Posted on 02/02/2002 3:20:27 PM PST by Mercuria
Now here's a bump.
Unfortunately I won't be able to attend any of the demonstrations (live in AK) but I've been very active locally in organizing domonstrations, and I've learned the important value in coming carefully prepared with an attractive, single-page educational handout for the media/uninformed, and a 10sec soundbite of salient points, ready to be delivered in an instant, with all due reasoned, passion.
This demonstration might just provide the kind of attention & pressure with which Monaco would be inclined to respond ... especially if it garnered a little media exposure.
The left has developed successful tactics over many years of practice, implementing a variety of humorous and sarcastic responses designed to sell their side of the issues in question. The media IMHO has really responded well to this attention-getting/give-em-what-they-want approach
The 'Right' and especially FReepers are just now learning how to get that kind of positive acceptance/attention. Who can forget FR's GREAT/creative 'Chinese General' character,(forgive me for forgetting your name Sir) dressed in a Communist Army uniform, w/ all that $$$ sticking out of every pocket, at those streetcorner demonstrations in CA. back during the Clinton/LORAL days.
Lots of fun for the other demonstrators ... and one magnetic attention-getter for the media and the passing curious/uninformed.
Now I've got to find out that Commie-Generals FR handle ... help me out somebody.
...some collosal chutzpah, is all I can say.
-BTTT-
Excerpt:
American Green Beret veteran and accomplished neonatal nurse Ted Maher has now been held [for over 700] 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.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Thanks, backhoe!
WAY beyond time, if you ask me...good to see you, Judy!
Thanks for that, Tonk!!
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Certainly a flyer to distribute would be great.
I'm scouting for anyone in the San Francisco and San Diego areas who might be available on the days the Tourist Office is scheduled to make an appearance in those cities.
We'll see what we can do.
Thanks for your support, CIB. **g**
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