[CTRL] Mena Drug Drop Deaths (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 Subj: Mena Drug Drop Deaths LETTER Mena Drug Drop Deaths PLEASE read the following letter forwarded to me. It is about the two boys who saw the drug drop in Mena, Arkansas and were later found dead. The first story was that they committed suicide on the train tracks, but after their families protested, an autopsy showed bullet holes. Any friend of Marlon Maddoux' is a friend of mine. Marlon and Matriciana are both upstanding men. Mr. Matriciana has made wonderful movies and I'm sure he took this movie project under much prayer before deciding to do it. If I remember correctly, one of these boys was only 11. If you know anyone in Little Rock or you can go there, please go to the trial. Let me know if you're going, please. Thank you, Joetta Deutsch FWD: This is Laura Nichols. I have attended the opening day of the trial where the two deputy sheriffs are sueing Mr. Pat Matriciana, owner of Jeremiah Films, Inc. for 16 million dollars. They accuse him of defamation of character. They have to prove "reckless disregard for the truth." The video including the names of the two deputy sheriff's is called OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. The exact statement in question goes something like this. "Eyewitnesses have been implicated in the deaths of the two boys these people ." Then the mens names are listed. The trial opened with the selection of jurors. After about one hour of questioning, 13 people were chosen. Then we broke for lunch. This was Monday, Aug. 2nd. At 1 o'clock the opening statements began with the sheriff's side first. Then Mr. John Hall representing Mr. Matriciana gave his statement. The first witness to be called was Mr. Matriciana. After intensive questioning, the jury was then shown the video in length. They were extremely moved by the video. The only people in attendance for Mr. Matriciana were myself, my friend Penny, her son and my daughter. Then Mr. Matriciana had his son, a friend who had flown in from out of town, Mrs. Linda Ives. mother of Kevin Ives, one of the slain teenagers, his legal counsel and that was all. Since this information was put out last week by Marlin Maddoux, there should have been a full gallery. But there were a total of 11 people. I have contacted local newspaper, radio and have faxed out press releases. I have contacted the pro-family groups in Arkansas. I have not heard by from Eagle Forum. I did hear form Jerry Cox at the Family Council. He refused to attend. He said he would not support someone he did not know and he questioned the validity of the video (which he had never seen) and he had former past experience with people who made videos of this nature and that usually they were 2/3 right and the rest was wrong. Now I know that we can be led astray and that there are many people who go overboard with the conspiracy theory. I subscribe to that theory but I do not go overboard. I have utmost respect for the truth, proper research and I do not take most things for face value. When I showed up for the trial, I did not know Mr. Matriciana. I only knew what I had heard on Marlin Maddoux. I heard them say that Mr. and Mrs. Maddoux are good personal friends to Mr. Matricana. I went because I was burdened to go, I wanted to pray, I was curious, and I just knew that I was supposed to go. Yes, I could have stayed home and prayed from there, but you can never ever replace real human warm bodies when it comes to encouraging and being active about something. Having met him for the first time Monday, I must tell you how broken-hearted that I am. This man is an ordained Baptist Minister who, desiring to get the truth out about the murders, agreed to produce the film. Jean Duffy, a former district prosecuting attorney in Saline County, along with Linda Ives, had done the research, the brought it to Mr. Pat Matriciana, and he agreed to produce it. I wish that I could film what is taking place in that courtroom, because truly it is the court case of the century. So many facts are coming forth. You may not understand this, but this man's life is at stake. The media in Little Rock is doing a good job of keeping this hushed. Two or three stations showed up, and the Ar Dem Gazette. WE need this information to get out. We need good attendance at this trial. There is seating for 170 people, and only 11 people for Mr. Matricana. Now, you may not know about this case. You may doubt the truth of it. But on Marlin Maddoux today Mr. John Hall (present at the trial) told that eyewitnesses claim that they saw these particular deputy sheriffs pick up the two boys at a phone booth. What they believe happened is that the boys saw the drug drop, they ran away and managed to get to the phone booth, were picked up by the two sheriffs, taken somewhere, where they were
Re: [CTRL] Mena Drug Drop Deaths (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/19990804_xcbtl_to_arkan sa.shtml THURSDAY AUGUST 05 1999 Joseph Farah My last will and column LITTLE ROCK -- When you read this column, God-willing, I will have testified as an expert witness in an important First Amendment case in ... gulp ... Arkansas. By tomorrow (Thursday), God-willing, I will be outahere -- on my way home, safe and sound. I've avoided Arkansas like the plague for the last several years. Too much small-time corruption here for me Too much fear. ... Too many mysterious deaths. I don't plan to join the body count. I came to stand up for a good man -- Pat Matrisciana, a filmmaker who put it all on the line to expose the many scandals surrounding the Clinton administration like a funeral shroud. Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's long-time mistress, told Chris Matthews the other day that she avoided the Clinton killing fields by remaining high-profile -- even if she was ridiculed, dismissed, rebuffed and scoffed at by most of the establishment press. Matthews asked her if she really believed the man she loved for so many years -- Bill Clinton -- had actually ordered people to be killed. Without batting an eyelash, Flowers answered affirmatively. I'm following the Gennifer Flowers strategy. If my plane should blow up or get hijacked by terrorists, if I should suddenly become depressed and shoot myself with someone else's gun leaving no fingerprints, if I should suffer a heart attack after eating in a Little Rock restaurant -- just add my name to the list, folks. Why me? I guess you could classify me as a double threat. First, as the personification of the Clinton's media enemies list, my story offering documented proof that the White House used the Internal Revenue Service to attack the president's political adversaries still smolders -- threatening, at a moment's notice, to set the national newscape ablaze. Secondly, I guess you could call me a key witness in a politically inspired defamation case brought by two Arkansas cops involved with drug kingpin/Clinton pal Dan Lasater and the notorious "boys on the tracks" case -- a trial that has already seen two more strange deaths. Anyway, here's what I came to Little Rock to tell the jury: Pat Matrisciana not only had a constitutional right to make and distribute his film, "Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection," he had a duty as an American filmmaker-journalist. The day the courts start punishing courageous, muckraking journalists who pursue and expose official corruption with multimillion-dollar judgments is the day this nation becomes a full-blown police state (like Arkansas?). By every standard of professional documentary journalism, Matrisciana performed admirably in his pursuit of truth. Many people close to me did not want me to come to Arkansas. My longevity as a long-term Clinton critic, they suggest, is partially explained by my deliberate avoidance of such venues. But, like my battle with the politically directed IRS, I believe the best defense is a high-profile offense -- just like Gennifer Flowers said. As I winged my way to Little Rock, I heard a report that a new book by Chris Anderson documents that Hillary Clinton did, indeed, as has been reported elsewhere, have a long-term affair with the late White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster. Foster's death is just one of many associated with this administration that has never been explained -- no matter what Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr would have you believe. This is a death I know something about. It's one of the investigations that landed me on the Clinton enemies list. The Clinton administration did a remarkable job keeping the information about Foster and Hillary quiet all these years. It was never even discussed as a possible motivation for Foster's untimely, violent and mysterious death in any of the official reports. That's an example of why it is so vital to protect the free flow of information -- apart from information disseminated by official government sources. And that's precisely why I'm here in ... gulp ... Little Rock. And why I hope to be outahere real soon. Keep me in your prayers, folks. And add one for Pat Matrisciana, the boys on the tracks and their courageous mother, Linda Ives, who also believes the only way to fight successfully is right out in the open. A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at http://www.ktkz.com/ --- Kathleen The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled , and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. - Cicero DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and
