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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Freemen Jailed Woman Health Problems (fwd)
Dana Dudley is a former client.
When the Freedom Center stiffed me
for 18.5 days of professional work,
they stepped between me and her,
to prevent any more of my work
on her behalf.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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>
>Source: http://www.sltrib.com/082297/nation_w/124.htm
>
>Friday, August 22, 1997
>
> Woman Jailed in Freemen Standoff Claims Health
> Problems
>
> BY JACK HORAN
> KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS
> SERVICE
> CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former North Carolina resident Dana Dudley spends
>her days in
> a Montana jail studying law, filing motions and making colored-pencil
>drawings of her family
> and of nature scenes.
> Dudley was a participant in last year's 81-day standoff at the Freemen
>ranch in Montana.
> She was jailed 14 months ago in Billings when the standoff ended. This
>week, she was
> transferred to a jail 200 miles away in Boulder, Mont. In interviews
>before the transfer,
> Dudley told The Charlotte Observer she is seriously ill and, without
>nutrient supplements and
> a proper diet, could die in the next few months. Jail officials disputed
>those claims.
> Dudley considers herself a political hostage, maintains her innocence
>and says she will
> handle her own defense in her trial next May.
> ``I'm going to make [the government's] witnesses squirm in their seats
>because they're
> liars,'' Dudley said from Billings.
> Dudley projects a defiant tenor.
> She said the media vilified the Freemen.
> ``I didn't do anything wrong. . . . I'm a political hostage. The
>government threatened my
> life. . . . I didn't create the problem at Justus Township [the Freemen's
>name for the ranch].
> Is it worth it? What's the price of freedom?''
> Dudley is in her middle 40s -- she won't reveal her exact age.
> She is the wife of Russell Landers, whom the FBI identified as a
>leader of the
> anti-government Freemen. The couple lived in Johnston County, near
>Raleigh, N.C., for
> several years.
> Landers was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges in
>Raleigh in February in
> connection with two vehicles bought in North Carolina for the Montana
>Freemen. He is
> scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. Dudley portrayed herself as exerting
>a calming
> influence during tense times during the standoff.
> ``Ultimately, there could have been lives lost. The government had the
>intention of taking
> lives. There was never anybody [among the Freemen] who threatened the life
>of anyone.
> They want the government to obey the laws the people obey,'' she said.
> An undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Freemen ranch testified
>during Landers' trial
> that the Freemen were armed during the standoff. The Justice Department
>said it went to
> great lengths to avoid bloodshed.
> Dudley first raised her health issues in federal court in January
>after jailers took away
> nutritional supplements she has used since 1991.
> Lt. Dennis McCave, who is in charge of the Yellowstone County
>Detention Center, said
> he removed the supplements because she had no valid medical need for them.
>``There's 300
> people here, and they all want something,'' he said.
> In late April, Dudley was examined by Margaret Beeson, a Billings
>naturopathic
> physician. In a May 9 letter to McCave, Beeson wrote that Dudley suffers
>from hepatitis C,
> chronic liver inflammation, dehydration, protein malnutrition and
>potential tooth loss.
> Dudley said she was examined by a gastroenterologist in July. She said
>she mailed the
> doctor's report to The Observer on Aug. 1, but it hadn't arrived as of
>Wednesday.
> Dudley read the doctor's report over the phone: ``She appears to have
>chronic hepatitis
> C'' and ``inadequate protein intake'' and possibly a zinc deficiency; a
>biopsy would be
> needed to determine if she has cirrhosis of the liver.
> Dudley said her religious beliefs don't allow invasive examinations.
>She refused to be
> examined by the jail physician. She said her symptoms include hair loss
>and fatigue.
> ``If the jail does not provide me with the supplements I was taking, I
>could not survive six
> months,'' she said.
> McCave disputed Dudley's claims.
> ``She's in good health right now,'' he said.
> McCave said that while he couldn't divulge jail medical reports, he
>saw nothing to indicate
> that Dudley is ill.
> McCave said the jail cooperated by providing a modified diet.
> Dudley said the diet, which includes two pieces of raw fruit or raw
>vegetables daily, often
> was lettuce with shredded carrots or thawed pie-filling apples.
> Dudley faces charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and interstate
>transportation of stolen
> property taken by fraud (a van and an RV driven to the Freemen ranch). Her
>mother and a
> brother live in Franklin, in Western North Carolina. Her youngest
>daughter, Ashley Taylor,
> 17, attends college in Eastern North Carolina.
> She has three adult children by a previous marriage.
>
>
> © Copyright 1997, The Salt Lake Tribune
>
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