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December 8, 2001
A Narco News Global Celebration!
Dear Colleagues,
While reporting "Live from Bolivia," we have just received word from New
York City:
Narco News Beats Banamex!
-- NY State Supreme Court Dismisses All Charges against Mario Menéndez, Al
Giordano and The Narco News Bulletin
-- "Narco-Bankers" Failed Despite Citigroup Merger
-- Judge Paula Omansky: Free Speech Champion
-- "Narco-Lobbyists" at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld humilliated; McLish
filed an insufficient complaint
-- NO Jurisdiction over authentic journalist Mario Menéndez, publisher and
editor of the daily Por Esto! in Mexico
-- Insufficient Complaint vs. Narco News and Al Giordano
-- The Drug War Went on Trial And The Drug War Lost
Stay Tuned for a Full Report:
http://www.narconews.com/
Narco News offers its profound thanks to our readers for your support
throughout this expensive attack on our free speech and press freedom.
We thank the many people who donated large and small contributions to the
"Drug War on Trial" defense fund to defeat the billionaires' abuse of the
legal system to attack cyber-liberties.
We extend our congratulations and gratitude to Mario Menéndez in Mérida,
Yucatan, for his heroic work exposing corrupt white-collar drug traffickers
and how the US DEA and other government agencies protect them.
Mario started a movement. And this movement, to expose the real powers
behind the corrupt war on drugs, and to end the drug prohibition from which
they profit, will continue, and will triumph.
We have not yet begun to fight!
We offer our most profound thanks to Tom Lesser, counsel to Narco News, and
everyone at Lesser, Newman, Souweine and Nasser of Northampton,
Massachusetts, particularly Libby Spencer and Karen Thatcher, who beat the
biggest lawyer-lobbyist firm in the world.
Tom Lesser pitched a no-hitter against the Akin Gumpsters, the overpaid
incompetents who struck out at every time at bat against the great civil
liberties and free-speech barrister from Massachusetts.
It is fair to say that without Tom Lesser, this immense victory would not
have been possible.
We also thank the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who valiently filed
an amicus brief on behalf of The Narco News Bulletin when other "press
freedom" institutions ran from the fight.
We also thank Marty Garbus, David Atlas and the team who defended Mario
Menendez so ably, whose teamwork and experience made this defense
unstoppable against the biggest of foes.
And we thank all the many colleagues in authentic journalism who wrote
about, spoke about, reported on and investigated this case, and in every
single instance concluded what NY State Supreme Court Justice Paula Omansky
has just ruled: This billionaire's lawsuit should never have been brought.
We are sure we have more people to thank, but frankly, it is Saturday Night
in a country called América, a night to celebrate. It's a world dance party,
from Cochabamba to your town.
But be assured: We are not done with the billionaire Plaintiffs in this
case.
They abused the court system and used their overpowering wealth to try to
overpower us. And they failed.
We will consult with our attorneys and co-defendant, and announce the next
step in our legal strategy shortly. The aggressors will not be let off the
hook.
We have anticipated this victory, and now phase two begins.
To repeat: ALL three charges against all three defendants in the case of
Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex) vs. Mario Menéndez, Al Giordano and Narco
News have been dismissed by the New York State Supreme Court.
Impacting...
>From somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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