jail the same day.  But there are no bail bondsmen in Kentucky. The state has taken over as the bail bondsmen and when they set a bail you get to pay 100% of whatever the bail is in CASH.

And if you can’t post it all in cash, you just don’t get out.  Then, the court takes the place of the bail bondsman and they back out a fee of 10% for themselves.  So, on a fifty thousand dollar bail, you only get back forty-five thousand!  What a racket!

So, they set a bail for me of fifty thousand dollars CASH… a man who never sold anything to anyone in Kentucky, who didn’t even do a show, so couldn’t possibly have violated any of their laws.  They violated me, and I got the privilege of posting a $50,000 cash bond and giving them 10% of it! Back at HQ, Alison had the hard job then of trying to get $50,000 in cash.  It’s not an easy thing to come up with an extra $50,000 in cash.

We’re paying for all of the expenses related to the whole tour and all the expenses to gear up NASDAC [North American Special Discount Associates Club]. Alison found a place where she could borrow the capital short term to make it happen.  But now, how could she get the CASH from New Jersey to Kentucky so I could make it to my next show in time?  It had to be cash.  No checks, no bank wires, no cashier’s checks, certified checks, or anything else. You couldn’t even do it through an attorney because attorneys are not allowed to post bail for anyone.  The only way to transport it to Kentucky was by western union, but most of their small offices would only accept a maximum of $3,000 and then who could cash that amount on the other end.

But with God’s grace and some of his people’s help, we accomplished it. The next morning I had an arraignment and tried to get the bail lowered.  The judge said, “How do you plead to the charges?”  I answered, “Before I can plead to them, I have to understand them. Are you saying that at a show that I didn’t do, I violated the Business Opportunities Act?

That I somehow violated the Business Opportunities Act by selling something at a show I didn’t even do?

Is that what the charge is?”

She said, “I told you what the charge is.  The charge is violating the Business Opportunities Act in the state of Kentucky for selling business opportunities without a license.”

I said, “Yes, at a show that I didn’t do.” She said, “You can bring all this up at your trial.”  I said, “The reason I want to bring it up now is because I want to address the size of the bail. Why would I have a bail that size on a charge that isn’t even a legitimate charge?”

I told her I could present witnesses that heard their law enforcement say that if I wasn’t doing a show, the state had no problem with me.

So they couldn’t say they had a problem with me before the show since they didn’t arrest me until I was intending to do a show and they made it clear that if I wasn’t intending to do a show I wouldn’t be arrested.

She said, “I don’t want to hear anything you’ve got to say about your case at all.”  I said, “If you’re concerned about my showing up for court, I’ve never missed a court date, ever.  She said, “I said the bail is $50,000 in cash, and the bail stands!” 

We posted the bail of $50,000 with the court and about 8 hours later, at five o’clock I was released. I hope you will make it to the show in Kentucky to support our stand for Freedom and Free Enterprise and especially for FREE SPEECH in America.