Spotlight publisher's goes Chapter 11 ; result of hostile scam: censorship by sabotage
Dick Eastman
the Bilderberg than the Spotlight.
The Spotlight is slandered as anti-Semitic and Nazi. It is neither. However
its enemies are certainly Nazilike in their efforts to censor important
ews -- upscale Nazis who use financial scammers rather than brownshirts to
stop the presses. The editorial policy of the Spotlight is decidedly
anti-globalist and
anti-finance capitalism -- they simply oppose the global plantation and debt
slavery.
Dick Eastman
Yakima
Every man is responsible to every other man
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By Sanford Griffith
On June 8, a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy pleading was filed in Washington,
D.C. by Liberty Lobby, publisher of the weekly newspaper, The SPOTLIGHT.
The action came on the heels of a decision by federal bankruptcy Judge S.
Martin Teel, who on June 6 ruled that he had no authority over the
settlement agreement and plan agreed to on August 2, 1999 between Liberty
Lobby and creditor Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc. (LSF), the legal
name for the Institute for Historical Review (IHR).
BIZARRE
The bankruptcy grew out of a bizarre ruling against Liberty Lobby by a
California state judge, Runston G. Maino, on Nov. 26, 1996. Maino ruled that
a large bequest personally given to Liberty Lobby's treasurer Willis A.
Carto in 1985 and already spent by Liberty Lobby, should be "repaid" to a
group of conspirators who took over the IHR at the point of a gun on Oct.
15, 1993.
The sequence of events leading up to the new bankruptcy filing began with a
fraudulent mailing sent out by Mark Weber and Greg Raven-officers of the
"new" IHR-on June 7, 1999. The letter deceitfully asked for money to "save
Liberty Lobby" and was printed on the letterhead of a nonexistent "Com
mittee of Concerned Amer i cans" allegedly located at a street address in
Corona del Mar, California which, however, is a commercial mail drop. The
fraudulent letter was signed by Kirk Lyons, a North Carolina lawyer.
The letter was mailed to a list that had been stolen from Liberty Lobby by
an advertising consultant and was provided to Weber and Raven.
On Nov. 8, 2000 the scam was countered by a civil lawsuit alleging mail
fraud and civil violation of the Lanham Act, naming Weber, Raven and Lyons
and filed in federal court in Washington. At this, Judge Maino-who has been
consistently biased against Liberty Lobby ever since his punitive judgment
in 1996-took jurisdiction over the settlement agreement and voided it,
saying that the new suit violated its terms although he made no inquiry and
heard no evidence to determine whether that was true. In fact, it was not
true.
The hearing before Judge Teel on June 6 was to get him to assert his
rightful authority and order Maino to stop interfering in a federal matter.
The bankruptcy laws are federal and the judges are federal. State judges
cannot lawfully interfere with a federal order.
Surprisingly, Teel said he had no authority over Maino and trashed the
original settlement agreement. Like Maino, Teel has never ruled in favor of
Liberty Lobby in any of the issues which have been brought to his attention.
The new bankruptcy by Liberty Lobby suspends all collection activities by
Maino & Co. until a new settlement agreement can be agreed to between the
parties. This will take months.
Ironically, the action by Teel also means that Liberty Lobby will suspend
all further payments to the IHR and its aggressive collection lawyer, Bryan
D. Sampson, until a new agreement is settled.
Former IHR board member, Dr. Robert Countess, has identified Sampson as "a
Mossad lawyer."
The new filing differs from the first in many respects. The most significant
is that Liberty Lobby will this time file the amount of each subscriber's
unexpired subscription as a liability. In other words, a subscriber who has
paid $59 for a year's subscription and has received 26 issues, is owed 26
more. Thus, he/she has a claim against Liberty Lobby for one-half the amount
paid, or $29.50 and is a legitimate creditor. This liability will be counted
against the liability owed to the LSF under the Maino judgment.
Copyright 2001 Liberty Lobby Inc. All rights reserved. To subscribe to The
SPOTLIGHT Newspaper, call 1-800-522-6292. www.spotlight.org