Wayne Bent’s Testimony Before the Court

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December 30, 2008

» By Wayne Bent aka Michael Travesser

[Wayne Bent was sentenced to 18 years in prison today, 8 years suspended. Mr. Bent was going to read the following statement at his sentencing hearing, but instead opted to give an oral summary regarding the issues surrounding his case because of time constraints. He was remanded into state custody at the end of the hearing. -ed]



I am a man of 67 years. I have never been in prison for anything until the events of this past year. I have never been accused of any crime except for speeding a few times when I was a young man. In my present events, I have experienced firsthand the natural dishonesty of man and his natural prejudice in ways that I have never experienced it before. I also realized how utterly afraid Americans are of people who are different. Besides fear, there is a latent hatred of those differing.

In May I was arrested and accused for sexual touching of underage girls. Also I was accused of contributing to the delinquency of these two minors. This event was four months after I had already been tried and convicted in the media by an inflammatory and libelous movie published internationally about us. Before my court trial, the media had been constantly assaulting me publicly for over a year. I voiced to my attorney and others that because of this media blitz I felt that a fair trial in New Mexico was impossible. I felt that the jury pool in New Mexico was utterly tainted by the complete distortions of my life and work.

But these crimes I am accused of are utterly foreign to the principles I have lived by throughout my entire life as a believer in God; and even in my natural unconverted human state, I am not inclined this way at all. But the media moves the mob, and that seems to dictate the kind of justice that is brought down in most high profile cases. This lynch mob came for me and it does not rest even to this day, but continues to howl in its impassioned frenzy.

After my arrest, when the police questioned me, the interrogator clearly lied to me, telling me that the girls had accused me of sexually molesting them. I didn’t believe him because I didn’t think the girls would lie, for the girls had been raised to always tell the truth. When I told the interrogator that I would like to speak with the girls about his accusations, he turned away in a huff and said, “I don’t believe you.” If he would have brought the girls he could have believed me, but he did not want to believe me. This was a monstrous heartbreak for me, and I wept sorely over the dishonesty of those reporting and prosecuting my alleged crimes, during my first three day session in jail. I spent many weeks after that trying to understand what was happening and how the lie was fostered and promoted by the media and others, even after the facts were clearly and comprehensively explained to them. When people hate, reason and truth do not seem able to take hold of them. Hatred and prejudice, especially religious prejudice, seem to be a law unto themselves, and any offense can be construed into a crime which has nothing to do with what actually happened.

My dad had always told me to tell the truth and that the law could be trusted, but while in my prison cell, all of my daddy’s counsel and instruction in regard to his view of the world seemed to be blown out the window and into the wind. I felt keenly the stark reality that men are basically dishonest, run by their passions and prejudices, especially their religious prejudices, and they would lie for their own self-interests. They even accuse others of crimes because of the public pressure forced upon them through the media and other offended souls. It was crushing to my spirit to be given such a strong view of this, and while in jail I could not eat or drink because of this gigantic disappointment in mankind, and my own humiliation from the public lie being fostered in regard to the church and myself in particular. Today, men are very evil in their heart continually, and the great majority of onlookers seem so certain that they know my motives and feelings, while those motives and feelings come only from themselves. They are certain that I am like they are, and so they believe that I certainly deserve damnation even if no crimes were committed, because they know that they would certainly deserve it if it were them. While in prison I considered the many martyrs in religious history, burned at the stake, imprisoned and tortured for their faith because their faith was not after the present order of things. Now I was actually beginning to experience these persecutions personally, and in America. And these Constitutional offenses were happening to an American, and for crimes that were not committed, indicating a dark force moving against us.

I was ordained a minister of the Seventh Day Adventist church and pastored for 21 years. Then I was ordained a minster in the Lord Our Righteousness church where I have ministered for 21 years. For 42 years my ministry has had a root in it: Touch the soul, always tell the truth, and follow the Voice of God instead of ignorant man. This was my bottom line message. These principles are very simple and straightforward, but almost no one seems able to seriously take them to heart, or give their lives over to them. Nevertheless, this is what I have patterned my life and ministry after for over forty years.

Ashleey, the young woman I am accused of criminally sexually touching, came to my house on August 2, 2006. She knocked on my door and when I invited her in and asked her what I could do for her, she asked if she could lie on my bed naked. Ever since our congregation came together twenty-one years ago, the mental imagery of nakedness has been to us a symbol of being open and innocent and nakedly honest, before God and man. The imagery of clothing has represented the hiding and guilt and fear of someone who won’t be nakedly honest. However, this representation had always been only mental imagery, rather than something that was carried out physically, until the year 2006 when Ashleey and her sister each asked, individually, to be physically naked on my bed with me present.

Ashleey was 16 years old when she asked me if she could lie on my bed naked, she seemed nervous at first, and I told her no one was requiring that of her. I certainly wasn’t. I had not suggested or even thought that she should do that. I assured her that she did not have to do anything like that. I tried to discourage her two or three times, assuring her that nothing like this was required of her, but she persisted, saying that God told her to and that she must. I understood the imagery of where she was coming from, and I also understood the powerful nature of the healing touch, especially when it would be given in such a vulnerable state, without the person being hurt or violated in any way.

I had known Ashleey and her sister since they were babies. They were not just church members to me, but my family. We had been very acquainted with each other for a long time and I felt free in my Spirit to go ahead and give her the healing that she was asking for. I showed her the bedroom, the only place in my house where it was comfortable and private enough to lie down like that, and I said to her that she could get undressed and I would come in when she was ready. I closed the door and let her undress. A few minutes later I went in and lay down next to her. I was fully dressed. I placed my hand on her sternum as is my custom. The sternum area is where the Spirit of God is most often felt physically, and placing my hand there was to draw her consciousness to the presence of God within her, causing her to connect with Him. This was the whole purpose of the event.

I then asked Ashleey what was on her heart. She began to pour out her fears and troubles, stating that she was fat, ugly, and pimply and she thought everyone else thought those things about her. I pulled away from her a bit and showed her that I was looking at her naked body and then I told her that I did not see anyone fat, ugly or pimply. I assured her that she was accepted just as she was, and I had no criticism for her. I felt desirous to help her be free from her self attacks, and also free of the imagining of attacks by others against her, and enter into God’s acceptance. After we had spoken for 10 or 20 minutes I felt it was time for her to go, so I kissed her softly, according to her testimony, and as is my custom. I often kiss church members and they often kiss me. We have become family during our 21 years together. Sometimes I am kissed by non-church members, as I was kissed by Dr. Stephen O’Leary when he came to testify in my defense in Taos. After I kissed Ashleey, I got up from the bed and left the room so that she could get dressed. After she was dressed she left my house. Ashleey visited me just that one time, about 2½ years ago.

There was never any sexual approach by me, no sexual touching or insinuation, no sexual feeling, or thought of it, no arousal in either of us and no intent for it. No, this event with Ashleey was purely a clinical contact for healing, much as would be the contact of a surgeon, and it was ALL about religion. It was ALL about her faith in God’s instructions to her. This is what both girls said to me, to CYFD and to the prosecutors.

Ashleey came just one time, and now I have been convicted of sexual touching when no sexual touching occurred, for I was there and Ashleey was there and we both know what happened and testified to what happened. No one else was there, and no one else could know. Both of the Sayer girls have clearly testified that I did not touch them sexually and that nothing sexual occurred. This is a stated fact from their testimony in court, the safe room interviews, and the interviews with the prosecutors and my own attorney. This fact will never change, no matter what people want to believe about me and my interaction with these ladies. No charge against me, and no conviction against me, and no sentence against me, will ever change the fact that I did not touch these girls sexually. Also, no argument from the State will ever negate the fact that this interaction between the girls and myself was all about religion and the faith of the girls. It was never about sex or contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Men’s perceptions are not the facts. The facts are what the witnesses have testified to, and those facts will never change.

These events were happily received by all, for I shared them with the church soon after. John and Elsa, the parents of Ashleey, were also supportive and at this time voiced their approval when asked their thinking in regard to what their girls had asked for. It was a year later that I began to hear negative rumors that others reported as having come from John and Elsa in regard to these events, after they had joined hearts with some who had separated from our church some years before, and it was not until the trial in December that they ever expressed a negative opinion in my presence in regard to their daughters’ requests even though I visited personally with them on a number of occasions. It was a year and a half after this event with Ashleey before I heard anything from the State of New Mexico. And it was over two years after this event that I heard that Ashleey had changed her testimony from being thankful to receive what she had asked for, to feeling negative about it. She seemed to have forgotten her strong appeals to me. In fact, it wasn’t until part way through the discovery process in preparation for the trial that I heard that Ashleey began expressing negativity about the experience and that she changed into a hostile witness in a public forum. I wondered at the time if she had been coached as to what she should now believe about me, since she was no longer a member of our congregation, and was now in close contact with various individuals who are very hateful toward me and have worked to see me brought to my end, and have a very keen interest in destroying our congregation of believers because of their jealousy and personal offense. The prosecutor seemed very much in league with these souls evidenced by the parroting of the false rumors and ancient negative attacks which have circulated for many years in regard to us.

In my education and life’s training, I never heard of a law where it was illegal to lie naked and be touched in a non-sexual way. I never saw a doctor arrested for allowing an underage girl to lie on an operating table or an examination table in front of him while unclothed. I have never heard of any massage therapist being arrested for what I was indicted and convicted for. It never occurred to me that this would be construed as an illegal act. A massage therapist spoke with me after the trial and said that massage therapists commonly touch what the State construed into the sexual parts of minors at my trial, but the State doesn’t go after massage therapists, accusing them of sexual touching because they touch the part of their unclothed clients that I touched. No, they have a State license to touch those parts. If one touches in the name of the State is he exonerated, but if one touches in the name of the Lord he is condemned? Mr. Chavez said that we should all be treated the same. I have not been treated the same as a massage therapist. I have never heard of any massage therapist or doctor being arrested and convicted for touching where I touched. A massage therapist collects her money and goes home. I face many years in prison for the same alleged actions, except I was far away from sexual parts and I touched far less of a body than does a massage therapist or a doctor.

I believe that I have not been condemned because of a broken law, but only because of a public perception against me, created by my trial and conviction in the media, and from the unjust charges of the District Attorney. The jury was prepared by the media prior to their deliberation to make their judgment. The imagery and mysterious hocus-pocus presented by the media in regard to me would inflame any jury, even if I hadn’t been charged with anything. Emotionally charged words such as, “Self-proclaimed messiah, naked virgins, cult leaders,” and referring to our home as a “compound” as the media asserts, is enough all by itself to send the population into a panic, and no one is provided any explanations or understanding in regard to anything during the trial. The prosecutor interjected even more mentally molesting images but I was not allowed to explain much. He lied the convictions into apparent reality and suggested things and beliefs that weren’t there, and then wouldn’t let me explain. The jury was left with a gigantic problem but no solutions except to convict me. It all was a gigantic hoax, perpetrated by those who should know better. I’m not going to pretend that the charges are true. I am not going to pretend that the conviction is just.

Some of the questions sent out to the judge from the jury indicated strongly that the jury was judging me as a person and not for breaking a particular law. One such question was, “How many wives does he have?” This was reported on a media Web site by one of the jurors who judged me as guilty. Was my trial over wives, messiahs or sons of God, rather than sexually touching minors? I would like to know. Anyone may check the court records to see my marital status.

The State presented its case to the jury stressing that this is not about religion. If that were true, why then did the State ask questions that were only about religion, such as am I the Son of God, or am I Messiah? Why would the State ask about the Seven Virgins or Messengers depicted in Revelation 16? Why then was a religion specialist brought in to discuss religion? Why were subtle questions brought in that had nothing to do with sexually touching someone, in order to set the mood of the jury? Why was I asked if I had fired ministers, paying them off with $15,000? Why was one of my witnesses asked if he had been disfellowshipped? What did any of these mysterious and subtle questions have to do with the case at hand? I felt that the prosecutors had an open line to the anti-Lorites. Offended ex-members were consulted and listened to, but no one asked me whether these things were the truth or lies except in front of the jury. Once these ideas are suggested to the jury, they never go away but stay within their consciousness to poison their judgment. Would I get accurate information about Catholics from anti-Catholics? I doubt that I would be able to trust the report of offended souls, but the prosecutors seemed very comfortable about fishing around in the swamp for things that had nothing to do with the issues at hand. Mr. Chavez stressed that it was not about our religion and religious practices, but the truth is this was ONLY about religion and the prosecutors introduced many issues that were religious issues only. The State’s two witnesses both said that it was about religion and not about sex. The State came against its own witnesses.

The media made much of my use of the name “Messiah.” The prosecutors also brought this up in the trial.

In our church, we believe that anyone, anywhere in the world, can be born again of the Spirit of God. This Spirit is the anointing and Messiah. This is what happened to me and this is what has happened to others in our congregation of believers. The first amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees that the citizens of America should have their religious faith protected.

We believe that Jesus was born of God from his mother Mary. God was his Father. We believe that we are reborn of God when we allow His nature and Spirit to come into us. We believe that when that happens, Christ is born again, in us. We then have a new Life, even God’s Life in us. This is what it means to receive Christ. Then we live by His inclinations, desires, motivations, and no longer by our human ones, and His divine nature becomes second nature to us. Christ came the first time in Jesus and now He comes the second time in His followers anywhere on earth. This is our faith and practice. We also believe that the natural world hates Messiah.

The Bible speaks of the meaning of that word Messiah:

1. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29.
2. Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God. 2 Cor. 1:21.
3. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38.
4. You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Hebrews 1:9.
5. Thus says the LORD to his anointed (Messiah), to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut. Isa. 45:1.

When I say that I am anointed, I say this in the context that all of God’s children are anointed by the Holy Spirit in some way and for some duty. The same word in the Scriptures used for the anointing of Jesus, is used for the anointing of the brethren of Jesus. I have never claimed to be God or that anyone should worship me. I have only professed to be one of the many sons of God. We have differing gifts but the same Spirit. Even King Cyrus, who was not of Israel, was clearly described by the prophet Isaiah as being God’s Messiah. The Hebrew word for “anointed,” which is used to describe King Cyrus, is the same Hebrew word used for Messiah. Jesus was called the Son of God. And it is written in the Bible: “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1.

People who do not know God in this way, cannot understand me. If they knew God they would then understand the issues that I now face. If a jury had been selected from my peers, instead of those naturally alien to me, they would clear me of any guilt, for they would understand my life and work. How could 12 American investors ever judge a Tibetan monk. Would not 12 Tibetan monks have to judge their own peers? It is truly impossible to gather up 12 people who spend most of their time in the natural world, to judge those who spend most of their time in the Spiritual world. How can mailmen or housewives judge the work of investment bankers? It is impossible. It is as though my trial was unintentionally rigged from the beginning by those naturally prejudiced against us.

True believers are not gods to be worshipped, but they do have God’s imparted nature and heart. They have the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 2:5. “When he (Jesus) shall come to be glorified IN his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day.” 2 Thess. 1:10.

Every soul on earth has a Light that lights them. My work has been to point out that Light and to draw attention to it. I have never intended to draw attention to myself except to point out that all of God’s children have what I have. Of myself, I am the same flesh as anyone. But I want men to be aware of the Light that lights them.

When the two young ladies came to me and asked to lie naked, and by their own testimony they came to me in the name of God, I was obliged to respect their request of me. I had to respect these two professors of faith. I could not stand as the judge of their faith and come against it, without being blasphemous. Jesus said that if anyone offends the little ones who come to him in faith that it would be better for him if he were not born. I cannot judge another person’s religion. This religious context of the girl’s request of me was clearly seen in the testimony of both of these young ladies. But the prosecutors came against their clear testimony, as well as mine, to construe that our faith was not faith, but only some act of sexual touch because I might have put my finger upon a little piece of fatty tissue. The State and the media tried to turn our religion into something disgusting and abominable, just as the people of Jerusalem tried to do with the early Christians. Rome fed these Christians to the lions.

Blasphemy is defined as “the offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things.” Sacrilege has been committed against the sacred events of healing that the Father in heaven orchestrated in our land. They have been deliberately construed into base and criminal activity. God’s movement upon the young ladies at the time, has been transformed into nothing but fantasy or mind control. My faith has been turned into a lie.

So what has all of this done for me? I feel that I have lost my will to live any longer in the world such as it is. Jesus felt the same way when they were coming for him. He said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.” Matthew. 26:38. I have a broken heart, and I cannot think of anything on this earth that will now repair it. There is no purpose to life if a boy, girl, man or woman cannot follow their conscience and live according to the best light that they have. If their faith can be changed into a crime by the State, then who will finally end up a non-criminal? If one cannot follow the voice to his own soul without being convicted of wrongdoing, then what is the use of life? Can one have a religion in America only if it is like the religion that is generally accepted by everyone else, as the situation in Muslim countries? Can we only be permitted a State approved religion as in China? Of what use is religion to the heart, if that is the case? Does the State have the right to pass laws in regard to the movement of the clouds? Neither does it have the right to pass laws in regard to the movement of the Spirit.

In our church there are not a lot of rules and customs. Our religion is based on the conscience of the soul responding to the anointing of God’s Spirit, the anointing of Christ. We believe in hearing God speak to us and giving us a true sense of what we should do. Our people can voice a new idea without being slapped down for it. When the girls told me that God required them to ask me if they could lie naked on my bed, I had to comply. I could not come against their relationship with God and infer that they were being stupid and that their faith was stupid. It is blasphemous for man to intrude upon the prerogatives of God. The Bible speaks of this day: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thess. 2:3-4. According to the New Testament, the temple of God is the soul and the conscience of the soul. When men claim to be able to judge another man’s conscience, calling it common, they sit in the temple of God, claiming to be God and claiming the prerogatives of God. This is blasphemous and this is antichrist.

People of faith should not be required to consult with all of the public opinion and finally be allowed to establish their faith when everyone agrees with it. That would be impossible to achieve. I also believe that the State should not be the arbiter of someone’s religion as the State has done in this case. No one had accused me of crimes except the State, its legal interpreters, and some in the media.

In every generation before our time, when God brought some new thing, the believers were often killed or banished. Jesus was murdered by the State. The Apostle Paul was murdered by the State and Peter was murdered similarly. All of the disciples of Jesus were murdered or banished. Time never changes things, except perhaps the names and faces. History repeats itself over and over again. As for us, I and the two young women did something that offended the State even though it was not illegal. The prosecutors, though, worked very diligently to make it appear illegal. Then we professed to be sent of God in our offensive actions. Ashleey has since recanted her faith in God, along with John and Elsa, but Healed and myself did not recant our faith. And as always, the people came against us with many forces, including the media. This has played itself out thousands of times in past ages. Over and over again, it is the same old story as has played itself out countless times and here we are, playing it out again.

The Bible clearly states that if one follows the Voice of God, he will face troubles, perplexities and persecution. Jesus plainly told those who would follow him, “Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he does God service.” John 16:2. There are many now who think they are doing God’s work by seeing to it that I am killed in some way. The world always comes against people of faith if that faith varies from the social norms or offends them in some way. There has never been an exception to this, but the American Constitution professed to make an exception. It guaranteed that the citizens of America could practice their religion without being called criminals. The First Amendment guaranteed that no laws would be contrived to come against the fair expression of one’s belief in God and the practice of that belief.

How is it that underage girls can kill their unborn babies through abortion, having their sexual parts touched by the abortionist, but two of my young people cannot simply follow an unobtrusive form of healing if that is what God puts on them? Why is it that underage girls can have an abortion because they are declared to have the free right over their own bodies, but these young women who came to me have no right over their own bodies when it only involves a harmless touch on their non-sexual skin and with no sexual implications?

Why can an orthodox Jew cut the skin on the penis of an underage child and then put that penis in his mouth to suck the blood off of it, yet he is not charged with sexual touching of minors because it is part of his religious practice? Why? I did not touch the sexual parts of anyone underage and yet I am charged with sex crimes. Why are the Catholics allowed to serve alcoholic beverages to minors at Mass, but they are not charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors, giving them the taste for alcohol at a very young age? I have caused no harm and I have not contributed to the delinquency of anyone, yet I am accused because I have touched some skin on an underage person one time, that was somewhere near a breast. Why is it that blacks, homosexuals, Catholics and Jews get equal rights under the Constitution, but our church is refused them? We are not allowed that privilege. Instead, our stated religious act was termed criminal behavior. Why does the State approve sex changes on minors, which is a grand and invasive violation of their natural body, but I cannot harmlessly touch some skin that is often exposed if that person were to wear a swimming suit?

Peyote, a bitter-tasting cactus that grows in southern Texas and northern Mexico, has been a part of Indian culture for thousands of years. But during the last century, peyote’s use in religious rites spread among American Indians throughout the United States, including the upper Midwest. Congress recognized this sacramental use of peyote by amending the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 to protect the practice in all 50 states. Now American Indians can use illegal drugs because it is a part of their religious practice. But the government is not charged with contributing to the delinquency of anyone for allowing this.

I am prepared to continue to stand in faith and take the fury of the mob like many thousands of souls before me. God is my Father, as He is of all who believe in Him. I trust Him with my outcome just as thousands of souls before me have done. The sons of God have been tortured and imprisoned for generations. They have been chased down and killed for millennia over lies, propaganda and false charges. Americans just did not expect it to happen in America, but they were wrong. They come for me now, but soon they will come for anyone who has any faith other than that approved by the State.

Again, I have been charged and convicted for sexual touching of minors. Sexual touching of minors did not happen. I and the girls clearly all stated that before the court. I was there, the girls were there, but the prosecutors, the media, and the hateful mob were not there. But there is something very incongruous and perplexing to me. Tell me, why was it that the jury voted not guilty in regard to Healed? This was the girl who testified that I touched her the most of anyone who was touched by me. Ashleey was touched least of anyone I have ever touched that way. Yet the jury found me guilty in regard to Ashleey. She lay naked on my bed by her request and insistence and I was, by her own testimony, fully dressed and with a sweater on. I hardly touched her at all and I spent very little time with her. Can someone tell me how I am considered guilty with one I barely connected with, and not guilty with one who sought my healing far more? I have been found innocent over a heart transplant, but guilty of the removal of a wart.

I am accused for allowing these two girls to practice their faith and religion. They were acting out their faith and religion. They were following their hearts in the name of God just as they said to the CYFD and the State prosecutors. This is what they both testified to. Neither girl stated that any pressure was put on her, or that she was coerced or influenced by me in any way. In fact, Ashleey testified that I tried to influence her not to. The prosecutors declared that our faith was nonsense and that sex crimes were committed. But there was no testimony from the witnesses themselves supporting any such contention. One may argue, “Yes, there was a crime, the jury said so.” But the jury was not there. The jury only followed the distorted recriminations suggested by the District Attorneys. The jury was also influenced by the perversions of the media before the trial even began, as evidenced by some of their questions, and later statements on the news blogs.

Here I am in Jerusalem, standing before Caiaphas the high priest, as did Jesus. I am in Rome, standing before Caesar, as did Paul. I am also in Rome as Peter standing before my accusers. Today, if the Apostle Peter lived in our State, he would have been indicted for murder. The prosecutor would have accused him of murdering Ananias and Saphira. He would have been accused for murder because they did not give him their money. Do you all remember that story when Peter told them that they were going to drop dead because they lied to him, and they did? It is said that Peter was the first Pope. What a legacy, to indict the first Pope for murder. All I did was touch two sternums a bit, but Peter killed two people. In a trial, no one would believe that God told Peter to do that any more than they now believe that God told me to touch sternums. Peter had a gigantic influence over his congregation. Such power, to be able to tell anyone that they will drop dead, and they do. New Mexico would regard Peter as a dangerous cult leader and murderer. I am certain of it.

On one of my days of especial sadness, I thought, Do not the prosecutors care about people and the effects of their actions on almost one hundred souls and maybe even thousands more who are relatives of these people? Don’t they care that their gigantic stretch of reality will effect the hearts and souls of people for the rest of their lives? The prosecutor informed me that this sentence could cost me the rest of my natural life in prison. Are they so flippant that they will spend a man’s life so easily for their own interests when it has been clearly stated by him and the State’s witnesses that what he is being charged with did not occur? I am charged and convicted on “must have’s.” The DA was not there. He only guessed. If the tables were turned, and he were the one being falsely convicted for something he didn’t do, would he want to receive the sentence that he is so strongly pressing for me to be given now? Is our society so hard, so uncaring, so eager to get ahead and make a name for itself, that it does not care how many bodies it has to step over? The media has done far worse in this regard than the prosecutors, but it was all a great sadness to me that is with me to this day.

Americans claim to be a free society. So what does a free society do in such a situation? How is such an injustice remedied? Or is it even possible to remedy it? Will this society also fail at protecting the Constitutional rights of its people? It is true, I think, that the mob will throw flowers at this conviction of me. Accolades will continue to fall on the ears of the prosecution. But with people who have a heart and conscience, it will forever be known that something very wrong was done by the State of New Mexico. They will always know in their own heart that the prosecutors were men without morals. We will watch as history records this moment in time and we will watch as the God of heaven looks with interest upon this very tribunal to show how He will judge those who dared to judge Him.

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Who Crossed the Line?
» By Hanifa Travesser | 10:31 AM | (1000) Comments

Office of the Governor State Capitol Building Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Governor Richardson: My name is Hanifa Travesser and I am a member of the Strong City community in Union County, New Mexico.

Wayne Bent aka Michael Travesser, one of our brothers, was recently tried, convicted and sentenced for a crime that he did not commit. The trial itself was a farce, with the prosecution using deceptive, manipulative techniques, leading questions, deliberately restricted evidence, and outright lying. The judge also was guilty of restricting much evidence and several key witnesses that would have given the jury a different picture and context altogether. Mr. Bent was never allowed to speak for himself, that is, give a full testimony regarding the charges against him, until after the verdict was reached. Condemn a man before he has been able to tell his side of things? Could this truly be happening in America, the land of “justice”? Watching the shameful proceedings, I felt that the entire trial was a disgrace to that title of “justice”. I don’t know how those responsible for this fallacious circus are able to sleep at night.

Now, Mr. Bent has been sentenced to ten years in prison, literally a death sentence for him, for a religious encounter that included touching the sternums of two young girls. While this action of Mr. Bent’s may be shocking to the general public’s perception of what constitutes a “proper” religious ritual, nevertheless, the crime of criminal sexual contact was NEVER committed. Judge Baca, who presided throughout the trial, said at the sentencing that Mr. Bent “crossed the line” and that an authority figure such as himself should have told the girls “no” when they came to him for healing. The only line Mr. Bent crossed was that of generally accepted religious behavior but he never committed a crime. The entire strength of the prosecution’s argument was that part of Mr. Bent’s hand “might have” touched some fatty tissue of the girls’ breast when he put his hand on their sternum. Ten years in prison for Mr. Bent for following God’s instructions to heal the hearts of these two girls when, on the day before, a teacher and coach (an authority figure) in Alamogordo was sentenced to only ten months of work release (only in prison at night) after pleading guilty to having repeated sexual intercourse with one of his minor students??

December 30, 2008

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - A former Alamogordo High School girls soccer and basketball coach has been sentenced to 10 months on work release after admitting to having sex with a 16-year-old girl who was one of his athletes last March.

State District Judge Waylon Counts sentenced James Javier Cruz on Monday. Cruz also has to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty in August to three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor.

He originally faced five counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and three of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

According to court records, Cruz would pick up the girl at the school before a class and take her to his mother’s apartment for sex. Afterward, he would return her to school.

Judge Baca also included in his sentencing statements that he was sending a message to religious leaders. What message was that, pray tell? That one must not obey God if it interferes with the comfort zone of those looking on? That if one follows the instructions of God, subsequently shocking public sensibilities, the consequences are an unfair trial and a long prison sentence? The precedent has been established by way of numerous confrontations throughout history between civil authorities and the Word of God to a soul. All the burning of believers at the stake, being thrown to the lions, public humiliation and defamation, etc., all done in the name of the “law”, has only been a lame attempt at ridding the system of those who hear God and do what He says no matter what. Mr. Bent’s innocent blood has been spilled as surely as if he was literally executed for following his religious convictions. The State of New Mexico is guilty of an injustice that reaches to heaven. But God says in the Scriptures, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay.” Rom. 12:19

Governor, I am writing to you to ask you to intervene on behalf of Mr. Bent. If anyone has the authority to release Mr. Bent, thereby repenting of the state’s crimes against him, you do. God will have His way no matter what you choose to do.

Sincerely,

Hanifa Travesser

I was banned on Wordpress again it seems.

I would reply here:
http://samredman.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/anger-unbecoming-a-messiah/

Well, Ive been following Michael Travesser around on the web since about 2001, and would read about everything he wrote. But I also read other things, and the arrest in 2008 stands not alone. This was also written about by Michael Travesser Himself, who would write an article about this when children where abducted there on the ground the Gathering of the people in New Mexico. I refer to the arrests of Tony Alamo, the FLDS children, the Texas YHWH group and these are only the cases that I know about, watching this from Europe, where I live.
I live in Holland, please to meet you.

These arrests based on lies all happened in 2008. Another thing that happened in 2008, was that the Pope visited the USA. Maybe you people do not know who the Pope is: That is a very very dangerous Cult Leader, his compound of bunkers and prostitutes is in Italy, and is called The Vatican. This Cult calls itself Christian, but is in fact Anti-Christian, as Martin Luther, Spurgeon, John Calvin, and most learned man in Europe have explained. Or tried to. The Roman Catholic Cult is based on forgeries, resulting in superstition, having the purpose of Propaganda. It is mainly political, or military, because propaganda is a military tool. Famous Roman Catholics where Adolph Hitler, the Duke of Alba, the House of Hapsburg, the House of Farnese. It is the military Anti-Christian system build by the Romans, in order to persecute Christians. Jesus Christ Himself was killed by these Romans.

The Pope however, a REAL dangerous cult leader and sectarian, was not rightfully arrested in April 2008. Contrary, many millions of Dollars where spend on his visit in the USA, thousands of military and bodygyuards to protect the AntiChrist where spend by the Americans, the most expensive hotels, whores in secret, maybe you know that Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Bendict 16th, is a homosexual. I hope his callboys where adults, but I doubt it. These are very well known facts in Europe, Tony Alamo had also published about it, as Tony Alamo was informed by that by the Europeans. Tony Alamo is now in Jail, and honest innocent man. Many children are abducted form Alamo Ministries, and you might understand, with what I have said about the historical habits the blasphemous Roman Sect, we are very very worried!

What can I say?
Over here in Europe most people are also sectarians into Popery. The Council of Trent was set up, after Martin Luther tried to explain how this dangerous sect was in power behind the screens, and in the Second World War the Americans had bombed the city of Dresden, in order to destroy the works of Martin Luther. This was succesful, as we all know.

The pope decides most wars, would let assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and as it would seem, many other American Presidents.

There is not much I can do.
Many pedophile priests where attacked with laywers last 10 years, but bought off. The Vatican has their Gold from the Conquisitadores, their agents in every Government like Blackcoats and Knighthoods, 50 Million is nothing to them. They hate the American Constitution, and have cursed it in the 1800's, that's what is behind these arrests. An attack on the American Constitution, the Roman Catholics have sabotage my Constitution also, the Dutch Constitution, in around 1800. We have now Roman Catholic Canon Law in Holland. The freedom of Religion, that was one of the things that was fought for in the Reformation in Europe, is now completely destroyed. It is getting destroyed in the USA, proven by these arrests. All people comply to it, you are an exception to the rule.

In Europe here it is worse. Maybe you know all Jews where killed, it is illegal to practise the Jewish Religion in Europe. Most Jews have fled to the USA or Israel, but are attacked by the propaganda, Roman Catholics hate the Jews. They call them Witches, because of the Sabbath. If you keep the Sabbath, you can get killed quickly by the people, over here in Europe every one helds Roman Catholic Sunday, and the truth is attacked by every one. Well, not me, but I am the only Dutchman I know, that is Protesting against this dangeroous Pedophile Cult of the AntiChrist, the killers, of Jesus Christ, the founders of Fascism, jus a start of a long list of historical facts. Dutch Churches have Ecumenical whore activities with the papes on Sun-day, and are fanatic in Roman Catholic Sunday Sectarianism. It's not compleet nonsense, this pagan Sun worship, it's from Babylon. One can see that from the Bisshops op the Popish sect, that wear the same clothes as the Priests of Dagon in Babylon. Heathens. That is why the Roman Catholic perverted pedophile supersticion burns all Bibles, destroys common sense. You will find no common sense in a Roman Catholic Temple, that they call church, a pagan word hiding the facts. I mean, Church buildings are Temples, but if you tell that to the papes, they are insulted. Insulted by the truth.

So the real pedophiles, among them many judges because of the targets of Counter Reformation, go free. This is very dangerous. As an example the Roman Catholic Boystown in the Franklin Cover-up. That Priest is still working as a children pimp, protected by police and laywers. The innocent are blamed. Wars are based on lies, because Iraq has no Weapons of Mass Destruction, but the people comply to the Propaganda. I understand very well that Michael will sacrifice his freedom, a life in prison, for the protection of these children. That's what any man would do.

A Messiah, that sets people free from propaganda, as Michael Travesser would tend to do, is a threat to Rome. People in this time hate the truth, love the lies, so are all into Popery. The Pope would also read the writings of Michael Travesser, and would quote most of Michael's writings, when he visited Germany. I mean, all the Roman Catholic Sect does, is brainwashing the population into believing that the AntiChrist, that is the Pope, no one would doubt that if they are honest, is a Christian.

This is what is happening.
Well, I don't know what to do.
I love the truth, so all people are afraid of me, and sent assassins after me here, because I do not co operate to the Popes Counter Reformed Printing Press, do not believe any judge or laywer, I do not buy the lies of these propaganda believing subjects that call themselves Police or Hermanad, and I am not afraid to die. There is not much one can do, because every one is so fanatic in supporting every lie possible, that if one tries to help their children against the WRATH OF THE LORD, one has to do such secretive. Any way, normal and honest men are currently accused of pedophilia, while the pedophile Roman Catholic Church is given millions for a Pope visit, so it's like fighting alone against thousands of well organized cowards.

Nice that you support freedom and honesty.
May you be blessed and all.

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Journal and AP Reports on Fast
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Cult Leader Could Be Force Fed

By Vic Vela Journal Staff Writer

Imprisoned cult leader Wayne Bent has consumed only water this week, leaving open the possibility that state Department of Corrections officials may seek intervention from a judge to forcibly feed him.

Bent - who is serving a 10-year sentence at a Los Lunas facility for having improper contact with children - promised last month that would fast after a state Court of Appeals decision did not go his way.

Central New Mexico Correctional Facility Deputy Warden Ken Sandlin said Bent has not eaten anything since last week and on Monday switched from drinking juice to water.

Sandlin said officials will “closely monitor” Bent and is not ruling out getting “the courts involved” to force Bent to consume nutrients. “If he loses too much weight, then they’ll proceed,” Sandlin said. “He’s a ward of the state and we’re responsible for him.”

Bent, 68, was moved from the prison’s geriatrics unit to a “long-term care” medical unit earlier this month after he made clear his plans to fast, Sandlin said.

Bent - the leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church and self-professed messiah - promised in a letter to followers last month that he would fast after the state Court of Appeals denied his request for a bond, which could have allowed him to be released as his appeal makes its way through the court system.

Bent is seeking to overturn a Taos jury’s decision in December, where he was found guilty of crimes against children.

“This is why my father is now on a religious fast, and will not end his fast until there is movement in the direction of justice, or he dies,” Bent’s son, Jeff, said Thursday. “He was wrongly convicted and wrongly incarcerated as a result of a modern-day witch-hunt, and he cannot continue to be a party to this travesty of justice.”

Wayne Bent wrote in his letter that it would be “disingenuous” of him to accept food from the state, whom he referred to as “criminals who put me here falsely.”

In the Aug. 18 letter, Bent laid out his plan for the fast. It began with Bent reducing meals to one a day at first, then drinking only juice the following week - though, Sandlin said in addition to juice, Bent was consuming fortified drinks that contained nutrients, such as protein and carbohydrates.

Beginning next week, Wayne Bent has promised to consume nothing, though he did say he would accept food from his followers if they are allowed to bring some to him.

That’s not an option, Sandlin said. “That’s not something we allow any inmate to do,” the deputy warden said.

Jeff Bent said the prison has clamped down on visitation since his father began his fast. “We’ve pretty much been blocked out of any type of communication from him,” Jeff Bent said.

Sandlin said that visitations are handled differently when an inmate is in long-term care and that the inmate first must request a visit and get it pre-approved.

Wayne Bent was convicted on one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts each of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for separate incidents that took place with two underage girls in the summer of 2006. The incidents took place at the church’s Strong City Compound in rural Union County.

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