Sorry that I don't post all of the articles I read. However, if you look
through all of the material on the Democracy Now website, you'll find news
reporting on some of the cases. You will probably not find reporting on
them in The Wall Street Journal. And if you read about many of the men who
have been imprisoned in Guantanamo, you will find stories of people who are
there solely because someone sold them to the Americans for profit. I
posted an article today about the FBI and its questionable methods of
supposedly capturing terrorists.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 3:37 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: 'The truth will come out: Finicum was flat
murdered'
Miriam:
I surely would like to see quotations and names and dates and locations of
the people you quote as being incarcerated by entrapment and imprisoned in
secret detention all over our country for years!
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 2/20/2016 8:37 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I still don't understand why the SWP would think this white
supremacist guy
who was fighting for the rights of rich guys to use public lands for
profit
is a cause, worthy of time and effort. Instead, they should have
been
writing about poor Muslims who have been profiled, entrapped by the
FBI, and
imprisoned in secret detention all over our country for years.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger
Loran
Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 11:31 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] Re:
[blind-democracy] 'The
truth will come out: Finicum was flat murdered'
And what does one risk when one chooses to not fight back against
injustice?
On 2/19/2016 9:26 PM, Charles Krugman (Redacted sender ckrugman for
DMARC) wrote:
when one chooses to live as an outlaw and adopt the ways of
the wild
west taking over property that doesn't belong to them they
run the
risk of being killed or murderedd if one chooses to use the
melodramatic rflare.
Chuck
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Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 6:35 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] 'The truth will come out: Finicum
was flat
murdered'
http://themilitant.com/2016/8007/800755.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 80/No. 7 February 22, 2016
'The truth will come out: Finicum was flat murdered'
BY SETH GALINSKY
Working people should denounce the cold-blooded Jan. 26
killing of
Robert "LaVoy" Finicum by Oregon State Police and the FBI;
the
frame-up conspiracy charges against Ammon Bundy and others
who took
part in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge; and
the frame-up of Dwight and Steven Hammond, two Harney
County, Oregon,
cattle ranchers, imprisoned for a second time on the same
bogus arson
charges dating back to 2001 and 2006.
"The truth will come out. LaVoy was just flat murdered," Tad
Houpt,
the owner of a small logging company, said by phone Feb. 7.
Finicum
and Bundy were traveling to a Jan. 26 community meeting that
Houpt
helped organize in John Day, Oregon, when they were
intercepted by the
cops.
Bundy initiated the refuge occupation Jan. 2 to draw
attention both to
the frame-up of the Hammonds and to U.S. government land
policies that
have been undermining the livelihood of ranchers and
farmers.
The persecution of the Hammonds outraged small ranchers and
farmers
throughout the West - controlled burns are common to control
invasive
plants and to prevent the spread of wildfires.
Despite serving the sentence imposed by the trial judge, the
Hammonds
went back to jail Jan. 4, because of a U.S. Appeals Court
ruling that
their sentences didn't meet federal minimum rules.
After the trial the U.S. Bureau of Land Management
vindictively
revoked the Hammonds' grazing permits, threatening the
survival of their
ranch.
Meanwhile, the Oregonian reported Feb. 6 that the scanty
official
information and one grainy video released on the killing
confirm many
aspects of the accounts by Shawna Cox and Victoria Sharp -
who were in
the pickup truck driven by Finicum.
According to both of them, the cops first fired one shot at
the
vehicle they were in after Finicum initially pulled over.
Finicum then
shouted out to the cops, "I'm going to see the sheriff," a
reference
to Sheriff Glenn Palmer of Grant County, who was also
scheduled to be
at the John Day meeting and has been quoted in the press as
saying the
Hammonds should be freed.
Finicum tried to drive away, but was soon forced off the
road again.
The Oregonian reports that the FBI admits lethal force was
used when
the truck "approached the checkpoint," that is, even before
the
vehicle crashed into the snow bank and Finicum gets out with
his hands up.
Much of the capitalist press justifies the killing and
prosecutions by
labeling Finicum and Bundy as extremists and outside
agitators.
"To his detractors," the New York Times said, "he was a
doctrinaire
leader of an illegal protest that is deeply opposed by many
who live
near the refuge." The paper conveniently leaves out that
most people
in the area support the demand to free the Hammonds and are
sympathetic to their opposition to the government land
policies. Many
local residents visited the refuge, met Finicum and Bundy or
donated
food and supplies to the occupiers.
Some 1,000 people attended Finicum's funeral in Kanab, Utah,
Feb . 5.
While pretending to be objective, the Times' description of
the scene
plays on many of its readers' prejudices. After the service
there were
"cowboys on horseback and members of so-called patriot
groups wearing
camouflage and carrying small weapons," it reports.
The Times did quote one rancher from Nevada, Diana Clark, at
the
funeral. "All of us ranchers feel like we're backed into a
corner,"
she said. "And it's hard to get anyone to acknowledge our
needs, and
so they gave us a platform."
At least 22 smaller protests against the killing of Finicum
took place
Feb. 6, from Florida to Washington. One common placard was
"Hands Up,
Don't Shoot," a slogan first popularized by protesters
against police
brutality after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri, in
2014. At events in John Day and Prineville, Oregon, dozens
of local
ranchers participated.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have now indicted 16
supporters of the
occupation with conspiracy to "prevent by force,
intimidation and
threats, officers and employees of the United States Fish
and Wildlife
Service . from discharging the duties of their office" at
the wildlife
refuge.
The list of what the indictment calls "overt acts" to
further the
conspiracy is proof itself that the prosecution is a
frame-up.
The first "act" it lists is an Oct. 5 meeting where Ammon
Bundy warned
Harney County Sheriff David Ward that if the Hammonds went
to jail
there could be "extreme civil unrest."
Although the occupiers are not accused of pointing their
weapons at
anyone, the indictment claims that they "brandished and
carried
firearms." Oregon law allows the open carrying of firearms.
Bundy released a statement from prison Feb. 6, noting that
the
occupation was civil disobedience. He encouraged those "who
disagree
with my speech" or dislike his ideas to engage in civil
discussion.
"If you do not advocate for government to tolerate ideas
that it
hates, then the First Amendment and free speech mean
nothing," he
said. "Arm yourself with ideas. . Argue and disagree. Be
free."
Supporters of the Hammonds continue to organize. A new
online petition
calling on President Barack Obama to free the Hammonds had
3,341
signatures as of Feb. 9. The Oregon Cattlemen's Association
is asking
that donations be sent to: The Hammond Family, c/o Sandra
Carlon at US
Bank, 493 N. Broadway, Burns, Oregon 97720.
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