April 28, 2001 Please Forward to webmasters, attorneys and activists Dear Colleagues, In preparation for Issue #11 of Narco News, we are posting our legal briefs in the Drug War on Trial case on the Internet, for all to read. This week, The Narco News Bulletin moved to dismiss the Banamex-Akin Gump lawsuit against us. Attorney Tom Lesser, chief counsel for Narco News, has now provided the most thorough legal memorandum on Internet freedom of speech - with all the precedents cited - and submitted it to the Court in New York. It clearly shows: Banamex has no right to sue, in New York, an Internet site that is written in Latin America and uploaded from down here to a datacenter in Maryland, where it is, with seconds, made available to all the world. Our attorneys have now informed in legal memoranda: "The Internet, as a forum for robust debate and exchange of information, would be unalterably changed" if New York Courts allow the Banamex complaint to proceed. It would mean that any giant corporation or wealthy interest could sue any Internet site in each of the 50 states and innumerable countries of the world. To allow the Banamex complaint against Narco News to proceed would constitute and invitation by the New York courts to all wealthy interests to make New York the international haven for the Cyber-SLAPP lawsuit against public participation and speech. Narco News also introduces the latest member of our legal team, who submitted this historic brief with Tom Lesser this week: Attorney Leonard Weinglass of New York. Lenny Weinglass, a giant in the field of law, best known for his defense of the Chicago 7 in what the ACLU called "the most important civil liberties case of the 20th century," and who worked with Lesser in 1986 as the lead attorney in the CIA on Trial case, has joined the fight to keep the Internet free in the 21st century. We thank him profusely for his solidarity. He joins not just Lesser, but also the world's foremost First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, who represents codefendant Mario Menendez in this case. The historic Narco News Bulletin brief can be read at: http://www.narconews.com/narconewsmotion1.html Please alert anyone with a web site and organizations that defend cyber-freedom of his important and historic legal memorandum. Finally, as you know, I have placed the full force of our legal team toward defending The Narco News Bulletin because of the immediate threat to cyber-freedom that Banamex and Akin Gump have wrought. To do that, I am forced to represent myself in Court. I invite you to read, additionally, the legal brief that I have just submitted - a motion to dismiss the charges against me, the third defendant with Narco News and Menendez: http://www.narconews.com/agmotion1.html Obviously, it does not compare with the laser-sharp legal brief by Narco News attorneys. But it is my truth about this case (and, perhaps, easier for non-lawyers to read as well). It demonstrates, clearly and simply, with a step by step review of the actual facts, that there was no defamation of anyone in New York. Today, I post it on the Internet. In the coming days, we will post the accompanying affidavits, and all of it will be made publicly available with Issue #11 of The Narco News Bulletin. Please share the Narco News brief with all webmasters and web site publishers, as well as authentic attorneys, law students and professors everywhere. Please share my Pro Se brief with authentic journalists who might find themselves similarly attacked by the narco- system someday. When we finally defeat this outrageous lawsuit in Court, all of our rights will be strengthened. >From somewhere in a country called Am�rica, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
