1. About Meister

Christian Meister, a Veteran of the United States military during Operation Desert Storm, has served aboard a 210-foot Coast Guard Cutter on search and rescue missions and drug smuggling interdictions. He has a background in Constitutional law and experience in the juvenile justice system. In his capacity as a former case manager, he has assessed the needs of abused, abandoned, and neglected children adjudicated dependent on the State of Florida and represented their interests in the juvenile justice court. Christian graduated from the Southwest Florida Public Service Academy in Fort Myers, Florida, and, in 2006, he earned a Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Florida State Officer Certification. His background includes extensive trading experience in the United States stock market. He has sold residential properties and negotiated commercial real estate transactions.

In 2008, Christian Meister ran for Lee County Sheriff and received over 61,000 votes--25 percent—in the general election. Christian is an accomplished civil rights litigant who has an in-depth understanding of the court’s “red tape” or bureaucracy, a.k.a. procedural rules. He believes that our founding fathers never intended our courts to create complicated rules which only attorneys are trained to follow. As a result of these rules, ordinary people who cannot afford to pay for an attorney are deprived of their Constitutionally protected rights.

2. Legal Experience

Currently, the case of Meister versus Mike Scott in both his official and individual capacity as Sheriff of Lee County is before the United States Supreme Court on the merits of Scott’s and/or his counsels’ argument that a person who is not an attorney--Christian Meister, in his capacity as a pro se counsel, proceeding without an attorney--is not entitled to file the required legal Memoranda of Law in the Court if these legal documents exceed the page limitations imposed by the local trial Court. These procedural tactics deprive a person proceeding without an attorney of his or her entitlement to Due Process Equal Access to the Court, in violation of the U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment’s Procedural Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause. Christian has taken the legal position that people are entitled to Equal Access and Due Process regardless of whether they can or cannot afford to pay for an attorney. He believes, if an officer of the Court—a Judge or an attorney—fails to protect the American people so that they can receive these embedded rights, the rights of all of our people are being eroded.

3. The media

Meister, who recently turned 41 in June of 2009, graduated Cum Laude from California State University, Fullerton, California in 2004 and holds a B.A. in communications with a concentration in print journalism. As a “Daily Titan” staff writer, he published numerous news articles. There, he acquired critical skills in reporting and news-gathering techniques. Christian has served on the Cal State Fullerton’s Academic Senate University Curriculum Committee, assessing the quality and effectiveness of existing course work, and evaluating the potential of college curriculum proposed by faculty.

During the course of his studies of how the media, the public, and the government interacts with one another, Christian was most struck about a statement that reveals what the media is and is not: “The media (only) reports about what it wants the public to think about!” Admittedly, it is far cheaper and less intrusive to air or publish a news story about an elderly Saint Bernard (dog) who has fallen into a wine cellar and who then gets rescued by a hero fireman than it is to expose politically motivated, self-serving conduct, corporation and government corruption. Main stream media has categorically refused to report about those events where causes lobbied by special interest groups affect adversely the public at large. The media’s failure to cover “real” stories has impacted millions of Americans, if not contributed to the demise of the American economy. There certainly are reporters who are willing to carry the torch, but “bosses” won’t let them publish their stories.

4. The Mortgage Crisis

For example, the banking industry has lobbied legislature so that it can benefit from perks which nearly guarantee the outcome in a civil litigation where the person being sued—the home owner who can’t afford to hire an attorney—is about to lose his or her home.

A pest called greed has spread throughout our nation. Home owners who are representing themselves in Court are no match for pretend lenders or the attorneys they hire in order to re-present that they hold an interest in their properties when they do not. The foreclosing party does not own the mortgage.

The “lenders” and their attorneys both know they are not telling the truth to the Court. Home owners, on the other hand, are lacking the knowledge, and they hardly are ever capable of ascertaining that the evidence presented is false. Neither do home owners understand that they have rights of self-representation if they cannot afford to hire an attorney.

5. Home owners in foreclosure and their rights

Only a few hero Judges have taken “procedural” charge of the court room that they know belongs to the people. Only a few hero Judges have stopped foreclosure proceedings initiated against home owners because these Judges have properly recognized that critical evidence had been withheld from the home owners and that fraudulent evidence was being submitted to the court. These Judges adjudicate accordingly because they know that an order by a judge, no matter how well intended, is an “invalid” order if the basis of the order rests on fraud on the court. These heroes know what Procedural Due Process and Equal Access mean to the American people. They uphold the laws they have sworn to uphold, and they exercise their judicial discretion, accordingly.

6. The Sheriff's authority to stop foreclosure evictions

Christian Meister, too, as Sheriff will exercise the authority inherent in the office of the Sheriff. It is, after all, the Sheriff—a member of the executive branch—who has discretion to instruct his deputies to stop evicting people from their homes where such evictions are grounded on the basis of fraud. To recognize this kind of fraud, pervasive as it may be, requires one, however, to understand a vastly complex lending mess which is more connected to securities laws and Wall Street than it is fused to a bank vault. Most home owners do not know about it because these frauds are hidden in documents and legal mumbo jumbo as tall as 600 pages in length.

7. Home owners have little rights without legal representation

In the United States adversarial system—where corporations are well capable of hiring attorneys—people who cannot afford to pay for attorneys, have little, if any rights in a court room. Although the Constitution mandates the separation of powers—the judicial, executive, and legislative branch--the Constitutionally protected rights do little if property owners, who cannot afford to hire a competent attorney, do not understand the courts’ rules of procedure.

8. White collar crime

Therefore, it is critical that people obtain the tools they need so that they can make an educated, informed decision before they decide to give up and let their homes go to foreclosure. This is particularly important where pretend lenders are hiring clever attorneys, not all of whom are ethical and some of whom are downright dishonest, and where a vast number of homes are currently being stolen—a white -collar theft—from people all across America, the theft of which impacts “poor” people who are driven to desperate measures.

In nearly all cases after about 2000, the money that was lent to home owners came from Wall-Street investment pools. Wall Street, however, is not the entity that is suing home owners across America; pretend lenders are. Nor are home owners being sued by the thousands and thousands of investors who relied on “AAA” rated asset backed securities that were, in reality, sub-prime “F- rated” garbage loans, were insured, as required by government, and were ready to default in the “fourth” year by design.

9. Only a few politicians will protect you

The very question is: What are you going to do about this mess? Is it about how you want to be treated and how government treats you? What will government do to protect you, or our home owners, or the American economy? Whom do the people here in Lee County want to be their next Sheriff? Do they want a Sheriff who understands how the judiciary, the legislative and the executive branch is supposed to protect you? Do people want a Sheriff who stands up and speaks out when the supposedly separated branches of government that are essentially fused together as one government unit are failing the people? Which candidate for Sheriff is ahead of the pack because he understands the consequences when parents and their children become homeless? Which Sheriff candidate understands that parents (and children) are driven to crime because they cannot get a job and cannot feed their children?

10. A pro-active Sheriff can better protect lives and property

Do we build more jails because those we trusted—banks and government—have failed us? If we build, with what money? Home owners’ property taxes? Which candidate for Sheriff is pro-actively involved in his community and has identified pervasive white-collar crime against home owners which is responsible for causing the existing crime rate to rise? Which Sheriff understands that a good Sheriff is much more than a patrol officer but a seeker of truth, a problem solver, a 21st century leader, a person who is willing to take a stand, and one who takes creating equal treatment for all people to heart, especially where residents and visitors come in contact with a law enforcement officer? Know who you vote for! If you are looking for a capable Sheriff, vote Meister for Sheriff in 2012, the People’s Sheriff—Your Sheriff!

11. Buying a foreclosed property is a bad idea

Where people with investment properties and home owners are being kicked out from their properties on the basis of an order that is grounded on fabricated evidence, the order is a nullity. It is a bad idea to buy a foreclosed property because the previous owner may bury you deep in legal fees.

12. MERS is acting as if it had the powers of a bank to foreclose

Court decisions outside the State of Florida have indicated that banks are submitting fraudulent documents to Courts. For example, MERS wants to be a bank so that it can foreclose on properties across the United States—has argued in a Nebraska Court that it, essentially, is not a bank. However, that same entity—MERS—has argued in a South Carolina Court that it, essentially, is a bank [fn1]. Well, which is it? Are you a bank, or are you not a bank? If MERS is indeed a “bank,” it has the power to have you (legally) thrown out of your house. If MERS is not a “bank,” it is not liable for “having to pay fees levied in [Nebraska] against mortgage bankers” [fn1].

Here, MERS wants to have it both ways: It wants to be a bank so that it can assign your mortgage to someone who does not own it so that it can have you thrown out of your home. On the other hand, MERS does not want to be a bank when it does not want to be liable for tax evasion. For example, in South Carolina, the Judge has estopped MERS—“estopped” means: “I am stopping you, MERS”—from making the legal argument that it is a bank because MERS has already vehemently argued (and won) in the Nebraska Court that it is not a bank. Therefore, any argument that MERS has the authority to own a mortgage and and note turns the Nebraska testimony into into perjury.

13. Home owners' resources

[fn1] State of South Carolina, County of Sumter, In the Court of Common Pleas for the Third Judicial Circuit, Civil Action # 2005-CP-43-0278, Supplemental Order Denying Rule 59(e) Motions, January 19, 2006.
[fn1] Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Nebraska Dept. of Banking and Finance, 270 Neb. 529, 704 N.W.2d 784, 786, 787.