From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Mon Oct 18 07:02:38 EDT 1993 Article: 32343 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 1, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Part 1, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 19:33:21 GMT Lines: 178 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- T H E P E O P L E'S S P E L L B R E A K E R ____ ____ ____ ---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ---- ---- ---- DATE OF PRINTING PRICE: __ CENTS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF [your territory; example:] SOUTHERN INDIANA * * * * * MORNING EDITION * * * * * EDITOR: John DiNardo PUBLISHER: [your name (optional)] ________________________________________ From the free airwaves of The People's Pacifica Radio Network station: WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ________________________________________ Part 1, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GARY NULL: The Executive, the Judicial and the Legislative branches of the United States Government proclaim that this is a just country, that this is a fair country, that this is a democracy, that the consensus is important to the Government, that the Government stays within its laws when exercising its democratic processes. Is that the case? Now, many may ask: Why is it that we're interested in this particular topic, at all? Well, it's because if, on the one hand, I am personally and individually concerned about freedom of choice, I would like to have that freedom of choice, not just in health care where we currently have a U.S. Food and Drug Administration using its power in the most blatantly aggressive and frequently illegal manner. Just yesterday, they [FDA agents] were raiding health food stores in the northeast, taking oil of primrose, and doing it in their typically overly zealous way, as if that was somehow a national threat. And you can take that same mindset, that same attitude that someone has put it into their mind to make a simple herb or a vitamin become a target for bureaucratic vengeance, where all rules of law are disposed with. There is a collusion between special interest groups who want to have something removed [from the shelves] and the investigative or regulatory agencies' capacity to do it. Carry that over to other agencies, including the FBI, which will be the focus of this particular hour, and you will see that it is NOT a unique situation. There are covert efforts to undermine the well-being of, to discredit, to frequently imprison people in dissident movements and dissident voices. And it's very easy for these Government agencies or their leaders to make something that is insignificant, that is completely legal and pro-American, seem as if it's almost a terrorist effort that you're trying to exercise your freedom. Let's go specifically to the issue at hand so that you can see. Ross Gelbspan is on the phone right now. Ross is a leading authority on one particular area that we're going to talk about. Welcome to our program, Ross. ROSS GELBSPAN: Thank you, Gary. I appreciate you having me on. GARY NULL: Ross is a thirty-one-year veteran of daily journalism, and until his recent retirement from THE BOSTON GLOBE, he had served with many different publications. He wrote for THE VILLAGE VOICE in New York City from 1969 to 1973. Along with local investigative reporting, he wrote about environmental issues, covering the 1972 United Nations conference, in Stockholm, on the environment. He has lent his voice and his support to human rights advocacy efforts in this country. He has also worked as the news editor for Scripps-Howard, New York. And during that period, he edited a book for Scripps-Howard on the Congressional Watergate Hearings. He also taught, on an adjunct basis, at Columbia School of Journalism. In 1979, he was hired by the Boston Globe as senior editor and worked on special articles in that capacity. He has also won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, to the issue, since you know a bit about our guest. Is it possible that one of the most important, if not the most important and powerful law enforcement agency in the United States, which has a specific MANDATE not to do anything against its citizens in any illegal way, has instead conspired repeatedly, and in a concerted effort, to destroy those citizens who would challenge existing political policy? I would like to take this time to examine, in detail and document each of the statements, that the FBI conducted secret attempts to undermine and, in effect, discredit the nationwide network of individuals and protest groups opposed to the Reagan Administration's Central American policies and programs. I think that we'll be able to demonstrate that the more than TWO HUNDRED verified instances of break-ins, burglaries, death threats, harrassment and arson cannot and should not be set aside as being done in the line-of-duty, as being necessary, as being so insignificant that it does not deserve to be looked at or prosecuted. As of this moment, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has NOT been held fully accountable for its crimes. At the same time, now that we no longer have someone [the so-called "communist menace"] to fight -- now that the major threat of the Soviet Union is gone -- is it possible that surveillance groups, in Washington and in other locations, are searching for another negative reference group, real or invented, on which to focus their attention? What are we to do about this? It does not necessarily have to come from rightwing extremist groups. Think of all the current actions by American citizens wanting to seek change in constructive and democratic ways. Are they going to be allowed to do that -- or will they too be made the targets of an FBI that is out of control? Let's begin and take a look at specifics. And, with each of these specifics, I'll ask you, if you would, please, Ross, to cite the documentation at hand so that people can see that these are not ad hominem attacks or unsupported diatribes. These are very well documented cases where the FBI has simply been breaking the law, and doing so with impunity for a great many years, and has NOT been brought to justice. During the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency -- and certainly, aspects of that administration continue to this day .... [police state policies were instituted by the Reagan Administration.] The people who were put in power to conduct these efforts have not been retired or fired. Many of those people are still there. One of the major practices of the Reagan Administration, in its paranoia, was to engage in character assassination, intimidation, surveillance and harrassment programs against any group whom the President's policy-makers felt would threaten, or in some way neutralize, their policies. Now that massive and largely unknown campaign was seen in just a small way in the Iran-Contra Scandal. I would like for you to show us how the campaign, for instance, against the people who supported the freedom movements in the Central American countries differed from the domestic surveillance that was carried on in the 1960s by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Let's begin with that. ROSS GELBSPAN: Okay, Gary. Let me just make clear that, while all these break-ins happened, and all these harrassments happened, it's not proof that they were conducted, per se, by the FBI. They happened parallel to the FBI's investigations of many of these Central American support groups, [which the FBI treated] as terrorist organizations. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As I see it, the best way that you and I can harvest the seeds of realization that are being planted here is for each of us to join together to combine our individual strengths into one huge arm powerful enough to wield the awesome sword of the law, forged in Constitutionality, against the totalitarian forces who are subverting our Government and gradually herding us all into subjugation. And so I urge you to contact either one of two legal institutes that I know of having the courage, the resolve and the respect for justice necessary to serve as that sword of legality: William Davis Ramsey Clark The Christic Institute International Action Center 8773 Venice Blvd. 39 West 14th St., suite 206 Los Angeles, CA 90034 New York, NY 10011 1(310)287-1556 1(212)633-6646 John DiNardo ~~~ ~~~