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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:23:57 GMT, "Irony Alert"
<Driver@StealthTrucks.COM> wrote:
>Who is SOLLOG? Well, here's a good story that tells us exactly what kind of
>prognosticator he is. As many times as he has been in trouble with the law,
>you have to ask, why didn't he forsee this? If he is God, then why was he
>unable to cast a miracle to simply make the situation go away? Here are
>questions to ponder while reading of his silly, self imposed, misadventures.
>
>I salute you, SOLLOG, your comedy has kept us entertained for years.
>
>http://www.citypaper.net/articles/050996/article016.shtml
>
>********** BEGIN COPY **********
>Heavenly Justice
>SOLLOG might have had a case if he hadn't played God.
>
>By Howard Altman
>
>
>
>A lot of wacky business takes place in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice
>Center.
>
>There are murder trials and rape trials. There are burglary trials and car
>theft trials.
>
>There are all manner of miscreants and human flotsam squeezing through the
>intestinal tract that is our legal system.
>
>But there is only one God.
>
>He was on trial and representing himself in Court Room 907.
>
>Which, for four days in May, was pretty much a three-ring circus of
>religious mumbo-jumbo, tangled conspiracy theories involving the president,
>the governor and the mayor, and a flabbergasted judge who regularly
>sustained objections the prosecution never made.
>
>No wonder Court Room 907 was the place to be.
>
>"I had to see this," said noted defense attorney Peter Bowers, one of a
>flotilla of lawyers who took time out of their busy days to pop in on what
>quickly became known as the "God Trial."
>
>The story begins in the wee hours of Feb. 5, 1988.
>
>A man named John Patrick Ennis, who now calls himself SOLLOG - Son of Light,
>Light of God - and who believes himself to be a deity, was driving his
>rented Honda on Roosevelt Boulevard when one of two things took place.
>
>According to the prosecution, a drunken Ennis bumped into a motorist twice
>before fleeing northbound on the boulevard. The motorist followed, then
>flagged down a police car driven by officer Sam D'Urso. D'Urso, according to
>the Commonwealth, then chased Ennis, who was moving at an ungodly speed of
>nearly 100 mph.
>
>Bottled up at the intersection of Southampton and the Boulevard, Ennis
>stopped his car. D'Urso approached Ennis, who started the car again, hitting
>D'Urso with the open door.
>
>D'Urso reached into the car to try and grab the keys and Ennis backed the
>car down an embankment, dragging D'Urso as much as 30 feet and injuring him
>to the point that he was finished as a police officer.
>
>The cops chased Ennis to the back of the Neshaminy Mall, where he was
>arrested on two counts of aggravated assault (including one charge of
>intentionally causing serious bodily injury to a police officer), one count
>of recklessly endangering another person and one count of driving under the
>influence.
>
>The defense, however, offered another point of view.
>
>A point of view found in a lawsuit filed three days after the incident by
>D'Urso, who, according to the defense, won a $100,000 settlement from the
>rental company.
>
>D'Urso claimed that he was traveling southbound on the boulevard, not
>northbound. And that his injury resulted from being hit from behind by
>Ennis, not from being dragged into a ditch after chasing Ennis.
>
>The facts, however, did not make all that much difference in this case.
>
>Even his former Defense Attorney A. Charles Peruto, Jr. - who was paid
>$5,000 by SOLLOG, then fired and threatened with a lawsuit for being "part
>of the conspiracy" - said that SOLLOG would have won had he stuck to the
>issues because the prosecution's case was "manure."
>
>But God was on trial.
>
>And after four days of listening to Ennis rant on about conspiracies, holy
>prognostications and his pending lawsuits against almost everyone associated
>with the case, the jury was in no mood to quibble over D'Urso's deviations.
>
>Guilty, your honor, said the foreman on each of the four counts against
>SOLLOG.
>
>Good riddance, God.
>
>When I got a call that SOLLOG was on the stand, I knew I had to go see him.
>
>He was, after all, the guy I reported to the FBI for making bomb threats
>against me. He was the guy who sent me dozens of faxes explaining the link
>between the Oklahoma City bombing and every natural disaster from hurricanes
>to earthquakes.
>
>I wasn't SOLLOG's only object of affection.
>
>Last September, the feds busted SOLLOG for making threats against the
>president.
>
>The Secret Service has no sense of humor about such things and dispatched
>agents to SOLLOG's Society Hill Towers apartment to arrest him. Though the
>charges were dropped, SOLLOG was held because law enforcement officials
>found two outstanding warrants for SOLLOG's arrest.
>
>One was from Maricopa County, Arizona, where in 1987, SOLLOG admitted to
>selling obscene materials. He was put on probation, but violated it with an
>aggravated assault later that year. When SOLLOG left Arizona, authorities
>issued a warrant for his arrest.
>
>The other outstanding warrant against SOLLOG was for the incident with
>D'Urso. For whatever reason, the court had forgotten about his failure to
>appear in that case. Until he was arrested for threatening Clinton.
>
>God was a bit chunkier than I expected.
>
>And much better dressed.
>
>He wore a green Hugo Boss suit. ("Boss, God, get it?" asked SOLLOG.)
>
>He wore a black and gold Gucci watch. ("Black and gold are my favorite
>colors," he said.)
>
>And a pair of "$1,500 alligator shoes."
>
>SOLLOG makes more money than God, he said over lunch at Pizzazz Pizza,
>because he is a computer software programmer.
>
>His first business, he said, was working for Arizona's largest porn
>purveyor, Peeps, a family-owned venture.
>
>Maybe he should have stuck to porn.
>
>Or become a lawyer, which is the next best thing.
>
>Even rubber-faced judge Anthony DeFino, one of the fairest jurists ever to
>sit on the bench, said that, despite his antics, SOLLOG would make a fine
>attorney if he just stuck to the issues.
>
>DeFino said SOLLOG should go to law school. And this after DeFino regularly
>turned red in the face and sustained objections that assistant district
>attorney Jodi Lobel never made when SOLLOG went off on his religious
>ravings.
>
>"He's a brilliant man," said DeFino, moments after calling a shrink from the
>bench to evaluate "a man we have here who claims to be God."
>
>"This is the most unusual case I have ever seen in my courtroom," said the
>judge.
>
>Lobel also said the case was unusual, in that she never went up against
>someone defending himself. Especially someone claiming to be God.
>
>In the end, however, God appeared to be merely mortal.
>
>Making one last request that exasperated DeFino, SOLLOG asked if the
>sheriffs could wait a half hour while his wife, Nicole, popped out to the
>store to get a pair of sneakers.
>
>"I have high arches, your honor, and the last time I was in jail, my shoes
>were killing me."
>
>As he was being led off in handcuffs, God had one last message for me.
>
>"The system doesn't work," God spaketh. "This is why it will be destroyed."
>
>Ah, such wisdom.
>
>SOLLOG, it's been good to know you.
>
>********** END COPY **********
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