SUPERDELL FOR GOVERNOR

Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City has a dollar theater I’ve been to many times. I used to leave my gun in the car as there were no concealed carry permits back then. After being assaulted in the parking lot when some gang members tried to kick me out of my parking spot by force I figured I better exercise my legal right to carry openly and started carrying openly on my hip. After waiting in line with my wife and buying tickets I took a trip to the bathrooms across the food court; on my way back 2 officers came up behind me, grabbed my legally carried weapon that was in plain site and threw me up against the wall and frisked me. Then they took me in their little room, charged me with carrying a concealed weapon and hauled me off to jail right then and there. Luckily the case was dropped as I didn’t actually break any laws and they returned my firearm (without the bullets).

On the way home from the very same mall late one night months and months afterwards I witnessed a car blindly run a red light at about 50mph and head through a neighborhood. I figured they were drunk so I followed to get the plate number. My wife wrote it down, pregnant at the time with our first child, and when she had gotten the plate number I started to slow down to turn around. Just then the driver of the car slammed on his brakes sliding his car sideways to a stop completely blocking my way. He jumped out of the driver seat with what looked like a short baseball bat and angrily approached my vehicle. Without time to do anything else after having to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting him I stepped out of my vehicle, displayed my firearm in front of my car door with it pointed at the ground. I said “stop, I don’t want any trouble, just get back in your car and we’ve got no problem”. He responded quite well doing exactly that and drove off. I turned around and we headed home the other direction. Upon reaching home we phoned the police and reported the incident. The police promptly arrived at my house and charged me with brandishing a weapon. Both my wife and I told the police about the obvious threat from out assailant, 2 of us, both of our word against only his. I was charged with brandishing anyway. In court I was offered a plea bargain where if I plead guilty the charges would be completely dropped and I would pay only a $50 fine. As I really didn’t have any time to fight the ridiculous charges at the time I took the offer to drop the charges and paid the fine.

Model rocketry had been a hobby of mine since I was pretty young, my wife’s little brother, then only 12, was interested in how to build a rocket as I had told him about several times. I first made rocket fuel by dissolving potassium nitrate and table sugar in water and then heating off most of the water. It is a known recipe for propellant. I then built the engine with what I felt was the correct size nozzle to give a reduction that would build the proper pressure for optimum thrust. As I didn’t have any tables or charts to go from I just had to guess for the first size. The engine was very small intended for only a simple model rocket you could buy at a toy store. I then setup a test stand in my front yard where the engine wouldn’t go anywhere as the thrust was pointed up in the air with a type of scale under it to determine the thrust. It was all shielded in case of a malfunction no debris would go anywhere. I misjudged on the nozzle and made it too small so as we watched the thrust test it built up to much pressure and split apart with a loud bang. To make a long story short the police were called and after the lead investigating officer from West Valley got done hitting on my very pretty wife I was charged with a 2nd degree felony of constructing a bomb. No investigation was done, no input as to the materials or obvious design to determine intent. Just a felony charge for what was obviously a model rocket engine to anyone that took even a few seconds to look. This time the plea bargain offered a simple misdemeanor and fine instead of the felony which I took as I didn’t want any risk of a felony on my record no matter what.

Then there is Draper City, while driving to the flight park I headed up through the residential area to the main street to the launch area. I passed a few kids at about 10-15mph and when the road was clear and there were no parked cars on the side of the road or children anywhere on the road, sidewalks or open fields & lawn next to the road and past the sidewalk and the road widened to the width of a 4 lane freeway I sped up quickly as my daughter enjoyed feeling the power of the Jaguar XJR-100. I immediately slowed back down to the speed limit so I was only speeding for about 1 to 1.5 seconds. I then proceeded to the flight park at about 5mph over the speed limit from that time. Upon reaching the flight park I immediately got out of the car and started unloading my paragliding equipment from the trunk when a car blocked me in and the driver started cussing at me for speeding. Since he was so foul and I was with my 8 year old daughter who I really didn’t want to hear his foul language & attitude I just walked away. As I walked toward launch he and 2 other guys all started following me cussing & swearing. I continued to walk away, tried to apologize, which they answered with foul words and I said a few other quick things to diffuse the situation but since they were so enraged it really didn’t matter what I said so I just continued to walk away. I set the equipment down, asked my daughter to stay with it and then continued walking. Then one of them picked up a rock and threatened to smash my lights in. Now the hair on the back of my neck really stood up and I realized my life and the life of my child were in immediate danger. He started walking directly towards my daughter who was standing next to the equipment and as all the eyes went in that direction I used the distraction to access my weapon and slip it behind me still concealed but now by my leg. None of them saw the weapon. Luckily he walked past my child and towards the back of my car. He stood there for a second and then as it seemed he finally came to his senses he dropped the rock. As he did I again used the attention that was on him and the 5 foot high garbage cans I had intentionally put between us as cover to slip my weapon back into my pocket. None of the 3 bad guys had ever even seen the gun. I had attempted to diffuse the situation by walking away, I had attempted to diffuse the situation by trying to apologize & reason with them, I had attempted to diffuse the situation by remaining silent and walking away again, I had attempted to diffuse the situation by not displaying the weapon as I had a legal right to do so. When I later went over them with my lawyer we came up with 9 different ways I attempted to diffuse the situation peacefully but when the police showed up I was somehow the bad guy. I tried to explain to the police what happened and I was told to “Shut up!! We are asking the questions!!!”. I made a very short written police report as I could tell they were only trying to gather information to charge me with a crime. They even tried asking me flat out if I had “brandished a weapon”. I knew the law; I knew I had not broken it. The only correct answer was NO.

I was of course charged with brandishing a weapon. Again… Then instead of a speeding ticket which they had zero evidence of as they had no witnesses that could identify me as the driver or any verification of speed or danger to others they charged me with reckless driving. Then to top it off they charged me with a false written statement for the very short contents of the police report that I wrote. Neither of the 2 sentences I wrote were false. I was found not guilty of brandishing a weapon. I was however found guilty amazingly for “false written statement” as the jury was lied to by the judge & prosecutor about what the law actually was and the news tried to make it look like I lied when I said I didn’t brandish a weapon. The obvious truth is I was charged with a false written statement and what was in the statement were 2 sentences both completely truth and completely unaddressed. The media misled the people of Utah into thinking I lied when I said “NO” to the question of “did you brandish a weapon” when I was of course not guilty of brandishing a weapon and therefore obviously correct without question.

This is not a simple incident, these are not all, I know tons of other professional business people like myself that have also been charged with things that were obviously not correct simply because of the anti-gun mentality of some of the police officers, all of the media and most of the Utah government officials.

This is a huge problem, you think you have a second amendment, you think you have rights, you think you are “safe” in obeying the law and you are WRONG. The only way to fix this problem is to put someone in office that will stand up for your rights and you have to do it with ALL of the Utah media against you. I only know one person that will stand up to the media, tell them where to go and how to get there and do the right thing no matter what. I only know one person with a history for publicly speaking up for what they believe in and going way out of their way to stand up for others. That person is ME. This might be the last time you have a chance to vote for your freedom before you have to take it by force. The only way to make a real difference is to vote for someone really different. I sure wish I knew someone better for the job but I don’t. I would much rather continue being retired and having fun but I’ll do the job if enough people care about the freedom to put me in office. How much do you care about your freedom? How badly would you like someone in office that will stick their neck out just for you no matter how unpopular it might be? Name that price in dollars because that is what it is going to take. Remember if you don’t pay for it with money right now then someday you might be paying for it with blood. What are your freedoms and ability to exercise your rights worth to you? Imagine for a second that SUPERDELL is Governor and the highest ranking officer and highest paid person in your company claims they were held back from promotion because of discrimination and they want 2 million dollars. Do you think they will get away with it?? There is A LOT of crap that happens in this state, you can either be in it really deep or start cleaning the place up. What's your choice?