Upcoming arraignment in Salem District Court

[golwis]

Greetings everyone,

My name is John Goldthwaite. As some of you may know, I arrived in New Hampshire on May 29 and was under arrest for "criminal trespass" less than 2 hours later. I had been contacted some months previous by a lady who lives in Massachusetts who has a summer home in Salem, NH. The bank was trying to foreclose on her and she was/is fighting what she considers the fraudulent mortgage system. I've studied enough about the whole mortgage scheme to convince me that there is, indeed, fraud going on, but it wasn't my intention to get involved with that issue.

Jeanne, the owner of the property, wanted someone to occupy the house so that before the bank could take possession of it, they would have to go through an eviction process. This, she told me, would delay them long enough for her to prepare her case in federal court. I would be living and working on the property to fix it up (it hadn't been occupied in some time and was in disrepair) until Jeanne either won her case or I was evicted by the bank.

To make a long story short, I arrived at the property, met with Jeanne, her daughter Coleen, and a relative Virginia. They showed me around the property, let me into the house, we had some problems with the electricity, Virginia and Coleen were trying to get a fire started in a wood burning stove, Jeanne had asked me to replace the locks on the doors and I was just finishing that up when the police arrived.

One officer asked me if I was from the bank. I was dumbfounded and didn't answer immediately. He asked a second time, and I was still confused and tried to explain that I had been invited by the owner of the property to work there as a caretaker. I told him that I had just driven up from Arizona over the past week, that my name was John, and I don't remember what other information I provided, but without even asking me for ID, one of the officers grabbed me, picked my wallet out of my back pocket and started rifling through it for ID.

They eventually arrested all four of us. I and Coleen were charged with "criminal trespass." Virginia got "criminal trespass" and "burglary." Jeanne got "criminal trespass," "burglary," and "resisting arrest."

The "resisting arrest" charge was kind of interesting. Jeanne had told the officer who was interrogating her that she had every right to be on the property and that she had the original deed to prove it. The officer asked her where the deed was. She said it was in her truck and turned to walk out of the house to the truck to get it, and that's what they're calling "resisting arrest."

So, anyway. we're going to have our arraignment on July 13 at Salem District Court at 8:30am and it would be really nice if some Freestaters could show up as witnesses and to provide some moral support. The address is 35 Geremonty Dr., Salem, NH, 03079.

John.

[Atlas]

I'll be there, homie or should I say neighbor.

[KBCraig]

Wow.

It sounds like the bank had already filed a change of title, and they had someone watching the property to call the police.

[Kat Kanning]

What was fraudulent about the foreclosure?

[ny2nh]

What was fraudulent about the foreclosure?

I'm curious about that as well.

Unfortunately it seems like you got dragged into a situation that was different than the one described to you. It sounds like the bank had already taken possession of the property before you arrived. You should be able to explain that to the judge convincingly - and if you have any emails that show you were asked to be there, that would probably help you.

[golwis]

Well, I probably should have done more due diligence, because I wasn't at all familiar with the details of the situation, and not ever being involved with owning property myself, I didn't really know what questions to ask. Jeanne said the mortgage was passed from one failed bank to another eventually ending up with Freddie Mac. She said that some lawyers, realtors and people at the bank were colluding to steal her property. All she wanted me for was to delay the banks actually taking possession of the property and to be a witness when they tried. I'm familiar enough with the notion of eviction, though I've never actually been evicted from a place before, I know they have to give you a notice and a certain amount of time to move out, 10 days, 30 days, 90 days, whatever. Jeanne wanted that extra time to pursue her case in federal court. I never planned to stay there permanently, I just wanted my foot in the door of NH long enough to find work and another place to stay.

If the bank had already filed a change of title, Jeanne told me that they never produced that for her to challenge her original deed, which was something they were supposedly legally required to do.

Anyway, beyond the fraud that Jeanne alleges the lawyers, bankers and realtors have committed, the very notion of banks providing mortgage loans is tied in with the fraudulent reserve banking system, I mean, fractional reserve banking. Even though the practice is sanctioned by an act of congress, the actual practice of giving you money for a home purchase that they created out of thin air is still fraud. I've heard that people have challenged the practice before and won, and I wish Jeanne luck with her challenge, but it was never my intention to get involved in that challenge myself. I mostly just wanted to get my nose under the tent of New Hampshire, so to speak, long enough to get settled elsewhere.

[KBCraig]

Well, welcome home, even if you're homeless!