this may be heavy for survivors
from L Moss Sharman - Old Wounds Reopened - Convicted Child Molester Returns to a Wary Roanoke By Leef Smith 11/24/02 "That man was Mario "Tony" Leyva, a self-ordained traveling evangelist who, in one of the most disturbing criminal cases that many here can recall, admitted in 1988 to molesting more than 100 boys over two decades in Virginia and several other states....In letters to supporters, he claimed to have witnessed CIA drug-smuggling while visiting relatives in Cuba. The molestation charges, he said, were part of a government conspiracy to silence him. Waering, the federal prosecutor, says: "I put him on the stand, and he admitted everything and apologized. Then he goes outside on the courthouse steps and denied the behavior." washingtonpost.com
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.26C.hentoff.rising.p.htm
Resistance Rising!
True Patriots Networking
Nat Hentoff
Village Voice Friday, 22 November, 2002
With advances in technology and ever-increasing government surveillance, the situation has worsened since Orwell's imaginings of the future. --John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute, November 4, 2002
Despite the self-satisfaction of George W. Bush and John Ashcroft, and the somnolence of the press, there is rising resistance around the country to the serial abuses of our liberties. More Americans are becoming aware of what Wisconsin Democratic senator Russ Feingold prophesied from the Senate floor on October 11, 2001, when he was the only Senator to vote against Ashcroft's USA Patriot Act: "There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover more terrorists or would-be terrorists, just as it would find more lawbreakers generally. But that wouldn't be a country in which we would want to live." ....
But what is most encouraging is the continued growth in cities and towns throughout the nation of Bill of Rights Defense Committees or their equivalents, a number of which are working with ACLU affiliates. The first BORDC, as reported here, was formed in February this year in Northampton, Massachusetts, when about 300 doctors, nurses, lawyers, students, teachers, and retirees formed a group to protect the citizens of that town from the USA Patriot Act and the subsequent unilateral attacks on our liberties by John Ashcroft.
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