What Are Your Thoughts on Winston Shrout?
Posted on: July 5, 2009 by: admin
Over the last eighteen years I have seen the gurus come up with the latest legal rage. I call it pop law. All the newbie’s and the gullible attend the guru’s seminar and jump on the band wagon by parroting what they learned there. A lot of them take what they learned and act on it without doing any critical thinking or research; usually because they don’t know how. Then, some time flows under the bridge and the prosecutors get around to taking what the investigators found to the grand jury and then the indictments for what the gurus taught start coming out. Usually, with the exceptions of Milton Pilot, the Montana Freemen and Roger Elvick, the guru is not prosecuted because he never did what he taught! One speaker I heard described these newbie’s and gullible guru seminar attendees as pinkies. Pinkies are baby lab rats that you dust with new, unproven paperwork and then send them out into the world to see what happens. Pinkies never stop to think that a prosecutor or grand jury might take an interest in their actions, nor do they think ahead about how they will defend their actions. Usually, this happens one to three years later, and the guru seminar promoter has taken his fat seminar fees and moved to the Dominican Republic. As to how to defend what he taught you; you are on your own. This is part of the reason that I take issue with Jean Keating, Dr. Sam Kennedy, Winston Shrout, Rice McCloud and Jack Smith. To me, what they teach is analogous to pulling the pin on a hand grenade and handing it to a three year old and telling him, for best results, throw this as far away from you as you can.
I watched Jack Smith tutor a man on a civil case right into three $200 sanctions in a row and then into jail on contempt. Once there, Jack had no solution for getting him out.
It was either Jean Keating or Rice McCloud’s friend that got a felony charge following Jack Smith’s advice of serving private process on the cops. Rather than capture his strawman and owning the case as a way of defending the felony, they sent their friend to me for conventional research and some conventional paperwork! As a result of conventional research and conventional paperwork the prosecutor made the defendant such a sweet plea offer that he couldn’t turn it down.
While the promoters of the latest pop law rage do their seminars, make their money, and come and go; leaving the pinkies to deal with the aftermath; those of us who do conventional law keep plugging away gaining knowledge, experience, and adding to our repertoire like mixed martial artists learning new submission holds and fight strategies all the while racking up win after win.
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