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Open Letter To All of our Trusted & Paid Public ServantsLynn Surgall Feb 27-2006
To All of our Trusted & Paid Public Servants:
Please cease & desist from attacking the USA civilian population with LETHAL ("SLOW-KILL"-torture-murder) neurotoxic (brain-damaging) carcinogenic (cancer-causing) Psychotronic or any other form of pulsed-microwave-radiation weaponry. It is your duty to refuse & resist obeying any orders which amount to treason or war crimes (domestic or international).
Please tell the TRUTH to the American People about the treasonous Domestic Warfare which has been waged against them and about the injuries which they have sustained so that they may take action to defend themselves, stop the treason and seek proper medical attention for their radiation-induced illnesses.
Please arrest and bring to trial the Treasonous War Criminals who told you to deploy these weapons against the USA population and that these weapons were "NON-Lethal".
AMNESTY and IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION for TREASON & WAR CRIMES will be given to all criminals who "come clean" (tell the truth to the PUBLIC), turn "People's Evidence" ( testify against the Big-Oil,Drugs-War-Profiteer Criminals who orchestrated these crimes), and apologize to the World (as did John Perkins in his "Confessions..." book & interviews).
There is NO MORE TIME LEFT for any of you to be acting from selfish motivations. You must act from a sense of the PUBLIC TRUST which We The People have placed in you ALL as our PAID PUBLIC SERVANTS (not as treasonous criminal assailants).
Love&Blessings
Lynn SurgallaFormer Vice President
United States Psychtronics Association
Are Bio-Electronic Pluse Weapons Assualts Harassment?
Why in the World would you want to COVER UP the crime of ASSAULT WITH LETHAL PULSED-RADIATION WEAPONRY by calling it "Electronic Harassment"??!!!!! (Making the crime of "SLOW-KILL" (cancer, "Alzheimers-type brain damage, etc...) or"FAST-KILL"(stroke,aneurysm,heart attack, etc...) TORTURE-MURDER seem like some trivial misdemeanor!!!!!??? Don't you know that MILLIONS of people have been killed with these weapons in the past few decades??? Millions more are being specifically targeted, now!!!!
Please reserve the word "Harrassment" for minor crimes (like property-damage, etc...). THIS IS WAR and THESE ARE WARCRIMES.Radiation Attacks on people's bodies is way more than Harrassment." Call it what the WAR CRIMINALS, themselves call it: "SLOW-KILL"-TORTURE-MURDER!
Lynn
These are LARGE COMPUTERIZED WEAPONS-SYSTEMS being used as WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTION (targeting large groups of people (populations)). Just like a TV or RADIO BROADCAST, the MIND-CONTROL PROGRAMMING which directly targets the Human BRAIN & NERVOUS SYSTEM has been BROADCAST in a similar fashion (Satellite Broadcasts & the Piggybacking of Weaponized Signals on the Energy Grid, etc..PLUS MULTIPLEXING EEG BRAINWAVE SIGNALS in a system similar to a CELL-PHONE NETWORK Military "Synthetic Telepathy" (used for REMOTE TORTURE-INTERROGATION). These are ALL MILITARY WEAPONS SYSTEMS developed in secret with our tax money, KEPT SECRET FROM THE PUBLIC, and turned back against the Public by WAR CRIMINALS in COVERT DOMESTIC WARFARE.
Lynn Surgalla
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CONGRESSIONAL BILL ON REPARATIONS COMMISSION
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Congressional bill on reparations commission finally gets a hearing after 19 years of trying on Capitol Hill
Restitution: Historic victory in corporate reparations lawsuit (FCN, 01-03-2007)
The Movement for Reparations (FCN, 08-16-2002)
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress officially studied the institution of slavery, its legacy, as well as U.S. efforts to address it and its consequences, during hearings by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Dec. 18.
It was the first time H.R. 40, the proposal to establish a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act has had any kind of a hearing, even though the legislation has been introduced every year for almost two decades by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the new chairman, this year of the House Judiciary Committee.
“For over 19 years, I have introduced H.R. 40—not to spark controversy or promote division—but to direct attention to a historical wrong that warrants substantial consideration,†Mr. Conyers said when he gaveled the session to order. “With an H.R. 40 commission, this nation could come closer to racial equality and understanding. Slavery is a blemish on this nation’s history, and until it is addressed, our country’s story will remain marked,†he continued.
The racial disparities, which exist throughout the society are ample evidence, Mr. Conyers insisted, that the vestiges of slavery remain: the Black high school drop-out rate is 50 percent compared to 23 percent for Whites; national average scores in math, science and reading for Black 17-year-olds are comparable to the scores for White 13-year-olds; the poverty rate of Blacks, at 24 percent, is twice the national average.
H.R. 40 is “necessary for this nation,†Mr. Conyers insisted. “We are here today to help folks open their minds as they consider supporting H.R. 40. I truly believe that today’s hearing will start the national dialogue,†which can lead to the formal establishment of a slavery commission, he said.
“This hearing looks not just to the past, but to the legacy of our own history of slavery as it continues to affect race relations and inequality in present day America,†agreed committee member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). “It is our duty to ask the difficult questions and to face up to our responsibilities to remedy the ongoing injustice of slavery that remains a part of our society.â€
The outright call for reparation payments, as well as for a commission to study reparations as a possible remedy for the victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, was supported by scholars, activists, church leaders, and even members of Congress.
“The horrors of the slave trade have yet to be addressed and the passage of time makes it even more difficult for us to respond to one of the most tragic, brutal, and for some, financially beneficial periods in American history,†Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree testified.
“I support the call for reparations for the descendants of the millions of slaves who toiled in this country for decades, and who never were compensated for their labor,†said Prof. Ogletree.
“This was a momentous occasion here today, to provide an opportunity to address H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to look at the era of enslavement and whether it has impact on present day African Americans,†Kibibi Tyehimba, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), told The Final Call. “This is about getting the truth out. We were very happy to be here today, so we can begin that process.
“It’s absolutely imperative that we understand that African life is as valuable as other lives: as Native Americans, as Jewish Holocaust victims, as Japanese Americans, and until we get to that point, we will continue to blame African descendants for their own oppression, and we’ve got to move past that.â€
And while some White churches also came forward to offer their denomination’s apologies for involvement in the slave trade, not all Black reparations supporters were pleased with the timing or execution of the hearing. At least one activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Final Call the entire hearing was poorly planned, done with little prior notice, held at the end of the legislative year during the holiday season, and without the national attention that the subject of reparations for slavery deserves.
“Too many Episcopalians did not raise their voices,†against slavery “when God would have wished them to do so,†Bishop Thomas Shaw, from the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts said during the hearing. “Episcopalians were owners of slaves and of the ships that brought them to this land,†Bishop Shaw testified representing Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on behalf of the Episcopal Church. “Episcopalians lived in the north and in the south and, as a privileged church, we today recognize that our Church benefited materially from the slave trade.â€
“The importance of the Episcopal Church being present to testify at this hearing on H.R. 40 cannot be overstated,†Jayne Oasin, social justice officer of the Episcopal Church, said according to a published report. “Our church must call itself and our country to repentance. Since we have always held and still hold great power in this country, we are duty bound to follow St. Paul’s admonition in Roman’s 12 to not ‘conform’ but to ‘transform’ the country by the power of the Holy Spirit working through us. Studying the issue of reparations for slavery is a key way to begin to transform ourselves, our church and our country.â€
The Episcopal Church has “asked God’s forgiveness for our complicity in and the injury done by the institution of slavery and its aftermath,†Bishop Shaw said.
“Oversight Hearing on The Legacy of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.†Academic and public policy experts reviewed the legacy of the slave trade in American history and culture, and placed it into a Congressional record. Another hearing is scheduled in February.
© Copyright 2008 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com
Congressional bill on reparations commission finally gets a hearing after 19 years of trying on Capitol Hill
Restitution: Historic victory in corporate reparations lawsuit (FCN, 01-03-2007)
The Movement for Reparations (FCN, 08-16-2002)
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress officially studied the institution of slavery, its legacy, as well as U.S. efforts to address it and its consequences, during hearings by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Dec. 18.
It was the first time H.R. 40, the proposal to establish a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act has had any kind of a hearing, even though the legislation has been introduced every year for almost two decades by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the new chairman, this year of the House Judiciary Committee.
“For over 19 years, I have introduced H.R. 40—not to spark controversy or promote division—but to direct attention to a historical wrong that warrants substantial consideration,†Mr. Conyers said when he gaveled the session to order. “With an H.R. 40 commission, this nation could come closer to racial equality and understanding. Slavery is a blemish on this nation’s history, and until it is addressed, our country’s story will remain marked,†he continued.
The racial disparities, which exist throughout the society are ample evidence, Mr. Conyers insisted, that the vestiges of slavery remain: the Black high school drop-out rate is 50 percent compared to 23 percent for Whites; national average scores in math, science and reading for Black 17-year-olds are comparable to the scores for White 13-year-olds; the poverty rate of Blacks, at 24 percent, is twice the national average.
H.R. 40 is “necessary for this nation,†Mr. Conyers insisted. “We are here today to help folks open their minds as they consider supporting H.R. 40. I truly believe that today’s hearing will start the national dialogue,†which can lead to the formal establishment of a slavery commission, he said.
“This hearing looks not just to the past, but to the legacy of our own history of slavery as it continues to affect race relations and inequality in present day America,†agreed committee member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). “It is our duty to ask the difficult questions and to face up to our responsibilities to remedy the ongoing injustice of slavery that remains a part of our society.â€
The outright call for reparation payments, as well as for a commission to study reparations as a possible remedy for the victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, was supported by scholars, activists, church leaders, and even members of Congress.
“The horrors of the slave trade have yet to be addressed and the passage of time makes it even more difficult for us to respond to one of the most tragic, brutal, and for some, financially beneficial periods in American history,†Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree testified.
“I support the call for reparations for the descendants of the millions of slaves who toiled in this country for decades, and who never were compensated for their labor,†said Prof. Ogletree.
“This was a momentous occasion here today, to provide an opportunity to address H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to look at the era of enslavement and whether it has impact on present day African Americans,†Kibibi Tyehimba, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), told The Final Call. “This is about getting the truth out. We were very happy to be here today, so we can begin that process.
“It’s absolutely imperative that we understand that African life is as valuable as other lives: as Native Americans, as Jewish Holocaust victims, as Japanese Americans, and until we get to that point, we will continue to blame African descendants for their own oppression, and we’ve got to move past that.â€
And while some White churches also came forward to offer their denomination’s apologies for involvement in the slave trade, not all Black reparations supporters were pleased with the timing or execution of the hearing. At least one activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Final Call the entire hearing was poorly planned, done with little prior notice, held at the end of the legislative year during the holiday season, and without the national attention that the subject of reparations for slavery deserves.
“Too many Episcopalians did not raise their voices,†against slavery “when God would have wished them to do so,†Bishop Thomas Shaw, from the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts said during the hearing. “Episcopalians were owners of slaves and of the ships that brought them to this land,†Bishop Shaw testified representing Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on behalf of the Episcopal Church. “Episcopalians lived in the north and in the south and, as a privileged church, we today recognize that our Church benefited materially from the slave trade.â€
“The importance of the Episcopal Church being present to testify at this hearing on H.R. 40 cannot be overstated,†Jayne Oasin, social justice officer of the Episcopal Church, said according to a published report. “Our church must call itself and our country to repentance. Since we have always held and still hold great power in this country, we are duty bound to follow St. Paul’s admonition in Roman’s 12 to not ‘conform’ but to ‘transform’ the country by the power of the Holy Spirit working through us. Studying the issue of reparations for slavery is a key way to begin to transform ourselves, our church and our country.â€
The Episcopal Church has “asked God’s forgiveness for our complicity in and the injury done by the institution of slavery and its aftermath,†Bishop Shaw said.
“Oversight Hearing on The Legacy of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.†Academic and public policy experts reviewed the legacy of the slave trade in American history and culture, and placed it into a Congressional record. Another hearing is scheduled in February.
© Copyright 2008 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com
PUERTORICAN INDEPENC -NYC CASE
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:16:20 -0500Subject: Pro-independence Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by NYC grand jury(Newsday)Pro-independence Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by NYC grand juryBy CRISTIAN SALAZARAssociated Press, January 11, 2008The case of three young Puerto Rican activists and artists ordered to appear before a Brooklyn federal grand jury has stirred up protests around the country and provoked outrage among supporters of the movement to grant independence to the U.S. territory. Attorneys for two of the activists _ Christopher Torres and Tania Frontera _ said they had successfully filed motions to postpone their clients' Friday court dates. Supporters said that a third, Julio Pabon Jr., also received a postponement. Demonstrators gathered Friday in front of the Brooklyn courthouse in protest of the subpoenas. Rallies also took place Thursday in Puerto Rico and other U.S. cities. "We don't know why this investigation is taking place," said Ana Lopez, a professor of Caribbean history at Hostos Community College in the Bronx who helped organize the rally in New York. "All we know is that its purpose is to harass and intimidate hard-working Puerto Rican people." Federal grand jury investigations are secret by law. Officials with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York said they had no comment. None of the three Puerto Ricans have been charged in any crime. Supporters of the three speculated that the FBI had expanded a probe that began in Puerto Rico that they said was aimed at harassing the legal movement to obtain independence for the U.S. territory. In February 2006, FBI agents searched homes and a business to thwart what the agency at the time said was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned by the violent separatist People's Boricua Army, also known as the Macheteros, or "cane cutters." The group was responsible for bombings and attacks in the 1970s and 1980s and had claimed responsibility for a 1979 attack in which gunmen killed two U.S. sailors. In 2005, the group's leader, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who was wanted for the 1983 robbery of an armored truck depot in Connecticut, was killed during a shootout with FBI agents when they came to arrest him at a farmhouse on the island. Federal investigators later said the FBI agents were justified in killing Ojeda because he opened fire first. Frontera's attorney, Martin Stolar, said it appears the "government is investigating what remains of the Macheteros" after Ojeda's death. He said his client, a Manhattan graphic designer, has no connection to any organization. "But she's definitely been a lifelong supporter of independence," he said. Frontera was a member of a local group opposed to the military bombing of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by the U.S. Navy during the 1990s, her supporters said. Her father is also a leading member of the Puerto Rican Independence Party. Stolar said such political activities were "very much aboveground." He questioned the federal government's probe. "We see it as a targeting of aboveground individuals and organizations and associations and conflating that with someone who is involved with the Macheteros," Stolar said. Attorneys for Torres, a social worker and community activist, and Pabon, a Bronx filmmaker and graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., declined to comment. Pabon's father, Julio Pabon Sr., said he was at his sports memorabilia shop in the Bronx a few days before Christmas when agents who identified themselves as members of the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force showed up asking for "Julio Pabon." The elder Pabon, a lifelong pro-independence activist, instinctively thought they were looking for him. "We want the younger one," he said the agents told him, adding that they only wanted to talk to his son. The elder Pabon was astonished, he said. "I have been an activist all my life," he said. "My son is not involved." But he said his 27-year-old son was definitely pro-independence like his parents and, while at the university, had organized a group of fellow students from Wesleyan to travel to the U.S. naval base in Groton, Conn., to protest the bombing of Vieques. Pabon said he and his son knew the other two who had been subpoenaed as well. Pabon said his son agreed to be questioned by the agents, who showed him photographs of Latinos and asked him if he recognized any of the people in them before handing him the subpoena with the date of Jan. 11. Pabon said the agents told his son there was "nothing to be concerned about." Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917 but they cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. The island was seized by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--puertoricanactivi0111jan11,0,5538562.story Posponen comparecencias de independentistas boricuasLOCALES - 01/12/2008María Vega/EDLP
Otros Titulares
Hospital en peligro de muerte
Condenan cierre de guardería
Investigan atraco a conductor
Nueva York — En sus visitas a independentistas en Nueva York, agentes del FBI han estado mostrando “como veinte” fotografías de activistas, aparentemente de toma reciente, dijeron ayer líderes del movimiento que protestaron frente a la corte federal en Brooklyn.
Los tres activistas que tienen citación para testificar ante un gran jurado fueron tomados por sorpresa, y sus familiares también. Algunos no se dieron cuenta hasta demasiado tarde de que estaban hablando con investigadores federales, según varios entrevistados. Se informó que en uno de los casos, los agentes recibieron la bienvenida en el negocio de la mamá de uno de los citados, porque la mamá creyó que eran clientes. John Rojas, tío del trabajador social Christopher Torres, otro de los que ha recibido citación, dijo que los investigadores dejaron una tarjeta debajo de la puerta de su casa y que más tarde recibió una llamada preguntando si había recibido la citación para testificar. “Ellos pensaron que yo era Chris”, dijo Rojas, agregando que la llamada le causó preocupación y le hizo preguntarse de qué tan cerca lo estaban siguiendo.
Durante la protesta se anunció que las citaciones del gran jurado han sido aplazadas hasta febrero. El abogado de Tania Frontera, la joven cineasta que también ha sido llamada a testificar, dijo que presentará una moción para que se desestime la citación, considerando el llamado como una violación a los derechos de libre asociación y expresión de su cliente.
En cuanto a la razón por la cual su cliente ha sido citada ante el gran jurado, el abogado, Martin Stolar, dijo “no lo entiendo, pero ha habido hostigamiento a la comunidad independentista en San Juan, en Nueva York y en Chicago” desde la muerte del líder de los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Stolar dijo que si su moción no tiene éxito, “probablemente ante el gran jurado ella [Frontera] afirmará su derecho a no testificar” amparándose en la Constitución. Esa, dijeron los participantes en la protesta, es la ruta que ha llevado a cárcel federal a independentistas bajo sentencia de desacato desde los años ‘30.
Han pasado casi dos décadas desde las últimas citaciones a independentistas para testificar ante un gran jurado en NY. Ahora “se están acercando a los hijos de activistas veteranos”, dijo uno de los líderes, Frank Velgara.
Maria.vega@eldiariony.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:16:20 -0500Subject: Pro-independence Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by NYC grand jury(Newsday)Pro-independence Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by NYC grand juryBy CRISTIAN SALAZARAssociated Press, January 11, 2008The case of three young Puerto Rican activists and artists ordered to appear before a Brooklyn federal grand jury has stirred up protests around the country and provoked outrage among supporters of the movement to grant independence to the U.S. territory. Attorneys for two of the activists _ Christopher Torres and Tania Frontera _ said they had successfully filed motions to postpone their clients' Friday court dates. Supporters said that a third, Julio Pabon Jr., also received a postponement. Demonstrators gathered Friday in front of the Brooklyn courthouse in protest of the subpoenas. Rallies also took place Thursday in Puerto Rico and other U.S. cities. "We don't know why this investigation is taking place," said Ana Lopez, a professor of Caribbean history at Hostos Community College in the Bronx who helped organize the rally in New York. "All we know is that its purpose is to harass and intimidate hard-working Puerto Rican people." Federal grand jury investigations are secret by law. Officials with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York said they had no comment. None of the three Puerto Ricans have been charged in any crime. Supporters of the three speculated that the FBI had expanded a probe that began in Puerto Rico that they said was aimed at harassing the legal movement to obtain independence for the U.S. territory. In February 2006, FBI agents searched homes and a business to thwart what the agency at the time said was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned by the violent separatist People's Boricua Army, also known as the Macheteros, or "cane cutters." The group was responsible for bombings and attacks in the 1970s and 1980s and had claimed responsibility for a 1979 attack in which gunmen killed two U.S. sailors. In 2005, the group's leader, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who was wanted for the 1983 robbery of an armored truck depot in Connecticut, was killed during a shootout with FBI agents when they came to arrest him at a farmhouse on the island. Federal investigators later said the FBI agents were justified in killing Ojeda because he opened fire first. Frontera's attorney, Martin Stolar, said it appears the "government is investigating what remains of the Macheteros" after Ojeda's death. He said his client, a Manhattan graphic designer, has no connection to any organization. "But she's definitely been a lifelong supporter of independence," he said. Frontera was a member of a local group opposed to the military bombing of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by the U.S. Navy during the 1990s, her supporters said. Her father is also a leading member of the Puerto Rican Independence Party. Stolar said such political activities were "very much aboveground." He questioned the federal government's probe. "We see it as a targeting of aboveground individuals and organizations and associations and conflating that with someone who is involved with the Macheteros," Stolar said. Attorneys for Torres, a social worker and community activist, and Pabon, a Bronx filmmaker and graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., declined to comment. Pabon's father, Julio Pabon Sr., said he was at his sports memorabilia shop in the Bronx a few days before Christmas when agents who identified themselves as members of the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force showed up asking for "Julio Pabon." The elder Pabon, a lifelong pro-independence activist, instinctively thought they were looking for him. "We want the younger one," he said the agents told him, adding that they only wanted to talk to his son. The elder Pabon was astonished, he said. "I have been an activist all my life," he said. "My son is not involved." But he said his 27-year-old son was definitely pro-independence like his parents and, while at the university, had organized a group of fellow students from Wesleyan to travel to the U.S. naval base in Groton, Conn., to protest the bombing of Vieques. Pabon said he and his son knew the other two who had been subpoenaed as well. Pabon said his son agreed to be questioned by the agents, who showed him photographs of Latinos and asked him if he recognized any of the people in them before handing him the subpoena with the date of Jan. 11. Pabon said the agents told his son there was "nothing to be concerned about." Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917 but they cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. The island was seized by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--puertoricanactivi0111jan11,0,5538562.story Posponen comparecencias de independentistas boricuasLOCALES - 01/12/2008María Vega/EDLP
Otros Titulares
Hospital en peligro de muerte
Condenan cierre de guardería
Investigan atraco a conductor
Nueva York — En sus visitas a independentistas en Nueva York, agentes del FBI han estado mostrando “como veinte” fotografías de activistas, aparentemente de toma reciente, dijeron ayer líderes del movimiento que protestaron frente a la corte federal en Brooklyn.
Los tres activistas que tienen citación para testificar ante un gran jurado fueron tomados por sorpresa, y sus familiares también. Algunos no se dieron cuenta hasta demasiado tarde de que estaban hablando con investigadores federales, según varios entrevistados. Se informó que en uno de los casos, los agentes recibieron la bienvenida en el negocio de la mamá de uno de los citados, porque la mamá creyó que eran clientes. John Rojas, tío del trabajador social Christopher Torres, otro de los que ha recibido citación, dijo que los investigadores dejaron una tarjeta debajo de la puerta de su casa y que más tarde recibió una llamada preguntando si había recibido la citación para testificar. “Ellos pensaron que yo era Chris”, dijo Rojas, agregando que la llamada le causó preocupación y le hizo preguntarse de qué tan cerca lo estaban siguiendo.
Durante la protesta se anunció que las citaciones del gran jurado han sido aplazadas hasta febrero. El abogado de Tania Frontera, la joven cineasta que también ha sido llamada a testificar, dijo que presentará una moción para que se desestime la citación, considerando el llamado como una violación a los derechos de libre asociación y expresión de su cliente.
En cuanto a la razón por la cual su cliente ha sido citada ante el gran jurado, el abogado, Martin Stolar, dijo “no lo entiendo, pero ha habido hostigamiento a la comunidad independentista en San Juan, en Nueva York y en Chicago” desde la muerte del líder de los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Stolar dijo que si su moción no tiene éxito, “probablemente ante el gran jurado ella [Frontera] afirmará su derecho a no testificar” amparándose en la Constitución. Esa, dijeron los participantes en la protesta, es la ruta que ha llevado a cárcel federal a independentistas bajo sentencia de desacato desde los años ‘30.
Han pasado casi dos décadas desde las últimas citaciones a independentistas para testificar ante un gran jurado en NY. Ahora “se están acercando a los hijos de activistas veteranos”, dijo uno de los líderes, Frank Velgara.
Maria.vega@eldiariony.com
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