PJ 105
CHAPTER 5
THE NEWS DESK
Rick Martin 8/4/94
CONFIRMATION
For you CONTACT readers who always look for confirmations of our stories in the traditional media (which usually take some time to appear), in the August 15, 1994 edition of U.S. NEWS magAzine [p.34] there is an article titled, "The Rise Of Citizen Militias". When reading this article you will think that you are reading either CONTACT or SPOTLIGHT, as there is mention of unmarked black helicopters, foreign troops training within our borders, Russian equipment within our borders, Crips & Bloods gang members being recruited and trained to assist in implementing the New World Order. Why would U.S. NEWS run such an article? You be the judge.
CHINA & GATT
In a recent article from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, written by Marcus W. Brauchli, and sent to us by Ronn Jackson with the handwritten notation, "China's membership in GATT is mandatory for One World order."--[quoting:]
A senior U.S. official explicitly linked China's campaign to become a founding member of the World Trade Organization with the resolution of bilateral trade disputes with Washington.
By warning that the "issues are absolutely intertwined," Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky positioned Washington squarely between Beijing and the charter membership it openly covets in the new trade body, which is scheduled to succeed the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs next year. Although China is now among the world's fastest-growing trading nations, it isn't a member of GATT.
"China is 20% of the world and China surely must be in the great multinational institutions," Ms. Barshefsky said. "But China is not special. China must make adjustments if it wants entry into the GATT."
She also added that the U.S. wouldn't bend in its belief that China shouldn't be admitted to the world trade body as a developing trade nation. China is an "export powerhouse", she said, that doesn't require special treatment to develop its international trade.
Separately, China's finance minister Liu Zhongli, was quoted Sunday as saying that Beijing understood that it would have to make its currency, the yuan, convertible before it could have a say in international currency issues. Convertibility also could be an issue in WTO or GAIT membership.
SOLZHENITSYN
[A-16 On The Committee]
In an article from the July 22 edition of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, written by Wendy Sloane, [quoting:]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn planned to return home to Moscow yesterday, culminating a seven-week odyssey across Russia, which he has said is deeply wracked by crime, poverty, and despair.
No brass bands are planned to welcome Russia's greatest-living writer and winner of the 1970 Nobel prize back to Moscow, but his journey in a luxury railroad car received unprecedented publicity here.
Mr. Solzhenitsyn has said he will not officially participate in politics and has yet to formally accept an invitation to address Russia's parliament. But in a new essay titled "The Russian Question at the End of the 20th Century, " he has recorded his political views, setting the stage for his new life in Moscow.
Soon to be published by the literary journal Navy Mir, the essay was completed before Solzhenitsyn left his Vermont exile. In both content and tone, it mirrors comments the writer has made on his journey across the Far East, Siberia, Ural Mountains, and Volga River region.
The lengthy historical essay is permeated by references to Russia's spiritual, moral, and cultural uniqueness. Not surprisingly, Solzhenitsyn warns that following other countries' models will only harm his homeland.
At the same time, however, Solzhenitsyn expresses outrage at the fate of the 25 million ethnic Russians living in former Soviet republics, and repeats earlier calls for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and northwestern Kazakhstan to form a single state. But he stresses that Russia should focus on internal problems, citing the waste of Russian resources and manpower while leaders focused too much on the West.
Solzhenitsyn lashes out at Mikhail Gorbachev by calling the former Soviet leader's perestroika reforms "hypocritical and chaotic". He also criticizes Russia's new self-proclaimed role as global arbiter. "We should not vie for international leadership. All our efforts should be directed inward, focused on industrious internal development."
"The crisis in our country now is many times deeper than just an economic crisis," he [Solzhenitsyn] writes. "It's a crisis of consciousness and morality."
YOUR PAPERS PLEASE
In an article from the August 4 edition of Southern California's DAILY NEWS, [quoting:]
A federal advisory commission proposed Wednesday that the government establish a computerized registry of the names and Social Security numbers of all citizens and aliens authorized to work in the United States, so that employers could check the immigration status of job applicants.
In a unanimous recommendation, the Commission on Immigration Reform, a nine-member advisory panel headed by Barbara Jordan [A-15], the former Democratic congresswoman from Texas, said the measures were needed to curb the hiring of illegal aliens.
The proposed registry would include data from the immigration service and from the Social Security Administration. Employers would have to check the registry before hiring people. The commission said it would not require people to carry identification cards.
Jordan, who was appointed by President Clinton, said the president should take immediate action to form a national registry and test it in the five states with the highest levels of immigration: California, New York, Texas, Florida and Illinois.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
In an article from Ronn Jackson, including the notation of, "The decisions of EU are going to expedite One World Order," and taken from a recent edition of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, written by Alexander MacLeod--[quoting:]
Fifteen years after its members first began to be directly elected, the European Parliament is showing it has teeth.
At its first session after June's elections, the European Union's 521-member legislature came within 22 votes of rejecting the 12 European Union governments' unanimous nomination for the key post of President of the European Commission.
Jacques Santer [A-7], prime minister of Luxembourg, squeaked through in voting to become the EU's top civil servant and successor to France's Jacques Delors--but only after a savage verbal attack on his candidacy by the Parliament's socialist group, backed by liberals, a scattering of Greens, and rebel conservatives.
But Mr. Santer, who was strongly supported by Germany and France, has not heard the last of a Parliament whose powers have been considerably increased by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European integration.
For many years the Council has decided EU policy, the Commission has executed it, and the Parliament has given its approval.
The Maastricht Treaty, however, gave the Parliament powers to vote on nominations for members of the European Commission, and to approve treaties negotiated by the EU.
The June elections produced a majority of new members, eager to use the powers that Maastricht has given them--and to press for more.
CONGRESSIONAL REORGANIZATION
In an article from the June 28 edition of the JOHNSON CITY PRESS, written by Maggie Lockwood, [quoting:]
Former Education Secretary and Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, a likely candidate for the 1996 GOP presidential nomination, said Wednesday that reorganizing Congress is the best way to improve American government.
"Cut their pay and send them home," Alexander said in an address to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank here.
Alexander said de-emphasizing the federal government and giving power back to states and local communities are the first steps in reviving the nation.
"We need to create a new promise of American life that gets the government in Washington out of the way," he said.
His proposal would put members of Congress in the capital for only half the year, cut their pay by 50 percent and let them hold regular jobs during the off season in their hometowns.
Under his plan, Congress would convene in January and pass the legislation needed to keep the government running. Lawmakers would return to their homes some time after baseball season begins in the spring.
Alexander said a strong federal government is now outdated. "The government in Washington is obsolete," he said.
BLACK HELICOPTERS
In an article from the August 2 edition of the LOVELAND [Colo.] REPORTER HERALD, written by Philip Tardani, [quoting:]
State Sen. Jim Roberts may raise some eyebrows when he talks about mysterious black helicopters in flight, but others have reported seeing them, too.
The Loveland Republican, who is involved in a heated primary race, recently exhorted the REPORTER-HERALD to delve into the story of the unmarked helicopters. Roberts said he and others have seen them in the area. He questions what they're up to.
Apparently, he's not alone, an air traffic controller [Dyer] says.
Two of the sightings were just before Japanese Emperor Akihito's visit, Dyer said, and the other would have been during his stay. One woman said the helicopters looked like the type that are used to ferry the president.
Dyer speculated that the aircraft belong to the Secret Service and were there to protect the emperor.
But others believe there could be a more ominous reason for the flights--people control.
Jerry Hughes, whose radio talk show Washington on Trial is syndicated nationally, said that until recently, government officials have denied the choppers even exist.
CIA DEATH
In an article from the July 26 edition of THE MODESTO BEE, [quoting:]
Forensic scientists examining the exhumed body of a germ-warfare researcher who died more than 40 years ago after unknowingly taking a drink spiked by the CIA in an LSD experiment say they have found skull fractures that could point to homicide rather than the official verdict of suicide. Frank R. Olson, a civilian researcher for the U.S. Army and the CIA, died in a fall from a New York hotel window in 1953.
TOUGH NEW LAW
In an article from the August 3 edition of Southern California's DAILY NEWS, [quoting:]
One of the quickest ways to get unlicensed (and unsafe) drivers off the road is to take away their cars. That's the convincing argument behind the Safe Streets Act of 1994, introduced by Assemblyman Richard Katz, D-Panorama City.
Katz's legislation would require drivers with suspended or revoked licenses to surrender their vehicles to the state if they are found driving on California's roads.
Civil liberties would be guarded [right]. The bill makes sure that peace officers would not be allowed to stop drivers for the sole purpose of determining whether they are licensed. The officers, for their part, would be given discretion in special cases, such as whether to impound an employer-owned vehicle driven by an unlicensed driver on the job.
The Assembly passed Katz's bill in June. But as the measure heads toward an Aug. 9 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it seems that some legislators might be more overly worried about inconveniencing a few car owners. There is opposition on the committee from some members who fear that the law would unfairly penalize vehicle owners who loan their cars.
M.D. WAKE-UP CALL
In an article from the July 27 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, [quoting:]
Close to a quarter of all Americans 65 or older were given prescriptions for drugs that they should almost never take, a study has found.
Some of the drugs can produce amnesia and confusion, while others can cause serious side effects such as heart problems or respiratory failure. And, the investigators said, there is no need to prescribe these drugs to older people, either because safer alternatives are available or because the drugs simply are not needed.
The study, by Dr. Steffi Woolhandler of Harvard Medical School, examined data from a national survey that included more than 6,000 older people not in nursing homes.
INSERT "DRUGS IN QUESTION" page 68-69 Chapter 5, PJ-105
CHINA & HUMAN RIGHTS
In an article from the July 29 edition of THE JOHNSON CITY PRESS, [quoting:]
Two New York-based groups say they have detected a new and disturbing pattern of arrests in China since international human rights pressure on Beijing eased earlier this year.
Human Rights Watch-Asia and Human Rights in China said Chinese authorities have been tougher on dissents since May, when President Clinton cut the link between China's human rights practices and its U.S. trading privileges, or most favored-nation status.
"In the absence of international pressure, China has steadily tightened the noose on all forms of dissident activity," the two groups said in a report prepared for publication Friday.
BURMA SLAVE LABOR
In an article from the July 21 edition of THE MODESTO BEE, HALOEKHANI CAMP, THAI-BURMA BORDER--[quoting:]
Burma's ruling military has marshaled tens of thousands of slave laborers to build a railroad needed for a natural gas pipeline financed partly by an American company, according to human rights groups.
Villagers who have fled the railway project described 10 1/2 hour workdays, daily beatings by soldiers, frequent accidents and payments to the military to get rest days. Hunger and disease are rampant. The unpaid workers even have to pool their money to rent construction equipment from the military.
Located along a remote coastal strip of southern Burma, the railroad will cross a pipeline that is to carry natural gas from an off-shore field to energy-hungry Thailand by 1998.
WORLD'S FISHERIES
In an article from the July 24 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, [quoting:]
The world's oceans have been fished nearly to the limits, after decades of fishermen using bigger boats and more advanced technologies, according to a report released Saturday.
"Although worldwide environmental degradation of the oceans contributes to the decline of marine life, overfishing is the primary cause of dwindling fish populations," said the report by the non-profit Worldwatch Institute. "The oceans are not the unlimited reservoir of low-cost food they were once considered."
A 5 percent decline in the world-wide catch since 1989 is largely because of more people fishing in large-scale, industrial operations, often in waters that are becoming more polluted, the report said.
Meanwhile, the world population is growing at 1.6 percent annually, equivalent to the population of Mexico being added to the world each year.
After decades of rapid growth, all of the planet's major fishing grounds are at or beyond their limits, and already many have suffered serious declines, the report said.
CDC TRACKING
In an article from the July 27 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, written by Delthia Ricks, [quoting:]
The key to wiping out diseases with vaccines is for states to keep computer records on each immunization shot a child gets, a top federal health official said Tuesday.
Although the idea may sound unwieldy, Dr. David Satcher, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that such a data bank is already up and running.
Keeping track of who has had which shot would aid the federal goal of wiping out measles--and other contagious childhood conditions--by 2000.
The registries are part of President Clinton's controversial Childhood Immunization Initiative, which would expand the pool of U.S. children "eligible" for free government vaccines. [Watchit.]
FLESH-EATING BACTERIA
In another article taken from the July 29 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, [quoting:]
"Flesh-eating" bacteria are among serious streptococcus infections that are expected to become more frequent and must be closely monitored, government health officials told lawmakers Thursday.
"There is a clear and ever-present danger of serious Group A streptococcal infection in every geographical area of the world," Dr. Dennis Stevens, chief of the Infectious Disease Section at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, said at a House subcommittee hearing. "If history repeats itself, as it is wont to do, we can expect increased frequency and severity of a wide variety of streptococcal infections."
DRACULA
In an article from the July 28 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, BUCHAREST, Romania--[quoting:]
The castle associated with the legendary vampire Dracula is in danger of collapse if it isn't repaired soon, its architectural director said Wednesday.
The rock on which the 14th century fortress stands has been deeply eroded...
Perched deep in the Carpathian Mountains in the heart of rural Romania, the fortress, known as Dracula's Castle, attracts as many as 4,000 visitors a day from around the world. Also known as Bran Castle, it was built in 1370.
Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century prince of Walachia who was infamous for impaling his enemies on spikes, often stayed at the castle. He also is thought to have been imprisoned there for a short period.
Vlad the Impaler is thought to be the inspiration for English writer Bram Stoker's 19th century Dracula, a novel that has been the basis for many vampire films.
DRINKING WATER
In an article from the July 28 edition of THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, [quoting:]
More than 100,000 violations of drinking water standards occur every year, but few cases ever lead to penalties by federal or state regulators, an environmental group asserted Wednesday.
A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council concluded one in five Americans drinks water not adequately treated for toxic chemicals and other pollutants.
AND NOW SOME GOOD NEWS
In a brief mention in the July edition of THE NEW FEDERALIST, [quoting:]
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has been forced to close its offices in Long Island, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and two other major cities. The St. Paul, Minnesota PIONEER PRESS last week reported the closings, which were attributed to "severe financial crisis." In addition, the ADL has pulled out of a partnership with the Jewish Community Relations Center in St. Paul, and, as of this summer, will no longer supply one third of the funds.
THE NEWS DESK
Ed Cleary 8/5/94
KISSINGER AND BRITISH PLAN INDIA'S
DISMEMBERMENT
From a special to the New Federalist, June 6, 1994--[quoting]: On June 2, at an international conference on Kashmir held in the Danish Parliament, LaRouche associate Muriel Mirak Weissbach demonstrated graphically, using the India-Pakistan Kashmir case, how British geopolitics destroys national sovereignty and kills nations.
At the conference, British MP [Member of Parliament] Max Madden called for the dismemberment of India, and for UN administration of Kashmir and the entire region.
ANGLO-AMERICAN GEOSTRATEGY
Mirak-Weissbach, representing EIR magazine, said:
"There is an effort to manipulate Pakistan and India into a war over Kashmir which...would lead to the destruction of all, to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human beings.
"The only forces to benefit from such carnage are those who pursue the policy of depopulating large parts of the globe, in particular in the so-called Third World.
WHOLESALE ELIMINATION OF POPULATIONS
"The blueprint for wholesale elimination of populations in the Southern Hemisphere is a 1974 memorandum of The United States National Security Council, then under the direction of Henry Kissinger... That document, NSSM 200, was the Malthusian blueprint which has shaped British and U.S. policy since, and has served as the prelude to the blatantly genocidal schemes published in the 1990s for North-South confrontation. It stands as the conceptual basis for the programs being circulated currently in preparation for the United Nations International Conference on Population to be held in Cairo in September.
"Kissinger's 1974 document identified population growth in the Third World as the foremost national security threat to the United States. Kissinger developed the thesis that demographic growth in the resource-rich Third World would lead countries to seek economic development and political independence, which in turn would prevent the West from continuing to loot raw materials. Thus, concluded Kissinger, it would be in American national security interests to reduce population growth among the non-white populations of the world."
Among; the 13 nations targeted in the document, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan topped the list.
RELIGIONS KILL OFF RELIGIONS
"The vision that these Malthusian geostrategists have for the wars of the future," she warned, "is what Samuel Huntington called the 'Clash of Civilizations', whereby the peoples of the 'zones for turmoil' will engage in wars among themselves, couched in religious terms: Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Orthodox Christianity and Western Christianity, are to kill each other off in unending strife. The aim is to reduce the world's population to 2 billion, as the organizers of the UN Cairo conference have suggested...
"It is in this context that the Kashmir crisis must be located. From the standpoint of these writers, if war could be sparked between India and Pakistan, escalating to the use of nuclear weapons, millions of people could be eliminated, thus effectively reducing the world's population." [end of quoting]
THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND,
THE WORLD BANK CONTROL AFRICA
From the Oregonian, June 27, 1994, written by John Darnton--[quoting]: ACCRA, Ghana--For more than a decade the economies of Africa have been caught in a relentless downward spiral. As a result, countries that are proud of their independence and prickly about sovereignty are finding themselves more than ever under the thumb of outside powers.
Only now the powers are not the old colonial masters--Britain, France and the other would-be exploiters who carved up Africa in European drawing rooms and conference halls in the 1880s.
Nor are they the United States and the Soviet Union, which cast covetous eyes upon the continent in the mid-1970s and turned it into an arena for Cold War confrontation by proxy.
IMF & WB TAKE OVER
Now the external superpowers are the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These institutions, founded half a century ago at the Bretton Woods Conference to serve the needs of the industrialized world, have become the overlords of Africa in the 1990s.
Gone are the days 10 and 15 years ago when socialism was "on the march" and powerful leaders from the despotic to the high-minded gave it lip service. They embraced it because a controlled economy fit well with one-man rule that brooked no opposition, because egalitarianism seemed progressive and right for Africa and because only the Communist countries were backing liberation movements in the south.
OFFERS HARD TO REFUSE
The IMF and the World Bank are the purveyors of the new orthodoxy. They come in to bail out a country that is bankrupt. They do so by drawing up a "structural adjustment program", a tight package of economic prescriptions designed to bring about free market enterprise and minimize governmental interference.
Because the package is tied to millions of dollars in aid from Western donor countries, it is an offer that can't be refused. And so the IMF and the bank end up calling the shots on a broad range of issues--even political matters such as calling multiparty elections--that affect the lives of millions.
Through its structural adjustment programs, the IMF and the bank now effectively oversee and supervise the economies of some 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
DEPTH OF CRISIS
It is hard to exaggerate the depth of Africa's economic crisis.
Consider this fact: Excluding South Africa, the 1991 gross national product of all countries south of the Sahara--a swath of the globe that is home to almost 600 million people--was about the same as the gross national product of Belgium, with a population of 10 million.
Eighteen of the world's 20 poorest countries are African, and 30 of the poorest 40. Caught in a downward cycle that began with the oil price explosion of the 1970s and then accelerated with the plunge of the commodities markets, they are getting poorer still. Per capita GNP declined by 2 percent a year throughout the 1980s.
Their debt, tripled since 1980, now amounts to over $180 billion. The debt burden--caused by borrowing to keep budgets afloat and to pay for imports--is so gigantic (amounting to 110 percent of GNP in 1991) that virtually no one thinks the sum can ever be repaid. Just servicing it costs the countries $10 billion every year--four times more than they all spend on health and education.
Africa's share of world trade has fallen below 4 percent and is now closer to 2 percent. That is so marginal it is almost as if the continent has curled up and disappeared from the map of international shipping lanes and airline routes that rope together Europe, North America and the booming Far East. Direct foreign investment in Africa is so paltry it is not even measured in the latest World Bank study. [end of quoting]
MEXICO RETALIATES FOR NAFTA INVASION
From the Bakersfield Californian, Thursday August 4, 1994, by Nancy Nusser--[quoting:] MEXICO CITY--When a Texas dairy tried to increase milk and ice cream exports to Mexico under a free trade accord with the United States, its delivery trucks were set on fire.
Fred Haddad, sales manager for Price's Creameries in El Paso, said unidentified men last week broke into the warehouse of the dairy's Mexican distributor in the border city of Juarez. The men set fire to four cargo trucks loaded with Price's Creameries products, he said.
"The trucks pretty much burned to the ground." Haddad said. "The ice cream melted."
Haddad is among many Americans experiencing trouble as they make a run on Mexican markets under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Under the accord, Americans are supposed to be able to freely export to Mexico, and vice-versa. Since NAFTA went into effect in January, trade between Mexico and the United States has reached record levels. But as Mexicans struggle with the pressure of U.S. competition, the most hard-hit are putting up their own, often illegal barriers. Examples:
*Haddad said that six months before the trucks were torched, an armed mob broke into a warehouse in northern Chihuahua state and dumped 5,500 gallons of Price's Creameries milk. Then they opened fire on the refrigerator, he said.
*Amado Martinez, a Mexican distributor of U.S. milk in Juarez, says he received three to four phone threats daily and finally sent his wife to the United states for safety.
*When American entrepreneur Bradley Tirpack set up a Mexico City phone company called Access Telecom that lured customers from Telmex, the giant Mexican telephone company, Telmex cut off his phone lines and all but put him out of business.
*The U.S. Corn Refiners Association said Mexican sugar growers tried to pressure Mexican soft-drink bottlers into boycotting high fructose corn syrup, produced mainly in the United States. [end of quoting]
FLORIDA HARASSES PRESBYTERIANS:
STATE OPPRESSES CHURCH
From The Orlando Sentinel, July 24, 1994, by Cal Thomas--[quoting]: When the issue of separation between church and state is raised, it is usually in the context of controlling the extent to which the church is permitted to influence the state and the laws by which we live.
In Pompano Beach, a lawyer is poised to seize the building, Sunday-morning offerings and other assets of a church in a case that should alarm constitutional scholars and others concerned about the excessive reach of government and its increasing hostility to religious people who believe that their faith compels them to apply that faith in the public arena.
The facts are these. New Covenant Church, a conservative Presbyterian body, sold some of its land a decade ago to a doctor, who subsequently opened an abortion clinic. Members of the church, who believe abortion is immoral and against God's will, began picketing the clinic. The ruling body of the church (known as a session) made it clear that the decision to picket was not officially sanctioned by the church and that the demonstrators were acting on their own.
Even those who favor "a woman's right to choose" an abortion should be seriously concerned about a case that allows the state to confiscate the property of a church because a few members and the pastor--acting as an individual citizen and not representing his church--decide to exercise what they regard as their moral obligation and their constitutional right to assemble peaceably and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
If a church-state separation means anything, it ought to cut the other way when the state invades the church and declares there is no king but Caesar. [end of quoting]
RAY RENICK'S CURRENT STATUS
by Rick Martin 8/3/94
It has been some time since we last wrote about Ray Renick and the San Luis Obispo (SLO) Connections. Ray Renick, as some readers will recall, is a very outspoken individual who was arrested on May 20, 1993 and charged with (1) attempted murder; (2) incendiary devices; (3) armor-piercing ammunition. Bail was set at $500,000 [see the 8/24/93 CONTACT for a complete summary of Ray's predicament; what the crooks have done to Ray tells more than anything else about the validity of his claims about the evil in San Luis Obispo, CA! ]. 'Shortly after his arrest, prior to his jury trial actually beginning, Ray was found to be "mentally incompetent" to stand trial--this after a jury and several psychiatrists found him competent to stand trial. Ray was transferred to Patton State Mental Hospital in Southern California for observation and treatment. After many months of chemical attitude adjusting, Ray has been found, now, to be mentally competent to stand trial. The problem then became, who will represent Ray? The public defender, working solidly against Ray, his client, obviously would not be the one to present any kind of defense. After months of intensive work by the Constitutional Law Center on Ray's behalf, a possible attorney began to stand out.
On Monday, August 1, Mitch Jaffe of the Constitutional Law Center and I traveled to San Luis Obispo to meet with Renick. It had been almost a year since I last saw Ray, and I must say that when I first saw him I was stunned. Ray appeared to be depressed, chemically altered, and held a vacant stare. While the chemical alteration was later explained away by Ray's new attorney as being false, the Renick who sat before me was a changed man from the highly spirited individual I had come to know the year before. After a meeting with the potential attorney, agreements were made and Ray was ready to proceed.
On Tuesday, August 2, prior to Ray's hearing, Mitch Jaffe and I spoke with Robert Mulvany, a Private Investigator with firsthand experience with the Renick case from the "inside". Mulvany explained that, "This thing was way over-charged to begin with." And, "I don't think the DA's office will press so hard now--he's been down for a long time." The [Law and Motions] hearing and arraignment followed, with Greg Jacobson in place as Ray's attorney. Jacobson stood before the court and petitioned for time to prepare his case. Pretrial was then scheduled for November 4, with the trial beginning on November 8 [Division E].
In an underhanded maneuver, the prosecuting district attorney, Pomeroy, asked the court to reinstate Renick in a mental hospital, specifically Atascadero State Hospital, until the trial. Jacobson, who had not seen any of the Renick legal documents, spoke eloquently before the court and succeeded in having Ray maintained at the San Luis Obispo County Jail until the trial. Ray was pleased with all outcomes of the morning's hearing.
Up until now Ray has been placed in the position whereby he "made a scene" at prior courtroom appearances in an effort to focus the attention of the trial on the corruption addressed by the material he had written. Now is the first time that Ray has had competent counsel who will work on his behalf to secure the proper investigative work, expert witnesses, and legal documentation. One thing is sure--at least now Ray will have an even chance at a fair [jury] trial. And, of course, we at CONTACT will not predict the outcome. That is, after all, a job for the jury.
CHAPTER 6
A CITIZEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
HELP THE HOPI NATION!
SAD COMMENTARY ON HUMAN RIGHTS
7/25/94
Larry D. Calhoun
1544 W. Woodland Hills Drive
Dayton, TX 77535
To All ELECTED Officials:
From the time that America was "discovered", the people who were already living here have suffered greatly due to the spread of our (so-called) civilization.
The Hopi Nation is now in the process of being destroyed by both big business and a Government that, by each passing day, places increasing pressure on the throats of the people that the Government is supposed to serve.
Time after time OUR Government is depriving citizens of their natural Human Rights. We have seen the injustice and disregard of our country's callous and ELECTED representatives. We have witnessed the atrocity of the Branch Davidian Faith near Waco. We also are aware of the massacre at Ruby Creek when a man named Weaver saw his family killed in a gutless attack by the Federal Government. We also have the history of Wounded Knee, not to be outdone by what happened at Little Big Horn. We also have a monument created at Mount Rushmore which, as sad as it is to say, is proudly viewed by American citizens daily. Many and probably most Americans don't realize that this monument to civilization was created on a land that is considered sacred to many Native Americans. This has been yet another indignity that we have inflicted on a proud nation of once sovereign people.
Our Government points to the Government of China, the Governments of Africa, Governments in the Middle East and Governments in Europe as instances of Human Rights violations. We have, as a nation, stood before other nations and have condemned the actions of Foreign Governments that trample on those Human Rights.
How can this country do such a thing? Isn't it about time that we correct and bring to an end the Human Rights violations of our own country before we point to other Nations in this world of ours as being the transgressors?
The Hopi Nation consists roughly in the number of ten thousand. These are people of a proud heritage that desire to live a simple and yet spiritual lifestyle. For the most part they are not a materialistic people. They have little need for electricity as well as other conveniences of a modern society. One basic need of these people to survive is WATER. This is a resource that is rapidly being used up by big business. A mining company with very apparent disregard for a nation of people is in the process of emptying an aquifer that is essential for the Hopi people to survive. The Peabody Mining Company with support of the Federal Government is in effect bringing an end to a race of people. Without their water supply the continuation of an indigenous people of this country will be ending. This is a continuation of the program of genocide by the Federal Government for the last two hundred years.
The Hopi Nation, a people close to the heart of God, have had the foresight of prophecy for countless generations. The prophecies of these people, just like the prophecies of Nostradamus, have warned mankind many times of events that have eventually come to pass. Long before the events took place, the Hopi prophecies spoke about the horrors of two World Wars, Nuclear Technology, Television as well as the founding of the United Nations.
Another prophecy foretold by the Hopi Nation is that upon the demise of their line the destruction of our civilization as a whole would be imminent.
In light of what past prophecy has brought to our attention, how can this be overlooked and tossed casually aside? As an issue to itself, these people should be allowed to continue the way they have for centuries. The other issue is that in preserving the life and heritage of these noble people we would be preserving the continuation of our Human species as a whole.
We should be doing all we can to undo all actions that threaten the balance and harmony of our planet.
For each voice that you hear that brings this to your attention, there are hundreds of thousands and probably millions of people who want to do something but they simply do not know what to do. So, listen closely and pay attention to the voices that you do hear! Since you are an ELECTED office holder or APPOINTED by an ELECTED official and you are capable of taking positive action--DO SO! Investigate what is going on concerning the home of the Hopi Nation. Get an UNBIASED party to find out what is going on.
This is the TRUE VOICE of the American Citizen. We take notice of what is happening in this land of ours. There are many issues these days to become aware of and these issues must be addressed. Please help to restore dignity to the land that we all hold dear.
May God grant you the wisdom and courage to do what is necessary. Show the people that you do care. Make a POSITIVE difference.
Sincerely,
/s/ Larry D. Calhoun
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