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NAZIS Murder In Gaza
Video Al Jazeera English airs exclusive footage of a series of deadly Israeli air attacks in the Gaza Strip, one of which struck as Gaza correspondent Nour Odeh was live on air. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17729.htm U.S. Storm Troopers - Occupation Of Iraq - 101
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Proud moments in US. military history caught on tape. How are these action different than those of Nazi raids in occupied France?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17620.htm WHO IS GANDALF ?WHEN I OPENED GANDALF'S STAFF AROUND 1970 IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS, I CONSTANTLY HAD TO EXPLAIN TO OTHERS WHO GANDALF WAS. NO ONE SEEMED TO KNOW AND MANY, BECAUSE OF THE STORE NAME, THOUGHT THAT MY NAME MUST BE GANDALF AND IT STUCK AND PERHAPS SOME OF THE MAGIC. HERE FOR YOU IS A RATHER DETAILED EXPLANATION, HOWEVER NOW TODAY GANDALF IS A HOUSEHOLD WORD. FEAR 1984 STYLE"The ideal setup by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face." George Orwell, from the book 1984
War and the Police State: Complicity of the American People
By Donna J. Thorne
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not..? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know.. it — now." Patrick Henry, 1775.
04/23/07 "GlobalResearch" -- -- -In this era of perpetual warfare, escalating domestic tyranny, government-sanctioned torture, and a Nazi-like pursuit of Middle-East domination, one would expect, at the very least, an audible outcry from the People who proclaim resolute devotion to the ideals of liberty and justice for all. Yet for the most part, Mainstream America continues to assume a posture of apathy, bitterness, or eery silence.
When confronted with hard facts and scientific evidence linking key government officials to the attacks of 9/11, ostensibly intelligent, levelheaded people angrily and defiantly reject said information without a moment's deliberation. Sincerely compassionate and peace-loving individuals support the criminal invasion of Iraq and close their eyes to the U.S. slaughter of 600,000 Iraqi civilians, choosing instead to believe in the myth of American supremacy, at the heart of which lies the notion that foreigners alone are capable of such atrocities.
And now, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent establishment of Homeland Security, previously rigid supporters of civil rights quietly tolerate the piecemeal deconstruction of the U.S. Constitution under the pretext of protection, and to their own peril, disregard increasingly strident warnings and signs of a growing and imminent police state. Clearly, Mainstream America has surrendered to the subjugation of a power-crazed, despotic administration whose control continues to expand exponentially with each passing rumor of imminent peril .
Why,when confronted with a black-and-white record of autocratic offenses, are so many sensible Americans ignoring and even endorsing the current administration as it openly paves a tyrannical road to hell? Are we so deluded by rhetoric and weapons-grade propaganda, that we are no longer able to distinguish truth from fiction, thereby allowing, if not abetting our own enslavement ?
Inarguably, a collective set of circumstances exist to explain the acquiescence of the American People. What follows is the first in a series of explorations by which this writer will attempt to identify possible core factors contributing to the scourge of apathy in American society today.
Fear, the Nemesis of Rationality
One cannot analyze the dynamics of a post 9/11 society without examining one of its principal characteristics: fear, anxiety, dread, apprehension… in a word, Terror. To those who benefit from its proliferation, fear is a currency, a commodity, and a powerful marketing tool. If one is aware of the devices by which leaders have garnered power and support for any given war or agenda historically, one can easily discern the same machinations at work today. A key ingredient to any successful war rally or acquisition of power is the exploitation of fear through the manipulation of perception. On September 11, 2001, corporate media and the government elite launched an aggressive political and media campaign upon and against the American people. With Madison-Avenue expertise, purveyors of fear heightened our perception of imminent threat by inundating the airwaves with continual, repetitive, easily-learned sound-bytes, words brimming with emotionally-charged meaning, "…Bin Laden, Taliban, Axis of Evil, Saddam Hussein, Terror-Threat, Terrorist…" with just enough intensity to successfully persuade the American people to procure security at any cost.
Comprehensive and firmly-entrenched fear is the means by which the current administration manages to sell the "War of Terror" and, allowed to flourish, has solidified mechanized cooperation from the masses as our leaders appeal to the most basic of all human needs-- security.
The groundwork has been laid. Today, newly identified "threats" are announced with almost predictable regularity. Now firmly embedded in the collective unconscious of America, fear is employed to rationalize unprecedented dictatorial powers in the White House, to justify the erosion of privacy and the stripping of human rights once sacredly guarded by the Constitution. Yet, what should one expect from an administration whose platform is built upon a substratum of fear, except for fear itself?
Fear attempts to silence dissenters. As the Truth Movement gains momentum and amasses credibility, the fear profiteers have begun heralding yet another "threat" to National Security - inquiring minds. This is both good news and bad news. We are no longer ignorable. Fearing exposure, the Czars of Propaganda know that "Truthers" must be branded and discredited if government corruption and corporate fraud is to flourish unabated. This said, prepare for an intensified Smear-and-Fear Campaign. Any group or individual who vocally questions the official story of 9/11 or who exercises the right to demand Government accountability will be labeled "Anti-American and Anti-Patriotic".
A well-documented strategy of propagandists throughout modern history, dissolving credibility through character assassination is a calculated tactic utilized to persuade the uninformed public to turn a deaf ear, to, in effect, remain uninformed. It remains to be seen if this line of attack will succeed, and success is dependent upon each individual proponent of freedom. As with the human longing for security, the natural desire for affiliation and acceptance works in favor of the war-mongering, power-hungry elite, for they know only the bravest of the brave will dare risk ostracism for a noble cause.
Fear begets fear and dulls rationality. Under fear's influence, the autonomic nervous system shifts into fight-or-flight mode. Perhaps this either-or response clarifies the bipartisanship of laboring freedom fighters and the willingly deceived. The former empower themselves with knowledge. The latter, so fearful of annihilating reassuring illusions, continue to defend the crimes of their pseudo-conservative leaders, and in so doing, stave off the anxieties which would surely accompany enlightenment. So desperate to believe in an imaginary benevolent Big Brother, We the People unknowingly and sometimes willingly turn a deaf ear to the truth, choosing instead to believe a lie. We lull ourselves into complacency or forced submission. We allow fear to breed a culture of silent ignorance and unthinking loyalty by which dictatorial regimes are allowed to flourish.
We would do well to remember, a fear-struck population is easily led.
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ALL SAINTSALL SAINTS: 50 Years of Excellence
I was there in the beginning, my children went to the school and also my grandchildren. One of the greatest distresses in my families history was when my children moved up and out of All Saints and entered the LISD. Parents (make the sacrifice) if there is any way: get your children out of the public schools and get them into what ever school you can find that has the ability still, to be able to teach your children at the least some kind of moral values and ethics. It is my hope with full community support All Saints will be able to continue to grow and add new grade levels in the process. Lubbock you are getting ripped off for as far as I am concerned: LISD you get an F and All Saints gets straight A's. Peace GANDALF SCIENCE: AIDS, GRAVITY, LIGHT, CANCERCELL BIOLOGY: Outside InsideStella Hurtley In macrophages that have been infected by HIV-1, the newly synthesized virions bud into an intracellular compartment, which has been thought to be derived from endosomes because it contains the endosomal membrane protein CD63. However, there currently is some controversy about the site of viral budding because a variety of viral components are directly targeted to the plasma membrane and because virus assembly has clearly been observed on the surface of infected T cells.Deneka et al. show that, although the budding compartment in macrophages appears at first glance to be intracellular, it is in fact still connected to the cell surface and can be accessed directly from the extracellular milieu. The authors identify several of the membrane proteins--three members of a protein family known as tetraspanins, CD81, CD9, and CD53--that define this unanticipated plasma membrane domain, and confirm that a similar compartment exists in uninfected cells. These membrane-delimited structures were accessible to two membrane-impermeant molecules (horse-radish peroxidase and ruthenium red) added to the external medium and also to antibodies (as long as the cells were kept at 4°C to prevent active uptake). These findings are consistent with recent work by Welsch et al. and by Jouvenet et al. that together support the notion that HIV normally buds from the plasma membrane during productive infection. -- SMHJ. Cell Biol. 177, 329 (2007); PLoS Pathog. 3, e36 (2007); PLoS Biol. 4, e435 (2006).
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Rafael A. García , E-mail: rafael.garcia@cea.fr The solar gravity modes have not been conclusively detected in the Sun as yet due to their small surface amplitudes. They have been actively searched for because they directly probe the solar burning core (below 0.2 solar radius). Using data from the Global Oscillation at Low Frequency instrument we detect a periodic structure, which is in agreement with the period separation predicted by the theory for gravity dipole modes. The detailed study of this structure, compared to simulations including the best physics of the Sun determined through the acoustic modes, would favor a faster core rotation rate than in the rest of the radiative zone. Bending Visible Light Backward (THIS I HAVE SEEN. GANDALF)
2007 Science20 April 2007: Vol. 316. no. 5823, pp. 430 - 432 DOI: 10.1126/science.1139266 Negative Refraction at Visible Frequencies Henri J. Lezec,1,2* Jennifer A. Dionne,1* Harry A. Atwater1 Nanofabricated photonic materials offer opportunities for crafting the propagation and dispersion of light in matter. We demonstrate an experimental realization of a two-dimensional negative-index material in the blue-green region of the visible spectrum, substantiated by direct geometric visualization of negative refraction. Negative indices were achieved with the use of an ultrathin Au-Si3N4-Ag waveguide sustaining a surface plasmon polariton mode with antiparallel group and phase velocities. All-angle negative refraction was observed at the interface between this bimetal waveguide and a conventional Ag-Si3N4-Ag slot waveguide. The results may enable the development of practical negative-index optical designs in the visible regime. 1 Thomas J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. 2 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16, France. * Artificial materials, or metamaterials, with tunable electric and magnetic responses can give rise to a negative index of refraction, in which electromagnetic radiation is bent in the opposite direction from that expected for natural materials. Other effects such as perfect lensing and cloaking have also been demonstrated at longer wavelengths. Lezec et al. (published online 22 March) now demonstrate negative refractive index in the visible regime, providing the potential of practical devices, such as super-lenses, for this important wavelength regime. BIOMEDICINE: Looking for Cancer Stem Cells
Paula A. Kiberstis The intense interest in stem cell research has helped to revive the cancer stem cell hypothesis, which postulates that tumor cell growth is driven by a small population of malignant cells that have the ability to self-renew and to differentiate--a capacity that is shared with normal tissue stem cells. The idea is attractive because it suggests that drugs could be designed to target cancer stem cells selectively, if and when these cells are identified. Although the stem cell origin of leukemias is now widely acknowledged, the role of stem cells in solid tumors has been more contentious. Shipitsin et al. performed a comprehensive molecular characterization of two classes of cells purified from human breast cancer: one class expressed a cell surface marker (CD44) previously associated with high tumorigenicity and stem cell-like properties, and the second class expressed a marker (CD24) previously associated with low tumorigenicity and a more differentiated state. The CD44+ breast cancer cells were found to express many genes in common with progenitor cells in normal breast tissue, and the abundance of these cells in the tumor appeared to correlate with decreased patient survival. However, the CD44+ and CD24+ cells within individual breast tumors showed genetic differences, a finding that does not fit neatly with the simplest version of the cancer stem cell hypothesis. An alternative model is that many cancer cells retain the capacity to adapt to changing conditions, whether this means reverting to a more primitive, stemlike state or evolving into a more differentiated state. -- PAK
Cancer Cell 11, 259 (2007). SCIENCE, Volume 316, Issue 5822, The Macaque Genome dated April 13 2007, is now available at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol316/issue5822/twil.dtl . French Intell is so Good One Never Hears of Them The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service: Albert Einstein
France Warned CIA of Hijack Plot in 2001
By Angela Donald
Associated Press Writer Nine months before al-Qaida slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence suspected the terror network was plotting a hijacking - possibly involving a U.S. airline - and warned the CIA, former French intelligence officials said Monday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17548.htm Family Values Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind: George Orwell
"Sorry We Shot Your Kid, But Here's $500"
By Greg Mitchell
For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftemath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17535.htm Tell Me: What If Your Wife and Kids Were in There!2 kings 2:28 "And because of your arrogance against me I am going to put a hook in your nose and a bridle in your mouth and turn you back on the road by which you came." Food for Thought Fact: One of our citizens, an American taxpayer was shot in his home, while on the phone with LPD, begging for them to cease fire as they ask for ammo; helpless and wounded, he experienced his greatest terror at the hands of those whose salary he has paid via taxes. Innocent, yet he would suffer even more abuse plus a vain attempt by LPD to frame him. I will not tell you of what was done to that man but don't speak to me of Saddam (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/saddam_hussein/index.html ) and or Iraq: what are our military friends and neighbors fighting for? Peace, Gandalf Who Called the Shots ? THEY LIE TO US AND TO EACH OTHER: http://www.ttpoa.org/organization/fallen-officers.aspx Sergeant Kevin Cox Cause of Death: Gunfire The movies Tulia and then Lubbock? Where would one start if they were looking for a sequel to the new movie staring Halle Berry (see below) based on the best seller "Tulia"? It just might be Lubbock. Why? I am not sure but I think here is a good place to start if one was to be in the making.
5 Apr 6:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Don't expect any Monster's Ball type love scenes between Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the upcoming Tulia movie unless the scriptwriter has engaged in some SERIOUS revisionism. But I think he's a good choice for the villain's role in the film, which begins shooting around New Orleans next month according to an Amarillo TV station. Interestingly Halle Berry, who signed on two years ago to do this film, is listed as a producer as well as a star. She will play a young attorney for the... [read post]
Lubbock County D.A. Travis Ware's Reign of Error and Terror by Jay B. Van Story February 10, 2005 In August 1991, Bill Hubbard was assigned to the identification section of the Lubbock, Texas Police Department. He inherited a complaint folder about Lubbock County Forensic Pathologist Dr. Ralph Erdmann. It was rumored that whatever powerful Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney Travis Ware wanted from Dr. Erdmann, Ware got. Prosecutors provided the findings, the testimony, and their theories of a case to a jury, and Erdmann's autopsy reports and additional testimony made the pieces of the case fit perfectly. Maybe a little too perfectly. Red flags were first raised about the connection when an assistant prosecutor in Ware's office hit and killed a pedestrian, Darlene Hall, while the prosecutor was driving drunk. Officer Pat Kelly attended the autopsy of Hall, which was performed by Erdmann. Erdmann commented to Kelly that there was no strong odor of alcohol, adding that there probably would be if Hall had been drunk. No blood was taken from the body for testing, according to Kelly. However, after conferring with Ware, Erdmann later contended that Hall had a high concentration of alcohol in her blood. Kelly strongly suspected that Ware, or someone in his office, had instructed Erdmann to fabricate this information in order to minimize the drunken prosecutor's civil and criminal liability, and save the D.A.'s office embarrassment. Ware's office had been trying to direct the investigation from the outset.
Dr. Ralph Erdmann would come to have a detrimental effect on many cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His sloppiness, incompetence and apparent falsifications were not only tolerated by Ware's office, but apparently encouraged. As a result, guilty people went free, and innocent people went to jail.
As Bill Hubbard became more and more concerned about Erdmann's shortcomings, Ware finally agreed to meet with him and his chain of command on February 5, 1992 to discuss the problem. Ware loved to lecture cops and he always did it from a mindset of superiority. The February 5th meeting was no exception. For fifteen minutes Ware went on and on extolling the supposed virtues of Dr. Erdmann. They heard over and over about how hardworking Erdmann was and how he was “one hell of a witness who has gotten us some great convictions.” With what Hubbard had learned about Erdmann, he had no doubt that was indeed the case. Erdmann was putty in a prosecutor's hands.
At the end of the meeting, Ware asked the cops to keep quiet about the meeting. "If we don't, the defense attorneys will have a field day," Ware said.
Hubbard sensed then that truth and doing the right thing were not nearly as important to Ware as avoiding anything that might reflect poorly on him or his office.
In April 1992, Hubbard was scheduled to testify at a capital murder hearing in Canyon, Texas. The night before, Ware tried to influence and direct Hubbard's testimony in an effort to cover-up Erdmann's misdeeds and Ware's part in them. Hubbard felt this was another sign Ware was not concerned with the truth nearly as much as protecting his image and his career.
At the Canyon hearing, Hubbard courageously testified about Erdmann's incompetence and fraud, and Ware's involvement in it. News or Hubbard's testimony was the number one story on all three network television stations in Lubbock.
The day after Hubbard's revealing testimony, Ware met with police chief Don Bridgers and police captain Frank Wiley. Ware tried to "refresh" Wiley's memory about what had occurred at the February 5th meeting. Ware's "recollection" didn't mesh with Wiley's. Ware asked Bridgers to participate in a joint press conference to announce that no cover-up had occurred. Bridgers declined.
Frustrated, Ware's next move was to go to Hubbard's other superiors and ask for sworn, notarized statements refuting Hubbard's testimony in Canyon and stating that no cover-up had been attempted by Ware. There were no takers. Meanwhile, Ware, his first assistant Rebecca Atchley, and her husband Randy began secretly planning to have Hubbard indicted. Randy Atchley was a police officer who once worked with Hubbard, and he had an axe to grind. He hadn't gotten along with Hubbard, who could be blunt and strident at times.
Around this time, an investigator in Ware's office, Carrie McClain, told of how Travis Ware had called her into his office, launched into a tirade against Hubbard, and threw grisly and explicit photos of homicide victims into McClain's lap, saying, “The people who do this sort of thing are the ones Bill Hubbard is trying to get off.” According to Ware, Erdmann wasn't the problem, Hubbard was. Ware used a particularly vulgar term ("motherf----r") to refer to Hubbard over and over. He said Hubbard had lied on the witness stand in several cases, and that Hubbard had psychological problems. He told McClain that he had gone to all of the county and district judges to warn them that Hubbard had no credibility. McClain knew none of this was true. It was a transparent and deceitful attempt by Ware to discredit Hubbard. McClain was very upset that Ware would slander her good friend Hubbard in such a manner. She knew Hubbard was nothing like Ware had described.
By this time, dozens of cases in Ware's office were being brought into question and were in danger of being overturned, and Dr. Erdmann was under indictment or being investigated in several counties for criminal violations.
It was learned that a man had been wrongfully jailed on child abuse charges because of an autopsy Erdmann had performed on the man's infant son that accused the man of inflicting blunt force trauma on the child. An autopsy by another pathologist showed the child had died of accidental drowning. The father was released from jail. The tragic loss of a child because of an accident had been turned into a double tragedy for the wrongly accused, father. He was eventually awarded $15,000 for the months of false imprisonment he had endured before the truth came out.
On November 10, 1988, the court of appeals overturned the murder conviction of Zane Lee Ham. His conviction had been based largely on the testimony of Erdmann, who had told the jury that: the injuries to the child victim had been inflicted fifty-five hours before her death. Other forensic experts later stated that to pinpoint the injuries to the hour was “medical nonsense.” The only way Erdmann could have given such false testimony would have been if Ware or Atchley had told Erdmann exactly what to say, since the “fifty- five hour” testimony so perfectly fit with the prosecution's theory that the victim was in the sole custody of Ham at the time the injuries were received. Ware and Atchley regularly fed Erdmann the false testimony they needed to get convictions.
Ware continued to try and discredit and silence Hubbard. He told Lubbock City Manager Larry Cunningham that if he did not “do something about Hubbard,” he and Rebecca Atchley would get Hubbard indicted. Ware told Cunningham that if he told anyone about this, he “would know where it came from,” implying that Cunningham would be next to be indicted. However, Cunningham refused to get involved in Ware and Atchley's scheme against Hubbard.
Lubbock Police Detective Ronnie Goolsby made the mistake of questioning a suspect about a prior federal investigation of Ware's alleged cocaine use and dealings. The next day, Goolsby found himself barricaded in the D.A.’s office. Along with Ware, he faced Rebecca Atchley. Ware repeatedly called Hubbard a “motherf----r” when referring to him. Ware told Goolsby that Hubbard was "about to be indicted" and that Goolsby was coming precariously close to going along with him.
Lubbock County's new forensic pathologist, Dr. Jody Nielsen, got a call from Ware. He wanted her to meet with Rebecca Atchley about the "problems with Hubbard." Dr. Nielsen said she got the feeling that anyone who crossed Ware could wind up in jail. On October 22, 1992, she resigned. She said there were problems in Lubbock she wanted no part of.
One day later, an investigator in Ware's office resigned, named Carrie McClain. She said, “I'm willing to flip hamburgers to get away from Travis Ware and his office. I'm leaving because of the lack of honesty and integrity in the criminal district attorney's office.” In retaliation, Ware accused McClain of theft. This was later proven to be untrue.
Ware arranged a plea bargain for Dr. Ralph Erdmann. This was very advantageous for Ware. It kept his name from being dragged into the Erdmann mess in court. Rod Hobson, the president of the Lubbock Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association, lashed out, "It's outrageous and suspicious that a matter of this importance to the integrity of the judicial system is being settled behind closed doors."
One of Hubbard's attorneys said, "Travis Ware has gone too far this time. If he can do this to you and get away with it, who's going to be next?" The public took notice of Ware's misconduct, as well. A college student went so far as to have buttons produced urging people to "IMPEACH TRAVIS WARE." They caught on like wildfire. A poll conducted by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper asked the question, "Is the Criminal District Attorney's office operating effectively and ethically under Travis Ware?" The results were: Yes 31%, No 69%.
Reports filtered in about Ware flashing an Uzi full-automatic machine gun at a television station conference, and threatening and intimidating reporters who wrote stories that displeased Ware.
Hubbard's defense team and Ware's critics began being attacked. Attorney Denette Vaughn's home was burglarized five times in a row. Attorney Dan Hurley's tires were slashed. A shotgun blast rang out under the bedroom window of Rod Hobson late one night, and small dead animals were found piled up under his young daughter's bedroom window. This sick behavior appeared to be more than mere coincidence. It was all front page news in Lubbock.
Hubbard and his wife ran into Travis Ware's former wife and her parents at a social function. “I'm so glad we ran into you,” the ex Mrs. Ware told them. “Ever since I heard what happened to you, I have wanted to let you know some things. You have got to understand that you are in very grave physical danger. Travis Ware has surrounded himself with people who know people who will do anything for him. I mean anything!” Hubbard later told his wife, when they got home, “You’d think I crossed the Mafia!”
Around this time, another Lubbock police officer was indicted, this time for alleged perjury. Officer Pat Kelly had testified that Dr. Erdmann had changed his statement about the intoxication of Darlene Hall, the woman who had been hit and killed by one of Ware's drunken assistant prosecutors.
Kelly testified that he believed Ware or someone in his office had been behind the change in Erdmann's statement. He had evidence of a clandestine meeting between Ware, Erdmann and others to effect the desired change.
Once Ware found out about Kelly’s testimony, Ware retaliated by persuading a justice of the peace’s secretary to provide an affidavit contradicting Kelly, in exchange for the promise of a job in Ware's office. It would later be shown that Ware had coaxed false testimony from the secretary to get a perjury indictment against an honest police officer.
Millard Farmer, a well-known and highly respected Atlanta defense attorney, was next to be indicted. Farmer made the mistake of asking someone to encourage Erdmann tell the truth. Ware arranged to have Farmer indicted for allegedly tampering with a witness.
"If the United States Justice Department were investigating these indictments, they would look at the racketeering statute to stop them," said Jonathan Gradess, executive director of the New York State Defenders Association. "It's an awful precedent and an outrageous abuse of state power. The idea that a prosecutor has the hunting license to pick off witnesses because he doesn't like their testimony is an outrage. It's absolutely criminal what's taking place in Texas."
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal fueled the fire with a December 9, 1992 editorial which referred to the "pall of public suspicion, mistrust, and in many cases, sharp hostility" that had fallen over the operation of Ware's office. It said that somewhere along the way of being relentless in the prosecution of criminals, Ware had taken on "the appearance of an excess in relentless, period."
Gerald Goldstein, a prominent San Antonio attorney, joined Hubbard's legal team. He told Hubbard, "I believe the charges were brought in bad faith, for the purpose of retaliation against you. I want to invoke RICO." Into Hubbard's mind jumped images of the Mafia and gangsters.
Attorneys from across the nation volunteered their services in the law suit against Ware. There was Jed Stone from Chicago, J. Mark Lane from New York, and Richard "Racehorse" Haynes from Houston, to name three.
Lubbock City Manager Larry Cunningham chanced upon Hubbard at the local mall on December 17, 1992. Cunningham told Hubbard, "In all my years in public service, Travis Ware is the meanest, most vindictive man I have ever met. "
Lubbock's leading Hispanic newspaper, El Editor, called for Ware's resignation. An editorial explained that, "it remains that not only [Ware's] integrity but also his moral character and capability to represent people in our county must also be questioned." Travis Ware's lying and instigating of lying of witnesses is documented by many newspaper articles printed not only in this newspaper, but also in the Dallas Morning News and the New York Times." The paper said that Ware's abuses of power were "evident," "countless," and "documented." After weighing integrity, moral character and credibility, the article concluded that Ware had lost the ability to represent the citizens of Lubbock and therefore must resign.
A court hearing in the RICO lawsuit against Ware and others began on February 16, 1993. Larry Cunningham was the first witness called. He testified at length about Ware's attempts to get him to go after Hubbard.
When Rebecca Atchley testified, Hubbard thought to himself that just looking at her sent chills up his spine. Atchley was asked about the Zane Lee Ham case, in which the court of appeals had chastised the prosecution for using false testimony. She was asked why the D.A.'s office continued to use Dr. Erdmann's testimony for five more years after that, in numerous other cases. Atchley didn't have an answer.
During a recess, Atchley was found in the women's restroom with her ear pressed to the wall, in an attempt to eavesdrop on strategy meetings between Hubbard and his attorneys in an adjoining conference room. Goldstein remarked, "They've done wrong, they're caught, and they know it. I guess they feel they have to try to do something to win, even if it's listening through bathroom walls."
On March 4, 1993, Judge Robinson issued preliminary injunctions to prevent any further prosecution of Hubbard, Kelly or Farmer. Judge Robinson ruled: "Plaintiffs have offered substantial evidence that the prosecutions were brought in bad faith and for the purposes of retaliation against the Plaintiffs for the exercise of their constitutional rights."
By March 12, 1993, picketers were out in front of the courthouse, demanding Ware's resignation. The Friday picketing would continue for months. By December 1993, they were still at it, and Ware still hadn't resigned.
In April, Ware and his co-conspirators finally gave up and settled the lawsuit for $300,000 and the promise to not pursue any further prosecutions against Hubbard, Kelly, or Farmer. Ware was resoundingly defeated by attorney Bill Sowder in the 1994 election. He refused to call Mr. Sowder to offer his congratulations, as is customary for a defeated incumbent. But then, Ware had never been graceful in defeat. He is now in private practice. Atchley is now an insurance attorney.
Bill Hubbard reflected: “Things have changed for me after I sat on the other side of the table. I've lived the nightmare of being wrongfully indicted and charged, of being wrongly dragged into ‘The System.’ That has changed my attitude toward others accused of crime. Now, as I go about my law enforcement duties day in and day out, I am much more cautious in evaluating evidence before I ask that a criminal charge be brought against an individual.”
I was also maliciously prosecuted by Ware and Atchley in the late 1980s, when their use of false testimony was in full swing, and they still had the public believing they were honest prosecutors.
Unlike Hubbard, I didn't have a team of tough, smart lawyers. I had no choice but to try my best to defend myself. On the first day of my August 1989 trial, the alleged victim totally recanted the allegation that I had sexually assaulted her. She testified that Ware, Atchley and others had made her believe she had to falsely testify against me in order for her to be able to go home.
Little did I know at the time that I had inadvertently blown the lid off the rampant corruption within Ware's office. His reaction was swift and thorough. He suddenly became intricately involved in my case. Right after Anders recanted, Ware entered the courtroom during a recess and quietly conferred with lead prosecutor Rebecca Atchley. My stand-by attorney remarked that it became political at that point.
Please see my article, "It's a Sad Day When An Innocent Man Is Illegally Convicted" for the full account.
Ware and Atchley maliciously retaliated against me just as they did against Hubbard, Kelly and Farmer. If I had been acquitted on the basis of my defense that they had deliberately used false testimony to get me convicted, it would have brought all of their previous cases into question.
Their prosecutorial careers would have been over. So they forced a little girl (A.C.) to go back to lying, under the threat of being ripped apart from her mother forever. A.C. and I were disposable to them in their quest for a win. By deceiving a jury into illegally convicting me through false testimony, Ware and Atchley were able to hide their wide-ranging conspiracy for a few more years.
The Texas Innocence Network at the University of Houston has completed a thorough investigation of my case. Everything clearly points toward my innocence in this case. Ware and Atchley's egregious misconduct has been laid bare. The question now is, how many others have been maliciously prosecuted by Ware and Atchley? Is there a continuing cover-up that is keeping me from being released from my false imprisonment?
This article contains excerpts and quotes from Bill Hubbard's book, "Substantial Evidence: A Whistleblower's True Tale of Corruption, Death and Justice," New Horizon Press, ISBN: 0-88282-160-1, ©1998, available at amazon.com.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists" J. Edgar Hoover
FORMER D.A. TRAVIS WARE: ADULTEROUS BASTARD. How many times has Ware been married and when was his last? divorce, Yep you got it, another wife has left him just recently over adultry. Hell I lost count of how many failures for him this makes, but just talk to one of the ex's, they will tell you he will screw your wife!? He stole from me, he framed me and he fears me. If one can locate Bob Mathews former local chief of the FBI, ask him why he failed in his pursuit of Ware's high crimes, lies and theft? Can you remember Martha Stewart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart) and her prison time for lying to the FBI? How is it that the FBI can lie to you and me and yet to lie to us is no crime? They all lie and it is from your hard earned money that they can afford to do so. The damage Travis has done to my family cannot be measured or even contemplated. Why in Gods' name does this evil man still have a license to practice law? If you hire him or even associated with him you are a fool. Who can withstand the wrath of the lamb or the shame: on the High Plains of Texas. Your Future Looks GrimRevolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the futureRichard Norton-Taylor Monday April 9, 2007 The Guardian  The MoD predicts more use of chemical weapons. Photograph: Paul J Richards/EPA Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces. It includes an "analysis of the key risks and shocks". Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as "probability-based, rather than predictive". The 90-page report comments on widely discussed issues such as the growing economic importance of India and China, the militarisation of space, and even what it calls "declining news quality" with the rise of "internet-enabled, citizen-journalists" and pressure to release stories "at the expense of facts". It includes other, some frightening, some reassuring, potential developments that are not so often discussed. New weapons An electromagnetic pulse will probably become operational by 2035 able to destroy all communications systems in a selected area or be used against a "world city" such as an international business service hub. The development of neutron weapons which destroy living organs but not buildings "might make a weapon of choice for extreme ethnic cleansing in an increasingly populated world". The use of unmanned weapons platforms would enable the "application of lethal force without human intervention, raising consequential legal and ethical issues". The "explicit use" of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and devices delivered by unmanned vehicles or missiles. Technology By 2035, an implantable "information chip" could be wired directly to the brain. A growing pervasiveness of information communications technology will enable states, terrorists or criminals, to mobilise "flashmobs", challenging security forces to match this potential agility coupled with an ability to concentrate forces quickly in a small area. Marxism "The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx," says the report. The thesis is based on a growing gap between the middle classes and the super-rich on one hand and an urban under-class threatening social order: "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest". Marxism could also be revived, it says, because of global inequality. An increased trend towards moral relativism and pragmatic values will encourage people to seek the "sanctuary provided by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism". Pressures leading to social unrest By 2010 more than 50% of the world's population will be living in urban rather than rural environments, leading to social deprivation and "new instability risks", and the growth of shanty towns. By 2035, that figure will rise to 60%. Migration will increase. Globalisation may lead to levels of international integration that effectively bring inter-state warfare to an end. But it may lead to "inter-communal conflict" - communities with shared interests transcending national boundaries and resorting to the use of violence. Population and Resources The global population is likely to grow to 8.5bn in 2035, with less developed countries accounting for 98% of that. Some 87% of people under the age of 25 live in the developing world. Demographic trends, which will exacerbate economic and social tensions, have serious implications for the environment - including the provision of clean water and other resources - and for international relations. The population of sub-Saharan Africa will increase over the period by 81%, and that of Middle Eastern countries by 132%. The Middle East The massive population growth will mean the Middle East, and to a lesser extent north Africa, will remain highly unstable, says the report. It singles out Saudi Arabia, the most lucrative market for British arms, with unemployment levels of 20% and a "youth bulge" in a state whose population has risen from 7 million to 27 million since 1980. "The expectations of growing numbers of young people [in the whole region] many of whom will be confronted by the prospect of endemic unemployment ... are unlikely to be met," says the report. Islamic militancy Resentment among young people in the face of unrepresentative regimes "will find outlets in political militancy, including radical political Islam whose concept of Umma, the global Islamic community, and resistance to capitalism may lie uneasily in an international system based on nation-states and global market forces", the report warns. The effects of such resentment will be expressed through the migration of youth populations and global communications, encouraging contacts between diaspora communities and their countries of origin. Tension between the Islamic world and the west will remain, and may increasingly be targeted at China "whose new-found materialism, economic vibrancy, and institutionalised atheism, will be an anathema to orthodox Islam". Iran Iran will steadily grow in economic and demographic strength and its energy reserves and geographic location will give it substantial strategic leverage. However, its government could be transformed. "From the middle of the period," says the report, "the country, especially its high proportion of younger people, will want to benefit from increased access to globalisation and diversity, and it may be that Iran progressively, but unevenly, transforms...into a vibrant democracy." Terrorism Casualties and the amount of damage inflicted by terrorism will stay low compared to other forms of coercion and conflict. But acts of extreme violence, supported by elements within Islamist states, with media exploitation to maximise the impact of the "theatre of violence" will persist. A "terrorist coalition", the report says, including a wide range of reactionary and revolutionary rejectionists such as ultra-nationalists, religious groupings and even extreme environmentalists, might conduct a global campaign of greater intensity". Climate change There is "compelling evidence" to indicate that climate change is occurring and that the atmosphere will continue to warm at an unprecedented rate throughout the 21st century. It could lead to a reduction in north Atlantic salinity by increasing the freshwater runoff from the Arctic. This could affect the natural circulation of the north Atlantic by diminishing the warming effect of ocean currents on western Europe. "The drop in temperature might exceed that of the miniature ice age of the 17th and 18th centuries." Crooked Narcs and Cops on the High PlainsOfficer Thomas Coleman on trial in LubbockBrittany BarrientosIssue date: 1/12/05The trial of State of Texas v. Thomas Coleman began Monday at the Lubbock County Courthouse. Coleman is the undercover narcotics officer who led a drug sting in Tulia, in which 46 people were arrested, according to www.crimelibrary.com.
Coleman is on trial for two counts of aggravated perjury. A third count was dropped. Coleman's aggravated perjury counts include lying about stealing gas when he was a patrol officer for the Cochran County Sheriff's Department and lying about his history of theft. Monday, Coleman pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Texas Penal Code 37.03 defines aggravated perjury as a person's making a false statement under oath or swearing to the truth of a false statement previously made. The statement is made during or in connection with an official proceeding and is material. Three motions also were denied on Monday - a motion to quash the indictment, an objection to special, or visiting, prosecutors Rob Hobson and John Nation and a motion to recuse, or replace, the special prosecutors. Coleman single-handedly executed a sting operation in Tulia in 1999 that put 46 Tulia residents in jail. Of the 46 arrested, 39 were black; the remaining seven were white or Hispanic with ties to the black community. This number accounted for more than 10 percent of the black population of Tulia, according to www.crimelibrary.com. Jury selection for the case started Thursday and concluded Monday. After questioning by both the prosecution and the defense on whether the potential jurors had formed opinions on the case because of media coverage, the 101 potential jurors were narrowed down to 12 and one alternate. The jury is comprised of seven males and five females, with a female alternate. Eleven of the jurors are white, and one is Hispanic. They eventually will decide Coleman's fate. Judge David Gleason has decided not to sequester the jury, as long as jurors do not talk to the media or follow media coverage about the case. All the participants in the trial have been informed that no statements about the trial are to be made to the media. "Call it a gag order if you want," Gleason said. Tuesday began with the opening statement from the prosecution, when lead prosecutor Hobson said the prosecution would focus on disproving two of Coleman's lies and proving the lies were not trivial. Hobson argued that when under oath, no lie is material. The defense opted not to give an opening statement. The prosecution then began calling witnesses. The first, Amber Appleton, one of the court reporters at the 2003 writ of habeas corpus trials, said she accurately took down Coleman's testimony. The prosecution called a total of 10 witnesses, ranging from Appleton to Judge Ron Chapman, the judge who presided over the 2003 habeas corpus trials. Chapman's testimony was strenuously objected to by the defense, who repeatedly requested he not be allowed to take the stand. Chapman is a retired trial judge who still sits as a visiting judge when necessary for the 5th Circuit appellate court. The 5th Circuit includes Dallas and the surrounding counties. Chapman said Coleman testified in the trials under oath, and that his credibility could have affected the outcome of the trials. According to www.truthinjustice.com, an agreement between the prosecution and defense in the cases was reached, and Coleman was found to be not credible. As part of the agreement, $250,000 was paid to the defendants. Another key witness for the prosecution was James Collier Adams Jr. Adams is the Cochran County Attorney who testified that he saw Coleman putting gas in a "vehicle that was not his own." "I know it was him," Adams said. Court will resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Gleason said he hopes the trial will be over by Friday. For more information on the Tulia drug bust, look at the Law.com Web site, www.truthinjustice.com or the Court TV Web site, www.crimelibrary.com.
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anonymous870anonymous870posted 1/14/05 @ 1:56 AM ESTthis is only the beginning for coleman was not the exception, but standard practice by narcotics officers here on the plains, more to come. Strategic Bombing on the High PlainsThis morning I dropped a bomb on the high plains of Texas
I did a radio bit on AM950 "Fox Talk in the Morning" and dropped a blockbuster. I told the community how the LPD hid or attempted to hide and withhold information along with lying to the press over the SWAT shooting, where the pigs shot there own man and tried to frame the home owner. I let them know that the FBI was telling us they had given the ballistic results to the local lying pigs, the liars that they are, were saying they were waiting on said results in a desperate effort to stall for time and frame the innocent victim of their hideous crime.
I made mention of the San Antonio Lightning and Richard Griffing who had the recording of the FBI statement. I then told the listeners to get a must read Bill Hubard's book: "Substantial Evidence" which in reality only shows the tip of the iceberg. I then mentioned there is a new movie coming about "TULIA" and perhaps then the next one may be about Lubbock, Texas. Today I let the people know that there shame is at hand for who can withstand the wrath of the Lamb?
Peace Gandalf "Man's character is his fate.": Heraclitus - (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher Flash: "Tulia" Is Billy Bob Thornton's Next Stop March 14, 2007 07:35:51 GMT
by Flora Jean Set to repeat the stunning onscreen collaboration between him and Halle Berry as seen before in "Monster's Ball", Billy Bob Thornton has signed on to once again play opposite the Oscar-winning actress in Lionsgate's dramatic feature "Tulia." An adaptation of Nate Blakeslee's non-fiction book "Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town", the picture finds Berry as an attorney who attempts to expose a corrupt and racially motivated rash of drug convictions in the rural town. What role Thornton is assigned to portray, however, has not yet been revealed. Production on the film begins one day earlier from previous schedule on April 30 in and around New Orleans, Louisiana with Berry, Adam Rosenfelt, Jesse Franklin, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, and Vince Cirrincione all producing. "High Crimes" helmer Carl Franklin is in charge to direct from the script penned by Karen Croner that he re-wrote. Thornton, known for his role as a mentally retarded man in "Sling Blade" which won him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, currently can be seen in theaters playing the lead in Warner Bros. Pictures' inspiring tale of "The Astronaut Farmer." Apart from taking part in "Tulia", he is reportedly also attached to star in "Peace Like a River" and "Manure", which will reunite him with "Farmer" writer-directors Mike and Mark Polish. Halle Berry was very, very excited to get her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! Clad in a tight-fitting, low-cut black number, she fully embraced her star--right down to kissing it. Check out these revealing shots of Halle Berry and her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The woman really does have it all. Her new "star" is added to the Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award she already has on her mantle. But the girl from Cleveland who was named after a department store isn't jaded. With tears in her eyes she gratefully received the honor on Tuesday, April 3 in front of the Kodak Theater. "I am so emotional...as soon as I saw the crowds of people and friends here, I started to cry," she told The Associated Press. Her newest movie, "Perfect Stranger" with Bruce Willis, opens on April 13. |
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