My Open Letter on Kent State to President Obama & General Holder : Mendo Coast
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by LKBlog, mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com
May 6th 2011
Dear Mr. President & General Holder,
My sister Allison Krause was killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970. I co-founded
the Kent State Truth Tribunal with Emily Kunstler and we opened our doors for
the first of three tribunals last year right around this time.
On May 1-4, 2010 we recorded, preserved and honored the stories of original
participants and witnesses of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. It was a
blessing that my mother Doris Krause, 85, was able to be present for the
beginning of the Kent State healing.
As I returned to my home in California, I received word from Mom that the Kent
State Tape had been examined for the very first time and a story was breaking
in the Plain Dealer tomorrow, article here http://bit.ly/aM7Ocm That she had
given a quote applauding the news of this long-denied order to shoot. That it
had been analyzed and verified by Mr. Stuart Allen, a top forensic scientist
(also Stuyvestant colleague of General Holder).
In October 2010 at the Kent State Truth Tribunal, we invited Mr. Allen to
participate as a meaningfully-involved participant, to examine the Kent State
Tape before our cameras. At KSTT-NYC, I received word that there was more than
the command on the Kent State Tape. That Mr. Allen, in preparing for his KSTT
testimonial, discovered a violent altercation recorded just 70 seconds before
the national guard command to fire and ensuing barrage, 67 shots for 13
seconds. Read http://bit.ly/als1xB
As we opened our doors in NYC for our KSTT on October 9-10, 2010, and as a
result of Mr. Allen’s shocking new evidence, Representative Dennis Kucinich,
chair of the Domestic Policy subcommittee responded by immediately opening an
investigation into the Kent State shootings. http://bit.ly/cO69Yx
Then the other shoe dropped. The Democrats lost the election and Rep Kucinich
lost his seat as chair in the Domestic Policy subcommittee. http://bit.ly/hmM2SH
Looking back on my Kent State path, I was 15 years old when Allison was
murdered. For nine years after, my family life and world were also blown apart
forever, especially as my folks pursued justice for Allison in the courts. Mr.
President, no one from the government ever came to help us, except for Senator
Ted Kennedy, and now recently with Rep Dennis Kucinich.
Recollecting those horrible years, I remember my Dad entering the Kent State
Tape into evidence in his lawsuits. Lots of folks called Dad Krazy Krause, he
would not let this go. 40 years later, it was heartening to realize Dad knew
that the tape held the key to the truth at Kent State. It has taken us over 40
years to be able to decipher and once in for all, hear the recorded sounds via
Mr. Stuart Allen’s expertise and kgb audio software.
Mr. Allen verified the long-denied ‘order to fire’ at the unarmed students, and
surprisingly discovered new evidence in the violent altercation between Mr.
Terry Norman and students. Mr. Allen heard Mr. Norman’s later surrendered
pistol shoot off four pistol rounds, creating the sniper fire claimed by the
national guard. Mr. Norman was a consensual informant for the F.B.I. and
working that day. More on Mr. Norman http://bit.ly/gSN9pP and
http://bit.ly/994afB
Mr. Norman is one of many present that day, cogs in the wheel delivering four
homicides on May 4, 1970 and crossing the line at Kent State, yet Mr. Norman’s
actions directly connect the FBI with the command to fire. Mr. Norman’s actions
prove the intent to create, as in instigate sniper fire 70 seconds before the
guard shot. Now we understand the odd ‘Alright’ in the ‘command to fire’ order.
It is for this reason that I formally request you Mr. President examine the new
evidence in this cold case homicide of Kent State. Furthermore I ask you to
create an impartial and unaffiliated team to investigate the F.B.I. This is the
same instruction I gave Congressman Kucinich.
>From Wikipedia: Impartiality is a principle of justice holding that decisions
>should be based on objective criteria, rather than on the basis of bias,
>prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper
>reasons.
Mr. President and General Holder, please examine the new evidence in the Kent
State Tape.
Sincerely,
Laurel Krause
P.S. Recent writing on learning the truth at Kent State in 2010, also
published at the request of Rep Dennis Kucinich in the 2010 Congressional
Record: Truth Emerging in the Kent State Cold Case Homicides
http://bit.ly/fgI0h2
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In today’s snail mail letter, I also enclosed my father’s words & image:
Yesterday on the Internet I discovered Arthur Krause’s words from 1979 and wish
to share them with you. Here’s a picture of united Kent State, May 4th folks at
a press conference, taken at the end of their nine year search for justice
through the judicial system.
Arthur Krause is the tall man in the back, smoking a cigarette & my mom Doris
Krause sits in front of him. My father shared, “The thing that I hope people
remember … is that it could happen to their child. I was like everyone else and
then it happened to us.”
Arthur and Doris Krause carry on their lives ten years after the incident, but
the pain and the lessons of the last ten years are evident. “I think we are all
responsible for the killings at Kent. You can’t get away from the hatred being
spread by national leaders during that time. That political period was one
which bred hate and with Nixon and Rhodes fanning the fires you can expect
killings to result.”
Krause, the parent who initially began the quest for justice in the Kent State
case continued, “I knew what was going to happen; that justice would not be
served, but I wanted to make sure that there was pressure applied. In the
beginning the other families were not as believing that nothing would be done;
I think they thought I was some sort of radical. But I can tell you that if you
don’t stand up for your rights they will be taken away from you just like they
were from Allison and the others.”
Arthur and Doris Krause have mixed feelings about the 1979 settlement. “We
don’t want the damn money ~ we want the truth. If we had wanted the money I
would have accepted the one and a half million dollar bribe I was offered to
drop the civil suit, offered to me in the presence of Peter Davies in 1971.
We want the facts out about how the four died. We aren’t afraid of the truth.
We aren’t the ones who have been saying ‘no comment’ for the past ten years.”
Arthur and Doris Krause hope the movie would generate more of the same hate
mail they have received for the past ten years. “They always point out that my
daughter had gravel in her pockets . . . that this was the rationale for
killing her . . . why didn’t they throw gravel at her?”
“The political climate is very similar to that in 1970,” Krause added, “Kent
State, 1970 means we no longer have our daughter, but it also means something
to all Americans. Our court battles establish without a doubt one thing. There
is no constitution. There is no Bill of Rights.” ~ Arthur S. Krause
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