Posted on 09/04/2001 6:37:21 AM PDT by Neets
REPOST OF THREAD FROM SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2001.
This morning, agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service served a leader at the Klamath headgates, Barbara Martin, with legal papers, including a complaint, motion for a temporary restraining order and motion for an order to show cause, and a temporary restraining order, barring her from "occupying, entering upon the area within the fence surrounding the [headgates], [or] interfering with, impeding, damaging, or obstructing the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation water control head gate".
The Justice Department obtained the temporary restraining order without notice to Ms. Martin on Friday, August 31st, claiming that "the undersigned was unable to contact Ms. Martin, and therefore did not advise him [sic] of this application". No record is given of just what effort was made to contact Ms. Martin, who spends a great deal of time at the headgates and is easy to reach. The temporary restraining order contains a typo that suggests it has been in the works since August 23rd.
Though served on Saturday morning, the order requires Ms. Martin to appear before United States District Judge Ann Aiken at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4th, in Eugene, Oregon, which is hundreds of miles away from Klamath Falls. (Interested members of the public could presumably attend; the address is 211 E. 7th Avenue.) Judge Aiken is the same judge who previously denied relief to the irrigators.
The Supreme Court has declared that the First Amendment does not protect "advocacy . . . directed to inciting and producing imminent lawless action and [which] is likely to incite or produce such action" (Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969)). The complaint thus includes, as an exhibit, a declaration from Special Agent Scott G. Pearson, who relies, in part, upon a "confidential informant". Agent Pearson declares that Ms. Martin "circulated through the crowd calling for participants to effect a 'citizens arrest' of the federal officers and repeatedly attempted to incite the crowd to physically occupy the headgate structure". Ms. Martin denies these allegations. The papers do not explain why walking upon the headgates amounts to "lawless action". By contract, the headgates are under the management and operation of the Klamath Irrigation District, not the Bureau of Reclamation.
That is one scary graphic...I'm going to use it if ok with you for the next petition thread.
So this is the treatment citizens are to expect for not being on the sidelines spectating but for being actively engaged?
University Park, Pa. - Former Attorney General Janet Reno will lead off Penn State's Distinguished Speakers Series on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 8 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
Tickets will be available to students attending classes at the University Park campus on Monday, Aug. 27. Tickets will be available to faculty, staff and students from other Penn State campuses on Tuesday, Aug. 28. The general public may pick up any remaining tickets beginning Wednesday, Aug. 29, on a first-come, first-served basis. The Eisenhower box office is open from 8:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Limited tickets may also be available the night of the speech.
The nation's first female attorney general, Reno headed the world's largest justice and law enforcement office (125,000 employees) for nearly eight years and was responsible for the enforcement of federal laws and for representing the government in court. The longest serving attorney general since before the civil war, Reno used the authority of her office to enforce civil rights and environmental and health statutes, and increase the government's information technology resources devoted to law enforcement.
The Distinguished Speakers Series is sponsored by the University Park Allocation Committee, coordinated by the Distinguished Speakers Series Committee and the Office of Student Activities, and funded by student activity fees. For more information, contact the Office of Student Activities at (814) 863-3786.
Contact: Amy Neil (aen4@psu.edu) or Allison Kessler (aek143@psu.edu) at (814) 865-7517.
This is a disgrace, and an embarrassment to Penn State. There are far better and more qualified speakers to bring to campus than "the butcher of Waco". Reno is an embarrassment to humanity. True evil. Her pursuit of innocent people in her Florida witch hunt against alleged child molesters is a case study in paranoia and fraud, and abuse of government power.
God be with the farmers and everyone who supports them.
prisoner6
Thanks for calling this to my attention! ;o)
I deny it. Not me. Not my words. I fell into a trance. Too much ground squirrel. Not enough whiskey.
And the serious part is, the Glory really goes to Him. I have no choice in the matter. It's a done deal. I've surrendered. Only the ghost of my howlin' bark remains.
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