{"id":1085,"date":"2016-02-20T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/02\/20\/pauls-legal-defense-fund\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:24","slug":"pauls-legal-defense-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Legal Defense Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8583,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/a-friend-needs-our-help.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260123074757\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2016\\\/02\\\/a-friend-needs-our-help.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 06:58:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 21:09:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 21:09:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9721,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gogetfunding.com\\\/fellow-advocate-needs-your-help&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240414165152\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gogetfunding.com\\\/fellow-advocate-needs-your-help\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 16:51:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 16:51:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9722,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/politicsandguns.com\\\/human-rights-advocate-paul-lathrop-needs-your-help&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200105215845\\\/http:\\\/\\\/politicsandguns.com:80\\\/human-rights-advocate-paul-lathrop-needs-your-help\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 16:52:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 16:52:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/a-friend-needs-our-help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted earlier in the week<\/a> regarding the need to raise funds for Paul Lathrop for his bail and legal defense. As I updated, he is now out of jail and home. However, as he told me after his meeting with his attorney yesterday in Omaha, he faces a year of uncertainty while the legal process goes on. His attorney is handling the case for a flat fee but it not a unsubstantial sum of money. This is especially true for good people of modest means like Paul and his wife Susan.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1592.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1592.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul and Susan with me at the SHOT Show.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>What makes this so frustrating is that Paul and Susan are having their life turned upside down over an untrue and unsubstantiated accusation by a disgruntled hot-head who was the aggressor in this whole matter. Aggravating it even more is that Sarpy County, Nebraska has a poor reputation on gun rights from what I&#8217;ve been told.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is forbidden by his attorney from going public with the nitty-gritty of what happened but I know Paul. I first met him at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando in 2012 and then joined The Polite Society Podcast team over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing the PayPal link is a GoGetFunding page. This was the mechanism suggested by gun rights attorney Evan Nappen. The link is below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gogetfunding.com\/fellow-advocate-needs-your-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/gogetfunding.com\/fellow-advocate-needs-your-help\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\nYou can read more about this case and the appeal on <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsandguns.com\/human-rights-advocate-paul-lathrop-needs-your-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our Polite Society Podcast page<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\nPlease be as generous as you can be. The minimum is $1. Every little bit helps. Please don&#8217;t feel they don&#8217;t appreciate a small donation. They do. The broader the level of support, the better.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> As of this morning, 126 people have donated $4,811. This puts the effort at 32% to the total needed. This is a good start and I appreciate everyone who has contributed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted earlier in the week regarding the need to raise funds for Paul Lathrop for his bail and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1585],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul-lathrop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10626,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}