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Free My Marie
Knights in Dirty Armour
INTRODUCTION
The manuscript for this work was written in a cell at the Dick Conners High medium prison for violent category offenders. It was typed by a typist and his wife who supplied me with all the medical data and a great deal of caselaw which should be, but is not, available at the prison. They wish to remain anonymous. Returned for editing and re-writing in longhand by inmate Ronnie Whitehead who helped me considerably. It was written at a risk similar to that taken by Anne Frank. I would not be able to complete this work as you read it now but for my Guardian Angel Mary Porch who kept me alive through this ordeal with methods of her own. The risk taken writing this reminds me of a sick joke I read in 1958 in a popular magazine: “Daddy, why must I be allowed to only run in circles?” “Shut up or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor!” In prison, one is that helpless. To offer resistance or complain of improprieties one is simply ignored or sent to a smaller cell. To “make waves” one risks drowning. No longer gagged by the courts or the prison system I exercise my 1st Amendment Right. No longer helpless to only run in circles. Now I run only the risk of being silenced by a crazed “Oswald,” “Ruby,” or “James Ray.” An acceptable risk to acquire justice for my innocent wife.
KNIGHTS IN DIRTY ARMOUR
PROLOGUE
“There is no more cruel tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of law, and with the colors of justice.” Montesquieu De L’Espirit du lois, 1748 in U.S. v Jannotti 673 F2d 578 (3 Cir 1982) “Experience hath shown that even under the best form of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”Thomas Jefferson [1779] “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”Friedrich Nietzsche [1900]“The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict but to see that justice is done. The suppression of facts or the secreting of witnesses capable of establishing the innocence of the accused is highly reprehensible.” Canon 5 American Bar Association (1926) “When he lays aside the impartiality that should characterize his official action to become a heated partisan and by vituperation of the prisoner and appeals to prejudice seeks to procure a conviction at all hazards, he ceases to properly represent the public interest which demands no victim, and asks no conviction through the aid of passion, sympathy or resentment
People vs. Fielding 158 NY 542-547 [1899]
(Sacco and Vanzetti, pg. 58)
1.) A terrible abortion of justice has been performed in Mayes County, Oklahoma, and this miscarriage of justice continues to hemorrhage as an advancing cancer.
2.) Our blind faith in our constitution and officials sworn to uphold these great documents leaves us with no concern that a single innocent person - much less two - could be sent to prison to die when no crime was committed by either.
3.) Our laws are great laws, written by great people, but these laws that are to keep order and punish errants were primarily designed to protect the innocent from tyranny.
4.) Why do we innocent even need these laws now - unless there are still tyrants from whom we need protection? Tyrants, not unlike Hussein, after power and recognition. Violating more than a dozen of our great laws to send two innocent citizens to prison to die. Selling two lives for a smiling photograph on the front page of a small town newspaper captioned “I won.” Justice loses.
5.) Justice stands blindfolded. We all honor her as she stands - ready for the tyrants’ firing squad.
6.) It only takes one rotten apple to ruin a barrel. And apathy to allow that to happen.
7.) Without honorable great minds to stand by as watchdogs to guard justice and our great constitution and laws, all so very well written in the books and statutes, to see that they are upheld, they become useless but for compost and landfill and we all lose.
8.) As this vignette unfolds, I ask you to bear in mind to thank god that it will not happen to you, or a loved one or a friend. But it could, though there may be less chance of this as winning a lottery. Nonetheless, remember also, all sweepstakes and lotteries do have winners.
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