Ryan Christopher Rodems - In His Own Words

Ryan Rodems

Mr. Rodems is [was] a regular applicant to the 13th Circuit JNC, Hillsborough County, Florida. Should Mr. Rodems be appointed as a Florida judge? You decide, and voice your opinion to the 13th Circuit JNC and the Governor.

Mr. Rodems represented WrestleReunion in a lawsuit against Live Nation, Television Holdings, Inc. Read about the case below.

Eric Bischoff

Read Mr. Rodems' comments about Eric Bischoff, a witnesses in WrestleReunion, LLC v. Live Nation, Television Holdings, Inc., United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Case No. 8:07-cv-2093-T-27, trial August 31-September 10, 2009.

Mr. Rodems and his client failed to prevail at trial. His comments are published below.

WrestleReunion on Wikipedia

WrestleReunion
Wikipedia

WrestleReunion is the premier professional wrestling and fan convention, founded by Sal Corrente (aka "The Big Cheese") in 2005. The first WrestleReunion event occurred January 29, 2005, at Doubletree Hotel in Tampa, Florida. The attendance was 450. Read more

Mr. Rodems, in his own words...

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"It is odd that Eric Bischoff, whose well-documented incompetence caused the demise of WCW, should have any comment on the outcome of the WrestleReunion, LLC lawsuit. The expert report Bischoff submitted in this case bordered on illiteracy, and Bischoff was not even called to testify by Clear Channel/Live Nation because Bischoff perjured himself in a deposition in late-July 2009 before running out and refusing to answer any more questions regarding his serious problems with alcohol and sexual deviancy at the Gold Club while the head of WCW."

Billy Graham

"To even sit in the room and question him was one of the most distasteful things I've ever had to do in 17 years of practicing law. In fact, we understand that Bischoff was afraid to even come to Tampa and testify because he would have to answer questions under oath for a third time about his embarrassing past."

Read Mr. Rodems comments on DOIWrestling.com

Jake the Snake Roberts

"The sad state of professional wrestling today is directly attributable to this snake oil salesman, whose previous career highlights include selling meat out of the back of a truck, before he filed bankruptcy and had his car repossessed. Today, after running WCW into the ground, Bischoff peddles schlock like "Girls Gone Wild" and reality shows featuring B-Iisters."

Cowboy Bob Orton Jr.

"Sal Corrente, on the other hand, has always been an honorable man, and he delivered on every promise and paid every wrestler while staging the three WrestleReunlon events. Unlike the cowardly Bischoff, Mr. Corrente took the stand In this case. Although his company did not prevail, Sal Corrente proved that he was man enough to fight to the finish --something Bischoff could never understand."

Sincerely,

Barker, Rodems & Cook, P.A.

Ryan Christopher Rodems

Barker, Rodems & Cook, P.A.

400 North Ashley Drive, Suite 2100

Tampa, Florida 33602

813/489-1001

Read Mr. Rodems comments on DOIWrestling.com

Mr. Rodems objected to the group photo of Messrs. Barker, Rodems and Cook on this website, so a parody portrayal is shown.

Mr. Rodems, in his own words
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Balls Mahoney

Email of Ryan Christopher Rodems to Gregory W. Herbert, proposal for $12,000,000, agree not to pursue contempt for Bischoff’s arguable perjury in the WrestleReunion lawsuit.

The WrestleReunion case file is a public record on PACER. Balls Mahoney is a professional wrestler.

Email of Mr. Rodems to Greg Herbert
September 28, 2009
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Mr. Rodems' letter to Gov. Crist: "By the way, I, too, resole my shoes, and I have never paid more than $12 for a haircut." - Ryan Christopher Rodems

(obvious on both counts)

Mr. Rodems' letter to Gov. Charlie Crist
April 20, 2010
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Inquiry, Affidavit of Ryan Christopher Rodems, Esq.

In the matter of Gillespie vs. Barker, Rodems & Cook, PA, et. al, case no. 05-7205 Circuit Civil Court, Hillsborough County, Florida, Ryan Christopher Rodems made a sworn affidavit under the penalty of perjury about the following telephone call.

On March 3, 2006, Mr. Rodems called me at home about setting a hearing on Plaintiff’s Motion To Disqualify Counsel. During the call Mr. Rodems threatened to reveal client confidences learned during his firm’s representation of Gillespie. An argument ensued. A partial recording of the phone conversation is here in .wav format.

Telephone phone call, Rodems to Gillespie (partial)
March 3, 2006
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On March 6, 2006, Mr. Rodems submitted Defendants’ Verified Request For Bailiff And For Sanctions. The document is below in PDF.

Also see, The Legal Field Attracts Psychopaths, Author Says; Not That There Is Anything Wrong with That, ABA Journal Law News Now, Posted Nov 13, 2012, By Debra Cassens Weiss

Defendants’ Verified Request For Bailiff And Sanctions
March 6, 2006
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Mr. Rodems made a sworn affidavit under the penalty of perjury that falsely named the Honorable Richard A. Nielsen in an "exact quote" attributed to me, putting the trial judge into the controversy. The Tampa Police Department determined that the sworn affidavit submitted by Mr. Rodems to the court about an "exact quote" attributed to me was not right and not accurate.

Initially I had a good working relationship with Judge Nielsen and his judicial assistant Myra Gomez. I attended the first hearing telephonically September 26, 2005, and later prevailed on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss and Strike. After Rodems’ stunt Judge Nielsen did not manage the case properly, favored Defendants in rulings, and responded to me sarcastically from the bench. Judge Nielsen later recused himself as trial judge.

Mr. Rodems provided written consent to record telephone calls, see Notice Of Mr. Rodems’ Written Consent To Record Telephone Conversations With Him, submitted December 29, 2006. The document is here in PDF.

Mr. Rodems Written Consent to Record Phone Calls
December 29, 2006
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My home office business telephone extension (352) 854-7807 is recorded for quality assurance purposes pursuant to the business use exemption of Florida Statutes chapter 934, section 934.02(4)(a)(1) and the holding of Royal Health Care Servs., Inc. v. Jefferson-Pilot Life Ins. Co., 924 F.2d 215 (11th Cir. 1991).

Royal Health Care Servs., Inc. v. Jefferson-Pilot
Life Ins. Co., 924 F.2d 215
924 F.2d 215 (11th Cir. 1991), Royal Hea[...]
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Perjury complaint Ryan Christopher Rodems to

Tampa Police: Mr. Rodems was not right or accurate

Tampa Police lawyer Kirby Rainesberger responded to my complaint by letter February 22, 2010. Mr. Rainesberger established that Mr. Rodems was not right or accurate in representing to the court as an "exact quote" language that clearly was not an exact quote. He also concluded that Rodems’ misrepresentation did not, in his judgment, rise to the level of criminal perjury. Mr. Rainesberger suggested Gillespie consider the definition of "material matter" in Florida Statues section 837.011(3)(2009).

I replied March 11, 2010 to the definition of "material matter" in Florida Statues section 837.011(3)(2009). According to the statute "Material matter" means any subject, regardless of its admissibility under the rules of evidence, which could affect the course or outcome of the proceeding. Whether a matter is material in a given factual situation is a question of law.

Placing the name of Judge Nielsen into an "exact quote" attributed to me "could affect the course or outcome of the proceeding" because of the personal nature of one’s name, especially the name of the presiding judge. In this case it affected the proceedings.

I noted Florida case law supports a finding of perjury against Mr. Rodems because it meets the definition of "material matter" in section 837.011(3) Florida Statutes (2009).

1. Materiality is not element of crime of perjury, but rather is a threshold issue that the court must determine prior to trial, as with any other preliminary matter. State v. Ellis, 723 So.2d 187 (1998), rehearing denied.

2. Misrepresentations which tend to bolster credibility of a witness, whether successful or not, are regarded as "material" for purposes of supporting a perjury conviction. Kline v. State, App. 1 Dist, 444 So.2d 1102 (1984), petition for review denied 451 So.2d 849

3. Misrepresentations which tend to bolster the credibility of witness, whether they are successful or not, have that potential and are regarded as "material" for purposes of perjury conviction. Soller v. State, App. 5 Dist., 666 So.2d 992 (1996).

4. Representation is "material" under perjury statute if it has mere potential to affect resolution of main or secondary issue before court. Soller v. State, App. 5 Dist., 666 So.2d 992 (1996).

As of today Mr. Rainesberger has not responded to my March 11, 2010 letter. A composite of the complaint and letters appears below in PDF, and on Scribd at this link

Perjury complaint Ryan Christopher Rodems to
Tampa Police Dept, February 2010, with response
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Rodems misled Mr. Bajo, the JNC, and the Governor

Ryan Rodems

I learned on February 24, 2010 that Rodems repeated his perjury in a letter dated December 28, 2009 to Pedro F. Bajo, Chair of the 13th Circuit JNC, and attached a copy of his verified pleading to the letter as "Exhibit 4". (copy enclosed). Mr. Rodems did this to bolster his credibility like in the lawsuit. This is what Mr. Rodems wrote on page 2:

"[Mr. Gillespie] Threatened to "slam" me "against the wall;" as a result, I requested that a bailiff be present at all hearings. (Exhibit "4"). As a precaution, I also scheduled Mr. Gillespie's deposition in a building requiring visitors to pass through a metal detector;"

Clearly Mr. Rodems is referring to an actual assault, not a metaphor. Mr. Rodems mislead Mr. Bajo, the JNC, and ultimately the Governor.

Mr. Rodems’ letter is part of the JNC file sent to Rob Wheeler, General Counsel to the Governor. Since the letter may be considered by the Governor in evaluating Mr. Rodems for appointment as judge, this matter now concerns the business and citizens of the State of Florida.

Gov. Crist rejected Rodems for judge every time

Gov. Crist and the Rothsteins

Gov. Crist did not always make the best choices, but he rejected Rodems for judge each and every time. Thanks Gov. Crist!

Mr. Rodems and his partner Chris Barker hijacked the 13th Circuit JNC

Black's Law Dictionary, Eighth Edition

Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition

Perjury on Wikipedia

Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding.

Perjury is considered a serious offense as it can be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice. In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law defines perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years Read more here

Federal law, perjury

CHAPTER 79—PERJURY - Cornell Legal Information Institute
18 U.S.C., sections 1621-1623

18 U.S.C. 1621 Perjury generally
18 U.S.C. 1622 Subornation of perjury
18 U.S.C. 1623 False declarations before grand jury or court

Ryan Christopher Rodems, in his own words...

Ryan Rodems

Since March 3, 2006 Mr. Rodems directed, with malice aforethought, a course of harassing conduct toward Gillespie that aggravated his disability, caused substantial emotional distress and served no legitimate purpose. Mr. Rodems’ unprofessional conduct is apparent in his letter to Gillespie dated December 13, 2006. For example:

"I recognize that you are a bitter man who apparently has been victimized by your own poor choices in life. You also claim to have mental or psychological problems, of which I have never seen documentation. However, your behavior in this case has been so abnormal that I would not disagree with your assertions of mental problems." (P1, 3)

"So, in addition to your case's lack of merit, you are cheap and not willing to pay the required hourly rates for representation." (P3, 2).

Letter of Ryan Christopher Rodems to Gillespie
December 13, 2006
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Ryan Rodems

Mr. Rodems prevented the lawful adjudication of both the state and federal cases through his repeated violation of FL Bar Rule 4-3.3 Candor Toward The Tribunal.

Mr. Rodems made numerous false statements of material fact to the tribunal, failed to cooperate with opposing counsel, and disrupted the tribunal for strategic advantage.

The state court action turned into a personal vendetta for Rodems January 19, 2006 when Rodems commenced a vexatious libel counterclaim against Gillespie, which Rodems pursued vexatiously through September 28, 2010 whereupon Rodems voluntarily dismissed the case without prejudice.

Mr. Rodems failed to disclose to the court legal authority in the controlling jurisdiction known to the lawyer to be directly adverse to the position of the client and not disclosed by opposing counsel. As set forth in the Petition (SC11-1622) to the Florida Supreme Court, Mr. Rodems made false statements to the tribunal to have an arrest warrant issued for Gillespie for the purpose of forcing a walk-away settlement agreement in the state court case, and to force a walk-away settlement agreement in this Court for my federal civil rights and ADA disability lawsuit.

Petition No. 12-7747, writ of certiorari, U.S. Supreme Court

Index to Petition No. 12-7747, SCOTUS

Online SCOTUS docket for Petition No. 12-7747

Mr. Rodems' repeated violation of FL Bar Rule 4-3.3 Candor Toward The Tribunal
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Civil Rights Movement

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Thank you. Neil Gillespie

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Slavery at Brown University

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Slavery at University of Virginia

Slavery at Harvard University

Slavery at Ivy League Schools

The Problem of Whiteness

BlackPast.org Website

ABA & NAACP: Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System

BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Philadelphia Lawyer Wayne Bennett

Creation myth, white Supremacy
SOA Watch, Elizabeth Martinez

Every nation has a creation myth, or origin myth, which is the story people are taught of how the nation came into being. Ours says the United States began with Columbus's so-called "discovery" of America, continued with settlement by brave Pilgrims, won its independence from England with the American Revolution, and then expanded westward until it became the enormous, rich country you see today.

That is the origin myth. It omits three key facts about the birth and growth of the United States as a nation. Those facts demonstrate that White Supremacy is fundamental to the existence of this country. Read

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Police Captain Ray Lewis (Ret.) fighting corruption. OCCUPY!

Banks destroying America

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Protection Agenda

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Consumers and Reverse Mortgages

For the Reverse Mortgage Industry

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CFPB February 2015

Snapshot of reverse mortgage complaints (PDF here)
Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2014
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CFPB advisory: Don’t be misled by reverse mortgage advertising

CFPB Monitor is a blog focused on important goings-on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the independent consumer financial regulatory and enforcement agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act. Blog by Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group.

New Bankruptcy Forms Affect Residential Mortgage Lenders...

Update on disparate impact lawsuit against HUD

SCOTUS: No Vindication of Rights Exception to Concepcion

FTC brief: Challenge Arbitration

Will CFPB adopt rules to rein in mandatory arbitration clauses?

Small Debts Matter To Black Lives

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CFPB: Right to request credit reports

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Professor Benjamin H. Barton author of The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System, writes that virtually all American judges are former lawyers, a shared background that results in the lawyer-judge bias. Barton argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. Overlawyered, Larry Ribstein, Glenn Reynolds, and Cato’s Dan Mitchell. Barton submitted a brief with Darryl Brown, Turner v Rogers. Docket.

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75 Fordham L. Rev. 2855 (2007), by the Hon. Dennis Jacobs, kindly Nominate this for a Nobel Prize.

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Has the United Nations Failed?

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....Ms. Zinnah Begum, Bangladesh

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Medicare for All Is a Realistic Goal

H.R. 676: Medicare For All Act

Medicare For All Act will save $Billions

Medicare For All is Necessary and Proper for America's health and success; and U.S. International Commerce in competition with countries who provide workers universal health care. Article 25 of the UDHR says medical care is an international human right.

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For Persons With Invisible Disabilities

...........benefit to leadership..........

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Development, human rights for all

Human Rights and disabilities

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ex-Sen Santorum against CRPD

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.....Click to Google 'Jury Nullification'

Law prof. confesses: I am a sociopath, ABA Law News Now

Law prof confesses: I am a sociopath, ABA Law News

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Retired Judge Richard F. Cebull

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Rates judicial performance of judges

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Norcross woman's condo sold over $95 tax bill she never received. ABA Journal Law News

Bennie Coleman, retired Marine

lost home over $134 tax bill

The Washington Post

On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb...because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill.

"The whole system of justice

in America is broken"
ABA Law News Now

Law Prof. Laurence Tribe

Wanda Dunn, Pasadena woman, foreclosure suicide

Wells Fargo - Foreclosure Suicide

Two Philadelphia Homeowners Choose Death Over Foreclosure

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When national systems totally fail, the Treaty of Rome applies.

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mirage or justice?

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Florida: Paradise Of Scandals

60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Talks To Carl Hiaasen In a little less than a century, the state of Florida has been transformed from a largely uninhabited swamp to the fourth-largest state in the union. And no one has written about that transformation more successfully than Carl Hiaasen.

Carl Hiaasen on Florida:

"The Sunshine State is a paradise of scandals teeming with drifters, deadbeats, and misfits drawn here by some dark primordial calling like demented trout. And you'd be surprised how many of them decide to run for public office."

LawyerRatingz.com

Avvo.com

....Disbar The Florida Bar website.....

Common Good website

Says remove lawyers from elective office outside the judicial branch

Scott and Helen Nearing

Radical Wharton Professor

Nearing influenced generations over his century-long life by advocating what he believed to be a back-to-nature lifestyle of economic and social purity.

"If I am rich and you are poor," Nearing wrote, "both of us are corrupted by inequality."

The politics, economy, and technology today provides a new foundation for his message.

Scott Nearing, Wharton School

Scott and Helen Nearing, The Good Life, Justice Network Link

Object to the "normalization of violence" accepted to put dinner on the table. See, The human cost of animal suffering, Mark Bittman, NYT, March 13, 2012

Paul McCartney - Glass Walls

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Fair wages, safe, clean work, respect

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The New York Times

2. Reflections on Paying Living Wages in a Global Economy

3. How Many Slaves Work For You today in the year 2014?

4. Slavery Footprint today 2014

5. Progressive Garment Factory, or Charity? Business Ethics Blog

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Big Stick ideology
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"

Anthracite Coal Strike

In 1902, 140,000 miners went on strike, wanting higher pay, shorter work hours, and better housing.....Roosevelt...use[d] the military to run the mines in the "public interest". The mining companies...accepted the demands of the UMW...more

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.....Charles Hugh Smith

"Why play by the rules when you know the game is rigged? To do so is to condone your enslavement." Read this and more on the website Of Two Minds by Charles Hugh Smith in his post "Our Participation Fuels Financial Tyranny". Zero Hedge

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John Brown, 1860 portrait

A John Brown for Today?

John Brown, the abolitionist of Harpers Ferry fame, sought to free slaves bound by chains and involuntary servitude. Brown’s raid in October 1859 with 22 men played a major role in starting the American Civil War. David S. Reynolds hails him as the man who "killed slavery, sparked the civil war, and seeded civil rights." That was 155 years ago. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed slaves, and in December 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

Economic Slavery Today

Today economic slavery has many people in debt chains. Economic or debt slavery is more efficient for its masters than the slavery of the Old South. Debt slaves must feed, house and clothe themselves. The debt slave masters, the banks, credit card companies, and even student loan providers, all rely upon the courts and justice system for enforcement of debt. When economic slaves can’t pay back their debt, they are told to get a second job. Or a third job.

Meanwhile, when the well-connected masters of economic slaves get in a financial bind, and bring our economy to the brink of collapse, they call on politicians in Washington, DC for bailouts. Bankers don’t get second or third jobs, they get million-dollar bonuses.

The economic slave masters have access to the best lawyers, sympathetic judges, and sheriff’s deputies ready to haul the debt slave to court, or throw him and his family out of their home and into the street. Does anyone see a problem with this scenario? Where is the John Brown for today’s debt slaves?

Justice by Luca Giordano

Justice Wikipedia

Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics.

According to most theories of justice, it is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."

Rule of Law Index 2016

Amnesty International

online grassroots response to failed Democratic Party values

......Nonviolent conflict resolution

Witness, Human Rights Organization

Justice: An Impossible Dream? Dr. Margaret Koch-Nabialczyk

Human rights law reform London

Final Indignities, Jeff Good

Forgotten Victims

Jeffrey Good, Final Indignities:

An Editorial Investigation

of lawyer theft from clients

St. Petersburg Times,

September 11, 1994

Ayn Rand, NPR enigma page

Peace Corps, Wikipedia

WikiLeaks is an international organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources.

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New York Times: WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety, By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA, October 23, 2010

Julian Assange, Wikipedia

July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike

P. J. Crowley Resigned

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley resigns
Los Angeles Times
By Paul Richter
March 14, 2011

The State Department's top spokesman resigned Sunday, three days after criticizing the Pentagon for its treatment of [Manning]...P.J. Crowley, the assistant secretary of State for public affairs, told a group at [MIT]...that the Pentagon's treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning was "ridiculous and stupid and counterproductive." His comments were made public by a blogger who attended the session. More here, and Politico, and The Washington Post

The Whistle-Blowers Act of 1777
The New York Times
by STEPHEN M. KOHN
June 12, 2011

FORTY years ago today, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment not only for freedom of the press but also for the role of whistle-blowers — like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the papers to expose the mishandling of the war in Vietnam — in defending our democracy. Read more

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Truthdigger of the Week
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. Read more

The Way We Treat Our Troops, NYT

NATIONAL CENTER for PTSD

Beyond PTSD to "Moral Injury"

"I really don't like the term 'PTSD,’” Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay told PBS' "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" in 2010. "He says the diagnostic definition of "post-traumatic stress disorder" is a fine description of certain instinctual survival skills that persist into everyday life after a person has been in mortal danger — but the definition doesn't address the entirety of a person's injury after the trauma of war. "I view the persistence into civilian life after battle," he says, "... as the simple or primary injury." Dr. Shay on YouTube

Dr. Shay has his own name for the thing the clinical definition of PTSD leaves out. He calls it "moral injury" — and the term is catching on with both the VA and the Department of Defense.

Moral injury, Dr. Shay says, can happen when "there is a betrayal of what's right by someone who holds legitimate authority in a high-stakes situation." read more

Pentagon says it is lifting ban on women in combat - New York Times

Marines Moving Women Toward the Front Lines
The New York Times
By JAMES DAO
April 24, 2012

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.

Stars and Stripes exists to provide independent news and information to the U.S. military community, comprised of active-duty, DoD civilians, contractors, and their families. Unique among the many Department of Defense authorized news outlets, only Stars and Stripes is guaranteed First Amendment privileges that are subject to Congressional oversight. Go to the website

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veteranaid.org

Military Corruption.com

Our motto: "FIGHTING FOR THE TRUTH. . .EXPOSING THE CORRUPT" is our battle cry! We go after, not only pompous brasshats and as COL. David Hackworth so ably put it - the "perfumed princes" like Gen. Wesley Clark - but Gestapo-like MP's, CID, NIS, OIS and other alphabet agency "bully boys" who ignore the Constitution of the United States and the right to Due Process.

9/11 Attacks - New Information

Lloyd's Sues Saudi Arabia over 9/11

Law Professor Paul Campos, The Daily Beast: Why Bin Laden Was Not Taken Alive

Link to 9/11 commission and report

Former Sen Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks

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....Major Heather Penney, 9/11 Pilot

C-Span interview with Major Heather Penney, 9/11 DC Air National Guard Pilot

Major Heather Penney recounts the drama in the skies after District of Columbia Air National Guard pilots scrambled to intercept incoming hostile planes. She describes why F-16’s initially took off from Andrews Air Force Base unarmed – and what she was prepared to do to bring down a plane piloted by terrorists. And she recounts how later that day she helped escort President Bush and Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force Base. C-Span Interview

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FBI probe of Sarasota home link to 9/11 hijackers not reported to Congress, commission

911 Truth Movement, Wikipedia

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14 Year Anniversary - YouSue.org to NoSue.org

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Through this website I have met folks from all over the country. Some of their stories are profiled here. Many have reached the conclusion that America’s justice system is broken.

The official Justice Network Internet address is now NoSue.org. This reflects the sad truth that for most Americans the justice system is broken, just a parody of justice. Reform American courts or avoid them. Your life, health and wealth is at risk. But don’t just take my word, listen to the experts on this site.

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