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Subject: SLS: GEORGE HANSEN'S INCREDIBLE STORY!
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> Subject: A Story That Must Be Told
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> GEORGE HANSEN'S INCREDIBLE STORY!
>
>Annotated reprint of RMS News Agency Report
>P.O.Box 1784
>Apton, CA 95001-1784
>Phone/FAX: 408-462-3949
>Vol.2 #1, January. 1997
>
>The Government Wrongfully Drove GEORGE HANSEN, A 7-Term
>Veteran Lawmaker, Out of Congress, Sent Him to Prison and De-
>stroyed Him and His Family Financially! It took ten long years, but
>the U.S.Supreme Court now confirms that federal prosecution of
>Congressman George Hansen SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
>
>That high court decision is now a year and a half old, and this 66
>year-old embattled veteran congressman still awaits action by his
>old colleagues to clear the record and provide him urgent and
>reasonable compensation for this great injustice.
>
> Hansen Was Right All Along!
>
>Former Representative George Hansen always said he was wrongly
>prosecuted for lying on his financial disclosure forms. Twelve long
>years later, he turns out to have been right.
>
>Congressman George Hansen was a seven term congressman from Idaho
>at the time of his prosecution. Ex-Representative Richard Stallings,
>the Democrat who defeated Hansen in 1984, said the conviction was
>the key. "George could have had the 2nd district as long as he
>wanted. If he hadn't gotten in trouble, he'd probably be the
>Chairman of the Banking Committee."
>
>Hansen would be in his 14th term now. "If you want to play "What
>if" games, there would have been a lot of things... chairmanships,
>leaderships..." Hansen said, "But I just don't look back."
>
>Hansen's 1984 conviction cost him his bid for an eighth term in
>1984--by a mere 170 votes. It also brought incarceration in a
>federal prison and a $40,000 fine. In December of 1995, the conviction
>was vacated by the trial judge in Washington D.C.(ED: Who took 5
>months to release George!), because the U.S. Supreme Court had
>ruled the law, under which Hansen was convicted, applied only to
>the executive branch.
>
>Hansen got back his $40,000, but wants a Lot more. He's asking
>the House to withdraw its reprimand and pay him for legal fees and
>lost wages.
>
>"I feel like the guy On Boot Hill with the tombstone that says.
>"Hanged by Mistake," Hansen said.
>
>Congressman Hansen was one of the first members of Congress to
>point a finger at the IRS. In the late 70s he wrote a book called
>"To Harass Our People". He was the first to get a full scale
>investigation into the crimes of the IRS against the American
>people. His outrage over what he discovered caused him to write
>and help pass the "Taxpayers Bill of Rights." Without George Hansen,
>the IRS would be the American equal to the Gestapo by now.
>
>George Hansen was also the first member of congress to introduce
>the idea of the flat tax. (ED: GEORGE NOW EMBRACES THE NATIONAL
>RETAIL SALES TAX!) Hansen clearly saw the unfairness of the current
>tax laws and was trying to correct them for the good of all Americans,
>not just the rich elite. When he went to prison, his love of his
>fellow man and his reputation for trying to help Americans allowed
>him to live among the prison population with no fear of the prisoners.
>
>The harassment and torture that befell Congressman Hansen came from
>prison officials, in the form of neglect for serious medical problems
>and health hazards in the prison work place. The torture also came
>from the Federal Marshals who cruelly transported him from one
>prison to another.
>
>Political prisoners (ED: Political prisoners? In America?? You
>betcha!!!) and those who are considered trouble makers arc given
>what prisoners call, "diesel therapy". "Diesel therapy" consists
>of being put on diesel busses or airplanes and being transported
>from prison to prison for weeks and months at a time (ED: ALL at
>the expense of the taxpayers!). On the surface it sounds benign.
>What could be the problem with making a prisoner ride in a bus for
>hours at a time?
>
> Torture American Style
>
>Before the prisoner is put on the bus, he is put in handcuffs and
>shackles (leg irons). The handcuffs are tightened by a black box
>that stiffens the chains and puts the wrists in a 90 degree bind
>that painfully cuts circulation and damages the nerves. It takes
>several weeks for the circulation and nerves to return to normal.
>The handcuffs are connected with chains to a waist chain, which is
>in turn connected by another chain to the shackles which go around
>the ankles The prisoner can barely move once the shackling process
>is complete.
>
>He is then placed in a small seat on a bus or airplane. (ED: George
>Hansen is a BIG man, standing well over 6'-3" and -- before his
>ordeal -- tipping the scales at well over 220 pounds.) Because of
>the shackles, the prisoner is forced to sit in one position for up
>to 20 hours at a time. And the guards will rarely go to the trouble
>of unshackling a prisoner. Prisoners who understand "diesel therapy"
>know that "fasting" is the only way to handle the ordeal without
>messing or wetting yourself. But even those who are smart enough
>to abstain from food and drink, still have to suffer the stench of
>urine and feces which soon fills the bus or plane.
>
>One other painful aspect of diesel therapy is the shoes that
>prisoners are forced to wear. They become too small. The cramped
>position and tight shackles cause the feet and ankles to swell.
>The shackles cut into the legs and cut off circulation. The blood
>pools in the feet and causes the feet to swell. The toes are forced
>up against the tops of the too small shoes, and unbelievable pressure
>is put on the toenails. The toenails soon become deformed, infected
>and painful.
>
>Each day the metal shackles are put back onto raw and infected legs
>before the prisoner boards the bus. After weeks and months of diesel
>therapy, the ankles and shins have raw, infected and open wounds
>that will not heal.
>
>Hour after hour, the prisoner sits in a cramped & painful position,with
>shackles cutting into already infected, raw flesh. Arthritis and
>bursitis compound the misery of the prisoners. The ingrown, infected
>toenails, which are jammed inside of purposely small shoes, cripple
>the prisoner to the point that he can barely walk or move when he
>is finally released from the shackles.
>
>During the weeks and months of diesel therapy, the prisoner is out
>of contact with the rest of the world. In the case of Congressman
>Hansen, his wife did not know if he was dead or alive. His lawyer
>could not find him and therefore could not file court papers on
>time. Even the members of congress who were still trying to help
>him, could not locate him. During his diesel therapy" he disappeared
>into the black hole dug and run by the United States Marshals.
>After "diesel therapy", Hansen was forced to operate on his feet
>himself. His toenails were so deformed that they pointed straight
>up. He could not wear shoes without excruciating pain. The only
>remedy that was open to him was to pull the toenails out by the
>roots. Our prisoners of war in SE Asia had their fingernails and
>toenails pulled out by their torturers. Congressman Hansen had to
>become his own torturer in an effort to stop the pain.
>
>Several weeks ago, Congressman Hansen was testifying before his
>former colleagues in the House of Representatives. He told the
>story of his trip into Iran during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
>He was the only United States official to get into Iran to try to
>negotiate an end to the crisis.
>
>While he was there, he was shown the horrible human suffering that
>was inflicted upon the Iranian people by the Shah of Iran and his
>secret police. He told his former colleagues about the horrors of
>the Shah's torture chambers. Ankles that had been smashed by heavy
>clubs. Legs that had been smashed and permanently scarred. Hands
>and feet that had no nails because they were repeatedly pulled out.
>Then he stood up and walked around in front of his table. Leaning
>lightly on the table, he pulled up his pant leg and showed his
>former colleagues the raw, red scars on his own legs -- scars that
>stretched many inches, from his ankles up his shin bones. He told
>his former colleagues about his toenails, which have never grown
>back properly. He ended his "show and tell" session by informing
>the House that they did not have to travel to foreign countries to
>witness torture. All they had to do is visit any American prison
>and they would quickly find the effects of purposeful abuse and
>neglect on certain prisoners.
>
>If his former colleagues have any sense, they will quickly reform
>the prison system, before any more of them end up there.
>
>The scars on his legs and the lack of toenails were minor problems
>for Hansen. The major pain came from his teeth and deteriorating
>bones. These problems came from hazardous chemicals he was forced
>to work around during his job assignment in the prison power plant.
>The chemicals caused his bones to weaken and his teeth to become
>infected and turn to mush. (ED: Where oh where is OSHA and the
>EPA when ya' REALLY need 'em?). The pain' of abscessed teeth was
>unbearable. To be able to function each day, without even an
>aspirin to dull the pain, he picked up a plastic cap used to splice
>electric wires. He placed the cap in the infected area and bit
>down on it all day and night. During his four years in prison, he
>lost most of his teeth through willful neglect on the part of the
>prison officials. Hansen was forced to sell his homes in Virginia
>and Idaho. Everything he and his wife had accumulated during years
>of hard work went to lawyers or to pay the fine. Even though his
>retirement was not supposed to be touched, through some nefarious
>deal, it was tapped to pay fines, thereby denying his wife the
>means to live. She was approaching sixty, had a heart condition
>and diabetes, but she was put out of her home and didn't even have
>the money to rent an apartment. With the help of their children
>and a job, she just barely made ends meet until Hansen was released.
>
>They are now in their 60s and they are starting over with nothing.
>He still has health problems associated with prison life, and still
>needs further dental work. He drives a leased Honda and lives with
>his wife in a rented apartment in Pocatello, Idaho. Thankfully,
>his federal pension has been restored.
>
>"They almost made us homeless, but when this is all over, it will
>all be erased." Hansen is an optimist who is now awaiting the action
>by his old colleagues which will clear the record and provide him
>urgent and reasonable compensation for this great injustice.
>
> Rangel Petitions the House To Reverse Hansen's Reprimand
>
>On June 27, 1996, Representative Charles B.Rangel (D,NY), wrote a
>letter on Hansen's behalf to the Committee on Standards of Official
>Conduct -- the same Committee that just passed judgement on Newt
>Gingrich: "I am writing on behalf of our former colleague George
>Hansen in the hope that your Committee will take appropriate action
>to allow the full House of Representatives to consider and vote on
>the question of vacating the July 31,1984 reprimand of
>then-Representative
>Hansen.
>
>"This is the only case in which a Member of Congress was prosecuted
>under 18 U.S.C.1001 for the content of filings under the Ethics in
>Government Act, convicted, served the time and paid the fine, only
>to have the conviction overturned ten years later.
>
>"The Courts have recognized that the conviction was improper, with
>retroactive effect. The House of Representatives should also consider
>the matter in the light of conditions existing at that time.
>
>"Clearly, Mr. Hansen has suffered enough and it is time that his
>name be cleared in this body which he served for seven terms with
>dedication and distinction. Therefore, I am appealing to the
>Committee to reconsider its earlier decision and take action to
>vacate the reprimand."
>
>Hensen is still awaiting the decision of the committee.
>
> Medical Neglect Is the Equivalent of Torture
>
>While in Washington, Hansen presented Congress with a medical
>statement part of which is excerpted below: (ED: We will send the
>full medical statement to anyone requesting it.)
>
>"Upon my release from federal custody on March 8, 1996, I have
>spent the past 24 weeks in an intense effort to seek the medical
>and dental relief so long denied me by the federal government. This
>was not easy because so many serious problems had developed during
>the three years I had been held in medical limbo that it was not
>a simple thing to develop and coordinate the many necessary treatments
>all begging for early attention.
>
>"There was also the problem of limitations in my insurance coverage
>and having the necessary funds available to meet the abnormal
>demands my emergency medical and dental needs presented. A quick
>professional evaluation showed the dental requirements alone to be
>largely uncovered by insurance with costs estimated at $10,000
>and perhaps much more.
>
>"People could hardly believe what they saw in the examination of
>my condition. I could only explain that I am a victim of the
>government game of 'select and neglect.'" People are told that
>you are being assigned to an easy 'white-collar' institution: But
>the real truth is that you can then be selectively assigned to
>hazardous jobs and conditions with no protection, or be selectively
>sent on extended bus and airplane trips in chains with hardened
>and dangerous criminals where you remain harshly bound hand and
>foot, for 18 to 20 hours a day in the most cramped and confining
>circumstances -- a treatment called 'diesel therapy.' Blood
>circulation and pinched nerves never quite recover from this as my
>current health situation will attest.
>
>It is this selective treatment that seriously undermines your health
>to begin with. Then you get the second phase which is the neglect
>treatment, where you are denied or cleverly discouraged from
>obtaining needed medical and dental relief -- a very painful time
>when you are dealing with painful abscesses and infection, severe
>swellings, open sores and even more serious matters involving
>internal organs. Having most of my perfectly good teeth rapidly
>deteriorate to shattered remnants broken off at the gum line or
>in painful splintered condition can only prompt your imagination
>as to the pain involved -- without relief -- and that was only the
>dental part of the problem.
>
>"This is the "Gulag" or political prisoner operation that goes on
>in federal prisons (and others), where former public officials
>and law enforcement officers often find themselves singled out for
>that "select and neglect" process. The federal prosecutor in my
>own case, (now overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court) Reid Weingarten,
>has publicly verified this kind of treatment in federal prison.
>Mr. Weingarten, who conducted the improper prosecution against me,
>is now a criminal attorney defending a former FBI official who was
>an investigator of public corruption and served as FBI liaison to
>the White House. The Washington Post of Sunday, July 28,1996, in
>a feature article Weingarten 'a star federal prosecutor' and quotes
>his concern for his client who served a 12 month sentence in federal
>prison. Weingarten said: `It was leaked to guards that (my client)
>had been FBI. He was confronted Constantly by guards who took him
>for a spy and by any inmate with a generic grudge against law
>enforcement. He came back a shell of himself...he was crushed and
>deliberately.'
>
> "I was in prison four times as long as Weingarten's client and I
> didn't
>allow myself to become a 'shell.' However, I did suffer the same
>kind of abusive treatment which tore me up physically and which I
>am now struggling to repair and deal with.
>
>"My medical and dental condition has become a scandal to many
>leaders of Congress in Washington, both House and Senate, who have
>asked me to present my 'souvenirs' in line with legislative and
>oversight responsibilities. This has been done twice... During
>these 'show and tell' visits, I have wryly joked with these
>Congressmen about my visit to Iran in 1979 where I was taken through
>the torture chambers of the Shah's main prison and shown where
>shins were broken, teeth smashed and nails pulled. Never did I
>dream that I would later have shins, teeth and nails to match from
>being wrongfully sent to prison in the United States of America."
>Upon his return to Pocatello from Washington, D.C. he wrote a letter
>to his former colleagues, giving them a further medical update:
>"As I advised you. I have experienced several weeks of serious
>illness along with dental surgery and the subsequent problems of
>recovery.
>
>"These conditions have kept me at a virtual standstill during July
>and August... While in Washington, I continued to press the legal
>and medical aspects of my case with the proper authorities and
>professionals and returned to Pocatello as scheduled for more
>medical appointments.
>
>"...I underwent several hours of intensive root canal and repair
>work on three key 'anchor' teeth vital to planned implants now
>scheduled pursuant to the dental surgery which removed the nine
>teeth broken off at the gum-line.
>
>"To capsulize, I've been and continue to be involved with oral
>surgery, root canals and periodontal repair involving sixteen
>different doctors; and concurrently I have been and continue to be
>in the care of medical specialists of all sorts for serious infection
>in the legs, feet, body organs, chest and shoulder muscles. The
>diagnoses have included inflammatory bursitis, serious neural
>damage, E.Coli, troubling irregularities of bodily functions, severe
>and permanent debilitating stasis, dermatitis of the legs, and
>severe toe disorders, secondary pedal edema accompanied by painful
>fungus infection (secondary to being shackled with legs in a
>dependent position for long periods of time and from confinement).
>"Obviously, this has necessitated the use of heavy dosages of
>medication to relieve the inflammation, control E. Coil and fungus
>and dental infections. and to alleviate pain. This has largely
>prevented me from doing any real or sustained work, except unavoidable
>maintenance tasks. I am hopeful that this intensive treatment and
>continuing recuperation will allow me to increasingly get back to
>full and normal productivity at a reasonably early time. Hopefully,
>this information will be useful to you."
>
> Corruption Permeates Our Government
>
>While continuing to recuperate, former Congressman Hansen is busy
>trying to awaken his former colleagues to the corruption which is
>now rampant in our government. RMNews reprints this confidential
>letter without revealing to whom it was written and faxed on January
>7, 1997:
>
>"...I have discussed the matter of providing you with the basic
>information on the genesis of the Ron Brown (Department of Commerce)
>corruption process (worldwide), beginning with Viet Nam, spreading
>like cancer to other nations wholesale, and exploding with the
>Lippo Bank (Taiwan,etc.). You indicated this could be most helpful,
>so I talked to the former high political official mentioned, and
>he is most willing to help give you a confidential start -- this
>could involve more than one knowledgeable individual.
>
>"...with regard to our discussion on the delicate but provable fact
>that the CIA is keeping two sets of books to deceive Congress and
>maintain a very dangerous and dirty operation, I am prepared to
>back up this charge with reliable evidence and experts from the
>DEA, DIA, CIA, and Department of Justice -- and also establish the
>surprising extent to which the CIA (and affiliates) is saturating
>the street corners and school yards of America. It's dangerous to
>challenge these people (provable) and a reluctance exists on the
>part of legislative committees because of many 'staff technicians'
>maintaining allegiance and rapport with the agencies from which
>they were recruited. This seems to be a matter for the independent
>consideration of your committee which enjoys no conflict of interest,
>and the courage of a fearless Chairman. Certain other Members of
>Congress are in position to be helpful in this (both parties).
>
>Hopefully, this can be discussed meaningfully soon (while the best
>proof remains current and available)."
>
> Blatant Corruption Goes To The Highest Levels
>
>The following confidential document generated from the House
>Government Reform and Oversight Committee on the same day that
>Congressman Hansen faxed the preceding letter, January 7, 1997:
>
>"This Committee on Government Reform and Oversight reorganizes
>today in the face of awesome and unusual challenges for which we
>are particularly prepared to effectively deal with, and for which
>there is little tolerance among cynical and frustrated citizens
>for lack of action.
>
>"Politics as usual and scandalous government corruption have created
>great alarm and distrust of public agencies and officials, particularly
>at the federal level where we have jurisdiction and responsibility.
>
>"The last half of this century has seen our government repeatedly
>and increasingly engage in acts of violence and abuse against its
>own citizens and then lie, manipulate and coverup to avoid detection
>and responsibility. Key enforcement agencies of the Justice
>Department, including the FBI, as well as the CIA and IRS are
>wallowing in scandal and citizen abuse -- often sensationally fatal.
>
>"This blatant corruption and failure of government operations is
>clearly widespread and goes to the highest levels regardless of
>politics while partisan fingers point at others and reform lays in
>gridlock. Congress has an especially difficult problem in instituting
>real reform because the legislative committees generally staff
>heavily from 'the technicians' in the agencies they oversee, (RMSnews
>translation: In other words, the CIA etc, place their own people
>on legislative committees to insure nothing is done which would
>harm the CIA, IRS, etc.) and a cocoon of self-serving protectiveness
>develops to retard objective oversight. This is why this Committee
>is ideally suited to become the real Legislative ombudsman to a
>frustrated and cynical public desperate for reform and relief --
>we do not have that built-in conflict of interest.
>
>"Obviously this Committee does not have the resources to deal with
>the mass of legitimate complaints that could be pressed upon us,
>but we can aggressively pursue issues on a worst-first basis while
>providing an interested ear to citizens hopeful of germinating a
>case upon proper presentation of evidence. And it's only fair that
>our efforts be as even-handed and bi-partisan as possible.
>
>"There is no question that cynical citizens want answers to such
>current questions as campaign finances and the influence of foreign
>funds on elections and government operations. We plan to deal with
>this immediately. But somewhere along the line, it might be
>appropriate to find out why we've had fifty years of uninterrupted
>Presidential deception from the U-2,through Cubaand Gulf of Tonkin
>and Watergate, to Iran-Contra, and the current reported cover-ups.
>Also, Presidents continue to feel they can use federal enforcement
>agencies as their personal pit bulls. Why? No doubt, victims of
>the holocaust would like to know why this government sat on this
>issue throughout WWII; and the victims of our government secret
>chemical and nuclear tests on citizens deserve honest answers and
>just compensation. This committee does indeed face awesome and
>unusual challenges. May we rise to the success the public prays
>for. Confidential" If the Government Reform and Oversight Committee
>follows through on this letter, maybe there is hope for America.
>This letter is the brightest hope outof Washington in decades.
>
>******
>
>GEORGE V. HANSEN
>P.O. B0X 671
>POCATELLO, IDAHO 83204
>PH: 208-233-4830 /FAX: 208-233-3898
>
> CONGRESSMAN GEORGE HANSEN
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>
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>
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>
>-----------------------------
>
>Bill
>
>
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