Ministry goal: End tens of thousands of illegal criminal arrests in Tennessee

Oral arguments, filings in court, repeated demands for relief mark my Christian combat to put public officials back under limits of black-letter law

A damaged taillight, right, is covered over with red tape. I fixed it after being arrested for a bit of red plastic missing from the red part. The arrest criminalized a technical glitch best dealt with under UAPA, the uniform administrative procedures act, I insisted in getting two criminal charges dismissed in general sessions court. (Photo David Tulis)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 — Yearning to love the Lord Jesus and expand his kingdom, I’m suing officials to stop them from injuring and abusing the weak and the poor by use of police power, arresting the innocent without a warrant and in violation of the people’s constitutional rights. 

I filed suit Nov. 19 in U.S. district court in Chattanooga against Sheriff Austin Garrett, Deputy Brandon Bennett and Hamilton County, demanding an end to arrest on sight general warrants, or “Redcoat warrants.” ‡ My suit arises from my arrest over a functioning but damaged taillight.

Short Take ————————-

— Police crimes face roadblock in 4 court cases

— Toll on weak, poor require Christian intervention

— Latest case, Tulis v. Bennett, targets rejection of arrest warrant rule

It demands a master to oversee parties coming into compliance with the law. I sue Mr. Bennett in personal capacity to show that the county puts the property and estates of all deputies in personal legal jeopardy by rejecting arrest warrant protections. Warrant strictures protect the innocent member of the general public — and the officer or deputy. Government holds the people in contempt, and the law itself.

An aggravating circumstance is that I put Hamilton County on notice about two sets of police power abuses in 2018 and 2020. Because it rejects clear well-known law and notice, Bennett’s Nov. 22, 2023, arrest of this journalisttraveling down the road was done maliciously with intent to oppress.

If injunction issues, arrest rates could plunge 60 percent.

Protests, politicking, letter-writing, elections and press coverage don’t stop abuse of the public trust by cops. A fair reading of the law will prevent the federal judge from dodging my demand for relief. Sheriff department violence and anarchy, by God’s undeserved grace, may come to an end.

Suit hits ‘Redcoat’ warrants in bid to save deputies from being personally liable for false arrests

➤ On Nov. 1 I file a third suit against the extravagant Eye of Sauron fraud run by state officials in service of the for-profit insurance cartel. Get this: The case is styled State of Tennessee ex re David Jonathan Tulis vs. David Gerregano, commissioner revenue, and Jeff Long, commissioner of safety. I represent the state itself. I file in state’s new anticorruption court, blandly called “the three-judge panel.” These two cases intend to halt 40,800 criminal convictions on average a year illegally under the color of the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1988.

‘Certification’ of insurance policies front & center

➤ On Friday I engage in oral argument in the last phase my 16-month lawsuit in the department of revenue to restore the tag on my 2000 Honda Odyssey minivan, with its amazing 300,000 miles of great service. Administrative judge Brad Buchanan has 60 days to rule on Eye of Sauron. I demand he decertify EIVS, which has authority to surveil only certified motor vehicle liability policies. That’s within his authority, and would end a facially unconstitutional program.

➤ On the same topic of the financial responsibility law, I filed on Oct. 15 a third lawsuit in U.S. district court in Nashville against Gerregano and the revenue department, demanding damages and an injunction against Eye of Sauron. Since no one can sue the state for damages, I’m suing “Guano” personally for damages because his program arises entirely from acts done capriciously in his individual capacity. Sparring began Thursday with Guano’s motion to delay because of pending litigation in agency. The agency case is over my 2000 Honda Odyssen minivan; the U.S. case is premised on threats upon my use of my RAV4.

➤ On Friday I put into certified U.S. mail summons and complaint against five parties involved in usury and racketeering. The case Tulis v. Flexibility Capital involves five financial pirates. I ask that three of them be banned two years from doing any business in Tennessee, and banned permanently from using fraudulent loan contracts. These so-called “MCAs” are dressed up as legal “advance purchases of future receivables,” but at up to 600% annual interest are illegal usury and a fraud. 

Please help me

I am an investigative journalist suing on behalf of listeners of my powerful Eagle Radio Network FM stations in Chattanooga and the public in general. Radio is a nonpaying public mercy ministry, just like my court cases.

Because I am feared by corporate and state interests, I am rejected at every turn for employment. Three times by Lowes. By Staples. Wal-Mart. A bakery needing an overnight donut delivery driver said no. Law firms shy away. Got this email Thursday: “We met yesterday and have decided to fill the position with a licensed attorney instead of a paralegal.” Really, I'd much rather work than be employed.

It is God's grace and a kind of miracle that I can survive without paying work. 

I'm not complaining. I'm rich in friendships among the Gnomes for their counsel in our legal combats. Ed Soloe of Alcoa is the feral handyman and mechanic. This weekend he is going to make a car repair for $300 when my favorite garage would charge $585. Rich indeed. Our Soddy-Daisy neighbors, the homeschooling Gordon family that lives in my late mother's house, pays us a rent. A sweet Patriot woman in Jamestown shares an inheritance with me at the sweet rate of $250 a month. These streams suffice for necessities. I account myself rich also in being married to the sweetest and best-read woman in the world, my wife, Jeannette, who runs the private Green Door private lending library for homeschool families out of our house on a hill in Soddy-Daisy, in a forest, at the end of a road, amid forestland

I beg your financial support and prayer in these cases. Not just in God’s Holy Spirit, but in the same spirit by which President Trump wants to defang the wicked welfare-warfare-surveillance state in Washington. The same barking dogs grifting against the people in D.C. live here. They are the sheriff and Gov. Bill Lee’s wicked commissioners.

With your help, as your agent and emissary, I serve God to put down snarling carnivores in Tennessee, a possible model for people fighting in other states. To avoid a GiveSendGo fee, you can send a check.

David Tulis, 10520 Brickhill Lane, Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379

IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Case in new anti-corruption court rips tax, safety fraud

General warrants prohibited

‡ Tenn. Const. Art. 1, sect 7. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and that general warrants, whereby an officer may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence of the fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offences are not particularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be granted. [emphasis added]