Time: Sat Jul 19 19:22:35 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10443 for [address in tool bar]; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:22:47 -0700 (MST) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA18500; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:19:58 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:19:31 -0700 To: sainsley@Juno.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Political prisoners (fwd) Thank you for your thoughts here. The rate of incarceration in America tells a terrible story, all by itself. Please help yourself to the brief comments I wrote about the Habeas Project for Political Prisoners -- in the Supreme Law Library at the URL just below my name here: /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com At 02:44 AM 7/19/97 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Mr. Mitchell July 19th, 1997 > > I watched an edition of Investigative Reports on Phoenix Channel 5 >at 9 P.M. local time on Thursday. There was a story about a salesman >sent to Federal prison for three years for violation of export laws. I >remember the name as Eddie Johnson, a former employee of Teledyne Corp. >The salesman was involved in selling a metal product (Zirconium ?) that >had many industrial uses but seemed to be a product used in making >cluster bombs. Several sales were made to a Chile based company that >failed to disclose that the material was to be used in bombs. The Feds >made a surprise raid on the company and eventually convicted the salesman >for falsification of export licenses. The Feds suppressed information >during the trial process that indicated that the government knew what >the material was being used for but declined to act so long as Iraq was >at war with Iran. Iraq bought several thousand cluster bombs from Chile. > It was after the Persian Gulf War that the Feds decided to find some >scapegoats for the arming of Iraq. No one in Chile is under prosecution >and the salesman for Teledyne did not make any decisions without higher >approval from other upper management. The upper levels of management had >immunity. I hope that I have remembered the details right. > I personally have no sympathy with anyone who help create military >monsters for the sake of making a dollar or for some vague political >short term advantage. Sooner or later the monsters we create have to be >dealt with at the price of young men who have very little choice about >where they will die. I was once a young man who fought in Viet Nam and I >was killed there. I was exposed to Agent Orange and will die from that >exposure. I just do not know when. > I do not know where justice lays in this matter of Teledyne >employee when so many of those people who made the decisions avoided >prosecution. I think the trial and conviction stinks of politics and >trial manipulation. I wrote this letter to relate to you as best I can >remember the details of the story. > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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