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Honorquest introduction, 2014/02/24
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Jun 5, 2025
Mike Dominguez and Ed Heimlich outline the purposes of their new organization, Honorquest, to hold public officials accountable to their oaths of office. Jon Roland explained the need to revive private criminal prosecution.
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um Mike Dominguez has left the room for
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a moment but he's been coming to tag
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meetings been getting involved um for
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some time now um working with Ed heck
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which I didn't realize which I'm really
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glad to hear um who's been working on
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things uh uh kind of working on oath of
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affiliation or excuse me um the oath of
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office and government impunity and how
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these people are immune from prosecution
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just because of the title that they have
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and it really is quite unacceptable to
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have people that are voted to represent
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us and then we can't hold them
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accountable um particularly when they
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commit crimes um and nobody should be
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above the law as we all know um
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particularly the people that we elect to
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represent us um so uh Mike Dominguez and
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Ed heck I'll let you guys take over and
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we'll pull up your website awesome thank
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you thank you thank you for having us
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we'll keep it pretty short since it's
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getting to the end of the night uh my
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name is Mike Dominguez and this is uh Ed
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H uh it's right me and um
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also John it's part of our group kind of
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a Brain Trust if you will uh we're here
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to launch honor Quest and honor Quest is
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all about the oath of office and in
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doing so I think uh a little anecdote
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for
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us well
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I I don't know if any of you have been
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to any of the Tribune events but they
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will interview our elected officials
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Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune the
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editor I went to one of their uh their
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events and had two long serving
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Senators uh each had been in serving us
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for well over 10 years and every
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legislative session begins with a
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swearing n ceremony where our uh elected
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officials take their oath of
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office and uh when it came to the
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question and anwers uh period I asked
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them to recite their
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oath and they both were were like just
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blank face they couldn't remember their
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oath and then uh the one there was one
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Democrat one Republican the one started
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to talk as if the oath was something
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lengthy and I interrupted and said it's
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very short it simply says that you will
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preserve protect and defend preserve
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protect and defend the Constitution and
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laws of the United States and of this
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state how could you forget
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that and so uh
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then also I came aware through uh
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lawsuit this idea that I was shocked
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when I first encountered it what they
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call sovereign immunity see the
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government's Above the Law the
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government cannot be sued even if the
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government admits it's wrong even if the
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government admits that it violated our
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constitutional protections or and
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various other
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laws uh and that your property was taken
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taken damaged destroyed your life torn
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Center uh the government can't be sued
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so why do we even bother to have laws
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Constitution um
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so this is
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becoming established now in our
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Judiciary and in
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our legislative laws which is really
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absurd because here our legislature is
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passing laws that are supposedly to
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protect us from government overreach and
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then at the same time saying that but
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you know these laws are just suggestions
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for those of you employed in the
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executive Judiciary if if you don't want
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to follow them you don't have
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to uh so uh that's the idea behind otter
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Quest is to remind them of their oath
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make the public more aware of their
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oath uh and um see that they actually
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honor their oath
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U Mike how are we going to go about this
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well there's a couple of ways just
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educational campaign making sure that
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everyone is aware that they do take oath
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of office and that uh you know whether
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you're jogging down the street and
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somebody police officer tackles you and
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then uh violate your constitutional
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rights to the Das that prosecute to the
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judges that also go through the whole
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system um they're pretty much immune um
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through sovereign immunity all the way
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to the state level and you can't even
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Sue and so I think that if more people
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realize kind of the oppression that is
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going on I think more of an Awakening
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would happen um I think we're getting
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close to that because it's no longer
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about national government coming into
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Texas it's rather state and local
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government overreaching its boundaries
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and
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and you know and the and the Federal
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level uh they can't go to jail um if a
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citizen did anything like wrongfully
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imprison somebody put them in their
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basement let's say uh the citizen would
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go to jail um if the if the state of
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Texas does that uh nothing happens not
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nobody has there's no oversight there
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are no consequences um from almost every
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issue imminent domain chloride
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everything that we talk about um so just
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kind of getting back to Grassroots
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effort
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um we think that that will definitely
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help
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um so uh for intellectual background on
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this in addition to going to honor
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quest.org you can go to John's website
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constitution.org and uh he has Law
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uh there going back to ancient
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times but uh yeah we're going to uh
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raise awareness of the oath of office
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among the public and all particularly of
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the among the officials those that we
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elect as our
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legislators uh aware raise awareness
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that this doctrine of sovereign immunity
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has been established that really
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properly is more would be better
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described as Government
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impunity uh and show how it is contrary
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to the oath of office and so every
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legislature should want to see this
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corrected and then we're going to Lobby
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to get the doctrine of a government
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impunity what they refer to as uh
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sovereign immunity uh removed from
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statutory and legislative uh and
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judicial
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protection any
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questions what are we doing though I
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mean I'm not real clear is this uh
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something that we're doing at uh
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Grassroots local level or is it all
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going to be lobing the state legislature
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or what's the plan of the time it's
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going to be both it's going to be both
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yeah we uh we we think this fits right
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in with t with the Texans for
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accountable government and that's what
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it's all about is you know we can't all
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be watching all of our public servants
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all the time to hold them accountable so
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we have a legislature that passes laws
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that's supposed to hold them accountable
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the law is is their boundary uh but
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right now there is no boundary holding
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them that holding them within any
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account to our will as the
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people uh so that's you know we we're
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still developing plans of action we'd
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love to have your input as to to what
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you think we might want to do uh we'd
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like to put together volunteers that
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would go and visit all of our
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legislators and uh ask them about their
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oath and ask their staffers are you
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aware of the oath I I've been to the
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legislature I've talked to their
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staffers and I've asked them and they've
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said no I don't know anything about
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it so oh that's that's one where to
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start the the uh it's section one of
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article 16 Texas Constitution and it
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says all elected and appointed officials
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so anybody who's got an income you know
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being paid by us the taxpayers like a
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staffer in the legislator's office
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they're Bound by that
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oath and then I mean yeah there is an
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educational campaign but this is a big
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election year so um if you want to pick
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a candidate that might be one of the
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requirements that you might want to ask
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if they're aware will they really hold
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it and look at them for the next two
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years did they do just that or did they
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vote for something that was kind of
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murky and then got a Judicial Supreme
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Court to say oh yeah that's okay now um
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that's not how the government was
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supposed to be run uh the checks and
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balances are becoming less and less and
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while this is becoming a pack we can
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also give money to candidates regardless
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of party uh who are supporting those
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ideals and People Like Us speaking of
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Courts I mean because that's where they
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are going to be held accountable in any
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time they done action ethically or
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anything against the office the Chief
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Justice Supreme Court has an Ethics
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violation pending for almost six years
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now and they've seen other justices on
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the Supreme Court have ethics violations
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that been heard since this and no one
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will prute him for there's a want of
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prosecution for fear what will happen
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any that brings it against them Nathan
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referring to Robert the person running
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against him it's really interesting
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because office also no one realizes the
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sueme
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cour and then when you have an attorney
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general that's becoming Governor nobody
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really wants to ruffle feathers once you
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have the system already in place it's
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easier for the state to then say we're
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immune to everything because well
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they're all connected and if we don't
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get that word out I just feel that
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things will get worse so that's what
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we're
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about John
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well let me add a few words here about
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how the situation came about be quick
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okay uh the way the situation came
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about mostly in the 19th
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century where pre at the point where
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previously most criminal
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prosecutions were done by private
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citizens private lawyers not public
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officials they were called private
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prosecutions of course they didn't even
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give them a name that was taken for
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granted it was only at the end of the
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19th
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century that we began electing full-time
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professional prosecutors District
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Attorneys mainly and US attorneys
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appointed by the federal at the federal
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level to do the
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prosecutions and for some time it was
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there was a dual system you could have
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it both ways so if a public prosecutor
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didn't prosecute a public official for
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misconduct you could still have a
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private person coming in bypassing him
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going directly to the grand jury and
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conducting a private prosecution of that
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corrupt
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official
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well between the about the 1890s and the
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19 about
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1940 The Establishment pushed back back
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until they got more and more Court POS
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courts take the position that private
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prosecutors could not
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proceed now it's still a lot statute on
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the books here in Texas that a private
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prosecutor canot only replace a public
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prosecutor a district attorney but even
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get paid for it if funds are available
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ski call a prosecutor prot temporary but
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it's very very difficult to get a judge
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to let anybody do
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that so the only way that I
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see to roll this problem back is to
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restore the system of private criminal
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prosecutions which automatically opens
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the grand
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jury to complaints from
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citizens and in that way between open
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grand juries and private prosecutors we
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can begin to hold public officials
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accountable
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R oh yeah I just wanted to add that in
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Hayes County we've actually got a
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district attorney running that's going
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to open the door to the grand jury to
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private citizens so that's a big what's
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her name uh ly Peach ly Peach l in Hay
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County so if you have any friends in
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Hayes County so uh if you're interested
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visit our website and contact us and uh
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like to have your help all right um I
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noticed in the O oath of office that
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said uh the Constitution and this state
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now what they're going to try to tell
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you what they don't tell you is this
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state does not refer to the state of
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Texas it refers to this state which is a
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creation which is not you know
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actually actually of the land itself of
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the State of Texas so basically they're
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just playing a a game here and they're
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going to say you know if you say they
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have to obey the laws of the State of
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Texas they're going to say we obey the
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laws of this state so you know it's it's
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a word game basically is what it is and
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my name is Mary welcome friends from ha
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County it a pleasure to hear y speak
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Tuesday in San Marcus hearing about
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chloride issues
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um as somebody who uh runs around in the
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proed community jurisdictionary and all
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this stuff a lot of folks talk that you
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know when they're doing working with
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judges are Wonder Hey does this guy have
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his own where's your o so the most
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applicable situation that I see this in
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is in a court system we all my friends
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who Pro they work cannot find the oath
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some people take it Federal all this
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stuff and so one of our conspiracy
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theories one of our theories is that
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these judges are not taking the oath
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because the valid because not having
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that oath protects them from treason
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it's just a
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speculation all right thank you guys and
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thank you for taking the steps to create
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the organization the pack on our Quest
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I'm looking forward to seeing how that
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all develops and how we can help uh to
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further that cause um I'll just remind
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you that