One of my great wishes for this Holiday Season, is that I might have
the courage and conviction demonstrated here by Ann Wright. I like to
think I would stand my ground, but it has been many years since I was
tested. Indeed, I've come to an age and a physical situation that in
order to be tested, they will need to drive up to my door...well, I
could meet them out at the mailbox.
It is so very important that we pay attention to the wicked tricks
being played upon people like Ann Wright, attempting to force them,
whimpering, into a corner.
When taking a stand against others, we must never resort to their
methods. To do so would be to defeat our own Cause...as tempting as
it might be.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/24/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Attempting To Curtail Dissent Of Seniors By Stopping Social Security Checks
RESIST! SOCIAL SECURITY
By Ann Wright, www.opednews.com
December 23rd, 2016
Above Photo: Ann Wright being arrested (image by Ann Wright)
Governments go to pretty low tricks to silence dissent - curtailing ones
that travel to neighboring countries and now stopping social security
checks.
First, in 2005 and 2006 it was the Bush administration putting some of us
protesting Bush's war on Iraq on the National Crime Information Data base.
Yes, we had been arrested for failure to comply with orders to move from
the
fence in front of the White House during protests against the war on Iraq,
torture at Guantanamo and other US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan or
refusing to end protests by sitting in ditches at Bush's Crawford, Texas
ranch. But these were misdemeanors, not felonies, yet we were put on the
FBI's international crime list, a list for felony violations.
Fortunately, Canada is the only country that seems to use the list-and they
use it to deny entry into Canada. At the request of Canadian
parliamentarians to challenge Canada's compliance with the Bush
administration's political retaliation list, I made another trip to Canada
to test it and was expelled from Canada in 2007. The Canadian immigration
officer told me as he was putting me unceremoniously on the flight back to
the U.S., "An expulsion is not as bad as being deported. At least each time
you want to attempt to come into Canada, you can undergo 3-5 hours of
interrogation answering the same questions as the last time you attempted
to
enter and you might get an exemption to the expulsion. With a deportation,
you will never get in."
Over the past six years, I have gone through the lengthy interrogation
twice
and was given a 24-hour exemption to the expulsion on one occasion when
accompanied by a Canadian parliamentarian and a Canadian Broadcasting TV
crew filming the event, and the second time a two-day exemption in order to
speak at several Canadian universities.
Now under the Obama administration, the latest effort to silence dissent,
for those of you 62 or older, is someone in the government falsifying jail
records to show that you were in jail/confinement for more than 30 days and
sending the records to the Social Security Administration. SSA will then
stop your monthly Social Security check and will send you a letter stating
that you must repay back months of payments for the time you were allegedly
in jail - in my case $4,273.60.
On March 31, 2016, I, along with seven others, six Veterans for Peace and
one Granny Peace Brigade members, was arrested at Creech drone base, Nevada
as a part of the semi-annual protest against assassin drones. We spent five
hours in the Clark County Jail as our arrests were processed and then were
released. Our cases of being charged with "failure to disperse" were
eventually dropped by the Clark County court.
Yet, someone submitted my name and social security number to SSA as a
person
who has been confined in a jail since September 2016. Without any
notification to me of this allegation that would disrupt for months my
Social Security benefits, SSA ordered that for my "criminal conviction and
confinement in a correctional institution for more than 30 days, we cannot
pay your monthly Social Security payment."
I have gone to my local SSA office in Honolulu and explained the situation.
The office staff said their supervisor must call Las Vegas and get
documents
that I have not been convicted of a crime, nor that I am in jail or have
been in jail for 30 days or more. Until then, the monthly social security
checks are stopped. As we know, investigations by the government
bureaucracy
can take many months if not years. In the meantime, the checks are
suspended.
If I didn't know better I might think this is part of the Israeli "lawfare"
program in which Israel attempts to derail protests against its policies by
filing bogus lawsuits that end up having to be answered in court, tying up
time and human and financial resources. Since I came back in October from
Israeli prison after having been kidnapped on the Women's Boat to Gaza,
taken against my will to Israel, charged with entering Israel illegally and
deported .again. This is the second time I have been deported from Israel
for challenging the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. My deportations
from Israel now total 20 years, which preclude me from visiting Israel or
the West Bank.
Stay tuned for the next chapter in this saga of our government appearing to
attempt to silence dissent! Of course, their attempts to silence us will
not
be successful - see you soon on the streets, in the ditches and probably
even in jail!
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Attempting To Curtail Dissent Of Seniors By Stopping Social Security Checks
Resist! Social Security
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December 23rd, 2016
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Above Photo: Ann Wright being arrested (image by Ann Wright)
Governments go to pretty low tricks to silence dissent - curtailing ones
that travel to neighboring countries and now stopping social security
checks.
First, in 2005 and 2006 it was the Bush administration putting some of us
protesting Bush's war on Iraq on the National Crime Information Data base.
Yes, we had been arrested for failure to comply with orders to move from
the
fence in front of the White House during protests against the war on Iraq,
torture at Guantanamo and other US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan or
refusing to end protests by sitting in ditches at Bush's Crawford, Texas
ranch. But these were misdemeanors, not felonies, yet we were put on the
FBI's international crime list, a list for felony violations.
Fortunately, Canada is the only country that seems to use the list-and they
use it to deny entry into Canada. At the request of Canadian
parliamentarians to challenge Canada's compliance with the Bush
administration's political retaliation list, I made another trip to Canada
to test it and was expelled from Canada in 2007. The Canadian immigration
officer told me as he was putting me unceremoniously on the flight back to
the U.S., "An expulsion is not as bad as being deported. At least each time
you want to attempt to come into Canada, you can undergo 3-5 hours of
interrogation answering the same questions as the last time you attempted
to
enter and you might get an exemption to the expulsion. With a deportation,
you will never get in."
Over the past six years, I have gone through the lengthy interrogation
twice
and was given a 24-hour exemption to the expulsion on one occasion when
accompanied by a Canadian parliamentarian and a Canadian Broadcasting TV
crew filming the event, and the second time a two-day exemption in order to
speak at several Canadian universities.
Now under the Obama administration, the latest effort to silence dissent,
for those of you 62 or older, is someone in the government falsifying jail
records to show that you were in jail/confinement for more than 30 days and
sending the records to the Social Security Administration. SSA will then
stop your monthly Social Security check and will send you a letter stating
that you must repay back months of payments for the time you were allegedly
in jail - in my case $4,273.60.
On March 31, 2016, I, along with seven others, six Veterans for Peace and
one Granny Peace Brigade members, was arrested at Creech drone base, Nevada
as a part of the semi-annual protest against assassin drones. We spent five
hours in the Clark County Jail as our arrests were processed and then were
released. Our cases of being charged with "failure to disperse" were
eventually dropped by the Clark County court.
Yet, someone submitted my name and social security number to SSA as a
person
who has been confined in a jail since September 2016. Without any
notification to me of this allegation that would disrupt for months my
Social Security benefits, SSA ordered that for my "criminal conviction and
confinement in a correctional institution for more than 30 days, we cannot
pay your monthly Social Security payment."
I have gone to my local SSA office in Honolulu and explained the situation.
The office staff said their supervisor must call Las Vegas and get
documents
that I have not been convicted of a crime, nor that I am in jail or have
been in jail for 30 days or more. Until then, the monthly social security
checks are stopped. As we know, investigations by the government
bureaucracy
can take many months if not years. In the meantime, the checks are
suspended.
If I didn't know better I might think this is part of the Israeli "lawfare"
program in which Israel attempts to derail protests against its policies by
filing bogus lawsuits that end up having to be answered in court, tying up
time and human and financial resources. Since I came back in October from
Israeli prison after having been kidnapped on the Women's Boat to Gaza,
taken against my will to Israel, charged with entering Israel illegally and
deported .again. This is the second time I have been deported from Israel
for challenging the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. My deportations
from Israel now total 20 years, which preclude me from visiting Israel or
the West Bank.
Stay tuned for the next chapter in this saga of our government appearing to
attempt to silence dissent! Of course, their attempts to silence us will
not
be successful - see you soon on the streets, in the ditches and probably
even in jail!
