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DON ADAMS UPDATE: Urgent Help Needed on Appeal
Don Adams
| 2/25/2004
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Posted on 02/25/2004 6:32:21 PM PST by Physicist
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Again, Don Adams only provided this appeal at my urging. It is personally painful to them to make such a request, but considering the effort that Freepers have put into the Adams cases over the last five years, I felt that Freepers deserved the opportunity to prove their mettle once more.
Recent articles:
Don Adams Update: Teamsters File Motion to Recover $62,673.46 in Fees and Costs
Summary of the 8/6/2003 Don Adams Decision, U.S. District Court
Anti-Clinton Protesters Lose in Suit Against Rendell
REMEDIAL SECTION:
Who-what-where:
There was I time on FreeRepublic when I didn't have to introduce the topic of Don Adams. Other than Whitewater, it was FreeRepublic's first cause celebre.
In as few words as I can bear to muster, this is what happened. On October 2, 1998, Don and his sister Teri were beaten by members of the Teamsters Union for the crime of protesting against Clinton in Philadelphia.
(I myself had been attacked by the same mob earlier in the day, and I witnessed the Adams incident. I reported the events on FreeRepublic. One famous result was that it prompted Jim Robinson to call for a march on Washington, DC, which drew around 4000 people on October 31, 1998, to demand Clinton's impeachment.)
The DA filed no charges, so Don and Teri Adams pursued private criminal complaints against two of the Teamsters (Kevin McNulty and Marc Nardone), along with Teamster Local 115 boss Johnny Morris. In response, the Teamsters filed charges against Don Adams. McNulty and Nardone copped a plea and got probation. Morris walked. Don Adams was subjected to the indignity of a trial, and was acquitted in July, 1999. Meanwhile, three other Teamsters were identified from video: Charlie Davis, Mark Hopkins, and Norma Bottomer. Don and Teri Adams filed another private criminal complaint, to which the defendants copped pleas and received probation.
In November of 1999, IBT President James Hoffa ordered that Teamsters Local 115 be placed into trusteeship, and that Johnny Morris be stripped of his powers, partly as a result of the Adams beating incident. Morris contested this bitterly until the end of his life.
The civil phase has been lurching along slowly since the end of the criminal phase.
Why you should care:
It is the business of Freepers to exercise our rights under the First Amendment. When we talk back to power, we have an expectation of being secure in our persons, in our property, and in our liberty. If Don and Teri Adams lose, none of these expectations are valid. It will mean that the men in power can silence us at will, without serious consequences. Five foot-soldiers of the totalitarians have received probation. That's something. But unfortunately Don and Teri have been made to pay a long series of terrible prices over the last five years, and much more lies ahead. I expect it to get worse for them before it gets better.
Would YOU be up to it?
LINKS:
The Don Adams Page is now defunct, but a version of it remains cached on archive.org (Warning: slow to load).
Civil Case:
- My Affadavit For The Don Adams Civil Case
- My Subpoena From Teamsters Local 115 (Don Adams Case)
- Rendell Threatens to Walk During Deposition
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Johnny Morris criminal case:
- Court KOs Activist in Fight with Morris [DON ADAMS UPDATE]
- DON ADAMS PRESS RELEASE: Criminal Complaint Against Teamster Leader John Morris Dropped
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Davis, Hopkins, Bottomer criminal case:
- Teamster Trio To Be Sentenced Today For Beating Clinton Protesters
- Teamsters Sentenced to Probation in Adams Beating Case
- 3 Teamsters are Sentenced for Roughing Up Protester
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McNulty and Nardone criminal case:
- Pretrial hearing of Kevin McNulty and Marc Nardone, on February 10, 1999. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:32:23 PM PST
by
Physicist
To: TAdams8591; Elle Bee; kuipo maui; phillyfilly; dirtboy; Jim Robinson; Doctor Raoul; abner; ...
Ping. If some of you can help to keep this thread bumped, please do!
Let me know if you want on or off this ping list.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:35:34 PM PST
by
Physicist
To: Physicist
DON ADAMS UPDATE: Urgent Help Needed on Appeal
Oh dear . . . anything I can do from Houston? I love Don Adams.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:35:57 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Xenalyte
![](http://ogeechee.litphil.gasou.edu/cone-of-silence.jpg)
Shhh!
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:37:28 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Physicist
Bttt.
Classy of you not to mention how that sleaze Klayman abandoned his clients once the cameras were off.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:40:17 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(THERE IS NUTHIN' LIKE A DAME)
To: Physicist
I'll be sending a few dollars by check.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:41:33 PM PST
by
bvw
To: Physicist
Physicist. Have been there since the beginning....So glad to hear they are alive and well and fighting the good fight. God bless them. A humble offering being sent tomorrow.
For all you newbies (2000 and above). Please read the links Physicist posted. Don and Teri are real heros and deserve, if nothing else, your prayers. Thanks for calling this to our attention Physicist. I had wondered what the status of this case was. Please keep us advised.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:42:38 PM PST
by
dutchess
To: Physicist
BTTT
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:45:59 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: billorites; Xenalyte
Actually, THAT Don Adams has lived a very happy life since Get Smart went off the air and remains a regular at the Playboy Mansion. Its a shame he has to share the Grotto with Bill Maher on occasion.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:46:38 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(I am a sick man...I am an unattractive man...I am an ANGRY man --- Doestoyevsky)
To: Clemenza
"and remains a regular at the Playboy Mansion."Should he find himself refractory, I'd be happly to fill the void.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:49:57 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Physicist
I remember the attack, and I remember when you were at the Freeper Rally Pizza party in DC, Oct 1998. Best of luck. Please keep us posted. If I had money I would send it.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:49:59 PM PST
by
buffyt
(Kerry is now one of those (communists) who we fought against. {Aloha Ronnie quote})
To: Physicist
Bump.
To: Physicist; SierraWasp; BOBTHENAILER; Grampa Dave; SAJ; AdamSelene235; Lazamataz; blam; Howlin; ...
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Thanks for letting me know about their position. I just mailed them $100.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:50:40 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Physicist
There's a blast from the past. Good luck to them.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:51:40 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("You know it don't come easy, the road of the gypsy" - Iron Eagle)
To: King Prout
Only in Philly could you get your butt kicked by the Teamsters, get arrested for A&B and then have to pay their legal bills.
Oh, and it was all caught by the news cameras.
I weep for Philly.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:52:29 PM PST
by
dyed_in_the_wool
("For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible" - GWB)
To: Physicist
Credit card?
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:52:29 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: dutchess
This is a most worthy cause. I will send a check.
If 120 FReepers could send $20 each, that would make up the fee.
How much are your First Amendment rights worth to you?
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:53:07 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: Physicist
Bump.
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posted on
02/25/2004 6:53:42 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(A compassionate evolutionist.)
To: PatrickHenry; Physicist
bttt for a worthy cause by FReeper #408.
To: Physicist
bumped
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posted on
02/25/2004 7:01:51 PM PST
by
jokar
(Beware of the White European Male Christian theological complex !!)
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