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Gulf War Babylon Part 2 - Medical & Legal Footnotes Dry-drunk driving, Diabetes Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome and AIDS genocides on trial (with patented cures) PART 1 UPDATE - DUI CIVIL WAR: THE MILITARY COMMANDER - DUI CASE TURNS INTO MASS-MURDER MYSTERY! This same DUI cop was later allegedly gunned down by the son of a DUI prosecutor, who then allegedly murdered himself by "suicide" before police could interrogate him, preventing the DUI deputy fom testifying against the wing commander in his DUI trial, that will force the DUI prosecutor to drop all DUI charges against the wing commander . . . by John Lee, SRA, USAF (Honorably Discharged)
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U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act "Legalizes" Martial Law KGB Gulag US Supreme Court Justices Reject Appeal Over Secret 9/11 Detainees By Charles Lane The Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal by civil liberties groups seeking access to basic data about hundreds of individuals detained by the federal government after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decision that allows officials to continue withholding the names of most detainees, as well as other information related to their arrests, indefinitely. In a brief order released without published dissent, the court turned down a petition by the Center for National Security Studies, the American Civil Liberties Union and several media organizations, which had argued that the Bush administration's refusal to release information about the detainees violated the Freedom of Information Act and the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. The Washington Post Co. filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the petition. Although it sets no precedent, the court's decision is still a significant victory for the Bush administration, which has argued that fighting an unconventional war against terrorists requires the executive branch to assert broad new authority to arrest and detain suspected members of al Qaeda—and to withhold much information about how it wields this authority, lest terrorist organizations learn too much about the government's strategy and tactics. The decision let stand a 2-1 ruling last year by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which found the administration's claim that terrorist networks could reap advantage from any disclosure of information about the detainees, even their names, "reasonable." Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the D.C. Circuit's ruling breaks with "200 years of tradition in which arrests have always been public." "We have a situation where the government arrested more than a thousand people in secret, and the courts have let them get away with it," she said. In a brief urging the court to reject the case, Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson told the justices that the D.C. Circuit correctly recognized that information about the detainees could be withheld under an exception to the Freedom of Information Act covering data related to ongoing criminal investigations. FBI and Justice Department officials had testified that disclosure would let terrorists draw a "road map" of the government's investigation, Olson wrote. Olson also argued that, even though the government was not collecting and disclosing data about the detainees, the detainees or their attorneys were mostly free to disclose their cases if they wished. "Any secrecy surrounding the arrests is thus the product of private choice, not governmental dictate," Olson wrote. Martin said that was unrealistic, because many of the detainees were Arab or Muslim men who did not understand their rights and were often held incommunicado for extended periods, or, in the case of material witnesses, subject to gag orders imposed by courts at the government's request. She noted that a Justice Department inspector general's report had documented cases of mistreatment of the detainees by federal officials and that without a full disclosure of the detainees' names, it will be impossible to hold the government accountable. "There is no accountability for the abuses, and secrecy allowed the abuses," Martin said. "That's always been the objection to secrecy." The Justice Department has acknowledged that it detained more than 1,200 people in connection with the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. The detainees fit into three categories: those arrested on suspicion that they were involved in terrorism and then detained for immigration violations; those arrested and held on federal criminal charges, and those held as material witnesses. Those in the latter two categories were entitled to government-supplied defense lawyers, but alleged immigration-law violators subject to deportation proceedings must find their own legal counsel. Since 2001, the government has released the names of about 100 of the criminal defendants but withheld their citizenship status, the dates and locations of their arrest and detention, and the dates of their release. The government has acknowledged that 762 people had been held on immigration charges but withheld their names, their lawyers' names and facts about their arrests and release. For some 50 named material witnesses, the government has released no data. That leaves almost 300 of the original 1,182 "for which we never got a clear explanation," Martin said. The government has said the vast majority of the detainees have been deported or released, with the exception of a few material witnesses. Diabetic Murders by US Police State The Wrongful Death Institute Jacqueline Reich, 40, Washoe County Detention Center, Nevada, was an insulin dependent diabetic whose diabetic diet and insulin doses were cancelled by the doctor, who did not examine her or speak to her. She was dead two days later. The State Board of Nursing cited 7 nurses for wrongdoing in the case, revoking or suspending their licenses or putting them on probation. The treating doctor was put on four years probation by the state medical licensing board. CMS comment : "Reich's death was unfortunate." Lorenzo Ingram Sr., 56, St. Clair Correctional Facility, in Alabama, was one of four Alabama prisoners to die after technicians put the wrong chemical in their kidney dialysis machine. CMS comment: "We believe that Southeast Dialysis (a subcontractor) employees may have used an incorrect dialysis solution." The company's contract was terminated. Family sued and reached a settlement with CMS on the third day of the trial. Henry Simmons Jr. died of a heart attack in a Virginia prison when a doctor's orders for tests were ignored. Charles Guffey, 39, lost 23 pounds in 10 days and begged for help. He was told to return to his cell and 'let inmate justice take its course.' He died of a perforated ulcer. Two members of the medical staff of CMS have been indicted for manslaughter in his death. He had been arrested for failing to appear in court on drug charges. Joseph Super, not incarcerated at the time of his death, was first treated at Central Missouri Correctional Center where he was serving time for possession of marijuana. He was a prisoner who underwent treatment after being exposed to tuberculosis in prison. [Mandatory injection with LIVE Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is required for all prisoners and school children in USA -- PDR drug package insert with WARNINGS.] He died of liver damage after health care providers failed to monitor him. CMS comment: "All of the treatment provided the patient was well within commonly accepted standards of care." A lawsuit was filed against CMS. LaMonte Ashley , 34, Tipton Correctional Center has been coughing up blood for over 10 months, 80cc's plus in a 24 hour period, has severe chest pains. Retaliated against for refusing surgery he was put in the hole; subsequently went through surgery, then told by the surgeon the lesion on his lung didn't exist; he couldn't find it. Symptoms remain the same. Denied medication, he has been given 3 different diagnoses, from arterial vein malformation, to asthma, to bleeding gums. He can't keep food down so he refuses his food tray. When he refuses his food tray he is written up for a conduct violation; so he eats, and throws up blood and food; and is told by a nurse that he's throwing up something 'red' that he ate.He is being treated with sinus medication; and told point-blank by the Tipton doctors and nurses they aren't going to treat him. He has been moved around the system to silence him, he has been put in front of one inept doctor and set of nurses and correctional staff to another. Tampering with his legal mail he now is in isolation in a sound proof room. CMS comment: "He is receiving appropriate and compassionate care." Calvin Moore, 18 of Montgomery Alabama. "Is there a God?" Those words, spoken during a phone call from prison, were the last ones Calvin Moore's family ever heard from him. Calvin Moore wound up catatonic and lost 56 pounds after serving only a few weeks of a two-year sentence. He died after suffering severe mental illness, dehydration and starvation. CMS says he was given 'appropriate and compassionate care'. CMS Comment: "It is clear the health care staff provided appropriate and compassionate care." Marvin Johnson, 28, Little Rock Arkansas, Pulaski County Jail, was denied insulin for 30 hours. Despite his pleas for help, jailers and employees of CMS denied Johnson his life-sustaining shots. CMS staff said they couldn't confirm his prescription. CMS accused Johnson of 'faking his condition'. In his 30 hour wait for insulin, he told three nurses and six sheriff'' deputies that he was an insulin-dependent diabetic and needed medicine. He died of diabetic ketoacidosis. CMS Comment: "Johnson would not cooperate with health care staff who were unable to confirm immediately whether Mr. Johnson was a diabetic." Johnson's family sued CMS and the jail. This case underscores how deadly it can be for a medical staff to wrongly accuse an inmate of malingering. Jerome Walton, 28, Virginia jail. Walton was jailed on February 14 and told officials he had an appointment for kidney dialysis later that afternoon. He was taken for dialysis two days later when he was already very ill. CMS comment: "The company said its medical staff 'responded promptly' after Walton had a seizure and suffered cardiac arrest." It said "the autopsy results showed Walton had cocaine in his system and had a history of previous seizures." His mother sued CMS and settled confidentially. David Jones, 42, Greensville Virginia Correctional Center died of blood poisoning after a diabetic ulcer on his foot became infected. CMS comment: The company said "health care professionals were attentive to Mr. Jones' medical needs". Lawsuit filed; final order pending. Eloy Triana, 49 Central New Mexico Correctional Facility, visited the infirmary several times before his death, complaining of chest pain. On his last infirmary visit, he complained of chest pain and was told to fill out a sick call slip and return to his cell. He collapsed 40 minutes later and died of a heart attack. CMS comment: "Mr. Triana received appropriate care during his incarceration". Robert Moore, Jr., 28, Fayette County Kentucky Detention Center died while going through detoxification in jail. He was not properly assessed while going through drug withdrawals. CMS comment: The company declined comment. Roy Hilton, 46, Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe, died of heart failure six weeks after a doctor diagnosed an urgent need for surgery. CMS comment: "The allegation that the health care professionals attempted to prevent Mr. Hilton from surgery has been proven untrue in a court of law." A wrongful death lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge, who said Hilton's negligence in delaying the surgery was to blame. Victor Frederick, 52, Franklin County Jail, Ohio, had a history of hypertension and diabetes. He suffered chest pain while on his 10th day in jail and died at a local hospital. CMS comment: "CMS health care professionals provided appropriate medical services to Mr. Frederick following a brief flu-like illness". Dorothy Masters, 45, Renz Correctional Center, Missouri, suffered from hypotension, leading to cardiac arrest, after a prison doctor prescribed a drug that interacted with medication she was taking. CMS Comment: "Staff was extremely attentive to her needs and acted promptly and appropriately to deal with her medical condition." Master's daughter sued CMS and the case was settled.
"There is a growing body of evidence, outlined in detail below, which supports the claims of Gulf War veterans that exposure to chemical and/or biological warfare agents may be the cause of the complex of illnesses they currently suffer. There appear to be four primary sources of exposure: "Dr. Graves is considered both discoverer and leading investigator of the 32 year old 'Special Virus Flow Chart' blueprint document which coordinates over 20,000 secret virus development papers and 15 years of 'missing medical' history. "The fingerprint of man will eternally linger in the genetic sequencing of the AIDS virus," says Dr. Graves. "The scientific proof is compelling and substantial. The missing data, contracts, and experiments have been found." Since the Flow Chart's 1999 discovery, Dr. Graves maintains the Flow Chart blue-print is the 'smoking gun' of AIDS. The 1971 Flow Chart details the research logic of developing and producing a new synthetic human immune virus. According to the annual progress reports issued by US Special Virus scientists, including AIDS 'co-discoverer' Dr. Robert C. Gallo, the secret US Special Virus development program successfully developed and mass produced 60,000 liters of a new synthetic human virus by 1979. Dr. Graves provides evidence this 'special virus' is known better today as HIV/AIDS. Dr. Graves' HIV Flow Chart discovery continues passing intense international scientific scrutiny and was among thousands of official source documents Dr. Graves presented the United States Supreme Court in his appeal for an immediate global AIDS apology and program review. (See: Boyd E. Graves v. The President of U.S., US Supreme Court Case No. 00-9587). The 1971 Flow Chart has recently been the focus of the US General Accounting Office investigation into the $550 million 'missing tax dollars' secretly spent on the development of the US Special Virus. According to the Centers for Disease control, AIDS has claimed over 20 million victims lives worldwide in the past two decades." —Donald W. Scott, M.A., M.S., President of the Common Cause Foundation, Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine headed by Dr. Garth Nicolson, CFS Radio Program, Roger G. Mazlen, M.D. Host, "Bacteria Said Responsible For Gulf War Syndrome," December 20th, 1998 "The Committee is conducting an oversight investigation into vaccine safety. We received very credible testimony regarding the similarity between symptoms of mercury poisoning and autism and the continued use of thimerosal containing vaccines. I requested that the Food and Drug Administration recall all thimerosal-containing vaccines from the market. This request was ignored. A petition to the FDA from the parents of vaccine-injured children was ignored. I am asking that you personally respond to this request regarding an FDA recall of thimerosal-containing vaccines. Infants receive more mercury in the first six months of life than is considered safe. For a twelve-to-fourteen month old child receiving vaccines on the Universal Childhood Immunization Schedule (four to six shots in one doctors visit), they may receive forty or more times the amount of mercury than is considered safe according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). HHS is leaving supplies of this toxic substance in doctors' offices, at Public Health Clinics, and in managed care facilities. The FDA has failed to recall the 50 vaccines that contain thimerosal. Autism rates in this country have skyrocketed. Every day that these mercury-containing vaccines remain on the market is another day HHS is putting 8,000 children at risk. Even when HITS advised health care professionals to avoid using oral polio vaccines because of the higher rate of adverse events, many clinics and doctors continued to use up their supplies of these vaccines rather than replace them with safer vaccines. How many families were needlessly exposed to live polio and how many children suffered seizures and other tragic injuries for the sake of medical profits? To ignore an avoidable risk and to put 8,000 children a day in harm's way is not only inhumane, it may be criminal." "The state Health Department has launched a probe into potentially dangerous drug research conducted on HIV-infected infants and children at a Manhattan foster-care agency, The Post has learned. Some 50 foster kids were used as 'guinea pigs' in 13 experiments with high doses of AIDS medications at Manhattan's Incarnation Children's Center, sources said. Most of the ICC experiments were funded by federal grants and in some cases, pharmaceutical companies. They used city foster children, who were sent to the Catholic Archdiocese-run facility by the Administration for Children's Services.
ICC was involved in 36 different experiments, according to the National Institutes of Health Web site. One study researched 'HIV Wasting Syndrome,' which studied how a child's body changes when his medication is altered. A handful of the experiments involved combining up to six AIDS drugs - so-called "cocktails" - in children as young as 3 months, and another explores the reaction of not one, but two doses of the measles vaccine in kids ages 6 to 7 months. Other studies tested the 'safety,' 'tolerance' and 'toxicity' of AIDS drugs. 'They are torturing these kids, and it is nothing short of murder,' said Michael Ellner, a minister and president of Health Education AIDS Liaison, an advocacy group for HIV parents. Biochemist Dr. David Rasnick, a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert in AIDS medication, was outraged because the drugs, alone or combined, have 'acute toxicity which could be fatal.'
He said the drugs' side effects include severe liver damage, cancerous tumors, severe anemia, muscle wasting, severe and life-threatening rashes and "buffalo hump," where fatty tissues accumulate behind the neck. Housed in a former convent and run by the Archdiocese of New York's Catholic Charities, the foster-care agency described the experiments on its own Web site, which was abruptly shut down after The Post began making inquiries. Jacqueline Hoerger was a pediatric nurse at ICC from 1989 to 1993 and said the experimentation was going on even back then. 'We were taught that any symptom we saw was HIV-related,' said Hoerger, 43. 'The vomiting, diarrhea, wasting syndrome, the neurological side effects - they were dying. There was death.' She didn't think doctors were doing anything wrong, however, until years later, when she tried to adopt two of the foster girls. When she refused to give the kids the center's high-powered AIDS cocktails for fear it was making them sicker, ACS had social workers take the children away from her. 'The most vulnerable, disadvantaged children are being exploited by powerful entities and used as guinea pigs as if they were not human beings,' said Vera Sharav from the Alliance for Human Research and Protection. The tests were conducted by doctors from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, which was affiliated with ICC until 2002 and reaped the financial benefits of the research." "Before the time of the genocide of millions known as the Holocaust, the German government established 'euthanasia' programs for handicapped German children and adults. Organized killings of an estimated 70,000 German citizens took place at killing centers and in psychiatric institutions. At the specialized centers, children who were designated by the Reich Committee for euthanasia were killed shortly after arrival by medication or were starved to death. The children's euthanasia program in Germany during the Nazi era is reported to have had its origin in the request by a father of a deformed and retarded child to Hitler to have this child killed. Hitler asked his personal physician to investigate the situation and the child was eventually killed. In 1936-1937, a secret 'Reich Committee for the scientific registering of serious hereditary and congenital illnesses' was established in Hitler's Chancellory. This committee of three drafted a prospective law calling for the 'destruction of life unworthy of life'. Phenobarbital was mixed into the children's food every morning and night until they became unconscious and developed pneumonia. Some were also given injections of morphine and scopolamine. Killing hospitals were set up. The staff selected for killing patients who were unable to work as well as 'patients who caused extra work for the nurses, those who were deaf-mute, ill, obstructive, or undisciplined, and' anyone else who was simply annoying.' From all parts of Germany patients were abducted to be killed. Fraudulent death certificates were prepared. In some clinics, the tensions of the job were soothed by a visit to the wine cellars to mark every fiftieth killing with copious amounts of wine and cider. The doctors sometimes received a 250RM [approximately $800 US] Christmas bonus. Dr. Mootz: 'If the patients were in their right minds and could see through everything, we told them that their health condition had improved in a manner that they only would have to take a cure in order to get discharged. The patients believed us in most cases. I remember that one patient was a strict Catholic and the last day she asked for a priest to get the last sacraments. I remember very clearly and can say with absolute certainty that the priest was informed before the killing and that the patient, who at least that day was completely in her right mind, got the last sacraments from the priest. Young nurses deliberately weren't appointed to participate in the killings because we feared they couldn't be able to keep their mouths shut. The killing of a person is a hard strain on the nerves of the person doing it. It's a fact of experience that medicine doesn't taste good and people generally are not readily prepared to take medicine. The same can be said with regard to injections. Almost all of our patients were scared of injections. I proceeded with a lot of compassion. I had told patients that they would have to take a cure. They were not to be tortured more than necessary.' At the Doctors' Trial in Nuremberg, physicians were convicted of crimes against humanity. The German nurse-historian, Hilde Steppe, has written: 'We have a moral obligation to the millions of victims of National Socialism.'"
World AIDS Day: Dr. Boyd Graves Asserts that a Cure Already Exists! HIV/AIDS: GENOCIDAL BIOWEAPON DESIGNED BY THE UNITED STATES by Boyd Ed Graves, J.D. "In a democratic Constitutional government, the people cannot be free, without the truth."
There is compelling, substantial evidence of a U.S. laboratory origin of HIV/AIDS. In fact, the 1971 flowchart blueprint of the secret program is "absolute evidence" of the intentional, purposeful development of a "special" virus to 'cull' certain populations of the world. According to the mounting science evidence, the HIV/AIDS enzyme is a "synthetic biological agent" EXACTLY as requested by the U.S. Pentagon on June 9, 1969 and specifically developed as a "special" virus. See, U.S. Special Virus Cancer program (1948- 1978). Although the secret virus development program had been underway throughout most of the 20th century, it is the Pentagon's 1969 description of the 'effects' of the 'synthetic' agent that proves it is HIV/AIDS. However, since the United States claims that HIV/AIDS is a 'plague of nature' (U.S. Office of the President, State of the Union address, January, 2003), then where is the United States' "synthetic" agent that 'depletes the immune system and facilitates the inception of infectious disease' as was funded in 1969? See, H.R. 15090, Part VI funding, p. 129. Even more compelling is the Pentagon's conciliation on page 121 that the synthetic biological agent they were working on would lead to "world-wide scourge" and "black death type plague" in certain geographical areas and regions of the world. A review of the U.S. Special Virus program would begin the process of realizing a world without this form of stealth, biological, ethnic population stabilization for the security of future (Caucasian) Americas. See, PL91-213, 3/16/70, see also, NSSM-200 by Henry Kissinger, 4/74). The official remarks of the Office of the President (Nixon) can not be set aside and further ignored. On July 18, 1969, President Nixon sent a "special message to Congress on Overpopulation". The United States would 'cull' the Black populations of the world to stave off being out populated by nature and rendered further insignificant. No, Mister U.S. (current) president, AIDS is a plague of (Aryan) man. Few people may have heard him say it, but he did say the C.I.A. had "approved" his 'state of the union address. There is a reason for this. The C.I.A. was created in 1948 in essence to assist the United States with the stealth development and deployment of the long sought after 'contagious cancer that selectively kills'. According to a June, 1946 Time magazine article, "Better Than the Bomb", a crude ethnic weapon was ready for usage, shortly after we imported the nazi scientists under "Project Paperclip". It is by design that HIV/AIDS has evolved from a 1932 strain of sheep visna virus, strain, ks1514. History will ultimately show the inception of syphilis and (visna)HIV/AIDS into the human genome has been premeditated based on eugenics and ethnic hatred. However, the research provides for some far reaching perplexing scenarios. For example, the peculiar relationship between HIV/AIDS and rabies. See for yourself, go to the U.S. patent database and do a word search using those two terms. Another mind bender is HIV/AIDS's 'lucifer(ase) gene'. Where did nature get this from? As you can see, we have been duped as to what nature really is. The rat sequences, the sheep sequences, are things becoming more reasonable to you at this point? Well let's see if we can find something else to highlight as to simply just how conclusive the science and medical evidence is as to the absolute certainty this federal virus program is the birthplace of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the 1971 progress report, the United States creates an ESP-1 virus. Under electron microscopy (e.m.) , the 1971 e.m. photos are identical to the 1985 e.m. photos of HIV/AIDS and VISNA. See, Gallo(et. al.), Science, Vol 223, pp. 173 -177, January, 1985 (HIV/AIDS Evolved From VISNA). We sincerely believe the "full disclosure" of the U.S. Special Virus program is the only path a government who publicly espouses freedom, equality and justice can take. Our desire to know and want the truth has carried us over millennia. We are certain we are poised to continue. The revelations surrounding the flowchart-fabric rubric of a virus development paradigm are increasing exponentially, with more and more science and medical experts agreeing as to the 'absolute certainty" that this is the federal program at the heart of HIV/AIDS. See, www.boydgraves.com/comments. We will now push for an immediate double blind study of the U.S. patented cure for AIDS, patent #5676977, "TETRASIL". As a 22 month recipient of the one time injection, TETRASIL, I can assure you my physical well being is refreshingly rejuvenating. I can also tell you that society will never care that I fell better. To them I will always be an AIDS-infested, undesirable, non-person. To the world, on this one issue, I am the Wizard of AIDS. I will strive to further lead the people's desires of a world without HIV/AIDS. It is odd that there is an International Order of Mycoplasmologists (IOM), and HIV/AIDS (and SARS) is a mycoplasma, then why haven't they stepped in and shown us how (easily) they can turn off the HIV/AIDS mycoplasma? All of these things are puzzling, but of course it does not stop there. When you look a little further back in time, you find there was a "Virus Cancer" conference at M.I.T. in 1926. You find the 1910 chicken virus (Rous sarcoma) is man made. You find the mysterious1904 creation of a U.S. Station for Experimental Evolution. The evidence is overwhelming the HIV/AIDS virus is the result of a systemic long term pattern or practice of simply; ethnic hatred and racism. Once they were earnest in there relentless pursuit of a world without Black people, it was necessary to 'pass the time'. Eventually people are going to realize that things are not what they seem, not by a long shot. We believe our efforts for "full disclosure" in the trilateral structure of the United States' government has clearly demonstrated the United States' unwillingness to abide by its own Constitution and Bill of Rights. We firmly believe the purposeful development, production and proliferation of a synthetic ethnic killing agent is in violation of the Proxmire Act (Genocide) in every way. It is time for the good people of the world to join our call for disclosure and criminal accountability (International Criminal Court of Justice) of the perpetrators of the greatest purposeful loss of innocent life in human history. We ask that the world draw its eyes and attention to the San Diego Federal Court hearing on this issue on October 24, 2003, 11:00a.m., case no. 02 cv 2396, Graves v. United States of America. We believe the federal judge (Judge Jeffrey Miller) is doing the right thing in allowing this case to be reconsidered. However, a review of Judge Miller's July 7, 2003 Order shows the people have the right to re-bring this AIDS origin lawsuit until the defendant, the United States fully discloses all the withheld documents and U.S. policy decisions relative to the United States' scheme for 'mass state murder". Based on my personal understanding of the immense amount of research materials available, I am certain a review of the "Etiology Area" of the U.S. National Cancer Institute would solve a number of "mystery illness" of "unknown etiology". I wonder just how many of them are single cell, six-sided figures (mycoplasmas)? See, 9/21/00 CBS EVENING NEWS, "Virus Armour" segment by CBS Senior Health Producer Elizabeth Kaledin. After eleven years in the saddle on "WORLD WAR AIDS", I am hopeful our courtroom undertakings on October 24th, will hasten the process of the eventual realization of our world, once again without HIV/AIDS, the U.S. Special Virus, and the scourge of holocaust upon us. Boyd Ed Graves, J.D. Boyd Ed Graves is a 1975 graduate of Annapolis, law school and is in his fourth year as an international medical research director for AIDS Concerns, for the International medical research foundation, Common Cause, headquartered in Sudbury, Ontario. He is the author of two books on this issue: STATE ORIGIN: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS and WORLD WAR AIDS: The Third World War, Zygote Media, Lawrence, KS zygote@sunflower.com 1-800-532-2372, Ext. 13046 Ed. Note: Impossible? Please see: Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection A Weapon to Fight the AIDS War by Boyd Graves Recently I had an opportunity of a lifetime where I went to San Diego, California in search of an AIDS (mycoplasma) cure. On November 19, 2001, I received a 20 minute injection of TETRASIL (Ag4O4). Within 90 seconds most of the chronic pain I had disappeared! We are going to follow my T-cell count and viral load for the next six months. Even if the pain returns, it has been a WONDERFUL feeling to be pain-free. The one-time injection of TETRASIL may not be a complete "miracle cure", however, for those of us who have not experienced relief from mycoplasma infections, it is a God-send. If you are interested in learning more about this wonderful treatment (patented in the U.S. in 1997), get in touch with me. I can be reached at 216-721-3865. Take control of your life and health. Ask questions, research and take action. We have within our reach, the ability to help ourselves. It is your turn. If you have not already done so, download the govt FLOW CHART at my web archives: and sign our petition for government review and investigation of the U.S. Special Virus program and Flow Chart. TETRASIL does appear to give mycoplasmas a 'bad hair day', and that is truly a good thing. Please share this email widely. We CAN make a difference! Sincerely, Boyd E. Graves, J.D., Activist & New Author For more information call me at 216-721-3865 Dr. Boyd E. Graves Thank you. AIDS Forum Hi Folks! I received Tetrasil by I.V. drip, in a sterile water solution, last week. We were uncertain about the buffer solution, as it had to be nonreactive, and pH 6.5, so opted for (nonsaline) water. The water tested at 6, so that seemed O.K. The drip was set for about 3 hours. The tetrasil went into solution alright, but after it was all done, there was a residue in the bottom of the bag. Hopefully, I got enough of it. The doctor told me that nonsaline water causes red blood cells to burst (easily replaced), and I guess that accounts for the ache in my hand & wrist (a vein in my hand was used) during the drip, and my hand swelled up somewhat afterwards. I probably should have investigated more thoroughly, what the buffer solution should have been. Haste!--I just wanted to get this thing done! Except for the sore hand, there were no incidences at all. The doctor insisted I eat some fruit & cheese during the process, to be sure my blood sugar didn't drop. Boyd Graves told me that I should expect a fever. I didn't get one, and was disappointed, till a couple days later, I became quite over-heated, and still am. I'll be going in for blood tests in a week or so, and have a "base-line" of recent tests, to measure anything that may happen. I have been taking vitamin C, at approximately 3 grams/day, and this has been raising my CD4's, over the last few months, by about 10+, at each 2 month testing. Any increases beyond that would likely be the result of tetrasil. Viral load increased, as CD4's increased, but it's still not all that high. We'll see if anything happens there. Graves' improvements occurred over time, and that is my expectation: months, a year, 2 years. It was difficult getting the procedure arranged. I scared of my Naturopath, and the doctor that finally did it, was nervous about it. Delays! Well, it's done, and if I got enough of the tetrasil into my body, there may be improvements to come. I'll post. Sssteve Tetrasilver Tetroxide kills bugs dead Cure for AIDS, Gulf War mycoplasma, Cancer, Infectious Alcoholism and damn near everything else MARANTECH.COM INTRODUCTION Marantech Holding was organized in April 1999 as a Delaware limited liability company (LLC). Headquarters are in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, with additional research based in Israel. Marantech's founder and inventor, Dr. Marvin S. Antelman, is a physical chemist known internationally for his scientific discoveries and many highly successful commercial applications (e.g., Thin Layer Chromatography used worldwide by scientists; Micro battery technology used to power credit cards and other applications; A method to eliminate deep sea corrosion of zirconium in nuclear submarine reactors). Marantech was formed to research, develop and commercialize a unique category of inorganic compounds. All are multivalent metallic oxides that function as electron-firing molecular-scale nano devices. This class, characterized by Dr. Antelman and subsequently named ELECTRON-JUMPING COMPOUNDS® (EJC®) has broad and significant potential applications in medical, industrial and consumer markets. A seasoned management team and distinguished consulting, medical, and scientific advisory groups are guiding the company through its current stage. TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW Electron-Jumping Compounds® (EJCs) represent a class of multivalent metallic oxides that function as electron-firing molecular-scale nano devices. To date the company has identified eight EJCs and fully patented their potential market applications. Each EJC is based on a different metallic oxide, including silver, iron, manganese, cobalt, praseodymium, terbium, copper and bismuth. EJCs have a natural attraction to specific biochemical functional groups of the elements sulfur, nitrogen and phosphorous, one of which is expressed by certain proteins on the membrane surface of cancer cells and all rapidly proliferating pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa). Upon contact, a multi-stage chemical reaction is triggered:
This action effectively ensures the target's death. No other drug or anti-microbial functions in this way. The unique method of action of the Company's compounds has the potential to establish a new class of medicine. Below is a graphic illustration of EJC's proposed mechanism of action between TST and HIV. A similar mechanism of action is associated with the company's seven other EJCs. Depending on the target pathogen, the attracting biochemical functional group may either be sulfur, nitrogen or phosphorus.
Most importantly, in medical applications, normal tissues appear to be unaffected when Marantech's EJCs are applied in low, pharmaceutically effective concentrations. Additionally, what is most interesting is that because of the compound's ability to deliver an electrical shock, pathogens may be unable to develop resistance or mutation strategies. This could have profound implications for the world's health and safety and answer one of the leading problems facing today's pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Status of Testing and Next Steps Some of the leading contract research organizations (CROs) in the world have conducted laboratory analysis of Marantech's EJCs, including the company's most thoroughly tested EJC, Tetrasilver Tetroxide (TST™). Each CRO has provided independent assessment of its potential. Results of in-vitro tests showed that a very wide spectrum of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria were destroyed, including some of the leading antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi in low concentrations. The independent analysis also indicated TST's ability to destroy cancer cells and inhibit their reproduction. Toxicity analysis and early-stage clinical studies have also been performed. Several patents and patents pending protect the EJC intellectual property. PHARMACEUTICALS Aidance Pharmaceutical (a division of Marantech) was formed in 2002 to continue core research and fully develop the Company's compounds for systemic infectious diseases and cancer therapeutics (skin and systemic). Infectious Diseases Status: In independent testing, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was destroyed (98.4%) in-vitro with concentrations as low as 20 parts-per-million. Toxicity analysis in-vitro and in mice showed that the company's Tetrasilver Tetroxide (TST) does not produce toxic side effects and that healthy tissues are not effected. Because of documented non-toxicity, a limited number of terminally ill AIDS patients suffering from Wasting Syndrome, Candidiasis and P. Carinii Pneumonia have been treated in clinics outside the US. Thirty days after treatment, clinics reported an increase in patient body weight, white blood cells and other key markers. Because TST is a broad-spectrum anti-pathogen, when administered to AIDS patients it apparently destroys many of the opportunistic infectious diseases that usually accompany HIV/AIDS. Laboratory and clinical analysis has also documented the ability of TST to destroy the Herpes Simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2) in concentrations below 96 PPM. Limited human clinical studies have produced encouraging results. The Company expects to continue testing TST against HIV and related opportunistic infections as funding allows. Several patents and patents pending protect the intellectual property within the areas of infectious disease. Potential: Infectious diseases have been on the increase worldwide and show no signs of abatement. Antibiotics have no affect on viruses, and bacteria are able to mutate so effectively that antibiotics have diminishing ability to inhibit bacterial growth. In developed countries, as many as 60% of hospital-acquired infections are caused by drug-resistant microbes. Over half of all hospitalized patients are treated with antibiotics. Antibiotics represent a significant portion of overall healthcare costs, accounting for between 20% and 50% of total hospital drug expenditures. TST may offer an alternative to antibiotics. More people have died from HIV/AIDS over the last twenty years than from any other disease in human history. IMUSIL® (TST formulated for intravenous use) may offer an alternative to other anti-HIV drugs (which are highly susceptible to HIV mutation, can cause severe side effects in patients, require daily dosages, and are very costly). Currently, over 40 million people worldwide suffer from this pandemic, mostly outside the US. Estimates show that a global campaign against the epidemic needs $7-10 billion annually for an effective response in low- and middle-income countries. Because IMUSIL operates on an entirely different principle from other drugs (including antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs), the Company's compounds may offer an important alternative in the global fight against infectious diseases. Next: Outside the US, two (2) clinical trials will be conducted in the coming months using IMUSIL against HIV/AIDS. Based on further documentation of IMUSIL's efficacy, the Company hopes to receive approval from Ministries of Health in selected countries outside the US for IMUSIL treatment. Next steps for infectious diseases also include ongoing pre-clinical and clinical research, regulatory new drug application, expanding the medical advisory and management group, and exploring potential strategic alliances. For additional information, please contact us. Cancer Therapeutics Status: A leading independent laboratory tested the effect of TST in-vitro on cultures of a variety of cancer cell lines, including human breast, colon, kidney, leukemia, liver, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, pancreas, prostate and stomach. Results from multiple testing revealed the low-concentration ability of TST to destroy these cancer cells upon contact. Additional independent testing with TST also documented the compound's ability to inhibit the production of cervical and mammary cancer cells. Subsequent testing has confirmed TST's ability to covalently bind with cancer protein and destroy cancer cells. Marantech also contracted for an independent dermatological clinical analysis, including topical treatment of various skin and mucosal tumors with TETRASIL® (the company's topical formulation). Promising preliminary results, verified by biopsy, were reported, including apparent elimination of cancerous cells in many patients with malignant melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, Karposi's sarcoma, early stage cases of Paget's disease (nipple carcinoma), and cervical cancer. Results were encouraging and no adverse side effects were observed. Several patents and patents pending protect the intellectual property within the areas of cancer therapeutics. Potential: Scientists predict that by the year 2020 there will be 15 million new cases of cancer worldwide each year, and 10 million deaths. Cancer costs Americans alone more than an estimated $107 billion annually. TST systemic and topical therapeutic products may offer a significant alternative to existing cancer therapies. Next: The Company is exploring strategic alliances and licensing agreements for funding and development of the company's EJC technology for cancer therapeutics. SKINCARE & TOPICAL SOLUTIONS Aidance Skincare & Topical Solutions (a division of Marantech) is focused on fully developing the Company's EJC technology for the treatment of non-cancerous skin conditions and diseases, including commercializing the division's topical ointment (Tetrasil®). Status: Independent laboratory and clinical studies commissioned by Marantech indicate that topically applied TETRASIL ointment may lead to improvements in a range of infection-related skin conditions (bacterial, viral, fungal), including cold sores, genital herpes, conjunctivitis, chickenpox, shingles, diabetic leg and foot ulcers, dermal tuberculosis [mycoplasma] and ringworm. Clinical studies also indicate that TETRASIL ointment may promote healing of skin conditions that are neither cancerous nor infection-related, including atopic dermatitis (eczema), psoriasis, poison ivy, and third-degree burns, apparently by both disinfecting the area and triggering an increase in the production of new, healthy skin tissue. In multiple tests, TETRASIL has proved to be non-toxic. Limited human use of TETRASIL by over 500 patients with some of the above-named skin conditions has produced impressive results and strong testimonials. Several patents and patents pending protect the intellectual property topical applications of EJCs. Potential: Several viral, bacterial, fungal and other skin conditions present vexing challenges for the medical community and patients, and TETRASIL may offer an important and timely solution. 107 million people worldwide suffer from Genital and Oral Herpes. In the last two decades, genital herpes has doubled among white adults in their 20s while increasing fivefold among white teenagers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, about one in five teens and adults (some 45 million Americans) has the disease. A recent study estimates that 49 percent of women aged 15 to 39 will be infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 by 2025 if present trends continue. The associated medical costs would rise to $2.7 billion in 2025, from $1.8 billion in 2000. Initial clinical studies and anecdotal reports indicate that TETRASIL is effective against herpes and may offer a viable alternative to current medications. The wound care market is a $10 billion worldwide industry. In the US alone, this market was estimated to be about $3.7 billion in the year 2000, with a compounded annual growth rate of about 3%. Market data for 2001 indicate that with an estimated 6.6 million patients nationally having pressure ulcers, an estimated $5 billion is spent annually for treatment. The two main types of chronic bacterially induced wounds of concern to the Company are diabetic foot ulcers and decubital ulcers (pressure ulcers, bed sores, etc.). This is a larger market than burns or traumatic and surgically induced wounds combined. In clinical studies and patient testimonials, TETRASIL has shown efficacious results against these types of ulcers. Next: Clinical studies for TETRASIL will continue in 2003 at selected hospitals inside and outside the US. Current pending studies are focused on pressure ulcers (bedsores) and topical human papilloma virus (HPV) and/or genital warts infection. Sales of TETRASIL in the US have already commenced. TETRASIL is currently sold without FDA approval as a no-claim product (www.tetrasil.com). Outside the US, the Company has begun shipping TETRASIL in collaboration with key distribution partners. Approval of TETRASIL, either as a cosmetic or pharmaceutical, in selected countries outside is expected to generate modest to significant income within the next few years. Additional next steps include ongoing laboratory and clinical research, continued commercialization of TETRASIL, FDA new drug application, as well as ongoing application with foreign ministries of health for approval of TETRASIL, and expanding the medical advisory and skincare management group. Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices United States Patent 5,676,977 Abstract The diamagnetic semiconducting molecular crystal tetrasilver tetroxide (Ag.sub.4 O.sub.4) is utilized for destroying the AIDS virus, destroying AIDS synergistic pathogens and immunity suppressing moieties (ISM) in humans. A single intravenous injection of the devices is all that is required for efficacy at levels of about 40 PPM of human blood. The device molecular crystal contains two mono and two trivalent silver ions capable of "firing" electrons capable of electrocuting the AIDS virus, pathogens and ISM. When administered into the bloodstream, the device electrons will be triggered by pathogens, a proliferating virus and ISM, and when fired will simultaneously trigger a redox chelation mechanism resulting in divalent silver moieties which chelate and bind active sites of the entities destroying them. The devices are completely non-toxic. However, they put stress on the liver causing hepatomegaly, but there is no loss of liver function. What is claimed is:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to the employment of molecular crystals as anti-AIDS devices, but more particularly to the molecular crystal semiconductor tetrasilver tetroxide Ag.sub.4 O.sub.4 which has two monovalent and two trivalent silver ions per molecule, and which through this structural configuration enables intermolecular electron transfer capable of killing viruses and binding them to the resulting silver entity so that a single intravenous injection will completely obliterate acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans. Furthermore, said devices are capable of killing pathogens and purging the bloodstream of immune suppressing moieties (ISM) whether or not created by the AIDS virus (HIV); so as to restore the immune system. The present invention is based on concepts previously elucidated in applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 5,336,499 which discloses the destruction and inhibition of bacteria, algae and the AIDS virus in nutrient life supporting systems by using said silver oxide devices. Example 3 of said patent discloses that 18 PPM of said crystal devices could totally suppress the AIDS virus (page 6, line 5). Subsequent to the filing of the aforementioned patent, further testing revealed complete 100% destruction of the AIDS virus in vitro at 20 PPM, and the fact that said devices were harmless when ingested and inhaled, being non-toxic. Encouraged by these evaluations and successes, applicant obtained permission to evaluate the crystals in vitro against murine acquired immune deficiency syndrome (MAIDS). Only one facility in the State of Israel is licensed for these evaluations, namely, the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel, which is affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School where said evaluations were done. The initial evaluations entailed experimenting with various silver moieties cited in applicant's aforementioned patent, concentrations, non-reactive buffers and modes of administration. After about 18 months of judicious efforts and initial failures, success was finally achieved in destroying the MAIDS virus in C57BL mice with a single intravenous injection. The results of this test program comprise Example 5 of U.S. Pat. No. 5,336,499. After success with mice, the inventor was able to test the efficacy of said devices on two select etiological groups of terminal AIDS patients in a clinic in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America. The AIDS patients comprised the etiological subgroups, Candidiasis and Wasting Syndrome. Current indicator diseases for diagnosing AIDS which have been expanded by the CDC, fall into the following five major categories with the approximate percent distribution among AIDS patients:
This invention concerns itself with the treatment and cure of candidiasis and wasting syndrome AIDS patients with Tetrasil*. These two groups account for approximately one third of AIDS cases. *Trademark of Holipharm Corporation (of Israel) for Ag.sub.4 O.sub.4 Stedman's Medical Dictionary (Williams & Wilken's 26th Ed., 1995) defines wasting syndrome "as a condition of 10% weight loss in conjunction with diarrhea or fever . . . Associated with AIDS (p. 1744)." OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION The main object of the invention is to provide for a molecular scale device of a single tetrasilver tetroxide crystalline molecule capable of restoring the immunity of AIDS afflicted humans of the two AIDS etiological subgroups, candidiasis and wasting syndrome. Another object of the invention is to provide for immunity restoration in said AIDS afflicted humans through a single injection. Another object of this invention is to destroy ISM in humans manifesting AIDS diseases of said AIDS etiological subgroups irrespective as to whether said ISM was HIV induced, since it is known that humans may manifest AIDS and still be HIV negative, and thus restore the immune system in said humans. Another object of this invention is to destroy the AIDS virus when present in the systems of said AIDS afflicted humans. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a molecular scale device not only capable of destroying the AIDS virus, but of purging the human bloodstream of pathogens and restoring immunity to AIDS patients of the candidiasis and wasting syndrome categories. Said molecular device consists of a single crystal of tetrasilver tetroxide (Ag.sub.4 O.sub.4). The crystal lattice of this molecule has a unique structure since it is a diamagnetic semiconducting crystal containing two mono and two trivalent silver ions, which in effect are capable of "firing" electrons under certain conditions which will destroy AIDS viruses, other pathogens and immune suppressing moieties (ISM), not only through the electrocution mode, but also by a binding process which occurs simultaneously with electron firing, namely, binding and chelation of divalent silver, i.e., the resulting product of the electron transfer redox that occur when the monovalent silver ions are oxidized and the trivalent ions are reduced in the crystal. The binding/chelation effect occurs at active sites of the AIDS virus, pathogens and ISM. Because of the extremely minute size of a single molecule of this crystal, several million of these devices may be employed in concert to destroy a virus colony to purge a life support system of ISM and pathogens with the consumption of only parts per trillion of the crystal devices. Thus an optimum of 40 PPM of the devices by weight of human blood was found to be sufficient to completely obliterate AIDS. This concentration is slightly over double of the optimum concentration recommended in applicant's aforementioned U.S. patent for the destruction of the human AIDS virus in vitro. Other details concerning the structure of the crystal and its mechanism against pathogens, the AIDS virus and ISM would analogously hold here, and have already been further elucidated in said patent. See Also: DIY Tetrasilver Tetroxide Invention:
GOOGLE.COM Search - "Silver Generators" $10 DIY Homebrew Silver Generator Kit from Radio Shack detailed by Intelligence Report radio host Mark Koernke, substituted by his wife Nancy Koernke who hosts her own show The Kitchen Militia BBC NEWS - "Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'" - "Arran Frood investigates what could have been the very first batteries and how these important archaeological and technological artefacts are now at risk from the impending war in Iraq. Iraq has a rich national heritage. The Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel are said to have been sited in this ancient land. In any war, there is a chance that priceless treasures will be lost forever, articles such as the "ancient battery" that resides defenceless in the museum of Baghdad. Most sources date the batteries to around 200 BC - in the Parthian era, circa 250 BC to AD 225. Though most archaeologists agree the devices were batteries, there is much conjecture as to how they could have been discovered, and what they were used for. It is certain the Baghdad batteries could conduct an electric current because many replicas have been made, including by students of ancient history under the direction of Dr Marjorie Senechal, professor of the history of science and technology, Smith College, US. Replicas can produce voltages from 0.8 to nearly two volts. Connected in series, a set of batteries could theoretically produce a much higher voltage. scientists believe the batteries were used for electroplating." Thomas Edison, inventor of the Electric Chair, was 3,000 years too late to invent DC electricity, while Nikola Tesla, America's greatest (and most-censored) scientist, invented AC electricity, radio, RADAR, LASER, nondestructable turbine engines, remote control weapons and Death Ray Star Wars for the Pentagon - who robbed him to death. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL--AIDS CURE 29 January 2004 Below is a copy of a letter recently sent to the President of the Global Health Council. While acknowledging the truth is important, this letter is being made public not in order to blame or to stir citizens to anger. Rather it is intended to help spread knowledge of the cure, tetrasilver tetroxide. Silver and oxygen anyone? January 25, 2004 Re: The U.S. CURE and Origin of AIDS Dear Dr. Daulaire: My name is Boyd Ed Graves. I am a nominee for the Jonathan Mann award (2003). Since my HIV diagnosis in 1992, I have worked tirelessly to focus the AIDS debate on its U.S. origin and of late, its CURE patented by the United States in 1997. Twenty-six months ago, I took the one time injection cure for AIDS. My medical records are maintained by the Veteranís Hospital administration in La Jolla, California and Cleveland, Ohio. Last August I was released from HIV/AIDS medical care in La Jolla and two weeks ago, the VA hospital in Cleveland confirmed that my viral load is undetectable. The AIDS CURE is effective and it will eventually be so very cheap. We recently alerted your web-master to the AIDS CURE and he has asked to be removed from any further emails regarding the CURE. We find your pronouncement concerning the Presidentís State of the Union address somewhat baffling in light of the desires f your web- master to not receive any further notification regarding the development of the cure, and its eventual implementation. We sincerely believe an immedia te "double blind" study "TETRASIL/IMUSIL", patent #5676977 should begin without further delay. We implore you to peruse the seven-year old patented cure for AIDS and subsequently provide the leadership this issue so desperately needs. We have thus far found the planet "empty" of genuine compassion towards the victims of this U.S. weapon of mass destruction. According to the experts, HIV/AIDS is the designer virus of the U.S. Special Virus program (1948 -1978). see: boydgraves.com/comments. The program's 1971 "research logic" flowchart is irrefutable proof the development of AIDS was not by accident. see: boydgraves.com/flowchart. We are hopeful we have reached the heart of the AIDS paradigm in our opening letter to you here. We deeply believe the Global Health Council has an added obligation to implement the AIDS cure and review the U.S. Special Virus program. We have been met with silence and inaction from the U.S press, particularly, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, my hometown newspaper. They simply refuse to print, anything on this issue that has come from the people, even if it can all be verified and corroborated. It is clear that there are U.S. directives in place compelling the media to be abridged, the Congress to remain silent and law enforcement to strong-arm any effort to uncover the truth. It is clear that the development of HIV/AIDS is outlined specifically in a number of U.S. policy decisions. See, inter alia, U.S. Public Law 91-213 (3/16/70) and H.R. 15090, Part VI funding, page 129 (SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL AGENT). Additionally, there are fifteen progress reports of the secret, federal virus development program. By flooding the world with TETRASIL, we can envision a world once again without HIV/AIDS. This cannot be achieved without your direct and steady involvement. We are hopeful for the people of the planet. Sincerely, Director-AIDS Concerns Mycoplasma the Linking Pathogen in Neurosystemic Diseases By Donald W. Scott, MA, MSc Pathogenic Mycoplasma Several strains of mycoplasma have been "engineered" to become more dangerous. They are now being blamed for AIDS, cancer, CFS, MS, CJD and other neurosystemic diseases. There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Most are innocuous and do no harm; only four or five are pathogenic. Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the Brucella bacterium. This disease agent is not a bacterium and not a virus; it is a mutated form of the Brucella bacterium, combined with a visna virus, from which the mycoplasma is extracted. The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be very innocuous, but biological warfare research conducted between 1942 and the present time has resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious forms of Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella bacterium and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form. They "weaponized" it and tested it on an unsuspecting public in North America. Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world. Despite reporting flaws, there has clearly been an increased incidence of all the neuro/systemic degenerative diseases since World War II and especially since the 1970s with the arrival of previously unheard-of diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and AIDS. According to DR Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and one of America's top mycoplasma researchers, this disease agent causes many illnesses including AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's colitis, Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Wegener's disease and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's. DR Charles Engel, who is with the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, stated the following at an NIH meeting on February 7, 2000: "I am now of the view that the probable cause of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia is the mycoplasma..." I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the disease agent in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other illnesses. Of these, 80% are US or Canadian official government documents, and 20% are articles from peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The journal articles and government documents complement each other. How the Mycoplasma Works The mycoplasma acts by entering into the individual cells of the body, depending upon your genetic predisposition. You may develop neurological diseases if the pathogen destroys certain cells in your brain, or you may develop Crohn's colitis if the pathogen invades and destroys cells in the lower bowel. Once the mycoplasma gets into the cell, it can lie there doing nothing sometimes for 10, 20 or 30 years, but if a trauma occurs like an accident or a vaccination that doesn't take, the mycoplasma can become triggered. Because it is only the DNA particle of the bacterium, it doesn't have any organelles to process its own nutrients, so it grows by uptaking pre-formed sterols from its host cell and it literally kills the cell; the cell ruptures and what is left gets dumped into the bloodstream. Creation of the Mycoplasma Many doctors don't know about this mycoplasma disease agent because it was developed by the US military in biological warfare experimentation and it was not made public. This pathogen was patented by the United States military and DR Shyh-Ching Lo. I have a copy of the documented patent from the US Patent Office.1 All the countries at war were experimenting with biological weapons. In 1942, the governments of the United States, Canada and Britain entered into a secret agreement to create two types of biological weapons (one that would kill, and one that was disabling) for use in the war against Germany and Japan, who were also developing biological weapons. While they researched a number of disease pathogens, they primarily focused on the Brucella bacterium and began to weaponize it. From its inception, the biowarfare program was characterized by continuing in-depth review and participation by the most eminent scientists, medical consultants, industrial experts and government officials, and it was classified Top Secret. The US Public Health Service also closely followed the progress of biological warfare research and development from the very start of the program, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States were working with the military in weaponizing these diseases. These are diseases that have existed for thousands of years, but they have been weaponized -- which means they've been made more contagious and more effective. And they are spreading. The Special Virus Cancer Program, created by the CIA and NIH to develop a deadly pathogen for which humanity had no natural immunity (AIDS), was disguised as a war on cancer but was actually part of MKNAOMI.2 Many members of the Senate and House of Representatives do not know what has been going on. For example, the US Senate Committee on Government Reform had searched the archives in Washington and other places for the document titled "The Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", and couldn't find it. Somehow they heard I had it, called me and asked me to mail it to them. Imagine: a retired schoolteacher being called by the United States Senate and asked for one of their secret documents! The US Senate, through the Government Reform Committee, is trying to stop this type of government research. Crystalline Brucella The title page of a genuine US Senate Study, declassified on February 24, 1977, shows that George Merck, of the pharmaceutical company, Merck Sharp & Dohme (which now makes cures for diseases that at one time it created), reported in 1946 to the US Secretary of War that his researchers had managed "for the first time" to "isolate the disease agent in crystalline form".3 They had produced a crystalline bacterial toxin extracted from the Brucella bacterium. The bacterial toxin could be removed in crystalline form and stored, transported and deployed without deteriorating. It could be delivered by other vectors such as insects, aerosol or the food chain (in nature it is delivered within the bacterium). But the factor that is working in the Brucella is the mycoplasma. Brucella is a disease agent that doesn't kill people; it disables them. But, according to DR Donald MacArthur of the Pentagon, appearing before a congressional committee in 1969,4 researchers found that if they had mycoplasma at a certain strength -- actually, 10 to the 10th power (1010) -- it would develop into AIDS, and the person would die from it within a reasonable period of time because it could bypass the natural human defenses. If the strength was 108, the person would manifest with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. If it was 107, they would present as wasting; they wouldn't die and they wouldn't be disabled, but they would not be very interested in life; they would waste away. Most of us have never heard of the disease brucellosis because it largely disappeared when they began pasteurizing milk, which was the carrier. One salt shaker of the pure disease agent in a crystalline form could sicken the entire population of Canada. It is absolutely deadly, not so much in terms of killing the body but disabling it. Because the crystalline disease agent goes into solution in the blood, ordinary blood and tissue tests will not reveal its presence. The mycoplasma will only crystallize at 8.1 pH, and the blood has a pH of 7.4 pH. So the doctor thinks your complaint is "all in your head". Crystalline Brucella and Multiple Sclerosis In 1998 in Rochester, New York, I met a former military man, PFC Donald Bentley, who gave me a document and told me: "I was in the US Army, and I was trained in bacteriological warfare. We were handling a bomb filled with brucellosis, only it wasn't brucellosis; it was a Brucella toxin in crystalline form. We were spraying it on the Chinese and North Koreans." He showed me his certificate listing his training in chemical, biological and radiological warfare. Then he showed me 16 pages of documents given to him by the US military when he was discharged from the service. They linked brucellosis with multiple sclerosis, and stated in one section: "Veterans with multiple sclerosis, a kind of creeping paralysis developing to a degree of 10% or more disability within two years after separation from active service, may be presumed to be service-connected for disability compensation. Compensation is payable to eligible veterans whose disabilities are due to service." In other words: "If you become ill with multiple sclerosis, it is because you were handling this Brucella, we will give you a pension. Don't go raising any fuss about it." In these documents, the government of the United States revealed evidence of the cause of multiple sclerosis, but they didn't make it known to the public -- or to your doctor. In a 1949 report, Drs Kyger and Haden suggested "the possibility that multiple sclerosis might be a central nervous system manifestation of chronic brucellosis". Testing approximately 113 MS patients, they found that almost 95% also tested positive for Brucella.5 We have a document from a medical journal, which concludes that one out of 500 people who had brucellosis would develop what they call neurobrucellosis; in other words, brucellosis in the brain, where the Brucella settles in the lateral ventricles -- where the disease multiple sclerosis is basically located.6 Contamination of Camp Detrick Lab Workers A 1948 New England Journal of Medicine report titled "Acute Brucellosis Among Laboratory Workers" shows us how actively dangerous this agent is.7 The laboratory workers were from Camp Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, where they were developing biological weapons. Even though these workers had been vaccinated, wore rubberized suits and masks and worked through holes in the compartment, many of them came down with this awful disease because it is so absolutely and terrifyingly infectious. The article was written by Lt Calderone Howell, Marine Corps, Captain Edward Miller, Marine Corps, Lt Emily Kelly, United States Naval Reserve, and Captain Henry Bookman. They were all military personnel engaged in making the disease agent Brucella into a more effective biological weapon. Covert Testing of Mycoplasma Documented evidence proves that the biological weapons they were developing were tested on the public in various communities without their knowledge or consent. The government knew that crystalline Brucella would cause disease in humans. Now they needed to determine how it would spread and the best way to disperse it. They tested dispersal methods for Brucella suis and Brucella melitensis at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, in June and September 1952. Probably, 100% of us now are infected with Brucella suis and Brucella melitensis.8 Another government document recommended the genesis of open-air vulnerability tests and covert research and development programs to be conducted by the Army and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency. At that time, the Government of Canada was asked by the US Government to cooperate in testing weaponized Brucella, and Canada cooperated fully with the United States. The US Government wanted to determine whether mosquitoes would carry the disease and also if the air would carry it. A government report stated that "open-air testing of infectious biological agents is considered essential to an ultimate understanding of biological warfare potentialities because of the many unknown factors affecting the degradation of micro-organisms in the atmosphere".9 Testing via Mosquito Vector in Punta Gorda, Florida A report from The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that one of the first outbreaks of chronic fatigue syndrome was in Punta Gorda, Florida, back in 1957.10 It was a strange coincidence that a week before these people came down with chronic fatigue syndrome, there was a huge influx of mosquitoes. The National Institutes of Health claimed that the mosquitoes came from a forest fire 30 miles away. The truth is that those mosquitoes were infected in Canada by DR Guilford B. Reed at Queen's University. They were bred in Belleville, Ontario, and taken down to Punta Gorda and released there. Within a week, the first five cases ever of chronic fatigue syndrome were reported to the local clinic in Punta Gorda. The cases kept coming until finally 450 people were ill with the disease. Testing via Mosquito Vector in Ontario The Government of Canada had established the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario, where it raised 100 million mosquitoes a month. These were shipped to Queen's University and certain other facilities to be infected with this crystalline disease agent. The mosquitoes were then let loose in certain communities in the middle of the night, so that the researchers could determine how many people would become ill with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, which was the first disease to show. One of the communities they tested it on was the St Lawrence Seaway valley, all the way from Kingston to Cornwall, in 1984. They let out hundreds of millions of infected mosquitoes. Over 700 people in the next four or five weeks developed myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome. Covert Testing of Other Disease Agents Mad Cow Disease/Kuru/CJD in the Fore Tribe Before and during World War II, at the infamous Camp 731 in Manchuria, the Japanese military contaminated prisoners of war with certain disease agents. They also established a research camp in New Guinea in 1942. There they experimented upon the Fore Indian tribe and inoculated them with a minced-up version of the brains of diseased sheep containing the visna virus which causes "mad cow disease" or Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. About five or six years later, after the Japanese had been driven out, the poor people of the Fore tribe developed what they called kuru, which was their word for "wasting", and they began to shake, lose their appetites and die. The autopsies revealed that their brains had literally turned to mush. They had contracted "mad cow disease" from the Japanese experiments. When World War II ended, DR Ishii Shiro -- the medical doctor who was commissioned as a General in the Japanese Army so he could take command of Japan's biological warfare development, testing and deployment -- was captured. He was given the choice of a job with the United States Army or execution as a war criminal. Not surprisingly, DR Ishii Shiro chose to work with the US military to demonstrate how the Japanese had created mad cow disease in the Fore Indian tribe. In 1957, when the disease was beginning to blossom in full among the Fore people, DR Carleton Gajdusek of the US National Institutes of Health headed to New Guinea to determine how the minced-up brains of the visna-infected sheep affected them. He spent a couple of years there, studying the Fore people, and wrote an extensive report. He won the Nobel Prize for "discovering" kuru disease in the Fore tribe. Testing Carcinogens over Winnipeg, Manitoba In 1953, the US Government asked the Canadian Government if it could test a chemical over the city of Winnipeg. It was a big city with 500,000 people, miles from anywhere. The American military sprayed this carcinogenic chemical in a 1,000%-attenuated form, which they said would be so watered down that nobody would get very sick; however, if people came to clinics with a sniffle, a sore throat or ringing in their ears, the researchers would be able to determine what percentage would have developed cancer if the chemical had been used at full strength. We located evidence that the Americans had indeed tested this carcinogenic chemical -- zinc cadmium sulphide -- over Winnipeg in 1953. We wrote to the Government of Canada, explaining that we had solid evidence of the spraying and asking that we be informed as to how high up in the government the request for permission to spray had gone. We did not receive a reply. Shortly after, the Pentagon held a press conference on May 14, 1997, where they admitted what they had done. Robert Russo, writing for the Toronto Star11 from Washington, DC, reported the Pentagon's admission that in 1953 it had obtained permission from the Canadian Government to fly over the city of Winnipeg and spray out this chemical -- which sifted down on kids going to school, housewives hanging out their laundry and people going to work. US Army planes and trucks released the chemical 36 times between July and August 1953. The Pentagon got its statistics, which indicated that if the chemical released had been full strength, approximately a third of the population of Winnipeg would have developed cancers over the next five years. One professor, DR Hugh Fudenberg, MD, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, wrote a magazine article stating that the Pentagon came clean on this because two researchers in Sudbury, Ontario -- Don Scott and his son, Bill Scott -- had been revealing this to the public. However, the legwork was done by other researchers! The US Army actually conducted a series of simulated germ warfare tests over Winnipeg. The Pentagon lied about the tests to the mayor, saying that they were testing a chemical fog over the city, which would protect Winnipeg in the event of a nuclear attack. A report commissioned by US Congress, chaired by DR Rogene Henderson, lists 32 American towns and cities used as test sites as well. Brucella Mycoplasma and AIDS The AIDS pathogen was created out of a Brucella bacterium mutated with a visna virus; then the toxin was removed as a DNA particle called a mycoplasma. They used the same mycoplasma to develop disabling diseases like MS, Crohn's colitis, Lyme disease, etc. In the previously mentioned US congressional document of a meeting held on June 9, 1969,12 the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress about biological weapons. The Pentagon stated: "We are continuing to develop disabling weapons." Dr MacArthur, who was in charge of the research, said: "We are developing a new lethal weapon, a synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist, and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired." Think about it. If you have a deficiency of acquired immunity, you have an acquired immunity deficiency. Plain as that. AIDS. In laboratories throughout the United States and in a certain number in Canada including at the University of Alberta, the US Government provided the leadership for the development of AIDS for the purpose of population control. After the scientists had perfected it, the government sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control -- under the direction of DR Donald A. Henderson, their investigator into the 1957 chronic fatigue epidemic in Punta Gorda -- during 1969 to 1971 to Africa and some countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan where they thought the population was becoming too large.13 They gave them all a free vaccination against smallpox; but five years after receiving this vaccination, 60% of those inoculated were suffering from AIDS. They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense. A professor at the University of Arkansas made the claim that while studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee she found traces of HIV. The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23 years earlier. It had lived its entire life in a US military laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal in the development of these diseases. When it died, its body was shipped to a storage place where it was deep-frozen and stored in case they wanted to analyze it later. Then they decided that they didn't have enough space for it, so they said, "Anybody want this dead chimpanzee?" and this researcher from Arkansas said: "Yes. Send it down to the University of Arkansas. We are happy to get anything that we can get." They shipped it down and she found HIV in it. That virus was acquired by that chimpanzee in the laboratories where it was tested.14 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Chronic fatigue syndrome is more accurately called myalgic encephalomyelitis. The chronic fatigue syndrome nomenclature was given by the US National Institutes of Health because it wanted to downgrade and belittle the disease. An MRI scan of the brain of a teenage girl with chronic fatigue syndrome displayed a great many scars or punctate lesions in the left frontal lobe area where portions of the brain had literally dissolved and been replaced by scar tissue. This caused cognitive impairment, memory impairment, etc. And what was the cause of the scarring? The mycoplasma. So there is very concrete physical evidence of these tragic diseases, even though doctors continue to say they don't know where it comes from or what they can do about it. Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia who apply to the Canada Pensions Plan Review Tribunal will be turned down because they cannot prove that they are ill. During 1999 I conducted several appeals to Canada Pensions and the Workers Compensation Board (WCB, now the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) on behalf of people who have been turned down. I provided documented evidence of these illnesses, and these people were all granted their pensions on the basis of the evidence that I provided. In March 1999, for example, I appealed to the WCB on behalf of a lady with fibromyalgia who had been denied her pension back in 1993. The vice-chairman of the board came to Sudbury to hear the appeal, and I showed him a number of documents which proved that this lady was physically ill with fibromyalgia. It was a disease that caused physical damage, and the disease agent was a mycoplasma. The guy listened for three hours, and then he said to me: "Mr Scott, how is it I have never heard of any of this before? I said: "We brought a top authority in this area into Sudbury to speak on this subject and not a single solitary doctor came to that presentation." Testing For Mycoplasma In Your Body Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Information is not generally available about this agent because, first of all, the mycoplasma is such a minutely small disease agent. A hundred years ago, certain medical theoreticians conceived that there must be a form of disease agent smaller than bacteria and viruses. This pathogenic organism, the mycoplasma, is so minute that normal blood and tissue tests will not reveal its presence as the source of the disease. Your doctor may diagnose you with Alzheimer's disease, and he will say: "Golly, we don't know where Alzheimer's comes from. All we know is that your brain begins to deteriorate, cells rupture, the myelin sheath around the nerves dissolves, and so on." Or if you have chronic fatigue syndrome, the doctor will not be able to find any cause for your illness with ordinary blood and tissue tests. This mycoplasma couldn't be detected until about 30 years ago when the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was developed, in which a sample of your blood is examined and damaged particles are removed and subjected to a polymerase chain reaction. This causes the DNA in the particles to break down. The particles are then placed in a nutrient, which causes the DNA to grow back into its original form. If enough of the substance is produced, the form can be recognized, so it can be determined whether Brucella or another kind of agent is behind that particular mycoplasma. Blood Test If you or anybody in your family has myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's, you can send a blood sample to Dr Les Simpson in New Zealand for testing. If you are ill with these diseases, your red blood cells will not be normal doughnut-shaped blood cells capable of being compressed and squeezed through the capillaries, but will swell up like cherry-filled doughnuts which cannot be compressed. The blood cells become enlarged and distended because the only way the mycoplasma can exist is by uptaking pre-formed sterols from the host cell. One of the best sources of pre-formed sterols is cholesterol, and cholesterol is what gives your blood cells flexibility. If the cholesterol is taken out by the mycoplasma, the red blood cell swells up and doesn't go through, and the person begins to feel all the aches and pains and all the damage it causes to the brain, the heart, the stomach, the feet and the whole body because blood and oxygen are cut off. And that is why people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome have such a terrible time. When the blood is cut off from the brain, punctate lesions appear because those parts of the brain die. The mycoplasma will get into portions of the heart muscle, especially the left ventricle, and those cells will die. Certain people have cells in the lateral ventricles of the brain that have a genetic predisposition to admit the mycoplasma, and this causes the lateral ventricles to deteriorate and die. This leads to multiple sclerosis, which will progress until these people are totally disabled; frequently, they die prematurely. The mycoplasma will get into the lower bowel, parts of which will die, thus causing colitis. All of these diseases are caused by the degenerating properties of the mycoplasma. In early 2000, a gentleman in Sudbury phoned me and told me he had fibromyalgia. He applied for a pension and was turned down because his doctor said it was all in his head and there was no external evidence. I gave him the proper form and a vial, and he sent his blood to DR Simpson to be tested. He did this with his family doctor's approval, and the results from DR Simpson showed that only 4% of his red blood cells were functioning normally and carrying the appropriate amount of oxygen to his poor body, whereas 83% were distended, enlarged and hardened, and wouldn't go through the capillaries without an awful lot of pressure and trouble. This is the physical evidence of the damage that is done. ECG Test You can also ask your doctor to give you a 24-hour Holter ECG. You know, of course, that an electrocardiogram is a measure of your heartbeat and shows what is going on in the right ventricle, the left ventricle and so on. Tests show that 100% of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia have an irregular heartbeat. At various periods during the 24 hours, the heart, instead of working happily away going "bump-BUMP, bump-BUMP", every now and again goes "buhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuh". The T-wave (the waves are called P, Q, R, S and T) is normally a peak, and then the wave levels off and starts with the P-wave again. In chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia patients, the T-wave flattens off, or actually inverts. That means the blood in the left ventricle is not being squeezed up through the aorta and around through the body. My client from Sudbury had this test done and, lo and behold, the results stated: "The shape of T and S-T suggests left ventricle strain pattern, although voltage and so on is normal." The doctor had no clue as to why the T-wave was not working properly. I analyzed the report of this patient who had been turned down by Canada Pensions and sent it back to them. They wrote back, saying: "It looks like we may have made a mistake. We are going to give you a hearing and you can explain this to us in more detail." So it is not all in your imagination. There is actual physical damage to the heart. The left ventricle muscles do show scarring. That is why many people are diagnosed with a heart condition when they first develop fibromyalgia, but it's only one of several problems because the mycoplasma can do all kinds of damage. Blood Volume Test You can also ask your doctor for a blood volume test. Every human being requires a certain amount of blood per pound of body weight, and it has been observed that people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses do not have the normal blood volume their body needs to function properly. Doctors aren't normally aware of this. This test measures the amount of blood in the human body by taking out 5 cc, putting a tracer in it and then putting it back into the body. One hour later, take out 5 cc again and look for the tracer. The thicker the blood and the lower the blood volume, the more tracer you will find. The analysis of one of my clients stated: "This patient was referred for red cell mass study. The red cell volume is 16.9 ml per kg of body weight. The normal range is 25 to 35 ml per kg. This guy has 36% less blood in his body than the body needs to function." And the doctor hadn't even known the test existed. If you lost 36% of your blood in an accident, do you think your doctor would tell you that you are alright and should just take up line dancing and get over it? They would rush you to the nearest hospital and start transfusing you with blood. These tragic people with these awful diseases are functioning with anywhere from 7% to 50% less blood than their body needs to function. Undoing The Damage The body undoes the damage itself. The scarring in the brain of people with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia will be repaired. There is cellular repair going on all the time. But the mycoplasma has moved on to the next cell. In the early stages of a disease, doxycycline may reverse that disease process. It is one of the tetracycline antibiotics, but it is not bactericidal; it is bacteriostatic -- it stops the growth of the mycoplasma. And if the mycoplasma growth can be stopped for long enough, then the immune system takes over. Doxycycline treatment is discussed in a paper by mycoplasma expert Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, of the Institute for Molecular Medicine.15 DR Nicholson is involved in a US$8-million mycoplasma research program funded by the US military and headed by DR Charles Engel of the NIH. The program is studying Gulf War veterans, 450 of them, because there is evidence to suggest that Gulf War syndrome is another illness (or set of illnesses) caused by mycoplasma. Nexus Magazine Volume 8, Number 5 September/October 2001 Donald W. Scott, MA, MSc DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: This is an excellent review of mycoplasmas. My main experience with them is in their association with rheumatoid arthritis. I have successfully treated well over 2,000 patients with RA with a combination of my eating plan, NST and the low dosed pulse antibiotic program (see below). Since I have incorporated NST into the program it seems the need for the antibiotics to resolve the infection has decreased quite dramatically and I only need to use the antibiotics for those with advanced disease. Recommended Reading: Horowitz, Leonard, Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola, Tetrahedron Publishing, USA, 1996. Johnson, Hillary, Osler's Web, Crown Publishers, New York, 1996. Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Brucellosis Triangle, The Chelmsford Publishers (Box 133, Stat. B., Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4N5), Canada, 1998 (US$21.95 + $3 s&h in US). Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident, The Chelmsford Publishers, Canada, 1996 (revised, extended edition available from mid-September 2001; US$16.00 pre-pub. price + US$3 s&h in US). The Journal of Degenerative Diseases (Donald W. Scott, Editor), The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation (Box 133, Stat B., Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 4N5), Canada (quarterly journal; annual subscription: US$25.00 in USA, $30 foreign). Additional Contacts: Ms Jennie Burke, Australian Biologics, Level 6, 383 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia tel +61 (0)2 9283 0807, fax +61 (0)2 9283 0910. Australian Biologics does tests for mycoplasma. Consumer Health Organization of Canada, 1220 Sheppard Avenue East #412, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2K 2S5, Tel +1 (416) 490 0986, website www.consumerhealth.org. Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, Institute for Molecular Medicine, 15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach, CA, 92649-1401, USA, Tel +1 (714) 903 2900. DR Les Simpson, Red Blood Cell Research Ltd, 31 Bath Street, Dunedin, 9001, New Zealand, Tel +64 (0)3 471 8540, email rbc.research.limited@xtra.co.nz. (Note: DR Simpson directs his study to red cell shape analysis, not the mycoplasma hypothesis.) Related Articles: Physicians' Protocol For Using Antibiotics in Rheumatic Disease Mycoplasma Bacteria Tied To Chronic Illness Identification of Mycoplasma in Synovial Fluid of Arthritis Patients Endnotes: 1. "Pathogenic Mycoplasma", US Patent No. 5,242,820, issued September 7, 1993. Dr Lo is listed as the "Inventor" and the American Registry of Pathology, Washington, DC, is listed as the "Assignee". 2. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", prepared by the National Cancer Institute, Viral Oncology, Etiology Area, July 1971, submitted to NIH Annual Report in May 1971 and updated July 1971. 3. US Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by the Department of Defense, 1977; released as US Army Activities in the US Biological Warfare Programs, Volumes One and Two, 24 February 1977. 4. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, Hearings before Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Monday June 9, 1969, pp 105&endash;144, esp. pp. 114, 129. 5. Kyger, E. R. and Russell L. Haden, "Brucellosis and Multiple Sclerosis", The American Journal of Medical Sciences 1949:689-693. 6. Colmonero et al., "Complications Associated with Brucella melitensis Infection: A Study of 530 Cases", Medicine 1996;75(4). 7. Howell, Miller, Kelly and Bookman, "Acute Brucellosis Among Laboratory Workers", New England Journal of Medicine 1948;236:741. 8. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", ibid., table 4, p. 135. 9. US Senate, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, March 8 and May 23, 1977, ibid. 10. New England Journal of Medicine, August 22, 1957, p. 362. 11. Toronto Star, May 15, 1997. 12. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, Hearings, Monday June 9, 1969, ibid., p. 129. 13. Henderson, Donald A., "Smallpox: Epitaph for a Killer", National Geographic, December 1978, p. 804. 14. Blum, Deborah, The Monkey Wars, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. 15. Nicholson, G. L., "Doxycycline treatment and Desert Storm", JAMA 1995;273:618-619 NEW ENGLAND VAMPIRES - IN R.I. AND BEYOND TB Mycoplasma Consumes America, causes Vampyrism BY GLORIA RUSSELL WESTERLY, R.I. - The vampire, romanticized in literature as a creature who sleeps by day and becomes a blood-sucking monster by night, has inspired the curious and fostered superstition for centuries. Today's scholar has separated fact from fiction, folklore from literary license. At a meeting this week of the Westerly Historical Society, Michael Bell, a trained folklorist, anthropologist and author of "Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires," discussed vampire tales spawned in New England between the 18th and 19th centuries. Up until the Civil War, the major cause of death in America was tuberculosis, an airborne disease for which there was no known cure. The deadly epidemic was wasting whole families and entire communities. [Mandatory injection with LIVE Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is required for all prisoners and school children in USA -- PDR drug package insert with WARNINGS.] In a last desperate effort to combat the plague, families began exhuming their dead in an attempt to save the living. Essentially, the corpses of people who died from tuberculosis were viewed as vampires, responsible for contaminating others. As a defensive measure, much like inoculation - where a little of a disease is injected into the body so the body can build resistance - families would dig up the dead, burn the heart and feed the ashes to family members in an attempt to ward off the disease. If the heart contained liquid, it was used to treat the disease. In some cases, all of the exhumed remains were burned to ward off the death of family members. Sometimes the bones were rearranged. Heads and leg bones were severed. These were not clandestine activities Bell explained during his talk at the Westerly Public Library. And while physicians and clergy did not endorse the practice, they did not openly condemn it either. It was a time of "do-it-yourself" medicine and those afflicted with tuberculosis evoked the idea of a vampire. Victims suffered the most during the night and woke up coughing; bloody spittle gathered at the corners of their mouths; there was blood on their bedclothes. Ghastly in appearance, they seemed to be walking corpses, with their lives draining away. "The symptoms very much mimic what you think a vampire attack would do," Bell remarked. The patients, with their emaciated forms, crimson lips and sunken eyes, fed the theory that the evil in the corpse must be killed. And while the living looked as though they were dying, after they did die of tuberculosis (or consumption, as it was also called) they seemed to grow, Bell explained. Their corpses would appear to gain weight when they began to bloat, their nails would curl and their hair would grow. Rhode Island had the dubious distinction of being named the Transylvania of America but neighboring Connecticut had its share of "vampires" as well. In New England, "vampirism" thrived outside the Puritan communities, in the fringe areas. A documented account appeared in The Connecticut Courant in 1765 and later in the Norwich Weekly Courier. Bell said such accounts were also recorded in the Providence Journal. He noted about 20 cases of vampire folklore chronicled throughout New England. Vampirism, he said, has been described as "a corpse that comes to the attention of the populace in times of crisis." The vampire tales were more legend than historical account. Bell, in a slide presentation, showed a recently discovered broken tombstone for Simon Whipple Aldrich, who died in North Smithfield, which reads in part, "Although consumption's vampire grasp had seized thy mortal frame ...." Stuckley Tillinghast, father of 14, had a recurring dream in which he lost half his orchard. His dreams turned out to be prophetic as he saw his family die of consumption one by one, until half of them, like the orchard, were gone. The departing family members had all complained that Sarah, the first to die, had returned. Tillinghast exhumed the bodies of his children. Some bodies had decayed but Sarah was well preserved. So her heart was cut out. Stories of the undead - vampires - were adopted by gothic literature. They took a folk figure, transformed it into a literary sophisticate and added a sexual element. The literary vampire lives for centuries while folk vampires stay close to home. "Folk vampires seldom leave the grave," Bell quipped. Dr. Len Horowitz NEW!Tuberculosis Skin Testing Reality Check NEW!Contradictions between Medical Science and Immunization Policy NEW! Congressional Hearing on Vaccine Contamination Investigation in realaudio format click here to listen. NEW! UPI Investigates: The vaccine conflict NEW! 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This is a transcript of Oral Presentation made by Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H Boyd Haley, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky writes: "I have tested vaccines with and without thimerosal with regards to their ability to inhibit important enzymes in brain tissue and in a series of purified mammalian enzymes critical for normal cell metabolism. CDC Vaccine Propaganda - CDC Issues vaccine promoting propaganda. Down's babies used in vaccine experiments - By VICTORIA MACDONALD Health Correspondent, Sunday Times July 6, 1997. BABIES and young children with Down's syndrome were used as guinea pigs by British doctors in 1960 to test an experimental vaccine for measles. Doctors said it was "useful" having them in hospital where they could watch over them for adverse reactions. Hepatitis B Vaccine: More Dangerous than the Disease? - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released figures earlier this year showing that the number of hepatitis B vaccine-associated adverse events and deaths reported in US children under the age of 14 is exceptionally high, significantly outnumbering the reported cases of hepatitis B disease in that same age group. Hepatitis B Vaccine Objection - a superb article published today in Ohio, where the legislature is reconsidering its mandatory Hepatitis B vaccine Hilleman Receives Sabin Award - Vaccine Scientist Responsible for More Vaccines than any Other to Receive Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal and Award for Lifetime Achievement Source: PR Newswire. Dr. Hilleman, according to Dr. Horowitz, developed the vaccine that most plausibly delivered AIDS to the world and is heavily implicated in the book Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--Nature, Accident or Intentional? Dr. Hilleman admitted bringing AIDS virus into North America in contaminated monkeys used for vaccine R & D. Money Magazine Response - Letter to the editor by Dr. Horowitz expressing congratulations for a job well done but incomplete. AIDS and contaminated vaccine issues not addressed. This letter was never published. More Military Vaccines -PRNewswir release on Birmingham- based Southern Research Institute's contract to develop drugs, vaccines, and toxoids to (allegedly) protect U.S. Army troops abroad from dangers ranging from biological warfare to exotic diseases. Mothers and Vaccines - Letter to the editor of Mothering Magazine by Dr. Horowitz in reply to their somewhat misleading summer 1996 issue regarding vaccine benefits and risks. Oral Polio En Masse - Propaganda press release in Vaccine Weekly. Says "oral polio vaccine (OPV) is better when taken with company. Lots of company. . . . Suggest[s] that adding further doses of OPV to the routine schedule is unlikely to have as great an impact on the immune state of children as administering the same number of doses during mass campaigns." Parenting Vaccine Propaganda - Parenting Magazine issues vaccine promoting propaganda. Polio Meningitits Diagnosis Change - Karin Schumacher <via@ihot.com> asks Dr. Neustaedter questions regarding the renaming of non-paralytic polio to meningitis in the 1950's, and the link between AIDS and the rhesus monkey as some authors have suggested. SIDS and Vaccines - Article discusses links between vaccines and sudden infant death. Stunning Admissions on Contaminated Vaccines and AIDS - Stunning admissions regarding the man-made origin of the AIDS pandemic are provided by Merck's leading vaccine developers. Surgeon General's Vaccine Letter - The Surgeon Genocide issues supportive propaganda for vaccine industry. Vaccination Waiver - Article explains how to exempt your children from risky vaccine programs. Vaccination: The UnGodly Practice - Dr. Horowitz and co-authors provide biblical support and references for refusing to take, and legally exempt from, vaccination. Vaccines and John Martin - By National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) an article on the DISCOVERY OF AN ATYPICAL VIRUS INFECTING HUMANS LINKED TO VIRAL VACCINES PRODUCED ON MONKEY TISSUES. Regards an award winning pathologist and immunologist, W. John Martin, M.D., Ph.D., and his discovery of an atypical virus infecting both children and adults exhibiting neurological, psychiatric and autoimmune disorder symptoms with diagnoses including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, seizures, developmental delays, autism, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, unexplained encephalopathy and chronic vegetative states. 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The March America Missed -- And the Duct Tape Buyout They Didn't! Gangster government don't give a shit about robbing disarmed vets By Thomas D. Segel, MGSGT USMC (Retired)
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They marched that cold day in February. They marched as they had countless times before, in different times and in different places. This time there were no military bands and no reviewing stands. The formation was not as precise. The steps were not as precise. But the American Flag was still in its prominent place at the front of the formation. A white-bearded Navy Chief, in full uniform and walking with a cane, carried it. Behind the flag were rank upon rank of World War II and Korean War retired military veterans. Some marched unaided, while others pulled oxygen tanks, were pushed in their wheel chairs or bounced along the paving on powered scooters. There were even more canes and walkers. But they all marched. The military retirees flew to Washington, D.C., from as far away as Korea for that February 12 rally, to protest the loss of their promised medical care. Some came by car, others by bus ... whatever transportation they could obtain brought these hundreds of senior warriors to the nation's capital. The march formed at Union Station and proceeded all the way to the steps of the United States Supreme Court, where they stood a vigil for more than one hour.
All of this was done with the hope that the senior court in our land will hear and act favorably on their rejected plea for the Federal Government to restore promised lifetime-earned health care. The retired servicemen and their families were promised this care as one of the benefits for twenty or more years of service protecting the citizens of America. So, where was the national media? Why ... they had more important things to do. This was the same day duct tape became the news event "cause celeb". It was duct tape, all day, on all media, across the United States. While these veterans who dedicated their lives to this county hobbled up to the steps of the Supreme Court in protest, our major newspapers and television news teams visited Home Depot and the hardware sections of discount stores to bring America the important story of the day. Instead of the news cameras pointing at a white hearse with the words "Government's Answer To Military Retiree Health Care" boldly printed on both sides, newsmen rushed to video tape people loading plastic sheeting into their shopping carts.
It should be very important for America to know that the bravest and best of its citizens are being refused treatment in their old age, by the same government they defended during their most productive years. It should be important for America to know that agents of our government, from military recruiters to officials of the Department of Defense, made promises that our legal system says do not carry the weight of law. It should be important for America to know that more than 1,000 retired service personal who served during World War II and Korea are dying each day, while not receiving the medical attention they were promised. As the hearse in that parade of Gray Lions depicted, the government's answer to promised health care for all who faithfully served their country is to wait until every one of them has taken that final ride to their appointed reward. Then our government might take action. America should know all these things, and the media should be reporting it to them in loud, angry voices. Instead, we are given all the important details about a pending shortage of that important item: duct tape. |
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A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation RENSE.COM Radio News 1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients. 1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated. 1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations. 1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust. 1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty. 1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD. 1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite. 1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States. 1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs. 1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals. 1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects. 1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge. 1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates. HistoryChannel.com reported that by 2001, the Pentagon had nuked America over 1,050 times with nuclear bomb explosions. 1950 In an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms. 1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed. 1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents. 1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii. 1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings. 1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl. 1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958. 1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects. 1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence. 1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT. 1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs. 1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along. 1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals. 1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates. 1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons. 1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C. 1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists. 1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses. 1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA. 1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus). 1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. 1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men. 1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine 1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship. 1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists. 1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines. 1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation. 1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental. 1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made. 1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War . 1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research. 1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections. 1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents. 1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome. © 1998-2000 Health News Network INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THE EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY PARK Psycho Big Brother loves you and wants to kill you Office of Environment, Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Energy (2000) Verbatum from the declassified portion of the Report: "Conservative estimates indicated that 35,000 pounds of uranium were released into the air from all sources. 4,300 pounds of uranium a month was unaccounted for or released to the environment. ETTP operates an incinerator which handles radioactive, hazardous and uranium-contaminated PCB wastes. ETTP generated transuranic elements (isotopes with atomic numbers greater than uranium) such as neptunium-237 and plutonium-239; fission products such as techneitum-99; PCBs; toxic metals; and volatile organic compunds such as trichloroethene (TCE) and present risk to the public. Some contaminants migrated outside the Plant boundary. Waste disposal practices included direct discharge of radioactive materials, toxics and caustics to holding ponds and storm drains, and incineration and burial. Reports reflected a number of spills of nitric and hydrochloric acids, in one case 200 gallons. Numerous large fires and explosions were reported. It is impossible to characterize exposure because of inadequate surveys and incomplete records. Records indicate that as contamination levels increased, exposure controls were reduced. Contamination above limits was commonly detected. Operations have released a variety of contaminants into the environment, such as burial of low-level and hazardous waste in landfills and dumping directly into the Clinch River. Large amounts of contaminated equipment and scrap material were sold at public auction. Tens of thousands of pounds of flourine and hydrogen flouride were emitted annually. The investigation team identified over 600 releases of uranium hexaflouride, and a large, visible cloud was released outside a building. Exposure to 'intense clouds' of uranium powder dusts was prevalent and resulted in intense beta radiation fields. Each month dozens or workers were identified as having exposures exceeding plant control guides. Extensive contamination was prevalent. Recordsindicate many air samples in excess of Plant Allowable Limits. Both chemical and radiological materials have routinely been discharged from the Plant, from both sanitary sewage and storm water systems and materials were directly discharged in Mitchell Branch and Poplar Creek. One million pounds of blowdown water was discharged a day. The hexavalent chromium concentration in Poplar Creek is equal to the level regulated by the site's permit. Contents of 500 uranium hexafloride and other gas cylinders were emptied into the unlined holding pond by shooting the cylinders with high-powered rifles, and this pond discharged into Poplar Creek. Records confirm that radiation exceeded drinking water standards. Over 80,000 drums of pond sludge with low concentrations of uranium were generated in 1988. Ventilation was modified to discharge mercury fumes above the roof. Elevated levels of mercury were found in urinalyses. Records refer to the recovery of tons of mercury. Traps would blow out spilling mercury on the floor. Air sampling in the 1990s identified mercury levels several times the Threshold Limit Value. Continual and volumnous process leaks (blowoffs) were vented to the atmosphere. 4,300 pounds of uranium hexaflouride were released per month. Losses were excessive. 10,000 union grievances were filed and management disputed grievances concerning safety in favor of economic considerations. Many storm drains were not moitored before 1992, and routine and accidental wastes have adversely impacted the environment and the aquatic habitat. Weaknesses in the sampling and monitoring of air pollutant emissions raise concerns regarding the accuracy of public dose and exposure calculations. Environmental radiological protection and surveillance are not compliant with DOE Order. Few records reflect involvement by the Atomic Energy Commission in investigations of serious events. Levels of airborne radioactivity were as high as 35,800 dpm/ft3, and far exceeded the PAL of 2 dpm/ft3. [That's radiation levels over 17,000 times the maximum limit.] Airborne radioactivity far in excess of normal background levels was measured off-site as far as five miles away. A number of criticality and sub-criticality accident experiments were performed and posed a severe radiation hazard. Bladder cancer rates were seven times higher than for the general population, and stomach ulcers were 6.5 times greater. Inhalation of airborn radiation can increase the risk of future cancer." [verbatum from the Report] NOTE: This report only covered the K-25 plant, not the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration's Y-12 nuclear bombs factory, not the thousands of contaminated lab rats from ORNL's Y-12 nuclear bombs factory Mouse House that are incinerated at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in downtown Knoxville, and did not cover Top Secret "criticality" pollution, "referred to as 'special hazards'" (ie, "small" explosions due to accidental nuclear reactions), and "are discussed in a separate classifed document." The GOPS government of Tennessee previously gave ETTP/ORNL a clean bill of health in 1999. "Oak Ridge currently stores more low-level nuclear waste than any other DOE site in the nation. Oak Ridge facilities have more than 47,000 cubic yards of low-level waste in storage - roughly a third of DOE's total inventory nationwide. 26,937 cubic yards at East Tennessee Technology Park (formerly known as the K-25 site). 11,435 cubic yards at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 8,907 cubic yards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. Many of the containers are stored outdoors, exposed to the elements." "The Oak Ridge plant remains an integral cog in the U.S. nuclear defense, producing new parts for existing weapons and recycling old warheads from retired systems. Y-12, of course, is a symbolic location for protests because the plant produced the enriched uranium used in the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945. Y-12 also serves as the nation's principal repository for bomb-grade uranium." "It's impossible to determine whether the public, workers and the environment are being protected from hazards. The high-ranking official in Washington said she found a "consistent theme of weaknesses" in the correction plan and thus could not approve it. Roberson indicated she was dismayed and surprised by the Oak Ridge report's inadequacies. "It is unclear how this plan could have gotten through your management system in its current condition," Roberson wrote to Dever. The Oak Ridge report was not only amateurish; it was late - failing to meet the 60-day requirement for approval of a corrective action plan.
On Oct. 18, Roberson sent Dever another memo, this time revoking the Oak Ridge manager's authority to approve various safety documents. In years past, whenever there was an Oak Ridge problem (be it a negative audit on storage of nuclear materials or a chemical
explosion injuring workers), the federal agency blamed the contractor and took steps to make amends - sometimes dumping the contractor. This time, however, the finger is pointing directly at DOE's Oak Ridge leadership." "Which of the government's Oak Ridge nuclear facilities - the K-25 uranium-enrichment complex, Oak Ridge National Laboratory or the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant - posed the greatest hazard to workers? But, for whatever reason, the federal agency has not coughed up money for a screening program to identify health problems among thousands of retired laborers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. K-25 employees came forward last year with evidence that cross-connections in the water pipelines created the potential for contamination of drinking-water supplies. Several activists are pushing for a criminal investigation and want to halt DOE's current demolition of buildings at K-25
until the hazards have been fully evaluated (the world's largest single building contaminated by radioactive dust)." "Frank Akers, who heads the national security directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is on special assignment to Washington working on Homeland Security. Akers reportedly is working in the office of John Gordon, director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, and he's expected to remain there for three or four months. Everything is hush-hush. "I cannot discuss his assignment," lab communications chief Billy Stair said. Akers, it appears, would be qualified for many missions. Besides being an associate director of ORNL and coordinating the Oak Ridge work for the Department of Defense, he has headed the advanced technologies effort at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant (managed by British WXT). He is a retired brigadier general in the U.S Army, having held prominent posts - such as chief of staff for the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg (the terrorist training camp for the planet Earth). The laboratory has provided the U.S. Department of Energy with a rather lengthy list of technologies that may be of help in the war against terrorism. Multiple staff meetings were held in October to discuss concepts and research projects of potential use to the campaign. "Those are lists of technologies that are capable of dealing with some of the concerns - be that rapid detection of anthrax to better tracking of individuals around the country," Madia said. Several areas in the central part of the research complex are still off-limits because of the legacy of
radioactive contamination from nuclear work in the 1940s, '50s and '60s." "The biggest science project in the United States is edging ever closer to reality at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scientists around the world are already planning experiments for the Oak Ridge facilities. "I envy the younger scientists who are going to be able to use it and exploit it," Nobel Laureate Clifford Shull remarked at the project's groundbreaking ceremonies in late 1999. Former Vice President Al Gore, who was a key supporter in the SNS startup period." (Perhaps that's why Al Gore moved the hell out of Tennessee and to the terrorists' home of preference, Boston's Harvard University, where 20 Bin Laden's live and provide scholarships to study Saudi Arabia and where the airliners took off on their kamikaze missions on 911.) "ORNL was prepared. Indeed, a lot of planning was done weeks—even months—in advance of Science magazine's publication of research results, and all because of two words: cold fusion. By no means was the ORNL director trashing or diminishing the research conducted by Rusi Taleyarkhan and colleagues at Oak Ridge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences. There is a lot of important science taking place currently at Oak Ridge—on climate change [HAARP and/or Chemtrails], functional genomics, superconductivity—but it typically doesn't require his hands-on care or direction, Madia said." "Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a world campus, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and security-related fallout from those tragedies will not change that. ORNL confirmed that about 1,500 foreign nationals from 69 countries - Argentina to Zaire - currently are visiting the Oak Ridge lab. Thom Mason, the director of the Spallation Neutron Source, the biggest U.S. science project under construction, is not an American citizen. "I only got my green card in July,'' Mason said. More than 100 foreign nationals are full-time members of the scientific staff, and those numbers, of course, do not reflect the number of foreign-born scientists and engineers who have become naturalized U.S. citizens over the years. Recent statistics compiled by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education show that 40 percent of the graduate degrees in nuclear engineering at U.S. institutions were awarded to foreign nationals. Similar stats are found across the sciences and math and computing." OAK RIDGE - "The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant is vulnerable to terrorist attack, and the results could be devastating, a government watchdog group said Thursday. The Project On Government Oversight said Y-12 failed to protect its nuclear materials last month during a high-level security exercise, underscoring concerns about Y-12 and its vast cache of bomb-grade uranium. If terrorists were to gain access to one of a half-dozen facilities where Y-12 stores enriched uranium, they could build and explode a nuclear bomb within minutes, said Pete Stockton, senior investigator for POGO. Y-12 manufactures components for nuclear warheads, and the Oak Ridge plant is the nation's principal storehouse for weapons-usable uranium." DUI Law and Disorder The DUI Exception to the Constitution by Lawrence Taylor, attorney-at-law I hope to convince you in the next hour, some of you, convince some of you, in the next hour that the greatest single threat to our freedoms, the freedoms set forth in our Bill of Rights to our Constitution. The single greatest threat is not from China. I don't think it's from Afghanistan. I don't think it's from the extremists of the Muslim world. The threat as it has always been throughout history is internal. It is from within. I do not think it is from the American Communist party or extremists on the right. I hope to convince a few of you the greatest single threat to our freedoms today is a group of American housewives. They call themselves the Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MADD. In 46 states today it is legal to stop you for absolutely no reason other than the fact that you are driving a car. The only purpose is to check you out for drunk driving. You have been stopped, you have been taken out of the car and you have been handcuffed. You are placed in a police vehicle and you are on your way back to the police station. About this time you're probably wondering--I've seen this TV show somewhere--they're supposed to read me something aren't they? Something called Miranda? Aren't I supposed to have a right for an attorney? Don't I have the right to remain silent? That becomes an issue because, as you're being driven to jail, the officer's asking you all kinds of questions. Like, "Where have you been? Where are you coming from? How much have you had to drink? How long ago was it? When was the last drink? Do you feel the effects? Where are you now? What time of day is it?" A state Supreme Court said, 'Hey, this person's handcuffed and under arrest, you've got to advise him of his constitutional rights under Miranda.' And again, it went to the United States Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court fooled around for about 20 or 30 pages of opinion and finally concluded that there was a DUI exception to the constitution. And that, "Well, we really can't tell you when you're supposed to give Miranda in a DUI case. We do know that it is later than in other types of criminal investigations." In 1989 the United States Supreme Court in Blanton versus North Las Vegas, a DUI case, said, "There is no Constitutional right to a jury trial in a DUI case, so long as it's not punishable by more than six months in jail." In closing, I will comment on two things. The Mothers Against Drunk Driving have been very active recently in trying to get "Scarlet Letter" laws passed. They almost did it two months ago in California. Came close. The Scarlet Letter law is: if you are convicted of a DUI, you must have a big bright red license plate saying the big scarlet letter "DUI" on it. Your wife has to drive it. Your kids have to drive it. You would not be able to rent a car, whatsoever, because the tag would be lacking your "badge" of dishonor. You must carry that brand on you, says MADD. It must remain with you for as long as you drive a car for whatever period of time. It did not pass last time. But, as MADD knows, there is NEXT YEAR. The other comment is about a case many of you may have heard about in North Carolina. Now, we have never executed people, we've never, until recently, given the death penalty for a crime unless there was pre-meditation of the offender. Intention to kill and time to reflect upon that and then to carry out the plan and cold-bloodedly murder. Some exceptions have been added: Killing a police officer; multiple murders; murder by torture; murder for ransom. In North Carolina this year there was a DUI case involving an accident. Another person died. It would, in any other case, in another state, likely be a vehicular manslaughter case. It was not an intentional act. It was negligent; it may have been reckless. And the prosecutor sought the death penalty. The death penalty. Fortunately, they didn't get it. My understanding is that the defendant was convicted of MURDER and only received LIFE IN PRISON. Do I have an answer? No, I don't. But I know that system isn't working, and in the meantime you are destroying the Constitutional rights that we've all previously enjoyed. Since 1979, when Candy Lightner started MADD, those all-important rights have taken a blood bath. Again, the legal system is not concerned with truth. And it may come as a shock, but it is not. The legal system is not concerned with justice, either. It is concerned with expediency, not justice. If they were concerned with justice, they would not permit roadblocks. They would not presume guilt. They would not pass laws refuting scientific truth. I just said, "They would not presume guilt." That was another DUI exception to the constitution that I didn't tell you about. One other thing the police officer does after he has you breathe into that machine, if you're over .08, is that he immediately grabs your license and confiscates it. This is another contribution from MADD. Immediate seizure of the license in about 48 of the states today. On the spot. Justice administered by the police officer. No judge. No jury. You are presumed guilty. Your license is confiscated and you are given a notice of suspension. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Well, it's that DUI exception again. You are presumed guilty. To make matters even worse, about 5 years ago a California "proposition" was placed on the ballot. The question: "Should we, the people of California, eliminate our STATE constitutional rights, and only retain those constitutional rights REQUIRED to be kept by the United States Constitution?" Amazingly, after a well-financed television campaign by ultra-right groups who found the Constitution to be a shield for criminals, the people of California voted to NOT HAVE ANY STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! For the first time in recorded human history a democratic group abandoned hard-earned rights and legal protections that their forefathers has sweated, bled and died to obtain. Welcome to America! Welcome to "the land of the free and the home of the brave." See Also:
Drunk Driving Defense, 5th Edition (2000) By Lawrence Taylor Book Excerpts Driving under the influence of alcohol, or "drunk driving," is by far the most commonly encountered offense in the courts today. Yet it has always been one of the most difficult charges to defend, involving, as it does, more esoteric areas of science and law than most felonies, while affording fewer constitutional safeguards. The difficulties, however, have become much greater since the first edition of Drunk Driving Defense was published in 1981. The substantive, evidentiary, and procedural aspects of DUI litigation have grown immeasurably more complex in this short period of time, while at the same time the stakes for the client have been raised. In fact, the entire DUI scene has undergone a change in recent years that may accurately be described as revolutionary. The most noticeable element in the prosecution's new arsenal is the so-called per se law. Since 1982, the vast majority of states have enacted statutes that created a new offense: driving while having an excessive blood-alcohol level (commonly.08 or .10 percent). This crime, which is usually charged along with the traditional DUI offense, is completely unconcerned with whether the driver was intoxicated or not: the crime is a biological one. Thus the prosecutor's job is made considerably easier--and the defense attorney's considerably more difficult. But as the methods of analysis become more complex, the possibilities for error grow--and the problem becomes more difficult for counsel to handle. The phenomenon has created difficulties across the full spectrum of chemical analysis. Thus, for example, the spread of infrared analysis requires counsel to become familiar with lightwave theory and such potential defects as nonspecific analysis and the effects of acetone and acetaldehyde. Similarly, the theory and fallacies of retrograde extrapolation must be understood if counsel expects to effectively attack any method of blood-alcohol analysis. The defense attorney must be able to expose the weaknesses of the computer programming in the newer breath machines, such as the "assumed" alveolar air ratio used in computing blood-alcohol levels. As these instruments become ever more sophisticated, they are also increasingly susceptible to false readings caused by radio frequency interference. Counsel must become familiar with this phenomenon and with the admissions by the federal government and the manufacturers themselves as to its effects. Quite simply, the defense attorney who does not familiarize himself with recent developments in blood alcohol analysis is lost. Concurrent with these changes is a marked increase in the severity of sentences rendered in drunk driving cases. Whereas in the past an offender could expect a fine, probation, and perhaps attendance at a "drunk driving school," he is now increasingly faced with loss of his driver's license and mandatory jail sentences and, in cases of repeat offenders, with long terms or even felony status. Yet despite the vastly more sophisticated nature of drunk driving litigation, the client accused of this offense is likely to be defended by counsel who normally does not handle criminal matters; the crime is unique in that it is committed primarily by individuals who are respectable citizens and who often turn to their business or family lawyer for help. As a result, this highly complex case is handled routinely by attorneys with insufficient knowledge of the extensive scientific, evidentiary, procedural, and tactical considerations involved. And the result is too often predictable. § 7.4.1 Field Evidence: Cross-Examination on Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus § 7.6.4 The Magic Memory: Illustrative Trial Techniques - Cross-exam of the Officer: Top Ten Tactics § 8.0.2 The Fallacy of the "Average Person" One of the greatest sources of error in blood-alcohol testing is the consistently recurring fallacy that the individual tested is perfectly average in certain critical physiological traits. Put another way, obtaining an accurate blood-alcohol reading is completely dependent on the validity of a number of scientific assumptions. Unfortunately for the person being tested, these assumptions are usually incorrect: The person tested is rarely "average" in even one of these critical characteristics, let alone in all of them. One of the major defects in many methods of blood-alcohol analysis is the failure to identify ethanol (also referred to as ethyl alcohol) to the exclusion of all other chemical compounds. To use the terminology of scientists, such methods are not specific for ethanol: They will detect other compounds as well, identifying any of them as "ethanol." Thus a client with other compounds in his blood or breath may have a high "blood-alcohol" reading with little or no ethanol in his body. This problem of nonspecificity is most noticeable in the use of infrared breath analyzing instruments, such as the various Intoxilyzer models, the Intoximeter 3000, and the BAC Datamaster. CMI's so-called "state-of-the-art" Intoxilyzer Model 5000 (and its various permutations), the most widely used breath machine in service today, utilizes infrared spectroscopy. Yet infrared analysis is particularly susceptible to giving false readings due to nonspecificity. In fact, the single greatest flaw in the Intoxilyzer itself--and the most productive area for cross-examination--is the machine's inherent lack of specificity. The technical reason for this lack of specificity is that the Intoxilyzer is not designed to detect the molecule of ethyl alcohol (ethanol), but rather only a part of that molecule--the methyl group. In other words, it is the methyl group in the ethyl alcohol compound that is absorbing the infrared light, resulting in the eventual blood-alcohol reading. Thus the machine will "detect" any chemical compound and identify it as ethyl alcohol if it contains a methyl group compound within its molecular structure. The Intoxilyzer assumes that the methyl group is a part of an ethyl alcohol compound. The simple fact is that there are numerous compounds that contain the methyl group. Among these are isopropyl alcohol, propane, butane, propylene, methane, ethane, ethyl chloride, acetic acid, butadiene, dimethylether, dimethylamine, and dimethylhydrazine. Acetone and acetaldehyde both contain the methyl group in their structure--and, interestingly, each can be found on the human breath. In fact, recent studies have found that over one hundred chemical compounds can be found on the breath at any given moment in time (see Table 1). More important, approximately 70 to 80 percent of these compounds contain methyl groups. And the infrared breath machine will detect each of these as "ethyl alcohol." To make matters worse, the machine detects alcohol through "additive absorption." In other words, the more methyl groups the instrument detects by their absorbing the infrared energy, the higher will be the blood-alcohol reading. Thus all of the non-alcoholic compounds on the breath will have a cumulative effect--that is, the errors will be added one on top of another. To approach this problem of specificity from another angle, ethanol has a peak absorption at approximately 3.39 microns, with the band of absorption declining rapidly on each side. However, ethanol has wide absorption bands and peaks at other wavelengths as well, such as bands in the 7.25, 9.5, and 11.0 micron range. Yet the Intoxilyzer screens out these wavelengths and attempts to identify the substance, ethanol, on the basis of only one, two, or three bands, depending on the model. This reduces the efficiency of the Intoxilyzer, since other elements besides ethanol absorb in these ranges, but few, if any, of them would also absorb in the 7.25, 9.5, and 11.0 micron ranges. Normal Composite Compositional Profile of Human Expired Air
Printing would preclude an expert's opinion as to similarity. Yet the Intoxilyzer attempts to identify a substance on the basis of one, two, or three points of identity, despite the availability of other points that would exclude all substances other than ethyl alcohol. How prevalent are chemicals in the breath that can register on breath analyzing machines as ethanol? There have been a number of recognized studies on the existence of chemical compounds on the breath—all concluding that a wide variety of compounds exists, including compounds containing the methyl group. The results of one such study are found in an article by Conkle, Camp, and Welch entitled Trace Composition of Human Respiratory Gas, 30 Archives of Environmental Health 290 (1975). The researchers analyzed the breath of eight test subjects, and found "the presence of 69 different compounds in the expired air of eight men." Id. at 292. Another article, by Krotoszynski, Gabriel and O'Neill, Characterization of Human Expired Air: A Promising Investigative and Diagnostic Technique, 15 Journal of Chromatographic Science 240 (1977), described analysis of air samples taken from 28 "average" human subjects. This study found that the "combined expired air comprises at least 102 various organic compounds of endogenous and exogenous origin." Id. at 244. The researchers further concluded that "400% of the constituents (70% of the mean organic contents) are common to 76% of the population studied." Id. at 244. Finally, Canadian scientists have reported that "approximately 200 compounds have been detected in the human breath." Manolis, The Diagnostic Potential of Breath Analysis, 29(1) Clinical Chemistry 5 (1983). This last study confirmed the presence of acetone on the breath in diabetics and in persons on a diet "associated with a weight reduction of about one-half pound per week." Id. at 9. Another study has confirmed that diabetics may give false indications of intoxication. In Brick, Diabetes, Breath Acetone and Breathalyzer Accuracy: A Case Study, 9(1) Alcohol, Drugs and Driving (1993), a researcher found that expired ketones in the breath of an untreated diabetic can contribute to erroneously high breath-alcohol readings. Further, the acetone on the breath from ketoacidosis will result in an odor of alcohol. Finally, behavioral patterns of a diabetic whose blood-sugar level has dropped will include slurred speech, slow gait, impaired motor control, fumbling hand movements, and mental confusion--all symptomatic of [alcohol] intoxication. Acetone ["bad breath"] may also be found on the breath of perfectly normal, healthy individuals. Yet, acetone is one of the compounds that will be detected on many breath analyzing instruments as ethanol. In the Intoxilyzer, for example, it is detected because acetone absorbs infrared energy in the 3.38 to 3.40 micron range--the same range where ethanol is found. Therefore, if acetone were introduced into the Intoxilyzer, the machine would simply register the presence of alcohol despite its absence. If an individual had 525 micrograms per liter of acetone in the breath, he would register a blood-alcohol level of .02 to .03 percent. Thus, if an individual with a true blood-alcohol level of .08 percent had that amount of acetone, the Intoxilyzer would register in the area of .l0 to .11 percent. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published a report entitled The Likelihood of Acetone Interference in Breath Alcohol Measurement (DOT HS--806-922). The report basically summarizes scientific literature on the subject, concluding that normal individuals have insignificant levels of acetone on their breath. The data indicated, however, that dieters can have higher levels and that diabetics not in control of their blood-sugar had levels hundreds or even thousands of times higher than normal. Unfortunately, the authors did not determine what effect such levels would have on a breath testing device; they simply concluded that at levels rendering the individual "not too ill to drive," the breath reading would be raised by only .01-.02 percent. The authors (and it must be recognized that this federal agency has been consistently law enforcement-oriented, to the point of suppressing unfavorable results of radio frequency interference tests, for example) also conclude that the only instrument significantly affected by acetone interference is the Intoxilyzer 4011A. By contrast, a more scientific article entitled Excretion of Low-Molecular Weight Volatile Substances in Human Breath: Focus on Endogenous Ethanol, 9 Journal of Analytical Toxicology 246 (1985), has concluded that acetone can exist in some normal individuals in quantities that can create falsely high results in a breath-alcohol test. For a study confirming the effects of increased levels of acetone in dieters, see Frank and Flores, The Likelihood of Acetone Interference in Breath Alcohol Measurement, 3 Alcohol, Drugs and Driving 1 (1987). In that study, researchers found that fasting can increase acetone to levels sufficient to obtain readings of .06 percent on breath testing instruments. Similarly, a study confirming the effects of acetone in diabetics can be found in Mormann, Olsen, Sakshaug, and Morland, Measurement of Ethanol by Alkomat Breath Analyzer; Chemical Specificity and the Influence of Lung Function, Breath Technique and Environmental Temperature, 25 Blutalkohol 153 (1988). Diabetic subjects in that study also were found to have acetone levels sufficient to produce breath-alcohol readings of .06 percent. Another major source of nonspecific detection in various methods of blood-alcohol analysis involves the presence in the body of acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a chemical by-product in the body's metabolism of ethanol. As the ethanol is oxidized, or "burned off," acetaldehyde is produced; eventually, the acetaldehyde is converted to carbon dioxide and water. This oxidation of alcohol with its attendant production of acetaldehyde takes place primarily in the liver. However, it can also occur in other tissues and fluids of the body--most notably in the lungs. And, since acetaldehyde, like acetone, will be "detected" as ethanol in many types of analysis, a falsely high blood-alcohol reading can result. This nonspecific detection of acetaldehyde in the breath is particularly noticeable in infrared spectroscopy, "wet chemical" analysis, and blood analysis using the oxidation technique. In the past, this production of acetaldehyde has not been seen to be a problem. When acetaldehyde is produced in the liver, it is sent into the blood and then into the lungs in small quantities. More recently, however, it has been discovered that alcohol is metabolized--and acetaldehyde produced--in the lungs themselves. The result can be a highly elevated amount of acetaldehyde in the lungs, with a subsequently large amount in the expired breath to register in a breath analyzing instrument as ethanol. This phenomenon of production of acetaldehyde in the lungs was commented on in a study by Jauhanen, Baraona, Hiyakawa, and Lieber, entitled Origin of Breath Acetaldehyde During Ethanol Oxidation: Effect of Long-Term Cigarette Smoking, 100 Journal of Laboratory Clinical Medicine 908 (1982). The researchers discovered that the amount of acetaldehyde in the lungs was considerably greater than the amount that would be expected if passed from the liver by way of the blood into the lungs. Furthermore, the elevated amounts of acetaldehyde in the lungs were not predictable--they varied according to the individual. Thus, for example, it was found that acetaldehyde concentrations in the lungs were far greater for smokers than for nonsmokers. Translated into practical effect, smokers are more likely to have high blood-alcohol readings, regardless of their true blood-alcohol level. In a subsequent study, it was found that breath acetaldehyde levels were found to indicate blood-alcohol levels 30 times higher than would be expected from direct blood analysis. Stowell, et al., A Reinvestigation of the Usefulness of Breath Analysis in the Determination of Blood Acetaldehyde Concentration, 8(5) Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 442 (1984). The conclusion of the researchers was, again, that the acetaldehyde in the lungs was not coming from the liver by way of the blood, but was being produced in the lungs themselves and exhaled in much larger quantities than would be expected. End result: falsely high breath test readings. Another example of variances in acetaldehyde levels that can compound blood-alcohol analysis was reported by researchers studying alcoholics. In Lindros, et al., Elevated Blood Acetaldehyde in Alcoholics and Accelerated Ethanol Elimination, 13 (Supp. 1) Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 119 (1980), scientists discovered that acetaldehyde in the breath and blood of alcoholics was 5 to 55 times higher than that in nonalcoholics. Thus increased acetaldehyde--and consequent falsely high blood-alcohol readings--can be attributed to the makeup of the alcoholic's physiology. Of course, counsel should consider the risks in bringing this information out for the jury to ponder. Thus it clearly appears that acetaldehyde is produced in the lungs themselves. With this elevated level of acetaldehyde in the lungs, there will be elevated levels in the breath. And apparently every breath analyzing device but those employing gas chromatography is fully capable of registering this compound as ethanol. Further, blood tests utilizing the process of oxidation reaction with potassium dichromate can be affected by acetaldehyde. In their latest advertisements for the Intoxilyzer Model 5000, the manufacturer lists an acetaldehyde detector as a new option. In developing this option, the manufacturer has clearly acknowledged the often-denied problem of acetaldehyde interference. Whether the device is effective is, of course, another matter. Certainly, counsel confronted with a case involving the Model 5000 should determine whether the option was present; if not, that fact should be pointed out to the jury. In fact, the existence of such a device in this "state-of-the-art" instrument should be interesting to a jury in DUI cases involving any type of breath testing apparatus. It is also interesting to note that the commonly observed symptoms of flushed face and bloodshot eyes are physiologically the result of the effects of acetaldehyde--not of alcohol itself. Thus such symptoms may actually tend to corroborate the falsity of a blood-alcohol test--that is, elevated acetaldehyde evidenced by a flushed face and bloodshot eyes may have caused the high breath test reading! An interesting study involving the Intoxilyzer 4011-AS has shown dramatically the dangers of nonspecificity. In an article appearing in 7(4) Drinking/Driving Newsletter 3 (February 19, 1988), a test conducted by the Demers Laboratory in Springvale, Maine, is described wherein a subject was tested after exposure under realistic field conditions to paint and glue. The subject entered a test room and applied a pint of contact cement to a piece of plywood; he then applied a gallon of oil-base paint to a vertical surface. This activity lasted about one hour. Twenty minutes after leaving the room, the subject was tested on the Intoxilyzer. Results? Despite the subject's having no alcohol in his body, the machine registered .12 percent--over the legal limit. The subject was tested again one-half hour later: Readings of .05 and .04 percent were obtained. Another example of commonly encountered chemical compounds that can affect breath tests was described in a study reported in Giguiere, Lewis, Baselt, and Chang, Lacquer Fumes and the Intoxilyzer, 12 Journal of Analytical Toxicology 168 (1988). Scientists performed tests on a professional painter who was exposed to lacquer fumes under controlled conditions. In the first test, he sprayed paint in a room for 20 minutes, wearing a protective mask; his blood and breath were then tested. Although the blood test showed no presence of alcohol, an Intoxilyzer 4011-AS indicated a reading of .075 percent BAC. Ten minutes later, the painter sprayed the same room for five minutes--but this time without the protective mask. The blood test again showed no BAC. The Intoxilyzer, however, registered a reading of .48 percent! Perhaps most interesting, the Intoxilyzer was equipped with an acetone detection light designed to detect the presence of any interfering compounds—yet at no time during the test did the light indicate the presence of any such compounds. In an article appearing on the front page of the August 24, 1988, edition of the Spokane Spokesman Review, an individual in a Sandpoint Idaho jail awaiting trial for drunk driving claimed that he had been siphoning gasoline; when he sucked on the hose, he swallowed some of the gasoline, which later caused a high reading on a breath test. He managed to talk the sheriff into a demonstration to prove his story. Taken from his cell after one week of incarceration, he swallowed a cup of unleaded gasoline; after various periods of time, he blew into an Intoximeter. The results? After 5 minutes, the reading was .00 percent; after 10 minutes, .04 percent; after 20 minutes, the machine registered .31 percent; and after one hour, the reading was .28 percent. Three hours after ingestion, the individual still blew a .24 percent on the Intoximeter! A quick call to a gasoline distributor confirmed that gasoline contains no alcohol. This phenomenon has been scientifically verified in a study conducted by CMI, the manufacturer of the Intoxilyzer, and reported in 8(3) Drinking/Driving Law Letter 6 (1989). The CMI technicians mixed a simulator solution of 800 micrograms of gasoline with 500 milliliters of distilled water, then introduced it into an Intoxilyzer 5000. The solution produced readings of .619 percent, .631 percent, and .635 percent. Diethyl ether is yet another substance that will be falsely detected as "alcohol" by breath testing instruments. The compound, which can be inhaled, is found in some automotive products and is used in the manufacture of plastics and smokeless gunpowder. See Bell, et al., Diethyl Ether Interference with Infrared Breath Analysis, 16 Journal of Analytical Toxicology (1992), for a study that concluded that ''[t]he possibility of interference with an alcohol reading by ether or by other substances may therefore render prosecution more difficult, if not impossible." In another study, researchers discovered that three other compounds found in common products falsely registered as ethyl alcohol on the machines. Cowan, et al., The Response of the Intoxilyzer 4011ASA to a Number of Possible Interfering Substances, 35(4) Journal of Forensic Sciences 797 (1990). One of the substances, methyl ethyl ketone, is used in lacquers, paint removers, cements and adhesives, celluloid, and cleaning fluids. Another, toluene, is used in paints, lacquers, varnishes, and glues. The third is isopropanol, commonly known as rubbing alcohol. Phil Price, a nationally prominent DUI attorney in Montgomery, Alabama, conducted a series of experiments in which subjects ingested various foods and were then tested on an Intoxilyzer 5000 (64-series). Interestingly, bread caused the highest readings! Using alcohol-free subjects, Price consistently obtained readings in the area of .05 percent after consumption of various types of bread products. Further, the slope detector failed to detect any interferent during the tests. Price suggests that "bread testing may turn out to be an effective, inexpensive courtroom demonstration." The issue posed to the jury: "What weight do you give the test in this case done on a machine that tests positive on a mere bite of hot dog bun!" See Also:
Five Myths About Defending Accused Drunk Drivers by William C. Head Almost every attorney is at one time or another confronted with a client, friend, or family member charged with drunk driving. Because accused drunk drivers are immediately charged with a crime, drunk driving cases represent the single largest category of criminal infractions of all reported cases, with about 200,000 more cases processed each year than all theft and larceny offenses combined.1 Even attorneys who do not generally handle criminal matters are routinely asked how an accused person should proceed in a drunk driving case. In the 1960s, driving under the influence of alcohol was considered a minor offense, leading to modest fines; in the 1990s, it is considered the most serious misdemeanor offense. In several states, repeat offenders are considered felons. Nearly 2 million drunk driving cases are filed by law enforcement officers around the country every year.2 These cases take up a large portion of the criminal docket of most court systems. Because the penalties for drunk driving have increased, many of those charged with this crime now must seriously consider alternatives to pleading guilty or nolo contendere. For the rest of the 1990s, the absence of palatable alternatives for the accused driver will lead to a dramatic increase in these trials. Most attorneys harbor many myths and misconceptions about this offense. These can lead to malpractice. In this article, I will address five myths about defending accused drunk drivers. Myth Number 1: Most people accused of this crime are guilty. This is perhaps the most troubling myth—one harbored by attorneys and the general public. In my opinion, an attorney who believes this should never represent a person accused of drunk driving. That mindset can eliminate objectivity. In the overwhelming majority of drunk driving cases in which a chemical test is obtained by police, an infrared breath analysis machine is used, not a blood test.3 This primary evidence is vulnerable to attack by a skillful practitioner. Most attorneys have no idea how woefully inadequate infrared breath machine are as evidence-gathering devices. These machines are so unsophisticated that virtually no scientist would ever trust the results as a basis for scholarly research or scientific investigation. Yet attorneys assume that since the state has approved the machine, its accuracy and reliability are not subject to challenge. There are at least 30 ways to rebut the evidence from these machines if the attorney understands how the machines work, what causes them to malfunction, and that they are nonspecific for alcohol.4 Without doing exhaustive research, no attorney would understand their internal workings enough to cross-examine the state's witnesses effectively on their alleged accuracy. The "opinion" evidence gathered by police officers typically consists of field or roadside sobriety tests. These agility tests are supposed to indicate that the person suspected of drunk driving was actually impaired or in some way "a less safe driver." Recent scholarly studies have shown that field sobriety tests are not given uniformly, there is no scientific basis for assuming they are valid, and most officers either require the wrong tests or improperly instruct the suspect on how to perform the tests.5 A defense attorney can obtain a pre-trial ruling that the tests and their alleged indication of impairment must be excluded from evidence due to lack of scientific foundation and faulty instructions. Any other "observation" evidence from a police officer will generally be inconclusive and subject to many interpretations by experts. For example, bloodshot eyes can be caused by conditions other than drunkenness, including contact lenses, allergies, or lack of sleep. The defense attorney should analyze the evidence that will likely be presented and take the time to investigate the medical background of clients and the environmental contaminants they have been exposed to. Most alleged evidence of intoxication can be neutralized or eliminated from the state's presentation with findings from this investigation. The defense should leave no stone unturned. These cases require detailed investigation, as does a complex murder case that involves fiber evidence, ballistics tests, or other intricate issues. Attorneys who do not investigate thoroughly and defend the client aggressively do the client a disservice and expose themselves to possible liability. In addition, they harm the legal profession by failing to fully represent the client. Myth Number 2: Drunk driving is a minor offense. Many veteran attorneys remember when drunk driving convictions led to fines of $50 to $150, with no suspension of driving privileges and no penalties beyond going to court, paying the fine, and being chastised by the judge. Those days are gone. One reason some attorneys still do not give proper consideration to these cases is that their only contact with the client occurs when they enter the plea. The attorney doesn't experience the penalties that later befall the client. A client accused of drunk driving deserves to be represented zealously because an unjustified conviction will have repercussions lasting for the rest of the client's life. Not all the "penalties" for these convictions are legal in nature. The stigma of a conviction can exact a severe psychological toll. A substantial number of drivers whose licenses are suspended continue to drive.6 Typically, they do so to provide for themselves and their families, despite the possibility of being jailed for driving with a suspended license. A surprising number are never caught. Yet, they live in terror of being stopped at a license check or a roadside sobriety checkpoint. Those unjustly convicted should not have to live with this hardship. Most of those convicted also suffer serious financial and social consequences. In most states, a drunk driving conviction can never be removed from a driving record, so convicted offenders must endure the consequences of their convictions for the rest of their lives. Some blame themselves, because they know that they had something to drink before they were stopped by the police. However, it is not illegal for adults to drive after drinking alcoholic beverages in any state. The crime of drunk driving occurs only when the person's blood alcohol level has exceeded the arbitrary numerical standard set by the state, or when the person has demonstrated bad driving that can be causally connected to impairment due to a high blood alcohol level. Most attorneys would cringe at the thought that they might have poorly represented a client on a civil matter and that the substandard representation could come back to haunt them. Malpractice in drunk driving cases carries the same potential for litigation, except that most convicted drivers don't realize that their attorneys may not have properly represented them when advising them to plead guilty or nolo contendere without first checking into the facts of the case. The client doesn't know whether the state's case was validly made or based on an illegal stop. The client is not familiar with the many ways that breath machines may be inaccurate. That is why people need attorneys in the first place-to investigate the case thoroughly and recommend the best alternative. Myth Number 3: Any attorney can defend an accused drunk driver. If a friend or relative asked me for help on a matter involving antitrust litigation, my response would be to consult an expert in the field. I would probably inquire with the state bar association or phone colleagues to try to locate an expert in antitrust law. I would try to send the client to the most skilled lawyer I could find who specializes in this area of practice. When a prospective client walks into the average law office and asks for help on a drunk driving case, some attorneys will agree to represent that person even if they have never handled criminal matters. The attorney may advise the person to plead guilty or nolo contendere (depending on state law) and work out an arrangement with the court to keep his or her license with the least possible suspension time. The attorney may not adequately investigate the facts of the case or get copies of documents and other evidence that are readily available through discovery. These naive attorneys don't realize how much exposure to liability they have if they counsel clients to give up their constitutional and statutory rights and plead guilty to this serious offense. Yet these same attorneys would probably not hesitate to refer these same clients to specialists if they were charged with securities fraud. Some clients discover the folly of their plea before the statute of limitations on their potential malpractice claim against their former attorney expires. A suit for malpractice may be the only way they can hope to achieve some semblance of recovery for the devastating effects of a drunk-driving conviction. After a conviction, these clients soon learn what most drunk driving specialists already know: The penalties are not only serious, but like the Energizer bunny in the TV ads, they keep going and going and going. Consequences like license suspension, fines, community service, probation, mandatory counseling or alcohol treatment, and possible incarceration (even for first offenders) are well known. These cases also carry a plethora of other consequences that will confront the convicted driver days, months, or even years after. For example, in most states insurance rates for convicted drunk drivers will increase 500 percent to 1,000 percent above the premiums paid before the conviction (if coverage isn't canceled).7 In South Carolina, a person with a five-year-old car carrying only liability coverage can expect to pay $10,000 to $11,000 in additional premiums over the first three years after a first offense drunk driving conviction.8 This increase in insurance costs is well known. But many attorneys are unaware that most credit bureaus now include drunk driving convictions on credit reports. This not only will affect future credit, but it may also prevent convicted drivers from getting jobs where the prospective employer runs a credit check in processing job applications. A drunk driving conviction may bar or restrict employment alternatives with a significant segment of the job market.9 Other penalties have been imposed on defendants in different states. They include the following:
Many people wrongly convicted of drunk driving need not passively suffer these consequences. Relief may be as close as the nearest attorney who handles legal malpractice cases. Any judge or jury will sympathize with former trusting clients who can show that they lost jobs or homes and suffered other serious penalties as a result of a conviction that should never have occurred. Myth Number 4: These cases can't be won. This is the most prevalent myth about these cases. Not only do members of the general public believe this; so do many attorneys. In fact. experienced drunk driving defense lawyers "win" most cases of first offenders when there is no evidence of a wreck or other manifest bad driving. The term "win" is in quotation marks here because winning may mean having the charge reduced to a different offense or otherwise obtaining a plea bargain that avoids a conviction. The availability of alternative plea arrangements for offenders varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Where jury trials are available, success rates for acquittal are surprisingly good. The national average for acquittals is about 50 percent for those accused of drunk driving if their cases are heard by juries. In some jurisdictions, only about 20 percent to 30 percent of all drunk driving arrests lead to a conviction, while other states have an 80 percent to 90 percent conviction rate.14 In the few states that have abandoned the right to jury trials for misdemeanor drunk driving cases,15 defense attorneys will have a more difficult task convincing a judge to acquit. However, this only applies to about 5 percent of all drunk driving cases. The formula for success is to investigate exhaustively; conduct pretrial discovery and motion practice aggressively; use evidentiary maneuvers and procedural devices skillfully; and present a well conceived, thoroughly choreographed trial with expert witnesses, character witnesses, and other tried-and-true tactics for successful defense of criminal cases. Many people know someone who has been charged with this offense and pleaded guilty or nolo contendere. Because most people believe that these cases are difficult or even impossible to win, the average client will not challenge the trusted attorney's "sage advice." Attorneys who enter pleas of guilty or nolo contendere for these clients will never win those cases. Their files for these clients probably contain only three or four pieces of paper, clearly indicating that they have not performed "due diligence" investigations. Granted, the client may have told the attorney that he or she could not afford to contest the charges. But was the client fully informed of the penalties that will follow a conviction? If the client had known this, would the client have chosen to seek a trial to challenge the state's case? In explaining to clients why they should consider pleading not guilty and letting a jury decide their fate, I often compare receiving a conviction for drunk driving with receiving a diagnosis of cancer. Getting rid of the problem may be expensive and difficult and will involve some risks, but the alternative is much worse. This may seem like a bad analogy, but consider the "cancer" that attacks the lives of convicted drunk drivers. Some have committed suicide after incarceration for drunk driving. Certainly, people who suffer from untreated cancer (or their survivors) will not be pleased if they later discover that the doctor should have recommended surgery, not vitamin therapy. Similarly, people who suffer the consequences of ill-advised guilty pleas to drunk-driving charges will not be pleased with their lawyers. Myth Number 5: Drunk-driving cases are just like any other criminal case. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In many areas, the courts handle these cases differently from other offenses. Here are two examples that make the point. First, consider the normal prosecution where the state proposes to use physical evidence as part of its case-in-chief. For example, suppose John Doe is charged with murder, having allegedly shot Tom Jones. The prosecution will normally order ballistics tests, take blood spatter patterns and fingerprints, and collect other physical evidence. That evidence is always subject to independent analysis by the defense attorney representing the accused. This is not true in drunk driving cases, where breath tests usually are not required to be preserved. Very few states require police officers taking a breath sample to capture some of the breath so it can be analyzed independently at a later date.16 Yet, all modern breath analysis machines can provide sealed samples at a minimal cost. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that it is perfectly acceptable that such critical evidence is destroyed, even where the state could have preserved it for less than $1 per sample.17 Another consideration is the use of roadside sobriety checkpoints (roadblocks) at which drivers are briefly detained to determine if they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. More than 40 states permit this, and the U.S. Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval to this encroachment on our Fourth Amendment rights.18 A few states like Louisiana and Texas have ruled that their state constitutions provide protection against such arbitrary searches and seizures.19 Manifestly unfair judicial decisions have been rendered in many other areas in an effort to stamp out drunk driving.20 A book could be written about these unfair and unconstitutionally premised state court decisions. Suffice it to say that the judicial system has erected difficult hurdles for practitioners who defend drunk-driving cases. No attorney likes to hear the word "malpractice." However, I am convinced that faulty representation in these cases is blatant attorney malpractice. Often, the attorney's negligent handling of a drunk-driving case is attributable to a defeatist attitude. Lawyers must take these cases seriously. Either they must fully educate themselves on this subject so they can provide an effective defense, or they must refer these cases to lawyers with expertise in the field. This will protect these clients from great harm and provide the lawyers with many peaceful nights, free from the concern that they may have improperly advised a client. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HYPOGLYCEMIA MTI REVIEWMedical & Toxicological Information (MTI) September 2003 CASE EXAMPLES Case 1. Accident with material damage. Male driver, age 37, exhibits staggering, slurred speech, disturbance of orientation, shock. Case 2. Remarkable manner of driving. Female driver, age 24, exhibits cerebral deficiency symptoms, staggering, slurred speech, antagonistic behavior. Charged with DWI at the scene. Case 3. Accident with personal and material damage. Male driver, age 36, exhibits slurred speech, drowsiness, disordered thoughts, apathic mood. Case 4. Accident with material damage. Male diabetic, age 50, exhibits slurred speech and fruity breath odor. Charged with DUI. Case 5. Remarkable manner of driving. Female, age 43, exhibits slurred speech, failure of memory, tests of coordination uncontrolled. Case 6. Accident with personal and material damage. Male, age 27, presents with physical stress, unconscious when paramedics arrive. Case 7. Accident with personal and material damage. Male, age 61. Exhibits confusion, memory failure, reports blood sugar decrease. Hypoglycemia (abnormally low levels of blood glucose) is frequently seen in connection with driving error on this nation's roads and highways, including accidents with personal and material damage. Even more frequent are unjustified DUIs or DWIs, stemming from hypoglycemic symptoms that can closely mimic those of a drunk driver. In this newsletter article we will examine the medical condition of hypoglycemia, its causes, including roles played by disease, alcohol and drugs, and give examples of actual cases in which hypoglycemia proved to be a decisive factor. In a recent article on the diagnosis of hypoglycemia in car drivers, Kernbach-Wighton report on seven incidents, all involving hypoglycemic car drivers and the symptomatology observed after the incident. The brief case summaries in the adjoining table describe drivers who were involved in an accident and charged with driving while intoxicated or stopped for reckless driving. All of the examples are cases of drivers experiencing various degrees of hypoglycemia. Some are from the Kernbach report and several are from actual MTI cases. Just a quick run down of the cases will show quite clearly how easily the symptoms of hypoglycemia can be confused with the symptoms of intoxication. In an individual with normal metabolism, blood glucose levels are regulated precisely and kept within a narrow range. This range can vary by individual and in most cases, by laboratory definition, hypoglycemia is defined as a blood sugar level below 60 mg/dl. However, most of the diabetes associations suggest that, in general, action should be taken to restore blood sugar levels to a normative range when the reading falls below 70 mg/dl. Diabetes patients and individuals who have certain kinds of tumors or possess other errors of metabolism, however, are unable to precisely regulate their glucose levels, which can range from extremely high or plunge to dangerous lows. The body, through the process of metabolism, breaks down the natural sugars (carbohydrates) that are eaten and converts them to glucose, which can then be absorbed from the intestines into the blood. At any given time during the day blood glucose reflects a balance of the amount of glucose absorbed from the intestine, the glucose converted and released by the liver into the blood and that going from the blood directly into the cells of the body. Only glucose can be utilized by the cells of the body and glucose needs insulin, which is produced by the pancreas, to get into the cells. Although insulin is the only hormone that directly helps the uptake of blood glucose into the cells, there are several key hormones that work in the opposite fashion--glucagon, epinephrine (also known as adrenaline), cortisol, and growth hormone. + Glucagon--stimulates glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis (new glucose formation) in the liver and works to raise glucose levels and, like insulin, is manufactured in the pancreas. Works quickly. + Epinephrine (adrenaline)--stimulates glycogenolysis and glucoconeogenesis and is manufactured by the adrenal glands. Works quickly. + Cortisol--stimulates gluconeogenesis and causes the cells to respond less efficiently to insulin and is manufactured in the adrenal glands. Works slowly. + Growth Hormone--works to raise blood glucose levels by causing the cells to respond less efficiently to insulin and is released by the pituitary gland. Works slowly. - Insulin--lowers blood glucose levels by allowing glucose to move into the cells and is manufactured in the pancreas. When the cells of the body are deprived of nourishment via glucose, a condition called low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can develop. Symptoms are usually divided into those affecting the body and those affecting the brain or central nervous system (CNS). Bodily symptoms may include rapid heartbeat, sweating, tremors, anxiety, hunger, and nausea. Those affecting the CNS are light-headedness, confusion, headache, loss of consciousness, seizures, delayed reflexes, and slurred speech. These symptoms are directly related to the brain or body not receiving enough glucose for use as an energy source. Often people who have frequent hypoglycemic episodes are unaware of how serious their symptoms are and may just feel a bit different when, in reality, they may be in a potentially dangerous state of confusion while engaged in activities such as driving which require a high degree of concentration. It is also possible for blood sugar to plunge quite suddenly, causing the individual to lose consciousness completely. This is such a serious problem for those with endocrine problems that numerous studies of hypoglycemia's impact on driving ability and other activities that require a high degree of concentration have been carried out and reported on extensively in the medical literature. CAUSES OF HYPOGLYCEMIA DISEASE--Diabetics are unable to produce enough insulin and must supplement their bodily needs with daily injections or medication. This makes them particularly susceptible to adverse effects of hypoglycemia. The most common prerequisite for hypoglycemia is an overdose of insulin with too little carbohydrate intake or by taking other medications that decrease the blood glucose levels. Although not as common, other errors of metabolism, including insulin-producing tumors or non-islet cell tumors, can also cause hypoglycemia and account for driving errors that call attention to themselves, including, but not limited to, moving in wavy lines, driving in the opposite direction, or running off the road, and subsequently can lead to a driver being charged with a DUI when there may be a negligible amount of alcohol actually involved. Other disease states have also been implicated in hypoglycemia, including, but not limited to, cardiac problems, renal failure, and diseases of the liver. ALCOHOL--Alcohol (ethanol) can lead to hypoglycemia when the liver is depleted of glycogen and will typically develop 6-24 hours after a moderate to heavy intake of ethanol in a person that has had an insufficient intake of food for 1 or 2 days. This can have a compounding effect and make the individual appear intoxicated when in fact the person's actual blood alcohol concentration (BAC) may be well below the legal limit. Ethanol can also potentiate the hypoglycemic action of certain classes of drugs like sulfonylurea and insulin. DRUGS--Insulin and sulfonylureas diabetes medications that stimulate insulin release are the two leading causes of drug-related hypoglycemia; however, many prescription drugs, including some over-the-counter (OTC) medications can directly or indirectly cause hypoglycemia in an unsuspecting user. Examples include salicylates, including aspirin, when taken in large doses; sulfa medicines, used to treat infections; pentamidine, used to treat pneumonia; and quinine, for treating malaria. Pseudoephedrine is found in many over-the-counter cold medications and is one of several drugs that is a close structural analogue of the true amphetamines and has actions and side effects similar to the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline). This OTC can have the effect of speeding up the metabolism to use glucose more rapidly and thereby enhance a hypoglycemic condition. There are also a wide range of drug combinations that can lead to hypoglycemia or enhance an already existing condition. OVEREXERTION-- Too much or prolonged exercise is another way the body can speed up metabolism and rapidly deplete stored glucose. Sometimes exercise can have a prolonged effect in lowering blood glucose levels--up to 24 hours. Fright or anxiety can also cause the body to overreact and, as with overexertion, can expedite the release of adrenaline speeding up the metabolism and lowering glucose levels. DIET SODA--One of the most common sweeteners used in diet drinks is Aspartame [a deadly addictive drug containing embalming fluid formaldehyde and deadly methyl alcohol], which contains the amino acid phenylanine, a chemical known to produce a higher insulin response. This response can be extremely pronounced in endocrine-compromised individuals. Studies in the medical literature have shown this response to be 101%--103% greater than with a similar beverage containing a carbohydrate sweetener. Drinking diet soda alone or in combination with ethanol could only serve to enhance a state of low blood sugar. CONCLUSION As we have briefly outlined in this issue of MTI Review hypoglycemia is a serious problem for many individuals with faulty metabolism. The ramifications of the condition can sometimes go far beyond the surface medical and scientific issues regarding the physical health of the patient. The problems range from maintaining blood sugar levels in order to live a "normal" life, to life-threatening risks due to sudden spikes or plummets of blood sugar levels, to being falsely accused of driving in an intoxicated condition during periods of an unstable metabolism, a charge which can have long-term consequences for a person's life and career. And, if anything, the problem is only going to get worse. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, released in September 2003 and published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the September 5, 2003 edition of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, indicates that one in seven Americans have diabetes or blood sugar problems that are leading toward diabetes. In fact, world health officials meeting in August, 2003 in Paris at the International Diabetes Federation Conference proclaimed that the world is facing a "diabetes catastrophe" with more than 300 million people worldwide facing a serious risk of developing diabetes. With the numbers of people with blood sugar problems and other errors of metabolism rising, it is becoming more important than ever for individuals, medical professionals, and law enforcement personnel to recognize both the danger signals of hypoglycemia and to understand that although the condition mimics closely those who irresponsibly abuse alcohol, judicious use of sound science principles can ensure that a health compromised individual is not unjustly punished for a pre-existing physical condition. |
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Critics Denounce Staffing Jails and Prisons With Physicians Convicted of Misconduct [and Serial Killings] JAMA Medical News & Perspectives In an effort to provide health care in their burgeoning jails and prisons, some states are hiring physicians who have been convicted of crimes or have lost their medical license because of professional misconduct. Some states are even issuing medical licenses that restrict the disciplined physician's practice to prisoners. That policy is not just bad for the incarcerated, say correctional health leaders and other critics, it is bad for correctional medicine and it's bad for society. In one case, a psychiatrist who twice lost his medical license for sexual misconduct, first in Michigan and then Oklahoma, was issued licenses in Alabama and Mississippi. "Although sufficient grounds exist to deny [the psychiatrist] licensure," the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure wrote in its order, "the evidence presented, along with Applicant's testimony and demeanor, indicate that Applicant could serve a useful purpose as a practitioner in the State of Mississippi limited to the correctional system." That physician now heads mental health services for Alabama's state prisons (see preceding article). Another example is Robert A. Komer, DO, whose medical licenses were revoked in six of seven states after he pleaded no contest to 59 counts of sexually abusing patients and other offenses from about 1982 through 1988. In June 1990, Michigan's Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery found him guilty of sexually abusing six psychiatric patients, four of whom he first drugged with amytal sodium. One of the patients was so upset following treatment that she slashed her wrists in a suicide attempt. Another became dependent on the physician's attention and attempted suicide several times "in order to be hospitalized and have more contact with Komer," the board found. After Michigan revoked Komer's license, Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio did the same. Texas, however, did not. In January 1991, the Texas Board of Medical Examiners placed Komer on probation for 3 years, during which he had to undergo psychiatric treatment and to notify the board in the event he left employment with the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, where he was assigned to the Department of Corrections. Komer, who now works part time at the Ferguson Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Midway, declined to comment. "No Lesser Standards" "It is unethical and inhumane to say that a physician isn't trustworthy or good enough to treat people in the community, but that he or she is good enough to care for inmates of correctional facilities or mental hospitals," said Sidney M. Wolfe, MD, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Washington, DC. The practice is "reckless and dangerous," he said "If physicians who have been disciplined for past misconduct are congregating in correctional settings, it should be a concern to the medical regulatory community," said Dale L. Austin, deputy executive vice president for the Federation of State Medical Boards, in Dallas-Fort Worth. "However, it may be appropriate on certain occasions for a medical board to limit a physician's practice to a specific setting to prevent a repeat of past misconduct and to assure that the public is protected," Austin said. For example, it may be appropriate for a board to limit the practice of a physician who was disciplined for sexual misconduct involving female patients to an all-male inmate population. "Such restrictions, however must be used very cautiously," he said. "I would hope that no board views health care in correctional settings as requiring lesser standards than is required for the general public." However, inmates, especially those with serious mental illness, are vulnerable to exploitation, Wolfe said. Because prisoners are widely perceived as manipulative, complaining, and dishonest, their complaints of mistreatment are often discounted. In addition, inmates may reasonably fear that complaining about sexual or other abuse from a member of the correctional health care staff could mean that they won't get timely medical care when needed, he added. "While errant physicians as well as inmates can reform, the recidivism rate for sexual offenders is too high to risk the health and welfare of patients by recycling physicians who may offend again," Wolfe said. "Because prisoners are powerless and vulnerable to exploitation, we need to be careful not to place them under the care of health professionals who have a history of victimizing patients." In justifying the practice of providing correctional health care jobs for physicians who were found guilty of crimes or professional misconduct, some licensing boards and departments of corrections point to the difficulty in meeting the rapidly increasing demand for correctional health care providers. According to the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, the nation's jail and prison population has more than tripled since 1980. In 1997, an estimated 1.7 million men and women were behind bars on any given day. Each week the nation has to add 1000 more prison beds to keep up with the exploding prisoner population. That this population has pressing health care needs is well documented—the prevalence of HIV infection, hepatitis, tuberculosis [Mandatory injection with LIVE Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is required for all prisoners and school children in USA -- PDR drug package insert with WARNINGS.], and other communicable diseases, serious psychiatric illnesses, and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug addictions is much higher in jails and prisons than in the general population. As the mounting number of federal and state lawsuits suggests, inadequate medical staffing in many correctional facilities is compromising the health and safety of inmates and leads to expensive litigation that's paid for by the public. Difficulty Recruiting Physicians While it's true that correctional facilities nationwide are having difficulty recruiting physicians, this doesn't justify hiring those who are not qualified to practice in the community, said Edward Harrison, president of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), Chicago, the nation's leading correctional health services accrediting agency. "There have been vast improvements in correctional health in recent years, in both professionalism and the quality of care delivered in correctional facilities," he said. "This sounds like a step backwards. The commission has a standard that requires state licensing for physicians and other medical professionals. The commission strongly believes that the community's standard for professional conduct and competency should apply equally to the correctional setting." Roderic Gottula, MD, president of the Society of Correctional Physicians and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, said the society's board "is unanimously opposed to the practice of granting medical licenses restricted to practice in corrections. Doing so is detrimental to the welfare of inmates and the practice of correctional medicine." The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs does not have a policy on this issue. A recent editorial in Lancet summarized the case against holding physicians in correctional settings to anything other than general community standards: "The principle that prisoners are entitled to the same level of health care as that provided in the wider community is accepted in enlightened societies and prison systems. Failure to achieve such equity could not only damage the patient but also put society at risk" (Lancet. 1998;351:1371). Any dispoproportionate staffing of jails and prisons with physicians who have trouble getting work elsewhere also makes it more difficult to recruit qualified candidates, said Ron Honberg, JD, director of legal affairs for the National Association for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Va. "Creating separate standards for prisoners sends a terrible message," he said. "How can you recruit more good people in a field that many look down upon as full of misfits, reprobates, and otherwise unhireables?" Most Return to Society According to E. Fuller Torrey, MD, executive director of the Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, Md, and an expert on the treatment of severe mental illness, the quality of physicians providing health care in the correctional setting is "biphasic." Based on conversations with wardens and others on his many visits to jails and prisons in 15 states during the last decade, said Torrey, along with reading about those cases of incompetence that make the news, he concludes that, "There are many dedicated and caring men and women working in correctional health, but there is also a strongly disproportionate percentage of incompetent physicians for whom correctional facilities are the place of last resort to practice. "The use of special licensing arrangements that allow physicians who cannot be licensed to treat the public to treat sick and mentally ill inmates in prisons or jails is a scandal," he said. "It is a scandal that is being tolerated because we don't care what happens to these people. And we don't seem to care that much what happens after they're released." According to Torrey, approximately 10% of inmates have a serious mental illness, yet there are few links between the correctional system and the health and psychiatric care systems in the community. The vast majority of men and women in jails and prisons do not remain behind bars. Last year, 12 million incarcerated men and women were returned to society. There is a great national commitment to punish offenders, he said, but very little commitment to make sure that offenders don't leave prison in worse shape than when they enter. —by Andrew A. Skolnick Research for this article was supported in part by a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism. (JAMA. 1998;280:1391-1392) © 1998 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Part Two The number of physicians who have been convicted of crimes or disciplined for serious misconduct who are now working in correctional health care is unknown. However, those brought to light by the preventable death of inmates are probably "only the tip of the iceberg," said psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, MD, executive director of the Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, Md. Based on his observations while visiting jails and prisons and following news accounts during the past decade, he said, these scandals are neither rare nor found in only one region of the country. An examination of medical licensing board records for physicians who were involved in inmate deaths recently reported in the news media shows he may be right. For example: The suicide of a 17-year-girl in the Westchester County jail in Valhalla, NY, in May 1996 brought to light the past crime of the jail psychiatrist who had ordered the teenager to stop the antidepressant medication she was taking for more than a year. According to New York Times news reports, jail records noted that Nancy Blumenthal was depressed and suicidal when she was incarcerated on April 17, 1996, on charges of robbery and threatening her mother with a kitchen knife. The girl had a history of psychiatric treatment going back to the fourth grade, including hospitalization for depression and suicide attempts, her mother Wendy Blumenthal said. The day after Blumenthal was jailed, Harvey N. Lothringer, MD, interviewed her for about 20 minutes and ordered her medication discontinued. She told him it made her violent and that she didn't want to take it, he said. Four weeks later, she was found dead in her cell, hanging from a bedsheet. The Westchester County health commissioner issued a report criticizing Lothringer for stopping the girl's medication without consulting her parents, physician, or psychotherapist. In June 1997, Westchester County and EMSA Correctional Care, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla-based private firm that provides medical care for Westchester county jail inmates, settled a wrongful death lawsuit by paying Blumenthal's family $1.45 million. EMSA officials declined to comment. According to the family's attorney, Jonathan Lovett, that settlement was reached quickly because the defendants feared what a jury might award after hearing the details of Lothringer's criminal past. In 1962, the physician fled the country to avoid arrest after a plumber called in to unstop the drains of his house in Queens, NY, made a gruesome discovery. Lothringer had killed a college student in a botched illegal abortion and tried to hide the crime by cutting her body up and flushing the pieces down his toilet. Lothringer was apprehended in Europe and returned to New York where, in 1964, he pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and served 4 years of an 8-year sentence. In 1973, one year after his parole ended, New York State reinstated his medical license. Lothringer did not respond to a written request for comment. In Utah State Prison, a psychiatrist who was twice placed on probation by the state's medical licensing board was blamed for the death of a schizophrenic inmate he ordered immobilized in a restraint chair for 16 hours. Michael Valent, a 29-year-old inmate, had stopped taking his medication, and his symptoms grew worse. When he put a pillowcase over his head and refused a nurse's order to remove it, the nurse phoned the prison psychiatrist, David L. Egli, MD. Without examining the inmate, Egli ordered him confined in the prison's special restraint chair. Guards removed the inmate from his cell, stripped him naked, and strapped his arms, legs, and torso in the restraint chair, which had a hole in the seat for defecation. A condom catheter was attached to his penis. He remained in the chair for 16 hours before he was seen by the physician and released. Moments later, he collapsed and died of a pulmonary embolism resulting from blood clots that formed during his extended immobility. The death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, although no criminal charges were brought. Utah State Prison halted use of the restraint chair following the public outcry over its use on mentally ill inmates, and in July, the state agreed to pay Valent's family $200,000 to settle their wrongful death suit. Nevertheless, attorneys for the state maintain that Valent had to be restrained because he was a danger to himself and that, while in the chair, he had received good care. "I believe that the preponderance of evidence shows that Michael's restraint was done in his best interest," Egli said. "Our experts do not believe that the restraint caused his fatal embolism." At the time of the inmate's death, Egli's medical license was under probation. The psychiatrist was disciplined for having three male psychiatric patients perform what he said was a "balance test" to adjust their medication. According to Utah's Physicians Licensing Board, he regularly required these patients to stand in front of him while he sat in a chair. He told them to close their eyes and stand on one leg while stepping down on the physician's scrotum with their other foot as hard as they could for up to 30 minutes at a time. After Egli acknowledged that his conduct was "professionally inappropriate and was abusive to his patients," the board placed him on 5-year probation, which expired April 1997. Some of that abuse occurred while Egli was still on probation for a previous offense. In 1986, he received a 5-year probation after being found guilty of providing controlled substances to an addicted friend and writing fraudulent prescriptions. Egli declined to comment about his past misconduct. However, some of his medical colleagues, including his former boss, Robert E. Jones, MD, now with the Montana Department of Corrections, speak highly of Egli's compassionate care of inmates. Carol Gnade, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, Salt Lake City—which worked to halt the prison's use of the restraint chair—said that inmates she interviewed generally spoke well of the care they received from Egli. "It wasn't Egli who introduced the use of that chair," she added. In Nevada, while still on probation for previous professional misconduct, Warren S. Gilbert, MD, medical director of the Washoe County Detention Center, ordered nurses to remove a diabetic inmate from the jail's diabetic protocol. Two days later, the woman died of diabetic ketoacidosis. According to the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' findings, when Jacqueline Reich was booked into the jail on October 16, 1994, her intake form noted that she was a diabetic who took 30 units of insulin every morning along with medication for hypertension and that she wore a diabetic alert bracelet. A nurse placed her on the jail's diabetic protocol, including blood pressure checks and fasting blood sugar checks. The next day, without examining or talking with the inmate, Gilbert wrote an order on the inmate's treatment sheet to discontinue the diabetes protocol and to put her on a general diet. The nurses stopped giving her insulin and monitoring her blood glucose level. When she began to exhibit the classic signs of uncontrolled diabetes, she was taken to the jail infirmary on October 18 and given an over-the-counter cold remedy. No blood glucose testing was done. She fell into a diabetic coma and died on the following day. According to the Nevada board's findings, Gilbert testified that he had "intended only to cancel the order for a diabetic diet and the regular insulin dosages. He did not intend to cancel the order for glucose and blood pressure tests to be performed 3 times a day for 3 days. However, it is clear from the records that the nurses construed respondent's [Gilbert's] order to mean a discontinuance of the entire diabetic protocol, including the glucose tests. Respondent was aware that no glucose tests had been performed for over 20 hours because on October 18, 1994, he signed off on the treatment sheet, which indicated that no glucose tests had been performed." The year before, the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners had placed Gilbert on probation for 2 years for violating medical practice regulations by prescribing synthetic thyroid medication for weight control and for overprescribing and inappropriately prescribing excessive amounts of controlled substances. He was charged with 33 counts involving 32 patients and 20 individual acts of malpractice. Following the inmate's death, the board of medical examiners charged Gilbert with gross malpractice. On January 5, 1996, the board concluded that, although Gilbert's actions were "below the applicable standard of care," they were "not done willfully or with conscious disregard [and therefore were not] gross malpractice." However, the board did find Gilbert guilty of violating regulations that protect the exclusive right of physicians to practice medicine. By allowing nurses to diagnose and treat medical conditions, the board said, Gilbert was guilty of "aiding, assisting, employing, or advising, directly or indirectly, unlicensed persons to engage in the practice of medicine." "In the interest of improving the health care of inmates in Nevada who are under the care of the Respondent as a physician or a medical director, it is hereby ordered that Respondent's license to practice medicine in the State of Nevada is revoked; however, the revocation is stayed and respondent is placed on probation for a period of 4 years," the board wrote. Gilbert, who is now working for Nevada Occupational Health Center in Sparks, Nev, blames the nurses for the "foul up" that resulted in the death of the diabetic inmate. He also accuses the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners of being grossly unfair and unjust and of denying him due process. "I did nothing wrong either time I was disciplined by the board," he said. —A. A. S. (JAMA. 1998;280:1388-1389) © 1998 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Grand jury indicts ex-jailer for murder of diabetic at Cherokee County Death Camp By Jon Ostendorff and Jennifer Brevorka, STAFF WRITERS MURPHY NC - With a grand jury indictment in hand, a state prosecutor promised Monday that an investigation into the death of a Cherokee County inmate would continue and likely would bring more charges. District Attorney Charles Hipps drew applause with his courthouse announcement that a grand jury indicted former chief jailer Judy Ann Barton Mason on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Mason, 45, faces at least 10 months in prison if convicted. She also is charged with failing to provide medical care to Christopher Lee Wood, a diabetic found dead in his cell after he become violently ill. James Wood pumped his fist at the announcement of charges in his 26-year-old son's death, and then asked Hipps who would apologize to the family. Silent for a moment, Hipps told the tearful father he would do more than that. "Rather than say I'm sorry, I am here to say I am going to do something about it," Hipps said. The grand jury said Mason did "unlawfully and feloniously . kill and slay Christopher Lee Wood." Wood, an Andrews resident, died Sept. 5, two hours after his parents began begging 911 dispatchers and jailers to take their son to a hospital. He had spent more than two days without food and insulin, and was semi-conscious, according to inmates and jail records. The Woods made four 911 calls, telling dispatchers they thought their son was dying. Mason threatened to have the Woods arrested and told a dispatcher they should be charged with making harassing phone calls. Wood's death began to get widespread attention after the Citizen-Times published a transcript of his parents' calls to emergency dispatchers. Audio copies of the transcripts of the calls on the newspaper's Web site were accessed more than 12,000 times. "It's been kind of rough," said Marylin Wood, Lee Wood's mother. "But, today was a first step. It was a beginning." Hipps said the investigation into Wood's death would continue. "I anticipate further charges," he said. Former Sheriff Alan Kilpatrick and jailer Mason were not at Monday's news conference and could not be reached for comment. Kilpatrick has denied any mistreatment at the jail. Mason has refused comment on Wood's death. Kilpatrick lost re-election in a September primary. He kept Mason at her post until he left office in December. New Sheriff Keith Lovin fired Mason as one of his first acts on the job. Hipps said he has no plans to investigate past claims of abuses at the jail. A Citizen-Times investigation found a pattern of potential civil and human rights violations existed in the jail long before Wood's death. Attorneys, inmates and jailers say prisoners were denied water, access to ministers and lawyers, and were not given medical treatment or allowed to bathe while Kilpatrick was sheriff. One inmate lost part of his foot from an infection. Another inmate, before Kilpatrick was elected, gouged out an eye in a psychotic fit. In Wood's death, six SBI agents spent 700 hours compiling an 804-page report. Investigators conducted 64 interviews with jailers, medical workers, listened to recorded telephone and radio calls, and examined jail and court records, Hipps said. The SBI's report will not be released to the public, Hipps said, because the state needs the document to prepare its case against Mason. Wood, a father of three young boys, died of ketoacidosis, SBI agent D.C. Campbell said. Ketoacidosis is a state of absolute or relative insulin deficiency, made worse by high sugar levels or dehydration. Only 2 percent of diabetics die from the disorder since the discovery of insulin in 1922, according to published medical data. No drugs were found in Wood's blood, according to the SBI. Hipps said there were "many opportunities" for jailers to administer life saving insulin. The county had purchased insulin for Wood after he was jailed. The full autopsy on Wood's body has not been completed. Hipps expects to receive the report in the next few weeks. He said he talked with medical examiners about their findings. More than 60 people waited through an hour-long delay to hear Hipps say Mason had been charged. Some county residents said they were pleased with the state's decision to prosecute, and hoped investigators would look into other sheriff's department employees involved. "Something ought to be done," said Russell Brammer. "I know that somebody should have helped (Wood)." Another county resident said while she didn't know all sides of the story, she thought Hipps' decision to press charges was correct. "Nobody's above the law," Judy Schuler said. Contact Ostendorff at 232-5922 or JOstendorff@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Contact Brevorka at 232-2938 or JBrevork@CITIZEN-TIMES.com.
Cruiser's video shows Knox deputy punch woman who was handcuffed By JAMIE SATTERFIELD A Knox County Sheriff's Office deputy who punched a handcuffed woman now faces an assault charge. A criminal summons has been issued against Deputy Mike "Mick" Reyda in connection with an incident Dec. 30, 2002, in which he punched Angela Henderson, 23, in the back while she was handcuffed and being held face-first against her truck. Reyda also could face a felony charge of official oppression should a special prosecutor opt to seek an indictment from a Knox County grand jury - a move that has been requested by Henderson. Official oppression addresses misconduct by a public servant. Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols said Wednesday his office has recused itself from the case and has asked a special prosecutor to be assigned. Nichols said the office had no choice but to bow out because it prosecuted Henderson on Reyda's claim that Henderson struck him in the forehead when she pulled away from his grasp last year. A jury in Knox County Criminal Court acquitted Henderson on Tuesday after viewing a videotape from Reyda's in-cruiser video camera that showed the deputy pushing Henderson's head onto her truck and striking her in the back. Henderson's attorney, Herbert S. Moncier, said he accompanied Henderson to the office of Judicial Commissioner Harold Stewart late Tuesday afternoon. Stewart declined to issue an [arrest] warrant for official oppression because state law requires a grand jury review before that particular charge can be filed, Moncier said. However, Stewart agreed there was probable cause to charge Reyda with misdemeanor assault, Moncier said. Henderson did not want Reyda to be arrested and booked into the Knox County Jail and instead asked that the deputy be summoned to court, he said. Fraternal Order of Police President Brian Moran strongly objected to the manner in which Reyda was charged, saying Stewart should have declined to issue a warrant without proof that Henderson's claim either had been investigated or at least documented in a police report. The FOP has scheduled a specially called meeting Monday, Dec. 22, to discuss how the case has been handled, he said. "That is just scary for every officer out there," Moran said. "People make false complaints against officers all the time. The judicial commissioner never should have signed that warrant." Moran said officers would be reluctant to arrest people if the defendants could, in turn, have officers jailed in retaliation. That's why judicial commissioners in the past have declined to allow citizens to file charges against law-enforcement officers, instead sending them either to the DA's office or an agency's internal-affairs division, Moran said. The handling of Reyda's case "sets a terrible precedent," he said. He is calling on Knox County General Sessions judges, who supervise judicial commissioners, to intervene. vStewart declined to comment. Nichols said his office routinely screens cases in which citizens request warrants, whether the proposed arrestee is an officer or a civilian. "Normally when a citizen wants a warrant, we insist there minimally be an investigation before we take somebody's liberty," he said. He said he understands Moran's concerns but noted Tennessee law allows "any citizen" to swear out a criminal warrant. Moncier said the videotape of Reyda punching Henderson is ample proof to get a warrant. Moran's worries are misplaced, he said, adding that "good" officers have nothing to fear. "I think the world of good, professional police officers," he said. "The problem is the system does not do well in dealing with cases where there are abuses." The videotape is itself the center of a controversy. vNichols said Reyda did not inform Assistant District Attorney General Paula Ham a videotape of the Henderson arrest existed until Friday afternoon, a few days before trial. By then, Moncier had a copy and would have surprised Ham with it when Henderson's trial began Monday, he said. In July, Moncier told prosecutors Reyda struck Henderson. "We filed a formal complaint by letter," Moncier said. Nichols' office launched an investigation and was assured by the KCSO that Reyda had not assaulted Henderson, Nichols said. During that probe, the agency did not reveal the existence of the videotape, he said. Sheriff Tim Hutchison on Tuesday said prosecutors never asked for the tape. He accused Nichols and his staff of waiting until the eve of trial to "start looking for evidence." Nichols balked at the accusation. "We asked them for everything they have (as evidence)," Nichols said. "I'm very proud of the people who work here. Paula Ham is a career prosecutor. She's a good, good prosecutor, and it's just not right to malign her this way." Reyda has asked the Knox County chapter of the Tennessee Police Benevolence Association, of which he is a member, for financial assistance to defend himself against the charge. PBA Executive Director Gary Smith said the application must be reviewed first. A decision could come as early as Friday on whether the organization will help foot Reyda's legal bills, he said. Attorney Robert L. Jolley, a former Knox County prosecutor, confirmed Reyda contacted him seeking legal representation, but the two have not yet struck a financial arrangement. Hutchison did not respond to a request Wednesday for comment on Reyda's status at the agency pending a hearing on the assault charge. Reyda encountered Henderson last year at the Three Ridges Golf Course, a county-owned facility. He testified she hit him in the forehead after he grabbed her arm to escort her to her truck. She insisted she jerked away from him and did not strike the deputy. That encounter was not captured on videotape. After handcuffing Henderson, Reyda said he saw something silver in her hands and only punched her as a last resort to get her to release her grip. The item turned out to be her keys. Jamie Satterfield may be reached at 865-342-6308. See Also:
[Webmaster Note: This is why police, prosecutors and judges never allow DUI charges to be dropped when a person is innocent, since this allows the irate defendant to swear out an Affidavit of Probable Cause for Criminal Complant against the cop for False Arrest and/or False Imprisonment, among other charges, plus civil lawsuits against both the "government" corporation and individual agents. This is according to a personal admissions by a private lawyer/part-time judge in Loudon County, Tennessee. We were on the same racecar driving team at the time. The same holds true for suing police in civil court. Defendants in traffic court must fight as hard - and as smart - as they can to win their "criminal" trial first. This fact also explains why police hate video cameras and audio tape recordings, and why drivers should ALWAYS use both whenever possible while speaking with police "interrogators/detectives" (a/k/a traffic cops).]
$231,000 Speeding Ticket under U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Cash stashed in Hummer - Both seized under civil law - Civil arrest without bail for alleged "smuggling" of $131,000 without crossing US borders - Precedent-setting case By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE - A Tennessee trooper found $131,000 in the air conditioner of a new Hummer, leading to federal money smuggling charges against three men. Such charges are apparently rare in East Tennessee. A federal probation officer said he was not familiar with any money smuggling cases in the past 20 years. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg Sullivan said money smuggling cases are "becoming more and more frequent nationally" because of the federal U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, a counterterrorism law. Dean Boyd, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman in Washington, said records show that since October 2001, agents have seized about $41 million being smuggled across U.S. borders. Sullivan would not comment on the three Dec. 9 arrests, and court records don't explain the source of the $131,000, where it was going or the suspected purpose of the money. Taking $10,000 or more across a border of the United States without reporting it is a felony, and one of the men told officers he was going to Canada. One of the three men arrested in the Dec. 9 speeding stop was also part of a group detained five months earlier in Detroit for trying to smuggle $261,000 into Canada, court records show. Court records identify the driver as Daniel V. Lam, 24, of Lafayette, La.; and the passengers as Lucas S. Willis, 22, also of Lafayette, and Ahmath T. Radin, 31, of Los Angeles. U.S. Magistrate William Carter ordered Lam and Radin detained, but set a $50,000 bond for Willis, pending their Jan. 14 arraignment. Attorneys for Lam and Willis did not return telephone messages seeking comment. Radin's attorney could not be reached for comment. "I didn't know what I had at first," highway patrol Trooper Kevin Hoppe said of stopping the Hummer H2 for traveling 90 mph on Interstate 75 in McMinn County north of Chattanooga. Hoppe said the driver could not provide proof of ownership and gave him permission to search the vehicle that was displaying a temporary tag from Maryland. The driver and passengers acted nervous before the afternoon search that turned up sealed bundles of cash - some bound in rubber bands - in the Hummer's air conditioning ducts, Hoppe said. "I've been out here long enough to know when you stop a car and they aren't acting right," Hoppe said. "Something was wrong. You could tell." The trooper called a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, who took the three men into custody on money smuggling charges. "All three subjects denied ownership of the currency," agent John Witsell wrote in an affidavit detailing the arrest. Records show Radin was also among subjects stopped July 18 at the Canadian border in Detroit as they tried to smuggle U.S. money into Canada. "The money was seized, and the subjects were released pending further investigation," records show. Lam initially said after being pulled over Dec. 9 that he and another family member owned the Hummer, records show. Lam then told the trooper they were "traveling up north to look for work and intended to go to Canada." He also said he was moving to Maryland to live with his cousin. According to the affidavit, Willis told the trooper that Lam had told him they were going to New Jersey to look at a dog and from there would be going to New York City and then to Canada. Boyd said that as long as the reporting requirement is met, "it is completely legal for individuals to take currency overseas or bring it into this country." He said there are numerous smuggling cases along international borders and at airports. Some people "swallow currency in condoms ... put them in cigarettes. It's up to anyone's imagination." He said agents can't just assume that hidden money is part of an illegal activity. Boyd said he was not familiar with details of the Tennessee case and could not comment. "For decades, we have seen drug trafficking organizations and money launderers. Obviously they generate a large amount of cash. Obviously they want to be able to use that cash to continue their operations," Boyd said, without specifically mentioning the Tennessee arrest. U.S. FACING MILITARY DISASTER? THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, Part Four by Sherman H. Skolnick Because of war-time-like mass media censorship in the U.S., few, if any, dissenting views on Afghanistan are reported by what some call the monopoly press. Some in key places, in fact, do oppose the policies of George Herbert Walker Bush as to the Mid-East. Although his son is the current "occupant" and "resident" of the White House, the Elder Bush, as the puppet of the American aristocracy and the oil cartel, appears to be giving the orders. The Bush family are certainly well aware that if something goes wrong, they are all subject, suddenly and with scandal commotions, to be thrown away into history's junkpile. Among those who oppose their policies are some sixty U.S. Admirals and Generals. They do not simply go along with the Establishment parade, awaiting their military retirement and their pensions. [More about them later.] A growing number of thinking people are becoming aware that the whole September 11, 2001, violence is just another step in making common Americans docile, to the point that the U.S. Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, could easily, bit by bit, be suspended and the American Republic ENDED. From the Establishment's standpoint, an ideal happening is that the American commonfolk, beset with orchestrated fear and terror, will absolutely DEMAND that the American organic law be scrapped in favor of SECURITY. Some of the steps
Is the oil-soaked, war-mongering, monopoly press, shackled and hand-cuffed as they are to the American aristocracy, prepared to finger the Bush Family as tied to the oil cartel and their Afghanistan pipeline plans? What the sixty very brave, very patriotic U.S. Admirals and Generals will do (out of some 600 flag officers), while understanding this treason and dissenting from current policies, remains to be seen. Contained in some of our prior stories are the details of the 24 flag officers, as authorized by the Uniform Military Code, who vowed to arrest their Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton for documented charges of treason. As we have written in exclusive prior stories, if Clinton arrested them for mutiny, if they were not assassinated, they intended to defend themselves with documents of his treason with Red China and Iraq jointly with the Elder Bush. Ten of those original 24 flag officers have been assassinated. Some of their names are in a prior part of this series. What will come of the current 60 such flag officers who apparently oppose George W. Bush? History will tell. A very high, non-U.S. military officer, extremely well-informed, contends that the U.S. is facing a land-war military disaster in Afghanistan. Obviously, if true, it could bring down the American Central Government and with it the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. The 60 American flag officers agree, and assert that a coup d'etat, for the good and not for evil,is absolutely necessary to save the American Republic. The source asserts that several battalions of Ranger-like U.S. forces were on the ground in Afghanistan. They relied, he contends, on the assistance of the supposed opposition to the Taliban, namely, the Northern Alliance, which either steered them into a trap or knowingly withdrew their guidance at a key moment. Some 250 to 400 U.S. Military was thus slaughtered, according to the well-positioned source. So far, this has not been confirmed by other sources, foreign or domestic. If so, the cover up, the body bags, will not be returned to the U.S., for six months, if ever. If true, it raises the entire question of land-invasion of Afghanistan as being the fore-runner of possible U.S. Military disaster. A nation that loses a war, soon has their government overthrown, often by evil-doers. The criminal-element that took over the Moscow government after the humiliating Soviet defeat in Afghanistan should be clear to most people. By the way, as we have pointed out, the Russian mafiya operates in the United States, like the Red Chinese Secret Police, with complete impunity and immunity from the FBI/CIA. The Russian criminals, such as in Chicago, operate the Red Light District and circulate, without restraint, superior quality counterfeit U.S. and other currencies, as well as using stolen credit cards and identities. Most of the Russian mafiya in the U.S. are former KGB officers adept at their ways, and the FBI is frightened of them. Busy with themselves and their families, and worried about their jobs, the ordinary Americans have to be repeatedly reminded of history. With its terrain, secret tunnels developed over centures, and mountains, Afghanistan has always been the graveyard of invaders. Will the American Republic be saved? More coming. Stay tuned. Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963, founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders. Since 1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of one-hour,weekly public access Cable TV Show, "Broadsides", Cablecast on Channel 21, 9 p.m. each Monday in Chicago. For a heavy packet of printed stories, send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business sized envelope [4-1/4 x 9-1/2 #10 size] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick, Chairman, 9800 South Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 7 days, 8 a.m. to midnight, (773) 375-5741 [PLEASE, no "just routine" calls]. Before sending FAX, call. Ex-Pentagon Joint Chief Staffer Warns of Federal Martial Law by Phillip Morgan
A distinguished, retired military officer, winner of the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart, kept an audience of several hundred people on the edge of their seats in Spokane last month. Speaking at the Cavanaugh Inn was Al Cuppett, a Department of Defense veteran who spent six years on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cuppett presented electrifying documentation that the U.S. Constitution can be now suspended without notice. Cuppett discussed horrific executive orders in the federal registry which authorize government to ignore the Bill of Rights, round up politically incorrect civilians for incarceration in labor camps and impose military dictatorship with the help of foreign troops. Cuppett said the framework of a totalitarian government has been created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its military adjunct under guise of disaster pre- paredness. Cuppett noted that in 1994, Clinton signed E.O. 12919 which authorizes FEMA and the National Security Council to seize control of the nation under a state of emergency during which Americans could be stripped of both their rights and their property. FEMA itself is a creature of executive order. It was created by Trilateral Commission member James Earl Carter through E.O.12148. Sometimes known as "Flood and Mud," FEMA is usually billed as a benign federal agency dedicated to disaster assistance. During Hurricane Andrew, however, FEMA dropped the ball. The agency did such a poor job in that crisis that Congress was forced to investigate. The reason why, said Cuppett, is that disaster assistance is only a front. In fact, a Congressional investigation revealed that only about ten percent of FEMA personnel are engaged in disaster relief projects. According to Cuppett, FEMA is part of the framework of a sinister governing apparatus created to supplant the Constitution during a real or contrived crisis. Cuppett reported that there are heavily fortified FEMA bases all over the country. He said the government's secondary use of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was a practice exercises for FEMA. He noted that military aircraft was deployed continuously in and out of FEMA bases on the night of the bombing. Cuppett reminded his audience that nearly forty years ago the U.S. State Department published a master plan for an authoritarian dictatorship. Published as official government policy, State Department Publication 7277 is Titled, Freedom From War -- The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. This document states that the United Nations is slated to become an "unchallengeable" military force. It states that as the U.N. builds a global military machine capable of enforcing the "peace" on all mankind:
Once consummated, the plan outlined by State Department Publication 7277 will put a drastic end to the sovereign Republic established by our Founders two hundred years ago. It basically terminates the Constitution and supplants our system of checks and balances with a fearsome military dictatorship to be operated by nameless, faceless, non-elected international bureaucrats. Cuppett said that elements of 7277 are rapidly being implemented by the Clinton Administration. The nationwide closing of American defensive military installations and the deployment of American troops and National Guard personnel abroad are all part of the 7277 masterplan. A local woman in the audience reported that area reservists have just received notice they will be shipped out to Bosnia. Cuppett noted that international enforcement exchanges are not just confined to military personnel. American police officers are being offered $85,000 to transfer to Bosnia. Meantime, he said, foreign troops and police personnel are being implanted here under such programs as Partnership for Peace, Project Harmony and other bizarre enforcement exchange programs. Under an unchallengeable United Nations dictatorship envisioned by 7277, FEMA is apparently slated to become the brains of America's radical transformation. According to Cuppett, military forces comprised of aliens troops and professional assassins may well provide the brawn. Cuppett noted that a military police state in USA would be possible only with the help of foreigners willing to fire on the American people if so ordered by U.N. overlords. This is why, Cuppett said, our government is quietly authorizing the positioning of European, Russian, Chinese and Warsaw Pact troops throughout the U.S. He said that as Americans are gradually conditioned to accept the skeletal framework of an alien-troop system, "troop fill" will be the final step. He anticipates that our government will eventually have imported sufficient foreign troops under various exchange programs to keep the masses intimidated.
Cuppett said the black mask phenomenon so obvious at Waco was invented to disguise troops that would look foreign to us. Armed men jumping in and out of helicopters on training missions often wear black masks to conceal their faces since observers might be alarmed to see Chinese, for example, doing military exercises in America. Cuppett reported that Americans have videotaped foreign troops goosestepping around American military facilities. When they get home to watch the film, it has been electronically jammed out and can't be viewed. Cuppett aid that many preparatory maneuvers preparatory for martial law are being carried out in National Forest areas where even federal agents in charge of those lands are not permitted to go. This situation may tie into the U.N. Biodiversity land grab program through which federal lands can be shut off from public access. In such seclusion, foreign troops can be quietly trained for military rule. Cuppett said that one of his contacts is a state trooper in Montana who recently stopped a truck in a convoy of semi trucks. The driver, who spoke broken English and appeared to be Russian, was extremely hostile. He flashed a Department of Defense badge and told the cop to get lost. The trooper followed the convoy and when it stopped at a restaurant, he cut the tarp and found a Russian Howitzer, the sort of weapon once used to keep the peace in Soviet-occupied nations. Cuppett noted that bridges are being fortified across America to accommodate such heavy military equipment. He said that many police and sheriffs' departments are being sent police dogs that will respond to commands in foreign languages. He showed slides of signs being posted across USA that will direct foreign troops. He showed slides of communications facilities erected to direct foreign pilots who might be involved in covert operations during the imposition of martial law.
Cuppett said that until all command installations are completed and until sufficient troops are in place, all preparations for martial law must be kept top secret. This is why, he noted, most low-level government officials and bureaucrats have no idea what is going on. Meantime, said Cuppett, America's military readiness is being so decimated that we are now nearly defenseless against external enemy attack. Cuppett warned that any emergency could trigger a FEMA declaration of martial law and the imposition of the kind of dictatorship outlined by 7277. He said that agent provocateurs are hard at work trying to stir up civil unrest and armed confrontations between various group in America. According to Cuppett, in order to precipitate martial law and effect mandatory gun confiscation as mandated by 7277, we must have crisis. He said that some inner city gang leaders are in the employ of U.S. intelligence networks because the threat of government generated crime is a tremendous psychological lever for ushering in a police state. Cuppett said the Waco mess is an example of how pre-contrived violent situations are used to turn Americans against one another. While many knowledgeable citizens resent the excessive force used at Waco, Cuppett said his government contacts tell him that the military units which launched the final attack on the Mt. Carmel compound were outsiders, not part of the FBI-ATF network. He was told that foreign personnel made the final tank assault which resulted in the deadly fire.
Cuppett said that individuals and factions of the U.S. military which disapprove of the demonic plan for America's impending police state are being terminated. He said 3,000 military brass have died of heart attacks in the last two years, indicating that chemically induced heart failure may be one way of eliminating loyal troops that might stand in the way of the plan for martial law. Cuppett said that TWA 800 shot down over the Atlantic was undoubtedly an assassination episode. He claimed that the missile attack was launched by a Black Hawk helicopter. The Black Hawk units are part of special forces networks working with FEMA. He said certain helicopters have jamming equipment which can prevent them from being seen on radar, which is why the TWA 800's attack copter did not appear on radar screens during the attack. Cuppett said it is not unusual for our government to sabotage a plane before takeoff if that plane is carrying persons slated for execution. Cuppett documented an example of a military plane which recently had its fuel lines tampered before it crashed, killing a number of our military personnel. He said Ron Brown's downed plane also sent a message loud and clear about what happens to those who cross the powers that be. He said that the hole in Brown's skull was probably made with an ice bullet, a clever tool which Intelligence uses when it is necessary for the evidence to melt.
Cuppett showed pictures of various penal facilities apparently being readied to house civilian detainees arrested under martial law. He showed a slide of an Amtrack facility with enclosed import decks which would allow train loads of detainees to be off-loaded under cover. He told of penal institutions throughout the U.S. which are now empty and awaiting political prisoners of the future. Cuppett charged that the frenetic "war on drugs" is an excuse for building a gigantic, nationwide network of detainment camps to be used during a national crisis. He said Virginia has built 27 prisons in the last 5 years. He said several prisons in California are nearly empty and maintain only a few guards and inmates as a front until the buildings are needed for a national crisis. He said one such empty prison has 4,100 beds. Cuppett says his contacts have obtained copies of three hit lists being maintained by U.S. Intelligence. The lists are color-coded as red, blue and green. These lists contain the names of people who might be rounded up when the time is right. Cuppett says ere are 6.2 million Americans on the blue list alone. He noted that many upstanding citizens have been shocked to find their names on those lists. Thanks to Al Cuppett's eyeopening message, concerned citizens of the Northwest now have a clearer understanding of:
General Tommy Franks: Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack Jewish general gives free Babylonian oil pipeline to Satanic Freemasons in Israel Newsmax.com
Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men's lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado. [Read the bootleg copy of Franks' interview at Cigar Officianado.] In the magazine's December edition, the former commander of the military's Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that "the worst thing that could happen" is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties. If that happens, Franks said, "... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."
Franks then offered "in a practical sense" what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack. "It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important." Franks didn't speculate about how soon such an event might take place. Already, critics of the U.S. Patriot Act, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have argued that the law aims to curtail civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent. But Franks' scenario goes much further. He is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government.
Volunteering for military draft Draft registration required to get voluntary driver's license contract By Carol Ann Alaimo America hasn't had a military draft since 1973, but Arizona intends to be ready if it ever happens again. Under a new state law that takes effect Jan. 1, men between 18 and 25 will be automatically registered for selective service whenever they apply for driver's licenses or state identification cards. The change will make Arizona one of 30 or so states with similar compulsory sign-ups for draft age men. "We are going to use the driver's license for the purpose of seeing that young men are registered," said Tucsonan Victor Schwanbeck, director of the state's selective service system. But "this doesn't mean that the draft is coming back," said Schwanbeck, a lawyer. He said the state is simply seeking a fairer and more efficient way of ensuring that young men comply with a decades-old federal law that requires them to register for selective service. Until now, draft-age males have been allowed to register voluntarily, usually on the Internet or by filling out a form at a post office. But nearly 40 percent of the state's 18-year-olds typically don't register, often because they don't know about the requirement, state officials say. And no one actively hunts them down to make sure that they follow through. There are indirect penalties for those who fail to register. For example, they are barred from attending state-funded universities or from holding government jobs. Under the new system approved by the Arizona Legislature, "probably 95 percent of them will be registered because they want to drive," Schwanbeck said. Lt. Col. Gerald Paulus, an Arizona National Guard member and commander of the state's selective service system, said he's not aware of any plans to resurrect the draft, even with the nation now involved in two simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. From the 1940s to the 1970s, conscription was a favored method for raising large number of troops to supplement U.S. military missions, Paulus said. But the modern volunteer military, with its advanced weaponry and longer firing ranges, doesn't require the same large numbers of people to "sit in the trenches," he said. "We can deliver a lot more firepower with fewer individuals," he said. Still, he said, the government maintains the selective service system as a potential "third tier" of national protection - behind the regular military and reserve troops - just in case America ever faced a situation so dire that the draft had to be reintroduced to deal with it. These days, there are differing philosophies about the desirability of having conscripts involved in military operations, Paulus noted. Some think it's preferable to have the military made up of volunteers rather than forcing unwilling civilians to serve. Others think that the presence of conscripts tends to make governments more careful about going to war since the cost, in casualties, is more widely shared throughout society. Contact reporter Carol Ann Alaimo at 573-4138 or at caalaimo@azstarnet.com. Re: MILITARY DRAFT LAWS:
The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments SWAT Infantry-style Search and Destroy Raids Kill, Kill, Kill! by Diane Cecilia Weber Introduction One of the most alarming side effects of the federal government's war on drugs is the militarization of law enforcement in America. There are two aspects to the militarization phenomenon. First, the American tradition of civil-military separation is breaking down as Congress assigns more and more law enforcement responsibilities to the armed forces. Second, state and local police officers are increasingly emulating the war-fighting tactics of soldiers. Most Americans are unaware of the militarization phenomenon simply because it has been creeping along imperceptibly for many years. To get perspective, it will be useful to consider some recent events: The U.S. military played a role in the Waco incident. In preparation for their disastrous 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound, federal law enforcement agents were trained by Army Special Forces at Fort Hood, Texas. And Delta Force commanders would later advise Attorney General Janet Reno to insert gas into the compound to end the 51-day siege. Waco resulted in the largest number of civilian deaths ever arising from a law enforcement operation.1 Between 1995 and 1997 the Department of Defense gave police departments 1.2 million pieces of military hardware, including 73 grenade launchers and 112 armored personnel carriers. The Los Angeles Police Department has acquired 600 Army surplus M-16s. Even small-town police departments are getting into the act. The seven-officer department in Jasper, Florida, is now equipped with fully automatic M-16s.2 In 1996 President Bill Clinton appointed a military commander, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, to oversee enforcement of the federal drug laws as the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.3 Since the mid-1990s U.S. Special Forces have been going after drug dealers in foreign countries. According to the U.S. Southern Command, American soldiers occupy three radar sites in Colombia to help monitor drug flights. And Navy SEALs have assisted in drug interdiction in the port city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti.4 The U.S. Marine Corps is now patrolling the Mexican border to keep drugs and illegal immigrants out of this country. In 1997 a Marine anti-drug patrol shot and killed 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez as he was tending his family's herd of goats on private property. The Justice Department settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the Hernandez family for $1.9 million.5 In 1998 Indiana National Guard Engineering Units razed 42 crack houses in and around the city of Gary. The National Guard has also been deployed in Washington, D.C., to drive drug dealers out of certain locations.6 In 1999 the Pentagon asked President Clinton to appoint a "military leader" for the continental United States in the event of a terrorist attack on American soil. The powers that would be wielded by such a military commander were not made clear. 7 What is clear — and disquieting — is that the lines that have traditionally separated the military mission from the police mission are getting badly blurred. Over the last 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American police departments. By virtue of their training and specialized armament, state and local police officers are adopting the tactics and mindset of their military mentors. The problem is that the actions and values of the police officer are distinctly different from those of the warrior. The job of a police officer is to keep the peace, but not by just any means. Police officers are expected to apprehend suspected law breakers while adhering to constitutional procedures. They are expected to use minimum force and to deliver suspects to a court of law. The soldier, on the other hand, is an instrument of war. In boot camp, recruits are trained to inflict maximum damage on enemy personnel. Confusing the police function with the military function can have dangerous consequences. As Albuquerque police chief Jerry Glavin has noted, "If [cops] have a mindset that the goal is to take out a citizen, it will happen."8 The lines that have traditionally separated the military mission from the police mission are getting badly blurred. Paramilitarism threatens civil liberties, constitutional norms, and the well-being of all citizens. Thus, the use of paramilitary tactics in everyday police work should alarm people of goodwill from across the political spectrum. This paper will examine the militarization of law enforcement at the local level, with particular emphasis on SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) units. The paper will conclude that the special skills of SWAT personnel and their military armaments are necessary only in extraordinary circumstances. The deployment of such units should therefore be infrequent.More generally, Congress should recognize that soldiers and police officers perform different functions. Federal lawmakers should discourage the culture of paramilitarism in police departments by keeping the military out of civilian law enforcement. A Brief History of the Relationship between the Military and Civilian Law Enforcement The use of British troops to enforce unpopular laws in the American colonies helped to convince the colonists that King George III and Parliament were intent on establishing tyranny.9 The Declaration of Independence specifically refers to those practices, castigating King George for "quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us" and for "protecting [soldiers], by mock Trial, from Punishment, for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States." The colonists complained that the king "has kept among us, in Times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of, and superior to, the Civil Power." After the Revolutionary War, Americans were determined to protect themselves against the threat of an overbearing military. The Founders inserted several safeguards into the Constitution to ensure that the civilian powers of the new republic would remain distinct from, and superior to, the military: The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War . . . To raise and support Armies . . . To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and Naval Forces . . . To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia.10 No State shall, without the consent of Congress, . . . keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, . . . or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.11 The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.12 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.13 No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.14 It is important to emphasize that those provisions were not considered controversial.3 The debate was only with respect to whether those constitutional safeguards would prove adequate. 15 After the Revolutionary War, Americans were determined to protect themselves against the threat of an overbearing military.. During the Civil War period the principle of civil-military separation broke down. President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and citizens were arrested and tried before military tribunals. After the Civil War, Congress imposed martial law in the rebel states. And to shield the military's reconstruction policies from constitutional challenges, Congress barred the Supreme Court from jurisdiction over federal appellate court rulings involving postwar reconstruction controversies.17 The Army enforced an array of laws in the South and, not surprisingly, became politically meddlesome. In several states the Army interfered with local elections and state political machinery. Such interference during the presidential election of 1876 provoked a political firestorm.18 The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, won the popular vote while the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, garnered more electoral votes. The Republican victory was tainted by accusations that federal troops had stuffed the ballot box in a few southern states to favor Hayes. Negotiations between the political parties ensued and a compromise was reached. The Democrats agreed to concede the election to "Rutherfraud" Hayes (as disgruntled partisans nicknamed him) on the condition that federal troops be withdrawn from the South.19 The Republicans agreed. The Army's machinations in the South also set the stage for a landmark piece of legislation, the Posse Comitatus Act. The one-sentence law provided, "Whoever, except in cases and under such circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or by Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined no more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."21 Southern Democrats proposed the Posse Comitatus bill in an effort to get Congress to reaffirm, by law, the principle of civil-military separation. President Hayes signed that bill into law in June 1878. Federal troops have occasionally played a role in quelling civil disorder — without prior congressional authorization — in spite of the plain terms of the Posse Comitatus Act. The U.S. Army, for example, was used to restore order in industrial disputes in the late 19th and early 20th century. Except for the illegal occupation of the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho in 1899-1901, army troops were used by presidents to accomplish specific and temporary objectives — after which they were immediately withdrawn.22 Federal troops and federalized National Guardsmen were called upon to enforce the desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1962; and in Selma, Alabama, in 1963. Over the past 20 years there has been a dramatic expansion of the role of the military in law enforcement activity. In 1981 Congress passed the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Officials Act.23 That law amended the Posse Comitatus Act insofar as it authorized the military to "assist" civilian police in the enforcement of drug laws. The act encouraged the military to (a) make available equipment, military bases, and research facilities to federal, state, and local police; (b) train and advise civilian police on the use of the equipment; and (c) assist law enforcement personnel in keeping drugs from entering the country. The act also authorized the military to share information acquired during military operations with civilian law enforcement agencies. As the drug war escalated throughout the 1980s, the military was drawn further and further into the prohibition effort by a series of executive and congressional initiatives: In 1986 President Ronald Reagan issued a National Decision Security Directive designating drugs as an official threat to "national security," which encouraged a tight-knit relationship between civilian [police and the military].4 As the drug war escalated throughout the 1980s, the military was drawn further and further into the prohibition effort..law enforcement and the military.24 In 1987 Congress set up an administrative apparatus to facilitate transactions between civilian law enforcement officials and the military. For example, a special office with an 800 number was established to handle inquiries by police officials regarding acquisition of military hardware.25 In 1988 Congress directed the National Guard to assist law enforcement agencies in counter-drug operations. Today National Guard units in all 50 states fly across America's landscape in dark green helicopters, wearing camouflage uniforms and armed with machine guns, in search of marijuana fields.26 In 1989 President George Bush created six regional joint task forces (JTFs) within the Department of Defense. Those task forces are charged with coordinating the activities of the military and police agencies in the drug war, including joint training of military units and civilian police. JTFs can be called on by civilian law enforcement agencies in counter-drug cases when police feel the need for military reinforcement.27 In 1994 the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense signed a memorandum of understanding, which has enabled the military to transfer technology to state and local police departments. Civilian officers now have at their disposal an array of high-tech military items previously reserved for use during wartime.28 All of those measures have resulted in the militarization of a wide range of activity in the United States that had been previously considered the domain of civilian law enforcement. As one reporter has observed, "Not since federal troops were deployed to the former Confederate states during Reconstruction has the U.S. military been so intimately involved in civilian law enforcement."29 [continued] SWAT Teams Everywhere, Doing Everything The 1980s and 1990s saw marked changes in the number of permanent SWAT teams across the country, in their mission and deployment, and in their tactical armament. According to a 1997 study of SWAT teams conducted by Peter Kraska and Victor Kappeler of Eastern Kentucky University, nearly 90 percent of the police departments surveyed in cities with populations over 50,000 had paramilitary units, as did 70 percent of the departments surveyed in communities with populations under 50,000. 33 Although the proliferation of those special units was slow in the late 1960s and early 1970s, their numbers took a leap in the mid-1970s, and growth has remained high since the 1980s. In fact, most SWAT teams have been created in the 1980s and 1990s. Towns like Jasper, Lakeland, and Palm Beach, Florida; Lakewood, New Jersey; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Harwich, Massachusetts, have SWAT teams. The campus police at the University of Central Florida have a SWAT unit — even though the county SWAT team is available. Kraska refers to the proliferation as the "militarization of Mayberry," and he is rightly alarmed that the special units are becoming a normal and permanent part of law enforcement agencies. [cont.] After some controversial SWAT shootings spawned several wrongful death lawsuits against the police department of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city hired Professor Sam Walker of the University of Nebraska to study its departmental practices. According to Walker: "The rate of killings by the police was just off the charts. . . . They had an organizational culture that led them to escalate situations upward rather than deescalating.The mindset of the warrior is simply not appropriate for the civilian police officer charged with enforcing the law..61"60 The city of Albuquerque subsequently hired a new police chief and dismantled its SWAT unit. The tiny town of Dinuba, California (population 15,000), created a SWAT unit in the spring of 1997. A few months later an innocent man, Ramon Gallardo, was killed by the SWAT team when it raided his home looking for one of his teenage sons. The SWAT unit rushed into the Gallardo household at 7 a.m. wearing hoods and masks, yelling "search warrant." Gallardo and his wife were awakened by the ruckus, but before they could determine what was happening, Ramon was shot 15 times. 10 A police brutality lawsuit was later brought against the city. At trial, the police said they had to shoot in self-defense because Gallardo had grabbed a knife. Gallardo's wife testified that the knife on the scene did not belong to her husband and alleged that the police had planted it there to legitimize the shooting. The jury awarded the Gallardo family $12.5 million. Because the whopping verdict exceeded the small town's insurance coverage, the city is now in financial straits. After Gallardo's killing, the city fathers of Dinuba disbanded the SWAT unit and gave its military equipment to another police department.62 [cont.] Conclusion The militarization of law enforcement in America is a deeply disturbing development. Police officers are not supposed to be warriors. The job of a police officer is to keep the peace while adhering to constitutional procedures. Soldiers, on the other hand, consider enemy personnel human targets. Confusing the police function with the military function can lead to dangerous and unintended consequences — such as unnecessary shootings and killings. The proliferation of SWAT teams is particularly worrisome because such units are rarely needed. SWAT teams are created to deal with emergency situations that are beyond the capacity of the ordinary street cop. But, as time passes, inactive SWAT units tend to jettison their original, limited mission for more routine policing activities. [cont.] See Also:
MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 10-801 Operations BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE This instruction implements AFPD 10-8, Support to Civil Authorities, and Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5525.5, DoD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials, January 15, 1986, with Change 1. It provides guidance and procedures concerning support for Federal, state, and local civilian law enforcement agencies (LEA), specifying limitations and restrictions on using Air Force members and resources in the active and reserve forces, military and civilian, and the Air National Guard units or members when federalized. Chapter 2 - RESTRICTIONS ON USING AIR FORCE PERSONNEL 2.1. Restrictions. Air Force personnel may not actively participate in or perform activities that would violate the Posse Comitatus Act, United States Code (18 U.S.C. 1385), Use of the Army and Air Force as Posse Comitatus, and, 10 U.S.C. 18, Military Support for Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies.
Chapter 3 - SUPPORT PROCESSING AND REPORTING PROCEDURES 3.2.3.2. If installation commander is able and has the authority to fulfill the request (see Non-Operational Approval Authorities at attachment 4), the installation commander will provide the support. GLOSSARY OF REFERENCES, ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, AND TERMS Section A--References
Section C--Terms Joint Task Force (JTF)--A force composed of assigned or attached elements of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, and the Air Force, or two or more of these Services, which is constituted and so designated by the Secretary of Defense or by the commander of a unified command, a specified command, or an existing joint task force. Law Enforcement Agency (LEA)--Non-DoD government agency chartered and empowered to enforce laws in the jurisdictions of the United States, a state (or political subdivision) of the United States, a territory or possession (or political subdivision) of the United States, and within the borders of a host nation. Operational Support--Counterdrug support to LEAs involving military personnel and their associated equipment and training, provided by the CINCs from forces assigned to them or made available to them by the Services for this purpose. Operational support is not defined as support in the form of equipment alone. It can include the use of facilities, military working dog support, training in formal schools, or the conduct of joint law enforcement investigations by military criminal investigative organizations with cooperating civilian LEAs. Posse Comitatus Act, Title 18, United States Code, Section 1385 (18 U.S.C. 1385)--This criminal statute restricts direct military participation in law enforcement activities conducted within the United States and its territories. It provides the following: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years or both." REPORT ON SUPPORT TO CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT X. Intelligence activities: Intelligence assistance or information relevant to a violation of any Federal or state law provided to EPIC/DEA or LEAs. See Also:
Service Member's Legal Guide, 2nd Edition What You Need to Know About Criminal Law - Military Justice and You by Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Tomes US Army (retired) What to Do if Arrested The military uses the term apprehesion instead of the word arrest. After the commander or police person reads you your rights, he will ask you to waive them. When you waive your rights, you give them up. The best practice is to refuse to waive your rights until after you have talked with an attorney. Even if you are not guilty, you could say something that law enforcement officers could use against you because you may not know military criminal law. A statement that seems to show you are innocent may instead be a vital peice of evidence that the proseutor could use to 'prove' your 'guilt'. For example, I once defended a soldier. When he was apprehended, he waived his rights. His statement was certainly not a confession, but it turned out to be very damaging to him [due to mistaken identity]. Without his admission, no evidence tied him to the alleged crime, so he would not have had to face a general court-martial and a possible life sentence. Although the court-martial did not convict him, he had to undergo the fear and uncertainty of a court-martial because of his seemingly innocent statement. Remember that the best thing to do is is to refuse to discuss any suspected offense with anyone until you have talked with a lawyer. Contrary to popular belief, to make a legal apprehension, the military police don't have to read you your rights. A rights warning is only necessary before the military police may question you. To take you into custody, even civilian police do not need to read you your rights. So even though no one has read you your rights, do not blurt out any statements. Some servicemembers believe that if they confess before being read their rights, no one can prosecute them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your statement could be used as evidence against you if you 'volunteered' it. Investigators rely upon the interaction of two types of pressures to get arrested persons to confess: the fear and uncertainty of being arrested, and effective interrogation techniques. No one is free from these pressures to confess. If someone apprehends you for a serious offense, he may require you to provide other evidence [field sobriety test and breath-alcohol test and/or blood-alcohol test]. If the criminal investigator [traffic cop] 'asks' you to 'consent', the best practice is to ask to consult with your attorney before doing so. If the investigator does not ask for consent, but rather orders you to do something, you should comply. If the order is illegal, your attorney will [maybe, if you have one] be able to prevent the prosecutor from using such illegally obtained evidence in court. The commander, not the military police, will determine what will happen to you and any charges against you. What Happens to the Charges Just because someone has apprehended you or the military police tell you they have charged you with a crime does not necessarily mean that your commander will take disciplinary action against you ["prosecutorial discretion" unless there is a pissed off witness/victim who filed an "Affidavit of Probable Cause for Criminal Complaint"]. At some point, your immediate commander will conduct a preliminary inquiry to determine the facts and circumstnces of the alleged offense; then he will decide what to do about it. Your commander may dispose of the offense in a number of ways. He may take no action, or he may take an administrative action rather than a criminal one, such as a counseling statement, a letter of repremand, or even an administrative discharge for misconduct. Nonjudicial Punishment Courts-Martial Any servicemember may prefer (swear out) criminal charge aginst any other servemember, but only the commander may decide whether the cahrges should go to a court-martial. The military has three types of courts-martial: summary, special and general. Another type of court-martial you could face is a special court-martial. It is more serious than a summary court martial, but it also offers more protections: a defense counsel, a judge and a military jury. The Staff Judge Advocate would appoint a military lawyer to prosecute the case. The third type of court-martial—the general court-martial—is the most serious. A general court-martial may sentence the accused to the death penalty, confinement for life, a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances. Officers may be dismissed—the official version of a dishonorable discharge. It is very important you have an attorney you trust to represent you. You may also defend yourself before special and general courts-martial by convincing the military judge that you are knowingly and intelligently waiving your right to counsel. Martial Law is not that scary? Service Member's Legal Guide Reviewer: John Lee I have the 2nd Edition (1992), which is probably dated compared to the 4th Ed. Comprehensive introductory comparison between civilian law and UCMJ. It helps to know a little about civilian law and procedure, which, unfortunately, is almost impossible even for licensed trial lawyers to understand (judges and prosecutors are "trial lawyers" too). This book does help break the brainwashing perped by a lying "news" media and Hollywood disinfotainment, and gives useful advice to NEVER trust police, and NEVER speak with police, and to first speak with a lawyer you can trust. Unfortunately, most people never read a law book until it's too late to do much good. This should be required reading for every person before they enlist. Every person should have a law library anyway, for self-defense, since every person must look out for themselves versus criminals and/or government, and EVERY person is robbed by both every year (especially if they don't even know it). There are many areas skipped in the 2nd Ed, like VA benefits being stolen by VA for 100% of disabled retirees (steal either pension or disabilty). Also, vaccine waivers must be signed on first day of enlistment ONLY (US Census reported 320,000 disabled Gulf War Vets as of Census 2000, plus 35,000 dead is reported from gulfwarvets.com). There are, of course, massive areas of law ignored/censored by the authors, especially frauds perped by courts, as in most other "mainstream" law texts. This, fortunately, does not detract from the book, since that other information is available to those to work hard to seek it out. 2nd Ed has good explanation of pretrial strategy for choosing which tunnel in the infinite maze. Since General Tommy Franks was quoted in December 2003 that he wants martial law in USA today, perhaps all US citizens will need this book soon, after all US courts are shut down and replaced by military Civil Affairs courts-martial. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
815. ART. 15. COMMANDING OFFICER'S NON-JUDICIAL PUNISHMENT (a) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, and under such additional regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, limitations may be placed on the powers granted by this article with respect to the kind and amount of punishment authorized, the categories of commanding officers and warrant officers exercising command authorized to exercise those powers, the applicability of this article to an accused who demands trial by court-martial, and the kinds of courts-martial to which the case may be referred upon such a demand. However, except in the case of a member attached to or embarked in a vessel, punishment may not be imposed upon any member of the armed forces under this article if the member has, before the imposition of such punishment, demanded trial by court-martial in lieu of such punishment. Under similar regulations, rules may be prescribed with respect to the suspension of punishments authorized by regulations of the Secretary concerned, a commanding officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction or an officer of general or flag rank in command may delegate his powers under this article to a principal assistant. (b) Subject to subsection (a) any commanding officer may, in addition to or in lieu of admonition or reprimand, impose one or more of the following disciplinary punishments for minor offenses without the intervention of a court-martial-- (1) upon officers of his command-- (A) restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more that 30 consecutive days; (B) if imposed by an officer exercising general court-martial jurisdictions or an officer of general flag rank in command-- (i) arrest in quarters for not more than 30 consecutive days; (ii) forfeiture of not more than one-half of one month's pay per month for two months; (iii) restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than 60 consecutive days; (iv) detention of not more than one-half of one month's pay per month for three months; (2) upon other personnel of his command-- (A) if imposed upon a person attached to or embarked in a vessel, confinement on bread and water or diminished rations for not more than three consecutive days; (B) correctional custody for not more than seven consecutive days; (C) forfeiture of not more than seven days' pay; (D) reduction to the next inferior pay grade, if the grade from which demoted is within the promotion authority of the officer imposing the reduction or any officer subordinate to the one who imposes the reduction; (E) extra duties, including fatigue or other duties, for not more than 14 consecutive days; (F) restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than 14 consecutive days; (G) detention of not more than 14 days' pay; (H) if imposed by an officer of the grade of major or lieutenant commander, or above-- (i) the punishment authorized under clause (A); (ii) correctional custody for not more than 30 consecutive days; (iii) forfeiture of not more than one-half of one month's pay per month for two months; (iv) reduction to the lowest or any intermediate pay grade, if the grade from which demoted is within the promotion authority of the officer imposing the reduction or any officer subordinate to the one who imposes the reduction, by an enlisted member in a pay grade above E-4 may not be reduced more than two pay grades; (v) extra duties, including fatigue or other duties, for not more than 45 consecutive days; (vi) restriction to certain specified limits, with or without suspension from duty, for not more than 60 consecutive days; (vii) detention of not more than one-half of one month's pay per month for three months. Detention of pay shall be for a stated period of not more than one year but if the offender's term of service expires earlier, the detention shall terminate upon that expiration. No two or more of the punishments of arrest in quarters, confinement or bread and water or diminished rations, correctional custody, extra duties, and restriction may be combined to run consecutively in the maximum amount impossible for each. Whenever any of those punishments are combined to run consecutively, there must be an apportionment. In addition, forfeiture of pay may not be combined with detention of pay without an apportionment. For the purpose of this subsection, "correctional custody" is the physical restraint of a person during duty or nonduty hours and may include extra duties, fatigue duties, or hard labor. If practicable, correctional custody will not be served in immediate association with persons awaiting trial or held in confinement pursuant to trial by court-martial. (c) An officer in charge may impose upon enlisted members assigned to the unit of which he is in charge such of the punishment authorized under subsection (b)(2)(A)-(G) as the Secretary concerned may specifically prescribe by regulation. (d) The officer who imposes the punishment authorized in subsection (b), or his successor in command, may, at any time, suspend probationally any part or amount of the unexecuted punishment imposed and may suspend probationally a reduction in grade or forfeiture imposed under subsection (b), whether or not executed. In addition, he may, at any time, remit or mitigate any part or amount of the unexecuted punishment imposed and may set aside in whole or in part the punishment, whether executed or unexecuted, and restore all rights, privileges and property affected. He may also mitigate reduction in grade to forfeiture or detention of pay. When mitigating-- (1) arrest in quarters to restriction; (2) confinement on bread and water or diminished rations to correctional custody; (3) correctional custody confinement on bread and water or diminished rations to extra duties or restriction, or both; or (4) extra duties to restriction; the mitigated punishment shall not be for a greater period than the punishment mitigated. When mitigating forfeiture of pay to detention of pay, the amount of detention shall not be greater than the amount of the forfeiture. When mitigating reduction in grade to forfeiture or detention of pay, the amount of the forfeiture or detention shall not be greater than the amount that could have been imposed initially under this article by the officer who imposed the punishment mitigated. (e) A person punished under this article who considers his punishment unjust or disproportionate to the offense may, through proper channels, appeal to the next superior authority. The appeal shall be promptly forwarded and decided, but the person punished may in the meantime be required to undergo the punishment adjudged. The superior authority may exercise the same powers with respect to punishment imposed as may be exercised under subsection (d) by the officer who imposed the punishment.Before acting on appeal from a punishment of-- (1) arrest in quarters for more than seven days; (2) correctional custody for more than seven days; (3) forfeiture of more than seven days' pay; (4) reduction of one or more pay grades from the fourth or a higher pay grade; (5) extra duties fro more than 14 days; (6) restriction for more than 14 days; or (7) detention of more than 14 days' pay; the authority who is to act on the appeal shall refer the case to a judge advocate or a lawyer of the Department of Transportation for consideration and advice, and may so refer the case upon appeal from any punishment imposed under subsection (b). (f) The imposition and enforcement of disciplinary punishment under this article for any act or omission is not a bar to trial by court-martial for a serious crime or offense growing out of the same act or omission, and not properly punishable under this article; but the fact that a disciplinary punishment has been enforced may be shown by the accuse upon trial, and when so shown shall be considered in determining the measure of punishment to be adjudged in the event of a finding of guilty. (g) The Secretary concerned may, by regulation, prescribe the form of records to be kept under this article and may also prescribe that certain categories of those proceedings shall be in writing. ARTICLE 15 COURTS - Webmaster's non-professional English-American Translation: An "Article 15" appears to be an odd civilian version of what's named in Tennessee Republic as "county general sessions court" (bottom tier "inferior court" in state court system). General sessions courts do not use a jury for criminal matters, only a single judge (which is also true of "Summary Court Martial", but only for enlisted soldiers, not officers). General sessions court judges must be a state "licensed trial lawyer" who was elected to an 8-year term (required by Tennessee Constitution), or the court cannot judge criminal cases, since he would then be employed under the executive branch, not the judicial branch, violating Constitutional Separation of Powers doctrine. Lawyers are not required in general sessions court trials, and defendants usually (are forced by poverty and ignorance to) represent themselves pro se (where the judge and prosecutors twist his arm under duress and extortion to plead guilty, often while begging that they are innocent, "But I'll do anything to get out of jail today"). A military Article 15 "court" is NOT a summary "trial" without jury, but is apparently a "sentencing hearing", after agreeing to a contract "plea bargan", with a plea of "guilty with extenuating circumstances" ("affirmative defense": "I agree and stipulate that I did the facts ("crime") alleged, but I am still "innocent" because ________ [see Rules of Procedure for a list of authorized/non-frivolous affirmative defense arguments]. Presumably, Article 15 Court only decides sentence, not guilt or "innocence", because the government (military commander) has already 100% decided to prosecute, which requires a predetermined opinion of guilt (just like civil "traffic courts", since every defendant is presumed to be "liable" (fraudulently termed "guilty"), based upon the initial allegation ("complaint")). An "Article 15 Court" is also a summary "bench trial" ("hearing") without jury, however, the military "judge" is not required to be a "state-licensed trial lawyer" nor a member of Judge Advocates General corps (JAG), and a soldier is NOT allowed a "public defender" (Area Defense Counsel), but he is allowed a person to represent him ("licensed""attorney-in-fact" or unlicensed "attorney-in-fact", so he does not have to testify against himself under oath). The military "judge" questions witnesses at his "discretion", and the defendant's agent does not have the right to cross-examine any witnesses. Apparently, this is because the military uses "Roman Civil Law", and is a part of the executive branch under appointment by the president, and is not part of the judicial branch. This perhaps indicates why the US Constitution does not apply, since the constitutions generally apply in "criminal cases" using Criminal Rules of Procedure, not in civil cases with Civil Rules of Procedure (which are civil contract disputes and civil torts/damages). So the courts-martial and Article 15 Courts use UCMJ law and procedure to decide civil (slave) employment contract disputes, as allowed by US Constitution's "contract clause" (which apparently legalized the "popular" slave trade, where "white" indentured "servants" under contract were bought and sold on the auction block, breaking up families forever and "legally" selling white children into a lifetime of slavery without contact with their parents - just like Child Protection Services and CIA/DEA stealing children and selling them to the highest bidder today). Article 15 Courts and punishment appears to be for "misdemeanors" only (1 year maximum potential sentence), not felonies (1 year or longer maximum sentence). When Amerika transitions into martial law, civilians will also be subject to proseution under UCMJ procedural rules and sentencing, and civilian courts will be disbanded. Military Martial Law Affairs corps, er, "Civil Affairs" groups (Roman Civil Law legalized 25,000 daily summary public torture/executions of slaves and POWs in so-called "sporting events" in the Roman Colliseums), will move into US cities to "aid the transition", just as they do all over the world to other sovereign nations today. US and foreign troops routinely practice wargames in Amerika to impose violent takeover of Amerikan cities and towns, with "summary justice" for those Amerikans who resist the hostile takeover and herding into Concentration Camps. Summary sentencing includes practice of summary executions with a bullet in the head of Amerikan citizens. Foreign troops include Communist Eastern-Block and Communist Chinese slaves, er, "drafted troops", who practice imposing martial law upon Amerika for their slave masters at New World Order Inc. (See videotapes of actual wargames in Amerika for martial law at Infowars.com and GodAndCountryClub.com). It is unclear whether summary Death Penalties without trial by courts-martial fall under UCMJ (only a "General Court Martial" may legally impose a Death Penalty). Presumably, summary Death Penalties are "prosecuted" under a bogus variatation of Article 15, under orders of "commanders" in the battlefield of Amerika, just like US commanders summarily tortured and executed 1,000s of POWs in the Afganistan War (apparently to prevent them blowing the whistle on the CIA and USAF rescuing 7,000 Taliban and Al Quida senior officers and commanders, airlifting them to safety in Pakistan). Under the Law of War, without a trial and sentence by court-martial, soldiers may only kill in self defense (unless they aspire to be warcriminals). Jeremy Baker In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. This admission appeared in a PBS documentary originally aired in Sept. of 2002 entitled "America Rebuilds". Mr Silverstein's comments came after FEMA and the Society of Civil Engineers conducted an extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower. In the documentary Silverstein makes the following statement;
[This can be heard in the audio file #1. Thanks to Sir Dave 'tmo' Soule for transfering this from the video to an MP3 file. "America Rebuilds", PBS Home Video.] Mr. Silverstein's comments stand in direct contradiction to the findings of the extensive FEMA report. They even negate Kevin Spacey's narrative in the very documentary in which they appear; "WTC 7 fell after burning for 7 hours." If it had been generally known that the building was "pulled" wouldn't Mr. Spacey have phrased it that way? In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull the building six." There can be little doubt as to how the word "pull" is being used in this context. [This can be heard in the audio file #2 taken from the video.] This shocking contradiction is yet another curious twist in a disturbing series of events surrounding the "collapse" of WTC 7, and the WTC complex in general. Among these is the fact that, in all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever resulted in a collapse. On 9/11 three such anomalies were alleged to have occurred. Those who argue that the towers were vulnerable in their top-heaviness and verticality cannot then explain the collapse due to fire of WTC 7, a broad based, 47-story steel-framed building. There is also the fact that most of the structures destroyed by falling debris were directly under the twin towers, and none of them caught fire. WTC 7 was not only a full city block away from Tower 1 but WTC 6 stood directly between the two buildings and certainly absorbed most of the damage. In addition, WTC 7 suffered a strangely thorough and complete collapse, leaving only a leveled lot where it once stood. Although it was a much smaller structure, WTC 6's 8-story carcass stood for months afterwards, even after being gutted by Tower 1. There's also disturbing correlations between the collapse of WTC 7 and the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Both buildings were constructed using the same bridge beam system that, in WTC 7's case, allegedly contributed to its demise. But more importantly WTC 7, like the Murrah building, housed high-level government offices including the FBI, CIA and the Secret Service. WTC 7 was also the storage facility for millions of files pertaining to active cases involving international drug dealing, organized crime, terrorism and money laundering. WTC 6, also known as the Customs House building, housed the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture and Labor and yet another Murrah building tenant, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. WTC 7 was also the location of a kind of a doomsday bunker (a $15 million project of Rudy Giuliani's), a command post from which to operate in case of a total infrastructure breakdown. Building 7 had apparently been bullet proofed and reinforced to withstand hurricane force winds and attacks of all kinds, a fact which makes its alleged fatal vulnerability to falling debris all the more puzzling. Mr. Silverstein's comments imply that he and the FDNY threw together an expert demolition job in the space of a few short hours on the afternoon of 9/11. This revelation is staggering enough considering its blatant contradiction to what has been, all along, the official cause of the "collapse." But the fact that the building was buried under tons of debris and consumed in flames at the time makes his comments all the more baffling. There's a compelling theory that bombs had been planted inside the twin towers designed to complete the job the hijacked jets had begun. A handful of seasoned professional firefighters and demolition men have commented on how neatly and evenly the towers collapsed. Mr. Silverstein's bewildering statements in "America Rebuilds" give an exponential boost in credence to this claim and, in a more terrifying light, loan credibility to growing suspicions that the attacks of 9/11 may have been an inside job. NOTE THAT PEOPLE WERE MURDERED IN WTC 7 BY THE "PULL" ORDER BY SILVERSTEIN, NYFD AND GANG. SECRET SERVICE COPS DIED IN WTC 7 WHEN IT COLLAPSED. WHAT DID THOSE COPS KNOW ABOUT 9-11-2001 IN WTC 7'S COMMAND BUNKER???
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When Tom Cruise uttered those famous words in the Hollywood blockbuster, 'Top Gun': "I feel a need, a need for speed", he would not have known that his words had already been taken literally by the U.S. Air Force, in a way he could never have imagined. In the latest Jamie Doran documentary, 'the need for speed' exposes how the Pentagon has been issuing a concoction of mind-altering drugs to its soldiers and airmen, resulting in the deaths of allied forces, innocent civilians and, almost certainly, their own men.
Amphetamines, sedatives, anti-nerve agents, adrenaline and a whole variety of vaccines, including anthrax, make up a cocktail of chemicals banned by civilian authorities in the ordinary workplace, yet forced upon pilots flying multi-million dollar jets into combat and Special Forces soldiers operating behind enemy lines. In an extraordinary investigation, American military personnel speak for the first time to explain how they were used as guinea pigs in wars ranging from Panama, the Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan and right up until the recent conflict in Iraq. These are not dissidents, nor are they unpatriotic: they love their country and were ready to give their lives in its service. But they can no longer stand by and watch their comrades suffer as the Pentagon pushes more and more drugs onto the frontline. "They made you ruthless, just utterly ruthless. I made decisions that I feel now I would not have made. I eliminated individuals that I considered to be a threat, that I would not normally have done." "A lot of times the fighter pilots say: 'speed is life, speed is life'; in this case, speed became death." "Many of the times, the sad part is that they can't tell if it was real or not. That's the part that is really frightening."
"I guess I best remember it as almost paranoia. I had a dizziness; I wasn't falling over dizzy, but there was a little bit of a tumbling sensation going on. I felt paranoia where I was nervous and skittish about what was around me and what was happening. I wasn't in complete control." In this documentary, filmed at locations throughout the United States and Britain, we speak with a former White House 'Drugs Czar' who expresses grave concerns about the use of amphetamines in the military; we interview the man who, as Air Force Chief of Staff, banned the drugs as soon as he took over, only to see them re-introduced after his retirement; we follow the story of one pilot who sacrificed his career in pursuit of the truth; we feature the case of a 'ground' soldier who killed innocent civilians for reasons he cannot understand to this day. We explain how the 'voluntary' nature of dispensing these drugs makes legal nonsense and how the Pentagon may very well be breaking its own laws, to the detriment of its serving men and women; only to establish that, in reality, the U.S. military is a law unto itself. We discover that vital information on 'friendly fire' incidents, including the deaths of nine British soldiers in the Gulf War, has been withheld and we examine the true human costs of wars fought on drugs. Video Stream
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Murder, Incorporated by Chris Floyd
While the lumbering giants of the American media make their clumsy bows of obeisance to the presidential paymaster filling their corporate goodie bags with tax cut candy and merger massage oil, a few snippets of unsalted truth about the real world continue to spill from the croker sacks of the lean and hungry provincial papers. Last week, it was the Savannah Morning News unearthing an attempted terrorist bombing by a U.S. soldier in the gaterous moral swamp of Jeb Bush's Florida. This week, it's the Ithaca Journal in upstate New York, bringing news of Big Brother Georgie's old-fashioned approach to warfare: Ordering soldiers to kill women and children. This revelation--entirely unremarked by the larded lords of the Fourth Estate--came in a homely profile of young Army Private Matt Guckenheimer, just returned to the bosom of his family after a tour of service in Afghanistan. While retailing some of his experiences during the much ballyhooed "Operation Anaconda," Guckenheimer artlessly spilled what was surely meant to be a secret order from his superiors. "We were told there were no friendly forces," Guckenheimer said. "If there was anybody there, they were the enemy. We were told specifically that if there were women and children to kill them." Let that sink in for a moment: American soldiers were told to kill women and children. "Specifically." To kill a child. To put a bullet in the brain of, let's say, a two-year old girl. To hold the barrel of a rifle to her tiny temple and pull the trigger. To watch as the tender plate of her skull, the delicate bones of her face, her large bright inquisitive eyes were all obliterated in a burst of red mist. "We were told specifically to kill them." "Women and children." "To kill them." So that's the kind of warfare being waged by those notorious two cowards, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. When their own generation was on the firing line, in Vietnam, both men ardently supported the war--but disdained to fight in it. For his part, Cheney was too busy with his long bootlicking rise to power: "I had other priorities," he has loftily proclaimed. Meanwhile, Bush's daddy got his drink-addled little boy a cushy stateside berth in the Texas National Guard--but even then, Junior couldn't stick it. He bugged out for an entire year of his duty--desertion in wartime, a capital offense, if you're not rich and well-connected. Fortunately, his service records for that period were "scrubbed" by General Daniel James, former head of the Texas National Guard, who is now head of the entire nation's Air National Guard -- courtesy of his appointment by a grateful George W. Bush. Now these two armchair warriors, Bush and Cheney, ensconced safely behind the greatest phalanx of personal protection ever seen in history, are sending out a new generation of young people to kill and die. Like their predecessors in the Vietnam War, they are twisting the faith and idealism of patriotic young soldiers and turning them into instruments of murder. And for what? Certainly not to "bring the perpetrators of September 11 to justice," the ostensible purpose of the war. Those perpetrators are still roaming free--and are even more dangerous than ever, according to Cheney himself. No, the main reason why Private Guckenheimer and his comrades are being ordered to murder women and children could be found last week in a headline buried in yet another obscure province of the American Empire--a brief business story from the BBC: "Afghan Pipeline Given Go-Ahead." And there is more of this to come; much, much more. For even as Private Guckenheimer was making his quiet revelations, the Commander-in-Chief was loudly proclaiming a brand-new military doctrine for the United States: Sneak attacks--like Pearl Harbor, like September 11. Speaking at West Point military academy, Bush first praised the soldiers in Afghanistan "who have fought on my orders." (***"We were told specifically that if there were women and children to kill them."***) He then announced that from henceforth, the United States will "impose preemptive, unilateral military force when and where it chooses," the Washington Post reports. For the first time in its history, America is now openly committed to offensive military aggression against any perceived threat designated by its leaders, the unelected White House occupant told the cadets. Bush said that "60 or more nations" presently lie under this dread edict--all potential targets of his "kill the women and children" orders. What's more, Bush said this new military bellicosity will be accompanied by aggressive diplomacy aimed at forcing other nations to adopt American values--that is, the Enron-style "crony capitalism" foisted on the United States by a corrupt elite and their political bagmen. Bush called this pustulant system--now suppurating before our eyes, as corporation after corporation, including Cheney's own Halliburton, are caught cooking their books--"the single surviving model of human progress." So there you have it. Just like bin Laden--another unelected leader who claims divine sanction for his actions--Bush will send his forces to strike without warning at anyone he believes is an enemy. Just like bin Laden, Bush considers innocent women and children to be legitimate targets of his holy wrath. Just like bin Laden, he seeks to impose his own limited, barbaric worldview on other nations, for his own power and profit. What quadrant of hell is hot enough for such men? Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times. Why I Oppose the US War on Terror An ex-Marine Sergeant Speaks Out by CHRIS WHITE The more I juxtapose logical world opinion with the Bush administration's actions in the war on terror, I realize one overwhelming theme: hypocrisy. No one in any of the branches of government runs a physical risk to themselves by entering a war with Iraq, and we can bet that none of their family members are at risk, either. That is, until the next "terrorist" attack. I put "terrorist" in quotes because its definition is subjective, and I myself used to be in the Marine Corps, part of the most powerful "terrorist" organization on the planet: the U.S. government. Of course, we never call our operations "terrorism" because every operation is considered legitimate to us. When found guilty by the World Court for violence in Nicaragua, we ignore the decision. Too bad the nations we hurt can't just ignore what we do to them. When the planet condemns us for killing between 2,500-4,000 people in Panama, we're too busy planning the next invasion of a country that can't fight back. I oppose this war as a U.S. citizen, a veteran, and a doctoral student in history. While my military experience is what first made me skeptical about our government's motives in the developing world, it wasn't until I went to college and began reading hundreds of books and thousands of articles that I was able to truly grasp the profundity of our leadership's contempt for the freedoms they claim to protect. As a rule, we have worked hard to prevent the rise of democracy in the developing world, all the while claiming legitimacy as "the world's police force" because of our so-called "democratic" values. The hypocrisy is astounding. When one investigates our complicity in death squads, torture, massacres, rape, and mass destruction, one realizes that freedom often threatens the current power structure in this country. I used to consider those incidents as anomalistic in comparison to the "protection" we offered the planet at seemingly no charge. But then I joined the Marines, and I realized why I had believed in the government: they were experts in manipulation. Barely out of high school, the Corps broke us down and built us up in order to shape us into machines, willing to defend the ideals of the power elites in Washington and corporate America. Just look at the companies, which are funding political campaigns, and benefiting from war: weapons producers, technologies, food, clothing, munitions, oil, pharmaceuticals, etc U.S. interventions since WWII have not been done in the name of the world's people (although that is always the claim), but for the preservation of concentrated power. The fact that they have been carried out against the tenets of international law (i.e. the rights of non-intervention and self-determination), in itself deflates their validity. If the U.S. government were held to the FBI's official definition of terrorism ("the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives"), their list of victims since WWII alone would include: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Mexico, Chile, Granada, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Zaire, Namibia, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Iran, South Africa, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Iraq, Cambodia, Libya, Israel, Palestine, China, Afghanistan, Sudan, Indonesia, East Timor, Turkey, Angola, and Somalia. In boot camp, deceit and manipulation accompany the necessity to motivate troops to murder on command. You can't take civilians from the street, give them machine guns, and expect them to kill without question in a democratic society; therefore people must be indoctrinated to do so. This fact alone should sound off alarms in our collective American brain. If the cause of war is justified, then why do we have to be put through boot camp? If you answer that we have to be trained in killing skills, well, then why is most of boot camp not focused on combat training? Why are privates shown videos of U.S. military massacres while playing Metallica in the background, thus causing us to scream with the joy of the killer instinct as brown bodies are obliterated? Why do privates answer every command with an enthusiastic, "kill!!" instead of, "yes, sir!!" like it is in the movies? Why do we sing cadences like these?:
These chants are meant to motivate the troops; they enjoy it, salivate from it, and get off on it. If one repeats these hundreds of times, one eventually begins to accept them as paradigmatically valid. The demonization of the enemy is crucial to wartime planners, and the above examples of motivation techniques are relevant to the present. Before carrying out a security exercise in Qatar, my unit went through Muslim "indoctrination" classes. The level of racism was unbelievable. Muslims were referred to as "Ahmed," "towelheads," "ragheads," and "terrorists." We were told that most Muslim males were homosexual, and that their hygiene was so primitive that we shouldn't even shake their hands. The object was demonization through feminization and dehumanization, so as to make it easier for us to pull the trigger when ordered to. But Qatar is our ally, so imagine the language being used today in these indoctrination courses about Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraqi population has suffered countless U.S. supported atrocities over the past eleven years. Not only were between 100 and 200 thousand people killed in 1991, but the bombing has continued ever since then, and sanctions have led to the deaths of possibly 1 million people, in a nation of 17 million. Former UNSCOM execs assert that they destroyed 95-98 percent of Saddam's weapons by 1998, and that a nuclear weapons capability is extremely unlikely due to their devastated economy. According to this morning's New York Times, the U.S. reasons that Saddam's gassing of his own people and his hatred of the U.S. are what warrant our harder stance toward Iraq in comparison to North Korea. While we pursue diplomacy with North Korea (which has admitted to having nukes), we prefer to invade Iraq, who we claim is only looking for nukes. Have we forgotten the 1994 Congressional report revealing that we supplied Saddam with biological and chemical weapons during the 1980s? Although U.S. casualties will be lower than that of Iraq, let's not forget the danger we are placing squarely on the shoulders of U.S. troops, who have been indoctrinated as I was. Funny how the people who are least likely to go to war are the ones working the hardest to convince others to fight it for them. Chris White is an ex-Marine and current doctoral student in history at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. —Sherman H. Skolnick, SkolnicksReport.com, "THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (Part 30), MOST FORBIDDEN SUBJECT---U.S. MILITARY", 4/14/03 [Webmaster Note: One A-10 Tankbuster pilot was from Knoxville, Tennessee, and was so disgusted with this illegal order for genocide that he flew his A-10 back to USA as a disgruntled conscientious "deserter"...] General Edward G. Lansdale and the Folksongs of Americans in the Vietnam War Lansdale was author of Pentagon's Operation NORTHWOODS plot to genocide USA with fake terrorist attacks by LYDIA M. FISH
The occupational folksongs of Americans, both military and civilian, who served in the Vietnam War are closely related to those of earlier wars. They are also strongly influenced by the folksong revival and by country and popular music. Our knowledge of these songs is almost entirely due to the work of General Edward Geary Lansdale, who, in addition to his extensive collecting of folksongs, made use of folklore as a technique of psychological warfare and as a means of conveying intelligence. Civilians serving with civilian agencies such as AID (Agency for International Development), CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support), the State Department and the CIA had their own songs. Jim Bullington, who was working for AID in Quang Tri in 1968, wrote "Yes, We Are Winning" while he was in hiding in Hue during the Tet Offensive of that year (Burlington 1985). In Dong Tam, Emily Strange (Red Cross), with her friend Barbara Hagar (USO), wrote "Incoming," complaining about having to go to the bunkers every night, and sang it for enthusiastic grunts on the firebases (Strange 1988). Employees of OCO (Office of Civil Operations) and JUSPAO Joint United States Public Affairs Of lice) contributed "Where Have All the Field Reps Gone" and "God Smite Thee, Barry Zorthian." They griped about the unpunctuality of Air America flights ("Damn Air America, You're Always Late") [Air American was replaced by Evergreen Aviation during Iran-Contra narcoterrorism and now replaced by Federal Express (FedEx), owned by Bushes' Skull & Bones alumnus Fredrick Smith of Memphis, Tennessee, for US Postal Service contracts for running the heroin crop out of Afghanistan for CIA and Bush White House] and the futility of pacification efforts ("We Have Pacified This Land One Hundred Times"). The Cosmos Tabernacle Choir was composed of CIA agents who used to meet in the Cosmos Bar near the American Embassy. Their songs tended to be both cynical and humorous; "Counting Geckos on the Wall," "Deck the Halls with Victor Charlie" and "I Feel Like a Coup Is Coming On." The group even had a Cosmos Command patch made, showing crossed Bau Muoi Ba bottles over an explosion, which can still be seen on the walls of bars in McLean and Langley (Allen 1988).
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PRESIDENT BUSH'S MILITARY RECORDS PROVE HE IS GUILTY OF MILITARY CRIMES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Gulf War Veterans Association
The American Gulf War Veterans Association can no longer remain silent on the subject of George W. Bush's military records. FOX NEWS reporter Sean Hannity stated Wednesday evening that this was a question that had been resolved. Guest Howard Wolfson responded by saying that the President should release his records. If the media had been doing their homework they would know that the records have already been released. It is because of the actual content that these military records are not being disclosed. Joyce Riley, spokesperson of The American Gulf War Veterans Association revealed on air in a two hour "white paper" report yesterday, Feb. 4, 2004, on The Power Hour radio show, (ThePowerHour.com) that George W. Bush's military records indicate that he was not present for his entire six year required service to the military. Even more shocking and significant is that he did, in fact, deny a direct order, during time of war, and was suspended from flying. The debate may rage on the major networks about whether or not he was AWOL, however the documentation exists and is available at http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm Riley, who has also been a testifying expert in medical malpractice trials for fifteen years states: "There is no question he is guilty of major military crimes and should be held accountable. The military records confirm these accusations. No matter how many of his "buddies" they "pull out of a hat" to say he was present, the records speak for themselves. Thousands of veterans, from Atomic Veterans, Vietnam War, Project Shad, and Gulf War I have been denied compensation because the V.A. and Department of Defense state that their "records" don't prove exposure to chemicals, biological agents, experimental vaccines and depleted uranium. (GulfWarVets.com/ao.html), Project Shad and Gulf War victims now suffer and cannot prove their records exist. (ProjectShad.org.) Mr. Bush's records do prove without a doubt that he denied a direct order during time of war, and this, by definition is Treason. The AGWVA will provide FOX NEWS, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and BBC with copies of these documents by contacting this organization. The millions of prior service personnel who served proudly will be outraged when they read what the present Commander in Chief is guilty of —and is not being held accountable for. Innocent troops that are simply protecting their health and their families from the anthrax vaccine are being court martialed. How can the President stand before them when he is guilty of so much worse? Full reports on the military records of George W. Bush will be available at: GulfWarVets.com and ThePowerHour.com.  CLICK TO ENLARGE See Also:
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Chasing George W. Bush and the F-102 A piece that got this started - What he's like in real life by Paul Burka "Well, am I running?" George W. Bush demanded to know. I happened to be sitting in my Suburban near the south door of the state capitol, discharging a passenger, just as the governor's silver-gray Lincoln Continental was doing the same. It was early February, well before he would announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, and a smidgen of suspense still lingered. I had waved at Bush as he went past, and he had swerved over to deliver the opening gambit in one of his favorite games: conversational one-upmanship. Having played it before, I knew I didn't have a chance. "Sure," I said. "You'd be the wuss of all time if you didn't." "But what about the rumors?" he shot back. Then, to my utter stupefaction, he proceeded to tick off everything the national press was investigating about his past: five or six of the most salacious things that could be said about anyone—including, in his own words, "I bought cocaine at my dad's inauguration"—plus intimate gossip about his family. As he well knew, I had already heard all of it through the media grapevine. "You missed one," I said. "You crashed a jet while you were in the National Guard because you were drunk." He spread his hands. "That's easy," he said. "Where's the plane?" Game over. He spun around and headed off. Bush really flying in a Cessna 172 in 1976: NOT LONG AFTER Reisner's delicate trip to Midland[summer 1976], Bush banged on the door of Susie and Don Evans on an otherwise placid Sunday afternoon and suggested to Don that they head out to the airport and spend a few bucks for a spin over the desiccated Permian Basin in a single-engine Cessna. Susie Evans, who had gone to elementary school with Bush, was a longtime Midland presence, and when she had been dating her future husband in Houston, she had frequently stayed at the Bush house. She had moved back to Midland, and after she had heard that Bush was back in town, she and her husband had frequently invited him over. Her husband Don Evans... Willard... was a short, fastidious, narrow-faced oilman in his early thirties who was poised to assume control of the Tom Brown Company, one of the legendary older names in the West Texas patch. Bush had begun spending more time at the Evanses' apartment in the Windsor Courts, drinking cocktails with them and leaving his laundry for Susie to do. Bush liked Evans's politics, he liked that they were about the same age and that both of them had recent MBAs. He liked the fact that Evans's old man had landed on the beach at Normandy during World War II. Evans said he'd love to go flying. At the airport he watched Bush stare at the controls, at the panel, and he realized that Bush-though not admitting it-had no idea how to fly the thing properly. After finally figuring out how to launch the plane, Bush pushed the Cessna hard down the runway. Evans screamed, "Give it some gas!" The Cessna's warning system was blinking and crackling. Bush tried to lift his craft fast, almost as if he were piloting a jet back in the Texas Air National Guard. The plane wobbled into the air, and the unsubtle maneuvering threatened to shove it into a stall. Now the rented plane was rattling in the sky over Midland The endless petrochemical complexes, all the aluminum and steel and smoke stacks that pockmark the Permian Basin, were spiking up just below the aircraft. Bush nervously turned to Evans, put his hand on his knee and blurted in his self-mocking West Texas way, "Okay, Evvie, I've got it under control." After more seemingly endless moments, he somehow got control of the plane again. He aimed the aircraft down, and the landing was as shaky and brutal as the takeoff. The plane careened off the runway and onto the desert. Evans sighed in relief. Then an unbelieving Evans braced himself as Bush suddenly and unexpectedly spun the plane and bounced back along the runway. Evans stared at Bush. He could see the fear and panic flooding his face. Bush pressed on. Evans had no idea why Bush wanted to go again. The plane wobbled uncertainly back into the West Texas skies, and Bush turned to Evans. "Hey," said Bush airily, as if he had just had an original, amusing idea, "let's fly around Midland." The men began cracking up. Bush brought the Cessna back to the airport. It was the last time he flew a plane. Evans would be one of the three people at Bush's side in almost every public venture for the twenty-three years. |
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SADDAM HUSSEIN and THE EXIT MONEY THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, Part 33 by Sherman H. Skolnick The Persian Gulf War Two ended before the actual shooting started. On March 17, 2003, George W. Bush, the occupant and resident of the White House, proclaimed a 48-hour deadline in which the Iraqi strongman, Saddam Hussein, should turn over Weapons of Mass Destruction and he should leave the country. As of this date, no WMD have been discovered to exist in Iraq. By the time the shooting started, March 20, 2003, Saddam, according to very knowledgeable sources, had already left the country. The exit was arranged by the Moscow government, with the kno wledge if not the aid of the Paris government, and with the full knowledge and connivance of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W. Bush, as supervised by Daddy Bush. Just as the deadline passed on Wednesday, March 19, 20 03, the American CIA with the U.S. Military brass covered up these and other events herein described, by a much trumpeted effort to supposedly assassinate Saddam in Baghdad, using bunker-busting weapons. It was a treasonous fraud, calculated to distract common Americans addicted, like druggies, to the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press, to cover up the true nature of what was really happening. According to the best, most well-informed sources, who have in the past been accurate, here is what alrea dy had occurred prior to the March 19, 2003, White House deadline: [1] Tens of millions of dollars had been promised by the American CIA and the Bush White House, to the top generals of Iraq. The contacts with the Iraqi military brass had been started a s long ago as October, 2002, or even before. Part of the pay-offs were already deposited in secret accounts. The plan, agreed upon by all concerned, was to have the major Iraqi military units permit the U.S. Military to quickly ta! ke Baghdad, supposedly with a minimum of U.S. casualties. [A heavily-censored, watered down story about the pay-offs "U.S. Bribed Iraqi Military Leaders", The Express, London, UK, 4/18/3.]The opposition to the overwhelmingly superior U.S. fire-power was to be by misled, poorly-informed, poorly-organized local Iraqi bands of shooters, what Americans in a U.S. context would call "patriots" or "militia". These highly nationalistic minded would-be "troops", mostly not even in uniforms, without good clothe s or shoes, were mowed down by the heavily-armed Americans, killing the Iraqis often twenty or more at a time. The Iraqis, some as conscripts, fought, as best they could, as any patriotic citizen of a nation would against foreign invaders attacking thei r homeland without provocation. History may well describe it as the great slaughter of the innocents. [2] The bought-off Iraqi generals and other top military officers, and their wives and families, were shortly after the shootin! g started, flown out of Iraqi in U.S. military helicopters. They have been quietly and secretly re-located in the U.S., just as a similar series of events after Persian Gulf War One. In prior exclusive stories, we told about the four thousand or more Ir aqi military intelligence and other military officers as supposed "defectors" quietly re-located' after Persian Gulf War One, to the U.S. The Elder Bush, then president, and perpetuated later by Bush crony Clinton as President, jointly knew that some of these supposed POWs were "double agents". Some two thousand such Iraqis, and their wives and children, were set up in Oklahoma City, their housing, food, clothing, and such, paid for by the Elder Bush/Clinton administrations and perpetuated by George W. Bush. "We're rolling out the welcome wagon to prisoners of war, yet our own veterans who fought there are having trouble getting any help", said Congressman Clifford Steans (R., Florida). Said U.S. Senator John Warner (R., Va.): "I find it unconscionable that an Iraqi combatant soldier would be admitted into this country under refugee status and be given certain privileges and benefits and indeed a job at a time when many, many U.S. veterans...cannot or have not been able to get comparable benefits." "FINAL REPORT On the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building April 19, 1995" , by the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, published 2001, pages 476-477. Some two thousand of these Iraqi officers have been housed i n Oklahoma City. The chief defense counsel, Stephen Jones, in an unpublicized higher court petition on behalf of defendant Timothy McVeigh, contended that U.S. dissidents, whether they knew it completely or not, were domestic surrogates for a secret Ir aqi operation to get revenge on the U.S. for the Persian Gulf War One. Attorney Jones' 185 page court filing, amazingly, referred to both the public and SECRET McVeigh court record. [Visit, for example, our website series of stori! es on McVeigh.] [3] The wire service, United Press International, owned wholly or in part by the American CIA, suddenly ran a story, 4/10/3, "Saddam Key in Early CIA Plot", telling how Saddam as a young man became part of a CIA-assassination squad to sn uff out Iraqi leaders, paving the way for Saddam as dictator. Hey! Why did the CIA suddenly, at this late date, tell us this, through their puppet wire service fakers? In 1916, with the downfall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the victorious British to ok over Mesopotamia as a protectorate. In so doing they more or less tried to weld together three countries, as Iraq, made up of warring tribes, religions, and groups. By the 1930s, recognizing failure, the Brits dumped Iraq. During World War Two, oil-r ich Iraq and Iran were both pro-Hitler monarchist types, an inviting target for the Nazis to try to over-run Cairo and seize the Mid-East. After the war, a sizeable political party was the Communist Party of Iraq. To combat them ! and assassinate pro-Moscow Reds, was the purpose of the American CIA and the Ba'ath political party and the installation of dictator Saddam who kept the warring factions within Iraq together as one nation, using savagery and the iron fist against dissid ents. [4] In the 1980s, Daddy Bush and Saddam Hussein were private business partners, sharing billions and billions of dollars from shaking down the weak, oil-soaked sheikdoms of the Gulf. The foreign bank records showing this became the subject of an p ublicized suit in the Federal Courts in Chicago. I was the only journalist attending the hearing and writing an exclusive story about it. [Visit our website story, "The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh".] This vast extortion horde became the secret subject of a U.S. Treasury Internal Affairs unit inquiry examining the 25 secret worldwide accounts of the Bush Crime Family, jointly held loot with Saddam Hussein. For example, the Bushies had a One Hundred Billion Dollar joint account wit! h the Queen of England, at her private bank, Coutts Bank London. These transactions were done with the aid of Federal Reserve Commissar Alan Greenspan, using his secret authorization code. The authenticated documents and the details are in our website s eries "Greenspan Aids and Bribes Bush". Prior to the actual shooting "war" starting March 20, 2003, billions and billions of dollars of these Bush/Saddam extortion loot were transferred through the Royal Bank of Jordan in part to the Central Bank of Ira q. [The Kingdom of Jordan has been a recipient of huge funds for more than 40 years from the American CIA. The Royal Bank of Jordan is a form of reputed CIA proprietary. See our website story, "Overthrow", Kingdom of Jordan Link, part Part 25.] On May 6 , 2003, the New York Times ran a heavily-censored, watered down story how upwards of one billion dollars of this was extracted by Saddam's son just before the shooting started. The New York Times did not bother to remind themselve! s of their earlier story about the possibility of huge amounts of U.S. paper currency, found in Iraq, might be counterfeit. [Visit other parts of this series as to the superior quality counterfeit U.S. money.] [5] It should come as no surprise to those who are well-informed and NOT naive, that Saddm has been playing dirty games, against his own people, for the benefit of the American CIA while Saddam was/is supposedly "an enemy". Saddam, prior to the shooting started in Persian Gulf War Two, reportedl y ended up in Switzerland, to have his face changed by expert plastic surgeons. From there, he was transported to Paris where the French CIA can use him, if they see fit, to blackmail the Bush White House to get a piece of the post-Iraq War oil treasure and re-construction. After all, Saddam is an eyewitness whose direct testimony could put Daddy Bush and Bush, Jr., in prison and/or public ridicule, as war criminals, as having invaded another nation without legal or U.S. Consttu! tion basis. The leaked out Bush Crime Family worldwide secret accounts are, in part, by way of Saddam's half-brother in Switzerland. The Bush Crime Family, in transferring just a small part of this loot for the exile of Saddam, are keeping Saddam from h is "proper" portion that he would be "entitled to" as a private business partner of Daddy Bush in shake-down and extortion. Cynical lawyers might point out, however, that a falling out of thieves cannot be a subject of a court partnership damage suit, since under American law it would be "against public policy", sort of like a bank robber caught by a policeman, sueing for "brutality". [6] Some items, some summarized, that have to be considered: Supervised by Daddy Bush, George W. Bush has committe d treason against the American people, which is becoming more and more known by those overseas. There was no basis in international law, United Nations rules, or the U.S. Constitution, for the attack on Iraq, there being, appare! ntly no WMD and Saddam Hussein had already gone into exile. The so-called "war", was a fraud and a sham. Unfortunately, the American newsfakers are concealing that U.S. casualties in the conflict were much, much greater than the monopoly press announc es. Some estimate that upwards of 800 Americans perished---U.S. military, American CIA clandestine, out-of-uniform types, Special Forces, and other Special American operatives---and as many as five thousand of the same wounded. The Iraqi oil treasure, second largest in the world, is to be used, as collateral, to support U.S. out-of-control debt, to aid Bush in seeking to give a huge tax cut to the very wealthy. An additional purpose, if not the actual main one, is that the Iraqi oil treasure is to h ead-off (maybe actually impossible to sidestep), the downfall of the "U.S. Dollar" and the looming possible default of U.S. Treasury securities, 40 per cent of which currently are owned by the Japanese and the Saudi Royal Family (! both since 1973, having THEIR U.S. Treasury paper backed by U.S. Gold, not so for ordinary Americans). Is some of the billions turned over to Saddam by the Bush Crime Family, proceeds of their joint extortion loot, actually superior quality counterfe it U.S. paper money? [Visit earlier parts of this series for related items.] Is Saddam, savvy about this, in the process of dumping this phoney baloney money BACK onto the U.S., aiding the British in their long-time plans to destroy the U.S. Central Gov ernment? [Read this website series from Part One to present.] More coming....Stay tuned. Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963, founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders. Since 1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of one-hour,weekly public access Cable TV Show, "Broadsides", Cablecast on Channel 21, 9 p.m. each Monday in Chicago. For a heavy packet of printed stories, send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business sized envelope [4-1/4 x 9-1/2 #10 size] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick, Chairman, 9800 South Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 7 days, 8 a.m. to midnight, (773) 375-5741 [PLEASE, no "just routine calls]. Before sending FAX, call. Do ask - Do tell! BettyBowers.com
January 2004. Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals (BASH) asks what conservative Christians throughout America are demanding to know. Mr. Bush wandered over during Mr. [Scot] Reid's [senior strategist to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin] chat with the Prime Minister. Mr. Reid introduced himself and shook hands with Mr. Bush. The President chuckled. "Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway." We at Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals have BASHed enough so-called "gays" with the blunt love of Jesus to know how to spot deviants across a crowded sale at Saks. Outside of Italian shoes, nothing sends up a rainbow-colored flare that you are dealing with a flaming homosexual more reliably than when a man breathlessly gushes the word "faaabulous!" When a Christian lady hears this word outside of her hair salon or florist, she instinctively reaches for the Bible tracts in her purse because she knows a nancy boy is within throwing range.
"It's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." Therefore, conservative Christians throughout the land have become increasingly uncomfortable as they dutifully mask each awkward pause with a flurry of polite applause and yells of "more wars!" during President Bush's somewhat laborious attempts at speaking. While Tony Blair may have mastered the Queen's English, our President's vocabulary calls to mind any number of queens' English. Even our least vigilant Republican social commandos have noticed that Mr. Bush has been peppering his otherwise delightful litany of patriotic jingoism and pleasantly embroidered CIA-intelligence recaps with the effeminate mating call "fabulous" -- three giddy syllables that are tantamount to coyly cooing, "Hello, sailor!" "And we'll prevail, because we're a faaabulous nation, and we're a faaabulous nation because we're a nation full of faaabulous people." (Not one word in quotation marks has been changed from the official transcripts (click main link for all web links to WhiteHouse.gov Press Releases). To you hellbound doubting Thomases out there (you know who you are -- and so does Jesus), if you click on the quotation, it will bring up the page on official White House website that contains the speech in which the word "fabulous" was squealed with delight.) Official Xanax spokesperson Laura Bush ("a fabulous First Lady"); His viper-tongued mother Barbara ("a fabulous mother"); Nimble prevaricator Condoleezza Rice (an "honest fabulous person")
Chuck Berry (who -- my stars! -- did prison time for surreptitiously filming women going to the toilet), Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder ("a fabulous array of artists") -- so nice that our swishy leader had gotten over the public snub of Stevie not waving back at him!; His whole Cabinet ("I put together a fabulous Cabinet"); House Speaker Denny Hastert & Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ("It is a joy to work with these two fabulous Americans"); His whole administration ("I put together a fabulous team"):and Perhaps most disconcertingly, the epitome of everything liberal (including jigger portions) Ted Kennedy ("Ted Kennedy is fabulous"). Everyone in our prissy President's acquaintance appears to be doing a "FAB-U-LOUS" job: Again, his lovely wife Laura ("What a fabulous job she is doing"); His brother and collusive heir apparent Jeb ("He has done a fabulous job"); New York Governor Pataki ("who is doing a fabulous job"); Rudy Giuliani ("he's done a fabulous job"); Colin Powell ("he's doing a fabulous job"); Dick Cheney ("doing a fabulous job for America"); John Ascroft ("doing such a fabulous job"); Paul Wolfowitz ("doing a fabulous job"); Ari Fleischer ("done a fabulous job"); The DC Chief of Police ("you and your troops do a fabulous job"); and Someone called Mel at Habitat for Humanity, the Jimmy Carter bastion of the lethal liberal lie that Christians should help the poor by giving them anything more than just Bible tracts ("doing a fabulous job"). And to our wildly flamboyant Commander in Chief, every organization or thing is simply "FAB-U-LOUS," girl! The World Series ("And what a fabulous World Series it was"); Those quaint African-American people ("fabulous achievements"); Our Godly country ("America, a fabulous country"); The sound of the Washington National Cathedral Choir ("it is a fabulous way to begin a morning"); Forests, something only a liberal wouldn't strip mine ("they offer majestic beauty and fabulous recreational opportunities for all Americans to enjoy"); Afghan art, that is, that either we or the Taliban didn't destroy ("this fabulous exhibit"); Alaska ("such a fabulous state"); Being prayed for by strangers ("It's really one of the fabulous parts of the job") The Philadelphia Boys Choir ("What fabulous music!"); The Democratic stronghold New York City ("the fabulous city called New York City"); Little League Baseball ("such a fabulous organization"); The US Military, showing a bit of a weakness for a gay niche fetish ("We've got fabulous men and women in uniform!"); and Even the new 45 cent stamp ("fabulous!").
"I don't give a good goddamn if you want to be a cheerleader. Your father and I have decided you are going to play sports, like all the other little boys, mister sissy britches. Now get your hands off of your damned hips, you little pansy, and fetch me a scotch on the rocks!" "And don't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead!" CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES III : SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY Bush's lifetime affair with Knoxville's mayor Victor Ashe - Will they share their Top Secret Cure for AIDS? By J. Parnell McCarter When it comes to Bill Clinton, it does not take in-depth investigation to discover his degenerate moral compass: it is on the surface. At least by the end of his Presidency his Big Bible and Southern Baptist membership could fool only the most gullible of citizens. But with the Bush Family, including George W. Bush, more thorough investigation is required. In this article, we shall share with you just some of the information we have found. Let's first consider some articles that address George H.W. Bush's and his son George W. Bush's membership in the Skull and Bones society and what this membership implies regarding their ties to moral degeneracy. During the 1980 Presidential campaign George W. Bush's membership in Skull & Bones became an issue. In response, The Atlantic magazine ran a series of articles detailing the findings of their investigation. Here is an excerpt of The Atlantic from these articles:
Here is an excerpt from a Yale Herald article providing more information about the debauched cultic character of Skull and Bones:
The Today Show, in a segment entitled "Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power", noted Alexandra Robbins investigation into Skull and Bones:
Despite the very disturbing nature of the ritual and activity of Skull and Bones, it should be noted that George W. Bush has never repented of and rejected it. To the contrary, there is evidence that he is still enslaved by the moral degeneracy that characterizes Skull and Bones. For example, George W. Bush's association with sexual perversion in Skull and Bones has spilled over into his government appointments while president. At PURITANS.NET we ran an article on the Bush record on sodomy. It is a record marked by a significant number of high level appointments of sodomites. Furthermore, there is evidence that sexual perversion is a continuing aspect of George W. Bush's own personal life. Specifically, there is evidence that George W. Bush has on-going sexual relations with a fellow Skull and Bones member (Victor Ashe) who was George W. Bush's roommate at Yale. You will note in The Atlantic article quoted earlier how "in 1984 Bush flew to Tennessee to accompany the Republican Senate nominee and Bonesman ('67) Victor Ashe on a seven-city tour." Victor Ashe- besides having been a fellow Skull and Bones member, roommate and cheerleader with George W. Bush – has a public reputation of being a sodomite in Knoxville, Tennessee where he is mayor. For example, the Knoxville Green Party has this to say at its [unofficial/banned] website:
It is disturbing that George W. Bush would have close ties with a man of such a poor reputation. Consider, for example, this item from an article at News Max:
And consider this item from an article at USMAYORS.ORG:
Even more disturbing than George W. Bush's close ties with Victor Ashe past and present are multiple allegations of homosexual relations coming from former Secret Service agents who worked for the Presidential Administration. Skolnicks' Reports, which is linked from Puritan News Weekly, chronicles this testimony. Below is more information relating to this sordid story:
With that in mind, the following web sites mention suspicions that Victor Ashe, Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, is W's longtime gay partner. Ashe is an open homosexual, who has been described in news stories as sexually active and promiscuous. This would place him at high risk of contracting AIDS, and he may have then passed it onto President Bush (as Skolnick claimed and others). Skolnick later said that O'Neill was sacked as Treasury Chief because he was unable to stop Secret Service agents from leaking the Ashe affair to the press, or from quitting their jobs in disgust (Secret Service reports to the Treasury Department), among other things. Returning again to The Atlantic and Yale Herald articles on Skull and Bones, you will recall how the initiation ritual included both sexually perverse acts as well as an act of deference to the Pope. We have noted in other Puritan News Weekly articles and book reviews how sexually perverse acts seem to be part and parcel of the "religious" activity of certain high level Vatican officials. The late Malachi Martin – a former Vatican official- has testified to this fact. As noted at PURITANS.NET:
The documented rituals of the Skull and Bones society also have all the marks of Satanic ritual, with someone actually playing the Devil, and with sexual perversion incorporated into the ceremony. Such wickedness in persons of high political estate places the U.S. government at high risk. You Say Deserter, I Say More Dessert... by Michael Moore Friends, I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. In fact, he shot a man in Tucson "just to watch him die." Actually, what I meant to say up in New Hampshire last week was that "We're going to have Bush for dessert come November!" I'm always mixing up "dessert" and "desert"—I'm sure many of you have that problem. Well, well, well. As George W. would say, "It's time to smoke 'em out of their hole!" Thanks to my "humorous" introduction of [Jewish General] Wesley ["Butcher of Christians at Waco"] Clark 10 days ago in New Hampshire—and the lughead way the no-sense-of-humor media has covered it—there were 15 million hits this weekend on my website. Everyone who visited the site got to read the truth about Bush not showing up for National Guard duty. The weird thing about all this is that during my routine I never went into any details about Bush skipping out while in the Guard (it's not like it's the biggest issue on my mind or facing America these days!) I was just attempting my best impersonation of that announcer guy for the World Wrestling Federation, asking the cheering crowd if they would like to see a smackdown ("debate") which I called "The Generaaal Versus The Deserterrrr!!" (You can watch it here—hardly anyone in the media has shown this clip because viewers would suddenly see the context of my comments.) When the press heard me use that word "deserter," though, the bells and whistles went off, for this was one of those stories they knew they had ignored—and now it was rearing its ugly, truthful head on a very public stage. Without a single other word from me other than the d-word, they immediately got so defensive that it looked to many viewers like they—the press—maybe had something to hide. After all, when I called Bush a deserter, how did they know I wasn't referring to how he has deserted the 43 million Americans who have no health coverage? Why didn't they assume I was talking about how Bush is a deserter because he has deserted the working people of this country (who have lost 3 million jobs since he's taken office)? Why wasn't it obvious to them that I was pointing out how Bush had deserted our constitution and Bill of Rights as he tries to limit freedom of speech and privacy rights for law-abiding citizens? Instead, they have created the brouhaha over Bush's military record, often without telling their audience what the exact charges are. It seems all they want to do is to get Clark or me—or you—to shut up. "We have never investigated this and so we want you to apologize for bringing it up!" Ha ha ha. Well, I'm glad they have gone nuts over it. Because here we have a Commander in Chief --who just took off while in uniform to go work for some Republican friend of his dad's—now sending our kids over to Iraq to die while billions are promised to Halliburton and the oil companies. Twenty percent of them are National Guard and Reserves (and that number is expected to double during the year). They have been kept in Iraq much longer than promised, and they have not been given the proper protection. They are sitting ducks. What if any of them chose to do what Bush did back in the early 70s—just not show up? I've seen Republican defenders of Bush this week say, "Yeah, but he made up the time later." So, can today's National Guardsmen do the same thing—just say, when called up to go to Iraq, "Um, I'm not going to show up, I'll make up the time later!"? Can you imagine what would happen? Of course, none of them are the son of a Congressman, like young Lt. Bush was back in 1972. Today, MoveOn.org has put together its response to this issue, and I would love to reprint it here. It lays out all the facts about Bush and the remaining unanswered questions about where he went for many, many months: Here are what appear to be the known facts, laid out recently in considerable detail and documentation by retired pilot and Air National Guard First Lt. Robert A. Rogers, and in a 2003 book, "The Lies of George W. Bush," by David Corn.
Documents supporting these reports, released under Freedom of Information Act requests, appear along with Rogers' article on the web at democrats.com/display.cfm?id=154. In the absence of full disclosure by the President or his supporters, only the President and perhaps a few family or other close associates know the whole truth. And they're not talking. Bush was apparently absent without official leave from his assigned military service for as little as seven months (New York Times) or as much as 17 months (Boston Globe) during a time when 500,000 American troops were fighting the Vietnam War. The Army defines a "deserter"—also known as a DFR, for "dropped from rolls" – as one who is AWOL 31 days or more: www-ari.army.mil/pdf/s51.pdf. Well, there you have it. Someone got some special treatment. And now that special someone believes he has the right to conduct a war—using other not-so-special people's lives. My friends, I always call it like I see it. I don't pussyfoot around. Sometimes the truth is hard to take. The media conglomerates are too afraid to take this on. I understand. But I'm not. That's my job. And I'll continue to do it. And when I'm wrong, like the thing about Bush pooping his pants, I'll say so. Yours, Michael Moore
Texas Guard officer says details of Bush's service file caused concern By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush's military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday. A second former Texas Guard official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, was told by a participant that commanders and Bush advisers were particularly worried about mentions in the records of arrests of Bush before he joined the National Guard in 1968, the second official said. Bill Burkett, then a top adviser to the state Guard commander, said he overheard conversations in which superiors discussed "cleansing" the file of damaging information. The White House dismissed Burkett's charge Wednesday. It is an "outrageously false statement," said White House communications director Dan Bartlett, who handled the records in the late 1990s as an aide to Gov. Bush. Administration officials dismiss Burkett as a disgruntled former Guardsman who had a falling-out with his superiors. Two forms in Bush's publicly released military files - his enlistment application and a background check - contain blacked-out entries in response to questions about arrests or convictions. Bush acknowledged in biographies published in 1999 that he was arrested twice before he enlisted in the Air National Guard: once for stealing a wreath and another time for rowdiness at a Yale-Princeton football game. The nature of what was blacked out in Bush's records is important because certain legal problems, such as drug or alcohol violations, could have been a basis for denying an applicant entry into the Guard or pilot training. Admission to the Guard and to pilot school was highly competitive at that time, the height of the Vietnam War. The National Guard cited privacy as the reason for blacking out answers. The full, unmarked records have never been released. Bartlett did not respond Wednesday to a request to release the records with nothing blacked out, which Bush could do as the subject of the records. Burkett says that the state Guard commander, Maj. Gen. Daniel James III, discussed "cleansing" Bush's military files of embarrassing or incriminating documents in the summer of 1997. At the time, Burkett was a lieutenant colonel and a chief adviser to James. He says he was just outside James' open office door when his boss discussed the records on a speakerphone with Joe Allbaugh, who was then Gov. Bush's chief of staff. In Burkett's account, Allbaugh told James that Bush's press secretary, Karen Hughes, was preparing a biography and needed information on Bush's military service. In an interview, Burkett said he recalled Allbaugh's words: "We certainly don't want anything that is embarrassing in there." Burkett said he immediately told two other officers about the conversation and noted it in a daily journal he kept. The two officers, George Conn and Dennis Adams, confirmed to USA TODAY in 2002 that Burkett told them of the conversation within days. Soon afterward, there was a series of meetings of top commanders at Texas Guard headquarters at Camp Mabry. Bush's records were carried between the base archives and the headquarters building, according to Burkett and the second Guard official, who was there. The meetings were confirmed in a 2002 interview by USA TODAY with William Leon, who was the state Guard's freedom-of-information officer in the 1990s. He was involved in discussions about what to release. Leon declined to comment on the substance of the meetings except to say, "We were making sure we released it properly and made sure we did it in a timely manner." Contacted at home Wednesday night, he refused to talk to a reporter. He said: "Don't ever call me again at home. I'll call your publisher and sue you." Burkett first made his allegation just before the 2000 election, when it was carried on some Internet sites but went largely unreported by mainstream news media. The issue resurfaced Wednesday in the Dallas Morning News as Bush's military record took center stage in the presidential campaign. Allbaugh, James and the White House denied Burkett's story. As president, Bush has since elevated James to be director of the Air National Guard for the entire country. In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Bush said he fulfilled his Guard commitment and offered to make his records public. Host Tim Russert asked, "Would you authorize the release of everything to settle this?" Bush replied, "Yes, absolutely." Since then, White House officials have released only documents concerning whether Bush fulfilled his service obligations. White House statements have not addressed the release of any papers that could show disciplinary actions, medical exams, legal scrapes and the like. On Tuesday, the White House released pay records from a military archive in Denver that it said showed Bush was paid for at least the minimum training time he was obligated for in 1972 and 1973. But the records showed only what days he was paid for, not where he was or what duty he performed. Neither did they address outstanding questions about why Bush missed a required physical in 1972, forcing him to stop flying, or what happened during a five-month gap in 1972 when Bush didn't show up for training. When reporters asked for further evidence Tuesday, Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said, "Obviously, if there's any additional information that came to our attention that was relevant, we would make that information available." On Wednesday, McClellan said those seeking additional details on Bush's records are "trolling for trash for political gain," and engaging in "gutter politics." He didn't directly answer a question about why Bush had missed his physical. And Bartlett said: "The issue is about the president's service in the National Guard. The president said he was committed to releasing any records we have to show that he served." (Contributing: USA TODAY reporter Judy Keen) (BREAKOUT MATERIAL) A timeline of Bush's service May 1968: Graduates from Yale and joins Texas Air National Guard as an enlisted airman. November 1968: Attends Air Force pilot training at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. July 1970: Is commissioned a second lieutenant and qualifies to fly F-102 interceptors with a Texas Air Guard unit in Houston. July 1970-April 1972: Flies military records fairly regularly and gets very good evaluation reports. May 1972: Stops flying. Fails to take a required physical examination in August and is officially suspended from pilot status. September 1972: Transfers to a Guard unit in Alabama. Works for the unsuccessful senatorial campaign of Winton Blount, an Alabama Republican. Jan. 6, 1973: Has a dental exam at Dannelly Air National Guard Base in Alabama, according to records released Wednesday night by the White House. May 1973: Bush's supervisors in Texas state that he hasn't been seen at the Houston base for the past year and therefore they can't prepare an officer evaluation for him. Commanders in Houston order him to report for duty in the summer of 1973. October 1973: Leaves to attend Harvard Business School and is honorably discharged from the Texas National Guard, one year before his six-year commitment is to expire. BUSH A NO-SHOW AT ALABAMA BASE, SAYS MEMPHIAN FedEx Pilot Bob Mintz, backed up by a Carolina colleague, recalls no Dubya at Dannelly AFB in 1972 JACKSON BAKER MEMPHIS, TENN. – Two members of the Air National Guard unit that President George W. Bush allegedly served with as a young Guard flyer in 1972 had been told to expect him and were on the lookout for him. He never showed, however; of that both Bob Mintz and Paul Bishop are certain.The question of Bush's presence in 1972 at Dannelly Air National Guard base in Montgomery, Alabama – or the lack of it – has become an issue in the 2004 presidential campaign.Recalls Memphian Mintz, now 62: "I remember that I heard someone was coming to drill with us from Texas. And it was implied that it was somebody with political influence. I was a young bachelor then. I was looking for somebody to prowl around with." But, says Mintz, that "somebody" -- better known to the world now as the president of the United States -- never showed up at Dannelly in 1972. Nor in 1973, nor at any time that Mintz, a FedEx pilot now and an Eastern Airlines pilot then, when he was a reserve first lieutenant at Dannelly, can remember. "And I was looking for him," repeated Mintz, who said that he assumed that Bush "changed his mind and went somewhere else" to do his substitute drill. It was not "somewhere else," however, but the 187th Air National Guard Tactical squadron at Dannelly to which the young Texas flyer had requested transfer from his regular Texas unit – the reason being Bush's wish to work in Alabama on the ultimately unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of family friend Winton "Red" Blount. It is the 187th, Mintz's unit, which was cited, during the 2000 presidential campaign, as the place where Bush completed his military obligation. And it is the 187th that the White House continues to contend that Bush belonged to – as recently as this week, when presidential spokesman Scott McClellan released payroll records and, later, evidence suggesting that Bush's dental records might be on file at Dannelly."There's no way we wouldn't have noticed a strange rooster in the henhouse, especially since we were looking for him," insists Mintz, who has pored over documents relating to the matter now making their way around the Internet. One of these is a piece of correspondence addressed to the 187th's commanding officer, then Lt. Col. William Turnipseed, concerning Bush's redeployment. Mintz remembers a good deal of base scuttlebutt at the time about the letter, which clearly identifies Bush as the transferring party. "It couldn't be anybody else. No one ever did that again, as far as I know." In any case, he is certain that nobody else in that time frame, 1972-73, requested such a transfer into Dannelly. Mintz, who at one time was a registered Republican and in recent years has cast votes in presidential elections for independent Ross Perot and Democrat Al Gore, confesses to "a negative reaction" to what he sees as out-and-out dissembling on President Bush's part. "You don't do that as an officer, you don't do that as a pilot, you don't do it as an important person, and you don't do it as a citizen. This guy's got a lot of nerve."Though some accounts reckon the total personnel component of the 187th as consisting of several hundred, the actual flying squadron – that to which Bush was reassigned – numbered only "25 to 30 pilots," Mintz said. "There's no doubt. I would have heard of him, seen him, whatever." Even if Bush, who was trained on a slightly different aircraft than the F4 Phantom jets flown by the squadron, opted not to fly with the unit, he would have had to encounter the rest of the flying personnel at some point, in non-flying formations or drills. "And if he did any flying at all, on whatever kind of craft, that would have involved a great number of supportive personnel. It takes a lot of people to get a plane into the air. But nobody I can think of remembers him."I talked to one of my buddies the other day and asked if he could remember Bush at drill at any time, and he said, 'Naw, ol' George wasn't there. And he wasn't at the Pit, either.'"The "Pit" was The Snake Pit, a nearby bistro where the squadron's pilots would gather for frequent after-hours revelry. And the buddy was Bishop, then a lieutenant at Dannelly and now a pilot for Kalitta, a charter airline that in recent months has been flying war materiel into the Iraq Theater of Operations. "I never saw hide nor hair of Mr. Bush," confirms Bishop, who now lives in Goldsboro, N.C., is a veteran of Gulf War I and, as a Kalitta pilot, has himself flown frequent supply missions into military facilities at Kuwait. "In fact," he quips, mindful of the current political frame of reference, "I saw more of Al Sharpton at the base than I did of George W. Bush." Bishop voted for Bush in 2000 and believes that the Iraq war has served some useful purposes – citing, as the White House does, disarmament actions since pursued by Libyan president Moammar Khadaffi – but he is disgruntled both about aspects of the war and about what he sees as Bush's lack of truthfulness about his military record."I think a commander-in-chief who sends his men off to war ought to be a veteran who has seen the sting of battle," Bishop says. "In Iraq: we have a bunch of great soldiers, but they are not policemen. I don't think he [the president] was well advised; right now it's costing us an American life a day. I'm not a peacenik, but what really bothers me is that of the 500 or so that we've lost almost 80 of them were reservists. We've got an over-extended Guard and reserve." Part of the problem, Bishop thinks, is a disconnect resulting from the president's own inexperience with combat operations. And he is well beyond annoyed at the White House's persistent claims that Bush did indeed serve time at Dannelly. Bishop didn't pay much attention to the claim when candidate Bush first offered it in 2000. But he did after the second Iraq war started and the issue came front and center."It bothered me that he wouldn't 'fess up and say, Okay, guys, I cut out when the rest of you did your time. He shouldn't have tried to dance around the subject. I take great exception to that. I spent 39 years defending my country."Like his old comrade Mintz, Bishop, now 65, was a pilot for Eastern Airlines during their reserve service in 1972 at Dannelly. Mintz then lived in Montgomery; Bishop commuted from Atlanta, a two-hour drive away. Mintz and Bishop retired from the Guard with the ranks of lieutenant colonel and colonel, respectively.Bishop, especially, is bitter about the fate of Eastern, which went bankrupt during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, the current incumbent's father. "I watched my company dissolve under his policies." Both Bushes were "children of privilege," unlike himself and Mintz. "Our fathers were poor dirt farmers. We would not have been given the same considerations he and his father were," says Bishop, who maintains that, just as the junior Bush used family and political influence to jump himself ahead of 500 other flight training applicants, the senior Bush "apparently" did, too, when he became a naval aviator during World War Two. "I applaud him for volunteering, but he should have waited his turn like everybody else."But, says Bishop, "At least I can give him credit for serving his country." That is more, he suggested, than can be granted the younger Bush.Would he consider voting for the president's reelection? "Naw, this goes to an integrity issue. I like either [John] Kerry or [John] Edwards better." And who would Mintz be voting for? "Not for any Texas politicians," was the Memphian's sardonic answer. White House under full court press over Bush desertion of Vietnam War Media grunts awaken from stupor after given green light to burn Bush For Immediate Release Question: On the attendance records of the National Guard, it said he had 56 out of a required 50 points. Is that considered a good attendance record, do you know? Or do you know what the maximum number of points you can get -- MR. McCLELLAN: First of all, we were pleased to be able to provide you all with these additional records that just recently came to our attention. These documents clearly show that the President fulfilled his duties. And we had previously released some of the point summaries that you are referencing. There is more complete information relating to those point summaries that document the fact that the President of the United States fulfilled his duties when he was serving in the National Guard back in the early '70s. Question: Scott, a couple of questions I have -- the records that you handed out today, and other records that exist, indicate that the President did not perform any Guard duty during the months of December 1972, February or March of 1973. I'm wondering if you can tell us where he was during that period. And also, how is it that he managed to not make the medical requirements to remain on active flight duty status? MR. McCLELLAN: John, the records that you're pointing to, these records are the payroll records; they're the point summaries. These records verify that he met the requirements necessary to fulfill his duties. These records -- Question: That wasn't my question, Scott. R. McCLELLAN: These payroll records -- Question: Scott, that wasn't my question, and you know it wasn't my question. Where was he in December of '72, February and March of '73? And why did he not fulfill the medical requirements to remain on active flight duty status? MR. McCLELLAN: These records -- these records I'm holding here clearly document the President fulfilling his duties in the National Guard. The President was proud of his service. The President -- Question: I asked a simple question; how about a simple answer? MR. McCLELLAN: John, if you'll let me address the question, I'm coming to your answer, and I'd like -- Question: Well, if you would address it -- maybe you could. MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry, John. But this is an important issue that some chose to raise in the context of an election year, and the facts are important for people to know. And if you don't want to know the facts, that's fine. But I want to share the facts with you. Question: I do want to know the facts, which is why I keep asking the question. And I'll ask it one more time. Where was he in December of '72, February and March of '73? Why didn't he fulfill the medical requirements to remain on active flight duty status in 1972? MR. McCLELLAN: The President recalls serving both when he was in Texas and when he was in Alabama. And that is what I can tell you. And we have provided you these documents that show clearly that the President of the United States fulfilled his duties. And that is the reason that he was honorably discharged from the National Guard. The President was proud of his service. The President spent some of that time in Texas. He was a member of the Texas Air National Guard, and he was given permission, on a temporary basis, to perform equivalent duty while he was in Alabama. And he performed that duty. And the payroll records, that I think are very important for the public to have, clearly reflect that he served. Question: Scott, when Senator Kerry goes around campaigning, there's frequently what they call "a band of brothers," a bunch of soldiers who served with him, who come forward and give testimonials for him. I see, in looking at our files in the campaign of 2000, it said that you were looking for people who served with him to verify his account of service in the National Guard. Has the White House been able to find, like Senator Kerry, "a band of brothers" or others who can testify about the President's service? MR. McCLELLAN: All the information that we have we shared with you in 2000, that was relevant to this issue. And all the additional information that has come to our attention we have shared with you. The President was asked about this in his interview over the weekend, and the President made it clear, yes, I want all records to be made available that are relevant to this issue; that there are some out there that were making outrageous, baseless accusations. It was a shame that they brought it up four years ago. It was a shame that they brought it up again this year. And I think that the facts are very clear from these documents. These documents -- the payroll records and the point summaries verify that he was paid for serving and that he met his requirements. Question: Actually, I wasn't talking about documents, I was talking about people -- you know, comrades-in-arms -- MR. McCLELLAN: Right. That's why I said everything that came to our attention that was available, we made available at that time, during the 2000 campaign. Question: But you said you were looking for people -- and I take it you didn't find any people? MR. McCLELLAN: I mean, obviously, we would have made people available. And we -- Mr. Lloyd, who has provided a statement to put some of this into context for everybody, made some public statements during that time period to verify the records that the President had fulfilled his duties. And he put out an additional statement now to put this into context. He's someone with some technical expertise and someone that understands these matters, because he was in the National Guard at the time. Question: Scott, can I follow on this, because I do think this is important. You know, it might strike some as odd that there isn't anyone who can stand up and say, I served with George W. Bush in Alabama, or in Houston in the Guard unit. Particularly because there are people, his superiors who have stepped forward -- in Alabama and in Houston -- who have said in the past several years that they have no recollection of him being there and serving. So isn't that odd that nobody -- you can't produce anyone to corroborate what these records purport to show? MR. McCLELLAN: David, we're talking about some 30 years ago. You are perfectly welcome to go back and talk to individuals from that time period. But these documents -- Question: Hey, we're trying. But I would have thought you guys would have had a real good handle on -- MR. McCLELLAN: - these documents make it very clear that the President of the United States fulfilled his duties -- Question: Well, that's subject to interpretation. MR. McCLELLAN: No. When you serve, you are paid for that service. And these documents outline the days on which he was paid. That means he served. And these documents also show that he met his requirements. And it's just really a shame that people are continuing to bring this issue up. When -- Question: I understand -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, no, no, no. People asked for records to be released that would demonstrate he met his requirements. The records have now been fully released. The facts are clear -- Question: Do you know that a lot of these payroll records are -- MR. McCLELLAN: -- the facts are clear -- Question: -- you can't read them. Have you looked at these? You can't -- how are we supposed to read these? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think you can talk -- one, we put it out on email. It's a lot easier to read, I think, on the email version because that was the -- Question: Oh, you did put it on our email? MR. McCLELLAN: We are going to, if we haven't already. But it was sent to us in email form from the Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado. Question: One other thing on this. To corroborate these records, will the President do two things -- one, will he authorize the relevant defense agency in Colorado to release actual pay stubs for the President? And if those don't exist, will the President file a form, as he can do at the IRS, to at least look for a '72 or '73 tax return that would corroborate what you claim are payroll summaries that he actually got paid for this duty? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think this information is his payroll records. It is my understanding this is the information that is available from his payroll records. And it shows the days on which he was paid. So that's the information that I understand is available. In terms of tax returns, the President, like most Americans, does not have his tax returns from some 30 years ago. Question: But it's possible that he could file a form requesting the IRS to search if they have a return for '72 or '73. Is he willing to do that? MR. McCLELLAN: Obviously, if there's any additional information that came to our attention that was relevant, we would make that information available. Question: Well, it could be relevant if he would file a form -- MR. McCLELLAN: I think that these documents clearly show that the President of the United States fulfilled his duties. I mean, these were the documents that people questioned and said should be made available. And we went back to double-check. We thought we had all the information that existed previously, but we went back to double-check after the comments that were made over the weekend, to see if there was any additional information available. And when we contacted the Personnel Center in Colorado, it was our understanding that the Personnel Center in St. Louis and Colorado were already working to pull this information together, and that this is the information that they have that is relevant to this topic. Question: So it's your position and it's the President's position that these documents put this issue to rest, period? MR. McCLELLAN: Oh, I think these documents show that he fulfilled his duties. These documents show that he met his requirements. Question: Scott, two questions, one on the documents, one on the issue. There seems to be a discrepancy now in the President's record that I wondered if you could help me with. These documents that you're holding up show that the President showed up for duty in October and November of '72, January, April and May of '73. But the President's officer effectiveness report, filed by his commanders, Lieutenants Colonel Killean and Harris, both now deceased, for the period 01 May '72 to 30 April, '73, says he has not been observed at this unit, where he was supposed to show up and earning these points on these days. How do you square -- MR. McCLELLAN: You're talking about which unit? Question: The Texas -- at the Ellington Air Force Base. MR. McCLELLAN: From '72 to '73? Question: Correct. And certainly by -- the President said he returned to Texas in November of '72. So some of these dates of service, which are in these records, ought to have been noted by his commanding officers, who, nevertheless, said, twice, he has not been observed here. Can you explain that? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not sure about these specific documents. I'll be glad to take a look at them. But these documents show the days on which he was paid for his service. And the President -- as I've said, and we previously said during the 2000 campaign -- recalls serving both in Texas and in Alabama during the time period you're bringing up. Question: So he served, but his commanding officers didn't know it? MR. McCLELLAN: Again, I don't know the specific documents you're referring to. If you want to bring those to me, I'll be glad to take a look at them and get you the answers to your questions. Question: Okay. Then on the general issue, Senator Kerry has said that the National Guard was one way for people to avoid service in Vietnam. The President and the White House have taken umbrage at that, saying that's denigrating the National Guard. In 1994, the President told the Houston Chronicle, in relation to his joining the National Guard, "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment, nor was I willing to go to Canada, so I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes." It sounds like the President, himself, acknowledged that he went into the National Guard because he didn't want to go to Vietnam. MR. McCLELLAN: The President -- again, Terry, this issue has been addressed fully. Now we're trying to change into different issues here. The President was proud of his service in the National Guard. He fulfilled his duties; he was honorably discharged. I think there are some that we're now seeing are not interested in the facts. What they are interested in is trying to twist the facts for partisan political advantage in an election year. And that's unfortunate. Question: It is a partisan issue. I'm not doubting that, I'm trying to explore it. One of the reasons the Democrats are raising it is because they've got a guy who was in Vietnam. MR. McCLELLAN: Now it's -- he didn't serve, now it's a different issue -- when the facts clearly show that he did serve, he did fulfill his duties, he did meet his requirements, he was honorably discharged. Question: But he didn't want to go to Vietnam. MR. McCLELLAN: I think the facts are clear. It's clear that some are not interested in the facts. It's clear that some may be more interested in using this for partisan political advantage. Question: Scott, these are very hard to read, these payroll documents. Are you saying that every date listed on document five is a day that the President was actually -- showed up, he was suited up, he was flying planes -- that's what that means? Because there are, you know, points for active duty, points for inactive duty. What, exactly, are these? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, and that's why we put out the statement from Mr. Lloyd, so you could put that in context. He's someone with the technical expertise that understands those matters and can explain what those points mean. And I think that his statement does that. In terms of the payments, you are paid for the days on which you serve. Question: The days on which you serve, meaning he was actually there on these dates listed, he was actually there -- MR. McCLELLAN: You are paid for the days you serve. Question: Is that what document five is, the dates he served? MR. McCLELLAN: Again, there was a time period when he was in Alabama, and he recalls serving in Alabama. He was still a member of the Texas Air National Guard at that time. What he was doing was performing equivalent duty, because he was working in Alabama at the time. And he also remembers serving in Texas, as well. Question: Scott, so, for example, in January '73, the President served, according to this, on January 4th, January 5th, January 6th in either Texas or Alabama -- according to document five. Is that correct? MR. McCLELLAN: You are paid for the days you serve. You have the documents right in front of you. These are documents straight from the Personnel -- Question: Is that "yes"? MR. McCLELLAN: -- straight from the Personnel Center in Colorado. Question: Is that "yes"? MR. McCLELLAN: I said you are paid for the days in which you serve. And, again, we're talking about 30 years ago, Elisabeth. The President recalls serving in Alabama. He also recalls serving in Texas. That's what he recalls. And that's why -- Question: But, again, -- I know you're going to bat this down, but there are people who -- MR. McCLELLAN: You know, there were a lot of people calling for these records to be released. We finally came across these records. They have been released, and these documents reflect the fact that the President met his requirements and fulfilled his duties. Question: And the fact that some of his officers don't recall ever seeing him, are you suggesting that they just don't remember after 30 years? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think I'll let them speak for themselves. I'm not sure that they exactly said it in that way. Some different ones said different things. Question: They have. They have spoken for themselves. They don't remember. Question: What is your answer to them about why they don't remember seeing the President? MR. McCLELLAN: That the President recalls serving. I just said that. Question: But why are they saying this? MR. McCLELLAN: And if you look at the records, if you look at these records, these records document that the President fulfilled his duties. These records reflect that he met his requirements, both in point summaries and that he was paid for the days in which he served. Question: Scott, can you just clarify, back to Elisabeth's question here on document five? For example, in February and March of '73, there are no dates that appear, meaning he didn't show up then, or what -- MR. McCLELLAN: Well, look, I mean, we're talking about 30 years ago, again. And these documents show the dates on which he was paid, which means those are the days on which you serve. Question: Does that mean, then, that he -- MR. McCLELLAN: I don't have -- Roger, I'm sorry, I don't have an hour-by-hour itemization of everything he was doing 30 years ago. Question: Are you able to make out any of the paid amounts? How much did he get? I can't read the letters. MR. McCLELLAN: And again, this is going to be put out in the email version, as well, and you're welcome to contact the Personnel Center. I'm sure that they will be glad to help you, as well. Question: Scott, may I re-ask Dana's question? You keep saying he served -- he fulfilled his duty, he met his requirements. You're not saying, he drilled, he showed up, he attended. Is that intentional? MR. McCLELLAN: No, he recalls performing his duties, both in Alabama and Texas. I said that in response to Elisabeth's question. Question: Define that. MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, I don't have a minute-by-minute breakdown of every single thing he did throughout that time period. Question: What did he do? Question: You keep saying the word, "serve." Define "serve." MR. McCLELLAN: He met -- he served both in Alabama, and he served both in Texas. Question: Doing what? Did that period -- can you at least tell us the difference between inactive -- because it's not clear in these documents. MR. McCLELLAN: No, I think that I'll leave it to those who can explain these documents to do the explaining. That's why we put the statement from Mr. Lloyd, who was in the National Guard at the time; he was someone that had the expertise to explain to you what these points mean. And that's why we provided that statement. Obviously, the Personnel Center can tell you more about what everything means on these documents. We just received these late yesterday. But the one thing that these documents clearly show is that the President of the United States fulfilled his duties when he was in the National Guard. He met his requirements and he was honorably discharged because he fulfilled his duties. Question: Just so I can be sure that I'm interpreting this crystal-clearly -- you're not making any claim here that the President attended, showed up, drilled on these days? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm telling you that he did -- he does recall showing up and performing his duties. And you're paid for the days on which you serve. And that's what these documents reflect. Question: Scott, is it your -- MR. McCLELLAN: We're going to stay on this topic, and then we'll jump to other topics. Question: It's your position that these documents specifically show that he served in Alabama during the period 1972, when he was supposed to be there. Do they specifically show that? MR. McCLELLAN: No, I think if you look at the documents, what they show are the days on which he was paid, the payroll records. And we previously said that the President recalls serving both in Alabama and in Texas. Question: I'm not interested in what he recalls. I'm interested in whether these documents specifically show that he was in Alabama and served on the days during the latter part of 1972 -- MR. McCLELLAN: And I just answered that question. Question: You have not answered that question. You -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, I said -- no, I said, no, in response to your question, Keith. Question: No, so the answer is, "no"? MR. McCLELLAN: I said these documents show the days on which he was paid. That's what they show. So they show -- they show that he was paid on these days. Question: Okay, but they do not show that he was in Alabama when he was supposed to be -- MR. McCLELLAN: These are payroll records, and they reflect the fact that he was paid on the days on which he served. Question: Do any of them show that he was paid on days that he served in the latter part of 1972 when he was in Alabama? I don't see any dates for that. MR. McCLELLAN: It just kind of amazes me that some will now say they want more information, after the payroll records and the point summaries have all been released to show that he met his requirements and to show that he fulfilled his duties. Question: But these documents do not show that. They do not show that he was in Alabama and served at that time. I don't even see any pay dates during that period. MR. McCLELLAN: They show payments. No, they show pay dates during that fall of 1972 period. Question: They do? MR. McCLELLAN: There's October on there, there's November on there, and then there's January on there, as well, in '73. There's some pay dates on there. Question: Okay, so then, do they specifically show that he served in Alabama during that time? MR. McCLELLAN: They show payments in October; they show payments in November. Question: But just because he's paid doesn't mean that he served and worked there, does it? Question: Come on. MR. McCLELLAN: You know, like I said, people call on us to release the records. We didn't even know they still existed until just the other day. Now we've released the records, which document that the President fulfilled his duties. And now people are trying to move the goalpost even more. Question: You said in Alabama that he had served equivalent duty. MR. McCLELLAN: That's right. Question: Can you describe what that was, and what -- why did he need to move to Alabama? What was -- MR. McCLELLAN: Like I said, Greg, you're asking me to kind of break down hour-by-hour what he was doing during 1972 and 1973. What these documents show is that he was serving in the National Guard and he was paid for that service. And they show that he was serving in the National Guard and that he met the requirements necessary to fulfill his duties. Question: But his equivalent duty, does that he mean there was a base there he was flying out of? Is that what he recalls? MR. McCLELLAN: I'd have to go back and double-check, but he remembers serving during that period and performing his duties, both in Alabama and in Texas. And these are -- look, these are questions we addressed all during the campaign. The issue that came up recently was some were trying to make an outrageous, baseless accusation. If I recall, some were using the comment, "deserter" or "AWOL." I mean, that is outrageous; it is baseless. The President of the United States fulfilled his duties, he was honorably discharged. And now there are some that are not -- are clearly not interested in the facts. They're clearly more interested in twisting the facts to seek a partisan political advantage in the context of an election year. And that's just really unfortunate that some would stoop to such a level. Question: Scott, what is it that took him to Alabama? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry? Question: -- that took him to Alabama? MR. McCLELLAN: It was a campaign, a senatorial campaign. Question: Scott, we all know people who tomorrow may not show up for work and will be paid. And their payrolls will show they were paid. MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, when you're serving in the National Guard you're paid for the days on which you serve. I mean, it's specifically related to the service. Question: Could you walk us through the sequence of events in the last few days that led to the production of these records? MR. McCLELLAN: Sure, sure. Question: And did those efforts begin after or before the interview with -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, it was after. The questions came up in the interview on "Meet the Press," and the President made it very clear, some of what I'm saying here. And he said, yes, I want all records out there. And it was our belief, it was our impression that all the records that existed that were relevant were already released. Back in the 2000 campaign, we went to the Texas Air National Guard to ask for records so that they could be released, and it was our understanding that the payroll records -- it was our impression at the time that the payroll records didn't exist. Then after this weekend, after the interview, we contacted the National Guard here and asked them where would one go, if these records existed, to find them. We were just going back and double-checking. And we were put in touch with the Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado. So we contacted the Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado. It was our understanding at that time that the Denver and St. Louis offices were already working to pull this information together at the time that we contacted them -- Question: On their own? MR. McCLELLAN: That's correct. They could explain more about why they were doing that. Question: Did you contact them on Monday, Scott? MR. McCLELLAN: I'll double-check. I believe it would have been probably Monday before we were able to reach them. So, yesterday -- yes, yesterday. I know there were conversations yesterday. Question: Who initiated the conversations? MR. McCLELLAN: Oh, Dan Bartlett, from here, Communications Director. Anyway, so he contacted them and found out that there was, indeed, additional payroll records. And the President authorized that those be made available, as he said he was going to do. He said he wanted all the records released that existed, that were relevant. And to our knowledge, this is all the records that exist that are relevant to this topic. Question: The letter from Colonel Lloyd says that he assessed the records. Did -- there's no indication that he had any direct oversight of President Bush. Did he? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry? Question: That Lt. Colonel Lloyd, did he have any direct oversight over President Bush at the time he served? MR. McCLELLAN: I think he could address those questions, in terms of what his role was at the time in the National Guard. But he was certainly someone that had the technical expertise to be able to explain what the point summaries mean, in terms of the numbers, and what they reflect. So that's what he did. And he stated -- he made some comments back during the 2000 campaign; I'm sure you can go back and look at those, as well. Question: Just to be clear, what he's saying today is that his assessment of the records is that the requirements were fulfilled. MR. McCLELLAN: That the requirements were met. His own words are in his statements so I would refer you straight back to his words. Question: When did Lloyd make this memorandum? MR. McCLELLAN: This one? Question: Yes. MR. McCLELLAN: In the last day. I think we received it yesterday from him. Question: -- one date that I was -- MR. McCLELLAN: Yes. Question: Are you ready to take questions on a different subject? MR. McCLELLAN: We're still on this topic, right? Question: Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting? What was he doing after he was honorably discharged? MR. McCLELLAN: We've already commented on some of his views relating back to that period the other day. And, obviously, this was a time period also when he was going to get his MBA at Harvard. But the President was certainly proud to serve in the National Guard. Question: And would the White House consider those actions by Senator Kerry, that Jeff mentions fair game in the political season? MR. McCLELLAN: Terry, I think -- I know that that's a way to try to draw us into a Democratic primary that is ongoing. Question: You're there, my friend. (Laughter.) MR. McCLELLAN: Well, this is an important matter that some have chosen -- some have chosen to twist the facts. And it's important that the facts are clear. And I think that these documents clearly show that the President met his requirements and fulfilled his duties. But, look, we'll let the Democratic primary continue. They can work out their differences. I think if you have questions to address to people that made certain accusations, you should direct them to those individuals. Because now, in light of these documents, this is new information that clearly shows otherwise to what they were suggesting. Question: Scott, the President said clearly -- MR. McCLELLAN: Let me keep going. I'll come back to you. Question: Wait a second -- MR. McCLELLAN: We have a few in the back. I'll come back to you, I promise. But let me try to get to everybody in the room. I promise I'll come back to you. Ben I think had one, and then April. And did you have another one, Ron? Kind of slipped one in there. Question: The records show, between April 16, 1972 and October 28th there was no pay period, he wasn't paid. That was when he was in Alabama. Now, you said some of the payroll records were lost, but that you know he didn't serve. And was this the President remembering he didn't serve? MR. McCLELLAN: I think it was for the fall period, when he -- and again, I'd have to go back and look at the exact dates of when he was in Alabama. But it was during the fall that he made a request to perform equivalent duty in Alabama again. That was still a period when he would be a member of the Texas Air National Guard. But I'd have to go back and double-check those exact dates that he was in Alabama. Question: -- wouldn't have been paid for equivalent duty? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry? Question: You wouldn't be paid for equivalent duty. MR. McCLELLAN: You're paid for serving. And equivalent duty is performing your duties for the Texas Air National Guard. Question: But the summary sheets state that he did not perform service in the third quarter of -- MR. McCLELLAN: These are not our summary sheets, these are the summary sheets from the Personnel Center in Colorado. Question: -- payroll records were lost, but also, we know he didn't perform service in that third quarter. MR. McCLELLAN: You are paid for the days on which you serve. Question: So when he was in Alabama during that quarter, he didn't perform service -- MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, I'm not sure that he was in Alabama during that whole period you are talking about. I'd have to go back and look. He requested -- I know that he requested to perform equivalent duty during that fall time period when he was in Alabama. You are going back further than that. I'd have to double-check. Question: He left in May, I believe -- MR. McCLELLAN: I'd have to double-check the time period in which he was there. Question: Is this cumulative, the sort of thing you don't have to perform every month, it's just a matter of, out of the course of a year, you get your 50 points? MR. McCLELLAN: You know, I'm not -- there are people that have technical expertise in these matters. I think they're the National Guard. You can direct those questions to those individuals. I'm sure that they would be glad to try to help you out. Question: You keep saying this is a shame, and you're talking partisan politics, but don't you think the American public, as well, particularly the U.S. military, who has been tested right now with the fact that they went to war on faulty intelligence, possibly, and now finding out that their Commander-in-Chief possibly tried to avoid going to the Vietnam War -- don't you think that the American public is owed a little bit more than photo copies that we can't see things of? Don't you think the military is owed a little bit more than just, "he served"? MR. McCLELLAN: April, I'm really sorry that you phrased that question the way you did, some of it, when you were saying that they're owed more than the documents that show that he served during that time period. Now, let me go back -- Question: But wouldn't someone know what he did? MR. McCLELLAN: And the President -- we have previously said, going back to the 2000 campaign and even before that, that he recalls performing his duties, both in Alabama and in Texas, during the time period that some have questioned. So let's be very clear about that. Let's be very clear about the facts. Because the American people should have the facts, and the facts are right here in these documents. The facts are right here in these documents. Question: We can't see facts. We can't see -- these facts are very messed up, they're blurred. MR. McCLELLAN: April, I mentioned earlier that we were going to be putting this out on email, if we haven't already, because it was sent to us in email form. You are also welcome to contact the Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado. I am sure that they will be glad to walk you through this. Question: You're saying that this is political -- this is all politics and everything and people are obscuring in putting the facts up. But people are not able to stand up for the President. There are dates that aren't accounted for. You can't even tell us what kind of drills or what-have-you. What do you say to the U.S. military -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, we addressed all those questions back during the 2000 campaign fully. Let me be very clear: The issue that came up recently was an outrageous, baseless accusation suggesting that the President did not serve and did not meet his requirements. People called on us to release records that might be available to show that he, indeed -- that he, indeed, did meet his requirements and serve and fulfill his duties. The records have been released. These records document that the President fulfilled his duties. Now people are wanting to go further than that. And these are the records that reflect his service. Question: You can detail your job. You can detail what you do as Press Secretary -- MR. McCLELLAN: And we did. During the 2000 campaign, we talked about this issue fully. You're now going to a different issue. These issues -- Question: It's still the same issue -- MR. McCLELLAN: Let me be very clear here about this. There are some that made some very outrageous accusations about the President's time in the National Guard. There was a call for us to release payroll records. The payroll records have been released, as they just came to our attention and we shared them with you very quickly. The point summaries showing that he met his requirements have been released. Those were records that were -- that some called on us to release. We didn't know that some of these records previously existed. Obviously, if they had, we would have been glad to share them with everybody at the time. This issue was addressed fully four years ago. Like I said, it was really a shame that it came up four years ago, and it's really a shame that it's being brought up again this year. The facts are clear. Now, there may be some out there that are not interested in the facts. And those people clearly are simply more interested in trying to seek a partisan political advantage in election year, then the facts. That's unfortunate. Question: I don't really have a question that goes to the politics of this. I just want to ask a question about a contradiction, and a question about a specific record. After all of the things you repeated here, you cannot explain this contradiction, the fact that his payroll records indicate he was paid for a period of time for fulfilling service, and yet his commanding officers at that time wrote that he was not observed. Can you or can you not explain that contradiction? MR. McCLELLAN: If you're talking about the question that Terry brought up, I said I would glad to go back and look at the document that he's referencing. I have not -- Question: You know the document he's referencing. Everybody does. His commanders -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, I have not -- I have not seen the document he's referencing. Question: -- are quoted repeatedly for years -- MR. McCLELLAN: You're talking about quotes -- you're talking about quotes from individuals. And we said for years, going back four years ago, that the President recalls serving and performing his duties. Question: I understand that, but his commanders do not recall it. And, in fact, they say, that he was not observed. So can you explain the contradiction, or can't you? MR. McCLELLAN: I've seen some different comments he's -- no, I've seen some different comments made over the recent time period. Question: I haven't seen any different -- different comments from Brigadier General Turnipseed, not from his Ellington commanders, who said he was not observed. Can you explain the contradiction? MR. McCLELLAN: Look, I can't speak for those individuals. I can speak for the President of the United States. And I can speak -- Question: -- the documents -- MR. McCLELLAN: And I can speak for the fact that the documents that -- as far as we know, all the documents that are available relevant to this issue demonstrate that the President fulfilled his duties. Are you suggesting these documents do not reflect that? Question: I'm not suggesting -- I'm asking, that's all I'm doing. Here's the second point, the President said to Tim Russert, very specifically, on Sunday, that he would be willing to provide pay stub records and tax return records to corroborate -- MR. McCLELLAN: And we addressed this situation previously. Question: -- wait a second -- to corroborate -- MR. McCLELLAN: It's the second time you've asked this question. Question: Right, and I'll ask it until we maybe get something -- which is to corroborate these payroll records that are coming from one source. Will he request that all the records are released, from Denver and from St. Louis, to prove that he actually received money, not just that they say he did? MR. McCLELLAN: These are the payroll records that we understand are available. This is it. Question: -- all that's there -- MR. McCLELLAN: It is our understanding that these are the payroll records that are available, yes. Question: Just out of curiosity, how much money does a person get paid for each day's service, and is there any evidence that George W. Bush might not have accepted the money, might have turned it down? MR. McCLELLAN: Oh, Connie, you'd have to go back and ask at the time what the pay was. Again, it shows the dates on which he was paid. And I think this goes into some of the amounts here on these papers. Question: Scott, new subject? MR. McCLELLAN: Same subject? Question: Yes. MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead. Question: Am I wrong in reading document five that he didn't perform any days of service between April 16 and October 28 -- MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, we've been through this. Again, the documents -- Question: I want to make sure that's correct. MR. McCLELLAN: -- well, those are the documents. You have them right in front of you. I'm not disputing these documents. In fact, I'm saying that these documents demonstrate that the President fulfilled his duties. These are the payroll records. Question: Which of these dates refers to days he served in Alabama? MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry? Question: Which of the dates in document five -- MR. McCLELLAN: If you look at the fall time period, that was a time period that he was in Alabama. Again, Keith asked this question earlier, and asked if it shows exactly where he was serving when he was paid. And I said, no. I said, what these documents show is that he was paid for the days on which he was -- served. These are the payroll records that reflect the days on which he served. Question: On what date did he come back, did he return from Alabama? MR. McCLELLAN: I think we've been through some of these issues previously. I don't know the exact date off the top of my head. We'll be glad to look back and try to get you that information. But those were all questions that were addressed previously. The relevant issue that was brought up by some recently was whether or not the President had served. The documents clearly show that the President served and met his requirements and fulfilled his duties. Question: Scott, could you just tell us, are these all the documents you got, you received, here at the White House, from Colorado, or have you kept some in reserve? And also -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, these -- Question: -- do you expect any additional documents from St. Louis or from Colorado? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, as always, I said that we would -- if there is additional information that comes to our attention, we will make sure to get you that information. This is the information that we understand is available from the Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado. Question: And that's all that they sent you, this is the extent of all the documents? MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, this is what they sent us. And we just put it in our own email and sent it out for you all. Question: Scott, Dan Bartlett told the Associated Press, in June of 2000, that he traveled to the Air Reserve Personnel Center and reviewed President Bush's military file. He said, "I've read it, and there is nothing earth-shattering." Did he see these documents when he reviewed the file? Did he see any other documents when he reviewed the file? And was there anything in the file -- MR. McCLELLAN: Well, that's a broad question about other documents. All the relevant documents relating to his service have been released -- Question: So has Dan Bartlett ever seen these documents? MR. McCLELLAN: -- as we said. And as I said yesterday, everything that we had we released in 2004 -- I mean, 2000, at the time, or during the 2000 campaign. It might have been '99. Question: There may be documents that were in that file -- MR. McCLELLAN: No, this is the first time this information has come to our attention. Question: So Dan Bartlett didn't see these documents -- MR. McCLELLAN: Again, I think I've answered this question up here, and I've answered it back for you. Question: I've got one more -- MR. McCLELLAN: We're going to keep moving. Any more on this topic? Do you have this topic, this topic? Then Wendell is a new subject. We're off this topic. Book: Bush was arrested for cocaine in 1972 Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims the Republican front-runner did community service at a Houston center. Reported by Anthony York, Craig Offman and Daryl Lindsey A new book by Texas author J.H. Hatfield claims that George W. Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972, but had his record expunged with help from his family's political connections. In an afterword to his book Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President (St. Martin's), Hatfield says he took a second look at the Bush cocaine allegations after a story in Salon reporting allegations that Bush did community service for the crime at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's Third Ward. The center's executive director, Madgelean Bush (no relation to George W. Bush), had told Salon News and others that Bush did not do community service there, and the Bush campaign likewise denied the allegation. But the Texas governor had admitted to working at Houston's Project P.U.L.L. in 1972, and Hatfield says he began to wonder if that was actually the community service sentence. Hatfield says he confirmed those suspicions with three sources close to the Bush family he had cultivated while writing his biography, which publishes Wednesday. Bush's campaign denied Hatfield's allegation Monday. By contrast, "First Son: George W. Bush and the Family Dynasty," by Dallas Morning News reporter Bill Minutaglio, says George Bush Sr. referred his son to Project P.U.L.L. after an incident in which George W. drove drunk with his younger brother Marvin in the car. But Hatfield quotes "a high-ranking advisor to Bush" who confirmed that Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in Houston in 1972, and had the record expunged by a judge who was "a fellow Republican and elected official" who helped Bush get off "with a little community service at a minority youth center instead of having to pick cotton on a Texas prison farm." Hatfield quotes a former Yale classmate who told him: "George W. was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1972, but due to his father's connections, the entire record was expunged by a state judge whom the older Bush helped get elected. It was one of those 'behind closed doors in the judges' chambers' kind of thing between the old man and one of his Texas cronies who owed him a favor ... There's only a handful of us that know the truth." Another source named only as "a longtime Bush friend" described the situation this way: "Say you get a D in algebra ... and now you're going to be required to repeat the class the following year, but your teacher says if you promise to be tutored during the summer by a friend of hers who's good in math, she'll change the D to a C. You spend a few hours a week during the summer vacation learning all about arithmetical operations and relationships, and then the teacher issues you a new report card, replacing the old one on file in the principal's office ... Something akin to that scenario is what happened with Bush in 1972." Hatfield also says that when he asked Scott McClellan to comment on the allegation of a former Yale classmate of Bush's that the presidential hopeful was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and had his record expunged in exchange for community service at Project P.U.L.L., the Bush campaign spokesman said, sotto voce, "Oh, shit," followed by, "No comment." McClellan denies that the exchange ever occurred. "I never spoke to the guy, and I'm not aware that anyone at the campaign has spoken to him," he told Salon News. "This guy should have stuck with writing science fiction," said Bush campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. "He's obviously trying to sell books with something absolutely untrue." Tucker pointed out that there were no Republican judges in Harris County until 1979 and says that former President George Bush's office "has issued quite a strong statement about how inaccurate this is." The elder Bush's spokeswoman was not reachable for comment. Hatfield is a Texas reporter and syndicated columnist. He has previously published a biography of "Star Trek" actor Patrick Stewart. "Our lawyers looked at the manuscript with great care, it was thoroughly fact-checked," Thomas Dunne, publisher of the St. Martin's imprint that's publishing Hatfield's book. "This author is a pretty good digger. He used a lot more sources than Bob Woodward has in a while. I didn't ask for the names of the three anonymous sources he used in regard to the drug charges. His editor might have, I don't know. "Do I know for a fact these allegations are true? No, of course not. But I know that the author believes them to be true. He researched the book exhaustively and put it together with a variety of independent sources, including many who have never met each other." "Salon actually started this," Hatfield said in an interview Monday. "The book was finished. The galleys were in and ready to go to print. You guys did the story on the MLK Jr. center. "When I was working on the book, it's almost like being one of those women who sit around and make quilts all day. You've got all these patches of fabric. The Project P.U.L.L. year in 1972 did not fit his personality. It would be like that one piece on that quilt and you may not notice it. But if I made that quilt I'd be across the room going, 'That piece just doesn't fit. It bothers me.'" Hatfield says he, like other reporters, didn't pay much attention to the year Bush spent doing community service -- at a time when it was well-known he was drinking and carousing. "I fell for it just like everybody has. Kinda glossed over it -- 'That's nice.' All of a sudden he goes back to his young and irresponsible years again. Why all of sudden would you quit flying your planes, quit drinking, quit chasing women and go mentor inner-city black kids? That piece never fit in. "He was arrested. He was not charged as far as I know from my sources. What happened was he was picked up, taken to Harris County Jail. Within hours Dad was there. "I think his dad might have gotten him switched to another judge. Texas judges are elected, which makes a lot of people believe that they can be manipulated and corrupted." Fortunate Son: The Rise of George W. Bush & The Next Generation of Politics, by J.H. Hatfield. Bush up to his arse in allegations! Sharp-toothed e-mail, killer bees and bags of worms. Will this hound hunt? By Amy Reiter This month started out calmly enough for Madgelean "Madge" Bush of Houston. But then all hell broke loose.
After allegations about that other Bush (no relation) began making the media rounds recently, Madge was inundated with calls from as many as 50 news organizations. Many of these outlets had received the same tantalizing e-mail -- "News Tip: George Bush Drug Use."
Now, as you might imagine, Nothing Personal has been getting plenty of tips purporting to reveal proof of George W. Bush's alleged drug use -- as well as e-missives vouching for Bush's drug-free integrity. However, this particular e-mail was buttressed with what appeared to be some meaty facts. It charged that, back in the late '60s or early '70s, George W. "was ordered by a Texas judge to perform community service in exchange for expunging his record showing illicit drug use" and that this service was performed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston.
The message also provided the name of and contact information for the center's executive director then and now, the aforementioned Madge Bush, who, the tipster claimed, "knows exactly why the young Bush was sent her way." The e-mail also included names, dates, locations and phone numbers.
Any proof of drug use on the part of the Republican front-runner has eluded the rumor-crazed press thus far. So, in pursuit of the true grit on this latest charge, Nothing Personal got on the horn with Madge Bush.
We found, not at all surprisingly, that we weren't the first. "Well, I'm glad someone contacted you and 50 other people and told them the same thing," said Bush with admirable sass. "I've gotten calls all the way from London," she said. The New York Times had called as well.
"So, is it true or false?"
"I'm not getting all bent to that bag of worms," she clucked. "You know Texas has some killer bees here? I don't want to be one of them. I'm not gonna be one of them, and I'm not getting all bent to this political fight."
"I've never heard of him doing community services here at this agency, and I've been the only director for 31 and a half years," Bush continued, without entirely ruling out the Texas governor's possible past involvement with the center. "[I've] got too many people depending on this agency," she said, to get involved in the governor's messy media squabbles. The center, she told us, helps people from "a day old to 100 years old."
"I have a criminal-justice program here out of the governor's office," Bush added.
"I'm sure there are people who was with him regular, there are people who could talk to you," continued the director, who also serves as a Texas state executive committee woman, precinct judge and treasurer of the Harris County Democratic Party, "but Madge Bush is not gonna talk to you."
Then she said: "Mr. Bush did his welfare reform from my office. That I will attest to."
"What do you mean by that?" we asked.
"When he announced what his welfare-reform program was going to be [during his gubernatorial campaign]," Bush said, "he did it from my office."
"That's the only time he's ever been there then?"
"I didn't say that. I'm not even getting off into what you're asking me about ... I've been called by over 50 people and I can't help it because I've been on this job for a long time and I know just about everybody in Houston and all the leaders in Texas. I'm not getting off into anything about George except he's the governor of Texas and during his campaign he did his welfare reform at my office. That's all I'm gonna say about George W. Bush."
The Bush campaign refused to comment on the allegations. "We do not dignify false rumors and innuendos with a response," campaign spokesman Scott McClellan told Nothing Personal. "As a matter of principle, the governor refuses to play that game."
It's the kind of thing, McClellan maintains, that keeps good people out of politics.
The question now, as they say in Texas, is "Will this dog hunt?"
David Weir contributed to this column.
This is your government on drugs Flying High: USAF Pilots Ordered to Pop "Go Pills," Then Go Kill Army vets return from Afganistan, massacre four families at Fort Bragg
by LINDA S. HEARD The expression "flying high" takes on a whole new meaning when viewed in the light of the admission by the U.S. Air Force that its combat pilots regularly consume uppers and downers with its blessing. In fact, American bomber pilots are encouraged to take amphetamines, and upon return to base are sometimes offered tranquilizers to help them sleep.
This shocking announcement - apparently a longtime open secret in the military - came to the notice of the public during an investigation of two U.S. F16 pilots responsible for dropping a laser-guided, 500lb bomb on a Canadian unit in Afghanistan. Four Canadian servicemen lost their lives as a result. [Attorney CHARLES GITTINS details his defense of two American fighter pilots, Major Harry Schmidt and Major William Umbach faced 64 years in prison before manslaughter charges were dropped after an Article 32 "grand jury" hearing found an alleged lack of probable-cause (the "I was too drunk to be DUI" defense, combined with defense that Standard Operating Procedure of Command and Control had no clue what its units were doing). Umbach was allowed to retire and now flies for United "Robot-Controlled" Airlines. Schmidt was offered a plea bargain of Article 15 punishment, loss of flight status (which woul ban him from a civilian job with th airlines, just like 5-time convicted felon Resident George "Texascutioner" Bush Jr), and "dismissal" from the service (officers apparently never get "dishonorable discharges" unlike enlisted soldiers, since the military uses an Unconstitutional Unequal Protection caste court system. Schmidt appealed for a general court-martial on a reduced charge of "dereliction of duty", risking six months in prison for a "misdemeanor" conviction. His civilian defense attorney fees are expected to exceed $100,000. Apparently, he did not trust a military defense attorney with his life.]
Canada was outraged and demanded that the two American airmen face a justice. As part of the enquiry emerged the disturbing news that combat pilots in the U.S. military are encouraged by their own commanders to regularly pop amphetamine tablets. Once nicknamed "uppers" or "speed", amphetamines are now known as "go-pills" in the U.S. Air Force.
An Air Force surgeon, a guest on CNN's Q&A programme, had no hesitation in extolling the virtues of the innocuous sounding "go-pills" during combat missions. He explained that they often save the lives of exhausted pilots, and that fatigue kills. He also admitted that pilots are allowed to self-medicate and that reluctance by airmen to take such stimulants could mean that they would be excluded from a particular mission.
But do they increase the risk of "collateral damage" (a callous expression) at the hands of hyped up young men and women with their fingers on the button?
According to the makers of Dexedrine GlaxoSmithKline, they certainly do. It warns that the product may impair the patient's ability to engage in potentially hazardous activity such as operating machines and vehicles.
The common side effects of Dexedrine may include, nervousness, insomnia, hostility, and addiction as well as feelings of suspicion and paranoia. The worst is known as "amphetamine psychosis", which causes hallucinations and delusion.
One of the pilots under current investigation took 5mgs two hours before the mission, while the other popped 10mgs just one hour prior to take-off. Could the pilots have been hallucinating or paranoid when they believed that the Canadians were firing at them? The pilots recently sat through the first session of an official hearing so, presumably, we will shortly find out.
But the taking of amphetamines isn't just limited to pilots in Afghanistan. The surgeon said that combat pilots in the U.S. military have been popping pills for the past 60 years. This, according to my reckoning, takes us way back to World War II.
It is common knowledge that the British issued stimulants to their pilots during the Second World War and, according to some reports may have offered sedatives to airmen during the conflict in the Falklands.
Opium Warriors: British back off
However, the British today take a very different view. The British Ministry of Defense said that the RAF does not give amphetamines to its pilots, while former pilot and assistant chief of defense staff Air Marshal Sir Tim Garden told The Guardian that the practice of taking amphetamines by the U.S. Air Force was "very odd".
The head honchos in the U.S. military don't agree. Although psycho-stimulants have been in common use in the military for six decades, it wasn't until 1960 that they were officially sanctioned. The first widespread, although undocumented, use probably occurred during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
During the Vietnam War, the drugs of choice for members of the U.S. military were opiates.
A 1971 study undertaken by Professor Lee N. Robins, PhD, showed that almost half of those serving had been using either opium or heroin. While military commanders did in no way sanction the practice, they obviously chose to turn a blind eye.
Immediately following the Gulf War, U.S. pilots were given questionnaires in an attempt to quantify the use of Dexedrine.
Analysis showed that 65 per cent of pilots used amphetamines during combat. So, two-thirds of American bomber pilots routinely fly while under the influence of a potentially dangerous drug. A drug, which if ingested by a civilian pilot or even a driver would inevitably lead to a term of imprisonment.
Could these worrying statistics account for the fact that almost one quarter of American and allied fatalities during the Gulf War were caused by incidents of "friendly fire"?
There were also reports of pilots becoming addicted to amphetamines subsequent to the Gulf War. A former White House Drug Czar Dr. Robert DuPont said that he was amazed to learn about such widespread use of Dexedrine in the U.S. Air Force, adding, "This is speed. This is where we got the phrase, speed kills."
Apart from "blue on blue" incidents, the war in Afghanistan witnessed a disproportionate loss of civilian lives at the hands of American bomber crews. Entire villages have been wiped from the face of the earth.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai - himself hurt by the explosion of a bomb dropped by a B-52 bomber - has officially complained on several occasions about the deaths of his own people cause by alleged American pilot error. Thus far, no U.S. pilots have been threatened with court martial for the killing of Afghans and in many instances, the Pentagon has refused to admit liability.
However, when Canada complains about its losses, the Pentagon jumps to attention, launches an investigation and institutes legal proceedings against the errant pilots. One is left wondering whether the lives of Canadians are considered more important than those of poorer third world citizens.
What does all this mean for the Gulf region where an American force of more than 250,000 is likely to be stationed in readiness for a probable war with Iraq?
There has also been a revelation that the use of "go-pills" is common among the members of other branches of the U.S. military too, which could translate into tens of thousands of "America's finest" wandering around the towns and cities of their host countries in a heightened and volatile state. Add to this the mostly hostile feelings of those countries nationals concerning an attack on their fellow Arabs, along with the growing anti-Americanism on the street, and the picture isn't pretty.
Perhaps more importantly what could this mean for the Iraqi people who still recall with enormous sadness Al-Amiriya bunker in Baghdad being struck by an American bomb which killed more than 300 civilians, mostly women and children?
This may have been due to faulty instructions from their command and control centre but even so, how can we be confident that crews "up high" in more ways than one won't mistake Iraqi civilian targets for military ones the next time around?
We will probably never know the truth about the convoy of Kosovo refugees, which came under fire by an American F16 pilot, even though an RAF colleague had warned him that it was a civilian convoy. The bombing of the Chinese Embassy during that conflict remains another perplexing mystery. Few bought the 'out-of-date-plans' explanation, least of all the Chinese.
Go-Pak Massacres at Fort Bragg
We are also left to speculate on whether drugs contributed to the alleged rape by members of the U.S. military of a 12-year-old girl on Okinawa in 1995, a gang rape on the same Japanese island earlier this year, as well as the crushing of two schoolgirls in South Korea by a 50-tonne U.S. military vehicle.
The perpetrators may not have been using amphetamines, or suffering withdrawal symptoms from their use, but, then again, we cannot rule this out.
This issue also provokes questions about the three servicemen and one woman who returned to the bosem of their families at Fort Bragg after a stint in Afghanistan. The 'happy' homecoming resulted in the murder of four spouses and two suicides. Studies have shown that there is also a far higher incidence of wife-beating among servicemen than in civilian life.
Ironically, the very country, which is leading the charge in the worldwide war against drugs, supports their use by members of its own military. Doesn't this erode the credibility and sincerity of America's narcotics agencies and pull away the carpet from any claim the U.S. may have to a moral high ground on the subject?
The US military is today assisting the Columbian army with its fight against the country's own drug lords. The question is: are American servicemen in Columbia themselves on drugs? If so, this is surely a strange contradiction.
I can only imagine that litigation lawyers are having a field day imagining all kinds of lucrative possibilites opened up as a result of this admission, especially when they might contemplate what kind of effect alcohol would have when added to the mix.
Apart from the issue of collateral damage, there is also concern about the longterm effects on pilots used to living high. Used to the adrenalin rush of the job itself and the 'I can do anything' feelings which go-pills provide, we can only imagine how hard it must be for them to later adjust to mundane everyday existence.
The Pentagon should quit using the nation's committed young people, who often put their country before their own wellbeing and lives, as just a means to an end. All the flowery praise, and all the medals in the world won't make up for turning them into drug addicts or dysfunctional human beings. Dexedrine is psychologically addictive and, as we know, when one gets used to an altered state it is hard to come down to earth. Amphetamine use is often a prelude to the taking of harder drugs.
The philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr said: "We (Americans) have been so deluded by the concept of our innocence that we are ill prepared to deal with the temptations of power which now assail us."
Feelings of empowerment in the hands of those with deadly weapons is a heady brew, but power mixed with chemically induced false bravado is nothing short of a deadly and frightening cocktail.
Linda Heard is a specialist writer on Middle East affairs. She can be reached at: freenewsreport@yahoo.com
See Also: Chuck Baldwin on Limbaugh's newfound concern over Conspiracies
RAZORMOUTH Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has seen the light, or maybe felt the heat. In either case, he suddenly realizes the consequences of living in a society where government agencies have unfettered access to personal information and where individuals have little or no constitutional protections. Welcome back, Rush.
For years, Limbaugh has impugned, denigrated, and chastised any caller who dared bring up the subject of federal encroachment on individual liberties, calling them "conspiracy nuts," or worse. He has had little patience for anyone who wanted to suggest that both political parties are trampling the U.S. Constitution and helping to create a gargantuan federal oligarchy at the expense of The Bill of Rights and personal freedoms. Suddenly, however, he is screaming that he is the victim of a (eeh-gads) "conspiracy."
The issue at hand is a criminal investigation into whether Limbaugh, who has been addicted to pain killers for years, violated the law by "doctor shopping" in an illegal bid to obtain a continuing supply of powerful drugs such as OxyContin, Hydrocodone, and Xanax. To obtain the needed evidence, authorities seized, by court order, Limbaugh's medical records. Rush is furious! He maintains his medical records should remain private and that he is being singled out because he is a popular "conservative."
Rush's inconsistency is massive! For years, his beloved Republican Party has collaborated with liberal Democrats to eviscerate The Bill of Rights, and he has fully supported them! Patriot Acts I & II, the SS-style Department of Homeland Security and dozens of other measures have come into reality with Rush Limbaugh's complete and enthusiastic support!
As a result of Limbaugh's (and other popular "conservatives") endorsement, personal freedoms affirmed under The Bill of Rights have all but vanquished. Virtually any American citizen, not just those targeted by a "left-wing conspiracy," is capable of being victimized by this new federal monstrosity.
So, where was Rush Limbaugh when this "New World Order" (George Bush, Sr.) was being constructed? He was either ignoring it or demonizing those who opposed it.
If Rush was not concerned about people losing their 4th Amendment rights under The Patriot Act, why should people now be concerned about the loss of privacy regarding his medical records? What's good for the common goose should be good for the celebrated gander.
The fact is no American citizen's medical records are private anymore. Neither are our financial records, our phone calls, our emails, or our travel records. The feds have absolute and total access to virtually every piece of information about every single one of us!
Furthermore, in the grand scheme of things, the loss of free speech (via phone taps, etc.) is far more egregious than Limbaugh's medical records. Historically, next to the preciousness of life, the freedom of speech has been held in the highest esteem by the laws of this country. No more!
Today, America's federal laws more resemble those of Stalin's, Hitler's, or Mao's than they do those put in place by Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. And, until now, Rush Limbaugh has not objected.
Suddenly, it's different! Now, Rush Limbaugh believes in conspiracies and is opposed to granting the federal government (or even state government, as in his case) access to personal information. It's amazing how one can change his tune when it's his own bacon in the fire!
Unfortunately, it appears that the Limbaugh saga is a microcosm of America as a whole. It seems that until the American people are personally affected by the tyrannical laws that we allow our politicians (including Republicans) to pass, we seem oblivious to their danger.
However, we should all realize that once we allow tyranny to take root, nothing short of revolution will stop it, and that what happened to Rush Limbaugh (and worse) will happen to every one of us. Therefore, how long will "conservatives" continue to support a Republican Party that facilitates such tyranny? Until they join Rush in jail, I suppose.
Chuck Baldwin is the host of the lively, hard-hitting radio talk show, Chuck Baldwin Live, a daily, one hour long call-in show in which he addresses current event topics from a conservative Christian point of view.
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Afghan Massacre - The Convoy of Death
Training future US traffic cops to kill
UK: Five, Germany: ARD, Italy: RAI, Australia: SBS, Canada: CBS Afghan Massacre tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken by thousands of prisoners who surrendered to America's Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz.
Bundled into containers, the lucky ones were shot within minutes. The rest suffered an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, clawing at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.
Up to 3,000 now lie buried in a mass grave, but this was not a simple matter of Afghans killing Afghans.
Afghan Massacre tells of how American Special Forces took control of the operation, re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried.
And it details how the Pentagon lied to the world in order to cover up its role in the greatest atrocity of the entire Afghan War. This is the documentary they did not want you to see.
Afghan Massacre was produced over ten months in extremely dangerous circumstances: eyewitnesses were threatened and subsequently killed, the film crew were forced into hiding and our researcher was savagely beaten to within an inch of his life. He was recently awarded the 2002 Rory Peck Award for Hard News, The SONY Award and the film has been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Current Affairs.
Available to buy now on video.
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The Pentagon Plan to Create Mutant "Super-Soldiers"
by CHRIS FLOYD DARPA.MIL copied creepy 230 year old Illuminati logo off Federal Reserve Bankster Corporation's Dollar Bill bankrupt mortgage Debt Note to keep an evil eye of Satan on enslaved American sheeple The great wizard, leader of the Wise, once known to all the world as a force for good, has turned bitter, fearful--and ambitious. Aping the ways of the evil he once fought--brutality, dominance, greed, terror--he descends to his secret laboratory, where, with black arts of alchemy and fiendish technology, he breeds a race of mutant warriors, "iron bodied and iron willed": fierce fighters who can attack day and night, without rest, their combat spirit kept soaring by spikes of lightning from the wizard's wand.
A scene from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, where the corrupted wizard Saruman fashions his monstrous Uruk- Hai to wage a relentless, remorseless war for dominion? No; unfortunately it's a very real scheme now being pursued by the Pentagon, whose dope wizards and gene splicers are working on the creation of the "Extended Performance War Fighter," the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor report.
Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shoveling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the land in the wide-ranging effort to spawn "super soldiers," fired by drugs and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--yes, the same outfit now laboring under [5-time] convicted [felon] terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the "Total Information Awareness" network that will allow the government to monitor the electronic records and communications of every citizen. [And don't forget DARPA's plot to replace pilots with killer robot jetplanes, and its Dead Pool for anonymous terrorists to bet securely online on how, when and where US soldiers and civilians would be massacred by terrorists, and which US and foreign leaders would be assassinated in coups d'etat... An official shooting gallery for inside traders at CIA, FBI, ATF and Pentagon...]
DARPA's Total Information Awareness Network, Terrorism Futures Markets Applied to Prediction (FutureMAP) "There is something very sick about it. Those responsible should be fired!" "I couldn't believe that we would actually commit $8 million to create a Web site that would encourage investors to bet on futures involving terrorist attacks and public assassinations. I can't believe that anybody would seriously propose that we trade in death. How long would it be before you saw traders investing in a way that would bring about the desired result?" "The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque." DARPA.MIL MADNESS - M.M.E.A. - MULTIPLE MICRO ELECTRODE ARRAY IS SO ADVANCED IT CAN FULFILL REV 13:16-18! Part 1 of 5 (Separated at Birth - US ARMY SGT TIM MCVEIGH?) The DARPA "war fighter enhancement" programs--an acceleration of bipartisan biotinkering that's been going on for years--will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings.
The research is "very aggressive and wide open," says Admiral Stephen Baker of the Center for Defense Information. Indeed, the U.S. Special Operations Command envisions the creation of "iron bodied and iron willed personnel" who can "resist the mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation" while relying on "ergogenic substances" to "manage" the "environmental and mentally induced stress" of the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in Prozacian haze, the enhanced warfighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly toward dominion.
And the term "creation" is not just fanciful rhetoric: some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end. These mutations will "revolutionize the contemporary order of battle" and guarantee "operational dominance across the whole range of potential U.S. military employments," the DARPA wizards enthuse.
Of course, the Pentagon is not waiting on sci-fi technology to enhance the physical abilities of its warfighters; old-fashioned off-the-shelf "additives" have long been shoved down soldiers' throats. For example, the use of amphetamines for pilots has been widespread for decades; during the first Bush-Saddam War, whole squadrons were cranked up on the stuff. Not only is the gobbling of speed officially sanctioned, it's actively encouraged, even implicitly mandated--careers can be derailed for pilots who refuse to drug themselves.
The results of this dope-peddling were clearly seen on the new imperial frontier of Afghanistan last spring, when two U.S. pilots--hopped up on speed--killed four Canadian allies in a "friendly fire" bombing raid. The pilots, now facing legal charges, say Air Force brass pressured them into taking the mind-altering drug before the fatal flight.
But such glitches are inevitable in any grand scientific undertaking, and DARPA remains undeterred in its bold quest to "push the limits of human input/output," advance the "symbiotic relationship between man and machine," and customize "pharmaceutical technology" to "embolden the warfighter and his superiors," as military scientists declared at a Pentagon-sponsored conference on "future warfare."
What happens to the burnt-out husks of these "iron" soldiers after their minds and bodies have been eaten way by relentless modification and ceaseless toil is, of course, of no concern to the Bush Regime. Even now, the White House is cutting back on health benefits to military veterans--even going so far as to order veterans hospitals not to advertise their available services, lest broken soldiers actually seek to claim the promise of support their government once gave them. For men like Bush--protected scions of privilege who sit out wars in safety, in booze-addled luxury--such promises are just cynical sucker ploys, aimed at coaxing decent soldiers into acting as the hitmen of empire, then discarding them when they're no longer needed.
How very strange it is: those who want to turn American soldiers into mindless, drug-addled mutants and send them off to kill and die in far-flung wars of imperial conquest are seen as patriots, noble leaders, doing the will of God; while those who would rather see these good men and women called home, treated with honor and respect--their talents and dedication applied solely to the defense of their own great country, not pressed into the service of a greedy, rapacious elite--are denounced as "traitors," "anti-American agitators," "allies of terrorism."
But such is the inversion of values--the wisdom gone astray and turned to fell practice--that now rules in Bush's Washington, and in the Pentagon's fiery crucibles of war.
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." Stretched US pilots may quit military Previously pilots turned down $100,000 Re-enlistment Bonuses rather than risk deadly vaccines
By Eric Rosenberg in Washington Another US helicopter has crashed in Iraq, killing all nine soldiers on board and fuelling Pentagon fears that some of the military's most experienced pilots might quit after prolonged deployments to dangerous hot spots like Afghanistan and Iraq.
With the first of 118,000 US troops leaving for Iraq in a rotation aimed at replacing war-weary soldiers, analysts said the US military is overstretched by deployments in Iraq and elsewhere. They said this was forcing the Pentagon to keep thousands of soldiers and reservists in uniform long beyond their release dates, with potentially dangerous effects on morale.
"There is no question that the force is stretched too thin," said David Segal, director of the Centre for Research on Military Organisation at the University of Maryland. "We have stopped treating the reserves as a force in reserve. Our volunteer army is closer to being broken today than ever before in its 30-year history."
At least 14 US helicopters have crashed in Iraq since the war supposedly ended last May, claiming some 58 lives and underscoring the vulnerability of an essential cog in US military operations there.
On Thursday a Black Hawk crashed near Falluja in western Iraq. Officials declined to specify what caused the crash, but witnesses said rocket fire brought it down.
General E. J. Sinclair, commander of the US Army Aviation Centre at Fort Rucker, Alabama, said last week that continuous foreign assignments were "going to cause some problems".
He illustrated his concern by describing the plight of a senior US Army aviator who watched from afar while his newborn daughter grew into her toddler years. The army major has seen his daughter for 12 days in the past two years.
"I can't bring him back in my right mind and tell him after a month or two he has to go to Korea for a year-long assignment without his family. But that's what's happening," General Sinclair said.
Exacerbating the problem is a sharp increase in deployment times. The army announced last northern summer that US troops in Iraq would be there for one year, up from the typical six-month deployment.
Retention concerns are especially acute in the service's aviation branch because of the extra investment in time and money required to train pilots to fly helicopters such as the Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook.
The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and US commanders concede that the 1.4 million members of the US armed forces, which have been cut by about a third since the end of the Cold War, are stretched by deployments in South Korea and Europe as well as post-2001 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But Mr Rumsfeld says he has seen no evidence so far in a large continuing Pentagon study to support calls from analysts and some army officials to boost the service's strength by 20,000 to 500,000 troops.
Signs of strain are appearing, however. Mr Segal said the National Guard ended last year at about 10,000 below its recruitment target and he predicted there would be more severe recruitment and retention problems next year.
To stem losses, the army has started offering re-enlistment bonuses of up to $US10,000 ($12,900) to soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
At the same time, it is preventing soldiers who are rotating home from retiring or handing in their notice for up to 90 days after returning to their home bases.
Hearst Newspapers, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, The Washington Post
Uncle Sam Needs Soldiers To Protect His Pipelines In Iraq - But
They Shouldn't Expect His Help When It's All Over
By AL Kennedy Uncle Sam Needs Soldiers To Protect His Pipelines In Iraq - But They Shouldn't Expect His Help When It's All Over
Feeling restless? Is 2004 looking just like 2003? Do you long to have your place in life very firmly defined by others and to wear a range of interesting hats? Do you have low financial expectations, a vigorous desire to travel and a functioning index finger? Then the US military could be for you.
Not a US citizen? Don't fret - the Department of Defense Inc welcomes one and all. You can fight for a passport, fight for a green card, just fight for the Christian, God-fearing hell of it. And you'll be in good hands - Secretary of the Air Force James Roche is a former vice-president at Northrop Grumman; Secretary of the Navy Gordon England is a former executive at General Dynamics; and former Secretary of the Army Thomas E White came direct from those hard-fighting boys at Enron. You're only a few months of training from jury-rigging armour on your combat-unready vehicle, eating out of filthy, Halliburton-run kitchens, sewing patches on your Vietnam-issue flak jacket and tying plastic strips round the wrists of numberless fascinating strangers, often in their own homes. Brits also have local access to a subsidiary enterprise, run to the same exacting standards. French nationals need not apply.
Or perhaps you've just finished a tour for Uncle Sam. Maybe you're one of last year's lucky amputees, or you've suffered a recent "mystery illness" or "mental breakdown". Well, give yourself a shake, shine up those new prosthetics and re-enlist today. In other wars you'd have been left idle, but no matter what levels of physical and mental trauma you've endured, this time the Department of Defense Inc still needs you. And with veterans making up 9% of the US population but 23% of the homeless - and Veterans Affairs taking care of 40,000 out of 500,000 - what better options have you got? You have a 50% chance of substance abuse and a 45% chance of mental illness - and let's not even talk about Gulf war syndrome and depleted uranium. In fact, let's not talk about that, ever.
And who would miss the chance of serving alongside forces from Kellogg Root Brown, Northrop Grumman and DynCorp International - the war professionals? They can ignore the Geneva convention (they're not protected by it, either) and you can simply dodge round it. Feel like beating some prisoners in Camp Bucca? Confining whole villages as collective punishment? Shooting unarmed civilians? Gunning down a surrendered combatant in the street? Arresting the pesky journalists who'd film you gunning down a surrendered combatant in the street? Failing to establish and sustain civil order? Obtaining information "under duress"? Lifting harmless valuables during house-to-house searches? Then this war's for you.
Or are you a brave, decent individual with a trust in your country's leaders and a deep sense of duty? Obviously, you can sign up, too, but your disillusionment will cause no end of trouble. You might well suffer long-term psychological problems, send emails to Michael Moore, complain to your relatives that you're being forced into illegal acts for corporate profit, and generally reduce company morale. Your duty is to keep your head down and make sure those pipelines stay secure.
Of course, if you don't keep your head down, you may experience a period of negative good health. This is to be avoided, because it tends to depress voters at home, so you might find yourself being withdrawn for a while and stored in a variety of hospitals, barrack blocks and sheds with other inconveniently indisposed personnel, until you can be returned to the combat zone, or filtered quietly back into society.
Your secluded storage may also affect your ability to receive Purple Hearts and other awards. And you will, naturally, be expected to repay your $8.10 food allowance for each day spent enjoying hospital meals, while any disability benefit you receive later (subject to further cuts) will be reimbursed to the government out of your retirement pay. There are moves afoot to alter these nominal, reasonable burdens, but don't hold your breath.
And rest assured, for those of you who no longer have breath to hold, the Charles C Carson Centre for Mortuary Affairs will deal with your remains efficiently in tasteful surroundings. You won't be best placed to appreciate it, but the 70,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art facility at Dover air force base, in Delaware, has been expressly designed to process you and your comrades. It has a foyer with reflecting pool and rock-effect seating area and a glass Wall of Fallen Heroes, ready and waiting for your name.
Better still, no ceremony will be held there to mark your passing, in case your grieving relatives feel compelled to attend. Coincidentally, this means George Bush won't be attending, either. And nor will the press gain any access - your arrival will be entirely private, as if you had never been.
Vietnam and Korean war remains still arriving at Hickam air force base can be filmed, because they're Good News. But you, you're different - it's better for all concerned if you just disappear.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
What about Rolling Roadblocks? Tennessee Supreme Court overrules illegal police roadblocks
By Thomas Wilson A Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the justification of driver's license roadblocks effectively negated the state's case in Carter County Criminal Court last week.
Judge Jerry Beck ruled to suppress evidence against Jeffrey Lee Campbell, who was charged with driving on a suspended license after being stopped at a driver's license
checkpoint conducted by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Public defender Bobby Oaks cited a Tennessee Supreme Court decision State of Tennessee v. Hicks filed Sept. 2001 that found driver's license roadblocks did not hold up to standards under a similar decision regarding sobriety roadblocks.
"In order for a roadblock to pass constitutional muster, the roadblock must by properly conducted under General Order 410 of the state Department of Safety," Oaks told the court. He added that the burden was on the Department of Safety to demonstrate "...that safety is enhanced by driver's license checkpoints."
The state supreme court held that the driver's license roadblock in the Hicks case violated the protections against unreasonable seizures under Article I, section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution.
The court ruled the state failed to demonstrate a sufficiently compelling interest to justify suspicionless stops to check driver's licenses. The court also ruled the state did not demonstrate roadblocks were productive to "qualify as a reasonable law enforcement practice" and the roadblock was not conducted to guidelines or supervision to minimize the risk of arbitrary intrusion on individual liberty and limit the discretion of officers at the scene.
In a 1999 decision, State v. Downey, the supreme court has ruled officers could stop motorists at a sobriety roadblock to detect drivers operating under the influence of alcohol. The state has presented copious evidence that sobriety—or "DUI roadblocks"—benefit public safety by taking drunken drivers off the road, Oaks said in court. However, he noted the state has not demonstrated with analytical study that roadblocks to check driver's licenses make highways safer for the public.
"In DUI context, the Tennessee Supreme Court says we have to get these people off the roads," Oaks said. "Between Hicks and Downey, the state has to be able to show with data from the National Transportation Safety Board and Tennessee Department of Safety that DUI checkpoints are to address problems with drunk drivers."
Campbell was charged with a fourth offense of driving on a suspended license. Beck said that while the driver's license roadblock might be permitted under the U.S. Constitution, it did not under the Tennessee Constitution.
"That will legally do away with our case," Kenneth Baldwin, assistant district attorney general, said in court Tuesday following Beck's decision.
According to court records, a vehicle driven Larry Allen Hicks was stopped at a driver's license roadblock on Oct. 11, 1997 in Hamilton County. The roadblock was being conducted by members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol as well as the Chattanooga and Red Bank police departments.
While the Hicks' vehicle was stopped, an officer on the scene detected the smell of marijuana coming from the appellant's car. Hicks was placed under arrest after the police dog of a K-9 officer alerted police that drugs were present in the vehicle, according to the court report. A subsequent search of the appellant's car uncovered five pounds of marijuana in the passenger seat.
According to the supreme court opinion, a state trooper who testified at Hicks' trial stated that the officers did not provide any advance publicity concerning the roadblock, that they did not post any signs warning approaching motorists of the roadblock, and that they did not use any orange safety cones to direct traffic.
The trooper also testified that none of the officers was wearing a safety vest or carrying an illuminated baton as was otherwise required by General Order 410 for night roadblocks.
The trial court ruled to suppress evidence gathered at the roadblock based on the argument by Hicks' defense attorney. Prosecutors appealed the case to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, which reversed the trial court's decision. Hicks then appealed to the state supreme court which handed down its ruling Sept. 11, 2001.
In the Hicks case, the Supreme Court ruled the state failed to establish a "sufficiently compelling interest" justifying the need to maintain driver's license roadblocks and that the particular roadblock in this case failed to comply with the standards set forth in the ruling that found roadblocks to check the sobriety of motorists.
State law prohibits highway patrol officers from stopping any vehicle for the sole purpose of checking the validity of a driver's license.
Baldwin requested the court reset the case until the state could further examine any alternative avenues to pursue the charge against Campbell. Beck reset the case for Sept. 29.
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US Supreme Court orders use of random police roadblocks
By Jerry Seper The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the use of random roadblocks by police to track suspected criminals, saying limited checkpoints do not violate the constitutional or privacy rights of motorists.
In a 6-3 decision, the high court overturned an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that said the 1997 alcohol-related arrest of a motorist at a roadblock set up by police to collect tips about a hit-and-run driver violated the man's Fourth Amendment guarantee against illegal search and seizure.
Yesterday's decision was a victory for police authorities in Illinois and 14 other states, along with the Justice Department, which had asked the Supreme Court to use the case to clarify how far police agencies could go in seeking information about suspected criminals.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, in writing for the majority, said Illinois police had "appropriately tailored their checkpoint stops to fit important criminal investigatory needs." He said that while the ruling was not a blanket approval of a new wide range of police searches, constitutional guarantees against illegal search and seizure do not treat "a motorist's car as his castle."
Justice Breyer said short stops — "a very few minutes at most" — were not too intrusive on motorists and that police may hand out fliers or ask drivers to volunteer information about crimes. He noted that in the Illinois case, police were investigating a specific crime, and one that resulted in a death.
Also voting in the majority were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagreed, saying the ruling could open up motorists to police interference without yielding information about crimes.
"There is a valid and important distinction" between seizing a person to determine whether he or she has committed a crime and seizing a person to ask whether that person "has any information about an unknown person who committed a crime a week earlier," Justice Stevens wrote in the minority opinion.
They said the case should have been sent back to Illinois courts for more consideration.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which argued in a friend-of-the-court brief that stopping motorists to gather information without any suspicion was contrary to constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, did not return calls yesterday for comment.
Similar roadblocks were used by federal, state and local law enforcement authorities during the search for the so-called D.C. snipers during a 23-day reign of terror in October 2002.
In the Illinois case, police in Lombard, Ill., a Chicago suburb, had set up a roadblock in August 1997 to try to find information about a hit-and-run accident that occurred at the same spot a week earlier. Police hoped to find motorists who had been in the area and might have information about the accident. They stopped each vehicle and asked drivers questions that took about 10 to 15 seconds.
Robert Lidster was stopped and questioned at the roadblock. While speaking with him, officers smelled alcohol on his breath and noticed that his speech was slurred. Mr. Lidster then was asked to complete several sobriety tests. Police said he failed those tests, and he was arrested and later convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Mr. Lidster appealed his conviction, claiming the roadblock arrest was unconstitutional. An Illinois appeals court agreed, saying a roadblock violated constitutional guarantees if its only purpose was to uncover "ordinary criminal wrongdoing."
The appeals court reversed the conviction, holding that the roadblock violated Mr. Lidster's Fourth Amendment guarantees. The Illinois Supreme Court later upheld the appeals court opinion in a 4-3 decision.
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ILLINOIS v. LIDSTER, US Supreme Court, No. 02-1060. Argued November 5, 2003--Decided January 13, 2004
Corrupt Tennessee Highway Patrol officer retires in wake of criminal allegations Hi-Ranking Man-Hos Caught in Whorehouse as Shit Hits Fan - Loudon and Blount County Cops Face God's Wrath
By Becky Blanton KNOXVILLE - Lt. Larry Parsley, the Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer accused of clocking into work as a THP officer, then building houses for his own construction firm, has retired from the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Beth Denton, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Safety, Parsley said Parsley's retirement would be effective Nov. 1. Parsley's retirement came less than a week after allegations regarding his working a construction job while on the state time clock as a highway patrol officer.
According to state records Parsley had 34 years of service with the department, including three years and 10 months of military credit as a Vietnam Veteran. Although Parsley spent more than a decade guarding the UT football coaches and team on football weekends at home and away it is not known if those hours counted towards service time.
Parsley was in uniform for one last game as a security officer for Coach Philip Fulmer before submitting his retirement request — in UT's five overtime game against Alabama on Oct. 25. Upon learning of the allegations against Parsley, Mike Hamilton, the UT men's Athletic Director, said, "We were pleased with his work here at the university. I don't know about this (allegations) but from what I know he did a good job for us."
Denton said the state's investigation into the allegations is ongoing, but declined to comment on any aspect of the investigation. Donna Finley, a spokeswoman with the state treasurers office of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, said Parsley's retirement package has not been audited and finalized yet.
"We do have a rough estimate of what he can expect," she said. "But those final figures aren't in yet." Finley said based on Parsley's 34 years of service and his last five years average pay of $55,000 a year, he will receive about $3,400 a month, or $40,800 a year, for the rest of his life. The state will also pay 80 percent of his health benefits, or about $175 to $190 a month for full family benefits depending on the package he chooses.
Those figures could go higher depending on the amount of sick leave Parsley has accumulated. "You can save a lot of sick days in 34 years," Finley said. It is unlikely Parsley will receive any sanctions or disciplinary actions from the governor's office or the Department of Safety even if he is found guilty of the allegations against him.
The State Department of Commerce and Insurance Board for Licensing Contractors is also interested in Parsley's activities and some of the allegations against him. Parsley's contractor's license authorizes him to build $350,000 homes. If there is evidence that he has built homes in excess of that figure he may be called before the contractor's licensing board as well. "He can go over that figure ($350,000) by 10 percent, but more than that and he'll either have to pay to extend his license to cover that, or pay a fine," said Tom Sherrod, inspector for the Department of Commerce & Insurance.
There are allegations Parsley has built more expensive homes, but to date there is no evidence to support those claims. And, while Parsley may be gone Nov. 1, his son Stephen Parsley, also a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, remains with the department. According to law enforcement sources, Stephen Parsley was under the direct supervision of his father for some time — a violation of the state's nepotism law.
Denton confirmed that for a time, Trooper Stephen Parsley was stationed in his father's county — Loudon. "The commissioner (Fred Phillips) learned about three months ago that Trooper (Stephen) Parsley was temporarily reassigned because of a conflict with his current supervisors and that reassignment put him in Loudon County.
"When the commissioner learned that he had been temporarily reassigned to Loudon County he was then moved to Blount County," Denton said. Denton said the move to Blount County happened on or about Oct. 1. Sources within law enforcement in both Knox and Blount County claim Stephen Parsley was transferred to patrol in Blount County, outside of Knox County only after the investigation into his father's alleged outside activities began.
Troopers in two counties have alleged that politics and favoritism, not competence and qualifications have played the biggest role in Governor Phil Bredesen's law enforcement appointments. A Nashville trooper who claims to have worked for the THP through three governors, including Bredesen, said, "This is the most politically charged atmosphere I have ever seen."
While he did decline to cite specifics he did admit that many supervisors and officers seem more intent on climbing the career ladder than pursuing public safety issues. The trooper, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Gov. Bredesen was the best governor Tennessee has had in 20 years and that he [Bredesen] would not tolerate what was happening within the department if he were aware of it.
Prior to the start of the state's investigation into allegations regarding Parsley, Captain Charles Laxton told The Knoxville Journal that he had "worked long and hard" on the Governor's campaign prior to being appointed by the Governor to his current position with the THP. Laxton has a signed photograph of Bredesen in his office. When asked about how he got his Captain's appointment, he briefly described his work on the governor's campaign. According to the contents of Laxton's personnel file, Laxton bypassed the rank of lieutenant and went from the position of sergeant directly to that of Captain.
His personnel file did not contain performance evaluations for the year 1998, 1999 and 2003 — years in which other officers claim negative comments were made regarding his performance. Laxton, whose wife, Cheryl Laxton, manages the Holiday Inn [XXX] Express in Harriman, is expected to be called as a witness in a Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit against Blount County next year. According to Former Blount County deputy Kathy Veal, Cheryl and Charles Laxton both allowed THP officers and county deputies to stay free in Holiday Inn Express rooms during their shifts.
Officers, Veal claims, utilized the hotel as a meeting place for extramarital affairs and sexual liaisons while on-duty. Veal claims she spent several nights and days at the inn with Maryville Police Chief Tony Crisp during a two-year relationship she had with Crisp. Prior to Crisp's being appointed as Maryville Police Chief, Crisp was Chief Deputy of the Blount County Sheriff's department. Laxton, she claims, had full knowledge of her relationship with Crisp, who was married at the time, and of the on-duty meetings of both THP officers and Blount County officers at the Holiday Inn. Veal's lawsuit against Blount County, Tony Crisp, and Blount County Sheriff James Berrong is expected to be filed sometime in November. Veal also has audiotapes in which Laxton makes reference to Veal's having enough information "to blow that (Blount County Sheriff's) department wide open."
Laxton, Veal claims, had knowledge of such activities such as Parsley's construction business and of extra-martial affairs of THP officers and deputies while on-duty.
Law enforcement sources in various departments have expressed concern about the direction the district is taking and the image of the THP in Knoxville and the surrounding counties. Even though Parsley has retired and other officers are under investigation, sources inside the department have expressed concern about whether or not Gov. Bredesen will take any action against Parsley or other officials once the investigation is completed.
They have also expressed concern over who the governor may appoint to replace former Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director Larry Wallace. "It's all trickle down," one officer said. "They set the tone and let us know what the standards are. And the standards now are strictly political." The primary issue now, both among TBI officers and some state troopers, is who Gov. Bredesen will appoint to the post of Director for the TBI.
Because the TBI is often called in to investigate allegations against other law enforcement agencies in instances such as Parsley's, the "ethical meter" of the director is a critical issue. As required by statute, David Jennings, the deputy director in charge of the TBI's Criminal Investigation Division, will serve as acting director, while a nominating commission considers Wallace's successor. According to TBI sources, Jennings is "clean," and doesn't play political games. He is straight-forward and honest and therefore not the kind of director a governor will generally choose, sources claim. "He won't 'play ball' with anyone if it's dishonest," law enforcement sources said. "He's honest. That high up they want someone who will bend."
The nominating commission will consist of five people. The Speakers of the Tennessee House and Senate each appoint two members. The fifth member is the executive director of the District Attorneys General Conference. The Governor will select a new director from the three names submitted by the commission if he finds one of those names to be suitable. Bredesen may also choose to reject all names and send the nominating commission back to select additional names.
The Governor's appointee will complete Wallace's six-year term, which ends in seven months.
By Heather MacDonald Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD's rule against enforcing immigration law.
The LAPD's ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These "sanctuary policies" generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
Such laws testify to the sheer political power of immigrant lobbies, a power so irresistible that police officials shrink from even mentioning the illegal-alien crime wave. "We can't even talk about it," says a frustrated LAPD captain. "People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics." Another LAPD commander in a predominantly Hispanic, gang-infested district sighs: "I would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals]." Neither captain would speak for attribution.
But however pernicious in themselves, sanctuary rules are a symptom of a much broader disease: the nation's near-total loss of control over immigration policy. Fifty years ago, immigration policy might have driven immigration numbers, but today the numbers drive policy. The nonstop increase of immigration is reshaping the language and the law to dissolve any distinction between legal and illegal aliens and, ultimately, the very idea of national borders.
It is a measure of how topsy-turvy the immigration environment has become that to ask police officials about the illegal-alien crime problem feels like a gross faux pas, not done in polite company. And a police official asked to violate this powerful taboo will give a strangled response-or, as in the case of a New York deputy commissioner, break off communication altogether. Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens work, shop, travel, and commit crimes in plain view, utterly secure in their de facto immunity from the immigration law.
I asked the Miami Police Department's spokesman, Detective Delrish Moss, about his employer's policy on lawbreaking illegals. In September, the force arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation, without checking his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his visa overstay, a deportable offense, and so could have forestalled the rapes. "We have shied away from unnecessary involvement dealing with immigration issues," explains Moss, choosing his words carefully, "because of our large immigrant population."
Police commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:
Good luck finding any reference to such facts in official crime analysis. The LAPD and the L.A. city attorney recently requested an injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood, targeting the 18th Street Gang and the "non-gang members" who sell drugs in Hollywood for the gang. Those non-gang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled into the country by a ring organized by 18th Street bigs. The Mexicans pay off their transportation debts to the gang by selling drugs; many soon realize how lucrative that line of work is and stay in the business.
Cops and prosecutors universally know the immigration status of these non-gang "Hollywood dealers," as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is assiduously silent on the matter. And if a Hollywood officer were to arrest an illegal dealer (known on the street as a "border brother") for his immigration status, or even notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service (since early 2003, absorbed into the new Department of Homeland Security), he would face severe discipline for violating Special Order 40, the city's sanctuary policy.
The ordinarily tough-as-nails former LAPD chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40 in 1979-showing that even the most unapologetic law-and-order cop is no match for immigration advocates. The order prohibits officers from "initiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person"-in other words, the police may not even ask someone they have arrested about his immigration status until after they have filed criminal charges, nor may they arrest someone for immigration violations. They may not notify immigration authorities about an illegal alien picked up for minor violations. Only if they have already booked an illegal alien for a felony or for multiple misdemeanors may they inquire into his status or report him. The bottom line: a cordon sanitaire between local law enforcement and immigration authorities that creates a safe haven for illegal criminals.
L.A.'s sanctuary law and all others like it contradict a key 1990s policing discovery: the Great Chain of Being in criminal behavior. Pick up a law-violator for a "minor" crime, and you might well prevent a major crime: enforcing graffiti and turnstile-jumping laws nabs you murderers and robbers. Enforcing known immigration violations, such as reentry following deportation, against known felons, would be even more productive. LAPD officers recognize illegal deported gang members all the time-flashing gang signs at court hearings for rival gangbangers, hanging out on the corner, or casing a target. These illegal returnees are, simply by being in the country after deportation, committing a felony (in contrast to garden-variety illegals on their first trip to the U.S., say, who are only committing a misdemeanor). "But if I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha [Salvadoran prison] gang crossing the street, I know I can't touch him," laments a Los Angeles gang officer. Only if the deported felon has given the officer some other reason to stop him, such as an observed narcotics sale, can the cop accost him-but not for the immigration felony.
Though such a policy puts the community at risk, the department's top brass brush off such concerns. No big deal if you see deported gangbangers back on the streets, they say. Just put them under surveillance for "real" crimes and arrest them for those. But surveillance is very manpower-intensive. Where there is an immediate ground for getting a violent felon off the street and for questioning him further, it is absurd to demand that the woefully understaffed LAPD ignore it.
The stated reasons for sanctuary policies are that they encourage illegal-alien crime victims and witnesses to cooperate with cops without fear of deportation, and that they encourage illegals to take advantage of city services like health care and education (to whose maintenance few illegals have contributed a single tax dollar, of course). There has never been any empirical verification that sanctuary laws actually accomplish these goals-and no one has ever suggested not enforcing drug laws, say, for fear of intimidating drug-using crime victims. But in any case, this official rationale could be honored by limiting police use of immigration laws to some subset of immigration violators: deported felons, say, or repeat criminal offenders whose immigration status police already know.
The real reason cities prohibit their cops and other employees from immigration reporting and enforcement is, like nearly everything else in immigration policy, the numbers. The immigrant population has grown so large that public officials are terrified of alienating it, even at the expense of ignoring the law and tolerating violence. In 1996, a breathtaking Los Angeles Times exposé on the 18th Street Gang, which included descriptions of innocent bystanders being murdered by laughing cholos (gang members), revealed the rate of illegal-alien membership in the gang. In response to the public outcry, the Los Angeles City Council ordered the police to reexamine Special Order 40. You would have thought it had suggested reconsidering Roe v. Wade. A police commander warned the council: "This is going to open a significant, heated debate." City Councilwoman Laura Chick put on a brave front: "We mustn't be afraid," she declared firmly.
But of course immigrant pandering trumped public safety. Law-abiding residents of gang-infested neighborhoods may live in terror of the tattooed gangbangers dealing drugs, spraying graffiti, and shooting up rivals outside their homes, but such anxiety can never equal a politician's fear of offending Hispanics. At the start of the reexamination process, LAPD deputy chief John White had argued that allowing the department to work closely with the INS would give cops another tool for getting gang members off the streets. Trying to build a homicide case, say, against an illegal gang member is often futile, he explained, since witnesses fear deadly retaliation if they cooperate with the police. Enforcing an immigration violation would allow the cops to lock up the murderer right now, without putting a witness's life at risk.
But six months later, Deputy Chief White had changed his tune: "Any broadening of the policy gets us into the immigration business," he asserted. "It's a federal law-enforcement issue, not a local law-enforcement issue." Interim police chief Bayan Lewis told the L.A. Police Commission: "It is not the time. It is not the day to look at Special Order 40."
Nor will it ever be, as long as immigration numbers continue to grow. After their brief moment of truth in 1996, Los Angeles politicians have only grown more adamant in defense of Special Order 40. After learning that cops in the scandal-plagued Rampart Division had cooperated with the INS to try to uproot murderous gang members from the community, local politicians threw a fit, criticizing district commanders for even allowing INS agents into their station houses. In turn, the LAPD strictly disciplined the offending officers. By now, big-city police chiefs are unfortunately just as determined to defend sanctuary policies as the politicians who appoint them; not so the rank and file, however, who see daily the benefit that an immigration tool would bring.
Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city's sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to "terrorize people." Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans-four of them illegal-abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
Citizen outrage forced Mayor Michael Bloomberg to revisit the city's sanctuary decree yet again. In May 2003, Bloomberg tweaked the policy minimally to allow city staffers to inquire into immigration status only if it is relevant to the awarding of a government benefit. Though Bloomberg's new rule said nothing about reporting immigration violations to federal officials, advocates immediately claimed that it did allow such reporting, and the ethnic lobbies went ballistic. "What we're seeing is the erosion of people's rights," thundered Angelo Falcon of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. After three months of intense agitation by immigrant groups, Bloomberg replaced this innocuous "don't ask" policy with a "don't tell" rule even broader than Gotham's original sanctuary policy. The new rule prohibits city employees from giving other government officials information not just about immigration status but about tax payments, sexual orientation, welfare status, and other matters.
But even were immigrant-saturated cities to discard their sanctuary policies and start enforcing immigration violations where public safety demands it, the resource-starved immigration authorities couldn't handle the overwhelming additional workload.
The chronic shortage of manpower to oversee, and detention space to house, aliens as they await their deportation hearings (or, following an order of removal from a federal judge, their actual deportation) has forced immigration officials to practice a constant triage. Long ago, the feds stopped trying to find and deport aliens who had "merely" entered the country illegally through stealth or fraudulent documents. Currently, the only types of illegal aliens who run any risk of catching federal attention are those who have been convicted of an "aggravated felony" (a particularly egregious crime) or who have been deported following conviction for an aggravated felony and who have reentered (an offense punishable with 20 years in jail).
That triage has been going on for a long time, as former INS investigator Mike Cutler, who worked with the NYPD catching Brooklyn drug dealers in the 1970s, explains. "If you arrested someone you wanted to detain, you'd go to your boss and start a bidding war," Cutler recalls. "You'd say: 'My guy ran three blocks, threw a couple of punches, and had six pieces of ID.' The boss would turn to another agent: 'Next! Whaddid your guy do?' 'He ran 18 blocks, pushed over an old lady, and had a gun.' " But such one-upmanship was usually fruitless. "Without the jail space," explains Cutler, "it was like the Fish and Wildlife Service; you'd tag their ear and let them go."
But even when immigration officials actually arrest someone, and even if a judge issues a final deportation order (usually after years of litigation and appeals), they rarely have the manpower to put the alien on a bus or plane and take him across the border. Second alternative: detain him pending removal. Again, inadequate space and staff. In the early 1990s, for example, 15 INS officers were in charge of the deportation of approximately 85,000 aliens (not all of them criminals) in New York City. The agency's actual response to final orders of removal was what is known as a "run letter"-a notice asking the deportable alien kindly to show up in a month or two to be deported, when the agency might be able to process him. Results: in 2001, 87 percent of deportable aliens who received run letters disappeared, a number that was even higher-94 percent-if they were from terror-sponsoring countries.
To other law-enforcement agencies, the feds' triage often looks like complete indifference to immigration violations. Testifying to Congress about the Queens rape by illegal Mexicans, New York's criminal justice coordinator defended the city's failure to notify the INS after the rapists' previous arrests on the ground that the agency wouldn't have responded anyway. "We have time and time again been unable to reach INS on the phone," John Feinblatt said last February. "When we reach them on the phone, they require that we write a letter. When we write a letter, they require that it be by a superior."
Criminal aliens also interpret the triage as indifference. John Mullaly a former NYPD homicide detective, estimates that 70 percent of the drug dealers and other criminals in Manhattan's Washington Heights were illegal. Were Mullaly to threaten an illegal-alien thug in custody that his next stop would be El Salvador unless he cooperated, the criminal would just laugh, knowing that the INS would never show up. The message could not be clearer: this is a culture that can't enforce its most basic law of entry. If policing's broken-windows theory is correct, the failure to enforce one set of rules breeds overall contempt for the law.
The sheer number of criminal aliens overwhelmed an innovative program that would allow immigration officials to complete deportation hearings while a criminal was still in state or federal prison, so that upon his release he could be immediately ejected without taking up precious INS detention space. But the process, begun in 1988, immediately bogged down due to the numbers-in 2000, for example, nearly 30 percent of federal prisoners were foreign-born. The agency couldn't find enough pro bono attorneys to represent such an army of criminal aliens (who have extensive due-process rights in contesting deportation) and so would have to request delay after delay. Or enough immigration judges would not be available. In 1997, the INS simply had no record of a whopping 36 percent of foreign-born inmates who had been released from federal and four state prisons without any review of their deportability. They included 1,198 aggravated felons, 80 of whom were soon re-arrested for new crimes.
Resource starvation is not the only reason for federal inaction. The INS was a creature of immigration politics, and INS district directors came under great pressure from local politicians to divert scarce resources into distribution of such "benefits" as permanent residency, citizenship, and work permits, and away from criminal or other investigations. In the late 1980s, for example, the INS refused to join an FBI task force against Haitian drug trafficking in Miami, fearing criticism for "Haitian-bashing." In 1997, after Hispanic activists protested a much-publicized raid that netted nearly two dozen illegals, the Border Patrol said that it would no longer join Simi Valley, California, probation officers on home searches of illegal-alien-dominated gangs.
The disastrous Citizenship USA project of 1996 was a luminous case of politics driving the INS to sacrifice enforcement to "benefits." When, in the early 1990s, the prospect of welfare reform drove immigrants to apply for citizenship in record numbers to preserve their welfare eligibility, the Clinton administration, seeing a political bonanza in hundreds of thousands of new welfare-dependent citizens, ordered the naturalization process radically expedited. Thanks to relentless administration pressure, processing errors in 1996 were 99 percent in New York and 90 percent in Los Angeles, and tens of thousands of aliens with criminal records, including for murder and armed robbery, were naturalized.
Another powerful political force, the immigration bar association, has won from Congress an elaborate set of due-process rights for criminal aliens that can keep them in the country indefinitely. Federal probation officers in Brooklyn are supervising two illegals-a Jordanian and an Egyptian with Saudi citizenship-who look "ready to blow up the Statue of Liberty," according to a probation official, but the officers can't get rid of them. The Jordanian had been caught fencing stolen Social Security and tax-refund checks; now he sells phone cards, which he uses himself to make untraceable calls. The Saudi's offense: using a fraudulent Social Security number to get employment-a puzzlingly unnecessary scam, since he receives large sums from the Middle East, including from millionaire relatives. But intelligence links him to terrorism, so presumably he worked in order not to draw attention to himself. Currently, he changes his cell phone every month. Ordinarily such a minor offense would not be prosecuted, but the government, fearing that he had terrorist intentions, used whatever it had to put him in prison.
Now, probation officers desperately want to see the duo out of the country, but the two ex-cons have hired lawyers, who are relentlessly fighting their deportation. "Due process allows you to stay for years without an adjudication," says a probation officer in frustration. "A regular immigration attorney can keep you in the country for three years, a high-priced one for ten." In the meantime, Brooklyn probation officials are watching the bridges.
Even where immigration officials successfully nab and deport criminal aliens, the reality, says a former federal gang prosecutor, is that "they all come back. They can't make it in Mexico." The tens of thousands of illegal farmworkers and dishwashers who overpower U.S. border controls every year carry in their wake thousands of brutal assailants and terrorists who use the same smuggling industry and who benefit from the same irresistible odds: there are so many more of them than the Border Patrol.
For, of course, the government's inability to keep out criminal aliens is part and parcel of its inability to patrol the border, period. For decades, the INS had as much effect on the migration of millions of illegals as a can tied to the tail of a tiger. And the immigrants themselves, despite the press cliché of hapless aliens living fearfully in the shadows, seemed to regard immigration authorities with all the concern of an elephant for a flea.
Certainly fear of immigration officers is not in evidence among the hundreds of illegal day laborers who hang out on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York, in front of money wire services, travel agencies, immigration-attorney offices, and phone arcades, all catering to the local Hispanic population (as well as to drug dealers and terrorists). "There is no chance of getting caught," cheerfully explains Rafael, an Ecuadoran. Like the dozen Ecuadorans and Mexicans on his particular corner, Rafael is hoping that an SUV seeking carpenters for $100 a day will show up soon. "We don't worry, because we're not doing anything wrong. I know it's illegal; I need the papers, but here, nobody asks you for papers."
Even the newly fortified Mexican border, the one spot where the government really tries to prevent illegal immigration, looms as only a minor inconvenience to the day laborers. The odds, they realize, are overwhelmingly in their favor. Miguel, a reserved young carpenter, crossed the border at Tijuana three years ago with 15 others. Border Patrol spotted them, but with six officers to 16 illegals, only five got caught. In illegal border crossings, you get what you pay for, Miguel says. If you try to shave on the fee, the coyotes will abandon you at the first problem. Miguel's wife was flying into New York from Los Angeles that very day; it had cost him $2,200 to get her across the border. "Because I pay, I don't worry," he says complacently.
The only way to dampen illegal immigration and its attendant train of criminals and terrorists-short of an economic revolution in the sending countries or an impregnably militarized border-is to remove the jobs magnet. As long as migrants know they can easily get work, they will find ways to evade border controls. But enforcing laws against illegal labor is among government's lowest priorities. In 2001, only 124 agents nationwide were trying to find and prosecute the hundreds of thousands of employers and millions of illegal aliens who violate the employment laws, the Associated Press reports.
Even were immigration officials to devote adequate resources to worksite investigations, not much would change, because their legal weapons are so weak. That's no accident: though it is a crime to hire illegal aliens, a coalition of libertarians, business lobbies, and left-wing advocates has consistently blocked the fraud-proof form of work authorization necessary to enforce that ban. Libertarians have erupted in hysteria at such proposals as a toll-free number to the Social Security Administration for employers to confirm Social Security numbers. Hispanics warn just as stridently that helping employers verify work eligibility would result in discrimination against Hispanics-implicitly conceding that vast numbers of Hispanics work illegally.
The result: hiring practices in illegal-immigrant-saturated industries are a charade. Millions of illegal workers pretend to present valid documents, and thousands of employers pretend to believe them. The law doesn't require the employer to verify that a worker is actually qualified to work, and as long as the proffered documents are not patently phony-scrawled with red crayon on a matchbook, say-the employer will nearly always be exempt from liability merely by having eyeballed them. To find an employer guilty of violating the ban on hiring illegal aliens, immigration authorities must prove that he knew he was getting fake papers-an almost insurmountable burden. Meanwhile, the market for counterfeit documents has exploded: in one month alone in 1998, immigration authorities seized nearly 2 million of them in Los Angeles, destined for immigrant workers, welfare seekers, criminals, and terrorists.
For illegal workers and employers, there is no downside to the employment charade. If immigration officials ever do try to conduct an industry-wide investigation-which will at least net the illegal employees, if not the employers-local congressmen will almost certainly head it off. An INS inquiry into the Vidalia-onion industry in Georgia was not only aborted by Georgia's congressional delegation; it actually resulted in a local amnesty for the growers' illegal workforce. The downside to complying with the spirit of the employment law, on the other hand, is considerable. Ethnic advocacy groups are ready to picket employers who dismiss illegal workers, and employers understandably fear being undercut by less scrupulous competitors.
Of the incalculable changes in American politics, demographics, and culture that the continuing surge of migrants is causing, one of the most profound is the breakdown of the distinction between legal and illegal entry. Everywhere, illegal aliens receive free public education and free medical care at taxpayer expense; 13 states offer them driver's licenses. States everywhere have been pushed to grant illegal aliens college scholarships and reduced in-state tuition. One hundred banks, over 800 law-enforcement agencies, and dozens of cities accept an identification card created by Mexico to credentialize illegal Mexican aliens in the U.S. The Bush administration has given its blessing to this matricula consular card, over the strong protest of the FBI, which warns that the gaping security loopholes that the card creates make it a boon to money launderers, immigrant smugglers, and terrorists. Border authorities have already caught an Iranian man sneaking across the border this year, Mexican matricula card in hand.
Hispanic advocates have helped blur the distinction between a legal and an illegal resident by asserting that differentiating the two is an act of irrational bigotry. Arrests of illegal aliens inside the border now inevitably spark protests, often led by the Mexican government, that feature signs calling for "no más racismo." Immigrant advocates use the language of "human rights" to appeal to an authority higher than such trivia as citizenship laws. They attack the term "amnesty" for implicitly acknowledging the validity of borders. Indeed, grouses Illinois congressman Luis Gutierrez, "There's an implication that somehow you did something wrong and you need to be forgiven."
Illegal aliens and their advocates speak loudly about what they think the U.S. owes them, not vice versa. "I believe they have a right . . . to work, to drive their kids to school," said California assemblywoman Sarah Reyes. An immigration agent says that people he stops "get in your face about their rights, because our failure to enforce the law emboldens them." Taking this idea to its extreme, Joaquín Avila, a UCLA Chicano studies professor and law lecturer, argues that to deny non-citizens the vote, especially in the many California cities where they constitute the majority, is a form of apartheid.
Yet no poll has ever shown that Americans want more open borders. Quite the reverse. By a huge majority-at least 60 percent-they want to rein in immigration, and they endorse an observation that Senator Alan Simpson made 20 years ago: Americans "are fed up with efforts to make them feel that [they] do not have that fundamental right of any people-to decide who will join them and help form the future country in which they and their posterity will live." But if the elites' and the advocates' idea of giving voting rights to non-citizen majorities catches on-and don't be surprised if it does-Americans could be faced with the ultimate absurdity of people outside the social compact making rules for those inside it.
However the nation ultimately decides to rationalize its chaotic and incoherent immigration system, surely all can agree that, at a minimum, authorities should expel illegal-alien criminals swiftly. Even on the grounds of protecting non-criminal illegal immigrants, we should start by junking sanctuary policies. By stripping cops of what may be their only immediate tool to remove felons from the community, these policies leave law-abiding immigrants prey to crime.
But the non-enforcement of immigration laws in general has an even more destructive effect. In many immigrant communities, assimilation into gangs seems to be outstripping assimilation into civic culture. Toddlers are learning to flash gang signals and hate the police, reports the Los Angeles Times. In New York City, "every high school
has its Mexican gang," and most 12- to 14-year-olds have already joined, claims Ernesto Vega, an illegal 18-year-old Mexican. Such pathologies only worsen when the first lesson that immigrants learn about U.S. law is that Americans don't bother to enforce it. "Institutionalizing illegal immigration creates a mindset in people that anything goes in the U.S.," observes Patrick Ortega, the news and public-affairs director of Radio Nueva Vida in southern California. "It creates a new subculture, with a sequela of social ills." It is broken windows writ large.
For the sake of immigrants and native-born Americans alike, it's time to decide what our immigration policy is-and enforce it.
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Dan Bear There are three ways to enter the lower 48 United States from abroad; by land, by sea and by air. We have the Coast Guard, a U.S. military branch backed up by the U.S.Navy, tasked to secure our coastal borders and NORAD, a Department of Defense military operation in Cheyenne Mountain and the U.S. Air Force, tasked to secure our airspace.
To secure our land borders we have the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs, both of which are run by bureaucrats and neither of which are under the control of the military or the Department of Defense/Pentagon. We now have the newly created Department of Homeland Security added into the mix of our nation's defense, bringing in a whole new crop of bureaucrats and which may or may not take control of our land borders.
Is the task of securing our land borders a matter of national defence? Yes, absolutely. Why then is this task not being handled by the U.S. military? Too much money? Impossible logistics? Just too many men required on the ground? Can't use the military to defend the United States? Can't use the Department of Defense for defense?
The land borders between Canada, Mexico and the United States amount to 5317 miles in total length excluding the Alaska/Canada border. The land border between Canada and the lower 48 United States is 3987 miles in length and the border between Mexico and the U.S. is 1330 miles in length. For discussion purposes, let's use 4000 miles as the length of the U.S./Canada border and 1500 miles as the length of the U.S./Mexico border, 5500 miles total.
The primary goal of border security is to provide control and control gives us back discretion, the discretion to determine who enters our nation, on our choice and on our terms, not theirs. Razor wire and chainlink fences are not cost effective and are easily defeated by ordinary hand cutters available to anybody everywhere. Why not use electronic sensors, of various types as needs and conditions dictate, like those already in use at thousands of secured locations worldwide, to build an invisible, impenetrable without detection, environmentally friendly barrier, that will alert us to all intruders. This fence would alert an immediate response team that then flies to the contact area and takes action as necessary.
With the electronic fence in place we can task the response teams, American soldiers one and all, to deal with intruder border crossing alerts and then station those response teams with helicopters every ten miles along the border. That's 550 choppers to cover the entire length of the 5500 miles of land border. Toss in 250 more helos as backups and that brings the total helicopters needed to secure our lower 48 land borders to 800.
Let's figure ten soldiers to every mile, 100 for every ten mile zone(TMZ). That's 55000 men needed to secure our land borders with Mexico and Canada compared to the more than 35000 servicemen we have stationed in the tiny Republic of Korea. On duty in each TMZ, 24/7, would be a 10 man response team plus a three man flight crew, three support personnel and an officer in charge. That amounts to 17 men per shift. Figure three shifts a day, seven days a week and we need at least four shifts minimum but we will allow for five shifts. 5 times 17 is 85 which is less than the 100 men we have allocated and lowers the nationwide manpower commitment to 46750 from 55000 based on ten mile zones and 5500 miles of border.
The ten mile zone, TMZ, is a very conservative starting point which places the response teams five miles away, on average, from any intruder. The zones can be expanded to fit the circumstances. For instance, just expanding the zones to 15 miles reduces the manpower requirements to less than 32000 nationwide along with reduced helicopter needs. Not enough support personnel, you say? Every military base in the country will be in support of this operation with existing resources and additional outposts can be built, if needed, where required.
To get the border security system up and running, let's start with the shorter border, the less than 1500 miles of land bordering with Mexico. Now we need less than 15000 men and say one helicopter in reserve for every two choppers online, based on ten mile zones. That is 225 helicopters and less than half the men we have in Korea. The electronic fence can be built using off the shelf components in a very, very short time, less than six months, without invoking a National Security priority. Even if the fence cost was a million dollars per mile we'd only be talking about 15 billion in cost, the same amount we are giving to Africa to fight AIDS. This fence technology is not star wars stuff. Walmart uses more complex electronics in everyone of its stores just to order stock, to say nothing about what the giant retailer uses for security.
So, to secure our southern border against intrusion we need 15000 soldiers, 225 helicopters and an off the shelf electronic fence. And this is without even giving consideration to our current Border Patrol and Customs operations.
Why hasn't it been done?
Join me in the quest to secure our nation's borders.
The future of our children and grandchildren is at stake.
Contact Dan at base@frontiernet.net
Identification Friend or Foe
Mystery Religions of the War on Babylon by John Lee
Why do news reports distort the facts and law so blatantly in DUI prosecutions? Why do courts break their own laws in 100-million "criminal" arrests of American citizens every year? What is going on?
To comprehend how any "machine" works, you must first get your hands (and mind) dirty while dissecting it, whether an automobile, a jet aircraft, or a political-religious-judicial system. To flush a toilet, a plumber first has to deal with everyone's crap.
One can rarely survive the current "justice" system in America without facing these facts of life in any courtroom, since these Luciferian-Masonic-Jewish strings control all judges today, and the demonized propaganda that juries and knowledge of YOUR rights under law are "evil". Even non-Masonic judges sue their own courts to complain about Luciferian Freemasons running the courts.
A hint is provided by the firing of Judge Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003. He was illegally fired, threatened with illegal imprisonment for "civil contempt of court", and "defrocked" by a lowly federal court judge, and by Moore's subordinates at Alabama Supreme Court. His "public" hearing was censored from the public, and tape recordings and transcripts were illegally banned by the courts (click here for a bootleg copy of the transcript (Dec 2003 Newsletter)). Moore's "crime" was displaying the US Declaration of Independence and the Christian Ten Commandments in the foyer of the Alabama Supreme Court building. Both legal documents are the foundation of American justice system. Both are routinely displayed in thousands of court houses and government offices. The Christian Bible and oaths "So Help Me God" are required for all judges and witnesses in court. Our "money" is stamped, "In God We Trust".
A secular, atheistic legal system is what exists or existed in Commie Russia, Commie China and NAZI Germany. America certainly had its history of slavery and genocide, killing ten times more than NAZI Germany, and in 2003 we finally caught up to the Jewish Commie Russians with 100-million murders of Americans, but only because it was (and is) still controlled by European royalty and European Jewish banking and slave-running cartels. The Declaration, Constitutionally Amended Bill of Rights and "Ten" (600+) Commandments are our first line of self defense to regain our rights from the world's slavemasters, yesterday and today. Thus, evil forces are at work every day to destroy our rights to lawful self defense. Every day is a battle in this neverending war.
The question is not whether American can regain its former glory and freedom, but to see if it can EVER gain its potential glory and freedom.
So-called "news" reports on so-called "drunk-driving" arrests are edited by the multinational Jewish-Satanic porno/prostitution cartel. The most important of facts needed for survival by the public are, of course, censored by the Satanic-Jewish Commie slave masters running America's multinational media cartel and corporate security guard "police" "state".
Israeli Spies and Jewish Treason
"The FBI has issued a BOLO on suspected terrorists driving a white delivery van from New York City to Mexico. The suspects are using Israeli passports." "Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned. The Israelis, a handful of whom are described as active Israeli military or intelligence operatives, have been detained on immigration charges or under the new Patriot Anti-Terrorism Law. Federal investigators said some of them failed polygraph questions inquiring about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States." "Some of the arrested Israel spies operating in this nation on 9-11 used
moving companies as their cover, especially Urban Moving Systems. Urban
moving systems became famous as the company whose Israeli employees were
arrested for cheering as the World Trade Towers collapsed. A few days
later, the owner of Urban Moving Systems fled to Israel, abandoning his
entire business." From Rense.com - "Israel US Spying" news archive:
Jews versus Semites
Note that every dictionary defines "Semite" to include ARABS and CHRISTIANS, and does not include Jews born in America (since we don't speak Yiddish or Arabic as our national language), unless you include the "lost" (exiled, not genocided) Northern tribes of ancient Israelites (not just the single tribe of Judah ("Jew")), who immigrated to Europe and America, making all Christians in America into Semites, too.
"Judaism is not a religion, but a Law religionized." "A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe." Semite Etymology: French sémite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm, Date: 1848 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these peoples 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language Semite 1. A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. 2. A Jew. 3. Bible. A descendant of Shem. "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth." "The definition of 'Anti Semite' used to be 'someone who hates Jews'. The new definition of 'Anti Semite' is someone the Jews hate." Patriot of Humanity - choose your colors, pick your side secure your artificial pride reprobate yourselves for the few on top while remaining lost in the vision that your way of life is the chosen path can you say that this is how it's meant to eternally chase the american dream when it's simply a mirage (the motives behind it) senseless slaughter sold as a mistake (the motives behind it) controlling the views that we'll take (the motives behind it) yet the same would be in all of us (the motives...) if we developed in their place stream images and words already manufactured for the millions of blind minds we remain oblivious all the things told to believe already falsified all the things told to believe already falsified all the things told to believe already falsified falsified continue in our worldly despised ways regardless of what the earth must face we will never know peace until there's a common belief connecting all to one (group chant) connecting all to one (group chant) be a patriot of humanity before being one for your borders be a patriot of humanity before being one for war paradise for the few while the masses die in vain paradise for the few while the masses die in vain paradise - any price - paradise for the few another batch of lives another batch of lies just another batch of lives another batch of lies As Arab Ralph Nader reported on C-SPAN, to a group of Arab-American business leaders, "It's time we point out 'The other anti-Semitism': The Jewish-Israeli persecution of the Palistinean-Israelis." The Jews are the world's worst anti-Semites. The rest of ancient Israel's "lost" (exiled) tribes emigrated to Europe and America, and represented 90% of the aboriginal Israelites. "Jews" from the tribe of Judah only comprise 10% of the original Israelites. The other offspring of Noah, brothers and sisters of Shem, emmigrated to Africa and Asia. So the entire planet is now inhabited by cousins of Semites.
Babylon 1. A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption. 2. A place of captivity or exile. 3. The capital of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River. Established as capital c. 1750 B.C. and rebuilt in regal splendor by Nebuchadnezzar II after its destruction (c. 689 B.C.) by the Assyrians, Babylon was the site of the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. "And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." Iraq A country of southwest Asia. Site of a number of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia, the region fell to Cyrus the Great of Persia (6th century B.C.), Alexander the Great (4th century B.C.), Arabs (7th century), and later to the Ottoman Turks (16th century). It was established as an independent kingdom in 1921 and became a republic after the assassination (1958) of Faisal II. Baghdad is the capital and largest city. Population: 19,925,000. Iraq Religions: Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or
other 3% Babylon the Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God." In the Assyrian tablets it means "The city of the dispersion of the tribes." The
monumental list of its kings reaches back to B.C. 2300, and includes
Khammurabi, or Amraphel (q.v.), the contemporary of Abraham. It stood on the
Euphrates, about 200 miles above its junction with the Tigris, which flowed
through its midst and divided it into two almost equal parts. The Elamites
invaded Chaldea (i.e., Lower Mesopotamia, or Shinar, and Upper Mesopotamia, or
Accad, now combined into one) and held it in subjection. At length Khammu-rabi
delivered it from the foreign yoke, and founded the new empire of Chaldea
(q.v.), making Babylon the capital of the united kingdom. This city gradually
grew in extent and grandeur, but in process of time it became subject to
Assyria. On the fall of Nineveh (B.C. 606) it threw off the Assyrian yoke, and
became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar it
became one of the most splendid cities of the ancient world. After passing
through various vicissitudes the city was occupied by Cyrus, "king of Elam,"
B.C. 538, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land
(Ezra 1). It then ceased to be the capital of an empire. It was again and again
visited by hostile armies, till its inhabitants were all driven from their
homes, and the city became a complete desolation, its very site being forgotten
from among men. On the west bank of the Euphrates, about 50 miles south of
Bagdad, there is found a series of artificial mounds of vast extent. These are
the ruins of this once famous proud city. These ruins are principally (1) the
great mound called Babil by the Arabs. This was probably the noted Temple of
Belus, which was a pyramid about 480 feet high [the Tower of Babel was thus half as tall as the World Trade Center's Twin Towers of Babel]. (2) The Kasr (i.e., "the
palace"). This was the great palace of Nebuchadnezzar. It is almost a square,
each side of which is about 700 feet long. The little town of Hillah, near the
site of Babylon, is built almost wholly of bricks taken from this single mound.
(3) A lofty mound, on the summit of which stands a modern tomb called Amran
ibn-Ali. This is probably the most ancient portion of the remains of the city,
and represents the ruins of the famous hanging-gardens, or perhaps of some
royal palace. The utter desolation of the city once called "The glory of
kingdoms" (Isa.13:19) was foretold by the prophets (Isa.13:4-22; Jer. 25:12;
50:2, 3; Dan. 2:31-38). The Babylon mentioned in 1 Pet. 5:13 was not Rome, as
some have thought, but the literal city of Babylon, which was inhabited by many
Jews at the time Peter wrote. In Rev. 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; and 18:2, "Babylon" is
supposed to mean Rome, not considered as pagan, but as the prolongation of the
ancient power in the papal form. Rome, pagan and papal, is regarded as one
power. "The literal Babylon was the beginner and supporter of tyranny and
idolatry...This city and its whole empire were taken by the Persians under
Cyrus; the Persians were subdued by the Macedonians, and the Macedonians by the
Romans; so that Rome succeeded to the power of old Babylon. And it was her
method to adopt the worship of the false deities she had conquered; so that by
her own act she became the heiress and successor of all the Babylonian
idolatry, and of all that was introduced into it by the immediate successors of
Babylon, and consequently of all the idolatry of the earth." Rome, or "mystical
Babylon," is "that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth"
(17:18). Babylon, NY (village, FIPS 3408) Location: 40.69595 N, 73.32715 W Population (1990): 12249 (4536 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) Israel Religions: Judaism 82%, Islam 14% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2%,
Druze and other 2% Israel 1. An ancient kingdom of Palestine founded by Saul c. 1025 B.C. After 933 it split into the Northern Kingdom, or kingdom of Israel, and the kingdom of Judah to the south. Israel was overthrown by the Assyrians in 721. 2. A country of southwest Asia on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It was established in 1948 following the British withdrawal from Palestine, which had been divided by recommendation of the United Nations into Jewish and Arab states. Discord with neighboring Arab countries that had rejected the UN partition led to numerous wars, notably in 1948-1949, 1956-1957, 1967, and 1973. In the Six-Day War of 1967 Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem's Old City, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula. The Golan Heights and Jerusalem were later annexed, and the Sinai was returned to Egypt in 1982. A 1993 Israeli-Palestinian accord granted limited Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip, and a similar accord calling for Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank was signed in 1994. Jerusalem is the capital and Tel Aviv-Yafo the largest city. Population: 5,383,000. Lucifer brilliant star, a title given to the king of Babylon (Isa. 14:12) to denote his glory. Lucifer [L., bringing light, n., the morning star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.] 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star;—applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations ! --Isaiah 14:12. Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan. --Kitto. 2. Hence, Satan. Lucifer [L. Venus, -eris, the goddess of love, the planet Venus.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. Lucifer 1: (Judeo-Christian religion) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell [syn: Satan, Old Nick, Devil, the Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness] "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts." "That which we must say to the crowd is—We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees—The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (The God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him? Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil. The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is NOT a black God..... but the negation of God.... the Devil is the personification of Atheism ....or Idolatry. For the 'Initiates', this is not a person, but a Force, created for GOOD, but which may serve for evil. IT..is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the He-Goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend." Satanic "Christians" Love Commie Jews and U.N. Inc.
Luciferian Freemasons have infiltrated most churches in America today, for example, Pat Robertson, owner of PTL TV network. Robertson was busted by IRS for using his "non-profit" jets to import Jewish diamonds from Robertson's diamond mines in Africa. Robertson resigned as head of the "Christian Coalition" in 2002, after the New York Times printed 25 pages on Georges Bush and Bill Clinton vacationing together at Bohemian Grove, worshiping a 50-foot-tall statue of Molech-Baal-Satan, and performing an "mock" annual child sacrifice, with 3,000 of their closest homosexual nekked friends in thir New World Odor. Other televangelists routinely make the handsign of Satan. "Christian" churches of all denominations are adopting 666 as their official church logos (so-called "Celtic Knot"), while printing official church newsletters concising that it will be wonderful after 90% of the Christian Bible is permanently banned and censored, to end Christianity and ring in the One World Jewish Religion in Israel (Sept 2003 Newsletter). The Catholic church hires Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 666 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10103, and hires a Jewish Commie Polish Pope who performs Satanic Black Mass in the Vatican while its golden bank is looted. New versions of the "Christian" Bible print 666 on their covers, and censor 30 books from the King James Bible. 99% of "Christians" ignore the Commandment to keep the Sabbath holy, by attending church on Sunday.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day.... By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy." "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God." "SATURDAY. Saturn's Day. Cronus' day. The seventh and last day of the week." Sabbath 1. The seventh day of the week, Saturday, observed as the day of rest and worship by the Jews and some Christian sects. 2. The first day of the week, Sunday, observed as the day of rest and worship by most Christians. "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." "These are the high spots of organized U.S. Protestantism's super-protestant new program for a just and durable peace after World War II:
Satanic Jews love Satanic Arabs
Every Israeli prime minister have been Freemasons. Freemasonic and/or Jewish federal judges are illegally outlawing the Christian Ten Commandments that our Constitutional rights are based on, forcing USA to adopt Judaic Talmudism atheistic law of zero morals and ethics, legalizing all crime and outlawing all freedom, the better to enslave the sheeple, under Public Law 102-14 HJR 1991. Arab leaders are also routinely Freemasons. They conspire together to sell out their own nations for looting a few billion dollars to Swiss bankster accounts.
"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." "O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." "In 1976, the plan for 'Jewish world domination' outlined in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion had been largely realized. Harold Wallace Rosenthal, 29, a personal assistant to New York Senator Jacob Javits felt that Jewish power was so unassailable that he could make some extra cash by telling this story to Walter White Jr., the editor of the Conservative monthly Western Front. 'Too many Jews do not have the guts to tell you how we live and plan, but I am not intimated by anything or anyone,' Rosenthal told White. 'It is too late for your Christian followers to put up a defence. That time is long past. Long, long ago we had to become the aggressors! That is undoubtedly one of our great purposes in life. We are aggressors!' Rosenthal needed gambling money but his candor cost him his life. On Aug. 12, 1976, he was killed in a 'foiled skyjacking' in Istanbul. Walter White concluded that the incident was a cover for Rosenthal's murder. Rosenthal says, 'Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer...and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much alive.' Through control of banking, the "Jews" acquired a total monopoly of 'the movie industry, the radio networks and the newly developing television media...we took over the publication of all school materials... Even your music! We censor the songs released for publication long before they reach the publishers...we will have complete control of your thinking.' He boasts that they even implanted a 'guilt complex' over the Holocaust and anti Semitism that prevents society from addressing the problem. This statement applies to modern culture as a whole. We do not like to admit that our 'secular' society is based on a cosmic rebellion against God. Its true satanic character is becoming more evident every day. Rosenthal says the 'Jews' have built an earthly empire partly by rejecting Christ's vision of a spiritual kingdom based on brotherly love. Jewish bankers plan to govern the world from Jerusalem according to their own interests. He says the Jewish religion is essentially a disguise for a racial imperative. 'We can live among other people and states [by] persuading them that the Jews are not a distinct people but the representatives of a religious faith...' The tone of racial arrogance also rings true. Rosenthal expresses incredulity at the spinelessness and gullibility of the American people. He says a Jew remains a Jew whether he converts to another religion or not. Walter White seems to think the 'Jews' are the 'ringleaders' of the Luciferianism cabal known as 'Mystery Babylon.' Certainly the Rothschilds are central players but the cast is large and includes many others. By presenting this information, I am trying to inspire Jews and non-Jews alike to remove the media blindfold and recognize that Luciferians have hijacked humanity and modern culture largely is a fraud designed to disguise this fact. We are living in the twilight of Christian culture. We have no genuine ideals to take its place. The elite's Orwellian doublespeak ('freedom', 'tolerance,' 'diversity' and 'equality') is manipulation and mind control. However most Jews, like non-Jews, are "secular humanists" which is Luciferianism in disguise. Humanism is the notion that man can build a utopia based on 'reason.' In practice, humanism is a front for the Illuminist bankers and their allies. Reason cannot be divorced from morality. Remember, I am the inventor of the game Scruples. 'You find a wallet containing $3000. By the address you can tell the owner is wealthy. Your family is hungry. Do you keep the money?' That would be reasonable. Humanism holds that man is already divine and therefore free to indulge his appetites and reject God's Plan. This is what the humanist means when he preaches 'freedom.' In fact humanity is still very much a work in progress. We were put on earth to embody God's Plan, (i.e. spiritual ideals.) God did not give us freedom so we could fail. " Strange Bedfellows - Anton LaVey, Former Head of Church of Satan, Meets John Kerry attorney at law - from San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1982 - Anton La Vey was a 33rd Degree+ Freemason who raped and tortured his own children and wrote about the benefits of child sacrifice - Billionaire Jew John Kerry is now a US senator running for president against his own 16th royal cousin and fellow Yale NAZI Skull & Boner George Bush Jr - Kerry's Police State Terror Plan for hundreds of thousands more police and a lead role for the CIA - Kerry who has also been called. John F'n Kerry because of his use of the F word when criticizing President GW Bush - Kerry is now on tour with ex con singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary who served time for sexual relations with a 14 year old girl Jewish NAZIs Infamous Jews include Adolf "Hitler" Shicklegruber (heir to half the world's bankster wealth of House of Rothschild, as reported by Jewsish professors on History Channel and C-SPAN in 2003). Hitler employed over 150,000 Jews in his military and Gestapo, at all ranks, and personally signed their waivers from the Death Camps. Hitler ordered his NAZI army to bomb the peacably annexed Austrian city of his birthplace into oblivion to bury his Jewish birth records and gravestones of his Jewish ancestors.
Jewish Commies Bank robber Joseph Stalin (3 Jewish wives and other Jewish in-laws, who protected the Jews during Commie genocides), Carl Marx and Vlad Lenin. When Stalin decided to finally add the Jews to the genocide of 100-million Russians, his Jewish doctors poisoned him with a stroke (like Tricky Dick Nixon's White House CIA JFK-assassinating Plumbers were forced to terminate the employment of homosexual Mafia blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover at FBI, as attested to at Senate Watergate hearings and White House chief of staff HR Halderman's disquoted book, The Ends of Power). Stalin told the family of his best friend and ally, Jewish president Franklin Roosevelt, that the High Cabal in England poisoned FDR for giving away too much of the British Empire at their Potsdam Conference conspiracy).
Anti Semitism by Jewish Media That Hates All Christians
Jew World Order Runs Amerika Bill "Clinton" Blythe IV (a Rockefeller bastard, and the highest ranking Masonic DeMolay in USA - Jacque DeMolay was burned at the stake for homosexuality, Satanism and treason, as head of Knights Templar, which renamed itself Freemasonry), Hillary "Rodham" Rosenberg, and White House Mossad intern Monica Lowenski. The top 5 candidates for the Democratic Party in 2004 are all "Stealth" Jews, including US/NATO/UN General Sir Wesley "Masada" Clark, Knight of the British Empire, hired by President Bill Blythe IV to massacre 80 innocent Christians at Waco, Texas. 250 Jewish spies for Israel's Mossad were arrested by the FBI during its investigation of the 9-11-2001 terror massacres, perped by the Georges Bush Gang, who put Jew Tommy "I Want Martial Law in USA" Franks in charge of stealing Iraq's oil pipeline and donating it free to Israel. America's first Jewish president was Abraham Lincoln, homeskooled attorney-at-law, married to the daughter of Kentucky's largest "marijuana" farmer. He was gunned down by his Jewish banksters, four days after the conclusion of the Civil War, before Lincoln could reverse his emergency orders for martial law and printing of money by government versus private international banksters (counterfeiting plus interest). A large number of conspirators were tried and executed for the coup d'etat, but many more escaped justice. Other Jewish presidents include bloodthirsty warlords, terrorists and traitors Theodore and Franklin Rose[n]veldts (von Rosenfeld) and Lyndon Baines Johnson. The last two were both assassinated, according to testimony by Jew Joseph Stalin the son of FDR. Who rules the purse strings strangling Resident Bush Jr, the US government, and all American citizens, representing the international banksters who own the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation's counterfeiting scam? Jew Alan Greenspan, a member of Satanic Bohemian Grove. For more news on Jewish traitors, and their attempted coup d'etat to destroy the US constitutions and precedental "Christian" 10 Commandments (the basis of our entire "justice" system, including "justice" for "drinking drivers" - who are guilty until proven guilty), to implement Atheistic-Jewish Communism in America and the world via UN Inc, listen to the international radio broadcasts and TV videotapes by SweetLiberty.org, TexeMarrs.com, ScripturesForAmerica.com, NewswatchMagazine.org, GodAndCountryClub.com. Stealth Jews are now their own "secret society", and have a death grip on our courts. (Is that another reason why black-skinned Americans hate the Jews so much?) Jewish "Judge 'Raving Bitch' Judy", was predicted by bumper stickers printed by University of Tennessee College of Art. Even Judy's husband, Jewish Judge Wapner of the TV show, "The Peoples Court", divorced her for her sins. Or, could it be... SATAN?!
People are always looking for other people to blame; thus, seeds of hate are sown and fertilized with fear. by Joseph W. Moss II, 32°
A few weeks ago, someone at work noticed I was wearing a Masonic ring. The few questions he had seemed to show a genuine interest in the Fraternity, and I answered him frankly. Today, I ran into him again, and he asked me if I knew what the Illuminati were. I said it was a small rationalist group founded in Germany by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. It lasted only 10 years, was modeled on Masonry, but was not a Masonic order. Aside from having a more catchy title than other, similar groups reflecting the rationalism of the Age of Enlightenment, it had little influence. He then asked me if I were an Illuminatus. Of course, I answered negatively. He had a lot of other questions, which I answered carefully, but it soon became very obvious that there was a hidden agenda behind his questions and a change in his attitude toward me. He claimed the U.S. Government was controlled by Masons, that we were trying to bring everyone into a "New World Order," [NWO is a common theme of Scottish Rite Journal] and that one of the reasons Afghanistan was fighting us was because they didn't want to become a New World Order country. The more he talked, the more conspiracies he described, and the more paranoid he appeared. According to him, even the streets in Washington, D.C., were laid out to form evil Masonic symbols; the eye on the back of the dollar bill is the eye of Satan placed there by Masons; George W. Bush is a Mason (which he's not); Bill Clinton [Blythe IV] is a Mason (wrong again [He's the highest-ranking alumnus of the Order of DeMolay in USA, named for Jacques DeMolay (ordered by the Pope and King of France to be burned at the state for Luciferian heresy as head of the Order of Knights Templar) so when he testified to Senator Bob Dole, "I did not have sex with that woman, it depends what 'is, is,'" Dole dropped the impeachment battle, since this apparently was a signal between Masons, of code word "ISIS", one of the Masonic Egyptian gods]), and that's why he escaped impeachment; there are hidden Degrees higher than the 33°, and Freemasons who hold these Degrees are dedicated to evil purposes, etc, etc., etc.
It wasn't long before a fellow employee chimed in with his two cents, and I realized that he was the one filling everyone's head with this nonsense, even giving out audio and videotapes that laid it all on the line. I, in turn, defended the Fraternity saying that, among other benefits to society, a lot of charity work is done by Masons and that the central moral code of Masonry is the "Golden Rule." [He who has the gold, makes the rules.] I also pointed out that a Bible is always open when a Lodge is working, that the Pledge Of Allegiance is said at every meeting, and that a large percentage of the people involved in Masonry are dedicated Christians. Soon, these two were into other nonsensical rumors: that Mormons must have sex in the Temple on an altar when they are married; that Catholics think all Protestants are heretics; that Catholicism goes back to the Tower of Babel and is, in actuality, the worship of Baal [as performed annually at Bohemian Grove presidential retreat near gay San Francisco, California]; that Jews are "Christ killers" with secret, sacrificial rites [as written in the Christian Bible and Jewish Torah for over 2,000 years]. And then, of course, there are the dreaded Freemasons! Unfortunately, someone who hasn't actually gone to sources to separate fact from fiction can, if so minded, accept all of these ridiculous assertions as true. I, too, before becoming a Mason, had heard some of these rumors. Then I looked at my father, a Mason, and saw he was a good man. So I decided to do some research. Primary sources, not second-hand, unproved allegations, convinced me that when Masons are hated it is because they believe in liberty and freedom of religion, speech, and thought. I found that Masons live ethical lives guided by a high moral code, and that they help, often anonymously, handicapped children and many others in need any way they can. I found that George Washington was a Freemason [and assassinated by his Masonic doctors, who bled ALL his blood to "cure" a sore throat], as well as Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Thomas Edison, Norman Vincent Peale, Mozart, countless inventors, innovators, and religious leaders who were and are all part of this great nation and historic fraternity. On a personal basis, the Masons I have met come from all different walks of life and have always treated me with dignity and respect. In every instance, the "Golden Rule" of the Bible has been applied and lived by each of these men. In addition, their families are law-abiding, patriotic, and caring. As a matter of fact, the accusations against Freemasons are completely false, just like the untruths spread about Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews—not to mention what has been falsely alleged regarding just about every cultural, political, physical, or national group from Italians, Hispanics, African-Americans, and Muslims to Liberals, Conservatives, artists, academics, blondes, and the overweight, etc. ad nauseam infinitum! This is dangerous thinking at its worst. People are always looking for other people to blame; thus, seeds of hate are sown and fertilized with fear. After about 20 minutes of listening to this garbage, I'd heard enough. I announced that not only was I a Mason but a 32° Scottish Rite Mason, PROUD of it, and certainly not in league with Satan. Of what I had heard, 99% was false with 1% truth to make it sound as if it could be true. Ignorance is our biggest enemy. So where does all this leave us as Masons? First, we must remember to discern between truth, rumor, and falsehood. There will always be those intent on finding a scapegoat for their problems. At some point, all the groups I mentioned above were excluded, tortured, enslaved, or otherwise harmed because of ignorance and arrogance. Let's be careful what we believe and spread as supposed truth. Let's not create an enemy where there isn't one. If we are going to fight someone, let there be a good reason and let that reason be 100% true. Let's not destroy this country from the inside by finding hidden enemies where there aren't any. After all, that's what the Taliban and other extremists want us to do. Joseph W. Moss is a member of Mt Moriah Lodge No. 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Scottish Rite Bodies of Salt Lake. He works in the hospitality industry of Las Vegas, Nevada, and holds a B.S. Degree from Northern Arizona University in Business and Communications. The recent recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity and a Certificate of Accomplishment from World Christianship Ministries for outstanding community service, he also has an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the St. Luke Evangelical School of Biblical Studies for a thesis on the similarities between Mormonism and Gnostic Christianity. His and his wife's family Masonic genealogy extends to before the Revolutionary War and back to Scotland, Ireland, and England. Lynda Moss intends to join the Eastern Star with her husband later this year.
The Death of Babylon By Pastor Peter John Peters
This writing is for the remnant with eyes to see and ears to hear, i.e., for those who already have oil of understanding in their burning lamps. Such people will understand and see, but to others this writing will not be understood and may even seem crazy. "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised." (1st Corinthians 2:14) It is my prayers that this newsletter will give more understanding to the remnant and help the newcomer to truth begin to gain a deeper understanding. Indeed we need men of Issachar. "And of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do…" (1st Chronicles 12:32) It would seem that it is the best times and the worst of times. In other words, it is the bittersweet phenomenon described in Revelation 10:9-10. It is the opinion of this writer that it is the time of the valley of decision (Joel 3:14) and his hope is that this writing will help the reader to understand how God's people got there. It is also the opinion of this writer that it is the time of Revelation 18 and that Babylon has fallen, and nothing will ever be the same again, and that September 18, 2001 was the beginning of the next millennium. The September 11th fall of the towers of Babylon happened seven days before the 18th, just as the doors on Noah's ark were closed seven days before the flood. During this falling process, there are steps that need to be taken and there are some dangers that the remnant, need to be made aware of. "The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, but the naïve go on, and are punished for it." (Proverbs 22:3) Jeremiah chapter 51 describes the fall of Babylon and we need to remember that what was true of the first one is true of the one today. "Flee from the midst of Babylon, and each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, for this is the Lord's time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her. Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are going mad. Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed. We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed." (Jeremiah 51:6-9) There are things to learn from this passage. Notice in verse 8 and 9 that some would not accept the fact that Babylon was broken beyond repair and would try to heal her and help her recover. This fact explains how the New World Order crowd is continuing right on with their plans and assuring everyone that the economy will be just fine. Notice in verse 7 that the people or nations have gone mad, i.e., insane. Take heed. When the people are insane and you, as a sane person, walk among them, they may consider you insane if you try to reason with them. Think about this; who is crazier, the crazy person or the sane person who tries to logically reason with an insane person? This is what often got the prophets stoned, for the prophet often had a hard time keeping his mouth shut. His job is to preach to the hardheaded whether they listen or not (Ezekiel 3:4-9) and so he can't help himself, in spite of his potential occupational hazard. This newsletter is an outreach of The LaPorte Church of Christ, PO Box 766, LaPort, Colorado 80535 and is sent free of charge to those who request it. Scriptures for America is a national outreach ministry directed by Pastor Peter J. Peters and is supported by tithes and free-will offerings. www.scripturesforamercia.org pastor@fiberpipe.net Note: the rest of this will be an excerpt from the newsletter.
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The Sheriff's Department's "decal controversy" is sticking around Deputy speaks out - foot extraction required KGET 17 News
It all surrounds a patrol car, which carried a message some found offensive. The car decal said, "We'll Kick Your Ass". It is the kind of stunt that could have quickly been put to rest. Instead it has prompted a flood of editorial letters to the Bakersfield Californian with mixed reviews on what the sticker said. There is still plenty of controversy over how the sheriff handled it. It is not the act that gets you in trouble, but whether or not it is a cover-up. There may or may not be a cover-up in this case, but there are a lot of different versions of what really went down, who gave the order, and why it happened in the first place. On September 26, 2003 KGET 17 received an email containing a picture of a Kern County Sheriff's patrol car with an official looking sticker on the side reading... "We'll Kick Your Ass". When contacted for an explanation, Sheriff Mack Wimbish told us he didn't have anything to do with it but that when he saw the decals he found out who was responsible and had them reprimanded. KGET 17 news aired no story at that time. Fast-forward to last week, KGET 17 asked Wimbish and his Assistant Sheriff Mike Lafave who ordered the decals made? We were told it was a sergeant in charge of vehicles, but that the sergeant cannot remember who told him to do it, only that he remembers it was not the sheriff. Now on to Tuesday, Assistant Sheriff Mike Lafave contacted KGET 17 and claimed, the sergeant now remembers, that it was the commander in charge of vehicles who told the sergeant below him to make up the stickers and have them placed on two cars. Commander Chris Davis spoke out for the first time Wednesday. He is the commander in charge of that sergeant. According to everyone involved, even Cmdr. Davis, there never was a direct order to pull off this gag. "Basically when a supervisor says I like this, we do it," said Cmdr. Davis. "Perhaps he didn't realize the power he has as sheriff with a few words" So what is the controversy over? For the Californian it is because the sheriff claimed he knew nothing about the signs and that he thought they were doctored photos, when he now admits he knew they were stickers. The paper's executive editor is standing behind his reporters work. For the public, it may be that the sheriff and assistant sheriff are blaming a commander who speaking publicly at some risk says they are wrong. "Something that started out as a cop joke in house, ends up hurting a lot," said Cmdr. Davis. One thing is for sure, The sheriff admits this was his idea in a way, because he walked around the department showing off a magazine drawing of a similar gag and said he thought it was funny. It may be another ill-fated example of a relatively new sheriff trying to win over his reluctant command staff, nearly all of whom supported Wimbish's challenger in the election. Department insiders describe Wimbish as the odd man out, he may just be trying to fit in, with a little locker-room humor and cop-shop shenanigans. Just a few months ago, he said as much when we asked about his new mustache. "I looked around the table and all my command staff had mustaches," said Wimbish, "So I thought I'd try one." What a national ID card might look like: Special Report
September 11 was quickly followed by calls from some lawmakers and business leaders for a more robust national identification system: ID cards that possess sophisticated biometric data, making them harder to forge than today's driver's licenses. Privacy advocates are strongly opposed, arguing that such cards, while enabling the government to track individuals and access personal data, would do little to separate the innocent citizen from the walking security threat. For now, the Bush administration is cool to the idea, but it's not hard to envision the Department of Homeland Security re-examining the concept if further terrorist attacks occur. More than 30 countries, from Italy to Malaysia, have already introduced "smart" ID cards. If you're eventually issued a national card, it will likely incorporate several of the technologies shown here, combined to make the card readable by both high- and low-tech devices. 1. Your USID number Most logically your Social Security number. Although the federal government has rejected using the SS card as an ID card, the number is already used by the IRS. If a card is introduced, it's a good guess the Department of Homeland Security would manage it, possibly issuing different classes of cards for citizens, green card holders, and others. 2. Optical Memory Strip An optical memory data strip (like a small CD laminated onto the card) locks in 4MB of read-only data, which can be read by an optical scanner. The strip can contain a digitized image of a fingerprint and a photo, along with essential personal data such as previous addresses, mother's maiden name, and, optionally, medical data such as allergies. Room remains for scanned documents, X rays, or digital signatures. LaserCard of Mountain View, California, adds an embedded hologram. 3. Photograph Standard printing technology, which lays down ink on the card material, easily succumbs to skilled forgers. One step up is laser engraving: Machines permanently etch a photo into the card material, usually a polymer such as polycarbonate. It's virtually impossible to erase or alter a laser-engraved image without leaving telltale marks. But a trained person is still needed to examine the card for sophisticated tampering. Another step up: Integrate a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, which would automate the authentication process. An RFID chip and antenna would be placed beneath the photo. If the image is altered, the chip and antenna are disturbed, and a portable reader will register a problem. 4. Smart card technology With the addition of an integrated circuit microprocessor, the card can perform data manipulation and run cryptographic algorithms. The processor makes it possible to limit the amount of data any one official can access. For example, an ER doctor could view medical information and enter data about treatment (if the card's data storage device is read-write capable), but could not see security-related data (such as a traveler's flight history, or a non-citizen's visa status) that an airport or INS official might require. But how secure are smart cards? Detailed instructional hacking sites can be found on the Web, many focusing on European cards. And the more data on a card, the more valuable the card becomes to an identity thief. 5. Internal Memory Strip Currently manufactured only by UltraCard of Los Gatos, California, this rewritable internal strip can store 20MB of data, roughly the capacity of 14 floppy disks—essentially giving the card a (tiny) hard drive. The capacity may soon grow by a factor of 10, according to the manufacturer. A high-capacity device could store rich biometric data such as several fingerprints, iris scans, face scans, heartbeat characteristics, or DNA sequences. In a relatively simple application, law enforcement officials access the card data using a portable reader and match it to the biometrics of the person presenting the card. Or an entry control system might be developed that automatically matches, for example, the iris scan on the card with the cardholder's iris. 6. 2-D Bar Code This low-tech info coding could be used by officials who don't have more sophisticated optical reading devices. A big step up from the simple 20-byte-capacity bar code you see on cereal boxes, the 2-D bar code stores information in vertical and horizontal lines—up to 2KB or more of data, potentially including text, a photo, and a limited amount of biometrics. These bar codes are already used on driver's licenses in several states, generally to code the same information that's on the face of the card. The technology is virtually tamperproof. The main problem: relatively small capacity per inch of card real estate. Datastrip Inc. of Exton, Pennsylvania, says it can cram 2.8KB of data into a space the size of a conventional thin magnetic strip. The company also sells a portable reader with an integrated fingerprint identifier. WHOSE DATABASE, ANYWAY? The biggest challenge for a national ID system is ensuring the accuracy of the information used to build a database of names, biometrics, and the like. There are more than 200 million state driver's licenses in the country, representing the largest collection of data of its kind. The most pressing question: How accurate are these databases? How easy is it to obtain a license fraudulently? As the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators points out, al Qaeda terrorists used licenses to build U.S. identities. In January the AAMVA proposed beefing up the system by establishing uniform standards for licenses, coordinating data between states, and improving security and biometrics. A national ID initiative could be a springboard for this effort. Would you be opposed to "smart" national ID cards? Yes: 64.4% Police to stop drivers without reason By LEANNE CRAIG AUSTRALIA - POLICE patrol officers will use new powers to pull over any vehicle – and act on public tip-offs – as part of a strategy to clamp down on drink-driving. They will also position random breath-testing units in unlikely and unpredictable locations to "keep one step ahead of drink-drivers". From September 25, police will be able to stop motorists for a breath test without any driving offence being detected. Previously, police had to observe drivers breaking the law – such as speeding, lane-straddling or driving at night without headlights – in order to pull over a vehicle. Acting Superintendent Graham Lough, officer in charge of the Traffic Support Branch, said yesterday mobile patrols would be able to target hotels, events and other drinking "hot spots". "But, rather than just setting up a breath test, we can go in amongst them," he said. "If we get information that someone has seen Joe Bloggs staggering out of a hotel and getting into a car, we don't have to wait for him to commit an offence. "We can go and intercept them straight away." The increased breath-testing powers are part of new road safety laws passed in June that will specially apply during long weekends and school holidays. Supt Lough said the laws marked the start of a new approach to catching drink-drivers. "What we are going to adopt is more unpredictability, more frequency and more intelligence-led positioning of RBTs," he said. Supt Lough said motorists were becoming complacent about drink-driving and some avoided locations where RBTs were often likely to be located. MADD wants man tried before leaving for Iraq By David Hammer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Jefferson County prosecutor's office will try to bring a man facing a felony charge in a deadly traffic accident to trial before he is deployed to Iraq, a deputy prosecutor says. Mothers Against Drunk Driving is asking that James G. Reeves, 32, of Star City be tried soon in the death of Kanana Brown, 20, noting that the case was already more than two years old. Jefferson County Deputy Prosecutor Kyle Hunter said Dec. 18 that the office would work to expedite Reeves' trial before his brigade is deployed to Iraq, which is expected in February. Hunter said Reeves' attorney, Dale West, asked to push back a June 18 trial date, telling the judge that Reeves was to be called to active Army duty. Reeves' National Guard brigade, the 39th Infantry, was called up Oct. 12. Reeves is charged with felony negligent homicide in the March 21, 2001, accident in Pine Bluff that took Brown's life. His blood-alcohol content did not exceed the legal limit, but prosecutors believe alcohol could have been a factor. West never filed an official request with the circuit court for a continuance, but Hunter said Prosecutor Stevan Dalrymple didn't object at the time to the delay. West didn't return calls for comment. Teresa Belew, executive director of MADD, said Brown's family is desperate to see the case resolved, for "closure" after her death. But the window for holding a trial is narrowing as Reeves and the rest of the brigade prepares for deployment. "His attorney has made statements in court that he couldn't be there because he was in the National Guard," Belew said. "Now he's on active duty. The family has been grieving for more than two years, and we want this resolved." Witnesses told state police they saw Reeves driving the wrong way on U.S. 65. His truck hit a truck that Brown was riding in and that her father, Kenneth Miller, was driving, according to prosecutors. Miller also suffered serious injuries. Reeves was initially charged with misdemeanor negligent homicide. His blood-alcohol level registered 0.04, below the 0.08 legal limit, in a test conducted six hours after the accident, prosecutors said. Still, Hunter said, Reeves was driving impaired and the charge was changed to felony negligent homicide. Lt. Col. John Edwards, JAG officer for the brigade, says the Army won't act as a shield from criminal prosecution for any soldier. "The command of this brigade will fully cooperate with any prosecutor from any jurisdiction as far as making a soldier available for trial. But in order to accomplish that goal, there first must be a trial date set by the judicial branch of government," Edwards said. Belew said that bringing Reeves back from Iraq for a trial would be expensive and a logistical nightmare. See Also: AMERICANAUTOBAHN.COM - Ralph Nader, from Unsafe at any Speed, the Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile:
PREDICTION: COURT APPROVES SALE OF PRISONERS' BODY PARTS By Investigative Reporter John Taft The following satirical article pulsates with today's reality that could and perhaps will be resolved in the nebulous Twilight Zone of tomorrow. The past predicts that the future may be a human existence in which nearly everyone will live a perpetual nightmare of fear and futility, and no one will ever wake up to smell the pink roses. Be aware that you could easily become a prisoner in the local jail and have your body parts removed one at a time legally, just like fully developed human babies. The fear of uncertainly tugs at everyone because they could be next, with the exception of those in the government and their friends. Here is what Ayn Rand said in The Nature of Government, "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." GRANTS PASS, Oregon - It all started innocently enough when Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel opened the door of a Pandora's box by deciding to charge inmates for staying in the county jail. It's conjectured the sheriff did this because he has come upon hard political times and would like to gain a better public image. His reputation as a leader has been seriously diminished over the past several years. Daniel's latest political debacle slammed him against a brick wall, leaving him struggling for credibility. Daniel publicly endorsed a radical change in county government by promoting the removal of the present county commissioners and the home rule charter. It's believed Daniel had expectations of political gain in more money for his department and greater influence for himself. These are heady things for some men who come from obscurity to become sheriff. Perhaps the lust for power numbs the conscience. This past November voters overwhelmingly endorsed driving a wooden stake through the heart of this doomed political monster the sheriff and his friends attempted to bring to life. The result of this defeat has been shock and trauma to Daniel's political ambitions. The sheriff needs a win to start his climb out of the black abyss in which he is lost. He is desperate for recognition and perhaps believes that by charging inmates for jail time he could collect hundreds of thousands of dollars and be a hero. Then he could be famous like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona. Josephine County Jail Song "Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store." The jail charge will begin at $60 a day. For one year in jail this tallies out to a credit card busting $21,900. That's more than many employees make in big box stores. While in jail the inmate is unemployed, and with no income the guy will owe the county over $20,000 at the end of the year. That's a deep debit hole to crawl out of. When the prisoner is released and has that amount of debt hanging over him will this be an incentive to get out and hustle? A pragmatist would say, "Highly unlikely". Maybe this is Daniel's route to rehabilitation for inmates? Historically, the county has paid the tab to run the jail. Most inmates are indigent. They often steal to get money, and that's why they're in jail. If an inmate does have a few dollars and the county gets it, who suffers when there is a wife and kids? Daniel's jail fee has the potential of causing children to go to bed hungry. Oregon has the reputation of being the hungriest state in the nation. Josephine County (population about 78,000) is noted for its economic problems. During the 2003 Christmas season 2,700 food baskets were passed out. The county food bank shelves were low and a recent appeal for donated food went out to the public. Recently released government figures show that sixteen percent of the residents in Josephine County use food stamps to buy food. The unemployment rate is about 7.5 percent, which is one of the highest in the nation. Actually, unemployment rates are lies, because they are too low. They don't include those who give up looking for work. Will it Cost More Than $60 to Collect $60 Now, what will the legal system do when the inmate doesn't pay? The former inmate now has a debt on the books that can be pursued. It's been said history repeats itself. Will the man in black sentence him back to jail for nonpayment of jail fees and turn the county jail into an 18th century English debtors' prison? This idea of Dave Daniel's could result in harassment of the inmates who can't pay. Is this more of Daniel's rehabilitation of inmates? County Judges are already part of the collection system as they ask those they fine, "How are you going to pay for this?" Will the DA's office turn into a debt collection agency pursuing unpaid jail rent? Will they hire more expensive employees or transfer the duties to present department employees? If the DA and judges fail to pursue nonpayment of jail costs, will they be guilty of malfeasance of duty? It appears Daniel has created a catch 22 for the criminal justice system. Oregon's largest county, Multomah, tried billing inmates $60 per day a couple of years ago and wisely dropped the idea, outside of their weekend programs. It proved too expensive to collect the jail debt. It appears the criminal justice system may be spending limited tax dollars attempting to collect jail debt they'll never get. Daniel's critics will be watching his experiment very carefully. The Future is Determined by the Past At one time in the not too distant past the man on the street would have thought the following to be the ramblings of a madman. But all it took was the unaltered collective consciousness of mankind from the past to become the future reality that we are experiencing today. Past events brought us here. We didn't arrive in today's world by accident. These events could have been altered, but they weren't. The latter portion of this article takes the present time-line we are on, and shows what the future may hold for mankind, if nothing is done to alter it. Should Physical Dependency be Cause for Euthanasia Harvesting body parts is big business in China, India, and Brazil. Of course, they are not alone in the exploitation of human body organs for research, and replacement of diseased organs in sick people. There is no guardian angel protecting babies from being aborted and their organs and tissue harvested for sale to those willing to pay the going market price. The federal government protects so-called endangered species of birds, their feathers, and eggs. Woe to the person that is caught with these items in his possession, he could face a hefty fine and go to prison. Baby flesh doesn't enjoy the protection of congressional law. Lots of aborted babies aren't buried intact. These babies are not wanted alive but are quite valuable dead. For them the grim reaper comes not in a black grown with a scythe, but in a white gown, with cold stainless steel surgical instruments. Some claim that the real reason various groups support abortion is that it's a lucrative source of income. Perhaps they have lobbyists in Washington, DC who donates to the congressman's election war chest. Remember the old saying; if you want to know where the corruption is just follow the money trail. This adage works quite well for politics, business, and abortion. The abortion business hides behind the political issue of women's rights. Bipeds that populated the US Supreme Court created this ghastly business in their 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. Babies aborted up to 35-weeks are subject to dissection, (slice and dice) in so-called butcher shops. Babies at 10-weeks of age can be fully developed. All they need is time to mature in a natural environment, the womb. Should seniors or anyone be euthanized because they can't live in their environment without the assistance of a pacemaker, a dialysis machine, or drugs to regulate their heart rate? Maybe they should be concerned, as the Supreme Court ruled killing babies is fine and they could make a future ruling that all individuals unable to live without assistance be euthanized. So long Grandma and Grandpa, say hi to all the aborted babies from the US Supreme Court. Baby Jane Doe Harvested at 27-Weeks, Worth $2,000 Each fetal carcass can be worth thousands of dollars. For example, a brain is worth whatever the market will pay, and that is usually around $1,000. Other baby parts are priced for less depending on supply and demand. This money may be used to buy a new Mercedes, enjoy a week on a luxury cruise ship to the Caribbean, or purchase a 46-inch wide screen digital TV. And yes, it's against federal law to sell body parts. But hire a lawyer, and he'll find a loophole a business can drive a refrigerated 18-wheeler through loaded with fresh baby parts. It may sound or look disgusting at first, but the dealers get used to it. It's like profanity, sex, nudity etc. in the movies, CDs, magazines, TV, and the Internet. People get used to all these things, and after awhile it becomes part of their mundane life, the conscience has been put to sleep. Children grow up believing there are no absolutes. Present Generation Follow Pied Pipers to Pleasure Island Much of our present society dances to the morality tune of the pied pipers named Hugh Heffner, Larry Flynt, Bill Clinton, and the various judges who are busy striking down established moral and ethical codes of conduct. The present is our best chance to change the future. Once we have arrived it's more difficult to make changes. In the years following WW2 the public in communities across America wouldn't have tolerated today's social mores. This generation dined on a diet of family friendly entertainment and enjoyed magazines like the Saturday Evening Post with front cover pictures by Norman Rockwell depicting wholesome family scenes. No one ever heard the f … word on an old time radio program. What has the society of 2004 bequeathed to the next generation? This question may be easy to unravel as we read about a future Supreme Court ruling. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A man's what he thinks about all day long." This is the process by which a society becomes what it is. Forcible Body Organ Removal Issue Reaches Supreme Court The past is the creator of the future and considering that, it appears the Supreme Court may have made a perfectly logical decision based on society's general acceptance of abortion, and selling of baby organs and body transplants. It was only a small step for the Supreme Court activists to make the ruling they did. The idea originated in Josephine County, Oregon. Sheriff Dave Daniel had instigated the $60 per day jail fee for convicted inmates that went into effect back in January 2004. It was soon found that it cost more than a dollar to collect a dollar. This was embarrassing to the sheriff. If the county could legally remove inmates' body parts to pay for their stay in the county jail, this could turn into a financial boon for county government. Body parts were still sold for premium prices and could be delivered around the world. Convicted inmates who had committed a crime owed a debt to society. It cost money to keep them in jail. If they had healthy salable body parts, shouldn't these valuable items be sold to pay their debt to society? At the time it was still a violation of federal law to sell human body parts, with some exceptions including the loopholes for aborted babies. The promoters of this idea in the county criminal justice system ran it though the various courts winning and losing until appealing to the Supreme Court who accepted the case. For a number of years the US Constitution had taken a pummeling at the hands of a majority of liberal court members. There were still complaints about the court striking down the Texas sodomy law, the severe beating they gave the 14th amendment in racial preference allowed in some institutions of higher learning. Police were given more authority to circumvent individual civil rights. The Supreme Court had indeed gone berserk and was getting away with it. Yes, the Constitution that had once stood like a mighty oak sheltering liberty was now more like a weather beaten sapling that had entered a perpetual drought. Supreme Court Rules, Inmates Mandated to Donate Organs to Pay for Stay in Jail The media was waiting for Sandra Day O'Conner to speak. Outside there was an obstacle course of TV cameras representing all the major American news media. This would be a benchmark in US history, as the high court had never previously ruled on the forcible extraction of body parts from prisoners. A shocked silence hushed the buzz of conversation when O'Connor appeared outside the court building. She was known to have serious health issues and had been expected to retire prior to this time. Poor health and time had taken their visible toll on Jurist O'Conner. She was escorted out by a security guard and appeared withered and unsteady on her feet as she approached the podium. George Bush had won a second term, and O'Conner wouldn't quit so Bush could appoint Judge Pickering to the court. She began in a raspy voice that cracked and trembled revealing her physical state. "In a five to four decision the majority of this court believes it is in the compelling interests of the states and communities that inmates be responsible for their costs of housing, food, and medical care while in protective custody. The compelling interest of the states to collect this money overrides what inherent rights prisoners may have formerly had under the Constitution. Modern surgical procedures can now remove body parts from prisoners in a humane and painless procedure. Only duplicate or renewable body parts may be taken, such as a kidney, lung, eye, and a portion of the liver. This court has long supported Roe v. Wade in which 45-Million American babies are aborted in deference to the rights of the mother. The same reasoning applies to convicted felons in prisons across this nation. This is not cruel and unusual punishment when considered in this context. Therefore, the court believes that the removal of body parts from prisoners does not violate their constitutional rights but serves the more compelling interests of the state. This will be compulsory volunteerism at its finest. It will allow prisoners to serve their time with pride and dignity, and not be a burden on society. Further, the court sees no Constitutional issue in the forcible drawing of inmates' blood by jail officials as they deem necessary to help pay the inmates' expenses. The court does stress that the removal of body parts be done in a humane, caring, and compassionate manner." Sheriff's Office Moves Quickly to Set up Body Organ Surgical Extraction Room The Josephine County Sheriff's Office in conjunction with the county health department quickly set up a medical lab in the jail complex. Interestingly, the county district attorney began prosecuting more robustly healthy individuals, and the judges were busy giving healthy individuals longer sentences in the county jail. Seldom were underweight and sickly individuals prosecuted. When this observation was brought to the judges' attention, in their typical arrogance they replied through their secretaries that they declined to make any comments at this time. The county was awash in greenbacks with this wonderful new source of funds. The jail quickly filled to maximum capacity, and there was talk of building a second jail. All the parks were now well funded. The public library was able to move to a new and bigger building, doubling the books available. The number of people working for the county jumped form about 600 to over 1,000. The criminal justice system was now prosecuting in a frenzy. The sheriff was spending money like a small boy in a candy shop with a $20 bill. He now had a fully armed black hawk helicopter for drug raids, two armored personnel carriers with 50 caliber machine guns, and some new laser weapons he wouldn't discuss. Then something took place that should have been anticipated. The number of individuals prosecuted by the DA started to drop. You have to hand it to the DA; he really tried to keep the prosecution rate up. He dug up ten-year-old marijuana charges that had long been forgotten. An intensive search was made for anyone that skipped a court appointment. Those on probation went back to jail for sneezing, if they had salable body parts. Most of the smart criminals quickly took the interstate out of town. The meth lab and marijuana growers packed their bags and got out of Josephine County. The county was now squeaky clean. The problem was that the jail was nearly empty. There was no cash coming out of the jail to support the huge criminal justice system that was created to obtain inmates for fresh body parts. Something had to be done to get the system producing cash again. The result was that with the help of the Oregon State Legislature a former misdemeanor crime was elevated to the level of a felony, and large fines were included. It was no longer just a fine for running a red light, but instead it was made a felony with jail time. A guy that used profanity in front of children was charged with a felony. Too bad for the guy caught spitting on the city sidewalk. That could cost him a kidney. Driving after drinking only one can of beer brought a DUIL charge which was now a felony. Again the conviction rate rose and the judges were more than happy to fine and jail the offenders. Everybody in government was happy except the inmates in the county jail. The public employee unions prospered as the county hired more employees and they all paid union dues. The judges black robes concealed big bellies, the sheriff's ego was inflated like a puffed up toad, and the DA strutted around like an important banty rooster. Prosperity once again smiled on the county. The money faucet was running wide open. Young Man's Story After Being drugged and Organs Aborted That is everybody was happy except for those who had an eye, kidney, and excess blood removed. I interviewed a 21-year old fellow who calls himself Jack. I first saw Jack being pushed out of the county jail in a wheelchair. He wore a black patch over the area you would expect an eye to occupy. He kept his hand pressed to his side, and his complexion looked like Marley's ghost in the Christmas Carol. I asked him, "What did they do to you in there?" "It's a long story; will it do any good if I tell you about it?" I shrugged, "It might." I held out a digital recorder. "Do you mind?" "My name is Jack, my last name is unimportant, and I'm 21. I was a firefighter last summer when I was arrested and convicted. I thought I had a good hold on life. Now this. I got a year for something I didn't do. I know everybody says that, but it's true. I didn't do what they convicted me for." "And what was that?" "I came out of Wal-Mart last year and was going over to my car. It was dark, and I had my head down to avoid the light rain. The parking lot lights gave enough muted light to see where I was going. I didn't see her until she was alongside me. She was abrupt and to the point. 'Give me 20 bucks, or I'll say you groped me.' She startled me, and I paused and looked at her. She was wearing low rider jeans and a short blouse displaying a lot of white midsection with her navel quite visible. She looked to be about 14. "I said," 'What?' She repeated what she had just said. It was nothing but highway robbery by a female teeny bopper without a gun." "I told her to get lost. She and her friends must have watched me leave in my car and got my license plate number. The cops came that evening and arrested me. I felt like the cop that interviewed me thought he was the prosecutor and wanted to convict me right there. He tried all his tricks to get my admission I might have done something wrong. He told me he understood how a guy might be interested in underage girls. Then he tossed the parking lot routine bait to me. It was dark and raining and maybe you accidentally bumped into her. That could have happened, couldn't it? I told him that didn't happen. This irritated him and made him mad, his face flushed into a sickly purple hue. His blood pressure reading at that moment must have been off the scale. I told him that line from the movie Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy. 'You can tell how big a man is by what it takes to make him mad.' He wasn't interested in what I had to say. He wanted to add my scalp to his trophy wall. I don't believe the guy had a soul. He didn't know right from wrong and didn't care. This cop's only interest was in writing down enough information so the prosecutor could obtain a grand jury indictment and get a jury conviction. I now know he was a ghoul, a walking dead man. That's how it turned out; the grand jury indicted me. The old saying goes, 'The DA could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.' Grand juries are a farce. They are nothing but a legal tool for the prosecution to gain convictions." "I had gotten a court appointed attorney whose main interest in the case was getting his few hundred bucks to represent me and move on to the next case. A quick turnover is how these leeches make their money. If they came with any character, it doesn't take them long to lose it. A lawyer with no character can be very dangerous to your health and welfare. The prosecutor was an overweight vixen with an agenda. She seemed to get off on prosecuting sex charges against males. She was the type of woman any self-respecting man would go out of his way to avoid. She knew it and hated all men for their disdain of her. In the courtroom she had power and used it like a whip to draw blood. I knew I was in big trouble, when she got the teeny bopper on the witness stand, I should say the milk stand. When she asked her in a gut wrenching tone of voice if the man who had groped her that night in the parking lot was in the courtroom she identified me and dropped a few big phony tears. The prosecutor professionally milked the jury like a calf sucking a mother cow dry. I watched the female jurors reach for their handkerchiefs to dab their emotional spillover. The men bought into the act by nodding their balding gray heads in agreement with the prosecutor." "In some cases judges are really part of the prosecution. This judge did everything he could to hinder my defense. I had hired an investigative reporter and he dug up facts that would have destroyed her credibility. The judge wouldn't allow this information to be presented to the jury. It could damage her reputation and she was just a child. My life and what they would do to me in jail was apparently of no concern to him. During the jury selection I believe they picked all former government employees and retired cops. I once read an article on the Internet about pancake juries. This one for sure was stacked like a plate of pancakes and bowed to authority figures." Convicted with Compassion "I was convicted and the judge gave me the maximum time in the county jail, one year. He also gave me a $25,000 fine in case I had some money and could pay for my jail time. Some guys mortgage their home and get out in one peace. They have it all figured out. With the cost of the jail time and the fines it generally comes out to $50,000 or more. They do a financial background check on you so they know what you can afford. They then can make the fine an amount you can't pay. This gives them unlimited access to your internal organs while you're in jail. The next day I read in the local daily newspaper the story on my conviction. The headline read, 'Jury finds sex crazed pervert guilty of molesting teenager in parking lot.' The writer said the judge showed compassion because I had a clean record up to that time. Baloney! All the criminal justice system wanted from me were some of my body parts. It's all about money. This isn't America with the Constitution of 1776, this is the land of the ghouls, by the ghouls and for the ghouls." "Did you resist when they took you into the surgical room?" "Are your kidding? They have you so doped up down in the jail with thorizine that you shuffle around like a zombie. That's the stuff they use in mental institutions. You don't have a chance to avoid the deputies. They took an eye, one kidney, and I don't know how much blood. I'm supposed to be grateful they didn't take one lung and up to 85 percent of my liver. I suppose they're holding them in reserve in case they accuse me of violating probation. Then it's back to jail and more extractions. They were at me all the time like leeches drawing my blood. After ten months a deputy said to me, 'Well, we're even, we can't get any more from you right now. You have now given your fair share for the time being' He thought he was real funny and laughed. They let me out two months early and gave me $100 credit when I left. By the way, the teeny bopper sued me in civil court and got $25,000 for her rehabilitation, pain, and suffering. I don't have a future; they cut that all out of me. Like old Scrooge said in the Christmas Carol, 'Let them die and decrease the surplus population.' They stole my future with lies, nothing but lies they used in that cursed courtroom. They're monsters, ghouls and they act like they're human beings. This is a time of fear and terror, for those in the jails and nobody cares." "What are you going to do now?" "I had planned on joining the Marines. You know a few good men. Now I'm good for nothing, a one eyed-Jack, with one kidney and a felony conviction on my record. I've got five years of probation on top of all that. It doesn't sound like there is much of a future for me, does it? They stole my future with lies, and more lies, and not one of them cared. Will you tell my story? Anyone is fair game for them now. You could be next. Are your ready to part with a lung or a kidney for a stay in the Josephine County Jail? They'll never change, they're addicted to living on blood, and if they stopped they would have to admit they were wrong. Can you imagine a prosecutor or judge saying we were wrong. Sorry about the kidney and eye. I bit my lip and could only nod in the affirmative that he was right. A man who look tired and was stooped pushed him over to an older Buick in the parking lot. He then helped him onto the passenger seat. I looked away for a moment as a police car was pulling up to the jail's side entrance. I could make out a man in the back seat ready to repeat Jack's story. I wondered if he realized what was going to happen to him in the months of abject terror to come in the Josephine County Jail. © 2004 John Taft - All Rights Reserved John Taft former president of Josephine County, OR. Taxpayers Association is presently an investigative reporter for the US-Oregon Observer and NewsWithViews.com. He has had many years of broadcasting, news writing and reporting experience. He also has written a popular conservative newsletter for a taxpayers organization to inform the public on taxing issues. John can be reached at joconewsline@hotmail.com John's Web site: www.Strobezone.homestead.com DEEP THOUGHTS "The Statue of Liberty was donated by French Freemasons from Paris. In this topsy turvy world, the Statue of Liberty doesn't stand for the 'Land of the Free,' it's the Illuminati saying, 'We're running the show, but you can't see it, can you?' In 10 years, we are all going to be living under a global Fascist version of NAZI Germany." "Mr. Speaker, my subject today is whether America is a police state. If we are, what are we going to do about it? Most police states, surprisingly, come about through the democratic process with majority support. The masses are easily led to believe that security and liberty are mutually exclusive, and demand for security far exceeds that for liberty. Our government already keeps close tabs on just about everything we do and requires official permission for nearly all of our activities. One might take a look at our Capitol for any evidence of a police state. We see: barricades, metal detectors, police, military soldiers at times, dogs, ID badges required for every move, vehicles checked at airports and throughout the Capitol. The people are totally disarmed, except for the police and the criminals. But worse yet, surveillance cameras in Washington are everywhere to ensure our safety. Like gun control, people control hurts law-abiding citizens much more than the law-breakers. Centralized control and regulations are required in a police state. Not only do we need a license to drive, but we also need special belts, bags, buzzers, seats and environmentally dictated speed limits. Or a policemen will be pulling us over to levy a fine, and he will be toting a gun for sure. Let's reject the police state." "The term `domestic terrorism' means activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State." "The U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act is a repressive "coordination" of the entities of force and deception, the police, intelligence and the military. It broadens, centralizes and combines the surveillance, arrest and harassment capabilities of the police and intelligence apparatus. Homeland defense is, in essence, a form of state terrorism directed against the American people and democracy itself. It is the Pentagon Inc. declaring war on America. The "domestic war on terrorism" hinges upon the Pentagon's doctrine of homeland defense. Mountains of repressive legislation are being enacted in the name of internal security. So called 'homeland security', originally set within the Pentagon's 'operations other than war', is actually a case in which the Pentagon has declared war on America. All this is taking place amidst an increasingly perfected 'fusion' of the police and military functions both within the US and abroad, where the phenomena is referred to as 'peacekeeping', or the 'policization of the military'. Here in America, all distinction between the military and police functions is about to be forever expunged with the looming repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act. The latter, was passed after 'Civil War Reconstruction to rein in military abuses in the South. It bars federal troops from doing police work within United States borders, although strictly speaking, the Act refers only to the Army and the Air Force, not to the Marines or the National Guard in 'state status.'" "You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security. Then there's General Karpov, former KGB station chief of their Washington station at their embassy and the first director of the Russian Federal Security Service. You could call this the 'Sovietization of America.' He cant get over how many ex-KGB generals and colonels still want to come over to the United States and become consultants to get on the pay corps. And Primakov is waiting for the USSA, The United Soviet States of America. It'll probably make him feel right at home." "Government control of Communications and Transportation." "The day is coming when American police will be ordered to round up millions of Americans and execute them, just as police or military have been asked to round up and sumarily execute 200-million people in the past 100 years." "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" "The U.S. legal system enshrined the Talmudic practice of building up 'case law' on fine distinctions, and hairsplitting nuances. Black can be made white or vice-versa, under such a system. It is a made-to-order recipe for tyranny and manipulation by unseen authority... Of course, this was the intention from the very beginning. Jews have been controlled by their rabbis for two thousand years under the pernicious system." "BY ALL THESE MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT. Masonic Courts of Justice to enforce the Universal Religion: Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act in the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent in public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. And your local Noahide Judges and your Local fraternal Order of Police will arrest you as was done in the Sofiet Union of Bolshevik Talmudic Judaic Communism when they mass murdered 100,000,000 Christians peasnats. The most secret political plots will be known to us and fall under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. SECRET SOCIETIES: AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BE ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA. And these people are just stupid! For they were bewitched so easily by the fables of the Talmudic Jews. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. GENTILES ARE STUPID: The GOYIM enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the hope by their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to obtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundless fantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we are remarkably generous. You cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success. GENTILES ARE CATTLE ['GOYIM']: And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end .... We have not counted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle, though we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we have now already given them such a position on the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our nationality from destruction. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of this affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE BROTHERHOOD CAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS [President George Washington bled to death by his Masonic doctors]. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and fundamental affairs and questions, JUDGES DECIDE AS WE DICTATE TO THEM, see matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the GOYIM, of course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to have anything in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other means. The word 'freedom,' which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows - 'Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows.'" "Throughout the world, Bork says, judges rather than legislators are making and repealing laws, and internationalizing law as they do. Getting to particulars, he discusses the U.S., Canadian, and Israeli supreme courts, adducing evidence of each deciding cases partisanly and ideologically rather than according to the letter and documented intent of constitutional law. Such judicial subjectiveness begins early--Marbury v. Madison (1803), which established the practice of judicial review, brazenly favored Chief Justice Marshall's Federalist Party against President Jefferson's Democratic Republican administration--but reaches its present peak in the Israeli court's self-appointment of new members and assumption that all behavior of whatever kind falls within its purview, regardless of whether any suits have been filed." "The TEN COMMANDMENTS represent GOD'S GOVERNMENT OVER MAN! GOD commands us for our own good to give up wrongs and not rights! HIS system always results in LIBERTY and FREEDOM! The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are built on this foundation, which provides for punitive justice. It is not until one damages another's person or property that he can be punished. The Marxist system leads to bondage and GOD'S system leads to LIBERTY! Directly above the Chief Justice's chair is a tablet signifying the TEN COMMANDMENTS When the Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress looks up, his eyes look into the face of Moses. Thou Shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet." "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian." "Anyone who strikes a man and kills him must surely be put to death. However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee. Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you. If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she shall not go free as menservants do. These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses." "Korah rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council. They came as group to oppose Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them...." The ground under them split apart and the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed them... and they perished.... And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men.... The next day the whole Israelite comminity grumbled against Moses and Aaron. "You have killed the LORD's people," they said." "If you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." "Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an unshakable rule." "Out of this Evil come a great Good." H.R.2403 - Title: To expand the powers of the Attorney General to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of firearms and ammunition, and to expand the jurisdiction of the Attorney General to include firearm products and nonpowder firearms.
Sponsor: Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. [RI-1] (introduced 6/10/2003) Cosponsors: 12
Related Bills: S.1224. Latest Major Action: 6/25/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. "The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor objectively interpreted-and you can create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on guilt." "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." "At end-1945, some 3,000 battle-hardened veterans returned to McMinn County. Sheriff Mansfield's deputies had brutalized many in McMinn County; the GIs held Cantrell politically responsible for Mansfield's doings. In ads and speeches the GI candidates promised an honest ballot count and reform of county government. At a rally, a GI speaker said, 'The principals that we fought for in this past war do not exist in McMinn County. We fought for democracy because we believe in democracy but not the form we live under in this county.' At end-July 1946, 159 McMinn County GIs petitioned the FBI to send election monitors. There was no response. The Department of Justice had not responded to McMinn Countians' complaints of election fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944. To intimidate voters, Mansfield brought in some 200 armed 'deputies'. GI poll-watchers were beaten almost at once. At about 3 p.m., Tom Gillespie, an African-American voter, was told by a Sheriff's deputy, "'Nigger, you can't vote here today!!'". Despite being beaten, Gillespie persisted; the enraged deputy shot him. "The deputies, with guns drawn, formed a tight half-circle around the front of the polling place. One deputy, "his gun raised high ...shouted: 'You sons-of-bitches cross this street and I'll kill you!'" Mansfield took the ballot boxes to the jail for counting. The deputies seemed to fear immediate attack, by the 'people who had just liberated Europe and the South Pacific from two of the most powerful war machines in human history.' By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard Armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five .45 semi-automatic pistols, and 24 British Enfield rifles. Three GIs - alerting passersby to danger - were fired on from the jail. Two GIs were wounded. Other GIs returned fire. Those inside the jail mainly used pistols; they also had a 'tommy gun' (a .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun). Firing subsided after 30 minutes: ammunition ran low and night had fallen. Thick brick walls shielded those inside the jail. Absent radios, the GIs' rifle fire was un-coordinated. 'From the hillside, fire rose and fell in disorganized cascades. More than anything else, people were simply 'shooting at the jail'.' Men from Meigs county threw dynamite sticks and damaged the jail's porch. The panicked deputies surrendered. In five precincts free of vote fraud, the GI candidate for Sheriff, Knox Henry, won 1,168 votes to Cantrell's 789. Other GI candidates won by similar margins. The regular police having fled, six men were chosen to police Athens; a dozen GIs were sent to police Etowah. In addition, 'Individual citizens were called upon to form patrols or guard groups, often led by a GI....' US Congressman John Jennings said on the Congressional Record, 'At long last decency and honesty, liberty and law have returned to the fine county of McMinn.' Since 1915, officials of seven governments 'gone bad' have committed genocide, murdering at least 56 million persons, including millions of children. 'Gun control' clears the way for genocide by giving governments 'gone bad' far greater freedom to commit mass murder." "A private citizen, in making an arrest authorized by law, may use force reasonably necessary to accomplish the arrest of an individual who flees or resists the arrest; provided, that a private citizen cannot use or threaten to use deadly force except to the extent authorized under self-defense or defense of third person statutes, §§ 39-11-611 and 39-11-612." "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means of going backwards. The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent. Pure terrorism can function for a fairly long time, but sooner or later you have to bring in an element of pursuasion. You have to get people to love their servitude. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." "Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened." "I sure learned a lot today." Walt Disney's ONLY Academy Award (Short Subjects - Cartoons) Synopsis: A German "oom-pah" band parades through town extolling the "virtues" of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret. Luckily in the end, after a frantic workday trying to alternate between making bombs and saluting Hitler, he finds that it has all been a nightmare and that he is still living the the good old U.S.A.
Parody by Lee Templeton
MORE JOKES OF THE DAY "President George W. Bush is a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. He planned the invasion of Iraq from his first day in office. This is complete bullshit!" Betty Bowers: So, what do you think about that blabbermouth traitor Paul O'Neill's saying that 9-11™ was simply used as a convenient ruse to go ahead with plans already in place to invade that dreadful Iraq place? "Paul O'Neill's revelations, the primary source for Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty concerning the timing of George W Bush's plans to overthrow Saddam in Iraq should have come as no surprise. The ostensible reasons for going to war—the claimed link between Iraq and al-Queda and the claimed possession of weapons of mass destruction—have been shown to be without substance. The typical explanation offered by the mainstream press and political pundits was that September 11 was a turning point.
What September 11 did was provide the justification. 'From the start,' said Paul O'Neill in his book interview, 'we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country…It was about finding a way to do it that was the tone of it…the president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'' And how would O'Neill know? O'Neill, as Secretary of the Treasury also sat on the National Security Council. Why the 'detour into an unnecessary war in Iraq?' as the U.S. Army War College recently put it." "'Dry drunk' [hypoglycemia] is a slang term used by members and supporters of Alcoholics Anonymous and substance abuse counselors to describe the recovering alcoholic who is no longer drinking, one who is dry, but whose thinking is clouded. Such an individual is said to be dry but not truly sober. To reach any conclusions we need of course to know Bush's personal history relevant to drinking/drug use. To this end I consulted several biographies. Yes, there was much drunkenness, years of binge drinking starting in college, at least one conviction for DUI in 1976 in Maine, and one arrest before that for a drunken episode involving theft of a Christmas wreath. According to J.D. Hatfield's book, Fortunate Son, Bush later explained: '[A]lcohol began to compete with my energies.... I'd lose focus.' Although he once said he couldn't remember a day he hadn't had a drink, he added that he didn't believe he was 'clinically alcoholic.' Even his father, who had known for years that his son had a serious drinking problem, publicly proclaimed: 'He was never an alcoholic. It's just he knows he can't hold his liquor.'
Bush drank heavily for over 20 years until he made the decision to abstain at age 40. That there might be a tendency toward addiction in Bush's family is indicated in the recent arrests or criticism of his daughters for underage drinking and his niece for cocaine possession. George W. Bush manifests all the classic patterns of what alcoholics in recovery call 'the dry drunk.' His behavior is consistent with barely noticeable but meaningful brain damage brought on by years of heavy drinking and possible cocaine use. And his grandiose (and much ridiculed) plans to launch rockets to Mars (and the moon) could have been predicted. The method in his madness is clear once you understand the pattern." "J.H. Hatfield alleges that, in 1972, George W. Bush was arrested for 'possession' of cocaine [with intent to resell?] and, with the help of his father, got the charges [allegedly] erased [expunged] in exchange for performing community service ["diversion" after conviction, in Houston, Texas at low-income government housing, thus perping another felony by AWOL over 30 days (desertion) from National Guard service during Vietnam War]." "Why was this book burned? [Why was its author murdered, er, "suicided", just like the black woman suing Bush Jr for rape in 2003?] What is in it that warrants censure? Despite a spectacular thrashing in public after Fortunate Son was first released by St. Martin's Press, author J.H. Hatfield has retracted nothing. He stands by his three sources that allege Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. Underneath heavy fire in the media, the former publisher panicked. But as Jenny Lyn Bader points out in The New York Times, "If he's merely a convicted felon... hat doesn't preclude him from... [from becoming president, er, a writer?]" "Dumb cops, dumb cops, whatcha gonna do, whatcha going to do with a low IQ?" "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
Your Debt for the War in Iraq
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