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    Paul Dorr Statement Following Sentencing

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    1) Paul Dorr, founder of Rescue The Perishing, was recently on trial for burning four library books in Orange City, Iowa last October. 2) Dorr believes the judge, Lisa Mazurek, unfairly limited what evidence and arguments he could present in his defense. 3) Dorr chose to remain silent during the trial because with the judge's limitations, he felt the outcome was predetermined.

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    1) Paul Dorr, founder of Rescue The Perishing, was recently on trial for burning four library books in Orange City, Iowa last October. 2) Dorr believes the judge, Lisa Mazurek, unfairly limited what evidence and arguments he could present in his defense. 3) Dorr chose to remain silent during the trial because with the judge's limitations, he felt the outcome was predetermined.

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    1) Paul Dorr, founder of Rescue The Perishing, was recently on trial for burning four library books in Orange City, Iowa last October. 2) Dorr believes the judge, Lisa Mazurek, unfairly limited what evidence and arguments he could present in his defense. 3) Dorr chose to remain silent during the trial because with the judge's limitations, he felt the outcome was predetermined.

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    1) Paul Dorr, founder of Rescue The Perishing, was recently on trial for burning four library books in Orange City, Iowa last October. 2) Dorr believes the judge, Lisa Mazurek, unfairly limited what evidence and arguments he could present in his defense. 3) Dorr chose to remain silent during the trial because with the judge's limitations, he felt the outcome was predetermined.

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    Rescue The Perishing

    P.O. Box 115


    Ocheyedan, IA 51354
    “Deliver those who are drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter” Pr. 24:11

    PRESS STATEMENT
    IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Contact: Paul R. Dorr
    August 6, 2019

    Ocheyedan, IA  Over the past several weeks I’ve been limited by Honorable Magistrate Lisa Mazurek,
    of Cherokee, IA in what I can offer to a Jury in defense of my actions last October. This was one of the
    reasons I requested she recuse herself and for a change of venue. She denied both. This is also why I
    asked her to waive my right of a Jury trial and face a bench trial today.

    With her limitations on my defense I knew today that the outcome was a foregone conclusion, so I chose
    to remain silent. My Savior modeled this for me a redeemed sinner, in Matthew 26:62-63, 27:12-14. In a
    recent Court Order Mazurek stated that she will "... not allow discussion of the nature or cause of the
    Defendant’s [sic. Dorr’s] protest” to the seated jury.

    If I can’t tell the content, that is the nature of this book (left) and the three others,
    then how can any Jury learn the real cause of my actions? My cause was further
    represented in my full video. Prior to the trial County Attorney Kunstle told me that
    he only intended on entering the “relevant” part of the video, not all of it.

    Would she even allow the Jury to know that a third party paid the library replacement
    costs of $76.89 in full? Or far worse, that the Orange City library has received
    $3,737 in cash donations and 952 replacement books as a result of the publicity
    my actions created. This is as of yesterday according to the Asst. Library Director.

    In Magistrate Mazurek’s previous ruling (quoted by media across Iowa and the
    nation), she failed to mention and preserve, in any way, my presumption of inno-
    cence but instead stated (well before any jury verdict) that, “Mr. Dorr...is being sent the message that
    he cannot burn books that do not belong to him.” A second-hand report came to me about an attorney
    that I don’t know who heard the media and said - it’s done for Dorr.

    Magistrate Mazurek also declared on April 25, 2019 that she alone will judge the law in this matter and
    that the Jury will only judge the facts as applied to the law she provides them. This stands in contrast to
    400 years of Common-law jurisprudence in England & North America which has routinely acknowledged
    that the Jury is the final check of both the facts and the law. “The pages of history shine with instances of
    the jury’s exercise of its prerogative to disregard…instructions of the judge.” U.S. vs. Dougherty, 473 F2d
    113, 136-137. Learning of their power, the Jury might have agreed the books are so offensive that the
    Criminal Mischief law doesn’t apply in my case and also condemn Iowa Law (§728.7) which exempts
    libraries from the criminal obscenity statutes which apply to others showing obscene material to children.

    My intent was never criminal. My motive was to honor the Triune God in whom my faith resides and to
    protect the children of Orange City from being seduced into a life of sin and misery. I did it in such a way
    so as to exercise my freedom of speech and the freedom of my Biblical faith. I did it knowing that the
    U.S. flag which was burnt in Dallas, TX, in the late 1980s and it was later ruled by the U.S. Supreme
    Court to be Free Speech, was a stolen flag. I, at least, had lawful possession of the library books. And I
    believed, from the beginning, it to be an act of contrition for the sins of my generation to those of the
    younger ones, including our 27 grandchildren. Through our selfishness, fear and silence the older
    generations (especially on church councils) let it get this perverse. Oh may God forgive us!

    My acts were justified. I share convictions with William of Nassau of the House of Orange, whom Orange
    City is named after, as found in the last stanza of the national anthem of the Netherlands, “But unto God,
    the greatest of majesties I owe obedience first and last. For justice wills it so.” -30-

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    Ph. 712-758-3660 Fx 712-758-3475 Email [email protected] www.RescueThePerishing

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