The Forgotten PowerPoint Essay

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Thursday, 24 March 2005

I wrote the following PowerPoint presentation way back in September of 2002, right before the judge for my case was chosen. If you read the book Being Had, you know all about this, but if not I will try to make this clear.
The situation was that I was being held in Poland, the courts were holding my passport and I had been having the worst time with my state appointed lawyers. They seemed to be doing nothing about defending me, or worse were doing an excellent job of defending Tomas Zaremba, the cop who had tried to run me into a bus with his car. At the time, Zaremba had given three testimonies to the prosecutor, the last one with me in attendance and as of this moment two things were absolutely clear to me. I already knew that Zaremba was lying, but now I understood that both my lawyer and the prosecutor knew this as well and that neither thought this of any legal consequence.
So I took it upon myself to try and make my case, not the case my lawyer was trying to argue, but my case clear to whoever the judge might be. With the help of some friends I put together a 92-page report about the situation consisting of three essays and all the corresponding documents. The centerpiece was this PowerPoint collection of 30 slides that I am at the moment uploading. At the time, I knew that none of this was necessary because if the judge was not as obviously corrupt as the lawyers and the cops had turned out to be, he or she would already know that the case was a farce. Now, I doubted this actually but my thinking was that you couldn’t argue the existence of something that was in print and staring you in the face. Especially when what was staring you in the face was actual physical evidence that Zaremba was a liar. I mean, they just couldn’t ignore that…
So I turned in the report, and of course they found a legal reason that said they could ignore it. Well, I don’t know if they really ignored it or not. My lawyer, and again he was doing a bang up job for the cop, told me that they were ignoring it- gleefully actually, but never had the time to tell me what had to be done for them to un-ignore it. So like a lot of things, we just don’t really know.
But the report is kinda cool and it does make a pretty straightforward point, I think: Zaremba was a liar some 13 times or so right from the start, and specifically insofar as his two major points of accusation went: His teeth were not broken and the damage he claimed to have been done to his car was old. The proof is right here folks. Of course he would go on to lie many more times anyway before the deal was through including offering an estimate of damages made after yet another accident, 6 weeks after he tried to run me over.
And really, I was kind of proud of the detective work.
I have never published this before because I have never had the technology to get it on the web. But now I do. What was turned into the courts was a version that had been translated into Polish and was slightly different in a few of the slides. The wording was a little different too and I think that it was a bit shorter. But for the most part this is it.

A few final notes.
You can cross reference the text samples from Zaremba’s testimonies by going over to the Annotated Court Testimonies page if you want to read them in context.

And, if some of the slides are hard to read, just click on the frame to see it in full size.

And again, thanks for reading me.


And so here is
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