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Category: James Branum

  • Would you shop for a lawyer on Facebook?

    I wouldn’t, but that’s what our IVAW lawyer, James Branum, is doing;

    I don’t even think this is ethical. Must be he needs money for Christmas shopping.

    Thanks to one of our ninjas.

  • Adbo indicted on WMD charge

    Nasaar Abdo, former client of James Branum and absconded conscientious objector under the protection of Under the Hood, faces more charges in his aborted plot to bomb a redcurrant near Fort Hood and then shoot the survivvors according to Fox News;

    Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo was indicted on one count of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. The other charges returned by the federal grand jury were attempted murder of officers or employees of the United States, two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a federal crime of violence, and two counts of possession of a destructive device in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.

    Abdo, who at his last court appearance, expressed his support for Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood mass murderer was a beneficiary of IVAW’s sympathy before he was found to have child porn on his government computer, absconded from Fort Campbell, KY with the help of his attorney, James Branum and Brnum’s connections with the anti-war Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen, TX while Abdo plotted the murder of more Fort Hood soldiers.

    According to the Fox News article, the WMD chrges carries a life in prison sentence. We can only hope. We can also hope that federal agencies follow the evidence to Under the Hood and James Branum – Abdo’s obvious accomplices in the plot.

  • Abdo accomplished what we couldn’t

    Naser Abdo, the Fort Hood bomber who was arrested several months ago, has accomplished what we couldn’t in regards to James Branum, the lawyer to IVAW and Under the Hood cafe – Branum seems to have left the military aspect of his practice;

    So people seeking conscientious objector status, or fighting for their “right” to go AWOL and get another job while they’re under contractual obligation to the military will have to find a lawyer that won’t seell their ass for jail time.

    Unfortunately for Oklahoma residents, he’s practicing bankruptcy law there. What a leech.

    I don’t know how we missed it before, but i found his LinkedIn profile and one entry on his resume is that he was the world’s fatest pedicab driver. I don’t know how he figures that will make him more attractive to prospective employers looking for a fat lawyer, but there it is;

    regardless, I guess we have something to thank Abdo for – ridding the military community of Branum’s portly visage. Thanks to one of my ninjas who gave me the tip.

  • Killeen residents worry that they’re a target

    After Nasser Abdo was arrested last week, some of the residents of Killeen, Texas are worried that they’ve become a target in the war against terror according to a Houston Chronicle article;

    The city’s mayor, however, dismissed that idea, and said he didn’t know why Abdo came here.

    “It could happen anywhere,” Timothy Hancock said. “It just happened to be here.”

    It didn’t “happen” to be Killeen, Mister Mayor. Abdo came to Killeen because his lawyer, James M. Branum sent him there to take advantage of the hospitality of IVAW and the Under the Hood Cafe. Branum has been leaching off of the town and it’s residents for at least three years. Killeen and Fort Hood are Branum’s main focus of his anti-war operations against the Army and as long as the State of Texas allows him to practice law there, you’re always going to have a hotbed den of radical activists there who attract the Nasser Abdos of the world.

    As long as Killeen’s law enforcement community and leaders deny that they know why Abdo just happened to show up there, it will continue. Unless you tar and feather Branum and run him out of town on a rail, and then shutter that Under the Hood shit hole. As long as Killeen tolerates those asswipes, they won’t be safe.

  • More Abdo and IVAW

    My ninjas tell me that ex-IVAW members are flocking to the FBI with information on Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen – the folks I suspect of hiding the AWOL child pornographer Naser Abdo, the latest Islamic terrorist in the Killeen/Ft Hood, TX area. What would former IVAW members have to tell the FBI? I have no idea, but I’ve given them my permission to give the FBI my contact information if the agents ask. By the way, my contact information is in my Facebook profile, if you’re friends with me.

    So here’s some additional reasons that I continue to think that Abdo was being sequestered from law enforcement by Under the Hood. I found this article in the Army Times which quotes James Branum, Abdo’s lawyer and a regular at the Under the Hood cafe;

    “I know that he’s safe, but other than that, that’s all I’m at liberty to share with people,” said Abdo’s attorney, James Branum.

    Branum said Abdo didn’t want him to make public statements in this situation.

    “If and when Abdo goes back, I’ll still be on his side helping him,” Branum said.

    So Branum knew where Abdo was, and surprise, it’s in Branum’s area of operations in Killeen. For those of you who don’t know who Branum is, he’s been using IVAW’s Under the Hood Cafe to recruit clients and to leech off of them. Under the Hood Cafe and James Branum are synonymous. We have a whole category of Branum posts.

    It’s not the first time that IVAW has been involved with sequestering criminals. They kept Matthis from law enforcement at the DC IVAW House on Princeton Place, when Matthis refused to deploy to Iraq in 2008. Here’s the post in which TSO quoted Adam Kokesh when he threatened police who might come looking for Matthis;

    Should any military or law enforcement personnel come here, to MY house, they will not be welcome, nor will they find removing him from the premises to be physically tenable.

    So, it’s not new that IVAW hides fugitives from the police. And as we’ve reported in the past countless IVAW members were friends with him on Facebook, so they knew of the child porn charges and that he was AWOL. Here’s his last FB entry (thanks to Stable Hand at The Jawa Report who sent the screenshot when I asked for it yesterday)

    A little over a week later, Abdo was AWOL and a few weeks after that, Abdo was arrested in Killeen for building bombs. It took Branum minutes after his arrest to wash his hands of Abdo;

    If this isn’t proof that Branum needs to be stripped of his law license, nothing is. He helped Abdo abscond from Fort Campbell, steered Abdo towards Killeen and Under the Hood Cafe and got him monetary support which enabled Abdo to buy the stuff he needed to formulate his attack on a civilian target and US soldiers.

    From a soldier who knew Abdo in basic training;

    It couldn’t have been a surprise to anyone who knew Abdo that he had the potential for this. That’s what puts the IVAW in the forefront of this investigation.

  • Branum narrows his market

    I know we haven’t mentioned James Branum for a while. It seemed like he was actually working for his clients since last year, so I left him pretty much alone. However, it seems that working for his clients was difficult because he’s begun turning away work. Not all of his clients fit the bill to be sacrificial lambs for the anti-war movement, so he’s narrowed his focus, apparently;

    He only wants new cases that could result in a trial so he can blather on the public record about how the Army doesn’t take care of soldiers and make his case for the abolition of the standing military and scare away potential recruits. He needs a stage.

    Doing his job turned out to be too hard, I guess the half-assed way he was doing it was a lot easier;

    I regret having to do this, but after close to 5 years of incessant travel and stress, I’m feeling the need to make changes that will enable me to keep doing this work over the long haul. — If you are looking for legal counsel on a case I can’t take, please contact the Military Law Task Force (email: nlg.mltf@gmail.com, phone: (619)463-2369, web: www.nlgmltf.org) for assistance.

    Poor guy had to move out of his grandparents’ basement and sponge off his clients for a place to live in Killeen, TX. I wonder if he ever paid back some of his clients after borrowing money from them? I know one guy he borrowed money from, got kicked out of his apartment because he couldn’t pay the rent that month. Nice.

  • Hasan’s lawyer to ask Ft Hood CG for life instead of death

    Yeah, this takes guts; Nidal Hasan’s lawyer (I’m assuming that they’re talking about John Galligan, but they don’t name him in the article) is preparing to ask the new commanding general of fort Hood to drop the death penalty in his client’s case;

    Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 shootings. If the death penalty is taken off the table, he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole if convicted, AP reported.

    I wonder if it’s too late to ask Hasan to not kill and wound his victims as a condition for not killing him as punishment. The only possible reason I would see the CG accepting the request is to avoid a show trial. I’m firmly opposed to the death penalty, but if there was ever a criminal who needed to be put to death, it’s this scum bag. In fact, I think a public beheading is in order.

    Galligan, by the way, defended Leo Church. Church was so upset with Galligan after Church was imprisoned for being AWOL, Church hired James Branum. How screwed up do you have to be to drive your clients to Branum?

  • James Branum – the lawyer of choice for Under the Hood

    One of my ninjas dug up some James Branum information that I thought is “news you can use” for potential Conscientious Objectors out there.

    Would you hire a lawyer with these ratings from former clients?

    Well, Under the Hood Cafe outside the gates of Fort Hood in Killeen, TX think that being disorganized and not servicing clients is a good thing, because he’s cheap;

    James provides legal services on a sliding scale. While most lawyers in military law charge high rates, he believes that everyone should have a right to good legal counsel. Although James receives some financial support from Courage to Resist, the Oklahoma Center for Conscience, peace churches, and other fundraising, his philosophy makes James the poorest, most hard-working attorney you are likely to ever meet.

    In other words, you get what you pay for. Of course, no one in the UtH really cares that you get tossed in jail, just so long as you give them a bloody shirt to wave.

    I don’t know what his conviction rate is now because Branum has a smaller internet presence than he used to when I first started tracking him, but I do know that he used to get 100% of his clients the max time in jail. Then he’d put videos of them nearly in tears on YouTube.

    Because of limited resources available to help soldiers, James explains that there is often more work than he can do.

    Well, I’m ready to help Branum do a better job for his clients. here’s a hint for his prospective clients; find someone else. John Galligan isn’t doing much for Nidal Hasan these days, so he probably has some free time to take care of your problems.