Posted on 09/06/2001 5:49:39 AM PDT by harpseal
Ted Maher -- former Special Forces; Neonatal Intensive Care nurse
American Green Beret veteran and accomplished neonatal nurse Ted Maher has now been held 537 days without trial in Monaco's prison on trumped-up and false charges -- charges of causing the deaths of billionaire banker Edmond Safra and Ted's fellow nurse, Vivian Torrente on December 3, 1999. In truth, Ted fought valiantly against two armed, masked intruders to defend Edmond and Vivian and save their lives. During the struggle, Ted suffered severe knife wounds that required one hundred staples to close.
Billionaire banker Edmond Safra was cooperating with the FBI, who was investigating the IMF/Russian loans. Needing a convenient scapegoat for the murder of Safra, Monaco police subjected Ted to three days of grueling torture designed to extort a false confession from him. (see description in "BASIC TIMELINE" in Thread 1 - http://206.112.97.70/forum/a3ad8b097272d.htm ).
Monaco continues to hold Ted incommunicado, preventing him from sending or receiving mail. In fact, they restrict his communication with his family to one telephone call a week. This call is only allowed to last a few minutes and is always monitored closely to prevent any discussion of the case. Ted is forced by his jailers to take a psychotropic medication and is regularly "interrogated" by the Monaco judge -- Patricia Richet. Reports have been received that Judge Richet is a violent person who has displayed unstable behavior in the past. She allegedly has a history of assaulting a fellow judge, putting him in the hospital for a week. She also tears up letters from Ted's children in front of Ted rather than let him read them.
Hundreds of family, friends, work associates, parents of patients, and Army veterans who served with Ted have vouched for him as being a loyal husband, loving father, and an exemplary professional of great skill and compassion. Ted has also been defended by then-chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman and Ted's congresswoman Sue Kelly, who have written Prince Rainier III of Monaco on Ted's behalf. Monaco has no evidence of any crime by Ted; they have no witnesses and no credible case against him. Even worse, Monaco has planted false evidence and suppressed vast amounts of exculpatory evidence -- even passing a special Monaco law that enables them to hold Ted four years without trial.
The Geneva prosecutor has said that Safra was killed for his cooperation with the FBI regarding the laundering through Safra's Republic National Bank of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia.
Regardless of the reason "why," it is obvious that Ted Maher is a scapegoat for a murder by others. We are working to obtain his release and to correct the grave injustice being done to an American Green beret veteran and medical professional.
Ted Maher -- a giver of life, not a taker -- needs our help.
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To read the "BASIC TIMELINE" that describes the events surrounding the night of December 3, 1999, click here:
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 498 Days and Counting... (Thread I)
To read the "BASIC TIMELINE
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 537 Days and Counting... (Thread II)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 544 Days and Counting... (Thread III)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 544 Days and Counting... (Thread IV)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 615 Days and Counting... (second Thread IV)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 629 Days and Counting... (Thread VI)
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Scroll aways down and type in White House fax # - 12024562461
(Maybe offer Snow Bunny a carrotsicle (She's a snow bunny after all.) ; )
NspiritOnly, I found this: The Special Forces (Green Berets) Prayer. You see the link, but, can you (or someone) post the page here (I don't know how)? Thanks. IMO, I think (even though Ted is a veteran now) it is appropriate -
STAY STRONG TED!
Hope that's OK, Mike. Hey, how about about "Free Republic Special Forces - FREEBORNE" - or is that "over the top"? ; )
A distressing situation--invert the ensign. . .
I have a gif of an American flag which perhaps someone could invert and post. Email me and I will send it.
I just used the zipfax to fax President Bush again.
Ted is ill-served by three lawyers who insist he lie to maintain the obscene extorted false confession. These make the Three Stooges geniuses by comparison.
They face off with Monaco's Three Monkeys:
Prosecutor Daniel Serdet slanders Ted as a drug user--when Princess Grace Hospital tested Ted negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol--
Serdet Sees No Truth.
Judge l'Instruction Patricia Richet tears up letters from Ted's children in front of him while screaming at him, "I know you are guilty!"--
Richet Speaks No Truth.
Monaco's Director of Juridical Affairs Patrice Davost writes six pages of opium dreams to Ted's congresswoman Sue Kelly in which Davost hallucinates Ted on a pink cloud borne by cherubs taking him to have tea with the Prince, a night at the casinos, a tickertape parade down l'Avenue d'Ostende in the brilliant sunshine--
Davost Hears No Truth.
All in all a distressing state of affairs warranting the ensign inverted--just as Monaco's "justice" is inverted.
Almighty God Who art the Author of Liberty and the Champion of the oppressed hear our prayer.
We the men of Special Forces, acknowledge our dependence upon Thee in the preservation of human freedom. Go with us as we seek to defend the defenseless and to free the enslaved.
May we ever remember that our nation, whose oath "In God We Trust," expects that we shall requit ourselves with honor, that we may never bring shame upon our faith, our families, or our fellow men.
Grant us wisdom from Thy mind, courage from Thine heart, and protection by Thine hand. It is for Thee that we do battle, and to thee belongs the victor's crown. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power and glory forever,
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