Seattle Grand Jury Imprisons Kim Berardi!

Join activist from all over the west coast to protest the unjust jailing of Kim Berardi!!!

When: July 3rd at 2pm

Where: Federal Detention Center-Seatac: 2425 South 200th St. SeaTac, WA 98198

 http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/241197.shtml

Officer Peterson (Spelling unconfirmed) said at 2:30pm that "you can tell eveyone who is calling that she is getting the proper nutrition, to the best of our ability."

The female officer who answered the phone originally handed off the phone to Officer Peterson, a male, who was fairly short with me on the phone.

Since I did not yell or get upset with him, he had to assume I might be an attorney or someone not to F with... so he did make nice after a while.

Please note that it is not his fault she is there.

Andrew Friedman's number is shared; you will want to call the 206-553-7970 number and be transferred to his voicemail or his assistant.

His assistant's name is Christina Morton and she is back on Tuesday July 6th,
while Friedman is back on July 14th - so there should be plenty of opportunity for those of you who test voicemail system capacities.

Friday of a holiday weekend, HA! Callers could maybe try to social engineer the cell phone... that would make a nice vacation gift.

I was told she was under the auspices of the Marshall's Service, at 206-553-5500

Lest anyone EVER wonder why or if learning of world
or local history is important, the story of Kim is a
perfect reason to pay close attention.

Like the styles of the 70's (that were ugly then)
now returning, so is the arrogant and ruthless
attitude of Joe McCarthy, the infamous 'commie' hunter of the 50's coming around for another go at
stepping over our constitutional rights as if they
were just so much litter in the street.

It is always difficult to spot a trend at the start
of one. We are shy to draw a line over which we
say not just 'no' but ''HELL NO!' at the jump. We
really need to have a conversation with our souls
and come to terms with the courage and boundries
of our lives and just what we will NOT let them take from us.

As a little girl I rode segrated bus in Mississippi
and joined the group in the back of the bus and
daily was ejected from the bus. At 10 yrs old, I
knew they were wrong, and did the only thing I could. Today, I do the same. We know what Kim is
enduring is WRONG. Lets do what we can, or, as the poem says, who will be there when they come for us?

Lets sing them our phone song of fredom...

"the arrogant and ruthless attitude of Joe McCarthy, the infamous 'commie' hunter of the 50's..

By the way, there were commies in the 50s--lots of them all through the US gov't. It was an early NWO putsch. It did get out of control and it did serve the WWII escaped fascist supporters, though let's be clear: there were indeed communist spies all through the U.S. government. Harry Hopkins, FDR's right hand man, was one of them. And the original 56 or so that McCarthy identified--well, they were indeed immediately OUT OF GOVERNMENT, or transferred, quietly. It's sad to see lefties ignore history, simply became it came with a right wing messenger. Hell, even Al Smith, loyal to the Democratic party in the 1930s, totally was against FDR!

I appriciate every move people make in trying to bring about liberty as we should know it, but protesting will not work. It may make you feel better, so by all means, do it. But, if you want to make it count, read the few short articles titled "Steppin Out" at funkypretzel.com, commentary page (6). We're an army shooting "blanks" in our rifles. We think we're strong. We'll never be strong until we "step out" of their system and step into the original, organic Republic that was given to us. It was taken away by deceit and lies. It will be taken back by truth and honesty. The ONE THING that ALL bureaucrats fear is truth. Truth is the weapon and knowledge is the ammunition. The strength of your pulse is not your willingness to die for what you believe, but your determined position to LIVE for what you KNOW. Get educated, then do the job that needs to be done. Practically NOTHING in conventional politics and most religion (as we have been taught) is real. I'm just trying to help. I'm learning, just like you. Throw out a life-line, help others where you can, but don't tie that life-line to yourself, you might get pulled into the mud. Tie it to a well rooted tree. Remember, funkypretzel.com/steppin_out_3.htm I think you'll be surprised. Doug

Somebody seemed to think that this was a good forum to defend Joe McCarthy - unfortunately they did not seem to feel that this is a good forum for accurate data.

First off, the 56 "infiltrators" that McCarthy "rescued" America from were accused of communist sympathies four years prior to McCarthy's smear campaigns. Many of them were considered communist because of acoholism, sexual deviance and other characteristics that had nothing to do with their politics. McCarthy just exploited their misfortune because he was an unpopular Senator and feared that he had little hope for re-election.

Second of all, it was not left wing ideologues but the rather the US Army that served as the catalyst for McCathy's downfall. Republican president Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens frantically leaked damning evidence of McCarthy's misconduct to the media because they feared that his uncomprising camapign to destroy anyone who opposed him was a threat to national security.

Finally, the communists and the rest the world watches the developments of the United States' witch hunt very closely. Had McCarthy's inquistion been the only force standing between communist infiltrators and the US government, then the Soviet Union would have surely eclipsed the US shortly after McCarthy's downfall.

Depriving people of their freedom and rights is no way to gain security. It is a quick and convenient solution for those who lack the character to take reponsibility for their lives. However, just as McCarthy was deemed a threat to national security, the demogoues who persecute animal rights activists
while serious threats to national secutrity loom will very likely find themselves replaced by more pragmatic leaders.

Can someone familar with the court proceedings, please tell me more about Kim's case?
I understand she is in prison for not disclosing information, but what is the larger case about?
Curious

First, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who made calls to the Federal Detention Center, to the Judge and to the AUSAs. I greatly appreciate it.

In regards to the investigation, we are not sure what it is about. The government is not disclosing that information.