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In his book, Constitutional Chaos, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano states, "Because it breaks the law and denies it, the government is not your friend!" Do you agree with this statement? Please amplify.

Can you, Ms. Masto, be fairly seen as a government official who "breaks the law and denies it?" Have you ever ignored and thereby violated the Constitution of the United States? Have you ever ignored and thereby violated your oath of office?

Do you agree with the following quotations contained in the Nevada Open Meeting Law Manual?

Do you agree that it constitutes fraud for public servants to refuse to answer questions raised by the people regarding the people's business?

Do you agree that it is wrong for public servants to treat the people's business as none of the people's business?

Do you agree that, in order to remain informed, the people have clear right to question their public servants about their business and to receive honest, detailed, responsible answers from said servants?

Do you agree that the sovereign people have clear right to maintain control over their hired help ~ and that this can not be done when the latter conspire to prevent public knowledge of any incompetence and/or corruption on their parts?

Is it an act of fraud and/or treason for public servants to conspire to prevent public knowledge of any incompetence and/or corruption on their parts?

To your knowledge is there any incompetence or corruption within Nevada government? Within your own office? Within the governor's office? Within the legislature?

Is it a violation of your fiduciary relationship with the people of Nevada for you to be aware of incompetence and corruption within Nevada government ~ and do nothing about it?

AN OPEN LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL MASTO
From Guy Felton, Reno, Nevada
March 6, 2008

As you must be aware, The Los Angeles Times ran a series of articles in 2006 exposing Nevada's court system as having a serious problem with crooked judges.

Please advise if you have done anything to deal with these crooked judges ~ and the flawed excuse for a system which permits them to run amok. How can numerous judges thumb their noses at integrity and justice without the state's AG becoming aware of this? Are you, Ms. Masto, and your immediate (at least) predecessors not guilty of misprision?

What checks and balances, if any, have been ignored for how many years? Is there a de facto practice in Nevada whereby corrupt judges share a percentage of their ill-begotten loot with whatever AG is in office in return for said AG's felonious role as an accomplice in extortion, gross perversion of justice, and satanic abuse of delegated public powers?

If you've done nothing of a meaningful nature to return integrity to Nevada's judiciary, please explain why.

Since the Times articles ran, have any judges in the state been disciplined and/or asked to resign? Please amplify your yes or no response. Please provide the names of judges who have been investigated ~ or who should have been investigated.

Is it, perhaps, your position that dealing with crooked judges is not your proper concern as chief legal officer of Nevada?

Do you, as a private Nevada citizen, have no concern with the problem of crooked judges abusing and denying justice?

An asinine reply was received from Masto having the date of March 26, 2008.
"The Office of the Attorney General does not have legal jurisdiction over your complaint/complaints." Masto would have us believe that, as chief legal officer for Nevada, she can do nothing about public officials taking bribes and soliciting same from individuals with the effect of skewing/killing justice and decent government. With this kind of garbage coming from one of the highest officials in the state, what can we expect from officials lower on the totem pole? What further proof do we need that checks and balances against corruption in Nevada government are non-existent? What further proof do we need that a fully-empowered Ombudsman is needed in our state to protect citizens from BS politicians ~ including judges?

Added on February 19, 2008:

During the election cycle of 2006, Kate Marshall was elected state treasurer, replacing Brian Krolicki who is now Lt. Gov. of Nevada. Marshall reported in March of 2007 that Krolicki "may have ordered records purged as he prepared to assume his duties as lieutenant governor" according to a December 2007 article in the Las Vegas Sun.

The article also states, "Marshall told the attorney general that when she took over, 'there were absolutely no files or documents' in the treasurer's office and the office of the chief of staff." Further, "When Marshall asked for the investigation ... she said former Krolicki employees reported they were directed to destroy documents as part of the transition to the new treasurer 'without regard to the record retention laws.'"

NRS 239.320 states: "Injury to, concealment or falsification of records or papers by public officer. An officer who mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases, obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his office, is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130."

NRS 193.130 states: "A category C felony is a felony for which a court shall sentence a convicted person to imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 5 years. In addition to any other penalty, the court may impose a fine of not more than $10,000, unless a greater fine is authorized or required by statute."

Almost nine months ago in May of 2007, Legal Newsline Dot Com reported the following: "A legislative audit has found that Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki violated three state laws while Nevada treasurer last term," and "Nevada's Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto vowed this week to be 'aggressive' in pursuing charges against the GOP's state second in command."

Ms. Masto, how do you define "aggressive"? When you have a black and white audit report documenting crimes perpetrated by Krolicki, why have you not yet taken meaningful action against him?

When state employees are willing to risk retribution for becoming whistle-
blowers and testify that Krolicki directed them to destroy documents in violation of state law, why are you failing to aggressively deal with a man who deserves no measure of public trust and respect?

How do you define "misprision"?

How do you define "cover-up"?

How do you define "violation of fiduciary obligation"?

Do you see yourself as defrauding the people of Nevada?

Are you willing to undergo a polygraph test regarding this matter?

As you are aware, California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, has decertified thousands of that state's electronic voting machines because they can be rigged to throw elections. Do you hold that Sec. Bowen should not have taken this course of action? If so, why? Do you question the findings of the review of these machines which was conducted by University of California computer security experts? Are you somehow qualified to challenge said experts?

In that Nevada's Sequoia voting machines are exactly like Sequoia voting machines decertified by Sec. Bowen, are you willing to state, unequivocally, that Nevada's machines ~ during one or more election cycles ~ have NOT been rigged to fraudulently "elect" various candidates including yourself?

Why have you not expressed any concern regarding Nevada's use of voting machines that can be rigged to throw elections? Why have you not called for a review of said machines ~ a review similar to California's? Are you a conscious supporter of the use of corrupt voting machines?

When you are aware that Nevada's voting machines can be rigged to throw elections, is it not a crime for you to take no investigative and/or corrective measures?

Are you failing to protect the interests of the people and thereby violating your fiduciary relationship with them?

How can you expect to be trusted and respected by the people when you ignore the specter of fraudulent elections?

Did Sequoia Voting Systems, at any time, represent and guarantee its voting machines as being tamper-proof prior to being purchased by Nevada officials? If not, why were said machines purchased? Who are all of the Nevada officials ~ at all levels ~ who made the buy decision? Did Howard Cramer, vice-president of Sequoia, have anything to do with the involved transaction?

Did Sequoia Voting Systems commit fraud in misrepresenting its voting machines as being tamper-proof? Are you considering litigation against Sequoia for having defrauded Nevada? How much money has Nevada ~ at all levels ~ spent on Sequoia machines, supplies, servicing, etc.?

Can you prove that you were honestly elected? If so, how? If you were not elected in a demonstrably-legitimate manner, are any of your actions not null and void?

Would it be a crime for any Nevada official to knowingly participate in any decision to purchase voting machines known to be easy to rig for the purpose of throwing elections ~ or for any other purpose?

Do you agree that it would be wrong for any state official(s) to purchase voting machines that can be rigged to throw elections? Are there any safeguards in place to prevent this happening? If not, why not? If so, how did it happen that Nevada officials purchased corruptible Sequoia voting machines?

Do the people of Nevada have clear right to clean, honest, accurate elections? What can you do to ensure this becomes the reality? Why are you choosing to ignore the fact that Nevada's voting machines are dirty?

Do you agree that vote counting should be open and transparent? Do voting machines count votes in an open and transparent manner which citizens can visually monitor? Why do you support the counting of votes in any manner that is not open and transparent? Why do you support the counting of votes in any manner that can not be visually monitored by citizens?

Do you conduct yourself to aid in the conduct of the people's business for the common good ~ or to aid other public servants in commandeering and perverting public powers for their own purposes?

Do you practice selective law enforcement where you enforce some laws and ignore others depending upon the political juice of law breakers?

Do the people of Nevada need an ombudsman to protect them from incompetent and corrupt public officials?

Do the people of Nevada need an ombudsman to protect them from elected and appointed officials who abuse their delegated powers?

Is democracy alive and well in Nevada ~ or is the state controlled by a power elite?

Does your office sometimes conduct fraudulent, flawed investigations of reported crimes with intent to shield powerful persons from accountability?

Do you agree that no state can have legitimate government if its attorney general insulates and protects stupid and/or corrupt fellow politicians from being accountable to the sovereign people?

Are you morally and legally obligated to support and defend the Constitution of the United States ~ including the Bill of Rights?

When and under what circumstances can the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States be suspended or denied?

Can government of, by, and for the people be anything other than fraudulent pretense without uninhibited, robust, and wide-open free expression pursuant to Times v. Sullivan?

Are citizens justly empowered to employ vehement, caustic, and unpleasantly sharp (non-violent) attacks against their public servants?

Would it be an act of treason for any public servant to assert sovereignty over the people?

Would it be an act of treason for any public servant to deny the sovereignty of the people?

Does any Nevada law or any opinion issued by you trump the Constitution of the United States in any way, shape, manner, or form?

When taking any action as Nevada Attorney General ~ including issuing any Open Meeting Law opinion ~ are you justly empowered to ignore the Constitution of the United States?

Why do Open Meeting Law opinions issued by you ignore and thereby violate the Constitution of the United States?

Why do you treat the Open Meeting Law as if it exists in a vacuum not subject to the supreme law of the land?

As you are aware, the Washoe County Commission and Washoe's district attorney, Dick Gammick, refuse to explain their loss of an eminent domain lawsuit (Ballardini Ranch). By what law are these public servants justly empowered to hide the people's business from them?

Why have you not expressed any concern regarding Jim Gibbons being the subject of a criminal investigation being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Does this not place a dark cloud over all of his actions? Why have you not called for his resignation for the good of Nevada?

If you and other Nevada officials were fraudulently elected, what are the liability ramifications and potential costs to taxpayers owing to your actions being null and void?

Are you willing to volunteer to undergo a polygraph examination regarding your integrity and philosophy of government?

Why do you hold that the Washoe County Commission is not obligated to discuss and decide its meeting agendas in a manner that includes public input? Does each meeting of a public body in Nevada not have to be structured in context of an agenda? By what law can any such agenda be discussed and decided in a non-public way? Is its agenda not a required part of a public meeting? Is it not devious, deceptive, and obviously dishonest for any public body to treat the agenda of a public meeting as none of the people's business?

Persons arrested in Washoe County are not always advised of their rights pursuant to the Miranda decision. Persons arrested in Washoe County are sometimes not permitted to contact an attorney for many hours. Non-violent persons arrested in Washoe County are sometimes threatened with vicious police attack dogs at the county jail. Do these facts disturb you in any way?

The Washoe County Commission adopted a "decorum statement" on September 26, 2006, which is still being printed on each meeting agenda and read aloud by the county manager (or her stand-in) just prior to the public comment period of each meeting. This statement effectively threatens citizens intending to present public comment so they will hesitate to employ uninhibited, robust, and wide-open free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment and Times v. Sullivan.

When the said statement was adopted on 9-26-06, Commissioner Larkin made a comment to this effect: "This statement should calm our critics." Larkin's comment is documented on tape.

Ms. Masto, do you agree that it is a violation of the First Amendment, Times v. Sullivan, and their oath of office for Washoe commissioners to employ any statement or policy which is intended to threaten and prevent citizens from fully exercising any right or rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States? As you are aware, the Constitution says nothing about decorum trumping free speech.

Over the past ten years, how many open meeting law opinions issued by the Office of the Nevada Attorney General have failed to recognize and incorporate the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States?

Does it constitute fraud for any AG opinion to ignore the supreme law of the land? Does it constitute treason for any AG opinion to ignore the supreme law of the land? Does it constitute monumental incompetence for any AG opinion to fail to recognize the supreme law of the land? Does your office practice a de facto policy of willfully ignoring the Constitution of the United States?

If deposed for litigation regarding your performance as attorney general, are you prepared to answer the foregoing questions?

Ms. Masto, you hold a position that requires a high level of integrity. Your makeup does not offer this. You are unwilling to conduct yourself as a responsible and trustworthy public servant. You are unwilling to answer questions bearing on the people's business. You are unfit to hold any position of public trust.