Biography
of Ronald Branson
Author of
The Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
(JAIL)
Born in 1946, Ronald Branson joined the U.S. Military in 1963. He had a very strict and straight-laced view of "just doing his job." Part of his military time was spent as a Prison Chaser over prisoners at Fort Belvoir. He presided over work details and regularly strip-searched the prisoners. He quickly took on the reputation as strictest Prison Chaser, having disciplined more prisoners than all other Prison Chasers collectively.
After leaving the military, Ron entered and graduated from two Bible
Institutes. In 1974 he became the author and publisher of the Alert Sheet
Publications which exposed religious cults. He was ordained into the ministry
in 1977 and pastored several churches. He began to realize that the biggest
cult and threat to the churches was government, after which he began the
Alert Sheet Informant, a publication which exposed government corruption.
In 1980 Mr. Branson was called upon to travel with and meet appointments
by the late A. J. Porth, the patriarch of the modern-day patriot movement,
as his right-hand man. In 1992, Ron became a co-founder of the Granada Forum,
now holding meetings in Tarzana, California.
Ron's legal pursuits began in 1982 over the issue of whether one could
be fired from the County of Los Angeles and then denied an established right
to a civil service hearing. Armed with the law and facts on his side, he
took on the County of Los Angeles in the courts only to find that the law
and the facts were irrelevant in our judicial system, and that despite mandatory
duty to the contrary, politics ruled the courts. He found that not only were
the courts out-and-out corrupt, but that they were riddled with absolute
facial conflicts, including counsel for county being also counsel for the
judge hearing the case against the county. When he moved for venue change
due to structural conflict, his motion was denied.
The straw that broke the camel's back was in 1994 in which Mr. Branson
brought suit against the City of Los Angeles and seven police officers for
thirteen and a half million dollars for false arrest, false imprisonment
and unwarranted strip-search. The City defaulted and the case went to prove-up
of evidence. The evidence was submitted on the record for judgment. Statute
clearly sets forth that the judge shall hear the evidence, and shall render
judgment in the plaintiff's favor according to the evidence. However, no
judgment ever came forth after prove-up, despite the Constitutional mandate
that such judgment be rendered within ninety days. The judge, in protecting
the City from default judgment, simply unsubmitted the
evidence!
All attempts by Mr. Branson to bring his case to a final judgment
through the courts and then the Legislature failed. He realized that law
has absolutely no meaning whatsoever and that he would have to go directly
to the People through the initiative process. He even challenged the Legislature
to remove laws from the books if they were not to be respected and followed,
only to be shunned. After a period of seventeen years of trying to get basic
due process followed, Mr. Branson is now pursuing his fourteenth case to
the United States Supreme Court.
Highly motivated to create a remedy for availability of redress in
our court system in California, after finding none over past years, Ron in
1995 wrote, in two days, the initiative that was then called "The Judicial
Reform Act of 1996." It has since undergone refinement, but is basically
the same as originally created. It is now "The Judicial Accountability Initiative
Law", which is commonly known as "JAIL For Judges" or "JAIL" for
short.
It is Ron's goal to make JAIL a nationwide effort to restore justice
and law and order in this country as our Founding Fathers had envisioned
it. People across the country are clamoring for the hope that JAIL offers.
There is no doubt in Ron's mind that JAIL will one day become the hottest,
largest, and most controversial political football in this
nation.
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