From: jd@homxc.att.com (John A Dinardo)
Subject: Despite Gov't Siege, Christic Vows to Pursue Murderers of Pres. Kennedy
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: Criminals within the U.S. Government retaliate against Christic Inst.
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:48:13 GMT

    This is a letter that I just received from Sara Nelson,
    Executive Director of The Christic Institute
                          1324 North Capitol St., N.W.
                          Washington, D.C. 20002      (202) 797-8106

    For up-to-the-minute news on Christic's difficulties, please call
    the Christic Hotline ..... (202) 667-2634

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            URGENT NEWS & ANALYSIS ----- WHAT TO DO NEXT 

                       March 24, 1992   12:51

This is the end.

John Singlaub is confident that this is the last letter you will
receive from the Christic Institute. He may be right.

It began in June, 1988 with Judge King's politically-charged summary
judgment order preventing our La Penca case from going to a jury.

The second salvo hit in February, 1989 when Judge King ordered us to
pay an unprecedented $1.2 million in Rule 11 sanctions for filing an
allegedly "frivolous" lawsuit.

We were hammered again when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals 
refused to reverse King, and when the Supreme Court refused to hear
our appeal. But we understood that the La Penca case was just too hot
to handle for a federal bench packed with Reagan/Bush appointees.

And now comes the worst of it, as the radical right lets fly a 
savage "one-two punch" to destroy the Christic Institute forever!

 ONE: In the most chilling judicial ruling of all, we have been directed
      to pay not only interest on the original $1.2 million, but also
      up to $400,000 more in appeals sanctions. No public interest group
      has ever paid such a price for taking a legal stand.

 TWO: Here comes the biggest boom of all; a right-wing vendetta to get
      the Internal Revenue Service to revoke our tax-exempt status.

For months, our outside lawyers and accountants have been telling me
that this scurrilous campaign against us would never succeed. 
"It can't happen here," they said, "not in America, not anymore."

"You just can't understand," I replied. "For nearly six years, we 
have exposed some of the darkest and most sinister crimes of the 
Covert Operations branch of the U.S. Government. Of course they 
will use every tool at their disposal to destroy us!"

Remember when Pat Buchanan helped compile Richard Nixon's "Enemies List"?
They plotted to use the IRS against targets like the Washington Post
and CBS for investigating Watergate. 

Now, we're the target for working to make truth the foundation of 
Government, instead of its casualty. We can provide missing pieces 
of the puzzle and mobilize direct action around the "October Surprise",
CIA drug smuggling, and the JFK mystery. 

WE WILL DELIVER ON THIS PROMISE, NO MATTER WHAT.

The IRS may take away our good name -- but we will come back under
a new name. The courts may raid our resources, but they can't sap
our strength and our commitment. 

You are the fuel behind that energy. Now I need you more than ever.

A few days ago, a former intelligence operative (who, like many of 
his colleagues, is disgusted by all that we've exposed) urged me
to hang in there and keep fighting.

"Don't give up," he said. "Unless you fight back as hard as you are
being hit, you'll be sending a message that the National Security
State can get away with anything."

Can we hang on?  Maybe -- just maybe. But it's up to you.

First, we need your help to stop the IRS from yanking our tax-exempt
status. This latest nightmare began with a right-wing postcard
campaign (copy enclosed) -- an engineered manipulation of 
"public opinion."

We need a letter from you to your member of Congress (and a copy 
to us, please), protesting the IRS action.

Second, order books, videos and audios available from the 
Christic Institute. Singlaub would probably enjoy burning these
books. You can help us get them into schools, libraries, churches
and community groups. Use our "Tools for Truth" catalogue or the
"Causes and Cures" oder forms if you still have them. If not,
please request a new catalogue.

.....

Do you want me, as many people have said in the last few days, 
to "scream bloody murder" about what the courts and the Executive
Branch are doing?  Then help me launch an emergency media blitz,
assemble a top-flight legal team to fight the IRS, and organize
a new coalition to end Rule 11 abuses by the Reagan/Bush courts.

Do you want us to find a way to rebuild and regroup if the 
IRS puts the Christic Institute out of business?  Must we now 
"go gently into the night"? Or, as Dylan Thomas wrote, is it time
"to rage, rage against the dying of the light"?

With your help, we will rage, we will fight, and we will survive
this "dark night of the soul." If it comes to that, we will fold
the Christic Institute banner and re-emerge in a new, stronger
form, ready to resume our campaign for truth.

My next letter to you may not say "Christic Institute." But you
can be sure, the Christic spirit and mission will be the same.

I should be afraid at what the future holds, but I'm not --
because you are on my side. You are in my prayers, and in my heart.

Thank you.  And goodbye, for now.

   Sara Nelson, Executive Director 
   The Christic Institute

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    If the usurpers of our freedom, the plunderers of our life's earnings,
    the despoilers of our planet Earth, the deluders of our TV-zombified
    society, the desecrators of our Constitution can crush the Christic 
    Institute -- than what refuge is left for the few remaining 
    Christic-like organizations to shelter THEM from this Frankenstein
    Monster government?  What refuge is left for you and me, and for our
    children who will necessarily find themselves forced to riot and
    spill their blood in the streets during the twenty-first century? 
    It always degenerates to that, you know.

    We Americans are a lazy, short-sighted bunch. We realize that if we
    don't earn a living, we will be impoverished. We realize that if we
    don't brush our teeth, our teeth will rot out of our mouths. We 
    realize that if we don't service our cars, they will fail to operate.
    Yet, we don't realize -- or we're too lazy to admit -- that if we
    don't supervise and participate in our system of government to ensure
    that our Constitution is protected from the greedy, power-mad 
    neurotics whose ambitions drive them to seize the reins of power 
    and wealth vested in our Federal Government, then our libertarian 
    foundations will crumble beneath us, leaving us to fall into the
    pit of subjugation that the corporate rulers have prepared for us.

    As we witness our free-fall into the pit, we finally understand
    that the law is slipping out of our hands; that we and our children
    will have to resort to meeting in dark rooms and plotting to recover
    our Constitutional freedoms which the usurpers have seized through
    television, that great national Svengali -- that opiate of the masses 
    which they have so cleverly employed to sedate, delude and distract us
    while quietly cuffing our ankles and wrists. How could we be so stupid
    as to surrender our minds to Big Brother, never suspecting that 
    whenever someone offers you free entertainment, day after day and
    year after year, it's got to be costing you.  

    Why shouldn't we be as vulnerable to totalitarianism as are
    the peoples of most other societies around the world?  More so, 
    considering the fact that totalitarianism originates from within the 
    military elite. And whose nation has the most savagely powerful  
    military force on the planet?  What's worse is that it's not just the
    military that's militating against our Constitutional freedoms.
    It's the military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower left office
    a third of a century ago by warning us that the military-industrial
    complex is the greatest threat to our freedom. That was as much of
    a warning as he dared give, lest he meet the doom of his valiant 
    successor who tried to actually BE the President of the United States.

    How knowledgeable was the General of the Army of the Second World War,
    Dwight Eisenhower, in his fear of the military-industrial complex?
    As knowledgeable as President Kennedy is dead!

    So you see, there really isn't much time left. If we prove to be too
    lazy now to unite behind Constitutional upholders such as the
    Christic Institute -- then our children in the twenty-first century
    will NOT be too frightened to stand up against the bullets of the
    Wackenhut Security Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida. Because
    when the oppression becomes intolerable, you, I and anyone would 
    stand up to bullets, rather than go on living in unbearable agony.
    Ask the Palestinian people who stand up to bullets every day --
    or the Rumanian people, or the Guatemalan people, or the Filipino 
    people, or the Chinese people, or the Iranian people, or the
    Tibetan people, or the Timorese people.

    If we prove to be too lazy now, OUR generation may even see the day
    when citizens will speak softly and listen intently for the footsteps
    of the Gestapo who may finally come to kick down our front door and
    arrest us for plotting to regain the Constitutional freedoms 
    that were once our heritage.

            John DiNardo