Time: Thu Apr 03 20:55:12 1997
by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA22314;
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:12:25 -0700 (MST)
by usr10.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA12168;
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:12:13 -0700 (MST)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 20:53:33 -0800
To: liberty-and-justice@pobox.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: DC - Sign of urban America's future?
Can we have that in pink flashing neon, please?
Footnote on sign reads:
"And that, whenever any form of populace becomes
destructive of this neon, it shall be the right
of government to alter, genetically or otherwise,
the chains of deoxyribonucleic acid found therein, or
to abolish same, and to institute a new robotic species,
laying the genetic foundations on such principles,
and organizing its organs in such form, as to the
spies crawling all over the White House shall seem
most likely to effect their happiness and their
continued economic prosperity."
/s/ Paul Mitchell (on a roll)
http://www.supremelaw.com
At 10:01 PM 4/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>***************************************************************************
>"....For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
>Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government...so as to render
>it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute
>rule into these Colonies;" from the Declaration of Independence.
>***************************************************************************
>
>AP 2-Apr-1997 17:25 EST
>
>Copyright 1997. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton's bailout plan for the District of
>Columbia would impose federal sentencing guidelines, including the
>elimination of parole, for city prisoners.
> The stricter sentencing conditions would come in exchange for having
>the federal government pay the city's prison costs, according to an
>outline of the plan made available Wednesday.
> "This plan is as bad as we feared it would be," said Mary Jane DeFrank,
>executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington
>chapter. "It is full of ugly quid pro quos."
> In addition, a federal board -- headed by an aide to Attorney General
>Janet Reno -- would run the city's prison system, leaving district
>officials with little direct input.
> Donna Brazile, a spokeswoman for D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton,
>stressed that subsequent versions of the document are now in circulation.
> "This is very much a work in progress," she said. She declined to
>comment on the March 21 draft obtained by the ACLU, or a version dated
>March 25, which she said she had not yet read.
> Clinton administration officials did not immediately return calls
>seeking comment.
> The document, marked "final draft for review," shows that all D.C.
>prisoners would be subject to federal sentencing guidelines, which
>disallow parole for most felonies.
> That plan drew the ire of city prison analysts, especially Vince
>Schiraldi, director of the Center on Juvenile Justice, who cited Justice
>Department statistics showing the District of Columbia incarcerates people
>at four times the national average and paroles one-third fewer than the
>national median.
> "Why do we need the federal criminal code? Certainly not because we
>have been soft on crime or sentencing," Schiraldi said.
> Until now, city inmates housed in the Lorton, Va., Correctional Complex
>and other city-run prisons have been eligible for parole.
> The plan also would replace the city's public defender's service with a
>federal office to represent those who cannot afford attorneys.
> The Clinton initiative would avoid one sticky political issue by
>refusing to impose the death penalty on those convicted of murder and
>other violent crimes. City voters have twice approved referendums
>rejecting the death penalty.
> The prison deal is part of the Clinton administration's five-year, $3.9
>billion bailout for the cash-strapped capital. Under the plan's broad
>outlines, the federal government would assume some of the city's costliest
>functions, including its prisons, c ourts and the pensions paid to retired
>municipal workers.
> In exchange, the city would lose its $660 million annual payment to
>replace taxes forgone on federally owned property. The city must also
>balance its budget.
>
> **********************************
>
>The following excerpted from:
>
>FEW AWARE OF COUP IN WASHINGTON
>12/3/96 column by William Raspberry, from the "Times-Union", Albany (NY)
>
>Washington -- "Just look how quiet the streets are," the cabbie said.
>"People are going about their business as though nothing's happened. I
>just left National Airport, and there are no soldiers anywhere in sight;
>I'd be surprised if the rest of the world even knew Washington had had a
>coup d'etat."
>
>It wasn't the first time I'd heard the control board's takeover of the
>city's fiscal reins described as a coup.
>
>"Coup indeed," I told him. "I would think that you, as someone who has to
>deal with the city government fairly regularly, would be happy that
>someone's trying to impose a little order on things."
>
>"Well, I didn't say I was unhappy," the cabbie said. "But you see, I've
>lived in Washington all my adult life, which means I've never experienced
>full democracy. Oh, they let us vote for president and vice present, and
>they let us pick a city council and a school board -- stuff like that.
>But Congress is where the action is, and the best they give us is a
>non-voting delegate in the House, and not even that in the Senate. I
>guess like three-fourths of the people who get in my cab, you come from
>someplace where you've always taken political power for granted. Just
>where are you from, by the way?"
>
>"Mississippi," I told him.
>
>"Never mind," he said. "Anyway, my point was we've only had a little
>democracy for a little while, and then comes this control board,
>and....Well let me put it this way. At first they only made suggestions
>about reducing the D.C. work force, things like that. No problem. I'm
>the first to admit the city government was too big.
>
>"But then they started poking into the nuts-and-blots of the agencies,
>firing the chairman of the lottery board, even threatening to take over
>all contracting for the Department of Human Services. It was like orders
>were coming from the colonial office or the provisional government or
>something.
>
>"Still, people thought it was just 'oversight' or something, just
>tightening up a little here and there. And then the control board took
>over the public schools. I mean took them over. Liquidated the
>superintendent and replaced him with a retired general. Put a bunch of
>unelected people over the elected school board....And you see your paper
>this morning? They're talking about taking over the police department,
>which is about the nearest thing we have to an army...."
>
>Why, I asked him, was there so little protest?..."You keep calling it a
>coup, but...seems to me, they are trying to make things work better for
>the citizens of Washington."
>
>"Isn't that what the leaders of a coup always say?" the cabbie said. "I
>mean, you never hear the colonel say, 'I was hungry for power, and when I
>saw my chance....' No, they always point to the sins of the deposed
>government, promise to get rid of the corruption, set things right and
>then move smartly off the scene."
>
>..."But I get the feeling that's not the only thing that's bothering you,"
>I said. "Is there something else on your mind?"
>
>"My wife," he said. "We were talking this morning about the school
>takeover, and I was saying what a terrible thing it was and you know what
>she said? She said if General Becton called and asked her to go to work
>to help him improve the schools, she'd be down at his office before he
>could hang up the phone. They take over the city and my own wife is ready
>to go to work for the junta. Can you imagine that?"
>
>"Well, yes," I told him. "My wife just said the same thing."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with
>"unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject)
>Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com>
>
>
========================================================================
Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness
email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU
web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration
ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best
Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone
Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this
========================================================================
Return to Table of Contents for
Supreme Law School: E-mail