[CTRL] FWD: A MUST READ !!!
--Original Message-- Educators Under Armed Attack in Phoenix On Wednesday morning the 10th of May 2000, in a suburb north of Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. JW Zidar, and his partner, Dr. Lorraine were backing out of their driveway on their way to the airport. They were setting off on a trip to Europe for a few days. When, from all around them, began an action known as a "drawing down". Men in full assault gear, with automatic weapons drawn and pointed directly at Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine surrounded their automobile from all sides. Screaming for them to raise their hands, to freeze, to stop the car. Dr. Lorraine, being in a mild state of shock at this unprecedented assault, did not immediately raise her hands, and so, two of the attackers pointed their gun directly at her head as one screamed for her to "get her hands up in the air". At this point, Dr. Lorraine slowly raised her hands, as it dawned on her that the screaming she was hearing was directed at her. She was later to remark that "all you see is guns.. all you remember is guns pointing at you." The attackers then removed Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine from the car. Taking one to the rear and one to the front of the automobile, their hands were cuffed behind their backs, and they were taken back into their home, where they were put in separate rooms under armed guard and interrogated, still handcuffed, for over an hour. No documents, no search warrants, no phone calls, no legal representation. The assault team then held Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine for eight hours under armed guard while they searched the premises. In the exercise of any search warrant, by law, the owners of the property being searched have the right to accompany the search team as they conduct their search. Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine were held in their dining room as the searchers went through and removed their belongings from throughout their house. In all, 32 boxes of their personal belongings were removed from the premises. At the end of the day, one of the federal agents asked Mr. Zidar if he had the documents which authorized the search. He replied that he had seen no such documents. At which point, the agent, apologizing profusely, offered over a set of documents purported to be the authorization for this amazing set of events. Who are these enemies of the State? Were these hardened criminals, drug dealers, or members of some Mafia we have not heard of? Hardly. These two, who are such an apparent threat to our government that they were drawn down at gunpoint, are teachers. Teachers? That can't be. This is America. We don't send assault teams to raid the homes of teachers in this country. They must be criminals. They must be conspirators. They must be inciting some sort of cult ritual, or encouraging people to riot or commit mass suicides or something, or this could not have happened. They are stealing people's money, or perhaps they are stealing government secrets and selling them to the Chinese. There must be some "logical" explanation for the events of this past Wednesday morning that we aren't being told. Well, that is a fact. There are. These two people, along with another couple, a Mr. And Mrs. John Matthews, were raided Wednesday morning by armed agents of the federal government for teaching people the truth. Mrs. Matthews was on her telephone, making some arrangements to do with an upcoming graduation when the assault team knocked on her door. She didn't hear the knock, but her son, who was getting himself ready for school, did. He answered the door just as the agents were preparing to use the "door bar" and break it down. As he opened the door, an agent grabbed him and threw him up against the wall, pinning him there. The agent barked out a demand for his name, and his birth date. At that moment, Mrs. Matthews, hearing the commotion, rounded the corner to the front hall and, seeing the agents, said to her son "You do not have to answer any questions." Apparently, that was the wrong thing to say at that moment, for in the next instant another armed agent had ripped the telephone out of her hand and pinned her arm up behind her back. And so it was that two families in Arizona received a brand new education into the politics of fear and intimidation. What are the facts and findings here? What events occurred which led up to this bizarre tale? Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine are the educators and founders of an educational organization named the World Community Educational Society (WCES). Mr. and Mrs. Matthews are long standing members of that society. WCES has been conducting adult distant learning classes and live telephone classes through their college for some time, a little over three years. The college also has a web site, http://www.wces.org, which hosts the classes by real
[CTRL] Fwd: [govtwatch] MUST READ: Interview - Littleton Witness ChrisWisher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:50:00 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [govtwatch] MUST READ: Interview - Littleton Witness Chris Wisher Interview - Littleton Witness Chris Wisher Friday, May 07, 1999 John Quinn A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDELY AS POSSIBLE! ** URGENT: I conducted a telephone interview with Columbine High School student and witness Chris Wisher on Friday May 7th, 1999, and also spoke briefly with his father. I asked the father about Chriss statement from the day of the tragedy identifying the person being arrested as one of the gunmen. Mr. Wisher said they had spent 2 ½ hours with the FBI and apparently Mr. Wisher was reluctant to say too much as the investigation is ongoing. However, he DID say that Chris and the family are doing "everything they can to see that those responsible are brought to justice!" Obviously, he is not referring to dead people here! I then spoke with Chris himself. Among his remarks and comments, Chris Wisher stated to me that he and certain companions are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that AT LEAST THREE perpetrators were involved in the mayhem at the school, and have given their testimony to that effect. This was directly witnessed by them outside the school building. One of those witnessed was the person in a white T-shirt throwing bombs onto the school roof. Another was someone OTHER THAN Harris or Klebold, OUTSIDE, in a black trenchcoat with a shotgun. SIMULTANEOUSLY they heard shots coming from INSIDE THE SCHOOL!. Chris Wisher also stated that he is personally acquainted with another witness who witnessed a GROUP OF 7-8 ASSAILANTS UPSTAIRS at Columbine in black trenchcoats with weapons, when Harris and Klebold were downstairs! He told me that there were MANY OTHER WITNESSES TO THIS! Mr. Wisher further stated that he is personally acquainted with a witness who was blatantly coerced by the Jefferson County Sheriffs Dept. investigators to CHANGE THEIR TESTIMONY REGARDING ADDITIONAL GUNMEN! Every time she stated that she saw more than three people they attempted to get her to CHANGE HER TESTIMONY! Whats more, I was told that a number of other witnesses have ALSO been coerced by investigators into changing their testimony. Mr. Wisher stated that many Columbine students, including himself, WILL NOT RETURN TO SCHOOL, because some of the murderers are RIGHT THERE, ATTENDING SCHOOL! This is yet another control element of this diabolically clever operation. What an EXTRAORDINARY intimidation upon ANYONE who would say what they know; to have some of the perpetrators right there in front of you and know that investigating "authorities," incomprehensibly, have "CLEARED" these murderers from any involvement; knowing that these participants in the slaughter are walking around with impunity and could obviously take measures to silence anyone. Chris stated to me that he and other students/witnesses KNOW that a coverup is going on in Littleton. He pointed out that the fact SWAT teams waited fours hours before entering Columbine High School literally proves that they and other authorities were well aware there were far more than two gun men inside. Furthermore, Chris noted that he and other witnesses found it incomprehensible how 67 explosive devices could have been positioned in the building by just Harris and Klebold: and hard to figure how not one of these devices was seen by ANYONE, no matter how many people had positioned them. Other than what would be called circumstantial evidence the only solid evidence yet which I know of PROVING that investigators are intentionally COVERING UP facts, and are ACTIVELY PRESSURING WITNESSES TO CHANGE THEIR STORIES comes from my talk with Columbine student Chris Wisher. Wishers statements to me are the single strongest proof so far that more than playing with the news being dribbled to the public, the "authorities" are actively, AGGRESSIVELY instituting a GENUINE coverup at this point in time. That being the case, though I deeply empathize with the unimaginable horror these families have been through, I believe it is far more horrifying for them and our country as a whole that a coverup about this gruesome madness is allowed to stand. How deep will their grief be then, knowing that the real truth has been buried; that some of the murderers of the kids have either disappeared or are, UNBELIEVABLY, back at school; their kids have been brutalized yet again by a system bent on twisting the truth; utterly spitting on the graves of those lost and protecting itself and its apparent complicity to whatever degree at all costs? I strongly urge witnesses and their families to maintain their position an refuse to give in under pressure to ANYONE in ANY POSITION who attempts to manipulate and/or coerce them. I would also strongly urge anyone who knows witnesses and/or their families to bring up the
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Must read--Canadian Swedish informed comments on Balkans War (fwd)
- SNETNEWS Mailing List -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 01:51:52 -0700 From: Kim Scipes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Labor Research and Action Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Must read--Canadian Swedish informed comments on Balkans War April 18, 1999 Folks-- I have received two e-mails in the past few days from my friend, Sid Shniad of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, that I think are excellent and deserve your attention. I don't know how widely they've been posted, but I believe both deserve wide posting. I've combined them into one message. The first is from a retired Canadian major general Lewis MacKenzie, who commanded UN troops during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian civil war of 1992 and who is currently reporting from Belgrade. The second is by Dr. Jan Oberg, Director and head of the TFF (Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research in Lund, Sweden) Conflict-Mitigation team to the Balkans and Georgia. My apologies for any cross-listings. Please pass on widely--they'll tell you a lot about the the war, and how it is being presented by the US/NATO and the mainstream media. Best wishes to all-- Kim Scipes US Marine Corps, 1969-1973 The Vancouver Sun April 15, 1999 A Soldier's View: REPORTERS PRESENTING DISTORTED VIEW OF WAR IN KOSOVO P.R. firms make combatants' cases to the public. One firm claims it introduced the terms "holocaust, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps" to the lexicon of the war. By Lewis Mackenzie BELGRADE The media coverage of this war, which according to NATO is not a war, is becoming less and less relevant to an audience that would opt for balanced reporting if it had the choice. During the Second World War and Korea there were often days of delay between the events and their coverage. We saw clips of the war in movie theatres before the Saturday matinee feature film. In Vietnam there was no declaration of war and therefore no restrictions on the media. If they could talk their way on to a helicopter they could get anywhere. Their reports dominated the supper-time newshour in the U.S. War came into the living room as "entertainment." The British learned from the American experience and during the Falklands War kept a tight grip on the media with surprisingly little protest from the reporters who clearly understood they could contribute to a speedy victory. In the Gulf War, the U.S.-led coalition, mindful of the Vietnam experience at one extreme and the Falklands at the other, worked out a compromise that saw the use of media pools whereby some journalists were given access and subsequently shared their experiences and film with their colleagues. By the time the war in Yugoslavia exploded on to the scene, most of the combatants had hired North American public relations firms to spin their case to the public. One Washington-based firm continues to brag on its Web site that it successfully introduced the hot terms "holocaust, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps" to the lexicon of journalists covering the war. And so we arrive at the current war in the Balkans and yet another variation on the theme. The international media in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are concentrated in Belgrade in general, and the Hyatt Hotel in particular. We all watch international and local television, monitor the radio and newspapers, and interview local citizens and government officials when we have the opportunity. The remainder of our colleagues are located in neighbouring countries such as Macedonia and Albania, with a few in Yugoslavia's Montenegro. By now you will probably have recognized the uniqueness of the reporting on this particular conflict: Absolutely no one, on either side, is reporting from where the actual fighting and alleged human rights abuses are taking place Kosovo! It is as though the province did not exist, even though it's the reason we are all here. I considered asking permission to drive from one end of the province to the other, along with a CTV news crew. However, knowing that if my request was approved we would undoubtedly have a military escort, I decided that NATO fighters would probably have a difficult time seeing a 12-inch PRESS sign from a few thousand feet and at 965 kilometres per hour. Not a good idea. The media have a phenomenal influence on public opinion. A few weeks ago one U.S. congressman said that although more than 90 per cent of his constituents could not find Kosovo on a map, 74 per cent wanted to bomb anyway. When it is all over, hopefully, the media will be brave enough to judge their coverage objectively in preparation for the next living room war. One of these wars, we will get it right. Retired major general Lewis MacKenzie commanded UN troops during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian civil war of 1992. C O V E R I N G U P N A T O ' S B A L K A N B O M B I N
