[CTRL] On The Ruling of Judge Richard Matsch (fwd)

[MIKE SPITZER]

----- Original Message ----- From: Wallace Milam Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:21 PM Subject: The Ruling of Judge Richard Matsch     The execution of Timothy McVeigh will go forward on June 11, Judge Richard Matsch has ruled.  The matter of the material in the 3,000-plus pages of withheld (Can anyone seriously believe documents were innocently misplaced in ALL FBI offices?) information will (it is fervently hoped by the feds) will be buried with the latest of history's "lone nuts."  Few rulings in recent times have shown such a callous disregard for the concept of justice and the rights of the accused.         But who better than Judge Matsch to make that ruling?  It was he who limited testimony and thwarted defense efforts to inquire into evidence of a larger conspiracy during the trial.  McVeigh's attorneys have already alluded to information that the ATF in Tulsa had information about an effort to destroy a building in Oklahoma City.  When ATF informant Carol Howe was framed and put on trial by the FBI and ATF in 1997, her attorneys managed to get into evidence her reports to her ATF handler Angela Finley-Graham. That evidence, if presented now by McVeigh's attorneys, would show that Ms Howe made over 40 reports to her handler about conditions in Elohim City, Oklahoma, a militant stronghold of the White Aryan Resistance and other anti-government groups. That evidence would show that Ms Howe saw McVeigh at Elohim City (and knew him as "Tim Tuttle").  That evidence would show that on February 28, 1995, Ms Howe accompanied members on a drive through downtown Oklahoma City to pick targets.  This information promptly was forwarded from Howe to Ms Finley-Graham.  Ms Howe's testimony would show that within hours of the April 19 bombing, she was brought to Oklahoma City and questioned about Elohim City by the FBI.  That evidence would show that Ms Howe has named Michael Brescia and the Ward brothers and participants in the plan to blow up a building or buildings. That evidence will show that the FBI (working through an agent who was actually Finley-Graham's husband!) tried to frame Carol Howe and a boyfriend as part of a plot to blow up buildings--but the plan backfired when a jury promptly acquitted Howe.  The trial exposed the thinly-veiled plot to get rid of a witness/informant who now knew too much.       For Carol Howe knew that there was forewarning of the bombing (she had made it).  She knew that her reports had circulated among the ATF and FBI.  She knew that there should have been heightened security in Oklahoma City the day of the bombing.       A full investigation into the Elohim City operation would also raise the possibility of an ATF/FBI sting operation that went wrong, and raise questions about a certain Elohim City commando trainer named Andreas Strassmeier and why he was never arrested or questioned but was alllowed to remain in this country for over a year before returning to his native Germany.       But, evidently, Carol Howe will not testify nor be deposed.  The pursuit of John Doe #2 will end.  Judge Matsch has seen to that.  Ordinarily, one might find hope in the appeals of Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, but will Judge Matsch have some say in that matter as well.       Judge Matsch has done a terrible thing, one which would bring shame to a larger man, just as the FBI has done a terrible thing in its withholding of documents (which would bring shame to an agency with integrity).  Ironically, many may derive satisfaction from his decision.  Some of the families who lost so dearly at Oklahoma City that morning will delight in the decision and the execution soon to follow, somehow choosing to believe an arithmetic which suggests that loss plus loss, somehow equals gain, and that revenge is more important than truth.  McVeigh himself, glorying in being the sole avenger (as he sees it) of Waco and Ruby Ridge, probably will find satisfaction in not having to share the "glory" of killing 168 innocent people ("collateral damage") with others from Elohim City and the far right, will enjoy getting credit for a carnage that was the work of himself and several others.  The ATF and FBI will breathe a sigh of relief when McVeigh is lowered into the ground, feeling that the truth of their reprehensible behavior will also disappear from view.  (And with judges like Richard Matsch, such optimism is certainly warranted.)       Timothy McVeigh is, of course, guilty.  He helped acquire parts for a bomb.  He helped to build the bomb.  He and others drove the bomb to the front of the Murrah Building.  He-or one of the men seen with him by multiple witnesses just before the bombing-- detonated the bomb.  There is blood on his hands.       But if truth is a part of justice, then justice will not have been done when Timothy McVeigh is executed.  The failure to delay the execution any longer thwarts justice by thwarting the truth, the whole truth.  The trail of blood has not be followed.   =======================================================                       Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT                           FROM THE DESK OF:                       *Michael Spitzer*    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>       The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends =======================================================