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Subject: We were the patriots, if we could only convince the cops...
Date: Dec 28, 2009 10:05 AM
ARTICLE BELOW ABOUT WHAT COULD
HAPPEN TO US ALL SOON
(See Sir Thomas More and defending
the Devil under the law:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes )
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What are you talking about?
This is what DCF does.
They do not allow evidence which
proves the allegations are false to
be heard, and if you be so bold as
to fax a motion to the court demanding
that the evidence already entered be
reviewed by the "judge", DCF files
a false police report. I, me, was
NEVER HEARD by a judge in any court.
not the fake DCF court, and not the
fake criminal court for charges of
being a terrorist.
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
Who am I reporting a ^^^ crime to?
The State's prosecutor, Christopher
Morano, among others. It does not say
I "threatened Jessica Gauvin." I stated
what are the US Statutes and penalties
regarding Gauvin's criminal actions.
The person I got to defend me was a one
Daniel Dilzer, head of the Republican
Party in Berlin, CT, who received
a phone call from a person named
"RELL," and the call was put through.
I guess my meeting with Dilzer, where
he, for the second time refused all the
evidence that EVERY SINGLE THING
JESSICA GAUVIN SAID TO THE BERLIN
POLICE WAS A LIE, for the second time.
Both times Dilzer refused the evidence
that the charges against me were false,
I had a witness.
This girl, Nancy Martin, my sister,
http://www.actionlyme.org/Hilarious.htm
filed false allegations in the first
place to DCF, and Gauvin was there
at the depositions, where this lying
idiot admitted she lied her eyeballs
out, and that none of the things she
claimed to have happened, happened.
Now we all know that every single
damned thing I said was true, but
where are my children?
http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DON_DICKSON.htm
Where is my $160,000 Pfizer retirement?
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
I spent it on the RICO complaint because
the retarded DCF first said I was "a bad
parent for not getting my congenitally
infected kids treated for Lyme:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
These are total *RETARDS* in dot guv uniforms
the nation needs to be scared of. The single
one thing that can save us, is if we
activists can convert the cops. If we can
get the cops to "SLOW DOWN A MINUTE... and
think about who you're really working for..."
If they have the nuts to do it, they will.
If they have the balls.
IF THE COPS, have the mental and emotional
fortitude - the courage - to think twice
about what an "activist" is.
In the old days, we would have been
called "Patriots:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/ROCKEFELLER.htm
We were the people who beat the Bigs
in the 18th century.
I lost my children because Lyme is
a crime and because all psychotropics
cause brain damage, and this is the
SCIENCE:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BUNNEY_YALE_BRAIN_DAMAGE.htm
Aks Ben Bunney ABOUDIT- that's ^^^ his
specialty. Not that cops, themselves
haven't seen enough of drug- and alcohol-
induced dementia in their experience.
Not ever once in my false criminal
charges and Kangaroo DCF court, was I
allowed to defend myself. I was *not*
*even* ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO THE COURT.
In case you haven't had the pleasure of
the Corrupticourts cages yet, they
announce, while you're down below in
the dungeons under the "courts," that
"to speak to the court is one of your
rights."
Two summers ago this little 5 year old
who lives behind my house came up to me
while I was cutting up the tree I cut down
and starting talking to me all about me
and my kids and Blumenthal and DCF and
how the DCF was "amazed" that I was right
about everything...
A five year old - a child who does not
know how to read - understood it, apparently,
the first time around, but not that
retarded DCF.
So, um, where are my kids, if in fact,
I am not as Yale claims, a "dangerously
intelligent Chemist like Ted Kascynski,"
to be saying such obviously true things
about Yale?
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
Same like this guy (below).
Still prisoners.
Still in a cage.
Still hostages of the devil:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DON_DICKSON_1.htm
A "sociopath," as he was diagnosed
by our marriage counselor. (That's
DSM-IV for "JUST PLAIN EVIL.")
If we could convince the cops.
If we could convert the cops.
If the cops knew "rights activism," meant
"against the tyranny of the Bigs,
the corporations."
"Against the forced bullshit about
what the Bigs are really about."
"Against taking the foreign property
of foreign innocents."
"Against theft of foreign lands and
foreign resources."
"Against the concept of globalization
and *for* the concept that 'globalization'
is another word for 'empire.'"
'Empire' MEANS, "We're taking your
stuff by force."
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Published on Monday, December 28, 2009 by TruthDig.com
One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists
by Chris Hedges
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He
knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas
corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites
such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay,
but also at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in
Lower Manhattan. Hashmi is a U.S. citizen of Muslim descent imprisoned
on two counts of providing and conspiring to provide material support
and two counts of making and conspiring to make a contribution of
goods or services to al-Qaida. As his case prepares for trial, his
plight illustrates that the gravest threat we face is not from Islamic
extremists, but the codification of draconian procedures that deny
Americans basic civil liberties and due process. Hashmi would be a
better person to tell you this, but he is not allowed to speak.
This corruption of our legal system, if history is any guide, will not
be reserved by the state for suspected terrorists, or even Muslim
Americans. In the coming turmoil and economic collapse, it will be
used to silence all who are branded as disruptive or subversive.
Hashmi endures what many others, who are not Muslim, will endure
later. Radical activists in the environmental, globalization, anti-
nuclear, sustainable agriculture and anarchist movements—who are
already being placed by the state in special detention facilities with
Muslims charged with terrorism—have discovered that his fate is their
fate. Courageous groups have organized protests, including vigils
outside the Manhattan detention facility. They can be found at
www.educatorsforcivilliberties.org or www.freefahad.com. On Martin
Luther King Day, this Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. EST, protesters will hold a
large vigil in front of the MCC on 150 Park Row in Lower Manhattan to
call for a return of our constitutional rights. Join them if you can.
The case against Hashmi, like most of the terrorist cases launched by
the Bush administration, is appallingly weak and built on flimsy
circumstantial evidence. This may be the reason the state has set up
parallel legal and penal codes to railroad those it charges with links
to terrorism. If it were a matter of evidence, activists like Hashmi,
who is accused of facilitating the delivery of socks to al-Qaida,
would probably never be brought to trial.
Hashmi, who if convicted could face up to 70 years in prison, has been
held in solitary confinement for more than 2½ years. Special
administrative measures, known as SAMs, have been imposed by the
attorney general to prevent or severely restrict communication with
other prisoners, attorneys, family, the media and people outside the
jail. He also is denied access to the news and other reading material.
Hashmi is not allowed to attend group prayer. He is subject to 24-hour
electronic monitoring and 23-hour lockdown. He must shower and go to
the bathroom on camera. He can write one letter a week to a single
member of his family, but he cannot use more than three pieces of
paper. He has no access to fresh air and must take his one hour of
daily recreation in a cage. His “proclivity for violence” is cited as
the reason for these measures although he has never been charged or
convicted with committing an act of violence.
“My brother was an activist,” Hashmi’s brother, Faisal, told me by
phone from his home in Queens. “He spoke out on Muslim issues,
especially those dealing with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His
arrest and torture have nothing to do with providing ponchos and socks
to al-Qaida, as has been charged, but the manipulation of the law to
suppress activists and scare the Muslim American community. My brother
is an example. His treatment is meant to show Muslims what will happen
to them if they speak about the plight of Muslims. We have lost every
single motion to preserve my brother’s humanity and remove the special
administrative measures. These measures are designed solely to break
the psyche of prisoners and terrorize the Muslim community. These
measures exemplify the malice towards Muslims at home and the malice
towards the millions of Muslims who are considered as non-humans in
Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The extreme sensory deprivation used on Hashmi is a form of
psychological torture, far more effective in breaking and disorienting
detainees. It is torture as science. In Germany, the Gestapo broke
bones while its successor, the communist East German Stasi, broke
souls. We are like the Stasi. We have refined the art of psychological
disintegration and drag bewildered suspects into secretive courts when
they no longer have the mental and psychological capability to defend
themselves.
“Hashmi’s right to a fair trial has been abridged,” said Michael
Ratner, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Much
of the evidence in the case has been classified under CIPA, and thus
Hashmi has not been allowed to review it. The prosecution only
recently turned over a significant portion of evidence to the defense.
Hashmi may not communicate with the news media, either directly or
through his attorneys. The conditions of his detention have impacted
his mental state and ability to participate in his own defense.
“The prosecution’s case against Hashmi, an outspoken activist within
the Muslim community, abridges his First Amendment rights and
threatens the First Amendment rights of others,” Ratner added. “While
Hashmi’s political and religious beliefs, speech and associations are
constitutionally protected, the government has been given wide
latitude by the court to use them as evidence of his frame of mind
and, by extension, intent. The material support charges against him
depend on criminalization of association. This could have a chilling
effect on the First Amendment rights of others, particularly in
activist and Muslim communities.”
Constitutionally protected statements, beliefs and associations can
now become a crime. Dissidents, even those who break no laws, can be
stripped of their rights and imprisoned without due process. It is the
legal equivalent of preemptive war. The state can detain and prosecute
people not for what they have done, or even for what they are planning
to do, but for holding religious or political beliefs that the state
deems seditious. The first of those targeted have been observant
Muslims, but they will not be the last.
“Most of the evidence is classified,” Jeanne Theoharis, an associate
professor of political science at Brooklyn College who taught Hashmi,
told me, “but Hashmi is not allowed to see it. He is an American
citizen. But in America you can now go to trial and all the evidence
collected against you cannot be reviewed. You can spend 2½ years in
solitary confinement before you are convicted of anything. There has
been attention paid to extraordinary rendition, Guantánamo and Abu
Ghraib with this false idea that if people are tried in the United
States things will be fair. But what allowed Guantánamo to happen was
the devolution of the rule of law here at home, and this is not only
happening to Hashmi.”
Hashmi was, like so many of those arrested during the Bush years,
briefly a poster child in the “war on terror.” He was apprehended in
Britain on June 6, 2006, on a U.S. warrant. His arrest was the top
story on the CBS and NBC nightly news programs, which used graphics
that read “Terror Trail” and “Web of Terror.” He was held for 11
months at Belmarsh Prison in London and then became the first U.S.
citizen to be extradited by Britain. The year before his arrest,
Hashmi, a graduate of Brooklyn College, had completed his master’s
degree in international relations at London Metropolitan University.
His case has no more substance than the one against the seven men
arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower, a case
where, even though there were five convictions after two mistrials, an
FBI deputy director acknowledged that the plan was more “aspirational
rather than operational.” And it mirrors the older case of the
Palestinian activist Sami Al-Arian, now under house arrest in
Virginia, who has been hounded by the Justice Department although he
should legally have been freed. Judge Leonie Brinkema, currently
handling the Al-Arian case, in early March, questioned the U.S.
attorney’s actions in Al-Arian’s plea agreement saying curtly: “I
think there’s something more important here, and that’s the integrity
of the Justice Department.”
The case against Hashmi revolves around the testimony of Junaid Babar,
also an American citizen. Babar, in early 2004, stayed with Hashmi at
his London apartment for two weeks. In his luggage, the government
alleges, Babar had raincoats, ponchos and waterproof socks, which
Babar later delivered to a member of al-Qaida in south Waziristan,
Pakistan. It was alleged that Hashmi allowed Babar to use his cell
phone to call conspirators in other terror plots.
“Hashmi grew up here, was well known here, was very outspoken, very
charismatic and very political,” said Theoharis. “This is really a
message being sent to American Muslims about the cost of being
politically active. It is not about delivering alleged socks and
ponchos and rain gear. Do you think al-Qaida can’t get socks and
ponchos in Pakistan? The government is planning to introduce tapes of
Hashmi’s political talks while he was at Brooklyn College at the
trial. Why are we willing to let this happen? Is it because they are
Muslims, and we think it will not affect us? People who care about
First Amendment rights should be terrified. This is one of the crucial
civil rights issues of our time. We ignore this at our own peril.”
Babar, who was arrested in 2004 and has pleaded guilty to five counts
of material support for al-Qaida, also faces up to 70 years in prison.
But he has agreed to serve as a government witness and has already
testified for the government in terror trials in Britain and Canada.
Babar will receive a reduced sentence for his services, and many
speculate he will be set free after the Hashmi trial. Since there is
very little evidence to link Hashmi to terrorist activity, the
government will rely on Babar to prove intent. This intent will
revolve around alleged conversations and statements Hashmi made in
Babar’s presence. Hashmi, who was a member of the New York political
group Al Muhajiroun as a student at Brooklyn College, has made
provocative statements, including calling America “the biggest
terrorist in the world,” but Al Muhajiroun is not defined by the
government as a terrorist organization. Membership in the group is not
illegal. And our complicity in acts of state terror is a historical
fact.
There will be more Hashmis, and the Justice Department, planning for
future detentions, set up in 2006 a segregated facility, the
Communication Management Unit, at the federal prison in Terre Haute,
Ind. Nearly all the inmates transferred to Terre Haute are Muslims. A
second facility has been set up at Marion, Ill., where the inmates
again are mostly Muslim but also include a sprinkling of animal rights
and environmental activists, among them Daniel McGowan, who was
charged with two arsons at logging operations in Oregon. His sentence
was given “terrorism enhancements” under the Patriot Act. Amnesty
International has called the Marion prison facility “inhumane.” All
calls and mail—although communication customarily is off-limits to
prison officials—are monitored in these two Communication Management
Units. Communication among prisoners is required to be only in
English. The highest-level terrorists are housed at the Penitentiary
Administrative Maximum Facility, known as Supermax, in Florence,
Colo., where prisoners have almost no human interaction, physical
exercise or mental stimulation, replicating the conditions for most of
those held at Guantánamo. If detainees are transferred from Guantánamo
to the prison in Thomson, Ill., they will find little change. They
will endure Guantánamo-like conditions in colder weather.
Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. The tyranny
we impose on others we finally impose on ourselves. The influx of non-
Muslim American activists into these facilities is another ominous
development. It presages the continued dismantling of the rule of law,
the widening of a system where prisoners are psychologically broken by
sensory deprivation, extreme isolation and secretive kangaroo courts
where suspects are sentenced on rumors and innuendo and denied the
right to view the evidence against them. Dissent is no longer the duty
of the engaged citizen but is becoming an act of terrorism.
Copyright © 2009 Truthdig, L.L.C.
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graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades
a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of
many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What
Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The
Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of
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