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Wheat disease in Iran--are Monsanto and Bush utilizing a new brand of germ warfare against the IRI regime in Tehran?
UK coverage of the Robert Kennedy assassination in 1968--was there a Mossad connection to the CIA and anti-Castro Cuban agents now known to have been present in the Ambassador Hotel ballroom in Los Angeles at the time of the June 1968 murder of RFK? Should Obama be sweating????
Mark Dankof's letter to Attorney General Mukasey on the Al-Arian case.
The latest laughs from Jerusalem, courtesy of John Hagee and John McCain. . . .
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13 March 2008
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
(202) 307-6777 Fax
askdoj@usdoj.gov
Dear Mr. Mukasey:
I write you today to request that Dr. Sami Al-Arian be freed from his federal detention center, effective immediately.
I became familiar with the Al-Arian case through interviewing Dr.
Al-Arian's wife, Nahla, for a radio broadcast aired on the Republic
Broadcasting Network. I have also followed the details of the
case through news updates provided by the Washington Report for Middle
East Affairs (WRMEA) and other agencies.
As I see it, the two (2) salient points are as follows. First,
Dr. Al-Arian has been convicted of absolutely nothing in an American
court of law. The lion's share of the federal charges against him
were rejected by a jury of his peers in the State of Florida.
While the remaining charges against him resulted in a hung jury, it is
noteworthy that the vast majority of the sitting jurors voted for
complete acquittal on these accusations as well.
Let me be absolutely clear about who it is that writes your office
today. I am an orthodox Lutheran pastor and a Pat Buchanan
Republican. I am an endowed Life Member of the National Rifle
Association. My father is a retired United States Air Force
Colonel with 32 years of active duty service to his country. No
credible person this side of Fox News and The Weekly Standard would
possibly accuse me of being anti-American or pro-terrorist.
As one who is proud to be an American, I am, however, pro-Constitution
and pro-Bill of Rights, which means that I possess the Constitutional
presumptions of individual innocence until proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt, the sustenance of habeas corpus, and the rejection of
the acceptability of the physical and psychological torture of
suspects. The Al-Arian case is especially noteworthy since the
complete absence of adherence to said Constitutional foundations in
this specific instance, is not simply a threat to this man's "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but a potential threat to the
life and liberty of any American accused of subversive activities and
crimes, minus due process of law--the domestic machinations of the
Israeli Lobby notwithstanding.
Let your office and the Congress of the United States work to restore
our most basic and cherished principles as Americans. The
American public has had enough of Patriot Acts; the Military
Commissions Act; NSA warrantless electronic surveillance; and the
insistence of the current Presidential administration that it retains
the prerogative to employ any form of surveillance or surreptitious
entry it so desires against anyone in this country, without regard for
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provisions for
judicial review and the foundational presuppositions of the Founding
Fathers.
And let this entire recovery of what we once stood for in the land we love, begin with the release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian.
Sincerely,
Pastor Mark Dankof
Immanuel Lutheran Church
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.ilcsa.org
cc:
House Judiciary Chair:
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
(202) 225-0072 Fax
john.conyers@mail.house.gov
Senate Judiciary Chair:
Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4242
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov