The major "marketers" of sports collectibles have built themselves an illegal securities market complete with unconstitutional "policies" which "secure" their market from all unwanted competition and art forms. These are not art forms banned by law, but by a purely arbitrary "ebay policy." In fact, these art forms are actively promoted by our federal government. This illegal securities market involves billions of dollars and comes complete with criminal policy enforcers, industry news forums and a team of "get tough" ebay police. Ebay and Big Sports are providing forums for illegal civil rights violations against artists, ebay members and collectible dealers who deal in any way with this Public Domain art. Ebay is setting up a <I>de facto</I> securities market for the elite corporations using these illegal methods and empowering these criminals. They are the elite and they are working for the elite. I have an enormous amount of evidence to prove it.<P>

Ever since 1922, when the Supreme Court exempted baseball from United States antitrust laws, major corporate players in the game presumed an elitist status, but not for Public Domain art which predates 1922. Before ebay, the Public Domain artists and photographers enjoyed a thriving business creating works in very high demand through extremely sophisticated antiquing processes which require years to develop. After ebay, these same artists are viciously attacked as "con-artists" and driven out of business. Now their works are part of an incredibly robust "investment" market. But the law protecting Public Domain work has never changed. My premium real-photo cards depicting antique baseball and other Public Domain imagery are not only "not allowed" under any ebay category, ebay will shut down my ebay sales operation, launch a libelous campaign against myself and my products, attack my websites and these attacks are fully documented, on-going and easy to prove. Grading companies will not grade my products because I am not a major industry corporation like Topps or Beckett who do the exact same thing. Of course, I do not violate existing restrictions in modern baseball imagery or copyrights, but they do not care.<P>My work is not "authentic" to this mob, but the exact same images from Topps are. Major publishers in this industry actively libel me as a "con-artist" because my work is actually a threat to the establishment. <B>But my work is perfectly legal and employs Public Domain art provided by the Library of Congress, a federal agency.</B> My art has precisely the same constitutional protections as Paul Revere's artwork in the 1700s, but through total corporate mind control, entire generations of collectors are now completely ignorant of our Constitution and our laws. They stand to lose millions of dollars by this sports industry fraud, but prefer to blame me instead of the industry. They believe that ebay tyranny trumps our Constitution.<P>

I am actively seeking a law firm to redress these civil rights violations and to alert federal authorities to the unconstitutional restrictions placed on our free market by these conspirators. Artists, like myself, are very well aware of our nation's copyright laws and the civil rights of ebay members. In fact, we are by far one of the strongest voices advocating copyright protections. We actively support all <I>legal</I> copyright and trademark laws. The denigration of my work of nearly thirty years is being committed through threats, bank account seizures, Internet attacks, mass harassment, libel and illegal conspiracies by ebay members and collectors. It is only a matter of time before an entire industry dedicated to the public interest is repressed out of business through personal violence and real force. This is precisely what the corporate elite and brainwashed collectors want! This is a result of corporate mind control over children. Even as these children grow into adults, they are still duped by the idea that our Constitution protects corporations more than the individual.<P>They are outraged by our Constitution's protections for Public Domain artist and have advanced numerous fraud schemes which employ extortion methods against our products, businesses and our constitutional rights. This illegal mob is fully ignorant of the Constitution and the federal felonies known as conspiracies against rights, RICO and First Amendment rights discrimination. These crimes are not only active on ebay and other major sports collectible sites, it is empowered by these sites through forums, threats and illegal banking methods using Paypal to defraud our bank accounts. This is a true organized crime effort advancing the lie that these icons of Americana cannot be legally made, sold or distributed unless done so by the corporate elite. Are they hiding a multi-billion dollar "investment" scheme?<P>

They will say that specific dealers or "con-artists" "made" "fakes" and will ignore the fact that this art form is a major industry done by hundreds of artists fully legally. Imagine the impact to our culture if Shakespeare's plays were monopolized by only one or two theaters or the inspirational works of our nation's history were repressed and enjoyed only by an elite few. Public Domain art is advanced by our own federal government through institutions like the Library of Congress which supplies major icons of American Public Domain art to artists throughout the world. This is a public service! This service of the Library of Congress does not apply to art protected by copyright or trademark law. This art form is advanced by major sports card companies themselves who are "protected" by their industry status. <P><B>This "protection" is a mob protection and this fraud does not only affect artists, publishers and photographers, this fraud falsely encourages collectors to buy and sell on ebay based upon the notion that their collections are "protected" by law when in fact, they are only protected by a mob. Ebay's arbitrary policies do not protect anyone but ebay. Ebay's arrogance is falsely encouraging these collectors with the notion that they are "protected" from those artists, photographers and publishers who may wish to exercise their constitutional rights as public domain artists. This arrogance over the Constitution will not prevail in any court of law because limits on the duration of trademark and copyrights are an essential part of our Constitutional rights to advance public interests. Any judge that will contemplate making a precedent against this basic constitutional right will open a Pandora's box of repression against all major libraries, museums, publishers and artists.</B><P>I will assure any law firm that I only work with Public Domain Imagery when any such imagery is possibly a violation of any copyright or trademark protection. This is an established standard of any dealer which is a right protected by our Constitution. This is a legitimate and large industry for which the Constitution must apply. <P><B>Because of this illegal repression of rights, I can easily earn $5,000/day on ebay alone, if ebay were to honor my constitutional rights. This is a real financial loss directly attributable to ebay and a few corporate elite.</B><P>This is a multi-million dollar industry which ebay is effectively destroying through illegal methods.<P>Our Constitutional rights are not understood by a vast number of ebay collectors, therefore, they believe that through a mob criminal approach, they can destroy an entire industry dedicated to providing authentic artwork to museums and collectors. This "authentic" art is by no means deceptive, since it has been an ongoing industry for over 100 years employed by most major publishing houses, museums, photographers and artists. The Constitution recognizes this power of the people very explicitly. The term which ebay frequently uses to destroy our marketplace is "authentic." They obviously do not know trade mark or copyright law which protects our products from this fraud. This fraud has empowered organized crime members to traffic in these products as actual money. This fraud personally defrauds me of approximately $5,000 per day, since ebay has a <I>de facto</I> monopoly over this industry and the perceptions which negatively affect this industry. <B>These perceptions are not based in law, but upon ebay "policy" which is entirely arbitrary.</B>

They therefore advance the false perception that very sophisticated artwork is a "fake" or a "reproduction" or is not "authentic" and must be labelled as such. This effectively destroys this free market making it free only for a few corporate elite who profit in the billions of dollars by this repression of rights. These industry terms are not legal terms recognized by our laws for a very good reason. The public has inherent rights. Our Constitution provides for a limited time of copyright protection because the Public Domain artist has an absolute right for absolute duplication of this work. Those works which are in the public domain do not require dealers to "authenticate" them. This includes a precise duplication, which makes many speculators in public domain art very angry. But to the public domain artist whose entire livelihood is based upon keeping this free market free, this precise duplication is valued at extremely high prices since this work requires many years to achieve. This level of art is not distinguished by "authentic" or "not authentic." This art is distinguished for what it is and is advanced as such. Major museums understand this. Those experts in copyright laws understand this. <P>It is responsibility of the buyer or the collecting industry to adjust to our Constitution. It is not the responsibility of the artist or dealer to do so. In this "buyer beware" marketplace, many or most dealers cannot "authenticate" old art from new art. This is a matter for which many collectors may want to address through some industry technology, but it is not an excuse to violate the basic rights of artists, dealers and collectors. <P>I seek a law firm which will advance our Constitutional rights to be Public Domain artists.<P><P>Illegal Mind Control begins in childhood. Corporate Mind Control is a major threat to our children and through vigilance, we will prevail. Learn the truth!