These May 2, 2025, filings in Davidson County chancery court in our “Eye of Sauron” prosecution ask the judge, chancellor Anne Martin, to allow me to appeal over her head for her denial of my motion for injunction. (Photo David Tulis)

Christopher Sapp, left, is midstate bureau chief for Eagle Radio Network. We are in the courts building in dontown Nashville, just near the security theater stage. (Photo David Tulis)

Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. *** If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the and; but if you refuse and rebel ,you shall be devoured by the sword.

— Isaiah 1:17, 20

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, May 9, 2025 — I passed my one-page notice of appeal under the glass to the woman in the U.S. district court clerk’s office to challenge the ruling dismissing my so-called “1983” case against the sheriff and a deputy. 

I’ve put your money where my mouth is in our federal suit seeking to decriminalize traffic stops starting in one Tennessee county.

The suit arises from a “traffic stop” Nov. 22, 2023, as I traveled in my car on constitutionally protected press business one day before sunrise.

U.S. district court judge Travis McDonough, ignoring sets of vital facts in my complaint, says sheriff’s deputy Brandon Bennett had probable cause to arrest and charge me on two misdemeanor counts, and that is that. The court says supreme court rulings on motor vehicles and warrantless arrest make distinctions and protections in state law irrelevant.

Deputy Bennett did me a great harm, but I was exultant to have standing to sue. My case intends to help build the kingdom of God by reducing harm and violence caused by public servants whose humiliations of the poor are legend.

Preparations for battle

I had prepared for that false arrest by laying a groundwork of administrative notice as regards the disabilities in the traffic law and the duty on the officer to get an arrest warrant in Tennessee for any misdemeanor that is not a public offense or a threatened breach of the peace. With such notice, I challenged whether deputy Bennett could have  probable cause to arrest, seeing that I was using my car for constitutionally protected activity, and seeing that I could not have any guilty intent (mens rea) to justify a criminal case.

I am reporter with Eagle Radio Network — marvelously playing rock hits in Chattanooga, and online at https://www.eagleradionetwork.com/

My case challenges a longstanding policy in the courts to deny the right of ingress-egress, or travel, which the courts prejudicially call “sovereign citizen ideology.” My challenge to the “traffic stop” method of generating crime is by starting at the very basis of the matter. 

Travis McDonough, U.S, district court judge

“Driving and operating a motor vehicle is a privilege.” This statement is a commonplace. A privilege is an economic activity controlled and taxed by the state. Privileges arise out of a grant to the state in the state constitution. Since driving a motor vehicle is an occupation, disputes under a license (and everyone using a car is licensed, just about) should be handled administratively. 

Embalmers, scrap metal dealers, plumbers, accountants are each under their regulatory commission, and have a right to “trial” in a contested case in agency, under the UAPA, the uniform administrative procedures act.

Do you see, suddenly, how traffic stops — the most dangerous of all public encounters an officer daily faces — can be civilized? How they can be emptied of their criminal content, and brought into the realm of civil society, a more christianized, more forebearing, more grace-oriented county or state? For decades “traffic’’ is enforced by peacekeeping, criminal,conservator of the peace authority.

The sheriff and the sheriff’s deputies are conservators of the peace, and it is the sheriff’s duty to suppress all affrays, riots, routs, unlawful assemblies, insurrections, or other breaches of the peace, detect and prevent crime, arrest any person lawfully, execute process of law, and patrol the roads of the county.

T.C.A. §8-8-213. Powers as conservator of the peace

The clerk took my F$605 cash, money I had earned in my two-month stint as postal carrier, the end of which left me jobless once again. (USPS fired me on grounds of “willful disregard for safety” after I was attacked by a dog on a route.)

Making justice happen locally, one person at a time

In considering your support of me, note other developments toward liberty and Christian rebuilding:

State lawyers Mary McCullohs, Hollie Parrish and Nick Barca, fighting to make sure I don’t end a mass oppression and fraud against the people of Tennessee. (Photo David Tulis)

➤ I am mailing today responses to motions to dismiss in my lawsuit in chancery court against two state commissioners, Jeff Long in safety and David Gerregano in revenue, both in charge of a massive fraud that has generated 68,000 — yes, you’re reading that correctly — 68,000 criminal convictions of innocent people under color of the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1977. I am suing to overthrow a rogue policy that converts Tennessee into a “mandatory insurance state.” 

➤ In that case, State ex rel. David Jonathan Tulis v. Long et al, I have filed a motion for interlocutory appeal condemning Judge Anne Martin’s groundless denial of my motion for temporary injunction. I argue fear of man and unjust bias makes her ruling lack necessary judicial content to be allowed to stand.

➤ On April 22 I filed a 21-page objection to magistrate recommendation that my federal suit against Cmsr. Gerregano be “stayed” pending outcome of state “Eye of Sauron” proceedings. I argue that state proceedings are void and that the state doesn’t have a protectible sovereign interest in running an extortion program favoring the insurance industry.

➤ My lawsuit against two vampire lenders has just cleared the air of “improper service” allegations with the judge’s gracious allowance of my efforts to secure service. Service means I have proveably served complaint and summons. I filed Tuesday a response to motion to dismiss. I also filed a motion to sanction the lawyer for lying about earlier state proceedings as regards Flexibility Capital.

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If you and other GiveSendGo donors each yield $20, I am sure to be covered in immediate ministry expenses. PACER court filing system account $108, court reporter bill $150, process server $80. FedEx mailings $41 and $60. On May 16 I’ll have another court reporter bill of $150. I have delayed any effort to buy the transcript of my fiery April 10 hearing in chancery Nashville, est. $500 in which I made the case for injunction to stop “Eye of Sauron.” If Judge Martin OKs my override appeal, I’ll have a payment demand from the appellate clerk in Nashville, est. $400.

I am confident in God’s provision for these fights. My cases are without precedent in their legal insight and depth. They touch on major judgments of God against the people of our state and our country. If our sins are so gross and deep that God refuses to relent, He will make sure that these cases fail. That way the harms of these state actors will continue until we grow faint, hopeless and fall to our knees.

Princely warfare against principalities & powers

David runs a personal nonprofit fighting and mercy ministry. He thanks you for checks sent directly to c/o 10520 Brickhill Lane, Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379. Also at GiveSendGo.