By Juan Montoya
An article from the Dallas Observer in 2000 indicates that, while in the U.S. Army, renegade blogger Robert Wightman was "transferred to Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo for surveillance training, he grew ill and was hospitalized for a time with ulcerative colitis.
He also became deeply depressed, but couldn't tell anyone why. "I thought I was betraying my government by lying that I wasn't gay," he says. "I couldn't tell them the truth without going to jail."
Although a previous Army mental exam found he had "no psychiatric disorder," his commanding officer at Goodfellow believed Wightman was malingering and ordered that he be evaluated at St. John's Hospital in San Angelo.
"The doctor who performed the evaluation, who Wightman-Cervantes says never examined him, offered this diagnosis in 1982: 'It is my initial impression that the patient manifests a paranoid personality disorder.' After reviewing his medical records, an Army psychiatrist determined that Wightman suffered from "atypical personality disorder (suspiciousness, self-dramatization, overreaction to minor events, angry outbursts, some grandiose ideation)."
On March 31, 1983, Wightman received an honorable discharge from the Army based on this psychiatric disorder, though he says the doctor attesting to his discharge never examined him either.
Starting in 1986, Wightman tried to change the diagnosis with the Veteran's Administration. He petitioned the military at least three times to reconsider his discharge, but the Army Discharge Review Board turned him down each time. In 1989, he filed a federal lawsuit against the secretary of the Army, attempting to change the grounds for his discharge again. But the trial judge dismissed the case, and Wightman's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was equally unsuccessful.
In 1990, while still in law school, he also filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court on his own behalf seeking to have the Texas sodomy statute declared unconstitutional. In an 18-page affidavit, which graphically details much of his sexual history, he summarizes the injury he has suffered as a result of the state's criminalizing homosexuality.
"Many gays fight the depression with sex. I have done that," he swears in his affidavit. "Many gays fight the depression with drugs. I have done that. Many gays fight the depression with fighting back. I've done that. For me, fighting back is a form of therapy. It gives me hope."
When the federal judge stayed the proceedings because a similar case had been filed in state court, Wightman-Cervantes fought back. He unsuccessfully appealed the decision to a three-judge panel for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Then he sued all four judges – his first taste of this tactic – claiming that because the federal judges dismissed his case and deferred to the state courts, their actions denied him, as a homosexual, access to the federal courts.
He lost.
But the tricks he picked up during those cases led him to develop his personal style of law.
"After an adverse ruling by (a) court, he will file a recusal motion or a lawsuit against the judge, hoping to bait the judge into bias by branding him a 'tyrant' or a 'whore for the insurance companies' or a 'defendant' in one of his lawsuits. The result is procedural gridlock, one recusal motion following another, one judge deciding whether another judge can be impartial. Rarely will a case get heard on its merits. Rarely does he win these procedural debacles."
Delay, abusive threats, frivolous filings – all are part of his vindictive campaign to terrorize the legal system. The Texas State Bar hired Dallas family-law attorney Mike McCurley, to prosecute its disbarment case against him. On September 10, 1998, McCurley filed a "motion for a mental examination of Robert Wightman."
"All appropriate measures must be employed to assess Wightman's established pattern of aberrant behavior," McCurley wrote.
"Perhaps the most chilling evidence that Wightman has placed his mental condition into controversy are Wightman's own writings and utterances..."
Many people in Brownsville have become the victims of Wightman's tactics. A cursory glance at his website indicates that he has at one time or another called for the removal of a host of elected officials and openly blamed others for the suicides of young gays.
He has called former Mayor Pat Ahumada a "worthless piece of ----," has called for Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos to resign, city manager Charlie Cabler the epitome of corruption, wanted Judge Migdalia Lopez censured by the Texas Judicial Commisison, wanted former President George Bush to fire Condoleezza Rice, and said that Judge Gilberto Rosas should be fired by the district judges for being a two-bit bully.
Even the U.S. President doesn't fare well under Wightman.
An article from the Dallas Observer in 2000 indicates that, while in the U.S. Army, renegade blogger Robert Wightman was "transferred to Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo for surveillance training, he grew ill and was hospitalized for a time with ulcerative colitis.
He also became deeply depressed, but couldn't tell anyone why. "I thought I was betraying my government by lying that I wasn't gay," he says. "I couldn't tell them the truth without going to jail."
Although a previous Army mental exam found he had "no psychiatric disorder," his commanding officer at Goodfellow believed Wightman was malingering and ordered that he be evaluated at St. John's Hospital in San Angelo.
"The doctor who performed the evaluation, who Wightman-Cervantes says never examined him, offered this diagnosis in 1982: 'It is my initial impression that the patient manifests a paranoid personality disorder.' After reviewing his medical records, an Army psychiatrist determined that Wightman suffered from "atypical personality disorder (suspiciousness, self-dramatization, overreaction to minor events, angry outbursts, some grandiose ideation)."
On March 31, 1983, Wightman received an honorable discharge from the Army based on this psychiatric disorder, though he says the doctor attesting to his discharge never examined him either.
Starting in 1986, Wightman tried to change the diagnosis with the Veteran's Administration. He petitioned the military at least three times to reconsider his discharge, but the Army Discharge Review Board turned him down each time. In 1989, he filed a federal lawsuit against the secretary of the Army, attempting to change the grounds for his discharge again. But the trial judge dismissed the case, and Wightman's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was equally unsuccessful.
In 1990, while still in law school, he also filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court on his own behalf seeking to have the Texas sodomy statute declared unconstitutional. In an 18-page affidavit, which graphically details much of his sexual history, he summarizes the injury he has suffered as a result of the state's criminalizing homosexuality."Many gays fight the depression with sex. I have done that," he swears in his affidavit. "Many gays fight the depression with drugs. I have done that. Many gays fight the depression with fighting back. I've done that. For me, fighting back is a form of therapy. It gives me hope."
When the federal judge stayed the proceedings because a similar case had been filed in state court, Wightman-Cervantes fought back. He unsuccessfully appealed the decision to a three-judge panel for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Then he sued all four judges – his first taste of this tactic – claiming that because the federal judges dismissed his case and deferred to the state courts, their actions denied him, as a homosexual, access to the federal courts.
He lost.
But the tricks he picked up during those cases led him to develop his personal style of law.
"After an adverse ruling by (a) court, he will file a recusal motion or a lawsuit against the judge, hoping to bait the judge into bias by branding him a 'tyrant' or a 'whore for the insurance companies' or a 'defendant' in one of his lawsuits. The result is procedural gridlock, one recusal motion following another, one judge deciding whether another judge can be impartial. Rarely will a case get heard on its merits. Rarely does he win these procedural debacles."
Delay, abusive threats, frivolous filings – all are part of his vindictive campaign to terrorize the legal system. The Texas State Bar hired Dallas family-law attorney Mike McCurley, to prosecute its disbarment case against him. On September 10, 1998, McCurley filed a "motion for a mental examination of Robert Wightman."
"All appropriate measures must be employed to assess Wightman's established pattern of aberrant behavior," McCurley wrote.
"Perhaps the most chilling evidence that Wightman has placed his mental condition into controversy are Wightman's own writings and utterances..."
Many people in Brownsville have become the victims of Wightman's tactics. A cursory glance at his website indicates that he has at one time or another called for the removal of a host of elected officials and openly blamed others for the suicides of young gays.
He has called former Mayor Pat Ahumada a "worthless piece of ----," has called for Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos to resign, city manager Charlie Cabler the epitome of corruption, wanted Judge Migdalia Lopez censured by the Texas Judicial Commisison, wanted former President George Bush to fire Condoleezza Rice, and said that Judge Gilberto Rosas should be fired by the district judges for being a two-bit bully.
Even the U.S. President doesn't fare well under Wightman.
In a posting on Mr. Obama, he said that like "the good half-breed self hating black that he is, would have made a great house servant, or the aid to the overseer holding the whip while the overseer tied the field slaves to the tree before a whipping. Yes, this house servant boy knows his place and knows how to keep the uppity Negroes in their place so as not to upset the politics of the big house."
In the past, Wightman has advocated a nude beach on Boca Chica (clothes optional, in his parlance) and the institutionalization of the gay lifestyle.
In the past, Wightman has advocated a nude beach on Boca Chica (clothes optional, in his parlance) and the institutionalization of the gay lifestyle.
To this end he writes in a style that only he may think is witty and condesending. Take, for example, this passage that he wrote on "How to tell if your husband is gay."
A few quotes from his blog advocating his sexual preferences will turn most people's stomachs. Here's a sampler:
"How do you know if your husband is gay?
Your husband always has a smile on his face after a prostate exam.
Your husband takes more than 2 minutes on the thrown (throne) - those forced contractions are the equivalent of you know what.
Your husband shaves his scrotum.
Your husband has been working out for three years, has gained no muscle, 20 pounds of fat, and loves to shower at the gym.
Your husband wears nylon net underwear."
Haven't had enough? How about:
"How do you know if your husband is gay?Your husband always has a smile on his face after a prostate exam.
Your husband takes more than 2 minutes on the thrown (throne) - those forced contractions are the equivalent of you know what.
Your husband shaves his scrotum.
Your husband has been working out for three years, has gained no muscle, 20 pounds of fat, and loves to shower at the gym.
Your husband wears nylon net underwear."
"Among younger men and women sex with members of the same gender does not mean you are gay - it means you are horny and want some. The nerve endings in the anus which give pleasure during sex, or the impact on the prostate are not any different between straight and gay men.
Trust me ladies once a man has been rimmed, he will want it all of the time. One day he will realize that going all the way with the anal intercourse is even better than the pleasure he gets from rimming. Will it make him gay? - no - it will make him liberated about his body."
Trust me ladies once a man has been rimmed, he will want it all of the time. One day he will realize that going all the way with the anal intercourse is even better than the pleasure he gets from rimming. Will it make him gay? - no - it will make him liberated about his body."
And what does he think of the people of Brownsville? This:
"On the issue of bigotry, its openness in Brownsville rivals the days of lynchings in East Texas. It is not that there is more in Brownsville, it is that in Brownsville people wear their bigotry and homophobia as badges of honor. They rationalize it with some level of psychotic intellectualism learned in a school for members of the KKK or SS officers."
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