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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Oklahoma County Grand Jury Funds (fwd)
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>
>Okay everybody. Time to pony up. We have to make sure Rep. Key has the funds
>needed to do the investigation. I know funds are tight but we have to get
>off our wallets for this. This could possibly prevent the conflict we all
>believe is coming. If not what difference does the $$$$ make anyway. If
>1,000,000 patriots send $10 (ten dollars) each, they will have $10,000,000 to
>do it right. Our FEDERAL employees just voted to set up $12,000,000 to
>investigate Campaign Finance irregularities by President Clinton and her
>husband Bill and others. Let's show them that WE THE PEOPLE want the truth by
>funding Rep. Key's efforts. I am going to send $50 Monday, 2/24/97.
>
>Attached is the fundraising letter. If this is a duplicate post, please
>forgive and PLEASE repost widely.
>
>"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
> system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
> --- Claire Wolfe
>
>Lock and Load, prepare to Rock and Roll.
>
>GOD bless the Republic! Death to the New World Order! GOD willing, we will
>prevail!
>
>Drew Rayner
>Mississippi Militia
>
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>>REP.CHARLES KEY COMMITTEES:
>>STATE CAPITOL BLDG. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
>>ROOM 508 EDUCATION
>>OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73105 BANKING & FINANCE
>>(405)521.2711 WILDLIFE
>>
>>
>>
>> House Of Representatives
>>
>>
>>
>> March 12, 1997
>>
>>Dear Concerned Citizen:
>>
>>
>> My name is Charles Key and I'd like to share some personal
>>and inside information with you.
>>
>> I'm an Oklahoma State Representative. I humbly ask you to
>>spare a few minutes to read some things that you have probably
>>never seen before on TV or read in the newspapers about some
>>shocking events associated with the Oklahoma City bombing.
>>
>> Regardless what city or state you're from, you will likely
>>be affected more than you may ever know by that bombing and
>>pending trials.
>>
>> On April 19, 1995 when I heard the news (and literally heard
>>the explosion) of the Murrah building I was dumbfounded.
>>
>> As the realization sunk in that so many people and children
>>were killed, I, along with millions of others watching news
>>coverage, felt that indescribable, overwhelming sensation in the
>>pit of my stomach.
>>
>> Yet, as the "story" unfolded, my spirits were lifted as I
>>saw example after example of shear human compassion and an
>>outpouring of unblemished, unconditional love flow forth in a far
>>greater degree than I had ever seen in any venue of life,
>>including and especially in political circles.
>>
>> Put more bluntly, that sacrificial selflessness and unity
>>was the very antithesis of the type of behavior that so typically
>>embodies politics.
>>
>> How refreshing it was to see people helping people without
>>the proverbial ugly political head rearing up asking, "What's in
>>it for me?" or "Why should I do that?"
>>
>> As the weeks passed, I saw Godbreathed compassion by the
>>citizens of Oklahoma and from many other states who joined in to
>>help. Those memories will never leave my mind and nothing can
>>eradicate the great amount of good that was done by those
>>thousands of acts of kindness.
>>
>> 1
>>
>> NOT PRINTED AT STATE EXPENSE
>>
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>>As a matter of fact, it is that very visible love that helped me
>>hang on for the two tough years that followed. (I hope you will
>>take the time to read more about those years in the following
>>pages.)
>>
>> Over the next few weeks, inconsistencies began emerging.
>>Stories kept changing and although I couldn't see the emerging
>>political angle, I could sense it.
>>
>> Consider the following facts which caused me to become
>>initially concerned.
>>
>>Fact #1:
>>
>>
>>The initial A.P.B. (All Points Bulletin) was for Middle Eastern
>>John Does in a brown pick-up truck. The Jordanian brought back
>>from London who had apparent bomb making materials in his
>>suitcase and other John Doe suspects who were described as Middle
>>Eastern.
>>
>>Fact #2:
>>
>>Those Middle Eastern reports quickly vanished. Why?...
>>
>>Fact #3:
>>
>>The 1200 pound ammonium nitrate bomb "grew" continuously from
>>1200 to 2400 to 4800 pounds.
>>
>>Fact #4:
>>
>>The early reports told us about explosives inside the Murrah
>>Building. Remember how the rescue effort was "put on hold" while
>>the bomb squad entered the building to search for and take out
>>those intentionally placed internal explosives? Then those
>>reports were described in detail by local U.S. Congressmen and
>>bomb experts interviewed in studio by the media.
>>
>>Fact #5:
>>
>>Those reports also disappeared or were explained away as dummy or
>>'for show' items.
>>
>>Fact #6:
>>
>>Those who dared oppose the REVISIONIST NEWS ACCOUNTS, were
>>ostracized, mocked, discredited, dark-cornered, etc. I know, I
>>was one who dared to be politically incorrect.
>> 2
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>>
>>Fact #7:
>>
>>The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) had field agents assigned
>>to the office at the Murrah Building. Yet, on the day of the
>>bombing, not one of those agents were killed. They were mysteriously,
>>uncharacteristically absent from the building that morning.
>>
>> At some point it became painfully apparent that there was
>>more wrong than right with the federal investigation. That is
>>when I had a very tough decision to make. Should I sit and do
>>nothing and remain in my comfort zone simply "playing the part"
>>of the caring politician for the photo op's? Or should I really
>>do the right thing even if it meant giving the phrase
>>"politically incorrect" a whole new dimension?
>>
>> It didn't take long after discussing it with my wife to
>>determine that I had to do the right thing -- no matter what the
>>consequences were to be.
>>
>> Having come to that conclusion, I decided to go forward to
>>search out the truth and tell it to a waiting world.. Little did
>>I know the onslaught I was about to embrace.
>>
>> Before I go on to tell you what I did that I believed was
>>right, allow me to tell you what some in the establishment news
>>media and political circles claimed I was doing wrong.
>>
>> Major media has launched unheard of attacks against our
>>desire to conduct constitutionally sound and proper
>>investigations. The Daily Oklahoman and the Tulsa World have
>>published nine separate editorials viciously attacking me, Glenn
>>Wilburn and all those who have stood up and demanded all of the
>>truth about this terrible crime.
>>
>> An editorial from the Daily Oklahoman entitled, "DROP IT,
>>MR. KEY even had the audacity to say;
>> "As we argued when Key first set out on this course, the
>>Legislature and its staff had no business investigating the
>>bombing. It was, and is, poorly equipped to do so. The same can
>>be said of a panel of local citizens" . . .
>>
>> The same day Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson issued
>>a personal attack saying that I was proposing a "wasteful witch
>>hunt" and was pushing "the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy
>>pandering"
>>
>> People in powerful positions have repeatedly attacked those
>>of us who have been scrutinizing the federal investigation.
>>Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating was a former FBI agent himself
>>and spent most of his career in the services of Federal
>>Departments of the Treasury, Justice and HUD (Housing and Urban
>>Development). At one time in his career his responsibilities
>>included the overseeing of the ATF and other federal law
>>enforcement. Gov. Keating went so far as to say that "raising
>>questions would not bring one whit of intelligence to the
>>process." He later escalated his attacks saying those of us who
>>were raising serious questions were "howling at the moon" and
>>"off the reservation."
>>
>> 3
>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> All of these people are literally robbing the victims family
>>members and survivors -- and all of us -- the opportunity and
>>right to know the truth.
>>
>> For nearly two years the negative media coverage seemed
>>unending. And although I never vowed not to do any fundraising,
>>going hat in hand was about the last thing I wanted to do. After
>>all, I wasn't searching for cash, I was searching for answers. I
>>shudder to think what sort of creative headlines would have
>>appeared had I operated an active fundraising campaign in the
>>wake of that tragedy.
>>
>> In retrospect, I now believe I may have done a disservice by
>>not fundraising.
>>
>> First, had I acquired cash reserves for the very worthy
>>cause I was working on, it would have aided tremendously in
>>fighting the formidable disinformation and smear campaign waged
>>by "faceless forces" that appear to have pockets of unending
>>depth and the mass media at their beck and call.
>>
>> Second, had I done fundraising, my own family and others
>>wouldn't have gone into debt by this largely self-funded effort.
>>
>>
>> WE NOW FACE OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE
>>
>> Glenn Wilburn, who lost two grand children in the tragedy,
>>and I filed a petition in November, 1995, to have a local county
>>grand jury impaneled to investigate the bombing. This independent
>>grand jury would be fully autonomous of the federal
>>investigation, and would double in the capacity of a watchdog of
>>the federal investigation.
>>
>> Here in Oklahoma, we are very fortunate to be one of only
>>two states that have a constitutional guarantee that the people
>>of a county can cause a grand jury to be impaneled whenever they
>>feel there is a need simply by circulating a petition. It is and
>>always has been a common occurrence in our state. In fact there
>>are county grand juries meeting as I write this letter.
>>
>> The Presiding State District Judge, Dan Owens, tried to stop
>>us from petitioning to impanel the grand jury and we were forced
>>to appeal his actions to a higher court. That is where the latest
>>and some of the most intense criticism has come from recently.
>>One year after our appeal, we finally got a written opinion from
>>the Court of Appeals in the Tulsa district. On December 24, 1996
>>the court ruled not only in our favor, but they did so
>>unanimously.
>>
>> But wait--there is more. Not only was it unanimous, but the
>>court issued the decision "For Publication." That means that it
>>was such a clear-cut case in regard to the state constitution,
>>statutes, and previous case law, that it constituted a precedent-
>>setting case to be used in lawbooks, most likely for many years
>>to come.
>>
>> Yet, why is there such extreme opposition to keep this
>>independent grand jury from being allowed to assemble? I believe
>>the answer is because some in our federal law
>> 4
>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>enforcement agencies (i.e. ATF and FBI) had prior knowledge that
>>certain individuals were planning to bomb the Murrah Federal
>>Building! I believe that because of at least four reasons:
>>
>> I) Six different individuals have come forward and reported
>>seeing the bomb squad in the immediate vicinity of the Murrah
>>Building early on the morning of the bombing.
>>
>> 2) The Oklahoma City Fire Department received a call from
>>the FBI the Friday before the bombing and was told to be on the
>>alert for a possible terrorist attack on a government building.
>>
>> 3) Bruce Shaw, who had frantically come to look for his wife
>>inside the smoldering building, was told by an ATF agent, "You
>>won't find any ATF agents in the building because they were
>>warned on their pagers not to come in this morning and they're
>>now in a debriefing." This conversation was corroborated by his
>>boss who accompanied Bruce to help him find his wife.
>>
>> 4) Carol Howe, a paid informant for the ATF has recently
>>come forward to confirm that she informed the ATF that two
>>individuals, Dennis Mahon and Andreas Strassmier, were planning
>>to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City. She also said that
>>the likely date for the bombing was April 19!
>>
>> Prior knowledge on the part of some individuals in the
>>federal government may also be why the federal prosecutors barred
>>every single witness to John Doe(s) from the Federal Grand Jury.
>>Of the more than 20 witnesses to one or more John Doe(s), none -
>>not even one - were allowed to tell the Grand Jury what they saw.
>>Additionally, when the prosecution's list of witnesses was
>>unsealed several weeks ago, we found that the one witness who
>>will be allowed to testily in the trial to McVeigh being in the
>>company of a John Doe can't describe in any way who he saw.
>>Indeed, the best witnesses who can positively place McVeigh in
>>downtown Oklahoma City that morning saw him with one or more
>>individuals and are able to describe to some degree what that
>>person or persons looked like. Those witnesses will not be
>>allowed to testily at McVeigh's trial.
>>
>> Incredible? Did you hear that right? Yes, you did. As
>>bizarre as it sounds, Federal Prosecutors were not allowing any
>>of those witnesses to be seen or heard by the Federal Grand Jury.
>>This gives "blind justice" a whole new meaning.
>>
>> To make this even more clear, the Federal Grand Jury wanted
>>to interview both the eye witnesses and the sketch artist who
>>drew the John Doe composites but they were flatly refused by the
>>federal "authorities." Clearly they were blatantly deprived of
>>their basic Constitutional rights as grand jurors. Why?
>> Just what is it that they are trying to accomplish? Or,
>>perhaps more pointedly, just who are they trying to protect? And
>>what all are they trying to hide?
>> 5
>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Let's not forget, elected officials are supposed to be the
>>servants of the people and not the other way around. Just what's
>>going on??? And how are they getting away with it?!!!!!
>>
>> Our efforts to impanel a county grand jury are important for
>>numerous reasons. One of the reasons that concerns me most is
>>that I fear that the record of McVeigh's trial will comprise the
>>"official story" of what happened If the evidence of prior
>>knowledge and other perpetrators is not presented in this case, I
>>fear that the government will be successful in shaping the
>>official story to permanently exclude that evidence.
>>
>> The 1993 New York World Trade Center bombing is a case in
>>point.
>>
>> Because certain tapes implicating the role of the FBI in
>>allowing the attack to take place were ruled inadmissible in
>>court, many people do not know that the FBI indeed had knowledge
>>prior to that bombing and could have prevented it--yet they
>>allowed the plot to continue resulting in the deaths of six
>>innocent people.
>>
>> Unfortunately the transcripts of that court case have become
>>the "official story" of what happened in that bombing.
>>
>> Another reason that I feel that the OKC bombing case is
>>important and directly effects you is that the government has
>>gone to a new level of operating out of the bounds of the law and
>>is becoming more and more arrogant.
>>
>> A few weeks ago, ABC was getting ready to run a major story
>>on the prior knowledge issue. The Justice Department became aware
>>of it and contacted some of the executives at ABC. After
>>acknowledging the validity of the story they put extreme pressure
>>on ABC not to air the report saying, "The people couldn't handle
>>the truth."
>>
>> I don't know about you but that kind of arrogance sickens me
>>and leaves me with a eerie feeling. The government must not be
>>allowed to get away with yet another botched job! The Government
>>must be held accountable.
>>
>> The good news...
>>
>> In spite of the seemingly inpenetratable and insurmountable
>>forces acting against us, on February 18, 1997 the Oklahoma State
>>Supreme Court miraculously ruled in favor of allowing the
>>independent local county grand jury and against the Federal
>>Government's attempt to quash the rights of the people.
>>
>> Now the forgotten families, survivors, and victims who died
>>from the blast will have their right to a County Grand Jury and a
>>full, open and truthful investigation.
>> 6
>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The bad news...
>>
>>
>> Any day now the courts will give us the formalized written
>>order to begin passing the petitions to impanel the independent
>>jury, but we're just about stone broke.
>>
>> For nearly two years, I never conducted so much as a single
>>fluid-raiser to properly investigate this worst terrorist act in
>>the history of both our state and the nation. I also know how
>>tapped most people are these days, but I believe at this point, I
>>don't have much of a choice.
>> We now need funds to secure copies of voluminous government
>>documents, and to pay independent investigators, as well as money
>>to print, publicize and distribute signature forms to complete
>>the legal requirements to impanel the County Grand Jury. In
>>short, this effort is now bigger than what I can handle fiscally
>>or physically. May I count on your help?
>>
>> Enclosed is a simple straight forward form asking for
>>whatever financial assistance you can afford to give. Please do
>>what you can. We will put you on our mailing list to keep you up
>>to date on the petition drive and signature gathering process.
>>
>> The clock is about to begin and we have limited time by law
>>to gather signatures. And you know that the big players within
>>the Federal Government are not likely to help us. That is why I
>>am counting on you.
>>
>> Thank you for being patient and open-minded enough to read
>>this letter. Together we can get the truth out, make a real
>>difference and God willing, see justice prevail. May I please
>>count on your help?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>> Rep. Charles Key
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. Elements within the federal government and in the
>>establishment media have done virtually everything in their power
>>to block an independent county investigation of the Oklahoma
>>bombing tragedy. On February 18 the Oklahoma Supreme Court
>>cleared the way for the people to investigate the Federal
>>Government and their investigation of the bombing. Next week we
>>must begin obtaining signatures.
>>
>> Will you please stand up and be counted? PLEASE FILL OUT THE
>>ENCLOSED REPLY CARD AND SEND IT BACK TO ME RIGHT AWAY. It only
>>takes a few moments, and it will make a real difference in the
>>effort to uncover the truth about the Oklahoma bombing.
>>
>> Thank you for your time and concern.
>>
>>
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>>
>>Address on envelope:
>>
>> Oklahoma County Grand Jury &
>> Bombing Investigation Fund
>> Post Office Box 75669
>> Oklahoma City, OK 73147
>
>
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